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1. Sonata No. 15 – Allegro
2. Sonata No. 15 – Andante
3. Sonata No. 15 – Allegretto
4. Ah! Vous Dirais Je Maman (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
5. Allegro from Sonata No. 14
6. Fugue
7. Eine Kliene Nacht Music – Allegro
8. Eine Kliene Nacht Music – Romance
9. Eine Kliene Nacht Music – Minuetto
10. Eine Kliene Nacht Music – Rondo

This week’s fine sharity treat is a slice of culture with a large dollop of whipped insanity. Until a short time ago I, like many, drifted through life haplessly unaware of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s thoughtful lyrics for what we think of as his non-operatic/orchestral work. Through some sort of medium, mystic, or well placed wormhole, The Swingle Singers have channeled the late composer and present his brilliant lyrical and compositional style to the masses as he truly intended his work to be heard… And that is, of course, through intensely happy a cappella scat which, in comparison, makes Mel Tormé seem like a grammarian.

Here are a few sample lyrics from the beginning of the Andante from Sonata No. 15:
(Please click here to download the corresponding mp3 sample and why not sing along?)

Bwah bupmanaba dubuhwah
Bwah bupbadamanabu dubada
Why budutten da da dim nubuhwah
Babaduh bahuhbudutten nubaduhbaduhdeeuhda, wa duh duh…
Duh baduhbleeutten buhbuhduh budutten
Duhbuhdabadutten dabaduhboo wah baduhbaduhbadutten dubladubladout…
-snip-

Brilliant.

Click the link below to find out how The Swingle Singers put the ahhh in a cappella. A side note: there are a few songs on this baby that I swear I remember as backing music from early 70’s TV and radio commercials.

Note from the Shodditor: I have just discovered that “Anyone for Mozart?” is now available as part of a Swingle Singers collection CD named “The Swingle Singers – Anyone For Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?”, and thus I have discontinued sharing this record. It is not, nor will it ever be, my intention to share in-print recordings. Please do click the link below to buy the CD from Overstock.com. They seem to have the best price I just ordered mine. I am sorry for the bad news, but on the plus side, I am sure the CD sounds better than my recording and it’s probably stereo to boot.

Buy “The Swingle Singers – Anyone For Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?” from Overstock.com

See the back cover and liner notes page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

1. Side One
2. Side Two

We now take you back to a time before Dick Clark and Ed McMahon made it fashionable, and often an excellent career move, to walk into the trajectory of a well tossed lawn jart for the sake of humor… Way back to a world where a boner was more than a pleasant surprise in the morning. In this enlightened time a clever and deceptive man named Kermit Schaefer compiled (and fabricated) some of the best fluffs, spoonerisms, slips, and flubs to grace the early airwaves in a series of records entitled “Pardon My Blooper!” This one is near and dear, as it has been a favorite of the Shodditor since he was but a wee tyke. The complete liner notes are wrapped into a lovely pdf file (included in the zip) for you to peruse while listening. Bonne écoute!

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1. It’s a White Tornado
2. The Tour of the Kremlin
3. To Tell the Truth
4. The Premier’s Press Conference
5. Mrs. K’s Troubles
6. The Overcoat
7. Nick & Dick
8. Knock-Knock
9. Nick & Ben
10. Mr. K’s Diet
11. Nick and Chou En-Lai
12. The Booking Agent
13. The Cosmonaut’s Wife
14. Boris the Hairdresser
15. Nick & Jack
16. Nervous Nick
17. Mrs. K’s Styles

Remember the cold war? *sigh* Those were simpler times. Now Ask yourself, are you ready to listen to Joan Rivers, George Segal and Buck Henry attempt to lighten world tension in 1962 by poking fun at the Kremlin through a sea of painfully canned laughter? What better way to make friends than the gift of bad comedy? I would like to point out to our Russian friends that this record in no way reflects the opinions of your humble shodditor, nor is it funny. No. Really. It’s Bad. You want funny, rent Dr. Strangelove. You want a knock-knock joke where the punchline is armageddon, take a hearsy.

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1. Tzena, Tzena
2. Hava Nagila
3. Frailach
4. Ershter Valse
5. Roszhinkes Mit Mandlen
6. Shein Vi Di Leveune
7. Bei Mir Bist Du Shein
8. Der Naye Sher
9. Die Greene Kuziene
10. Anniversary Waltz
11. My Yiddishe Mama
12. Yussel, Yussel

Forget about klezmer man, and wrap your ears around this. At a hulking four feet six inches from the pavement, Johnny, and his gang, rip through all the yiddish classics in a fury of mouthharp madness. Here’s a PDF bio on Mr. Puleo and his wikipedia entry. Mozeltoff!

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1. Monkey Mash (Monkey)

Well, I have been talking about making this site for over six months now, so it’s about time that I put my money where my mouth is… I have decided to keep it simple and use blogger to build the pages instead of monkeying around with more professional (and complicated) blogging software. It slightly pains me to hand over the design controls to templates, but I might find a way to make this more unique in the future by modifying the blogger template on my own, so expect visual changes some time in the future.

The gist of this here site is to push vinyl sharity oddities (shoddity) on my friends/family and those who want to stop by for a little listen to tidbits of the strange, unique and out-of-print. I am hoping to get started on a weekly schedule of “new” releases, with a one month download history available directly from this site and a permanent history available at Rapidshare, as seems to be the norm in the oop sharity world.

Please bare with me as I go through the learning curve, because I do hope to offer some beautifully crazy crap in the near future.

Best,
Your Humble Shodditor