Takes and Mistakes

Popular Culture’s Takes, Mis-takes and Out & Out Fakes on the Beat Generation

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Glenn Allen Howard – Introduction

Louis Armstrong – The Beat Generation (1959)

Vampira – Beat Poem (1959)

Johnny Staccato – The Poet’s Touch (1959)

Ed ‘Kookie’ Byrnes – 77 Sunset Strip Theme Song (1959)

Ed Byrnes & Connie Stevies – Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb (1959)

Ed Byrnes – Kookie’s Mad Pad (1960) GREAT slide show

Buddy Rich w/ Jerry Lewis (1960)

Jerry Lewis & Barbara Lawson – Desdemona’s Lament (1960)

Maynard G. Krebs gets 86’d from Riff’s Record Store (1960)

Maynard G. Krebs – Ker-Boom (1960)

Maynard G. Krebs – I’m Like Lost (1960)

Maynard G. Krebs – Clothes Are Like a Prison (1960)

Maynard G. Krebs – The Strangest Mating Call (c.1960) Turn the volume down!

Bullwinkle – How to be a Beatnik (early 60s)

Beany and Cecil w/ Lord Buckley as Go Man Van Gogh – The Wildman of Wildsville Witches near No Bikini Atoll (1961)

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Nervous Norvus (Jimmy Drake) – Dig (1956) audio only

Nervous Norvus (Jimmy Drake) – Transfusion (1956) audio only

Nervous Norvus (Jimmy Drake) – Ape Call (1956) audio only

Bob McFadden and Dor – The Beat Generation (1959) audio only

Patsy Raye & the Beatniks – Beatnik’s Wish (early 1960s) audio only