WACKY WEDNESDAY: Celebrating Screaming Lord Sutch

 

Yesterday, Tuesday Nov. 10, 2020, would have been the 80th birthday of graveyard rocker and titular head of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party David Edward Sutch. That's Screaming Lord Sutch to you.

Sutch, who took his own life in 1999, was, along with another screamer, Jay Hawkins, an early pioneer of mixing horror with rock 'n' roll. His early singles were produced by British iconoclast Joe Meek. According to Discogs, the Lord's very first single, in 1961, was a cover of Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly." But he became far better known for songs like "She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man," "Monster In Black Tights," "Murder in the Graveyard" and his best known song, "Jack the Ripper."

Spurred by his fame in the U.K., Sutch launched his first campaign for British Parliament in 1963, under the banner of something called the National Teenage Party. He didn't win any of those races. Then in 1982, Sutch and Alan "Howling Laud" Hope created the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, still active today. The party's official motto is "Vote Insanity." Some might argue that the U.S. Republican Party has coopted Official Monster Raving Loony Party values in that respect. But I won't go there.)

Sutch didn't win any elections as a OMRLP candidate. Obviously a victim of voter fraud by the Deep State. That's probably a good thing. But still, for those with ears to hear, Screamin' Lord Sutch's music lives on.

Here's one of his classic monster raving loony tunes,"All Black and Hairy":

Apparently the Lord had a deep desire to become Dracula's son-in-law.

Here's an early rock and blues classics, "Honey, Hush," performed by an early Sutch on French television in the '60s:

A bevy of late '60s British rock royalty -- John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Nicky Hopkins and Noel Redding -- joined the good Lord on his 1970 "comeback" album, Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends. The critics raved: "The album is regarded as a kind of Plan 9 from Outer Space of rock LPs: it's bad, but endearingly so ... " proclaimed Allmusic. "Many Led Zeppelin fans -- who bought this album when it was released on the heels of the first two Zep records -- have never forgiven Page for it."

Aw, what do they know?

And here's the song that made us all fall in love, "Jack the Ripper," live in '65:

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
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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
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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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