The Nightcap Lounge

 

With DJ Sween

This Week In '66 - Hicks vs. Hippies

 

With Lynn Peril

Andy Warhol’s Uptight and more missing nuclear materials were in the news This Week in 66, along with a custody battle that the media posited as a fight between “the hicks and the hippies.” Rather than turn over their seven-year-old grandson, Mark Painter, to his father, after the tragic deaths of Mark’s mother and sister in a car accident, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Bannister appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court. The court’s decision was a lulu, and suggested that Mark’s mildly nonconformist California-based dad was “too Bohemian” to properly raise his son.

SHOW NOTES

“2 Found, 2 Still Missing, Atomic Vials Lost Off Train,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

Andy Warhol’s Up-tight

“Bothell Beatle Loses Round in Court,” The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), February 26, 1966, 9. 

Crowther, Bosley, “The Screen: Andy Warhol’s ‘More Milk Yvette’ Bows,” New York Times, February 9, 1966, 32. 

“Hairdo Ruling Undone,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

“Forced Haircut Kills Boy,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

Lewis, Flora, “An Anguished Tug of War for a Boy,” The Charlotte Observer, April 17, 1966, 1. 

Murphy, George, “He Gains Support, Furor Over Dad’s Battle for Son,” San Francisco Examiner, February 13, 1966, 1. 

“Peace Group Marches at White House,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1966, 22. 

Sharpe, Ivan, “A Second Look / The Family Affair That Made Headlines Nationwide,” The San Francisco Examiner, June 23, 1980, 1. 

The Letter

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

2. Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson

3. Care Of Cell 44 - The Zombies

4. Rock and Roll Love Letter - Bay City Rollers

5. Tear Stained Letter - Johnny Cash

6. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes

7. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself a Letter - Billy Williams

8. Dear Dad - Dave Edmunds

9. Write Me Baby - Bert Keyes

10. The Letter - The Box Tops

11. Christmas Card From a Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits

12. Return To Sender - Ian McCulloch

13. Take A Letter Maria - R. B. Greaves

14. A Letter To Myself - The Chi-Lites

15. Twistin' Postman - The Marvelettes

16. There, There My Dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners

17. The Last Letter - Glen Campbell

18. Send Me A Postcard - Shocking Blue

19. Dear Eloise - The Hollies

20. Death Letter - The White Stripes

21. Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone

22. The Last Letter - Wanda Jackson

23. Famous Blue Raincoat - Jennifer Warnes

24. Your Old Love Letters - Jeannie C. Riley

Monday More Freaks

 

With Dusty Digger

1. Give Him A Flower (1967) -- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (England)

2. Meditation (1968) -- The Cave Dwellers (USA)

3. Gonna Search (1966) -- The Guess Who (Canada)

4. Can I Squeeze (1967) -- The Rabble (Canada)

5. Ego (1969) -- Gong (Australia/France/Elsewhere)

6. Baron Saturday (1968) -- The Pretty Things (England)

7. Psyche Rock (1969) -- Les Yper-Sound (France)

8. Been A Lot of Changes (1970) -- The Click Kids (USA)

9. Mrs. Robinson (196?) -- Francis Morello (Argentina)

10. Down Came the Rain (1965) -- Mister Murray (England)

11. Football Results (1962) -- Michael Bentine (England)

12. Sleep In the Grass (1968) -- Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margaret (USA)

13. Morning Hours (1967) -- Stonefield (Canada)

14. Want Ad Reader (1966) -- The New Breed (USA)

15. Cruisin' For Burgers (1969) -- The Mothers of Invention (USA)

16. Evolution (1969) -- Biff Rose (USA)

17. Hall of the Mountain King (1968) -- Twentieth Century Zoo (USA)

18. A Plastic Tank (1969) -- The Shoebelts (Japan)

19. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (1967) -- The Hombres (USA)

Play The Other Side: B's That Were Made To Be Flipped

The Angels: (Love Me) Now
The Crackerjack Society: Listen To This Side
David Seville & The Chipmunks: Almost Good
The Fastest Group Alive: Be Side
Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans: Dr. Kaplan's Office
1910 Fruitgum Co.: Sticky Sticky
Dickie Goodman: The Mistake
1910 Fruitgum Co.: Pow-Wow
The Calico Wall: Beep
Blues Magoos: Dante's Inferno
The McCoys: This Is Where We Came In
George Harrison: I Don't Care Anymore
Jimmy Cross: Play The Other Side
1910 Fruitgum Co.: Candy Kisses
Bobby Rydell: A Message From Bobby
Jonathan King: Inpraiseofuk
Orange Bicycle: Want To B Side
Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus: To You, With Love
Andrew Oldham Orch.: Oh, But I Do Like To See Me On The "B" Side
The Crystals: Brother Julius
The Lovelites: Hey! Stars Of Tomorrow
The Scaffold: Ten Years After On Strawberry Jam
Yoko Ono: Why
The Kingsmen: Just A B Side
Sonny & Cher: Hello

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This Week In '66

 

With Lynn Peril

SHOW NOTES

The death of the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney in a shocking murder-suicide was in the headlines This Week in ‘66! 

Great video here:  The Murder of 1954 Miss Muscle Beach Beauty Contest Winner Barbara Thomason

Abramson, Rudy, “New ‘Pep Pill’ Control Law Going Into Effect; Druggists Must Keep Records Showing All Sales of Amphetamines and Barbiturates,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1966, 11. 

Ames, Walter, “Actress’ Friends Insist Rooney Was Her Suitor,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1958, 2. 

Ames, Walter, “Mickey Rooney’s Fifth Marriage Disclosed,” The Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1959, 47. 

Bigart, Homer, “Peace Groups Begin Protests Against Resumption of Bombing in North Vietnam,” New York Times, February 1, 1966, 14. 

“Denies Marriage to Eighth Wife Yesterday; Mickey Rooney Does It Again,” The Indiana Gazette, July 29, 1978, 1. 

Graham, Rubye, “One Girl in Paris; Saint Laurent Builds Smash Collection on Sailors’-wear Theme,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1966, 1. 

Jaediker, Kermit, “The Murder the French Won’t Forget,” New York Daily News, December 9, 1973, 133. 

Johnson, Pete, and Paul Houston, “Mickey Rooney’s Wife Shot to Death in Brentwood Home; Young Actor Found Slain Beside Her,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 1966, 3. 

“Mickey Rooney’s Wife Found Slain,” Newsday, February 1, 1966, 4. 

“Rooney Plans Sixth Marriage,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “September 5, 1966, 50. 

Sease, Glenn, “People,” Pittsburgh Press, December 15, 1967, 2. 

Shearer, Lloyd, “Elaine Devry: What it Means to Be One of Mickey Rooney’s Six Wives,” Parade, January 29, 1967.

“Starlet Takes Sleeping Pills and Nude Dunk at Rooney’s Home,” The Tampa Times, August 12, 1958, 16.

“Tape Recording Sealed Death of Mrs. Rooney,” The Independent (Long Beach, CA), February 2, 16.

Terms Of Endearment

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Hey Baby - Maggie Estep

2. She's My Baby Doll - Terry Clements and the Twin Tones

3. Sugar Sugar - The Archies

4. Rock With Me Baby - Billy Lee Riley

5. Cara Mia - Jay and the Americans

6. Mean Little Mama - Roy Orbison

7. Baby, Bye Bye Bye - Jerry Lee Lewis

8. Baby Don't You Do It - Marvin Gaye

9. Boppin' High School Baby - Don Willis

10. Baby, Baby - The Vibrators

11. Yes Baby - Big Mama Thornton and Johnny Ace

12. Honey Don't - Carl Perkins

13. Shoot 'Em Up Baby - Andy Kim

14. Come On Little Mama - Ray Harris

15. Hi Ho Baby - Jackie Brenston

16. Goodbye Little Darlin' - Johnny Cash

17. Rock Me Baby - Louie and the Lovers

18. Everybody's Lovin' My Baby - Charlie Feathers

19. Baby It's You - Smith

20. Come Back Baby - Doctor Ross

21. Blue Moon Baby - Dave "Diddle" Day

22. Baby That's Good - Edwin Bruce

23. Darling Be Home Soon - The Lovin' Spoonful

24. Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson

25. Love My Baby - Little Junior Parker

Monday Sun Coming Up

 

With Dusty Digger

1. No Me Pidas (Don't Ask Me) (1971) -- Grupo de Experimentación Sonora Sonora del ICAIC (Cuba)

2. Dance Of The Talking Flowers (1969) -- Peter Howell & John Ferdinando (England)

3. Some Velvet Morning (1968) -- Gabor Szabo (Hungary)

4. Carnival Of Love (1969) -- Stone Circus (Canada)

5. Colinda (1969) -- Pugh Rogefeldt (Sweden)

6. Make-A-Love (1965) -- Little Frankie & The Country Gentlemen (England)

7. Witchitai-To (1971) -- Jim Pepper (USA)

8. From Saturday To Sunday (1970) -- No To Co (Poland)

9. Il Part En Californie (1969) -- Bernard Chabert (France)

10. Watcha (1965) -- Quinteto Académico (Portugal)

11. Time Will Show The Wiser (1967) -- The Merry-Go-Round (USA)

12. There Ain't No Use In Hanging On (1967) -- The Marmalade (Scotland)

13. Grey Seal (1969) -- Elton John (England)

14. No Me Gusta Decir Sí (1967) -- Los Pasos (Spain)

15. Heaven Is In Your Mind (1967) -- Traffic (England)

16. Seagull's Song (1970) -- Tim Hollier (England)

17. Magdalena (1969) -- Lasting Weep (Canada)

Kogar's Jungle Juice 010

 

With Kogar the Swinging Ape

This Week In '66

 

With Lynn Peril

Adults trying to control teens’ bodies are in the news This Week in ‘66! A Chicago judge decided whether or not a boy needed a haircut, and judges and a school board duked it out over a married teen mom’s right to an education—which brings us to the moral panic over teenage marriage.

SHOW NOTES:

“Enrollment Challenged; School Balks at Mom, 16,” The Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware), January 27, 1966, 16. 

“Kathy Returns to Alvin High School,” The Brazosports Facts, January 27, 1966, 10. 

“Young Mother Gets Court Okay to Be Student,” Albuquerque Journal, June 4, 1966, 7. 

“Oust Haters GOP is Urged,” New York Daily News, January 27, 1966, 12. 

Stanford, Nancy, “Community Crisis–The Teenage Marriage,” Corpus Christi Times, March 13, 1966, 46. 

“Teenage Marriage Gets Expert Eye,” Austin American, April 17, 1966, 1.

Smokes

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens

2. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Johnny Bond and his Red River Valley Boys

3. Wacky Tabacky - NRBQ

4. (As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Heaven - Oasis

5. Smoking In The Boy's Room - Brownsville Station

6. Wildwood Weed - Jim Stafford

7. When I'm In My Tea - Jo-Jo Adams

8. Nicotine - Vikings

9. Illegal Smile - John Prine

10. Cigarette - Ben Folds Five

11. Let's Quit Smoking - Super Furry Animals

12. Marijuana Hell - Ron Nagle

13. Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding

14. Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit - Roger Miller

15. Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray - k.d. lang

16. Cigarette Of A Single Man - Squeeze

17. Nicotine Fit - The Society

18. Last Cigarette - Dramarama

19. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen