Playlist Date & Time: 7/4/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Trissel, trassel, trussel, trome... How does a microphone act as a magic wand that converts a human into a twit. Happens to me every Saturday night but you would think professional politicians would have a Hogwarts-style defense. A twit force field. Maybe a Tamil-twit inoculation.
Tonight's sound bites are primarily weird sound bites from politicians. Every quote presented out of context (because nobody speaks between post-war R&B songs looted from my neighbors after Katrina). Politicians who meant to inspire but just sound wacky. Definitely radio for the post-Culture Vulture music crowd.
Box Score
131 Selections over 180 minutes (minus 30 minutes of announcing) = a selection change every 01:12 so you don't have to wait long for a change if the show's boring.
10 Earl Long quotes
2 Sarah Palin
2 Ray Nagin
1 Ronald Reagan
3 Richard Nixon leading to
1 Gerald Ford (Pardon He)
1 Obama (He is finally getting a body of audio to sample)
1 Clinton (only one but it's a good one)
1 Each from Ned Flanders and his alter ego Larry "Plow NOLA Under" Craig
1 FDR
7 More North Korea missiles launched this week
59 Voice mailboxes on the server of which only Ray Nagin's was removed
Music from Rene Hall, Clarence Garlow, Bobby Mitchell, Earl Palmer, Medallions, Eldorados, Irma Thomas, Subdudes, Jeannie and Her Boyfriends, Dr. John, Macy Skipper, Bo Diddley, Carol Fran, Little Richard, Dorothy Ellis, Lazy Lester, Gene Vincent, Tiny Grimes, Larry Williams, Richard Berry, Red Tyler, Tami Lynn, Larry Dale, Jimmy and Johnny, Bobby Charles, Hawks, Blue Lu Barker, Frogman, Eddie Bo, Earl King, Senator Jones, The Spiders, and more
Interstitial sounds from non-politicians include the usual quotes about robots, alien invasions and overly-dramatic exclamations about giant-insects-caused-by-radiation-exposure.
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Steve Gibson and the Red Caps
Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night
On a show that relies on too much novelty, gotta change up the introduction every week. Good thing it isn't a Tuesday night show because there are plenty of songs about Saturday night.
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Dr. John
Touro Infirmary
If only Charity Hospital was called and infirmary it would have replace "St. James" in popularity.
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Four Jokers
Transfusion
Songs all inspired by Earl Long's declarations that Charity Hospital is the finest hospital in the world. Too bad it's closed.
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Bo Diddley
Pills
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Macy Skipper
Bop Pills
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Frantic Flintstones
Poppin the Pills
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Dorothy Ellis
Drill Baby Drill
Between Sarah Palin's Governor gig and her baton days, she sang under the name Dorothy Ellis. Had she a larger portfolio of lyrics she might have pursued this career.
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Bull Moose Jackson
Bow Legged Woman
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Del-Tones
Bow Legged Annie
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Little Richard
Keep A' Knockin
A set of music about negotiating the front door - yours, mine, and someone else's front door. In the Quarter I never answer the front door. Took out the door bell years ago and ignore the knocking. If they don't have my cell number I'm not answering the door. Too many unpleasant surprises over the years - ranging from cops looking for a shake down to goof balls so high they thought they were home.
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Stuff Smith
Knock, Knock
Oynx Club Boys
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Eldorados
Bim, Bam Boom
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Jeannie and her Boyfriends
It's Me Knockin
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Carol Fran
Knock, Knock
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Lazy Lester
I Hear You Knockin
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Gene Vincent and the Blue Flames
Well I Knocked and I Knocked
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Jimmy and Johnny
I Can't Find the Door Knob
A song that perfectly describe that New Orleans situation that comes after we properly take a cab home from the bar then realize we're too drunk to operate the front door.
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Jerry McClain
My Next Door Neighbor
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Larry Dale
Let the Doorbell Ring
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Tiny Grimes
Call of the Wild
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TV Slim
Flat Foot Sam
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Larry Williams
Dummy
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Lloyd Price
I'm Glad, Glad
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Larry Williams
Peaches and Cream
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Larry Williams
Hey Now, Hey Now
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Alvin Red Tyler
Gee Baby
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Amos Milburn
Chicken Shack Boogie
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Richard Barry
Angle of my Life
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Eddie Bo as Little Bo
So Glad
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Bobby Mitchell
Sister Lucy
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Roy Brown
Let the Four Winds Blow
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Annie Laurie
It Hurts to Be In Love
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Clarence Garlow
Bon Ton Roule
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Clarence Garlow
New Bon Ton Roule
Such a perfect song that a follow up makes sense but why didn't Garlow just make this into a 20 minute song. A Louisiana version of In A Gadda Da Vida.
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Clarence Garlow
Crawfishin
Cosimo Matassa Story
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Bobby Charles
Watch It Sprocket
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Hawks
Ever Since You've Been Gone
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Blue Lu Barker
Here's A Little Girl From Jacksonville
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Nellie Lutcher
Lake Charles Boogie
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Clarence Frogman Henry
Standing in the Need of Love
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Eddie Bo
Check Your Bucket
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Earl King
Love Rent
King of New Orleans
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Tami Lynn
One Night of Sin
Love Is Here and Now
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Thurston Harris
Little Bitty Pretty One
Earl Palmer - Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Drummer
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Shirley and Lee
Flirt
Aladdin 3390
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Eddie Bo
Hook and Sling
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Alvin Robinson
I'm Leaving You Today
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Senator Jones
Boston Fleet
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Brenda Lee
Bigalow 6-200
Blue Cat Rockabilly
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Bobby Mitchell
Nothing As Sweet As You
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The Spiders
Sukey, Sukey, Sukey
Imperial Sessions
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Larry Williams
She Said Yeah
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Eddie Reynolds
What Was It
After playing Ronald Reagan's quote about world peace coming after an attack from outer space I had to depart from the Rene Hall set of music with Eddie Reynolds song about finding a satellite on the ground. Reynolds wonders it a purple monster is about to jump out and .... but as he opens the lid he finds a black and brown dog. Goofy! As goofy and Reagan's quote.
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Rene Hall
The Untouchables
Rene with his signature rich, multi-dimensional textured arrangement on this and the next song
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Rene Hall
Thunderbird
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Larry Williams
Bad Boy
Rene on guitar
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Ritchie Valens
La Bamba
Rene Hall on guitar, Earl Palmer on drums and the great Carol Kaye creating on of the most famous bass lines. A group Rene often played and arranged with.
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Chan Romero
Hippy Hippy Shake
Same band as above as they hoped Chan - a Valen's sound alike - could recreate the magic and the sales.
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Chris Kenner
Sick and Tired
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Subdudes
Poor Man's Paradise
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