Sunday, September 24, 2023 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
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I'm Ready by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Bad Boy by The A-Bones
Baby Baby Baby by Barreracudas
Mera Naam Bano Hey by Tandoori Knights
Everyday Vacation by Alien Space Kitchen
Go Go Gorilla by The Ideals
Walkin' With The Beast by Gun Club
Vegas by Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
Tower Of Song by Tom Jones
I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen
Dirt Bag Fever by Quintron
Burning Down The House by Talking Heads
Rough And Tumble Guy by Webb Wilder
The Sea by Sierra Ferrell
Robot Man by Jamie Horton
Voodoo Eyes by The Silhouettes
Rat Fink by Ron Haydock & The Boppers
GRAM PARSONS, RIP
(all songs by GP except where noted)
Still Feeling Blue
The New Soft Shoe by Polly Parsons & Eden
Hearts On Fire
Hickory Wind by Bob Mould & Vic Chesnutt
Boulder To Birmingham by Emmylou Harris
Hot Burrito #1 by The Mavericks
Sin City by The Mekons
In My Hour Of Darkness by Gram Parsons
Is Heaven Real? by Johnny Dowd
By The Fire by Jon Dee Graham
If I Had You by Johnny Gimble with Emily Gimble
Whalebone by The Dead Brothers
Steadfast, Loyal And True by Elvis Presley
All Bad by Nick Shoulders
Crow Hollow Blues by Stan Ridgway
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Tomorrow, September 22, 2023, will mark the 8th anniversary of a federal
judge's landmark decision that declared the song "Happy Birthday to You" to be
in the public domain. That decision led to a
subsequent settlement
in which Warner/Chappell, the giant media corporation that claimed to
have owned the copyright, agreed to repay, to the tune of $14 million, those who had licensed the song.
But, contrary to a rumor I just made up, Judge George H. King, did not
admonish Warner/Chappell by declaring, "You look like a monkey and you smell
like one too."
"Happy Birthday to You" undoubtedly is the most sung 10-second song in the
USA.
Yes, 10-seconds. Remember singing it -- twice -- while washing your hands
every few minutes during the early months of the COVID pandemic? As a
2020 article in Billboardnoted:
This has led to some strained attempts at humor, as people try to defuse
the tension we’re all feeling. Mark Ronson tweeted: “Been washing my hands
for 7 minutes singing ‘happy birthday’ by @StevieWonder x2. I didn’t know
they meant the ‘other’ birthday song… smh.”
The melody that everyone loves while someone brings a flaming cake to the
table was written by a couple of sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill in Kentucky
back in 1893.
The first version was titled "Good Morning to All," and was meant to be sung
in the classroom. (Patty was the principal of the Louisville Experimental
Kindergarten School, while Mildred was a teacher there.) This early version of
the song, which didn't mention any birthdays, was published in Song Stories for the Kindergarten and Primary Schools a book written by the sisters. But, according to
The Farmer's Almanac:
Nearly ten years after their first song book was published, the Hill
sisters were invited to a neighbor’s birthday party. It was then that
Patty changed the words of “Good Morning to All” to “Happy Birthday to
You,” in an effort to make the occasion more festive. The song was the
highlight of the party, and obviously caught on.
Sounds like some party!
Oklahoma City's beloved Ho Ho the Clown, about to sing "Happy
Birthday" to my brother, back in the days when we weren't all
afraid of clowns.
Billboard, however, noted that "There are various accounts of how `Good Morning to
All' morphed into `Happy Birthday to You'."
The sisters copyrighted their original song in October 1893 but years
later in March of 1924, it appeared without authorization in a songbook
edited by a Robert H. Coleman. In the book, Coleman used the original
title and first stanza lyrics but altered the second stanza’s opening line
to read, “Happy Birthday To You.” Thus, through Coleman, the sisters’ line
“Good Morning dear children,” became “Happy Birthday dear (name).”
During the next decade, the song was published several times, each time
with minor alterations in the lyrics. By 1933, the widely accepted title
was “Happy Birthday To You.” When the song was soon being belted nightly
in the Broadway musical, As Thousands Cheer, a third Hill sister, Jessica, tired of the ongoing theft of the melody
and total lack of royalty payments, took the case to court.
And apparently she won. The tune was dropped from As Thousands Cheer, and, as the Songwriters Hall of Fame notes, "...Western Union and
Postal Telegraph both ceased using the song in singing telegrams. A Broadway
hit play with Helen Hayes, `Happy Birthday,' arranged for the star to speak
the lyrics so the producers might avoid paying royalties to the authors."
The copyright saga of "Happy Birthday to You" serves as a great example of
corporate greed. The publisher of the Hill sisters'
Song Stories for the Kindergarten and Primary Schools was
the Clayton F. Summy Company, which became the Summy-Birchard Company in
1957, and became a division of the Birch Tree Group in 1970, only to be
gobbled up by Warner/Chappell in 1988.
But that lawsuit against Warner/Chappell, originally filed in 2013
by documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson returned the song to the people
two years later.
Just a week after Nelson filed her suit in New York, a singer named Rupa
Marya, singer with a band called Rupa & The April Fishes, filed a similar
suit in California, where the cases were combined.
Marya told
The Hollywood Reporterthat a San Francisco audience had sung the song to her on her birthday in
2013. But... "When the band tried to add that live rendition to an album, she
was hit with a lawyers demand for payment to license the song."
Here is Rupa, in the center, with her lawyers and others at the law firm singing the song they
fought for:
Here is what is song has to be the most famous performance of this song.
Marilyn took more than the mandatory 10 seconds. Nobody complained:
Kermit Ruffins does a version of "Happy Birthday to You," that features lyrics
I first heard in elementary school:
Sunday, September 17, 2023 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
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Right Hand Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Ookami Otoko by Horror Deluxe
Girls on Bikes by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Back in the late '60s, the hippies with their long hair and marijuana inspired
Jack Webb to try to warn the nation of the dangers of peace and love and their threatening new music on Dragnet. In the' 70s and '80s, punk rock
inspired overwrought television episodes trying to shock Mr. Marvin
Middleclass about the unhealthy phenomenon destroying the nation's youth.
Actually on sitcoms, punk-rock generally was treated as weird but essentially
harmless fun for the kids. The humor came not only from the
stereotypical Mohawks and slam dancing, but from the squares' reactions to
it.
This was the case with case with Don Rickles in CPO Sharkey. A 1978
episode titled "Punk Rock Sharkey" actually featured The Dickies. This video
of the band's song "Hideous" features clips from that show:
On WKRP in Cincinnati, in a 1978 episode there's a British punk band
called Scum of the Earth (which featured musician/actor Michael Des
Barres) dress all spiffy, but that's only a guise. Under those 3-piece suits
there are rascally punk-rock hearts who like to spray their audiences with
fire extinguishers, much to the dismay of Mr. Carlson, who prefers Benny
Goodman, and Andy, who yearns for Crosby, Stills & Nash:
But on television dramas, things got serious.
Punk rock became a backdrop for murderous violence and destruction.
On CHiPs, for instance, a band called Pain, in a 1982 episode called "Battle
of the Bands" thinks it's funny to throw an electric bass off a rooftop
causing traffic mayhem. (I was sympathetic though, because one band member is
named "Potatohead"!)
All the way up to 1987 -- long after the heyday of actual punk rock -- an ABC After School Special called "The Day My Kid Went Punk" warned of the danger of "Punk
Syndrome," which apparently is even worse than the Woke Mind Virus! Here, a
meek, soft-spoken high school orchestra nerd transforms himself into a punk
rocker to try to win the heart of a cute blonde girl in the orchestra. Here's
an abbreviated version of that episode:
But perhaps the craziest punk rock depiction of all time was on
Quincy ME, that Jack Klugman vehicle about the crime-solving
medical examiner. In one episode called “Next Stop, Nowhere,” a kid
is stabbed to death at a punk rock show and Quincy is convinced that the evil
music was at least partially to blame. “Whoever killed that boy was
listening to words that literally cried out for blood,” he says at one point
during the episode. Here are some clips from this infamous episode:
Sunday, September 10, 2023 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
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Pressure Drop by The Clash
Jumpin Jack Off by Thee Retail Simps
Walking With Frankie by Eilen Jewell
Waiting for the World by City of My Death
Nga Nga by Ebo Taylor
Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White by The Grawks
