Give A Show

Before you could buy cartoons for the kids to watch on DVD. Before you could buy them on VHS. Even before you could buy them on Beta there was the Give-A-Show Projectors. The item that would take a strip of celluloid and project the images on the wall or a screen. Kids would read the story from the words on the bottom of the strip. Eventually they started to come with a record that had actors telling the story. Well there is a site dedicated to this old art form called The Give-A-Show Projector Blog. It's a fun site that wasn't started by me but by Jon of Random Acts of Geekery fame. Click on the link above and check it out.

Video of the Week: The Beach Boys and Forever

They are preforming it live on July 2, 1971 in Central Park in New York City.

Mail It To Team-Up Blog Head Contest

There is still time to send in your entries to the blog head contest at Mail It To Team Up. Just follow any of these links for a chance to win the DVD set of Filmation's DC Superheroes cartoons that aired on the Superman/Aquaman Hour in the mid 1960's. Some of these were the first time any of the characters appeared on a cartoon like the Teen Titans or the Flash. Contest ends on July 26th. The winning entry will be the blog head of Mail It To Team-Up for 2 weeks and will get the DVD sets. Go to Mail It To Team Up for more specifications.

Comic Book Letterheads Museum

The above letter page letter head is from DC Comics Presents 1979. The book had Superman team-up each month with a different superhero to solve a crime. If you love comic books and the art that use to be on the letters pages then check out Comic Book Letterheads Museum. You'll find more and even better looking ones like these on that site.

16 Days of Batman

I meant to post this yesterday but everything started breaking loose around here and I didn't get to do that. So the 16 day of Batman are now down to 15 days. The two Robs, Robby Reed of Dial B For Blog and Roby Kelly of Coming Super Attractions, have teamed up to bring you 16 day of Batman related material. Dial B For Blog has articles of the old Batman TV show from teen magazine 16. He even has some photos of pop groups back then like Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Beatles. Coming Super Attractions has 16 days of ads for the Batman family of comic books. Go take a look at both sites. Tell them Rick sent you. Remember that's Rick. Not Rob.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Super President

Time for the Saturday morning cartoon. Today is an episode of the 1967 series "Super President."

Off for awhile

My input on my sites may be sparse for awhile due to the death of a close relative. Some sites have things scheduled and others don't. Feel free to e-mail me still but I don't know when I can get back to you. It may be right away or a few days. Please keep my family in your prayers. The contest I am running at Mail It To Team Up is still going on. So feel free to send me your entry.

Showcase Presents: Pre-Order Specials

Hey DC Comics fans here are some more books from their Showcase Presents line that you can pre-order. This paperback book series reprints classic stories from DC's past for all to read and enjoy in the present. Remember by clicking on the links on this site you are helping to provide for the upkeep of this and my other sites. By the way to Rob Kelly and any other Aquaman fan. The first one doesn't say it or have a picture yet but it is for Showcase Presents Aquaman Vol. 3 that is to be released in Jan. of 2009.

Monkees Site

Here is a good Monkees site called The Ultimate Monkees Love Page. Go there and take a look around.

You Tube Video of the Week: Dr. Hook When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman

This must have been a good song to hear at a party in the 80's.

Stop Me Before I Blog Again!

I have created a site called The Picture Sleeve and Album Art Museum. The Museum opens today and while there is only one piece of art there I will put up more. The one hanging there today is the first picture sleeve 45 I ever got. Go to the site and take a look.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Elevator Man of the Super 6

Time for a Saturday morning cartoon. Here is Elevator Man from a TV show in 1966 that I had forgotten about.

Paul Grill Master

I saw this photo over at the Beatle Photo Blog and at first I laughed. It seemed like at joke to have Paul McCartney barbecuing in the backyard. I thought someone had photoshopped his head onto someone else. The farther I read it told how he was making veggie burgers. So it wasn't quite as funny but I still have to smile at this picture.

Ephemera and Mail It To Team--Up

Here is a link to the post I did at Ephemera today. I hope you like it and also visit Mail It To Team-Up for a new contest that I have started there.

You Tube Video of the Week: Chad and Jeremy A Summer Song

Here is a video of Chad and Jeremy from an interview a couple of years ago and then they sing my favorite Chad and Jeremy song.


Also, remember to read my posting on Ephemera tomorrow.

This Day In Music History: Elvis and (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Somehow word got out to his fans that Elvis collected Teddy Bears. He didn't but fans from all over the world sent him Teddy Bears for his collection. He didn't have one before the rumor started but he did now.
Songwriters Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe got wind of the rumor. They had to write a new song for the new movie that starred Elvis and Lizabeth Scott called "Loving You" and wrote (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear. Elvis recorded the song in March of 1957. It was released only a few short weeks later in 1957 before the movie. The movie had Elvis playing a rock and roll star and there were many scenes with Elvis in concert singing. Two of the concert goers in one scene were his parents Vernon and Gladys Presley. After his Mother died in August of 1958 Elvis would never watch that scene again.
The song became a #1 hit on the Billboard charts on this day in music history July 8, 1957. The next day, July 9th, the film was released. The song was a great advertisement for the film.
What happened to Elvis' Teddy Bear collection? The day after Christmas in 1957 Elvis donated it to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Ephemera posting

I was recently asked by Marty of Ephemera a blog site for collector's to write an article to be posted on the site. I did it about comic books of course. You were expecting political science textbooks perhaps? Anyway the post is to be on the site on July 10th this week. Click on the link above and read it later this week.

DC Filmation Superheroes

In the 1960's Filmation was the first company to produce the DC Superheroes for Saturday morning TV. Here for the first time kids got to see the Atom, Hawkman,Flash etc of the Justice League of America and the Teen Titans. Now you can get them on DVD. The episodes included in this set are Episodes:Disc 1 The Atom Cartoons Invasion Of The Beetle-Men (1967)The Plant Master (1967)The House Of Doom (1967)The Flash Cartoons The Chemo-Creature (1967)Take a Giant Step (1967)To Catch a Blue Bolt (1967)Green Lantern Cartoons Evil is as Evil Does (1967)The Vanishing World (1967) Sirena Empress of Evil (1967)Disc 2 Hawkman Cartoons Peril from Pluto (1967)A Visit To Venus (1967)The Twenty Third Dimension (1967)Justice League Of America Cartoons Between Two Armies (1967)Target Earth (1967)Bad Day on Black Mountain (1967)Teen Titans Cartoons The Monster Machine (1967)The Space Beast Round-Up (1967)Operation: Rescue (1967)
If you wish to purchase this DVD set please click on the link above.

Time/Life Soft Rock

Ok yesterday was the album covers of Boston now we look at the flip side from hard rock (well maybe Boston was Medium Rock) to soft rock.
Here as some links to videos of songs that I liked growing up. Here is Rupert Holmes with "Him."

This one is Reo Speedwagon with "Take It On The Run."

Here is a video that I never saw till recently of Albert Hammond and is hit "It Never Rains In Southern California."


There songs are hard to find but Time/Life has all of these and more on cd. Sorry not the videos. You can get the collection if you click on the link below.

Boston Album Covers

I was in a music department yesterday and Boston's Greatest Hits caught my eye. I was never a big fan of their music but I did like a couple of their songs. The album art was always eye catching. The style, even if it was release in the 90's like their greatest hits, always screamed 1970's to me. Here are the albums I am most familiar with.