Kitchen Symphony (1961)

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

didnt he use the song Cozy Cole - Big Noise From Winnetka

[altobiotero]

Weird...

[kadennis66]

Kovacs was like a cross of the Mad Hatter and Chesshire Cat. Funny but almost scary! The man was a genius. Just imagine him in about 1979 hosting Saturday night live. Or writing and performing on laugh in.

[pneumosilacosis]

And Peter Gabriel was considered avant garde in the 1980's! All this needs is Björk singing.

[pneumosilacosis]

And Peter Gabriel was considered avant garde in the 1980's!

[miriamnz]

The banana performing the strip tease is absolutely titivating :P

[olsin]

Aren't houses supposed to be automated like this now?

[BuyBenco]

People were just normally high then...look at their crazy ideas Kovacs fellow Magyar

[veedeoteque]

Great!!!!

[dekornet]

it's crazy ;-)

[RRaquello]

I never heard of Esquivel, but have been a big Kovacs fan since I was a kid. When I saw this the first time, I said "I got to get that record" but could never find out what it was. Years later, Esquivel made a comeback and I finally found out who did this music & the office furniture video & have been hooked as a fan ever since. I think this & Blvd. Of Broken Dreams with its great piano work are his best. For Ernie, I love everything he ever did. I play some piano & can only wish

[hapz3000]

this is hot shit for 1961 not to mention that i didnt even watch the garbage as video

[TenningTwins]

huh?

[Incongruent]

Well it's good to know there were pothead in the 60's. 1:45 almost made me pee.

[randomobsessor]

it did make me pee!

[jarqq]

Oh, wow.

Wow!

I've seen Kovacs's work before, but ... incredible!

[fromthesidelines]

Ernie had a BIG record collection- he often got his inspiration for most of the "pantomiome" sketches in his 1961 specials by merely listening to several choice cuts; the '61 "operation" sketch, for example, was inspired by a 1957 recording of Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite", issued on a small "record club label"....

[jimrockford78]

Its interesting to here the added musical bridges Esquivel worked into the banana scene,etc,specifically for this skit.

If you listen to his infinity in sound album

you can hear how it originally sounds.

Esquivel & Kovac's = genius.

they both had very unusual styles.

If only Ernie hadnt traded his car for Edies corvair that fateful raining night...one could only imagine the future shows he might have made!

[jimrockford78]

The word genuis is so abused today,but Juan Garcia Esquivel honestly deserves the accolade. He was a true musical futurist,a brilliant arranger who made the most incredible music this side of saturn! I only wish he would have made more records in his unique "sonorama" sound.

Does anyone have any clips of his appearance on Johnny Carson?

By the way,thats Alvino Rey on steel guitar! They were supposed to make a movie of Esquiels life,but nothing ever came to fruition.

[rdangelo]

Esquivel arranged the music, but he certainly did not compose it!

[rockthose]

that a lot of juice from one orange!

how did they get the drip on the faucet to go upwards?

I wish they didn't tape over most of Ernie's shows.  Thank goodness for Edie saving some of them.

[cthulhuchan]

That's what SHE said!

[rolko52]

Ernie had the camera turned upside down.

[DonOscar007]

yo guys, if you have Esquivel's videos or somethig please send me, he was my uncle.

[59Impala]

Awesome! I love Esquivel's music and saw this for the first time.

[awsomekyle1]

GENIUS!!! HILARITY!! BRILLIANCE!!! lmao

[TCMO99]

This guy was so way ahead of his time - a true pioneer.

[Sonovox01]

Genius, pure unadulterated genius. Ernie, we miss ya.