The Money and The Time

I was sitting around listening to Lefty Frizzell. This is something that happens quite often. I noticed that he cut quite a few different versions (with different guests, backup singers, bands and even lyrics) of his first and probably best known single "If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time".

So I decided to put together all the ones I could find. This includes the demo version as well as the truncated versions that were used as intro and outro to his appearances on the U.S. armed forces sponsored "Country Music Time".

I also added in Lefty's attempt to go back to the same well with "If You Can Spare The Time (I Won't Miss The Money)" as well as a couple of versions of his song "(When Me and My Baby Go) Steppin' Out" which specifically mentions both "the money" and "the time" in its lyrics.

Click here to get the money and the time!

PS-22

Professor Julius Kelp In The Flesh

Coming This Weekend!

RIVETING

8 Weeks In A Bar Room

Ramblin' Red Bailey - Eight Weeks In A Bar Room

So here's a lightly mangled copy of Eight Weeks In A Bar Room, Ramblin' Red Bailey's woozy ode to a bout with hardcore alcoholism triggered by, what else, the departure of the woman he loved. I first heard the song, like, I assume, most of the people who know it, on the celebrated twisted country LP comp God Less America.

This Weekend At The Fool's Paradise Twin

A caveman is discovered out in the desert who proceeds to fall in love with a girl and then wreak havoc on a nearby town.  Starring Ray Dennis Steckler as Mr. Fishman.

EEGAH!

Detroit Blues: The Early 1950s

I picked this LP up for cheap a couple of weeks ago. It includes John Lee Hooker's first recording of "House Rent Boogie", recently fallen hero Eddie Kirkland's "No Shoes", "I Need $100" by One String Sam (one of those rare tracks where you see the name of the artist and the song title and think "There's no way this isn't good" and then get the record home and find out you're right), and most amazingly, Detroit Count's "Hastings Street Opera", a travelogue of the buckets o' blood that lined Detroit's pre-urban renewal main stem. Listen and learn. I guarantee you there was no guidebook to bars where the bartenders shoot everyone in there after 2 in the morning and you can get a steak sandwich that tastes like fish. The LP was in one of those heavy plastic library covers and a closer look revealed that some enterprising soul had snatched it from the New York Public Library's listening room. Whether they did it out of greed, or figuring that it was justified because one day soon the library wouldn't have a turntable, we'll never know, but in the end they did the world a favor because now it's available in the demented wilderness that we call the internet. There are a couple of annoying but brief left channel dropouts courtesy of my dying receiver, and, sadly, a skip on Bobo Jenkins's "Ten Below Zero", but it could have been a lot worse.

Baby Boy Warren - Sanafee
Baby Boy Warren - Baby Boy Blues
Baby Boy Warren - Mattie Mae
Baby Boy Warren - Chicken
Dr. Ross - Thirty Two Twenty
Bobo Jenkins - Ten Below Zero
Bobo Jenkins - Baby Don't You Want To Go
Eddie Kirkland - No Shoes
Detroit Count - Hastings Street Opera, Parts 1 & 2
L.C. Green - Remember Way Back
Big Maceo - Big City Blues
John Lee Hooker - House Rent Boogie
One String Sam - I Need $100
Brother Will Hairston - Alabama Bus

Addendum: Commenter BB points out an important fact that I forgot to mention, which is that the harmonica player on the Baby Boy Warren tracks is none other than Sonny Boy Williamson (the second Sonny Boy, aka Rice Miller, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sonny Boy Williamson Too, or Sonny Boy Williamson Also, not to be confused with the first Sonny Boy Williamson). Thanks BB!

Carolyn Brandt Is Cee Bee Beaumont

 

Rat Pfink

The Coasters - What Is the Secret of Your Success

R. Crumb On Rock 'N' Roll

    He's not generally perceived as a big fan of post-depression era pop music, but Crumb has spoken at various points of his fondness for early rock 'n' roll. And while his general distaste for hippie music has been addressed in many interviews through the years, no one has ever asked what '60s music he did like until now:


From Crumb On Others, Part One, by Alex Wood:

TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS

Robert: "Yes! Last great proletarian rock 'n' roll band. 1966 -- My Baby Does the Hanky Panky, great record. That to me was the last year there was a bunch of good, proletarian rock and roll hits on the radio. After that it was taken over by the California psychedelic thing. I just didn’t find that as interesting. That was all very middle-class. Once the Beatles became famous, then the middle class began to embrace rock 'n' roll and abandoned the kind of middle of the road sound of Bobby Rydell and Pat Boone and all that stuff. And when the middle-class embraced it, they cleaned it up, it wasn’t the same. But Tommy James was one of the last bands, and Sam The Sham, he was another one of the last ones: Wooly Bully and stuff like that."
Alex: "Did you like Little Red Riding Hood?"
Robert: "Great, great masterpiece. [laughs] But after that, I started to lose interest in rock n’ roll. The golden age of rock 'n' roll was in the 50s and for me, particularly Rockabilly. I really liked that. A lot of the rockabilly stuff was really wild and kind of scared the bourgeois, scared them."
Alex: "Like Jerry Lee Lewis?"
Robert: "Yeah, great! Great piano player. Little Richard too, excellent piano player but they’re showmen so you don’t get to hear enough piano. But going back to Tommy James, he made a psychedelic song called Crimson and Clover. Remember that? I thought that was pretty good… 'Crimson and clover, over and over…'"

Recent Additions To The Ichiban New Bin

V.A. - The Music City Story

Wanda Burt & The Crescendoes - Scheming (mp3)

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Radio On!

Staple Singers

Mr. Fine Wine did an outstanding fill-in for Sinner's Crossroads last week.  Catch it here.  Also, don't miss Kevin Nutt from Sinners Crossroads filling in for Fine Wine here.

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I've Got My Pride (MP3)

Jan Howard - I've Got My Pride

In late 1960, Jan Howard released I've Got My Pride, a fine honky-tonker authored by one of country music's greatest songwriters, her then-husband Harlan Howard. Despite the fact that it was a superb performance and a great song, it quickly disappeared without coming anywhere near the charts.

Billboard's anonymous reviewer described it this way: "She doesn't have her man, but she has her pride, is the theme of this up-tempo country weeper, handled in sparkling fashion by the thrush over strong support. A sock side by the lass." I'd say that's about the size of it.

Eddie on Elvis

Noted author and possibly the world's most perfectly developed man (now that Charles Atlas is gone) Eddie Deezen tells you about some of Mr. Presley's animal pals, right here.

BONUS! Here's more from Eddie, writing about Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

Mr.Deezen

This Weekend At The Fool's Paradise Twin

The Maniacs Are Loose! aka The Thrill Killers! (trailer)

B/W

Lemon Grove Kids Meet The Monsters (Theme)

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June Is Ray Dennis Steckler Month

Riding the Pfinkmobile

France Gall - "Das war eine schone Party" ("Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son" In German)

TRISH IN WMCA GARB

Ray Dennis Steckler

Cash Flagg and Liz Renay in the Thrill Killers

Special News Bulletin!!! (mp3)

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BLUES HANGOVER: JUNIOR

My Gal's Outa Her Tree Again (MP3)

Johnny Selph - My Gal's Outa Her Tree Again

More Johnny Selph craziness can be heard over here.

KING

Sweet Little 17

Former Rifleman star Chuck Connors helps Berry Gordy celebrate his daughter's 17th birthday. Los Angeles, 1971. From the Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library.

Ron Haydock

AKA Vin Saxon

AKA Lonnie Lord

AKA Don Sheppard

AKA Jerry Lee Vincent

"I'm out for kicks in life, doing whatever I want whenever I want, on the move like there's no tomorrow, I'm living like there's only today. Yeah, that was the right word for what I wanted out of life -- kicks. And I never had to look very far or very hard to find them. Somehow, they always managed to find me."

99_Chicks

This Weekend At The Fool's Paradise Twin

Wild Guitar (movie)


B/W

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies (movie)

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Ray Dennis Steckler

In 1962, Ray Dennis Steckler was a prop man, an assistant cameraman and director of photography on The World's Greatest Sinner pt. 1,  pt. 2 starring Timothy Carey!

Frank Zappa - World's Greatest Sinner (mp3)
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LONNIE LORD

June Is Ray Dennis Steckler Month

Right here on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban.

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JAMO JIVE

BULEE "SLIM" GAILLARD'S ARGOT

JUST ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN THE SAGA OF THE WAVE-O-REENEE YACK-RA .

Now Playing At The Fool's Paradise Twin

Man With The X-Ray Eyes


b/w

Bucket Of Blood

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I Want To Be Loved (MP3)

Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper - I Want To Be Loved

GENE VINCENT IN CHICAGO 1957

DJ Olivier Dance Party

Photo by Le Plastic

Lou Christie - Guitars And Bongos (mp3)
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Recent Additions To The Ichiban New Bin

Bettie O'Brien - She'll Be Gone (mp3)

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The Pupils!

The Pupils - Live @ La Mechanique Ondulatoire 5/23/2011

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SUNDAY IN THE SOUTH

Dolly's A Mule Skinner?

She is!

Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues

Now Playing At The Fool's Paradise Twin

B/W

Movie

Now featuring Lawdy Miss Clawdy food products!

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ASTRA-DOME

Menacing Beatnik

Behold the super menacing qualities of The Champs' Beatnik 45, slowed down to 33 by someone on YouTube.

Freddie King Live At The Travis County Jail

Here's some really amazing footage of Freddie King live at the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. Filmmaker Ric Sternberg sets the scene.

"Freddie was in Austin to play at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Richard Halpin (Jail Arts & Education Project) got Freddie and his brother Bennie to play for the inmates at the Travis Co. Jail. The prisoners loved it. So did the musicians. I shot it with help from William McLellan & Linda Evans. It was shot with a single tube camera and recorded on a 1/2" reel-reel portapack. It is funky old video but a record of a terrific performance and selfless act by the late great artist, Freddie King."

Coming This Weekend!

Henry Moore - Let The World End Tomorrow (mp3)
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A Girl That Works In A Bar (MP3)

Ann Clark - A Girl That Works In A Bar (2:52)

A few days ago I posted the B-side of this record, an excellent murder tune called He'll Never Cheat No More and the Drunken Hobo was prompted to ask about the flip side. Here it is, a rather sad tale of a disillusioned booze hound and her job at one of the local watering holes.

Squaresville

Coming This Summer

Sat Jul 30 5:00-10:00  FREE!

Ponderosa Stomp: She's Got the Power! A Girl Group Extravaganza
including Tribute to Ellie Greenwich
LaLa Brooks (The Crystals)
Lesley Gore
Arlene Smith (The Chantels)
Baby Washington
Barbara Harris (The Toys)
Beverly Warren
Brenda Reid, Lillian Walker (The Exciters)
Louise Murray (The Jaynetts)
Margaret Ross (The Cookies)
Maxine Brown
Nanette Licori (Reparata and the Delrons)
Peggy Santiglia Davison, Jiggs (The Angels)
Backup singers:
Toni Wine (vocal arrangements)
Jean Thomas-Fox
Lesley Miller
Mikie Harris
Susan Collins
Ula Hedwig
Jeremy Chatzky, musical director
Presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation
Damrosch Park Bandshell NYC

The Exciters - He's Got The Power (mp3)
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Snake Radio

Fort Worth, 1964

Via El Caganer.

A motorist gets his tank filled at a Fort Worth gas station in 1964. You used to get an awful lot for your 26.9 cents a gallon.

TEEN-AGE RASH