Sunday, October 25, 2015 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(at)ksfr.org Here's the playlist:
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Friday, October 22, 2015 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
9 to 5 by The Yawpers
Done Gone by Ray Condo & The Ricochets
Man on a Mission by The Supersuckers
Sweet Thang by Sleepy LaBeef
What Can I Do by Linda Gail Lewis
Jackhammer by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Great Expectations by Buck Owens
Baby Baby Me by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
The Devil Made Me Do It by Duane Williams
Wallflower by Doug Sahm with Bob Dylan
I'm Not That Kat Anymore by Texas Tornados
Pallet on the Floor by Amanda Pearcy
Rock Island Line by Chris Thomas King
Under the Jail by Mose McCormack
Ain't Love a Lot Like That by The Satellites
Keep it Clean by Charley Jordan
Get a Load of This by R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders
Poon-Tang by Deke Dickerson with The Treniers
Mama Drove a Mack Truck by Shot to Hell
Malfactor March by The Goddam Gallows
Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts by Mary Lee's Corvette
Did You Hear John Hurt by Jack White
Stagolee by Mississippi John Hurt
A Place Called Misery by Von Coffman
We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds by George Jones & Melba Montgomery
Dr. Timothy Leary, Harvard professor, psychedelic shaman and, for a few years, an international fugitive, would have been 95 years old today.
Happy birthday Dr. Tim.
Though most remember Leary for his advocacy of LSD and his oft-quoted catch phrase, "Turn On, Terrell's Tune-Up and Drop Out" (that was it, right?), he also has a musical legacy, which we'll celebrate here. (And I'm not talking about that dreary Moody Blues song, so don't even ask.)
For one thing, he had this affinity with John Lennon.
The introduction of the 1964 book The Psychedelic Experience, written by Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, contains this advice to trippers;
Trust your divinity, trust your brain, trust your companions. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.
You might recognize that line which appeared a couple of years later on The Beatles' Revolver in one of the most psychedelic tunes the Fab Moptops ever recorded.
Leary actually appeared on a Lennon record. He was one of a whole gaggle of counter-culture celebs who sang background on "Give Peace a Chance." And according to several accounts, that led, eventually to another Beatles song
The following day Lennon offered to help Leary's campaign [an aborted third-party run for governor of California.] His slogan was 'Come together, join the party'. Lennon sent Leary a demo tape of song ideas. However, when Leary was imprisoned for cannabis possession the campaign ended, enabling Lennon to record the song with The Beatles.
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Lennon told interviewer David Sheff:
The thing was created in the studio. It's gobbledygook; Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn't come up with one. But I came up with this, Come Together, which would've been no good to him - you couldn't have a campaign song like that, right?
Yes, Leary's imprisonment on a 1968 marijuana arrest saved "Come Together" from becoming a political jingle.
But that 10-year (!) sentence also led to Dr. Leary fleeing the country. He was living in Switzerland in 1972 when he hooked up with a German band called Ash Ra Tempel. Together they recorded a crazy, psychedelic album called Seven Up. Leary's spoken-word vocals fade in and out all through the record. The record starts out as a hippie blues exploration but quickly drifts into spacey pyschedelia.
Here's the entire thing on a YouTube.
Near the end of his life in 1996, Leary recorded an album with rocker Simon Stokes under the name of-- brace yourself, Bridget --LSD (Leary Stokes Duets). The album was called Right to Fly, and while I prefer Stokes' own records, this one has it's weird charm.
Happy Halloween, podlubbers! It's that most bloodcurdling time of the year. Settle back with a cold glass of Type O negative and enjoy some rocking spooky sounds from the crypt.
It's the seventh anniversary of The Big Enchilada ! Thank you for being my listener,
The Wacky Wednesday Halloween countdown continues. This week we're going to take a look at the Halloween legacy of Dickie Goodman.
Goodman was a record producer who, beginning in the 1950s, worked for many popular artists including Bobby Darin, Frankie Lymon and The Del-Vikings.
But he also was known as a songwriter and performer of novelty songs. He's most famous for what is known as the "break-in" song. For nearly 20 years beginning in 1956 with "The Flying Saucer," (performed with fellow songwriter Bill Buchanan, Goodman made the charts with several of these records.
Basically, they were weird little skits in which Goodman played a radio reporter interviewing people. The answers would come in the form of short snips of songs that were currently or recently popular. My favorite of these was in 1975's "Mr. Jaws," where Dickie asks the shark why he's biting his hand. The answer is a line from Melissa Manchester's pop hit "Midnight Blue."
"Wouldn't you give a hand to a friend? ..."
Indeed, though most of these break-in songs were unabashedly stupid and frequently annoying, Goodman was something of a record-sampling pioneer.
From a 2003 press release touting The King of Novelty: Dickie Goodman, a biography by Goodman's son Jon Goodman:
Dickie Goodman was sued by 17 record labels for copyright infringement in 1956 because his hit record, "The Flying Saucer" (a satire about the UFO phenomenon) contained short samples of several other hit records. After hearing the record with Dickie Goodman narrating while Elvis and Little Richard sang about Martians landing on Earth, NY Supreme Court ruled that a new work had been created and as long as the samples were paid for, no infringement existed.
"Mr. Jaws" in 1975 was the last real hit for Goodman. Fourteen years later, he ended his life, shooting himself in the head.
With that morbid detail, let's get back to Halloween.
A pop-culture wizard like Goodman would not want to ignore the resurgence of popularity for movie monsters in the 1960s. Beginning in the previous decade, local TV stations created local celebrities in the form of Vampira, Tarantula Ghoul, Zacherley, Count Gregor and untold other hosts of late-night horror shows.
The popularity of monster movies continued into the '60s. Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash" was a graveyard smash. Every male kid I knew back in the early to mid '60s bought up the Aurora company's plastic models of Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula and The Mummy. Famous Monsters of Filmland became must-read material.
So how could Goodman not pass up the opportunity to cash in on the monster craze?
Here are some of Dickie's monster melodies for this Halloween season. True, some of them make Bobby "Boris" Pickett seem like Cole Porter, but what the heck?
Let's dance to the "Werewolf Waltz"
And don't forget the "Mambo Mummy.'
Here's Goodman's Halloween take on The Coasters' "My Baby Loves Western Movies"
Finally, here's the one I remember from my childhood. My mom got the early version of Goodman's The Monster Album for my brother and me. Even back then when I was in grade school, it seemed pretty tacky and corny. And the tackiest, corniest, dumbest song on the record was "Frankenstein Meets the Beatles." The pairing was obvious, as Dickie explained in the lyrics: "Well, they screamed for The Beatles and they screamed for Frank, but it wasn't the very same kind ..."
And here is a later version of The Monster Album, including some horror-related break-in tune, some modern offerings from Goodman's son and some songs that don't appear to have any reason to be there at all.
