Malcolm Lowry @ The 19th Hole: 29/10/10 Playlist

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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Next Lowry Lounge @ The Bluecoat Liverpool 15th October 2011

We are starting to prepare for the next Lowry Lounge on 15th October 2011 - more details to follow. In the meantime I have revisted last year's musical treats from Bryan Bigg's playlist with songs which I didn't post for some reason last year!

These should get us in the spirit:

George Formby – I’m the Ukulele Man

Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians – Dry Bones

Bix Beiderbecke – Singing the Blues

Claude Hopkins and his orchestra - Shake Your Ashes

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Cab Calloway

Last track up from Bryan Bigg's playlist from his DJ set at last Friday's inaugural Lowry Lounge.

Jorge Negrete - Yo Soy Mexicano

A further Mexican track played at last Friday's Lowry Lounge by Bryan Biggs.

Tom Lehrer – In Old Mexico

Here we have a tongue in cheek track from Tom Lehrer combined with an article above tempting US tourists south of the border in 1937. - read whole article here

Yet another track from the Lowry Lounge evening!

You can sing-a-long:

When it's fiesta time in Guadalajara,
Then I long to be back once again
In Old Mexico.
Where we lived for today,
Never giving a thought to tomara.
To the strumming of guitars,
In a hundred grubby bars
I would whisper "Te amo."

The mariachis would serenade,
And they would not shut up till they were paid.
We ate, we drank, and we were merry,
And we got typhoid and dysentery.

But best of all, we went to the Plaza de Toros.
Now whenever I start feeling morose,
I revive by recalling that scene.
And names like Belmonte, Dominguin, and Manolete,
If I live to a hundred and eighty,
I shall never forget what they mean.

(For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this
world than the sight of a lone man facing singlehandedly
a half a ton of angry pot roast!)

Out came the matador,
Who must have been potted or
Slightly insane, but who looked rather bored.
Then the picadors of course,
Each one on his horse,
I shouted "Ole!" ev'ry time one was gored.

I cheered at the bandilleros' display,
As they stuck the bull in their own clever way,
For I hadn't had so much fun since the day
My brother's dog Rover
Got run over.

(Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with
such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the
driver both ears and the tail - but I digress.)

The moment had come,
I swallowed my gum,
We knew there'd be blood on the sand pretty soon.
The crowd held its breath,
Hoping that death
Would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon.

At last, the matador did what we wanted him to.
He raised his sword and his aim was true.
In that moment of truth I suddenly knew
That someone had stolen my wallet.

Now it's fiesta time in Akron, Ohio,
But it's back to old Guadalajara I'm longing to go.
Far away from the strikes of the A.F. of L. and C.I.O.
How I wish I could get back
To the land of the wetback,
And forget the Alamo,
In Old Mexico. Ole!

Laurel Aitken – Bartender

Another drinking themed song played at the Lowry Lounge last Friday.

Anton Karas – The Harry Lime Theme

One of those sides which has meaning mined by the Firminists - could it be the fun fair wheel in the Vienna park or something else?

The track was played to make the audience at last Friday's Lowry Lounge wonder what the connection could be?

PRINCE BUSTER, South of the border

Moving down the playlist from last Friday's Lowry Lounge night. The above magazine is from 1930s illustrating the dangers of borders which Lowry was paranoid of crossing especially between the Mexico and the USA.