John Fante - A Sad Flower In The Sand leftways 2014-05-12 | A 2001 documentary looking at cult writer John Fante.Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Ask the Dust, a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles, California, which was the third in a series of four novels, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet".
The Beach Boys - Never Learn Not To Love leftways 2015-09-29 | The Beach Boys' track that was originally composed by notorious cult leader Charles Manson.
St Louis Blues with Bessie Smith 1929 leftways 2015-03-29 | Considered one of the first ever music videos, St. Louis Blues is a two-reel short film starring legendary blues singer, Bessie Smith. The film is a dramatisation of the song’s lyrics and is the only known film of Bessie.
Soy Cuba Trailer leftways 2015-02-11 | The trailer for the 1964 Soviet-Cuban film, Soy Cuba. A stunning account of the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s.
Tom Waits For No One - 1979 Animated Short leftways 2015-02-03 | Winner of the Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement in 1980 this is a stunning music video from before MTV was born.Read more about it here: http://www.leftways.com/2015/02/tom-waits-no-one
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 1975 CBS Demos leftways 2015-01-15 | One of the earliest known recordings of Talking Heads, taken from their 1975 session at CBS.
The Fabulous Wailers - I Idolize You leftways 2014-11-28 | Taken from The Fabulous Wailers Live At The Castle album. Features a then 15 years old Little Gail Harris
NASA Sounds of Space leftways 2014-10-21 | NASA shared actual electromagnetic recordings taken from throughout our very own solar system. This is the sound of our galaxy!
Tsar Bomba - The Most Powerful Nuclear Weapon Ever Used leftways 2014-08-21 | Tsar Bomba, tested in October 1961, is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.Consisting of a yield of 50 to 58 megatons of TNT it was twice the power of the largest Atom Bomb ever created by the US.
The Marvelettes Please Mr. Postman leftways 2014-07-25 | The Marvelettes scored Motown's first number in 1961 with this great track.Blog on the song here: http://www.leftways.com/2014/07/the-marvelettes-please-mr-postman
Maradona wonder goal vs England 1986 World Cup leftways 2014-05-12 | Clip of Diego Maradona scoring the greatest goal the World Cup has ever seen against England in 1986.Check out a blog I wrote on classic World Cup artwork here: http://www.leftways.com/2014/05/football-world-cup-artwork
Rare Annette Hanshaw - We Just Couldnt Say Goodbye leftways 2014-04-23 | Footage of Annette Hanshaw from sometime in 1920s/30s singing We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye.Blog I wrote on Annette here: http://www.leftways.com/2014/04/annette-hanshaw
NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell leftways 2014-03-26 | New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a city wide blackout with major looting, a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning. And yet out of the chaos emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered.
