A rare and wonderful video of public access superstars Elton and Betty White has just popped up on Youtube (literally a few hours ago). As far as I can tell tell, it has never appeared on the internet before.

Elton and Betty, who hailed from Little Rock, Arkansas, moved to Los Angeles in the early 90s. In L.A. they had a surreal cable tv show and were popular performers on the boardwalk at Venice Beach. They recorded over 200 songs, many of which were sexually explicit and quite funny. Though Betty was 30 years years older than her husband, their marriage was a sublimely happy one, which is quite evident in the video.

Betty died in 2003. Elton is in the process of reviving his music career.

More information on this lovably weird couple can be had at their myspace page.

There’s also a nice piece on the Whites at the always fabulous Boing Boing.