gts104 “nurshery”
A pocketful of posies is better than two in the mulberry bush.
01-01 Nat King Cole – Mutiny In The Nursery (1938)
01-02 Ike & Tina Turner – The Collection 01 12 – Humpty Dumpty
01-03 Anthony Vincent – Itsy Bitsy Spider (2024)
— using the name Ten Second Songs on YTub, he’s done a bunch of these. This one, in the style of System Of A Down
01-04 Andy Parker & The Plainsmen – Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
— couldn’t even find a year for this disc
01-05 Run DMC – Tougher Than Leather 102 – Mary, Mary (1988)
— great lyric: “my house with a mouse is now a roach with a tent.”
01-06 Wings – Apple R5949 – Mary Had A Little Lamb (1972)
— actually made the charts… because it’s Paul McCartney
02-01 Christopher Cerf & National Lampoon – Buy This Box Or We’ll Shoot This Dog 109 – Little Miss Muffet
— from the NatLamp Radio Hour, so must be from the early 1970’s
02-02 Mystery Band – Mystery Track
— whuoops, announced this as a cover of Bo’s “Nursery Rhyme” but that one’s coming later in the show. This one is just weirdness about hatred for tuffets
02-03 Christopher Walken – The Three Little Pigs (1993)
— performed in London for a Saturday Zoo show on TV
02-04 Green Jello – Cereal Killer Soundtrack 02 – Three Little Pigs (1993)
— the makers of Jello sued them so they changed bandnames to Green Jelly, with two dots over the “y” just to be cheeky
02-05 Insane Clown Posse – The Great Milenko 04 – Piggy Pie (1997)
— here the pigs are not heroes, and get their comeuppance
02-06 The Caps – White Star 103 – Three Little Pigniks (1959)
— released 2 years after a famous cartoon of similar story
03-01 Spike Jones – His Master’s Voice 1164 – Mother Goose Medley (1953)
— matches today’s bonus track
03-02 Merrill Moore – Capitol F3788 – Nursery Rhyme Blues (1955)
— poor duck!
03-03 Homer & Jethro – Cornfucius Say 105 – Mother Goose Is Chicken (1964)
— Peep doesn’t find her sheep because the corner diner is serving mutton
03-04 Jerry Fuller – Salvo 1802 – Mother Goose At The Bandstand (1962)
— he did the chicken with Mother Goose. Integration now!
03-05 Theophilus Beckford – Blue Beat 33 – Jack And Jill Shuffle (1961)
— a musical snapshot just as calypso was turning into reggae
03-06 Gong – Expresso II 06 – Three Blind Mice (1978)
— did find a tune this week with a kazoo solo, which you know I love, but couldn’t make the cut. In lieu, here’s a xylophone
04-01 Louis Armstrong & Maxine Sullivan & Dick Powell & Anita Louise & The Dandridge Sisters – Going Places OST – Mutiny In My Nursery Rhymes (1938)
04-02 Sally Starr & The Comets – Clymax 1001 – Rockin’ In The Nursery (1959)
— yes, Bill Haley’s Comets! Clymax was his label
04-03 Jesus ‘Sixto’ Rodriguez – Cold Fact 10 – Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme) (1970)
— cats are not in the cradle, they’re hanging out with the rat finks
04-04 The Treniers – Okeh 6876 – Hadacole That’s All (1952)
— Mother Goose’s Little Helper
04-05 Judy & Joyce – Decca 9-30729 – Nursery Rock (1958)
— my favorite of the show, vocals are nutty frantic
04-06 The Merry Macs – Decca 18588 – Mairzy Doats (1944)
— this is probably the one which will pop back into your head tomorrow
05-01 3rd Bass – Derelicts Of Dialect 06 – Pop Goes The Weasel (1991)
— structured around a sample from Peter Gabriel, thus two songs later…
05-02 Twelve Corona Babes & George Scott Wood & His Orchestra – Regal Zonophone G22229 – At The Court Of Old King Cole (1934)
— Difficult to find info on this shellac disc, although George Scott Wood was purported to have recorded more songs than anyone else in the 1930’s. A website which claims to list all the Regal Zonophone releases omits this one, though the Great 78 Project has the label scan and the audio. It was R-Z release G22229, the “G” denotes an Australian release. Regal Zonophone’s release G22228 was “The Yodelling Hobo” by Harry Toriani and the R-Z release G22236 was Billy Cotton’s version of “La Cucaracha” and they’re both from 1934, so confident that this disc was released in ’34, although there is zero information on who the Twelve Corona Babes were. From 1923 to 1926, there were some UK platters by Corona Dance Orchestra, but these kids wouldn’t have been born yet! In 1936, Gracie Fields released “New Safety-First Record” (Rex 8718, UK) where the label says: “Assisted by the CORONA BABES”. Best guess we can come up with, is that the Twelve Corona Babes were a children’s choir employed under the umbrella of the various EMI labels in the mid 1930’s.
05-03 Genesis – Nursery Cryme 01 – The Musical Box (1971)
— horror in the nursery, a spirit trapped in the box emerges to terrorise the kids
06-01 Cheek-O Vaas – Twy-Lite 752 – Bo Peep Rock (1961)
— if you find one, there’s an excuse to call Bo Derek and pretend it’s an innocent mistake
06-02 The Downliners Sect – Live 203 – Nursery Rhymes
— this one is the cover of Bo Diddley, best guess dates this to the mid-1960’s, the Live disc released 35 years later
06-03 Wally Wiggins – Mercury 71953 – Little Old Lady Who Lived In A Shoe (1962)
— twistin’ at the shoe!
06-04 Kimberly & The Tamers – Jerden 749 – Humpty Dumpty (1965)
— didn’t know Humpty was the Duke Of Earl
06-05 Echolyn – Progfest ’94 109 – The Cheese Stands Alone (1995)
— anger in the dell
… and a bonus track…
07-01 Samuel L. Jackson – Go The Fuck To Sleep (2011)