In the 1980s, video stores sold eighteen inch statues with oversized heads of celebrities from music, TV and film. From the 1950s to the 1990s, Esco Products of Brooklyn fabricated hundreds of different figures, from Groucho Marx to Louis Armstrong.
Category Archives: Music
Get Up (Jan)
In 1996 a scene from the film That Old Feeling was shot in the lobby
of the Royal York Hotel. The Empire Room at Chicago’s Palmer House
was a legendary supper club that feature vocal greats from Frank Sinatra
to Peggy Lee.
We Didn’t Quite Catch That (James 23)
In 1988, Pussy Galore released a tape covering the entire Exile on Main Street. Not long after that, the Minneapolis trio Zuzu’s Petals performed their own cover of a Stones song at the 400 Bar.
Brian’s Instruments (Brian 11)
The Music Man got his start in Rock Island, Illinois. The horns he sold likely came from Elkhart, Indiana, the drums from Gretsch, the pianos from Wurlitzer and the violins from a Sears catalog.
Windmills of my Mind (Chris 26)
Rod McKuen was one of the best selling poets of the late twentieth century and recorded hundreds of albums both singing and reading poetry. His also introduced Belgian singer Jacques Brel to a wider audience by translating many of his lyrics into English.
Paul Mason Fotsch 