Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross - Cottontail

[VeroFame1]

Sang with annie

[VeroFame1]

I'm friends with hendricks and ross:)

[skindiverable]

These young hip hoppers would do well listening to this and realizing where their craft comes from

[VonNashman]

I'm gonna be "that" guy: when Jon Hendricks start singing the Ben Webster solo vocalese, you have the "L" bunny moving its lips instead of the correct one, the "H" bunny! Very cute vid.

[Bobu2357]

@VonNashman Good eye. You caught my "OOPS! Thanx for watching, and commenting.

[icybear1]

omg, my vocal jazz sang this in high school lol

[sepiapanorama]

brothers Flopsie and Mopsie. And you're gonna do what mama intended. Now you eat your carrots 'til you're sent in. I've heard the old story:

"One rabbit foot will bring luck. They're much more lucky, luckier naturally if the rabbit's attached".

[sepiapanorama]

breath, you're gonna need it if you're out running. Maybe now you remember what your mama told you. Then you know the reason if your papa scolds ya. So hit the gate and be ready to win. And when you do, show the man your tail! Hurry up, better change your plans, better run from the farmer man. You best think fast, your long husky hair, head for home, rabbit! Duck away and show them your tail. We gonna have a roam when you get home. Now you coming home to momsie and popsie, and your little

[sepiapanorama]

feel the shotgun. Run, run! While you're in a panic, you forget the garden gate. All you got to do is lay around and wait. Right now the farmer thinks he got ya, really is itchin' to see your face. Don't you meet him! Have the hole in the fence. You can't eat him, it's a natural sense. While he's over by the fence a while away, keep on running 'til you're outta that gate! Now the farmer really scared you to death. You never figured he was out gunning. Better pause a while for catching your

[sepiapanorama]

Hey, hey, you picked up what I say, hot head rabbit? If you keep your habit, your mama told ya when you hop, that if you stop, you cop the crop. He gets salt and gun for you, because carrots any you make a very good stew. Certainly got you on the run! So you better find a quiet little corner, where the farmer never comes. You got plenty of patches and you snuck in between them. Dig what I mean? Your cottontail has got to keep it clean. Run, rabbit, run! Now you've had your fun. Run before you

[sepiapanorama]

, came at me with a big shot gun. And did I run! I ran just as swiftly as I could. Yeah, I split from there with only a second to spare. I could hear the bullets fly through the air. I could hear the words mama told me. If mama knew, she would scold me. I found the real truth feeling I got away without my stealing. The farmer, he really had sense. He plugged up the hole was in the fence, as he's running madly around the garden looking for me crawling. I knew it all along.

[sepiapanorama]

The other rabbits see him taking this, made him do wrong. But who cares? I'm a hooked rabbit. Yeah, I gotta kick the habit. Everyday I'm trying to avoid it. What do I do, I know that I've enjoyed it. When they find the true, I beg for my pardon, all the time I made in the garden. We, everything is me and the farmer's not been there. And every little carrot I stole I got delight, and I keep forgettin' that it ain't right. So one day as I was deep in the mill, that farmer pulled a real quick steal

[sepiapanorama]

Way back in my childhood I heard a story so true about a funny bunny stealing some food from a garden he knew. His mama got worried, she told the bunny one day, "Better watch the farmer, heed what I say or he'll blow you away". He knew his mama was bright. So why don't he do what she say? Maybe he just don't dig it. Why does he do it? Because he's a rabbit! He started hopping. You can't stop him while he's on his way. Out in the garden where the carrots are dense, I found a hole in the fence.

[THEMONSTERMATTMAN]

so dope! mic skills

[Bobu2357]

@THEMONSTERMATTMAN

What does that mean?

[THEMONSTERMATTMAN]

@Bobu2357 microphone skills!

[jzzlvrmee]

@Bobu2357Means great microphone skills.

[lamontlewis]

Ultimate 'Hip'. LHR had no competition, no peers. There were them, and nobody else. I've had the best of LHR in my auto CD player so long, I don't know if it can be ejected.

[hremdldw]

Dave Lambert sings Ben Webster solo LHR sings the bridge, the groups sings Duke's solo .Group comes in again and sings Ben Webster out chorus written for big band .As they sing at the end a very tastey stew!

[jimmykhawk]

I just beat the crap out of my business checkbook with my old Cross ballpoint......... but i kept up!!!

[pfaessel1]

This song is uttlerly hip...especially from 1:28, the soli section, that LHR took, along with the Ben Webster solo preceding it. Amazing!  Burnin'!!!

[Gullahboy]

This is hot .....so hot I am scared to strike a match around this song...........Damn

[merhbass]

OMG, this made my year!

Make a "video" for "Gimme That Wine" (Un-Hand That Bottle") and I'll be a serious fan LOL! These guys influenced me when I was 13 years old and were just the sh*t. Great original musicians with killer intuition, time, voices and ears!!! (Bunny-ears?)

Thanks for the cool post,

J.

[sewitt60]

That's brilliant, and the accompaning slids are fantastic, thanks.

[kattrby]

Just utterly superb. Thank you. I saw/heard the Ellington orchestra a couple of times in the 1960s - met Ellington and Strayhorn outside the back door of the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Thye were very gracious to a shy teenage kid.

The next time I saw them was at Basin Street West - absolutely wonderful.

Basie had a different drive, but Ellington could do it too.

Thank you so much for reminding me.

[Ahnna091]

this is played SO slow!

[chelseythebagel]

This is hilarious!

We're playing this in my University jazz band and I didn't know the words. So awesome!

[shrdlu666]

LHR created the lyrics. Count Basie the music years before. Sheesh. It's a standard. Amazing how clueless people can be.

[chelseythebagel]

I'm a jazz piano major. I knew that LHR created the words. I had heard there were some words put with the song so I looked it up. It's much easier to learn a melody when words are put to it. And, Ellington wrote the music. Recorded it in 1940.

[GolumTR]

Make one of Mr P.C.!

[Bobu2357]

Keep tuned

[JukeboxTenor]

This group was truly unique in the music world - wow - it's a treat to hear them in this format!

[GolumTR]

Another good close harmony group is the Hi-Lo's. A big influence on Herbie Hancock!

[gingrekals]

Thats My Dads Uncle

David Lambert

XD

[mq1986]

Lucky you!

[JosephNScott]

"Thats My Dads Uncle

David Lambert"

Your dad's uncle wrote and sang on "What's This" by Gene Krupa, recorded January 22, 1945, which some people (including jazz expert Scott Yanow) consider the very first vocal bebop record. (The very first instrumental bebop recordings for regular record release were arguably "Dee Dee's Dance" and "Little Benny" by Clyde Hart, recorded 34 days before "What's This.")

[mjter]

Know where I can get a chart for this?  mjter

[Savorist]

harmonies in this are nuts

[Zeppelin1618]

I love Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Jon Hendricks recorded this in his 70s. This group was way ahead of their time.

[AmyMeacham]

I want me some Shiny Stockings!

[ambreec28]

This is hilarious! Great video for this song! lol!

[Bobu2357]

Thank you. You check "Twisted" and "Home Cookin'"

[EarlyLAPunk]

hilarious. a great song. and a great attempt at making a video for it!