WACKY WEDNESDAY: R&B Inspired by Children's Music

Bob E. Soxx & The Blue Jeans

I owe this Wacky Wednesday post to a veteran rock 'n' roll disc jockey and Facebook friend of mine known as Truly Judy. She recently posted a 1963 Top 40 list from a Kentucky radio station, WKLO that contained a couple of songs that I'd been thinking of lately that basically were soulful renditions of children's songs. I'd often thought of these two together, and realized they were pre-Beatles early '60s numbers. But not until I saw that chart did I realize they were popular during the same week in January 1963.

Here's the higher ranking tune at Number 5 -- at least in Louisville that week -- by a guy called Johnny Thunder (not to be confused with Johnny Thunders!). Listen, then go take a bath!

And coming in at Number 14 -- at least in Louisville that week -- was "Zip-a-Dee-Doo -Dah" by Bob E. Soxx & The Blue Jeans, who sound far more hip than Uncle Remus did in Song of the South.

But Thunder and Soxx weren't the only R&B singers to take a children's story or nursery rhyme into the realm of rock 'n' roll. 

Here are The Coasters goosing Mother Goose.

And here's LaVern Baker with an ode to a couple of characters from Alice in Wonderland.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 7, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Gilligan’s Wake by The Mal Thursday Quintet

Big Mouth Mickey by The Guilty Hearts

Seat in the Kingdom by The Luxurious Faux Furs

Attack of the Killer Cranes by Oh! Gunquit

Fleeting Celebration by Herzogovina

Magic Potion by Mondo Topless

This Train by Trixie & The Trainwrecks

Woo Woo Train by Little Isadore & The Inquisitors 

(Background Music: Adventures Through Inner Space by The Bomboras

Sonic Love by Killer Kin

Delta 88 Nightmare by X

Hell’s Belle by Divine Horsemen

Corn and Grain by Mekons

Weaver Wear by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Pterodactyl Meltdown by Wizzard Sleeve

Lotta Lovin by Deke Dickerson & The Trashmen

Get Happy Simon Stokes

I Hate to Drink Alone by Dale Watson

(Background Music: Ah-So by The Gaylads)

Spells and Magic by Laino & Bad Seeds

Head Held High by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids

King of Clubs by Alien Space Kitchen

Life’s Hard Lover by The Stools

The Amazing Mole Boy by Harvey McLaughlin

Blind Willie McTell by The William Loveday Intention

Morfo by Degurutieni

(Background Music: Waltz by The DJ Bonebreak Trio)

God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus by Miss Tammy Faye starlet

St. James Infirmary by The Dad Horse Experience 

The Bells by Lou Reed

Democracy by Leonard Cohen

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs for Patty

 On this day in 1974 years ago, members of a violent, ragtag bunch of self-styled revolutionaries called the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patricia Campbell Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, setting off a tragic and bizarre series of events that turned into something of a bad action flick crossed with a twisted soap opera when Patty later announced to the world she was renaming herself "Tania" and was joining her captors and started taking part in bank robberies.

Those were the daze ...

So here's a musical salute, to sweet Patty, starting with this delightful ditty from the late great Warren Zevon. It's the first time -- only time? -- I heard her name in a song. (This version is from Late Night with David Letterman in 2002, about a year before Zevon died.) I've always wondered if Patty Heart

Back in 1987, Camper Van Beethoven released the mock-ode "Tania" on their album Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.

A couple of years before Camper's tune, The Misfits also released a Patty song on their compilation  Legacy of Brutality. It was called "She."

Though her actually name is never mentioned, the lyrics, by Glenn Danzig, made it obvious who the song was about:

She walked out with empty arms

Machine gun in her hand

She is good and she is bad

No one understands

She walked in in silence

Never spoke a word

She's got a rich daddy

She's her daddy's girl

 

This video consists of actual security camera footage of Tania in action:

UPDATED! Thanks to Tommy T. who reminded me of this song a few hours after I originally posted. It's not about Patty, but two loveable gals named Judy and Jackie who "went down to Frisco, 

joined the SLA ..."

This last video, featuring L7's song in John Waters' movie Serial Mom, doesn't actually have anything to do with Patty, except that she appeared in that movie, as well as several other Waters movies. She struck up a lifelong friendship with the filmmaker that's actually kind of touching. In Serial Mom she portrayed a juror who is murdered by Kathleen Turner for the offense of wearing white after Labor Day.

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Sunday, January 31, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

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

Poor Poor Pitiful Me by Warren Zevon

Euthanize Me by The Cavemen

Uranium Rock by The Cramps

Love by Country Joe & The Fish

I’d Rather Be a Loser by Rick Holmstrom

Stay on Me by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo

Commander Salamander by Oh! Gunquit

Her Incredible Shoes by Dan Melchior & Das Menace

Dos Hojas Sin Rumbo by Al Hurricane

(Background Music: Polarized by Manby’s Head)

Fugitivo de Alcatraz by Los Saicos

Road of Joys by Herzegovina

Stroller Pollution by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Tenderest Kiss by Divine Horesemen

It’d Be Sad if it Wasn’t So Funny by Lonesome Bob

Whatever Happened to Cheetah Chrome by Tommy Womack

Rollin’ Voodoo by Cheetah Chrome

Alley Oop by The Bozo Dog Doo-Dah Band

(Background Music: Begin the Beguine by Esquivel)

Joe Camarillo tribute set

Shoot Shoot by Joe Camarillo (with Dollar Store)

We Know It by The Waco Brothers

I Want to Destroy You by Dollar Store

We Move On by Ramblin’ Deano

Whatcha Gonna Do by Scott H. Biram

Messin’ With the Hook by John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat

Shanghai by Degurutieni

(Background Music: Voodoo Love by The Waitiki 7)

City Soleil by Afghan Whigs

Black Juju by Alice Cooper

Missouri Gal by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

Picture on the Wall by Rachel Brooke

Souvenirs by Grandpaboy

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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BIG ENCHILADA 151: Love Cult

 

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(Background Music: Mad Love by The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies)

My Flash on You by Love

Goblin Alert by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Cat in Hell's Chance by Sir Bald Diddley & His Wig-Outs

I'm Alive, You're Dead by Kathy Freeman

I'm an Asshole by Rick Holmstrom

Trapped in a Nightmare by Simon Stokes & Hammerlock

Love by Country Joe & The Fish

Seat in the Kingdom by The Luxurious Faux Furs

They're Coming to Take Me Away by Butcher Babies

Lady Madonna / Yuuutunaru Spider by Love Psychedelico

Kool Trash by The Plimsouls

It'd Be Sad If It Weren't So Funny by Lonesome Bob

(Background Music: All About That Girl by WestHell Five)

Black Skull Death Cult by The Naxalites

Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat by The William Loveday Intention

I Don't Wanna Talk by Grand Guru

Cheater Bar by Mud City Manglers

Stay on Me by The Goon Mat & Lord Benardo

(Background Music: Hare Krisna Mantra by The Radha Krsna Temple (London))

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