Playlist Date & Time: 7/18/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

 To The Moon Alice!

 

What the World Needs Now isn't Love Sweet Love, it's music about Mars and the moon!  Nothing better than 1950's music about rockets, planets, alien invasions and everyone's favorite - interplanetary love affairs.  Yeah, I know I'm kinda stuck on this theme but I'm saving the world with these songs.  Just think how Lou Dobbs' anti-alien bombast is construed by aliens from above our borders?  Dobbs is making his own grave while I'm covering all our butts with these welcoming songs.  Want further protection? This fall get our new WWOZ membership premium - a "Welcome Aliens" banner to place on your roof.  Repels rain better than a blue FEMA tarp and deflects most extraterrestrial extermination rays! 

 

The highlight song is Mr. Moon Man by E. Pauling and the Exciters - musical musing on introducing soul food to moon people.

 

Big excitement on the interstitial front.  I was drinking with radio folks this week and we all agreed Sarah Palin's speeches have some type of perfection.  Not only aurally, they are also amazing when viewed as modulated sine waves on our spectrum analyzers.  The great Joe Richmond of Radio Diaries fame even pointed out how Sarah's inhales were fascinating.  And her cadence!  It is an audio-phile's treasure chest.  

 

I can't stop - her sonic perfection extends beyond her speaking.  On the resignation speech she got the ambient nature sounds to blend into her speech like a perfectly-timed laugh track.  Listen to the bird in the background.  They are as good a duet than Abbot and Costello's "Who's On First" piece.  And last Thanksgiving's turkey-reprieve video with the ongoing turkey extermination process in the background?  No kidding, only Earl Long's speeches are in the same rarified air.  Early on in the show, a sequence of songs for Obama and Palin quotes. 

 

Playlist Tracks

Roy Brown "Saturday Night"
Shirley Ellis "Name Game" Interstitial is Lord Buckley's "Hipsters Flipsters and Finger Poppin Daddies."
Stuff Smith "I'sa Muggin'" Interstitial Obama "You can have my number baby..."
Bunker Hill "The Girl Can't Dance" Palin interstition - Do ya?
Rio Rockers "Mexicali Baby" Clip make us look goofy and paranoid
Lucinda Williams "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" Obama interstitial from Dreams of My Father. He probably shouldn't have recorded this as an audio book.
Ruth Brown "This Little Girl's Gone Rocking"
Jimmy McCracklin "Beer Tavern" Interstitial from Homer Simpson confessing to 10 beers.
Pete "Guitar" Lewis "Louisiana Hop"
Barbara Lynn "Until Then I'll Suffer"
Chris Kenner "Shoo Rah"
Etta James "Roll With Me Henry"
Amos Milburn "Girl of My Dreams" Interstitial from Mattel's Mystery Date Game: "Will your date be a dream or a dud?"
Little Mr. MIdnight "Got A Brand New Baby" Interstitial is, "They remade my stomach with skin from my butt."
Ruth Brown "Wild Wild Young Men" "Two men, one woman means trouble"
Lowell Fulsom "Don't Leave Me Baby" "My date left me and I don't have any seconal."
Doc Pomus "Work With Me Carrie" Frankie and Johnny's "Ah say, ah say"
HAWK "I Yi"
The Barons "Boom Boom"
Jimmy Beasley "Little Coquette"
Earl Williams "Oh Baby Please" Dr. Al Scaramuzza's crawfish cure
Stella Johnson "That's What I'm Gonna Do"
Bobby Charles "See You Later Alligator"
The Wild Tones "The Martian Band"
Dovers "The Invasion"
Ventures "The War of the Satellites"
Terry Dunavan "Rock It On Mars"
Ran Dells "Martian Hop"
Equadors "Sputnick Dance"
Speedy West "Spacemen in Orbit"
Nelson Young (The Big Whopper) "Rock Old Sputnick"
Big Charles Green "Rocking To The Moon"
5 Royals "Mr. Moon Man"
Bo Diddley "Moon Baby" Rare and Well Done
Deacon and the Rock and Rollers "Rockin' On The Moon"
Wesley Reynolds "Trip to The Moon"
Jocko Henderson "Blast Off To Love"
John Fred and the Playboys "Shirley" Best Of
Warren Storm "I Like Your Kinda Love" Sun Roots of Rock
Al Ferrier and the Boppin Billies "No Baby"
Cookie and the Cupcakes "Mathilda"
Cookie and the Cupcakes "Shake 'em Up"
Phil Phillips "Juella"
Phil Phillips "Verdi Mae"
Phil Phillips "Sea of Love"
John Fred & The Playboys "Doin' The Best I Can"
John Fred and the Playboys "She Shot a Hole in My Soul"
Chan Romero "I Want Some More" Rene Hall with Earl Palmer and Carol Kaye on these next two songs.
Chan Romero "Hippy Hippy Shake"
Ritchie Valens "La Bamba"
Earl Palmer's Party Rockers "Johnny's House Party" Earl with Rene
Larry Williams "Bad Boy" Rene Hall's scorching guitar solo and of course Earl Palmer
Wild Jimmy Spruill "Scratching"
Jimmy McCracklin "Georgia Slop" The Mercury Recordings Mercury
Johnny Waleen "Mystery Train"