Tuesday, May 5, 2020

First Annual Church Of Joe Venuti And Eddie Lang Snake Handle Dept.

This here is the only album collection I gots of these guys. I think there's a track missing, and there are no track titles ("thanks to the original uploader" my ass). So if you have anything by this fantastic duo, even the same tracks tagged correctly, you'll be doing everybody a moistly satisfying glow-in-the-dark favor by uploading it in the comments. Music from a time when broads were dames and slobs and bums wus grateful.

EDIT: To thank Crab Devil for swimming to th' Isle O' Foam© with a swell two-disc set clutched in his toothless jaws, we present him with this study of Bob Ross hard at work on the "Tiki Madonna" mural here at the surfside Hut O' Foam©! Hoo boy!

Post-production catering by Hymie and Yentl O'Shaughnessy, Williamsburg, N.Y. - "Try our Colcannon Rahmschnitzel!"
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15 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 5, 2020 at 12:21 PM



    Dynamic!

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  2. Crab DevilMay 5, 2020 at 1:34 PM

    I love Eddie Lang and the entire world of early (“pioneering”)
    jazz guitar.

    Here’s the two-volume collection “Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti - 1920s
    And 1930s Sides”:

    https://www112.zippyshare.com/v/ZKm819r5/file.html

    For a very cool introduction to a slew of guitarists in that
    pre-WWII style, see right here:

    http://jazzhotbigstep.com/70001.html

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  3. FiveGunsWestMay 5, 2020 at 1:39 PM

    Thankest thou Sir Crab Devil.

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  4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 5, 2020 at 1:41 PM

    Duh, chee, Crab Debiw, youse is da swellest frien' a guy could have ... wotta I done tuh desoiva a pal like youse ... *snurfle*!

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  5. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 5, 2020 at 6:15 PM

    Better than The Beatles.

    Any Lonnie Johnson fans, here on the island?

    "Try our Colcannon Rahmschnitzel!" - too funny. I went to high school with a Seamus Finkelstein, similar culinary offerings were available at his house. Boxty with Gefilte fish. Mr. Finkelstein would complain "You call these Latkes? These are a Shande!" Only in New York.

    Don't tell anyone I told you this, but If you find Bob Ross' painting titled "Magnificent Oregon Hideaway" and you'll find D.B. Cooper.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 5, 2020 at 6:32 PM

      D.B. Cooper was unknown to me (as well as everyone else, apparently) - what a great rabbit hole. Can't find the Bob painting of which you speak.

      Seaumus Finkelstein!!!! Oy beggorrah!

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    2. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 5, 2020 at 11:01 PM

      "Oy beggorrah!" - that's what my mother used to say. She was one to talk: she married a Sicilian goy boy.

      I dropped something in "We're Looking For Guys What Like To Write! Dept."

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  6. pmacMay 5, 2020 at 6:37 PM

    Lonnie Johnson was fantastic. Went from playing with Ellington to issuing some great acoustic guitar blues albums. Those albums he did with Elmer Snowden are unreal.

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    1. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 6, 2020 at 8:00 AM

      Ever hear Lonnie and Victoria Spivey do "Toothache Blues", from 1928?

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 6, 2020 at 8:04 AM

      "Hear"? Pmac was whittlin' on the porch at the time.

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  7. sambgodotMay 5, 2020 at 11:14 PM

    The BBC are re-running some Bob Ross programmes at the present time. "Pick up a paintbrush and ease your lockdown stress levels" is the idea. But did he ever paint anything except mountain and/or seascapes? The 3 or 4 we've watched have been very clever, but rather sameish.

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  8. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 6, 2020 at 2:20 AM






    Lonnie Johnson Complete Recorded Works here. Big file.

    {NB I haven't checked this yet, and it'll be at whatever furshlugginer bitrate it'll be at}

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  9. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 6, 2020 at 6:50 AM

    Thanks Farq, for a lotta Lonnie!

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  10. AnonymousMay 7, 2020 at 6:07 AM

    Yawning Angel sez...

    Thanks for the Lonnie, Farq!

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