WACKY WEDNESDAY: It's David Koresh's Birthday!

Exhibit inside Branch Davidian church, Mount Carmel, Texas. I took this in July 2007

When David Koresh's birthday falls on Wacky Wednesday, you take heed.

So as a second installment to my "Cult Music by Real Cults" series, I'm going to present some songs by the man born Vernon Wayne Howell.

Yes, before he went into the messiah business, Howell wanted to be a rock star. However he sounded liked some souped-up, third-rate Dan Fogelberg.

I can overlook that though. After all, he inspired the names of one of my favorite bands.

 Here are some of his tunes.

This first one is especially terrible. A crappy recording of a bad band. But at least the lyrics are crazy.





This one actually reminds me of some of Charlie Manson's songs



Here are a couple of songs about Koresh and the Waco tragedy.

The first is from a 2007 rock opera called David Koresh Superstar by a band called The Indelicates



And here's a song that's hard not to like whatever your political leanings. It's by the late Russell Means (and produced by the one and only Simon Stokes!)



What the Hell, here's the Waco Brothers!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Live the Life by The Oblivians

Insect Collector by Shonen Knife

Dreaming by The Go-Wows

JuJu Hand by Handsome Dick Manitoba

Ooga Booga Baby by 1313 Mockingbird Lane

Diggin' a Grave by Terminal Licks

Yeah! By The Cynics

Sinner Not a Saint by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Stepping on My Toes by New Mystery Girl

The Infinite by Dot Dash

Elvis Presley for President by Lou Monte

My Baby I Killed Her by Coachwhips

Losing My Mind by Alien Space Kitchen

Strange Baby by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Mighty Man by James Leg

I See the Light by Reverend Beat-Man

Glendale Junkyard by GØGGS

Rabid Pigs by Jesus Lizard

Don't Slander Me by Roky Erikson

Politics of Greed and Gain by Billy Childish & The Blackhands

Cosmetic by Nots

Pat's Trick by Helium

Have Love, Will Travel by The Sonics

Nightmare by The Embrooks

Jim Dandy by Jello Biafra & Reuter Suys

Blood in the Dirt by Sex Hogs II

Officer Touchy by The Scrams

Those Are the Breaks by The Soulphonics

Don't Bug Me, I'm Nutty by New Bomb Turks

Coconut Island by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue

Boris by The Melvins

Little Blonde Girl by Any Dirty Party

Village of Love by Nathaniel Mayer & His Fabulous Twilights

I'm Coming Home by The Almighty Defenders

Speak Now Woman by Howlin' Wolf

I Just Want to See His Face by The Rolling Stones
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
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

Sweet Thang by Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent

Night Train to Memphis by Sleepy LaBeef

Hot Dang by Dale Watson

Food Chain of Fools by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

Pennsylvania Turnpike by Al Scorch

Girl on the Billboard by Eddie Spaghetti

Fast Train Down by The Waco Brothers

Devil Outside the Door by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies

Another Clown by Mose McCormack

Tupelo Mississippi Flash by Jerry Reed

Meanest Jukebox in Town by Whitey Morgan & The 78s

I Swear I Was Lying by Kim Lenz

Something Stupid by The Mavericks & Trish Yearwood

West Wind by Jayke Orvis & The Broken Band

Tear Up the Honkey Tonk by Suzette & The Neon Angels

I Think Hank Woulda Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains

Dear Brother by Hank Williams

Grey Skies by Southern Culture on the Skids

Back in My Day by The Handsome Family

American Trash by Betty Dylan

Parchment Farm by Ray Condo & His Ricochets

The Middle of Nowhere by Tony Joe White

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi by Martin, Bogan & Armstrong

Sympathy for the Devil by Danny Barnes

Ruby Are You Mad at Your Man by Carolina Chocolate Drops

 

Larry Mota by Joe West

Making Believe by Wanda Jackson

The Storm by Sturgil Simpson

Broken Down Gambler by The Wilders

When Two Worlds Collide by Roger Miller

Opportunity to Cry by Willie Nelson

Smile by Dex Romweber

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Weimar Interlude

Ninety seven years ago today, Aug. 11, 1919, Germany adopted a constitution hammered out in the city of Weimar, creating a representative democracy for the country.

The new government for the next 14 years would be unofficially known as The Weimar Republic.

The Weimar Republic era wasn't an easy time for Germany, which faced hyper-inflation, crushing debt, depression and and the rise of National Socialism.

But culturally, the '20s truly roared in the Weimar Republic,

It was the age of the cabaret in which art, theater, music and cinema thrived.

In honor of the Weimar constitution, here are a few samples of popular German music of that era.

Let's start with big, bawdy Berlin Singer Claire Waldoff,




Here's Harry Jackson's Tanz Orchestra.


Adolf Ginsburg's Orchestra performs "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"



Finally here is Lotte Lenya singing "Seeräuber Jenny" in the film version of The Three Penny Opera. Her husband was Kurt Weill, who composed the music for the play. Lenya was in the original 1928 Berlin stage production of the play.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Golden Throats from the Vast Wasteland

Here is a bunch of songs by TV stars who probably wish they'd never sung them.

Let's start with Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin on Batman in the mid '60s. The song "Boy Wonder I Love You" is fairly typical '60s teen idol dreck. But it's teen idol dreck written and arranged by Frank Zappa! Plus, some of Zappa's original Mothers of Invention, including my late pal Jimmy Carl Black, played on the record.

As previously noted by Dangerous Minds, Ward wrote about the record in his 1995 autobiography, Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights.

They had incredibly long, scraggly hair, and clothes that appeared not to have been washed in this century if ever. These were musicians who became famous for tearing up furniture, their speakers, their microphones and even their expensive guitars onstage. They were maniacs!

... Their fearless leader and king of grubbiness was the late Frank Zappa. (The full name of the band was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.) After recording with me, Frank became an internationally recognized cult superstar, which was understandable; after working with me, the only place Frank could go was up.

The following video proves him right



Perhaps the greatest TV news anchor to never exist was Ted Baxter, portrayed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show by Ted Knight. Here's an ode from Ted to another television journalist Barbara Walters from his 1975 novelty album Hi Guys. I'm still searching for the restraining order Walters surely filed after hearing this.



And in this clip from NBC's Hullabaloo, (a music show I watched back in the mid '60s  even though it was hopelessly inferior to ABC's Shindig) Michael Landon -- Little Joe on Bonanza -- does the Freddie with Peter & Gordon