The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish by Harry Warren.

This classic of the middle-eastern novelty genre was featured in quite a few Looney Tunes cartoons. Our version was inspired by the Hoosier Hot Shots' Midwestern take on this middle-eastern song.

Too Much Mustard

This turn of the century rousing brass number came to our attention via Uri Caine's excellent CD The Sidewalks of New York where he historically recreates many of the tin pan alley songs complete with on location sounds of New York Pubs and their environs. Caine brings out the more gritty, homey side of things rather than the soft fuzzy pastiche effect of pop nostalgic recreations. Our version takes on another course altogether.

Freilach Haschlisi

A traditional Yiddish tune whose theme you hear imbedded in quite a few klezmer songs. We copped our version from the Kabalas, another group of courageous instrumentation: two accordions, soprano sax and drums!

Oh By Jingo

Another wacky novelty lyric number with an incredibly fun melody. It's been performed by both Spike Jones and the Hoosier Hot Shots. In these politically correct times we are proud to do an instrumental version of this song.

Vol vist du Gally Star by Slim Gailard

One of our later 40's covers by the master of novelty swing Slim Gaillard. Known for his extravagant if not bizarre hep talk carried to the nth degree of which the title of this song is an example. What does it mean? According to Slim " don't mean a thing just a little something in the floosie language".

The Kick

Yet another example of how the Clown School Dropouts make the original indistinguishable from the original. Originally performed with vibe, marimba & piano featuring Milt Holland and Buddy Montgomery on an album called Perfect Percussion. We've manage to Scott-ify the two main themes of the melody and the middle section is whatever falls out of us at the time.

Tia Juana by Raymond Scott

An absolutely beautiful tune that has been a favorite of Cranky's in its Desi Arnaz version long before the whole Raymond Scott revival craze hit in the mid 90's. It was only after subsequent acquisition of the Scott recording that the authorship was made apparent to Cranky. Our version borrows elements from Arnaz's seductive version and from Scott's big band arrangement.

The Terror by Cliff Jackson

This song is one of those jaw droppers that when you first hear it you just can't believe your ears! Cliff Jackson was a 30's jazz/boogie piano player and his band the Krazy Kats perform this in an arrangement that is more all out, over the top, it's absolutely mental!. It's great when a band pushes themselves to unfounded heights, and you hear stories of the raucous 20's and 30's hot jazz players that did that live, but rarely was it captures on record! Moische just recently discovered a brand new Phil Alvin recording that features this song. We were bummed out that someone did "our" song but at the same time its proves our enthusiasm that someone else discovered the magic of the recording.