It's a Kay Martin Christmas!

Kay Martin was a model during the 60's. She eventually became a night club singer/entertainer and released a few albums of the "risque" variety. Please enjoy the memorabilia pictured above while you listen to her xmas album classic; I Know What He Wants for Christmas...But I Don't Know How to Wrap it!

While in Reno, stay at the Kay Martin Lodge.

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Only 34 More Days Until Mighty Hannibal Day!

 

January 12th is Mighty Hannibal Day.  Go ahead and mark your calendar.  Hannibal will be in Atlanta, Ga. to mark the occasion. 

In between time, The Truth Shall Make You Free (45)


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MCKIE FITZHUGH 1915-1970

WURLITZER WEDNESDAY

Up Up and Away!

Today in the WFMU parking lot Station Manager Ken is planning to soar into the freeform stratosphere while strapped to his favorite lawn chair. (In case you were wondering, this is how the greatest listener supported radio station in the world raises money.) A consortium of scientists and intelligent chimps have determined that it will take 180 balloons to get Ken airborne. For every thousand bucks pledged we'll attach one helium balloon to Ken's chair. Cabbage pledged towards FMU naturally goes towards powering your favorite Number One Ichiban Rock 'n' Soul blogstream as well, so let's get with it and 1) get Ken airborne, 2) keep FMU and this blogstream up and running and 3) get stuff in the mail! Pledge here, check out the wild swag here and, oh yeah--today is also 85 years since Sammy Davis, Jr. popped onto the scene!

What could posibly go wrong??

Up Up and Away

ACME ANNOUNCEMENT

On The Air With Greg Cartwright Vol. 2

Poster by J.R. Williams!

The long-anticipated return of Boss Jock, Greg O spinning Rock 'n' Soul 45s on WFMU Ichiban!

Show Me Your Monkey (DJ Set) 

1-Lennis Guess - Old Mill Road
2-The Ron-Dels - Picture Of You
3-The Outcasts - The Winds Escape
4-Johnny Copeland - Wake Up, Little Suzie
5-The Bleu Lights - Bony Maronie
6-The Chayns - Live With The Moon
7-Benny Curtis - Ain't That Tuff
8-Mary Johnson - You Have My Blessings
9-Sonny Flaharty - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
10-Jay Dee Bryant - I Want To Know
11-John Hammond - I Wish You Would
12-The Spyders - Hush Puppy
13-The Merits - Arabian Jerk
14-Dee Dee Warwick - Don't Call Me Anymore
15-Rod & The Satellites - She Cares
16-Emil O'Conner - Some Of Your Lovin'
17-Billy Hambric - New York City Baby
18-The Unlimited Four - Calling
19-Al Greene - I'll Be Good To You
20-Kenny Hamber - Show Me Your Monkey
21-Roy Lee Johnson - Two Doors Down
22-Jimmy Gilreath - I Need It
23-Billy Barry - I Feel Thunder
24-Dee Dee Sharp - Deep Dark Secret
25-Ray Agee - From Now On
26-Eddie Bond - Slip Slip Slippin' In
27-Elvis Presley - Spinout
28-Little Willie John - Take My Love
29-Don Schraier - Pig Tail

And, be sure to tune in to the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T for a live set from Greg's latest supergroup, The Parting Gifts.  LP available on In The Red Records.

Studio B shot by Jason Krekel

Damn right, I'll Buy A Freezer From You

Little Old Wine Drinker Me (MP3)

Robert Mitchum - Little Old Wine Drinker Me

Having left his mid 1950s calypso career behind him, Robert Mitchum resurfaced as a recording artist with this fine 1967 country effort.

Mind Over Matter

 

 

What are some of your favorite albums of 2010?  This one makes my list.

Reigning Sound - Mind Over Matter  (mp3)

Schoolgirls, Airplanes, and Motor Vehicle Operators

This ditty has been re-used, re-written, and ripped off for good and ill, which is as it should be. Everything good is a rip-off of something else. But the first Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, not to be confused with Sonny Boy Williamson II, aka Sonny Boy Williamson Too, Sonny Boy Williamson Also, or Rice Miller; more on him here) is generally credited with inventing it. And maybe he did. I don't claim any scholarly high ground here. If you can read enough Document Records liner notes to figure it out without killing yourself, then god bless you.

"Good Morning Little School Girl" was popular enough that one of its verses, the one about getting an airplane and flying it all over your town, was given its own franchise with "Airplane Blues".

And then Memphis Minnie gave it new lyrics and had a big old hit with "Me and My Chauffeur Blues".  Fittingly, Chuck Berry, no slouch when it comes to songs about schoolgirls, automobiles and occasionally even airplanes, re-shaped it into "I Want To Be Your Driver", one of his many criminally under-rated mid 60's recordings.
So here are those and others, as always presented in the scratchiest fidelity available for your responsible home use as consenting adults.

Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Little School Girl
Sleepy John Estes - Airplane Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - Flyin' Airplane Blues
Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues (1941)
Muddy Waters - Good Morning School Girl
Nina Simone - Chauffeur
Memphis Minnie (w/Little Walter!) - Me And My Chauffeur Blues (1952)
Junior Wells & "Friendly Chap" - Good Morning Schoolgirl
Lattie Murrell - Good Morning Little School Girl
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little School Girl
Chuck Berry - I Want To Be Your Driver
Larry Williams - Little School Girl

Thanks to Andy Maltz for putting on his pants and leaving the house to loan me some of these recordings, and to Robert Crumb (in advance) for not suing us for using his Sleepy John Estes drawing.

WURLITZER WEDNESDAY