Last Updated on: 13th May 2015, 04:16 pm
Carin might be interested in this one.
Long before her Sleep Talkin’ Man, there was Dion McGregor.
Dion McGregor (1922–1994) was an American songwriter known for talking in his sleep. An LP of his dream diatribes – The Dream World Of Dion McGregor (He Talks In His Sleep) – was released to minor acclaim by Decca Records in 1964. A book of the same name, containing the transcripts of a wider selection of McGregor’s dreams, and with illustrations by Edward Gorey, was also published in 1964.
McGregor would essentially narrate his dreams at conversational volume. As a narrator of his (often terrifying) dreams, Dion adopted various personas but frequently established a fey, argumentative, insolent approach to the subject at hand – be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman’s tongue.
Here he is preparing to play what sounds like either cops and robbers or paintball with mustard.
And if that sounded like something you need to hear more of, have at all 53 and a half minutes of his album.
