Oingo Boingo - Hey!

This is a live performance from rock band and avant garde group Oingo Boingo performing the song "Hey!" from their 1994 album "Boingo". The performance is also from '94 on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Boingo is the last studio-album to be released from the group as Danny Elfman, the lead singer, decided to focus his career on scoring film. He also quit music due to beginning hearing impairment. The sound on this album was different as the horn section and the keyboards were much less featured than on releases prior to this one. The tracks on this CD are also very long and this song has also been shortened for the Leno performance. The outro that is played at the end is repeated several times on the studio recording both in the beginning of the track and the end of the track, it's the "please mother, don't be angry with me"-part.
At this point the band has also shortened their name. Now it was just Boingo. It was sort of a thing they did. They started out as The Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo, shortened it to Oingo Boingo and at this point it was down to Boingo.
It's a very good live performance, and the song has a pop-feel to it while still being strange and bizarre enough to be Oingo Boingo.

Enjoy ; )

Oingo Boingo - St. James Infirmary Blues

This is a performance from avant garde music troupe Oingo Boingo. This performance is from 1978 back when their band name was "The Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo". They later shortened their name to just Oingo Boingo.
The band's music is inspired by a wide variety of genres and draws from many musical eras. This song is an old folk song that dates as far back as to the 18th century.
The song however is performed in the style of Cab Calloway who the band leader Danny Elfman was a big fan of. Cab performed in a unique and entertaining way, in a kind of over phrased spoken word kind of singing which is also what Elfman is trying to do in this performance.
It's a song in the style of St. Louis blues and jazz with a lot of horns, it has that St. Louis blues sound. And it's just a great performance and a great vocal performance by Elfman.

Enjoy ; )