Showing posts with label Quaintness of the recent past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quaintness of the recent past. Show all posts
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 39
Welcome back to a favourite irregular series. This one's a corker (to use a quaint phrase from the recent past):
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 31: CAKE
'You Can Have Him' by Cake, 1967; thanks to @JacksonWylde guesting on Neglected Nuggets (@TheLostRecord ) on April 30, 2013; there are many other versions of this strong song - I was first struck by it in my youth when I heard Roy Hamilton's version, a single from 1961 that sounded quite soulful and mysterious at the time. I can still hear that quality in his vocal. It's broodingly dark when it's in low register, and when he goes higher, he sounds very like Jackie Wilson.
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 30
The legendary Ford Edsel, still believed to be the greatest failure in the history of car sales, but now looking completely brilliant. I'd love one:
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO. 28
Teddy Redell on piano and vocals for Vaden Records of Trumann, Arkansas. I love the way it says that on the label. That label embodies a thrilling kind of quaintness in itself.
Redell also wrote and recorded the original of 'Judy', which Elvis covered rather beautifully in 1961 on the Something For Everybody album.
DAN DARE POSTMODERNISM
Following the blogpost Quaintess of the Recent Past No. 27, which referred to the Dan Dare modernism of the pods on the London Eye (and their design similarity to Paris buses of 45 years previously) I've had my attention drawn to a contemporary, and therefore inevitably knowing, version of the comic in which Dan Dare appeared (which was the Eagle, printed on glossy colour paper and therefore far more expensive than those down to earth, much loved alternatives, the Beano and Dandy).
Today's version is Spaceship Away and thanks to Roy Kelly I can reproduce the most Dylan-infested page of their story Gates of Eden, which features the brilliantly named John Wesley Hibbings (drawn by Tim Booth):
That central frame: perfect.
Today's version is Spaceship Away and thanks to Roy Kelly I can reproduce the most Dylan-infested page of their story Gates of Eden, which features the brilliantly named John Wesley Hibbings (drawn by Tim Booth):
There is another, still more vivid drawing of the Vincent Price Era Bob Dylan in another contemporary comic (or graphic novel, in this case, if you prefer), The Umbrella Academy, created by Gerard Way, the singer in My Chemical Romance. Here He appears as God, though He is unnamed:
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO.27
The London Eye opened only in 2000 - really too recent to be the recent past - but those pods...
... always seemed so Dan Dare, so 1950s Futuristic - and then, initially c/o Retronaut, I found these wonderful French buses from, yes, 1955:
London Eye’s pods were designed by Leitner-Poma of America, an aerial lift manufacturer in Grand Junction, Colorado. But this is the American subsidiary of the French-based Poma, which in turn is owned by the unItalian-sounding Italian company Leitner Technologies. The 1955 buses were designed by Currus, France’s oldest coachbuilder, founded in Paris in 1805, using Citroen's “workhorse” U55 chassis.
... always seemed so Dan Dare, so 1950s Futuristic - and then, initially c/o Retronaut, I found these wonderful French buses from, yes, 1955:
London Eye’s pods were designed by Leitner-Poma of America, an aerial lift manufacturer in Grand Junction, Colorado. But this is the American subsidiary of the French-based Poma, which in turn is owned by the unItalian-sounding Italian company Leitner Technologies. The 1955 buses were designed by Currus, France’s oldest coachbuilder, founded in Paris in 1805, using Citroen's “workhorse” U55 chassis.
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO.26
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| Regent Street, London, 1960, during a 24-hour London rail strike. |
Once upon a time I had an Austin Somerset like the car in the middle of the shot. It was wonderful: bench front seat, column-change gearstick, handled like a boat.
QUAINTNESS OF THE RECENT PAST NO.26
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| The wonderful Ronnie Spector in her prime; photographer unknown, c/o tumbr |
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