From The Gong Show to Jerry Lewis: The Live Performances of Oingo Boingo

As my CD collection (because I have a CD collection) can prove, I'm a big fan of the Danny Elfman-fronted Oingo Boingo, at least before they became Boingo and became kinda "meh."  In one of the odder collisions of pop culture, the band performed on Jerry Lewis's annual Labor Day telethon in 1987, performing "We Close Our Eyes" (which, strangely, seems to be lip-synced) and "Not My Slave" (which isn't?).


But that's not all the live Oingo I've got for you -- here's the band performing "Not My Slave" and "Elevator Man" on the short-lived (Sinbad-hosted!) "Keep on Cruisin'" the same year.




Of course, these clips come from a time after the band had become a bit more pop and less experimental.  For a look at them closer to the era of FORBIDDEN ZONE, check them out on "The Gong Show" over a decade earlier, when they were still performing under their full moniker of "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo."