Archie's Funhouse

Here is a video of the just released Archie's Funhouse. This was really the TV version of Archie's Joke Book. Now was the Joke Book selling so well they gave it a TV show or did they do it to boost circulation of the book? I always loved how they superimposed the real live kids coming into the theater and Archie and his friends were on stage preforming.

I Am Legend

I Am Legend with Will Smith arrives on DVD on March 18th. You can pre-order it at Amazon.com today.

Monkees Promo Material and Merchandise

Here are some Monkees Promo material and merchandise I found on Foxytunes.com.

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The Monkees Poster

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DID THE MONKEES REALLY PLAY THIS GUITAR?

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The Monkees Game

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the Monkees car

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The Monkees

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The Monkees Season 1 DVD

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The Monkees at Hard Rock Cafe in Atlantic City!

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The Monkees at Hard Rock Cafe in Atlantic City!

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The Monkees

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the monkees newest set!

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Hey Hey, its the Monkees

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The Monkees

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Hey Hey Were the Monkees Earrings

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IN MY HOUSE: Tiger Beat featuring The Monkees

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The Monkees

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Part of My Monkees Collection

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Secrect Society of Super-Villains

You can pre-order the Showcase Presents: The Secret Society of Super-Villains Volume 1. It comes out later this year. I have heard that it is coming out in May. The above is the cover of the first issue of the book when the comic book came out. I don't have any info on what the Showcase Presents artwork will look like yet.

Complete Collections on DVD-Rom

For those of you who have been planning on buying these DVD-Roms from Marvel time is running out. I heard from a reliable source that Marvel didn't renew with the company that puts them out and will only rely on the digital downloads from their site. Those downloads I have been told are only good to be read on your computer. You can't burn them onto a DVD-Rom. If you want to you can buy them at the Amazon.com link below.

Color Guide

I found this on E-Bay. A color guide for an issue of Daredevil.

Ron Dante and The Archies's Mr. Factory

Social commentary in song by Ron Dante and the Archies.

Mannix introduction

The posting of the TV show Mannix coming to DVD got me to thinking about the the intro to the show. So I looked it up on You Tube and was surprised that there wasn't that many postings there on it. Here is the one I did find for season one. It had a wonderful jazz tune that you can't get out of your head.

Archie's Funhouse: The Complete Series on DVD

I just found out that Archie's Funhouse is going on sale tomorrow. It is a 3 disc set of the complete cartoon series. You can still pre-order it now if you click on the Amazon link below. Won't it be great to hear all of those wonderful Ron Dante tunes again?

Larry Norman Video (PG-13)

I still can't embed audio only but here is a video that someone made of the Larry Norman song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." If you are younger then 13 you may want your parents to view this with you if any part of it needs explaining.

This Day In Music History: Tab Hunter and Young Love

When the rock era started out it was not uncommon for the same song to be recorded by more then one artist. On this day in music history the song Young Love was #1 on the Billboard charts by Tab Hunter and #4 by Sonny James. It became a signature song for both artist. By having as many artist cover a song as possible it provided more income for the publishers and the songwriters.

The first person to record Young Love was its co-writer Ric Cartey for RCA Records. His version didn't make the charts. Later he played it for Sonny James and he liked it enough to record it.

The president of Dot Records thought Sonny's version would only be a hit on the country charts and wanted it to hit the pop charts at the same time. So he contacted actor Tab Hunter who at that time had not recorded a song. He told him he had a record he wanted him to hear and if Tab could carry a tune at all, he would like him to record it.

As it turned out Tab had a pretty good voice and had sang in his school choir. He liked the song and agreed to record it. Ten days later it was in record stores. Sonny's version also hit the pop charts and it was climbing. However, Tab's was right behind him. On March 2, 1957 Tab's version peaked at #1 and later Sonny's hit #2.

Tab's recording career was short lived at Dot. Warner Brothers had him under contract to make movies and wanted him to concentrate on that. When they sent him on a promotional tour for the movie The Spirit of St. Louis no one asked him about the movie. He mostly got questions about his record. Warner Brothers was furious. Eventually Warner Brothers started their own record label and Tab Hunter was one of the artist they signed first. Tab feels that he was the reason they started their own label. Warner Brothers would rather have their artist earn money for them and not other record labels.

Tab Hunter had a long but sporadic career in films which range from Island of Desire to Grease 2. He was the star of his own sit-com in 1960 called "The Tab Hunter Show." I only lasted one season as it was against the last 30 minutes of "The Ed Sullivan Show." In 1977 he played George Shumway the father of Mary Hartman when he joined the cast of "Forever Fernwood." It was the spin-off show of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." He later formed his own production company to produce his own independent films.

Rest In Peace Larry Norman

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Listening to: Larry Norman - I Wish We'd All Been Ready
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Listening to: Larry Norman - I Wish We'd All Been Ready
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I heard that one of the founders of Contemporary Christian Music, formerly known as Jesus Rock when it first started, Larry Norman died. One of the first Christian Rock songs I heard played and my youth department even sang in church was his song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." I hope when the Lord returns that we all are. The one reason I have taken longer then usual in posting this, as Mr. Norman passed away last week, is because I was trying to find a way to embed the song here so others could listen to it. I have not had much luck in doing that with the audio only version of Larry Norman singing. So below you can see the video of DC Talk preforming the song. You have to hear it. There version is beautiful.



In the 1960's and 1970's not too many people were producing rock music with Christian lyrics as rock and roll music was closely associated with the Devil and to some people it was called the Devil's Music. Larry Norman was one of the first to show you can still love the Lord Jesus and enjoy rock and roll. He had tried making a career in the secular world of rock and roll but it didn't work out as well as he had hoped, even though his group did have a top 40 hit with a song called "I Love You." He then left the group to release his first solo Christian Rock album called "Upon This Rock" in 1969. It was from this album that "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" was released.
Here is a link to his site Larry Norman.com. Also, here is what Kent at Forgotten Hits has to say about Larry Norman.

Chicago and the Beach Boys

Here is a video of Chicago and the Beach Boys singing "Wishin' You Were Here" and "Surfer Girl."

Top 40 Radio A Blast From The Past

Here is a video of a man with his own show that takes people back to the way top 40 radio use to be.

Superman and Hostess in the Ionic Storm

Love-Man Beast

Normally this is not something I would post here but it is just plain funny. Here for your listening pleasure, or something close to it, is the one, the only (thank goodness), Love-Man Beast.

Teardrop City on Peyton Place

Nighttime soap operas have become a staple on network television. One of the early ones was a show in the 60's called Peyton Place. Here is a video of a group playing the Boyce and Hart song Teardrop City, made a bit more famous by the Monkees, on the night club set of the series Peyton Place.

Bobby Hart Interview

I know that Rhino had 2 parts of a three part interview with Mike Nesmith on their site. However, now I, after a long wait, I finally checked back in and saw that part three of the interview with Nez is up and also they have an interview with Bobby Hart. Bobby is the one on the right in the picture above in case you have never seen him before. That is what he looked like back in the later 1960's. The other is of course his show business friend and partner Tommy Boyce. You can listen to the interviews if you click here or on the title above.

Monkees Kellogg's Commercial

Here is a Monkees Cereal commercial that looks to be from season one. Enjoy!

Orson Welles' Batman

While searching the internet today I came across something I found astounding but before posting found it was a hoax. Orson Welles liked comic books. If this were true it whould not have been too surprising as he was the voice of the Shadow on radio. Welles was known for his painstaking research in to whatever he was working on. Perhaps he would have read the Shadow pulps and that would have lead him to read comic books. According to the hoax, he even said that he loved the Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories from Denny O'Neil in 1973 and attended an early comic book convention. In 1946 he was even talking over with National Periodicals, who later became DC Comics, with making Batman into a movie. This movie may well have been along the lines of what Michael Keaton's Batman movie followed.

The casting was Welles was to be Bruce Wayne/Batman. The Villains were to have been...

Basil Rathbone as the Joker...

George Raft as Two-Face...


James Cagney as the Riddler...

and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman.

Yes it is a hoax but on You Tube I found the fan movie trailers that showed what the Orson Welles version of Batman may have been like.


Here is Part one.


and this is part two.

I had a hard time deciding if I should put this here or on my comic books site Mail It To Team Up. I decided to post it here and direct the readers of Mail It To Team Up to this site to view it.