Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
It's too easy to describe anything that's kinda creepy as being "Lynchian," but I can't think of a more apt term for this old Scopitone video that Spike Priggen of Bedazzled sent me. It's the Freddy Bee 4 performing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." Excuse me while I go in the corner to quake.
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In this case, I'll take Mary Anne over Ginger. Ginger can't dance.
Where are they now? That's what I think when those go-go girls step forward.
wharrgarble!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM975_Ld9S0&feature=PlayList&p=8AE17C92BBE6F52F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=76
It's like something out of Tom and Eric.
Is it just me or does Freddy look like a cross between Ted Kennedy and John Belushi?
Always go for Mary Anne!
MOMMY!!!!!!
Huh? Oh nothing.
Also - Freddy looks like he's got someone waiting for him outside - in the trunk of his car.
Since I don't see any organs, I'm gonna assume that accordion is actually and Accorgan! My favorite hybrid instrument.
GAH! that DRILLING church organ and freddy's deep set eyes are to blame!
*yearns for a time when frontmen could look like this and dancers were this sultry*
Were the tempo any necro-deadlier, he could sing "You're just too good to be true, can't take my ice off of you..."
Just keep thinking that this should have been the background for the land of the dead part of Beteljuice.
It is Lynchian! But it's like the David Lynch version of MST3K favorite Girl in Gold Boots. Very creepy indeed!
I have also, occasionally, found myself describing something as "Lynchian" and kind of wishing I had a better word for it.
I don't know, but Drop Dead Gorgeous' version is up there, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11pRxAvlaw&NR=1
@#5 Wordguy:
I think he looks like Meatloaf with no stage presence.
"This really happened John, and it wasn't on purpose. They were really trying."
"Is that why our captcha says 'added rejection'?"
I like the pinky ring.
Also, when the dancers re-enter the scene, they've switched heads.
Sorry that is Mr.Bean with a wig.
Rod Blagoevich (sp) before the fall !
It's like something from those 'Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks' '70s flicks....where the SS enjoy the entertainment by the prisoners and then finish them off. That would explain the wooden moves and expressions.
Gilbert Anonymous here:
Sufferin' Jayzuz!! It's that how singers spend eternity in Hell?
It's the red curtains. Schmaltz night at the Black Lodge!
He looks like he's got a black eye healing up.
I don't find it creepy as much as a really cool and rare look at people from that era who seem "real". I feel like I could be there now. There's a great natural air to the whole thing.
How come I'm seeing an accordion but hearing a Farfisa (or maybe a Hammond I guess)?
1. I think he looks like David Berkowitz (before the fall).
2. I want to believe that that is an Accorgan, but for the life of me I can't spot a cord. Come to think of it, where's the bass player?
3. I'm not going to lie to you - it's happening for me with the redhead.
Andre the Giant's little brother gets laid - by the log lady. There is no better word than "Lynchian." Give Lynch credit for plowing that ground.
... now it's dark.
Good God. I can't decide whether it's the band's catatonic state or the blond's truly horrific dancing that makes this so creepy. This has to be the stuff of (Lynch's) dreams.
I guess that we can safely remove nostalgia from the list of incurable illnesses.
Yeah, the red curtain does the trick. I miss the midget, though.
I could really go for some nitrous right now.
forgive me for restating the blindingly obvious but...
THAT
IS
AWSOME
Ginger, Maryanne, Mrs. Howell's creepy cousin. Whatever. I'm game.
I can't watch video anymore without thinking how I wish I had the original so I could fix the audio with GoldWave and the video with AVISynth filers.
@#32 But the midget is behind the curtain the entire time, waiting.
That's how David Lynch works his magic, Bitgod.
I particularly appreciate the Hammond B3 sound that I am lead to believe is coming from that squeezebox
This was totally shot inside the Black Lodge. The red curtain gives it away.
As others have already said, that would fit in the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. Still, I don't think it's particularly Lynchian, nor creepy. It's pretty awkward, but not creepy.
Skeeztastic.
Cant stop watching the blond dancing in the back, LOL
I say he's Patton Oswalt.
Oh, what you can do with an Accordion on this type of song. This video is so vintage-retroish. Love the dancing girls in the back - looks like they are in their underwear!
The blond just has that classic Stepford wife look in her eyes
This was before stretch spandex. I think the dance steps are mostly meant to keep the legs together, to keep the rigid underwear from gapping obscenely. Notice how they hold their panties up with their hands while they're walking.
Freddy looks cadaverous; 30-something going on 70. And the size of his head with those dead, dead eyes. Pass the pickled eggs.
I'm laughing about how they all look like they are kept in a secret dungeon and forced to perform, but then I am creeped out wondering what was really going on in the lives of these people at the time, especially the ladies.
I imagine the ladies were hoping that their next job wouldn't involve dancing in their underwear, or if it did, that they'd be paid more.
After watching this a couple of times yesterday, this is now running through my head, in particular that sax "riff". Having said that, I find this fascinating and enjoyable. I love stuff from that era, especially when it's so palpable and authentic, not some retro reenactment, which is usually a bit off. This is what it was like. And I kind of wish I was there.
It's Gordon Brown, I'm sure of it.
You just KNOW that behind the curtain, there's a very tall man nodding his head to the beat, but thinking 'It is happening again...' and a very short man, snapping fingers and crying out 'Lets Rock....'
I had a very persistent suitor who looked like the vocalist. Yikes!
...and...I suspect I dance like the blonde. *wince!!*