WACKY WEDNESDAY: Take me in, tender woman

This weekend, on the heels of the release of the infamous Donald Trump "hot mic" tape in which he brags about being able to kiss and grope women without their consent because he was “a star," another Trump video begin popping up on Twitter. These were videos from earlier this year in which the Republican nominee reads a poem about a "tender woman" who shows mercy to reptile who seems to be in pretty bad shape.

Here is one of those speeches. (Note: The original Yotube I posted was taken down. I'm replacing it with one that CBS News posted in April 2017.)



As interpreted by Trump, the snake is a metaphor for Syrian terrorists and the "tender woman" are the foolish liberals who "would take them in."

But the people posting the video over the weekend were doing so to taunt Republicans who were practically tripping all over themselves trying to flee from Trump. Their message: They knew damn well what this guy was before they took him in.

Though Trump has repeatedly -- and incorrectly -- identified the writer as Al Wilson (a soul singer who covered it in 1968), the lyrics he's reading are a variation of a song written in the early '60s by jazz singer Oscar Brown, Jr. that was based on one of Aesop's fables.



The arrangement for Al Wilson's version of Brown's song sounds a whole lot like the one Johnny Rivers recorded a couple of years before that on his 1966 album, And I Know You Wanna Dance.

Johnny's was the first version I ever heard, so I've got a soft spot for it. Here's a live version



And here is a fairly recent one by French rocker, Rev. Tom  Frost from his 2013 album, Bloody Works. I'm pretty sure that Debra Paget, the dancer in this video never went furniture shopping with Trump.




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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon

Purple Merkin Power by Purple Merkin

Mojo Workout by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Hey You by Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels

Stella by The Havishams

Bleed Me by The Upper Crust

White Glove Service by The Grannies

Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt

Bald Head by Bobby King & Terry Evans

 

Blood on the Keys by James Leg

I Wanna Be Your Busyman by The Fadeaways

Stormy Weather by The Reigning Sound

Obeah Man by Meet Your Death

Burn She Devil, Burn by The Cramps

Degenerate by DD Owen

Give Me Back My Wig by Hound Dog Taylor

Cannibal Island by The Young Rochelles

Midnight Queen by Iron Lizards

 

Mutants of the Monster by Christopher "CT" Terry & Micheal Denner

Come Down by James Arthur's Manhunt

Cloak of Many Colors by Wolf Moon

High on Drugs by The Fleshtones

Unease and Deviance by Johnny Dowd

Swollen Colon Lament by Figures of Light

I Shot the Devil by Gravelroad

 

Waitin' on My Sweetie Pie by NRBQ

Crawl Throuh Your Hair by New Mystery Girl

Pig Pig by The King Khan & BBQ Show

Diamond Man by Lonesome Shack

Rebecca Rodifer by Gaunga Dyns

Summer's Almost Gone by The Doors

Last Kind Words by Geeshie Wiley

I Had a Dream by Dex Romweber

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by The Moroccos

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Welcome Table and Prayer by Alice Wine
Howard Hugh's Blues by John Hartford
Blow the Man Down by Woody Guthrie
Ramblin' Man by Steve Young
Summer Wages by David Bromberg

The Boll Weevil by Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur
Love Song of the Dump by Washboard Hank
Don't Lie Buddy by Josh White
That'll Never Happen No More by Howard Armstrong
Do You Call That a Buddy by Martin, Bogan & Armstrong

Wine Spo-Dee-Odee by Kell Robertson
Wild Bill Jones by Eva Davis
Just Like a Monkey by South Memphis String Band
Luther Played Guitar by Stan Ridgway
I Want My Mama by Salty Holmes
Your Past is Going to Come Back and Haunt You by Emily Kaitz
Good Morning Judge by Louis Innis & His String Dusters

How Lee Sin Ate by Dr. West's Medicine & Junk Band
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate by The Hoosier Hotshots
She Lived Down by The Firehouse by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Stealin' by Dave Van Ronk's Ragtime Jug Stompers
Collegiana by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Too Much by Rosie Flores

Two String Boogie by Wayne Hancock

Swamp Pigs by Dash Rip Rock

Hard Times by Martha Fields

These Arms by Dwight Yoakam

Church on a Saturday Night by Arty Hill

Baby I Like You by Southern Culture on the Skids

Zoysia by The Bottle Rockets

 

I'll Be There (If Ever Your Want Me) / Make the World Go Away by Willie Nelson

Sweet Georgia Brown by Johnny Gimble with Merle Haggard

Take Me to the Fires by The Waco Brothers

On the Verge by The Royal Hounds

The Ballad of Charles Whitman by Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys

 

Ladies Love Outlaws by Waylon Jennings

Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar by Jean Shephard

Another Clown by Mose McCormack

Please Tell That Clown to Stop Crying by Neil Hamburger

I Just Can't Be True by Webb Pierce

You're Not Here by Washboard Hank

Drunken Lady of the Morning by Michael Hearne

Long Black Veil by Dale Watson

Roly Poly by The Pine Valley Cosmonauts with Brett Sparks

Jimmy Joe, the Hippie Billy Boy by Ed Sanders

 

Flatland Farmer by Terry Allen

Almond Grove by The Flat Five

Long Limbed Girl by Nick Lowe

Diamond Joe by Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur

Wild Heart by Modern Mal

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Great Song About a Great American Road

Venerable old Route 66 undoubtedly inspired more music than any other ribbon of asphalt built in the last century.

Although there have been several songs written about that highway, most of these have been overshadowed by the mother song of the Mother Road, Bobby Troups' ``Get Your Kicks On Route 66.''

Troup, a jazz musician married to the late singer Julie London, wrote the song in 1946, traveling down the road on a trip west. Much of the lyrics are a simple recital of towns along the highway.

`It winds from Chicago to L.A., 
More than 2,000 miles all the way, 
Get your kicks on Route 66. 

Now you go through St. Louie, Joplin, Missouri 
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty. 
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, 
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona, 
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.'' 

Here's a version by the songwriter



Nat ``King'' Cole had a hit with it in 1946 ...

  

But he was hardly the last to record it.

Route 66 historian David Kammer, who lives in Albuquerque said in 2001 that he was aware of more than 120 different versions of the song.

There are jazz, country, punk-rock, goth-rock, zydeco and raw schmaltz versions.

Here are some of those, starting with The Stones



Wayne Hancock takes it to the country



The late Buckwheat Zydeco did it



British synth-rock group Depeche Mode recorded a version.



The Cramps kindly kept it sleazy.



Here's a take by a Japanese blues band



And then there's this by Tom Trusnovic & Monkeyshines




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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll Oratory

Allow me to get a little self-indulgent on this Wacky Wednesday.

I have to give a speech in Albuquerque today. I won an award from the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. It's the first time in awhile that I've had to give an actual speech, so I thought I'd study some classic oratory from the world of rock 'n' roll.

The first example that came to mind was the short but strange speech by Bob Dylan when he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1991 Grammy Awards. Jack Nicholson introduced him.



Then there was Mike Love's inspirational words when The Beach Boys were inducted into The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. After talking about the beauty of harmony, he rips into Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen. Love later explained that he hadn't meditated that morning (His section starts at the 3:50 mark.)



I actually do admire the following speech by Frank Zappa. It wasn't an awards show -- it was a Congressional hearing on the dangers of dirty lyrics in rock songs. Frank stood up for liberty and against the "sinister kind of toilet training program" being advocated by Tipper Gore and her minions.



(If you want to see the rest of Zappa's testimony -- with questions from hostile senators -- Part 2 can be found HERE , Part 3 HERE and Part 4 HERE)

Zappa greets John Denver at U.S. Senate Porn Rock hearings 1985 

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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Matchbox by Jerry Lee Lewis

Like a Bad Girl Should by The Cramps

Tracking the Dog by Meet Your Death

St. Michael Shuffle by James Leg

Hank Turns Blue by Folk Devils

Geraldine by The A-Bones

Full Grown Boogie by Frigg a Go-Go

Please Judge by Roky Erikson with Okerville River

Pablo Picasso by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers 

Never Enough Girls by The Sloths 

The Other Side by Motobunny

Real Wild Child by Deke Dickerson & The Trashmen

Go Away by The Plague

Magical Colors by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Thin Man by Archie & The Bunkers

Where Do You Roam by Dex Romweber

Bessie's Blues by John Coltrane (for John Greenspan)

Hardcore Jollies by Funkadelic

Gelatinous Cube by Thee Oh Sees

High and Dry by Whiskeydick

What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down by The Mystery Lights

I Fuck Alone by The Grannies

New Structures by Nots

Last Laugh by Johnny Dowd

Everybody Knows by Concrete Blonde

Got a Little Secret by Leonard Cohen 

They Took You Away by Gregg Turner

Free Money by Patti Smith

I Don't Want the Night to End by Phoebe Snow

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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