Cartoonist Jimmy Johnson has announced on Facebook that the Arlo & Janis website is finally working again. He says the theme may not be formatting correctly for mobile devices, which is true for my Android phone.
Category: Cartooning
I Belong Again!
At age 11, I became a breathless member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society. How many countless times did I play the “Scream Along With Marvel” record?
This is how the original flex-disc sounds. There is no copyright on this recording.
This is how the new, remastered single sounds. It has a Disney/Marvel copyright, so I can only share an excerpt.
Incredible. Stunning. Did composer/arranger/conductor/producer Jack Urbont have the master tapes all these years? Are they multi-track, or was AI software used to create stereo?
ALL TRUE SILVER AGE MARVEL FANS MUST BUY THIS RECORD! Here is the link to do that:
Update: The good folks at Disney/Marvel were nice enough to post the complete audio.
M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-M-M-S!
The unthinkable, yet somehow inevitable, has happened. The Mickey Mouse Club is merging with the Merry Marvel Marching Society!
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/marvel-iron-man-thor-captain-america-cartoon-vinyl-1236132345/
A couple of the records are available now, the others are pre-order:
https://www.disneymusicemporium.com/dept/marvel?cp=81712_82045
The Fabulous Batles
My eldest sister occasionally likes to remind me that she attended both of the Beatles shows at Shea Stadium. The legendary 1965 concert was held two weeks before Mary Quant’s New York fashion show, where Prue introduced miniskirts to America.
The unprecedented success of the Beatles at Shea Stadium gave promoters the idea that the venue would be good for other acts, as seen in this 1966 poster.
Here’s the batty tale of how Batman followed the Beatles to Shea Stadium, and why Bob Dylan didn’t.
That Rascal Robert
Here’s an hour of Robert Crumb entertaining and also, perhaps, offending. Featuring original recordings by Cliff “Jiminy Cricket” Edwards, aka “Ukulele Ike.”
OTRS 144 R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM part 62 “Not So Nice Party Records”
Hooked on Needles
Something I realized rather quickly with CD (and also DVD), is the players are commodities. I have never felt the same personal connection for a disc player the way I always have for my speakers, headphones, receivers, turntables, and phono cartridges. Yes, even phono cartridges.
These are a few of the pickups, as cartridges used to be known, that I remember fondly.
The Pickering V15 came installed on my Garrard 40B turntable, way back in early 1972. Five years later, the Stanton 500 was on the Micro-Trak tonearms of the Russco Cue-Master turntables at the radio station.
The Shure M91ED was purchased to replace the Pickering.
The Audio-Technica AT-13Ea lived on my JVC VL-5 turntable.