"Scrooge" - Lord Buckley (Recorded 1960)
Album: "Lord Buckley Blowing His Mind (and yours, too)" (Released 1966)
World Pacific Records
World Pacific Records
We turn from Phil Moore and his hipster slang to a more "out there" purveyor of such: Lord Buckley.
He was an extremely odd comedian who had a part noble/part hipster persona. I'm not sure if he was ahead of his time, as that time still hasn't arrived.
Anyway, a lot of his shtick was translating classic works into jive and he turned his sights on Charles Dickens and "A Christmas Carol" with this cut from 1960:
Fascinating!
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