Bunch of 45s, Volume 2

I've been working on digitizing my 45 collection, and it's been a wonderful opportunity for spontaneous curation. Here's a few gems from the last batch of recordings. 

Tracklist

Donnie Elbert - I Got to Get Myself Together

Ray Charles & His Band - Green Backs

Carter Bros. - Booze in a Bottle

Tony Clarke - Woman, Love a Man

Arthur Alexander - Black Knight

Hot Sauce - I'll Kill a Brick (About a Man)

Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can 

Funkadelic - Biological Speculation

Okieextremist Moondog - Reefer Blues

The Temptations - Cloud Nine

Paul Humphries & His Cool Chemists - Detroit

Aretha Franklin - Rocksteady

James Brown - I Got Ants in My Pants

Kool & The Gang - Funky Stuff

Brick - Push Push

Tony Camillo's Bazooka - Dynomite

Rick James - Hollywood

Lonnie Liston Smith - Space Lady

Windy City - Spank

Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)

DL. 

Bradbury on Disneyland

In 1965,  Sci-Fi diety Ray Bradbury went to Disneyland and penned this essay on the park, American culture and robots. 

Do I make too much of this? Perhaps. Nothing is guaranteed. We are wandering in the childhood of machines. When we and the machines ma­ture, who can say what we might ac­complish together?

Read the whole article, "The Machine-Tooled Happyland" via holidaymag

This is how a Harem girl dances...

Did anyone get the Cabin Boy reference in the title of this post?

Vintage Sesame Street

Why does the Google homepage have Big Bird's legs on it this morning?

I don't know, but it lead me to find this video, which is pretty amazing - a testament to the grittiness of NYC in the late 70s and early 80s (even for kids it's shown a brown, crowded distopia), and to how awesome Sesame Street is (check the backing track and the puppetry).



If anyone knows why Sesame Street got the spotlight from Google today, let me know. I hope no one died or anything.