Via TV Legends.
Category: Music
Any Downers?
Vancouver, 1975; uploaded by tomtiddler1.
Beatles
1988; uploaded by avs002, who says it's a mix of sound check and concert audio, which certainly sounds right.
St. Etienne and St. Etienne
Welp, couldn't find anything suitably St. Patrick-themed, and I've already done St. Alphonso (in August and again in November), so the closest I could find is St. Etienne. Coupled with some footage of a concert in St. Etienne, in 1982. It was uploaded by florindoyjulian, who has disabled embedding, so go ahead and give it a clicky. There's some nice hand-shot camcorder footage in there.
More from Slonimsky
Uploaded by Tengolapijaenorme011. My Spanish is lousy, but I think the description says it was recorded by Charles Amirkhanian in Slonimsky's home in 1983.
The Air
Fillmore East, 1970; uploaded by GlennFeathers.
Dear Jeepers / Letter from Jeepers
An early (1963) single with Bob Guy, host of Jeepers Creepers' Theater, one of those shows where somebody dressed as a vampire shows B-movies. Uploaded by TheVascampius.
Lemme Take You To The Beach
Performed by the Frank Vignola Trio, 2011; uploaded by Weet Larcovic.
Ugly Can Be Beautiful
'Bout sums it up, don't it?
That's the name of a Village Voice article from 1968, by Sally Kempton. Long time ago -- Zappa was 27. Via afka.net.
Tonight You Belong to Me
So I got married today.
(Well, "today" by the time you read this. As I'm writing this it's still February 22. By the time this posts I expect to be nowhere near my keyboard. ...but there are still going to be people in my house. Don't try to rob the place.)
So, breaking from Zappa, here's the song we used for our first dance.
We connected on match.com, some four years ago. One of the first things we bonded over was a mutual appreciation of The Jerk. So, to that end, here's Tonight You Belong to Me, performed by Folk Uke:
Folk Uke are, as the name implies, a comedy folk ukelele duo, made up of Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson. They are the daughters of exactly the two famous musicians you think they are. You can buy their self-titled album, on which the studio version of Tonight You Belong to Me appears, on Amazon or direct from Rising Son Records.