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What You Didn't See At The Super Bowl (video, MP3s)

I don't own a TV, and I have never watched the Super Bowl, but I hear it is all about the ads and the decency of the half-time show. So I decided to dig out a few video and audio intermissions which are even better than what you can see and hear during Super Bowl broadcasts. Here they are, three videos and three audio goodies:

Kanahakkliha (1.3 meg Quicktime video) - Eat it, it is good for you.
VD is for Everybody (YouTube link) - A catchy song and a positive message. Where are Public Service Announcements like this today?
Intermission in the Third Dimension (YouTube link) - Psychedelic and educational intermission, originally part of The Animation Show, created by Don Hertzfeldt.
Blade and Arm Chuck (MP3) - Sara Beck, Consumer Meat Specialist, explains how to tell the difference. The album "How To Buy Meat", from which this cut is taken, remained largely unknown, and Mad Cow Disease ensued.
KFC Commercial (MP3) - Colonel Sanders tries to record a commercial.
Gorgar Pinball Promo (MP3) - Experts agree that Gorgar would have been a great football player. Unfortunately he was not a real person.

Cleaning Out My Gifbox, Superbowl Edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

365 Days #35 - Marjoe Gortner - World's Youngest Evangelist (mp3s)

MP3:
01 To This End Was I Born (Age 4) (5:28)
02 You'd Better Get Ready (Age 4) (2:36)
03 Now Is The Hour (Age 4) (3:00)
04 The Great Judgement Morning (Age 6) (3:18)
05 Jesus Came (Age 4) (2:58)
06 I'll Carry The Torch (Age 6) (3:19)
07 It's In My Heart (Age 6) (2:53)
08 Lovers Lane (Age 6) (2:52)
09 Hell With The Lid Off (Age 8) (2:43)
10 God's Blockade (Age 8) (6:01)
11 I Love That Man Of Galilee (Age 8) (3:08)

Marjoe! Marjoe! Marjoe!

- Contributed by: Otis Fodder

Images: Front Cover, Back Cover

Media: 12" LP
Album: World's Youngest Evangelist

creative deconstruction

Old Bug Eyes, Jerry Colonna.

In 1954, Decca Records released a fascinating ten-inch relic titled Music For Screaming!? Jerry Colonna at his Best.* - the majority of which I have posted for your listening pleasure here (podcast number twenty). Bob Hope's sidekick was not as some might assume Bing Crosby, nor was his closest ally in show business simply constant US military intervention. Although there is little question that those were among his most dependable associates, his real right hand partner was the unmistakably bug-eyed, and with each passing year increasingly forgotten, Jerry Colonna - one of the most strangely compelling figures of American radio and film in the thirties, forties, and fifties.

Colonna's persona could have easily been described as an "ethnic character" back in the day, if it were not for the fact that his odd accent wasn't exactly an Italian stereotype, that of the hackneyed European emigre, or anything else particularly specific. Instead his accent was vague, a put-on of undetermined origin, for the most part void of any Italian references - thank goodness - as many of those Vito Scotti type characters can be cringe inducing today. In almost all the films in which the beloved moustachioed comedian appeared, his vocal gymnastics were on display.