Category: Music

A Tale of Two Transfers

Many YouTube videos have such low technical quality as to be barely watchable, so my sister Jean was impressed by an OK copy, despite being a vertically cropped version with the wrong aspect ratio, of the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night doing “If I Fell.” Here’s how it appears and sounds on YouTube…

… and here’s my own transfer, from LaserDisc, captured on a Pinnacle 500 PCI. Better?

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/2009/JAN/IfIFell.flv 480 360]

Bingo rhymes with Ringo

As promised last week, here is Terry Hooper, the future husband of Prudence Bury, as the croupier in A Hard Day’s Night. When I was a kid I thought Wilfrid Brambell was an unnecessary extra bit of comic relief, but now I think he was essential to the overall success of the movie.

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/2009/JAN/TerryHooper.flv 480 360]

Mambo Jambo

Go back to the very funny Men in Coats video I posted and watch the first three minutes. It’s Mambo music from Cuba. The first tune is “Mambo Jambo,” and here’s a recording of it by Prado Perez, from 1959, the year Castro took over.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2009/JAN/MamboJambo.mp3]

Great stuff! OK, now go back to the K3 New Year video and listen from 0:08 to 0:20. It’s some of the same music used by Men in Coats. See? I said you’d heard it before.

Mambo was big in the late 40’s into the 50’s, and one of its biggest names was this guy, whose studio later gave the green light to Star Trek.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2009/JAN/ILoveLucy.mp3]

Kristel Meth

Isn’t this demonstration by K3 more for the dads in their TV audience? The kids don’t look very interested, but Pirate Pete sure seems happy. Maybe K3 should go back on Robert Jensen’s show. The dirty Dutchie would love to see Kathleen, Kristel and Karen do some more of this.

[flv:http://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Video/K3/K3Massage.flv 480 384]