Liveblogging while still watching the Tom Jones show

[urbpan]

Oh my god it's the "You can call me Ray" routine. It never was funny, right?

Burt Bacharach looks like David Rees.

Women's Lib! What a hoot.

It's hard to remember that the Muppet Show was actually a parody of stuff like this.

Little Richard appears to be wearing dark gray lipstick along with thick mascara, a beehive wig and an orange choir robe. Kicking ass on "Lucille," though.

Oh god the sweating. The censors allowed so much sweating?? It's the wig and choir robe! Take them off, Richard, you're going to get heat stroke!

Hey, Tom is dancing in such a way to intentionally draw attention to his pelvis! And he's wearing tight trousers! I'm shocked.

He sings "It's not unusual" over the opening credits of each show. You can tell they're new takes each time because he's wearing a different pinky ring. Also he pronounces "I wanna die" slightly differently each time.

How did Glen Campbell get famous while looking like a Junior High School Vice Principal?

Oh wait, even the sketch comics' trousers are really tight.

Holy shit, it's Dr. Johnny Fever!

Is this Tom Jones/Janis Joplin duet part of the collective consciousness? I surely had no idea it ever happened.

Still expecting Miss Piggy to come on the show at any minute.

Comments

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

and then everyone was shocked when LSD became available in average highschools, it was all a wierdness balloon of ever expanding, well, weirdness...such was my blooming daze still, though i can't talk about most of my experience every once in a while tv remembers for me

haha

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

My grandmother *loved* Tom Jones, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, all those crooners and variety show stars. We used to watch that stuff at her house in the middle to late 1960s when I was a little kid. Even my mom watched Glen Campbell.

There was one sketch where a bunch of female fans chased Glen Campbell around screaming his name and begging for an autograph or to touch him. My brothers and I saw this and thus one of my weirder childhood memories is our "Glen Campbell game," which simply involved one of us being Glen Campbell and running down the corridor from one end of our apartment to the other, and the other 2 of us running after and screaming GLEN CAMPBELL! GLEN CAMPBELL!

No wonder my mother beat us.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

haha

[drocera.livejournal.com]

Where did you find a copy of the Tom Jones show? They have that on Netflix? I wanna see!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I got it at the library, but yes, it is on Netflix (just checked). Pretty awesome.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Elvis's Vegas look and stage set was largely hoisted directly from Tom Jones.

I'be been getting a lot of the same reaction from watching the Muppet Show. There's an odd time capsule.