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Playlist for January 04, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 4:12am
Playlist Date & Time: 1/4/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Frogs and the Ponderosa Stomp
To hear this show go to:
http://www.virb.com/2681578360504589
Select Lefty, The Piano Player
or just click the web link on the first song (below)
It's raining so hard that my neighbors are starting to build boats but with their dubious hammer skills, the next world isn't going to have much biodiversity. Music tonight for the only survivors of tonight's rain - frogs. But first:
Lefty from the Ponderosa Stomp drops in to start the show with his 45 RPM records of the 2009 Stomp's musicians. Lefty eh? A perfect name.
Music Credits
The Hound (Thehound.net)
WFMU (wfmu.org - especially "on the download")
Ponderosa Stomp (ponderosastomp.com)
and of course, the management of WWOZ - they're decent people and good managers.
Interstitial sound clips used tonight:
Three Stooges and George Bush (why does he keep calling me "boring?")
Sylvester the Cat
Rocket J. Squirrel
Chicken Hawk
Foghorn Leghorn
Charlton Heston as "Taylor" from Planet That Went Ape
Quint from Jaws
French Quarter resident Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap ("turn it up to '11'") and
Ben Pagac's station IDs
Playlist Tracks
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Three Stooges, George Bush, Sylvester the Cat, and Rocket J. Squirrel
Mr. Know It All Introduction
TO HEAR TONIGHT'S ENTIRE SHOW, CLICK ON THE "VIRB.COM" WEB LINK DIRECTLY ABOVE. Right up here ^
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Buddy Wayne
Agent 007 Dance
Greasy Rock and Roll
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Johnny Rivers
Secret Agent Man
On Letterman
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Bobby Charles
Take It Easy Greasy
The Chess Story
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Danny Gatton and Robert Gordon
Black Slacks
The Humbler Live
Gatton at the Birchmere in Alexandria. A club that doesn't allow dancing (even to zydeco). Strannnggggeee!
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Joe Houston
All Night Long
Loud Fast and Out of Control
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Clarence Samuels
Boogie Woogie Blues
The Chess Story
Chess
A nicely researched page on Aristocrat Records with plenty of Clarence Samuels citations.
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Doc Pomus
Send For The Doctor
The Chess Story
Link is to a nice Doc Pomus tribute.
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Johnny Fuller
Haunted House
Specialty Box Set
Specialty
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Rene Hall
Twitchy
Specialty Story
I've yet to find a Rene Hall song that wasn't over-the-top great music. We'll play him with Babette later in the show.
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Wanda Jackson
Fujiyama Mama
Lefty Parker of Ponderosa Stomp rowed his piroge to the station using his collection of 45 rpm records as paddles. The next songs are from musicians that will be at the 2009 Stomp (between weekends of JazzFest).
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Ace Cannon
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Little Willie Littlefield
Kansas City
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Nathaniel Mayer
Village of Love
You Tube has live performances but this link give you another bite of this great song.
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Classie Ballou
Classie's grandson at a Circle Bar gig that I bet was booked and even filmed by Lefty.
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Carl Mann
Mona Lisa
Sun
Performed with a chorus of thousands.
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Lazy Lester
Lover Not a Fighter
A rare good audio link on youtube.
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Ray Sharpe
Linda Lou
Lefty's favorite musician of this week performing Linda Lou. Beware Lefty's taste is contagious.
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Barbara Lynn
Promises
45 rpm
Another lefty making the airwaves excited.
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Brenton Woods
Oogum Boogum Song
45 rpm
Louisiana born, Brenton Woods has been thoroughly adopted by Chicano culture. Do a few searchs on him to see this phenomena.
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Jean Knight
My Toot Toot
45 rpm
I remember singing Jean's hit song "Mr. Big Stuff" behind the backs of so many self-declared "Mr. Big Stuffs." If I had more courage and a much much better voice maybe I would have sung myself into getting fired from more jobs.
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Little Joe Washington
I Feel Alright
At the great "Big Top Lounge" in Houston. This has the Stomp's vibe all over it.
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Alex Geronimo
Geronimo Rock and Roll
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Bunker Hill
Bunker HIll will be a Stomp highlight.
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Roy Head
Treat Her Right
A classic Roy Head song and video
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Eddie Kirkland
I Need Someone
Lefty Parker's great quote "Kirkland is the most natural player I've seen. Naturally great."
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Long John Hunter
El Paso Rock
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Ernie K-Doe with Fireball Rocket
unknown self recorded session
Video from the Mother In Law Lounge where we have all witnessed so much magic. Fireball Rocket backed Ernie during his last years and I thank Lefty Parker and the Ponderosa for bringing such great music to New Orleans (in his many roles).
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Fireball Rocket
Burn K-Doe Burn
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Dan Penn
Dark End of the Street
One of the many perfect songs written by Dan Penn, I'm Your Puppet. Performed here by Dan and Spooner Oldham.
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King Curtis and Al Caiola
Guitar Boogie Shuffle
The Atlantic release of this performance was the first time a blues song got through my teenage head. Those seven minutes in 1971 changed the trajectory of my life as it revealed yet another world, another deep rich human experience that could be attained simply by looking outside the narrow self-imposed restrictions of my immediate perceptions.
Perhaps that seven minutes led to these last twelve years here in the greatest city for culture in the US.
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Larry Collins
Flying Fingers
I get a kick out of how Larry still jumps around stage in the same persona as when he was a little kid. I don't think it was so much an act then or now. I think he is as moved as all of us by this great music.
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Moms Mabley and Pearl Bailey
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama, The Best of Jive
The professionalism of these two women jump out on this recording. I'll be playing this too many times over the next weeks. Link is to Jackie Mabley performing.
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Laura Lee Perkins
Gonna Rock My Baby
I love this woman! The Stomp has got to book her!
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Rusty and Doug Kershaw
Rattlesnake
Not a video but this song needs an audio link to these great South Louisiana musicians. Rusty was such a gem.
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Ruth Brown
This Little Girl's Gonna Rock
Hot Boppin Girls 3
Ruth had that same stage presence as Moms and Pearl. These women could supercharge their songs with just their eye movements.
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Babette Bain and Rene Hall Orchestra
That's It
Second Time Rockin'
Another Ruth Brown video with Saturday night favorites; Amos Milburn, Joe Turner, and Cab Calloway.
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B. Goode and The Hokey Pokeys
Sabotage
Hokey Pokey Rock
The Krewe du Vieux sub krewe of Mama Roux always have the Krewe du Vieux royalty stop by for a salute and a dance of the Hokey Pokey before the parade. Frankie Ford, start practicing for your Vivian and Richard Cahn premier.
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Vernon Green and the Medallions
Buick 59
I'm so partial to songs where the singers mouth car noises and this is one of the best versions of this too-trivial-a-category. Link is to another car songs by Vernon Green and the Medallions; Coupe de Ville
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Bo Diddley
Gunslinger
The Chess Story
Chess
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B. Goode and the Hokey Pokeys
Hokey Pokey Rock
Hokey Pokey Rock
Here is the Hokey Pokey song ...
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Bobby Charles
See You Later Alligator
The Chess Story
Visual proof that it was Bobby Charles not Bill Haley...
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Del-Tones
Bow Legged Women
The beginning of this link sound too much like The Astronauts' bass line on Kuk.
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Bo Diddley Orchestra
Two Flies
Bo is rocking it on this performance.
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Bo Diddley
Moon Baby
Rare and Well Done
Driving them crazy in 1965 too. I wish I could find a link to this song, Moon Baby as it is so good taht it has become an ear worm.
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Mickey Hawks
Screamin' Mimi Jeannie
The Last Great Rockabilly Saturday Night
An audio link. Remember if you want a link to tonight's entire show go to the link under the first song on this playlist
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Joe Maphis
Water Baby Boogie
I particularly like Maphis' boogie songs.
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Paul Gayten
You Better Believe It
The Chess Story
Chess
The link is to one of my favorite Gayten songs. Knock out musician.
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Ranch Girls
Hop Skip and Jump
The Ranch Girls performing in the UK.
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Hadsil Adkins
You Better Believe It
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Ray Condo and the Ricochets
Hadicillian Boogie
Ray Condo's got that sound that sticks with you like eating a whole Muffaletta.
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Gene Malthis
The Raging Sea
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Bob "Froggy" Landers and the Cough Drops
Cherokee Dance
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Bob "Froggie" Landers
River Rock
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Danny Dell
Froggy Went A Courting
Rockin Bones
Rhino
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Lloyd Price
Frog Legs
Creole Kings of New Orleans
Specialty
Some great video of Lloyd is on the Muhammad Ali / George Forman "Rumble in the Jungle" documentary. Lloyd booked the music for the show which was then postponed for months when Forman got hurt. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to it ...
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Clarence Frogman Henry
Ain't Got No Home
The Chess Story
Chess
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Clarence Frogman Henry
I Found a Home
Frogman is just across the river - another living legend going to the same po-boy shops as the rest of us.
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Miss Froggie
Hank C. Burnett
Rockabilly Gasseroonie
Video link has Hank's music behind unrelated clips. Works good for setting a scene.
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Bobby Charles
The Mardi Gras Song
Link to a Don and Dewey video.
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Don and Dewey
Koko-Joe
Earl Palmer - Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
Another link to an even hotter Don and Dewey video.
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Willie Dixon
Walkin Blues
The Chess Story
Chess
The great A&R man Willie Dixon doing a song with that walking beat that Sam Cammaratta features on his upcoming theme song by Jelly Roll Morton.
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
