Ravin' of the Week : (Mar 19- Mar 31, 1996)

Lullaby to Birdieland from JazBeau

Love your site (and Poe)! I found you thru a link on Birdie's Salon (pun)

Have you ever heard Lord Richard Buckley's hip version of The Raven which he called, The Bug-bird? Here's some excerpts from it -

that sweet, square, but swinging maiden whom the fly-chicks tag Lenore

But the solid truth is this cat was napping, And so cool did you come
tapping, and so like hip you came rapping rhythm at my pad's door
that I was scarce sure I dug you. Here I opened wide the slam, and Jack -
I dug the breeze - and nothing more.

Swing hip me to what thy tag is on the night's Plutonian shore!
Flipped the bug-bird, 'nevermore' .

It's available on the CD Lord Buckley - a Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat, Enigma/Retro 773398-2, and the last time I checked, you could get it at Tower Records or order it thru their 800 number. I recommend it highly. The excerpts I transcribed above really don't do him justice. His fantastic perfomance is what really does it.

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