The Exotic Element in Popular Mid-Century Music
Here’s the script to my lecture (pdf), but I spoke freely for the better part and ignored what I had written. The music in brackets is what I didn’t play in execution.

Hong-Kong (not too sure)

Apollo
The Skippers
The White Cloud

Singapore

The Stylers
The Sparklers
The Atoms
The reQuests
The Trailers
The Commanders
Top Singapore Garage Group
The Melodians
The Blue Beats

Japan

The Circle
Sharp Five (older guy playing classical theme Eleki style in a bar)
Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys
Psychedelic Eleki
??????
Tsugaru jonkara bushi at Live in Akasaka
Flying Guitar
Isamu Houda & Hot Style – Bumble Bee Twist
??????????
The Sharp 5

bonus video

Here’s a great spherical (360° x 360°) photograph of a beautiful coral reef in the pacific ocean.

via Boing Boing

Skateboard Sense is a safety film. The skating is stylish bankriding and nose wheelies and it’s just a great window into a time before skating was becoming more radical. So the action here could be from the sixties with a little shorter hair and clay wheels. Amazingly the music selection fits the skating style perfectly, the movie even starts with a nifty cool surf-instrumental that I didn’t know before. It’s a very competendly crafted tune. The other music is blues rock and slapstick/silent-movies oldtime music. A Sid Davis Production.

link to the page at the Prelinger Archives

More Sid Davis Productions:

• Summer of ’63 (1972)
• ‘LSD’: Trip or Trap! (1967)
• The Cool Hot Rod (1953)
• The Dropout (1962)
• Gang Boy (1954)

For lack of another common tag I had these stored for years under the Cool banner in my personal browser – so it’s high time to let you participate!!!

Movies

Brian’s Drive-In Theater
Prelinger Archives
Robby’s Super-8

Entertainment

Hulaboogie.co.uk
Bardot A Go Go
Meissoun – Raqs Sharqi – Bollywood Dance
Modern Drunkard Magazine

Fashion

Murray’s Pomade
Fez-O-Rama
Blackseapearl Handbags

Art, Design, Architecture

SuZanna Anna Gravel Art Mosaic Art
Tom’s World
m – m o d e r n
Hafenbasar! Hamburg
Googie Architecture
Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee
City In Space

Retro Themed

Beatsville Pad – Book
California Mod Scene
Dumb Angel Magazine
Retro Radar – Vintage Living at its Best!
fastfoodkids.de
Retrolounge
PCL LinkDump
ookworld – Observing Obscure Kulture
Billetproof Car Shows
Silver Line Boats
Pulp Fiction E-cards