22 TACO TUESDAY

TOMMY HANCOCK - TACOS FOR TWO

Happy Summer Sooooooouuuuuuulllllllll-stice!

Here's the annual Summer Soul-stice Show presented to you by Gaylord Fields & Debbie D.

Tune In Now!

BOOGALOO BABY

Streets Of Baltimore (MP3)

Tompall & The Glaser Brother - Streets Of Baltimore (3:10)

Streets Of Baltimore, a top 10 hit for singer Bobby Bare in 1966, remains one of hist best known numbers. Here's a version by the song's author Tompall Glaser (who shared writing credit with legendary songwriter Harlan Howard) that is heard far less frequently.

Like a lot of people, I suppose, the first version I ever heard, back when I was first dipping my toe into the world of country music, was the one recorded by Gram Parsons in the early 1970s. Later, I heard the Bobby Bare version, which was, in fact, the original. Glaser, despite being one of the song's authors, did not record it until several months after Bare's song had already peaked on the charts. Plenty of others have recorded the song as well, including Emmylou Harris, Charley Pride, and contemporary honky-tonkers Red Meat. For my money, though, the Tompall Glaser version remains the best of the bunch. Give a listen to his soulful trembling baritone as he reveals the sad truth about his crumbling marriage to a woman who ultimately dumps him to lead the life of a party girl.

FRANTIC FREDDY FRIDAY

WELTON BECKET AND THE BUNKER

THE REVERB BUNKER IS IN PERIL !

WURLITZER WEDNESDAY

Jungle 45 of the Week!

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JOHNNY CASH ON THE JIMMY DEAN SHOW 1957

JIMMY DEAN
1928-2010

The Sentinals

Latinia

Tor-Chula

Exotic

The Bee

Happy Birthday Charlie Feathers!

June 12, 1932–August 29, 1998

The_Complete_KING_Recordings

And for more Feathers awesomeness, check out the FOOL'S PARADISE special from 2008 with special guests Billy Miller, Bubba Feathers, and Ramon Maupin!

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27504

Summer Means Fun!

The Three Funkys

Goin' Ape (MP3)

Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys - Goin' Ape (2:50)

Sorry, but this week's 45 is rather hammered.



More Lance Link photos from the LIFE archives

Jungle 45 of the Week!

Safari

Danny White - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Blues Over Ice (MP3)

The bigwigs running the show here at Ichiban have generously offered to double the value of my contract if I cough up one honky-tonk MP3 per week. Who doesn't like free money?



Gene Crawford - Blues Over Ice (2:24)

Dantes

Top Down Time (45)

Curtis Mayfield

Choice Of Colors (45)

Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 14

Well, Well….Here we are with Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 14!

About a month ago, I had a little less than half of this volume together, but with no real theme. Just some left over songs that never made previous volumes and few other bits here and there.

Then a tape sort of fell into my lap that Lux had made for someone back in the 70’s. Thanks to this unnamed person, here is a new volume of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites.

I’d say that more than half of what is on this volume came from that hour long tape. There were even some songs left over for volume 15 (not to mention ANOTHER tape I have yet to receive). Most, if not all the songs on the tape were rockabilly, thus the vibe of the cover. I wanted it to have that “buffalo bop” kind of look.

A few notes on the songs.

The intro to Knockout is from the fabulous movie LOVE FROM A STRANGER featuring Basil Rathbone in an amazing performance. The movie was mentioned by Lux in the Ian Johnston Cramps book and is well worth seeking out. I thought it was a good way to open this volume.

Before some music nerd pipes up about “Duane De Santo”, yes, I know that’s not who really did that song, but that’s what Lux wrote on the tape case, so that’s the way it’s gonna stay!

The Four Plaid Throats. What is there to say about them? They are the Linn Twins of doo wop as far as I can see. The vocals on “The Message” are just INSANE. This group was mentioned by Lux in the newer Cramps book that came out a few years ago. Their other song will be on LAIF 15, and is a bit more, shall we say, reserved.

It took a while to find both of these songs by the “throats”. At one point I tracked down a bootleg cd with both sides of their lone 45 on it. I was psyched to find it, but disappointed as hell when I listened to it, and found that whoever mastered the damn thing couldn’t get the vocals right! They were popping all over the place. The version on this volume is taken from a Repro that must have come out in the 70’s and is pretty much the only way to hear it unless you can find an original. The fact that is repressed is kind of funny as I don’t really see the sock hop crowd really going for this little number.

I’ve also included 2 bands that Lux and Ivy produced, The Sickidz and The Mad Daddy’s. As well as Chris Spedding, who produced them at one point (Miss Betty being mentioned in some interview years back that I’ve since lost track of).

Lastly, I’ve included the theme song to FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE by Johnny Cash. This movie also popped up in the Ian Johnston book. I had this song years ago, but hadn’t managed to track down a copy of the movie until recently, and lo and behold, the version of the song used in the movie is entirely different then the officially released one! I think the movie version is amazing and features this great guitar solo by Merle Travis. I do not believe this version was ever released, so this is a rip from the dvd (sorry for this hiss).

Shout out’s also go to Adam Fitch for the amazing cover, Dirty Dacoit Dan, and Patrick from France for their help with this volume.

Enjoy this volume and hopefully 15 will be around before the end of the summer.

And again, no bootlegging! This shit is free, free, free!

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Kogar the Swinging Ape

WHAT A WAY TO GO GO

Narcotics: Pit Of Despair Part 1

Narcotics: Pit Of Despair Part 2

The exciting conclusion.

Jungle 45 of the Week!

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Bobby Darin?!

HOMER AND JETHRO

HOMER AND JETHRO IN PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA

Mix 'N' Match

My records are all in storage at the moment, which severely limits my ability to pitch in, but there's no way I'm going to sit out "Homer & Jethro Month" in its entirety. So here's a relatively early (1954) photo with a relatively late (1970) track that doesn't relate to it. And just so you know, digging out that magazine got me a fat lip when the box it was in slid off the stack and pasted me one in the chops! The things I do for you people...

You Smell Like Turtles.m4a

I Love Your Pizza

Homer & Jethro - I Love Your Pizza (2:49)

Keepin' America Beautiful

Waylon & Willie - Luckenbach, Texas

Homer and Jethro

I Don't Think My Gal Loves Me Anymore
She Thinks I Don't Care

We Didn't Make It Through The Night

We Didn't Make It Through The Night

I Don't Flirt Anymore

In 1954, Hank Snow sent I Don't Hurt Anymore to the top of the country music charts.

Several years later, Homer & Jethro lampooned it with I Don't Flirt Any More on their Wanted For Murder lp (1966).

Homer & Jethro - I Don't Hurt Anymore (2:18)

Get Down, and Do The Do

"We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these motherfuckers."

-Dock Ellis, in a clubhouse speech to his teammates before a 1974 game against the Cincinnati Reds in which he plunked the first three batters he faced (Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Dan Driessen, for those of you keeping score at home).

Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds - Get Down

Howlin' Wolf - Do The Do

Quotation taken from Dan Epstein's essential new baseball tome Big Hair and Plastic Grass .

Look At That Moon!

Carl Perkins (45)

Jungle 45 of the Week

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Here is the first in a continuing series of various "jungle" themed 45's.

Collect 'em all!

Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyeballs

Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyeballs

Going Back To The Village Of Love

Nathaniel Mayer - Village Of Love (45)

Middle Aged Teenager

Here it is - one of my all time favorite Homer & Jethro cuts.

Homer & Jethro - Middle Aged Teenager (2:17)


Photo courtesy of Flickr user guyman22.

FAST SILVER METEOR

The Silver Meteor was a streamliner of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
It served the South from 1939 until 1971.

Jimmy Haynie - The Fast Silver Meteor

Homer and Jethro

If Dreams Come True
I Want To Be Happy
Melody From Raymond
Don't Be That Way
It's All Right With Me
Autumn Leaves
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover
Around The World In 80 Days
Homer And Jethro Boogie
Tico Tico
Nanner Puddin'
I've Found A New Baby

The Chimp's Jamboree!

Jethro Burns, Crimefighter

Homer and Jethro played on the March of Dimes telethon in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1965. Our friend Ron Kellum was there. This is his story.

Camera: Debbie D Fountain

Interviewer: Bill Judkins

Martinis: Matt Fiveash

Filmed on location at Great Jones Cafe, New York City.

Homer and Jethro

Mister Sandman

Instro Inferno

Cool compilation by J.R. Williams available for download!!

The Gories Are Coming

July 29, 30 and 31st! New York City.

On The Air

By Listener Greg!!

WFMU

The Ginchiest

Ed Kookie Byrnes - Like I Love You

Politically Incorrect Corner

The_Fabulous_Pearls_-_Jungle_Bunny

The_Dazzlers_-_OO_-_Clazy!

Homer and Jethro's neighbors (some guys from Lubbock and Memphis and two Hookers)

If you are looking at this website, then in all likelihood you are an obsessive-compulsive weirdo who alphabetizes his, her or its records. So you probably know that without these guys to their immediate left and right, there would be nothing to keep your Homer and Jethro records from falling down.

Buddy Holly - Crying, Waiting, Hoping

The Hombres - Let It Out

Earl Hooker - Guitar Rag

John Lee Hooker - Baby Don't Go

Professor Longhair

Hey Now Baby

Homer and Jethro and June and Johnny

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

Morbid Magicians, Demented Doctors & Sinister Swamis

Coming This Monday, May 17th from 8-11 PM at the Observatory in Brooklyn: Prof. Morte from the Silver Scream Spookshow will be giving an illustrated lecture on the history and future of the Spookshow. Check the links for more info. See you there.