DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ...

I was listening to The Twisted Groove on KSFR after my show last night (early this morning) and heard a song that was hauntingly familiar. The title was "Monkey Ska" by ska pioneer Derrick Harriet. 

It was the refrain that nearly made me fall onto the floor: "Don't know what to say the monkey won't do." 

 You see, when my son was two or three he said he'd written a song called "Don't Know What to Say What the Monkeys Won't Do." I was amazed. 

Just the title alone filled me with wonder. I compared him to Captain Beefheart. But obvously, after hearing Harriet's song on the radio that my son had heard it as a toddler. It's not the type of music his mother would be listening to, so I still was amazed. 

But this morning when I played a clip of the song I found on the Internet, my son, now 15, remembered he'd seen it on the cartoon show Animaniacs. Sure enough, we found it on YouTube.

 

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, November 9, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Ghost Riders in the Sky by The Last Mile Ramblers
I Told Her Lies by Robbie Fulks
If Tomorrow Never Comes by Todd Snider
Nothin' by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Dark End of the Street by The Flying Burritto Brothers
Skip a Rope by The Kentucky Headhunters
Daddy's Cup by Drive-By Truckers

Kiss Me Honey/Wang Dang Blues by Hank Penny
Been Down Too Long by Scott Birham
Roly Poly by James Luther Dickinson
Brand New Heartbreak by Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh
Dollar Dress by The Waco Brothers
Don't Make Me Pregnant by Tammy Faye Starlite
The Week of Living Dangerously by Steve Earle



HANK THOMPSON TRIBUTE
All songs by HT except where noted
Oklahoma Hills
Sting in This Old Bee
I'm Tired of Prestending
The Wild Side of Life
Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells
Three Times Seven
I Like My Chicken Frying Size
Squaws Along the Yukon
Whoa Sailor by The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Rub a Dubb Dubb
A Sixpack to Go


Long John Blue by The Cerrillos Islanders
Blue Asian Reds by Terry Allen
I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now by Bettye LaVette
I'm Not Coming Down by Ed Pettersen
Cupid's Arrow by Amy LaVere
It Only Rains on Me by Don Williams
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list

SWEET LORDY JESUS!

"Sometimes I feel like Arthur Bremer
In my motel room
I got my pornographic comic books
I'm hearing voices from the tomb.
I've been stalking you like a cobra, baby
Ready any time you like.
Ain't nothin' gonna stop me, mam
When it's time to strike ..."

From "Pinhead for Your Love"
Stephen W. Terrell, poet.
Circa 1978


And now they're freeing Artie Bremer, the guy who shot George Wallace down in 1972. And it looks like Sarah Jane Moore might be getting out too. (But not Squeaky. She apparently likes prison life.) Here's a story about it: CLICK HERE.

Could this lead to an aging (would-be) assassins speaking tour? It's got to be worth at least one big Larry King show.

R.I.P. HANK THOMPSON

Hank Thompson died on Tuesday.

Another great country singer gone ... and so soon after Porter Wagoner.

My brother just sent me this picture of himself, our pal Jeff Hett and Hank from the mid 70s when my brother and Jeff went to the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at ehat is now Rogers State College in Claremore, Oklahoma. (Junior Brown later went there and taught there.)

I've told this story before: I was introduced to Hank Thompson by none other than Roger Miller in the early '80s when Hank played at the Line Camp in Pojoaque. That was a wonderful night for my ego! I still remember sitting around the Line Camp dressing room with Roger and Hank. "Steve's from Oklahoma City," Roger said. "He's from Reno Street." (That was an area of downtown OKC once known for its rough bars.) Hank, who used to have a televison show in Oklahoma City, got a kick out of that.

A few years earlier, when Hank played the old Ramada Inn bar on Cerrillos Road, my date and I were asked by the management not to dance. I guess a couple of hippies doing the Reno Street Swing or whatever it was was intimidating the regular customers.

Yes, there will be a tribute to Hank Thompson on tonight's Santa Fe Opry (the show starts 10 pm Mountain time on KSFR, 101. FM in New Mexico and streaming on the Web. )

TOM UDALL: WILL HE GO FOR IT?

My analysis piece on Tom Udall's possible Senate bid can be found HERE.

My story on the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll on the New Mexico Senate race is HERE

But why read that when you can see the poll itself?