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Playlist for March 01, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 3/1/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Mardi Gras and Katrina
October, 2005 -
Six weeks after Katrina and only hours before the first second-line parade to revisit the Quarter.... Leroy Jones and Katja Toivola miraculously put together a wonderful second-line band. How do they find both the proper instrumentation and musicians in a devastated city that so many outsiders were calling "dysfunctional?" They did what our detractors couldn't do; made something happen.
Mardi Gras 2009 -
Leroy is again leading the Society of Saint Anne to the Mississippi River where we throw our deceased's ashes into the river. He has many of those same musicians that he gathered after Katrina. Again, our detractors equate Bourbon Street with Mardi Gras but now we know the outsider's claims are merely projections of themselves. A failed inkblot test.
For those taking the time to understand the unique culture of New Orleans - our culture is our people. People like Leroy and Katja and all our deceased from Katrina and last year.
That was my Mardi Gras.Jamie Dell'Apa
Every Saturday night from Midnight to 3am (the drunk drive-time shift) we play music that was created before folks started rigidly classifying music into "rhythm and blues, blues, blues shouters, rock, rock-a-billy, etc. Back when the musician's muse was undiminished by recording formulas and audience expectations. Plenty of scratchy low fi records here.
Archived and streaming versions of my shows will return soon. I've just got to shout the proper profanities at a few web sites.
Box Score from tonight's show:
Over 80 songs and interstitials
< 2 minutes per selection average
Sets about:
1. Knocking on the front door
2. Running out of money at the bar's last call
3. Little kid lead singers
4. The name "Marie"
5. Cows and cows in Dallas
6. Moving north to Oklahoma and Oklahoma prisons
7. Primal guitar instrumentals (rock's stereotypical screaming guitars)
and as always woven around New Orleans' unique music.
Playlist Tracks
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Noveltoons
Follow The Bouncing Ball
TV theme songs
"Start your day with a song...."
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Unknown
Saturday Night
Love that screamed lyric, "It's Saturday night..."
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T Valentine
Betty Sue
Another screamer singer. Gotta start the show with a statement, might as well have it screamed.
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George Bush
Jamie is Boring
W... Worst
Why does this guy think I'm so boring?
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Ruth Brown
This Little Girl's Gonna Rock
Hot Boppin Girls
Ruth doing a song that sounds more rock-a-billy than r&b but why classify??
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Kid Thomas
Rockin' This Joint Tonight
Loud, Fast, and Out of Control
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Laura Lee Perkins
Gonna Rock My Baby Tonight
Hot Boppin Girls
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Jerry McCain and the Blues Rockers
Calling All Cows
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Jean Davidson
Fort Worth Boogie
Hillbilly Boogie
Proper
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Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans
Oakie Boogie
Hillbilly Boogie Box
Proper
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Jimmy Patton
Okie's In The Pokie
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Hurricane Harry
The Last Meal
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Merry Clayton
Shoop Shoop (It's In His Kiss)
EMI LP "Dream Babies"
The Glamour Girl of Gert Town.
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Jan Bradley
Mama Didn't Lie
The Chess Story
Chess
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Smiley Lewis
I Hear You Knocking
Cossimo Matassa Story
Proper
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Jeanie and Her Boyfriends
It's Me Knocking
Spazzy Answer Songs
Answer song to Smiley. We're off onto a set of music about negotiating the front door - preferably late at night, drunk, and unreasonable. Just like you folks driving home right now.
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Jimmy and Johnny
I Can't Find The Door Knob
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Louis Jordan
Open The Door Richard
Let The Good Times Roll
Bear Family
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Larry Dale
Let the Door Bell Ring
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Carol Fran
Knock, Knock
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Wanda Jackson
I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
Wanda will be at Ponderosa Stomp this spring.
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The El Dorados
At My Front Door
Vocal Groups: Classic Doo Wop Remastered
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Little Booker
Open the Door
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Cookie and the Cupcakes
Close Up the Back Door
Gonna close the door on this topic and move onto music featuring my favorite name, "Marie"
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The Blasters
Marie Marie
Blue Cat Rockabilly
A name so grand you have to say it twice (just like that northern city).
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Teencats
Little Lovin' Marie
Blue Cat Rockabilly
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The Four Tunes
Marie
Doo Wop Box
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Louis Prima
Oh Marie
Big Night
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Dick Dale
Ooh Wee Marie
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Wayne Cochran
Cindy Marie
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Be Bops
I Get Marie
Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection
Blue Cat
El Gato Azul
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Danny Kaye
Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)
Flashbacks - Crazy and Funny
Kaye's spelling of the title. A couple songs with lyrics consisting completely of a list of names. Here Russian composers.
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Dave Frischberg
Van Lingle Mungo
List of baseball player's names. Spring training and Mardi Gras - two celebrations of history and the future.
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Slim Gaillard
Jumpin' At The Record Shop
Laughing in Rhythm
Proper
Lyrical list of musician names...
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King Curtis and Al Caiola
Guitar Boogie Shuffle
A set of music with that primal guitar. (Not the screaming over-amped imitation used by rock bands.)
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Hasil Adkins
Chicken Walk
Dee Jay Jamboree
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Larry Collins
Flying Fingers
Larry Collins of the Collins Kids
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Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars
Tiger Guitars
Can't play this tune enough
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Eddie Smith and the Hornets
Upturn
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Laura Lee Perkins
Come On Baby
Hot Boppin Girls 4
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Larry Williams
Hootchie Koo
Here's Larry Williams
Hootch! Is it time for the anthem of Saturday night, the drinking set?
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Jack McVea
Wine-O
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The Thunder Rocks
What's The Word (Thunderbird)
Rockin and Boppin in Philadelphia
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Julia Lee
Last Call For Alcohol
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The Thrills
I Ain't Got Money To Pay For This Drink
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Jerry McCain
Bad Credit
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The Tornados
Scalping Party
Wild Rock and Instrumentals
Yep, the title says is all. A song with plenty of imitation Indian shouts. Goofiness must be followed with absurdity so here goes:
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Little Butchie Sanders
Rock 'n' Roll Indian Dance
I love the child singer who fronts a serious band. That pre-adolescence voice always works for me.
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Millie Small
Be My Guest
My Boy Lollipop
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Collins Kids
Beetle Bug Bop
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Sparkletones
On My Love List
I'll take any chance to mimic the Sparkletones beginning of "Black Slacks" over the air. "Bbbbbrrrrruuubbbb, Black Slacks..."
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Johnny Rivers
Mountain of Love
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The Spiders
Sukey, Sukey, Sukey
Imperial Sessions
Imperial
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Esquirita
Dew Drop Inn
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James Booker
Drown In The River
New Orleans Keyboard Kings
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Lloyd Price
Country Boy Rock
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Lonesome Sundown
Lonesome Whistler
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Lucinda Williams
Lafayette
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
Folkways
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Sonny Guitar
Betty Lou
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Creep
Betty Lou Got a New Tattoo
Greasy Rock and Roll
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George Ross
Weirdsville
Greasy Rock and Roll
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Lue Cazz
The Walk
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
