Showing posts with label Ken Nordine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Nordine. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Ken Nordine performs "Tribute to Ed Paschke" MP4 download

Click here to download in MP4 direct
Runs approx 5 minutes



Google: Ed Paschke was a legendary Chicago artist. video Nick Brown used original content from Miroslaw Rogala, www.rogala.org to make the video. This was excerpts from a collaborative project by Ed Paschke, Ken Nordine http://www.wordjazz.com and Miroslaw Rogala. It was shown at the Art Institute of Chicago Memorial Celebration for Ed Paschke on March 17th, 2005

Friday, August 01, 2008

Ken Nordine's "Flibberty Jib"



This track is from 1957 by the great Ken Nordine. Don't know who Nordine is? Well he's the creator of "Word Jazz" which is a bevy of esoteric imagery. Yes i know that's a vague answer at best but the wit and whimsy is hard to describe; kind of like how Leonard Cohen always wished the sly humour in his music would have also made him recognized as a humourist as well as a great singer/song writer.

FYI: The video behind this vinyl track means nothing relating t Nordine. I assume the uploaded just used it to get the audio on Youtube so feel free to close your eyes and drift away in the river of Word Jazz

If you like what you hear and want to check out more Ken Nordine an excellent start is "You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz" from the Dot Records Master series which also includes the track above as well as a bevy more on two discs that you can check out at Amazon.com clicking right here

Monday, October 01, 2007

Ken Nordine with The Grateful Dead MP3

Click here to visit The Grateful Dead Visit Oakland page over at Archive.org to download in MP3
(scroll down using the flash based player to track 10 and then right click to download the track - sorry I couldn't snag a direct link)

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

A bevy of Ken Nordine Strange but True Mp3s

Click the file size to play (or right click to download) direct from Archive.org

Archive.org: This series consisted of 15 minute shows, similar in format to Ripley's Believe It Or Not that had aired from 1930 to 1948. It was hosted/narrated by Ken Nordine and was produced by Unusual Features Syndicate. This syndicated series was heard on the Mutual network during 1950 and 1951 on various days and at various times. For example, according to "The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All Circulating Shows" by Jay Hickerson, it aired on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 PM from April 17, 1950 through June 5, 1951 and on Saturdays at 5:15 PM from June 30, 1951 through December 22, 1951.

The Man Who Walked Behind763.0K
Water, Water Everywhere762.3K
Mr Watt's Awakening851.8K
Dead Man's Mirror883.0K
The Man Who Saw Everything781.6K
Human Atmosphere927.9K
The End of David Lang815.0K
What Day Will He Die839.9K
The Playful Spirit912.0K
Beware My Son861.4K
Death of a Monster856.4K
The Lady and the Lake841.3K
The Woman Upstairs847.4K
Footprints in the Sand853.7K
The Dusk Is Deceptive891.5K
Enemy Unknown854.5K
Barren Ground814.4K
Trail of the Werebeast928.5K
Veins of the Marble848.2K
Death Makes a Landing891.7K
Valley of Doom931.2K
The Roving Pansinis868.1K
The Room Upstairs825.7K
Intruder on the Earth857.6K
Music by Moonlight921.2K
Cross of Blood790.1K
Pretend You're Pavova906.3K
Desert Magic916.8K
The Vanishing Clergyman866.4K
Voice of the Dead917.8K
The Burglar of Blackpool875.4K
Masque of Mystery857.8K
The Abominable Snowman887.5K
The Man Who Said Mass834.7K
Two Heads Are Better907.4K
Film of Death871.8K
Handwriting on the Wall850.1K
Here Will You Lie901.9K
Perrenial Guest832.8K
Three Hundred Years Late908.8K
Two Men in the Moon857.2K
The Devil's Diggings858.7K
The Whereabouts of Mr Wadham906.8K
The Skull of Bettiscomb897.6K
The One That Got Away807.1K
Nemesis on the Left865.6K
Goodbye Mr Bathurst893.8K
Death Gives a Warning932.9K
Mr Browning's Cufflinks801.2K
The Doctor Pays a Call896.7K
Letter to a Friend877.5K
The Baming Spirit918.2K
Room 117839.0K
You Tell Me Your Dream882.9K
Three Who Died907.0K
Pray for Me858.7K
Familiar Streets843.6K
The Heat of Anger897.8K
Water Wheel877.1K
The Wolf on Bald Mountain877.5K
The Constable's Companion862.2K
Where There's Smoke846.1K
The Phantom Army878.1K
Rescue at Sea890.2K
The Monk of Sawtooth Mountain898.2K
Silent as a Tomb836.9K
Requiem866.6K
Death Has a Will905.9K
Heads Up865.4K
Only a Miracle871.6K
Welcome Home891.3K
The Wanderer871.8K
The Stowaway852.6K
Appointment in Stockholm867.7K
Death Notice892.7K
The Temple of Beal896.3K
The Face of Death885.4K
Dragon of Van Buren County838.2K
Premonition864.3K
Naked Man of Newbury908.0K

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

A bevy of Ken Nordine's Colors



Plus click here to listen to Susan Stamberg and Robert Siegel muse on if The Office of Homeland Security should hire Nordine for their color security system from NPR.org

Click here to pick up Colors on CD over Amazon.com featuring a total of 34 tracks about colors

Amazon.com:
The voice-over man from a thousand commercials, Ken Nordine registers in your subconscious instantly: Wait, I know that guy! Smooth as an ice sculpture and ringing with "the voice of our sponsor," Nordine has personified authority since the 1960s. It's disorienting at first to hear the way Nordine lets go on this record with a Beat-inspired, mellifluous-sounding, Dr. Seuss-like exploration of the meanings of different colors. Many of the pieces are parables on racism and human behavior, but they're also totally silly, and meant to be. Recorded in the late 1960s, the 34 tracks manage to be sort of psychedelically goofy but charming at the same time. "Absolute gray is the grayest gray / That's the same distance from absolute white as it is from absolute black," Nordine almost-sings to a delightful, freeform studio backing of hip jazz. All your mix tapes will be very happy that you've bought this strange record to flavor them with. --Mike McGonigal

Friday, December 01, 2006

A never ending bevy of Ken Nordine!

Well check it out. Ken Nordine's show "Word Jazz" can be heard on Chicago Public Radio every Sunday night at midnight. Just click on either of the links below to catch it every week.




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Monday, October 23, 2006

A bevy of Ken Nordine


Well check this out...Apprently Ken has been doing a some work with NPR. They've also got the pieces archived in streaming media on their website. Check them out here:

Commentator Ken Nordine plays with the expressions we use. Among his favorites: "cookies crumble" and things that "go to pot." Both have played a part in his dreams.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5380559

Commentator Ken Nordine says it's hard to pin down the exact thing called "now." He says even a nanosecond has a beginning, middle and end.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065035

Commentator Ken Nordine explores how to be good at the game of golf. He says you need the right grip. He imagines playing against God.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4756383

Commentator Ken Nordine imagines a small device that can tell others if a person is lying by changing the way they blink their eyes. He says office-seekers would need to have it implanted.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4706679

One of the lessons of Sept. 11, according to the bipartisan commission that released its report last year, was that the government failed to think independently Thinking differently is highly valued skill to sound artist and commentator Ken Nordine.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4456347

Commentator Ken Nordine uses his two voices to hold an interior dialogue about a cage looking for a bird. The two argue over the need for the security of a cage in a dangerous world filled with hungry cats. The bird decides to take his chances; he values freedom more than safety.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3821621

Sound artist Ken Nordine has a dilemma that is familiar to anyone who has taken medicine.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1803351

Sound artist and commentator Ken Nordine creates one of his trademark dialogues with himself about the choices of Homeland Security colors. He thinks there's a need for "in-between" colors -- those more than orange but less than red. He offers a palette of tones for these levels of alert: mauve, fuscia and so on -- and weighs how they'd go over.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1754000

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Word Jazz on the march...

The master of word jazz ,Ken Nordine, is back in his first DVD "The eye is never filled". Don't know who he is? Click here to read the Salon.com article or here to go to "The eye is never filled" product page on Amazon.

And if you like all that there's a few vids of Ken performing online:








A student film with narration by Ken



and for fun a unique selection of 80's kids commercials featuring Ken doing the voice over for the "Side Winder" toy car.



From youtube:

Here is commercial break #2 from an episode of Tom & Jerry from Afternoon Fun on WFLD Metromedia Channel 32 in Chicago. This dates to October of 1985. Includes:

(end of Farm of Tomorrow cartoon)

Afternoon Fun bumper (Maggie Brock announcing)

Starriors

Fruity Pebbles cereal (Contest - ends December 1985. Would it seem likely the contest would have started in 1984?)

Five Winders (Ken Nordine voice over)

Unicef Halloween Coupon books (with Metromedia 32 end card - with Jim Barton announcing)

Afternoon Fun bumper (now back to Tom & Jerry) (Maggie Brock announcing)