thousand bing bangs by Ken Nordine

[sturoc0]

Ken uploads Ken,

AWESOME !

[memfisman]

Been looking for you a many moon. Now I can hear everything you have here. Thanks!

[pookoos]

This is the best stuff to listen to for nighttime driving and long, cool, road trips. In fact, Word Jazz got me from Alaska to Louisiana. Long trip, great memories of driving around strange towns looking for little roadside motels at midnight. Good times :-)

[enigmadroid]

Vril-liant!

[CadillacL]

Ken, you ARE the master.

[kennordine]

Best way to listen to word jazz is with binaural ear phones.

Your dad did you a favor.

ken

[zenfascist]

@kennordine

What are binaural ear phones? I though you could use any head phones for the binaural effect? Does this actually use binaural technology?

[daredevillv]

My father used to put headphones on me as a child and play the word jazz "boxed set" of cassettes from National Public Radio. I still have them ....what a trip.....

[sonofabippi]

Man, I LOVE youtube for introducing me to all sorts of interesting stuff out there.

[greasepuddle]

Ken, in high school my friend had a tape of a guy talking to himself about how his mother got him started on the stuff. A high voice is asking him questions. 80 cups a day. 80??? Much more than 80! I have been looking for it for a while now - possibly the funniest thing I've heard in my life. Can you enlighten me as to the title? Or possibly post it? All the best, keep on keeping on.

[kennordine]

I vaguely remember doing the addictive coffee bit. Have to do a word search of the stack of word jazz I've done, could be up there in the archival attic. If I find it, I'll letcha know.

ken

[CadillacL]

@kennordine FIrst time I knew of your work was for Sanka.

[karl198]

@greasepuddle Its here on youtube! It's called 'coffee' , search ken nordine coffee.

[greasepuddle1]

@karl198 THank you so much

[kennordine]

thanks for the empathy

I never went to work, I only went to play.

just me again ken

[BeauJames59]

YAS!!! I believe your work and Alan Watts gave my brain and soul a much-needed stretch in a little middle class neighborhood in Portland Or, circa 1976........

[Jeanne812]

It's 6am and I can't think of a better way to welcome a new day. It's like you've borrowed into the furthest reaches of my mind and extracted the rhythms of thought only I rarely find. I thought there was someone in there!

[joemama4twenty]

I can't believe I found you here! A dear friend turned me on to Word Jazz in college a few years back...okay, nearly 30 years ago. I used to stay up till 5 am on Sunday mornings so I could hear (and tape) your show on KUT in Austin. I still have those old cassettes somewhere...along with several CDs I've picked up over the years. Listening to you in the dark is a special pleasure for me - thanks so much!!

[kennordine]

I persist. Thanks for your comments.

ken

[joemama4twenty]

And we are most thankful that you do. One of the things on my "wish list" is to see you perform live - do you ever hit the road these days?

[lupocephalic]

@kennordine

"I persist"

Indeed you do, sir. Kindly continue.

[childfree]

Wow, I did the same exact thing (late 70s early 80s) except I lived in a housing co-op one block west of the Drag at UT with 36 people so I would turn it on Sunday morning for the whole house to hear when they came down for breakfast, at least the early risers or the ones just going to bed. I wish I could buy all of Nordine's material on digital media. Is it available somewhere? I remember "Pushups, pushups and jogging" with the background voice on one segment...Nordine is a genius!

[sktball3r]

i want to see more of the colors stuff ken ftw

[dannyboy5678]

I'm truely impressed. I thought I was the

only Ken fan left till I found the Tube.

Tx again. Refreshing to hear him again.

[archonite]

Once again the notion hits me

half is quite a bit of wit...

Awesome!!!

[kennordine]

thanks...

take a look

at something else I had fun doing

called AB & STRACT I just put on YouTube,

it's about 'mind reading lessons'

ken

[tommiji]

OMG! Ken Nordine's on YouTube! Holy cow, you're on YouTube, Ken!!! Hey, someone tell Ken he's on YouTube!!!

*subscribes*

Whoa! Plus YIPPEEEE!!!

*spends entirely too much time on ken's YT channel*

:D

peace, - tomg

[quinnskylark]

You're a longtime inspiration for me. Many thanks Mr. Nordine!

[kennordine]

yup. Coffee percolates thru my brain every morning, washing away the remnants of lactic acid, filtering into whatever the limbic is getting a grip on. thanks for the applause...

ken

[Niespodziewanie]

I like you a lot.

She held her heart from the railing

brushing the skies with her fingers

she had jumped before.

Do you drink coffee, Ken?

[Rhemasonador]

Nice to see you check here every now and then Ken--best wishes Sir.

[kennordine]

Back from doing 2 stints in NY..invited to the High Line Festival by David Bowie,

a happy high point. Back to the valley of normalcy. And evanescent fireworks.

[Rhemasonador]

Masterful delivery but well, what else can one expect from the Master of Theatre of the Mind! HUGS--Andy

[sunchaser69]

thanks Ken- I enjoy life when I listen to you.

[kennordine]

I googled Mike Leigh.

Thanks for the compliment.

ken

[pisswilly101]

Hope you sent the pic!

[pisswilly101]

25 fuckin years Ive been trying to remember who the hell it was that freaked me out in the middle of the night when I was really high and had the old dial turned far to the left on the FM....FINALLY!!!!!!!

[kennordine]

I feel like lost and found.

ken

[pisswilly101]

IT WAS/IS YOU!!!!!!!! 25 years with an itch on my brain that could be scratched and friggin Youtube pays off. Apologies for losting and founding you. Send me a signed photo and I'll hand it right next to the one Ive got of Mike Leigh and then when someone asks who he is theyll also get a quick orientation on you. I'll be listening Sir!

[kennordine]

tell me where to send the pic

ken

[pisswilly101]

Hi Ken. Id sent you a message way back with an address but Id thought we lost you for a while....whew! Van T po box 2444 Berkeley Ca 94702 I'll hang it next to Mike Leigh Thanks Ken

[kennordine]

Back from doing 2 stints in NY..invited to the High Line Festival by David Bowie,

a happy high point. Back to the valley of normalcy. And evanescent fireworks.

[mellowloaf]

Ken did my station breaks and promo's back in the 60's at WDAS-FM in philly, He is the BEST that is, was, and ever will be. Steve Leon

[Organell]

does this man ever practice hypnosis?

its the first thing i think when listen to this

[alexcc2]

Introduced just a few months ago. This changed the way I think. I'll be a fan for years to come.

[myway43]

I remember listening to a pirate radio station mant many years ago. I could not wait to get in bed at nite and listen to Ken Nordine. Tahnks

[kennordine]

hi and hello..just me back now from New York where I did two stints for David Bowie's High line Festival. Place called The Kitchen. It was a big high mountain being there. ken nordine

[iamadamsusername]

This man is a genius. Amazing stuff and truely inspiring

[spppring]

Ken Nordine is singlehandedly elevating youtube to an intelligent arts site. Thanks for posting!

[stampscapes]

Always great to find some material from Ken Nordine.