You Too Can Swing

I bet you do it better than I do!

Gerhard Meinl's Tuba Sextet - Tuba! A Six-Tuba Musical Romp:

01. W.A. Mozart: Divertimento No. 2 in Bb, I. Allegro (1:25)

02. W.A. Mozart: Divertimento No. 2 in Bb, II. Menuetto (2:30)

03. W.A. Mozart: Divertimento No. 2 in Bb, III. Larghetto (3:39)

04. W.A. Mozart: Divertimento No. 2 in Bb, IV. Rondo (3:51)

05. J.S. Bach: Fugue in G minor (3:11)

06. François Couperin: Les Baricades Misterieuses (2:26)

07. Orlando di Lasso: Ola, O che bon Eccho! (1:36)

08. Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona per Sonare No. 4 (2:02)

09. J.J. Rösler: Partia - Polacca (2:57)

10. Walter Hilgers: Praeludium (1:38)

11. Enrique Crespo: Bruckner Etude (6:40)

12. Enrique Crespo: Three Milongas, I. Milonga (4:02)

13. Enrique Crespo: Three Milongas, II. Campera (4:01)

14. Enrique Crespo: Three Milongas, III. Condombe (4:57)

15. Frank Denson: Three Folksongs for Four Brass (8:35)

16. Jonathon Sass: Meltdown (5:57)

17. Franz Watz: Melton Marsch (3:03)

18. Traditional: Bayrische Zell (2:49)

19. Traditional: Baryrische Polka (2:34)

A 1992 release.  I cannot believe that somebody decided this kind of illustration was a good idea for the cover of this album.  I mean, look at those guys!  I ask you: Would you smile if you could walk around with your pee-pee in your own mouth?

And the worst part is, the scandalous cover art is about the only thing remotely interesting about the whole shebang!

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Switched On Beatles:

01. Got To Get You into My Life (4:20)

02. Day Tripper (4:00)

03. Yesterday (2:50)

04. Here Comes the Sun (3:50)

05. Get Back (3:47)

06. Let It Be (5:07)

07. Girl (4:39)

08. When I'm Sixty-Four (2:50)

09. Hey Jude (4:45)

10. Something (3:03)

11. The Long and Winding Road (3:46)

12. A Day in the Life (3:59)

FROM THE 2016 POST:

          This is copyrighted 1991, but it certainly sounds as if it were hatched about 1983.  Every sound has been processed through red-hot synthesizer tubes for ultimate pasteurization.

          The arrangements are perky and interesting enough.  But a truly evil genius is apparent – when you’re able to listen to a whole minute or so – before you can even figure out what Beatle song the track is.

          Yes, the sinister magic apparent here is of the really frightening kind.  This album takes everything distinctive about the Beatles sound – and removes it!  All that was creative in the Beatles’ music – gone!

          This is the Pod Peoples’ version of the Beatles.  It is frightening to reflect that it was intended as a commercial release – I mean, somebody thought this would make money!  This stupendous achievement in trivialization is the auditory equivalent of dining on Styrofoam and sawdust:  You might be filled, but to no nutritional end.  Something happened, but whatever happened WASN'T EVEN THERE!

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Bach's Biggest Hits:

1 - Prelude For Organ Choral No 1

2 - Aria (from Suite in D Major)

3 - Cannon

4 - Bourree (from English Suite No 2)

5 - Fugue In D Major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)

6 - Sinfonia (from Partita No 2)

7 - Largo (from Harpsichord Concerto in F minor)

This last one is not bad at all.  It's a 1964 release from Wyncote, a budget label.  Note the credited artists, the "Single Swingers,"  This is a blatant attempt to confuse the prospective buyer.  I wonder how many folks thought they were buying a release from the Swingle Singers?  A lot, I'll bet.

See you Monday for some more great (or dubiously great) music!