Playlist Date & Time: 9/5/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

Bare Back Bears 

 

  It's Southern Decadence in the Quarter but outside of the contemporary Krewe Kut Klan protesters, the big controversy is the upcoming Saints parade.  Between the car dealer owner and the NFL, they've completely screwed up the idea of New Orleans parading culture.  There is a stage that towers over the audience (maximize the separation in New Orleans?) and floats that will display advertising logos from their corporate sponsors.  (OUCH!!!)  

Those who prefer corporations to regulation might squeeze some enjoyment out of this Mardi Gras culture death star but the rest of us will avoid this parade like Bourbon Street.   

  Ah, public radio where the reasonable becomes fun.  Tonight another three hours of maximizing the audio reality separation from the corporate weenies defining our culture.    

 

Pretty Pretty Girls Everywhere 

  Went to see the City Champs at D.B.A. last night and the demographic tilt was completely off-kilter.  Wasn't the usual music audience of The Simpson's Comic Book Guy look-alikes.  There were pretty women everywhere.  Evening gowns, dresses - it looked like the Emmy crowd got sucked into a tractor beam time machine device that transported them to the Marigny.  Either that or it was the attraction of attendees Crystal and the WWOZ staff that made the beautiful people come out.  Here's the music that came to mind:

She Can Rock 1:44 1988 Little Ike

 Oh Baby 2:09  Esquerita

OZ mypretty 0:06 Wizard of Oz Wicked Witch

 Pretty Girls Everywhere 2:54  Eugene Church & the Fellows

Most beautiful women in Casablanca gross und… 0:06 Casablanca Inspector

 My Baby's Tops 2:18  Gardenias w/Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm

most beautiful women I've seen not saying much 0:04 Groucho Marx

 Twenty Flight Rock 2:07 Link Wray & Robert Gordon

most beautiful woman dont mind lying 0:08 Groucho Marx 

 

Quicksand, Tractor Beams and Time Machines

What does the Oxford Dictionary do when confronted with new television terms like quicksand, tractor beam and time machine?  These things don't exist yet they are completely integrated into our language, thought and music.  What is it about these terms that conjure up excitement every time I think of them?   It must happen to everyone because there are plenty of songs about these topics.  Picture the Skipper on Gilligan's Island trying to pull his "Little Buddy" out of quicksand as you listen to these:

 Not familiar with disintigrating array 0:05

 Quicksand 2:24 The Things That I Used To Do Guitar Slim

Tractor beam sucked me right in 0:05

 Quicksand 2:42 The R&B Box: 30 Years Of Rhythm & Blues [Disc… Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

beam me abord 0:02

 Quicksand 2:42 Elephant Mountain Youngbloods

beam us up 0:04 Star Trek Captain Kirk

 I Stepped In Quicksand 5:29 Drifting Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.71) Charles Brown

Where Eddie Haskell came from <outer space o… 0:07 Leave It to Beaver Eddie Haskell

Activate cloaking device 0:03 Simpsons Comic Book Guy

 To Be Invisible 4:12 People Get Ready: Curtis Mayfield Story [Disc 2] Curtis Mayfield

no ship that small has a cloaking device 0:04

Were going back in time launchpad in time for … 0:06

 Going To Make A Time Machine 3:31 Eccentric Sou l: The Bandit Label The Majestic Arrows

Next Saturday night sending you back to the fu… 0:06

 Time machine 4:33 Chocolat milk - Action speaks louder than words Chocolat milk

 

When interactive goes all wrong

Today, the magic word for new media is "interactive."   However, as the old saying goes, the only thing "new" is "you."  Interactive, like radioactive, really just causes decay.  In the industry, the man-on-the-street is still called the moron-on-the-street.  Vox populi interviews are called the pox of the populi.  Nothing has changed because of the internet.  Wanna prove it?  Start a conversation with a stranger in a bar about popular events and you'll soon envy the dead. 

The exceptions are post-Katrina refrigerator graffiti and a handful of responses to a Picayune Times (puny times) story that New Orleanians are the laziest people in the nation.  Culling out the predictable political, defensive and racists comments, it got pretty funny:  

"And don't forget to light the dang thing!!!" 

cardineau July 27, 2010 at 4:05PM

Well ... that shows that we are more advanced in the art of leisure than the rest of those barbarians. By the way ... when are they going to bring back home delivery of malt liquor??? I just hate wasting my resting time traveling to the liquor store.

Stupid surveys!

 

 

(Source: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2010/07/louisiana_is_the_laziest_state/2309/comments-6.html)

 

 

Over on the musical front, interactive is usually a similar disaster as proven by this set of music and sound clips:

 

 Freeway To Stairbird 3:53 Pianist Envy The Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

 They Called for "Stormy Monday" (but "Mustang… 3:11 Raising The Roof Tom Principato

 I'm in the Twilight of a Mediocre Career 4:25 I'm in the Twilight of a Mediocre Career JIM PEARCE

 Letter From A Lonely Mennonite 0:44 Backslider's Tractor Pull Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

 Mennonite Surf Party 3:08 Backslider's Tractor Pull Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

 Stack-A-Records 2:45 Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly [Disc 3] Tom Tall

 Cold Feet 2:50 The Complete Stax-Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (D… Albert King

hello harmony <telephone> 0:05 Three Stooges

 Hello Mr. DJ  2:12 Judy Lynn

call can't be completed as dialed no dial 0:04

 Apology Line3:37 Ow Ow Ow Barrence Whitfield & Savages

Poppa Stoppa's Be Bop Blues  3:02 Joseph August - Rock My Soul August, Joseph

Been meaning to call and hookup <telephone> 0:04

 Telephone Baby 2:10 The Greatest Johnny Otis Show _1957-1959 Johnny Otis & Marci Lee

one ringy dingy _telephone_ 0:03

 Operator  2:26 Lawdy! Price, Lloyd

scumsucking pus bucket 0:25 Simpsons <Moe answering phone> The Simpsons

 Bigelow 6-200 <telephone call> 2:13 Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection Brenda Lee

flanders telephone hello hangup 0:07

 I'm The One Who Knows 2:24 Brenton Wood's 18 Best Brenton Wood

dont touch that dial 0:03

 TIPs Hotline  1:25 All Things Firesign Firesign Theatre

 BJ The DJ 3:00 Big Bad Country Stonewall Jackson

 Southern Decadence

  I made a rule for myself when I turned 35 - For the good of humankind, I would not remove my shirt in public.  Thought I had started a trend until I witnessed my first Southern Decadence.  

You Need a Hair-Net 2:02  5 Peaks

change of heart but same face 0:09

 Goatee\2:10  Joey Warren

nosehair 0:08

 Lend Me Your Comb  1:58 Original Sun Greatest Hits Carl Perkins

 Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) 2:03 1959 Edward Byrnes & Connie Francis

Hair Club For Men 0:03

 Who Got My Natural Comb? 2:42 Watch Your Step Ted Hawkins

I know what your big city hairy legged womens … 0:04

 Platinum High School <hair blonde> 2:23  Conway Twitty

Kiss my hairy yellow butt 0:02

 Long Blond Hair  2:10 Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection Johnny Powers

Hair looks nice 0:06 Eddie Haskell

 Hair Dressin' Women 3:26 The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55 Big Maybelle Smith

OTR Commercial Fitch Hair Care 0:23 Old Time Radio Commercials - Earthstation One

 Hairspray 3:14 Hairspray Rachel Sweet

 I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted 2:34 Double Entendres Washboard Sam

thats my name don't wear it out 0:02 Pee Wee

 Five Guys Name Mo 3:10 The R&B Box: 30 Years Of Rhythm & Blues [Disc… Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

namecalling - elvira is tramp etc 0:24

 Call Me Shorty 2:07  Mickey Gilley

Even the small person can change history 0:08

 My Friends Call Me Shorty 1:48 Hokey Pokey Rock Herbert Woolfork & The Rocketts

 

 

 Basta!  Onto the box score:

 

Box Score 

 

103 Selections over 180 minutes or an average of one new selection every  

   1.8 Minutes.  Of which

  49 Were songs and 

  54 Were interstitials 

   2X The interstitials concentration is needed to break the radio sound barrier of

1:1 One selection per minute to beat this "demon in the sky" (The Right Stuff)

   4 Themes of music 

  89 People in line to enter the Rawhide 2010 at 11pm

   0 Women in the line

 15 People in line to enter at 3:30 

   0 Number of people in line during non-Decadence weekends

   0 Probable number of locals in that line

   1 Number of prostitutes outside of my house (probably a low revenue night) 

 

 

 

 Chronological Playlist 

Cara id 0:07 Station ID Cara Dell'Apa

 On A Saturday Night 2:45 The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 [Di… Eddie Floyd

Bush Jamie is boring 0:07 George Bush

Here is mr know it all 0:05

She Can Rock 1:44 1988 Little Ike

 Oh Baby 2:09  Esquerita

OZ mypretty 0:06 Wizard of Oz Wicked Witch

 Pretty Girls Everywhere 2:54  Eugene Church & the Fellows

Most beautiful women in Casablanca gross und… 0:06 Casablanca Inspector

 My Baby's Tops 2:18  Gardenias w/Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm

most beautiful women I've seen not saying much 0:04 Groucho Marx

 Twenty Flight Rock 2:07 Link Wray & Robert Gordon

most beautiful woman dont mind lying 0:08 Groucho Marx

 Water Baby Boogie 2:27  Joe Maphis

breathing under water 0:09 SFX

Firewater  1:52 Jungle Exotica [Strip] Premiers

Trickling Water 0:05 SFX

 Fire Water 3:47 They call us Wild The Wild Magnolias

 Little Water Boy [Promo Version] 2:36 Vol2 Motown Singles Stevie Wonder & Clarence Paul

 Ive Got Nothing Working  2:30  Ann Cole

 RV radio am fm and short wave 1:40 How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When Y… Firesign Theatre

Not familiar with disintigrating array 0:05

 Quicksand 2:24 The Things That I Used To Do Guitar Slim

Tractor beam sucked me right in 0:05

 Quicksand 2:42 The R&B Box: 30 Years Of Rhythm & Blues [Disc… Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

beam me abord 0:02

 Quicksand 2:42 Elephant Mountain Youngbloods

beam us up 0:04 Star Trek Captain Kirk

 I Stepped In Quicksand 5:29 Drifting Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.71) Charles Brown

Where Eddie Haskell came from <outer space o… 0:07 Leave It to Beaver Eddie Haskell

Activate cloaking device 0:03 Simpsons Comic Book Guy

 To Be Invisible 4:12 People Get Ready: Curtis Mayfield Story [Disc 2] Curtis Mayfield

no ship that small has a cloaking device 0:04

Were going back in time launchpad in time for … 0:06

 Going To Make A Time Machine 3:31 Eccentric Sou l: The Bandit Label The Majestic Arrows

Next Saturday night sending you back to the fu… 0:06

 Time machine 4:33 Chocolat milk - Action speaks louder than words Chocolat milk

 Freeway To Stairbird 3:53 Pianist Envy The Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

 They Called for "Stormy Monday" (but "Mustang… 3:11 Raising The Roof Tom Principato

 I'm in the Twilight of a Mediocre Career 4:25 I'm in the Twilight of a Mediocre Career JIM PEARCE

 Letter From A Lonely Mennonite 0:44 Backslider's Tractor Pull Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

 Mennonite Surf Party 3:08 Backslider's Tractor Pull Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

 Stack-A-Records 2:45 Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly [Disc 3] Tom Tall

 Cold Feet 2:50 The Complete Stax-Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (D… Albert King

hello harmony <telephone> 0:05 Three Stooges

 Hello Mr. DJ  2:12 Judy Lynn

call can't be completed as dialed no dial 0:04

 Apology Line3:37 Ow Ow Ow Barrence Whitfield & Savages

Poppa Stoppa's Be Bop Blues  3:02 Joseph August - Rock My Soul August, Joseph

Been meaning to call and hookup <telephone> 0:04

 Telephone Baby 2:10 The Greatest Johnny Otis Show _1957-1959 Johnny Otis & Marci Lee

one ringy dingy _telephone_ 0:03

 Operator  2:26 Lawdy! Price, Lloyd

scumsucking pus bucket 0:25 Simpsons <Moe answering phone> The Simpsons

 Bigelow 6-200 <telephone call> 2:13 Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection Brenda Lee

flanders telephone hello hangup 0:07

 I'm The One Who Knows 2:24 Brenton Wood's 18 Best Brenton Wood

dont touch that dial 0:03

 TIPs Hotline  1:25 All Things Firesign Firesign Theatre

 BJ The DJ 3:00 Big Bad Country Stonewall Jackson

 You Need a Hair-Net 2:02  5 Peaks

change of heart but same face 0:09

 Goatee\2:10  Joey Warren

nosehair 0:08

 Lend Me Your Comb  1:58 Original Sun Greatest Hits Carl Perkins

 Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) 2:03 1959 Edward Byrnes & Connie Francis

Hair Club For Men 0:03

 Who Got My Natural Comb? 2:42 Watch Your Step Ted Hawkins

I know what your big city hairy legged womens … 0:04

 Platinum High School <hair blonde> 2:23  Conway Twitty

Kiss my hairy yellow butt 0:02

 Long Blond Hair  2:10 Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection Johnny Powers

Hair looks nice 0:06 Eddie Haskell

 Hair Dressin' Women 3:26 The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55 Big Maybelle Smith

OTR Commercial Fitch Hair Care 0:23 Old Time Radio Commercials - Earthstation One

 Hairspray 3:14 Hairspray Rachel Sweet

 I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted 2:34 Double Entendres Washboard Sam

thats my name don't wear it out 0:02 Pee Wee

 Five Guys Name Mo 3:10 The R&B Box: 30 Years Of Rhythm & Blues [Disc… Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

namecalling - elvira is tramp etc 0:24

 Call Me Shorty 2:07  Mickey Gilley

Even the small person can change history 0:08

 My Friends Call Me Shorty 1:48 Hokey Pokey Rock Herbert Woolfork & The Rocketts

 Food Chain Of Fools 3:44 Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

fdr_1933_0304 all we have to fear is fear itself 0:21

the end _closing_ 0:06

I bid you toodles <closing> 0:09

 Closing Saturday night 0:13 How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When Y… Firesign Theatre

Show 03_thanks to our guests <closing> 1:05 Firesign Theatre

Playlist Tracks