Kilroy Was Here

 

Kilroy Is Here

Five tracks from 1946-1947

Kilroy Was Here - Tin Ear Tanner [Cliffie Stone]And His Back Room Boys (Bel-Tone) 1946
Kilroy Was Here - Ted Fio Rito And His Orchestra (4 Star) 1946
                              Vocal by Adriana (Snow White) Caselotti and Pinto Colvig                
Kilroy Was Here - Sammy Madden And His Orchestra (Stars Presents)  1946       
Kilroy Was Here - Paul Page With The Masqueraders (Enterprise) 1946           
Kilroy Was Here - King Perry & His Orchestra (Excelsior) 1947     

 

        

The most famous and ubiquitous of the graffiti was Kilroy. His leering eyes, big paper clip of a nose, and impish boast KILLROY WAS HERE materialized during World War II and he lived on for many years.

It has been conjectured that Kilroy was really a sore-footed infantry sergeant who got tired of hearing the Air Force brag of its prowess with the impossible.  He was especially p.o.'d about the Air Transport Command. When the A.T.C. hastened to some farflung, hazardous part of the globe to set up a new base, they found the bold announcement that Kilroy had got there first.

That hypothesis, found in Graffiti, a book by Robert Reisner, and reproduced above is one of the most attractive to me and probably close to reality, in the spirit at least. 

For further reading, Wikipedia has a good article on the subject. And there is a website entirely dedicated to Kilroy here. 

Bikini With No Top On The Top

 

 Mamie Van Doren and June Wilkinson
with Billy Strange and the Senators

Bikini With No Top On The Top

So What Else Is New?

1964

Mamie was joined on this record by June "The Bosom" Wilkinson and a third, uncredited glamour girl [Rachel Romen?] from Mamie and June's then-current potboiler, The Candidate.. Mamie claims the producer talked them info doffing their bullet bras and recording topless, which explains why the band sounds so sloppy and distracted.

Guitarist Billy Strange led the session, using Hal Blaine on drums, Steve Kreisman (Douglas) on sax, Ray Pohlman on bass, Al DeLory on organ, guitarists Bill Pitman and Al Casey, and Leon Russell as pianist.  

Celluloid Void

 

Fake bands and fake singers from movies, cartoon and TV series.  Includes Marty McFly backed by Marvin Berry and The Starlighters, Casssandra Wong and Crucial Taunt, Ferris Bueller, Cherry Bomb feat. Beverly Switzler (actually Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty's mother) and more.

Celluloid Void

Choo Choo Train

 

Choo Choo Train

The Heart Beats

All girl combo from Lubbock, Texas.  For info see The Heart Beats: an Extremely Unofficial Fan Page

All their recordings (including three unissued) are available HERE

 

Little Bones

 

What I Say

Ya Ya

Produced by Ike and Tina Turner, this is Little Bones, who is, as you have already guessed,  Ike Turner himself in disguise on his own Prann label in 1963. Little Bones also released the last 45 on Prann as Little Bones (The World's Greatest Singing Cricket) : I Know/Goin' To The River, Prann 5006).

 

An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, Ike Turner is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (1931-2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout [Wikipedia] And also, if I may add, a philosopher.

Ike has summarized his view on the world in his book Taking Back My Name :

Everything is based on a hole. You got a hole in the head of your penis, where you pee from. The penis and the vagina, another hole, get together and out comes the baby.

The baby comes out of a hole into a whole - the whole world. You see out of a hole, hear out of a hole, smell out of hole, breathe out of a hole, eat out of a hole, pee out of a hole, shit out of a hole.

 If you get too much money, you gonna be in a hole - because you can't go nowhere. If you don't get enough money, you definitely going to be in a hole. And when you die, where you going? Right back in a hole.

So the best thing to do is to stop trying to stay out of the hole. Get in the hole and find out what's happening with the hole and then you know how to handle the hole.