The Clinger Sisters

[2ndbanana]

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Here's a gem I found last night on YouTube.  It's the Clinger Sisters from the Danny Kaye show sometime in the late '60s.  I find it absolutely horrifying.  And totally hypnotic.  I've watched it at least five times now.  Wait a minute... that chick in pink.... the one who thinks she's Janis Joplin... OMIGOD!  It's Superchick from Kaptain Kool and

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[progbear]

LOL, the blondes look lobotomized. “Let me tell ya now!” I like the way the girls on the ends try to pick up the slack by ROCKIN’ OUT!

Speaking of all-girl bands with no bass player, here’s New York’s Goldie & the Gingerbreads on Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s early 60’s sketch comedy show:

Well, they kinda had bass, Margo Lewis is playing the bass pedals of her organ with her feet. Well, she would if they weren’t obviously lip-syncing. Not only were they the first “girl group” to play their own instruments, they were probably the WORST lip-syncers in music history!

[2ndbanana]

LOL, the singer reminds me of Syd Barrett on one of those days he "just wasn't into moving his lips." She's just concentrating on playing that tambourine SO HARD, she can't put much into her performance. I wonder if it's scary that I knew what song they were playing before the first measure was over.

Speaking of girl groups with no bass player, I wonder if there are any clips of the Shaggs on Youtube. THAT would be something to see. I'll have to check.

[2ndbanana]

Dang, no live performance. But the still picture is mesmerizing enough. They're like Midwich Cuckoos. Only chubby, with bangs. "My Pal Foot Foot" is my favorite Shaggs song. This quote from the comments section killed me... "When they recorded this, they would occasionally stop because one of them made a mistake. The people running the equipment at the recording studio could only wonder as to how they knew when a mistake had been made."

[progbear]

The Shaggs song that had me convulsed with laughter the first time I heard it was “It’s Halloween.” Carla Bley is quoted saying about them, “They bring my mind to a complete halt.”

Oh, and female bass players weren’t illegal. What about Megan Davies from The Applejacks?

[2ndbanana]

I didn't say that there WERE no female bass players. Just that you didn't see them on Saturday morning TV. Where nice girls only played keyboards or tambourine.

I don't think I'd heard "It's Halloween" before. How wonderfully awful. It's mindboggling that the girls and their father had no idea they were any different than any other pop band.

[progbear]

Well, Daddy Wiggin was just plain nuts, but the girls had no desire to be pop stars and it shows. Basically what you’re hearing on the Shaggs albums is, “we really, really, really don’t want to be doing this, our dad forced us into it!” It’s kind of disturbing, actually.