VG 167 Elephants

(elephant by Frits Jonker)

These are the best elephant songs sung by a skirt dancing Jumbo ever. Presented here for your listening pleasure and amusement, directly from the Low Lands Jungle Studio of the RTV ZOO.


01. Jean Jacques Perrey + Daivd Chazam - An elephant on the roof
02. Kayak - Mammoth
03. Cyril Stapleton - Elephant tango 27-5-1955
04. Anita Kerr Singers - Baby elephant walk
05. Dizzy Man's Band - Jumbo
06. Joe Venuti - Pink elephants (Blue Five) 28-2-1933
07. Hetty Heitink - De olifanten (C.Saint Saens)
08. The London Double Bass Sound - The Elephant
09. unknown elephant baby
10. Kamahl - Elephant song / Dikvoormekaarshow - De Olieman song
11. Frank Zappa - Jumbo Go Away
12. Syd Barrett - Effervescing elephant
13. Mardi gras brass band - baby elephant walk
14. Gruppo Sportivo - Mumbo Jumbo
15. Baby Elephant Mix (Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones, M718 Jive, RenéTouzet)
16. Helen Shepherd en de Nieuwkoopse Plassertjes - Er vliegt steeds een olifant voorbij.
17. Joe Loss - When I see an elephant fly (vocal - Chick Henderson)
18. King Crimson - Elephant talk
19. Toy Dolls - Nellie the elephant
20. Dave Baby Cortez, feat. Jan T. (flute) - Baby elephant walk
21. Jean Jacques Perrey - The Elephant never forgets
22. Dave Crusin - Baby elephant walk

More info and pictures: here

Jan T. of www.vreemdegeluiden.com

Robotica part 2

Frits Jonker writes in his weblog-entry from 2008 about this second robot compilation:

"In March of this year I wrote about Robotica, a compilation with robot songs.
It took me quite a while to put this compilation together, not to talk about the time it took to collect all the songs. There are many many robot songs, but as you know, a compilation is not just a bunch of songs with the same theme. Because I liked the first Robotica CD so much, I made a part 2:
The recipe is exactly the same: songs about robots and/or by robots, with as much bloops and bleeps as I could find."

01 Clunky Robot - Initialize Program
02 Doctor Worm - Red Robot
03 Devo - Mechanical man
04 My Robot Friend - Robot High School
05 8 Bit - You ain't no robot
06 Sexy Finger Champs - Go robot go
07 Futurama - Robot Hell
08 Glass Shark - I love my disco robot
09 Grendizer - Ufo Robot
10 Robot - Machine Dance
11 (unknown) - Robot Holiday
12 Pete Miser - Scent of a robot
13 Paniq - Heavy working robot
14 Marvin the paranoid android
15 Obe - Alien Android
16 K. Leary + D. Marsden - Mr. Robot Spaceman
17 Five Step Path - Cloop Robot
18 Bob Nanna - Robot Dance Contest
19 My Robot Friend - We're The Pet Shop Boys
20 Zoo - Jeg Robot
21 Kraftwerk - The Robots (remix)
22 Magoo - Robot Twin
23 Victor Lams - Farmer Joe
24 Marideth Kay Clark + Ricky Marson - More Than A Robot
25 The Might Be Giants - Robot Parade

JT

Robotica 1

This is Frits Jonker's first "Robotica" compilation, from 2008. For more info read this blogpost (in english).

01 Dr Apostrophe X - Robot Love
02 Rot Front - Robot
03 Daft Punk - Robot Rock
04 Panic-Neurons firing at will - Heavy working Robot
05 Sexy Finger Champs - Go-Robot-Go
06 Tatu - I am a robot
07 Rachet + Clank - Robot Song
08 Perkowitz - Robot in love
09 Victor Lams - Robot Love
10 Flight of the Conchords - The humans are dead
11 Cheap Robot - Robot Funk
12 Milwaukee Youth Center Choir - Red Robot
13 My Robot Friend - Robot High School
14 Jasmina Kostic Mina - Sexy Robot
15 Billy Doom - 60 cycle hum
16 Arling + Cameron - Dirty Robot
17 Goldie looking chain - Robot
18 Alien Faktor - Robots theme
19 Merideth Kaye Clark - Girl robot
20 The aliens - Robot man
21 Giant Robot - Giant Robot
22 Star Salzman - Chrono Trigger, The incredible singing robot.

JT

Arabica 4

Frits Jonker's fourth Arabica compilation. He mentions it on his blog april 18, 2013 where you can also find several versions of the artwork (included in the second zipfile).  A handfull of songs were included in other mixtapes by Frits. Three deliberately and four by accident. But sometimes a song belongs just where it belongs. Although Frits himself doesn´t think highly of this particular compilation, I enjoyed it very much, more than once!

01 Flat Earth Society - Twilight in Turkey
02 The Tammy's - Egyptian Shumba
03 The Saxons - Camel Walk
04 Suba Martinez - Hotel Alyssa - Soussie, Tunesia
05 The Langhorns - Camel Ride
06 Duke Ellington - Arabian Love
07 The Majestics - Oasis Part Two
08 Billy Haley + his Comets - Oriental Rock
09 Gamian + his Orientals - My Funny Valentine
10 The Wrong Notes - Oriental Dance
11 Boo & The Boo-boo's - Oriental Boo
12 Egyptian lover - Egypt Egypt
13 Nat King Cole - Caravan
14 Sabu Martinez - Afro Temple
15 Batacuda - The Fakir
16 The Spinshots - Fetish for veils
17 Ganim's Asia Minors - Daddy Lolo
18 (Unknown) - Chenai Funk
19 Rodney & The Blazers - Oriental Nightmare
20 The Black Albino's - Shish Kebab
21 Elvis Presley - Little Egypt
22 The Delco's - Arabia
23 Alan Barniciat - Trip to the Orient
24 (unknown) - Arabic drums
25 The Merits - Arabian Jerk
26 Mohamed + his Robed Rockers - Harem orgy
27 The Sheiks - Ya Ha Bi Bi
28 The Underground Horns - Arabian Flavour

JT

Arabica 3

Frits Jonker made a second "selection of Middle Eastern exploitation pop" in february 2008. Why it's called "Arabica 3" and more questions will be answered (in Engish!) when reading his blogpost about it.

01 The Arabian Knights - Night in Arabia
02 Ramses + Selmet - Crazy One
03 Erkose Kardesler + Saz Guburu - Kelle Dansi
04 Eddie (The Sheik) Kochak + Fred Elias + The El-Mecca Ensemble - Sahara Sue
05 Jonathan Richmond + The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
06 Don Cavalli - The Pharao
07 Monsoon - Sunset over the Ganges
08 Mohamemed El Bakkar + his oriental ensemble - Ali Baba
09 The Twisters - Istanbul
10 The Puddle Jumpers - Snake Charmer
11 Clyde Borly - Taboo
12 Mohammed + his Robed Rockers - Harlem orgy
13 Ambrose + his orchestra - B'Wanga
14 The Sheiks - Ja Ha Bi Bi
15 Johnny + The Hurricanes
16 NV Groep 65 - Tanger
17 The Delcos - Arabia
18 Eddie (The Sheik) Kochak + Fred Elias + The El-Mecca Ensemble - Belly Dancer
19 Al Roberts JR Rockin'In Egypt
20 Nico - The Sphinx
21 The Parisians - Ambush
22 Mad Man Jones - Snake Charmer
23 The Merits - Arabian Jerks
24 The Dukes - in Istanboel
25 The Jumping Jewels - Istanbul
26 Mohammed El Bakkar + his oriental ensemble - Cha cah of the pharao
27 Omar Key - Turkish Coffee
28 Nino Nardino + Roger Roger - White Snake

JT

Nether-Arabica

In his own blogpost, december 3th, 2013 about it Frits Jonker writes this was a very difficult compilation to make: Dutch language songs about the Arabic world. They are hard to find and when you do they turn out to be silly and full of clichés both musically and lyrically. But I think that's what makes this mix so fun to listen to.

Neder-Arabica 1

01 Intro [Fata Morgana, De Efteling]
02 Armand - Op de tandem naar Marokko
03 De Babies - De Maharadja
04 The Dukes - In Istanboel
05 Pietje Potent - Staking in de harem
06 [Philips personeel musical] - O Harem
07 Willy Sarphati - Ik zit op een kameel
08 Abdul Khadir + Familie - Da's goed, M'neer
09 Studio Rio Grande - Op een markt in de Sahel
10 De Rumba specialisten - Ali Baba
11 Connie Vink - 13 Arabieren en 1 Kameel
12 NV Groep 65 - Tanger
13 De Toeristen - Het kamelenlied
14 Het Cocktail Trio - Café Oriëntal
15 De Strangers - Buikendans
16 [Philips personeel musical] - Wees lief voor de Kalief
17 Ted Powder Kwinter - Vertel mij, Rabbi
18 (Efteling) - De Vliegende fakir Sanai Gath
19 Ali Osram FT. Evert Baptist - Een kameel dat is zo gek
20 Kaa de Slang - Bouw op mij [Jungleboek]
21 Corry Brokken - Mustapha
22 De Marlets - Ali Baba
23 Herman Finkers - Aladin
24 Brigitte Kaandorp - De woestijn (The desert

JT

Batmania

I've already mentioned Frits Jonker, comic letterer from origin, but he does a lot more, part of which you can see on his website "Showcase". He also makes a lot of great music compilations. For today I just picked "Batmania" as a sequel to 5th avenue buses trip to Gotham city. Artwork by FJ himself of course. More will follow, or as Frits says it at the back of his comp.: "The worst is yet to come!"

JT

01 Adam West & Burt Ward - Promo 1966
02 Neal Hefti - Batman Theme
03 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Robin
04 Labert Elis - Batman
05 Lavern Baker - Batman to the rescue
06 Snoop Dogg - Batman & Robin
07 Alien Sex Fiend - Batman
08 Tom Hazelton & Gene Ciszek - Mr Bach meets Batman
09 The Combo Kings - Batman to the rescue
10 The Jam - Batman
11 Robin - Robin Boy Wonder
12 (unknown) - Batman
13 Les & Larry Elgart - Batman
14 Burgess Meredith (The Pinguin) - The escape
15 Chris Abott - Batman The Caped Cruisader
16 Adam West - Miranda
17 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Batman
18 Automatous Monk - Paul Reiners - Batman
19 George Love - Batman
20 The Bat Boys - Behind the 8 Ball
21 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Flight of Batman
22 Adam West - The Story of Batman
23 Jan en Dean - The Joker is Wild
24 Lenlow - To the Taxmobile
25 Microchips - Juguessoma Batman
26 Frank Gorshin - The Riddler
27 Dave Allen & The Arrows - Batman
28 Peggy Lee - That Man