CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE

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.

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.
 

Criswell Predicts! Your Incredible Future

 

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:

 

Mae West sings "Criswell Predicts" (1956) - I believe Space-Age pop master Bob Thompson wrote this one, as he was West's pianist at the time.