From Welcome to Night Vale episode 19b.  Written by Larry Cardozo and Ron Fink, arranged and performed by Jon Bernstein.

Eliezer's Waltz

"Belleville Rendez-vous" is a song from the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003), with music by Benoît Charest and lyrics by Sylvain Chomet. It was one of the first electroswing songs that peeked into the mainstream via the movies... and, quite frankly, a gem of a song that unfairly lost the Academy Award for best Original Song to the musical equivalent of Mayonnaise.

So here's my rendition of a song that deserves more than it got!

English Translation:

I don't want to finish my days in Timbuktu
(Timbuktu)
Skin drawn by machines with nails
Me, I want to be crumpled, crumpled threefold
Crumpled like a Belleville triplet
 
I don't want to finish my life in Acapulco
(Acapulco)
Dancing stiffly with gigolos
Me, I want to be twisted, twisted threefold
Balanced like a Belleville triplet
 
(Come on girls, come on)
Swinging Belleville rendezvous
Marathon dancing doum dilou
Voodoo Cancan, taboo brooms
In Belleville swinging rendezvous
 
I don't want to finish my life in Singapore
(Singapore)
Playing at the disco, eating petits fours*
Me, I want to be an idiot, three times the idiot
Warped like a Belleville triplet
 
I don't want to finish my life in Honolulu
(Honolulu)
Singing like a bird, it is no longer done
I want my voice to be broken, broken threefold
Swinging like a Belleville triplet
 
Swinging Belleville rendezvous
Marathon dancing doum dilou
Voodoo Cancan, taboo brooms
In Belleville swinging rendezvous
 
I'd like to finish my life in Kathmandu
(Kathmandu)
It's much sweeter to make rhymes with "ou"
But I want to be covered with frost, covered threefold
Swinging like a Belleville triplet
 
 
Swinging Belleville rendezvous
Marathon dancing doum dilou
Voodoo Cancan, taboo brooms
In Belleville swinging rendezvous
 
Swinging Belleville rendezvous
Marathon dancing doum dilou
Voodoo Cancan, taboo brooms
In Belleville swinging rendezvous

Pablo Alberto Romero's Album

Belleville Rendez-Vous (From the Triplets of Belleville)

From an Evatone Soundsheet. Dick Orkin as Chickenman. A popular Radio bit from the 1970's

Chickenman By Dick Orkin

The 60s radio comedy serial Chickenman. These are the first few episodes that was issued in the Best of Chickenman LP. Check out creator Dick Orkin's web page at http://radio-ranch.com/. 

Radio - Wcfl - Best Of Chickenman

Chickenman

"The Long-Awaited Album"

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Caroline | Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

It's just plain fun and intriguing to listen to Isaac Asimov himself read his stories. There's no better way to get them. Listening to these allows me to go read his other works and have a little bit of insight into how he might have read those -- what things he would emphasize, what inflections he'd have, what sort of emotion he brings to his work... You get a little feeling this way for what the stories meant to him. And, of course, they're great stories. Did he write any bad ones ever? I don't think so. Maybe some would say you have to be a science fiction fan to enjoy Asimov's stories. I think you only need to be a fan of stories. 
Asimov reads with warmth, clarity, and wit. Includes: "The Immortal Bard", "Someday", "The Jokester", "The Ugly Little Boy", and "The Last Question".

Asimov 5 LastQuestion,ImmortalBard,Someday,Jokester,UglyLittleBoy

Isaac Asimov Himself reads 5 Complete Stories

This was from the first time Walt and I seriously sat down to see how we could sound together.  Not bad for a couple amateurs.  Took us a couple minutes to find our footing, but hey, we just do it for the fun of it anyway.  I think I recorded this on my phone, of all things -- didn't have a digital recorder at the time.  So the sound quality is questionable.  I cleaned it up best I could in Audacity.

Bass: Daniel Sikorski
Drums: Walt Powell

Out to Lunch

Just Playin' Around

Bomb

Swagger Stagger

The Whistle-Blower Complaint Released by the House Intelligence Committee, 9/26/2019

Read by Saskia Maarleveld

The Whistle-Blower Complaint Released by the House Intelligence Committee, 9/26/2019

BBC Radio drama made entirely of sound effects - no dialogue!

Just Playin' Around

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