THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

 

Friday, December 11, 2015
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

White Lightnin' by The Waco Brothers

Stay a Little Longer by Willie Nelson

I Gotta Get Drunk by Gas Huffer

Hey Warden by Audrey Auld

Western Union Wire by Kinky Friedman & His Texas Jewboys

Askin' For Disaster by Banditos

Step Down by Jack Barlow

All You Facsists by Billy Bragg & Wilco

Opportunity to Cry by Tom Jones

 

Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets by DM Bob & The Deficits

Here Comes My Ball and Chain Again by Cornell Hurd

Run 'em Off by Brennen Leigh

Shine, Shave, Shower by Lefty Frizzell

Bad Dog by Danny Barnes

Santa Loves to Boogie by Asleep at the Wheel

Single Girl Again by Oh Lazarus

The Bottle Never Let Me Down by Dale Watson

Mystery Mountain by Porter Wagoner

Banks of the Brazos by James Hand

 

Let's Hop a Train by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

The One That Got Away by Legendary Shack Shakers

Santa Gotta Choo Choo by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks

Needle and Thread by Eilen Jewell

Sloppy Drunk Blues by Devil in a Woodpile

Another Clown by Mose McCormack

California Hills by Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores

She's Got My Car by Electric Rag Band

 

Evicted by Peter Case

Runnin' From the Ghost of Your Past by Stevie Tombstone

Midnight Sun by Rolf Cahn

Bolshevik and Bollweevil by Freakwater

Angels Dancing 'cross the Moon by Chip Taylor & John Prine

Merry Christmas from the Family by Robert Earl Keen

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: It's Almost Spike Jones' Birthday

Lindley Armstrong Jones was born Dec. 14, 1911 in Long Beach, California. The son of a railroad man, young Lindley was nicknamed "Spike" at an early age. His unusual musical talent began to emerge early on. 

According to various newspaper accounts, he got his first instrument at the age of 11 when "a negro cook" at a railroad lunch counter in Calexico, Calif. whittled two sticks from chair rungs and gave young Spike a breadboard to pound on. Reportedly he drummed along as he an the cook sang a duet of "Carolina in the Morning."

Jones started out as a jazz drummer and later got radio gigs with the likes of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. But he and the band that came to be known as The City Slicker had a knack for performing parodies of popular songs, and as Cub Koda wrote in the Allmusic Guide  "taking the air out of pompous classical selections ..." 

Koda wrote:

"Not merely content to do cornball renderings of standard material or trite novelty tunes for comedic effect, Jones' musical vision encompassed whistles, bells, gargling, broken glass, and gunshots perfectly timed and wedded to the most musical and unmusical of source points. ... A definite precursor to the video age, Jones didn't merely play the songs funny, he illustrated them as well, a total audio and visual assault for the senses."

I'm reminded of Frank Zappa in Koda's description of Jones' role as bandleader: 

"Spike was a strict bandleader and taskmaster, making sure his musicians were precision tight and adept in a variety of musical styles from Dixieland to classical, with a caliber of musicianship several notches higher than most big bands of the day that played so-called `straight' music."

Spike Jones had to be heard to be believed. So in honor of his birthday, coming up on Monday, here are some live television performances from the 1950s.

And here is one of Jones' best known songs from the 1940s.



Happy birthday, Spike!

WACKY WEDNESDAY: This One's For the Birds!

Here's a high-flying tune by Jay Wilbur & His Metropole Players from 1932



The great Mel Blanc had a big hit with his tribute to this feathered celebrity in 1948



The Holy Modal Rounders did this bird ode in Easy Rider



The Trashmen had a big one-hit wonder with "Surfin' Bird." That that actually was a medley of sorts of two R&B songs by The Rivingtons, "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and this one, "The Bird's the Word"



Warning: DO NOT WATCH THIS WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS! (You might see gooney birds! But I love this lady's voice.)



If, for some strange reason you like these tunes, you might like my Duck Songs post from earlier this year.

John Lennon: 35 Years Gone

Hard to believe it's been that long since John Lennon was gunned down in New York City. This grim anniversary always brings back a flood of memories. I might have shared some (all?) of these thoughts before on this blog. But please indulge an old man.

Like most of us who were alive at the time, I found out about the killing on TV. I was in bed with my then wife, who was nearly eight months pregnant with our daughter. I'm not one of those to do much hand-wringing over "how can I bring a child into a world like this?" But that night was one of the few times I ever indulged in such despair.

The next day, I had a gig to sing some songs on KUNM's Home of Happy Feet.  while driving down to Albuquerque we were listening to the radio. There was a news report talking about Lennon's autopsy. We switched the channel. On that station they were playing The Beatles' "A Day in the Life." We tuned in right as Lennon was singing, "And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all ..."

That's a true story.

On Happy Feet, even though it wasn't part of my normal repertoire, I spat out one of the angriest versions of "Working Class Hero" imaginable. Years later my pal Erik Ness gave me a cassette tape of that radio performance. It brought back all that horror.

Thrirty five years ... My ex-wife Pam has passed. Erik has passed. Marilyn from Home of Happy Feet has passed. So these songs below are for them. Let's remember Lennon as the rocker who started his career entertaining drunken sailors in Hamburg, performing with a toilet seat around his neck. Let's remember his rage and humor. Let's remember Lennon!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December 6, 2015
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Down and Out by The Vagoos

Love by Country Joe & The Fish

All Action Man by The Coyote Men

Trouble Hurricane by The Grannies

Love is What We Were Made For by Alex Maryol

Possessed by Robert Johnson by Dead Cat Stimpy

Ice Queen by JJ & The Real Jerks

Hot Head by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Speak Now Woman by Howlin' Wolf

 

Do Me a Favor by The Arctic Monkeys

Gun by The Stooges

Games by Husker Du

Covered with Flies by The Grifters

Sausage and Sauerkraut for Santa by The Polkaholics

Fruit Fly by Hickoids

Again and Again by The Black Lips

How Could I Be Such a Fool by Ruben & The Jets

 

Heart Attack and Vine by Lydia Lunch

Bad as Me by Tom Jones

Don't Be Taken In by Miriam

Lover's Curse by Bracey Everett

My Generation by Patti Smith

Walking Down Lonely Street by Ty Wagner

Bury Our Friends by Sleater-Kinney

Big Fanny by Big John Hamilton

Rock Me by Steppenwolf

 

Christmas Island by Leon Redbone

Katy Didn't by Barrence Whitfoield & The Savages

Web by Thee Oh Sees

Can't Seem to Make You Mine by The Seeds

The Kindness of Strangers by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Act of Faith by Stan Ridgway

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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