Hope everyone had a great weekend, some more music to help you forget you're at work this Monday morning. (or, if you're unemployed, help you forget about it :-) )
A couple from Bruno Nicolai that I'm sure you'll enjoy. More from Herb Alpert, Johnny Mann and Pecy Faith.
Hope you had a nice weekend, or at least, your weekend was better than this persons weekend, who, apparently, got a little burnt on seeing prostitutes.
Bringing in the new year with more music. Lets up the 20-teens are better than the first decade, Happy New Year everyone!
A fun tune from Sergio Rafael, "Over the Mountains"
Damita Jo with a jazzy tune that borderlines blues, with "I Found a Brand New Baby".
Some space age pop from Alvino Rey, "Rock me gently".
Another track from Piero Umiliani (Just can't get enough!) with La foresta incantata, and I don't know what it means either, but it sure sounds mellow in that trance like way!
Finally, Abbe Lane with "Nightingale"
Hope your new year is well and that you're keeping warm!
Hope your week is good and that you've managed to recover in time to celebrate new years! We'd really like to hear your plans this new years, so we can play them for other listeners, please contact us and phone them in, be a part of the community!
Some interesting organ action from Andy Bautista, choral jazz from Johnny Mann with "Paper Doll", we'll have a little fun with Jerry Fielding and "Spanish Flea".
An oh-so mellow "Live For Life" from Percy Faith, be careful with this one, you'll be liable to melt in your chair, another mellow tune from Buddy Bergman, "Melodyville"
Finally, The Alan Copeland Singers with "Baroque A Nova", not really a good way to describe this, Beach Boys meet Enoch Light meet Bach? sounds like the sort of thing that could easily have been played in a 70's era office building, I quite like it.
A few new tracks on your sunday going into monday, hope everyone managed to have a swinging holiday season!
A couple crooners, Nick D'egidio and Michael Kaczurak, with "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "Beyond the Sea", Nick D'egidio is a Frank Sinatra impersonator.
Eartha Kitt does a rather silly song with "I'd Rather Be Burned As a Witch", kind of cute and silly at the same time.
Also some more jazzy tunes from Billy May, Alvino Rey and Johnny Mann.
Have a good week!
We're coming up on the shortest day of the year, the Minnesota sky is turning dark a lot earlier now, good news, more night time is always a good thing! (Just wish it happened in the summer, so we could go out and enjoy it more)
More from Billy May, with "Perdido", a nice big-band retro sound.
The Headliners do an interesting version of Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" and on the mellow track is some more from the Syd Dale Orchestra with "Reminiscing" a track that you'll recognize almost instantly if you listened to AM radio in the 70's.
A couple tracks from Serge Gainsbourg, "Ce Mortel Ennui" and "L'alcool", if you can't speak French, well, you're in good company, neither can I! (and if you can speak French and hear something that isn't "work safe".. please tell me)
It may sound redundant, but, Minnesota is not the place to be in the winter! The "studio" has icicles from a failing heating system, it's been a challenging past couple days, as I'm sure the rest of the winter will be. (I live in an old farm house with a wood stove..)
Something special for you this time, three versions of Happy Feet by Quincy Jones, it's hard not to smile while hearing them. Also, Elmer Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Williams and some more from Santisteban. Enjoy (and stay warm!)
Been a LONG time since we did an update, this was largely due to multiple, major technical problems (seems everything happens at once..). Sorry it took so long, hopefully things will work now.
Remember Tesla? he's not the only one who considered a wireless power system.
Some Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini with Boogie Stop Shuffle and Sing, Sing, Sing. Then Dean Elliott and Pearl Bailey with Let's Go and Little Sheba. Finally The Hawaiians with Wheels.
Tire talk? It turns out tires made from trees resist heat build-up, resulting in lower fuel costs.
Some music from Alisha Marie Ard and Cynthia Queenton with Just One of Those Things and Tout Va Recommencer, I don't know what the lyrics mean either.. but, she has such a nice voice! Hugo Montenegro with Third Man Theme and a crazy version of Sabre Dance from Les Baxter... enjoy!
From our science department, bean counters have it good, well, if they're counting actual money anyway. It seems money has a psychological effect, that, people feel good while counting their cash... now if only I had some cash to count.. do pennies.. err... count?
Several new tracks today, more from Henry Mancini and Hugo Montenegro with "Theme From The Thief Who Came To Dinner" and "Take The A Train". Charles McPherson with "Good Morning Heartache", A vibraphonic rendition of "What the World Needs Now" from Cal Tjader. Visit "Naptown" with Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, and a fun version of "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" from Perez Prado, enjoy!
No real news today, I suppose thats good news. :-) If anyone noticed, we snuck in Herb Alperts Route 101 without announcing it here, sorry if this caused milk to spurt out your nose. It won't happen again, unless it does.
As a side note, I encourage you to check out the blog of Mary Dempsey for some truly amazing photography!
A couple new jokes from other people, I'll let you decide if they're any good.
Herb Alperts with Route 101, very jazzy, very.. I love this one! Some music from Dominic Frontiere, The End of Love and three versions of On any Sunday. Some more from Jean Frye Sidwell, As Time Goes By, and Somewhere In Time from The Romantic Music Band. To finish it up, the Bat Boys hangs "Out with the In Crowd", enjoy!
According to sciencedaily.com, ex-prisoners who relocated as a result of hurricane katrina have a 15% chance of staying out of prison. This is good news for ex-prisoners.
For new music, we have some Hawaiin music from The Hawaiins, Telstar. Serge Gainsbourg with Black Trombone and Burt Bacharach with Nikki.
As a new feature, we'll be playing retro commercials, I suppose it's a dumb business model to play ads and THEN hope to be paid for them, but.. we're kind of unconventional at the triviacompanion.
Maureen McElheron and Hank Bones sings "First Kiss", Jack Malmsten has a little tune about Satan taking a holiday and The Agents come at us with, what else, Secret Agent - Enjoy!
Do you know how to use technology while jumping rope? well, according to this Associated Press Story, jump-rope might become high-tech!
While you're jumping rope, here is some awesome bachelor pad music for you, especially those who enjoy the organic sound of.. you guessed it, an organ.
Les Baxter tells us about Saturday night on Saturn, (gee, can you jump rope there?) David Rose, has a delightful track called "Gay Spirits" (the original meaning of the word Gay) Sir Julian takes us on a spin with Movin' at Midnight. Plus Ernie Freeman, Denny McLain, Joe Bucci and more!
Shirley Bassey tells us about how Diamonds are Forever, then we take part in an experiment in terror with Reverend Organdrum.
Washington state researchers have discovered that people who tell failed jokes endure an astonishing amount of hostility.
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence have a concert scheduled for November, 2009 in Westbury, NY. Check out their website! Steve and Eydie Gorme
Normally, we don't play tracks over 5 minutes, but for the Catz in the Hatz, we'll make an exception, you've just got to hear their version of Natureboy!
Doris Day tells us about her insomnia with Ten Thousand, Four Hundred and Thirty Two Sheep.
Some music from Lena Horne, Mel Torme and some fun jazzy tunes from Mandy Lauderdale's new album.
By the way, here's a bit of Trivia, Lena Horne is also known for her work in civil rights.
Enjoy!
Some excellent spy jazz for your monday afternoon, including the Moon-Rays and, would you believe, a tune Alice Cooper had originally done?
We'd like to thank the people at Live365 for their excellent service and support throughout our time with them, perhaps one day we'll be back, but for now, you can find us in the shoutcast directory with the keyword "triviacompanion"
Several new tracks for you to enjoy, including a few songs from the Latin Bombers, The Polite Jazz Quartet, some more from the Toronto Starlight Orchestra, Rick Michel joins use with Niel Diamond and some really interesting stuff from Piero Umiliani. Enjoy!
