You might even be able to find a download of these old songs.
Posted on 04/04/2009 10:34:38 AM PDT by kimmie7
Okay guys, while I applaud the entrepreneurial (sp?) spirit of the young men down the street, while they wash cars for folks they keep their stereos going.
Surprise of all surprises, they never play a lovely concerto or opera. They play ghetto "music". All you can hear is bass and the occasional obscenity.
Because I am an old, um, severely un-tanned woman, I plan to play music as I wash the minivan, weed the flowerbed, walk to the mailbox, whatever...whenever they are playing their music. That's right folks - a regular Battle of the Bands!
Keeping in mind they would love much of the very "music" we hate...I'd like your suggestions to add to my boom box sitting on the front porch. Opera, Polka, what do you suggest? And to keep them interested I'll need a good variety.
Because these concerts will end when they realize they need to turn theirs down (and they will, I think. They don't seem to be bad kids...just kids) the selections will need to be cheap and easily obtained.
Slim Whitman did the Martians in, I’m sure he can do the same to the ‘hoods.
“Mope-itty Mope” by the Boss Tones (1959)
You might even be able to find a download of these old songs.
Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 3 - Mrs. Miller (Amazon listing with sound samples)
More contemporary is Wing (an Asian woman, who sings everything from Abba to AC/DC, and maybe Beatles, not sure if she's gotten around to 'C' bands yet...)
Turn it back around on them, play Weird Al Yankovic parodies of rap songs.
There is also a math memorization album that covers famous rap hits.
Tuva: Voices From the Center of Asia (listen to track 1, this is an Amazon link)
Back Tuva Future (this is more "modern" with synth tracks, etc)
Especially bothersome would be the last track on HOW TO THROAT SING.
Do you have a recording of them singing TOGETHER?!!!
The Whipped Cream Mixes (Released on Eerie Materials/Pickled Egg)
Vinyl 45. Side A - Rebel Without A Pause. Side B - By The Time I Get to Arizona
Plagiarhythm Nation, ver. 2.0 the track Rocked By Rape has Dan Rather "singing" over AC/DC's Back In Black.
Lionel Ritchie. “Hello”. No mercy.
Or just go straight to Ross Bagdasarian's Alvin & The Chipmunks.
My Name is Michael I’ve got a Nickel I’ve got a Nickel Shiny and new ...
Anything Yoko Ono will do the job.
I think we used that to get information out of terrorists in the Middle East.
Here’s what you’re looking for. You have to listen to the whole thing to fully appreciate it.
http://blog.wired.com/music/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-UnwantedSong.mp3
The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection
Follow up with Sesame Street.
A few days of that should do it. If anyone complains, just say you were trying to provide a public service by playing more appropriate music for any small children in the neighborhood.
"For the chilrenn!"
Bwahahahahaha!
Tony Tenille sang backup vocals on Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
http://www.thewallanalysis.com/faq.html#tennille
15. Session singer Jimmy Haas, who is credited with backup vocals on “the Wall,” e-mailed me to set the record straight. He says that while Toni Tennille, the Beach Boys and others originally provided backup vocals on “the Wall,” their parts were ultimately scrapped and re-recorded using Haas and three other backup vocalists. Haas asserts that “We [the four session singers] re-did everything that was on tape up to that point. Some of it was just bare ideas that Roger had, but the intonation and flow just wasn’t there, at least on the Beach Boy parts. The only thing I recall Toni on was a bit of ‘Goodbye Blue Sky.’ She may well have done more, but once Roger and David got our first tune in the can after about an hour’s work, they erased everything [the previously recorded Beach Boys and Tennille vocals] and started over.” Another “Wall” mystery put to rest!
(she still got an album credit...)
Don’t Worry, Be Happy...
Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb...
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