American Highways Episode 15: “Black Coffee”
Back by popular demand, another episode on cooking and eating. From pop art to pop tarts, Guy Livingston brings us an entertaining and deadpan look at the sounds of food, in a show called “Black Coffee.”
In this episode of American Highways, you can savor animal crackers, Lime-Jello-Marshmallow-Cottage-Cheese-Surprise, spaghetti with tomatoes (recipe by Mario Batalli), strawberries and devil crabs, steak, dadaist baguettes, and more…
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Theme Music :
Steve Reich. The Desert Music (1984)
First Movement (Fast).
Chorus of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas & William Carlos Williams.
Nonesuch Records 79101.
Maceo Pinckard
1. Sugar
Louis Armstrong
NOTNOW Music 2CD233
Sonny Burke
2. Black Coffee
Carmen McRae
BMG Music 3110-2-N
Ray Henderson
3. Animal Crackers In My Soup
Shirley Temple
Matrix Runout EP602A
William Bolcom
4. Lime Jello, Marshmallow, Cottage Cheese Surprise
Lesley Pryde & Laura Leon
CD Baby 660355583520
One Ring Zero
5. Spaghetti With Sweet 100 Tomatoes (text by Mario Batali)
Black Balloon Publishing 2014
George Gershwin
6. Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab
Miles Davis
NOT NOW Music 2CD338
The Reverend Horton Heat
7. Eat Steak
SPCD 96
The Beach Boys
8. Vegetables
Capitol Records 50999
Lazy Lester
9. Sugar Coated Love
RHINO R2 71124
Arlo Guthrie
10. Alice’s Restaurant Massacre (live)
Reprise Records 6267-2
David Dramm
11. Hello Pop Tart
Performers: David Dramm, Tomoko Mukaiyama, Anne La Berge, Cor Fuhler, Hans Van Der Meer, Wolter Wierbos, Carl G. Beukman.
BVHaast 9801
Frank Zappa
12. Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich
The Mothers of Invention
Barking Pumpkin Records D2 74239