Hasil Adkins April 29th, 193? - April 26th 2005
Celebrate Hasil Adkins Month by listening to some of the records pictured above! Most available from the fine folks at NORTON RECORDS! Also hit your local chicken shack and eat some chicken in Hasil's honor...
(painting by Joe Coleman)
Bonus mp3's
Hasil_on_NPR_1986
Fool's_Paradise_Hasil_Tribute_Part_One
Fool's_Paradise_Hasil_Tribute_Part_Two
Here's the Main Title music from the Soundtrack album to the Orson Welles film Touch of Evil. This is the song that plays behind the famous opening sequence. Composed by Henry Mancini and performed by The Universal International Orchestra conducted by Joseph Gershenson.
Universal International Orchestra - Main Title
Our hero makes his debut in this 1961 classic, The Choppers. Featuring his two smash hits, "Konga Joe" and "Monkey In A Hat Band"
One last call for your favorite record store related photo for the slide show.
Email it to wfmuichiban@gmail.com
James Moore, better known to the world as Slim Harpo, created the greatest works in the history of modern civilization in any medium. One of these is "Baby, Scratch My Back", presented here along with several worthy other versions, plus an unrelated but nonetheless excellent slab of limey fuzz also entitled "Scratch My Back". The Otis Redding and Booker T. versions contain some of Steve Cropper's finest moments, in my unwanted opinion.
The legendary Tommy James stops by Music To Spazz By thursday night to discuss his new book; Me, the Mob, and the Music. 8- 11 PM. Archives.
Tommy James & The Shondells - Say I Am (What I Am) Listen
Homer & Jethro - No Hair Sam (2:10)
Samson's ad: Billboard - June 17, 1967
In 1972, the Statler Brothers introduced us to Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys. They were an exaggeration of an awful country band trying to make it in Nashville, complete with a 15 minute radio show on Saturday mornings on the fictional WEAK in Rainbow Valley. They also played the Johnny Mack Brown High School dance every Saturday night and released two albums, Country Music Here And Now and Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School. Listen to Alive and you will become a fan of the Statlers.
1-Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys Saturday Radio Show (mp3)
2-Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School
3-Audition Tape
