Ep. 032: Magic Number

Cubed for your pleasure.

Performer Track Album Original Release Year New Show Notes
Sweet Jazz Trio Dream a Little Dream of Me "What a Wonderful World" - To Louis with Love 2017 Swedish jazz trio for 30 years
Nick Drake Three Hours Five Leaves Left 1969
Fats Domino Three Nights a Week A Lot of Dominos 1960
Marisa Anderson Trinity Mercury 2013
De La Soul The Magic Number 3 Feet High and Rising 1989 Originally released March 3, 1989. RIP Trugoy.
Your DJ Speaks
Bob Dorough Three Is the Magic Number Multiplication Rock - Orginial Soundtrack 1973
Johnny Cash Five Feet High and Rising Songs of Our Soil 1959 Yes - Johnny Cash's childhood home actually did get flooded out.
Syl Johnson Different Strokes Dresses Too Short 1968 Syl Johnson had retired from music in the mid-1980s, but he went back to performing once he learned that his music was getting sampled extensively by hip-hop artists. (He also vigorously pursued his intellectual property rights.)
Double Dee & Steinski Lesson 3 - History of Hip Hop What Does It All Mean - 1983-2006 Retrospective (Steinski complilation album) 2008 (single originally released in 1985) Hugely influential.
Your DJ Speaks
Shorty Rogers & the Giants The Three Little Bops You Shorty, Me Tarzan 2010 (single originally released in 1957)

Here's the cartoon where this song was the soundtrack was used:

Three Little Bops!!! from Márcio Leal on Vimeo.

The Postmarks Three Little Birds By The Numbers 2009
The Coasters Three Cool Cats There's a Riot Goin' On: The Coasters on Atco 2007 (Single originally released in 1959)
Andrew Bird Three White Horses Hands of Glory 2012
Your DJ Speaks
Oracle Sisters Tramp Like You Single 2023 *
The Smile Speech Bubbles A Light for Attracting Attention 2022 * Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner
Yo La Tengo Apology Letter This Stupid World 2023 * Annual Yo La Tengo show on WFMU: 6 March, 9pm-12midnight
Your DJ Speaks
Crosby, Stills & Nash Helplessly Hoping Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969 RIP Cros
Your DJ Signs Off
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