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Monday, November 5, 2012
You Tore My Brain
If you can get to Prospect Heights in Brooklyn this week, the Nortons need you! Email me at wfmuichiban@gmail.com for directions. The clock is ticking. Thanks!
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Let Her Dance!
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Dust & Grooves Video Of Operation Norton
Saving Norton Records after Hurricane Sandy from Dust & Grooves on Vimeo.
Thanks to Eilon from Dust & Grooves for shooting this.
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Deke Dickerson remembers his early days as a Norton Records artist
I remember asking Billy Miller if the Untamed Youth album would be released on cassette, since I was very worried (insert sad horn sound here) about our band's commercial potential in the marketplace. Billy's response was that "cassettes are for Madonna." When the Untamed Youth came to New York to play, Billy took me in the Norton-mobile to the pressing plant to see our record being made.
To an 18-year old kid, immersed in the new-to-me mystical world of intense, obsessive record collecting, seeing the antiquated processes and machinery that created these records was like a visit to the Wizard of Oz. Machines wheezed and clunked and the air was thick and acrid with the smell of vinyl particulate and steam. It was awesome. I watched as Untamed Youth "Some Kinda Fun" LP's came off the line. I was surprised at how much hand-work was involved, figuring it would be an all-automated process. Nope, it was pretty much like the 1950's, low-wage folks inserting vinyl biscuits into pressing machines, hand-inserting vinyl into sleeves.
Billy Miller looked at a stack of reject 45's and pulled out a red vinyl 45 called "Roaches" by the Court Jesters. "Hey, this one is a good doo-wop song about Roaches, you have it?" I replied I did not, but I knew I certainly needed it. Soon my world would revolve around doo-wop sounds about Roaches, one-man band songs about government cheese, and surf songs about monkeys.
We loaded a bunch of boxes of literally hot-off-the-press Untamed Youth albums into the Norton-mobile and drove to the Norton warehouse (different place than it is now, but still a musty, moldy underground bunker with the sort of infrastructure and wiring and plumbing one would expect from a city built upon the ruins of the previous three centuries). There I was, a kid fresh out of high school, unloading a princely 1000 copies of my first record down some rusty stairs into a dark basement warehouse. I probably knew at that moment, though my ambition wouldn't let me accept it, that super-stardom was not in my future. Madonna had not started out this way.
Somehow I knew, though, that this was my place. A world where a pancake-shaped molded vinyl particulate would be obsessed over as though it were the Shroud of Turin by a group of unemployed, broke jackasses that really, god bless 'em, really really cared about the music. They could tell you about alternate takes, they could tell you about which pressings were vinyl and which were noisy styrene, they could wax philosophical about how Hasil Adkins and Jerry McCain had been separated at birth, even though one was white and one was black. I felt all the same things, and I knew that Jerry Lee Lewis alternate takes were important to me, too, even if they didn't mean a damn to the friends I had back in Missouri. For that moment of recognizing and accepting my fellow species of lowlife music-obsessed, record collecting miscreants, I owe Billy and Miriam and Norton Records a huge thanks.
Now here I am, two and a half decades later, lugging my own vinyl pressings into my own storage space, 1000 copies at a time. Vinyl is hip again in a way that we never would have predicted back in the 1980s. I have no embarrassing cassingles in my past, and I have Norton Records to thank for that as well.
It saddens me now to think of the Norton Warehouse, submerged under Hurricane Sandy bilge water, those precious biscuits of vinyl waterlogged. Some of those priceless nuggets have my own precious teenage angst garage band music recorded on them. I remember lugging those boxes down the stairs nearly 25 years ago, and it makes me damn proud to know that Norton Records has hung in there that long--prospered, at that.
I know that the good people will come together and help save what records can be saved, and people will help Billy and Miriam recover from this tragedy. Norton Records is too damn important to let some flood water put 'em out of business, where Madonna had failed to do so. You can't drown the loud sound, indeed!
All photos appear here courtesy of the Untamed Youth's Facebook page.
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Labels: Deke Dickerson, Norton Records
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Norton Record Cleaning
Here's a picture of the flooded warehouse.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Norton November On Ichiban
We dedicate the month of November to our heroes over at Norton Records. Their Brooklyn warehouse was flooded with 4 feet of water during the Frankenstorm. If you live in Brooklyn and have some free time, please lend a hand in salvaging what's left of the debris. Volunteers are needed to sort/clean records at Norton HQ in Prospect Heights. For the address call 917-671-7185 or 718-789-4438 or email nortonrecs@aol.com. I will see you there!!
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
We're Back!
We lost our main Ichiban server during the storm, but Dr. Filth is holding down the fort until we can get back up!! Tune in now!
Donations accepted!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Spookareno!
We welcome guest DJ, Phil Milstein from Probe Is Turning On The People to handle the scary business here today!! We still do not have power in our Jersey City studios so I've uploaded the show for you to enjoy now.
BOO!
1. Merv Griffin: House Of Horrors (Merc., 1962; wr. Ruth Roberts & Bill Katz; cond. Charles Greane)
2. Babs Tino: Dr. Jekyll Or Mr. Hyde (Kapp, 1963)
3. Cecil Campbell & His Tennessee Ramblers: Spooky Boogie (RCA Vic., 1950; actual chattering teeth!)
4. The Sharks: Spookareno (Sapien 1003)
5. Hollywood Flames: Frankenstein's Den (Ebb, 1958)
6. The Daylighters: Mad House Jump (Bea & Baby, 1959)
7. The Jayhawks: The Creature (From Outer Space) (Aladdin, 1957)
8. homemade hybrid: Casper The Friendly Ghost (TV sdtk.; Little Richard)
9. The Nightmares with Jimmie Maddin Orch.: The Headless Ghost (American Int'l., 1959)
10. Bob Ridgley: The Way-Out Mummy (Del-Fi, orig. unrel.)
11. Damon Fox: Black Widow Spider (Crimson, 1967)
12. Jack Rivers: Haunted House Boogie (Coral, 1951)
13. Jekyll & Hyde: Frankenstein Meets The Beatles (DCP, 1965)
14. Lon Chaney, Jr.: Spider Baby (from movie of same title, 1964; wr. Ronald Stein)
15. Lord Luther with The Kingsmen: (I Was A) Teenage Creature (Frantic, 1959)
16. Ray Noble & His Orch., voc Al Bowlly: Haunted House (UK, 1931)
17. Bryan "Legs" Walker: Trick Or Treat (Piper Platters (Temple City CA), 1959; wr. Bill Jacoby)
18. The Chubukos: Boogie The Devil In (Mainstream, 1974)
19. The Devils: The Exorcist (from Funk Cargo comp (Famous Groove, 1994))
20. Round Robin: I'm The Wolf Man (Domain, 1965)
21. The Sham-Ettes: (Hey There) Big Bad Wolf (MGM, 1966)
22. The Fairviews: Nightmares (Spin It (LA CA), c.1965; wr. Murray Schwimmer; pr. Nick Therry)
23. The Dell Vikings: The Voodoo Man (Merc., 1958)
24. Shalimar & His Friends: Voodoo Mash (pts. 1 & 2; Del-Fi, 1962)
25. Cathy Mills: Monster Hop (Tin Pan Alley (song-poem); wr. Gregory & Dienna)
26. Nita & Bonnie: The Graveyard Rock (Preview (song-poem); wr. Ash, Marsh & Susser)
27. The Villagers: Headless Nightmare (Petal 1410, c.1964)
28. Hot Rod All Stars: Ten Commandments From The Devil (Torpedo, 1970; wr. L. Briscoe)
29. Ron Waldon: Witch Girl (Vibra 101, 1961; wr. Clesi & Alcorn)
30. Murray Schaff & The Aristocrats: Tombstone Number 9 (King, 1956)
31. Morgus with The Daringers: Werewolf (Fulton (Det.), c.1959)
32. The Muleskinners: Wolfman (Soma, 1964)
33. Denny & Lenny with The Hollywood Ghouls: Monster's Love (Chance)
34. Billy Snel: Queen Of Halloween (Wild 100, 1960)
35. Jimmy Bowers: The Vampire's Ghost (Track 1002, 1958)
36. The Crewnecks: Rockin' Zombie (Rhapsody, 1959)
37. The Nightmares with Jimmie Maddin Orch.: (Ooh I'm Scared) Of The Horrors Of The Black Museum (Amer.
Int'l., 1958)
38. Eddy Arnold: Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost (RCA Vic. EP, 1957)
39. Ray Stevens: Laughing Over My Grave (Merc., 1964)
40. Rosemary Clooney: The Wobblin' Goblin (Col., 1950; pr. Hecky Krasnow)
41. Eddie Dean: A Gravedigger's Lament (Crystal 156, c.1948)
42. Janie Jones: Witches Brew (HMV (UK), 1965; wr. & pr. Sidney Gilbert; title sic)
43. Souls Unlimited: The Raving Vampire (pt. 1; Wigwam; wr. Bobby Green & James Parker; pr. Charles O. Johnson)
44. Jesse Stone: Who's Zat (RCA Vic., 1948)
45. The Mystrys: Witch Girl (Orbit (Sydney Aus.) 100, 1966)
46. Kay Bell & The Spacemen: Scream Along (With The Monster) (Vista, 1963)
47. The Monotones: Zombi (Argo, 1958)
special thanks to Bruce Milne and Tom Taber
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Labels: Debbie D, Halloween, Phil Milstein, Song Poems
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Grave Yard Creeps mix
Boogie Man - The Higher Elevation
Gravediggers Rock - Clyde Scott with the Zanyopolis A.U. Students
Grave Yard Creep - James Duhon
Someone Walked Over My Grave - Criswell
GRAVE YARD CREEPS
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
If The Price Is Right (MP3)
Houston Roberts - If The Price Is Right
Here's a foot-stompin' honky-tonker from Houston Roberts on Nashville's Little Darlin' label, an organization that frequently peddled hard country sounds. And speaking of prices, this seems like a fine time to gently remind you that WFMU's Rock & Soul Ichiban comes to you at all hours of the day and night completely free. So if you feel like hitting the pledge button above to help us keep everything humming, we'd be grateful.
Creepy Chix Mix!
Draculena - Aaron McNeill
The Monster Miss - Miss L.L. Louise Lewis
My Baby's Got a Crush on Frankenstein - Soupy Sales
CREEPY CHIX
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Cool Ghoul mp3 mix
Dinner With Drac - John Logan
Dance Along With Dracula (Doin' the Drac) - The Monstrosities
Casa A Go Go - Count Von Shukker
COOL GHOULS
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Reigning Sound!
DA the DJ |
Watching My Baby Get Ready
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Happy Birthday Chuck Berry!
Photo via: The Lost Photographs Of Deejay Tommy Edwards
Join Matt Fiveash & Ted Barron for a 5 hour birthday Salute to Mr. Chuck Berry. 12 Noon - 5 PM on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban 24 hour webstream.
Playlist & Archive
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
the Camel Walk Is Easy To Do
Come help us celebrate our 3rd anniversary at Botanica tonight!!
DJ Archive (incomplete)
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Labels: Debbie D, Ichiban, Soul Dance Party
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Night Train Mambo
In 1952, Jimmy Forrest hit the #1 spot on the R&B charts with his version of Night Train. A few years later, he checked in with this rhythmic mambo version.
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Labels: Greg, Instrumentals, Mambo, R and B
Spike Jones in Hi-Fi
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Labels: Debbie D, Screaming Sound, Spike Jones
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Get Down Like James Brown
Come out to Botanica on Wednesday, Oct. 17th for your once-in-a-lifetime chance to win a Future Shock T-Shirt.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
31 Days Of October
Photo by Eilon Paz |
WFMU is having a silent fundraiser for the entire month of October. DJs are not pitching on air, so please make a pledge if you're a fan of our programming. You can donate to the station as a whole or to your favorite DJ. Here are some handy links with more info on premiums that you will receive based on your pledge level. Thanks for helping to keep us on the air!!
Ichiban
Matt Fiveash
Ted Barron
Live From The Admiral with Dr. Filth and Greg Cartwright
Fool's Paradise
Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
Debbie Does WFMU
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Rockin' Since 2009
This event will also be broadcast live on the Ichiban webstream, thanks to Dr. Filth! Follow us on the Twitter for up-to-the-minute DJ schedules and dance contest details. One lucky dancer will win a Future Shock T-Shirt!!
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Labels: Debbie D, Ichiban Live
Our Hero With The Box Tops
Zacherley hosts Disc-O- Teen 1967.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Zach on TV (paper model)
2) Print, cut, fold & paste.
3) "Good night, whatever you are!"
ZACH ON TV.jpg
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Keep On Dancing
The Gentrys on Hullabaloo 1965
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Slippin' Around (With You)
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Don't Give Up On Me
Written by Dan Penn, Carson Whittstt and Hoy Lindsey 2002.
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Rainbow Road
Written by Dan Penn and Donnie Fritts 1964.
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I Need Someone
Written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham 1966.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Funky Crimes - "Rap Sheet" + Special Edition
Oceanliners - Funky Pants
The Nite-Liters - Itchy Brother
Sherlock Holmes Investigation - Black Bag
The Fabulous Counts - Jan Jan
The Soul Continentals - Goobah (African Twist)
The Politicians - Funky Toes
J.C. Davis - Coconut Brown
Preacher - Life Is a Gamble
Dennis Coffey - Getting It On
Bill Doggett - The Funky Whistler
Willie Tell & the Overtures - Kick-Back
The Dapps (featuring Alfred Ellis) - The Rabbit Got the Gun
March Wind - All the Way Down
The Black On White Affair - A Bunch of Changes
Dave Hamilton - Cracklin' Bread
The San Francisco TKOs - Herm
Jesse Anderson - Mighty Mighty
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Little Green Radio
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Labels: Dan Penn Month, Debbie D
Friday, September 28, 2012
Do Something
Written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham. Recorded by the Swingin' Yo Yo's 1967.
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Labels: Dan Penn, Debbie D, Reigning Sound