mle292's Mix CD Challenge: Drinking Songs

[barondave]

Okay, I'm going to stop working on it now. Probably. Except for the label and cover.

Last week, mle292 proposed a CD Exchange at Marscon about drinking songs. I already had two compilations in my archives (one easily made from iTunes) and was rarin' to go. But then I discovered that the two had an overlap: Beer Barrel Polka, possibly two different versions by the Andrews Sisters, but still enough to sour me on distributing them both at the same time. Plus I really should just make one for the project. So painfully mixing down the two plus adding a few newer (to me) songs that seemed appropriate, I wind up with:

At The Hops

1 Lily The Pink – Irish Rovers 3:20
2 Living With The Dreaming Body – Poi Dog Pondering 3:52
3 Witnesses' Waltz – Kristoph Klover 3:43
4 Coconut – Nilsson 3:51
5 Olde Time Beer – Wally Pleasant 2:26
6 Beer Barrel Polka – Andrews Sisters 2:50
7 John Barleycorn – Traffic 6:22
8 Were All These Beer Cans Here Last Night? (From Deadwood) – Beatnik Turtle 3:21
9 In Heaven There Is No No Beer – Clean Living 2:28
10 Alone At The Drive-In Movie – Big Daddy 2:00
11 Dark Wine and Roses – Cecelia Eng 4:31
12 Four Nights Drunk – Steeleye Span 3:04
13 Gitarzan – Ray Stevens 3:14
14 Kickapoo Joy Juice – The Rivingtons 2:34
15 I Get A Kick Out of You – Frank Sinatra 2:51
16 Scotch and Soda – Kingston Trio 2:31
17 The Pirate Song – Tony Goldmark 3:03
18 Sloop John B – Beach Boys 2:53
19 Second Week Of Deer Camp – Da Yoopers 2:49
20 Tavern In The Town – Jimmy Sturr Featuring Willie Nelson 2:06
21 Whiskey On A Sunday – The Irish Rovers 2:43
22 Will His Love Be Like His Rum? – Harry Belafonte 2:35
23 Gilgarry Mountain – Peter, Paul & Mary 6:02
24 Last Call – Dave van Ronk 2:30

*sigh* Only one Steeleye Span song, though two Irish Rovers. One and a half cheats; okay two and a half cheats, if you want to be really strict (guesses?). This satisfies my desire to mix well-known and obscure, fast and slow, old and new, pathos and humor, beer and whiskey. I'd be willing to bet that almost everyone has heard several of these songs but almost no one has heard all these songs, and who has heard what will vary wildly. Still, 78:36 worth of alcohol for the ears.

I may still tweak the name and some of the entries, but dreamshark has already announced her compilation is ready for the Pool Party tomorrow (Sat), and I'm ready.

So... anyone else want to exchange Drinking Songs? This is an exchange: A Mix for A Mix. The challenge is for Marscon, but I'll have a few around at the Pool Party.

Edited To Add: Okay, I just ran off a half-dozen copies. Any left over from the Pool Party will be at Marscon. I rather expect to have to make more, given everything said on LJ and allowing for others.

Comments

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

What, no Jedi Drinking Song from the Brobdingnagian Bards? :)

[barondave.livejournal.com]

It was hard getting it down to only one CD, and I had to leave off Drink to the Health of the Dorsai, an obvious compliment to the Jedi song... if I had the Jedi song which I don't alas. Are you going to be at Marscon with your own Drinking Mix (hint hint)?

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

I'll even have a good copy of their Prequel Drinking Song.

I have filks to write, too. Marc Gunn and I are collaborating on a feline version of Old Dun Cow for his next Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

or his next Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD

NEXT?

I suppose it's one collection that won't have the hair of the dog that bit you.

[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

My favorite in this category would have to be "The Old Dun Cow" Preferably the "Drunk and Disorderly" version.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

You may very well have several gigs worth of "Drunk and Disorderly" songs. (One of the sub-categories that didn't make it into this crunched-down mix was "songs to be listened to while drunk" which is an overlapping but different category than "drinking songs". Another even more different sub-category is "songs played drunk".)

[laurel]

Count me in, though I don't think I can have a mix ready by tomorrow. Maybe by the next Minn-StF meeting.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

And so we've come full circle, as I first heard Living With The Dreaming Body on a mix tape from you...

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to add some from opera, I'd suggest the following:

"Viva il vino spumeggiante" from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni;

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi;

And one with a pretty obvious title, from the operetta "The Student Prince" by Sigmund Romberg:

"Drink! Drink! Drink!"

If you want particular recordings by specific artists, I'd recommend, respectively, Jussi Bjoerling, Luciano Pavarotti, and Mario Lanza. You just couldn't go wrong with those.

Oh, and the framing story of Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann is set in a tavern, so it has multiple drinking songs.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

from the operetta "The Student Prince"

Richard T. requested that one, but I didn't have a copy. Perhaps you could contribute a thematic mix CD by mail (hint hint).

[mle292.livejournal.com]

I should really say that 7thstranger is the actual idea person on this one. I only remembered to make a post a few months after it was discussed, for which I should recieve many accolades. Okay, maybe not, but I can dream.