WACKY WEDNESDAY: Cool and Crazy Music from Around the Globe

Once again, let's go around the world in a daze with some wild and wacky tunes from foreign lands.

Let's begin with  Van Anh, a Vietnamese dan bau artist, playing "Ghost Riders in the Sky." (A dan bau player named Van Anh Vo is scheduled to play this year's Globalquerue on Sept. 24. However, Neal Copperman, one of the head honchos of this wonderful event says he thinks it's a different Van Anh.)



It's a wonderful night for a Romanian bear dance



A few years ago, my daughter, sent me this video of Kali Bahlu singing "Cosmic Telephone Call." It must be a Buddhist version of the old gospel classic "Jesus on the Mainline."



The late Jovica Petković was a revered accordion player from Sarajevo. I'm not sure why he and most of his audience are in their underwear. Must be some quaint Baltic custom.

 

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 19, 2016 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
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Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
A Cutie Named Judy by The Sloths
Baby Doll by The Del Moroccos

You'll Never Take Us Alive by The Dwarves

Minute Man by New Mystery Girl

It's You Time by The Weeds

Kremlin Dogs by Gregg Turner

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe by New Bomb Turks

All Leave Cancelled by The Fall

Better Daze by Alien Space Kitchen

Bangkok by Jello Biafra & The New Orleans Rauch and Soul All-Stars

Eviler by The Grannies

Two-Lane Blacktop by Rob Zombie

Hanged Man by Churchwood

Reelin' and Rockin' by The Frogs

Cosmic Two-Step by The Barbaraellatones 

The Lover's Curse by The A-Bones

Beer Hippie by The Melvins

Witch in the Club by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

The Pusher by Left-Lane Cruiser

Sugar Farm by Lonesome Shack

Boundless by The Blues Against Youth

She Lives in the Jungle by O Lendario Chucrobillyman 

Daddy Logg's Drive in Candy Hoppin' Car Babes by Bob Log III

'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore by David Bowie

I Wanna Go Back to Detroit City by Andre Williams

Koroborri by Cankissou 

Psychedelic Afro Shop by Orlando Julias

Poison by Susan James

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, June 17, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Hi-Billy Music by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash

Do What I Say by The Waco Brothers

Dirt Queen by Trailer Radio

Might as Well Get Stoned by Chris Stapleton

My Next Ex-Girlfriend by Old Man Kelly

Creek Between Heaven and Hell by Jesse Dayton

Three Days by Dallas Wayne

Begging to You by Marty Robbins

The End of the World by Cyndi Lauper

I Don't Know by Dex Romweber

Gunter Hotel Blues by Paul Burch

Memphis Yodel by Jimmie Rodgers

If You Could Touch Her at All by Whitey Morgan

There Must Be Another Way to Live by Amber Digby

Gone, Gone, Gone by Carl Perkins

Wrong John by Jim Stringer

Beans and Make Believe by Mose McCormack

Ida Red by Merle Haggard

True Lovin' Woman by Steve Train & His Bad Habits

Drinkin' Wine and Staring at the Phone by Dave Insley

He Ain't Right by Legendary Shack Shakers

Broken Down Gambler by The WIlders

Tall Tall Trees by Roger Miller

When Someone Wants to Leave by Dolly Parton

Yodel Sweet Molly by Ira Louvin

You Don't Get Me High by Beth Lee & The Breakups

Maria Maria by The Blasters

Coffee Baby by Alex Maryol

Lovin' Ducky Daddy by Carolina Cotton

24 Frames by Jason Isbelle

The Last Pharoah by The Dave Rawlings Machine

The Heat by Jaime Michaels

It Had to Be You by Bob Dylan

My Rosemarie by Stan Ridgway

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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Rocking in Cleveland

(I couldn't decide whether this post belongs in this blog or my politics blog, so I'm doing both)

I got a press release yesterday about the upcoming Republican National Convention. But it wasn't from the Republican National Committee or the Donald Trump campaign.

It was from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which is in Cleveland, the same city where the convention is being held next month.

The release basically was a pitch trying to get reporters who will be covering the convention (sadly, I won't be among them) to spend some time at -- and some ink on -- the Hall of Fame.

"As global attention descends upon Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, GOP leaders, journalists, convention-goers and tourists will all have one “must-see” destination on their list – The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame."

And what will they find there?

The news release said the Hall of Fame is "super-excited" about a new exhibit "Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics," which "examines how music has both shaped and reflected our culture norms on eight political topics: Civil Rights, LGBT Issues, Feminism, War & Peace, Censorship, Political Campaigns, Political Causes and International Politics."

Included in that exhibit, the release said are artifacts such as:

* Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner” Fender Stratocaster from Woodstock. 

* John Lennon’s acoustic guitar from the 1969 “Bed-ins for Peace.”

It takes The Village People to raise a child

* Original handwritten lyrics from Bob Dylan’s "The Times They Are a-Changin'," Chuck Berry’s "School Day," Neil Young’s “Ohio,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.”

* Original Village People stage costumes.

* Artifacts related to the Vietnam War, the May 4, 1970 shooting at Kent State, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Bed-ins for Peace! Black Lives Matter! Tin soldiers and Nixon coming! Village People!

I just have one question for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

You guys do realize this is a Republican convention, right?

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Firing on All Four Cylinders

Any time any of my music friends start preaching the Gospel of Vinyl -- how it's so rich and pure and the only way to listen to music, blah blah blah -- I say "humbug!" Why stop at vinyl records? Let's go all the way and bring back the wax, or even the tin cylinder!

Actually cylinder recordings, popularized by some guy named Thomas Edison, don't always ound that great. But the good folks at the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive have done a great job of collecting and in some cases, cleaning up the sound on these ancient recordings, though a few still are marred by scratches that sound like an Army marching over a field of potato chips.

Here's some history of the medium:

From the first recordings made on tinfoil in 1877 to the last produced on celluloid in 1929, cylinders spanned a half-century of technological development in sound recording. As documents of American cultural history and musical style, cylinders serve as an audible witness to the sounds and songs through which typical audiences first encountered the recorded human voice. And for those living at the turn of the 20th century, the most likely source of recorded sound on cylinders would have been Thomas Alva Edison's crowning achievement, the phonograph. Edison wasn't the only one in the sound recording business in the first decades of the 20th century; several companies with a great number of recording artists, in addition to the purveyors of the burgeoning disc format, all competed in the nascent musical marketplace. Still, more than any other figure of his time, Edison and the phonograph became synonymous with the cylinder medium. ... Nonetheless, Edison's story is heavily dependent on the stories of numerous musical figures and sound recording technological developments emblematic of the period, and it is our hope that we have fairly represented them here. 

This site has hundreds, if not thousands of digital recordings of cylinders from all over the world. Below is a small sample of four songs I like recorded between 1906 and 1920.

For reasons unknown to me, the UCSB folks won't let you embed their songs, so I found versions that are on good old YouTube. But click the links to find out more about these songs, and by all means explore this site.

Let's start with one chosen by the site as "Cylinder of the Day," a comical baseball song called "The Umpire is a Most Unhappy Man' by Edward M. Favor (1906)


"Who Do You Love" by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan 1908



"Afghanistan" by Lopez and Hamilton's Kings of Harmony Orchestra 1920



"Nearer My God to Thee" by The Knickerbocker Quartet 1912

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Slim Whitman, Earth's Mightiest Hero

Ottis Dewey "Slim" Whitman Jr.
1923-2013

This coming Sunday, June 19, will mark the third anniversary of the death of Slim Whitman, a man some think of merely as a third or fourth tier country/pop  singer, best known for pioneering the "As-Seen-on-TV" record ads that filled up the late-night television commercialscape in the '70s and '80s. Slim and Boxcar Willie had to have been the Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf of this bizarre little universe.

Here's a classic. As The Firesign Theatre's Don G. Ovanni would say, "If you asked for this in a store, they'd think you were CRAZY!"

 

But it's not that aspect of the man from Tampa's brilliant career for which I want to honor him today.  It's for his indispensable role in stopping the great Martian attack of 1996.

This scene from a documentary I found on YouTube tells the story.



So thank you Slim Whitman for defeating the Martian menace. The Earth will never forget!

We'll remember you!


(from Rob Zombie's  House of 1000 Corpses) 

UPDATE 2024: I just stumbled upon a video of one of my favorite country singers, Nick Shoulders singing a song to keep the Martians away!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 12, 2016 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Look in the Mirror by Gregg Turner

Rock a Go-Go by Alien Space Kitchen

Don't Stop to Dance by Reverend Beat-Man

Crawl Through Your Hair by New Mystery Girl

Never Enough Girls by The Sloths

Radio Danger by Skull Control

Not Going Home by He Who Cannot Be Named

Problems by Sex Pistols

Fire Spirit by The Gun Club

Shut Up by The Monks

Taxi Driver by The Rodeo Carburettor

Budokan Tape Try (Set Tapes High) by The Boredoms 

Drowning Sex Hogs II
TV Party Tonight by Black Flag

I Couldn't Spell !!*@! By Roy Loney & The Young Fresh Fellows 
Morning After Blues by Andre Williams

New York City by The Fleshtones

Dirty Traveler by Lonesome Shack

 

Work by Lou Reed & John Cale

Mr. Soul by The Pierced Arrows

Sold by Sulphur City

Oh Honey Baby Doll by Bloodshot Bill

No Confidence by Simon Stokes

I Got Your Number by The Sonics

Summertime Blues by Horror Deluxe 

Right/Wrong by Night Beats

Strangers by San Antonio Kid

Don't Be Taken In by Miriam

Conjure Child by Tony Joe White

Hiawatha by Laurie Anderson

Love & Mercy by Brian Wilson

Evil Will Prevail / Bad Days by Flaming Lips

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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