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Playlist for October 10, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 10/10/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
The Moon Should Have Gotten A
Restraining Order On the Earth
You must have read about this. Earth shot the Moon with two giant bullets to see if it is hiding any water. No questioning, no Miranda rights, just shoot first, investigate later.
How could the Earth? They were once together, Moon + Earth = one harmonious planet. It must have been celestial bliss. No looniness. No one eclipsing anyone. No tides.
Then the breakup and wrenching separation. The Moon foolishly stayed close enough to taunt and ripple the Earth's seemingly placid surface. And the Earth belittled the moon as an irrational, cold, pock-marked has-been.
The Moon adjusted but under the Earth's thin crust of a facade, Earth brooded and bubbled like a caldron. So Earth-The-Scorned buys a cheap $79 million dollar gun and shoots the moon with two giant bullets the size of a small spaceship. Tragic.
Oh don't get smug my fellow Earthlings. A gun creates violence but it is not a shield. If the Moon is also packing heat and shoots back we better hope the cross-hairs are on Lou Dobbs' hollow forehead. He's the rabble rouser who created this rabid hatred environment against aliens. Trying to save his washed up career, he is gonna cause the interplanetary violence Morgus always warned us about.
I'm prepared though. When Nagin scares everyone out of town with his"Mother of All Alien Attack" crap I'm gonna be sitting under the "Welcome Aliens" sign I painted on my roof's bluetarp. You flee-ers will be in gridlock hell while I'm back here shopping in the dark.
Tonight's Box Score
110 Selections over
180 Minutes = a change in sound about every minute and a half. With announcer breaks, a change in less than one minute. If you don't like something, it'll change in less time than it takes to change the channel.
57 Songs
53 Interstial sound clips
0 Prostitutes hanging around my neighborhood at 3:30am
1 Guy with a balloon hat and balloon sword on my neighbors' front porch talking to their door (the neighbors at in Clinton, LA)
4 Car driving and crashing songs featuring mouth imitations of car sounds
6 Songs about the drive in theaters
3775+ Drive in theaters at their peak in the 1950s
383 Drive in theaters today (and dropping quickly)
3 Number of pledges received during my show
Infinite My gratitude to everyone who financially supports this radio station
Number of Drive-Ins in Louisiana
09 1948 67 1954 54 1958 40 1963 44 1967 30 1972 30 1977 12 1982 03 1987 00 1999
A link to the blog about this show:
http://www.wwoz.org/blog/68561
Playlist Tracks
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Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
2001 Also Sprach Kazoostra
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
The band on the Merv Griffin Show. Later we'll play Merv Griffin's great song, "Screeming Meemees From Planet X."
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Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
Utah Moon
For most of civilization we considered the moon as this big beautiful piece of nature. Maybe even the "Mother" role of "Mother Nature."
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Dick Jacobs
This Island Earth
Horror Themes
A bunch of interstitials from this collection of horror theme. Jacobs reads trailer script, or some other wacky empathetic view from the monster, then plays the theme music. Thankfully, I looted this collection from the goof-ball down the street instead of spending real money on this. Why you're stuck with hearing it? Couldn't tell you.
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
How High the Moon
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Ruth Brown
Shine On (Big Bright Moon, Shine One)
Ruth knew how to perform on TV back in a time when even TV producers hadn't mastered their medium. She moved when she sang, rolled her eyes, threw her arms around and wore dresses that filled the screen.
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Little Richard
By The Light of The Silvery Moon
The Specialty Sessions
Specialty
Link is to Richard doing Reddy Teddy from the movie; "The Girl Can't Help It." It's the film production company that appeals to tonight's theme.
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Big Al Downing
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold
New Orleans Rock and Roll
Big Al doesn't have the name recognition as the Black Pearl of Country Music but you know he went through the same bramble bushes. Just didn't get the same monetary up-side. But audio artists aren't narrowly performing for the money...
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Rusti Steel and the Tin Tax
Bright Moon
Railroadin' Rhythm
Big Al's web site
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Moon Mullican
Rocket to the Moon
Link is to Moon performing a hot boogie woogie piano piece.
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Jocko Henderson
Blast Off to Love
Jocko was a disc jockey back in the days when there was an emphasis on putting a frame on unfamiliar music as a bridge that us listeners could discover new cultures.
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Reflections
Rocket to the Moon
Another link to the blog about this show.
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Deacon and the Rock and Rollers
Rockin' on the Moon
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Wesley Reynolds
Trip to the Moon
LP cover looks like Roddy the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
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Gail Davis
Rock to the Moon
Great Rockin' Girls
From a pilot for Annie Oakley show featuring Gail Davis.
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Chaperones
Cruise to the Moon
Another Gail Davis commercial. Oh yeah, Gail Davis is Annie Oakley.
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Nelson Young (The Big Whopper)
Rock Old Sputnick
Rock old Sputnick to the moon...
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Daniel James
Rock Moon Rock
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Chuck Dallis
Moon Twist
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Big Charles Green
Rocking to the Moon Tonight
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Carl and Norman
Shooting for the Moon
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Allan Riddle
The Moon is Crying
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Bo Diddley
Moon Baby
Rare and Well Done
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Van Morrison
Dancing in the Moonlight
The other Van Morrison "Moon" song.
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Merv Griffin
Screemin' Meemies From Planet X
Griffin with Richard Pryor
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Hank Ballard
The Float
You know the videos with the dancing girls are always best. This isn't exactly a big money production.
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Mel Lastie Band
Get on the Moon
New Orleans Rock and Roll
Link is to the song we're Lastie performance we've all heard.
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Mickey Baker
Old Devil Moon
I think it's Mickey's guitar that gave Mickey and Silvia that hook.
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Moon Men with Link Wray
Other Side of the Moon
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Dovers
The Invasion
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Blue Men
Orbit Around the Moon
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The Wild Tones
The Martian Band
A rarity so rare that you'll want to stare at this picture of the 45 RPM as you listen to the music
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Timmie Rogers
Take Me to Your Leader
Greasy Rock and Roll
Timmie on the Jackie Gleason Show.
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Medallions
Rocket Ship
Another 45 RPM stare-down.
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Charlie Ryan
Hot Rod Rocket
This "Rocket" song is a cover of Ryan's Hot Rod Lincoln song. Here he answers a question that he's probably answered plenty of times in the past but it sounds like he's enjoying being asked again and gives this long, detailed answer.
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Sparkletones
Rocket
Sparkletones television debut on the Nat King Cole show doing this song.
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Cookie Roberts
Draggin' the Drive Inn's
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Fatso Theus
Rock and Roll Drive In
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Mickey Gilley
Drive In Movie
Family members playing a song about their past.
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Beach Boys
Drive In
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Morgan Twins
Sittin' in the Drive In
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Ron Hargrave
Drive In Movie
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Olu Dara
Bell and Ponce (At the Movie Show)
Neighborhoods
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Roy Clark
Spooky Movies
Link to a performance with Kermit (and I don't mean Ruffins).
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Jeff Johnson and the Lonely Ones
Movies No. 2
Rockabilly Hoodlums
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The Echoes
My Baby (likes western movies)
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Fabio
Fabio on Movies
What a voice! The person as product.
The link is to Fabio's near death experience.
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Bill Haley and the Comets
Real Rock Drive
Dancing!
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Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s
Juke Box Drive
Mitch does one of the best versions of this classic standard.
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Collins Kids
Hot Rod
Link is to Larry and Lori performing this song.
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Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie
Tillman Franks and His Rainbow Boys
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Lee Dorsey
My Old Car
Lee's distinctive voice comes cutting through this video.
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Howie Stang
This Old Bomb of Mine
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Paladins
15 Days Under the Hood
Ticket Home
Paladins keep that Southern California driving rockabilly sound fresh.
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Jaytones
Gasoline
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Vernon Green and the Medallions
Buick '59
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Medallions
Speedin'
More homage to the Buick ;59
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Curtis Gordon
Draggin'
Rockin Bones
Curtis performing this song in 1995 (at a location where color television hadn't been introduced).
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
