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March 2, 2007

Free mp3s: Bob Dylan sings Dr. Seuss?

Parody or the man having fun, this is wonderful.

Out of the mists of the anonymous Internets, just in time for The Cat in the Hat's 50th birthday, comes Dylan Hears A Who (where the songs automatically start streaming when you load the site) or as separate mp3s at BigO Singapore, which credits DHAW and guesses at the original tunes.

Seven songs:

Oh, The Things You Can Think! [Like A Rolling Stone]
Green Eggs & Ham [Tombstone Blues]
Miss Gertrudge McFuzz [Ballad of a Thin Man]
McElligot's Pool [?]
Too Many Daves [Worried Blues]
The Zax [?]
The Cat in the Hat [Visions Of Johanna]

I've been listening as I try to track this down. Sure sounds like Dylan. Even the harmonica. And the little vinyl turntable at the original site crackles through my speakers when the songs stop.

Buzz:
· Metafilter: Seuss via Zimmerman

· Roth Brothers:

To everybody who's curious about that amazing Dylan/Seuss thing I posted the other day (hi, MetaFilter!): I don't know anything about it, and the guy who sent it to me doesn't either, and it's one of those crazy Internet mysteries. What trips me out about it, though, is not just the awesomeness of Dylan singing Seuss (or Zimmerman singing Geisel, if you prefer) -- it's the fact that it was recorded by someone who knows how to recreate the sound of Columbia Records 1966.

The Dylan Hears A Who site is claimed by eyeberriedpall.com (get it?), which hosts two other audio-related sites -- for electric cowbells and audio plugins -- and slyly asks, "[This is not what you were looking for, is it?]"

Message on the streaming site: "If songs do not load in Internet Explorer, Please use Firefox." Heh.

Posted by Sheila Lennon at 11:43 AM | Permalink

Comments

I'm pretty sure the guy behind the Dylan/Dr. Seuss project is Kevin Ryan. I just blogged details about it today:

http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000743.html

Posted by: Brian Dear on March 17, 2007 9:39 PM

Brian, yes, the whois and googling suggest someone of that name is out there as hosting that site. Maybe he's the necessary front name for a group that may or may not also include Dylan. No one but Entertainment Weekly is publishing this, and they don't say much.

Without somebody giving him a call, we're just connecting the dots we see.

I didn't want to do that -- don't need the metadata that much. (How 'bout you?)

Posted by: Sheila Lennon on March 19, 2007 12:23 AM