Mort Künstler - Man’s Life
“Chewed to Bits by Giant Turtles!” – Man’s Life magazine, May 1957
“Satellite Baby”, Skip Stanley, 1957
Conelrad Atomic Platters: Skip Stanley [1956]:
In a genre rife with guilty pleasures, this strange sci-fi/rockabilly hybrid is near the top. It isn’t enough that this record percolates with other-worldly sound effects, it also has lyrics that cause even more aural rubbernecking: “Nuclear baby, don’t fission out on me” and “Geiger counter daddy loves your atomic energy” being just a couple examples. The flipside of this masterpiece was the more terrestrial Play Me A Love Song. Stanley also recorded a less brassy version of Satellite Baby for the Satellite label (SX-92). ‘Billboard’ savaged the tune in a December 1957 review.
Very little is known about Stanley, an obscure Memphis musician whose birth name was Stanley J. Hoffman.
Lyrics:
Three seconds, two seconds, 1 second, blast off
Satellite baby, come on back down to earth
Satellite baby, come on back down to earth
Radioactive daddy’s found out what you are worthNuclear baby, you don’t fission out on me
Nuclear baby, you don’t fission out on me
Geiger Counter daddy loves your atomic energyYe-e-ess we’re gonna rock it, rock it
Rock it around that moon tonight
Rock it to our heart’s delight
Rock it little baby by the bright moonlight
Until the earth is out of sight
We’re gonna rock it daddy, take your satellite!Interplanetary mama, blast off from that galaxy
Interplanetary mama, shoot your radar beam to me
I’ll love you a million light years, babyYe-e-ess we’re gonna rock it, rock it
Rocket around Mars tonight
Rock it to our heart’s delight
Rocket by canals in the bright red light
We’re gonna rock it tonight, daddy’s favorite satelliteSatellite baby, come on back down to earth
Satellite baby, come on back down to earth
Isotopic daddy’s found out what you are worth
Fiestas de la Merced
The cover of the 1957 program of the festival of the Virgin of Merced, the patroness of Barcelona.
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April Evil (1957). John D. MacDonald American, 1916-1986). Robert Hale. UK first edition. Original dust jacket.
Lenora is beautiful, in an after-thirty on-the-edge sort of way. Blonde, with the sort of trimness in her figure that McGinnis so eloquently suggests. “She was beautiful, greedy and ruthless — and more than a match for a killer.”
MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. Stephen King praised MacDonald as “the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”
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Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
chineseposters.net:Designer: Yang Junsheng (杨俊生)
1957, January
Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
Quanguo ge minzu da tuanjie wansui (全国各民族大团结万岁)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: BG E15/355 (Landsberger collection)
Representatives of the different ‘National Minorities’ of China take part in a parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
"Often named one of the ten best-dressed men in the world, Fred Astaire’s views on dress were highly individual, carefully thought out, and the reflection of a man of discriminate taste. An exclusive interview for GQ, from 1957"
Carmen ( Homage to Munkacsi), coat by Cardin, Place Francois-Premier Paris, 1957
Richard Avedon, born 1923
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Woman on park bench, Central Park, New York, 1957. Photography by Yale Joel.
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