TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 4, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

4th of July by X

The Outcast by Dave Van Ronk

Violet Crumble Cherry Ripe by The Fleshtones

Wet Bar by Ross Johnson

The Beat Goes On by Giant Sand

Love Hurts by Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre with Eddie Spaghetti and Ruyter Suys

Diddy Wah Diddy by Captain Beefheart

Sam the Hotdog Man by Lil Johnson

Who Will Save Rock 'n' Roll by The Dictators

American Music by Violent Femmes

American Music by The Blasters

Daddy Rolling Stone by Phil Alvin

Death Rattle of Love by Martha Fields

Run Through the Jungle by The Gun Club

Shout Bama Lama by The Detroit Cobras

You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover by Bo Diddley

4th of July by Soundgarden

Indoor Fireworks by Elvis Costello

A on Horseback by Charlie Pickett

The Horse by DM Bob & The Deficits

Know Your Rights by The Clash

Melt the North Pole by Negativeland

The Body of an American by The Pogues

One Time One Night by Los Lobos

Mariachi Blues by Joe "King" Carrasco

The Country is Young by Jon Langford

Democracy by Leonard Cohen

Hiawatha by Laurie Anderson

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: A Musical Salute to the Corvette

 

On this day, June 30, in 1953, the very first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. This new American sports car was a major success. Though some generations of the 'Vette have been badged "Sting Ray" or "Stingray," Corvettes are still being made today -- which means the Corvette is a few months older than me!

The new car quickly won a place in pop culture. It was the car in which Martin Milner and George Maharis drove around the country in the tv show Route 66 in the early 1960s. (Chevrolet, of course, was a sponsor.)

And the Corvette inspired many songs in American music. Let's hear some, shall we?

The earliest song about Corvettes I've come across was from 1958, "Corvette" by The Corvettes (not to be confused with the all-girl pop-punk band, Nikki & The Corvettes):

In 1963 Chevrolet decided to call the second generation of Corvettes the "Sting Ray." The Beach Boys celebrated this the same year with "Shut Down," which was about a drag race between "my fuel injected Stingray" and a "Superstock Dodge."

I'm pretty sure that Chevrolet would have been less enthusiastic about this tragic 1964 teenage death song by Beach Boys pals Jan & Dean about about another teenage drag race involving a Sting Ray. (Two years later, Jan Berry would crash his Sting Ray into a parked car on Whittier Boulevard not far from the actual Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles. He lived, but suffered severe head injuries.)

In the 1980s, George Jones sang the praises of the Corvette -- or was it a long-lost girlfriend?) with "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)"

But the best-known song about a Corvette has to be that one by Prince:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 27, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

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

Thunder on the Mountain by Wanda Jackson

Primitive by The Groupies

Wild Man by The Shadows of Knight

Walkin' the Dog by The Sonics

White Hat by Joe "King" Carrasco

Oo Poo Pa Doo by Paul Revere & The Raiders

Cock in My Pocket by Iggy & The Stooges

The Desert's Flame by The William Loveday Intention

I Wanna Holler (But the Town's Too Small) by Gary U.S. Bonds

Don't Cry Alone by Bloodshot Bill

Whistle Bait by Larry Collins

Society by The Routes

Wild Little Rider by The Bloodhounds

Town of Horseheads by Count Vaseline

Lost Dead Island by Laino & The Broken Seeds

Devil Dance by The A-Bones

The Snake by Reverend Tom Frost

The Definitive Tom Jones Medley by The Pleasure Barons

Popstar by Tom Jones

Look in The Mirror by Gregg Turner

Lizard Hunt by Gas Huffer

Frog Went a Courtin' by Flat Duo Jets

Marie by Mitch Webb & Los Swindles

Poor Gary from the Gallows by Harvey McLaughlin

It's Your Voodoo Working by Charles Sheffield

Night Driver by Southern Culture on the Skids

Gardens by San Antonio Kid

Tears on My Pillow by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle

You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra

As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

I'll Take Care of You by Bobby "Blue" Bland

Where or When by Dion & The Belmonts

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Ramblin' Tommy!

 

Ramblin' Tommy and his little pal Luke McLuke

Happy birthday to a proto-rockabilly (he was more 'billy than rock), radio and television star, comedian, ventriloquist and honest-to-God snake oil peddler.

His name was Tommy Lee Scott, though to fans of hillbilly music know him better as Ramblin' Tommy Scott. Born on June 24, 1917, Tommy lived to the age of 96. He might have made it 100 had he not been fatally injured in a car wreck a little less than eight years ago. 

According to his obituary at MusicRow.com, Scott:

... began his career on local radio in Georgia in 1933. When a medicine-show wagon stopped in Toccoa in 1936, Scott jumped aboard. It was a show that had been launched in 1890 by “Doc” M.F. Chamberlain. When Chamberlain retired, he turned the enterprise and its medicinal formulas over to Scott.

Using music and comedy, Scott sold the liniment Snake Oil, the tonic Vim Herb and the laxatives Herb-O-Lac and Man-O-Ree for decades.

Tommy Scott moved to North Carolina in 1938 to perform on WPTF radio in Raleigh. On WWVA in Wheeling, WV he was billed as“Rambling Scotty” when he fronted Charlie Monroe’s band The Kentucky Pardners. He moved to WSM and its Grand Ole Opry in 1940.

Back in Georgia, Scott became a country TV pioneer with the production of The Ramblin’ Tommy Scott Show in 1948. He later had the syndicated television series Smokey Mountain Jamboree.

In 1949, Scott starred in the movie Trail of the Hawk. Other films he appeared in include Mountain Capers, Hillbilly Harmony and Southern Hayride.

Scott worked ventriloquism into his act, with the help of his wooden partner Luke McLuke, and, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame, did a brief stint as a ventriloquist at the Grand Ole Opry.

He organized his own traveling musical medicine show,  playing songs and selling his dubious medications.  “Doc Scott’s Last Real Old Time Medicine Show” included such stars as Carolina Cotton (the "Yodeling Blonde Bombshell"), future Hee-Haw star Stringbean and bluegrass great Curley Seckler.

And, while this is nothing to celebrate, in his early years Scott did blackface comedy, including a stint with Stringbean in an act called "Stringbean & Peanut."

Here are a few of Ramblin' Tommy's songs that will make you feel better than a heaping dose of Herb-O-Lac.

Let's start out with the classic "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain":

I first heard "Tennessee" performed by New Mexico's own Last Mile Ramblers in the early '70s:

Now here's some rockabilly, a song called "Rockin' and Rollin'":

Now for a spooky little number called "Graveyard:"

Finally here's Luke McLuke:

Happy birthday, hillbilly medicine man!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 20, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

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

Outer Space by The Sex Organs

Pink Lemonade by Daddy Long Legs

Nuthin' to Me by Suzi Moon

I Don't Need That Kind of Lovin' by Reigning Sound

A Different Kind of Ugly by The Sons of Hercules

Born to Lose by Social Distortion

The Man of Your Dreams by Johnny Dowd

Stay Out of It by Kathy Freeman

Smash Shit Up by Dropkick Murphys

Shakin' All Over by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

Happy Birthday Brian Wilson!

Rio Grande by Brian Wilson

"Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson by The Beach Boys

There's No Other Like My Baby by The Beach Boys

Love and Mercy by Brian Wilson

Vagina by Busy McCarroll

Phony Beatnik Set

Beatnik Daddy by Barbara Evans 

The Beat Generation by Mamie Van Doren

Beatnik Bill by Richard Pine

Benny the Beatnik by The Untouchables

Kookie's Mad Pad by Edd "Kookie" Byrnes

Teenage Beatnik by Louis Nye

Beat Generation by The Beat Farmers

Bird Brain by Allen Ginsberg

Jason Fleming by The Sadies with Neko Case 

Child of the Moon by The Fleshtones

Freddy's Dead by Fishbone

Ballin' on a Budget by KevBev

The Old Rugged Cross by Homer Henderson

Great Mistake by Rachel Brooke

Gray Funnel Line by Peter Case

In Germany Before the War by Randy Newman

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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