Basin Street Blues
Kid Koala * Track #2 On Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
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Album Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
Basin Street Blues by Kid Koala
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Kid Koala’s take on the classic Basin Street Blues is, as with the rest of the album, a creative mix of turntablism and sampling. It’s mostly instrumental, containing none of the original song lyrics but adding some spoken vocal samples.
Basin Street Blues Lyrics
[Voice over: Lionel Hampton]
Right now, we gonna get together and give you a tune that we had a lot of requests for, for, for…
It’s our version of, of, of, of…
[Instrumental: Basin Street Blues]
[Voice over: unknown]
People listen to jazz for fun, fun, fun
Dance to jazz for fun, fun fun
And play jazz for fun, fun, fun, fun
[Voice over: William Reynolds, in "Pete Kelly's Blues"]
From, from, from the start it had a kind of epileptic charm
It fitted the times
It made jokes and it wept
And it laughed out loud, it dozed and sometimes spoke with regret
Basin Street Blues Q&A
When did Kid Koala release Basin Street Blues?
Kid Koala released Basin Street Blues on Mon Aug 18 2003.