Music
Your Musical Horoscope
Use the embedded player to skip ahead to your sign, and acquire a new signature theme for your life! Or just listen to the whole album from start to finish, and try to apply the songs to people whose signs you know! "Yes, that sounds just like Jane!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 03, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal
Ánnámáret: Homegrown Concert
"Ánnámáret is the performing name of Sámi musician Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman. Ánnámáret performs yoik, a distinctive singing and songwriting tradition of the Sámi people."
The actual singing begins at the six-minute mark. Let us know how much you enjoy yoik music.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 29, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Foreign Customs, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Greasy Kid Stuff
Television commercials for Vitalis hair tonic during the 1950s and early 60s included the line, "Are you still using that greasy kid's stuff on your hair?In 1962, this inspired two young entrepreneurs to come out with a hair product called "Greasy Kid Stuff".
Charlotte Observer - Feb 15, 1963
It enjoyed brief popularity as a fad product, but within a year had disappeared from shelves.
But the phrase 'greasy kid stuff' also inspired both a song that became a Top 40 hit and (in the 1990s) a popular radio show.
More info: Ad Nauseam
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 28, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Jazz Poetry
The Wikipedia entry, followed by some examples from the Boston Post, 09 Jan 1921, Sun Page 53.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 28, 2022 -
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Category: Fads, Music, Poetry, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1920s
DisinHAIRited
Almost inevitably, the huge success of Hair on Broadway meant there would be another cast album that would include some of the songs which had been left out of the original album, all the more reason since they were more pop tunes than theatrical arias, and therefore easier to play on the airwaves. DisinHAIRited was such a recording. It provided a better picture of the score created by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot, as performed by the original cast, and was a deft complement to the first album. Recorded a year and a half after the show opened on Broadway, it also featured some new tribal members, including Sakinah, Robin McNamara and George Tipton, who had joined the cast in the intervening months. First LP Release: December 17, 1969
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 27, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Lost, Newly Discovered, Cutting-Room-Floor, and Discarded Cultural Items, 1960s
The Prayer
Text by Enrico Santus. More info: Diemut Strebe
Diemut Strebe has made a previous appearance on WU:
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 25, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Religion, Technology, AI, Robots and Other Automatons
Canary Sing-along
Pet birds making their traditional sonic calls while classical music plays.
This little player starts at track one and goes through the whole album. But if you'd like to skip right to your favorite, go here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 18, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Music, 1960s
Sol Bright
His Wikipedia page.His full name: Solomon Kamaluhiakekipikealiʻikaʻapunikukealaokamahanahana Bright Sr.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 11, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Wild West and US Frontier, South Pacific, Twentieth Century
The Coffee Song
An ode to caffeine. Is Starbucks looking for a new theme song?My favorite line is: "You date a girl and find out later/She smells just like a percolator."
Lyrics
Way down among Brazilians
Coffee beans grow by the billions
So they've got to find those extra cups to fill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
You can't get cherry soda
'Cause they've got to fill that quota
And the way things are I'll bet they never will
They've got a zillion tons of coffee in Brazil
No tea or tomato juice
You'll see no potato juice
The planters down in Santos all say no no no
The politician's daughter
Was accused of drinking water
And was fined a great big fifty dollar bill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
You date a girl and find out later
She smells just like a percolator
Her perfume was made right on the grill
Why they could percolate the ocean in Brazil
And when their ham and eggs need savor
Coffee ketchup gives 'em flavor
Coffee pickles way outsell the dill
Why they put coffee in the coffee in Brazil
So your lead to the local color
Serving coffee with a cruller
Dunking doesn't take a lot of skill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 04, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1940s, South America
Jazz Emotions
The Rock Island Argus - Feb 8, 1926
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 24, 2022 -
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Category: Babies, Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, Music, 1920s
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