DJ Greybush Presents: Jams Fo Yo Grams

I see you Gertrude, shaking dat azz!!  *Points at old lady in a chair gumming her boiled carrots.*  These right here are "Jams Fo Yo Grams," or lullabies for teenagers.  They have a little bit of oomph for old people music, they might get your false hip a swaying.  Make your blue permed hair stand on edge.  Just don't try and spin this mix for the 8th graders, they like stuff like the Real McCoy, songs sung by Germans about Tawk Tawking and running away to "Another Night."  At least that's how it was in my day, minus the liking German's part, we sort of had issues with them in my day, but that's a story for another day.
Seriously?  This was popular?  The 90's were gross.

The Real McCoy


That was like showing you the 3 so you consider sleeping with the 5 at the bar.  I apologize for that, as a child of that exact type of catastrophe, I can say that it doesn't end well for anyone.  But hey, now anything you listen to will sound that much better, it's only through the bitter that we can appreciate the sweet.  This track from the mix is a 10 no matter what though so that whole exercise was pretty pointless.  I just wanted to take you back to that awkward cafeteria of segregated genders awkwardly gyrating in a stand off, the smell of fake smoke and puberty wafting through the air.

Songs and the mix after the jump.




The song is the RJD2 remix of Astrud Gilberto's "Gentle Rain."  This is off of the Verve Remixed vol 3 album that I mentioned in the first installment of The Goods.  It's not representative of the whole mix but it's good and it's on there, and I will do whatever I damn well please.  I could even make the entire mix Kelis' "Milkshake" for 21 tracks, you wouldn't really know until you downloaded it...hmmm.  *scribbles note to self*

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Astrud Gilberto- Gentle Rain (RJD2 remix)

Also included on this mix is the sultry smooth Nat King Cole with L-O-V-E.  Look at that picture, and then read this quote.  "Cole was a heavy smoker of Kool menthol cigarettes. He believed smoking kept his voice low. (He would smoke several cigarettes in succession before a recording for this very purpose.) He died of lung cancer on February 15, 1965, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California."  I am not sure if it was the smokes that made you sound so good, but thanks for all of the effort?  It does sound like a rich, roasted, smoky voice, but I think we all would have rather just had you  be alive.  Maybe you could have saved Natalie from the disaster that was most of her life, that was really mean.  Who said that? 

Nat King Cole- L-O-V-E

Pat Suzuki is a Nisei Japanese American singer that was born in California in the 1930's.  Her family was interned during World War II after the issuance of Executive Order 9066.  Shortly after in the 50's she attended San Jose State University, *if you look over to your right we can see the statue erected for the 442nd.*  Sorry, somehow we managed to stumble onto an Asian American history tour.

The era of her popularity is interesting though.  Not far removed from internment based on otherness and being seen as representative of the enemy, she managed to become popular, amongst a bevy of blonds.  She was the original star of the Broadway version of, "The Flower Drum Song."  Her music was not groundbreaking, her songs were mostly enforcing damaging stereotypes of patriarchy or they were covers of the popular standards of the time.  But hey she was there and that is something in and of it itself 

Here is the song from the mix, great message huh?

Pat Suzuki- Daddy


and her performance of "From This Moment On" from the Frank Sinatra show.

Other features include; Blossom Dearie, Dinah Shore, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, France Gall, Sam Cooke, Tony Bennett and people like that.

DJ Greybush Presents: Jams Fo Yo Grams