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8/1/2005
If you really want to hear the full blazing glory of Mexican rock & roll, you need to check out blasikin's two collections, ya no hay beatles (part 1) and ya no hay beatles (part 2) , but there's some …
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7/27/2005
Which came first, the chicken or the accordion? Accordions get less respect than any other instrument except possibly the banjo, so here's their revenge. (Note that in track #9 the accordionists make c …
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7/18/2005
I wouldn't want to live there, but I do visit the sad side of town once in a while. Actually the germ of this mix was the impulse to make a film noir musical, but I just couldn't come up with the righ …
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7/11/2005
These are all hipsters from the years right after WWII - when, I like to imagine, the mood was exultant & exuberant & there was plenty of room to spread your wings. The war was over & for a few years i …
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6/20/2005
I put this together before leaving for a trip to France, thinking that making it & listening to it might possibly improve my feeble French. Well, it didn't do that, but it's still fun to listen to. The …
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6/20/2005
This mix is a joke! A mess of tunes making fun of the French & international obsession with Paris, at the expense of the rest of France, plus a handful of other tunes qui se moquent various other Frenc …
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5/16/2005
That Anita O'Day was one hep chick! She swung with Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Nat King Cole, Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson; she got busted for marijuana in 1947 which the cops thought would do her in but h …
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Blues - Classic Blues
5/9/2005
(31) Peppermint Harris - I Want a Cadillac Funeral ============ This R&B set tilts somewhat towards women singers, but that wasn't deliberate, I was just looking for a certain exuberant sound & this is …
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5/3/2005
It's a funny thing about gossip - everyone enjoys it but everyone puts it down. And of course in pop culture it's always women, not men, who talk too much -- which doesn't match my life experience, I m …
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