SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997 |
06-02-16, 09:46 AM | #571 |
Chief of the Boat
|
Dido - Don't Believe In Love
__________________
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim) |
06-02-16, 12:36 PM | #572 |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag
over to some educational music, Tom Lehrer - The Elements |
06-02-16, 03:48 PM | #573 |
Navy Seal
|
Tom Lehrer! I was able to find reissues of his albums several years back at a local record store. I had the original vinyl albums I bought when they first came out, but someone borrowed them and I never saw them again. I wonder if that freelance hitman I used to know is still around...
Good pull on a much overlooked performer!... <O>
__________________
__________________________________________________ __ |
06-02-16, 03:59 PM | #574 | |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
Quote:
|
|
06-02-16, 04:26 PM | #575 |
Silent Hunter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Posts: 4,490
Downloads: 109
Uploads: 0
|
New Retro Wave: Waveshaper - The Space Hero
|
06-02-16, 04:31 PM | #576 |
Navy Seal
|
Tom Lehrer was actually a very interesting person. He was a mathematician, a professor, and a participant in some of the projects carried out in Los Alamos and worked with the NSA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer One thing in the article I did not know about him is he was the inventor of the Jello-Shot; we must all now bow our heads in thanks to this true visionary... <O>
__________________
__________________________________________________ __ |
06-02-16, 04:37 PM | #577 | |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
Quote:
|
|
06-02-16, 05:25 PM | #578 |
Navy Seal
|
The Tom Lehrer post brought to mind the period in my youth of the late 50s and early 60s when there were a lot of novelty records on the radio charts. Some of them are classics in their own right:
Larry Verne - Please Mr. Custer (I Don't Want To Go) Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater David Seville and The Chipmunks - Witch Doctor Charlie Drake - My Boomerang Won't Come Back They're Coming To Take Away, Ha!, Ha! - Napoleon XIV (Kim Fowley) Alley Oop - The Hollywood Argyles The Rivingtons - Papa Oom Mow Mow The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9 The Playmates - Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler) Alan Sherman - Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah <O>
__________________
__________________________________________________ __ |
06-02-16, 05:30 PM | #579 |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
They're Coming To Take Away, Ha!, Ha! - Napoleon XIV (Kim Fowley) That one! Surely one of the most bizarre recorded songs I ever heard. Weirdly enough it was covered by the band LARD but even weirder, on that album it did actually work, bizarre as it was. |
06-02-16, 06:36 PM | #580 | |
Navy Seal
|
Quote:
Kim Fowley was also reputed to have done the lead vocal on "Alley Oop". I used to work at a rock club in the early to mid 70s and Fowley was a friend of one of the owners and a very regular customer. I asked him if he really did the vocal, but he became very evasive. He was a rather weird guy and was known to be a bit on the violent side, so I didn't press the question. Incidentally, The Hollywood Argyles were really never a group, but just an assemblage of studio musicians and record company types; the name Hollywood Argyles comes from the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Argyle St., in central Hollywood, and was the location of one of Capitol Records outpost recording facilities; the famed Capitol Record Tower and main recording facilities were a block up and a block over from Hollywood and Argyle... EDIT: I found the B side on YouTube (Note the backwards Label): A full album of Napoleon XIV: <O>
__________________
__________________________________________________ __ |
|
06-02-16, 06:50 PM | #581 | |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
Quote:
Florence Foster Jenkins, King Uszniewicz & His Uszniewicztones, 3 albums of the Wavy Gravy series, Incredibly Strange Music collection cassette, Real Gone Garbage collection LP, trying to track down the notorious recordings of Portsmouth Sinfonia but little luck so far. Florence though, she is definitely in a category literally of her own. I must admire her steelfaced pianist who managed to surpress his horror and laughter. It is rather horrible if you are not in the mood and are unprepared but hysterically funny if you are up for vocal disasters. King U (really Cub Koda et al having a loud laugh at it all) Warning, this is seriously bad musicianship but the completeness of the joke gets me every time. Florence. Can you believe she performed in Carnegie Hall, and it was sold out! Truly one of a kind and thank goodness for that. From Real Gone Garbage: Don & Mark - Fidel and Raul From Wavy Gravy I: Moses Longpiece - Slide Her Under The Door I have no idea how many times I have played this record, and it has a killer version of "Bo Diddley" played by the Juveniles Last edited by Von Due; 06-02-16 at 07:04 PM. |
|
06-02-16, 07:06 PM | #582 | |
Navy Seal
|
Quote:
<O>
__________________
__________________________________________________ __ |
|
06-02-16, 07:07 PM | #583 | |
Sea Lord
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,668
Downloads: 30
Uploads: 0
|
Quote:
|
|
06-03-16, 09:03 AM | #584 |
Chief of the Boat
|
Dido - Don't think of me
__________________
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim) |
06-03-16, 03:42 PM | #585 |
The Old Man
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pleven,BG
Posts: 1,577
Downloads: 901
Uploads: 0
|
Tonight in a show performed several songs of ABBA
Whenever I think of them, in my mind surfaced this song |
Tags |
music |
|
|