Playlist for April 19, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 4/19/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Goofy Guys
After couple hours of impressive live jazz from Snug Harbor featuring Loyola's Monk Institute Ensemble, I got control over the aether modulator and immediately degraded our community standards. Starting with Wild Jimmy Spruell and the Three Stooges we found an incredibly stoogey comment by Woodrow Wilson and matched it with music about Cherokees. Thankfully, Ray Nagin is always there to continue the pattern with his goofy racist comments about Mexican workers in New Orleans which Spencer Bohren answered with his treatment of "Deportees."
No shortage of goofy guys tonight as the last half of the show featured goofy songs including the misogynist's theme song, Sugar Boy Crawford's Watch Her Whip Her. Finally, a set about bartenders. Not drinking, not drunkeness, not hangovers and not bars. Just bartenders. That's a population that knows goofy guys.
Exclusively featuring music I looted from houses after Katrina. This is community radio with a uniquely New Orleans' emphasis on community.
And if the sound of these discs is a bit muddy it's because I got 'em out of the mud. Scratchy? I scrubbed them. Warped? Yep, I sun dried them because there wasn't any electrical power for a fan and if there was, I wouldn't have shared that fan with my lps.
Box Score
43 selections in an hour and fifteen minutes
1:05 per selection
3 songs starting with the Dragnet rif - Bahn Ba Ba Ba Baaaahhhh
And my favorite type of songs were well represented as we almost hit the cycle with:
1 "take me to your leader song"
2 bug songs
3 songs featuring a screaming singer
plus:
Interstitials by Three Stooges, Ray Nagin, Joe Friday, Woodrow Wilson, Bugs Bunny, Elvira, and Dean Wormer.
Playlist Tracks
Unknown "Saturday Night" |
George Bush and Rocket J Squirrel "Jamie is boring and a know-it-all" Why does the Midland Middling keep saying I'm boring? |
Wild Jimmy Spruell "Scratch 'n Twist" Chris Edwards of the former Skippy White Music Store can't hear enough of Wild Jimmy Spruell so here's a couple for you. |
Noble Thin Man Watts and his Rhythm Sparks featuring Wild Jimmy Spruell "Hard Times (The Slop)" |
Joe Clay "Duck Tails" Bear Family Joe Clay with Cranston Clements (guitar) Jimmy Messa (bass) David Torkanowsky (organ). Live at CHiCKie WaH WaH, New Orleans, October 16, 2006. |
Stick McGhee "Wiggle Waggle Woggle Woo" This is a dance song that I need to find an illustrative video. Link is to Stick's version of Wine Spodee Odee. Oh year, Stick is Brownie McGhee's brother. |
Tiny Grimes "Call of the Wild" Grimes has such good chops that he could play serious jazz and still juice the throttle with adreneline. Is the cut away during the goofy dancing segment on this video link a face shot of Dorothy Dandridge? |
Terry Daly and the Nu-Tones "You Don't Bug Me" Ultra Rare Rockabilly Link is to the same song but I can't find a video of Terry. |
Timmie Rogers "Take Me To Your Leader" Greasy Rock and Roll |
Stomp Gordon "Dragnet" More Timmie, this time with Demond Wilson and Redd Foxx. |
Frankie Ervin "Dragnet Blues" Timmie in a documentary setting. Timmie is from that first round of black comedians who didn't have to play a character and could speak directly to a white audience. No mask, no blackface. Yeah, sure their roles were still restricted but Timmie was a Richard Pryor of his time. |
Sister Wynonna Carr "Dragnet For Jesus" The Dragnet Theme and show introduction. Bahh Ba Ba Ba Baaaahhhh. |
Little Butchie Sanders "Rock and Roll Indian Dance" |
Woodrow Wilson "Great White Father Speech" The video must have been from a Cleveland versus Washington Senators game. Woodrow really misread his Cleveland audience. |
Paul Revere and the Raiders "Cherokee Nation" 1971 Billboard Hits Sure it's as pretentious as a Ward Churchill presentation but unlike Ward, Paul Revere turned out some fun music. My friend Steve Faraca of Washington, D.C. had the BIA job of determining whether an individual is eligible for benefits as a native American. His great quote: "If someone says their ancestry is anything other than Cherokee then they are probably correct but if they say they're Cherokee, they're probably not." You'll have to read his books for an explanation for why this prediction is so reliable. |
Spencer Bohren "Deportees" The Long Black Line Spencer at Louisiana Music Factory. |
Screaming Jay Hawkins "Itty Bitty Pretty One" Repeating Echos Jay in full costume. |
Screaming Jay Hawkins "Little Demon" Repeating Echos By definition, you can't just play one song from this album |
Hillbilly Hellcats "Dead Man's Party" Rev It Up With Taz Doing White Trash at a bar in Pheonix. Ever notice how the West has so many rockabilly bands. The most surprising is the concentration in Salt Lake City. |
Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters "Watch Her Whip Her" Link from name sake, Davell. |
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen "Midnight Shift" Too Much Fun Like Annie, I'm workin' the Midnight Shift |
Gene Phillips "Hey Bartender, There's A Bug In My Beer" |
Julie Lee "Last Call For Alcohol" |
The Thrills "I Ain't Got No Money To Pay For This Drink" |
Lee (Red) Melson and the Missouri Night Hawks "Mean Ole Bartender Blues" |
Floyd Dixon "Hey Bartender" Ah, finally another video of the song we played |
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