Hey Nice Laaaaaady!

September 26, 2006 6:09 PM

I need (well maybe not need, more like really really want) an mp3 of Jerry Lewis (playing Buddy Love) performing that Old Black Magic from The Nutty Professor...

How do I go about finding such a thing? Was it ever released on an album? As a soundtrack (my magic google ball says: NO)? Ahem, alternative methods of inquiry have turned up nothing. Whats a fella to do?

posted by Chrischris to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Buy the DVD (readily available on EBay). Rip it. Extract the sound file. Edit the song out. Et voilà. You are, of course, going to make a legal use of the song.
posted by TheRaven at 6:35 PM on September 26, 2006

Mod note: fixed the post, sorry for the confusion
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:36 PM on September 26, 2006

"What'll it BE...hmmmm...?" Sorry no advice to offer, other than seconding TheRaven's suggestion...but damn that's a great scene!
posted by davidmsc at 6:37 PM on September 26, 2006

If you have the DVD and a computer that can play it you don't need to rip the whole thing: I always just record an MP3 from the computer song system (I use Ambrosia's Wiretap Pro but there are free programs around as well). WireTap allows the option of simultaneously recording from the internal sound AND external microphone so you can also use it as a crude mulitracker or karaoke. The sound quality I get from this method is quite good.
posted by nanojath at 8:05 PM on September 26, 2006

computer sound system, that is.
posted by nanojath at 8:11 PM on September 26, 2006