If It's Friday, That Means "Frampton"

What a living doll.

I haven't been around much lately.  I've been really busy with actual writing work, and while I always mean to update this blog, it always seems to fall by the proverbial wayside.

Do you ever read Peter Frampton's Facebook page?  If you don't, you should, as in, yesterday.  He is a very funny, very droll individual.  He writes about his music as well as other little tidbits from his life, such as going to the mall so he can browse at the Apple store. 

Here's my favorite of his, a 1975 recording of "Doobie Wah."

From 1977: Weekends Were Made For Cheryl Ladd

My beauty idol, that is.  And my favorite Angel.  And the star of that really great TV movie where Cheryl gets busted for drugs with her boyfriend, is put in prison, and becomes besties with a young Angela Bassett.

I can't approve of lovely Cheryl being subjected to the terror of a hideous clown to sell beer.  Memo to the 1977 Powers That Be At Michelob: Clowns are never a good idea, especially when you have a beauty like Cheryl Ladd in your commercial.

From 1977: Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose

A history of Crazy.
(I was always a Cracked girl, myself.)

From 1977: Drowning In Denim

People

August 22, 1977

Hope You Had A Cool Yule

Me, I'm plum tuckered out from making the Yuletide gay!

We had a really splendid holiday, lots of lovely presents (I got a Kitchen Aid stand mixer!  A cashmere pashmina!  A bottle of Samsara perfume!), gallons of libations, and a Christmas dinner of all-you-can-eat crab legs at our favorite local Chinese buffet.

I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas, if that's what you celebrate.  May it have been as much fun as this:

1977

I love this picture.  It's from this blog, and I find it so wonderful.

Wait a second...Santa Claus, NO!

For All Of My Special Valentines...

...thank you for making A Touch Of Tuesday Weld part of your lives.

The only way that I could think to show my love is to give you the kind of thing you guys like best. So here's The Who tearing up the stage in 1977, shortly before Keith Moon's death. Of course, the genius of Keith Moon was that he could drum at all at this point in his life, but damned if he doesn't give one of the performances of his illustrious career.

Thank you, my Valentines.

Weekend: Here's A Bunch Of Commercials From October 1977

Shown during an airing of Hollywood Squares (do you see a glimpse of Peter Marshall at the very beginning?), this is an example of Lazy Blogging at its most insidious!

Still, enjoy...this grouping has a bunch of great goodies in it.

From 1977: Classy Christmas In The Weiss House When I Was Growing Up: A Super Snack Smorgasboard, Cold Beer, and The Voice Of Charlie

In This 1977 PSA, Tony Orlando And Dawn Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around Your Career Aspirations

It's nice to know that Tony and the gals think that "I can be more than I am," but it's actually not hard to be more than "perennially unemployed loser and roller derby enthusiast who owns her own monogrammed straitjacket."

I'm just saying.

1977: Birthdays

1977: Charo!

The next time I am in Vegas, I am going to insist that we visit Fremont...not just because it is total sleazy fun (which it is), but because I simply MUST re-enact my own version of this video outside of Binion's.

1977: Pick Up The Pieces

Just a couple of bearded white guys wearing Sears knit slack casuals wailing on their saxophones...

1977: Rerun

All you other jive turkeys just better sit your asses down, 'cause Rerun is in the house!

1977: As Told By Some Magazine Covers

1977: When All A Kid Needed To Be Happy Was A Comb In His Back Pocket, A Joint Rolled By His Big Brother In His Sock, And A Ticket To A KISS Concert

An AWESOME write up of this concert by someone who was lucky enough to have been there!

Detroit Rock City!

This Week At A Touch Of Tuesday Weld: Taking Things Back To 1977. Just Because.

Just because it's one of my favorite years to blog about, and judging from what you guys like to read on this site, you knuckleheads love 1977 as much as I do! (A helluva lot!)

Have some "Night Fever," from one of the greatest albums ever released, the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.







Super Amazing Laura Linger Fun Fact: "Night Fever" is the ring tone on my cell phone. The actual song. It's pretty cool, actually.