Former WPRB music director Dan Ruccia posted this to the cassettemythos mailing list and I couldn’t resist… nothing makes you happy like your life’s first encounter with bizarre-itude.
Kids shows got away with some crazy shit back then. I have creepy memories of various Sesame Street interlude skits (like this one), including one with a bunch of bakers carrying cakes down a flight of stairs (they trip), and another with three or four red balls with blue swirls on them. I think it must have been the music accompanying the visuals, because really there isn’t much scary about bakers with cakes, or red balls with swirls. Unless they’re homicidal bakers, and bleeding red balls. But I think that was from a different show.
Wow. That was fantastic. I think I vaguely remember seeing that as a child, though I had no idea at the time that it was so odd. That really creepy whispering voice in the song makes the whole thing, in my opinion.
I’ve got to chime in here… my band covered this song last December (it’s got some really odd time signatures)… It’s recorded by the Pointer Sisters believe it or not. The art for this (as well as for most of the other trippy Sesame Street stuff) was done by Peter Max who’s most famous painting is this late 60’s LOVE painting.
[…] Once again via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, a really really messed up doodle from the oft-overlooked Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. Old “Kid Gloves” gives us some of his own atavistic childhood psychedelia — calipers with a skull head! And look out - ostrich on the loose! […]
April 19th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Kids shows got away with some crazy shit back then. I have creepy memories of various Sesame Street interlude skits (like this one), including one with a bunch of bakers carrying cakes down a flight of stairs (they trip), and another with three or four red balls with blue swirls on them. I think it must have been the music accompanying the visuals, because really there isn’t much scary about bakers with cakes, or red balls with swirls. Unless they’re homicidal bakers, and bleeding red balls. But I think that was from a different show.
April 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Wow. That was fantastic. I think I vaguely remember seeing that as a child, though I had no idea at the time that it was so odd. That really creepy whispering voice in the song makes the whole thing, in my opinion.
April 25th, 2006 at 9:41 am
I’ve got to chime in here… my band covered this song last December (it’s got some really odd time signatures)… It’s recorded by the Pointer Sisters believe it or not. The art for this (as well as for most of the other trippy Sesame Street stuff) was done by Peter Max who’s most famous painting is this late 60’s LOVE painting.
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
[…] Once again via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, a really really messed up doodle from the oft-overlooked Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. Old “Kid Gloves” gives us some of his own atavistic childhood psychedelia — calipers with a skull head! And look out - ostrich on the loose! […]