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PLAYLIST 5-23-06

OPENING SONG
Let's MisBehave - Irving Aaronson & Commanders

VINTAGE BACKYARD CHILL SET
Dream A Little Dream - Louis Armstrong   (ask Keith from Sam's Cafe in downtown Champaign to sing this for you)
Calypso Be - Young Tiger
Knock Me A Kiss - Louis Jordan (on Soundtrack for the 90s film "Swingers")
Moon River - Audrey Hepburn  (from the Breakfast At Tiffany's film)
Three Cool Cats - The Coasters
Sugar Mama, Peachy Papa - Percy Mayfield with Joy Hamilton
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) - The Crew Cuts  (remember this being played in the film CLUE?)

HILLBILLY FOLK and DISNEY SOUNDTRACK ARTISTS
Serutan Yob (A Song for Backward Boys and Girls Under 40) - Red Ingle and the Natural Seven (nature boy spelled backward, get it?
Little Eephin Annie - Joe Perkins & Jimmy Riddle 
Baby Come Home To Me - Burl Ives (check out the big Burl Ives 'festival' in September! and see the Disney movie Summer Magic starring Burl! A family classic!)
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Bob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans (theme song to Disney film SONG OF THE SOUTH, reached #8 on the charts)
I Ain't Afraid - Thurl Ravenscroft (this guy is a legend, voce of Disney land/world attractions, sang You're A Mean One Mr Grinch in the classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and was the voice of Tony The Tiger!)

GIRL AND GIRL-GROUP SOUNDS (NEXT!)

Please Don't Tell Me Now - Dean & Jean (backup musicians for Tommy Tucker, b side to Hey Jean, Hey Dean)
Good Day Sunshine - The Four King Cousins
A Bushel and a Peck - Doris Day
Don't Lie To Me - Jeannie & The Big Guys
Gong Gong/I'm Blue - The Gongettes  (not the Ikettes, wild version with lots of gong noises)
Don't Drop Out - Dolly Parton  (1966 b side to Control Yourself on Monument Records)
Nothing But A Heartache - The Flirtations

DRAMATIC MALE SINGERS - MAN CHEESE
See Saw - Tom Jones
Tell Her - Dean Parrish  (Northern Soul Hit version, original by Gil Hamilton aka Johnny Thunder)
Love Me - Dudley Moore
Loop Di Love - J Bastos   (wheee!)
You're The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White

VOODOO & GUITAR TWANG ISLAND BEACH PARTY
Lucky Lou - Jody Williams
Billy's Blues Pt. 2 - Billy Stewart   (that's Jody Williams' guitar riff in the background)
Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia  (another Jody Williams' guitar riff, from the Billy's Blues song, reworked for this song by Jody Williams and also written by Bo Diddley under a psydonym - his wife's name: Ethel Smith, this is Sylvia of 70s 'Pillow Talk' single and founding mother of rap, starting SugarHill Records with her husband)
Monster Island - VooDoo Trombone Quartet
Voo-Doo Queen and the Medicine Man - Bill James & The Hex-O-Tones

60s FRENCHY FROO FROO
Sugar Shake - Danyel Gerard (sugar shack remake, purposefully misspelled?)
Faux Beatnick - Regis Barly
Palladium (The Hip) - Liz Brady
Cha cha cha du Loup - Serge Gainsbourg
Souvenirs Souvenirs - Johnny Hallyday  (the closest the French got to their own 'Elvis')

80s ROAD TRIP TUNES
Here's Where The Story Ends - The Sundays
Driver 8 - REM
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths

STRANGE & MARVELOUS COVERS
TIme Will Tell - Holly GoLightly (Kinks cover)
Bang Bang - Equipe 84 (Nancy Sinatra cover)
Strawberry Fields Forever - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs with Debbie Harry (Beatles cover)
Dancing With Myself - Nouvelle Vague (w/ Melanie Pain on vocal?)  (Billy Idol cover)

Friday Night renegade show

I played a show this past Friday night from midnight to 2am, supposed to have been there on Thursday but I messed up, luckily no show was scheduled for Friday night so I hopped in the studio anyway and played 2 hours of the usual PLUS some crazy stuff.

Enjoy:

Natural Soul Brother    Danny White
Poontang    The Treniers
I wanna sex you up    color me badd  (just kidding, only played first 15 seconds)
Chills    Alan Knight
Hold On This Time    Fontella Bass
Love Power    Dusty Springfield
Gonna Be A Big Thing    Yum Yums
The 81    Candy & The Kisses
Piece of My Heart    Erma Franklin
The Warrior    Scandal
Clash City Rockers    The Clash
Emergency    999
Hey    Pixies
Do The Funky Penguin (Part 1)    Rufus Thomas
Do Me    Jean Knight
Tainted Love    Gloria Jones
Anti Love Song    Betty Davis
Hey Ya    My Summer As A Salvation Soldier
Spooky    Andy Williams
Teach Me Tiger    April Stevens
Achoo Cha Cha    Grace Chang
Comic Strip    Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot
SadoMaso    De Giafferi
Sweet Baby     Joie Chan
Peanut Duck    Marsha Gee
Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi    Jacques Dutronc
harlem shuffle    Vigon
Cookie Time    Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Bluebird    Silvertones
Pickney Gal    Desmond Dekker
My Pussycat (Females Answer To Ding-A-Ling)    Miss Chuckle Cherry
Jane Jane    Miki Obata & The Out Cast
Gabrielle    The Nips
Hanging On The Telephone    The Nerves
Sweet Jane    Eater
You Is A Rat Pfink    Ron Haydock And The Boppers
Time Will Tell    Holly Golightly
I Dont Want To Eat With The Family    Dangerous Girls
You Won't Be Merry On a North    Toy Dolls
Next    Scott Walker

PLAYLIST 5-15-06

I am a slacker of ill repute. This is so late, from our Tuesday show of 50s women (and a little 40s-60s) - the ladies of MID CENTURY MUSIC!

Hey Memphis    LaVerne Baker
I'm a Little Mixed Up    Betty James
What About Tomorrow?    Charline Arthur
Sad Singin' And Slow Ridin'    Jean Shepard
New Kind Of Mambo    Big Maybelle Smith
Adventures_Of_Ozzie_And_Harriet   
I Couldn't Believe It Was True    Maddox Brothers & Rose
I Can't Help It (live)    Abbie Neal and the Ranch Girls
Walkin' After Midnight (live)    Patsy Cline
Cracker Jack (live)    Janis Martin
Rock Daniel (VD129)    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho    Mahalia Jackson
I'm Gonna Murder My Baby    Pat Hare
Act Right    Wynona Carr
Mainliner    Little Esther
I'll Wait For You    Ruth Brown
Everybody Loves Me But You    Brenda Lee
Donna_Reed_Show   
Tweedle Dee     Lavern Baker
The Pick-Up    Etta James
Dynamite (1957 Single Version)    Brenda Lee
This Little Girl's Gone Rockin    Ruth Brown
Honey Bun    Charline Arthur
Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray    Patsy Cline
My Boy Elvis    Janis Martin
Bop City    Sherry Davis
Get Behind Me Satan And Push    Billy Jo Spears
Killer    Sparkle Moore
The Whispering Wind (Blows On By)    Mandy Barnett
Whispering Pines    Iris Dement
Thanks A Lot    Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
I Want To Know    Sugar Pie DeSanto
Dearest    Mickey & Sylvia
All I Want Is You    The Miracles
Please Forgive Me    Du-ettes
Oh What a Baby    Tonettes
We Can't Sing Rhythm and Blues    Patience and Prudence
Spesialisation    Marilyn Monroe
Teach Me Tiger    April Stevens
Achoo Cha Cha    Grace Chang
Now That It's Over    Shirley & Lee
You're the Only One    Millie & Roy Panton
Beatnik's Wish    Patsy Raye & the Beatniks
Love Power    Dusty Springfield
Piece of My Heart    Erma Franklin

PLAYLIST 5-11-06

Bo Diddley (1955 Single Version) [Mono]    Bo Diddley    1955
Bo Diddley    Jean Dinning    1955  (she wrote the song "Teen Angel")
Bo Diddley    Joe Reisman Orch.    1955
Willie and The Hand Jive    Johnny Otis Show   
(correction: "The source of the catchy rhythm Johnny Otis applied to the 'Hand Jive' came not from Bo Diddley, or even the similarly styled Hambone craze of a few years before, but from his teenage memories of working with Count Otis Matthews' band")
You Got The Wrong Girl    Cookie V    1969 (produced by Bo Diddley)
Love Is Strange    Mickey & Sylvia    1957 (written by Bo Diddley under the pseudonym Ethel Smith, his then wife, along with Jody Williams)
Billy's Blues, Pt. 2    Billy Stewart    (Jody Williams previously wrote this guitar riff, mimicked later in Love Is Strange)
Pillow Talk    Sylvia    1970   (... of Mickey & Sylvia, later to start Sugar Hill Records with her husband)
Apache 3:10    The Sugarhill Gang   (recorded at Sugar Hill Records)
Bacon Fat    Andre Williams    4957  (some people say it is one of the first rap songs)
The Boo Boo Song    King Coleman    1967   
Do Me    Jean Knight    1972   (she sang "Mr Big Stuff")
Compared To What    Della Reese    1970   (yes, Della Reese from Touched By An Angel)
Jump Sister Bessie    Otis Rush    1957
Cry For Me Baby    Elmore James    1957
Diamonds At Your Feet    Muddy Waters    1956
Fishtail Blues    Wynonie Harris    5357
Boogie Woogie Country Girl     Big Joe Turner    1956
My Country Man    Big Maybelle Smith    5255
All Night Boogie (All Night Long) (1953)    Howlin' Wolf    1953
Rockin' The Joint    Esquerita    1958 
L&N Special    Christine Kittrell    1953
I'm Coming Home (1957)    Johnny Horton    1957
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)    Hawkshaw Hawkins   
You Are The One    Carl Smith    1956
Big City    Wynn Stewart    1959
Falling Falling Falling    Ray Price    5162
That Heart Belongs To Me (1952)    Webb Pierce    1952
Over And Over    Jean Shepard    1956
Country Girl    Faron Young    5262
Double-Crossed My Love    Charline Arthur    1954   (of Elvis, she said "I taught that boy everything he knows")
Blues Cha-Cha    Edgar Blanchard and the Gondoliers    1958   (Edgar worked with or toured with big New Orleans names like Ror Brown, Big Joe Turner, and Ray Charles - big session guy)
Sweet Baby     Joie Chan    (off Chattahoochee records, no info about her known, I emailed Kim Fowley and asked him if he recalled her from his days at Chattahoochee, no response, YET!)
Green Onions    Booker T    1962   
Teenage Beatnik    Louis Nye    1959   (making fun of the beats)
You Is A Rat Pfink    Ron Haydock And The Boppers   (99 Chicks is a great song by Haydock, too, and cited in Lux & Ivy's compilations) 
Peanut Duck    Marsha Gee    1965  (this is the best song ever, crazy, on the Girl Group SOunds huge box set, no one apparently knows anything about her)

NEW TIME

AMERICAN ROOTS AND BRANCHES is moving to TUESDAYS from 4pm until 6pm!!!! Adjust your schedules! Tune your dials! Same channel, same great music, same eye-opening brilliance, same obscure educational musical experience, same great show - new time - TUESDAYS 4-6pm on WRFU Urbana 104.5 FM!

PLAYLIST 5-1-06 - MAYDAY SHOW

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE SECRET OF PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION

This primitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote of the past. In times long gone-by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and, above all, frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living. The legend of theological original sin tells us certainly how man came to be condemned to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow; but the history of economic original sin reveals to us that there are people to whom this is by no means essential. Never mind! Thus it came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth, and the latter sort had at last nothing to sell except their own skins. And from this original sin dates the poverty of the great majority that, despite all its labour, has up to now nothing to sell but itself, and the wealth of the few that increases constantly although they have long ceased to work. Such insipid childishness is every day preached to us in the defence of property. M. Thiers, e.g., had the assurance to repeat it with all the solemnity of a statesman to the French people, once so spirituel. But as soon as the question of property crops up, it becomes a sacred duty to proclaim the intellectual food of the infant as the one thing fit for all ages and for all stages of development. In actual history it is notorious that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, briefly force, play the great part. In the tender annals of Political Economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial. Right and "labour" were from all time the sole means of enrichment, the present year of course always excepted. As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.

Internationale    Sheffield Socialist Choir    Watch Out (tape)    1992
Sit Down Baby    Otis Rush    The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958        1956
Hell On A Poor Boy    R.B. Morris    ... Take That Ride ...        1997   
Is This All There Is?    Los Lobos    By the Light of the Moon        1986
Feel Free    Jay Farrar    Sebastopol        2002   
Here Come the People in Grey    The Kinks    Muswell Hillbillies    1971
All You Fascists    Billy Bragg and Wilco    Woody Guthrie    Mermaid Avenue Volume 2    2000
The Harder They Come    Jimmy Cliff    The Harder They Come Soundtrack    1972
The Revolution Starts Now    Steve Earle    The Revolution Starts Now    2004
Can't Get There From Here    Allison Moorer        Miss Fortune            2002   
Rip This Joint    The Rolling Stones    Exile On Main Street        1972   
Yeah Man    Sam Cooke        1964   
I Never Picked Cotton    Johnny Cash    Unchained        1998   
Pretty Boy Floyd    The Byrds    Woody Guthrie    Sweetheart Of The Rodeo    1968   
Friday Night At The Bingo Hall    Honky Tonk Confidential       
Body Of An American    The Pogues        Rum, Sodomy & The Lash    1985
poorer than dead    Hadacol        Better Than This       
Banking On A Myth    Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs     2005   
Little Vampires    Jon Langford And His Sadies    Mayors Of The Moon    2003
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay    Otis Redding    The Very Best Of Otis Redding 1967
Hard Times Come Again No More    Mavis Staples    Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs Of Stephen Foster    2004
Another Day, Another Dollar    Wynn Stewart        Very Best Of Wynn Stewart (1958 - 1962
Truck Drivin' Man (Give It All I Can)   Bottle Rockets    Rig Rock Deluxe:v/a        1996
You're Workin' For The Man        Joe Ely    Twistin' In The Wind            1998
Dark As The Dungeon    Johnny Cash        At Folsom Prison        1968   
The Mountain    Steve Earle        The Mountain            1999   
Lydia    Slaid Cleaves    Broke Down            2000   
Coalminers    Uncle Tupelo        March 16-20, 1992   
Across The Wire    Calexico        Feast Of Wire            2003   
California Snow    Dave Alvin        Blackjack David            1998   
Border Radio    Dave Alvin        Romeo's Escape        1986               
Silver Threads and Golden Needles    Tammy Wynette
Believe You Me    Allison Moorer        The Duel