You on Kazoo kid

  YOU ARE VISITING THE KAZOO FILES:



    This is about a video on YouTube that was made in the early 1990's. About a boy and a kazoo...but there is much more than that.

   So much more. Seeing three videos titled: YOU ON KAZOO, RING ALONG-SING ALONG and LIVE ON STAGE.

  About a boy named Bret Ambler, who is my age getting kids, along with us that are watching, to play a kazoo, listen to magical voices, follow the leader, you name it, we did it.
  First off, we would get a message saying we would have to get our parents help to move furniture. I always wondered why? Are we doing cartwheels? I thought it was about a kazoo, it wasn't.

  Bret, the star of this video, has a group of friends and it seemed he would call us: 'our special friend'

    I'm confused. It feels as we're being hypnotized by a child.


In the first one, we get to introduce Bret as well as the kazoo he is playing with. For some reason, I've noticed horrid sound mixing happening. All the children's voices sound right, half of the time, they sound like adults. OK.
Even Bret creeps me out at times, not only is he scaring me, but it seems the audio in his voice is off with the lip movement.


Another Kazoo video is called: "RING ALONG, SING ALONG"




       Where the video starts off as kids unaware where Bret is, when they are in the same building as he is. OK, they even make more video edits with kids not following him, or some missing in some of the scenes. God. There is more things to do besides kazoo, like Ring bells.

  It's just as bad as the first one, but there was another where Bret is live on stage, singing into a pretend fake mic, but you can hear him loud and clear. WOW.
  These kids are goofballs, these videos make me wish I was there, since these were my age when this was made.


Where is the Kazoo kid now?????
 Bret Ambler is all grown up. 34 years old, married, and still remembers being the kid that got everyone to Kazoo. He still loves to kazoo and says that he never forgets who he is.
   He actually works with music, and to him it all started with a little Kazoo.

 Now we will remember Bret not for being the kid who gave us a Kazoo to play with, but for the fun he had, what creeped me out the most though was saying: "Special Friend" in a freaky way.

BTW: even in the kids are creepy enough, saying their names, dancing as if they have to pee and even shouting out "CAN WE DO MORE KAZOO"


   I wonder where those kids are now, maybe they became popular, unseen or even playing kazoos all day long.

   Kazoos will never be the same, because of Bret Ambler.

New year, same crap

 Same old, same old. It seems we've already been through the new year, however, it doesn't feel any different yet.

    Yeah some people have passed away, and a few more things have happened, but...


Have you noticed nothing EXCITING has happened yet? Ok the Eagles making it to the playoffs is good, but...

   well,

A lot of people feel if they do the same thing everyday, they will get the same reaction. Like wearing the same thing everyday to eating the same food.

    We still have a lot of crap to deal with but nothing...

It seems what we do everyday, can deja vu into another day.

  Every time we see something over, and over again, wouldn't we get board of it?

  Well yes and no.

The new year has already started, and nothing too exciting has happened. With the Super bowl on its way, one state and city will enjoy the excitement while the rest of us, well....you get the picture.

   Everyone experiences the same thing everyday, as if nothing is happening in their lives.
The excitement was drowned out of them.

   Everyone feels that they need something to excite them, good or bad.

It feels even in songs, people express their emotions on how board they are of the same thing over and over. I on the other hand,

     It depends on the day. If I want excitement or if I'm just in the same old rut. Everyone feels that way.
   Other times, when we want excitement.... we do the unexpected, the unknown, the same old things we wouldn't do on a normal day.

   Everyday is different...but with this being the new year, will this be a year that excites us, scares us, or will it be just like every other year....full of sadness, happiness, craziness, and sometimes the same old thing?
  You be the judge. Happy New Year everyone

Goodbye Captain, Tennille misses you

 If you were ever born in the 70's, you would have known the duo called "Captain and Tennille"

  First off, that's not his name. His real name was Daryl Dragon. Her real name was Toni Tennille.

They were married but separated, she stayed by his side as the Captain passed away in 2019 from renal failure.
They were known for their hit songs such as "Love will keep us together", "Lonely night (Angel Face)", "Muskrat Love"

  Not many people knew they were a couple until their divorce.

He was always known for playing the piano as she would sing hit, after hit, after hit.

"Love will keep us together" was their number one. I hear it all the time in tv shows like "Starsky and Hutch" and many other TV shows.
It seemed they were a hit duo such as Sonny and Cher, and like Sonny and Cher, they divorced and Sonny died. Ironic but, it seems their lover (Captain and Tennille's) was strong till the end. She stayed at his bedside by the time he died.

 

Through thick and thin, most of their hits were number #2 like Love will keep us together, and muskrat Love.

   Not many people were aware, until his full name was revealed, that his name wasn't the Captain, but Daryl Dragon. For me, I never knew until like all of those people, later in his life.


  Like him, another famous celebrity died in early January at the same age he did, Bob Einstein.

Or as I like to call him Marty Funkhouser from the hit show "Curb your Enthusiasm" He was also known as super Dave Osborne. And like the Captain, he died at the age of 76 from Cancer.


We'll miss both of them. They gave us great music and laughter. And they will be remembered for such great songs as well as Bob giving us the "Dave Osborne and Marty Funkhouser"

 God rest your souls

The end of malls

   Have you noticed something depressing happening here? something that would make you feel sad?

             Back in the 80's they were popular, local hang outs, everywhere and teenagers would crave spending a day as well as their money in a mall.

It's true, I fear that by the end of the new year... most of the malls everywhere, will be gone.




 
     Some malls have survived like the King of Prussia mall in King of Prussia, PA and even the great American mall in St. Paul.

Back in the 80's malls became very popular. With the movie "Valley Girls" Malls were becoming the new trend, until Amazon came along.
 

   These movies would make girls sound stupid, using words like 'so' 'like' 'gag me with a spoon', most words only Valley people would know. But it all took place in a mall. Where they would snack on food, play video games, and spend a s**t ton of money on clothes.

   So, why is this trend dying?



   It could be the economy, or more people shopping on-line so they wouldn't have to set foot in a store. Not every mall is doomed to extinction, but the stores that are in the mall, might be.

  Some stores such as:

     *JCPenny
     *Seaers
     * K'Mart (although that's not in a mall, but still)
     *Music stores like Sam Goody
     * Lord and Taylor

Many stores are doomed to extinction and why, people shopping on-line? God only knows how much longer malls have.

   Amazed that some are still standing, and others are one.

Like drive-in theaters of yesteryear, malls might join them.... not many, but soon, everyone will be buying on line.
  So do we need pizza delivery drivers? Shopping malls? Grocery stores?


Who knows, all I know is everything from the past.. is being taken over by the future. The technology, everything that we feared...having stuff delivered to our door, to satisfy us. It seems that in the future, we'll no longer need a shopping mall.


  I miss the 80's, when everyone noticed malls being the new thing, and now... it's gone