Sunday, May 26, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Green Back Dollar by Billy Bill Miller
You Should Know by Now by Bad Nerves
Back in the Jungle by The Caezars
Right Hand Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Don't press the arrow on this image. Wait until the
"videos" below. Keep your damn shirt on!
Here's some startling news that might offend some of you gentle readers:
I've joined forces with our ROBOT OVERLORDS to create some new music!
Yes, despite my first rocky encounter with AI (read about that
HERE) I've been messing around with a free AI music site called
Suno to make new songs in a
multitude of genres with the help of my new artificial pals, The Spanish Henry
Singers.
I know, I know, palying with AI is
PLAYING WITH FIRE! In fact I looked to
the Internet -- Chat GPT to be specific -- to tell me about potential AI
problems. Here's some of the potential areas of danger:
Ethical Concerns
Job Displacement
Privacy and Security
Autonomous Weapons (as Chat GPT went on to explain: "The development of AI-powered autonomous weapons raises serious ethical and humanitarian concerns, as they could potentially act without human oversight, leading to unintended harm or escalation of conflicts.)
and, last but not least ...
Existential Risks: ("Some experts worry
about the long-term implications of creating superintelligent AI that
could surpass human intelligence and potentially pose existential risks to
humanity if its goals are not aligned with human values. "
Jeepers! All I'm trying to do here is have some outraged U.S. senator mention
The Spanish Henry Singers at some future Congressional hearing on AI.
So enjoy these songs below. Let's start out with a rockabilly stomp called
"Pandas & Poodles" (The title on the song below incorrectly says "Wild
Creature Love," which is the original title the Suno program gave it. I can't
get it to change. Fucking ROBOT OVERLORDS ...) :
You like good basic garage-punk? Here's "Insect Eradicator":
What if Denny's became a grand-slam disco after midnight?
This one's a traditional Irish song about drunk skunks and iodine:
My brother, who introduced me to the wonderful world of Suno, says this one is
my best:
For this one I asked for a traditional Mexican narcocorrido about a man named
Biff and his love for the beauteous Carlotta Gomez. (For more info on this fair Mexican maiden CLICK HERE )
This one is a good example
of the strange poetry style of AI lyrics, which sometimes sound like an unholy cross
between song-poems and The Shaggs, ends with, "In this ruthless land/Where
hearts turn to stone/Their love story burns like a narcocorrido's tone."
If
that don't bring tears to your eyes ...:
Next time you need to share a birthday greeting, feel
free to share this:
And finally, The Monkees got nothin' on The Spanish Henry Singers!
All my songs that I've liked well enough to share with the public can be found
HERE.
Check back at that link every so often. I'll be adding new ones.
Sunday, May 19, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Earlier this week I saw Mississippi bluesman Cedrick Burnside play at the
Tumbleroot here in Santa Fe. As I suspected, Burnside, grandson of the late
master R.L. Burnside, was fantastic and any Santa Fe blues fan who missed it
should regret it.
But this post isn't about the music Burnside played. It's about a joke he told
Monday night.
It was a funny joke, but I already knew the punchline. That's because I was
familiar with this song I first heard by Gabriel Sanchez, aka Baby Gaby.
Here's that song:
Despite the name "Pepito" and Baby Gaby's exaggerated Mexican accent, I've
always suspected that the dysfunctional family poked fun at in this tune might
not be Mexican at all.
And in fact, that's the case.
The first known published telling of this tale was "Madame la Marquise." a
poem satirizing French aristocracy by British-born poet
Robert Service in his 1940 collection Bar-room Ballads: A Book Of Verse.
Here's how it starts out:
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa:
"I want to take a wife, mon Pere." The Marquis laughed: "Ha! Ha!
And whose, my son?" he slyly said; but Hongray with a frown
Cried: "Fi! Papa, I mean -- to wed. I want to settle down."
The Marquis de la Glaciere responded with a smile:
"You're young, my boy; I much prefer that you should wait awhile."
Kind of wordy, no? It takes a few lines more before the Marquis gets around to
warning his lovesick son about the dangers of possible incest.
And that leads us to a classic zombie movie ...
In 1943, the calypso star known as Sir Lancelot (Lancelot Victor Edward
Pinard) wrote a song for -- and appeared in -- a creepy film called
I Walked With a Zombie. (But no,
Roky Erikson never covered this)
Lancelot called the tune "Fort Holland Calypso Song" (Not "Fort
Collins" as it's mistitled in the video below. My daughter lives in Fort
Collins and if there were any zombies there, I'm pretty sure she would have
told me.)
Check the scene below:
Notice the refrain and the melody are very similar to the song Baby Gaby
sings. But there's no story about a lad wanting to marry girls his dad thinks
are his secret sisters.
But skip ahead about 20 years and another calypso singer, Lord Melody rewrote
Sir Lancelot's lyrics, adding the basic ""Madame la Marquise" plot, and here we go. But I still don't know why he'd call his song "Wau Wau":
"Shame"-- or "Wau Wau" spread around the Caribbean. Puerto Rico-born pop singer Shawn Elliott had a hit in South America with his
version:
Here's Peter Tosh of The Wailers, backed by The Skatellites in 1965:
Tex-Mex folk-rocker Trini Lopez also sang of this troubled family:
Also in the '60s, Buffy Sainte-Marie sang an Irish-style song called "Johnny Be Fair," which tells the familiar story, though Canadian folklorist Edith Fowke quotes The Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook, (1971) where the singer introduces "Johnny Be Fair," saying her song was "based on a joke I heard from an Irishman ..."
And this seemed like an affirmation to me. The strange idea that prompted me to look into this song was a weird and unsubstantiated notion I had that the story told in the Baby Gaby song I love might have originated in Ireland. "Pepito" is much closer to Lord Melody and the others posted above, but the plot is the same as Buffy's:
But as we all know, shame and scandal often leads to Madness! The British punk-ska group recorded this in 2005.
Now all us Cedrick Burnside fans need to convince the man to craft his joke into a song ...
Sunday, May 12, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Holygram's Song (Back From The Shadows Again) by Firesign Theatre
