TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 29, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :Circus Freak by The Electric Prunes

Dead Moon Night by Dead Moon

Haint Blue by Churchwood

Hunker in My Bunker by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys

Heart Attack and Vine by Lydia Lunch

Secret Agent Man by Devo

(Background Music: Mental Strain at Dawn by David Murray)

Loch Lomand by Richard Thompson

I Don’t Know by The Hipshakes

Bittersweet Romance Song by The Dirtbombs

El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk

Carry Me Home by The Hentchmen

Daniel Webster & The Devil by Big Daddy

Apartment 9 by Ricky Hell & The Voidboys

Just Like Eddie by Heinz

First We Take Manhattan by Warren Zevon

Two Lovely Black Eyes by Charles Coburn 

(Background Music: The Phantom by Bubba Thomas & The Lightmen Plus One)

Gator Gator by The Krayolas

Jail in San Antone by Mitch Webb & The Swindles

Lockdown Blues by The Moonlight 5

Twój Mój Czas by Kult

Ratz by Pussy Gillette

Black Diamond Express Train To Hell Part One by John Schooley & His One Man Band

Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall by The Waco Brothers with Paul Burch

People Who Died by Drive-by Truckers

(Background Music: Bye Bye Blues by Esquivel)

No Reply by The Beatles

All I Have to Offer You Is Me by Ted Hawkins

All’s Well in Roswell by Harvey McLaughlin

Roswell Town by Jack Clift & His Illuminati Assassination Orchestra

Barbry Allen by Chipper Thompson

Tomorrow Wendy by Concrete Blonde

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


CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: She Was a Barroom Smash

Today, November 25, 2020, would have been the 174th birthday of radical prohibitionist Carrie Nation. 

Happy birthday, Carrie.

Mrs. Nation -- who also was known as "Carry Nation," in case you think I'm guilty of a typo -- became famous for leading attacks on saloons in which she and her followers used axes to smash up these dens of inequity. She showed that Lizzie Borden wasn't the only 19th Century woman to "take an ax." 

According to History.com, Nation described her June 6. 1900 raid on a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas:

“I ran behind the bar, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer,” she recalled. “I threw over the slot machine…and got from it a sharp piece of iron with which I opened the bungs of the beer kegs, and opened the faucets of the barrels, and then the beers flew in every direction and I was completely saturated.”

She seems nice ...

As is the case of many American fanatics, Nation was inspired by The Bible and direct messages from God. In her own Bible, she wrote the word "smashing" besides this inspirational passage (Jeremiah 1:10):

"See, I have this day set thee over the nation and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."

She was either the John Brown of her time, or the Eric Rudolph, depending on your point of view.

Nation's dream of national alcohol prohibition came true in 1919. We all know how that worked out...

But this is a music blog, so to honor Carrie or Carry or whoever she was, here are some songs inspired by the temperance movement.

Let's start with "The Lips That Touch Liquor Will Never Touch Mine," with a melody by George T. Evans and words by Sam Booth. Unfortunately this 2016 recording bythe Women's Choir at Concordia College only includes the first verse.

This temperance tune, recorded in 1916 by singer/evangelist Homer Rodeheaver "Molly and the Baby Don't You Know" was about wives and children who suffered from an alcoholic husband and father.

Along those lines is "Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead," written in 1866 by one Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst. This recording is by Cincinnati's University Singers on an album released in 1997.

I couldn't do a post about temperance songs without including this Kinks klassic:

And I can't help but wonder how Mrs. Nation would feel about her name being used by a fictitious rock 'n' roll band in a notorious outrageously sleazy movie, Beyond the Valley of The Dolls. Ladies and gentlemens I present The Carrie Nations!

Tip a glass to Carrie Nation on her birthday!

Here's the New Hillbilly Big Enchilada Episode

 

Hare Krishna, we're honky tonkin' now! Welcome to the latest hillbilly episode of The Big Enchilada, Hillbilly Happy Hour, an hour of hillbilly music, old and new, bound to make you happy. You'll hear bluegrass, rockabilly, hard-core honky tonk and more. This show includes a tribute to three giants who died last month, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver and Johnny Bush.

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Old Joe Clark by Red Allen & Frank Wakefield)

Happy Hour in Hell by Cornell Hurd

Honky Tonk Hangover by Miss Leslie

Details by The Beaumonts

One Dark Day by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys

Bad Boy by Martha Fields

Second and San Antone by Earl Poole Ball

(Background Music: Fresh Fish by Last Mile Ramblers)

Meanest Jukebox in Town by Alvin Youngblood Hart

Eat My Words by Marti Brom

If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me by Geraldine Fibbers

Don't Make Me Pregnant by Miss Tammy Faye Starlite

Mississippi John Hurt by Ray Wylie Hubbard

Candy Man by Mississippi John Hurt

(Background Music: Chicken Reel Stomp by The Tune Wranglers)

Trashy Women by Jerry Jeff Walker

I've Been to Georgia on a Fast Train by Billy Joe Shaver

Dos Tacos by Johnny Bush

Devil Always Made Me Think Twice by Chris Stapleton

Turtles All the Way Down by Sturgill Simpson

Long Violent History by Tyler Childers

(Background Music: Bear Creek Stomp by Tommy Hancock & The Supernatural Band)

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TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 22, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

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

Poor Gary from the Gallows by Harvey McLaughlin

Over You by The Cavemen

Teen Angel by Dirty Fences

Julio Iglesias by Butthole Surfers

All I’m Saying by Alien Space Kitchen

Rats in My Kitchen by The Fleshtones

Ain’t Your Choir by Churchwood

One Dark Day by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys

Don’t Make Me Pregnant by Miss Tammy Faye Starlite

(Background Music: Jitterbug by Angelo Badalamenti)

JFK ASSASSINATION SET 

November by The Rockin’ Guys

Back and To The Left by JFn’K

Lee Harvey by T. Tex Edwards

Jack Ruby by Camper Van Beethoven

Memories of Kennedy by Hasil Adkins

I Want to Know Why by James & Fannie Brewer

Get Outta Dallas by Mal Thursday & The Cheetahs

A Tragedy in Dallas by James Dotson

He Was a Friend of Mine by The Byrds

(Background Music: Jack Ruby by Roland Alphonso)

Way Down in the Hole by Tom Waits

Hand Sanitizer by The Terrorists

Up in Her Room by The Seeds

Turtles All the Way Down by Sturgill Simpson

(Background Music: Perry Mason Theme by Bloodless Pharoahs with Brian Setzer )

Make It Mine by The Howlin’ Max Messer Show

You Don’t Want Me by The Compulsive Gamblers

When I Turn Off the Living Room Light by The Kinks

Postcards from Italy by Beirut

Hand of God by Soundgarden

In God’s Eyes by Willie Nelson

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: In Praise of Ray Collins

 

Ray Collins, the original lead singer of The Mothers of Invention, was born on this day, November 17, 1936.

Happy birthday, Ray.

Collins died in 2012 at the age of 76.

After dropping out of high school (he'd gotten his girlfriend pregnant) Collins, the son of a Pomona police officer, started singing with an R&B covers band called The Soul Giants in Pomona, Cal. Among its members were drummer Jimmy Carl Black (a former New Mexico resident) and Roy Estrada on bass. And following a dispute with The Soul Giants' guitarist, Collins recruited a guy named Frank Zappa, who shared his love for old R&B and Doo-Wop, along with his sense of musical adventurousness. 

Collins had a great background in doo-wop. He sang with local L.A. favorite Little Julian Herrera & The Tigers. You can hear his vocals on Herrera's "I Remember Linda."

Collins and Zappa, who had been friends since 1961, engaged in a side project called Ned & Nelda. This 1963 parody of the hit "Hey Paula" definitely was a pre-cursor to Ruben & The Jets.

Collins and Zappa co-wrote a song called "Memories of El Monte," which was recorded in 1963 by The Penguins. It wasn't nearly as big as the group's best-known song, "Earth Angel," but it's still pretty bitchen.

Zappa slowly took over The Soul Giants, which mutated into The Mothers of Invention. Here's a tune from The Mothers' first album, Freak Out (which later was re-recorded for Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.)

And here's the lead track of the Mothers' second album, Absolutely Free.

But tensions between Collins and Zappa were growing during this period. According to a 2009 interview with Collins in The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: 

[Collins] "had been ambivalent about the Mothers ever since Zappa relocated the band from Pomona to Hollywood to pursue a record deal. ... Quitting became a running joke.

"`I think I [quit] four times, maybe,' Collins says. "I didn't like doing that stuff onstage. Too much comedy, too much making fun of stuff. ...  I wanted to make beautiful music. I was raised on Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole.' "

Collins did quit the band after Absolutely Free, but came back to sing on Cruising with Ruben & The Jets. 

But I don't think Johnny Mathis done it this way.

Ruben & The Jets turned out to be the last gasp of Collins' music career. 

In the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin interview, Collins said, "People will ask why it's been 40 years since I've been onstage. I don't know ... If you just enjoy life it's conducive to not being successful. You know what I mean? I just enjoy life."