Celebrity vinyl / by Tom Hamling [Anglais] [Relié] Auteur: Tom Hamling - ISBN:
B008SLGSK4 - Langue: Français
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REVUE I said it once and I'll say it again: kitsch is camp and camp is kitsch and ever the twain shall meet. Yes, I'm jealous. I threw out all my vinyl thirty-three and a thirds when I made the last move to the old folks dementia home. This was long after I threw out my 78s and 45s, alas. (Warped by the sun, but as they spun, they gave off a wavy groove). So Tom Hamling goes on to show us all up and prove that one man's crapola is another man's treasure. Can you imagine? An art book showing the covers of records made by THE WORLD'S WORST CELEBRITIES (and some others)?
I mean, you can't play the music, and according to Hamling, that is all to the good. What he does instead in this "it's so bad it's art!" collection of some albums that never should have seen the light of day is to carefully examine the covers for hints and allegations about the pop culture in mostly the seventies and eighties. John Travolta, who really is a celeb, bless his hairy-chested heart, graces several pages of this frankly amazing tome, as well as appearing in the center of the record playing on the stylish record player on the cover, gets to be embarrassed boocoo times. Hamling's dry comment on the album cover showing Travolta in a dark mop of very thick hair over naked white shoulders: "This can't help the gay rumors."
My favorite (just to get back to me) is "I'm Your Woman" (1985) by Sandra Bernhard (who could actually sing a little) lying seemingly naked in satin sheets looking like somebody just smacked her in the swollen lips for looking too too heroin chic. I also liked "Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots" in a straight jacket grinning wide-eyed at the camera in "I'm Not Crazy" [Recommend for Adult Listening]. Hamling's comment: "Dees nuts." Ah, yes, dees nuts were made for.... Never mind. Rick Dees, when he did his celebrity trash radio show in L.A., used to give the temperature as "Seventy-eight dees sleaze grees." (Say that several times: "Dees sleaze grees.") Maybe he still does.
There's a bunch of the Brady Bunch, and how bad were they? Oh my Lord how those kids could grin. Throw in some Ed McMahon, some Burgess Meredith, a whole lotta Lorne Greene, the Beverly Hillbillies, Jim Nabors, Leonard Nimoy ("Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space"), Rappin' Rodney Dangerfield, and some stylings by the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, and what have you got? You've got, as Hamling puts it, "the consecration of fame...the veneration of the C-List."
There are some A-List people sprinkled among the desperate, but they are VERY embarrassed (or ought to be). There's Goldie Hawn from 1972 looking good enough to munch (on those pouty lips), and Marilyn Monroe in what ought to be a collector's item entitled "The Very Best of Marilyn Monroe" from Fun Records [Year Not Listed]. Also there's Billy Crystal having black coffee with Billy Crystal in "You Look Marvelous" at some night club booth with celeb photos on the wall.
Sometimes the cover art shows the names of the songs sung by the celeb. Ted Knight in "Hi Guys" intones "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," "Blueberry Hill," "Mr. Custer," and nine more, in a style that surely had them tapping their pinkies. And "Laverne & Shirley Sing" gives us "Da Do Ron Ron" which I suppose they ought to know about, and the Everley Brothers hit from the fifties, "All I Have to Do Is Dream," which I imagine they warble for laughs.
There are many more affronts to good taste and career development in this Mark Batty signature publication, including "Christmas Day with Colonel Sanders," "Wrestling Rocks" featuring Jesse "The Body" Ventura," "Love in the Afternoon" with the ABC Soap Opera Stars, and heaven help us, "The Ethel Merman Disco Album."
Par Dennis Littrell
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