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Playlist for December 06, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 12/6/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Brew Doo
I went to the Krewe du Vieux's Brew Doo in the post-fire Den of Muses. With no lights or heat since last summer's electrical fire, the Cave of Blown Fuses is more like it. And that is the cold dark inspiration for tonight's show.
Sets of music about cats (I've got a couple dogs), the closing of the British UFO hotline (who worked in that career builder office?), rabbit hunting (yeah, that's pretty dark and cold) and the crime and trail and son of Stagger Lee.
If we have time we'll really upset the non-sensibilities of the drunk driver audience with the group that was the Weird Al Yankovich of the last generation, Homer and Jethro.
Interstitials by:
The Cast of the Simpsons
Rodney Dangerfield
Three Stooges
Rocket J. Squirrel
Bugs Bunny
Sylvester the Cat
Galaxy Quest
Earl Long
Robert DeNiro
Butterfly McQueen
Elmer Fudd
Magneto
Frankenstien Jr. and many more....
Box Score
130 Selections over 210 minute for a change every 90 seconds. If you don't like what you're hearing, I'll have something new when you come back from the bathroom.
2:00pm Time I woke up after the show and it looked like the Saints had lost
12 N.O. By the time I got to the lucky drag bar to watch the game.
0 Number of prostitutes hanging around outside of my house
40 Degrees was the outside temperature when I took this morning's outdoor shower. Who needs a spa when you can live in a French Quarter historic house?
21 Number of cats sung about in tonight's show
And finally, my thanks to Dwayne for not firing me again this week and to The Hound and New Orleans for the inspiration and music. Also, to Comrade Chris formerly of WHFS, Bethesda and hopefully soon of WWOZ, New Orleans for the signed Root Boy Slim 45rpm - Xmas at Kmart. Thank you - I am touched. And listen for Chris when he gets back on the air - it'll be a treat!
Who's Root Boy? He's the guy who launched jazz great Ron Holloway's career and probably helped George W. Bush hit bottom (when these two shared the same Yale fraternity). Look for both Ron and George in this video.
Playlist Tracks
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Commander Cody
Daddy's Been Working On The Midnight Shift
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Little Richard
Rip It Up
The Specialty Sessions
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Commander Cody
House of Blue Lights
From the radio studio of blue lights
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Mabel Scott
Elevator Boogie
R&B Box
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Commander Cody
20 Flight Rock
When the elevator is out, you've become an urban mountaineer.
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Billy Lee Riley
Flying Saucers Rock and Roll
He sang this song thousands of time and must have lost enthusiasm for it but every time I've seen his performances it is fresh. It was that good of a song. Here he is at Lincoln Center...
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Dovers
The Invasion
On December 1 the British Ministry of Defence terminated its UFO hotline where the public reported 12,000 incidents over 50 years. I thought this news story was over-the-top goofy but 60+ years ago London's airspace was filled with new V1 and V2 rockets as Hitler was developing new jet airplanes to bomb London.
We've had some horrific attacks on America but nothing like London in WWII. This UFO hotline story was too glibly reported here in the US. I'm happy we've been lucky enough to misunderstand their mindsets.
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Eddie Reynolds
What Was It?
Extremely Rare Original Rockabilly
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Jive Five
People From Another World
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Invaders
Invasion
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Frank Stranges
Flying Saucers Rock and Roll
Flying Saucers Unlimited
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Joe Tate and the High Fives
Satellite Rock
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T Bone Walker
Don't Go Back to New Orleans
Stormy Monday Blues
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Frank Lowery and the Golden Rockets
Goin' to Louisiana
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George Smith
Going To New Orleans
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Fats Domino
Shu Rah
They Call Me The Fat Man
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Fats Domino
The Big Beat
They Call Me The Fat Man
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Fats Domino
Trust In Me
Sounds like Little Sonny James on vocals
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Dr. John
Touro Infirmary
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebannack
Surrounded by Earl Long quotes about the great benefits of Charity Hospital. Seems Charity's detractors and supporters have been battling for years.
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John Fred and the Playboys
She Shot A Hole In My Soul
History of John Fred
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Lloyd Price
Stagger Lee
Footstompin Oldies
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Stella Johnson
Trial of Stagger Lee
New Orleans Rock and Roll
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Dave Bartholomew
Son of Stagger Lee
New Orleans Big Beat
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
Shot Gun Boogie
A Capitol Rockabilly Party
A set of music about rabbit hunting inspired by the barroom recording of Dave Bartholomew, Jr., Olivia, Charlie and Donna sitting around Donna's telling stories while a recorder sat unnoticed on the bar.
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Icky Renrut
Jack Rabbit
Ike Turner on a scratchy recording.
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Joe Turner
Blues Jumped Over the Rabbit
Spirit of New Orleans
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Savoy Brown
Master Hare
Raw Sienna
This is the instrumental music bed behind the Community Notebook.
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Marvin Rainwater
Tough Tom Cat
Another set of music from the Fuzzy Animal Department - songs about cats that feature humans making "meow" noises. What is it about humans that they can't help but make "meowing," "moo-ing" and barking sounds when the topic is cats, cows or dogs? Doesn't happen with frogs, birds or horses. Just with three letter mammals.
Starting with two songs about being afraid of cats.
Marvin's song is a knock off of "Big John."
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Masked Man and the Agents
My Wife, My Dog, My Cat
Isn't there a Marty Robbins song with a similar title? Maybe we programed two answer songs in a row that both also had "fraidy cat" themes.
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Rene Hall
Cleo
Cleopatra the cat
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The Blue Cats
Jump Cat Jump
Fight Back
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Dodgers
Cat Hop
Meow choras.
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Jay Haggard And The Jubileers
Tom Cat
Rockabilly Hoodlums
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Lew Williams
Cat Talk
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Rod Willis
The Cat
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Roy Hall
Three Alley Cats
I'll see your three cats and raise you seven
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The Miller Sisters
Ten Cats Down
The firework finale - ten, count 'em, ten cats.
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Florence Desmond
Cigarettes, Cigars
Flashbacks
How to ask a cigarette, cigar girl to dance.
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Gladiolas
Be Bop Girl
Everyone wants to ask the Be Bop Girl to dance.
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Bunker Hill
The Girl Can't Dance
http://www.spinner.com/2009/07/31/twisted-tales-gospel-star-david-walker-moonlights-as-randb-scream/
The mighty, mighty Bunker Hill was born David Walker on May 5, 1941, and was raised in the Washington, DC, area. Walker was a successful gospel singer, first with the Sensational Wonders and then with the Mighty Clouds of Joy, on whose Peacock Records sides he can be heard.
Walker was also a successful heavyweight boxer, boasting a creditable record of 18-7 and working as sparring partner for light heavyweight champ Archie Moore. In the early sixties, Walker was christened Bunker Hill and under the guidance of Vernon Wray, recorded three frantic secular singles, all backed by Vernon's brother Link Wray along with the Raymen. Bunker Hill - vocals, Link Wray - guitar, Vernon Wray - piano, Doug Wray - drums, Shorty Horton - bass The debut disc, "Hide and Go Seek", was Bunker Hill's biggest hit, cracking the top 40 in 1962 and becoming a regional smash in the DC area. Two highly charged singles followed, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" and the unruly "The Girl Can't Dance", and while neither did much business in their day, both enjoy serious dance floor racket time today. http://www.myspace.com/bunkerhill |
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Gee Cees
Buzz Saw Twist
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Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers
The Honeydrippers
Specialty Story
One of the most descriptive names for a dance.
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Floyd Dixon
The Thing
The classic dance song with instructions and counts. :Left foot in, two three, four now switch..."
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Gene and Wendell
The Roach
Hairspray
New Orleanian guitar and banjo player, Seva Venette tells me his relative(s) wrote this song.
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Gene Maltais
The Bug
My friend, Ben Pagac, collects bug songs and tells me the best are like this one where the bugs are all carrying on a party. This is all the better, the bugs are dancing a dance called, "The Bug."
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Hasil Adkins
Chicken Walk
Dee Jay Jamboree
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Hank C. Burnett
Run Don't Walk
Hank C. Burnett - Rockabilly Gasaroonie
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Fluffy Hunter
Walkin' Blues
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"Forrest" Sykes
Tonky Boogie
The Chess Story
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Frankie Olivia
Huggie's Bunnies
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Freddie and the Heartaches
Womp Womp
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Gary Spider Webb
The Cave
Remember a cave is just a hole on it's side. I'm thinking the lyrics were written backwards - Julie is one of the finest horror screamer's I've ever heard. They just needed a vehicle to surround her golden vocal chords.
Link is to the song.
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Gardenias with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm
My Baby's Tops
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Hal Paige and the Whalers
Thunderbird
I believe Thunderbird wine has had more songs written about it than any other type of wine. Pinot Noir songs? Zero. Merlot? Zip. Thunderbird? 18 songs in my library.
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Camille Howard
X-Temporaneous Boogie
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Champion Jack Dupree
Junker's Blues
Flashbacks
This origination of Junko Partner roused the great Sonny Curso to call in.
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Coasters
Bad Detective
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Danny Gatton and Robert Gordon
Black Slacks
The Humbler
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Doc Pomus
My Good Pot
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Doc Pomus
Work Little Carrie
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Marty Robbins and the Night Riders
Baby
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Dale Hawkins
La Do Da Da
Annually, the Washington Post has a contest in which readers supply alternate meanings for commonly used words.
The winners are: 1. Coffee (n.): The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.): Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate (v.): To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade (v.): To attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly (adj.): Impotent. 6. Negligent (adj.): Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph (v.): To walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle (n.): Olive-flavoured mouthwash. 9. Flatulence (n.): Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash (n.): A rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle (n.): A humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude (n.): The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon (n.): A Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster (n.): A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism (n.): The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent (n.): An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men. |
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Homer and Jethro
At The Flop
Before Weird Al Jankovich, there was Homer and Jethro.
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
Video from 1971, shortly after George Frayme gave up his shot-putter career in college for a shot-drinking career in music.