Al Conte Quartet: Mr. Piano and Mr. Banjo (Happy Music for Miserable People)

Pretty self-explanatory, really, with the addendum that restoring the cover was really hard (it was printed in four colors, black & red & sort-of-cyan & gold, and some layers had parts that were sharp line drawings and parts that were halftone reproductions of original art done in a watercolor wash; doing selective Gaussian blurs on just one part of just one color layer is a bitch). Please note that no one else in history has ever performed a cover version of "My Heart Goes Kaplinka Fer Katrinka" - be the first on your block, or your planet.


Hey, Mr. Piano, Hey, Mr. Banjo
Margie / Ain't She Sweet / Somebody Stole My Gal
My Heart Goes Kaplinka Fer Katrinka
Goofus / Yes, Sir, That's My Baby
Spaghetti Rag / Bye, Bye, Blues
I Love My Baby / Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider / Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Chopsticks
Dixie / Yankee Doodle
12th Street Rag
Strolling Thru the Park / Oh You Beautiful Doll / Give Me a Little Kiss
Four Leaf Clover
I Want a Girl / If You Knew Susie / Baby Face
Shine on Harvest Moon / Oh Susanna / O Dem Golden Slippers / Bye, Bye, Blackbird
Sentimental Journey

Album audio & artwork

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