The Nitecap Lounge

 

With Sween

Flowers Never Cry

Barbra Streisand: Gotta Move
Mystic, Astrologic, Crystal Band: Early Dawn
Robin Gibb: Most Of My Life (demo)
Faust: Baby
B. Brock & His Vibratos: Fright
Mystic, Astrologic, Crystal Band: Flowers Never Cry
Steve Rossi: Nobody But You
The Mighty Hannibal: Get In The Groove
Billy Guy & The Odds And Ends: Lookin' Like A Nut-Nut
Loredana Berté: La Telefonata
The Kittens: Walter
The Young Men: Go!
Back Street Boys: Back Street Blues
Back Street Boys: Money
The Soul Sensations: When I Had You, Baby
Singing Souls Of Milwaukee: I've Been Born Again
The Jordan Travelers: Go Where Jesus Is
Sensational Armon Singers: Everybody's Talking About Heaven
Smiley Monroe: All American Girl
Columbus Fruge: Saut Crapaud
Columbus Fruge: Bayou Teche
Susan & The Kids From Sesame Street: Someday, Little Children
Robin Gibb: Don't Go Away (demo)
Helter Skelter: I Need You
The Hollywood Brats: Sick On You

Kogar's Jungle Juice #12

 

With Kogar the Swinging Ape

This Week In '66 - A Kidnapping In Florida

 

With Lynn Peril

A young woman go-going her way through college, fatalities from adulterated beer, and a draft-dodging ring were all in the news this week in ’66. But the big story was that of the kidnapping of teenager Danny Goldman from his parents’ home in Surfside, Florida. Danny was never seen again. 

ENDING SONG:

Never to Be Forgotten 

The Bobby Fuller Four

“38 Arrested by FBI In Plot to Dodge Draft,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 1966, 3. 

“Horse Was 33; Roy’s Trigger Dead a Year,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 1966, 20. 

Jones, Clarence, and George Southworth, “Youth’s Father Links Kidnaper to Business Grudge,” The Miami Herald, March 30, 1966, 1. 

Jones, Clarence, “A Year Later: Danny’s Family Waits, Hopes,” The Miami Herald, March 19, 1967, 52. 

“May Have Lost Money to Victim’s Father; Kidnaping Believed Revenge,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 30, 1966, 5. 

“Million Gallons; Beer Dumped After Deaths,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 1966, 27. 

Rabin, Charles, “55 Years Later, Kidnaping of Teen is Solved, Cops and His Friends Say,” The Miami Herald, December 31, 2021, A1. 

Roy Rogers’ Horse. Trigger, Fort Worth, Texas

“She’s Go-Going Through School,” Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), March 28, 1966, 1. 

Tucker, William, “Surfside Boy Kidnaped, $25,000 Demanded,” The Miami News, March 29, 1966, 1. 

Tucker, William, “2 Mystery Calls Received; Family Waits for Kidnaper,” The Miami News, March 29, 1966, 1. 

What Happened to Danny Goldman? The Cold Case Files of Danny Goldman

Wickstrom, Karl, “Little Shy, But Not Spoiled Neighbors Say of Teenager,” The Miami Herald, March 29, 1966, 1. 

Femmes

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson

2. My heart Belongs To Daddy - Eartha Kitt

3. The Blacksmith Blues - Ella Mae Morse

4. Rock-a-bye Baby - Big Mama Thornton

5. A Little Girl From Little Rock - Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell

6. Jambalaya - Jo Stafford

7. Cold Cold Heart - Dinah Washington

8. Will To Fail - Katie Lee

9. Fever - Peggy Lee

10. Sugartime - McGuire Sisters

11. Sunny Side of the Street - Keely Smith

12. The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant

13. Chicken Hawk - Betty Hutton

14. Blues In The Night - Rosemary Clooney

15. Tweedle Dee - LaVern Baker

16. Ataypura! - Yma Sumac

17. Goody Goody - Julie London

18. Beat Me Daddy Eight To the Bar - Ella Fitzgerald

19. I'm Crying - Lil Greenwood

20. Wild Wild Young Men - Ruth Brown

21. I'm Sitting On Top of the World - Mary and Les Ford

22. Waiting at the End of the Road - Kay Starr

23. Don't Look at Me That Way - Pat Suzuki

24. Sand In My Shoes - Polly Bergen

25. Tammy - Debbie Reynolds

The Murder Clinic

 

With Spookshow Serenade

YOU WILL HEAR: the menacing sounds of musical malpractice and savage sonic surgery! A palpitating joint practice of MDs (Musical Deviates) delivering deadly doses of R&B, instro insanity, vocal venom, and audio oddities! Be advised: the management is not responsible for any physical, mental, and emotional distress you experience as a result of visiting the Murder Clinic. And don't even think of billing your insurance.

1. "How could a dead man have strength enough to do it?" – Dialogue (from "Creature with the Atom Brain")

2. Vengeance (Will Be Mine) – Matadors

3. I Walked All Night – Embers

4. I'm Gonna Kill That Hen – Blue Charlie (Morris)

5. The Dream – The Fox (Eugene Fox) with Annie Mae Wilson and Ike Turner

6. Kill Me – Don & Dewey

7. Creepin' – Starlighters (with Leon Russell)

8. My Nerves – Little Willie John

9. Bucket O Blood – Ervin "Big Boy" Groves

10. A Real Dead Body Giveaway - Dialogue (from "Dr. Evil and His Terrors of the Unknown" radio spot)

11. Ed's Place – Horace Heller

12. Blues from The Fugitive Kind – Kenyon Hopkins

13. Black Night – Cheryl Thompson

14. The Web – Abie "Available" Baker (from "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"

15. Track of the Cat – Pram

16. Crimson – Ken Nordine

17. Night Walk – Dick D'Agostin & the Swingers

18. Stalker - Ramrods

19. Beat-Nik – Jimmy Van Eaton

20. The Female of the Species – Mundell Lowe (featuring Meg Myles) (from "Satan in High Heels")

21. Baby Goes Bad – Gemma Ray

22. Murder – Tramps

23. Screaming Pt. 1 – Metropolitans

24. Shock Treatment – Invaders

25. Forget It – Hollywood Persuaders

26. Shakedown – Lincoln Trio

27. Dog Patch Creeper – Velveteens

28. Night Rider – Ed Burkey

29. Ill Fantasma Rosso – Other Timelines

30. Teenage Head – Flamin' Groovies

31. Madhouse – Evan Johns and His H-Bombs

32. "… has a very special problem." – Dialogue

This Week In '66 - UFOs Over Michigan

 

With Lynn Peril

This Week in ‘66 the news skewed weird! A brain was repatriated, and flying saucers – or swamp gas – lit up the sky over southern Michigan. 

ENDING SONG: 

Flying Saucer Attack

The Rezillos

“Blizzard Continues to Sweep Midwest; Death Toll Hits 20,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 1. 

Burke, Vincent, “Chinese Reds Will Boycott Party Congress in Moscow,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 1. 

Carruthers, Osgood, “Chinese Snub Verifies Critical Soviet Memo,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 25. 

Friedman, Saul, “Rep. Ford Asks Congress to Probe UFO Reports, Detroit Free Press, March 26, 1966, 2. 

Hansen, Jerome, “Those Saucers? Just Swamp Gas,” Detroit Free Press, March 26, 1966, 1. 

Mead, William B., “The Biggest U.F.O. Incident of 1966,” Des Moines Tribune, March 24, 1967, 13. 

“Missing Parts of Mussolini’s Brain Located,” The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), February 12, 1966, 8. 

Murray, Riley, “Flying Saucer Formation Spotted Over Washtenaw,” Detroit Free Press, March 21, 1966, 1. 

“Saucer Sightings Soaring in State,” Detroit Free Press, March 24, 1966, 3. 

Treloar, Jim, “It Scares Me a Little; Washtenaw Sheriff Trails Flying Saucers,” Detroit Free Press, March 22, 1966, 3. 

“What Happened to Missing Part of Duce’s Brain is Washington Mystery,” The Sacramento Bee, February 10, 1966, 17. 

Surfin'

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Miserlou - Dick Dale and the Del-Tones

2. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen

3. Pipeline - The Chantays

4. Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' - The Fantastic Baggies

5. Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys

6. Muscle Beach Party - The Super Stocks

7. Commanche - The Revels

8. Ride The Wild Surf - Jan and Dean

9. Dance With the Surfin' Band - Hal Blaine

10. Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes

11. Rise and Fall of Flingel Blunt - PJ and the Galaxies

12. Surf Beat - Dick Dale and the Del-Tones

13. Penetration - The Pyramids

14. Wipe Out - The Surfaris

15. Surfer's Stomp - The Marketts

16. California Sun - The Rivieras

17. Surfin' Jan and Dean

18. Kuk - The Trashmen

19. Summer Means Fun - The Fantastic Baggies

20. Surfer's Blues - The Journeymen

21. Theme from "The Endless Summer" - The Sandals

22. Midnight Run - Mr. Gasser and the Weirdos

23. Surf Rider - The Lively Ones

24. Surf Party - The Astronauts

25. Shoot the Curl - The Honeys

26. Surfin' Round the World - Bruce Johnson

27. Beach Ball - The City Surfers

28. Beach Boy - Ronny & the Daytonas

Burn, K Doe, Burn!

 

With Ernie K-Doe on WWOZ

This Week In '66 - Ballad of the Green Berets

 

With Lynn Peril

SHOW NOTES

In addition to the usual space race, civil rights, and topless-bottomless mayhem, this is the second week in 1966 that “The Ballad of the Green Berets” spent at the top of the music charts, a position it would hold for the rest of the month and beyond. The song was wildly popular, which struck me as somewhat odd for an era so strongly associated with the peace movement. So this week, I took a closer look at the Ballad, as well as its singer-songwriter, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. 

“20 at U. of Minnesota Fight Broadcasting of War Song,” New York Times, March 2, 1966, 47. 

Andrews, Jim, “Out of Order? Not Really! How a Couple of Ex-nuns Came to Crossville,” The Tennesseean (Nashville, TN), October 15, 1967, 163.

“Barry Sadler, 49, Balladeer, Dies,” The New York Times, November 6, 1989, 

“Bottomless Dancer, Boss Held Guilty,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1966, 16.

Bruckner, D.J.R., “Integration Pledged in Waukegan; Cross-burning at Negro Home Spurs Mayor,” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1966, 4.

Buckley, Tom, “Green Berets Try to Shed Reputation as Derring-Do Unit,” The New York Times, January 23, 1967. 

Calta, Louis, “Wounded Veteran Writes Song on Vietnam War,” The New York Times, February 1, 1966, 27. 

Cox, Billy, “The Ballad of Barry Sadler,” Florida Today (Cocoa, Florida), July 5, 1983, 1D. 

“Family Wails in Protest; Convicted Saigon Profiteer Executed by Firing Squad,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1966, 1. 

Goodman, Ellen, “Vatican Bars Nun from Play,” Detroit Free Press, March 16, 1966, 1.  

Miles, Marvin, “Gemini Makes Emergency Splashdown After Docking,” The Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1966, 1. 

“Nun Turns Actress, Director,” Battle Creek Enquirer, January 29, 1966, 3. 

“Southland,” The Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1966, 2. 

“Soviet Space Dogs Land Safely After Flight of 22 Days,” The Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1966, 1. 

“Space Dogs Found Well, Soviets Say,”  The Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1966, 10. 

Wilson, Amy, “Activists Design a New Kind of Retirement,” Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), July 25, 2006, 4. 

“Younger Vows Marijuana Fight,” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1966, 28. 

Faves

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Mystic Eyes - Them

2. Oh, Girls, Girls - Tav Falco's Panther Burns

3. Village Of Love - Nathaniel Meyer

4. Go-Go Kitty - The New Bngs

5. Poet, Fool or Bum - Lee Hazlewood

6. Karate - The Bedwells

7. I Can't Find the Doorknob - Jimmy & Johnny

8. Hot Dog - Corky Jones

9. 3625 Groovy Street - The Wildcats

10. Scuba Scuba - The Revillos

11. God Created Woman - Johnny Dowd

12. That's Show Biz - Dale Wright

13. Chicken Crazy - Joe Tex

14. The Vacuum - Randy and the Rest

15. Juicy Fruit - Rudy Greene

16. The Rebel Kind - Dino, Desi and Billy

17. (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone - Roy Montrell

18. The Whisk - The Whisk Kids

19. Hide and Seek - The Sheep

20. The Socker - Peg Leg Moffett

21. The Girls and the Dogs - Scott Walker

22. Don't Monkey With Tarzan - The Pygmies

23. Baja - The Astronauts

24. The All American Boy - Bobby Bare

25. Mr. Big Feet - Charlie Bop Trio

26. Susie Q - Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks

Atomic Jukebox with Jon - 12 March 2022

Attention BOSS RADIO 66 fans : Check out my new episode of the Atomic Jukebox, click here to listen !!! Fuzzy 60s garage, wild rockabilly, raw R&B, and a spotlight on what happens when europeans try to play Black american music ! And keep it tuned to BOSS RADIO 66 !!!

State Of Mind - Move

Bel-Aires - Ya Ha Be Be

Bad Roads - Till the End of the Day

Nomads - Not For Me

Bare Facts - Watch Your Step

 

Soul Agents - I Just Wanna Make Love To You

Kinks - Dancing in the Street

Jocelyne - Nitty Gritty

Q65 - Spoonful

Baronets - Hold On I'm Coming

Los Pops - Te Esperaba

 

Hank Blackman & The Killers - Itchy Koo

Sunny & The Sunliners - Come Back Baby

Bobby Marchan - I Miss You So

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers - Strange Happenings

Kents - I Found My Girl

 

Personals - Dance All Night

Ricky Coyne and his Guitar Rockers - Rollin Pin Mim

Kresents - Maple Syrup

Scott Wood - Chicken Rock

Weldon Rogers - So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye

Vince Maloy - Soda Pop

 

Chocolate Watchband - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Alt Mono mix)