swingeing london

Years ago I was looking through a book in a Salvation Army or a used book store or something and the above post card fell out of the pages of the book and onto the floor. I left without purchasing the book, but not before shoving this little gem in to my pocket. The front is great, Richard Hamilton‘s Swingeing London 67, and the back is filled out and was mailed to a Madame Bavagnoli at Life Magazine’s Paris bureau in January 1971.

The only Bavagnoli who worked for Life that I can find is a Carlo Bavagnoli who took this photo and this one and I can only assume this one as well.

Here’s a better look at the message on the card.

Oh, and of course the top image depicts Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser after their drug arrest in 1967.

casino royale

Geraldine Chaplin and Dick Talmadge dressed as Keystone Cops for their uncredited cameos—probably less than five seconds of screen time and if either actually appear in the film, they’re unrecognizable—in Casino Royale. 1967.

(at least) three pictures of gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg. 1962.

(I’m not sure if I have five or not.)

bogdanovich directs

Directed by John Ford. Ford and Peter Bogdanovich in Monument Valley. 1971.

club devo

Club Devo order forms. 1980-1984.

Flicker button. 1980.

1984.

1981.

1981.

cute couple alert

Nick and Nora Charles (with Asta) in The Thin Man. 1934.

five more pictures of bowie

Part four: David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills. Photo by Terry O’Neill. 1975.

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1968.

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Welles on the set of Philip Saville’s Oedipus the King. 1968.

record labels

I bought a shitload of battered 45s for $.50 each this weekend. There were a good number of gems in the pile and some of the damaged ones just need a good cleaning but many of them are too beat to even put on my turntable. I’m now in the market for a cheap record player to play junk like this on. In the meantime, let’s appreciate the design of the labels. (And as always, I’m aware of how lame it is that I’m not posting MP3s of these records.)

This one plays beautifully.

Early George Clinton.

James Brown had so much to say about hot pants that a single side couldn’t contain it all. Parts two and three are on the flip.

Wait a minute, what’s that?

Now, I’m not saying that The Killer himself signed this but I sure as hell didn’t. When I entered “Jerry Lee Lewis signed” into ebay the other night I found an auction for a Sun 45 with a signature that looks pretty close to the one above. Check it out below.

The auction ended at $35.00, so that’s the approximate ebay value of a Jerry Lee Lewis signature with zero provenance.