the long tail
Somehow it is quite refreshing to search for a song online and find it completely unavailable through fair means or foul.
Despite the Long Tail and the ubiquitous-ness of digital music there are a few tracks that are still hard to find in any format around the web.
One of those being this classic performance of 'Sweet Gingerbread Man' by Sammy Davis Jr.
One of the rare occasions when the 'cover' version is better than the original.
From what I can glean this tune appeared on Sammy's 1972 album 'A Portrait of...' and is currently unavailable in any format. I had to settle for this clip a kind soul had posted on YouTube.
Innovation being often born out of neccesity I have discovered that ripping the clip out of Youtube as mp4 allows one to burn the file to CD as audio using Toast, which meant I was able to add this to my happy monday morning compilation for the car journey to work this morning.
