Saturday Funky Solutions (019)

Let's jump straight into the answers to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games:

While scoring, remember to note how many points correct answers are worth in each section.

*(Whiteman's was the first to popularize jazz in 1924; but that was at the Aeolian Hall. Maybe Dad remembers!)
**(Kenny was an MJQ'er; Conneie succeeded him on the skins ... Who's Tony Jackson? A noted 88'er of the New Orleans school. (No relation to MJQ vibist Milt))
***(Louie took some highly publicized blasts at bop, but the distinguished author of this one was Condon ... and, tis said (why disbelieve it), he immediately proved his point!)
****(now, you do get it, don't you?)
*****(no, not Father O'Connor!)

The footnotes above are a part of the original answers in the magazine. The (1959) by the answer to #4 in the first section reflects their own acknowledgement that the answer was "as of this date, that is" and the number might be higher for them now.

Have you totaled your points?
Let's see how much better you scored than i did:

I cannot even claim to be Oblong. (Maybe oblong with an equatorial bulge)
So tragically eligible for hermitage.

This quiz comes from the same place as the final ad (for the Gartier Watch) in yesterday's Ad-On Post, the May '59 issue of The Dude. Almost 60 years ago, but they had a fair lock on modern life today for their cover image:

Sure, the tech isn't timely, but if they're on the phone to each other (ages before even radio-telephones were a thing in cars) as it seems, it really is a fairly prescient cover.

Funky? from The Dude v.03 #05 (1959)

Friday Ad-On Post

While engaging in my usual Comic Archeology digs (Quick Question: Who was Dryasdust?), i frequently see odd and interesting advertisements from the last 150 years or so. Sometimes, on rare occasions, i'm even clever enough to toss a copy into pile for later reference.

I'm betting most of you already know where this is going, huh?

Yep, let's look at some ads.
Some are very much a product of their time. For example, did it ever occur to you that there was a time when they had to advertise to convince people to buy canned food?

And you get a bonus quiz for entertainment, but i'm not hiding the answers, even if it is Friday.

And then there are products that seem to have faded away - like Yeast Foam? Do they skim an active batch or what?

Sure looks yummy, but that's the artist at work. That's a fascinating looking Yeast Foam block in the package. I'm curious now.

Looking at those old adverts also turns up odd little questions, like...

Is that where the expression "Mum's The Word" comes from, or did they take advantage of a previously existing phrase? There's precedent for both variations, but i am, at this point, wholly ignorant in this regard.
There must be a website.

Meanwhile...
Other products have simply become impossible in today's world-

Yeah. Like they'll ever make a car that can be completely maintained at home again. Much less be able to repair all the previous cars on the road that require major computer diagnostic tools to even evaluate. This is an artifact of a time now gone, for sure.

Other ads are clearly a product of another time for more ... social reasons...

"How Does Your Child Measure Up?"
Nope. This one would never get approved for use these days. Odds are, the person who suggested it would be working somewhere else soon after.

HEY!
Remember when they cured baldness back in the 1950s?

Oh, yeah. St. Helens. We must have lost this knowledge when the volcano erupted.
Ah, well.

But, y'know - There's one thing we can always count on in advertising... Comics!

From pyramids to space craft to advertising - comics is everywhere.

Of course, there's one other thing always to be found in adverts - Sex!
Like the elegant Gartier Watch:

Amazingly, this ad is from the 50s, not the 70s.

adverts from Action, Cavalcade, Confidential, Farmer's Wife, Saturday Evening Post, and The Dude (1932-1959)

Friday Funky Games

Since yesterday's post was on a loss of Groovy, today we'll check your Funk. While the real bloggers are off fighting Friday Night Fights, we'll chill with a bit of mid-20th Century music today on

Our quiz today comes from 1959, back around the dawn of the Hermit age. Groovy was on the horizon, but we're checking on your Jazz levels today - Are You

A reminder, these questions are from 1959:

I'd say that Jazz music comprises about 1/3 of my listening these days. That said...
This quiz kicked my ass. (I'll blame the nature of Jazz radio in the 20th Century for keeping me ignorant. It wasn't until internet that i was finally able to learn what i liked)

Hopefully, you can do better.

quiz source tomorrow with the answers

A World Less Groovy

You've likely already heard that we lost another comics star - David Cassidy.

Granted, you might not think of him as a comics star. But lest we forget...

...and not just any comic - the GROOVIEST!

Okay. Maybe you don't count The Partridge Family comic books, saying they were merely a tv product tie-in and not true "comics". (I'd disagree with you, but you might say that)
But he also had his own title...

...and not just in the USA...

How's your Dutch? They gave David & the family about 100 pages - lots to read!

But, that is still with The Partridge Family, so maybe doubts linger. Very well, then. Let's skip over to Britain and an old title of which i'm rather fond, we've gone there before and we'll go there again - Look-In. In late 1972, David popped up with his own ongoing strip, and took the cover while doing so:

As mentioned previously, these comics were generally short installments, only two pages per chapter. Here's the first 3 issues worth:

You might be wondering what happens next. As am i. My collection is spotty, at best, and i'm missing the first few issues of 1973. However, we do have a complete short tale here from the Look-In 1973 Holiday Special for you, that you might find a little closure of sorts:

It's also worth noting that when David Cassidy gets together with the boys, he drives-

There you have it - bona fide comic star.
And yet, in the internet age, there are always those doubters in the back of the digital room. So let's drive a stake through the heart of that, shall we?

David Cassidy also played one of the classic Rogue's Gallery villains on The Flash - Sam Scudder, the Mirror Master:

David Cassidy - Comics Star, any way you want to look at him.

Sadly, he did.

He'll be missed by a lot of fans of other media, but comic book fans should remember him, too.
So long, David. I'll always be a fan...

images from indicated titles, top image from David Cassidy en de Partridge Familie, bottom image from Look-In 1973 Holiday Special