Vital
Signs, My YouTube Picks
Tony Polito
Department
of Marketing & Supply Chain Management, College of Business, East Carolina University
Here’s you’ll find some
of my selections for all of you
from YouTube
… mostly a mix of my taste in
eclectic music video …
but there’s also
entertainment, Internet oddities &
moments to remember. For my young
students, many of these
“classic rips & moments” will be a history lesson! Enjoy !
March
9, 2010—The Ultimate Diet Coke + Mentos
Experiment
March
8, 2010—That Way, The Chinese Backstreet Boys
(These guys now have a contract to do
Pepsi commercials)
March
7, 2010—The WRONG way to start a wedding
March
6, 2010—Misirlou, Dick Dale & The
Del-Tones, 1963
March
5, 2010—And I Love You So, Elvis Presley, 1976
February
5, 2010—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernacke
“misplaces” half a trillion dollars
February
4, 2010—Here’s what those bankers do all day to earn those huge
bonus checks …
January 30, 2010 Roy Clark Double-Play: Yesterday, When I Was Young
(1969) and Malagueña (1969)
January
11, 2010---Rick Astley’s only other
chart-topper … Together Forever, 1988
January
6, 2010—Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley, 1987 (Have you been RickRolled
lately?)
January
5, 2010—Foster Brooks & Dean Martin: Airplane Pilot
January
4, 2010—Exploding glass! (Prince Rupert’s Drops)
January
2, 2010—Stool Pigeon, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, 1982
January
1, 2010—Method of Modern Love, Hall & Oates, 1984
December
7, 2009—Hold Me Now, Thompson Twins, 1983
December
2, 2009—Um, Um Good … Tur-duck-en!
November
24, 2009—The Great Pharaohs of Egypt must be turning over in their
pyramids …
November
21, 2009—If This Is It, Huey Lewis & The News, 1983
November
19, 2009—Take On Me, a-ha, 1985
November
11, 2009—Some Like It Hot, The Power Station, 1985
November
3, 2009—Get The Party Started, Pink, 2001
November
1, 2009—Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), The Eurythmics,
1983
October
29, 2009—Who Can It Be Now, Men At Work, 1981
(still
kickin’ 80s … )
October 26, 2009—Don Henley Double Play: Dirty Laundry, 1982 and All She Wants To Do Is Dance,
Dance, Dance, 1984
October
24, 2009—Best Halloween Gag Ever (obviously staged but still durn funny!)
October
23, 2009—Giant seagull stalking newsman
October 22, 2009—The Pretenders Double Play: Brass In Pocket (1980)
and Don’t Get Me
Wrong (1986)
October
18, 2009—Billie Jean, Michael Jackson, 1982
October
17, 2009—Electric Avenue, Eddy Grant, 1982
October
16, 2009—Another 1986 hit from Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
October
8, 2009—What You Need, INXS, 1985
October
7, 2009—Like A Prayer, Madonna, 1989 … The Blond Ambition Tour
October
3, 2009—In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel, 1986
(My
current 80’s fixation continues …)
September
30, 2009—Church of the Poisoned Mind, Boy George & Culture Club, 1983
September
29, 2009—New Sensation, INXS, 1987
September
28, 2009—West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys, 1984
September
27, 2009—If You Leave, Orchestral Manoeuvres in
the Dark, 1986
September
24, 2009—Der Kommissar
(‘s In Town), After The Fire, 1982
September
18, 2009—United Breaks Guitars
September
14, 2009—The Oogum Boogum
Song, Brenton Wood (Live)
August
30, 2009—Exclusive Nightclub Fail
August
22, 2009—Pride (In The Name Of Love), U2, 1984
August
15, 2009—Guantanamera, Celia Cruz
August
2, 2009—Iko Iko,
Captain Jack, 2001
(Hey, mon,
here’s the history of the song Iko Iko …)
July 11, 2009—Evian Skating Babies
July 3,
2009—Drunk Vegas tourist scuffles with TV reporter
June
28, 2009—Michael Jackson's silliest video, Can You Feel It, 1980
(A Pre-Thriller Jacko
descends from Heaven to sprinkle magical gold glitter on Earthlings grateful to
have his love)
June 7,
2009—Tango Scene, Scent of a Woman,
Al Pacino, 1992
June 6,
2009—Who Can I Turn To, Sammy Davis, Jr., 1965
(The
family was eventually awarded $2 million)
May 24,
2009—Try A Little Tenderness, Aretha Franklin, 1962
May 23,
2009—La Vie En Rose, Louis Armstrong
May 22,
2009—Hurt, Johnny Cash
(covering Nine Inch Nails; Grammy and
CMA Best Video Awards, 2002)
May 10,
2009—Wilhelm Scream compilation
(click here
for background info on Wilhelm)
May 8,
2009—I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Tom Jones, 1969
May 2,
2009—Another group of crazy people dancing in a train station
May 1,
2009—CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s Market
Floor Rant, February 19, 2009
April
30, 2009—What You Won't Do For Love, Bobby Caldwell
April
26, 2009—So Many Stars, Jane Monheit, 2007
April
25, 2009—Ring Of Fire, Johnny Cash, Grand Ol Opry, 1968
April 24, 2009—Classic Club Wax
Discopolis,
Lifelike & Kris Menace, 2005
April
23, 2009—Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be Flo Ridas….
April
22, 2009—I Won't Dance, Jane Monheit &
Michael Bublé, 2004
April
15, 2009—I Dreamed A Dream (from Les Miserables),
Susan Boyle, Britain’s Got Talent
April
15, 2009—The Trouble with Twitter …
April
14, 2009—Faith, George Michael, 1987
April 13, 2009--Experts
Agree: Giant Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
April 12,
2009—Americans Are Not Stupid (With Subtitles)
April 11, 2009—New York
Annual No Pants Subway Ride, 2009
April 7, 2009—Sound of
Music Dance, Antwerp Central Train Station
March 28, 2009—Peter Schiff TV
interviews … Part 1 … Part 2 …Part 3 … Part 4 … Part 5
Watch
a bunch of “experts” who were completely 100% wrong mock and laugh
at the one genius who was absolutely 100% correct.
March 27, 2009—Idiot
Couple’s First Wedding Dance
March 20, 2009—Yellowbird
… in steel drums
… in Mills Brothers
harmony
March 14, 2009—Everytime We Touch, Cascada, 2005
March 13, 2009—Wake Me
Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!, 1984
February 28, 2009—Blue
Man Group, The PVC/Drumbone Song
February 27, 2009—I
Feel Love, Donna Summer, 1977
(the disco hit that basically
invented the techno/club robotic bass sound still popular today)
February 25,
2009—Japan’s Finance Minister, Shoichi
Nakagawa, drunk at G7 Rome
February 23, 2009---Domona Lisa
(that’s Troy Donahue and Suzanne
Pleshette holding hands … )
February 21,
2009—Marlon Brando Refuses his Academy Award for The Godfather, March 27, 1973
February 20,
2009—Flying Eagle Bowling Trick
February 17,
2009—Grocery “Store Wars”
February 16, 2009—A
little too much Novocaine at the dentist …
February 15, 2009—Eat
It, Weird Al Yankovich … a parody of Michael Jackson’s Beat
It (1982)
February 9, 2009—Ming
Blue? (Johnson Automotive Badger Salesman)
February 9, 2009—Ka-pow-ee! (Johnson Automotive Badger Salesman)
February 9, 2009—Help!
I’m being robbed! (Johnson Automotive Badger Salesman) …Here’s several more
Badger Salesman commercials.
February 8, 2009—Scary
Maze Prank
January 29, 2009—Really
Fast Video Gamer
January 25, 2009—Mac
vs. PC Transformers
(the author garnered a contract offer
from Dreamworks for this production)
January 23, 2009—Amish
Paradise, Weird Al Yankovich, 1996
(parody of Gangsta’s
Paradise, Coolio, 1995 … which many people don’t
realize heavily samples Pastime
Paradise, Stevie Wonder, 1976)
January 22, 2009—Peel
Me A Grape, Diana Krall, 1997
January 21, 2009--Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much), Andrea Bocelli,
2006
January 20, 2009—From
George Washington to Barack Obama
in under four minutes
January 17, 2009—Sand
Artist Ilana Yahav
January, 16,
2009—Original Escalator Twirl Girl
January 15,
2009—That’s Amore, Dean Martin, 1953
January 9, 2008—Bang
The Drum All Day, Todd Rundgren, 1983
December 25, 2008—The
Christmas Song, Nat King Cole, 1946
December 23, 2008—Man
plays banjo during his brain surgery
December 12, 2008—Shut
Up and Let Me Go, The Ting Tings, 2008
December 4, 2008—Steve
Wynn introduces his new Vegas property … “Encore”
Here’s
the “behind the
scenes” version
November 22, 2008, Cheater Cheater, Joey+Rory
November 21,
2008—Spectacular wingsuit flight … and
crash
November
14, 2008—In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel, 1986
November 12,
2008—Savannah Russo soccer flip throw
November 11, 2008—Big
fat shrimp running on a treadmill
November 10,
2008—Russian high jumper tries to compete while drunk
November 9, 2008—The Closer
I Get To You, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, 1977
October 29, 2008—Mister
Boombastic, Shaggy, 1995
October 23,
2008—Advertising or Quality. Choose one.
October 17, 2008—Rodney
Dangerfield, The Tonight Show, August, 1983
October 13, 2008—15-year-old Philippine singing sensation Charice Pempengco
Covering the
Whitney Houston hit “I Will Always Love You”
“Because
You Loved Me,” a duet with Celene Dion in Madison Square Garden
October
6, 2008—Domino’s Invents Gross New Pizzas
October
5, 2008—Here I Am (Come And Take Me), Al Green, 1973 (live on Soul Train)
(better yet, the studio
version)
October
1, 2008—Big Blow, Manu Dibango, 2004
September
30, 2008—Missing, Everything But The Girl (Terry Todd Remix), 1994
(here’s Andy doing the skit himself
on TV, circa 1976 … and again, on the Johnny Cash Show in
1979)
September
25, 2008—405: The Movie
(made at virtually no cost using CGI, this video was among
the first to go viral, and made the producers famous)
September
20, 2008--I Don't Feel Like Dancing, Scissor Sisters, 2005
(Disco never dies! Tune composed by Elton John.)
September
17, 2008—Emergency FDA Pot Pie Recall
September
12, 2008—Money for Nothing (“I Want My MTV”), Dire Straits,
1985
(The lyrics are based on a
conversation actually overheard in a department store. Later parodied
by Weird Al Yankovich
as “Money for
Nothing, Beverly Hillbillies.”)
September
10, 2008—Say It's Possible, Terra Naomi
September
9, 2008—For The Love Of You, The Isley
Brothers, 1975
August
28, 2008—The Apple IRack ( Thanks, Travis! )
August
25, 2008—Rodney Dangerfield, Stand-Up Bit, 1980s
August
24, 2008. More club hot wax. White Lies (Radio-Friendly Cut), Paul van Dyk, 2007
Not
found on YouTube: The less-trance-and-more-dance version --> White Lies
(L.A. Mix)
August
23, 2008—Daft Hands video, “Harder, Better, Faster,
Stronger,” Daft Punk
August 22, 2008—Destination Calabria/Unknown,
Alex Gaudino, 2007
Top club/dance tune in 2007. Video likely influenced by the
classic trio of mid-1980s Robert Palmer videos …
I
Didn’t Mean To Turn You On, 1985
August 21, 2008—Yes. More Elvis.
Suspicious Minds, Las Vegas Hilton, 1970
The
Wonder of You, Las Vegas Hilton, 1970
A
Little Less Conversation (from a 1968 Presley film, remixed
by Junkie XL for a 2002
Nike World Cup Commercial)
August
17, 2008—All Summer Long, Kid Rock, 2008
(grand theft sampling from Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon, 1978 and
Sweet
Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
1974)
August 16, 2008—Elvis, “Aloha from Hawaii”
concert, January 14,1973
Entrance/See
See Rider/Blue Suede Shoes
I
Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
(Just in case anyone has forgotten who put gold bling, body english and stage
presence into mainstream
Rock & Roll. This concert, which revealed the beginnings
of Elvis’ ‘decline,’ was viewed live by half of Planet
Earth, a record that still stands. Elvis left the building
– for the last time - 31 years ago today.)
August
13, 2008—“TV Dinner,” Simon’s Cat
August
12, 2008--Achmed the Dead Terrorist
August
11, 2008—France is NOT a country
August
9, 2008—Beyond The Sea, Bobby Darin, early 1970s TV performance
(covered
by Kevin Spacey, The Today
Show, December 2004)
August
3, 2008—Learnin' The Blues, Matt Dusk, Live in
Amsterdam, November 27, 2006
July
22, 2008—Love Song, Sara Bareilles
July
10, 2008—“Greed Is Good,” Michael Douglas, Wall Street, 1988
July
10, 2008—“Coffee’s For Closers,” Alec Baldwin, Glengarry Glenn Ross, 1992
July 9,
2008—“Prayer for the Dead,” Danny DeVito,
Other People’s Money, 1991
July 8,
2008—“I’m As Mad As Hell,” Peter Finch, Network, 1976
July 7,
2008—Show & Tell, Al Wilson, 1973
July 6,
2008—Oh, Girl, The Chi-Lites, 1972
July 5,
2008—Ease My Mind, Annuals
July 4,
2008—The Pledge of Allegiance, Red Skelton, January 14, 1969
June
24, 2008—Jungle Love, Morris Day & The Time (Live in Amsterdam)
(opening tonight at The Flamingo,
Vegas)
June
23, 2008—Please Don’t Stop The Music, Rihanna
(which
samples Soul Makossa, Manu Dibango, 1972)
June
22, 2008—Love Won’t Let Me Wait, John Legend (covering Luther Vandross’
1988 version)
June
21, 2008—How to Sign Up for Google TV Beta (it’s a hoax)
June
13, 2008—Blockbuster Video Museum
June
12, 2008—Amazing Interactive Card Trick
June
10, 2008—Quizás Quizás
Quizás, Nat King Cole
June 9,
2008—Where Is The Love, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, 1973 (Grammied)
(covered by John Legend and
Corrine Bailey Rae, 2007, live)
June 7,
2008—You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, Lou Rawls
June 6,
2008—I’m Every Woman, Whitney Houston, 1993
May 31,
2008—Bus Pirates, Episode 1
May 12,
2008—How to Light a Barbeque Grill Using Liquid Oxygen
May 11,
2008—Albinoni Adagio on Guitar
April
27, 2008—The South Carolina Fireworks Song
April
14, 2008—Bill Gates Retirement Tribute
March
9, 2008—World’s Best Card Trick
March
8, 2008—Medieval HelpDesk
February
8, 2008—Bob Newhart / Suzanne Pleshette
“Dream Finale,” 1990
February
7, 2008—Mean Kitty Song
February
6, 2008—Taser Death, Vancouver Airport
January
19, 2008—Marco Tempest, PhoneCam Magic # 5, The
Kiss
January
18, 2008—Speeding Ticket Taser
January
5, 2008—The Ultimate Trick Pool Shot
January
4, 2008—Curiosity, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, 1984 (ripped from
the 1982 movie Against All Odds.
Click here
for full version, higher quality video)
(Himself influenced by Cab Calloway,
big band, carib/tropical and Latin/salsa, Creole in
turn influenced
many 80s artists including Prince,
Morris Day, MC Hammer and Robert Palmer … to name a few.)
January
3, 2008—Can’t Get Started With You, Sammy Davis, Jr. (Final TV
Appearance, June 9, 1989)
January
2, 2008—School’s Out, Alice Cooper, 1972
December
29, 2007—The eBay Song, Weird Al Yankovic, 2006
December
28, 2007—Dancing Queen, ABBA, 1976
December
27, 2007—I'll Make Love To You, Boyz II Men,
1994
December
26, 2007—Wicked Game, Chris Isaak, 1989
December
25, 2007—Let’s Dance, David Bowie, 1982
December
24, 2007—Piano Cat—7 million hits
December
23, 2007—Very Naughty Christmas Neighbor
December
22, 2007—RockIt, Herbie
Hancock, 1983
(theme music for a current Visa
commercial)
December
18, 2007—All About Me, Matt Dusk, 2006
December
17, 2007—Can’t Touch This, MC Hammer, 1992
December
15, 2007—I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, Coca-Cola
advertisement, Christmas, 1984
December
14, 2007—Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Eva Cassidy, Live at Blues Alley, 1996
December
13, 2007—Tell Me, Wonder Girls, 2007
(a song that is apparently all the
rage with Korean teenagers)
December
7, 2007—One Man Star Wars Waiter
December
6, 2007—♪♫ I’m a Pepper, He’s a Pepper,
She’s a Pepper ♫ ♪
December
5, 2007—Christmas in Hollis, Run DMC, 1987
December
4, 2007—A bunch of rapping Swiss firefighters …
(The message: Remember to dial 118 only in case of FIRE. The number is similar to the new
number for directory assistance.)
December
2, 2007--Evel Knievel,
Caesar's Palace Las Vegas Jump, December 31, 1967
December
1, 2007—Cat Racks Up Huge Water Bill …
November
28, 2007—Here It Goes Again, OK Go
November
24, 2007—Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole, 1957(?)
November
21, 2007—GMail: Behind the Scenes
November
12, 2007—Train Runs Through Bangkok Marketplace
November
7, 2007—Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1982
November
1, 2007—Where the Hell is Matt?
October
28, 2007—SuperFreak, Rick James, 1981
(recently sampled …slightly
… by Jay-Z)
October
27, 2007—Close Shave: 747 Landing at St.Maarten
October
26, 2007—Please Please Me, Matt Dusk
October
25, 2007—Billabong Odyssey, Mike Parsons Surfs “Jaws”
October
22, 2007—Big Belly Man
October
21, 2007—All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow, 1994
October
20, 2007—2002 Carolina Shaggers of the Year
October
9, 2007—Captain Fingers, Lee Ritenour (live,
2005)
October
5, 2007—Deer 1, Deer Hunter 0
September
26, 2007—Space Invaders, Now in a Theater Near You
September
24, 2007—Purple Rain, Prince, 1984
(while it
lasts, Prince personally & routinely scours YouTube … )
September
23, 2007—Pachelbel’s Canon in D, covered
by an amazing, anonymous guitarist
September
19, 2007—Student asks politician embarrassing question, get tasered and arrested
September
18, 2007—Don’t Know Why, Norah Jones, covered by Ysabella Brave
September
15, 2007—How they have to land ‘em at
Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak airport (KoreanAir 747)
(also see Alitalia
MD11, Thai 777, Cathay Pacific 777, SwissAir
MD11, JapanAir 747)
September
14, 2007—Great Moments in American Sportsmanship: Oregon Duck vs. Houston
Cougar
(for
better quality video at CBS News, click here)
September
13, 2007—Take Five, Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1961
September
11, 2007—Microsoft ZunePhone
September
10, 2007—Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make III
(this guy got eventually PAID for
doing this … it was used in a Geico commercial)
September
8, 2007—Avalon, Chet Atkins/Les Paul Guitar Duet, 1978
(extended version found on the album Chester & Lester)
September
7, 2007—Synchronicity: The Wizard
of Oz & Pink Floyd’s Dark
Side of the Moon
(Just a few examples, there are many many more)
September
5, 2007—Office Space Slasher/Thriller Trailer
September
4, 2007--Inaccuracies in Larry King’s Paris Hilton Interview, June 27,
2007
September 3, 2007—Sheena Easton double-play … the song that made her famous
…
and
the song she’s best
known for … both from 1981
September
2, 2007—Kill-Dozer, Granby, Colorado, June 4, 2004
September
1, 2007—Job Switching: The Candy Factory, I Love Lucy, September 15, 1952
August
30, 2007—Why Americans Can’t Locate America On A Map, Miss Teen
South Carolina
August
29, 2007—Excerpts from When the
Levees Broke, Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005
August
27, 2007—I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lincoln Memorial,
August 28, 1963
August
25, 2007—Jack Rafferty’s PumpCast News
August
24, 2007—Save Room, John Legend (2006) … a hit he heavily
sampled off of
Stormy, The Classics IV
(1968)
August
23, 2007—Another AT&T / iPhone ripoff … a first-month bill for $4,190.76
August
22, 2007—Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer, 1986
(probably the most parodied music
video of all time … )
August
21, 2007—Pancake Mines (Claymation)
August
18, 2007—AT&T/Cingular shows its appreciation for new iPhone customers … with 300-page bills
August
17, 2007—Fade Into You, Mazzy Star, covered by Ysabella Brave
August
16, 2007—Bambi Meets Godzilla
August
15, 2007—“The Skittles Touch”
August
13, 2007—Summertime, Ella Fitzgerald, Live in Berlin, 1968
August
12, 2007—What A Wonderful World, Louie Armstrong
August
11, 2007—Muhammad Ali Lights 1996 Atlanta Olympic Cauldron
August
9, 2007—Where or When, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Carson’s Tonight
Show, 1983
August
7, 2007—Lost Without You, Robin Thicke
August
2, 2007—Dorm Infection !! Everytime We Touch, Cascada
July 31,
2007—All Your Base Are Belong To Us
July
28, 2007—If I Was President, Wyclef Jean
July
26, 2007—VW Cabrio Commercial: Pink Moon, Nick Drake
July
24, 2007—Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, Empire Market, Episode 2 (of 8)
July
22, 2007—Mad World, Gary Jules
July
19, 2007—Marco Tempest, PhoneCam Magic #8,
“Proximity”
July
18, 2007—Fly Me To The Moon, Matt Dusk
July
17, 2007—Numa Numa
(Digitally Remastered)
July
14, 2007—Drunk Vegas Lawyer Causes Mistrial, Part 1 (of 4)
July
12, 2007—Will It Blend?—iPhone
July
11, 2007—Quick Change Artists on America's Got Talent
July
10, 2007—Do What You Want (Wallpaper Version), OK Go
July 9,
2007—Honda Accord Commercial: Cog
July 3,
2007—Microsoft Surface Parody
July 2,
2007—Dramatic Chipmunk
June
28, 2007—Ask A Ninja - Gifts
June
27, 2007—Logitech OrbitCam Demonstration
June
26, 2007—“Paris in Jail” Music Video