Ep. 032: Magic Number
Cubed for your pleasure.
| Performer | Track | Album | Original Release Year | New | Show Notes |
| Sweet Jazz Trio | Dream a Little Dream of Me | "What a Wonderful World" - To Louis with Love | 2017 | Swedish jazz trio for 30 years | |
| Nick Drake | Three Hours | Five Leaves Left | 1969 | ||
| Fats Domino | Three Nights a Week | A Lot of Dominos | 1960 | ||
| Marisa Anderson | Trinity | Mercury | 2013 | ||
| De La Soul | The Magic Number | 3 Feet High and Rising | 1989 | Originally released March 3, 1989. RIP Trugoy. | |
| Your DJ Speaks | |||||
| Bob Dorough | Three Is the Magic Number | Multiplication Rock - Orginial Soundtrack | 1973 | ||
| Johnny Cash | Five Feet High and Rising | Songs of Our Soil | 1959 | Yes - Johnny Cash's childhood home actually did get flooded out. | |
| Syl Johnson | Different Strokes | Dresses Too Short | 1968 | Syl Johnson had retired from music in the mid-1980s, but he went back to performing once he learned that his music was getting sampled extensively by hip-hop artists. (He also vigorously pursued his intellectual property rights.) | |
| Double Dee & Steinski | Lesson 3 - History of Hip Hop | What Does It All Mean - 1983-2006 Retrospective (Steinski complilation album) | 2008 (single originally released in 1985) | Hugely influential. | |
| Your DJ Speaks | |||||
| Shorty Rogers & the Giants | The Three Little Bops | You Shorty, Me Tarzan | 2010 (single originally released in 1957) |
Here's the cartoon where this song was the soundtrack was used: Three Little Bops!!! from Márcio Leal on Vimeo. |
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| The Postmarks | Three Little Birds | By The Numbers | 2009 | ||
| The Coasters | Three Cool Cats | There's a Riot Goin' On: The Coasters on Atco | 2007 (Single originally released in 1959) | ||
| Andrew Bird | Three White Horses | Hands of Glory | 2012 | ||
| Your DJ Speaks | |||||
| Oracle Sisters | Tramp Like You | Single | 2023 | * | |
| The Smile | Speech Bubbles | A Light for Attracting Attention | 2022 | * | Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner |
| Yo La Tengo | Apology Letter | This Stupid World | 2023 | * | Annual Yo La Tengo show on WFMU: 6 March, 9pm-12midnight |
| Your DJ Speaks | |||||
| Crosby, Stills & Nash | Helplessly Hoping | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 1969 | RIP Cros | |
| Your DJ Signs Off | |||||