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Sugar Pie DeSanto on Fool's Paradise with Rex this Saturday 1-3 PM!  See her live at the Bell House in Brooklyn on December 31st with Lee Fields!

Arthur Alexander Month: The Monument Years CD

The Monument Years CD covers Arthur's post-Dot 60s work. Over half of it was unreleased at the time and while there's some duff cuts, most of it sounds great. Arthur is a little bit less despairing than during his Dot years, so there is the occasional lapse in intensity, but not on this great pissed off (and otherwise unreleased) self-penned rant where he actually bucks fate instead of just giving into it. "I PLAY SANTA CLAUS FOR YOU!"

You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)

Jazzed Up And Bonkers!!

Dan and Travis do a radio podcast. It's called Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! They play funny tapes and dumb songs. Do you like funny tapes and dumb songs? Sure you do. We do too. That's why the staff here at WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban are honored that Dan and Travis have created a special episode of Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! especially for the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban audience. Oh yeah--the stuff they play rocks out like crazy, also. Check out the special Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! episode now!

WFMU’S ROCK AND SOUL ICHIBAN- JAZZED UP AND BONKERS!! #1

1. Don & Dewey- “Jungle Hop”
2. The Lifeguards- “Everybody Out of the Pool”
3. Rico & The Ravens- “Don’t You Know”
4. Denny & The Catalinas- “It Ain’t No Big Thing”
5. Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns- “Beatnik Blues”
6. Roy Brown – “Party Doll”
7. Little Walter- “Crazy, Mixed-Up World”
8. Roy Gaines- “Skippy is a Sissy”
9. Little Richard- “Keep A Knockin’ (live medley)
10. Ronnie Dawson- “Do Do Do”
11. Jim Backus- “Caveman”
12. The Gestures- “Run, Run, Run”
13. The Jalopys- “A Real Bonkers Jalopy Mess”
14. The Bantams- “Suzy Q”
15. Baby Jean- “If You Wanna”
16. Vonnie Fritchy- “Sugar Booger Ave.”
17. Elvis Presley- “She’s A Machine”
18. Bobby Lee Trammell- “Uh-Oh”
19. Link Wray- “Walking Down the Street Called Love”
20. Ronnie Self- “Bop-A-Lena”
21. Gino Washington- “I Gotta Move On”

Midnight To Six Man

Jungle 45 of the Week

KAN_GU_WA!

Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp

The Rolling Stones - You Better Move On

Wife Of The Party

Liz Anderson - Wife Of The Party (2:28)

Robert Altman's Nashville 1975

Arthur Plays The Macon, Ga Auditorium 1963

Arthur Alexander - Two Sides Of The Cover Coin

Always loved Arthur's cover of LOVE ME WARM & TENDER on his Dot album - simple & clean.

AND... his upbeat cover of BLACK NIGHT released on 45 in 1964.
Originally issued by Charles Brown in 1951.

 

Arthur definitely put his own unique country/soul stamp on every thing he cut.

Anna

Arthur didn't like the Beatles' version of "Anna".  He thought they were "little girl shit".  He preferred the Stones' version of "You Better Move On".