Inspired by a song, but not quite a song comic: Honey Comb… only slightly disturbing since all of her wonderful attributes are qualified by the fact that her head is a PIECE OF FOAM!
Posts tagged music
GYROJETS – You’re Never Nothing
GYROJETS – You’re Never Nothing (art by yours truly) is now available on Amazon.com Music. You can listen to the album on bandcamp, but if you’re any kind of somebody you’re going to buy the CD.
R0B0DR00L | Richard Glenn Schmidt
Richard commissioned a drawing from me for his new solo album. His are the colors. His are the music.
4 track album
music from Miss Fisher’s
Before my blueray player decided it didn’t like Netflix any longer I was enjoying Miss Fisher’s Mysteries. More than once, the credits started to roll and the accompanying song was delightful and fresh in a way that 1920s radio mixes are new and fresh. Being a popular show, of course the soundtrack is available commercially, however, I suspected that a lot of the songs would be freely available courtesy of the Internet Archive. I was right, and I made you a little mix of all the songs I could find for Season One with a script I have been dying to try.
Continue reading music from Miss Fisher’s
Glow Little Glow Worm
Yiddle mitn Fiedel
I had a song stuck in my head. It was playing on a loop through most of the afternoon. I input the lyrics into a search box and found out that the primary refrain of my song was a movie: Yidl mitn Fidl or Yiddle with his Fiddle. According to the National Center for Jewish Cinema, Yidl mitn Fidl was “the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema.” The story about a penniless father and daughter who become traveling musicians has songs, but not the song stuck in my head. There is a clip of “Yidl mitn Fidl” from the movie on the Jewish Women’s Archive and also a version by the Klezmer Quartett Heidelberg:
A cursory search of the internets found “Yiddle on your Fiddle play some Ragtime” by Irving Berlin.
This was also not the song stuck in my head. When I went home last night, I searched through our newly organized record collection for the song. I knew I had heard it in the house, on our little multi-function record machine. I was unsuccessful. Then, while watching Sense and Sensibility I had a brainstorm and went to our CD cabinet. I found Music From the Yiddish Radio Project and on it was Yidl mitn Fidl by the Barry sisters, and Eureka! That was it, so I share it with you. Enjoy!
GYROJETS – Live at The Amsterdam 1/28/16 – YouTube
I was there and yes, it was awesome. I am also super excited that one of my favorite songs got recorded on this video. yay!
It’s that time again
Unashamedly inspired by (it’s on our Christmas Mix):
A little glimpse at the Christmas mix
The Llama Song – YouTube
Karen Elson – THE TRUTH IS IN THE DIRT (Official Video) – YouTube
updating the Halloween car mix for next year…
Hokey pokey vs. hokey cokey
While watching a crazy amount of British television programming I started wondering on the differences between the U.S.’s Hokey pokey and the U.K.’s Hokey cokey. It turns out its variations and history is much more interesting than I thought (Wikipedia). Some form of hokey pokey has been traced to the 17th century and it may have been thought up as a way to make fun of Catholic priests performing the tradition Latin mass. It has variations in Australia, the Philippines and Denmark. The modern U.K. version was printed in 1942, and may have been recorded around that time. The U.S. version was also recorded in the late 40s.
Rather sensibly, the U.K. considers the hokey cokey a traditional song, meaning anyone can make use of it and it is not protected by copyright. Insensibly, Sony holds the copyrights over the hokey pokey.
At the Expense of the Listener: The Librarians
National Jukebox LOC.gov
I was fishing around in the 78RPMs and Cylinder Recordings at the Internet Archive, finding wonderful things, when I found some really poorly preserved recordings of really wonderful songs. Searching for a better copy lead me to the Library of Congress National Jukebox:
National Jukebox historical recordings from the Library of Congress project. You can now play this collection of old music from the early 20th century online. | Library of Congress LOC.gov
Source: National Jukebox LOC.gov
And, if you, like me, end up spending all day listening to old tunes and still can’t get enough, the University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections Department has a fabulous Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
The Electric Prunes on At the Expense of the Listener
Source: At the Expense of the Listener: The Electric Prunes
Watching The Name of the Game is Kill and enamored of a song that a willowy blond danced to in an eerily tense scene. I am all surprise that I hadn’t already heard these in my Dad’s van way back when.
And one of their big hits:
–LeE