WACKY WEDNESDAY: Dances with Bugs

In the past week I've had to shoo off not one but two door-to-door solicitors asking me if I needed the service of an exterminator.

I know, it seems weird. Maybe I should contact Nextdoor.

Naw, I think I'll just do a silly blog post for Wacky Wednesday about the importance of the insect world to American music.

Let's start with some R&B from The Treniers:



Back in 1927 Bessie Smith sang about bed bugs, including one "as big as a jackass."



The bed bugs bugged Gov. Jimmie Davis too



But, in a song I first heard by Robbie Fulks, insects made Moon Mullican think of love and marriage.



Maybe James Brown needed an exterminator

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 12, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 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
One Night of Sin by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids
Dream of June by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Knoxville Girl by Charlie Feathers
The World Needs Sissies Too by Nick Shoulders
Bumble Bee Zombie by Rocky Erickson
Kicks and Chicks by The Zipps
Bikini Beach Party by Annette

Pizza Party by Tex Offenders
Ace of Spades by The Yawpers
I’m Your Witchdoctor by Chants R&B
Jelly Baby Baby by Lucy & The Rats
I Couldn’t Say No by MFC Chicken
Blu Wav by Sleeve Cannon
Six Cold Feet by The Gories
When Will I Be Loved by John Fogerty
Shock the Monkey by Don Ho

EVERY MAN A KING set 

Put Me In Jail by Joe “King” Carrasco
Sweet Tooth by King Khan & The Shrines
Bloody Mary by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Tears by King Shark
Ode Le Alaga by King Sunny Ade
Keep it Out of Sight by King Mud
Closing Time by King Automatic
The Bitch Done Quit Me by King Ivory
The Boo Boo Song by King Coleman
Moonbeam by King Richard & The Knights

Quarantine Rock by Ramblin’ Deano & Jon Langford
What Happened to Delila by The Mekons
Just Don’t Care by Chuck E. Weiss
Bruce Grove Bullies by Chubby & The Gang
I Will Be by Dum Dum Girls
Bug Dance by The Treniers
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter

She Floated Away by Husker Du
JC Auto by Sugar
Sacrifice/Let There Be Peace by Bob Mould
Nigdzie Już Nie Pójdę Dziś (I Won't Go Anywhere Today) by Kazik Staszewski
Bad Man by The Electric Mess
Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants

Big Black Mariah by Tom Waits
These Are My Friends by David Lynch
Priestess of the Promised Land by Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wextun
Bezrodna Nevesta by The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home by Dan Hicks with Maryanne Price
I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven by Eddie Dean 
Head of the Table by Brook Blanche
Withered and Died by Elvis Costello
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday, Eddie Dean

One hundred thirteen years ago in a town called Posey, Texas, one of America's most famous singing cowboys was born.

Happy birthday, Eddie Dean!

According to his obituary in The Los Angeles Times, Dean, born Eddie Dean Glosup, started his career in vaudeville. He got a radio show in Tulsa, Okla. in 1930, then went on to the National Barn Dance show in Chicago.

His movie career began in the 1930s.

From his obituary:

Known as the golden-throated cowboy for an exceptionally melodious voice, Dean appeared in more than 30 Western movies starting in 1936. In the 1940s he was among the 10 most popular cowboy stars and was the first singing cowboy to do movies in color. ... 

Most critics agreed that Dean’s singing was the best part of his movies. He possessed, in the words of one critic, “one of the better sets of pipes among cowboy Carusos.” The late Gene Autry, with whom Dean appeared in several movies, once said he had the best voice of all the cowboy singers. ...

Here's a tune from Eddie's 1947 film The Tioga Kid. Though he says there ain't no gal got a brand on me," in real life, a gal named Lorene Donnelly "Dearest" Dean was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1999.



Here's an older Eddie performing perhaps the greatest song he ever wrote, "One Has My Name, (The Other Has My Heart)." I actually prefer Jerry Lee Lewis' version the best, but this is fantastic in its own right. His wife was one of the songwriters.



Here's one for Santa Fe ...



Though born in Texas, Eddie apparently had a thing for Northern New Mexico. Equal time for Taos here.



And this one might be about New Mexico. The lyrics don't specify which part of the San Juan River he's thinking of, but lets pretend it's the northwest New Mexico section.



One thing I do know: If there's a Hillbilly Heaven, Eddie's there.

Chicken Shack Playlist

Tuesday, July 7, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :
Hot Tamales by Bobby Hatfield
Big Man by Carl Matthews
Wine O Wine by The Gators
It’s Gettin’ Kinda Chilly by Slam Stewart & Slim Gaillard
Mississippi Goddamn by Nina Simone

But I Was Cool by Oscar Brown, Jr.
Hey Hey Girl by Rosco Gordon
Don’t Worry About Me by Willie Cobbs
It’s a Lowdown Dirty Shame by Louis Jordan
Sixty Minute Man Part 2 by Rufus Thomas

Git to Gitten’, Baby by Wynonie Harris
Dance With a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking) by Louis Prima
Pachuco Boogie by Don Tosti’s Boogie Boys
Say You Love Me by The Dukays
Tomorrow Night by Champion Jack Dupree
All These Things by Art Neville

Shake Your Tailfeathers by Ray Charles with The Blues Brothers
The Way You Dog Me Around by Andre Williams with The A-Bones
Rockin’ the Coconut by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

The Pigmy Grind Part 1 by Sonny Dublin
Monkey Dog by O.V. Wright
You’re the Dog by Irma Thomas
Let Me Down Easy by Bettye LaVette

It Ain’t What You Say by Little Esther
Dip Baby Dip by The Cymbols
Rattlesnake, Baby, Rattlesnake by Joe Johnson
Don’t You Ever Let Nobody Drag Yo’ Spirit Down by The Linda Tillery Cultural Heritage Choir with Wilson Picket and Eric Bibb

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 5, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 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
Wild Angel by James Bong & The Agents
Wrecked by Sleeve Cannon
Holy Night Fever by Deerhoof
Buried Treasure by The Mekons
Shades by Pierced Arrows
Endless Sleep by Tav Falco
Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Laurel & Hardy

Torn Up by Mal Thursday Quintet
Don’t Leave Me Alone by The Jackets
“8” Teen by Question Mark & The Mysterians
So Tired of Being Good by Help Me Devil
Papa Did the Chicken by Little Sammy
Poder Vivir by The Mavericks
Coconut Island by Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue

Noże I Pistolety by Kazik Staszewski
When the Levee Breaks by Mojo Nixon
TV by Lucy & The Rats
Your Haunted Head by Concrete Blonde
Mystery Dance by Elvis Costello
Evil Operations Classified by The Casual Dots
Firecracker by Half Japanese
Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Return of the Pretty One by Lord Sundance

Pariah Radio by Chubby & The Gang
Strawberry by Butthole Surfers
I Am Well and Missing You by Women of the Night
Fancy by The Geraldine Fibbers
Hard to Meet Ya by Skip Church
Tail Dragger by Howlin’ Wolf
There is Power in the Blues by James Blood Ulmer
Do the Clam by The Cramps
Who Walks In When I Walk Out by Ray Noble

Maman N’aime Pas Ma Musique by Tony Truant & The Fleshtones
Jim Cole by The Oblivians
Ghost in the Trees by Thee Oh Sees
Bobby Booshay by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Government Center by Jonathan Richman
Inside Looking Out by Eric Burdon & The Animals
Bumble Bee by Heavy Trash
Saved by Lavern Baker
She’s Got a Wobble When She Walks by Sugar Boy Crawford
Baby, I Am Not Your Lady by Singing Sadie

The Genitalia of a Fool by Cornell Hurd with Justin Trevino
Here I Am Oh Lord, Send Me by Alvin Youngblood Hart
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Backlash Blues by Nina Simone
Old Rugged Cross by John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Indoor Fireworks by Nick Lowe
Tom Traubert’s Blues by Tom Waits

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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