See also: Elvis Presley Karate and Elvis giving a Karate demonstration.
See also this documentary clip or these current impressions from the Memphis Karate School.
Filed under: Sounds | Tags: Easy Listening, Funk, Jazz, Movie Themes, Pop, Swing, TV Themes
Tracklist
01 Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
02 Nora Orlandi – A Doppia Faccia
03 John Barry – The Persuaders Theme
04 John Cacavas - Agent Who
05 Buddy Morrow – Perry Mason Theme
06 Roy Budd – The Thief / Thief On Prowl
07 Oscar Brown Jr – Humdrum Blues
08 Rene Hall – Cleo
09 The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One – Liberation
10 Sergio Nilo – Esquetando Os Tambourinos E Cuica
11 Mary Lou Williams – Swingin’ For The Guys
12 Geo Daily Trio – I Remember You
13 Billie Holiday – Blue Moon
14 Nina Simone – He Needs Me
15 Chet Baker & Bud Shank – Let Me Be Loved (Vocal Version)
16 Maria Kannegaard – Hey Ya
17 Vic Damone – Alone Together
18 Astrud Gilberto – Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
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Filed under: Videos
The singer Lux Interior formed The Cramps with his guitar-slinging soul-mate and wife Poison Ivy in 1976. The Cramps sound was a shivery fusion of rockabilly, surf guitar and early punk – with a reliable sense of style and an unshakeable passion for sleaze and trash like horror B-movies and sexual fetishism.
Interior, described on the band’s official website as “the psycho-sexual Elvis/Werewolf hybrid from hell”, died of a pre-existing heart condition on February 4, 2009. He was 62.
The following video is an extract of The Cramps’ legendary gig at Napa State Mental Hospital from 1978. With the patients running free, screaming in the mic and harassing the band. Opening words from Interior: “Somebody told me you people are crazy. But I’m not so sure about that, you seem to be all right to me.”
