Old Video By The Association Has Dated Hillariously Poorly

Two members of The Association in this old video. Perhaps not
the most dapper look?

I stumbled on an old video of the 1960s group The Association performing their hit "Never My Love" and the video is kitschy comedic gold.  

I know I shouldn't pick on them. The Association were big 1960s hit makers with their usually mellow pop. Styles have changed since the 1960s, so we shouldn't abuse them too much.

But abuse The Association, I will.

First of all, those suits! All them are ill-fitting sacks, basically and are a lovely shade of green I associate with an algae bloom in a cow pond.

I'm particularly taken by the lead singer in the video. His double breasted suit fits about as well as a burlap sack. He's also got the world's most,  um,  amazing sideburns.

As he's singing, he has this blank, blissful  look on his face, as if he's entered some sweet, strange wonderland. At the same time, he looks vaguely ill and ill at ease, like he might simulaneously barf and get attacked by the audience.

Which actually to me seems like a real possibility. Actually, the whole group looks pretty spaced out. I wonder what they took before coming onstage?

And why are they set up like that. The keyboardist and drummer start off in the foreground, but you n see as the video they are really shunted way off to the side. Like we really shouldn't notice them.

Maybe we shouldn't. In the closeups of the keyboardist, he looks like he's yawning instead of coming in with those signature mellow harmonies.  The song isn't that boring, is it?

It's all a mystery. So here's you kitch for today. The Association performs "Never My Love."

You Can't Unsee This, But Here's Rick Perry Dancing To "Green Acres"

Rick Perry, was, um, interesting, as he
danced to "Green Acres" on "Dancing With The Stars"

I'm going to try NOT to get into the habit of writing about "Dancing With The Stars" every week, though I'm sorry for the pattern.

Last week it was Ryan Lochte getting attacked on the set of the show.

This week, it's us getting "attacked" by former Texas governor and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry doing the quick step to the old "Green Acres" television theme.

The judges weren't impressed, giving him the low score of the night. (Or so I'm told. I actually prefer "The Voice" and watched that last night instead.)

Perry will probably get kicked off during tonight's elimination round on the show.

Can't win a presidential election. Can't win a dance competition. You gotta feel for Perry, no?

Still, I'm impressed in a sort of jaw-dropped way by Perry's over the top kitschy performance. Now you can see it, too! It's, um, something.

Watch:

An Easter Holiday Performance LIke No Other. Spoiler Alert- Scary!

An Easter tragedy unfolded years ago on the
Lawrence Welk show 

Kudos to the Kitsch Bitsch for alerting us to this.

We have here an old clip from the Lawrence Welk show in which they were celebrating Easter one year. It featured pianist Jo Ann Castle doing an Easter ragtime.

But really, is its the stuff of nightmares. Are you scared of adult sized Easter bunnies like I am? Then this will frighten the pants off you.

Happy Easter to you, too!

Sonny And Cher Weirdness To Distract You From All The Bad Stuff

Sonny and Cher, in interesting outfits, perform
the strange ditty "Little Man" 

Some of the weirder moments of Sonny and Cher's heyday are making the rounds now, so I figure I'd distract you with a couple of those stunning performances.

Amazon Prime is currently running a television ad campaign that features a donkey, a doggy door (or donkey door) and Sonny and Cher's song "Little Man."

An original video for Little Man is really something to behold. You  have to love the prison uniform type uniform or something Sonny is wearing.

I also totally love the videographer's fixation with Cher's (unremarkable) shoes.

Kudos also to the lost looking young man in the tie and striped shirt in the audience who looks totally lost.

I guess the appeal to me is that I love 1970s kitsch and weirdness. If this post isn't enough to prove it, check out the one I did on the the classic 1972 hit "How Do You Do" by Mouth & MacNeil.


Once you're done watching "Little Man", (You'll probably have to click on the underlined "Watch on YouTube" to see it)  scroll down for another Sonny and Cher classic "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" because the song is even better!

HONK-A! HONK- A HONK-A!!!!!



Next, we have "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done," which is certainly um, different.

Love the facial expressions on Sonny's face during this.

I gotta hand it to Sonny and Cher. Back in their day, they weren't afraid to add a goofy sense of odd humor to their repertoire, so good on them!

Here's "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" in all its 1972 glory!

When Videos For Gloriously Over The Top Songs Are Even More So, I Rejoice

Big hairy Mouth, left, appears to attack a woman
on MacNeal's lap as the two perform their 1972 hit
"How Do You Do" 

Right before Christmas, while struggling to not listen to the same stupid three holiday carols for the 1,567.293,234th time, I switched over to the 1970s station on Sirius radio.

I was delighted to hear something I hadn't heard in ages. "How Do You Do" by Mouth and MacNeil.

Most of you don't remember that one hit wonder, I bet.

But I do.

I'm a connoisseur of bad pop songs and this one has it all.  It features a loud guy (Mouth) demanding, HOW DO YOU DO?! UH-HUH!  I THOUGH WHY NOT NA-NA-NA-NA !!!!!!" and MacNeal (the sweet, quieter woman) singing the same thing. Sweetly.

The music of this 1972 hit stomps along like a toddler on the verge of a tantrum pretending to be in a marching band

All the while Mouth and MacNeal gleefully keep singing "Na Na Nah Na Na Na Nah!" like first grade mean girls ganging up on the shy kid with glasses.

It's all wonderful fun.  And scarily happy sounding.

When I looked the song up on line, I was even more thrilled. The video is even more bizarre than the song. What luck!

Mouth, the loud guy, is a big hairy dude dressed fetchingly in kelly green fur.  MacNeal is in spring green feathers and a pink shirt. They're in a bar surrounded by teens and 20 somethings, many of whom appear coked out.

During the performance, Mouth and MacNeal have a fight over pretzels.

Mouth produces a red haired puppet on a platter, turns it upright and feeds it a drink. Which probably isn't a good idea, since the puppet already looks really hammered.

I'm also not sure about the lost looking woman in the big striped hat and red shirt looking bewildered on the floor at about 1:04 into the video.

As the song stomps along, the people in the well lit bar keeping clapping and bouncing, probably disrupting fault lines and causing a nasty earthquake in the remote mountains of China.

I sound awfully like I'm picking nastily on this whole thing, but I find everything about "How Do You Do" absolutely delightful. It's perfect kitsch, and I truly love it.

Here's the video to give you today's bizarre earworm. You won't regret watching it.