Disney's Boardwalk Soundtrack

I sat in The Belle Vue Lounge for a while at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, and this is the playlist that I heard. I think it may have been on shuffle rather than a set list:

What's New - Bob Crosby - 22 Original Big Band Hits

I Got Rhythm - Glenn Miller - Best Of The Big Bands

Stompin' at the Savoy - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold

Lester Leaps In - Count Basie - Count Basie Orchestra

Lady Be Good - Benny Goodman - Swing Sessions

Body And Soul - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold

Taxi War Dance - Count Basie - The Essential Count Basie

Swingin' On The Teagarden Gate - Jack Teagarden - 1939-1940

Who? - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman

Tiger Rag (Binaural Stereo) - Art Tatum & Zenph Studios - Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine Zenph Re-Performance

Someday Sweetheart - Benny Goodman - The Platinum Collection

Weather Bird - Louis Armstrong - Jazz - The Essential Collection, Vol. 2

Singin' The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke - Chicago

China Boy - Benny Goodman - After You've Gone: The Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet, Vol. 1

He's Gone Away (04-04-50) - Artie Shaw - The Last Artie Shaw Orchestra

More Than You Know - Benny Goodman - After You've Gone: The Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet, Vol. 1

The Irish Washerwoman - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Take It Easy

Nobody's Sweetheart - Teddy Wilson - Revisits the Goodman Years

Skater's Waltz - Bob Crosby And His Orchestra - The Big Band Swing Christmas

Brown's Little Jug - Les Brown - Swing Essentials Vol 8 - Les Brown And His Band Of Renoun

After You've Gone - Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman Sextet Live at Basin Street East (feat. Charlie Shavers & Mel Powell)

Body And Soul - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold

Dark Eyes - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra - (no album?)

Sweet Sue, Just You - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman

Casa Loma Stomp - Casa Loma Orchestra - Boneyard Shuffle

Boneyard Shuffle - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman

Moten Swing - Count Basie - Chairman of the Board

I'm Free (What's New) - Bob Crosby and His Orchestra - South Rampart Street Parade

I Got Rhythm - Glenn Miller - Best of the Big Bands

Tiger Rag - Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here

"Weird Al" Yankovic's Tacky and Word Crimes

The Arkansas Travelers with Red Nichols - I'll See You In My Dreams

Hanukkah Lyrics For Christmas Songs

The song Sleigh Ride is often associated with Christmas, but there is no mention of Christmas or religion in the song. Some recording artists have changed the lyrics for Christmas, so here is a version for Hanukkah (just replace the appropriate verse with this):

 There's a Hanukkah party in the house of rabbi Grey
It will be the perfect ending to a perfect day
 We are gonna sing all the songs we love to sing without a stop
While the oil in the latke pan goes pop
Pop pop pop

Hilarious Annoying Music

I have been listening to WBEZ (NPR in Chicago) 's Jim Nader and the Annoying Music Podcast. Some of it really is too annoying, but here is some that is too funny not to share:

The only way to listen to Eminem:


I do like tacos:


And tonight's grande finale, Piranha Man:


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Lyrics: Steven Lutvak - The Dinner Party

I was at a dinner party just a couple of weeks ago
All the guests were chic and/or high powered
The repartee was brisk
Throughout the lobster bisque
And the salad course completely Noël Coward
But then the conversation took an unexpected turn
And headed frankly where, I thought, it needn't
As one by one each guest
Did his very level best
To talk about his favorite antecedent

As their relatives had been where mine had never been
This was a topic to which I could find no entry
They spoke of duchesses and lords
Barons by the hoards
Favorites of several kings who'd reaped their sweet rewards
Several from the Mayflower
Several who'd owned fjords
And we hadn't even hit the eighteenth century

But with a startling pâté
Which was lovely by the way
A most alarming hush fell on the table
My hostess smiled, "And you,
what did your family do?"
I gave the best reply which I was able
And which I swore was absolutely true

We were bagel makers to the Czar
The lineage goes back very very very far
I think Ivan was the one
Who when fed up with the bun
Sent his men in search of something starchy and bizarre
Who came upon my uncle who had recently solved the riddle
Of how to make a roll with a hole in the middle
He served them fresh to Ivan's commissar
And was thus named bagel maker to the Czar

We were bagel makers to the czar
In the land of sour cream and caviar
Later Olga it is said
Never even tasted bread
And her mother, the Tsarina
Would not get out of bed
Without a toasted onion with some unexpected spread
Which added to her middle
But did wonders for her head
Oh, the things you learn about which must remain unsaid
When you bagel maker to the czar

I realized in a flash that since I'd begun to speak
all earlier camaraderie was gone
There every jaw was slack
They were taken so aback
I really had no choice but to go on

We were bagel makers to the czar
Who would give us every year another samovar
And it was Catherine the Great
That over-zealous head of state
Who fed some to her horse
But that of course
For her was par
And little Anastasia could never get her fill
See there are those who say
That yet today
She's snacking on them still
But then that's taking things a little bit too far
For even bagel makers to the czar

Before the hammer and the sickle
We were there with pumpernickel
The things we did with poppy
Everyone unsuccessfully tried to copy

[Everybody]

We were bagel makers to the czar

[Oh, thank you, that was wonderful]

No one ever learned the secret of our scrumptious repertoire
But of course it couldn't last
For, like all empires of the past
Who reach their inevitable finales
For when the revolution came
We very slightly changed our name
Traveled North
And made a fortune in bialys

Excerpt from Steven Lutvak's The Dinner Party

We were bagel makers to the Czar
The lineage goes back very very very far
I think Ivan was the one
Who when fed up with the bun
Sent his men in search of something starchy and bizarre
Who came upon my uncle who had recently solved the riddle
Of how to make a roll with a hole in the middle
He served them fresh to Ivan's commissar
And was thus named bagel maker to the Czar

Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

The song heard in The Office season 7 premiere, "Nepotism".

You know those guitars that are like, double guitars?

This isn't one of them: Cecilia Siqueira (Uruguay) And Fernando Lima (Brasil)perform Tico Tico

When a Bleehall goes a courtin'

Karl Anthony performs at the [now closed] Adventurers Club, located on Pleasure Island, Downtown Disney, Walt Disney World.

The Future Soon

Emil Bleehall has a vision of the future at the Adventurers Club.

My top 25 most played itunes tracks (#1 at the top)

song	artist	album
Guadalajara	Margie Brandon
Enjoy Youself (It's Later Than You Think)	Prince Buster
Rhode Island Is Famous For You	Erin McKeown	Sing You Sinners
Hot Dogs Made Their Name	Wilmoth Houdini	Decca 78 rpm set
Up On Cripple Creek	The Band	The Best Of The Band
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight	Richard & Linda Thompson	I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Highway 61 Revisited	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad	The Clash	The Essential Clash [Disc 1]
Ca Plane Pour Moi	The Headcoatees
Besta Etu	Novos Baianos	Acabou Chorare
Big Rock Candy Mountain	Oh brother where	Oh Brother Where Art Thou
How to Make a Tape Recorder	Peter L. Bastin
Paper Moon	Erin McKeown	Sing You Sinners
If You A Viper	Erin McKeown	Sing You Sinners
Whitey On The Moon	Gil Scott-Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Get Happy	Erin McKeown	Sing You Sinners
Common People	William Shatner	Has Been
Something's Gotta Give	Erin McKeown	Sing You Sinners
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Meow Meow Meow Meoooooow	Ellen
Jamaica Ska	Byron Lee & The Dragonairs	Ska Down Jamaica - The Best of Ska
Bessie The Heifer	Grant Rogers
Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Kenneth Williams
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park	Tom Lehrer
The Adventurers Club All Purpose Theme Song	Christopher Ciemniewski

What ho, Mrs. Brisket?

Blade as Fletcher Hodges. Blade played one of two butlers (Graves) on the last night that we were there and it was he that handed me my mail on the Zebra Mezzanine.

The Adventurers Club: Florida, The Moon and You (Underneath The Moon In Florida)

Florida, The Moon and You (Underneath The Moon In Florida) Lyrics (repeat twice):

It's Heaven to Be Here With You
Underneath the Moon in Florida
I love everything that you do
It's paradise here in Florida

Your smile, your sigh, your wonderful charms
Your lips, your eyes, your two loving arms
I love you, my darling, I do
Florida, the Moon and you

The Future Soon

Jonathan Coulton's The Future Soon animated in World of Warcraft = hilarious!

Patty Katz Sings!

My very talented co-worker sings, asking Al Gore to run in '08.

Dave on Guitar

Dave sent me these MP3s:

"I played around with that thing that I bought Inport Digital Audio. It's pretty cool. I downloaded audacity to make MP3's. Going through my tapes I found alot of guitar stuff that I recorded many years ago. here are two samples, complete with several bloopers."

LA1.mp3
WTF.mp3