 Laughing At Life (1993) [ larger cover art ] |
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| joelbb | Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 01:58 Nice, Bill! Why do you always play this good stuff just when I need to go to bed? |
| Grammarcop (A mitten surrounded by ice) | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:29 For what it's worth, Dapogny is professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. |
| mutepoint | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:23 Jazz on RP is a good thing! |
| ubuntourist (Brain-Washington) | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:23 Needs to be followed with Cold Duck by Gershon Kingsley...  |
| SpamNRice (Northern, Italy) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:37 Baby that just soothes the soul... mmm mmm mmm...  |
| lshinkawa (Berkeley, CA) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 22:17 oilydwarf wrote: Only on RP! Been listening for 5 years, tried a few others, but there is nowhere else so eclectic! Amen! The perfect radio station. Other radio services try to pigeon-hole their listeners. |
| sans (Philly) | Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 13:13 Awesome! Would love to hear Graham Reynolds' "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" next! Duke!: Three Portraits of Ellington |
| oilydwarf | Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 04:40 Only on RP! Been listening for 5 years, tried a few others, but there is nowhere else so eclectic! |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:47 Great version. |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:44 Water for elephants! |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:43 fredriley wrote: This makes me think, obliquely, of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which has a good few 'retro' features, including some of the music. ...has a ....feeeeeew good retro features? Haaaa! It's a MASTERPIECE, Freddy-boy! Gilliam is a genius! A few good retro features - tzzzz!!!! |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 06:28 This is a fun rendition. Perhaps my favorite version is by Chet Atkins and Les Paul on their album Chester and Lester, which is gratefully out on CD. My original LP is plumb worn out. |
| finoufk (in my bed) | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 06:22 big_gare wrote: Anyone else see spinning plates? Or maybe toy poodles doing tricks? I do !  |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:42 big_gare wrote: Anyone else see spinning plates? Or maybe toy poodles doing tricks? No. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:35 This makes me think, obliquely, of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which has a good few 'retro' features, including some of the music. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 13:20 Swingin' I'm happy to hear some early jazz on RP, even by a latter-day band. Folks who like this should also check out the Nighthawks (who can occasionally be seen on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire") or catch Steven DeRosa's stage show. |
| jt1 | Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 23:33 what a great start to my morning - thanks! |
| kcar | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 23:05 big_gare wrote: Anyone else see spinning plates? Or maybe toy poodles doing tricks? Yes, and a line of penguins doing a slow razmatazz... |
| Andy_B (aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla) | Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 14:17 These guys could have easily been one of the major swing bands of the era. That good. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 16:13 This is just plain FUN - jitterbugging around the house...   |
| Dave_Mack (Ball of Confusion) | Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 16:12 I love Caravan and have many versions of it at home, but this is a new one for me, and I dig it. Great bari sax solo. |
| jimmunn (Idaho) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 10:21   |
| More_Cowbell (Northern IL) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 10:20 Oh! Yes... |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 10:20 I love this song in any form, this version is fun! |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 10:35 guru10 wrote: Nice, but this isn't the stuff we tune into RP for. (P.S. Makes me think of Al capone) Sorry, songs like these is exactly why I listen to RP. (p.s. Capone was in jail when this was originally recorded, but I understand the reference to the Jazz Age.) |
| big_gare (Langley, Bee Cee, Canada) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 09:46 Anyone else see spinning plates? Or maybe toy poodles doing tricks? |
| AvoidingWork (Home of Big Boy #4004) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 14:21 conglif wrote: I've heard a lot of versions of this piece. This one has something the others don't. Cool. Worthwhile. (BTW, I second the motion on the Harmonicats' version.) For some reason I get the image of Johnny and Hadji running from some bad guy. I have no idea where that came from but it's there every time I hear this song. |
| ambrebalte (Beijing) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 14:18 conglif wrote: I've heard a lot of versions of this piece. This one has something the others don't. Cool. Worthwhile. (BTW, I second the motion on the Harmonicats' version.) Exactly |
| big_gare (Langley, Bee Cee, Canada) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 14:17 Suddenly, I'm thinking of the Ed Sullivan Show and Spinning Plates... Or was it trained poodles? |
| Bone (Divided States of Sanity) | Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 15:56 Swingin', Baby!!! => 9 |
| conglif | Posted: Mar 22, 2009 - 12:26 debaser555 wrote: was this in the lounge scene of star wars?  Probably should have been, but royalties would have been a bit difficult to obtain without a time machine (©1997?). |
| conglif | Posted: Mar 22, 2009 - 12:22 I've heard a lot of versions of this piece. This one has something the others don't. Cool. Worthwhile. (BTW, I second the motion on the Harmonicats' version.) |
| AliGator (Lex Vegas) | Posted: Mar 22, 2009 - 12:16  I just got back from band practice. We played this song for, like, an hour. This is the first I've heard it on RP! |
| STEVIE1 (United Kingdom) | Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 07:44 Don't listen to a lot of jazz, but I really enjoyed this. |
| debaser555 (Penn Valley, CA) | Posted: Dec 17, 2008 - 15:39 was this in the lounge scene of star wars? |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Dec 17, 2008 - 15:38 Nabla wrote:  Dat dazzlin' LIC-orice stick! |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Dec 17, 2008 - 15:36 kcar wrote: I'm afraid the DEA would like to have a few words with you... big_gare wrote: Is anyone else visualizing spinning plates on the Ed Sullivan Show? Either that or trained poodles jumping through hoops of fire, etc? As for me, gimme the Harmonicats' version! |
| kcar | Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 22:59 I'm afraid the DEA would like to have a few words with you... big_gare wrote: Is anyone else visualizing spinning plates on the Ed Sullivan Show? Either that or trained poodles jumping through hoops of fire, etc? |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Aug 13, 2008 - 08:16 This is so well done! Often that song can turn campy but they handled it well. Thanks for playing it. |
| birdland (Right about....here.) | Posted: May 10, 2008 - 18:42 I don't usually comment negatively on any music heard here, but there are WAY BETTER versions of this out there (1000's). Nat Cole for one, any Ellington treatment for 6 more, etc. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 06:33 Circus Paradise,look out for those elephants! #8. |
| mgkiwi (French Alps) | Posted: Apr 09, 2008 - 06:29 figsout wrote: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
WAKE UP - THIS IS ACTUALLY GOOD, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING!!!  |
| figsout (Easton, PA) | Posted: Mar 08, 2008 - 18:02 Zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| spraehbuer (London, UK) | Posted: Feb 06, 2008 - 07:54 makes me swing on my chair  |
| sarahbean26 (waukegan,IL) | Posted: Feb 06, 2008 - 07:51   I love this!! This is great to hear anytime of the day. |
| Boston_Ed (Boston) | Posted: Feb 06, 2008 - 07:51 Good stuff. You can't help but groove to this. |
| jonnydreaming (Maryland) | Posted: Feb 06, 2008 - 07:50 Really nice trombone work. |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Feb 06, 2008 - 07:49 This is so cool! |
| big_gare (Cloverdale, BeeCee, Canada) | Posted: Jan 05, 2008 - 20:41 I see poodles jumping thru hoops on Ed Sullivan... |
| bleu (Scotland) | Posted: Dec 05, 2007 - 11:35 nice  |