New York's A Lonely Town (mp3)
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Benefit For Japan At Union Pool
This just in from the Underthings:
Hey! It's a big rock-n-roll event for a very worthy cause.
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
THE UNION POOL BENEFIT FOR JAPAN
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue (corner of Meeker)
Brooklyn, NY
Proceeds going to AmeriCares (americares.org) and Direct Relief International (directrelief.org) to support their continuing disaster relief efforts in Japan.
Doors at 4 PM.
Admission is $10, includes one raffle ticket (additional raffle tickets are $2 each). Raffle prizes donated by The Great Jones Cafe, Harefield Road, Academy Records, The Richardson, Norton Records, Permanent Records, and more!
Emcee: WFMU's GAYLORD FIELDS
With appearances by these great bands:
NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS
THE A-BONES
THE BACK SISIS
THE LIVE ONES
MIGHTY FINE
THE DIXONS
THE UNDERTHINGS (with a special guest!)
DJ sets by WFMU's Dave the Spazz, WFMU's Gaylord Fields, WMBR's John Funke, DJ Shimmy, and DJ Kongress.
Plus, a rock-n-roll tag sale with records, t-shirts, posters, and more! With items donated by Guitar Wolf, Superchunk, the Jet Boys, Jackie and the Cedrics, Super Snazz, and a lot of other great bands.
See List Here
Special thanks to Ron Kellum for supplying the art work (see the very spiffy flyer that's attached).
Please spread the word high and wide and come on out to support a good cause.
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On The Air With Greg Cartwright Vol. 4
Greg stopped by the Ichiban studios on his way home from the Allentown 45 only Record Fair and played us some of his best tracks.
1-Sammy Johns & The Devilles - Words Won't Come My Way
2-Dynettes - New Guy
3-Sandy Salisbury - Do Unto Others
4-Troggs - Meet Jaqueline
5-Grifs - Catch A Ride
6-Nick Harris & The Sound Barriers - Big Nick
7-Phil & The Frantics - Til You Get What You Want
8-Grainger Hunt - Noah
9-Nobody's Children - Good Times
10-Countdowns - You Know I Do
11-David Coleman - Drown My Heart
12-Majestics - Oasis
13-Andy Anderson - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You
14-Fabuliers - The Night Belongs To You
15-Dion - Spoonful
16-Freddie Haeffner - Steady Me Baby
17-Lime - Soul Kitchen
18-Johnny Tropea - Jet Set
19-Shadden & The King Lears - Baby It's Too Late
20-Werps - Love Is A Fire
21-The Entertainers - Ginza
22-Dick Watson Five - I'll Make It Up Some Other Way
23-Doc & The Interns - Baby I Know
24-G.L. Crockett - Every Hour Every Day
25-Johnny Tropea - Fort Lee Ramble
26-The Sty-Lettes - Too Far To Turn Around
27-Emil O'Conner - There's A Time
28-Wilson Pickett - Baby Call On Me
29-Beethoven 4 - Sets My Soul On Fire
30-Converts - Don't Leave Me
31-Gene Clark - I Found You
32-Druids Of Stonehenge - Speed
33-Lloyd Green - Panic (The Trip)
Tune In! (mp3)
Vol. 1
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Vol. 3
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If You Ain't Gonna Take It Off....
Bobby Jenkins - If You Ain't Gonna Take It Off
Above: Jane Russell, 1953. So long, Jane (1921 - 2011).
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Now Playing At The Fool's Paradise Twin
Brought to you by Count Reeshard
The Day The Earth Stood Still
First contact
B/W
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Preparation X (MP3)
Farris Garland & The Lonesome Valley Boys - Preparation X
I have no idea who Farris Garland is or was, but he deserves to be remembered for one of the most remarkable truck driving songs ever recorded. Preparation X is his deliriously cockeyed tribute to Preparation H, the hemorrhoid medication that's been around since the mid 1930s.
For the song, he shrewdly changed the name of the product to Preparation X, no doubt in an attempt to protect the Garland family fortune from Big Pharma's predatory legal sharks.
Since I don't expect I'll ever revisit the subject of hemorrhoid medication here on the blog, I should probably go ahead and mention Dave Dudley's Rolaids, Doan's Pills And Preparation H, a greasy 1980 release that somehow wound up being a minor hit on the Billboard chart. If you have the inclination and a strong stomach to go with it, you can check it out on YouTube.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Six (remastered)
Sorry for the delay in getting this finished!
Part of the problem was the winter blahs setting in (sadly, the time when I have the most time to do stuff like this is also the time when I really don't feel like doing it!), and the other problem I was running in to was finding decent version of the songs (thus the "remastered" part!).
I think this version is a bit better than the version that already exists. There are a few songs with infinitely better sounding files like a pristine copy of Slide Her Under the Door. It almost sounds TOO good. I was so used to the version on the Wavy Gravy LP (which was taken from a cassette tape!), that this new version took some getting used to.
The other thing I'm most proud of is the Psychedelic masterpiece that Michael Deforge came up with for the cover of this edition. There are more ideas per square inch in this piece that I get lost in it every time I look at it. As part of the download, I've also included the original that he sent me so you can really get a good look at it.
For information, or to see more of his artwork check out http://www.kingtrash.com/
As usual, Adam Fitch put everything together art wise. Thanks to him and the people who helped finding some of the better versions of mp3's.
Next up will be volume 1-3 which will have artwork by French artist Slim Gil DeLuxe (1 + 2) and J.R. Williams (3).
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Elizabeth and Richard
Elizabeth Taylor has checked out on us after an amazing career that managed to embody the heights of high glamour and the depths of horrifying vulgarity, sometimes all at once. There will be plenty of well-written obituaries and career overviews to come; our job at Ichiban on this sombre occasion is to share with you this tribute to the most famous champions of drunken matrimony and amour fou ever to walk the planet.
John and Marsha - Elizabeth and Richard
Thanks to Rex, hero to morons everywhere, for hipping me to this record some years ago.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Hillbilly Hades
Texas Bill Strength - Hillbilly Hades (3:07)
In 1955, Eddie Dean had the biggest hit of his career with a maudlin effort called I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven. The song details Dean's dream about about the aftermath of his own death and his experiences of being welcomed into heaven, where he encounters all his favorite deceased country stars. In 1961, Tex Ritter revived it and had a hit with it as well. You can see Tex doing it live over on YouTube. Unfortunately, the embedding feature on the clip has been disabled.
Texas Bill Strength's Hillbilly Hades is a slyly hilarious parody that came out in 1970.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thank You Friends!
Thanks to everyone who pledged during our 2011 marathon! Special thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible. Here's to one more year.
Bo Diddley - Road Runner (mp3)
How's Your Boogaloo?
Today on Fool's Paradise with Rex: TWO lucky grand prize winners will receive Latin-Flavor Instros PLUS Vol. 0-7 of Instro Inferno compiled by the great J.R. Williams!!! Get in the drawing for a pledge $75 or more. You'll also get your choice of any DJ premium AND our new Tim Biskup T-Shirt!
1 - 3 PM EST
Pledge online
Call 800-989-9368
Click HERE for a sneak preview of Instro Inferno Vol. 0!
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The Champs - Caramba! (mp3)
Boots Brown - Cerveza!
The Revels - Conga Twist!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Go Get A Wig
Tomorrow is your last chance to score Rex's Wiggin' Out CD!!! Make a $75 pledge from 1-3 PM EST during Fool's Paradise and it's yours.
Johnny Niles - Wig Job (mp3)
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tonight On Music To Spazz By
Your pledge of $75 automatically gets you Everybody Back To Bingo's Bachelor Pad + a chance to win Vols 1-4 of Strummin' Mental!!!!
Mysterians - A-Bomb (mp3)
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Ichiban One-Liners 2
The Windsors - Saki Rock (mp3)
Only 3 more days left to snag the Ichiban One-Liners 2 CD premium!!! Pledge Now.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
The Who Live on "Music Hall De France" 1966
Some Ultra-Rare French TV footage of very early Who doing "Barbara Ann" & "My Generation". More rare clips from French TV are available at my blog Bedazzled.tv
Jack Benny Donates
Just a brief reminder that the WFMU Marathon continues through Sunday, 3/13. Rumor is that even Jack Benny kicked in a little folding money this year.
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