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Playlist for December 07, 2008 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 4:30am
Playlist Date & Time: 12/7/2008 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Don't See The New Version of
The Day The Earth Stood Still!
Link to streaming archived audio for this show at:
http://www.virb.com/submariner/music/album/77319
Better than Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, 2001, and even Napoleon Dynamite - the original, 1950s movie; The Day The Earth Stood Still is a perfect movie. A Nadia Comenichi, 10-out-of-10, a small city's worth of thumbs ups, Obama-like movie.
Most people have seen 1,000s of movies. I've seen only one movie thousands of times. Why seen another movie and be disappointed? Unlike the original version of, The Day The Earth Stood Still, this weekends' release-of-a-movie-under-the-same-title isn't a documentary. A travesty! I propaganda message contrary to the reality of the original movie. And there will be consequences. YES, a remake of The Day The Earth Stood may be the end of Western Civilization, or even Earth.
Oh you think this danger is radio hyperbole? With this remake, we are telling our alien friends that we are Karl Roving the wisdom they left for us. This combined with Lou Dobbs' xenophopic anti-alien rants are intergalactic fighting words. "Put up your tentacles!" The barroom talk from Planet X to the Crab dip Nebula is: "Time to re-visit Earth and remind the puny earthlings that Gort is not a latte-drinking, Volvo driving, NPR listening wussy."
DAMN YOU LOU DOBBS!
So tonight, WWOZ broadcasts a humility offering to our intergalactic alien friends (and potential masters). 40 songs and audio clips about flying saucers, alien robots, and examples of alien-earthling friendships.
Quite a parade of audio Mardi Gras floats tonight:
Float One - Lou Dobbs versus Gort
Float Two - Underwater reverb bass songs
Float Three - Hot Rod Driving Instructions for my Drunk Driving Audience
Float Four - Stuttering and Sputtering Lyrics
King's Float - Earl Palmer
And lastly, a spoken word tribute to Gilles Heron, The Black Arrow who passed away last week. In the 1950s, Gilles was the Jackie Robinson of Scottish soccer but you may know him as the father to musician Gil Scott Heron. The last web link is to an Boston Globe article by Frank Dell'Apa.
Playlist Tracks
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George Bush and Rocket J Squirrel
Jamie is boring and a Mr. Know It All
Tonight's show about intergalactic fighting words begins with Mr. Arrogant calling me "boring" and Rocky the Flying Squirrel chiming in that I'm a know-it-all.
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Barbara Lynn
I'm a Good Woman
Crazy Cajun Recordings
Crazy Cajun
A couple of the Gulf Coast's favorites to start the show; Barbara Lynn and Johnny Rivers. I can never get enough of these two. By starting the show with them, I can quit obsessing about how to slip them into a segments about flying saucers, reverb bass, stuttering, and Earl Palmer.
Barbara's bio and music sample at Ponderosa Stomp's web site.
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Barbara Lynn
I'd Rather Go Blind
Until Then I'll Suffer
Link is to a Barbara Lynn article from the Austin Chronicle.
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Johnny Rivers
Take a Letter Maria
Soul Hits of the Seventies
Rivers not only is a great musician but his web site lives up to his music. Try it.
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The Blasters
Marie, Marie
Sounds of the Eighties
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Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
2001 Sprach Kazoostra
Some Kazoos
Rhino
1978
Another Blaster's link because I've written too much about the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra in previous play lists.
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Billy Riley and His Little Green Men
Flying Saucers Rock and Roll
Sun Records Collection
Sun
Link is to Billy Lee Riley with Deke Dickerson and Slim Harpo's band from, where else, Ponderosa Stomp. Audio clips are from the movies I never saw, The Claw and Galaxy Quest.
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Bo Diddley
Bo Meets The Monster
Monster Rock and Roll Show
Trailer from the greatest movie ever made, The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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Roy Clark
Spooky Movies
1963
Audio clips between this series of songs are dialogue from the original; The Day The Earth Stood Still. Remember these words, they may save your life: "Klaatu Barada Nicto."
Link is to the Italian language version of the final speech of the movie. Of course, this movie was so important that it has been translated into every language.
Tonight's sign off salute will be; "Gort, Merinque."
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Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s
Juke Box Drive
Steady Date
A long clip from the original version of - The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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Jamie Horton
Robot Man
Hot Boppin' Girls
Blue Cat
I like the weapons sounds more in the Italian language.
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El Vez
Mayan Saucers
El Vez
Link is to El Vez, the "Other Alien" singing a plea for understanding. We won't be pushing human aliens around when they join forces with Gort.
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Jack Nicholson
Fireside UFO Rant
Easy Rider
Audio clip is to the movie Easy Rider. So why did Jack Nicholson get any work after this methane-gas-in-an-elevator movie? Quit hanging off our cemetery statutes with your crappy southern accent and if you want to see a real basketball player check out Chris Paul instead of Kobe ("No, no means Go Go ") Bryant.
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Bo Diddley
Moon Baby
Rare and Well Done
Bo on "Hollywood a Go Go" with some goofy introduction about the origination of Bo's name. On its face, this explanation doesn't make sense but the dancing is great and the woman on bass (Is that "The Duchess?") has the best hair ever filmed.
Bo's name always struck me as a transposition of a Diddley Bow, a one string home-made guitar with a big reverb sound something like Bo's guitar. Hey, if anyone can pick out guitarist Bobby Parker on any of these clips, please send me an e-mail with the citation. jdellapa@yahoo.com
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The Float
Hank Ballard
1953-1962
Another link to Bo. And try this one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8FJergjas&feature=related
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Chuck Dallis
Moon Twist
WFMU.org (beware of the DownLoad)
A good wiki definitions of Gort.
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Moon Mullican
Moon's Rock
Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection
Blue Cat
And this entry is for the documentary, The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Note the last sentence of the entry states Colin Powell and Lou Cannon believed this movie inspired Ronald Reagan to discuss uniting with Mikhail Gorbachev in case of alien invastion. Reagan later gave a speech to Americans citing the proper foreign policy response to an alien invasion. (The audio clip from this speech will be played a few songs from now.)
Cheez, with conservatives this xenophobic it is no wonder they (not we) are sadistically imprisoning and torturing foreigners and conducting unnecessary wars. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 43 - we have had some really embarrassing presidents.
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Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra
Visitors From Outer Space from It Came From Outer Space
Themes From Horror Movies
WFMU.org (On the DownLoad)
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Merv Griffin
Screaming Meamies From Outer Space
WFMU.org (On the DownLoad)
Audio clip is from Raymond Burr in the movie Godzilla. I believe Godzilla was responsible for putting Burr in a wheel chair (Ironsides).
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Johnny Savage and the Uptown Savages
Rocket Driving Daddy
Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Blue Cat
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Reverend Billy Wirtz
Brenda
Brenda is a lesbian intergalactic truck driver who picks up the hitchhiking Billy Wirtz on her way to pick up K.D. Lang recordings.
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Barrance Whitfield
The Girl From Outer Space
Ow, Ow, Ow
Web link is to another alien invasion movie.
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Brave Combo
Flying Saucer
Polkas for a Gloomy Day
Link to alien invaders who are pissed at Lou Dobbs' rants.
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Purple People Eater
Big Bopper
Chantilly Lace
How Buffalo Sabre's fans understand the lessons of Gort.
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Jimmy Lloyd
I Got A Rocket in My Pocket
Rockin Bones
Rhino
Giant sperm attack Earth. Earth need to fund Strategic Condom Initiative to create giant condom.
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Suggie Otis
Space Guitar
Papa Otis along with Esther Phillips in a 1970 outdoor concert.
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Frank Stranges
Flying Saucers Unlimited
Flying Saucers Unlimited
I thought this was a stage name and the recording a funny joke but this guy is serious(ly goofy). Read this link to his bio and remember with a "seeker born every minute" there is a very large population of idiots running around. That is a big constituency if you want to be an officer of an organization.
Kind of clears up that question of a month ago; "How could anyone consider the Disaster from Alasker as credible?"
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Jo Beecham
Take A Trip On Cruise
Off The Peg
Damn, membership is closed. This could have been much more fun than answering Nigerian letters.
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Aimee Mann
Driving Sideways
Now this is a group that I can join! In fact, I have joined them many times and I swear they gave me context when the demands of law school and a contemporaneous Washington, D.C. career were demanding a mindless conformity.
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The Velvelettes
He Was Really Saying Something
Beg Scream and Shout
From Western Michigan University - a song we all have heard and loved. I bet you wished it would replace all that pablum music played on today's commercial radio stations.
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Shirley Ellis
The Clapping Song
Shirley performing the Clapping Song with over-amped dancers acting out the song's lyrics. The lyrics are sung in a nursery rhyme style kind of like New Orleans' Dixie Cups' version of Iko Iko.
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Jimmy Lee Prow
You Tell Her I Stutter
Blue Cat
Another Shirley Ellis, this time the Name Game.
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Stutterin' Cindy
Charlie Features
Rockabilly in Memphis
Stuttering John's new job explained.
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Harmonic Frank Floyd
Swamp Root
Sun Records Collection
Sun
Harmonica Frank Floyd deserves extended playing and if I can wrangle more of his music it will be very funny radio.
From a write up for Adelphi Records at www.adelphirecords.com:
Wine goes in, the truth comes out.
-Harmonica Frank Floyd
The late Frank Floyd recorded his first Chess single of old-time country blues for Sam Phillips in 1951, and with "Swamp Root" had some minor success with Sun Records. As an older performer, and one whose songs harked back to both black minstrelsy and white hillbilly music of the 1920s, Floyd saw his records mistaken for "race music" as Elvis and rock'n'roll took over.
Years later, Floyd re-emerged from farm life to play folk heritage festivals, accompanying himself on harmonica and guitar, and still sounding like he stepped right out of the 1920s -- foot tapping, single-note strumming, harmonica wailing -- Floyd learned how to please a crowd with jokes and to play harmonica without a rack, the instrument protruding cigar-style from his mouth. Floyd died in 1984,
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The Astronauts
Kuk
Surfin' With the Astronauts
Columbia
The Astronauts surf sound has some of the biggest of the big reverb. Reportedly they were the inspiration for Ennio Morriconi's spagetti westerns. Check out Ennio's work with Chet Baker and his acceptance speech in Italian at the Grammy Awards a couple years ago.
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Roseann Cash
Queen of Hearts
A set of music featuring a big wet reverb bass line from Roseann Cash to Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet.
Roseann is such a great musician and for better or worse, she is often too closely associated with her father. This woman stand on her own merit.
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The Astronauts
Kuk
Surfin With The Astronauts
Columbia
Washboard Chaz often cover's the music of a former member of The Astronauts, Rob McLaren. I recall "Month of Sundays" from the first Tin Men cd was written by Rob.
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Ritchie Valens
Boney Maronie
Very Best of
Stick around for a Valen's performance with New Orleans great Earl Palmer driving that "Big Beat" sound.
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Ferlin Husky
I'll Sail My Ship Alone
This song always gets the phone ringing and tonight is no exception. More big bass sound
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Paladins
Slowdown
Blue Cat
More bass
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Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet
The Cat Came Back
Music for Pets
Two more big bass songs from this Canadian band.
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Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Rover and Rusty
Music for Pets
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Charlie Sayles and the Union Mission Band
Coolie and Eddie
Unreleased
Ronnie Dawson documentary on the link.
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Ronnie Dawson
V 8 Ford Boogie
Rockabilly
Blue Cat
The classic rockabilly trio featuring The Blonde Bomber, Ronnie Dawson.
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Johnny Rivers
Maybelline
Johnny Rivers
An overproduced (but 1950's video) of Ronnie Dawson doing "Hazel" at this link.
A set of music about Hot Rods for the drunk driving crowd that seems to always call at about this time of the show
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Swinging Demons
Hot Rod Ford
Radio Rock
Blue Cat
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Paladins
Hot Rod Rockin
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Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s
Solid Gold Cadillac
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Brave Combo
Move
Humansville
Hadicillin, is the new drug all the NOCCA students are using to find their muse. Ray Condo talks about it and sings it on the web link.
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Ray Condo and the Ricochets
Hadicillin Boogie
Rockabilly
Blue Cat
Hadicillin, is the new drug all the NOCCA students are using to find their muse. Ray Condo talks about it and sings it on the web link.
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Renegades V
Wine, Wine, Wine
Blue Cat Rockabilly
Blue Cat
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Ritchie Valens
Rhythm Song
Very Best of
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Eddie Cochran
Somethin' Else
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
This cd of New Orleans drummer, Earl Palmer, has re-mixed the sound on these songs to highlight Earl's playing. With this touch, it's easy to hear how Earl's drumming made so many of these songs into hits. Link is to Smokey Johnson talking about Earl Palmer.
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Eddy Lang
I'm Begging With Tears
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
Ike giving Earl Palmer at proper introduction at Ponderosa Stomp. Palmer solos around 3:40 and be patient, there are clear shots of him playing.
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Ernie Fields and His Orchestra
In the Mood
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
This song is typically over-wrought but with Earl Palmer's pulsating rhythm it turns into something amazing.
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Etta James
Dance With Me Henry
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Fats Domino
I'm Walkin
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Bobby Day
Rockin' Robin
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Ritchie Valens
La Bamba
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Little Richard
I Got It
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Shirley and Lee
Rock All Night
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Amos Milburn
Chicken Shack Boogie
Earl Palmer; Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
Link to a nice Amos Milburn tribute (without Earl Palmer though).
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Edward Everett Horton and Snagglepuss
Unhappy Ending and Exit Stage Left
Voices from my youth.
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Utah Phillips
Moose Turd Pie
25th Anniversary Collection
"Gort, Merinque"
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Gil Scott Heron
A tribute to the Black Arrow
A letter to my older brother, a sports writer for the Boston Globe:
Dear Mr. Dell'Apa:
My name is Tony Green and former member of Gil Scott-Herons Midnight Band. I'm writing to let you know that Gils father, Papa Giles Heron also known as the Black Arrow for the 1951Celtic, died this past Thursday November 27th, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Below is the article you wrote about him in February 2007. I and his family would like to express our deepest appreciation for your concern and contribution about his life while he was alive. GOD BLESS YOU MR. DELL'APA. He surely deserved the recognition you gave him. Sincerely, Tony Green
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2007/news/story?id=2763306
This is THE Celtic -- Celtic FC, that is.
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