LA MUERTE SILBA UN BLUES - "Death Whistles The Blues" (1964)

This week's Saturday Night Special is a 1964 film by Jesus Franco entitled "La Muerte Silba Un Blues," and/or "Death Whistles The Blues!"
How such a cool movie could have one of the dullest posters I've ever seen, I have no idea!

 I originally thought the title was "Death Sings The Blues," which quite francoly, has a much better ring to it!

 "La Muerte Silba Un Blues," was fun to watch from start to finish, it's total eye candy, with a tricky story, and very cool music written by Jesus Franco himself, who is also the guy there playing the sax!

Great observation on how phony people can be!

 One minute the horn used to play "Roof Blues" looks like this.........

 
..............The next minute all the player can remember is 'the headlights' before he dies!

 I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have this much fun!

 Here's another great shot of Jess Franco playing sax!
The music was performed by the "Whisky Jazz Club" orchestra!

 No wonder the world's so screwed up today, this is the kind of guy that was running the show 50 years ago! Gee, you think there's maybe more than one reason his wife doesn't love him?

 During this era of Franco's life, he was making films as good as anyone. His later psyco-surreal sex romps are a different story!

 She says she looks ugly without the wig!

 At this place and time, this guy is truly King of the Jerks!

 When he doesn't get his way he drives too fast!

 Then this wild-eyed joker from ten years in the past shows up.and spoils the fun for everyone!

 In this bar, he's watching these two guys arm wrestle, and he's told to buzz off!

 But instead of leaving, he challenges the two of them!

 He's pretty strong and beats them both fairly easily!

 After that, they all become best friends, and it's a good thing, because he's going to desperately need their help!

 Just one cool shot after another!

Like I said, so simple but very effective!

Of course there had to be a costume party, and this shot almost looks like a scene from "Batman!"

The cape blowing in the breeze makes him look like a super villian!
"La Muerte Silba Un Blues" is a great film, period!
Seek it out would be my suggestion!

WOODY WOODPECKER / "Round Trip To Mars" - 1957

Time for a trip back to 1957, when things were fun, just the opposite of today. In this cartoon, Woody is on vacation and gets annoyed by a professor building a rocket ship near him...

Here's our little pal in Lost Wages, enjoying the sun. He's having a great time on his inner tube until it sounds like a jack hammer going to town near him!

What the heck! Someone's working on a big old rocket ship in the desert there!..

It's a nutty professor, ready to take off for a trip to Mars! Yeah, good luck pal.

Woody takes his inner tube, attaches it to the rocket, then puts the tube around a giant boulder, which pulls the rocket back down, causing it to crash into the ground! Woody puts on a space helmet and pretends to be a Martian!!

Woody does his best impression of a Martian, and the professor falls for it.

Our devious little pest offers the professor a drink, but it's freaking rocket fuel...

Like, which way did he go, George?!

Woody plays another prank on the professor, he gets his mechanical Martian out and walks it around. The professor thinks he's finally captured the little trouble maker...

But Woody has other plans! He throws the switch on the transformer, and, zap-a-roonie!!

C'mon, you gots to has a exploding cigar to round out the laffs!

The professor climbs a tree while chasing Woody, only to be shot into the air after our hero ropes the top of the tree, pulls it down to the ground and cuts the line!

Woody tells the professor that he can get him back to Earth, so, they get inside a rocket and are ready blast off!

But, they're on a ride at Dizzyland, bringing our story to a fun end! Tune in tomorrow as Eegah!! gets ready for another Saturday installment, here at The Dungeon!!..

NEW WAVE THEATRE - "The Peter Ivers Show" (1982)

 "New Wave Theatre" was a low-budget high-energy Musical variety show that was on the air in L.A. in 1982-1983. Because of the quality of the bands, the show was later shown on "Night Flight" on the U.S.A. Network!

 The host was an amazing musician named Peter Ivers who among his many credits, was asked by David Lynch to write a song for his movie "Eraserhead" in 1976. The resulting tune was titled "In Heaven (The Lady In The Radiator Song.")
Peter Ivers is probably one of the most interesting people you never heard of, and Lord Litter recently did a mini-tribute to him on his Magic Music Box radio show where you can hear some of his cool harmonica playing and kookie song writing!

"New Wave Theatre" was a series of live songs introduced by Peter, with some jokey stuff in between. This was episode number twenty-two, out of a total of twenty-five, and the first band up was FEAR, featuring the always lovable Lee Ving!

 The killer song FEAR performs was titled "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones!"

 "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones" was on this 1982 disc call "The Record," and featured Derf Scratch on Sax!

 The next band up was called The Rayonics and featured Madeline Ridley on vocals!


 
 The Rayonics kind of reminded me of a 1980's Jefferson Airplane, and they were also on episode 19.

 It sounded to me like Peter introduced their song as "Where Are You Now That Love Is Gone," but the only record I can find that they ever made was this  cover of "Walk Away Renee."

 Their single release was shaped like a circular saw blade and commands a pretty hefty price on Discogs!

 The gags weren't much better the ones on our public access TV show "Offbeat!"

 Look, it's 1982, and Peter has a mask on! That's how far ahead of the game this guy was!

 The third band of the evening was called Powertrip, and they performed a song called "Lab Animal."

 Powertrip was fronted by Jeff Dahl, and the background singers were Cat and Kathleen!

 "Lab Animal" was released on this 7" EP in 1982!

 The next band was called Carnival Of Souls, and I cannot find out anything about this band at all.
I think this song was introduced as "Sally's Not Breathing!"

Do an internet search for Carnival Of Souls, and you'll find out there was of course the classic movie of the same name, a 90's German band, and the title of a KISS album, but nothing about this gal!

 The fifth band was called Red Wedding.

 The song they perform is called "All (Dressed Up), and is on this 1982 mini-album called "Up And Down The Aisle."

 Last but not least was a group called Marvin And The Paramounts!

 Marvin And The Paramounts play a rockin' song called "Can't Stop A Train."
This was the only 45 I could find by Marvin And The Paramounts, and "Can't Stop A Train" is not on it, but some guy has one of these and wants $298.69 + postage for it!
I like to think I know a lot about music, but out of these five bands, the only one I had heard of before was FEAR!

"New Wave Theatre" stopped abriptly at episode 25, when they found Peter Ivers murdered in his apartment, which to this day is still an unsolved crime!

Follow the friendly link below and you can see the whole show for yourself!

New Wave Theatre # 22