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Jambox Songs:
Classical Music
Hoochie Coochie Poochie
(Don't Funk With Our) Fame
Plucktress
Rendered Pimpless
Sweet Weaving Dancer
Remember Me
Change Me Blues
Party Right Now!
Believe In Me! (A Foxtrot)
Why Don't You Take It Off?
Coda To The Code of Admirable Puff
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Believe In Me! (A Foxtrot)
The New Maryland Jug Band, improvised in every possible sense instantly after the noise of the tape recorder signals that I had just pressed record on my cheap boombox, was composed of Rico D. Bool, Slash Brannon and me, Professor P.T. Lobotomie. Our purpose on Earth was to create this one tiny slice of Jambox, with Rico on bass, myself on harmonica, and Slash on the nearly-inaudible jug.
I had just started listening to jazz from the late 20s and early 30s from the 78 collection of Jerry Udell. I remember perfectly the night he first brought out the Bix Biederbeck 78s, and showed me how the numbers on the label put them in a series where it was more likely that Bix was on the record. The first one he played for me was "You Took Advantage of Me," still my favorite Bix Biederbeck record of all time, one that critics and admirers still point out for the uncanny Bix and Tram chase duet/solo right before an audibly astonished and delighted Bing Crosby comes in for the vocal, also one of his best jazz vocals.
The song segues without any effort at all into the common motif of Slash's comedy style, little kids behaving badly and being punished beyond all proportion for it. I cut this one off in a very peremptory manner, showing myself once again that I was a lot bossier than I thought I was at the time.
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