As a native Oklahoman, nothing says Christmas more than the commercial for B.C. Clark's, a jewelry store. The jingle for the ad has been stuck in my head for -- I'm not kidding -- 50 years or so. Maybe longer. The store has run various spots with the same jingle since 1956!
Here's one I found on YouTube:
And here's a version sung on the Jay Leno show by Megan Mullally, who played Karen, the slutty, pill-popping assistant on Will and Grace. She was raised in Oklahoma City (and this proves it.)
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
PROTO RAP FROM THE '60s
I searched, but I couldn't find Sen. Everett Dirksen's "Gallant Men," but Sammy was a find!
Sunday, December 05, 2010
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, December 5, 2010
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
There But for the Grace of God Go I by The Gories
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by The Sonics
Bend Over, I'll Drive by The Cramps
Dog Food by Iggy Pop
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) by The Swingin' Medallions
What Goes Around Comes Around by The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Thunder Thighs by Andre Williams with the Diplomats of Solid Sound
Soul Struttin' by The Fleshtones
Sausage Balls by The Polkaholics
Preacher by Blue Cheer
Sifu Bruce Lee by Sexton Ming
Call Girl by M!ho Wada
Brown Trash by Tandoori Knights
Insane Asylum by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor
Stumblin' Man by Tad
Red Rose Tea by The Marquis Chimps
Christmas in Las Vegas by Richard Cheese
Space Jeeps by The Scrams
Charlie Laine Ate My Brain by The Ruiners
Wild About You Baby by Hound Dog Taylor
Scratch My Back by The Flamin' Groovies
Cheap Shot by Monkeyshines
Monkey Suit by The Plasmatics
Little Girl by The Hollywood Sinners
Christmas Boogie by Canned Heat with Alvin & The Chipmunks
Punk Rock Casualty by The Subway Surfers
Luck Be a Lady Tonight by Frank Sinatra
Why Hurt Flesh by Kid Congo Powers
Good Morning Little School Girl by Chuck Berry
Stop Pulling And Pushing Me by Richie Havens
I'm Gonna Keep Singin' by Ray Charles
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
There But for the Grace of God Go I by The Gories
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by The Sonics
Bend Over, I'll Drive by The Cramps
Dog Food by Iggy Pop
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) by The Swingin' Medallions
What Goes Around Comes Around by The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Thunder Thighs by Andre Williams with the Diplomats of Solid Sound
Soul Struttin' by The Fleshtones
Sausage Balls by The Polkaholics
Preacher by Blue Cheer
Sifu Bruce Lee by Sexton Ming
Call Girl by M!ho Wada
Brown Trash by Tandoori Knights
Insane Asylum by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor
Stumblin' Man by Tad
Red Rose Tea by The Marquis Chimps
Christmas in Las Vegas by Richard Cheese
Space Jeeps by The Scrams
Charlie Laine Ate My Brain by The Ruiners
Wild About You Baby by Hound Dog Taylor
Scratch My Back by The Flamin' Groovies
Cheap Shot by Monkeyshines
Monkey Suit by The Plasmatics
Little Girl by The Hollywood Sinners
Christmas Boogie by Canned Heat with Alvin & The Chipmunks
Punk Rock Casualty by The Subway Surfers
Luck Be a Lady Tonight by Frank Sinatra
Why Hurt Flesh by Kid Congo Powers
Good Morning Little School Girl by Chuck Berry
Stop Pulling And Pushing Me by Richie Havens
I'm Gonna Keep Singin' by Ray Charles
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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eMusic December
Last month eMusic made a deal with another of the major labels -- Universal. In doing so, they lost several independent labels, including Matador and Merge.
They also changed their pricing structure. It's in dollars and sense now instead of credits. The prices also slightly increased -- 49 cents for most tracks. Plus, eMusic no longer allows you to download for free tracks you've already paid for. (So be sure to back up your digital music collection!)
That's all bad news. But the good news is a lot of the cool labels -- Norton, Crypt, In the Red, Voodoo Rhythm, Bloodshot, etc are still there. And there's still lots of good deals on albums, especially on the older stuff. And it's till cheaper than either iTunes or Amazon.
Here's what I've downloaded from eMusic in the last month:
* The Wild Man by Hasil Adkins. This was the Haze's sophomore Hunch album in the late '80s. Back in 1986, Billy Miller and Miriam Linna decided to launch a record company to unleash this West Virginia backwoods one-man-band's early recordings -- which go back to the 1950s. That compilation, Out to Hunch was the birth of Norton Record. For The Wild Man, they let him loose in a studio for a fresh bunch of recordings.
And happily, the result was pure Punchy Wunchy Wickey Wackey Woo. Most of the tracks are just Adkins singing, playing guitar and playing the bass drum with his foot -- though on a few cuts he's aided, minimally, by various members of the A-Bones. Nobody gets their head cut off here, but it's still a lot of fun.
In addition to his own crazed tunes -- "Chicken Flop," "Big Red Satellite" and "Wild, Wild Friday Night" are classic -- Adkins also performs several tunes by the likes of The Carter Family, Carl Perkins, Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard (a slow and heartfelt "Turning Off a Memory"). But my favorite cover here is a hunchin' take on Jumpin' Gene Simmons' Halloween classic "Haunted House."
* Live In Hollywood '91 by Lavern Baker. The first time I heard the song "Bumble Bee," performed by the under-rated British Invasion group, The Searchers, I thought it was a real bitchen song.
The first time I heard it done by LaVerne Baker, I nearly covered my head for fear of getting stung.
Baker was one of the most powerful R&B performers of the 1950s and early '60s. She's best known for her hit "Jim Dandy" and the follow-up "Jim Dandy Got Married" (I forgive her for accidentally spawning Black Oak, Arkansas), but for my money Baker's best was the song about that bumble bee (an evil bumble bee!)
Baker was on the comeback trail by the time she recorded this live album in 1991, six years before her death. Past her prime for sure, and her band lacked that first-generation R&B urgency. And yes, there's too many easy-listening standards like "That's My Desire" and "What a Difference a Day Makes Here" (though LaVern injects a lot of soul into these chestnuts). But still, it's a good listen. "Tomorrow Night," which she recorded in the '50s, (I'm most familiar with Elvis' version) is full of irresistible emotion, as is is her 1959 hit "I Cried a Tear."
But my favorite one here has to be the grand finale, the Lieber & Stoller novelty classic, "Saved,"
the Salvation Army spoof, which was a title cut of a Baker album in 1961. "I used to cuss, i used to fuss/I used to cuss and fuss and boogie all night long!" she sings. Elvis did this song on his '68 "comeback special," The Band covered it on Moondog Matinee and , yes, I used to do it in my cheesy nightclub act in the '70s and '80s. But nobody did it like LaVern.
* Outta Here by The Gories. This 1992 album was the last album for this Detroit trio, whose stature and reputation continued to grow long after the group broke up. (They started doing reunion shows a couple of years ago. I saw them in New York last summer -- that's where I snapped the picture to the left.)
With Mick Collins (who later formed The Dirtbombs) and Dan Kroha on guitars and vocals and Peggy O'Neil bashing the drums, The Gories billed themselves as "punk blues. Along with their originals, they covered blues and R&B classics in their minimalist, primitive style.
One of my favorites here is "Great Big Idol With the Golden Head," which Leiber & Stoller wrote for The Coasters. They also do a tune called "Crawdad," which basically is a rewrite of Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley."
But best of all on this record is "There But For the Grace of God Go I," which came from a late '70s New York disco group called Machine. The song is a story of a couple of immigrants who try hard to protect their baby daughter. But by the time she's 16 she's running wild and ends up running away. The Gories cut it down to its basics and it sounds even more urgent the original.
You gotta give The Gories credit: They gave it their all to the very end. Though they were ready to break up by the time this was recorded, this definitely does not have the feel of some contractual obligation product or document.
PLUS
* The seven songs I didn't already have from Evol. by Sonic Youth. This was Sonic Youth back in 1986, back before hardly anyone knew them. Back before hardly anyone else was trying to sound like them. No Wave had already crested and Grunge was waiting to be born.
But still there was Sonic Youth exploring those strange darkened corridors of sound.
Highlights of Evol include "Shadow of a Doubt," which might be Kim Gordon's sexiest vocal ever; "In the Kingdom #19," in which the lyrics, which tell of a car crash, are spoken by Lee Ranaldo, reminding me of The Velvet Underground's "The Gift"; and the 7-minute excursion "Expressway to Yr Skull," that sounds like folk-rock played by Neptunians.
*Seven tracks from A Night on the Town With the Rat Pack by Frank, Dino & Sammy.
How can you not love these guys? This might not be rock 'n' roll, but the power, swagger and humor of these monsters shares a lot of common ground with the rock beast.
I'm not sure what the circumstances of this album are -- not even when it was recorded. (As for the where -- there's references to Chicago as well as St. Louis, so you have to assume these performances were taken from more than one night on the town.)
There's plenty of good old-fashioned fucking around here, ("What kind of fool am I," sings Sammy as he begins his famous hit. "You're a schmuck!" Sinatra answers.) But when they get ready to rare back and sing a song, their talent is unmatched. And the Count Basie band plays on at least several of these numbers.
I spent the last of my month's allotment on songs from this album. I'll pick up the remaining 31 tracks when my account refreshes.
They also changed their pricing structure. It's in dollars and sense now instead of credits. The prices also slightly increased -- 49 cents for most tracks. Plus, eMusic no longer allows you to download for free tracks you've already paid for. (So be sure to back up your digital music collection!)
That's all bad news. But the good news is a lot of the cool labels -- Norton, Crypt, In the Red, Voodoo Rhythm, Bloodshot, etc are still there. And there's still lots of good deals on albums, especially on the older stuff. And it's till cheaper than either iTunes or Amazon.
Here's what I've downloaded from eMusic in the last month:
And happily, the result was pure Punchy Wunchy Wickey Wackey Woo. Most of the tracks are just Adkins singing, playing guitar and playing the bass drum with his foot -- though on a few cuts he's aided, minimally, by various members of the A-Bones. Nobody gets their head cut off here, but it's still a lot of fun.
In addition to his own crazed tunes -- "Chicken Flop," "Big Red Satellite" and "Wild, Wild Friday Night" are classic -- Adkins also performs several tunes by the likes of The Carter Family, Carl Perkins, Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard (a slow and heartfelt "Turning Off a Memory"). But my favorite cover here is a hunchin' take on Jumpin' Gene Simmons' Halloween classic "Haunted House."
The first time I heard it done by LaVerne Baker, I nearly covered my head for fear of getting stung.
Baker was one of the most powerful R&B performers of the 1950s and early '60s. She's best known for her hit "Jim Dandy" and the follow-up "Jim Dandy Got Married" (I forgive her for accidentally spawning Black Oak, Arkansas), but for my money Baker's best was the song about that bumble bee (an evil bumble bee!)
Baker was on the comeback trail by the time she recorded this live album in 1991, six years before her death. Past her prime for sure, and her band lacked that first-generation R&B urgency. And yes, there's too many easy-listening standards like "That's My Desire" and "What a Difference a Day Makes Here" (though LaVern injects a lot of soul into these chestnuts). But still, it's a good listen. "Tomorrow Night," which she recorded in the '50s, (I'm most familiar with Elvis' version) is full of irresistible emotion, as is is her 1959 hit "I Cried a Tear."
But my favorite one here has to be the grand finale, the Lieber & Stoller novelty classic, "Saved,"
the Salvation Army spoof, which was a title cut of a Baker album in 1961. "I used to cuss, i used to fuss/I used to cuss and fuss and boogie all night long!" she sings. Elvis did this song on his '68 "comeback special," The Band covered it on Moondog Matinee and , yes, I used to do it in my cheesy nightclub act in the '70s and '80s. But nobody did it like LaVern.
* Outta Here by The Gories. This 1992 album was the last album for this Detroit trio, whose stature and reputation continued to grow long after the group broke up. (They started doing reunion shows a couple of years ago. I saw them in New York last summer -- that's where I snapped the picture to the left.)
With Mick Collins (who later formed The Dirtbombs) and Dan Kroha on guitars and vocals and Peggy O'Neil bashing the drums, The Gories billed themselves as "punk blues. Along with their originals, they covered blues and R&B classics in their minimalist, primitive style.
One of my favorites here is "Great Big Idol With the Golden Head," which Leiber & Stoller wrote for The Coasters. They also do a tune called "Crawdad," which basically is a rewrite of Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley."
But best of all on this record is "There But For the Grace of God Go I," which came from a late '70s New York disco group called Machine. The song is a story of a couple of immigrants who try hard to protect their baby daughter. But by the time she's 16 she's running wild and ends up running away. The Gories cut it down to its basics and it sounds even more urgent the original.
You gotta give The Gories credit: They gave it their all to the very end. Though they were ready to break up by the time this was recorded, this definitely does not have the feel of some contractual obligation product or document.
PLUS
But still there was Sonic Youth exploring those strange darkened corridors of sound.
Highlights of Evol include "Shadow of a Doubt," which might be Kim Gordon's sexiest vocal ever; "In the Kingdom #19," in which the lyrics, which tell of a car crash, are spoken by Lee Ranaldo, reminding me of The Velvet Underground's "The Gift"; and the 7-minute excursion "Expressway to Yr Skull," that sounds like folk-rock played by Neptunians.
*Seven tracks from A Night on the Town With the Rat Pack by Frank, Dino & Sammy.
How can you not love these guys? This might not be rock 'n' roll, but the power, swagger and humor of these monsters shares a lot of common ground with the rock beast.
I'm not sure what the circumstances of this album are -- not even when it was recorded. (As for the where -- there's references to Chicago as well as St. Louis, so you have to assume these performances were taken from more than one night on the town.)
There's plenty of good old-fashioned fucking around here, ("What kind of fool am I," sings Sammy as he begins his famous hit. "You're a schmuck!" Sinatra answers.) But when they get ready to rare back and sing a song, their talent is unmatched. And the Count Basie band plays on at least several of these numbers.
I spent the last of my month's allotment on songs from this album. I'll pick up the remaining 31 tracks when my account refreshes.
Friday, December 03, 2010
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, December 3, 2010
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Wild Wild Friday Night by Hasil Adkins
Corn Money by The Defibulators
Love Me by The Phantom
A Pinhead Will Survive by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
Little Dog Blues by Mel Price
Eatin' Fish and Drinkin' Sterno by The Imperial Rooster
I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself by Buddy Knox
Burn Burn Burn by Ronny Elliott
Christmas Mornin' by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
In the Nuthouse Now by Angry Johnny & GTO
That Mink On Her Back by Hank Penny
Crack and Similac by Misery Jackals
Sally's Got a Wooden Leg by Sons Of The West
Hang Man by Halden Wofford & The Hi Beams
Sneaky Pete by Sonny Fisher
Man in the Bottom of the Well by Bill Kirchen with Elvis Costello
I'm Gonna Love the Glenn Beck Out of You by Jim Terr
Shootin' Snowmen by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Hot Dog by Rosie Flores
Diddy Boppin' And Motor Mouthin' by Clara Dean
Blues Keep Calling by Marti Brom
The Devil, My Conscience & I by Billy Barton
Deep in the Heart of Texas by Andy Anderson
Suffer to Sing the Blues by David Bromberg
Welcome Touch Of Death by Billy Hunt
Lookin' For Somebody to Kill by Kell Robertson
Stop, Look and Listen by Patsy Cline
Yakov the Polka Reindeer by The Polkaholics
Lucille by The Beat Farmers
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Richie Havens
Must Be the Whiskey by Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
Just Call Me Me Steven I'm Leavin' by Cornell Hurd
Samson by Greg Brown
The Lost Cause by Legendary Shack Shakers
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Wild Wild Friday Night by Hasil Adkins
Corn Money by The Defibulators
Love Me by The Phantom
A Pinhead Will Survive by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
Little Dog Blues by Mel Price
Eatin' Fish and Drinkin' Sterno by The Imperial Rooster
I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself by Buddy Knox
Burn Burn Burn by Ronny Elliott
Christmas Mornin' by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
In the Nuthouse Now by Angry Johnny & GTO
That Mink On Her Back by Hank Penny
Crack and Similac by Misery Jackals
Sally's Got a Wooden Leg by Sons Of The West
Hang Man by Halden Wofford & The Hi Beams
Sneaky Pete by Sonny Fisher
Man in the Bottom of the Well by Bill Kirchen with Elvis Costello
I'm Gonna Love the Glenn Beck Out of You by Jim Terr
Shootin' Snowmen by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Hot Dog by Rosie Flores
Diddy Boppin' And Motor Mouthin' by Clara Dean
Blues Keep Calling by Marti Brom
The Devil, My Conscience & I by Billy Barton
Deep in the Heart of Texas by Andy Anderson
Suffer to Sing the Blues by David Bromberg
Welcome Touch Of Death by Billy Hunt
Lookin' For Somebody to Kill by Kell Robertson
Stop, Look and Listen by Patsy Cline
Yakov the Polka Reindeer by The Polkaholics
Lucille by The Beat Farmers
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Richie Havens
Must Be the Whiskey by Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
Just Call Me Me Steven I'm Leavin' by Cornell Hurd
Samson by Greg Brown
The Lost Cause by Legendary Shack Shakers
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Subscribe to The Big Enchilada Podcast! CLICK HERE
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
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