The Dreamsville Podcast 6 - A Dreamsville Christmas

Tracklist:

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

Art Carney - All I Want For Christmas Is A Doodle-Li-Boop

Charlie Parker - White Christmas

Edd "Kookie" Byrnes - Cool Yule

Julie London - I'd Like You For Christmas

Patsy Raye & The Beatniks - Beatnik's Wish

Pearl Bailey - Five Pound Box Of Money

Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards - Santa Daddy

The Hal Bradley Orchestra with Patty Marie Jay - Space Age Santa Claus

Louis Armstrong - Zat You Santa Claus?

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Merry Christmas Baby

Miles Davis & Bob Dorough - Blue X-mas (To Whom It May Concern)

Babs Gonzales - Be Bop Santa Claus

Kay Starr - (Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag

The NORAD Commanders Band - Here Comes Santa Claus

Tony Rodelle Larson - Bear Rug

Paul Horn - We Three Kings on Frankly Jazz

Various Artists - Jazz Canto Vol.1 - An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz

This is one I've wanted to get my hands on for quite a while. Basically what you have here is a collection of guys reading other peoples poems with jazz in the background. Man, even Dylan Thomas sounds hip with some frantic jazz alongside. This is where you'll hear Bob Dorough reading Ferlinghetti's "Dog" and Roy Glen reading Philip Whalen's "High Song For Somebody", both of which appear on the Pictures From The Gone World comps that came out in maybe the late 80's or early 90's. Not everything here is exactly "beat" but it's all very interesting. John Carradine reading Lipton's "Night Song For The Sleepless" sounds like it could have come from the dialog of a b-movie he may have done back then.

Enjoy!

The Dreamsville Podcast 5

It's done and it's over at podbean

Here's the tracklist:

Warren Barker - Caper At The Coffee House

Edd "Kookie" Byrnes - Kookie's Mad Pad

Aaron Bell Orchestra - A Profound Gas

Elmer Bernstein - Like, Having Fun

Harvey Anderson - Monday Night 8pm

Stanley Wilson - Lonely Beat

Lee Roy - The Creep

Eartha Kitt - Mink Shmink

Ella Mae Morse - The Guy Who Invented Kissin'

Joe Henderson - Home Stretch

Peter Orlovsky - Morning Again

Thelonious Monk - Nutty

Allen Ginsberg - A Supermarket In California

Jack Costanzo - Dickey, Dickey, Dickey, Dockey

Les Baxter - I Dig

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Beatnik Hangouts - The Bohemian Embassy - Toronto

The Bohemian Embassy in Toronto was known as Canada's wordiest landmark. A haven for jazz, folk and poetry. They also put on plays and just generally catered to the artsy crowd of Toronto in the 60's. There is a new-ish doc. about this place out now that I have yet to see but there is a trailer you can watch here. The irony is, now, The Bohemian Embassy is a giant turd of luxury condo's in Toronto...

Don Cullen, The founder of the Bohemian Embassy has a cool book of memoirs out now, you can read the first three chapters at his website.