Grillo's Vanilla Extract Sorcerers - I Will Always Love You

Yes, why not invite Grillo the Clown to your next wedding?

(Not in person, mind you, that would be the mother of all bad ideas. I still have nightmares about the time I hired him to be "entertainment" at my art exhibition Clowns in Love in NYC in 2005.)

The Old Order of Transylvania Gentlemen have pledged a FREE CASE OF BEER to any couple who plays Grillo's charmingly radioactive rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" at their wedding. Contact them for details!

Grillo's Vanilla Extract Sorcerers - I Will Always Love You (YouTube)

Retrovirus & Opportunistic Infection (RV&OI) - Pork Factory

Recorded inside a stinky old abandoned Fischer's meat plant in Louisville, RV&OI's "Pork Factory" is sure to follow in the footsteps of their previous Creeps classics like "Noctural Fridge Party", "Dry Stand Pipe", "Do Not Use Acid to Clean this Brick", and "This Table Smells Like Bleach". The lyrics are hard to suss out through the low fidelity, but it seems to start out this way:


I'm sweatin' like a stuck pig in a 'bandoned sausage factory.
I'm sweatin' in here, just OI and me, RV.
The paint's probably lead and it's peelin' off the walls from another century.
I'm spielin' and squealin' and playin' guitar and sweatin' like a stuck P-O-R-K pig.

P-O-R-K pig, P-O-R-K pig, P-O-R-K pig.

RV&OI - Pork Factory (YouTube)

The Smacks! - Backstage Pass (Rough Unfinished Mix)

The Smacks! have let leak an early unfinished recording from their long-awaited next album! The song is called "Backstage Pass", and we think it's their best work yet (although we're obviously biased). The song is now available on "Transylvania Colony", the official YouTube channel for the Old Order of Transylvania Gentlemen - take a listen...

The Smacks! - Backstage Pass (Rough Unfinished Mix) (YouTube)

Blind Willie McTell - Lay Some Flowers on my Grave

When you hear that coughing sound
You'll know McTell is in the ground
Hot mama, lay some flowers on my grave

Blind Willie McTell - Lay Some Flowers on my Grave (YouTube)

مقام رست ١ - محمد القبانجي

مقام الرست من اداء الاستاذ محمد القبنجي مع اعضاء الفرقه الموسيقيه العراقيه (يوسف بتو، صالح شميل، ابراهيم صالح، يهودا شماس، يوسف زعرور الصغير، عزوري هارون العواد) في مؤتمر القاهره الاول للموسيقى العربيه في مصر عام ١٩٣٢. الشعر تخميس للشاعر السيد جعفر الحلي النجفي (١٨٦١-١٨٩٨) لقصيدة العلاّمة السيد محمد سعيد الحبوبي (١٨٤٩-١٩١٦

يا يوسف الحسن فيك الصب قد ليما * و لو رأوك هَووا للأرض تعظيما
بمن حباك فنون الحسن تتميما * لُحْ كوكباً وامشِ غُصناً والتفتْ ريما
فإن عداك آسمُها لـم تَعْدُك السِّيمـا


Muhammad al-Qubbanchi - Maqam Rast, part 1 (YouTube)

Jim Jackson - I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop

In a perfect world, this 1927 recording would be on every Waffle House jukebox, people would sing it instead of the national anthem at ball games, and muzak versions of it would play in elevators. The concept of a talking pork chop is surreal enough, but it gets better - this one's actually quoting Matthew 11:28.

Jim Jackson - I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop (YouTube)

Lud Gluskin - Ice Cream

Some enterprising souls have posted a flotilla of Lud Gluskin records to YouTube, and here's one of our very favorites - the original source of the phrase "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream," still uttered today by people who are clueless that its origin lies in this once-popular tune. Other versions were recorded by Harry Reser, Fred Waring, Chris Barber and there's also a piano roll of it done by one Alex Taylor.

(Not to mention the great scene in Down By Law with Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits, and John Lurie.)

Gluskin, born in Russia in 1898, recorded over 700 songs in the 1920s and 1930s. He went on to be the musical director for CBS television. He retired in the 1960s, after directing incidental musical scores for TV shows such as The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, and Perry Mason.

Lud Gluskin - Ice Cream (YouTube)