Friday Fun Links: Double Header
An early cigarette commercial. Early as in 1897.
The original version of "Oops! I Did It Again," by Mr. Louis Armstrong. For more information on this rare recording, go here.
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Was that Louis Armstrong or Fozzy Bear singing that? I couldn't really tell.
I'm not a big intellectual property proponent, but if ms. spears is getting paid for that song and the armstrong children aren't, i'll be pretty dissapointed.
An early cigarette commercial. Early as in 1897.
Starring the first incarnation of The Village People.
I'm not a big intellectual property proponent, but if ms. spears is getting paid for that song and the armstrong children aren't, i'll be pretty dissapointed.
Umm, matt, you did click on the second link in Jesse's post, didn't you?
In honor of our very own (and snowed in) Rick B., here's the gratuitous Friday New Wave Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedY9UHInlw
("Faith Healer" by Big Dipper)
Actually no.
(wipes egg off face)
I was suckered right up to the Lindberg baby bit.
An April Fool's joke on January 1st? I'd have taken those extra 3 months to get a halfway decent Louis Armstrong impersonator.