Musical Fruitcake

Soupy Sales is an American comedian and actor who is best known for his long-running children’s television show, The Soupy Sales Show, which originated in 1953 from the studios of WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. Beginning in October 1959, it was telecast nationally on the ABC television network, and it ran through 1962. The show briefly […]

Tony Vosik (aka phoneyfresh) has a blog called “Poems For Songs,” where, in the tradition of the Song-Poem, he accepts poem submissions for songs, and then sets them to original music.
This song, “Santa on a Motorcycle,” was written by five year old twins Ivy and Noah, and was submitted by Tom Palmer. It features Tony’s […]

Joseph Spence (1910 - 1984) was a Bahamanian guitarist, singer and blues musician. He is well known for his vocalizations and humming while performing on guitar. Several modern folk, blues and jazz musicians were influenced by and have recorded variations of his arrangements of gospel and Bahamanian pop tunes, including Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, […]

Max Headroom was an American television series which aired on ABC in the late 1980s. Max Headroom was the name of a fictional artificial intelligence, known for his surreal wit and a stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled delivery.
Due to the fact that 3-D rendering was not advanced enough for a full-motion, voice-synched human head to […]

The Insane Clown Posse (ICP) is a horrorcore/hip hop/rapcore duo originally Detroit, Michigan. They almost always display themselves in character in full black and white “evil clown” makeup. The group has a dedicated following of fans, known as Juggalos and Juggalettes, who often show up at concerts with their faces painted in black-and-white clown face […]

When people look for new ideas for creating Christmas music, they often look toward fads and new technologies to include in their songs, to find a hook and give them topical appeal. In the 1950’s, helicopters caught the attention of everyone, so it’s not surprising that someone would write a Christmas song about them. In […]

Here is another bleak Red Sovine Christmas tear jerker from the early 1960s, called “Is There Really A Santa Claus?”
The song is about two kids who are left motherless on Christmas Eve, and their grieving, despondent father tells them that they shouldn’t expect any toys from Santa. Later, after overhearing the kid’s prayers, he is […]