WACKY WEDNESDAY: Bollywood Break

This week's Wacky Wednesday was inspired by the first video below, posted last week on my brother's Facebook page by a mutual friend, Joe. Hat tips all around.

I don't speak Hindi and I've never seen most of the movies these clips come from so I won't pretend to know what's going on in any of them.

But trust me, you won't need to know what's going on in these clips.


Just sit back and enjoy the work of people having a lot more fun that you!

This first one is from a 1985 film called Adavi Donga

I've actually seen the movie Zakhmee, (1975) from which the following clip comes. I didn't understand the plot, but it was full of great songs, my favorite being the one below. No animal masks, but plenty of hot pants!


This one is from a 1968  movie called Padosan. I don't really know what's going on in this one, but it might be about a beautiful woman who has fallen under the sway of a goofy guru.



Here's a fairly recent one. It's called "The Mutton Song" and it's from a 2011 film called Luv Ka The End (The End of Luv). 

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Sunday, July 19, 2015
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Riot on Sunset Strip by The Standells
That Girl by The Mummies
Withered Hand by Thee Oh Sees
A New Wave by Sleater-Kinney
Steppin' Out by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Big Mistake by Royal Crescent Mob
Cha Dooky-Doo by Art Neville
People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band
Questions I Can't Answer by The A-Bones
I Love Little Pussy by Little Marcy

Come Back Bird by Manby's Head
The Future is Now ... (and it Stinks!) by J.J. & The Real Jerks
You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover by The Sonics
She's a Knockout by Social Distortion
I See the Light by Reverend Beat-Man
Tres Borrachos by Left Lane Cruiser
Big Beat Strong by The Woggles
El Tren de la Costa by The Del Moroccos

Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erikson
Mr. Supernatural by King Khan & The Shrines
I Ain't Going Home Alone by The Hares
I Want to Rock You by Frankie Lucas
Amazons and Coyotes by Simon Stokes
Desperation by The Oblivians
Walking on My Grave by Dead Moon
I Warned You by Motobunny
Shot on Meredith by J.B. Lenoir

I Am Fire by Afghan Whigs
I Can't Stop Loving You by Laura St. Jude
Pierce the Sky by Dinosaur Jr.
Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I'll Be Blue by Frank Black & The Catholics
Face to the Highway by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, July 17, 2015
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Goddamn Holy Roll by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

Shortnin' Bread Rock by The Collins Kids

Jesus Was a Wino by Lydia Loveless

Hell Yes I Cheated by Patty Booker

Dried Out a River by The Dad Horse Experience

Over the Cliff by Jon Langford's Hillbilly Love Child

Working on a Guru by Bob Dylan

Desert Rose by Chris Hillman

Acadie A La Louisiane by Bruce Daigrepont

Diggy Liggy Lo by John Fogerty

I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop by Jim Jackson

 

Sam's Place by Buck Owens

Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll by Janis Martin

I'm Through Hurtin' by Dale Watson

Dream of the Miner's Child by Rose Maddox

I'm Ragged But I'm Right by George Jones

Don't Touch Me by Jeannie Seely

I've Got a Tender Heart by Eleni Mandell

Pickin' on the Chicken by Ray Stevens

 

Just Like Geronimo by Dashboard Saviors

Hillbilly Child by Paul Siebel

Bible Cyst by Legendary Shack Shakers

If You Play With My Mind You're Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty by Cornell Hurd

Don't Knock What You Don't Understand by Steve Train & His Bad Habits

Two Dollar Bill by Paula Rhae McDonald

Late Bloomer by Karen Hudson

Suburbia by The Riptones

Hey Warden by Audrey Auld

 

Sad, Horny and Blue by Porkchop Party

Just Between You and Me by Charlie Pride

Unwound by Ralph White

A Fool Such as I by Don Walser

King of You by Wilco

Bus Fare to Kentucky by Skeeter Davis

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Remembering Coal Songs

The issue of coal has been in the news a lot lately. On Wednesday an Iowa utility agreed to stop burning coal five of its Iowa plants. The pants will either shut down or switch from coal to natural gas. This is due to a legal settlement with the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The government says this will make 200 coal-burning plants that have shut down in the past five years.

Locally, in my day job I've been covering the controversy over the coal-burning San Juan Generating Station near Farmington. (My latest article is HERE.)

Getting away from coal would mean less pollution, less black-lung disease and a lot fewer mining disasters.

But what about the music?

Coal-mining songs are a staple of American folk and country music for decades. Coal might be dirty and awful. But come on, can you truthfully imagine a song as powerful as "Dark as a Dungeon" or even "Big Bad John" coming out of a solar plant?

Back in 2008, I reviewed country singer Kathy Mattea's excellent album Coal, which featured several classic coal-mining songs, including some written by folksingers Jean Ritchie and Hazel Dickens.

At the end of the column I listed my Top 10 favorite coal-mining songs. I figured this Throwback Thursday is a good time to revisit those songs:

For my money, "Dark as a Dungeon" written by Merle Travis is the greatest song about coal ever written. It doesn't deal with a mining disaster or black lung or labor strife. It's about the psychic effects of spending day in and day out in a "dark dreary mine." This version is performed by Travis with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their landmark May The Circle Be Unbroken album.

  

"Dream of a Miner's Child" is a terrifying little number about a coal miner who's about to leave the house to go to work when his little girl stops him and tells him about her vivid nightmare: "I dreamed that the mines were all flamin' with fire /And the workers all fought for their lives ... "



In "16 Tons," (which also was written by Merle Travis) Tennessee Ernie Ford makes coal mining seem rather cool. It doesn’t pay well, but it apparently it gives you license to kill those who refuse to step aside when they see you comin’.



New Orleans soul man Lee Dorsey also made coal mining seem pretty cool with his 1966 hit
"Workin' in a Coal Mine."



And in the '70s, Loretta Lynn took great pride in being a "Coal Miner's Daughter."



In "Paradise," written in the early '70s, native Kentuckian John Prine sang of the environmental and psychic damage caused by "Mr. Peabody's coal mine."


Jimmy Dean immortalized a coal miner called "Big Bad John" in this early '60s hit -- before Jimmy started working at the sausage mine.



"Last Train to Poor Valley" by Norman Blake is about what happens to the workers when the mines all shut down.



'Quecreek" by Buddy Miller is the most recent song on this list. Buddy's wife Julie Miller (who sings with Buddy in the video below) wrote it in 2002 after nine Pennsylvania coal miners who had been trapped in a collapsed mine for three days were rescued. It's one of the few mining disaster songs with a happy ending,



The main message of  “Timothy” by The Buoys is that just because you’re in a mining disaster, that doesn’t mean you have to start skipping meals.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Little Marcy Seeks Youthful Prey

Her songs and stories were upbeat, joyful, positive, full of devout Christian love -- heavy on the Golden Rule, light on the Hellfire -- good-spirited entertainment for children.
But something about Little Marcy just gave me the willies.

For one thing, she wasn't even a real little girl. She was some kind of ventriloquist dummy -- devil doll, they used to call them -- operated by a frustrated gospel trombonist .

The puppet meister was one Marcellaise Tigner, a native of Wichita, Kansas who released more than 40 Little Marcy albums between 1964 and 1982.

I'll yield to the scholars at Weirdomusic.com to tell this tale:

After Tigner's husband, Everett, overheard a group of record company executives discussing plans to hire child singers to make a children's album, she and Whitney entered the studio to record her rendition of the standard "Jesus Loves Me" as a showcase for her own childlike voice. The demo landed Tigner a deal with Cornerstone Records, and in 1964 she released her first children's effort, Happy Day Express: Sing With Marcy. A series of albums and live performances followed, but Tigner felt uncomfortable appearing on-stage while singing in a child's voice. While appearing in the film Teenage Diary, she befriended co-star (and Miss America 1965) Vonda Van Dyke, herself an accomplished ventriloquist; at Van Dyke's urging, Tigner purchased a copy of Paul Winchell's book Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit and began learning the trade. The same doll maker who designed Edgar Bergen's Charlie McCarthy character was soon commissioned to create Little Marcy, who became the on-stage conduit for Tigner's vocal performances.

Weirdomusic noted, "Though largely inactive from the 1980s onward, [Little Marcy] retained a large fan following, although in latter years her core audience counted far fewer Sunday school students than collectors of so-called "incredibly strange music."

Mrs. Tigner died in 2012 at the age of 90.

But her evil spawn, Little Marcy lives on. In your nightmares. (So far I've found no hard evidence to verify the rumor that she's shacking up with this guy.)

Here are some videos:

I think Nirvana did this first one.



There's a little bit of Little Marcy in Ned Flanders. (And if The devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tack ...)



Here is an infamous Little Marcy Classic for which there is no YouTube PLAY HERE

This short documentary exposes the truth about Little Marcy. Watch it before the Powers That Be yank it off the Internet

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Sunday, July 12, 2015
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Phantom by Flat Duo Jets
Ring of Fire by Social Distortion
Skeletons by The Routes
Kill You Tonight by The Sinister Six
Killers From Space by Figures of Light
Motobunny by Motobunny
The Wolf Pack Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Cadillac Hips by Soledad Brothers
Bikini Girl by Panty Meltdown Aftermath
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns by The Cramps

Web by Thee Oh Sees
Golden Surf II by Pere Ubu
Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry
Mean Ass Girlfriend by The Barbarellatones
Call of the West by Wall of Voodoo
Fattening Frogs for Snakes by Sonny Boy Williamson

Song for a Future Generation by B-52s
Star Dream Girl by David Lynch
Daddy Rolling Stone by The Who
Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man by Public Enemy
Wicked Waters by Benjamin Booker
Jimmy's Warmup by Jimmy Russell
Medley: It's Allright/ For Sentimental Reasons by Sam Cooke
Feel All Right by The Oblivians with Mr. Quintron
Sugar Farm by T-Model Ford

Vodka is Poison by Golem
El Perversion by Deadbolt
We're Desperate by X
Run Run Run by The Velvet Underground
On a Mississippi Porch by Marcus James
Glow in the Dark by Lovestruck
Yours to Destroy by Laura St. Jude
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, July 10, 2015
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Wave That Flag by The Bottle Rockets (Chicken Truck)

Time Heals by The Gear Daddies

Dig Them Squeaky Shoes by Andy Starr

Nervous Breakdown by Wanda Jackson

Dixie Fried by The Howlin' Brothers

The Devil's Right Hand by Steve Earle

Down in Mississippi By J.B. Lenoir

Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now by Ry Cooder

Feels Good by Dustbowl Revival

Let's Talk About Us by Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis

 

The Women Make a Fool Out of Me by Ernest Tubb

The Silver Tongued Devil and I by Kris Kristofferson

Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean

Let's Take a Ride by The Beaumonts

Whiskey And Women And Money To Burn by Joe Ely

Tongues by Jo Carol Pierce

Boomtown Boogie by Butch Hancock, Terry Allen & Jo Carol Pierce

The Way I Was Raised by Jo Harvey Allen

Cup of Tea by Joe Ely & Jo Harvey Allen

The Devil's at Red's by Anthony Leon & The Chain

Bad News by Alejandro Escovedo & Jon Langford

Fast Train Down by The Waco Brothers

Good News by Amy Helm

Mighty Lonesome Man by James Hand

Hey Mama, My Time Ain't Long by Ray Wylie Hubbard

When the Hammer Came Down by House of Freaks

Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife by Drive-By Truckers

 

The Last War by Jim Stringer

Think I'll Just Sit Here and Drink by Merle Haggard

Gypsy Songman by Jerry Jeff Walker

Richland Woman by David Johansen & The Harry Smiths

Here Comes That Rainbow Again by Jerry Lee Lewis with Shelby Lynn

It's Not MyTime to Go by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks

The Lost Cause by Legendary Shack Shakers

Take it Down by John Hiatt

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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