So Long, Solomon Burke

"I'm talkin' about Brother Solomon Burke, you all know him dontcha."
-Wilson Pickett

The world lost a literal and figurative giant yesterday with the passing of Solomon Burke. Please enjoy these admittedly obvious choices from his oeuvre as well as various other stabs at material written by or associated with King Solomon, until somebody else, hopefully The Hound, posts something more eloquent and comprehensive.

Home In Your Heart
Cry To Me
Stupidity

Otis Redding - Down In The Valley
(complete with skip to help perpetuate the illusion that you are listening to a record)
Wilson Pickett - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Betty Harris - Cry To Me
Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity
Bill Woman & the Limey Fops - If You Need Me

Ice Cold Ichiban

As seen yesterday at the yearly Drive Invasion festival in Atlanta, Ga.

WFMU Record Fair

The annual WFMU record fair is October 22-24 at the Metropolitan Pavilion.  Mr. Fine Wine, Rex, Terre T and Gaylord Fields broadcasting live!  Bedazzled in the AV lounge!  See you there.

Sandy Selsie - Gonna Get Some Records (mp3)

Screaming Lord Sutch Medley 1966

via hall9calation

MAKOOMBA !

Tonight At The Fool's Paradise Twin

A Shocking Double Feature

 

And!

The Creep!

Don't forget to enter the Ichiban Halloween contest!  Deadline is October 15th.  Send us your mailing address to wfmuichiban@gmail.com for a chance to win a DVD copy of The Creep, filmed in beautiful Bakersfield, California.


Dr. Frost's Halloweeeeeeeeen mix (mp3)

The Cheetah

 

 

The Cheetah Club Promo (mp3)
Lou Courtney - Rubber Neckin' (Chick Checkin')
Swinging Astronauts - Crazy Stockings On The Moon

Elly May At The Cee-ment Pond

Thanks to John Funke for reminding me of the difference between a pool and a C-ment pond.

Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy (MP3)

Dottie West - Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy (2:53)

Dottie West's Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy features what has to be one of the most absurdly off-key child vocal performances ever committed to tape.

West recorded the song along with her 4 year old son Dale, who belted out some overwrought lines of toddler angst from the perspective of a kid glumly looking at the wreckage of his parents' marriage.

The flip side of the record (and the name of the album on which these tracks can be found) is Suffer Time. Incredibly, this song was a charting hit, making it all the way to #24 on Billboard's Country chart in 1966. How the hell did that happen? Must've been the fact that the great Buddy Emmons is on steel!

The Mad Daddy

I_Love a Practical Joke

What_is_a_Fisteris?

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