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Playlist for August 17, 2008 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 6:13am
Playlist Date & Time: 8/17/2008 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
The War Between The States
Kansas v. Hawaii
This week, as Obama vacations in his home state of Hawaii, I wonder about his dual origins. Not the melodramatic racial adjustment (boring!) but how does a kid with a Kansas soul adjust to the Hawaiian paradise? Tonight's music is separated into four chapters:
1. The soul of Kansas
2. The paradise of Hawaii
3. Fish out of water
4. New Orleans, the poor man's paradise
And tonight, the first winner of the WWOZ Invitational, Ben Pagac of Annapolis, Maryland, who submitted Billy Wirtz's song "Mennonite Surf Party." Ben, enjoy your three wishes and make sure you submit them in writing to avoid becoming the punchline of a joke.
Tonight's interstitials are all from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz - the origination of the WWOZ acronym.
P.S. Make sure you click on the Dr. John video at the end of the playlist.
Playlist Tracks
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Randy Newman
Beehive State
Guilty
Newman's naming of this song is curious. It starts with "The delegate from Kansas.." and only has a tag about the Beehive state of Utah. The video from KC, Kansas is that kind of deprecating tongue-in-cheek midwest humor that I love so much. The music starts at about 2:20.
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Frogman Henry
I'm A Country Boy
Cosimo Matassa Story
Proper
2007
Nice post-Katrina interview with Frogman with concert footage from the Madison Square Garden show. Frogman's uniquely west bank personality it on display
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Fats Domino
Country Boy
They Call Me The Fat Man
Trailer from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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John Mooney
Country Boy
Late Last Night
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Johnny Otis
Country Girl
The Best of R&B V one
Video of Otis is why he went onto have his own show. he must have known how much better he could do after seeing this scene.
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Barrance Whitfield
Ride the Mule Across Kansas
Another version of Johnny Otis' Hand Jive, this time from Otis' show. Music is better, dancers make sense, and you know Otis had ears - Lionel Hampton was the next act.
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Little Richard
Kansas City
Specialty Sessions
Specialty
Richard video
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Ronettes
Paradise
Back to Mono
The girl with the hair. Another Ronnie feature that Phil Spector desired.
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Shangri-Las
Remember (Walkin in the Sand)
1960's Happy Days
Mary Weiss, another girl who could be a Breck girl.
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Hoosier Hot Shots
When Johnny Brings Lelahani Home
Everybody Stomp
Proper
A song about the Obama bringing an exotic Hawaiian beauty home to Kansas
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Da Mokettes and the Incredible Q Band
Palolo Valley Girls
45 RPM compliments of WFMU.org
And that exotic Hawaiian beauty turns out to be a Palolo Valley Girl. This is the documentary music video made by that Palolo Valley girl.
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Big Maceo
Big City Blues
The Specialty Story
Specialty
The age-old story of the small towner running into the walls of the big city.
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Jimmy Reed
Bright Lights, Big City
Super Soul Blues V2
The big city adjustment as undertaken by Jimmy Reed's better half. How are you going to reconcile that Kansas soul in the big, fast city?
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Sam Cooke
Fools Paradise
The Rhythm and The Blues
After the hubris of a quasi-adjustment to the big city, you can start living in a fools paradise. Link is to Cooke and Muhammad Ali singing together.
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Stormy
Fools Paradise
The Best of Spinett Records
Spinett
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Frogman Henry
Ain't Got No Home
The New Orleans Hit Story
Frogman singing about anomie. This was originally released as Anomie Blues in 1893 by the Emile Durkhiem Quartet but unfortunately without a record company (or even records) the tune was destined to failure. Years later, Emile's ancestors unsuccessfully agitated for song-writing royalties.
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Billy Wirtz
Mennonite Surf Party
Backslider's Tractor Pull
Submitted by Ben Pagac, winner of the WWOZ Invitational. See the Programming Forum to submit your music and thoughts for upcoming shows.
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Galactic
Welcome to New Orleans
Chapter Four - New Orleans, the Poor Man's Paradise
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Sub Dudes
Poor Man's Paradise
Poor Man's Paradise
We don't care about any place outside of New Orleans because we know we're in paradise. A poor man's paradise. As long as we can stay insular we'll always have paradise
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Randy Newman
New Orleans Wins the War
Guilty!
Warner Brothers
Newman sings about the President giving a speech in Jackson Square about how New Orleans won the war. A caller told me that Calvin Coolidge also gave a speech from Jackson Square about keeping New Orleans safe from flooding. Newman refers Coolidge in his song "Louisiana 1927" as, "that little fat man with a clipboard in his hand." According to John Barry's Rising Tide, it was actually pre-President Hubert Hoover who directed the 1927 flood recovery. My conclusion, don't believe anything coming from Presidential impostors making speechs from Jackson Square. Especially if they promise levees that won't drown us.
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Clarence Samuels
New Orleans
Unknown
Samuels was another great blues shouter who didn't quite make it under the limbo bar of commercial success. A New Orleans guy with all the talent necessary to become another Roy Brown but unfortunately we just have a handful of these great recordings.
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Kermit Ruffins
What is New Orleans
The Barbecue Swingers Live
Sentimental about those days about three years ago when the world saw flood water, physical destruction, and governmental breakdowns but New Orleans fans saw another layer of the disaster. We feared a culture loss and it felt like a very personal and profound loss.
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Fats Domino
Do You Know What it Means ...
They Call Me The Fat Man
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The Pfister Sisters
I Wish I'd Never Seen New Orleans
New Orleans
Our sentiments girls.
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Earl King
No City Like New Orleans
Big Ole Box of New Orleans
I'm also thinking about King's line about loss in Iron Cupid; "...it all goes down the drain..." Video from Kings funeral.
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Armand St. Martin
Back in New Orleans
Alligator Ball
I'm getting all these sentimental calls about the storm. Unfortunately so many people also want to complain about the Saints. The relationship between the two? Both our New Orleans levees and our football team are known for their defensive weaknesses.
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Fats Domino
Walking to New Orleans
My Blue Heaven
We all made that post-Katrina trip back to the city.
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Kermit Ruffins
Drop Me Off In New Orleans
Big Ole Box of New Orleans
Kermit consistently hits it with lyrics that capture the city's love affair with itself.
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Swift Jewel Cowboys
Little Willie Green (From New Orleans)
Western Swing and Country Jazz
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Roy Newman
Sadie Green (The Vamp From New Orleans)
Western Swing and Country Jazz
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Big Daddy O
Louisiana Moon
Deranged Covers
Rabadash
Tonight's full moon seems a little deeper blue just as predicted in this song.
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Going Back to New Orleans
Dr. John
The Very Best of Doctor John
Mac and band in full dress with dancers from the 1970s. They tried to add some production to the piece and it works. Check the playlist a couple weeks ago for another classic Dr. John video.
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Larry Williams
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Don and Dewey
Justine
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Roddy Jackson
Moose on the Loose
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Frank Motley
Frantic
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Jerry Byrne
Lights Out
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Don and Dewey
Koko Joe
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Irma Thomas
She's Taken My Part
Night Train
Night Train
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Casanova and the Chants
Geraldine
Night Train to New Orleans
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Johnny Fuller
Haunted House
Specialty Story
Specialty
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Don and Dewey
Big Boy Pete
Specialty Story
Specialty
Okay, I got my Specialty needs satiated.
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