Mr. Gorman

If yer old and tired . . . I say "Wake Up with PIGMEAT and "Here Comes The Judge".

I have to admit I'm still looking for the artistic qualities of "NIGHT OF THE LEPUS" . . . but I'll keep looking!

More '70s funk. I've been in an impossibly funky mood this evening . . . "MOVING WORLD" by Creative Funk. If you like the sound of a Wurlitzer organ you'll like this funk tune. SUPER "JAWS" by Seven Seas. Can you dig it? In the words of Sarah Palin: YOU BETCHA! DISCO KID by Funkhouse Express, 1975. On DISKO Records. Then on to the "B"-side "Get Into Funky Music". BUMPIN' by Ground Hog, 1974. On GEMIGO Records.

RAP! FUNK! Two old-time rap songs by DEWEY "Pigmeat" MARKHAM: Here Comes The Judge, 1968 -and- Who Got the Number, 1969 Then on to some funk: SPACING OUT by The Invaders, 1970. GET ON DOWN! by the East Harlem Bus Stop, 1976. SWEET F.A. by Ultrafunk, 1975. CONTEMPO Records. THE ROAD by COMMUNICATORS and Black Experience Band, 1974. TRI-OAK Records. THINK PEOPLE by The Tribe, 1974. (From the LP "THE TRIBE: ETHNIC STEW"). (Vocals). HOUSE OF RISING FUNK by The Chubukos (Afrique), 1973. MONO sound. Most excellently funky. I liked this so much I bought the 45' about a year ago. On the MAINSTREAM Records label. Remember: You can't fake the funk!

Low-grade movies I bought on VHS from 'Something Weird Video' just before they stopped selling their wares on tape. Anyway . . . Looking for a sea of sophistication? Seeking some high-class entertainment? Then what the hell are you doing here?!?! MR. ANGEL (1966) This is a James Bond-type movie with a 'drive-in movie' budget. In one scene the leading lady dreams about pink flamingos. Because it padded the running time. HONEYMOON OF HORROR (1964) What did I buy this? Because I could!!! Filmed in Florida. SUMMER OF '69 (1969) This is the cheapest 'movie' I've ever seen. It barely qualifies as a movie. Shot silent with dopey voice-over narration. From DISTRIBPIX. I purchased this because . . . because . . . heck, I don't know.

PHOTOGRAPHER, The (1974) next: DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1982) A 'double-feature' starring Michael Callan and directed by William Byron Hillman. I think it's interesting that Hillman remade his own movie 8 years later with the same star.

I like MIRAGE as well. Has some of that '60s lingo with Kevin McCarthy saying stuff like "But booby baby". I've seen THE THIRD DAY and it's decent; Arte Johnson, who later gained some fame on "Laugh-In", plays a jealous little piano player who has a key part of the plot. JIGSAW (1968) is hard to find; it's a Universal Picture and seems to have disappeared.

Before I forget Detective Jim → If you fancy watching more '60s amnesia there's THE THIRD DAY, MIRAGE and JIGSAW (which is a remake of "Mirage" with more 'mod' elements).

Reading the last few posts jogged my memory about the Looney Tunes cartoon parody "D'FIGHTIN' ONES" with Sylvester the Cat and a bulldog chained together and trying to escape from The Law and each other.

In regards to WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE? that was a movie I saw in the mid-1980s. I remembered it for years afterward and then bought the 'Karl-Lorimar Video' VHS release. I still have it upstairs. I like that movie.

@spence: LONESOME DOVE and RICH MAN, POOR MAN are too long to be considered Tv movies. Sometimes you get a TVM that runs over 2 nights like SALEM'S LOT and THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME, but I reckon "Lonesome Dove" and "Rich Man, Poor Man" ran longer than two evenings.

I bought a VHS tape of THE JERICHO MILE about 2 months ago from eBay. It was on 'CHARTER Entertainment'. Haven't watched it yet, tho. Thanks for adding some TVM thoughts to the thread. Cheers.

Check out HIGHWAYS if you fancy listening to one of his songs. Find the YouTube upload with the picture of the 'MONNIE' LP. You can't miss it. I discovered him a few months ago on Wikipedia when reading about another singer who disappeared in August of 1974. (That singer's name was 'Connie Converse', btw). That led me to JIM SULLIVAN (b. 1940) who disappeared in New Mexico in early March 1975 and was never heard from again. I thought I'd check out some of his tunes at the time and they sounded quite all right. Ergo, I still listen to them on YouTube. His 2 albums didn't sell very well while he was alive. Now there's a label called LIGHT IN THE ATTIC that appears to have re-issued his music.

RAIN PEOPLE, The (1969) Next: SCARECROW (1973) Stories about taking to The Road!

Perhaps TCM should air FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE (1977). I've never seen it. It is apparently still banned in the UK due to 'language'.

Listening to a few songs by the long-since disappeared (literally) singer/songwriter JIM SULLIVAN. He disappeared March 6, 1975 and hasn't been heard from since. Songs I listened to are HIGHWAY, ROSEY, SANDMAN, UFO.

LAST SUMMER (1969) SUMMER OF '42 (1971)

I thought that 'barebones' approach was due to a lack of budget.

BUMP!

Is your library's copy the same one that's been circulating for years? Or does your library have access to a genuine film print and got a copy from that? WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? has never had a legal video release on any format to date. I'd love to have a better copy to watch, but I don't know where to find a clearer version out there. AMIGO THE TOUCAN!

We can do the 'agree-to-disagree' thing on Gene Deitch's TOM & JERRY cartoons, NipkowDisc. I thought they were low-grade all the way. When I saw that he'd died as I looked on the Wikipedia Death index a couple days ago that was the first thing I thought of was those low-rent T&J cartoons he was contracted to do. I've seen them all. The biggest compliment I can give: They are watchable.

MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (1932) MURDER AT THE VANITIES (1934) indeed . . . more with Jack Oakie.

In regards to WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? (1968) it was a Universal Picture. I have a ropey VHS copy of it -- more like a-copy-of-a-copy in point of fact -- taken from what looked to be a mid-1990s 'Comedy Central' broadcast. Somebody taped it and I got mine from 'Robert's Rare Videos' in Canada. The picture quality and sound aren't great, but it's watchable enough. I also wish I knew if Universal still had the rights to this movie or what happened to it. Two more UNIVERSAL PICTURES from the late 1960s that seem to have vanished off the planet: P.J. (1968) starring George Peppard, Raymond Burr and Gayle Hunnicutt. This aired on TV in the 1980s on TBS; I have a *very* ropey copy of the television version of "P.J." which is missing 90% of the violence and re-arranges the order of at least 1 scene. It's better than nothing -- but not by much! DON'T JUST STAND THERE! (1968) starring Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore and Glynis Johns. Another Universal movie that, to my knowledge, hasn't been seen since James K. Polk was President (ok, so I'm exaggerating a lil' bit). NOTES: Mary Tyler Moore had signed a 5-picture deal with Universal in 1966 and the five movies she made for Universal were THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?, DON'T JUST STAND THERE!, RUN A CROOKED MILE (1969-UK TVM) and CHANGE OF HABIT. Another two UNIVERAL PICTURES movies George Peppard made are still rather hard to locate as far as I can tell: HOUSE OF CARDS (1968) and ONE MORE TRAIN TO ROB (1971).

I watched another ancient VHS tape the other night . . . I hadn't seen EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) in quite a while so I fished out the GIANT 'WCI' box release from 1980. It wasn't called "Warner Home Video" back in '80; it was 'Warner Communications, Inc.' The last time I watched the movie was on this tape so I knew it would play quite all right. Like a joyful ▬ brick ▬ going in to my VCR! One thing about EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE is that it made a lot of money at the box office despite universal panning by movie critics. I think the movie is mildly subversive. Compare it to its conventional sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN. Think about it: In 'LOOSE' Clint doesn't get the girl. She turns on him and he walks away with a bloody face. Didn't he know they'd had their time? Then he throws the big fight with Tank Murdock when he sees this is all Tank has going for him at his age and so Clint loses his money and ends up face-first on the ground. And the movie ends simply with Clint going back home in his old truck with Clyde and Orville and Echo. LESSON LEARNED: Hey, we all hit some roadblocks but Life still ain't too bad. In ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN it's thoroughly conventional: Clint gets the girl then fights the Mob to get her back and finally wins THE BIG FIGHT against William Smith. I think the sequel is a better-made movie but not a more entertaining movie. The plot, minimal as it might be, is certainly more focused than in "Every Which Way But Loose" -- which has even less plot. And remember: Old tapes don't die. They just want to be ♦useful♦.

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