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Playlist for December 28, 2008 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 12/28/2008 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Drinking Like
Fish Out of Water
Archived audio for this show at:
http://www.virb.com/2681578360504589
New Orleans is annually invaded by Sugar Bowl fans. These people soon realize this is an away game that is really really a far away game. New Orleans isn't like their home town (or anywhere in the US). The difference isn't our carefree attitude about drinking, it is our carefree attitude about all of life. "The City That Care Forgot" is the indirect voice for: "The City That Doesn't Care." Last Sugar Bowl had the Hawaiians visit us and New Orleans fell in love with these polite people who were so thankful for the national exposure and completely amazed at how our New Orleans island was so much wackier than anything in their islands. Hawaiians and New Orleanians instantly liked each other, maybe because we both cultural outsiders to the main culture of the US.
This year the reddest of the red states (Utah and Alabama) attempt to understand the bluest social environment in the nation. In today's extended walks around the Quarter, the Utah-clad visitors clustered in huge family groups adopting a circle-the-wagons relationship with us natives. The Alabama fans have fallen into their road-trip binge-purge relationship with alcohol epitomized by the group walking with a giant lime green plastic Hand Grenade in each hand - "New Orleans' Most Powerful Drink." Even after Katrina, the one item we never ran out of was alcohol. Drink at your leisure.
So tonight, three hours of musical subliminal seduction - all music about drinking and partying. Music that slips between the classification of blues, r&b, swing, boogie, and rockabilly - that sweet spot where New Orleans music resides. The seduction? Drinking as a metaphor for "relax and enjoy yourself." Maybe our annual invaders will return to their more spartan homes with an understanding that enjoying yourself is about letting yourself relax.
Thanks tonight to:
WFMU (wfmu.org - "On The Download"
The Hound (thehound.net)
Interstitial audio snippets by:
Ben Pagac
Bullwinkle and Rocky
a hungover Bugs Bunny
Sgt. Friday - Dragnet
Dean Wormer - Animal House
George W. Bush and Boris Badenoff
And Krewe du Vieux for allowing me to announce Frankie Ford as 2009 Royalty
Playlist Tracks
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The audio archive link is below
Click the web link to the left to travel to an archive of this show. It works much better if you turn up the volume so high that your neighbors introduce themselves to you and provide you with an instantaneous personality assessment.
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Johnny Rivers
Stack o lee
Mr. Rivers is such a nice way to start Saturday night's shows
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Merry Clayton
It's In His Kiss
Merry is Gert Town's present to the world. She was celebrated in the 1970's rock and roll scene but I think her real talent was as a more home-grown natural singer such as from this transcribed 45 rpm. That corporate rock sound overwhelms her talent and you get a fungible sell-able (but flawed) product. For example try this painful link to a Merry Clayton / Eric Carmen duet for comparison.
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Also Sprach Zarathustra
Humpback Whale
Link is to the Rahsaan Roland Kirk of kazoos.
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Frankie Ford
The 12 Drinks of Christmas
Christmas
Frankie is the Krewe Du Vieux's royalty for 2009. The krewe's web site might be updated in early January but this aging web site link has good photos from previous years.
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Johnny Bond
Ten Little Bottles
Link is to someone acting out this legendary Johnny Bond song. Consider it an early "video." This corny pattern established by Frankie Ford and Johnny Bond couldn't be repeated by anyone of significance in the modern times.
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George Bush
Drunk press conference
Gawd! It's him again and he has adopted Frankie Ford and Johnny Bond humor. Nobody laughs at this type of humor, we laugh at proponent's belief that they are being funny. No wonder he abandoned us after Katrina.
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Carl Sonny Leyland
Drinking Wine
From Boogie to Rock and Roll
Link is to Carl playing Stack o Lee
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Red Foley
Hot Toddy
Swingbillies
I sang the catchy Hot Toddy to myself all day long yesterday but one viewing of this Red Foley video link and I'll be singing Freight Train Boogie for all of today.
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Bird Rollins
Here He Comes Drunk Again
Not much on the web about Bird Rollins.
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Jimmy Liggins
Drunk
The R&B Box 30 Years
Jimmy's answer song to himself.
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Birmingham Jones
Drinking Again
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Jimmy Rodgers
Sloppy Drunk
Jimmy doing T for Texas in this video. Love the corny background.
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Johnny Guitar Watson
Getting Drunk
The Jimmy Rodgers song and video induces a yodeling video by Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash
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The Kidds
Drunk, Drunk, Drunk
Cosimo Matassa Story
Proper
Recorded at Cosimo's studio
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The Royals
Too Much of a Little Bit
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Joe Liggins
Pink Champagne
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BIll Pinkne and the Original Drifters
WPLJ (White Port Lemon Juice)
A great song and lyric but they could have done without the cheesy electric piano.
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Sonnetts
Pass the Gin
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Asylum Street Spankers
Beer
A spectacular band. Web link is to a show celebrating their 10 year anniversary and performing this song.
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Ray Condo
Hadicillin Boogie
Ray is all the rave on the West coast.
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Amos Milburn
Let Me Go Home Whiskey
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Amos Milburn
Bad, Bad Whiskey
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Choker Campbell
Last Call For Whiskey
Singing "My Mechanical Man"
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Lucky Millinder
Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
Proper Introduction
Proper
Lucky has such an ear for music and lyrics. It always surprises me that he wasn't a musician.
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Bull Moose Jackson
I Know Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well
Best Of
King
Link is to Bull Moose with Lucky Millinder.
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Wynonie Harris
Quiet Whiskey
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Wynonie Harris
Don't Take My Whiskey Away From Me
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Fireballs
Bottle of Wine
Bottle of Wine
The classic wine song.
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Howlin Wolf
CV Wine Blues
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Lucky Millinder
The Grape Wine
Proper Introduction
Proper
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Little Esther Phillips
Cherry Wine
I agree with John Lennon's introduction to Esther but this version lacks what Joel Dorn released on Atlantic in about 1971 (Live at Freddie Jett's).
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Three Aces and a Joker
Booze Party
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Candye Kane
Babylon Boogie
Home Cookin'
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Jimmy Liggins and the Drops of Joy
Knocked Out
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Charlie Feathers
Wild Wild Party
Wild Wild Party
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Collins Kids
Party
A Capitol Rockabilly Party
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Billy Brown
Did We Have a Party?
Columbia
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Darryl Vincent
Wild Wild Party
Buffalo Bop
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The Del-Tones
Moonlight Party
Link is to the Del-Tones with Dick Dale
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Earl Palmer
Johnny's Party
Earl Palmer - Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Fats Domino
What a Party
They Call me the Fat Man
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Firesign Theatre
Polar Ice - Party Vertical
Give Me Immortality of Give Me Death
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Hillbilly Hellcats
Dead Man's Party
Rev It Up With Taz
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Reggie Perkins and the Rockin Maniacs
Saturday Night Party
Reggie's music was featured in the movie, High School Ceaser. Link is to a good version of the song and the next link is to the movie's trailer.
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Jesse Allen
Let's Party
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Joey Welz
Shore Party
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Kim Weston
Ain't Nothin but a Party
Beg Scream and Shout
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Jane Fonda
My Name is Barbarella
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Lesley Gore
It's My Party
Link to Lesley in that warm black and white 1950's close up television.
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The Enchanters
I Paid For the Party
Sweet Soul Music
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Ronnie Dawson
Party Time
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Link Wray
Mashed Potato Party
Mr. Guitar
Video clip from 1960s.
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Smiley Lewis
Caldonia's Party
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Valiants
Wild Party
A link to Bob Luman.
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Chan Romero
Rock House Party
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The Redcoats
Let's Have a Party
The Redcoats
Thanks to WFMU
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Reverend Billy Wirtz
Mennonite Surf Party
Backslider's Tractor Pull
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Bullwinkle and Rocky
Disguised as a bomb...
Another link to Glen Barber
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Al Rex
Hydrogen Bomb
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Shel Silverstein
They're Testing the Bomb
I'm So Good I Don't Have To Brag
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Glen Barber
Atom Bomb
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Larry Collins
Flyin' Fingers
Larry with Joe Maphis doing this song. I believe the clip is from Tex Ritter's Ranch Party (Ritter must have loved the Collins as he frequently had them on the show.) Watch the duet merge into a solo at 01:40
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King Curtis and Al Caiola
Guitar Boogie Shuffle
Opening for Murray the K and some other bands in 1965
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A-Bones
Third Pint Theme
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Bill Kirchen
The Finger
Hot Rod Lincoln, Live
Another link to Joe Maphis.
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Johnny Rivers
Mountain of Love
Video is of Rivers performing this song.
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
