(...Maybe I should just turn this into an Old-Time Radio Mashup site.)
Oh, hey, folks. I have to say, as an experiment, this site may be reaching the end of a phase. My intent remains to have a kind of open audio lab, with new bits tossed out every week. But I already know, the ratio is about 20-30 hours of fooling around to 5 minutes of completed bit. Which I've been expecting to do, eventually.
But we're not anywhere near that. It'll be a couple of years in October, since I started posting again. Let's see if I can set up a more resilient process for the whole thing over the next three months. If not, I might try something else for art.
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The King's Men
(not the band that sang "Louie Louie") were an a cappella quartet of the last century, emerging from the rich ferment of Vaudeville. They were possibly considered a more "hep" version of Barbershop Quartet music, but that entire genre was supposed to sound corny, so they could never quite escape being associated with the moldiest of figs. And sometimes, they sounded downright eerie.
For example, as we remember D-Day this week, June 6, 1944, the beginning of the liberation of Europe-- that evening, America tried to carry on as normal, but everyone was too nervous about whether it would succeed. Fibber McGee and Molly substituted their regular comedy program for half an hour of patriotic music broken by news bulletins-- one of which, unfortunately, ran into the beginning of The King's Men singing Fred Waring's Army Hymn: a rare song, a rarer rendition, missing the beginning but with enough to make one realize how differently this country went to war, in those days.
Til next time
-Ye Olde Farte
