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.
DISC ONE
1. KOOKIE KOOKIE (LEND ME YOUR COMB) – Edd ‘Kookie’ Byrnes
2. TEENAGE BEATNIK – Louis Nye
3. LIKE RUMPELSTILTSKIN – Don Morrow
4. A BEATNIK STORY – The Expressos
5. LIKE I LOVE YOU – Edd ‘Kookie’ Byrnes
6. BUT I WAS COOL – Oscar Brown Jr
7. WOMBAT TWIST – Glenn And Christy
8. FLIPSVILLE – Stormy Gayle
9. BOHEMIAN GIRL – Russ Haddock Trio
10. OOP-POP-A-DA – Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra
11. WHAT IS A FISTERRIS? – The Joker
12. THE MURDER OF TWO MEN BY A YOUNG KID WEARING LEMON COLORED GLOVES – Kenneth Patchen With The Chamber Jazz Sextet
13. CONSIDER ME – Langston Hughes With Charles Mingus And The Horace Parlan Quintet
14. THEME FROM THE PAD – PARTS 2 AND 3 – Sylvester Statuslack Hup
15. YOU GOOFED – Slim Gaillard
16. TWISTED – Lambert, Hendricks And Ross
17. SPOOKY-DOO – Cacique & His Tribe (Featuring Enos Feenos)
18. HOT ROD ROCK – Edd Byrnes
19. MEET THE BONGO MAN – Johnny O
20. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON THE THIRD AVENUE E – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
21. DO YOU PROMISE – The Honkers
22. COOL YULE – Tony Rodelle Larson
DISC TWO
1. LAFFIN’ BEATNIK – Johnny Beeman
2. DOG – Bob Dorough
3. BEATNIK – Bob Mersey
4. MAMBLUES – Cal Tjader’s Modern Mambo Quintet
5. MANHATTAN FABLE – Babs Gonzales
6. SWING LOW SWEET CADILLAC (PART 1) – Aggie Dukes
7. DON’T TEMPT ME – Al & Ina Harris
8. NO PICTURES, PLEASE – Rod McKuen
9. REACHING INTO IN – Ken Nordine
10. YIP ROC HERESY – Slim Gaillard And His Middle Europeans
11. BUT BABY – Steve Allen
12. PROFESSOR BOP – Three Bips And A Bop
13. LIKE YOUNG – Anne Henry
14. THE GOATEE’S GOTTA GO – Dick Summer
15. TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT – Beverly Garland
16. THE BEAT GENERATION – Bob McFadden
17. THE GASSER – Roy Eldridge
18. PIMPLES AND BRACES – Spike Jones And His City Slickers
19. KOOKIE’S MAD PAD – Edd ‘Kookie’ Byrnes
20. BEATNIK’S WISH – Patsy Raye And The Beatniks
21. LONESOME BOY BLUES – Kenneth Patchen With Allyn Ferguson And The Chamber Jazz Sextet
22. BLAH – Sidney And The Chimps
23. SQUARE DANCE FOR ROUND CATS – Edd ‘Kookie’ Byrnes