Canary to Parents: Leave the Hippie Beatniks alone!

Really this album with Canary/Duke/Fighter/Blakie should be called This is Soca! instead of This is Calypso! And this song about the misunderstood Beatnik Generation refers to hippies. Musta been a hell of a party depicted on the album cover to cause such excessive metaphor-mixing.

Canary - Beatnik Generation

I call this one Diagnosis

Thomas Bellin (as Monk) perform the beat poem "Diagnosis" on the "The Big Kick" episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Beatnik Poem: "Diagnosis" from CONELRAD on Vimeo.

The Wildman of Wildsville

"The Wildman of Wildsville" has Beany, it has Cecil, it has Capt. Huffenpuff and Crowy; more importantly it has Lord Buckley as the Wildman, Go Man Van Gogh and hep references aplenty.

Learn to be a Beatnik

You too can learn to be a Beatnik in just one afternoon, with Like, Dreamsville's handy English-to-Beatnik glossary. How else would I have known that "Hustling Hershey" was Beat-speak for Ex-Lax?

Like Beat Man

Skipper Bartlett has a record ... and a problem to share:

"Ok, so before you all go downloading this willy nilly, let me tell you a bit about it. I bought this album on ebay, the seller cautioned me that there was a lot of surface noise but he also posted pictures of the vinyl, and it looked pristine, so I figured, "meh, some record collectors are overly picky about sound quality, me, not so much. I'm mean it's a 50 year old record so I'm happy if it's listenable." So I got it for a steal. Problem is, half of the album is barely listenable. The vinyl looks beautiful so it must be a defect in the pressing, unless the club that it was recorded in was above a machine shop or something. The noise affects the first half of each side and then it peters off, I've tried to eliminate it using Audacity and Garageband but I'm no wizz with these programs and I can't seem to make it any better without removing much of the track itself. So I offer it up as is, in hopes that someone out there might be able to clean it up and share it back. ...."

Saroff and the Cool Ones - Like Beat Man, Live at "The Top Floor" featuring poetry readings by Pike Distahl.

Beatniks and Hipsters '71

Chris at Ultra Swank has another one his nicely packaged high quality compilations up. This time he's been sniffing some oriental incenses ...
" ... As the title suggests we are moving away from lush cocktail parties, stewardesses and martinis for a while to go down one flight of stairs into the world of swingers, beatniks, hipsters and cool cats. Welcome to the Electric Psychedelic Swingers Pussycat Club downtown London, were we play psychedelic rock and pop from the late '60s and early '70s until the break of dawn. ..."
Beatniks and Hipsters '71
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You just can't let this poor girl twist alone Reverend!

Los Beatniks - Tampico Twist (1962)
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Beatnik beauties

BEATNIK BEAUTIES (Los Angeles Times, august 27, 1959)
posing before a sample of beatnik art are contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959, which will be conferred Sept. 12 under sponsorship of the Venice Arts Committee.
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GADGET FOR TODAY (Los Angeles Times, july 29, 1965)
Author Lawrence Lipton, chronicler of the beatnik scene, demonstrates his "robot," Duhab (detector of undesirable habitues). Lipton says robot ferrets out the undesirables-including censors, book-burners
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WAY OUT ART (Los Angeles Times, september 3, 1959)
Eric (Big Daddy) Nord displays an item from beatnik exhibit as Julie Meredith plays guitar and sings a ballad during recess in Police Commission hearing on license for beatnik hangout.
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via UCLA library - digital collections (keywords!: beatnik)