Sunday, July 4, 2021 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
4th of July by X
The Outcast by Dave Van Ronk
Violet Crumble Cherry Ripe by The Fleshtones
Wet Bar by Ross Johnson
The Beat Goes On by Giant Sand
Love Hurts by Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre with Eddie Spaghetti and Ruyter Suys
Diddy Wah Diddy by Captain Beefheart
Sam the Hotdog Man by Lil Johnson
Who Will Save Rock 'n' Roll by The Dictators
American Music by Violent Femmes
American Music by The Blasters
Daddy Rolling Stone by Phil Alvin
Death Rattle of Love by Martha Fields
Run Through the Jungle by The Gun Club
Shout Bama Lama by The Detroit Cobras
You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover by Bo Diddley
4th of July by Soundgarden
Indoor Fireworks by Elvis Costello
A on Horseback by Charlie Pickett
The Horse by DM Bob & The Deficits
Know Your Rights by The Clash
Melt the North Pole by Negativeland
The Body of an American by The Pogues
One Time One Night by Los Lobos
Mariachi Blues by Joe "King" Carrasco
The Country is Young by Jon Langford
Democracy by Leonard Cohen
Hiawatha by Laurie Anderson
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
On this day, June 30, in 1953, the very first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. This new American sports car was a major success. Though some generations of the 'Vette have been badged "Sting Ray" or "Stingray," Corvettes are still being made today -- which means the Corvette is a few months older than me!
The new car quickly won a place in pop culture. It was the car in which Martin Milner and George Maharis drove around the country in the tv show Route 66 in the early 1960s. (Chevrolet, of course, was a sponsor.)
And the Corvette inspired many songs in American music. Let's hear some, shall we?
The earliest song about Corvettes I've come across was from 1958, "Corvette"
by The Corvettes (not to be confused with the all-girl pop-punk band, Nikki
& The Corvettes):
In 1963 Chevrolet decided to call the second generation of Corvettes the
"Sting Ray." The Beach Boys celebrated this the same year with "Shut Down,"
which was about a drag race between "my fuel injected Stingray" and a
"Superstock Dodge."
I'm pretty sure that Chevrolet would have been less enthusiastic about this
tragic 1964 teenage death song by Beach Boys pals Jan & Dean about about another teenage drag race involving a
Sting Ray. (Two years later, Jan Berry would crash his Sting Ray into a parked car on Whittier Boulevard not far from the actual Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles. He lived, but suffered severe head injuries.)
In the 1980s, George Jones sang the praises of the Corvette -- or was it a long-lost girlfriend?) with "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)"
But the best-known song about a Corvette has to be that one by Prince:
Sunday, June 27, 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
Thunder on the Mountain by Wanda Jackson
Primitive by The Groupies
Wild Man by The Shadows of Knight
Walkin' the Dog by The Sonics
White Hat by Joe "King" Carrasco
Oo Poo Pa Doo by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Cock in My Pocket by Iggy & The Stooges
The Desert's Flame by The William Loveday Intention
I Wanna Holler (But the Town's Too Small) by Gary U.S. Bonds
Happy birthday to a proto-rockabilly (he was more 'billy than rock), radio and
television star, comedian, ventriloquist and honest-to-God snake oil peddler.
His name was Tommy Lee Scott, though to fans of hillbilly music know him
better as Ramblin' Tommy Scott. Born on June 24, 1917, Tommy lived to the age
of 96. He might have made it 100 had he not been fatally injured in a car
wreck a little less than eight years ago.
... began his career on local radio in Georgia in 1933. When a
medicine-show wagon stopped in Toccoa in 1936, Scott jumped aboard. It was
a show that had been launched in 1890 by “Doc” M.F. Chamberlain. When
Chamberlain retired, he turned the enterprise and its medicinal formulas
over to Scott.
Using music and comedy, Scott sold the liniment Snake Oil, the tonic
Vim Herb and the laxatives Herb-O-Lac and Man-O-Ree for decades.
Tommy Scott moved to North Carolina in 1938 to perform on WPTF radio in
Raleigh. On WWVA in Wheeling, WV he was billed as“Rambling Scotty” when
he fronted Charlie Monroe’s band The Kentucky Pardners. He moved to WSM
and its Grand Ole Opry in 1940.
Back in Georgia, Scott became a country TV pioneer with the production
of The Ramblin’ Tommy Scott Show
in 1948. He later had the syndicated television series Smokey
Mountain Jamboree.
In 1949, Scott starred in the movie Trail of the Hawk. Other films he appeared in include Mountain Capers, Hillbilly Harmony and Southern Hayride.
Scott worked ventriloquism into his act, with the help of his wooden partner
Luke McLuke, and, according to the
Country Music Hall of Fame,
did a brief stint as a ventriloquist at the Grand Ole Opry.
He organized his own traveling musical medicine show, playing songs and
selling his dubious medications. “Doc Scott’s Last Real Old Time
Medicine Show” included such stars as Carolina Cotton (the "Yodeling Blonde
Bombshell"), future Hee-Haw star Stringbean and bluegrass great
Curley Seckler.
And, while this is nothing to celebrate, in his early years Scott did
blackface comedy, including a stint with Stringbean in an act called
"Stringbean & Peanut."
Here are a few of Ramblin' Tommy's songs that will make you feel better than a
heaping dose of Herb-O-Lac.
Sunday, June 20, 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
Outer Space by The Sex Organs
Pink Lemonade by Daddy Long Legs
Nuthin' to Me by Suzi Moon
I Don't Need That Kind of Lovin' by Reigning Sound
A Different Kind of Ugly by The Sons of Hercules
Born to Lose by Social Distortion
The Man of Your Dreams by Johnny Dowd
Stay Out of It by Kathy Freeman
Smash Shit Up by Dropkick Murphys
Shakin' All Over by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
Happy Birthday Brian Wilson!
Rio Grande by Brian Wilson
"Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson by The Beach Boys