Now back up by request: one of the first posts ever in this blog's history:Polka Rap; and the happy yodeling of Arthur Brogli. Still working on your other requests.
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Our Man in The UK, Count Otto Black, sez:
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Oh, by the way, he sings as well. Or at any rate, nearly as well...
Our Man in The UK, Count Otto Black, sez: The start of a brand new year - a time when so-called psychics traditionally do their thing, with mixed results. So surely an appropriate time to remind everyone of "The Amazing Criswell", of Plan 9 From Outer Space fame? Did you know that in 1970 he made a spoken word LP consisting of a 42-minute Dadaist stream-of-consciousness rant about what was going to happen over the next 30 years? Probably. He himself admitted that his success-rate was only 87%. Fortunately that other 13% included his prediction that the world would be completely destroyed by God on 8 August 1999.
Oh, by the way, he sings as well. Or at any rate, nearly as well...Criswell - "Someone Walked Over My Grave"
Thanks, Otto! All of this reminds me of this mind-boggling oddity, also available from archive.org: