Playlist Date & Time: 10/4/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

Sense and Non-Sensibilty

 We start the show with back-to-back sequence of non-sense songs matched with Governor's Huey and Earl Long speeches about Charity Hospital.  The Longs are perennially maligned as comical examples of Louisiana's backwardness but listening to their sound clips about Charity Hospital they are as relevant today as they were yesterday.  Give 'em a Charity Hospital.  Give 'em the Crescent City Connection bridge.  Give 'em the Industrial Canal.  (Earl, you can have that one back). 

Onto a set of music about hipness, squareness and coolness in inter-gender relations.  Three characteristics that always eluded me.  I was the fainting goat of suaveness - I would aspire to a romantic relationship and at best fall over.  What I needed was practice and practice is a number's game.  I needed lots-o-chicks. More than Ron Haydock's 99 Chicks and Joe Clay's 16 Chicks, so I'll play Ron's song twice giving me 198 Chicks + Clay's 16 Chicks = 214 Chicks.  A couple more songs and I might get a date. 

Last set of music are songs that list geographic landmarks.  You know, like Route 66 lists all the city names on that route.  Might as well start in Alaska so we can play Sarah Palin sound clips.  What is it about her voice and cadence that is so captivating?  

Oh yeah, watch the first few video clips in the "tracks" listing below.  They correspond to the Longs and feature Blaze Starr and the Huey Long Bridge.  Blaze is pretty tame but the video from the cab of a train traveling over the Huey Long bridge is thrilling.  What a town.

Box Score

102 selections (not including the first 45 minutes of the show when my equipment failed and I went off the plan).  Remind me not to loot submerged computers after a storm. 

50 Songs

52 Interstitials 

 7 Prostitutes hanging around my neighborhood (2.2X more than the typical Saturday night)

 7  Calls from the hinterlands including a great Esquizito call filling me in on Snookum Russell.  

 1 Back-to-back replay of Ron Haydock's two minute song, 99 chicks.  I figure this concentrates 198 chicks into four minutes making this the most chick-filled show of post-Katrina WWOZ. 

17 Nonsense songs including: Tee Na Nee Na Nu, Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu, La Do Da Da, Oke She Moke She Pop, Ooh Diga Gow, Oop Pop A Da, Boot Ta La Za, Yep Rock Heresay and Oomp Boomp, 

And Interstitials from:

Bat Man, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spock, Howard Beal, Superchick Movie, Elvira, Superchicken theme song (cartoon), Sarah Palin, Tweety Bird and a set of seven clips about pants (missing and otherwise).    

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