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Thanks so much, RB! You're all heart!

You're so welcome. Yes, this particular John Fogerty song from 1986 definitely has the old CCR charm about it, one of the few songs on that particular album that does. I still think Susie Q and I Put A Spell On You are two that couldn't really be beat (both 1968)!

You're welcome, Ross! I still have a lot of Midsummer Night's Dream footage unused, and I think this was the fourth video I did using footage from that wonderful old film. It must have been to 1935 what Stars Wars was to 1977. Haven't seen this on TV in at least two decades, used be on every year in late July, early August. Miss seeing it. Yeah, the ballet aspect of it really worked with Tyrannosaurus Rex (yes, I sure remember the days before they were called T. Rex), This Zeppelin tune had similar vibes for me, only better!

Yeah, someone attacked me a few days ago for using Sharon in videos calling her a minor actress and not worth inundating YT with vidoes about her. Must have been a Gen Z. I should have told him that if she had not been murdered, Sharon would have been our next Marilyn Monroe, one for 1970's and 1980's. Updated of course. I liked her very much. I was only 15 when she died and I believe she deserves to be remembered, her life that is. So little was said about her after the murders, all the focus was on turning Manson and his family into celebrities. Sickening. And of course, they had to tie their madness in with the Beatles White album for more attention. I like to keep her safe in my time bubbles because that is what my videos are like.

I was lucky to find that dancer!

I guess art is my magic ... when it works that is.

Thanks so much! I was feeling a bit David Lynch like when I made this one, but I'm no DL I guess.

Thanks! Great legends these were!

Thanks! Glad this bit of visual psychobabble made contact. I suppose in some ways, I see myself in her too. I guess there is a bit of anima in every guy somewhere or at least in some of us. Indispensable for film directors to have them if they are any good.

Thanks so much!

Thanks Steve! Glad you managed to find it anyway!

Thanks! I'd like to find more of her stuff! Hard. I came across this footage almost by accident.

You're welcome, Ross! This was my favorite one by them, regardless of how popular "Love Will Keep Us Together" was. The melody is very convoluted, until you have memorized the song, in early listens you are never sure where it is going to go next. I went into my mid-teens enjoying the best of two worlds: pop music (AM-oriented) and what they used to call "underground" (FM). That lasted until about 1974 and then FM switched over to "deep cuts" of popular rock albums in 1975 when I was 21. The more obscure stuff didn't get played anymore. But, again, I loved both worlds. I used to tape the top 40 songs and then I had special tapes for FM rock and folk and whatever. Two worlds, two choices.

Yes, she was! She was both stunning and beautiful before she became a political activist, with real style. This film was great, and I am glad I got a chance to see it on TV in the early 60's (1963 or 1964? It came out in 1962). It is a rarity because since then I have never seen it televised on cable premium channels or even pay-per-view. Town Without Pity is another one that has never gotten shown often enough.

Your right Kent, some of my best stuff is not popular, so to speak. How many people would even think of keying in "Russ Freeman Trio" in order to find a video like this? Maybe some jazz enthusiasts, and even then, rather obscure. In some respects, this is more like a visual essay than a music video, but the really good ones that I do like that tend to be long (15 to 25 minutes). And of course, on YT, that stuff will NEVER go viral.

@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Going viral on YT is the equivalent of a French cordon bleu chef who has "billions and billions sold." 🤣 You can be a creative genius, or you can satisfy the lowest common denominator. I'm glad you create to please your own vision, and that some people enjoy that!

She's a beaut! I hope I can find more of her.

Thanks Kent! Well, of course I have thought about it for several years now. The problem is there used to be a lot more "human-curated footage of humans" available in the 2010's than there has been in recent years. A lot of films that used to be available no longer are for some reason, and still others are blocked in the US, and you'll find them on foreign sites, especially Russian ones, and you have to be a member to download anything off of them. Plus, search engines are spending half their video search capacity on those stupid 30 to 45-sec "shorts" produced on smartphones (which will one day go the way of the nickelodeon). Internet Archive is crap now compared to the 2010's. In short, it is harder to produce videos like this than it was then because there is a dearth of footage. A lot of people do not like AI, but a lot do. It is the wave of the future, and remember, when I started out, slideshow videos were all the rage on YT, and not many had broken into motion picture yet. I was one of the pioneers. I started out sloppy and honed my craft into a real art. BUT, AI is next, partly because it IS getting harder to find good motion picture footage. It is primitive compared to where it will be 5 years from now, largely still images, but still images with a photo realism you can control, direct, and edit, better than the old slideshows where you sought out random images from Google Images. With AI I can actually tell a story, a narrative, or recreate an old girlfriend. You couldn't do that with images available on Google or Bing in the old days. What will be next, and technically it is already here for those willing to PAY $$$$, is motion picture AI. Right now, the only free services will give you about 30 to 40 seconds. But back in the spring I read this autumn or Christmas holidays something is coming, don't know what exactly. Bear with me on the AI stuff, Kent. My early motion picture forays were not all great, some were, some were not, it took a while. This will pan out some day too.

@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Hey Mike, I really appreciate your reply, as much as I appreciate your Art. Hey, I'm not dissing you about trying the AI stuff. I've been playing with it for more than 2 years now. I've had subs to MidJourney, Dall-E, Leonardo, Ideogram, DreamStudio, Invoke, Neural Love, Stable Diffusion...and more. I run Fooocus and A1111 on my machine with a variety of models and Loras. There is *something* there...but what YOU do is infinitely superior. Yes, vintage digital media is drying up...or being dried up. I use a VPN to access things, but it won't get you access to any Russian or Belarussian web. I use Yandex, but I imagine that's limited. And tonight I was watching a video about how lots of data has been wiped from Internet Archive, which used to be a far more amazing source...until the lawyers got involved. Agreed that you have come a HECK of a long way from slideshow videos. 🤣 I spent a month with a LUMA sub, and friends are playing with Runway and Kling. Again, one clip of real human vid that YOU select is worth 100 of those AI vids to me. That said, the latest for stills is FLUX Realism LoRA. Easy to find. You need a Github account with linked credit card, but it's cheap. Look at fal dot ai Meanwhile, for a video like Fooled Around and Fell in Love to have 131 views is insanity in an insane world. My God. Keep creating! PS - I hope you sorted your B12 thing. I want to share info with you that won't fly in comments. Hell, even what I said above may not meet the YT standards.

Glad to hear it! Thanks!

Thanks Eugene! The Best of Blondie, at least my CD version, has a lot of great stuff on it besides the big hits. This is one of them.

You're welcome, Ross! Yeah, that ending is something else. Back when you could find a lot of interesting footage on Internet Archive. Nowadays the fare on there is pretty boring and lot of stuff that used to be on it is gone. Thus, it has gotten more difficult to find good motion picture and live footage other than what is already on YT or Vimeo.

I believe Jorma Kaukonen did the noticeable Rickenbacker 12 string parts on the Airplane's first album. His comments on it in a 2019 Harvard Crimson interview: THC: You’ve said that when you first joined Jefferson Airplane, you were asked to play a Rickenbacker twelve-string because Roger McGuinn (lead guitarist and singer of the Byrds]) used one. "I recognized early on that what McGuinn did with the Byrds was utterly alien. It was really cool, and he’d architected a guitar sound that was completely his own, but I just played like me; I wasn’t able to do what he did. I think Paul would have been happy if I’d been able to do that, but the twelve-string didn’t last long in the Airplane, because that just really wasn’t me."

@@Slickgoodlin I don't know about the recording of the first album, but Kantner played 12 almost exclusively with JA. Somebody to Love is a noticeable example

It is a "home movie" shot by a camera enthusiast (or possibly more than one) who was attending a camera seminar in Vermont in summer 1960, which also included picnicking, swimming, and just strolling the grounds. Most of the enthusiasts who attended were young and middle-aged men, but some of them were young women; most of the others were girlfriends or wives of the guys who attended. The quality of the film is pristine and looks like it was just shot yesterday.

You're welcome, Kate! Absurd is the word. Heaven's Gate was the height of this absurdity, but don't imagine it won't happen again and again. Alex Harvey was a true visionary on this one. Thanks!

Thanks Ross! I know they approved of the one I re-uploaded just before this one, "Communion." The head of the band thanked me for putting it up on my previous channel, back in 2016. That's the one thing missing this time around on this channel, none of the people who were happy about me doing videos for their music on my previous channel have left any comments on this one. I have gotten some nice comments though from actress Anastasia Fielding who appeared in three videos from two films she appeared in, "Slipping Into Darkness" and "A Night In The Life of Jimmy Reardon." I was elated, very nice person.

Thanks Ross! I know you occasionally make the rounds on Vimeo too because you have left comments on there as well. So, you might know this version is a bit more toned-down regarding the sexual content than the original is on Vimeo. I had hoped it might not get age restricted, but it did. YT is so tough! I also added floating captions here for any scenes that were hallucinatory ... which I did not do on the Vimeo version. Anyway, to answer your question: NO, absolutely not. Working with AI is an entirely different experience, but it is enjoyable ... most of the time anyway. The little AI artist b____s can be real creeps when they want to be, but most of the time I love them even though they p__s me off from time to time. It is fun waiting to see what they will do with your text, and of course there still remains the editing stages, and that goes across the same the board for me just as much as live or motion picture action. For narrative work, AI is the only way to go, whether it is a stricter rendering of the lyrics or a story like this legend for which the music, including the Latin vocals, is more of a soundtrack. This video has thousands of views and over a hundred likes on Vimeo ... but look at the crappy views here on YT. If that doesn't prove there is something wrong with YT I don't know what else can. What is going on???

@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Agreed. RUclips has lost the plot. I hear that a lot of Creatives are leaving in order to set up their own channels.

@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Mike, you are right. Its seems that YT has become too "bureaucratic". I hear that a lot of Creatives are unhappy with RUclips and leaving to create their own channels.

Well said! Thanks!

You're welcome, Jason!

You're welcome, Jay! After all these years, this song still works on the same emotional level as it did in 1976. It may be even more powerful now than it was then for that matter. How I wish Raphaella were back, but no one knows what happened to her.

@@mikemunrowsretro8973 What I meant by Raphaella making an appearance was that you added a clip of her at the end of the video. I know she’s gone but never forgotten. She will always be my girl!

@@jaygreen1313 I know that, Jay. Just felt the need to add that, even though I never actually met her or spoke to her, I liked her very much, understood a lot about her and her perspective on things reading her blog. It was a jolt when I realized she was missing, still is sometimes.

Thanks so much Ross! A song that will always be near and dear to my heart. But hey, watch out for that AI stuff, lol. That's my ex-girlfriend there ... I even showed how her hair changed over the time I knew her. The girlfriend I used in The Nice - "Five Bridges Suite" was my first one. This was a later one. Too bad I have to use the word "ex." This song is about a guy who dumped girlfriends before he met someone special. I never dumped anybody in my life. That is one thing that made it hard for me to make this. I was always the one who got dumped, not the other way around.