Monday, October 30, 2006

The Greatest Entertainment Ever Made

H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds performed by the Mercury Theater on the Air
(originally broadcast October 30, 1938)
Mp3, Mono, 128 kbps, 50.6 MB (Megaupload)















From the CD booklet:

The original, uncut dramatization!

On the foggy fall evening of October 30, 1938, America went to war with Mars!

Adapted for radio by Howard Koch and starring Orson Welles,
War of the Worlds was presented as a special Halloween thriller, or as Welles put it: "The Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying 'boo!'" But for those who tuned in late, "normal" programming appeared to be interrupted with the startling news that there were "explosions occurring on the Planet Mars!" Reports followed stating that a "huge, flaming object" had fallen to Earth on a farm near Grover's Mill, New Jersey. More landings were soon reported and an anxious radio audience came to the frightening conclusion that Earth was the target of a full-scale invasion by aliens!

'...Some shape is rising out of the pit.
I can make out a small beam of light againt a mirror.
What's that...It's a jet of flames springing from that mirror and it's pointed right at the heads of the men.
It strikes them head-on! They're turning to flames!'


This is the program which terrified a nation. Thousands fled their homes in panic. In the town of Grover's Mill, the local water tower was pumped full of buckshot as frightened believers fired at what they thought was a giant Martian war machine. The true power of broadcast made itself known on this Halloween eve. And no one has forgotten the chilling fear and awesome force of this, radio's single most famous broadcast!"


Read the Wikipedia story here.

Scares of Yesterday

Lights Out (Old time radio program)
Produced & directed by Arch Oboler, originally aired on CBS.
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 50.6 MB (Megaupload)














Two episodes:
Track 1: "Knock on the Door" [26:31]
(originally broadcast December 15th, 1942)

from the CD booklet:
"Arch Oboler hosts this terrifying tale of Ella, a woman who marries a simpleton named Jay for his money and tries, in vain, to get rid of her overbearing mother-in-law with whom they both live. The trouble is that the mother-in-law won't go away -- not even when Ella decides to drown her! A story not for the faint of heart!"

Track 2: "Murder in the Script Department" [29:20]
(originally broadcast May 11th, 1943)

from the CD booklet:
Arch Oboler once again hosts a terrifying tale that warns: "If you are easily frightened by these Lights Out stories, turn off your radio...now." This interesting opus takes place in the script department at CBS where two typists named Bernice and Mary are preparing to mimeograph a Lights Out script. As they are about to start working, very strange things begin to happen!

Friday, October 27, 2006

After All, He Wrote "Moon River"

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Henry Mancini - The Days of Wine & Roses [3-CD Box Set, 1995]


















Disc 1 (Megaupload)
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 66.4 MB
















1. Peter Gunn
2. Dreamsville
3. Slow & Easy
4. A Profound Gass
5. Walkin' Bass
6. My Manne Shelly
7. Blues For Mother's
8. Snowfall
9. Big Noise From Winnetka
10. Sing, Sing, Sing
11. Mr. Lucky
12. One Eyed Cat
13. Blue Satin
14. A Powdered Wig
15. High Time
16. The Second Time Around
17. Theme From 'The Great Imposter'
18. Rain Drops In Rio
19. Blue Mantilla
20. Moon River
21. Breakfast At Tiffany's
22. Holly
23. Experiment In Terror
24. Fluters' Ball
25. White On White

Disc 2 (Megaupload)
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 64.6 MB
















1. Theme From 'Hatari'
2. Baby Elephant Walk
3. Just For Tonight (Vocal)
4. Days Of Wine And Roses (Vocal)
5. Too Little Time
6. Bachelor In Paradise
7. Charade (Vocal)
8. Latin Snowfall
9. The Pink Panther Theme
10. Royal Blue
11. It Had Better Be Tonight (Vocal)
12. Piano And Strings
13. Dear Heart (Vocal)
14. Soldier In The Rain
15. How Soon (Vocal)
16. A Shot In The Dark
17. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
18. Come To The Mardi Gras
19. The Sweetheart Tree (Vocal)
20. The Great Race March (A Patriotic Medley)
21. Moment To Moment
22. Something For Sophia
23. We've Loved Before (Yasmin's Theme) (Vocal)
24. The Swing March
25. In The Arms Of Love (Vocal)
26. Cherokee (Indian Love Song)
27. Autumn Nocturne

Disc 3 (Megaupload)
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 68.6 MB
















1. The Shadow Of Your Smile
2. Blue Hawaii
3. Two For The Road (Vocal)
4. Something For Audrey
5. French Provincial
6. A Quiet Happening
7. I Like The Look (Vocal)
8. Wait Until Dark
9. Nothing To Lose (Vocal)
10. Love Theme From 'Romeo And Juliet'
11. Theme From 'The Molly Maguires'
12. As Time Goes By
13. Whistling Away The Dark
14. Loos Of Love
15. Theme From 'Love Story'
16. All His Children
17. Mystery Movie Theme
18. Theme From 'The Mancini Generation'
19. Theme From 'The Thief Who Came To Dinner'
20. Can't Get Started
21. Ludmilla's Theme
22. Oklahoma Crude
23. Send A Little Love My Way (Vocal)
24. Theme From 'The Girl From Petrovka'
25. Theme From 'The White Dawn'
26. Bumper's Theme
27. What's Happenning!!
28. Silver Streak

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Tumbling Pebbles

Links re-upped @ 320 kbps on 2/19/07.

Please report any broken links.

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads [1965]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 66.5 MB
















1. Mercy Mercy
2. Hitch Hike
3. The Last Time
4. That's How Strong My Love Is
5. Good Times
6. I'm All Right
7. Satisfaction
8. Cry To Me
9. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
10. Play With Fire Listen Listen
11. The Spider And The Fly
12. One More Try

The Rolling Stones - December's Children (And Everybodys) [1965]
Stereo, 320 kbps, 58.4 MB
















1. She Said Yeah
2. Talkin' About You
3. You Better Move On
4. Look What You've Done
5. The Singer Not The Song
6. Route 66
7. Get Off Of My Cloud
8. I'm Free
9. As Tears Go By
10. Gotta Get Away
11. Blue Turns To Grey
12. I'm Moving On

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Dayton Does It Right

Links re-upped on 9/26/08. Thanks to Kevin for the reminder.

Please say thanks and please report any broken links.

Ohio Players - Skin Tight [1974]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 83.1 MB
















1. Skin Tight
2. Streakin' Cheek To Cheek
3. It's Your Night / Words Of Love
4. Jive Turkey
5. Heaven Must Be Like This
6. Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved?

Ohio Players - Fire [1975]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 71.9 MB
















1. Fire
2. Together
3. Runnin' From The Devil
4. I Want To Be Free
5. Smoke
6. It's All Over
7. What The Hell
8. Together/Feelings

Ohio Players - Honey [1975]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 63.6 MB
















1. Honey
2. Fopp
3. Let's Do It (Let's Love)
4. Ain't Givin' Up No Ground
5. Sweet Sticky Thing
6. Lover Rollercoaster
7. Alone

Ohio Players - Contradiction [1976]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 75.6 MB
















1. Contradicition
2. Precious Love
3. Little Lady Maria
4. Far East Mississippi
5. Who'd She Coo?
6. My Life
7. Tell The Truth
8. My Ladies Run Me Crazy
9. Bi-Centennial

Ohio Players - Angel [1977]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 78.8 MB
















1. Angel
2. Merry Go Round
3. Glad To Know You're Mine
4. Don't Fight My Love
5. Body Vibes
6. Can You Still Love Me
7. O-H-I-O
8. Faith

Ohio Players - Jass-Ay-Lay-Dee [1978]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 74.1 MB

















1. Funk-O-Nots
2. Sleepwalkin'
3. Jass-Ay-Lay-Dee
4. Nott Enuff
5. Time Slips Away/Shoot Yer Shot
6. Dance (If Ya Wanta)

A Little 80s



Beat Street - Original Soundtrack [1984]
I think a few songs were omitted from this version uploaded to Rapidshare.

1. Beat Street Breakdown - Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five
2. Baptize the Beat - The System
3. Frantic Situation - Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force
4. Beat Street Strut - Juicy
5. US Girls - Sharon Green, Lisa Counts & Debbie D.
6. This Could Be The Night - Cindy Mizelle
7. Breaker's Revenge - Arthur Baker
8. Son of Beat Street - Jazzy Jay
9. Give Me All - Juicy
10. Nothin' Gonna Come Easy - Tina B.
11. Santa's Rap - The Treacherous Three
12. It's Allright By Me - Jenny Burton
13. Battle Cry - Rockers Revenge
14. Phony Four MCs Whippin' (Bubblehead) - Ralph Rolle
15. Into the Night - La La

Remember Morty? I miss this guy...

Monday, October 16, 2006

Tom Waits For Slow Men

Links repaired 12/20/06

Please report any broken links.

Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night [1974]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 84.4 MB


















1. New Coat Of Paint
2. San Diego Serenade
3. Semi Suite
4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For)
6. The Heart Of Saturday Night
7. Fumblin' With The Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk On The Moon
11. The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)

Tom Waits - Small Change [1976]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 99.9 MB


















1. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
2. Step Right Up
3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug)
4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
6. Invitation To The Blues
7. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)
8. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
9. The One That Got Away
10. Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)

Tom Waits - Heartattack & Vine [1980]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 87 MB


















1. Heartattack And Vine
2. In Shades
3. Saving All My Love For You
4. Downtown
5. Jersey Girl
6. 'Til The Money Runs Out
7. On The Nickel
8. Mr. Siegal
9. Ruby's Arms

Friday, October 13, 2006

Open Wide!

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Jaws (remastered) - Original Soundtrack by John Williams [1975]
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 46.9 MB














1. Main Title And First Victim
2. The Empty Raft
3. The Pier Incident
4. The Shark Cage Fugue
5. Shark Attack
6. Ben Gardner's Boat
7. Montage
8. Father And Son
9. Into The Estuary
10. Out To Sea
11. Man Against Beast
12. Quint's Tale
13. Brody Panics
14. Barrel Off Starboard
15. The Great Shark Chase
16. Three Barrels Under
17. Between Attacks
18. The Shark Approaches
19. Blown To Bits
20. 'Jaws' End Titles

Jaws 2 - Original Soundtrack by John Williams [1978]
mp3, stereo, 320 kbps, 81.6 MB
















1. Finding the "Orca" (Main Title)
2. Menu
3. Ballet for Divers
4. Water Kite Sequence
5. Brody Misunderstood
6. Catamaran Race
7. Toward Cable Junction
8. Attack on the Helicopter
9. Open Sea
10. Fire Aboard and Eddie's Death
11. Sean's Rescue
12. Attack on the Water Skier
13. Big Jolt!
14. End Title, End Cast

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Comedy from George Lopez

Links confirmed & protected on 4/18/07.

George Lopez - Right Now, Right Now [2001]
Mp3, Stereo, 80.5 MB
















George Lopez - Team Leader [2003]
Mp3, Stereo, 77.6 MB

Friday, October 06, 2006

Modern Men of Manners

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David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! [2002]
















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 44.6 MB

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 67.6 MB

David Cross - It's Not Funny [2004]
Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 64.7 MB

















David Cross on Religion (10:06)


Jim Gaffigan - Beyond the Pale [2006]
Mp3, Stereo, 75.7 MB




















Jim Gaffigan - "Hot Pocket!" (4:48)