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Joe South Was Born 70 Years Ago

 

Joseph Alfred Souter was born February 28, 1940, in Atlanta, GA. He cut "The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor" before he was even out of high school, and would go on to cut tons of great records ranging from rockabilly to psychedelia for the next seventeen years. He wrote and/or produced most of the Tams' and Billy Joe Royal's best stuff, he's had his songs cut by anyone you can think of, he's on Blonde On Blonde and "Chain of Fools", and is posessed of such magic powers that his work on The Sounds of Silence* actually rendered Simon and Garfunkel palatable! Even Deep Purple couldn't completely ruin his song! Surely he is the son of God! ALL HAIL JOE SOUTH!

* The album, not the single as I assumed until I was fact-checking this.

Fool's Paradise W/ Rex

Let's do the Window Pane this week, cause next week we'll be doing the Chicken!
Al Prince - The Window Pane (45)

Ichiban On The Iphone!

I'm thrilled to announce that WFMU has updated the free iphone app to include Ichiban!! Grab it right here. It's like having a transistor radio but with music you actually want to listen to! You can also listen to Archived Shows from your favorite Ichiban DJs! More info.

He Plays The Bongo, I Play The Banjo

Jean Shepard - He Plays The Bongo, I Play The Banjo (1:59, MP3)

Lee Andrews & The Hearts - "Tear Drops" / "The Girl Around The Corner"

Here's both sides of the highest charting single by Lee Andrews and The Hearts. This was #20 in 1957. A couple more of Lee and The Hearts' songs charted, but I don't think either of them ever cracked the top 20. The B-Side's quite a contrast to the hit here.

You may also be interested in this newspaper article which mentions the upcoming (in 1972) performance at a Pittsburgh mosque's "Oldies Night". Be sure to check out the movie ads in that paper, too. Just think...you could've gone to the mosque to see Lee Andrews and The Hearts and then hit the Colonial Drive-In to see Rosey Grier and Ray Milland in The Thing With Two Heads, possibly on the same night. What a world!

Click here to download Chess Records # 1675!

The Weather Man

From Soundac Studios, the folks who brought you Colonel Bleep.

The Orbit Room

Dave "Baby" Cortez - In Orbit (45)
Churchill & The Radars - Going Into Orbit
The Orbit Rockers - Rock It
The Blue Orbits - Let's Do The Hip
Dave & The Detomics - Detomic Orbit
Dave And The Orbits - Cheetah's Uncle
The Saturn V (Featuring Orbit)
Johnny Acey - I Go Into Orbit

Bobby Womack

Photo by Isaac Sutton

Bobby Womack - Broadway Walk (45)

Show me a man that's got a good woman...

That's Joe Tex from "The Joe Tex Show" tearing up "Show Me".

Against the better side of my human nature, I actually read the comments on this youtube video to try to find out when and where there was ever a "Joe Tex Show", and while there was one commenter wondering the same thing, there was no answer. Does anyone know about this?

Here's Joe slowing it down for the kids on Hullabaloo with "The Love You Save"

Little Pink Mack

Kay Adams - Little Pink Mack (45)