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March 17, 2025: There Are No Words" - Hinky Dinky Time 2025 - Liner Notes
| Artist | Track | Album | Comments |
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| David Crosby |
Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) (Demo)
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Demo version of a song from Crosby's 1971 solo debut "If I Could Only Remember My Name" album, performed by David Crosby & Graham Nash. |
| Focus |
Hocus Pocus
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Or "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, if you prefer. From the album "Focus II" released in 1971. |
| Matching Mole |
Instant Pussy
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Eponymous 1972 debut release by the Canterbury Scene band of the same name. |
| Alessandro Alessandroni |
Ghen-Ghen-Ghe
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Originally released in 1970 on Italian library/production label Deneb.from the album "I Cantori Moderni Di A. Alessandroni". |
| Fantômas |
Book 1 Page 3
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 2014 Ipecac release by Fantômas (Buzz Osborne, Dave Lombardo, Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn), "Wunderkammer". |
| Talking Heads |
I Zimbra
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | The opening track of Talking Heads' 1979 album "Fear of Music", it's an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem Gadji beri bimba. |
| Íîãó Ñâåëî! (Cramp In The Leg!) |
Haru-Mamburu
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | I really don't know anything. Try this. |
| The Beach Boys |
Passing By
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1968 album "Friends". The song features Brian Wilson humming in place of the discarded lyrics "While walking down the avenue / I stopped to have a look at you / And then I saw / You were just passing by". |
| Nina Simone |
Flo Me La
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1960 album "Nina At Newport", it's an African safari pack-bearers walking chant, "flo me la" may actually have a translation to "to walk" or "walk along", or perhaps not. |
| Elton John |
Solar Prestige A Gammon
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1974 album "Caribou" with 'lyrics' by Bernie Taupin. According to Elton; "I thought it would be great to write a song with English words that didn't mean a thing, but that sounded fantastic when put together." Allegedly inspired in some manner by The Beatles' "Sun King". |
| Adriano Celentano |
Prisencolinensinainciusol
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent. Treat yourself, and watch this. |
| Yma Sumac |
Tumpa (Earthquake)
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1955 album "Voice Of The Xtabay". Is there evidence that these are translatable from some unfamiliar language? You tell me. |
| George Kranz |
Din Daa Daa
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | This 1983 record has been described by The Police's Stewart Copeland as "a dialogue between a chimpanzee and a drummer". An onomatopoeiac celebration of percussion. |
| Barbara Moore |
Hot Heels
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1972 Music de Wolfe library/production release "Vocal Shades And Tones". |
| Vulfpeck |
Sauna
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 2022 Vulf Records release "Schvitz". |
| Piero Umiliani |
Mah Nà Mah Nà
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Did you think Jim Henson was responsible for this? Here's the excerpt from the 1968 Italian mondo film "Sweden: Heaven and Hell" ("Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso") in which the song first entered the culture. |
| Francis Lai |
Un Homme Et Une Femme
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | The well-known main theme from the 1966 film "Un Homme Et Une Femme" ("A Man and a Woman"). |
| Karl Denver |
Wimoweh
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | A 1961 hit for the Scots falsetto yodeler, born: Angus Murdo McKenzie. |
| Oscar Peterson Trio With Clark Terry |
Mumbles
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1964 Mercury release "Oscar Peterson Trio + One", featuring a vocal by Clark Terry. |
| Ennio Morricone |
The Ecstacy of Gold (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | Edda Dell'Orso vocal on one of Ennio Morricone's best known composition. An iconic bit cinema musical history. |
| Les Baxter Featuring Bas Sheva |
Hate
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1954 Capitol release "Les Baxter Featuring Bas Sheva – The Passions". Bas Sheva was born "Bernice Kanefsky". |
| Swingle Singers |
Alexander's Fugue
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There Are No Words-The Hinky Dinky Time 2025 Marathon Premium | From the 1966 Phillips release by the Swingle Singers and the Modern Jazz Quartet, "Place Vendôme". |
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