TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 21, 2021
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

Rock & Roll by The Velvet Underground

Hard to Be Human Again by The Mekons

Fixin’ to Crawl by Churchwood

Buzz Buzz Buzz by The Hollywood Flames

Outhouse Crescent Moon by Harvey McLaughlin

Deepest Lake on the Planet by Dengue Fever

(Background Music: Surf Beat by Dick Dale) 

Bowdlerize by Danger Cutterhead

Pawnbroker’s Wife by Johnny Dowd

Galoot Update by Frank Zappa

Ballad of Hollis Brown byThe William Loveday Intention

Little Esther’s Blues by Little Esther Phillips

On the Courduroy Road by Al Duvall

(Background Music: Where I Live: The Apartment; Cleaning Up For Jenny; The Polish Landlady by Stan Getz)

Lay in the Sun by Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle

Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart

What’s it All About by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo

Swamp Dogg’s Hot Spot by Andre Williams

Saved by LaVern Baker

(Background Music: Alamo Dragway by The Krayolas)

Welfare Music by The Bottle Rockets

Lovesick Blues Boy by Paul Burch

Deep Down in Florida by Muddy Waters

Ghost of You by Rachel Brooke

Fast Car by Black Pumas

I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Greatest Polish-American Country Star

 

Pee Wee King performing in front of Wisconsin's largest cactus  

Not all country stars come from the South. Hell, Hank Snow, who was born and raised in Nova Scotia,  knew a lot more about squid jigging than cotton picking, could have told you that.

Similarly Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski -- born 107 years ago today -- wasn't a native son of Old Dixie. He was a Polish kid from Wisconsin, the son of polka musician. His first musical gig was in his dad's polka band.

But he went on to fame and glory in country music under the name Pee Wee King. His best known song, written with his musical partner Redd Stewart, was that beautiful "Tennessee Waltz." (I can't help but wonder whether the song would have become as famous if he's called it "Wisconsin Waltz.")

From his biography on the Country Music Hall of Fame website:

He changed his name to King (after the then-popular polka performer Wayne King) and formed his own high school band, Frankie King & the King’s Jesters. In 1933 young Frankie King joined the Badger State Barn Dance and soon had his own radio show on WJRN in Racine.

King’s lucky break came in the spring of 1934, when he met promoter J. L. Frank. He moved with Frank to Louisville in 1934 to back up Gene Autry for a time,  joined Frankie More’s Log Cabin Boys as accordionist on WHAS radio, and in 1936 married Frank’s stepdaughter Lydia.

In 1936 King was in Knoxville performing on WNOX. In 1937 he formed the Golden West Cowboys and moved to Nashville to begin a ten-year run on WSM’s Grand Ole Opry, with the exception of 1940, when he worked primarily out of Louisville. In 1941–42 he and his band were featured with the Camel Caravan, a WSM touring company that presented some 175 shows at military installations in the United States and Central America.  At various times his band included Eddy Arnold, Redd Stewart, Ernest Tubb, Cowboy Copas, and Minnie Pearl.

After joining the Grand Ole Opry in June 1937, King helped introduce an array of new instruments and sounds to that program’s stage, including the trumpet, drums, and the electric guitar. In addition, he dressed his band members in spiffy western outfits designed by Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn. His nattily attired Golden West Cowboys generally produced a smooth and danceable sound during their heyday in the 1940s; in the 1950s they even branched out briefly into mild rockabilly.

Here are a few of Pee Wee's performances, starting with his hit, "Slow Poke."

Here's his version of the country classic "Bonaparte's Retreat." (Click link for more on that song.)

Finally here are two of King's best known songs, "Tennessee Waltz" and "You Belong to Me" with Redd Stewart on vocals.

Pee Wee died in 2000 at the age of 86. The accordion fell out of favor in country music. But there was real power in his music.

Happy Birthday, Mr.  Kuczynski!

Tuesday, February 16, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith)

Chicken Shack Boogie by Amos Milburn

House Party Tonight by Keely Smith

Georgia Slop by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

I’m Your Rockin’ Man by Herman Manzy

Wolf Call by The Dots

Woo Woo Train by Little Isadore & The Inquisitors 

(Background Music: Half Nelson by Miles Davis)

Jelly Bean by Don & Dewey

Hey Boss Man by Ray Smith

Baby Let’s Play House by Arthur Gunter

Oh Oh Mojo by Eddie Alston

Down in Mississippi by Mavis Staples

Harry Hippie by Bobby Womack

(Background Music: Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie)

Locked Up by Sonny Fulton

Thass Right by Tony Sams & The Lala Wilson Band

Don’t You Want a Man Like Me by Little Brother

Why Don’t You Do Right by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra

Cry Me a River Blues by Little Esther Phillips

(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Reuben Wilson)

MARDI GRAS HOUR 

Indian Red (Wild Man Memorial) by Mardi Gras Indians (from HBO’s Treme.)

Go to the Mardi Gras by Professor Longhair

Meet De Boys on the Battlefront by The Wild Tchoupitoulas

Hometown New Orleans by Champion Jack Dupree

New Orleans by Big Boy Miles

All on a Mardi Gras Day by The Wild Magnolias

(Background Music: Alligator Crawl by Louis Armstrong)

Treme Mardi Gras by Kermit Ruffins

My Dawlin New Orleans by Lil’ Queenie & The Percolators

Goin’ to New Orleans by Bobby Davis & The Rhythm Rockers

Mardi Gras Mambo by The Hawkers

New Orleans, La by Rosco Gordon

Wild Injuns by The Neville Brothers

(Background Music: Shortyville by Trombone Shorty)

Mardi Gras in New Orleans by Dirty Dozen Brass Band

I Hope You’re Comin’ Back to New Orleans by The New Orleans Jazz Vipers

My Indian Red by Dr. John

(Background Music: Back at The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 14, 2021
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 Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum

Commuter by Danger Cutterhead

Sweet Young Thing by The Monkees

Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful by The Waitresses

I Gotta Be Me by The Mal Thursday Quintet

Narrow Mind by Killer Kin

Talk About Her by The Revox

Jack the Ripper by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Hootie Sapperticker by Barbara & The Boys

(Background Music: In Polka Dots by Pell Mell)

Bald Head by Professor Longhair

Crazy Baldheads by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Round and Round by King Shark

You Really Got Me by The Krayolas

Send Me Your Pillow by The Luxurious Faux Furs

Hedge Witch by The Stools

I Was Wrong by Ghost Wolves

Left Hand George by The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

(Background Music: Six Gallon Pie by Meat Puppets)

Politicians in My Eyes by Black Pumas

Absent Mind by Mission of Burma

Quadrospazzed by Thee Oh Sees

He Pep by The Fall

Down Low by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Reform School Girl by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes

No Business Like Show Business by Ethel Merman

(Background Music: The Sicilian Clan by John Zorn)

Dance This Mess Around by The B-52s

That Woman’s Got Me Drinking by Shane MacGowan & The Popes

40 Miles to Vegas by Southern Culture on the Skids

That’s How I Got to Memphis by Kelly Willis

Questions in a World of Blue by Julee Cruise

What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramones

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: R&B Inspired by Children's Music

Bob E. Soxx & The Blue Jeans

I owe this Wacky Wednesday post to a veteran rock 'n' roll disc jockey and Facebook friend of mine known as Truly Judy. She recently posted a 1963 Top 40 list from a Kentucky radio station, WKLO that contained a couple of songs that I'd been thinking of lately that basically were soulful renditions of children's songs. I'd often thought of these two together, and realized they were pre-Beatles early '60s numbers. But not until I saw that chart did I realize they were popular during the same week in January 1963.

Here's the higher ranking tune at Number 5 -- at least in Louisville that week -- by a guy called Johnny Thunder (not to be confused with Johnny Thunders!). Listen, then go take a bath!

And coming in at Number 14 -- at least in Louisville that week -- was "Zip-a-Dee-Doo -Dah" by Bob E. Soxx & The Blue Jeans, who sound far more hip than Uncle Remus did in Song of the South.

But Thunder and Soxx weren't the only R&B singers to take a children's story or nursery rhyme into the realm of rock 'n' roll. 

Here are The Coasters goosing Mother Goose.

And here's LaVern Baker with an ode to a couple of characters from Alice in Wonderland.