Sunday, August 8, 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
Sinner Man / Hey Miss Lucy by Esquerita
Face of the Screaming Werewolf by The Fleshtones
Oliver Plunkett's Head by Too Much Joy
President by ET Explore Me
Bad Dumplings by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
It's OK by Dead Moon
Fire in the Western World by The Dirtbombs
Many Whores Copulate for Money by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America
One Tin Soldier by The Dick Nixons
Tiger Man by John Schooley
Baby You Crazy by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes
The Clown of the Town by Reverend Beat-Man
Wild Man by The Shadows of Knight
Treat Her Right by Los Straitjackets starring Mark Lindsey
Hit the Road Jack by The Cat
Crazy Mixed Up World by Ray Condo
Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo
Your Haunted Head by Concrete Blonde
Ain't Got a Worry by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle
You Knock Me Out by The Tenants
Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie by Lincoln Chase
Humans by Pocket FishRmen
Junior's Whoop by Junior Wells & The Aces
A Man and His Dog by Joe Ely
Give My Love to Rose by The Flatlanders
No Help Wanted by Dale Watson
Tangled Web by Harvey McLaughlin
Swing Low Sweet Chariot by Homer Henderson
Vampire by Bernadette Seacrest
Give Me Wine or Money by The Mekons
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
On August 5, 1957 -- which wasn't long before I turned four years old -- the
ABC network debuted an afternoon teenage dance show hosted by a clean-cut guy
from Philadelphia named Dick Clark.
Known as "America's Oldest Teenager," Clark had been with the show's precursor, "Bandstand," which aired on local TV in Philadelphia. (WFIL, now WPVI). The original show had been around since 1952. Clark came aboard in 1956. When ABC asked local affiliates for suggestions for a an afternoon show, Clark lobbied for "Bandstand" to go national.
According to Clark's obituary (he died in 2012 at the age of 82) in the Los Angeles Times, "Clark and “American Bandstand” not only gave young fans what they wanted, it gave their parents a measure of assurance that this new music craze was not as scruffy or as scary as they feared. Buttoned-down and always upbeat, polite and polished, Clark came across more like an articulate graduate student than a carnival barker."
That obit discusses that first national show:
"...from the no-frills Studio B of WFIL-TV on Market Street in Philadelphia, Clark greeted a national television audience for the first time with the backdrop of a faux record store, a concrete floor and crowd of giddy teens in clean-cut mode: Ties for boys, no slacks for girls and no gum chewing were the rules from the first day."
Indeed Clark's innate square demeanor made for a pretty weird show. Most of the time American Bandstand simply played current hits and showed teenagers dancing. The guest artists who came to th studio never played live. They just lip-synched.
Clark used “Bandstand” as a springboard for various business schemes. He became an artist manager, a music publisher and had his fingers in record-pressing plants as well as a distribution business. America's Oldest Teenager had partial rights to more than 100 songs and, according to the Los Angeles Times, "had his name on the financial paperwork of more than 30 music-related businesses."
Those wheelings and dealings led him to testify before Congress during the payola scandal in 1960. Though he testified that he never accepted any money to play records on the show, ABC made him sell off his business holdings that some saw as conflicts of interest.
Here are some videos of American Bandstand through the years:
Here's Jackie Wilson. According to the Internet Movie Data Base, Jackie
appeared on Bandstand five times between 1957 and 1965. "Lonely Teardrops" was
released in 1958, so I expect this clip was from one of his two appearances on
the show that year.
I'm thinking the following clip might just be the only Andre Williams song
ever to be played on Bandstand. This version is by James & Bobby
Purify (which was the first version I ever heard.) I also like Dick Clark's
Dr. Pepper commercial that introduces it, though I wonder if the "Proud Crowd"
he mentions was a precursor of the Proud Boys.
Dick Clark, as he shows in this 1967 interview with The Jefferson Airplane,
was in tune with the far-out youth of the Swingin' '60s. He asks bassist Jack
Cassidy a very insightful question: "If you gave $100,000 to a hippie ..."
American Bandstand lasted until 1989. At the beginning of that decade,
he had a 19-year-old Prince on the show:
Also in 1980, there was something Rotten on Bandstand.
But one group you never heard on American Bandstand was The Tandoori
Knights (King Khan & Bloodshot Bill, who wouldn't be around until about 20 years after Clark's show went off the air.) Here is the Tandooris' lament about
that fact:
Sunday, August 1, 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
La Grange by ZZ Top
Nothing's Easy But You and Me by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
To Sing The Blues You Gotta Be Blue by The William Loveday Intention
Roadrunner by Bo Diddley
Hairy Lula by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
Commuter by Danger Cutterhead
Bayou Fever by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Lipstick Vogue by Elvis Costello
Total Destruction of Your Mind by Swamp Dogg
Chemtrailer Trash by Churchwood
60 Pound Mall Rat by Sicko
Electric Pussycat Lounge by Robbie Quine
Sick to the Bone by Laino & The Broken Seeds
Te Puebes Quemar by Rolando Bruno
Weaver Wear by Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Make it Up by Reigning Sound
Devil Whistle, Don't Sing by The Devils with Mark Lanegan
Vicious Pygmy by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America
The Salt Mines of Zanzibar by Gloop Nox & The Stik People
Today is the birthday of a famous accordion player named
Yankovic.
No, I'm not talking about Weird Al. I'm talking about "America's Polka King,"
Frankie Yankovic, who was born on this day in 1915 in Davis, West Virginia,
where his parents worked in a lumber camp.
The Yankovic family moved to Cleveland when Frankie was but a small lad. There
he became immersed in Slovenian-style polka. According to his obituary in the
Chicago Tribune:
After learning to play button accordion from one of the Slovenian
boarders in his parents' Cleveland home, Mr. Yankovic got a squeezebox of
his own as a teenager and made a name for himself in the region by his
early 20s.
In 1943, he left to fight in World War II, where he served in the 1st
Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge. The battle proved nearly
fatal for Mr. Yankovic and his musical career when he emerged with
frost-bitten hands and feet.
"It was a dreadful experience," he said in a 1995 interview. "My limbs
were frozen. In Oxford, England, the doctors said they were going to have
to amputate my hands and legs. I told them, `No way. I'd rather die.' What
good would I be, an accordionist, with no fingers?
"But you know what happened? The gangrene started going away; it started
clearing up. Then the doctors told me there was an accordion in the
hospital that I could try practicing on, if I wanted to. So that became my
therapy."
Frankie died in 1998 at the age of 83
Here is "Just Because," Frankie's first national hit. Elvis Presley recorded
this song during his Sun Records period. But Frankie first released it in
1948. (Actually it goes back to the late 1920s when a band called Nelstone's Hawaiians recorded it.)
Here's one called "Tick Tock Polka":
Frankie sings "Julida Polka":
And no, Frankie was not related to Weird Al -- though the parodist has often
joked that his parents bought him an accordion as a child because "there
should be at least one more accordion-playing Yankovic in the world." The two
famous Yankovics combined forces in 1986:
I'm not sure what this video is, but the song is a polka classic by Frankie
Yankovic
Sunday, July 25, 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
Steppin' Out by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Manpower Debut by The Fleshtones
Ain't That Lovin' You Baby by Link Wray
Negativity No by Pocket FishRmen
I Saw The Smokestack Fall by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
Sally Go 'Round the Roses by Question Mark & The Mysterians