A double CD featuring a host of classic beatnik 45s as dug by The Cramps' Lux and Ivy.
Featuring super rare sides, weird pontification, finger clicking hipness, deep thinking diatribes and the inevitable mention of goatees on a set of suitably ginchy grooves.
Including Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes, Don Morrow, Langston Hughes, Slim Gailliard, the late great Ken Nordine, Rod McKuen, Cal Tjader, Babs Gonzalez and a host of others searching for the "cool".
With revered beat poets Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti set to jazz and mindless tunes by Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge and Bob Dorough among others.
Featuring a blast on novelty 45s from Cacique And His Tribe, The Jokers, The Expresso's, Honkers, Dick Summers, Three Bips And A Bop, Steve Allen and Sylvester Statuslack Hup.
Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine's Dave Henderson.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- - Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes
- - Teenage Beatnik - Louis Nye
- - Like Rumpelstiltskin - Don Morrow
- - A Beatnik Story - The Expressos
- - Like I Love You - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes
- - But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown Jr
- - Wombat Twist - Glenn And Christy
- - Flipsville - Stormy Gayle
- - Bohemian Girl - Russ Haddock Trio
- - Oop-Pop-A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra
- - What Is A Fisterris' - The Joker
- - The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves - Kenneth Patchen With The Chamber Jazz Sextet
- - Consider Me - Langston Hughes With Charles Mingus And The Horace Parlan Quintet
- - Theme From The Pad - Parts 2 And 3 - Sylvester Statuslack Hup
- - You Goofed - Slim Gaillard
- - Twisted - Lambert, Hendricks And Ross
- - Spooky-Doo - Cacique & His Tribe (Featuring Enos Feenos)
- - Hot Rod Rock - Edd Byrnes
- - Meet The Bongo Man - Johnny O
- - William Butler Yeats On The Third Avenue E - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- - Do You Promise - The Honkers
- - Cool Yule - Tony Rodelle Larson
Disc 2:
- - Laffin' Beatnik - Johnny Beeman
- - Dog - Bob Dorough
- - Beatnik - Bob Mersey
- - Mamblues - Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet
- - Manhattan Fable - Babs Gonzales
- - Swing Low Sweet Cadillac (Part 1) - Aggie Dukes
- - Don't Tempt Me - Al & Ina Harris
- - No Pictures, Please - Rod Mckuen
- - Reaching Into In - Ken Nordine
- - Yip Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard And His Middle Europeans
- - But Baby - Steve Allen
- - Professor Bop - Three Bips And A Bop
- - Like Young - Anne Henry
- - The Goatee's Gotta Go - Dick Summer
- - Tempest In A Teapot - Beverly Garland
- - The Beat Generation - Bob Mcfadden
- - The Gasser - Roy Eldridge
- - Pimples And Braces - Spike Jones And His City Slickers
- - Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes
- - Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye And The Beatniks
- - Lonesome Boy Blues - Kenneth Patchen With Allyn Ferguson And The Chamber Jazz Sextet
- - Blah - Sidney And The Chimps
- - Square Dance For Round Cats - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes
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