What are you listening to?

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SKIP JAMES Devil Got My Woman

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David Bowie

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MC5 High Time

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HOWLIN' WOLF Moanin' in the Moonlight

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Was never much for Wolf. Preferred the "Iceman"



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Was never much for Wolf. Preferred the "Iceman"

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Listening to Two On One last night, I remembered where CAPTAIN BEEFHEART got his act... HOWLIN' WOLF of course.

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DUKE ELLINGTON Mood Indigo

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I have a small apartment and not enough room for all my books/cds/dvds, so some of them are behind others, and I tend to forget about them. Going through some of the "hidden" ones, I just found and listened to Chu Chin Chow, an early English musical based on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. It opened in 1916 and was London's longest-running West End musical of its time, a record unsurpassed for 40 years.

Evil Abu Hasan kills Chinese merchant Chu Chin Chow, and then impersonates him at the home of Ali Baba's brother Kasim, in order to try to steal Kasim's wealth. Kasim is later killed by Abu Hasan. On the way to the happy ending (for Ali Baba at least), there is boiling oil, intrigue, stabbing, and assorted mayhem. A slave girls betrays Abu Hasan and saves the day.

The music is very pleasant. When the show premiered on Broadway in 1917, Abu Hasan was played by Tyrone Power, Sr. My cd is from a more recent British production.

A film was made in 1934, with Anna May Wong. It's on YouTube.



Here's the title song, though not from a cast album:

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The Six Teens - Sweet

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A long favorite of mine;


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SAMMY DAVIS JR. Sings LAURINDO ALMEIDA Plays

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Another past blast I ran across lately.




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