Children Cry for Castoria - Nicolas Slonimsky

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Uploaded by on May 19, 2009

Quite possibly the greatest single recording in the history of the universe, Nicolas Slonimsky's performance of his masterpiece Children Cry for Castoria.

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  • washe reading the message on the bottle ?

  • He wrote these in the 1920s I believe - he took various newspaper and magazine advertisements and set the ad copy to music.

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  • Such a beautiful voice...

  • Written in 1924 using the text of an ad in the Saturday Evening Post for the benefit of his pals at the Eastman School of Music. From a live concert April 27, 1989, 95th birthday tribute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

    For those of you who missed the experience of being fed it as a child, Castoria looked, smelled and tasted like someone crossed warm Jagermeister with used 10W40 motor oil.

    Children cried _from_ Castoria.

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  • @abracadaverous good luck with that lol

  • When I was 13 my mom treated me with Castoria after I had a loss of appetite for a week and a little nausea. Turned out I had appendicitis, and it wound up rupturing. I was admitted to the hospital with 103+ temp and peritonitis. Good ol Castoria.... for what ails ya...

  • I used to love that stuff!!! It's been around since the 1870's.

  • re-living childhood torture...I remember cod liver oil...

  • I think I've finally found the perfect song to play at my wedding.

  • Wonderful....It never cramps the rats!

  • Gotta love any song that has the word "bowels" smack in the middle of it. " . . . opens his BOOOWWELLLLSSS . . . " A light, lilting melody about a laxative. Fucking priceless. Let's favorite this one right now, shall we?

  • WHERE. DID YOU GET. THIS RECORDING.

  • I can see why him and Zappa got along

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