Playlist Date & Time: 6/23/2009 11:00AM - 2:00PM

Program: New Orleans Music Show with Tom Morgan

Clip Show

 

Just before today's show, el-Jefe-de-WWOZ, Jorge, calls upon my patriotic WWOZ duty to hurry down and substitute for the great Tom Morgan.  I was so relieved that I wasn't being fired from my regular Saturday midnight to Sunday 3am shift that I said I'll be right down.  Okay so I encourage the dogs to quickly water and fertilize the French Quarter's sidewalk and I get to WWOZ with 20 minutes to spare.  Thankfully New Orleans' musical riches make a last-minute New Orleans Music Show possible.  

 

Plenty of wonderful telephone calls including Monque D's over-the-top recitation of his Louisiana minute where President Thomas Jefferson gives Papa Funk his nick-name and Charmaine Neville says she both danced through the show and laid down her new floor.  This New Orleans music is magic.  

 

Today's box score:

 

132 selections of which

  65 are songs

  67 sound clips

 15 of my inane announcer breaks eating up 30 minutes of sacred aether modulation

 

For a selection every minute and presenting themes of:

1. Robot versus human conflicts

2.  Alien abductions (Gort is gonna clobber Lou Dobbs)

3.  Madhouses and nervousness

4.  Cosmetic surgery

5.  Daytime television show hosts' singing careers

6.  Sound-alike songs

7.  Driving, crashing, hospitalization and The End and the always popular:

8.  Milking cats and Mr. T

Almost every song from New Orleans musicians recorded back when you could walk down N. Claiborne Street under a ceiling of green leaves and see a record producer's office in every other block.  Like what you heard?  Tune in every Saturday night at midnight. 

 

Playlist Tracks

Saxons "Camel Walk"
Treniers "Bug Dance"
Brenton Woods "I'm Your Puppet"
Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man"
Buddy Wayne "Agent 007 Dance"
Roland Stone "Preacher's Daughter"
Smiley Lewis "Go On Fool"
Richard Berry "Jelly Roll"
Lowell Fulsom "Cash Box Boogie"
Otis Redding and the Pinetoppers "Shout Bama Lama"
Twisters "Bandstand Rocket"
Dave Bartholomew "Shrimp and Gumbo"
Richard Berry "Look Out Miss James"
Richard Berry "Mad About You"
Alton and Jimmy "(Got it) Made In The Shade"
Eddie Bo "Oh Oh"
Bobby Mitchell "Rack Em Back"
Bobby Mitchell "Sister Lucy"
Tommy Ridgley "Jam Up Twist"
Allen Toussaint "Whirlaway"
Bobby Lonero "Wham Bam"
Rene Hall "Twitchy"
Don and Dewey "Justine"
Clarence Garlow "The Train Came a Rolling Down the Track"
Paul Gayten "The Music Goes Round and Round"
Tami Lynn "I'm Gonna Run Away From You"
Rene Hall "Thunderbird"
Annie Laurie/Paul Gayten "Cuttin Out"
Shirley and Lee "Comin' Over"
Vernon Green and the Medallions "Buick '59"
Medallions "Speedin'"
Four Jokers "Transfusion"
Clarence Garlow "Route 90"
Charlie Ryan "Hot Rod Rocket"
Sparkletones "Rocket"
Nelson Young "Rock Old Sputnick"
Johnny Adams "I Won't Cry"
Fats Domino "So Long"
Cosmic Rays "Dreaming"
Tin Men "Dreaming"
Champion Jack Dupree "Junker Blues"
Fats Domino "The Fat Man"
Bobby Mitchell "Try Rock and Roll"
Bobby Charles "Take It Easy Greasy"
Esquerita "Dew Drop Inn"
Doc Pomus "Send For The Doctor"
Dovers "The Invasion"
Merv Griffin "The Screaming Meemees From Planet X" 1961
Bo Diddley "Moon Baby"
Wink Martindale "Bug a Bop"
Bobby Lonero "Little Brother Tom"
Esquerita "Gettin' Plenty Loving"
Lloyd Price "Where You At?"
Cookie and the Cupcakes "Cindy Lou"
Clarence Frogman Henry "It Won't Be Long"
Don and Dewey "Koko Joe"
Bobby Marchan "Chickee Wah Wah"
Richard Berry "Watusi"
Long Tall Marvin "Have Mercy, Miss Percy"
Fats Domino "Second Line Jump"
Mad House "Unknown"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins "Frenzy"
Big Jay McNeely "Nervous Man Nervous"
Jesse Lee King "Nervous Wreck"
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages "Madhouse"