The Peek-a-boo Revue podcast
Back in 1976 Molly Roth owned a plant shop called the Green Earth (the liner notes of her album mention that the store had a free jukebox for the plants). Listen now as Molly Roth speaks lovingly to your plants, and calls them by name, whether or not you even have a "Spider Plant", "Brain Cactus", or "Dracaena Godsefffiana" in the room. Molly Roth intro No Title - Bianchi & The Jungle Sextet Bad girls go to hell - movie trailer Summertime - The Shakespears She's got freckles on her - Larry Vincent & His Lookout Boys Molly Roth 2 Girl in the Gold Boots - Chris Howard Sexy Ways - The Midnighters arriba, arriba, abaju, y a los lados - Los Belmonts My Girls Pussy - Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys Toes - The Wet Spots Molly Roth 3 Little Girl - Everett Pauley Ruth Wallace - Queer Things From a Peek-A-Boo Revue show - Gardening Tips - Joey Martini Peen Tang - The Treniers Black Panther - Bianchi & The Jungle Sextet Beaver Shot - The PERISCOPES He's Just my Size - Lillie Mea Kirkman Molly Roth 4 Sugar Rum Cherry - "Duke" Ellington Black Lightning - The Royaltones Stiletto - Stiletto(OST) Sid Ramin Pat's Steaks - Sal Masi's Untouchables Head Hunter - Don Ralke li'l girl, li'l girl - Donny Boyd Grow for me (rare extended) - OST Little Shop of Horrors Molly Roth end read less
Thu January 01 2009
Back in 1976 Molly Roth owned a plant shop called the Green Earth (the liner notes of her album mention that the store had a free jukebox for the plants). Listen now as Molly Roth speaks lovingly to your plants, and calls them by name, whether or not you even have a "Spider Plant", "Brain Cactus", or "Dracaena Godsefffiana" in the room. Molly Roth intro No Title - Bianchi & The Jungle Sextet Bad girls go to hell - movie trailer Summertime - The Shakespears She's got freckles on her - Larry Vincent & His Lookout Boys Molly Roth 2 Girl in the Gold Boots - Chris Howard Sexy Ways - The Midnighters arriba, arriba, abaju, y a los lados - Los Belmonts My Girls Pussy - Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys Toes - The Wet Spots Molly Roth 3 Little Girl - Everett Pauley Ruth Wallace - Queer Things From a Peek-A-Boo Revue show - Gardening Tips - Joey Martini Peen Tang - The Treniers Black Panther - Bianchi & The Jungle Sextet Beaver Shot - The PERISCOPES He's Just my Size - Lillie Mea Kirkman Molly Roth 4 Sugar Rum Cherry - "Duke" Ellington Black Lightning - The Royaltones Stiletto - Stiletto(OST) Sid Ramin Pat's Steaks - Sal Masi's Untouchables Head Hunter - Don Ralke li'l girl, li'l girl - Donny Boyd Grow for me (rare extended) - OST Little Shop of Horrors Molly Roth end read less
Tue November 11 2008
The National Police Gazette was probably the most successful of the men's magazines of the nineteeth century United States. It was founded in 1845 by journalist George Wilkes and lawyer Enoch Camp as a sort of true crime/America's Most Wanted periodical; it told the stories of crime and misbehavior with information about the alleged offenders such as names, aliases, physical descriptions. In 1877, Richard Kyle Fox became publisher of the magazine after a few years selling ads and then becoming the business manager. He came up with the idea of selling cheap subscriptions to saloon keepers, barbers, hotel managers, and other places where multiple readers would encounter the magazine. He also made the Gazette stand out from its competing scandal sheets by printing it on pink paper. The illustrations started to include pictures of female burlesque and vaudeville performers in revealing poses, instead of just pictures to accompany stories. The Gazette's success under Fox was huge. By 1885, its advertising rates were the same as such popular magazines as Ladies Home Journal, and Fox claimed each weekly issue was read by a million readers. Subscriptions were about a sixth of that number, but it doesn't seem too unlikely that each issue going to a barbershop or saloon was read by a large number of people. Fox tried to start other magazines, but none came close to matching the Gazette's success. But the Gazette had made Fox a millionaire. Thomas Edison was a regular reader, and later James Joyce made reference to the magazine in Ulysses. By the 1920s, though, saloons were closed by Prohibition and barbershops were becoming more unisex as flappers came in to get their hair bobbed -- not a place where such a male-oriented magazine was so welcome. Fox died in 1922; his organization kept on for another decade before selling the magazine. Many other girlie mags, sports, and tabloids had sprouted as competition to the Gazette's success. By the 1950s, glossier periodicals such as Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy had stole even more of its audience. The magazine was still published throughout much of the twentieth century, with headlines such as "Exposed -- The Dope Racket That Killed Marilyn Monroe!" (1962) and "UFOs: A Message from Our Past?" (1975). 1982 is the last year I can find any reference to the magazine, but a run from 1848 to then is still quite impressive, even if the issues of the 1900s never reached the success of the 1880s and 1890s. National Police Gazette site Charge it - The Playboys Night Walk - Swingers BARE FACTS ABOUT BURLESQUE - 1 - National Police Gazette article - 1949 Miss Letha Jones - The Chargers Mad Ave Perfume ad - Charles Wilp Big Boss A Go-Go Party - Ron Haydok & The Boppers You're Driving me Crazy - Mel Henke Outta my head - Various The Prowler - The Harry Roche Constellation music composed for the film THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE 1 - MUSIC TO LOSE YOUR KNICKERS BY - OST - www.itsachick.com Phantom Patrol (1903) - Aeolian Piano ROll Anaesthesia - Reg Tisley music composed for the film THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE 2 - MUSIC TO LOSE YOUR KNICKERS BY - OST - www.itsachick.com BARE FACTS ABOUT BURLESQUE - 2 - National Police Gazette article - 1949 Cobra - The Boys Apple Cider - Doc Starkes & His Night Riders Are you Nervous? - The Instrumentals BARE FACTS ABOUT BURLESQUE snip - National Police Gazette article - 1949 Sleepless Hours - The Originals The Wiggling Fool - Jack Hammer Purple Wail - Red Prysock Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera Burlesque Tribute New rubbing on that darn old thing - Oscar's Chicago Swingers Street walkin' blues - Washboard Rhythm Kings BARE FACTS ABOUT BURLESQUE - 3 - National Police Gazette article - 1949 Dance me 'til the end of love - Hate Gibson The Sneak - George Young & The Rockin' Bocs Oasis (Part 1) - The Majestics (Do the) Mashed Potatos (Part 2) - Nat Kendrik & The Swans Keep on churnin' - Wynonie Harris The Peek-A-Boo Revue's Official MySpace Page The Peek-A-Boo Revue's Official Website read less
Thu October 30 2008
If you are brave enough, let's take a ride to Shades of DEATH road and GHOST lake! If we all survive, we will grab a bite to eat at the local greasy spoon. IT'S CALLED “GHOST LAKE” FOR A REASON by FIVEL I have a couple of stories about Shades of Death. The first one is when I was up there with a couple of friends one night we were all sitting at Ghost Lake. When this car filled with kids drove by, they had flashlights and at first they looked like they were just shining them on us, to try and freak us out. They drove by a couple of times doing this. It didn't work so we motioned for them to pull in, and they asked us if we saw the guy. They told us that there was some guy walking really strangeley by the guardrail on the side of the road. He was wearing a flannel shirt and overalls and kinda limped. But when the kids drove by trying to get a good look at the guy he kept turning his head, then he just disappeared. You have to remember that there were four kids about twenty feet away from this guardrail and we didnt even have a clue about this guy being there. Another time while parked at Ghost Lake, my friend and I were sitting there in the car and it was about 2 or 3 in the morning. The people who maintained the park were trying to grow grass or something because there was hay on the ground. I remember sitting there for about ten minutes, about to leave, when all of a sudden I saw the hay move, but it wasnt from the wind or anything like that. The hay moved like someone was walking on it. Footprints went all the way around the car, over and over again. This went on for about ten minutes. The whole time I was sitting there going "Yo did you see that?" and my friend was just like "Yeah thats crazy, what the fuck is that?" and then it just stopped and we left. We don't have any clue what it was that did that but it wasn't wind or any kind of small animal like a chipmunk. The last story about Shades is the best though. There is an old cabin that's right off of Ghost Lake. You can barely see it in the day, but at night forget it. If you don't know where to look, you wont find it. Me and a couple of kids were inside it one night and I remember it was trashed - the windows were all broken, the walls were falling apart the floor had holes in it, the place was a mess. In one of the far corners of the house is a hallway with a piano built into the wall. The keys are all smashed up on it and that alone is enough to be kinda freaky. We went on exploring the place and then went upstairs, and I was the last person up the stairs. I remember that so there wasnt anybody else downstairs. All of a sudden the piano sounded like someone banged on it really hard. Then it happened again, and there was a crunching sound like the glass on the floor was being stepped on. This sound came closer and closer down the hallway. Our first reaction was that it was the cops. But when we heard the sound right in front of us and saw no flashlights, wee quickly ruled out that one. So someone shined a light on the area and there was nothing there. We took off out of there as quickly as we could and didn't look back. when we got to the road we noticed that there were no cars parked along the side, so it wasn't any body fucking with us. I wouldn't park on the street anywhere near the cabin, because the whole place is owned by the state and they will prosecute you if they catch you in there. So watch out. SHADOWY PAST The Long and Winding Saga of Shades of Death Road Out of all the grim monikers encountered out on the roads less travelled throughout New Jersey, perhaps none is more foreboding than the infamous Shades of Death Road. Like many places steeped in local lore, reality and legend have become intertwined over the years, obscuring exactly what can be considered fact regarding this byway. What is known is that for centuries, this road has been a dark, mysterious thoroughfare for travellers to cut across one of the more isolated parts of our state. What isn’t known is exactly how this street earned its curious name. According to one legend, murder is at the root of the Shades of Death name. One tale relating to murder says that the original inhabitants of the area surrounding Shades of Death were an unruly band of squatters. Often, men from this vile gang would get into fights over women, and the squabbles would result in the death of one of the participants. As the reputation of these murderous bandits grew, the area they inhabited was named “Shades of Death.” When the civilized world encroached on and disbanded the bandits, the last remnant of their control over the meadows was restricted to one road that retained the name they made famous. Another murder theory says that the road was originally known as “The Shades,” because of the low hanging trees which formed a canopy over the length of the street. Legend says that over time, many murders occurred there, and many stayed unsolved, causing local residents to add the sinister “of Death” twist to the formerly pleasant “Shades” name. There are still other explanations of how Shades acquired its name which have less to do with murder, and more to do with death by natural causes. Shades of Death traverses an area long known as the “Great Meadows,” which upon its original settlement was a vast area of marshy swampland. Around 1850, an outbreak of malaria carrying insects was discovered near a cliff face along Shades. As the citizens around Shades came to expect the yearly outbreaks of this terrible disease, they began to anticipate the annual spate of deaths of friends and family members which came along with it. Like any community, their landmarks, in particular this one road, came to reflect the morose attitude they had regarding these epidemics. Travelling along Shades of Death today, it is still a mysterious, foreboding place. Whatever the real origins of the name are, something about this tract of land caused its earliest settlers to imbue upon it a name which speaks of death. No matter which legends or facts you choose to believe, it would seem that the road’s name was offered up as a warning from beyond the grave to those who might travel this dark path unaware of its potential hazards. Though we may never know for sure how the road actually got its name, it might be a good idea to heed those warnings and say a little prayer when traveling on Shades of Death Road.. The Stranger - Ken Nordine Strange Ghost - Pastel Six Invisible Man - Andre Popp The Shadow Knows - Link Wray Beware - Bill Buchanan Ghost in the Invisible Bakini - radio spot Joey Martini - Shades of Death Road Bad Things - Jace Everett The Gorilla - Burt Convey Witch's Egg - Forbidden Zone OST Dr. Tar's Torture Dungeon - Radio Spot Rhapsody for knives (forks & spoons) - Central High School Cafeteria Band Joey Martini - Shades of Death Road Rigor Mortis - The Gravestone Four The Sneak - Jimmy Oliver It - Real-Aires Box - SE7EN (The Musical) OST Fright Night - B Brock & The Vibratos The Thing - Steve Gibson & The Red Caps Mr. Ghost goes to Town - Five Jones Boys The Naughty Ghost - Jan August Laughing over my grave - Ray Stevens The Hearse - Radio Spot Blood Mania - Radio Spot The Rockin' Ghost - Archie Bleyer Orchestra & Chorus Grim Grinning Ghosts - Chris Calabrese Tear you apart - She Wants Revenge read less
Mon October 20 2008
SPOOKSHOW - Trial of the Dead Welcome to my nightmare - Alice Cooper Psycho radio spot Bates Motel - The Hitman Norman Bates - From the Tearooms of Mars Joey Martini - Unknown history of the Betsy Ross Bridge, PA Monsters crash the pajama party radio spot Mad Monster Party - OST Monster in my pants - Fred Schneider Monsterman - Screamin' Lord Sutch Joey Martini - The Marlton NJ midget doll The Return of Count Yorga radio spot Bela Lugosi's dead - Nouvelle Vague Supernature - Cerrone Joey Martini - Enemy's Village Sweet Transvestite - Transexual Glamour They're all going to Laugh at YOU - Carrie Poison/Safe - Controller-Controller Spider and the Fly - Bobby Christan and the Allen Sisters Young Frankenstein remixed Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire Joey Martini - Menlo Park Pain - Alice Cooper read less
Sun October 12 2008
The Peek-A-Boo Revue's Official MySpace Page Action Park was a waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. It featured three separate attraction areas: an alpine slide; Motoworld, where patrons could operate motorized vehicles on land and water; and Waterworld, with many water-based attractions such as waterslides. The latter was one of the first American waterparks. Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors — and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park, and it was nicknamed "Traction Park", "Accident Park", "Class Action Park", "Danger Park" and "Death Park" by doctors at nearby hospitals due to the number of severely injured parkgoers they treated. While little action was taken by state regulators despite a history of repeat violations, in its later years personal-injury lawsuits forced the closure of more and more rides and finally the park itself. The new owner of the ski area has reopened the water attractions as Mountain Creek Waterpark, with a vastly increased emphasis on ride safety. Great site and photos of ACTION PARK in its horrifying heyday I don't think these photos below are legit because of the date on the photos. Joey Martini & ACTION PARK To the Devil a Donut – King of WoolWorths Devilgate Drive – Suzie Quatro Devil Crusted Chicken Legs recipe!!! Thank you Katie’s Kitchen! Devil Woman – Cliff Richards Joey Martini “Jump Jimmy jump!” Train to Satanville – Gin Gilette Book of the Dead/Cabin in the Woods – Evil Dead (the Musical) Kids of the King – righteous pop Joey Martini House of Horrors – Merv Griffin Joey Martini recalls ACTION PARK MEMORIES Spooky Spooks – 1910 Spookananny – The Lancelots My Sin Perfume Ambrose (part 5) – “Just keep walkin” – Linda Laurie Devil Blues – Skip Manning La Vie C'est Chouette - Jodie Foster I rub my roast – Vincent Price Joey Martini – Kayak ride The 13 ghosts of Scooby Doo! – Vincent Price Do the Freddie – Freddie Krueger & The Elm Street Group Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Chacko Joey Martini – The Tidal Wave pool (Grave Pool) Scary Monsters – David Bowie With her head tucked underneath her arm – Kingston Trio I’m a Mummy – Douglas Byng Joey Martini – The Cannonball Loop (water slide) Frankfurter Sandwiches – The Streamliners Spooky – Lydia Lunch Coolest little monster – Zacherley Joey Martini – The employees & wrap-up read less
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