Come get your CHEESE CAKE! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7pm ET!

Deeeeee-licious! Get it in you HERE:wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

GUITAR_BASS_BOOGIE! (listen/download)

Ichiban Live

Tuesdays at 3 PM - What's Happening?!?! - 1960's Beat Explosion  (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Wednesdays at 7 PM - Crayons To Perfume - 1960's Girl Group Sounds  (Atlanta, Georgia)
Wednesdays at 8 PM - Fringe Factory - Fuzz!  Psyche!  Garage  (Atlanta, Georgia)
Thursdays at 7 PM - Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves - Weird, Wild World Of Country & Western, Rock 'n' Roll Music  (Nashville, Tennessee)
Fridays at 7 PM - Debbie Does WFMU- Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Hits  (Brooklyn, New York)
Saturdays at 11 PM - Live From The Admiral - Dance Party (Asheville, NC)
Sundays at 7 PM - The Real Nitty Gritty - Weekly Record Hop (Cleveland, Ohio)
Coming Soon - Whig Out!!!  (San Diego, California)

The Fringe Factory...now with added SATISFACTION! - guaranteed

Tonight we're FUZZY and WILD on the Fringe Factory with The Zipps, Urges, Mourning Reign, The Cynics, Jon & The Vons and brand new material from The Wrong Society, Higher State and The Bristols from the forthcoming Stupid Punk Boy cassette on Girlsville Records Tune in at 8pm by clicking HERE!

Patty Duke and TV actresses of the 60's on Crayons To Perfume!

Patty Duke leads the way (and ends it all) in an hour of TV songstresses! We've got the girls from Petticoat Junction, The Laugh-In Ladies, and funny femmes of the 60's so turn off the tube and turn up the grooves! Click here to listen at 7 tonight!

Sockin' 1-2-3-4! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET!!!

Sho'nuff Sockin' it to you on Sunday night! Tune in right here: wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls

Debbie Does WFMU

I'll be playing tracks from this upcoming release from Chicago's Girlsville Records.  It will be available on Cassette Store Day, October 17th.  All sales will benefit Chicago House's Translife Center.  See you at 7:00 PM on the Ichiban stream!

Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves to-nite!

New episode tonight! Got plenty of great records ready to go from Kay Adams, Lorrie & Larry Collins, Leon McAuliffe Riley Crabtree, and many more! I've also got Kelsey Waldon joining me in the studio to chat and sing for a bit. Join me, won't you?

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

IT'S_A_GAS! (listen/download)

The Fringe Factory at 8!

The Fringe Factory takes you on a never ending time trip of garage and psych with a double dose of the Herd, the Animals, Squires and new music from The Torments and Paul Messis. Click here at 8pm to listen!

Questions Crayons To Perfume! Can't Answer...tonite at 7!

Ye-Ye Girls, British Beat sisters, girl groups, Malaysian misses, and swingin' soulies all ask those questions that can't be answered, tonight on Crayons To Perfume! at 7pm ... check it out!

"Seventeen" dance party on WOI-TV

Seems like every town had its TV dance party show. "Seventeen" was broadcast on WOI-TV, Ames Iowa. The few clips that have surfaced on YouTube are fabulous, a black and white Ichiban world of neatly-dressed teens with superb haircuts dancing the jive to the latest songs ! In some cases, soundtracks were deleted from the clips for rights issues ; others have been restored. Here are a few of my faves :

Buddy Knox - Swingin' Daddy (Top Tune 17 !)

Ronnie Self - Bop-A-Lena

Chuck Willis - Betty and Dupree (the stroll !)

full episode, songs removed (boooooo !!!)

note : bubble gum blowing contest at 11:20

 

[ed. note : I mentioned this before on the Ichiban FB page ; appearance of a new clip on YouTube (Buddy Knox) prompted me to create a blog post.]