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5 versions of "pirate jenny" by:
nina simone
marc almond
hildegard knef
bea arthur
marianne faithful

http://www.mediafire.com/?yiwlnlremwq


great song i just heard at the end of the 'watchmen: tales of the black freighter' dvd. (the nina simone version)



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14 versions of skokiaan by:
Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
Louis Armstrong
Nico Carstens
The Dynamites
Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra
johnny gomez
Ray Anthony & His Orchestra
Bill Haley
Johnny Hodges
The Ventures
Perez Prado & His Orchestra
Hot Butter
Kamen, Michael
Justin Michell

http://www.mediafire.com/?yztfzzdnwmm

the original version is by the bulawayo sweet rhythm band from zimbabwe led by august musaruwa. skokiaan is a really potent south african moonshine. somewhere down the line, a canadian singer named tom glazer added the dopey african stereotype lyrics that armstrong uses. johnny hodges' version has a then unknown john coltrane playing on it. mine was a really fragmented partial version done from having a bit of melody stuck in my head for weeks when i lived in chicago around 1999 not knowing what it was or where i had heard it. it was made on some casio toy keyboards and a 4-track to try to exorcise the tune from my head so i could move on to other things and stop being obsessed with it. i got some of it sort of accurate and added a bunch of other improvised bits over it. about 8 years later i was driving across country and playing one of my mom's cds of louis armstrong and i finally figured out what it had been.