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Playlist for March 21, 2010 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 4:35am
Show Host(s): Jamie Dell'Apa

Playlist Date & Time: 3/21/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

Mo Taters

 

  Last week's show proposed that any song is made great if it includes the word "tater."  Wow did that wake up the phone and email.  Based on your flood of communications, I'm now convinced that "tater" is one of the most emotional, non-pejorative terms in the language.  Well this Saturday night show takes to absurdity like staph infection takes to a Petri Dish so tonight we begin with a series of songs with the word "tater" in the lyric.  

 

Speaking of absurdity, Saturday night is centered as far from the drudgery of a nine-to-five job as you can get.  Our second set of music starts with Alton and Jimmy singing in Cosimo's studio about not working, "Got it Made (in the Shade)" and follows with a to-do list of songs about working.    

 

Still working on this baby...  

Playlist Tracks

Brenton Woods with Alex Chilton
Gimme at Little Sign
From Ponderosa Stomp 2005

Alex had the perfect accompaniment to Brenton Wood's classic song. The last minute of this recording features Alex's playing including that melody hook that distinguished Brenton's playing. Thank you Alex.
Earthworms
Mo' Taters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_Tots

Like the Forest Gump's endless list of shrimp preparations, the Earthworms give an endless list of "tater" preparations. I believe this song has the greatest concentration of "tater" lyrics in existence making it the best song ever written.
Nat King Cole
Potato Salad
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Nat knows how to deliver a lyric and his genius is proven when he converts the "potato" of this song title into the $$$-producing "tater" of the great singers. 

  Look, don't believe me, try it yourself.   Shift the noun in any lyric to "tater" and you'll hear an immediate improvement in the song.  
Little Jimmy Dickens
Cold Tater and Wait
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Or try the opposite experiment. Replace the word tater with any other noun and this song falls on its face.

 

 
Mickey and Sylvia
Dearest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPD4QDW80dc

These two hated each other yet made these great romantic songs.  Today they sound as corny as they were pretentious but Mickey's guitar playing remains steller.

 

 

 

 
Millie Small
My Boy Lollipo

Millie plays so many New Orleans songs but here is her big hit:

 

 
H-Bomb Ferguson

H-Bomb 

 

 
Pee Wee Crayton
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