Chicken Shack Playlist

Tuesday, December 29, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith)

I Like My Baby’s Pudding by Wynonie Harris

Let Me Off Uptown by Gene Krupa (vocals by Anita O'Day)

Five Guys Named Moe by Louis Jordan

Jack, You’re Dead by B.B. King

African Twist by Stacy Lane

What a Little Moonlight Can Do by Benny Goodman (vocals by Helen Ward)

(Background Music: Late at Bailey’s Pad by Warren Barker)

Low Down Dog by Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson 

I’m a Country Boy by Clarence “Frogman” Henry

Zip Gun Bop by Royal Crown Revue

Detroit Swing City by Alien Fashion Show

You Heard What I Said by Kid Thomas & Joe Bennett

I’m Gonna Put a Watch on You by Ruby Lee

Seventh Son by Mose Allison

(Background Music: Chicken Stuff by Hop Wilson)

I’ve Known Rivers by Gary Bartz & Nu-Troop

Rock H-Bomb by H Bomb Fergusson

My Chick by Rosco Gordon

(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Reuben Wilson)

Zip a Dee Doo Dah by Sun Ra

Twee-Twee-Tweet by Cab Calloway

Atomic Cocktail by Slim Gaillard

Decent Woman Blues by Julia Lee

Mutual Admiration Society by Louis Prima & Keely Smith 

(Background Music: M Squad Theme by Stanley Wilson)

Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop by Lionel Hampton

Faces in the Jazzamatazz by Ken Nordine

I’m Busted by Ray Charles with The Count Basie Orchestra

El Tirili by Don Tosti’s Pachuco Boogie Boys

Wine Wine Wine by Floyd Dixon

(Background Music: The Killer by Lalo Schifrin)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by Ma Rainey

The Other Night by Big Maybelle

Heebie Jeebies by Louis Armstrong

Heebie Jeebies by Little Richard

The Greasy Chicken by Andre Williams

Happy New Year to You by The Qualities

(Background Music: Back at The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith)

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Sunday, December 27, 2020
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

Happy New Year by Spike Jones & His City Slickers

New Year’s Eve at the Gates of Hell by Ray Wylie Hubbard

See You in the Boneyard by Divine Horsemen

Monkey David Wine by Scott H. Biram with Jesse Dayton

Shanghai by Degurutieni

New Year’s Eve by Dengue Fever

(Background Music: Harlem Nocturne by Esquivel)

SIMON STOKES TRIBUTE SET 

All Songs by Simon except where noted

Johnny Gillette

Hard Travelin’

Slice It, Dice It by Timothy Leary & Simon Stokes

Miniskirt Blues by The Cramps with Iggy Pop

Trapped in a Nightmare (Simon with Hammerlock)

Let’s Do Wrong Tonight (Simon with Annette Zilinskas)

Ride on Angel (The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band)

Nixon’s Dead Ass by Russell Means

Down for Death

(Background Music: Tango by The D.J. Bonebrake Trio)

Gravedigger by Billy Joe Winghead

Burnin’ Love (Blasphemy version) by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids

New Year’s Polka by Brave Combo

Attack of the Killer Cranes by Oh! Gunquit

1947 by Kazik Staszewski & Kwartet ProForma

Lonely Avenue by Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

Let’s Go Get Stoned by Ray Charles

I’ll Fly Away by Homer Henderson

(Background Music: Birmingham Breakdown by The Chocolate Dandies)

A Great New Year by Ted Hawkins

Goodbye Year, Goodbye by X

Bang Bang Bang by Eilen Jewell

Alien Eye by Eleni Mandell

One Toke Over the Line by Brewer & Shipley

You Better Pray by Hamell on Trial

Brand New Year by The Bottle Rockets

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Play the Simon Stokes set below:

THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Christmas Song From My Brother

 

On this Christmas Eve, I'd like to share a beautiful, spooky song that my brother, Jack Clift, first made me aware of back in the 1980s.

 Jack recorded this old song under the title "It Being Nearly Christmas Time" for a compilation called A New Mexico Christmas, produced by the good folks at Kludgit Sound in 1986. 

But don't expect much ho-ho-ho and mistletoe from this one. It's about a mother who sends her three sons off to sea where they meet their doom. Mom is so distraught she calls on the wind and sea to return her children. And sure enough, right around Christmas they return -- as ghosts. They can't even eat the nice Christmas dinner she made them. Then they have to go back to Heaven -- or wherever their new home is.

Jack's song is a version of an old British folk song called "The Wife of Usher's Well." Like most respectable old folk songs there are countless versions that popped up in the British Isles and the US. Steeleye Span even did a version in the '70s (though, as much as I love Steeleye, I never liked their take on this song.)

But here's a fairly recent version, with a Classics Comics style video, sung by a woman named Marilyn Cowan. Note, in this, as in the case of the earliest British versions of the song, the three children don't return at Christmas. Instead, they come back at Martinmas, the feast of St. Martin, which is in November.

But my favorite version is another one that's connected to my brother. In 2009, my brother and John Carter Cash collaborated with a small army of Nashville stars and Uzbek musicians for an album called Pale Imperfect Diamond. On that record Jack revisited the song, this time under its proper title and with the Peasall Sisters providing vocals.

Merry Christmas and hoping any ghostly visitors are friendly.

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

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Sunday, December 20, 2020
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 

Sock it To Me, Santa by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Roadrunner- Savage Mix by The Krayolas

I Gotta Fever by X

Waste of Time by Paint Fumes

It’s Gravity by T. Tex Edwards

Ping Pong at Pang’s by Oh! Gunquit

Ping’s Chinese Restaurant by Harvey McLaughlin

Your Sugar is All I Want by Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders

Saint Nick’s Farm by The Gay Sportscasters

Do They Know It’s Christmas by Richard Cheese

(Background Music: Joy to the World by The Klezmonauts)

Santa’s Doing the Horizontal Twist by Kay Martin & Her Body Guards

West Yorks Ballad by Mekons

Past All Dishonor by Divine Horsemen

Tantamount by Churchwood

Lead Me On by Paul “Wine” Jones

Strange Words by The Electric Mess

Baby It’s Cold Outside by Albert & Gage

B.C. Clark’s Anniversary Sale Jingle

Just a Closer Walk With Thee by Homer Henderson

(Background Music: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Beausoleil)

Blue Grey Christmas by King Coleman

Ay Pee, Ah Yee by Kazik Staszewski & Kwartet ProForma

Can’t Delete Nightmares by Degurutieni

Such a Scream by Tom Waits

Santa Stole My Whiskey by Jonny Manak

Hurray for Santa Claus by The Fleshtones

Mean and Evil by Juke Joint Pimps

Lose Your Mind by Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds

A Wizard Doesn’t Need a Computer by Dan Melchior und Das Menace

Must Be Santa by Brave Combo

(Background Music: Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Jackie & The Cedrics)

Christmas Time Blues by Billy Boy Arnold

Trying to Get To You by Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle

Can’t Stay Long by Scott H. Biram

Horny Hound by Roy D. Mercer

Wonderful by Brian Wilson

Miles to Go by Eilen Jewell

So Much Wine by The Handsome Family

Happy Christmas (War is Over) by Lorette Velvette

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Have Yourself a Bluesy Little Christmas

 

Someone told me that it's almost Christmas.

Woah, if true!

So here are a few choice musical Christmas treats from the magical realm of blues and rhythm and blues.

Let's start with Reverend Edward Clayborn, aka "The Guitar Evangelist," with a 1928 release called "The Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas," in which he declares, "While the church is praying, on Christmas day / Other people are roamin' the streets and drinkin' their soul away ..."

Leroy Carr apparently tried to celebrate Christmas in the wrong way. Here's a 1929 tune called "Christmas in Jail."

Skipping ahead a few decades, a doo-wop called The Youngsters had a hit with a song of the same title.

Back in the '30s, Bumble Bee Slim had a specific request of Santa Claus:

Here's a tune from 1954 from a singer named Jimmy Butler who only wants to trim your tree:

Finally, here's some holiday cheer from 1962 by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns, "Doing the Santa Claus":

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Sunday, December 13, 2020
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

Someone Like You by Divine Horsemen

Hobo Jungle by Scott H. Biram

Holy Motor by Sloks

Leonardo by Kazik Staszewski & Kwartet ProForma

Hey! Rockstar by Jon Langford & Skull Orchard

What Happened to Delila by The Mekons

Surfing on Christmas Day (Santa Won’t You Bring Me Some Waves) by Southern Culture on the Skids

(Background Music: Chinatown, My Chinatown by David Murray)

Christmas With Satan by James White

Turn It Off - Zombie Mix by Kathy Freeman

Eat Your Heart and Wear Your Face by The Cavemen

Nutbush City Limits by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids

Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise by Devo

I Refuse to Sing by Elected Officials

They Don’t Know by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Who’s Been Driving My Little Yellow Taxi Cab by Lincoln St. Exit

I Can’t Control Myself by Big Maybelle

Empty Yodel No. 0 by Nick Shoulders

Even Squeaky Fromme Loves Christmas by Rev. Glen Armstrong

(Background Music: Lint Head Stomp by Phebel Wright)

Blue Christmas by Stan Ridgway

Dance Like Fuck by Oh! Gunquit

Won’t You by The Plasmatics

Bang On by The Breeders

Breakfast Taters by MFC Chicken

Go-Go Girls by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

Don’t Take My Whiskey Away From Me by Wynonie Harris

Built for Comfort by Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon

Seeds & Candy by Boris McCutcheon

In the Dark of Morning by Possessed by Paul James

Christmas Boogie by Canned Heat & The Chipmunks

(Background Music: Swingin’ on Pier 13 by The Bomboras)

Can Man Christmas by Joe West

Midnight Express by Degurutieni Day-guru-tee-enny

Always Horses Coming by Giant Sand

Whiskey Willey by Michael Hurley

Coney Island Waltz by Harvey McLaughlin

The Old Rugged Cross by Homer Henderson

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Happy Birthday Redd Foxx

 

On Dec. 9, 1922, John Elroy Sanford was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up to be known by another name, Redd Foxx. But he didn't forget the surname of his birth. Probably more people know him from the hit sitcom Sanford & Son than his previous decades as a raunchy "party records" comic. (His character's name, Fred Sanford, also happened to be the name of his father and his older brother.)

Although he's far better known as a comedian, Foxx also was a singer. When he was just a 13-year-old kid, according to his website, Fox "supported himself by playing the washboard in a band."

Soon he began his career as a stand-up comedian on the Chitlin Circuit. To put it mildly, he wasn't afraid to "play blue." By the mid 1950s his nightclub career led to a recording career, with Foxx creating an avalanche of "party albums" that sold admirably, despite the fact that none of his records ever had any chance of actual radio play.

But even before that, Foxx recorded five R&B singles for Savoy Records. Here's one from 1946, a tune titled "Fine Jelly Blues."

He also sang with bands like the Kenny Watts Hot Five. (Pianist Watt with Kenny Watts & His Brooklyn Buddies backed Foxx on his Savoy singles.)  

This one's called "Shame on You" from 1947.

Foxx recorded some more R&B singles in the mid '50s. Here's  "It's Fun To Be Living In The Crazy House," from 1957.

As Fred Sanford, Foxx often sang on his TV show. This one, "All of Me"  is a duet with Scatman Crothers.

And in honor of the season ... 

Happy birthday, Red!