New web resouce for eclectic recordings
Ken Lac
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HEAD AND LEG ANNOUNCES WEB RESOURCE GUIDE
FOR ECLECTIC RECORDINGS
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May 25, 1996 - Audio artists HEAD AND LEG are proud to announce a brand
new resource for fans of "eclectic" recordings. The "Head and Leg Eclectic
Recordings Resource Guide" ("HALERRG!") is designed to give creators and
fans of experimental recordings, spoken word and sound collage a place to
broaden their knowledge of obscure and under-promoted works and artists.
The inaugural edition of the guide includes listings on KEN NORDINE,
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, HARRY PARTCH, JOE FRANK and others. The guide
includes descriptive abstracts for each artist, as well as discographies,
contact information and links to related web resources. The guide is part
of the Head and Leg website, at "http://www.reading.com/headleg".
The creators of the HALERRG! are Ken Lacouture and Robert Pierce,
collectively known as "Head and Leg". Pierce and Lacouture have recently
completed Head and Leg's first album, "IN YOUR DREAMS", a mixture of sound
collage, spoken narratives, music and comedy. The pair are longtime fans
of offbeat and experimental recordings, whether it be tape-based
compositions, sonic experimentation or spoken word albums. As they built
their website, they realized it could also be utilized to help make the
obscure records and artists they liked less obscure.
"We started to meet a lot of artists and fans of off-beat stuff as a
result of IN YOUR DREAMS," states Lacouture. "As we talked with them, we
noticed that everyone seemed to know about an artist or record that we
hadn't heard about before, and with a few exceptions, nobody shared this
knowledge in common. It seemed natural that we should take all the
information that was flowing our way and put it in one place - a kind of
distribution center - so that the chances of other people finding would
increase."
The HALERRG! is intended to introduce it's users to new artists, and
provide additional information about artists they are already familiar
with. The listings consist of brief descriptive abstracts, discographies,
information about commercial availability, artist and record company
contacts, and links to other websites that provide more in-depth
information. "We're attempting to create a fairly comprehensive reference
site that people will find useful, and visit frequently," says Lacouture.
As to what qualifies as "eclectic" recordings, Lacouture considers it a
catch-all term for anything that doesn't fit neatly into the standard
Rock/Jazz/Classical/Soundtrack bins at the local record mega-mart. "This
is material that frequently lives on the fringes of the commercial
recording industry. Someone like Steven Jesse Bernstein or Maggie Estep is
never going to benefit from big industry marketing support. There is a fan
base for such work, but because these artists don't fit the "mainstream",
the market doesn't provide a means for the information to get to potential
fans. It's always either serendipity or word of mouth. That makes it very
important for fans to share their knowledge as much as possible" Lacouture
also sees the HALERRG! as an effort in community building. "We want to
increase awareness of the artists we enjoy, because we know that there are
lots of other people who would enjoy them too, if only they knew of their
existence. Fans of eclectic recordings are a group that's just waiting to
be brought together."
In addition, Head and Leg hope that the guide will improve their own
listening experiences. "Our knowledge of obscure recordings is far from
complete, and it's extremely seldom that we hear about innovative
"non-musical" works that turn us on. And exploration can be daunting in a
financial sense; it's not easy to plunk down fifteen bucks on a hunch only
to find out it's just meandering abstract noise or dreadful poetry recited
in a flat voice." Their hope is that the guide will serve as a catalyst
for people to share information and recommendations with them. Head and
Leg welcome - indeed, strongly suggest - that people contact them with new
information, suggest new listings, and supplement and correct existing
listings. In the future the scope may be expanded to include listings
created by people outside of Head and Leg, in a "collaborative" effort.
And altruism aside, Lacouture also admits to a "selfish" motivation for
the HALERRG! "We wanted our webpage to be more than just a commercial for
our record. But if, as a result, more people visit our site and get turned
on to IN YOUR DREAMS, well, that doesn't hurt either..."
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The Head and Leg Eclectic Resource Guide (HALERRG!) is available at the
Head and Leg website: "http://www.reading.com/headleg"
For further information, contact Head and Leg at:"hea...@aol.com"
MEHibblen
I just wanted to give this web page an extra plug. I visited it a few
days ago and by far this is the best web page on spoken word material I've
seen. If you like Ken Nordine and other poets/spoken word artists, take a
look. The address is http://www.reading.com/headleg
Michael Hibblen
Little Rock, AR
Ken Lac
:: by far this is the best web page on spoken word material I've
:: seen.
WILL be, Michael, will be! Soon I hope. I plan on doing a WHOLE lot more
listings as soon as I can get around to doing the research. But I do thank
you for the plug, and I encourage all spoken word fans to send info about
their favorite artists to "hea...@aol.com"
In the meantime, does anyone out there have a discography of ORIGINAL
Nordine releases? I'm interested in original titles, release dates and
catalog numbers.
Grant Buckerfield
What's the address of this eclectic recordings website?
Here's "The One Pager" from Ken - if it's of any interest...
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From: Ken Nordine
To: PROG PROD
Subject: Re: the one pager
Date: 26 March 1996 17:00
hi grant...here attached is the modest one page catalog of what has
accumulated
over the years. also two pages of buzz words & phrases to help remind
me
of what's on each of the radio shows. hope they're helpful.
1.
"Explain"....HOW SOMETHING BEGINS... Drop of water... Blues Intro ...
"EDNA"... SEVEN WAYS OF THE MEEK (Stare With Your Ears)... PAIN -
BRAIN...
Arab Sheik - Rolls Royce... "Where Beginning's End".
2.
TAPE RECORDER (Triple Talk) - "I Remember...", history of life on
tape...
Memory... Forgetting... 60 seconds X 60 minutes... tape recorder, slow
speed... Names... "a lot is left out"... phone call - Tom Crouch - fly
in
the phone.... firefly.... chamber... oil... Thoreau... Playing hands...
"Consciousness", brain and mind... rhythm.... profoundly happy... on the
ceiling... beautiful happens... phone call - Supervisor "T.Pole"...
Spread
Eagle... LO BAR Radar... Piano Player... bunching twigs... take a
look...
"Where are we?"... yesterday people....50 hits and 50 stars....
Thunderstorm.... Brainstorm.
3.
ROOM WITH WINDOWS -- "view"... Concert - Conductor sings... MIDNIGHT
SUN
(Love Words) .... audio happening... Grass Problem - Bruce Swedien...
Fly... THE AGING YOUNG REBEL... Marching... "LEMME READ HIS RESUME"
(Grandson of Word Jazz), "Golden hair and feet of clay"... lip
reading...
applause, who's clapping?... boredom... World of the Simple Truth
(Telemann)... never the same - always the same... Storm - walking in the
rain.
4.
DREAMING... Light... Open the door - keys - down the stairs... Masks in
the basement... Adam and Eve...HEY-WHAT-YOU-WHO-ME -- "Verbal Attack"...
Telephone call - Nozmo King... washing dishes... recording a fly...
"The
sometimes I wonder, at the trouble I go to, Blues"... Motion Picture
Industry... Socrates... James Joyce race... BLABBY... Perfect Woman...
ONCE UPON A YOU KNOW WHAT (Stare With Your Ears)... Drink recipe...
Green
men and flying saucer - Milwaukee - beer... MEATBALLS (Twink)... The
Manager... letters... Manipulator - Manipulated... Storm - green light.
5.
GETTING THERE... CLICHE HEAVEN (Bonnie Herman)... DON'T YOU WISH (Stare
With Your Ears)... "Jet us blow when"... anguish language ... James
Joyce... newspaper poetry... geneology... That's the truth (Telemann)
...
Wayne King... "Even this shall pass away"... program erased... typing...
Old and Young Chant... Moondust... Checks... Kings and Queens...
Conversation... COCKTAIL.
6.
PLANNING AHEAD... Trapped in a speaker... "Where have you been..."
TINSEL
TOWN... Hickory Dickory Dock... Finger Strumming and Fidgety... Swamp...
JOLLY PILL... ANYTIME, ANYTIME (Word Jazz)... Oxygen... THE BALLAD OF
THE
FINAL PAGE (Stare With Your Ears)... Judson -- on the road.
7.
"Shatter" (Mellow rock grove - Manfredo Fest)... Trip Inside Space...
(vocoder music)... CRACKS IN THE CEILING (Stare With Your Ears)... Oboe
-
Chamber Music... Freeform... Slower dance... Psychic duck... "DO IT!"...
Doing nothing... Radio tuning... Agents - Paul Persia - Teeth...
Radio...
THE PEACE BLUES.
8.
JUST A BREATHER... Blue Blues... Chaos... NOXT (Triple Talk)... NEVER BE
ANOTHER YOU (Love Words)... phone call - Pritikin - Saw - on tour - new
act... Next room - Torture room - Fact room... Advertising - talking
billboards... Madcat - tour with the doctor... carnival.
9.
TICK TOCK FUGUE (Triple Talk) - inside an alarm clock... chicken brain
operation... Left and Right Sides of Brain... "CACKOO"... Jacques
playing
Bach violin... BACHMAN... CRIDAY, SHATTERDAY, STUNDAY (low speed, then
regular speed)... Lord's Prayer... Drums - INSIDE THE BRAIN... Ralph on
piano... Chickens... Here and There... Janie B.
{SHOW NUMBER NINE IS AVAILABLE AS A COMPLETE VIDEO -- the only show ever
produced as a video}
10.
Pure Imagination... Robots... artists and colors... THE INCHOATE BLUES
(Stare With Your Ears)... Martin Buber... FLIBBERTY JIB (Word Jazz)...
Swamp - outside town (Madcat).
11.
THE ISH FISH -- Whales... TV Harmonica Blues... Switching Channels...
waves
- beach - shells... doctors... brain transplant... THE VIDIOT (Word
Jazz)... ISLAND (Stare With Your Ears)... oranges... French... Budgy...
train - clickety Clack.
12.
Dream music - Bonks... Get Up... Breakfeast... Training... TIGER,
TIGER...
Mutton Chops... THE ANGELS LAMENT (Stare With Your Ears)... Dirigible...
Whirlybirds... Vivaldi... "Hello down there, can you hear us?"...
KINGDOM
BLUES.
13.
"I'm Right!"... Mellow Groove #2... FADEAWAY STRANGER (Stare With Your
Ears)... Bub... YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME (Love Words)... Life...
Vivaldi...
THE BUB (Triple Talk) - N.P.R. New Year's Eve 1979.
14. (Now, Nordine #189)
GENESIS... seven days... BLUE (Colors)... the truest blue... audio
collage... Minster... gambling... wine... wake of the news...
Shakespeare... Hans... birds... broiled chicken... jazz... Jergun...
Nobody
reads you anymore... singer...food... Muriel... BLUE (Colors).
15. (Now, Nordine #70)
Train... Barbershop Quartet... heart murmurs... MAUVE Colors)... Season
in
Hell... Rimbaud... RIMBAUD ROCK... Heart Bridge... Cliches...
Dictionary...
Flaubert... Archimedes... MICHELLE (The Beatles)... Roving Reporter...
Meister Eckhardt... music... MAUVE (Colors).
16. (Now, Nordine #351)
Women Laughing... Light Year... Tippping... EYELASHES (Twink)...
Signals...
alive in the next room... Camels... Mama done told me... Ping Pong...
"Blue Haze"... Cliches... ONCE UPON A YOU KNOW WHAT (Stare With Your
Ears)... girls' exercise... Indian music..."Even this shall pass
away"...
isometric exercise... PING PONG BALLS (Twink)... Home on the Range...
stopwatch.
17. (Now, Nordine #94)
WORD JUNKYARD... Words... vocoder... WHITE (Colors)... Campbell...
Swingle
Singers... Talk Show... Francis Bacon... THE ALPHABET (Stare With Your
Ears)... Catholicism -- Lutheran radical... phone call -- Louie Lim...
variation - Freckles Jackson... flute bridge... cchickens... WHITE
(Colors).
18. (Now, Nordine #65)
Beginnings... count to ten & wake up... CERISE (Colors)... Vision...
Buzzing... Potpourri... Ken tape delay... Vivaldi Wildcats...
Dirigible...
Sister Appleseed... Spinoza... Marcus... Swingle Singers... Poison
Tree...
TIGER, TIGER - William Blake... CERISE (Colors).
19. (Now, Nordine #239)
BARNACLE BILL... Reincarnation... Creaky Door... Blues... YELLOW
(Colors)... Aristotle -- Christian Religion... Old Time Religion...
guitar
-- hue -- player... CROSS (Twink)... Curses... Groove... Star Spangled
Banner... Truth -- Facts... Rain.
20. (Now, Nordine #115)
MONEY TREE... SCRATCH MY ITCH... Science... Storm... Janie B. Phone
Call...
Aristotle... Fiber Optics... Bands... PURPLE (Colors)... Thunder.
21. (Now, Nordine #172)
Waves... Tick Tock... WHAT TIME IS IT? (Word Jazz)... Oman...Indian
music... Etchings... Campbell... Damsel... Captain Hightower - Bruce
Swedien... Azores... Houseman - "One and Twenty"... Birds...
Happiness...
Bird... Liver... Rose... Karma tree... Gone too far.
22. (Now, Nordine #101)
SOCIAL INSECURITY... Pyramid... Donald Vaughan... Whirlybirds...
DRIPS...
Viola... Sunken Treasure... Derelicts... BURGUNDY (Colors).
23. (Now, Nordine #199)
Orchestra Tuning... THE MANAGER... AZURE (Colors)... Pike's Peak...
Magic
Show... Alphabet Chant... Nellie... GOLD (Colors)... "On Top Of Old
Smokey".
24. (Now, Nordine #154 & 155)
"TWILIGHT"... Brain watching TV... "To be or not to be?... Swingle
Singers... THE SHIFTING WHISPERING SANDS (with Billy Vaughn and his
orchestra)... Indian music... Band... A.M.A.... BLUE (Colors).
25. (Now, Nordine #146)
RHYMES... Wallpaper (Vibes)... Dixie... Aesop - Animals... Marriage
Counselor... Quartet... Music... Freckles... Claves... CIGARS (Twink)...
Operator JAX.
26. (Now, Nordine #162 & 183)
HALF MAST... Shirley... audio collage...doll horn... Dr. Schiller phone
call... playing the saw... WHEN I'M WITH YOU (Love Words)... GOOD
MORNING
(The Beatles)... Sophocles... Windsor Knot... Band... Communist
Manifesto... silkweed... AMBER (Colors).
27.
COMPUTER... THE BLAME... Rhyming Blues... UFO... Mary... Dream -
Atmosphere... Thunder... Train... Surf... LORD OF THE LIGHT BULBS...
STOCKBROKER - phone call (Ralph piano)... SO BEAUTIFUL.
28.
WALKING... Siberia... Books... ECRU (Colors)... phone call... Michael...
Whirlybird... Turkey in the Straw... car radio... pocket... Words... ME
ME
SONG... Commands of Law... Bach - Chief Many Fingers at Carnegie Hall...
Flutes... Hesiod - Zeus... Works and Days... Drum... Thumb piano - "Tell
Me
Something That's True".
29.
THE LABRYNTH... The Glossary... tape delay... popcorn... viola... ROGER
(Word Jazz)... personal ad... Truth - squirming mass... Thunder...
SKIPPING
(Telemann XIII)... Chipmunk Piroshki Recipe... Clock (Madcat).
30.
APPLE CITY... TRIPLE AGENT... Genius... Harmony... letters... piano
player
in the next apartment... MISTER BLISTER (Stare With Your Ears)... Coffee
(Space sounds)... phone call - long ring - Ken calling wife - Ken
answers... "Ever wonder who you are?... Apple City... rain - climbed
up...
AZURE (Colors)... FLASH BASKETBALL.
31.
Beginning to begin -- Ain't never gonna end... THINK A THOUGHT (Triple
Talk)... 17th century Old English Ballad... HIT GROOVE... Record
Industry -
Pink Hair Phone Call... Tommy Bartlett's Robot Village... Faces (Free
Form
I)... Got the Blues -- Love her until I die.
32.
BUTTON BUSINESS... "GEE"... Country Bar Honky Tonk... special spot ...
PING PONG (Twink)... radio waves... "air"... Words... phone call -
Beanbag
phone machine -- Hiawatha message... THESE FOOLISH THINGS (Love
Words)...
CRICKET QUARTET... ROCK N'ROLL.
33.
NEWSCENTER - Anchorman with mirrored glasses... NEWS SHOW -- News,
Sports,
Weather... Music Room... making news... THE BALLAD OF THE FINAL PAGE -
Version #1... EMBEDMENT... Sounds - Ear Museum - Corridor... in the Ear
Museum... audio atmospheres... Filly.
34.
CLOCKS... Diggers... cocktail party... storm in closet... ALL OF YOU
(Love
Words)... wine... storm - raindrops falling... CLOCKS (Twink)... Wayne
King... Guardian Angels... SISTOL AND DIOSTOL... heart... saw... band
music... Descartes... DIGGERS SONG.
35.
Imagination... Hearing... Ears... Phone call -- Fran Cosgrove at the
Bubble... SIMPLE SIMON... Silas Marner -- super farmhand + cows...
honkum... UNKOWN SAMBA... Whales -- barbershop quartet... Chess...
King...
Shakers... Laugh Track... LAMPSHADES (Twink)... sailcloth... group
photo...
Mountain.
36.
NUMBERS... the number PI -- 3.1415.... FUNNY CLOTHES BLUES ... Song
Contract... Chant... INSTANT KNOWLEDGE... Nickleodeon Juke Box...
LOOKING
AT NUMBERS (Son of Word Jazz)...11 to 14.95... surgeon... breathing...
placebos... fight... eggplants... EGGPLANT (Twink)... cchicks... new
chant
- "You can do it if you try".
37.
CRIBERIA... Xiavier Cugat House Sale... phone call - house sale...
Seventh
Heaven... Hide 'n Seek... Cloud Sculptures... bees - hot air balloon...
YESTERSAW - Bob Pritikin... Maidmers... Odds and Ends... Etiquette...
Clothes... Cobra and Mongoose... "The Pike"... The Flea... Old Time
Religion... The Special Fly.
38.
THE SOUND MUSEUM (Word Jazz)... The design of the Sound Museum... Ear --
Architect ... EAR DRUMMER BLUES... Charlie Darwin phone call...
National
Gallery of Art auction... Sound Paintings... OGDEN PLUM BLUES.
39.
Creation... IT'S ABOUT TIME... phone call -- long distance sales
pitch...
MA BELL -- PA BELL Blues... ROLLERSKATES (Twink)... Corn... Haiku...
"Normal".
40.
President... Surprise... THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS (Triple Talk)... Rock a
Bye
Baby Lyrics -- harsh words... "Good to get back"... WOODY -- the guide
who
pivots... Bellfry... bell talk... CLOCKS... HUNGER IS FROM (Word
Jazz)...
RIPPLES (Triple Talk).
41
TV Dinner Hibachi... Thornicus Bushius... FELLOW HUMAN BEING ... Train -
-
Rolls Royce... TIME WAS (Love Words)... Flea Bullfight... THE
BULLFIGHTER
(Son of Word Jazz)... SMELTS (Stare With Your Ears)... SECOND MILE
BLUES.
42.
Pythogoras Club... SIMPLE SIMON... Christians Anonymous... Hope, Faith
and
Charity Horse Race... DOWN THE DRAIN (Son of Word Jazz)... "Early
Memories"... Swimming the Atlantic... "Nobody here but you and me"...
The
Weather... CLICHE BLUES.
43.
GONNA GET THERE... Electronic Bird... Harold and Doris... Swamp
(Madcat)...
Dollars $ For Sin (Organ)... Preacher... Pain... Backache...
Butatzoldin.... Einstein... ESMERALDA JONES.
44.
BICKERING (Triple Talk)... Happy Go Lucky... Pharmacopia... Hit
Record...
Amoeba... MY BABY (Word Jazz)... Advice to a son... Gambling...
Shakespeare - Polonius... What's the problem?
45.
GEE GOSH AND GOLLY... JAMAICA... Plane... Joking Jesus... INFINITE
O'CLOCK
(Triple Talk)... Interview - Phone call... FACES IN THE JAZZAMATAZZ
(Next)... THE STRANGER.
46.
IT'S ABOUT TIME... Book with three sentences... playing water... vacuous
tedium... inane game... opinions... money talks... The Old Buckaroo...
BUBBLE GUM (Son of Word Jazz)... Silver Rain... Fancy, Whim and Notion.
47.
NEURASYNTHIA... Scales -10 note scale... Beethoven (Moonlight
Sawnata)...
Philosophies - Christian, Zen, etc.... Blues... year of our now... tick
tock.
48.
Politicians and Writers - political writers... Impulses... Nerves... Get
the Blues... Movies... Image Man... Phone call (Dr. Schiller) - Pill
Book... Side Effects.
49.
Weight of Sunshine... audio wallpaper... crossing the road... TURQUOISE
(Colors)... Shooting - Viola - Jacques... violin in hell... fire
vibes...
nice place... CONFESSIONS OF 349-18-5171 (Word Jazz Vol. II)... Resumé
...
phone call.
50.
EPONYMOUS... Lewis Carroll - THE WALRUS PART I... Train... Storefront
Performers... MEMORIES... Lewis Carroll - THE WALRUS PART II.
51.
Opera... Leisure School... "It"... MR. BIG (Next)... goats - flute -
Pan...
surf... inside your mind... Rhyming and Random... "Arbitrary".
52.
"What have I done?"... audio wallpaper... GREY (Colors)... Oscar Wilde
....
Reality... beer... music unifies... Lenny Kay... Toulouse Lautrec...
South
40 Remote - Iowa silo - performance... Cherokee Iowa memories... Rimbaud
reading... Carousel music... shooting crow... relaxation... Special
Place... Light.
53.
HECK - strike a match... LAVENDER (Colors)... The Emperor's New
Clothes...
unfinished 60 second commercial... chickens laying song - I like it!...
tap
dance and soft shoe courses... haunting whistle... depth of field...
movies
in Cherokee, Iowa... 4-8-16-35-70 mm... Blues - "being myself"...
Marriage
Counselor's plane landing... Dr. Dick - Introduction and
Qualifications...
MARRIAGE COUNSELOR - Neck - Health Club - Qualifications... "Hopping".
54.
RADIO TUNING - Lost in frequencies and finding himself... phone call -
breathing... Lucky Star Blues... Before you where born... Cain...
wind...
chemical composition of the Universe... Bob Anderson, bell ringer...
Bells... PUCE (Colors)... Gaymount - married 6 times ... MARRIAGE
COUNSELOR
- Norman Vincent Peale - advice on 87 year old woman and 14 year old
electric guitar player... "I DID IT!"... Homer... INDIANS (Twink)...
Motion
Picture Industry Blues... poker ending.
55.
SPEAKING IN SHORTHAND - Shorthand Song... traffic - alley... Perishable
Ideas - garbage... Big Brother... "Good Cooking Groove"... chickens...
"how things change"... tending chickens... Barbershop Quartet - "If I
only
had my way"... little... telepathy - ESP... violin... MISS CONE (Son of
Word Jazz)... Lullabye - Nursery Rhymes... robot music... "Frankie &
Tony"
- A hit!
56.
CORRUPTION... The invention of hands... HICCUPS (Twink)... Jeff Cowell
Tour... phone call - Jeff & Joanne... Half Soul - Problem: soul
stolen...
FIREFLIES (Word Jazz Vol. II)... THE AKOND OF SWAT by Edward Lear, 1812
(version 1).
57.
ORDINARY - Crickets... AH, HA... Yawn... Lines of Thought... chicken
feet... expletives... SHUCKS... Verbal Acrobatics... framework... think
in
straight line... Freud - Id, ego, superego... Tracer ... Lost Thought...
Brains... cricket brain transplant... CRICKET SCAT DUO... GUN
SALESMAN...
Truth... Reply to object 1 - Faith... Reply to objection 2... APOLOGIA -
What are you doing right now... Wings... Public Service Announcement...
Enigma... Mentalism... Cause and effect... Bell Buoy #6 - Captain Bruce
-
getting sick... Ulysses... ladies talking... Kipling poem... Feminism...
The year 1837... helicopter... Blues - See the winner... Katie:
Shucksy...
crickets.
58.
FAME AND FORTUNE - Crazy Twins - Do the same things... take a fade...
MOVIE
IDEA (Triple Talk) - the only actor playing all the roles... TRAIN OF
THOUGHT - different little towns, deja-vue - all thoughts... "Vagrant"
gets
off at "Tangential"... Numbers... horse and wagon... gunshot... John
Keats... "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"... In the hurry,
scurry... warm countries... The Queen... Empire State Bldg.... awful
band... "July 29, 1967" - Good Ship Odin... Fish Day in Port
Washington...
horn bridge... LEMMING (Son of Word Jazz)... Bells... Full fathom five
your
father lies... Fear no more the heat of the sun... Ashes lost on the
bus,
Bill's wake... smiling - fingers crossed... Dr. Nordine, please call
surgery.
59.
SCRATCH (Stare With Your Ears)... GRASS EYELASHES (Twink)... "Your jobs
are
safe"... world stripper record - bass fishing... water - ice... giant
goldfish... tuning guitar... tune yourself up... pierced ears and
earrings... catalog... Dr. Fausterol - 62 years old... measurements...
description... Jury of Birds... Trial of the Timid Sadist... toe
dancing...
freaky sadists... learn to walk on your hands... show ... treadmill,
scrim,
rope ladder, tick tock fugue, ruby laser... lassages patterns...
levitate... "The Script"... Chant - "Who'll be in it - You'll be in
it"...
"If fancy lives, if fancy dies...."
60.
LIE DETECTOR - Politicians... Matthew's Gone... immortal writers -
Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John... HOLDING BREATH... upper limbo... YOU SAY YOU
LOVE
ME - Groove... "NOW"...all there is... hourglass on its side... talking
with dog... reincarnation... do it now... chicken coop - cooking lesson
-
souffle... War between France and Germany,1870... Saxophone - Wayne
King...
talking to a cobra... Swimming lesson... applause cube... ideas that
never
made it... Gargle with Gurgle - Men's toiletries... Bury it yourself
time
capsule... answer the mail... stocks... million dollar idea = fat cat...
so
much money... BURGUNDY (Colors).
61.
Phone rings - counting number - Ken answers... Whistling - Elmo
Tanner...
Lemons... A WHISTLER (Next)... Do Nothing... paper money - pound
sterling -
gold and uranium... slept on my right side - leaked into ear... mono...
Torture chamber... advertising schedule... football game... madrigal
singers... hide the ball... wristwatch chimes... No ifs, no ands, no
buts... Ping Pong... honey souffle - recipe, cooking program... Marriage
Counselor - bearded lady, circus... swinging music... DRUM DREAMS -
Drummer
practicing at night, cop plays trumpet... Highpoint, the top of the
hill,
everyone asleep in one bed, on this side of the world....
62.
JOKES... M.C. - Phyllis Diller routine, daughter-in-law's party...
medicine
for hardness of the brain... soft-headed - sponge (ideas)... DR.
PLACEBO...
Video arcade - missile control trainees... Pyramid - "Ignaton" -
Eqyptian... ice cube burial... hammering, saw, piano... mummy... a
leaking
pyramid... laughing gas... DR. CUNNINGHAM dialogue... wet mummy...
mommy...
"Ramses"... "Jerry Lewis"... Doggie Doodle... The Dwarf... children...
My
Funny Valentine... group after us kids... interconnected...1,000,000
relatives in 500 years... Batman... I USED TO THINK MY RIGHT HAND WAS
UGLIER THAN MY LEFT (Son of Word Jazz)... Jack Often... GREEN
(Colors)...
chickens... announcer.
63.
MUDDY (Colors)... breathing exercise... gym instructor... football
music...
wild rabbits... Muriel Matrons... poetry in public... Tree Music Box...
THE
CLIMBER (Next)... Quiet!... girls' chances of becoming President...
Etiquette... "When in Rome"... drums, saw, flute bridge... The
Griffin...
shooting... PLANET (Twink)... young girl (You don't need to know my last
name...).
64.
SHOPPING LIST... what part of wonder you've wandered into... the
whispering
lips of now... storefront called Free Lessons, rock in window...
CALLICO
BLUES (Grandson of Word Jazz)... THE SWAMI (Grandson of Word Jazz)...
Howard Levy... the cobra - true and only way - Jew's harp, Charlie Zen -
music of the spheres, dance of the dervish... Walking of beach - surf:
IDEAS - HUMIDIFIERS that sound like the waves... My Kind of Music...
Swami
on sax ... LITTLE JESUS... Ken on viola... everything slowing down...
Carnegie Hall Crickets... Queen of Angels MAUSOLEUM... TV Antennas...
Pornophonic... taunting whistle... vibrations do it to each other... A
BEER
AND A SHOT (Triple Talk)... bartender... serious talk with a bartender
who
doesn't want people talking to themselves... phone call for Ken
Nordine...
woman calling.
65.
Vivaldi and brushes, will it help the ratings?... WEATHER REPORT - all
classical station... Doctor's diagnosis... Incurable Romantic -
hopelessly
happy... pay your bills... O P E R A T O R, CAN YOU HEAR ME? -- Mrs.
Lot
in Gommorah, near Sodom... MR. CITY (Triple Talk) - "Everything is
going
up, especially crime - cop for every criminal"... "I caught it from him,
he
caught it from her, she caught it from him, it happens in gardens"...
apple... The Judge... Junior High School Band... SUSIE, playing bass
drum... Bandleader who plays the flute in the gym... One hundred bass
drums
lead by one uniformed flute player who is now teaching math.... SUSIE
Q.
TANGO... combi-national gates and flip flops, edge triggers and master
slaves... STREET MUSICIANS, on their corner for my lunch hour.
66.
Ten Million Dollar Winner - Computer calling...OOP GROOP - The Green
Mill... all the people... girls and boys... Blue Elixir... the silly...
a
real singer... MEMORY ERASER... a new beginning...the electronic drug...
drips...2 Funny Phone Calls - Stock Market salesman and magazine
salesman...NORTHWOODS... BOESKY BLUES... Mr. Depression... CHARLIE BING
BANG (Grandson of Word Jazz)... computer calling back - the fickle
finger.
67.
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES... filing system in the brain... drawers...
"Change"
- different realities... the envelope you're in... Fire, Earth, Wind,
Water... January, February, March... THE SEASONS (Grandson of Word
Jazz).
68.
SNAPSHOT... "Sometimes the silliness"... Symphony - answering themes for
telephone machines... Dr. Humalong... changing the rules for
basketball...
TRAINS OF THOUGHT... Coloring the Air... The "You Don't Love Me But I
Love
You" Blues... QUARK.
69.
FIBINACI NUMBERS... Laserpainting... my computer - painting with
light...
Working 8 Days a Week, 25 Hours a Day... MR. DEPRESSION... No free
lunch...
Recipe - for something very strange... The Manager... Computer
performing
on stage... cries of "Unfair!"... audience revolts... Bernie Sword...
variation on an UP sound, generator, plugged in... A CONVERSATION WITH
TOM
(Waits).
70.
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE... "No News is Good New" Blues... Cat, Bird, Cage -
Maze... Tick Tock... Disguises... The Answer - The Blues... Howard Levy
and
Ben Sidron... thought, madness trip... SMERD (Next)... Oscillating
Skin...
The ORACLE... Groans of Pleasure, Cries of of Joy... days of the week...
a
hot time in the old town tonight... PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM.
71.
DASTARDLY DEED... One Thousand Bing Bangs... HAM RADIO - "Did I wake
you?"... dreams to be continued... outside myself, the slippery
bright...
fall asleep, climb awake... 6 second delay... mental mute, truth mute...
lies, schemes... phone call - Lois from Body Buddy... Running...
nicotine
suppositories, die healthy... SO SERIOUS - Sam Cohn, memorial
counselor...
"You're sounding funny"... Buy the world, the water, the air... not
satisfied, the moon... POLYPHEMES... image pollution... electrodes...
S.P.I.N.... images in the brain, colors... we should have recorded
everything!
72.
CLAPPING YOUR HANDS... BAD BACK BALLET... ZODIAC CHILDREN.... phone
call
- roosters in the tree... "Funny Kind of Blues"... curfew, everybody in
their homes... the B.I.A. - the sewers... underground movement... the
Zodiacers -12 factions... shabang... Jack - the aries faction... selling
stars... changing signs... a new sign.
and the (i think) one page ordering catalog:
the ken nordine catalog
(as of Dec. 1995)
ON VINYL OR CASSETTE:
Grandson of Word Jazz $ 12.50
Stare with your Ears $ 12.50
(Snail Records)
ON CASSETTE ONLY:
"Ken Nordine's Word Jazz" - 75 half hour shows first broadcast on
N.P.R.
"Now, Nordine" - over 300 radio shows first broadcast in 1960's.
Order by show number $ 12.50
Triple Talk $ 12.50
Colors $ 12.50
Word Jazz, Son of Word Jazz, $ 25.00
Next, Word Jazz Vol II
(a two cassette package)
ON COMPACT DISC:
The Best of Word Jazz Vol.1 $ 15.00
(Rhino Records)
Colors $ 15.00
(Asphodel Records)
The Devout Catalyst (with Jerry Garcia) $ 15.00
Upper Limbo $ 15.00
(Grateful Dead Records)
On VHS Videotape:
Half hour Word Jazz $ 30.00
Show # 9 (1985)
SNAIL RECORDS 6106 N. Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Prices include postage & mishandling (Us & Canada)
International Postage add $5 US (per item)
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i'll grant you it's more pages than i thought. thanks for the email
your ol' pal ken
In article <4pot36$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Ken Lac <ken...@aol.com>
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