WACKY WEDNESDAY: More Random Acts of Wackiness

Here's a Wacky Wednesday in search of a theme.

I did this once before nearly a year ago, but I sure didn't use up the supply of weird music videos on Youtube. Here are some more.

Let's start out with a New Wave synth-pop nightmare, "Elektronik Supersonik" by Zlad!

I think this one is a joke. Or maybe, the joke is ON YOU!



It's then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man came singing songs of love ...



Ever wonder what the Bonanza theme sounded like in German? Well I don't care, I'm posting it anyway.



Ya like porkchops? Apparently so did Vincent Price. (Like the German "Bonanza," I found this among April Winchell's incomparable MP3 collection. April says it's created "using clips from Vincent Price cooking records.")


And to finish up, here's 20 minutes of a very drunk Hank Williams, "Recorded sometime in the late '90s, apparently, possibly in Kansas City," the poster says. To be honest, I haven't listened to the whole thing. Maybe you're braver than me.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Love is All Around by Husker Du
All the Nation's Airports by Archers of Loaf
America Goddamn by King Khan
Immigraniada by Gogol Bordello
West of the Wall by Toni Fisher
Evil is Going On by Howlin' Wolf
Let's Burn Down the Cornfield by John the Conquerer
What's the News by Motor City Crush
Legs by PJ Harvey
Melt Yourself Down by James Chance & The Contortions

A New Wave / Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney
Fall on You by The Plimsouls
I Love You So Much by Mark Sultan
Killing the Wolfman by The King Khan & BBQ Show
Earth Blues by The Sex Organs
Goin' Down by Dinosaur Jr
I Like it Small by Mudhoney
Not Me by The Orlons

Mazhott by Mazhott
Rag by Ras Al Ghul
Who's Your Buster, Dolly by Dicky B. Hardy
Lost Someone by James Brown
The Claw by Barrence  Whitfield & The Savages
So Much in Love by The Tymes
Celery Stalks at Midnight by Doris Day with The Les Brown Orchestra

Charlie Brown by The Dean Ween Band
Love Like a Man by The Fleshtones
Graveyard by  Sloaming Moops
Cold Feelings by Social Distortion
Slippin' Sideways by Drywall
I Believe in Tomorrow by Tiny Tim
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Jan. 27, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Take Me to the Fires by The Waco Brothers
I'm Just a Honky by The Ex-Husbands
Babe Be Mine by Butch Hancock
Long Walk by Mose McCormack
I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake by The Marlettes
Let Me Go Home, Whiskey by Asleep at the Wheel
Yes Ma'am, He Found Me at a Honky Tonk by Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers
Keep the Home Fires Burnin' by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
The Cajun Queen by Jimmie Dean

Big Balls in Cowtown by Ike Johnson & His Roadhouse Ramblers
Haunted Honky Tonk by John Lilly
Ain't Got No Home by Sonny Burgess & The Legendary Pacers
Fangs by The Saucer Men
The Race is On by George Jones
Sweet Dreams by Janis Martin
Small Bouquet of Roses by Wayne Hancock
I Will Stay Wtth You by Emily Kaitz & Ray Hubbard

This Old Honky Tonk by Rosie Floses
Commandment 8 by Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Fast Fuse Blues by Paul Burch
A Place to Hang My Hat by Porter Wagoner
Dump Road Yodel by Legendary Shack Shakers
Crawdad Song by Washboard Hank
Cheap Motels by Southern Culture on the Skids
Long Old Time by Scott H. Biram
Flora, the Lily of the West by Tim O'Brien

Be Real by Freda & The Firedogs
Marie by Leon Redbone
Give Chance a Chance by Vince Bell
Dreamin' My Dreams With You by John Prine & Kathy Matea
Satin Sheets by Jeannie Pruett
Love Me by Elvis Presley
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine by Hylo Brown
Treasure Untold by Doc & Merle Watson
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Apollo Theater!

Today, Thursday, Jan. 26, is the 83rd anniversary of The Apollo Theater in Harlem. That's the day that Sydney S. Cohen and Morris Sussman reopened the theater, which years before had been a Whites-Only burlesque house.

Cohen and Sussman had a whole new plan though. The Apollo would become a major venue for primarily black audiences and primarily black performers.

According to some accounts, the first actual star to play The Apollo was Broadway singer Adelaide Hall, who starred there in a stage production of a musical called Chocolate Soldiers in 1934. Here's a tune by Hall.



In the 30s, '40s and '50s all sorts of African-American jazz giants played the Apollo. Here's the mighty Cab Calloway performing his signature song there.



And here's the Count of Basie


I wish there was some actual footage of Buddy Holly & The Crickets playing the Apollo in the '50s. (They were part of a mostly black package show.) But there's not so we'll just have to settle for Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly  Story. Reportedly Buddy was the first white rock 'n' roller to play there, though white jazz artists like  Harry James and Woody Herman had played there before.


But for MY Generation, the first performer we associate with The Apollo was James Brown who recorded several live albums starting with the classic one in 1962. Here's a live tune from 1968.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Call Any Vegetable

It's winter and I miss going to the Santa Fe Farmer's Market on Saturdays and eating a glorious bounty of fresh, tasty area-grown vegetables and knowing that when I run out there's always next Saturday to look forward too. (I know it's open in the winter too, but the pickings just aren't that great this time of year.)

So to help bring solace to my soul, I'm offering up this crazy salad bar of songs, songs about vegetables.

This song frequently pops into my head when I'm at the Farmer's Market -- and sometimes even in the produce section of grocery stores.



Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention knew that vegetables are good for you. And he knew that a vegetable will respond to you



The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" follow-up was a song about the iconic advertising mascot, "The Jolly Green Giant." Check out this weird tale about the song and the canned vegetable company. According to Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell says that while some Green Giant executives wanted to sue the band for copyright infringement, the West Coast office of the corporation love the song and actually sent The Kingsmen cans of vegetables to hand to their fans. Mitchell also claims that FBI agents sent to investigate the band over the lyrics of  "Louie Louie". (I dunno ...)


Doris Day sang the most psychedelic lyrics of her life in "Celery Stalks at Midnight."

Celery stalks at midnight

Lurking in the moonlight

What's this funny nightmare

All about

Celery stalks at midnight

Mounted on their broomsticks

Gliding through the treetops

In and out

It's like a bad dream

A crazy kind of mad dream

I've never successfully  grown tomatoes, but this classic from the late great Guy Clark makes me feel like I should start.



Only Johnny Cash could create a religious song about beans



Here's Susan Christie's pseudo jug-band song about onions



I've explained before, this group made me want to start a band.