Charles Mingus - Original Faubus Fables

[DWNicolo]

Kick ass Charlie!

[Napsu70]

Orval E. Faubus was a governor of Arkansas who, in 1957, sent out the National Guard to prevent a few black children from entering Little Rock’s Central High School.

[Napsu70]

Boo! Nazi Fascist supremists!

Boo! Ku Klux Klan (with your evil plan)

Name me a handful that’s ridiculous, Dannie Richmond.

– Faubus – Rockefeller – Eisenhower

Why are they so sick and ridiculous?

Two, four, six, eight: They brainwash and teach you hate.

H-E-L-L-O – Hello

[Napsu70]

Oh, Lord, don’t let ’em shoot us! Oh, Lord, don’t let ‘em stab us! Oh, Lord, don’t let ‘em tar and feather us! Oh, Lord, no more swastikas! Oh, Lord, no more Ku Klux Klan! Name me someone who’s ridiculous, Dannie. Governor Faubus! Why is he so sick and ridiculous? He won’t permit integrated schools. Then he’s a fool!

[mort0subite]

This whole track is fire as fuck. Mingus at his best.

[chriswhiteiii]

Thank you for posting this. It helped me to learn which album to buy on itunes. The original one:-)

[bongen6]

very good

[bongen6]

nice

[bongen6]

very good

[leoncoda]

TEMA "DEDICADO" POR MIGUS A UN GOVERNADOR RACISTA DE GEORGIA . MINGUS FUE UNA PERSONA FORMIDABLE, NO SOLO COMO MUSICO , JAMÁS SOPORTÓ LA MENOR INSINUACIÓN O ATISBO DE RACISMO .

[ynasss]

"They brainwash and teach you hate" Damn!

[bransonbelle]

See, I knew it was Faubus of Fables, which I had this version on a 45 RPM, I got it again on an import from France, The Original had the "Ain't Necessarily So" and the "Wade in the Water" riff.

Awesome and true to the Original. Thank you poster for sharing truth!

[blackandtanful]

ｷｬﾝﾃﾞｨﾄﾞのﾐﾝｶﾞｽは唯一無比のｼﾞｬｽﾞ､ﾃｯﾄﾞ­･ｶｰｿﾝのﾍﾞｽﾄﾌﾟﾚｲ､ドルフィーは御大の元で伸び伸び­嘶く!～フォーバス知事も満足! #jazzm 

[kkrocronos]

Jelly Roll, Robert Johnson, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, The Master Musicians of Joujouka....... to imagine what music would have become without them............. I am glad they where here.........ALL racists can GGF

[kkrocronos]

Mingus Genius.

[benvariamente]

I like Mingus

[MrWarandlove]

There's history in this song that I did not know about.

[Jazzadicto]

In ur face racists!!!

[TeachMetheUnknown]

im gunna smoke mad weed and listen to this again.

[MrWarandlove]

@TeachMetheUnknown That sound's real good right about now.

[laughingtiger123]

Mingus was a musical genius... and a very angry and often bullying man... very complex. BTW, Faubus was a.... democrat and MLK was a registered... republican...

[BKrystall]

ted curson is still alive

[blackandtanful]

"フォーバス知事の寓話"私のｼﾞｬｽﾞを混沌とさせたｷｬﾝﾃ­ﾞｨﾄﾞ･ﾚｰﾍﾞﾙ､ただしﾐﾝｶﾞｽはアメリカ伝統ﾐｭｰｼ­ﾞｯｸの権化～カーソンのペットだ!#jazzm

[jonathanguitar27]

wow... i absolutley love this song... the first time i heard it i didnt pay attention to the lyrics... and then i really listened and i caught the gist of it simply amazing.

[TomSchulteis]

@ chillhill 3 People are the worst thing to ever happen to this planet. So, get over yourself. We're all parasites. It's really easy to see that white western way. Just look.

[georgiared1]

i can say i knew him...the sets with ted curson were out of this world ... i was white and he was black .... my mother would have killed me ... what a small club ...

[pineappaloupe]

White people are mediocre, at best. 

[chillhill3]

@pineappaloupe niggers are niggers, at best.

[qewtra]

@chillhill3 ha ur sister is prob waitin for u so dont keep her waitin

[flavoredwallpaper]

Not sure whether I like this or the censored version on "Mingus Ah Um" more. Both are fantastic. I love the timing on this song. So out of whack.

[jamlear]

Faubus was Gov . of Arkansas the same office later improved by Bill Clinton.They were night and day. Faubus closed all Little Rock,Ar High Schools for a year rather than allow Black children to attend .Courts ordered the schools to be re- opened so, Faubus ordered the Arkansas NATIONAL Guard to stop them at the door.Eisenhower nationalized the Guard and later called in the "101st Army Division to enforce order and they camped out in tents on the campus while the 9 students attended Central HS 

[bransonbelle]

Malcom X who? Jesse Jackson who? Eldrige Cleaver who?

CHARLIE MINGUS first and foremost. Eric Dolphy. JOHN COLTRANE.oh my, without a doubt the best representation of people expressing their internal frustrration with OPRESSION in America and its acception.

[bransonbelle]

I still own a 45' and I sent to France for the album. Why is he so sick and ridiculous Daddy, KLU, KLUXX, KLAN, Nazi Crisis...Why are they so sick and ridculous. Does anyone hear Eric Dolphy in Wade in the Water? Do you hear "It ain't necessarily so".

Does anyone remember that Fabus was the Gov. of Georgia? This was one of the most beloved protest song's ever orchestrated and I was blessed to be exposed to it in 1963. Do you hear "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"?

[henkokwithoutherbie]

This makes me think of Jazz Club B-14 in Rotterdam in the 70"s

[FunkySkunk90]

First time I listened to this album, I knew this is real.

[NosajElttil76]

This is "Punk Jazz"! LOL

[Beck19781]

Boo Nazi Fascist Supremists! Two Four Six Eight! They brainwash and teach you hate!

Somebody's got to go to Karl Rove or Glenn Beck's house, set up a couple of 1000 watt speakers outside, and play this on a contiuous loop until either one goes crazy.

[LedZeppelinisgod100]

@Beck19781 FUCK YEAH! i couldn't agree more, my man. this tune in particular would be very good for that.

[Gerry50ify]

@Beck19781 ...not to mention Fred Phelps and his Westboro pals.

[Beck19781]

@Gerry50ify Well, you now officially have that right. Seriously: I say, find out where the guy's church is, find out where his house is, keep a legally sanctioned distance away, and hold up a banner that says "Americans hate Christian pedophiles." If he can make gross generalizations and hide under the protection of the Constitution, so can anyone else.

[bransonbelle]

I had to buy the imported Album from France to get the lyrics that I had once on a 45 rpm. I love the "Ain't necessarly so" and "Wade in the Water" I still have the Album, but I wore it out. I had to play it for everyone I knew just to show them, there were protest long in America before they came to the forefront. Eric Dolphy and the group in that hauting waltz tones takes me back.

[rlazonc]

The lyrics actually go: "He won't take us in his schools."

Check Jazz the documentary by Ken Burn.

[georgiared1]

do stay after the last set and listen to danny richmond and during sets go down down to the bar and drink champagne ... charlie had an ulcer and put off jerome robbins who wanted him to write a score....charlie could care less.. he lived on 71st street and should have accepted his offer. the times they just were not right times for a little catholic girl. also ted curson.... but you had to be there after the club closed

ps the kindest man i ever met

[mrezabek1]

Mingus was a genius!

[MrHamniles]

Wonderful post. I just love this recording and it's not easy to find. Thanks so much for making it available. Mingus with his art and humor and truth created a formidable weapon against the Jim Crow system at it's height. Bless him and those amazing kids in Little Rock who withstood the rage of "sick and ridiculous" white supremacists, stared them down and (by and large) won the battle for the right to go to school.

[rbs600]

I used this song to remember the Little Rock story in my GCSE History exam!!!!

[LEONCODAJJ]

Tema "dedicado" a un gobernador racista . Mingus, con toda la razón del mundo, no podía soportar el más mínimo ápice de racismo.

[Xzariox]

Mingus is easily one of my favorite composers ever. . . . for any genre.

[Karlfalcon]

@lapetitemusicienne

Well perhaps it was done at the behest of Capitol, then. It's kind of obvious what happened (technically) when you know what to listen for.

[Rhythmicons]

Somehow I thought Max Roach was the drummer on that. Maybe Im thinking of Freedom Now Suite

Great post, thanks.

[Karlfalcon]

I find it interesting that the band censored themselves on this recording.

At 1:23 you can hear the engineer turn off Dannie Richmond's mic when he says the line as:

"He won't permit (nigger)s in his schools."

I think that rendering is a lot more powerful.

[StrawberryFairyShoes]

@Karlfalcon

I always thought he said: "He won't permit integrated schools"

[hendrixisgod1019]

That's interesting, it works that way too. Cause it sounds like he says "He won't permit us, in his schools." That mute is very powerful.

[kaseyWtrumpet]

@StrawberryFairyShoes Thats is what he says.

[trombonerdrew]

@StrawberryFairyShoes

The lyric is intrgrated schools

[hobodudeTM]

@StrawberryFairyShoes

Since you have this album, do you think you could upload Folk Forms No.1?

Thanks

[jkelin]

@StrawberryFairyShoes

I always thought it was, "He won't permit us in his school..."

[Wedsheport]

@StrawberryFairyShoes I thought it was "He won't permit us in his schools!"

[StrawberryFairyShoes]

@Wedsheport Might be that aswell. I'm pretty sure it isn't "niggers" wouldn't be on the record if it was. Enjoy the music.

[Beck19781]

@Karlfalcon You know, I never heard it that way. Its interesting that you bring it up. I always heard the line this way: "He permit US in his schools".

[Beck19781]

@Karlfalcon You know, its interesting that you bring that up.  I never heard the line that way. I always heard it as "He won't permit US in his schools".

[mingnrich]

@Karlfalcon I always heard it as: "he won't permit...us in his schools". Honestly, that makes perfect sense to me...and I don't hear any kind of engineer's "deletion'.

[Karlfalcon]

@mingnrich

You have to admit, it is a very strange rhythm construction otherwise.

[livintex]

@Karlfalcon That is not what he said. LOL

[Lwl209]

@Karlfalcon I link it is "He won't permit...us in his schools"

[jazzminp]

genial!!

[arp1978]

Lol. I get "white guilt" listening to this, but I keep listening anyway coz the music is so great.

[JohnnyTRex99]

Lol @ arp1978. Why the "white guilt"? Were you even born when the events of the Little Rock Nine (September 1957) happened? "White guilt" has had some horrific consequences; It has prevented people from criticizing bad behavior AND NOW we have fewer and fewer Jazz artists -- and a glut of profane thugs (rappers) pouring their creative energies into simplistic juvenile hedonistic potty-mouthed rhymes. Thank you.

[Chipofthebass]

Na man, you shouldn't get white guilt. We are people of today, and we love Mingus, right? He wouldn't have wanted us to feel guilty -We know he's a genius!

[Soppsau]

Insanely powerful really, especially with the slightly out of tune saxes.

[soredemo22142]

@Soppsau Yeah i totally agree with you on that one.

[mrkelso13]

Mingus = Musical genius

[jonfonn]

Thanks :)

[tammyvrba]

Oh, I'm so glad to have found "Payback" on You Tube...Thanks so much for putting it up!!! Now, just one question...could you flip over the 45 and upload "Be Honest With Me"?? Etta rocks that one too!

[PharmerIcky]

I loved this the first time I heard it, too.

It's one of the earliest "In Your Face" tunes of which I'm aware...

The music seems to be designed to irritate or offend... sorta like a stomach ache, at times.

Yet, simultaneously it's masterful in concept and execution.  The musicianship can not be questioned.

Love Mingus.

[unRompecabezas]

I know it goes against the myth that Mingus was censored by his fascist record company, but the instrumental version is better, a cinematic and fascinating tone poem. The lyrics are actually kinda puerile.

Why is President Eisenhower listed among the 'sick and ridiculous,' when he sent the National Guard in to desegregate the rogue Arkansas schools?

[louellakamkar]

I had this on a 45 rpm on two sides at age 17, then I had to get it imported from France. I heard that this one was banned. So glad to hear this again and all of it was true. Mingus = Genius!

[NNSB4a]

Thanks!

[jm3062]

HA HA HA LOL LOL, I fell in love with this music before I heard the lyrics...LYRICS ARE GREAT!!! Boo!!! Ku Klux Klan...ha ha ha lol...this song is real serious in its message...but that delivery somehow always seems to make me smile big! : )

[busessuck1]

@jm3062 it's kinda made to be comic, you know as in... it's mocking this ridiculous faubus guy