Ken Nordine: Hi Diddle-Dee-Dee
It’s been a long-delayed project of mine to digitize some of my old vinyl. Things forgotten or things that never made it to CD — honestly, I don’t have a list of criteria, I just want to get started. So, armed with a cut-rate USB digitizer and a half-tank of gas, storage-wise, here I go.
This first one isn’t even the whole medley — it cuts off right before the big thunderclap. I think Ken Nordine is made of mahogany or Rich Corinthian Leather. The way The Voice gets fuller and richer as he ages (dude’s almost ninety!) is something we’re lucky to be alive to hear.
Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor’s Life for Me)
Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz
from “Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films”
produced by Hal Willner (1988)
Tags: Bill Frisell · Hal Willner · Ken Nordine · Wayne Horvitz8 Comments
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I have Stay Awake on CD, but it runs several songs together per track, which is, needless to say, incredibly annoying. Damn it all. I think Ken’s made from a mix of Guinness and unrefined crude oil. Tasty.
I think they call those things medleys, Wil. It’s like that on the album–there are, technically, only three or four tracks per side.
What was that other obscure CD we were talking about last week that you had a copy of?
Dude!!! I am soooooooooo loving your continuing improvements! Love the Search feature and them drop-downs for categories and all that jazz!
Yeah, I’m loving improving it, too. Still want to arrange the pages horizontally across the top of the page. Also, and maybe you would know this: why is the name of the blog peeking out from the infinite darkness on the left? Do you see that?
The name of the blog is automatically inserted by WordPress based on the theme – though you also have a big graphical background image of “brucedene.net” doing the same function. You’d need to remove or comment out that specific code in the header.php file from the Theme Editor. It should look something like this:
Place that between a set of comments () or delete it and that will go away. That’s the quick fix but there are better ways.
Hmm, WordPress stripped out my code examples. I forgot to wrap those in a safe element. I can do this in person much better anyhow whenever there’s a good time to get into the admin with you.
Name of blog in infinite darkness — ah, yes, I had to move it, because it was defaulting RIGHT over the “Bruce Dene.net” graphic and obstructing it.
I had to use CSS-positioning to try and get rid of it. Don’t know what it looks like in your browser, but in FireFox 2 for Win, it’s invisible
Re: Eric’s comment (#5) — that would work, surely, except that I searched and searched and couldn’t find the sucker.
If you can find it, please let Bruce know, and we’re good.