The Raymond Scott Quintette - Microphone Music

The Raymond Scott Quintette - Microphone Music (2003)

Microphone Music is a 2003 double CD compilation by The Raymond Scott Quintette. It is "a collection of unreleased titles, radio performances, first-rate rehearsals and forgotten gems by the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded between 1936 and 1939." (The sizes of each version are correct, these are mono recordings converted to each format.)

Warner Bros. licensed his music for the Looney Tunes cartoons. Powerhouse and few others will be familiar to fans of these classic cartoons. Enjoy.

Jazz music, always known for its spirit of improvisation, was hardly the medium for composers or producers during its first 50 years. Even the greatest early arrangers – Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman – allowed plenty of room for solos, and would've been deserted by most of their musicians if they hadn't. All of which explains why Raymond Scott was never considered a jazz artist. His pieces, impressionistic yet rigidly composed, did use all the same components of a jazz band and exhibited close superficial similarities to Duke Ellington's early jungle band and the Benny Goodman Orchestra. The difference lay with his insistence on perfection, in his recording techniques and the members of his band. The Raymond Scott Quintette was a clean, technical, utterly precise swing machine – the logical progression, in his mind, of the noisy jazz racket originally delivered on record by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917. Microphone Music, another Scott-related reissue by the Basta label, is a two-disc bonanza of unreleased titles, rarities, and rehearsals from the late '30s that will taste of manna from heaven for listeners who spent a decade in the wilderness after Columbia's greatest-hits volume, 1992's The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights. These certainly don't sound like afterthoughts, either; Scott took quality control very seriously, and the result is a set of 40 splendid, fascinating songs that often sounds better even than the Columbia release. Most of the songs are new to CD, and even the familiar titles (like the Scott perennial "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals") are presented in radically different interpretations. Drummer and percussionist Johnny Williams (father of composer John Williams) is revealed as an extraordinary talent, not just keeping time for the quintette, but splitting it into halves and quarters with his brisk, perfectly timed fills. As for Scott, who's usually recognized solely as a compositional or arranging genius, the focus here is on his talent for sound reproduction. The title is a nod to the importance of engineering and microphone placement in his music – a reprint of a Popular Mechanics article appears in the liner notes – and his constant recording experiments produced dynamic music utterly unlike anything heard before, since sound had never been picked up and amplified the way Scott did it. The relative scarcity of Quintette recordings is enough to boost this set into recommended status, but the bounty of fabulous music inside makes it essential for fans and highly recommended for the uninformed. Really fun with headphones.

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DISC 1
1. Egyptian Barn Dance (April 1938)
2. The Penguin (December 1938)
3. Christmas Night In Harlem (March 1939)
4. Pretty Petticoat #1 (April 1939)
5. Square Dance For Eight Egyptian Mummies (1938)
6. Moment Whimsical (December 1938)
7. Devil Drums (June 1939)
8. A Little Bit Of Rigoletto (APril 1939)
9. Hypnotist In Hawaii (April 1939)
10. Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals (April 1937)
11. The Toy Trumpet (December 1936)
12. Suicide Cliff (December 1939)
13. Siberian Sleighride (1938)
14. Steeplechase (April 1939)
15. Peter Tambourine (March 1939)
16. Celebration Of The Planet Mars (January 1938)
17. Brass Buttons And Epualettes (January 1938)
18. Bumpy Weather Over Newark (June 1939)
19. Pretty Petticoat #2 (May 1939)
20. Turkish Mish-Mush (March 1939)
(UNLISTED TRACK)
21. Powerhouse (rehearsal) (1940)
DISC 2
1. Microphone Music (January 1938)
2. Twilight In Turkey (February 1939)
3. New Year's Eve In A Haunted House (December 1938)
4. Tobacco Auctioneer (April 1939)
5. The Girl With The Light Blue Hair (January 1939)
6. Sleepwalker (March 1937)
7. The Happy Farmer (April 1938)
8. Oil Gusher (January 1939)
9. Boy Scout In Switzerland (March 1939)
10. Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner (April 1937)
11. Swing, Swing Mother-In-Law (December 1936)
12. Girl At The Typewriter (1939)
13. Yesterday's Ice Cubes (March 1937)
14. Pretty Petticoat #3 (April 1939)
15. War Dance For Wooden Indians (February 1939)
16. Dead End Blues (January 1937)
17. Harlem Hillbilly (June 1939)
18. The Quintet Goes To A Dance (March 1939)
19. Bugle Call Rag (March 1937)
20. Powerhouse (June 1939)
(UNLISTED TRACK)
21. A Happy Frenzy At Aquackanack

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Skuffle - Let's Get Ready For Skuffle

Legendary rock songs covered in old timey jug band style - all acoustic, way fun.

01. Paranoid 02. Since You've Been Gone 03. Back In Black 04. You Really Got Me
05. Eye Of The Tiger 06. Black Night 07. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 08. Black dog 09. Jumpin Jack Flash 10. Feel Like Makin’ Love 11. Come Together 12. Sunshine Of Your Love
13. Pinball Wizard 14. Manic Depression 15. All Right Now 16. Sweet Child Of Mine (Key Of D)

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R Crumb - Sampler Repost

We're having a happy music theme today, since it's been raining around here all week –and I couldn’t resist this gem to start things off right. It is from the R Crumb Handbook and is a greatest hits comp – sort of. Contains selections recorded by the various groups he was with from 1972 – 2003. This includes R. Crumb and his Keep On Truck’in Orchestra, The Cheap Suit Serenaders, Fiddlin’ Ian McCamy Quartette, Les Primitifs Du Futur, and the Crumb Family.

These amazing bands of well humored and talented musicians bring an all too forgotten music back to life. These guys tackle old time music with such enthusiasm, musical talent, and just plain "hepness", that this collection is entertaining without any sense of feeling like a museum piece. Their talent and pure love of music are unmistakable in the instrumentation and vocal work of these songs. Their playing is flawless (you probably haven't heard the steel guitar, banjo mandolin, or musical saw played with such virtuosity as here), the tunes are mostly fun and spirited, and the music styles are varied. This set resurrects instruments and music long past, but is never out of style. Mr. Robert Crumb has certainly left his mark on this world in very unique ways and in the hands of the Cheap Suits, and the other groups he’s been associated with -- old-time music is alive and well. A+

River Blues, Wisconsin Wiggles, Get A Load of This, Cheap Suit Special, my Girl's Pussy, Suit's Crybaby Blues, Fine Artiste, Hula Medley, Wild Horse, 3 in 1 Two Step, Creole Belles, Georgia Camp Meeting, Cruelle Tendresse, Valse D'Amour, Mazurkas, Schottische, In The Pines, St. James Infirmary, Little Buttercup, Baby Face

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R Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders ST

The hard to find 1st one by Crumb and Company. Enjoy.

1 Laughing Rag 2 True Blue Lou 3 Little Rascals Medley 4 Willie the Chimney Sweeper
5 Kiwi Bump 6 Cuckoo Waltz 7 Sweet Lorraine 8 I'm Gonna Get It 9 Lucille 10 I Had but Fifty Cents 11 Down in Jungle Town 12 Get a Load of This 13 Cheap Suit Special 14 I'll See You in My Dreams

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R Crumb - Singing In The Bathtub

This is a thoroughly delightful disc, one I listen to frequently. It's also one of the two Cheap Suits' discs that you can easily find, at least in my experience. Grab it and growl. Crumb has nice 20's falsetto voice that does the material enjoyable justice and the instrumentals are lovingly played. Yeah, there are a few missed notes here and there, but this is just super stuff. Thanks to R. Crumb for pointing us in the direction of this music. There are hundreds and hundreds of discs coming out with rarities that used to only be heard in the basements of collectors. Learn more about the beauties of American music before WW2. You can start right here.

1 Singing in the Bathtub 2 Chile Blues 3 Dream of Heaven 4 Suits Crybaby Blues 5 Collier Medley: Ben Hur March & Napoleon March 6 Shopping Mall 7 Yearning and Blue 8 Hula Girl 9 Pedal Your Blues Away 10 La Gima Polka 11 Sing Song Girl 12 Home 13 My Gal Sal 14 Hano Hano Hawa

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R Crumb - Chasing Rainbows

Since the late '70s the Cheap Suit Serenaders--an ever-changing group of hardcore 78-collecting friends--have been playing what they love--old-time jazz, folk, string-band, Hawaiian, and ragtime music. Best known for having two of the best comix artists ever in their lineup--Robert Armstrong and R. Crumb--the Cheap Suits aren't slouches in the instrument-proficiency department (Armstrong's musical saw ended up on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest soundtrack, and occasional bandmate Bob Brozman has made an entire career out of touring and playing music). On Chasin' Rainbows, some of the group's finest moments are captured. Classic songs like "Persian Rug" and the title track are played alongside CSS originals like "Fine Artiste Blues." You'll never hear these fun tunes (usually relegated to CD compilations of 78s) played in a higher fidelity, nor will you probably hear them this spirited. A great resurrection of lost music by a group of guys dedicated to the stuff. --Jason Verlinde

1 Alabama Jubilee 2 Chasin' Rainbows 3 Fine Artiste Blues 4 Hula Medley 5 I Want a Little Girl 6 Persian Rug 7 Mysterious Mose 8 Crying My Blues Away 9 She Lived Down by the Firehouse 10 Diane 11 Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows 12 Moana March

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VA The Stuff Dreams Are Made of...

Sometimes powers from above seem to guide your life. I don't know where I learned about this very special project, titled The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, a 2CD release, packed in a beautiful cover. The picture on the cover was made by Robert Crumb, artist, jazz musician and record collector. I found out that the man in front of the cover, a balding, bearded man in his 50s, wearing glasses, excited because of the record he has found, had a striking resemblance. The man, sitting in a junk shop, searching in a box of Just Arrived After Months Of Tedious Negotiations finds an E. cond. record and thinks After Forty Years, At Last It's Mine !! .........

Forty years ago, I must have been a teenager, like the man on the cover, I bought my very first records. The drawing on the cover expresses the feeling you have when you find a record, you always wanted to have, a item you have dreamed of - an issue that completes your life.

This is a great release of old-time recordings. hillbilly music, blues, ballads, gospel, & jug band music; all presented in fantastic sound quality. if you don't have any old-time music in your house, this would be a good 1st purchase. if you have lots of old-time music already, you will need to add this to the collection. one of the best reissues over the past few years. I've got to say, though, that it was the R. Crumb cover art that pulled me in.

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Disc: 1
1. FREENY'S BARN DANCE BAND: Croquet Habits 2. SON HOUSE: Mississippi County Farm Blues 3. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Up Jumped the Rabbit 4. MEMPHIS MINNIE & JOE McCOY: I'm Going Back Home 5. WILMER WATTS & THE LONELY EAGLES: Fightin' In the War With Spain 6. JOHN BYRD: Old Timbrook Blues 7. ERNEST PHIPPS AND HIS HOLINESS SINGERS: A Little Talk With Jesus 8. TOMMY JOHNSON: Slidin' Delta 9. THE THREE STRIPED GEARS: Alabama Blues 10. JACK GOWDLOCK: Rollin Dough Blues 11. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Ginseng Blues 12. OLLIS MARTIN: Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down 13. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSTON AND THE WEST VIRGINIA RAMBLERS: John Hardy Blues
14. LONG "CLEEVE" REED & LITTLE HARVEY HULL - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues 15. AMEDIE ARDOIN & DENNIS McGEE: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau 16. ANDREW & JIM BAXTER: Operator Blues 17. J.D. HARRIS: The Grey Eagle 18. MEMPHIS JUG BAND: Jim Strainer Blues 19. GRAYSON COUNTY RAILSPLITTERS: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued) 20. DOCK BOGGS: Old Rub Alcohol Blues 21. JAYBIRD COLEMAN: Mistreatin' Mama 22. HENRY WHITTER: It's a Rough Road to Georgia (unissued) 23. REV. B.L. WIGHTMAN WITH LOTTIE KIMBROUGH & CONGREGATION: Live the Life

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Disc: 2
1. YANK RACHEL WITH SLEEPY JOHN ESTES & JAB JONES: Sweet Mama 2. CROWDER BROTHERS: We All Love Mother (unissued) 3. SON HOUSE: Clarksdale Moan 4. ASHLEY & FOSTER: Bull Dog Sal (unissued) 5. JESSE "BABYFACE" THOMAS: Down In Texas Blues
6. GEORGIA POT LICKERS: Chicken Don't Roost Too High 7. WILLIAM HARRIS: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go) 8. ASA MARTIN & ROY HOBBS: Wild Cat Rag 9. KING SOLOMON HILL: Whoopee Blues (alternate take) 10. CHUBBY PARKER: Davey Crockett 11. GEESHIE WILEY: Skinny Leg Blues 12. SWEET BROTHERS: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl 13. BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES & VAROY GRAVES: I Shall Not Be Moved 14. SMITH & IRVINE: Lonesome Road Blues 15. LUKE JORDON: If I Call You Mama 16. GRAYSON & WHITTER: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued) 17. OSEY HELTON: Green River 18. LOTTIE KIMBROUGH: Don't Speak To Me 19. WADE WARD: Married Man's Blues (unissued) 20. KEN MAYNARD: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued) 21. JAYBIRD COLEMAN: Boll Weevil 22. BILL SHEPHERD WITH HAYES SHEPHERD & ED WEBB: Bound Steel Blues 23. MIDDLE GEORGIA SINGING CONVENTION NO. 1: Bells Of Love

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Dixieland Crackerjacks - I'll See You In My Dreams

Nice old timey rag jazz from a very prolific Dutch group. Gives that 20's -30's feel similar to the R. Crumb Serenaders.

01 South South 02 That's a Plenty 03 Black and Tan Fantasy 4 I'll See You in My Dreams I'll See You in My Dreams 05 Muskrat Ramble 06 I Want a Little Girl I Want a Little Girl 07 Blue Lou 08 Besamo Mucho 09 Nobody Sweatheart 10 I'm Confessin' 11 Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie 12 Rosetta 13 In A Sentimental Mood 14 It's A Sin To Tell a Lie 15 What a Difference a Day Made 16 I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Glover

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R. Crumb Sampler

We're having a happy music theme today, since it's been raining around here all week –and I couldn’t resist this gem to start things off right. It is from the R Crumb Handbook and is a greatest hits comp – sort of. Contains selections recorded by the various groups he was with from 1972 – 2003. This includes R. Crumb and his Keep On Truck’in Orchestra, The Cheap Suit Serenaders, Fiddlin’ Ian McCamy Quartette, Les Primitifs Du Futur, and the Crumb Family.

These amazing bands of well humored and talented musicians bring an all too forgotten music back to life. These guys tackle old time music with such enthusiasm, musical talent, and just plain "hepness", that this collection is entertaining without any sense of feeling like a museum piece. Their talent and pure love of music are unmistakable in the instrumentation and vocal work of these songs. Their playing is flawless (you probably haven't heard the steel guitar, banjo mandolin, or musical saw played with such virtuosity as here), the tunes are mostly fun and spirited, and the music styles are varied. This set resurrects instruments and music long past, but is never out of style. Mr. Robert Crumb has certainly left his mark on this world in very unique ways and in the hands of the Cheap Suits, and the other groups he’s been associated with -- old-time music is alive and well. A+

River Blues, Wisconsin Wiggles, Get A Load of This, Cheap Suit Special, my Girl's Pussy, Suit's Crybaby Blues, Fine Artiste, Hula Medley, Wild Horse, 3 in 1 Two Step, Creole Belles, Georgia Camp Meeting, Cruelle Tendresse, Valse D'Amour, Mazurkas, Schottische, In The Pines, St. James Infirmary, Little Buttercup, Baby Face

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Blues Roots of Rock 'N' Roll

Good collection of blues and r’n’b that point to the direction of rock. Some classics., some naughty, a blast of old school wailin’. Enjoy

1 Shave 'Em Dry Ma Rainey 2 How Long, How Long Blues Carr, Leroy & Scrapper Blackwell 3 A Spoonful of Blues Charley Patton 4 Statesboro Blues McTell, Blind Willie 5 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Bessie Smith 6 Devil Got My Woman Skip James 7 Midnight Special Leadbelly 8 Keep Your Hands off Her Broonzy, Big Bill 9 Rhythm Is Our Business Jimmie Lunceford 10 Boogie Woogie Stomp Albert Ammons 11 Dust My Broom Robert Johnson 12 Boogie Woogie Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing 13 Hep Hep, The Jumpin' Jive Cab Calloway 14 Cow CoW Boogie Morse, Ella Mae 15 The Jumpin' Blues Jay McShann 16 Little John Special Lucky Millinder 17 Let Me Play with Your Poodle Tampa Red and Big Maceo 18 Yancey Special Jimmy Yancey 19 Blowin' Away the Blues Billy Eckstine 20 Flying Home Illinois Jacquet 21 Caldonia Louis Jordan 22 THe Honeydripper Joe Liggins 23 RM Blues Roy Milton 24 Sally Zu-Zazz Blues Turner, Big Joe 25 Good Rockin' Tonight Roy Brown 26 Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn 27 King Size Papa Julia Lee 28 I Want a Bowlegged Woman Bullmoose Jackson 29 Better Cut That Out Sonny Boy Williamson 30 Fine Brown Frame Nellie Lutcher 31 Elevator Boogie Mabel Scott 32 All She Wants to Do Is Rock Wynonie Harris 33 Saturday Night Fish Fry Louis Jordan 35 I Want My Fanny Brown Wynonie Harris 36 Everyday I Have the Blues Lowell Fulson 37 Cupid Boogie Little Esther, Johnny Otis 38 Train Kept A-Rolling Tiny Bradshaw 39 I Got Loaded Peppermint Harris 40 Please Send Me Someone to Love Percy Mayfield 41 She's Dynamite B.B. King 42 Rock Little Baby Cecil Gant 43 Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston 44 I'm in the Mood Hooker, John Lee 45 Blues Is a Woman T-Bone Walker 46 It Won't Be Very Long Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers 47 5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown 48 How Many More Years? Howlin' Wolf 49 Baby Won't You Please Come Home? Ray Charles 50 Hound Dog Thornton, Big Mama

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R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders - Singin' in the Bathtub

In the late '70s the Cheap Suit Serenaders--fronted by comix legend Robert Crumb but also featuring fellow old-time music artistes Robert Armstrong, Bob Brozman, Al Dodge, Tom Marion, and Terry Zwigoff (who would later produce a whole film on Crumb)--were the only group around who would even think about still producing 78s. After all, that's where all their favorite music came from. Those platters are now highly collectible, but their albums live on, reissued on CD. Singing in the Bathtub collects some of their best work--humorous originals such as "Suits Crybaby Blues" and plenty of covers of tunes from obscure 78s. Their playing is flawless (you probably haven't heard the steel guitar, banjo mandolin, or musical saw played with such virtuosity as here), the tunes are mostly fun and spirited, and the music styles are varied. In the hands of the Cheap Suits, old-time music is alive and well. --Jason Verlinde

As if it weren't enough that Robert Crumb was one of the outstanding inventors of the 60's style underground cartoon art (often imitated, never duplicated .. remember Janis Joplin's first album cover?) .. this album has got to be one of the understated works of our time. Robert has an outstanding line up (for example, Brozman who is a slack key style player, and also appears as an instructor in Home Spun Video tape courses). I love this stuff! It makes me happy .. it's sincere and heartfelt .. qualities which are completely absent in so much of today's modern over marketed, over hyped, over produced trend ridden music drek! This CD actually put me in touch with a part of myself that had been long lost .. experiencing the fun and enjoyment of listening to simple good music performed with spirit. It should do the same for you. The title cut is Bugs Bunny's favorite song -- he sings it in 5 or 6 classic cartoons. If it's good enough for Bugs -- it's good enough for me. Have fun.

1. Singing in the Bathtub 2. Chile Blues 3. Dream of Heaven
4. Suits Crybaby Blues 5. Collier Medley: Ben Hur March & Napoleon March
6. Shopping Mall 7. Yearning and Blue 8. Hula Girl
9. Pedal Your Blues Away 10. La Gima Polka 11. Sing Song Girl
12. Home 13. My Gal Sal

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R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders - Chasin' Rainbows

I've been a fan of R. Crumb ever since the underground comics heyday of the late 60s. Knowledgeable fans of Crumb's comics know also that he is very much into Delta blues and other uniquely American forms of music. I bought this record on the strength of "Fine Artiste Blues" back when it first came out. I'd always enjoyed R. Crumb's art work and I knew this collection would be something different. It's a grab bag of styles all played with old-timey string band instrumentation. There are really no clinkers here, plenty of Hawaiian guitar and some GREAT musical saw. Alabama Jubilee is a great song and the performance first-rate. Diane is evocative of a German country tune. Fine Artiste Blues is a great crack at, what else, "artistes". I don't know where Crumb and Co. dug these up as I'd only heard a couple before, but if you like well done songs, you are sure to enjoy such ditties as Hula Medley, Mysterious Mose, She Lived Down By the Firehouse, and Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows along with the others. The overall feel of the album is lighthearted and casual, and the level of musicianship is absolutely first rate. Can't think of another group that comes close to the Suits' sound so you'll just have to hear them for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

I go back to this recording many times every year and it always brings a smile. There are loads of laughs and some good music to boot. Listen to it in the spirit in which it was made. I give this five stars for its pure entertainment value because some of the songs will stick in your head for a very long time. Everytime you listen to this you will feel your troubles melt away -- even for only a short time.

1. Alabama Jubilee
2. Chasin' Rainbows
3. Fine Artiste Blues
4. Hula Medley
5. I Want A Little Girl
6. Persian Rug
7. Mysterious Mose
8. Crying My Blues Away
9. She Lived Down By The Firehouse
10. Diane
11. Make My Cot Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows
12. Moana March

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