Tuesday, February 16, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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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.
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
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