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How Sonny & Cher got their groove back
Sonny & Cher’s comeback: Sonny & Cher were world-famous and hugely successful in the 60s, but their career was on the skids in 1970. Despite their outrageous appearance, their lifestyle and music was squeaky-clean, and didn’t go over well with hippies. They resorted to playing lounge acts to hostile, middle-aged audiences, who heckled them. Cher started heckling back, Sonny scolded her, and she heckled him. The heckling became the best part of the act, and Hollywood noticed and gave them the “Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.” [Cintra Wilson/Salon]
It’s always a good time to watch “The Internet is for Porn!”
Unless you’re, y’know, looking at porn at the moment. In which case we’ll wait.
She looked at me with big brown eyes and said you ain’t seen nuthin yet.
Listening to music in art class, 1957
Daryl Dragon Dead: ‘Captain’ of Captain & Tennille Dies at 76
Daryl Dragon, the hat-wearing musician familiar to 1970s music fans as half of the bestselling duo the Captain & Tennille, died Tuesday in Prescott, Arizona at age 76.
Dragon’s ex-wife, Toni Tennille, “was with him as he took his last breath,” said Harlon Boll, a spokesperson for the singer. In a statement, Tennille said, “He was a brilliant musician with many friends who loved him greatly. I was at my most creative in my life when I was with him.”
Daryl Dragon, the ‘Captain’ of ’70s Duo Captain & Tennille, Dies at 76
Their songs were fun. They were fun.
The Golden Girls swing to Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself”
OK, last one for tonight, I swear: The Golden Girls dancing to @BillyIdol’s “Dancing With Myself.” pic.twitter.com/Z59LQlQFVH
— Marci Robin (@MarciRobin) December 23, 2018
The Police “Can’t Stand Losing You”/“West Side Story” mashup
I paired up The Police’s “I Can’t Stand Losing You” with West Side Story… pic.twitter.com/idGWloZpb7
— Marci Robin (@MarciRobin) December 24, 2018
Christmas Rapping: The Waitresses
If you do not love this song I will unfriend and block you.
Cassette tapes are hot again. [Popular Mechanics]
I’m hanging on to my 8-track machine. That’s overdue for a comeback.
We’ve been watching an episode of “Wynonna Earp” every night and walking around all day singing the theme song under our breath.
All the feels
“I Love Rock ‘n Roll,” Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Great song, silly video.
When Frank Zappa’s wife Gail died last year she left control of the estate to two of the Zappas’ four children.
I’d certainly like to have the Zappas’ money. But I’m grateful I don’t live in the shadow of a dead, famous father.
Randall Roberts/The LA Times:
To say Moon and Dweezil were surprised by the imbalance is an understatement.
Moon, the eldest child, says she and Gail had a rocky relationship, but in her mother’s final year and a half after the cancer diagnosis, Moon tended to Gail’s needs, driving her to oncologist appointments and bringing her meals.
“I was showing up because that’s what you do,” she says. “I still loved her, and I still didn’t want to see somebody sick suffer.”
For Moon, the most painful part was that as her mom’s health deteriorated, she thought she and Gail had fully made amends. In hindsight, Moon believes Gail was asking forgiveness with the knowledge that her eldest child would be devastated by the slight to come.
“It’s complicated enough to be grieving the loss of a mean mom,” Moon says, “and then to find out she was meaner than I could have possibly comprehended.”
In a public letter posted on Facebook, Moon opened with the heading, “Things my mother taught me,” and continued: “What’s yours is mine. What’s mine is mine. Your father is mine. What was his was mine. Who he was was mine.”
Disappointing Prince Vaults Found To Contain 37,000 Hours Of Billy Joel Covers https://t.co/i0aXTKUrko pic.twitter.com/IQjhRKv0Gu
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 8, 2016
Street performer plays for kitten audience
Very meowsical.
Classic movie dance scenes mashed up with “Uptown Funk”
Brilliant.
Donny & Marie Osmond sing Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ in the Years” on their 1978 TV variety show.
“Reelin’ in the Years” is a fine song, but it really needed Vegas showgirl ice-dancers wearing giant bunny tails, to make it complete.
Via Boing Boing and reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia.