Jimmy Russell at El Farol Friday

Check out my friend Jimmy Russell Friday night at El Farol on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

And ask him nice and maybe he'll sing this for you:

THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Musical Birthday Salute to Lenny Bruce

Today would have been the 91st birthday of comedian, First Amendment fighter and major jazz nut Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known as Lenny Bruce.

Lenny was a comic, not a musician. But his love for jazz led to some interesting musical collaborations.

He even produced a television pilot (The World of Lenny Bruce) that featured performances by jazz stars of the day including Cannonball Adderly, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Buddy Rich (see clip below.) But, of course, none of the gutless prigs running the networks would touch any show hosted by a foul-mouthed lunatic like Lenny.

And here's a final musical connection: Lenny's last gigs were with Frank Zappa & The Mothers of  Invention at the original Filmore Auditorium on June 24 and 25,1966. Those who saw the show reported that Lenny was not in good shape. He died of a drug overdose about six weeks later,




Let's start with a strange beatnik poetry interlude called "Psychopathica Sexualis from Lenny's 1959 album The Sick Humour of Lenny Bruce



Here is Lenny singing -- and doing some shtick with -- a bittersweet little song about loneliness.



As promised, here's a clip from Lenny's TV pilot. "I feel from jazz," he declares as he introduces Buddy Rich.



And  to conclude, here's Stan Ridgway covering Bob Dylan's tribute to Lenny


Happy birthday, Lenny!

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Take me in, tender woman

This weekend, on the heels of the release of the infamous Donald Trump "hot mic" tape in which he brags about being able to kiss and grope women without their consent because he was “a star," another Trump video begin popping up on Twitter. These were videos from earlier this year in which the Republican nominee reads a poem about a "tender woman" who shows mercy to reptile who seems to be in pretty bad shape.

Here is one of those speeches. (Note: The original Yotube I posted was taken down. I'm replacing it with one that CBS News posted in April 2017.)



As interpreted by Trump, the snake is a metaphor for Syrian terrorists and the "tender woman" are the foolish liberals who "would take them in."

But the people posting the video over the weekend were doing so to taunt Republicans who were practically tripping all over themselves trying to flee from Trump. Their message: They knew damn well what this guy was before they took him in.

Though Trump has repeatedly -- and incorrectly -- identified the writer as Al Wilson (a soul singer who covered it in 1968), the lyrics he's reading are a variation of a song written in the early '60s by jazz singer Oscar Brown, Jr. that was based on one of Aesop's fables.



The arrangement for Al Wilson's version of Brown's song sounds a whole lot like the one Johnny Rivers recorded a couple of years before that on his 1966 album, And I Know You Wanna Dance.

Johnny's was the first version I ever heard, so I've got a soft spot for it. Here's a live version



And here is a fairly recent one by French rocker, Rev. Tom  Frost from his 2013 album, Bloody Works. I'm pretty sure that Debra Paget, the dancer in this video never went furniture shopping with Trump.




For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

 

 

Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
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Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon

Purple Merkin Power by Purple Merkin

Mojo Workout by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Hey You by Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels

Stella by The Havishams

Bleed Me by The Upper Crust

White Glove Service by The Grannies

Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt

Bald Head by Bobby King & Terry Evans

 

Blood on the Keys by James Leg

I Wanna Be Your Busyman by The Fadeaways

Stormy Weather by The Reigning Sound

Obeah Man by Meet Your Death

Burn She Devil, Burn by The Cramps

Degenerate by DD Owen

Give Me Back My Wig by Hound Dog Taylor

Cannibal Island by The Young Rochelles

Midnight Queen by Iron Lizards

 

Mutants of the Monster by Christopher "CT" Terry & Micheal Denner

Come Down by James Arthur's Manhunt

Cloak of Many Colors by Wolf Moon

High on Drugs by The Fleshtones

Unease and Deviance by Johnny Dowd

Swollen Colon Lament by Figures of Light

I Shot the Devil by Gravelroad

 

Waitin' on My Sweetie Pie by NRBQ

Crawl Throuh Your Hair by New Mystery Girl

Pig Pig by The King Khan & BBQ Show

Diamond Man by Lonesome Shack

Rebecca Rodifer by Gaunga Dyns

Summer's Almost Gone by The Doors

Last Kind Words by Geeshie Wiley

I Had a Dream by Dex Romweber

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by The Moroccos

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Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
8 am to 10 am Sundays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's the playlist :
Welcome Table and Prayer by Alice Wine
Howard Hugh's Blues by John Hartford
Blow the Man Down by Woody Guthrie
Ramblin' Man by Steve Young
Summer Wages by David Bromberg

The Boll Weevil by Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur
Love Song of the Dump by Washboard Hank
Don't Lie Buddy by Josh White
That'll Never Happen No More by Howard Armstrong
Do You Call That a Buddy by Martin, Bogan & Armstrong

Wine Spo-Dee-Odee by Kell Robertson
Wild Bill Jones by Eva Davis
Just Like a Monkey by South Memphis String Band
Luther Played Guitar by Stan Ridgway
I Want My Mama by Salty Holmes
Your Past is Going to Come Back and Haunt You by Emily Kaitz
Good Morning Judge by Louis Innis & His String Dusters

How Lee Sin Ate by Dr. West's Medicine & Junk Band
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate by The Hoosier Hotshots
She Lived Down by The Firehouse by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Stealin' by Dave Van Ronk's Ragtime Jug Stompers
Collegiana by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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