CEMENT MIXER by the Slim Gaillard Trio on 78 rpm CADET label

[MiniBini10]

I love this song...thanks!!! =))))

[MyChemicalWassage]

this song is awesome!

[7855waldo]

Cot Campbell in the Navy in 1946 is going home, and ships out on a nondescript vessel sailing from San Francisco to New Orleans.

The "captain" is a horror - unqualified - but somehow they got there in one piece.

And all the way, this "captain" plays this record 1,000 times.

Cot never again could listen to this song.

[903davesharonpoky]

I am drunk

[7855waldo]

@903davesharonpoky - By now you must be sober. Song sound any better?

[903davesharonpoky]

@7855waldo pretty good either way! LOL.

[TheRustyDemons]

siphiwaye tshabalala is my brother

[radicalgnostic9]

A-vout-o-rooney! Bourbon-o-rooney!

[Patty1857]

Slim was a dear friend of my parents. He was an unbelievable musician. There was nothing the man couldn't play. I remember him coming to the house when I was 7, picking up my toy guitar (plastic body and strings) and cranking away on it! He could play a cow bell like it had range and could read a menu and turn it into a song (as he did on "Yiprock").

AT one of the World's Fairs, a 45 was put in a time capsule with Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" on one side and "Cement Mixer" on the other.

[horarwgt]

This record, Slim's only hit, peaked at #21 on the charts the week of May 25, 1946.

[GigiBHW]

My mother always told me that this song was popular when I was born. I had never actually heard it before looking it up on YouTube today. Cute song. Catchy melody.

[wesrace1]

Thanks for posting . This is the first tune I can remember hearin' in my folks chevy back in the early '50's.. Since then I've become a devoutaroonie fan of Slim Gaillard's.

[ilupir77]

I think Gaillard was on a natural high...

[Timopartanen2]

Tuanis

[crutmauler]

Dude is on cocaine.

[petemcrunnel]

completely rare and insanely awesome... just too much good stuff here to believe.

[Xychk]

Wow- is this one hard to find.

[sidelongglance]

Outstanding. This is my new favourite song for practising the swing dancing I'm learning.

[willgonow]

u know a good tune, when u see one, superb stuff !!!!!

[davividly]

awesome.

[crooner62]

LOVE THIS RECORD!!! Thanks for posting :o)