Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Nine





This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.

J.D. Salinger
"For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" 1950.
from Nine Stories Little Brown and Company © 1953.


Download:

"Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy" mp3
by The Monroe Brothers, 1936.
available on Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4

"Blue Yodel No. 9" mp3
by Jimmie Rodgers, 1930.
with Louis Armstrong
available on Jimmie Rodgers: Recordings 1927-1933

"Apartment No. 9" mp3
by Keith Richards, 1977.
Out on Bail (and out of print).

"Number Nine Train" mp3
by Tarheel Slim, 1958.
available on Fire/Fury Records Story

"Riot in Cell Block No. 9" mp3
by the Robins, 1954.
available on Smokey Joe's Cafe

"Love Potion Number Nine" mp3
by the Coasters, 1971.
available on Down Home

"Cloud Nine" mp3
by The Temptations, 1969.
available on Cloud Nine

"If 6 Was 9" mp3
by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.
available on Axis: Bold as Love

"Revolution 9" mp3
by the Beatles, 1968.
available on The White Album

4 comments:

Bob Pomeroy said...

Great idea for a post! Made me think also of Sanford Clark's "9 Lb Hammer" with Al Casey on guitar.

Anonymous said...

Hey you should have gone for the Heavy Metal Ukulele Singalong version of Revolution#9 at www.rogeranddave.net

DSM III (g.a.e.t.) said...

Keith fell on me & my brother that year. He was being carried out of the after party for Tosh/SNL at One Fifth.
He got popped right after that, correct?

James said...

All very good songs.
Another good option would have been Roger Miller's "Engine Engine Number 9"