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Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway!

The cool video of the late 2009 hit "Meet Me Halfway" by the black Eyed Peas featuring 34 year old Stacy Ann Ferguson a. k. a. Fergie.

 

San Francisco's 2009 Halloween Party Guide!

via www.sfstation.com

Here are all the major Halloween parties this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area! There are lots to choose from in this extensive guide.

Here are a few good ones:

Freak Beat Live 

The Haunted Ball

Halloween International Ball @ The W Hotel 

Skyparty's Halloween 2009

Once again, here are all the major parties: San Francisco's Halloween 2009 Party Guide

 

Picture of former San Francisco fashion model turned porn star Tera Patrick at a Halloween party in SF in 2008.

Michael Jackson's Last Rehearsal Video Released!

Assocated Press July 2, 2009 - Concert promoter AEG Live released this clip of Michael Jackson rehearsing his 'This Is It' tour two days before his death in Los Angeles.  Images are from June 23, 2009. 

 

Screen shot of his last rehearsal on June 23, 2009.

 

Michael Jackson Live At Motown 25Th Anniversary - Billie Jean In 1983!

Michael Jackson Live At Motown 25Th Anniversary - Billie Jean In 1983!

Michael Jackson performing live at Motown's 25th Anniversary celebration in 1983.

Michael Jackson on his Thriller album.

The Jackson 5 On The Ed Sullivan Show In 1969 Featuring - 12 Year old Michael Jackson!

Here is the original video from the Ed Sullivan Show aired on December 14, 1969.  This was the first time The Jackson Five, featuring Michael Jackson, played on national TV.  They were the lead music act that night before the main gig, Diana Ross & The Supremes:

The Jackson Five - I Want You Back! (This is the best version of this clip on the net.)

A shot of the Jackson Five featuring Michael Jackson that night from the Ed Sullivan Show on Dec 14, 1969.

 

12 Year Old Michael Jackson - The Love You Save Acapella! RIP....:-(

Here is Michael Jackson in 1970 when he was 12 years old with the Jackson Five singing "The Love You Save" in acapella!

12 Year Old Michael Jackson in 1970! MJ, rest in peace my music/dance childhood idol.....:-(

Little Fox Presents Tomorrow Saturday June 6th - Rodeo Clowns Band!

The Rodeo Clowns Band will be performing at the Little Fox in Redwood City, Ca. on June 6, 2009.  Here is the info below:

Seven Amazing Video Mashups - The Mother Of All Funk Chords!

Vlogger Kutiman is is an Israeli multi-instrumentalist who mashes up obscure (but funky) video clips into musical hybrids that need to be seen as well as heard. 

His video creation, ThruYou, features seven songs, all stitched together from user-generated videos. “The Mother of All Funk Chords” layers clips of a guitar teacher, two theremin players, and an 11-year-old trumpet player.  “Just a Lady” teams up a singer, a synth player, a flutist, and a harpist with a banger of wind chimes.  Kutiman links to the original clips, which are delightful.  But the real virtuoso performance you’ll see here is Kutiman’s own.

Seven Amazing Video Mashups:  ThruYou - The Mother Of All Funk Chords!

Valentine's Day: Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Dion - Teenager In Love - Which Is Better?

Do you remember being a teenager in love?  Well, that is a long time ago for me, but I do remember her.  It seems like yesterday!

Just like the 1960s classic tune from Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 - "Mas Que Nada", the original "A Teenager In Love" is better than the remake.

"A Teenager in Love" is a song written by Doc Pomus and partner, Mort Shuman and originally sung by Dion and the Belmonts in 1959. In 1960 "A Teenager In Love" held three positions in the British Top 10.  According to popular music historians, the song is considered one of the greatest songs in Rock and Roll history.

It reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts in the United States.

In 1970, it was covered by Simon and Garfunkel in their final show as a recording duo at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York. This song was covered several other times, for example by Marty Wilde, Connie Stevens and the Mutations in the Muppet Show, by Less Than Jake, and in 2002 by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and was released as a B-Side to the single "By The Way".  It is also featured as a playable song in the Nintendo Wii Game Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

Video Archive:

Italian-American rock/pop/doo-wop band Dion & The Belmonts live on U.S. national television on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1959 - Dion (full name Dion DiMucci) sings "A Teenager In Love".  From 1959 - 1961, during the time Elvis served in the U.S. Army, Dion DiMucci & the Belmonts were the #1 music group in the United States.  Dion DiMucci was 19 years old when he sang this hit song on national television, one month shy of his 20th birthday.  Dick Clark wanted him on his show singing this song as an authentic teenager.     

 

From "Organic Soundball" sung live by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) featuring front man Anthony Kiedis.  Kiedis sung the classic tune below key.

Present day - 64 year old Dion singing "A Teenager In Love" live at the Tropicana, Atlantic City 2004.

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day - Feliz Dia de San Valentin!

 

Old Sckool Barack Obama On Soul Train - Obama Bailando!

Hey Peep,

In case you didn't know (as if), tomorrow is the big day for the new 44th President of the United States - Barack Husein Obama!

Now here is a quick look at a 21 year old Obama in 1981 "durin' his thang" on the dance line at the 70's and 80's soul & funk music show - Soul Train! LOL!!!

(Expand the media player below so you can view the video full-screen.) 

Picture (foto) of Barack Obama dancing on Soul Train. 

For all you youngsters out there in the U.S. born after 1975, the original Soul Train produced and hosted by Don Cornelius was the "syckest" and "doppest" music show on TV in the 70's and early 80's in the U.S.  All the white kids in America saw Dick Clark's American Bandstand on Saturday at 12 noon, while a hour earlier (at 11:00 AM) all the cool black, Latino, and white kids saw the latest dance moves on "Sooooul Train"......