Divertimento: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

"...you don't need fancy tools or a fancy garage; and if you fulfill your duty the Heavenly Father will bless you in what you do." -Roth, on the occasion of joining the Latter Day Saints

Do you see that little yellow vehicle in the background behind Annette Funicello below? It really deserved to be the star of Beach Blanket Bingo, probably the best of those terrible mid-sixties beach movies. That's just my personal opinion, of course, but for all of the songs, surfboards and bikinis in that film, it was that stray bit of decoration tha…