Caramel Frappuccino, Cartooning Policies, and Jazz

[the_gneech]

Yesterday, the drive-through at Starbucks was just nuts. Everyone in the universe, and a few visitors from other universes I think, came through the drive-through and ordered at least one and usually 2 - 5 caramel frappuccinos. Nothing else. No coffee, so pastries, no tea or tazoberry ... just oceans and oceans of caramel frappuccino. The caramel smell was enough to knock you down after a while! Oy. Thanks goodness I have today off at home.

As of this week, I am instituting a new cartooning goal: that by Saturday midnight, all the strips for the following week (both SJ and NN) will be drawn and posted, or at least sent to Hikaru (i.e., katayamma) for coloring. I am getting really sick of all these missed days. I'm spending all of today and whatever time I have tomorrow night working on next week's strips, to get them out of the way. Then, in the future, if I can get the strips done before Saturday, I can use the rest of that week to write, play games, work on D&D, or whatever.

Once pay starts rolling in, I need to add a few tunes to my jazz collection. I have a lot of swing classics, particularly of Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw, but I really want to get recordings of:

• Louis Prima's original "Just a Gigilo"
  
• Take Five
  
• Classical Gas
  
• Popcorn
  
• Alley Cat
  
• The Syncopated Clock
  
• The Music Box Dancer
  

There's also a song I haven't heard in a long time, but would like to find, called "The Tennessee Birdwalk." I have no idea who did it, unfortunately.

Anyway, that's all the news that's fit to transmit electronically at the moment. Catcha later!

-The Gneech

Comments

[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

I need to meet you someday....you're on of the few who would probably appreciate my love for jazz. Good stuff, all of it.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Find me at Anthrocon! ;) -TG

All that: Jazz?

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I have many of those, and wouldn't have considered most of them to be jazz.
Van Halen did a fair imitation of Louie Prima, didn't he?
I quoted another piece from the album with Classical Gas on your forum. ;)

Tennesee Bird Walk ("When the birds go walking southward in their dirty underwear...")

Ah, found the lyrics (lyrics & music by Jack Blanchard... but I don't think he recorded it...it was a male and female -- ha! Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan.)

Take away the trees and the birds'll have to sit upon the ground (hum)
Take away their wings and the birds'll have to walk to get around
Take away the birdbaths and dirty birds will soon be everywhere
Take away their feathers and the birds will walk around in underwear
Take away their (whistle) and the birds'll have to whisper when they sing
(Chirp chirp!)
Take away their common sense and they'll be heading southward in the spring

Oh, remember me, my darling when spring is in the air
And the bald headed birds are whispering everywhere
When you see them walking southward in their dirty underwear
That's the Tennessee bird walk

How about some trees so the birds won't have to sit upon the ground? (hum)
And how about some wings so the birds won't have to walk to get around?
And how about a birdbath or two so the birds will all be clean?
And how about some feathers so their underwear no longer can be seen?
How about a little (whistle) so the birds won't have to whisper when they sing?
(Chirp chirp!)
And how about some common sense
So they won't be blocking traffic in the spring?

Oh, remember me, my darling when spring is in the air
And the bald headed birds are whispering everywhere
When you see them walking southward in their dirty underwear
That's the Tennessee bird walk (Chirp chirp!)
That's the Tennessee bird walk (Chirp chirp!)
(Repeat and fade)

===|==============/ Level Head

Re: All that: Jazz?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I mean Jazz in the broadest sense. ;) Thanks for finding Tennessee Birdwalk for me! -TG

Re: All that: Jazz?

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean like sung by girls?

===|==============/ Level Head

Re: All that: Jazz?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

*GROAN*

all dat jazz...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

I have most of these in MP3 format by SOMEBODY, and what I don't have, my friend Bill (he plays a gazillion musical instruments and he does a KICK ASS version of Take Five) probably does. Will a CD work? If not, let's get the FTP thang DOWN....I also would like primary artists or secondary choices..(grin)

While most of my generation was listening to Duran Duran and Madonna, I was listening to Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington on KKGO in LA (back when it was all jazz---now it's a classical station)...MLD

Re: all dat jazz...

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Louis Prima's original "Just a Gigilo" you've got the artist on. Covered by many -- the one most familiar to folks on this list may be Van Halen's David Lee Roth. I did not see the movie, so...

Take Five, sounds like you're covered there. Somebody Desmond, was it?

Classical Gas by Mason Williams (from the Mason Williams Phonograph Record) -- this is a very clever fellow who made up his own muscial notation system, and some of his songs (such as "Sunflower" from the same album) were derived from it. Sunflower's tune begins with the notes indicated by the word "SUNFLOWER" in his notation. Very strange, and not dissimilar, I now realize, to the Gayne Ballet Suite used in "2001" and as the theme to "Aliens".

Popcorn -- I realize that I don't know which of the many music pieces you're referring to. However, I'm going to hazard a guess, based on the presence of the other pieces: "Popcorn" by Hot Butter, early 70's, a synthesized piece. (I really enjoyed "Electric Eclectics of MOOG", and "Age of Electronicus" -- and not just for "Topless Dancers of Corfu".{g} ) You probably are NOT talking about, say, James Brown's "Popcorn" collection.

Alley Cat (used as the theme to an early late night science fiction/horror movie show -- kind of an early predessor to "Mystery Science Theater 3000" -- let's see... 'twas a wierd name -- aha! Bent Fabric -- 1962. Hah! He also did "Never Tease Tigers!".

The Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson -- probably the Arthur Fiedler recording. Some game show uses this, neh? Recorded late 40's or early 50's -- Fiedler would be 50's or later.

The Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills. Recorded in 74 and 78, you want the later one, probably. Cute, quick, catchy little piece, and everybody has heard it.

Now, if it was classical music you wanted, let me send to to the next door down: Ask for "Malver". ;)

===|==============/ Level Head

OOO! OOO! OOO!

[nekomimikun.livejournal.com]

Keiko Matsui is the best non-verbal Jazz that I have ever heard! That is a really good one too!

[murrrmaiyd.livejournal.com]

My mother has Music Box Dancer as a single on vinyl, if you have that capability still...you might ask her. It was a favorite of my father's...we used to hear it on a radio commercial, and liked it so much we called the radio station to find out what it was called so we could buy it.
Mur

Classical Gas

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Would that be the original Classical Gas with Mason Williams or the rather more upbeat Mason Williams and The Manneheim Steamroller Classical Gas?

Re: Classical Gas

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, I was thinking of the original, but they're all good. :) -TG