Beat Party

Found at Beat Is Not Dead

Not sure about the others but that looks like Gregory Corso sitting on the floor in the foreground.

Betty The Beatnik!

Beatnik paper doll.

from Totally Severe.

Shawn Dickinson

Beat Schitz

Check out this really cool stuff. Awesome rockabilly, beat and car culture comics and hip illustrations by Shawn Dickinson. He's got a couple of great blogs. Check 'em out.

Schitzles Der Cat

and

Shawn Dickinson

Babs The Beatnik

Thanks Bish!

Found here.

The Dreamsville Show - July 2011

Tracklist:

Mark Murphy - Come And Get Me

Pete Rugolo - Voodoo Man

Richard Pine - Beatnik Bill

Joya Sherrill - Desdemona's Lament

Candido - Bongo Baby

Gil Mellé - Night Train To Wildwood

Dinah Washington with Lionel Hampton - Blow Top Blues

Lionel Hampton - Robbins In Your Hair

Buddy Rich - Rich-Ual Dance

Coleman Hawkins - Bah-U-Bah

Charles Mingus with Melvin Stewart - Scenes In The City

Ken Nordine - I Used To Think My Right Hand Was Uglier Than My Left

Fleet & Freddy - Pad

Marilyn Ross - Out Of This World

Listen here, or vist the podbean site.

Visit To A Small Planet - Norman Taurog - 1960

You know, I'm just not a big Jerry Lewis fan. I certainly can appreciate his contribution to the world of comedy and, really, he does have some good moments but all in all, a little too slapsticky for me. This is a pretty silly film. But worth a look at least for the scene at the beatnik coffee house. This takes place about an hour in when our hapless alien Kreton. played by Lewis is taken to "The Hungry Brain" as part of his observations of Earthling culture. There doesn't seem to be a general consensus among the beatniks. Some of them seem to think he's pretty far out in his metallic space suit and some others call him a kook.

The band which features Buddy Rich and an uncredited Jack Costanzo on bongos seem to be under the impression that he's a musician and ask him to sit in with the band. After a little spaceman style bongo playing, Barbara Lawson performs a really hip little scat number called Desdemona's Lament which you'll be able to hear in the upcoming Dreamsville Show. After that she and Lewis let loose with some beatnik style interpretive dance, and that's it for the beatnik scene. Light comedy, if you like that sort of thing, check it out.

Kreton

"Man, now that is out."

"That's so out, he ain't ever been in."

Maybe someone snuck some decaf into this coffee house.

"Like, ah, who's the new member?"

"Ooby dooby swidle-a-dow Ah Ah"

"This is a very sad story, you see it's all about a girl who fell in love with a no-good ratnik,

and it's very touching, actually..."

" Coo coo"

"COO COO!"

"Flooty flooty swillya dweet"

"O-videeoh o-rideeoh mop mop"