{"id":1551,"date":"2010-08-25T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T02:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2010-09-06T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:42:12","slug":"song-of-the-day-tiger-rag-by-louis-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Tiger Rag” by Louis Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Fucking Armstrong.\u00a0 The Godfather of Death Metal.<\/p>\n

Would you believe this song<\/a> was recorded in the 1940s?\u00a0 And that the original was released on a 78rpm slate record from 1932?<\/p>\n

Believe it, or may hornets infest your toilet tank, and explode out of it with a mighty rage when you are bleary-eyed and trying to pee at 2:52 in the morning!<\/p>\n

Check out the drum solos!\u00a0 Here’s the drummer:<\/p>\n

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\nI’m not too sure about that actually… but whatever.\u00a0 I actually didn’t know that bands played music this fast and energetically back then.\u00a0 Great musicianship out of that combo too, and check out the hurdy gurdy solo near the end!<\/p>\n

I’m not in a mood to say much, or anything interesting really, but I just thought I’d share this gem with you.\u00a0 Louis always makes me smile.<\/p>\n

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Louis Fucking Armstrong.\u00a0 The Godfather of Death Metal. Would you believe this song was recorded in the 1940s?\u00a0 And that the original was released on a 78rpm slate record from 1932? Believe it, or may hornets infest your toilet tank, and explode out of it with a mighty rage when you are bleary-eyed and trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[396,397,395,31],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-30s","tag-40s","tag-louis-armstrong","tag-swing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}