Wednesday, November 23, 2016
WACKY WEDNESDAY: Airplane Glue Rock 'n' Roll
Some of the sweetest memories of my pre-teen years involve being lost in an airplane-glue haze building models. I loved the Aurora monster kits, -- and I once won a prize from a local hobby shop for my Mummy model.
But even more, I loved the Revell models from the Big Daddy Roth universe --- Mr. Gasser, Rat Fink, Drag Nut, etc. -- and their rivals, The Weird-ohs and their beach-loving cousins, The Silly Surfers from the Hawk Model Company.
One cool thing about both the Big Daddy Roth models and the Hawk models is that both had music to go along with them. In fact, the Roth-spawned Mr. Gasser & The Weird-ohs had three albums to their credit in the mid '60s.
Even as a kid I noticed that Gasser's band sounded a lot like The Weird-ohs (and The Silly Surfers.) That's because both fake groups were fronted an L.A, studio cat named Gary Usher.
By the time he got around to these bands Usher already had co-written songs with Brian Wilson including "In My Room." (Usher also was the brains behind The Hondells, who had a hit with the Wilson-penned "Little Honda." )
Let's hear some songs by these bands, starting with Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos, singing the title song of their first album, "Hot Rod Hootenanny."
As a kid, one of my favorite Gasser tunes was "The Ballad of Eefin Fink: "He's the hero of the story. But he's the villain too. So naturally the question is "Who?"
Back in the mid '60s I had a split LP of The Weird-ohs and The Silly Surfers. Here's a shoulda-been Weird-ohs hit called "Huey's Hut Rod."
Meanwhile, the best Silly Surfers tune was "Hodad Makin' the Scene With a Six Pack."
Back in the '90s, I thought I might be the last man alive who remembered this stuff. Then Pearl Jam went and covered this Silly Surfers classic
The Sadies
And 10 years ago, the Canadian group, The Sadies did a credible job in conjuring the airplane-glue rock spirit when they provided the soundtrack to the Big Daddy Roth documentary "Tales of the Rat Fink."
Sunday, November 20, 2016
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, Nov. 20, 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
Volver Volver by Los Lobos (for Craig Mack)
(Interview: Brian Hardgroove & Surf by Southwest)
La Bajada /. Walk Don't Run by Surf by Southwest
Everything by Public Enemy with Gerald Albright & Sheila Brody
Dogs by Churchwood
Bad Man by The Oblivians
Taste the Truth by The Mobbs
Stone Fruit by The Grannies
Who's Producing You by Ty Segall
Luci Baines by The A-Bones
What's the Matter Now by The Raunch Hands
Beaver Patrol by The Wild Knights
New Structures by Nots
Huggin' the Line by James Leg
Lili Marleen by Zuch Kazik
R.I.P. Sharon Jones
Got a Thing on My Mind / The Game Gets Old by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Wild About That Thing by Sharon Jones with Alvin Youngblood Hart
Up Above My Head by Sharon Jones with Billy Rivers & The Angelic Voices of Faith
Oh Jim by Lou Reed with Sharon Jones
Money by Sharon Jones &The Dap-Kings
Compared to What by Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Listen to the Showman Twang by The Dustaphonics
Cans by Hickoids
Ever Since the World Ended by Mose Allison
Substitute CLOSING THEME: Lucky Day by Tom Waits
Here's a track by Surf by Southwest:
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Friday, November 18, 2016
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, Nov. 18, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
High Priced Chick by Yuichi & The Hilltone Boys
Closing Time by The Pleasure Barons
Pass the Bottle by Black-Eyed Vermillion
White Folks' Blood by House of Freaks
Walk on Out of My Mind by Waylon Jennings
Honky Tonk Has-been by Cornell Hurd
Corn and Coffee by Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Rodeo
Parchman Farm by Ray Condo & His Richochets
Pearly Lee by Billy Lee Riley
Not For Long by Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers
Catch Another Train by Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders
California Blues by Martha Fields
When Sinatra Played Juarez by Tom Russell
Slingin' Rhythm by Wayne Hancock
Choices by George Jones
Statue of Jesus by The Gear Daddies
That's What I Like by Terry Fell
Feel Like Going Home by Charlie Rich
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Year Two of the Throwback Thursday Songbook
Yesterday we celebrated the second anniversary of Wacky Wednesday on this blog. Today we celebrate the second anniversary of Throwback Thursday, my humble effort to explore the music and musicians of decades past, and, when appropriate, to show how that music reverberates in contemporary music.
One of my favorite types of Throwback Thursday posts is when I take an old song -- a folk ballad, a Tin Pan Alley classic, an old bawdy house blues, an unforgettable yet forgotten hit of yesteryear -- try to give a little history about it and show various versions of it to show how it's evolved.
Last year on the first anniversary of this feature I listed all the songs I'd featured from the first year with links to the original posts. Today, I'll list the ones I featured in the past year. (A few are from Wacky Wednesday.
Enjoy!
The Throwback Thursday Songbook, Volume 2
April Showers
Buffalo Gals
Bully of the Town
Cocaine Blues
Deep Ellum Blues
From the Land of Sky Blue Water
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Gypsy Davey
Motherless Child
Polk Salad Annie (Wacky Wednesday)
Psycho (Wacky Wednesday)
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
The Snake (Wacky Wednesday)
Where or When
Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Have a song you'd like me to give the Throwback Thursday treatment to? Let me know in the comments (or by email (stephenwterrell (at) gmail.com) Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc.)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
WACKY WEDNESDAY: Another Year of Wacky!
It's been two years since I started the Wacky Wednesday feature on this blog.
Wacky Wednesday, was created "to introduce you, the reader to strange, funny and/or confounding music -- the type of "unclaimed melodies" that the Firesign Theatre's Don G. O'Vani was talking about when he said, `if you were to go into a record store and ask for them they would think you were crazy!' "
We've seen a lot of wackiness since Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Last year about this time I did a Wacky Wednesday best-of. Guess what ... I'm doing it again.
Here's a sampling of wacky memories from the past year, including that time we heard some singing clowns
We had fun with Mash-ups
We heard songs by music greats as performed by the international stars who loved them. Here's a Beatles song by Bollywood titans Mohammad Rafi & Asha Bhosle
And here's a Hank Williams favorite by a Swedish group, The Long Gone Smiles
We payed tribute to The Marx Brothers
And Jimmy Durante
And Napoleon XIV
And we still had time for karaoke nightmares. Amanda, light of my life!
And whatever the Hell this is ....
Stay wacky, my friends. It may keep you from going crazy.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, Nov. 13, 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 at that Moon by Carl Mann
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
No Trash by Mystic Braves
More You Talk Less I Hear You by The Devils
Carol Anne by Thee Oh Sees
Hey Sailor by The Detroit Cobras
Take Me to My Place by Jonny Manak & The Depressives
Look in the Mirror by Gregg Turner
Feel So Good by Shirley & Lee
Geraldine by The A-Bones
Rock 'n' Roll Deacon by Screamin' Joe Neal
Love to Love by Miriam
And Satan is Her Name by The Cavemen
Sick When I See by Women Discord
My Shadow by Jay Reatard
Down on the Street by The Stooges
Sick by James Williamson & Maia
Baby Let's Play House by Arthur Gunter
Sag by Churchwood
LEONARD COHEN TRIBUTE
(All songs by Leonard, except where noted)
So Long Maryanne
The Future
First We Take Manhattan by Warren Zevon
I'm Your Man
Everybody Knows by Concrete Blonde
Tower of Song by Tom Jones
Closing Time
Living Today by The Fleshtones
Never Take the Place of You by NRBQ
Bluebird by Leon Russell
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, November 11, 2016
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, Nov. 11, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Friend of the Common Man by The Blasters
Amos Moses by Dale Watson
Wear Out Your Welcome by Wayne Hancock
Purple Rain by Dwight Yoakam
Hard Times by Martha Fields
This Town Gets Around by Margo Price
Train Kept a Rollin' by The Royal Hounds
Looking at the Moon, Wishing on a Star by Charline Arthur
Slowly Losing My Mind by Southern Culture on the Skids
Sweet Betsy from Pike by BR-549
Dixie Fried by Carl Perkins
Why Does the Wind Blow So Wild by Washboard Hank
Meet You Down South by Reverse Cowgirls
Old Joe Clark by Dustbowl Revival
Gonna Love My Baby Now by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Kornflake Killers
Rosie the Riveter by Susie Bogguss
Keep it Clean by Charley Jordan
Bird on a Wire by Johnny Cash
Winter Lady by Palace Songs
Leonard Cohen's Day Job by The Austin Lounge Lizards
The Red Door by The Handsome Family
A Girl Don't Have to Drink to Have Fun by The Stumbleweeds
Hard Travelin' by Tim Timebomb
Tennessee Border #2 by Homer & Jethro
If it Takes a Lifetime by Jason Isbell
I Am Weary, (Let Me Rest) by The Cox Family
Janey by Ed Pettersen
Mose Melton by Cedar Hill Refugees
Ocean Paradise by Rudy Grayzell
Pilgrim by Steve Earle
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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