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Playlist for May 30, 2010 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Playlist Date & Time: 5/30/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa
Top Kat
A few hours ago they unsuccessfully tried to cap the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf with a "top kat" procedure. Top Cat was an indomitable cartoon character but it's too much to believe he could fix this oil leak. Tonight a musical role reversal.
No more chuckling at the fictional Top Cat character and taking seriously the cartoonish politicians who assured us that deep water drilling technology was safe. Instead, songs praising macho cats versus songs about the Gulf Coast beaches facing the 2010 version of the horror movie come true "The Blob." As always, between songs we'll feature out-of-context sound clips. Drill Baby Drill - Spill Baby Spill!
Didn't come close to breaking the radio sound barrier of averaging one selection per minute but I did perform the never-before-accomplished-at-WWOZ trick of back announcing a set of music while spinning in a chair. Imagine trying this yourself. You've gotta keep your mouth next to the mic while your body is spinning in circles and if you keep your head up then you get dizzy after a couple rotations. Those wussie big radio bucks guys (Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh) would choke themselves on their headphone cords.
Tonight's themes:
1. Barbara Lynn plays Rock and Bowl next Saturday
2. The Top Kat well plug technique
3. The 2010 version of the movie, The Blob, kills 'em at the Gulf Coast Beaches
4. Louisiana politicians and musician's poetic use of the "accomplishment list"
5. Randy Newman to get a drunk driver home.
6. Do the Hully Gully!
7. Can mules dance a two step with four feet?
8. Birds, Bears and Fish! Oh my!
9. Drunken tourist's shouted song requests - "Play Freeway to Stairbird by Brown Eyed Gloria like they do at the Holiday Inn at my Sweet Home War Eagle..."
10. A tribute to Sam Cammaratta's amazing style of dress - Sunglasses After Dark.
Box Score:
92 Selections over 176 minutes, a change every couple minutes
1/2 Way to the radio sound barrier of one selection every minute
1 Prostitutes outside of my house at 3:30 am (yea! they're back)
2 Hotel evictees who needed to borrow my phone this week
1 Black eye on the female evictee - drop the tattooed guy
1 Drunk driver request for "steadying music" until they get home (see theme #9 above).
4 Complete rotations during an announcer break on the dj chair of amazing feats.
5 Hours of sleep after the show but no headache ... yet.
Interstitial Quote Counts
3 Sara Palin
3 Krusty the Clown
2 George Bush
2 Benders
2 Fred Rogers
2 Scramuzzas
1 Butterfly McQueen
1 Edwin Edwards
1 Lunch Lady Doris and Ground's Keeper Willie
7 Assorted cartoon characters
Top that you commercial radio babies!
Playlist Tracks
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Little Richard
Rip It Up
Starting the show with a Saturday night reference..
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Phantom 5
Graveyard
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Barbara Lynn
You Left The Water Running
Barbara Lynn is playing the Rock and Bowl next Saturday night along with Little Buck.
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Barbara Lynn
I'm A Good Woman
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Barbara Lynn
You'll Lose a Good Thing
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Sounds
To Each His Own
Chicano Soul
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Brenton Woods
I'm The One Who Knows
18 Best
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Sophisticats
Astro Kitty
Announcer music bed
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Miller Sisters
Ten Cats Down
A musical salute to the "top kat" method of plugging that hole in the Gulf. Miller Sisters sing of a cat countdown including the lyrics, "10, 9, 8.... cats down..."
Another reason to be upset about the leak in the Gulf. After all those horrible tennis racket stringing years, haven't we learned anything? I don't think cats should be used like this.
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Marvin Rainwater
Tough Top Kat
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Marvin Rainwater
Tough Top Kat
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Bill Carter
Cool Tom Cat
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Jay Haggard and the Jubilineers
Tom Cat
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The Blue Cats
Jump Cat Jump
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Kenny Doolittle
Kitty Kat
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Unknown
Pitty Miss Kitty
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Unknown
Catty Town
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Larry and the Loafers
Let's Go to the Beach
A series of songs listing the beaches stretching from Pontchartrain Beach to Panama Beach where the blob of Gulf oil is coming.
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Phil Melancon
Broadwater Blues
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Curtis Gordon
Mobile Alabama
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Larry and the Loafers
Panama City Blues
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New Bon Ton Roulay
Clarence Garlow
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Randy Newman
Kingfish
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Randy Newman
Baltimore
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Swallows
Bicycle Tillie
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Marvin and Johnny
Cherry Pie
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Jimmy Gilmer
Sugar Shack
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Hully Gully Boys
Yabba!
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King Coleman
Do the Hully Gully
Do the Hully Gully!
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Johnny Otis
Three Girls Named Molly Doing the Hully Gully
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Ike Turner
If You Could Hully Gully
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Bobby Freeman
C'mon and Swim
Do the Swim (but not in the Gulf).
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Storey Sisters
Bad Motorcycle
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Barrance Whitfield
Ride the Mule By Kansas
A menagerie of songs about mules, fish, birds and bears.
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Louis Jordan
Don't Worry 'bout the Mule
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Roy Buchanan
Mule Train Stomp
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Dr. John
Where Ya At Mule?
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Mr. Bear
Mr. Bears Comes to Town
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Charles Vickers and the Three Bears
Polar Bear
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Bernadette and Her Swinging Bears
Crazy Yogi
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Golden Gate Quarter
Preacher and the Bear
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Mr. Bear and the Bearcats
Bear Hug
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Willie Love
Everybody's Fishing
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Sherman "Blues" Johnson and his Clouds of Joy
Hot Fish
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Clarence Garlow
Crawfishin'
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Henry Thomas
Fishing Blues
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Moms Mabley and Pearl Bailey
Saturday Night Fish Fry
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Little Willie John
Spasms
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Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
Freeway to Stairbird
The request line is closed.
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Tom Principato
They Called For Stormy Monday (But Mustang Sally is Just as Bad)
For the working musicians coming home from that Bourbon Street gig.
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Motivations
Birds
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Del Counts
Bird Dog
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Link Wray and the Wraymen
Chicago Bird
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Fats Domino
Bird and Bees
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Blue Lu Barker
A Little Bird Told Me
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Dwight Pullen
Sunglasses After Dark
Sam shows up at the studio in sun glasses darker than Ray Charles and boxier than Bo Diddley.
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Andy and the Manhattens
Double Mirror Wrap Around Shades
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Further Information
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