I've been looking for this stuff for years.

Once again stepping outside of the usual musical posting parameters here because this is the good shit and I want to share it and make more people aware of the awesomeness that is Harry "the Hipster" Gibson who was hipster before all you mustachioed wannabes came along and ruined it with your fixed wheel bicycles, tiny houses, tattoos and pumpkin spice chai lattes. 

Be forewarned this is the heppest of hip jazz from the 40's with a driving boogie woogie piano and a patois that sounds like gibberish to any square cats who aren't clued into the jive.

Boogie Woogie in Blue

Kids who's musical views were irrevocably warped at an early age by weekly listens to the Dr Demento Show may already be somewhat familiar with Gibson's song "Who Put the Benzadrine in  Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine". (If it weren't for Dr Demento I'd probably have ended up a in a comfortable middle management position with a fondness for White Snake and Canadian Club.)

IF you're slightly more intrigued, you could do worse than spend an interesting half an hour and watch this documentary short put together by Gibson's daughter about her father called "Boogie in Blue" which would save me a lot of typing.

Or if you are still on the fence I can just point to one of the Soundies he made in the 40's to give you a taste of what to expect. Here he is doing "Handsome Harry the Hipster" Looks like somebody's been sipping out of Mrs. Murphy's cocoa mug. Seriously, some of the most enjoyably unhinged keyboard work since that guy in the Hocus Pocus by Focus live video.
 

All that said, he was also an incredibly good barrelhouse boogie woogie piano player which gets kind of buried under the hipster jive schtick. But unfortunately he's gotten kind of lost and forgotten over the years as a pure novelty act and there are almost no reissues to be found. Trust me, I've looked.

So here is a nice 70's semi-legit Lp of two recording sessions from the Mid-1940's. Make some Ovaltine and let it warm the cockles of your cold dead heart.