Musical Fruitcake

Pinky and Perky was a popular television series, that first appeared on BBC in 1957. They were a pair of inseparable, anthropomorphic piglet twins, that spoke and sang in squeaky, high-pitched voices (which were created by speeding up a tape recording). The puppets were both dressed exactly alike, either in sailor suits, or blue or […]

Jan Terri is an ‘outsider’ musician, who has lived her entire life in Franklin Park, a suburb of Chicago. She writes oddly catchy pop songs, and then performs them in a style so atrocious that it’s beyond belief. The end result is music that is strange and abrasive, yet very endearing. Terri’s self-assuredness is […]

Marcy Tigner, an avid Christian, started out her recording career as a gospel trombonist, having released a couple albums featuring her trombone playing. However, she felt her true calling was to sing gospel, and went through several voice teachers to help her try to get rid of her shrill, high-pitched childlike voice, but was unsuccessful. […]

Here is a rare animated movie from the late 70s, called “Cosmic Christmas.” A town rediscovers the real spirit of Christmas, thanks to three visitors from outer space and a little boy named Peter.
Cosmic Christmas was heavily promoted prior to its release during the 1977 Christmas season. George Lucas was so impressed with this […]

During the 1980s, little girls were delighted by the sweet, fruity smells of Strawberry Shortcake dolls made by the Kenner Toy Company. They were dolls based on a popular line of greeting cards from the American Greetings Corporation. The unique marketing approach for these dolls was that each one was made to emit a […]

Leon Payne (1917-1969) was a popular musician and songwriter from Texas. Blind from birth, he spent a large part of the 1940s performing with Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys under the stage name “The Texas Blind Hitchhiker,” and in 1949 he formed his own group, the Lone Star Buddies. They performed regularly on the radio, appearing […]

The Twist was a dance that was made popular in the early 1960s, and is named after the rock and roll song that originated it. Unlike most dances before it, The Twist was unique in that it required that partners did not touch each other. In Chubby Checker’s own words, “Imagine you’ve just stepped […]