Saturday, February 25, 2006

The Core



One of the few highlights of Episodes I - III was Ewan McGregor's dead-on Obi Wan impersonation, which always made me think of Peter Sellers' 'Smith' - an Interview with Sir Eric Goodness, bringing to mind humorous visions of 13th century Persian mystics, the core, and bongo practice when, perhaps, I should have been focused on midi-chlorians and Jar Jar Binks.

If you capture the core, and go out thoroughly satisfied from your listening, than you may well want to hear these as well:

The Sheik of Araby

Axel Zwingenberger


The Beatles


Champion Jack Dupree


Charlie Byrd


Coleman Hawkins


Dave Edmunds


Django Reinhardt


Dukes of Dixieland


Duke Ellington


Enoch Light


Fats Domino


Jo Ann Castle


Ken Griffin


The Kentucky Colonels


Louis Prima


Leon Redbone


Lou Monte


Marcel Dadi


The Rosenberg Trio


Sidney Bechet


Spike Jones


The Suntones


Teddy Wilson


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12 Comments:

Anonymous joshua said...

wow, man!
what an inspired collection.
i can't wait to listen through all of these.
and the pictures are priceless. damn well curated.

by the way, your Leon Redbone link doesn't go to an MP3.
if you put that up, can you drop me a line to let me know?
thanks for all your work.
joshua@subverse.org

5:55 PM  
Anonymous molehill said...

bizarre!

Suntones? Looks like Ralph Cramden, Ed Norton and a couple of other members of the Royal Order of the Racoons...

your fans might dig this video of spike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjmwW-0BgUI

1:24 PM  
Blogger John Eje Thelin said...

Would be terribly cranky to ask for one download link for all the tracks?

3:01 PM  
Anonymous joshua said...

the leon redbone track is incredibly funny and cool.
thanks for the repost, man.
joshua

5:57 PM  
Blogger docker said...

My wife would like to thank you for that compilation. And I would too. Well done.

9:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ay carumba, you've done this song proud! What a noble history of fun.

10:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks!!

(John Eje Thelin: use the DownThemAll extension in Firefox)

11:51 AM  
Anonymous str in houston said...

Fabulous! however, you're missing Jack Teagarden's inspired take on the Sheik - made w/ Benny Goodman with Big T on vocal and trombone -

Another indispensable version is by Fats Waller, the Sheik, the Shake, the Shook!

6:19 PM  
Anonymous Dan said...

GREAT! Thanks. Hey, could you do the same type of thing with Danny Boy? I'm trying to find as many versions as possible. And St. Patty's day is coming up. And my name is Dan.

7:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like it, too!

jAKAsso!

11:53 PM  
Blogger jodru said...

Don't know when the recordings were made, but Marcel's version is available on the import La Guitare a Dadi V.2

5:21 AM  
Blogger Ted Hering said...

The woman with Spike Jonew is Ruth Foster, AKA Ruthie James.

4:31 AM  

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