…is now posted in the Mystery Songs area.  Last week’s desecration delicacy was "Lonely Too Long" by Susan Lea.  Ripped it off an ol’ 45.

…is now posted.  Last week’s mystery song was "Jodel Cha Cha" by Alice Babs.  Two strange genres for the price of one!

…has just been posted.  Last week’s misery mystery song was "Rock Pretty Baby" by Ivy Shulman & the Bowties, from the 1951 soundtrack to Rock, Rock, Rock.

…has just been posted!  Sorry for the 11-hour delay.  I’m totally useless without my Mac, so please let me know if I screwed it up (again).

Last week’s song was "Trappelzakboogie" by Drie Kleine Kleuters.  I have no knowledge of what it is, where it came from, or even what it means; your guess is as good as mine!  I do know it’s weird, and funny, and pretty catchy.  I have a whole playlist of songs performed by psychotic rodents.

This week’s mystery song is…

…well I can’t tell you that or it wouldn’t be a mystery would it?  But I can tell you what last week’s song was.  "Like a Bird" by the late great Florence Foster Jenkins.  Some say she was the world’s worst opera singer but… I think she might have been the greatest, actually.

The second weekly Mystery Song is ready for consumption, and will disappear on the 21st.  Last week’s Mystery Song was "It’s A Gas" by Alfred E. Neuman.  It’s the unofficial theme song to my "Incredibly Strange Music" group on Audiogalaxy.  (Which is unfortunately dead in the water since we can’t trade songs anymore.)

Well, I’ve been thinkin’ and thinkin’, and thinkin’ some more.  YOU know and I know that I would never knowingly share any song on my website if there were any copyright issues in doing that.  Everything I want to share is soooooo out of print and so long-forgotten, it’s not even funny.  So I came up with a half-baked solution.  Edith’s Mystery Song!!  Do you love it??  I do.

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Liz Phair and The Raincoats at the Academy in New York, NY.

At Gallagher’s Ship’s Mast Pub in Brooklyn, NY

Matt Heckert at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York, NY

Jan Hammer and Tony Williams at the Bottom Line in New York, NY

Sacred Music, Sacred Dance: The monks of the Drepung-Loseling Monastery at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX

(Weird because I saw them play on this exact same date in 1982!)