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got a minute?
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We're busy people, am I right? We don't have time to mess around. Finding good music just takes too much time, and most of us just give up. Well, WFMU's "Station Manager Ken" had a contest for remixes, 60 seconds and under, of known songs. Here are 161 of them.
I already have a set of 45s that came out years ago, called the RCA Victor Listener's Digest -- versions of the great classics that take up, at most, two sides (for a total of eight or ten minutes). This version seems better than that one. (I loaned my Listener's Digest to WHRO once, so that I could request the mini-Scheherazade from them. They didn't have a 45 spindle, though, and Dwight placed the platter on the turntable as well as he could. The result was not what I'd set out to achieve.)
Anyway, WFMU does it again, with the aid of listeners. It's terrific. Start off with In-a-gadda-da-vida and see where that leads you. Maybe to Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or Take Five, or Stagger Lee, or Ring Of Fire. I could go on.
For you specialty lovers, here's Who's On First, almost short enough, War of the Worlds, Shatner's Lucy in the Sky, a Bach Prelude by Glenn Gould, Ravel's Bolero (that's two versions), or 20 years of anti-drug PSAs.
Try and fit these into your schedule. I know I will. Gotta go.
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We're busy people, am I right? We don't have time to mess around. Finding good music just takes too much time, and most of us just give up. Well, WFMU's "Station Manager Ken" had a contest for remixes, 60 seconds and under, of known songs. Here are 161 of them.
I already have a set of 45s that came out years ago, called the RCA Victor Listener's Digest -- versions of the great classics that take up, at most, two sides (for a total of eight or ten minutes). This version seems better than that one. (I loaned my Listener's Digest to WHRO once, so that I could request the mini-Scheherazade from them. They didn't have a 45 spindle, though, and Dwight placed the platter on the turntable as well as he could. The result was not what I'd set out to achieve.)
Anyway, WFMU does it again, with the aid of listeners. It's terrific. Start off with In-a-gadda-da-vida and see where that leads you. Maybe to Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or Take Five, or Stagger Lee, or Ring Of Fire. I could go on.
For you specialty lovers, here's Who's On First, almost short enough, War of the Worlds, Shatner's Lucy in the Sky, a Bach Prelude by Glenn Gould, Ravel's Bolero (that's two versions), or 20 years of anti-drug PSAs.
Try and fit these into your schedule. I know I will. Gotta go.
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Shoot, I'll bet I could slap the CD into my laptop, rip it to a .WAV file, and recreate the whole thing (or at least a one-minute version of it) more of less from memory in Audacity whilst sipping a raspberry tea at some Internet café, then upload it to this site, if the guy is still collecting them.
Anybody know of an Internet café in Valley Village/North Hollywood/Toluca Lake?
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I always sort-of wanted to see if I could do something like make a version of Debussy's "Clair de lune" (as opposed to somebody else's, I guess) made completely of samples of Glenn Miller's "Moonglow."
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However, going from a "60 Minute Man" to a "60 Seconds Man" must have ruined someone's party.
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(A friend/former roomie back in Colorado had a swell LP called "Man on First Bass," which was blues-type stuff by the principal bass player of, I think, the Denver Symphony. Not an easy record to find; he lucked onto it. I don't remember much of what was on it, but it had "You are not the iceman / You are the iceman's son / But you can fill my box / Until the iceman comes" and "I'm a one-hour mama / and a one-minute papa / don't mean [snap] to me." When my friend's house burned down, the record was in it. Friend was okay, though he has since dropped off the face of the earth.)
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Some of my favorites at archive include Ben Light and his Surf Club Boys doing I'm Going To Get a Robot Man and The Full-Her Brush Man, and Benny Bell giving it his all for Everybody Wants My Fanny, Go Take a Ship For Yourself, Why Buy a Cow When Milk Is Cheap, and the ubiquitous (for any Dr. Demento listener) Shaving Cream.
For some reason, searching the site for "double entendre" or "doubleentendre" or even "party" doesn't bring up more than a fraction of what I found by prowling through the listings in order a couple of times, but it can provide a starting point. Many of the artists who recorded them are represented by a single entry, "Collected Works Of _______," which can have anywhere from one or two do several dozen individual files inside.
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