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Playlist for November 28, 2009 from 11:55PM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 11/28/2009 11:55PM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Lucy! I'm Home
Only the drunkest of the drinkers and thinkers who regularly listen to this show will find any unifying topical theme tonight. Music and sound clips from the Desilu era with a set of songs about:
Girls named Lucy
Hand clapping and slapping
Thanksgiving holiday is too weak for a four day holiday.
Shopping with bad credit
Wrong numbers
And the usual sound clips from the cultural trash cana of Americana.
Sounds from a corner of culture that didn't make it commercially. Music from before the blues, R&B, R&R, race or popular categories become commercial formulas that sucked the life out of the music. Music from before the folks scare, the British invasion, the peace and love utopia times, or the darker introspection lyrics. Music from folks like:
The Barons
Shirley Ellis
Red Prysock
Lucky Millinder
Roy "Boogie Boy" Perkins
The Sportsmen
Teenbeats
Speedy West
Tal Miller
The Invaders
Roy Buchanan
Billy Mure
Rosco Gordon
The Cadillacs
and the untouchable Ron Haydock and the Boppers
120+ selections over 180 minutes so if you don't like what 'cha hearing, sneeze a couple times and there will be something new.
Box Score
3 Total number of songs listeners and I have found dealing with Thanksgiving. Of these three, Alices Restaurant, Surfin Bird (Trashmen) and Turkey Hop (Robins), only one really counts, Alice's Restaurant, but its story line barely covers Thanksgiving. As Arlo says, its really a song about the draft. Thanksgiving doesn't deserve four vacation days. On merit, Thanksgiving is closer to Arbor Day.
3 Number of times the computer equipment crashed on me during the show.
2 Number of times I got it restarted.
25 Minutes of improvised programming while performing off-mic cursing at inanimate plastic, silicone, and wires.
And the best link of the week goes to Richard Ziglar and Barry Yeoman's "Still Singing the Blues" at:
http://stillsingingtheblues.blogspot.com/
Feedback Department Statistics:
18 Phone calls from Ed to request music, chat or just sing to me
3 Calls from Ottawa Pete, Ontario Ian, and my favorite voice in New Orleans, James 12 Andrews (I gotta get 12 to do a regular WWOZ show).
0 Requests for Stairway or Freebird or Sweet Home
1 DUI driver crashed into my car but as we exchanged insurance information, he told me how much he enjoyed WWOZ. Nice enough guy. I kinda hated to see him handcuffed. It was nice meeting the typical drunk driver that regularly listens to my show. Hey, I wonder if Sheriff Guzman would accept a radio donation from me for his drunk tank? Probably not if he heard my piece; "The Water Was Rising and the Cell Door Was Locked:"
http://www.wwoz.org/programs/street+talk/2008/08/water+was+rising+and+cell+door+was+locked
P.S. Guess who figured out how to embed video in the playlist? Thanks to Burke Ingraffia!
Playlist Tracks
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Robins
Turkey Hop Part 2
Fifties Collection
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Steve Douglas and the Rebels
Clap You Hands
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Shirley Ellis
The Clapping Song
Public radio's genesis was from educational radio - spectrum exclusively reserved for schools and education. So this song might be considered "instructional physical education?"
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Lucky Millender
Clap Your Hands
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Red Prysock
Hand Clappin'
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The Cadillacs
Lucy
A video clip that also works for the upcoming shopping with bad credit musical set:
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Albert King
(I Love) Lucy
More Cadillacs because one in the driveway is never enough:
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Bobby Mitchell and the Toppers
Sister Lucy
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Whitey Pullen
Tuscaloosa Lucy
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Kidds
Miss Lucy
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Barons
Crying For You Baby
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Barons
Boom Boom
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Roland Faulk
My Baby's Gone
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Ron Haydock and the Boppers
Maybelline
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Ron Haydock and the Boppers
You're Running Wild
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Ron Haydock and the Boppers
99 Chicks
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Rosco Gordon
Kickin the Boogie
Rosco with Ike Turner rehearsing for a show:
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Roy Buchanan
Roy's Guitar Boogie
I like Roy's earlier work. It is more primitive, emotional and less reliant on technique:
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Royal Earl and the Swinging Guitars
Talkin' Guitar Parts one and two
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Jeujene and the Jaybops
Thunderin' Guitars
Billy Mure from a couple generations ago.
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Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars
Tiger Guitar
Billy at his 93rd birthday:
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Roy Buchanan
Mule Train Stomp
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Roy Hall and His Cohutta Mountain Boys
Dirty Boogie
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Royal Early and the Swinging Cools
Royal Earl Shuffle
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The Royal Kings
Bouncin' The Boogie
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Sandy Nelson
Teen Beat
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Turks
Rockville, USA
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Thurston Harris
Little Bitty Pretty One
Thurston Harris with Earl Palmer on drums. Dr. John talks about Earl in this video link:
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Roger and the Markees
Liza Lee
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Roy Orbison
Go! Go! Go!
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Ronnie Isle and the Blisters
Wicked
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Upsetters
Where You Goin' Sapphire
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Bobby Charles
See You Later Alligator
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Roulettes
Venus Rock
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Roy "Boogie Roy" Perkins
Bye Bye Baby
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The Sportsmen
Sand Storm
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Big T Tyler
Sadie Green
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The Invaders
Invader Twist
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Teenbeats
Slinky
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Aaron Neville
Wrong Number
The video link to the left is Aaron singing Wrong Number but how could we ignore this classic duet?
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Louis Jordan
Buzz Me
A set of music to encourage drunk dialing. Go ahead, drink more. Make sure you're beyond DUI level before you call your ex-love. Try not to slur the "Hello were you asleep?" Ignore that they're groggy and only answered the phone out of fear of family tragedy. Now start simpering and immediately beg forgiveness. As soon as they say it's okay and that you should go to sleep, immediately beg to go over and sleep. After you're gently dissuaded, release the monsters from the id. Yep, that name calling and cursing should change their mind. Yeah, now that's the power of public radio. We're always asking you to pick up the phone and make a call that's easier to do when drunk. |
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Brenda Lee
Bigelow 6-200
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Big Bob
Your Line Was Busy
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Johnny Otis
Ring-A-Ling
Ahhh, now this is the Roy Buchanan clip I needed. Johnny Otis - the navigator of my teenage listening years. Here it is Johnny, Roy and Shuggie playing Sweet Home...:
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Lloyd Price
Ohh Ohh Ohh
Lloyd singing Personality in his venue - the big live show:
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Lloyd Price
Restless Heart
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The Rays
Elevator Operator
Elevator Operator is one of those perfect songs but The Rays are better known for this smaltzy song glamorizing a peeping tom:
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Boogaloo and His Gallant Crew
Clothes Line
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Phillip Melancon
Department Store Blues
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Big Daddy
Memories of Manhattan Furniture Store
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Jerry McCain
Bad Credit
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Payments
New Cadillac Car
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The Thrills
I Ain't Got The Money To Pay For This Drink
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Dan Hicks
Payday Blues
Last Train to Hicksville
Dan Hicks came out of the Bay Area music scene that seemed a bit too grounded in the Bay Area. The music is meritorious but it didn't travel very well. Remember how Dan Hicks' humor failed on the too-stiff Tonight Show?
Video is a minimally narrated documentary on that Bay Area music scene. Starting with a couple of my favorite musicians, Terry and Toni. These girls had voices worthy of a national following. But they didn't want to tour...
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Unknown
Unknown
Ah the beauty of equipment failure. Last 25 minutes of the show melted down as the equipment conducted an ad hoc walk out in protest of ... something.
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
Tonight, music for the post-culture vulture crowd featuring adverb free descriptions of every song. And for you folks who take music radio seriously: