TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 8, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 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 

This Time I Know I’m Right by Muck & The Mires

Bees of the Invisible by Churchwood

I’ll Be Back by Question Mark & The Mysterians

Jesus Christ Twist by Reverend Beat-Man

Are You a Wally by The Spartan Dreggs

The Money’s Rolling In by Alien Space Kitchen

Fever by Bandemic

It’s a Sin by Alejandro Escovedo

(Background Music: James Bond Theme by Davie Allan & The Arrows)

Don’t Slander Me by The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies

Starvation Dance by The Hickoids

Another Person by Jay Reatard

Prissy Missy by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Conjure Man by Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds

Brain Dead by Sons of Hercules

Arrow Pierce Horror by LoveStruck

He Sure Could Hypnotize by The A-Bones

Naked Party by Ross Johnson with The Gibson Bros.

(Background Music: James Bond Medley by The Stylers)

By My Side by The Dirtbombs

Junk by The Cynics

Oh, How To Do Now by The Monks

Baby, I’m Your Dog by Stomping’ Nick & His Blues Grenade

Give Me Back My Wig by Hound Dog Taylor

Horse With No Water by The Frontier Circus

I Was Drunk by Bobby Bare

(Background Music: James Bond Theme by John Barry Orchestra)

Bad Boy by Martha Fields

Lover’s Hell by Merle Kilgore

Bus Station Blues by Little Freddie King

Sharkey’s Day by Laurie Anderson

What Kind of Fool Am I by Grandpaboy

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 1, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 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

The New Fangled Maple Leaf Rag by The Hickoids

Aim Tastes Good by Mudhoney

I Couldn't Spell !!*@! by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs

All I Want is More by Kathy Freeman with The Auto Pilot Club

My Little Problem by The Replacements with Johnette Napolitano

Do You Call That a Buddy by Martin, Bogan & The Armstrongs

(Background Music: Guitar Boogie Shuffle by Bert Weedon)

Plenty to Go Awry by Churchwood

Ghosts on Mars by Harvey McLaughlin

Ship Sailed at Six by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

You Bring Me Down by Jonny Manak & The Depressives

We’re Gone by Thee Headcoats

Wild Hog Rhyde by The Angry Samoans

Big Star by Ghost Wolves

Crazy Suzy by Ron Haydock & The Boppers

Bits and Pieces by Joann Jett & The Blackhearts

Any Way You Want It by The Ramones

I Like it Like That by Chris Kenner

Because by Dave Clark FIve

(Background Music: Pig Meat by Baby Sticks & The Kingtones)

Ill Wind by DiNOLA

Marijuana Logic by Pocket FishRmen

Hey, Hey, We’re The Gories by The Gories

Granny Panties by Broomdust Caravan

Carry On by The Del-Lords

Lawd I’m Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City by Alvin Youngblood Hart

I’m Going to Give It to Mary With Love by Loudon Wainwright III

(Background Music: On Approach by Pell Mell)

Honky Tonk Heroes by Billy Joe Shaver

Where Do You Want It by Dale Watson

So Far Gone by Alien Space Kitchen

Honey Hush by Johnny Burnette Rock ’n’ Roll Trio

The Snake by Johnny Rivers 

La Feria De La Flores by Los Lobos

Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero by Rene y Rene

Days of 49 by Steve Young

Mr. Bojangles by Jerry Jeff Walker

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Ghostly Voices from the 1930s

Five years ago in my Terrell's Tune-Up column, I spotlighted an album called Halloween Classics: Songs That Scared the Bloomers Off Your Great-Grandma. Besides boasting one of the coolest subtitles in the history of the recording industry

It featured songs, mostly from the 1930s, pertaining to ghosts, corpses, dancing skeletons and other spooky subjects. (Sorry, there were no songs about vampires, werewolves or zombies in this collection.)

Here are a few of my favorites from the album. (More can be found HERE)

Let's start with a morbid little Depression-era ditty called "It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead" by Alex Bartha's Hotel Traymore Orchestra:

Here's a guy named Putney Dandridge (1902-1946) performing a song called  "Skeleton in the Closet" from 1936:

Rudy Vallee sang this 1937 tribute to Anne Boleyn, one of Henry VIII's exes, called "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm."

This one, by a band called The Prairie Ramblers, is called "Ghost in the Graveyard." It's from 1935.

Have a safe and terrifying Halloween.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 25, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 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

Stand by Your Ghoul by The Cavemen

Phantom Girl by The Breakers

One Dark Day by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys

Messed Up Mary by Muck & The Mires

Wooly Bully by Hasil Adkins

Cheater Bar by Mud City Manglers

Bottle Up and Go by The Mile Ends

My Daddy is a Vampire by The Meteors

Land of Spook by Drywall

(Background Music: Night Creature by The Run-a-ways)

The Night by Alien Space Kitchen

Haunt by Roky Erikson

Ghostified by Persian Claws

Empty Airport Lounge by Assignments

Dragstrip Riot by New Bomb Turks

All I See Are Bones by Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks

I Scare Myself by Johnny Casino

(Background Music: Cemetery Stomp by The Essex)

Jonathan Toledo by The Toll 

Murder in the Graveyard by Screaming’ Lord Sutch

Jack the Ripper by Los Peyotes

Vampires and Failures by Grandpaboy

La Llorona by Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkeybirds

Hearse With a Curse by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos

I Walked with a Zombie by Dead City (with Cheetah Chrome) 

(Background Music: The Spook Walks by The Spooks)

The Halloween Parade by Jack Hardy

Halloween Parade by Lou Reed

I Hear Voices by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

Daniel Webster and The Devil by Big Daddy

The Ballad of Dwight Fry / Sun Arise by Alice Cooper

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Strolling With The Zombie

 Just a few days before Halloween, it's a good time to celebrate a ghoulishly catchy singalong written by the late Roky Erikson: "I Walked With a Zombie."

The song comes from Roky's classic horror era, when he was cranking out titles like "Bloody Hammer," "If You Have Ghosts" and "Don't Shake Me, Lucifer." (Although the original 1981 copy of The Evil One by Roky Erikson & The Aliens -- a cassette tape recording of my pal Alec's LP -- didn't have the song, subsequent CD releases do.

The title of the song comes from a 1943 movie directed by Jacques Tourneur for RKO. It's the tale of a nurse who "is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island." It's basically a rewrite of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. except it's set in the Caribbean.  And it's got zombies.

Here's the trailer for the movie:

Getting back to Roky's song, as I said above, this tune is a singalong. The lyrics are simple:

I walked with a zombie

I walked with a zombie

I walked with a zombie last night

It's so simple, other musicians found it easy to cover. Here are a few of those, starting with Jack Oblivian, who's leading some kind of zombie uprising on the streets of Memphis:

Mike Edison (The Raunch Hands, Edison Rocket Train, etc.) also walked with a zombie:

As did Cheetah Chrome, with the band Dead City, whose singer,  Joe Dias, took a few little liberties with the lyrics:

I hated the first cover of "Zombie" I heard. This was by R.E.M. for the 1990 Roky tribute album, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye. Onenthing that pissed me off was when Michael went into a corny Boris Karloff imitation in one of the latter verses. When I reviewed the album for Terrell's Tune-up, I wrote something to the effect of "Michael Stipe never walked with no zombie. But Roky Erikson did."

And here's Roky's famous walk:

Have a safe and meaningful Halloween!

For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

And if you like spooky music, check out the latest Big Enchilada podcast, Spooktacular 2020