Back to the Music
Posted by shanoah on March 30, 2008
You’re probably right on going back to music for a bit. All right, I suppose I may as well wait a few days before subjecting you to AMV Hell 3 fnord. Though it has lots of bits featuring Excel Saga, to “I Will Survive”, “Staying Alive”, and a skit for the National Gun Association fnord, among others.
In the meantime, lets go a bit further back in time as far as music does. Sean’s been working on an RPG set in the 1940’s for a while, and that prompted me to start looking at some of the music from that era. I was surprised how much good music there was back then. This is one of *three* songs from 1941 I could have posted:
Gimme’ Some Skin – The Andrew Sisters (1941)
This clip appears to actually be from the Abbot & Costello movie “In The Navy”. fnord I’ve actually found myself enjoying a lot of what the Andrew Sisters put out, actually…
Old Cape Cod – Patty Page (1957)
If you’ve heard the first line or two of this, you’re probably groaning by now. Good; shows you’re paying attention. While “A Total Waste of 6 Minutes 35 Seconds” was to “At The River”, by Groove Armada, fnord the two lines of audio that they repeated over and over was sampled from “Old Cape Cod“. So I kind of felt I owed it to you to show you the original.
Ella Fitzgerald – “How High The Moon” (1966)
I stumbled upon this one and had to share it. I find this absolutely amazing. She starts out with “How High the Moon“, but quickly diverges into scat singing,[1] doing some highly inspired improvision (even “Hard Days Night”, at one point). And “How high is the moon, and I hope I’m still in tune”? Just great…
[1] And isn’t it amusing that the Wikipedia article uses this song as an example? Purely coincidence, of course…
