Sunday Soundtracking with Your Grandparents

Clay Pigeon, head chef of WFMU's currently-off-air-but-hopefully-back-someday Dusty Show, sent me a great MP3 of "In the Mood" last week. There's no artist info contained in the file name or the tags, but it sounds kind of like the traditional Glenn Miller big band version with someone doing all the solos by leaking air out of a pinched balloon nozzle. [Download MP3]

Also, here's a MIDI version, for those of you who like to sing along with your computers. [Download MIDI]

Comments

[Jonathan Ward]

Mike -
Have you ever heard the "trallaleri" version of "In the Mood," as performed by the longshoremen of Genoa and recorded by Alan Lomax in the 1950s? It's on the Trallaleri CD of Lomax's Italian Treasury series. Not only is the entire disc amazing, but that tune...yow.
Jonathan

[Parq]

Obviously the soloist has listened to a little too much Maynard Fergesun. Or mayhaps not enough. I too yearn for the days when Clay will once again grace the airwaves, and am happy to have this little touch of his sensibilities to tide me over.

[Snutr]

This sounds just like the Tastee Brothers.
Check out their sound files here:
http://www.tasteebros.com/sounds.htm

Check out their rendition of the Hummel Concerto:
http://www.tasteebros.com/sounds/3d-humm.mp2

Happy Birthday:
http://www.tasteebros.com/sounds/HB.mp3

Their treatment of Salsa:
http://www.tasteebros.com/sounds/salsanew.mp3

And, my personal favorite -- the meow mix commercial:
http://www.tasteebros.com/sounds/meowmeowmeow.mp3