joey de vivre

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  • Submit Date: 6/29/2004
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes - - a Mixed-up Mother Goose

Artist Song
Sam the Sham  Little Red Riding Hood 
the Swingtones  Piggie Wiggie (This Little Piggie) 
Dale Hawkins  Little Pig (Big Bad Wolf) 
Pico Pete  Chicken Little 
Merrill Moore  Nursery Rhyme Blues 
Hoyt Johnson  Little Boy Blue 
Ella Fitzgerald (with the Mills Bros.)  Big Boy Blue 
Ambrose & his Orchestra  Little Boy Blue 
Roy Milton  Little Boy Blue 
Hot Lips Page  the Pied Piper 
Fletcher Henderson  Mary Had a Little Lamb 
the Yacht Club Boys  How Could Red Riding Hood 
Blue Lu Barker  There Was a Little Mouse 
Artie Shaw  One Two Button My Shoe 
Tommy Dorsey  Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes 
Ella Fitzgerald  A Tisket a Tasket 
Dolly Dawn  Sing a Song of Nonsense 
Ginger Rogers & Johnny Mercer  Eenie Meenie Minie Mo 
Lee Dorsey  Eenie Meenie Minie Mo 
Hoyt Johnson  Eenie Meenie Minie Mo 
Little Luther  Eenie Meenie Minie Mo 
Bob & Lucille  Eenie Meenie Minie Mo 
Rufus Thomas  Walking the Dog 
the Davis Sisters  Rockabye Boogie 
Big Boy Miles  Hickory Dickory Dock 
100 Proof  Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed 
Vibro Champs  Little Red Riding Hood 
Scorpions  Just Like Me 
Savoy Sultans  Little Sally Walker 
Archibald  Little Miss Muffett 

Comment:

(31) Coasters - I'm a Hog for You Baby (This Little Piggie)
(32) Chicken Little - Ravon Darnell

I was just listening to Rufus Thomas do his "cockle shells & silver bells" riff in "Walking the Dog", & I started wondering how many other songwriters had delved into these early childhood memories -- quite a few, as it turns out, & here are some of them.
The five "eenie meenie minie mo" tracks are all completely different songs, as are the three "Little Boy Blue" tracks; & the Vibro Champs "Little Red Riding Hood" is nothing like the Sam the Sham song. The two versions of "Chicken Little" are both channeling Little Richard, though as far as I know he never did it himself. A group called the Shammettes did an answer song called "Big Bad Wolf" (to Sam the Sham's "Little Red Riding Hood") but my copy of it is such bad sound quality that it didn't even pass my lo-fi standards - too bad!
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn!


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bingsy
Date: 6/29/2004
Yay! We really do think of similar themes. Such a fun mix. It's been a while since I've seen anything about the Vibrochamps!
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12vman
Date: 6/30/2004
Really good.
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37 pieces flair
Date: 6/30/2004
I love those Ella tracks.

This is really, really interesting.

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Muzag
Date: 6/30/2004
Looks excellent, Joey!
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Rob Conroy
Date: 6/30/2004
Great. Fantastic. Marvelous. Etc.
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Sean Lally
Date: 6/30/2004
Killer, killer, killer! Great idea, great tunes, great mix!
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Siobhan
Date: 6/30/2004
Wonderfully well executed! Love the Tommy Dorsey pick.
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valis
Date: 6/30/2004
All I can do is sit and giggle...like a kid.
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Nest of Vipers
Date: 6/30/2004
Wow! It's the mix I didn't even know was missing from my collection. You know what I'm going to say next, right?
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lipstick vogue
Date: 6/30/2004
quite an amazing mix
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Moe
Date: 6/30/2004
This looks great! And you didn't have to resort to any bubblegum songs to complete it, like Tommy Roe's "Jack and Jill", the Beagles' "Humpty Dumpty" or the 1989 Musical Marching Zoo's "Mother Goose is on the Loose."
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p the swede
Date: 6/30/2004
looks funny
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 6/30/2004
Then there's Paul McCartney & Wings handling "Mary Had A Little Lamb." And wrong genre entirely, but Genesis' "The Musical Box" (from the fabulous Gabriel era) incorporates a bit of "Old King Cole."
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Dom1
Date: 6/30/2004
Excellent Joey!
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Dirk
Date: 7/1/2004
Great stuff!
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chumchudchug
Date: 7/1/2004
A shot to the clusters...SCORPIONS! :)
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James Jackson
Date: 7/1/2004
Excellent in every way!
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G-Sphere
Date: 7/1/2004
This looks like lots of fun. Nice mix.