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Monday, September 2, 2013

Star Time



B.B. Kings Blues Club is celebrating the Girl Group Sound this coming Sunday, September 8th!!  Be there for an amazing line up of the original ladies behind all the hits.  Ichiban favorites Baby Washington, Maxine Brown, Louise Murray, Lillian Walker, Margaret Ross, Barbara Harris, Toni Wine, Nanette Licari and Beverly Warren.  The ladies will be backed up by the Boyfriends, featuring members of Yo La Tengo, Loser's Lounge and the Uptown Horns.  Directed by Jeremy Chatzky and produced by Jill Sternheimer.  WFMU's Gaylord Fields and Dave the Spazz will MC.  Don't miss this historic event!!


Cookies - Up On The Roof





Sunday, September 1, 2013

Rose Maddox Month


September is Rose Maddox Month here on Ichiban.  

Wild Wild Young Men 1955

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

On Any Sunday



Pace Magazine

Friday, August 23, 2013

The Guitar Sheik

Get a load of this fantastic 1955 photo borrowed from the pages of Jet magazine.  Bobby Walker, in full sheik regalia, strolls the streets of Philadelphia serenading the lucky citizens with his guitar.  Photo by Gaston DeVigne.

She's The Girl On The Billboard...



Here's the answer song to the record posted by Debbie yesterday.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

By Request


Del Reeves sings Girl On The Billboard

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Louis Jordan For President!

It's only 2013 and I'm already tired of hearing about the next Presidential election.  Now if Louis Jordan were in the race, things might be different.  Via the fantastic JET archives.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Take a trip to Monkey Jungle!



"Recycled" Records


Self-explanatory...to listen to the mix, CLICK HERE.

Track list:

Ralph Smedley & the Breathers - Suffocate
Ernie Freeman - Jamboree
Duke Mitchell - The Lion
The Spinners - Boomerang
The Sandabs - Crab Louie
Larry Verne - Tubby Tilly

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Surfing Hollow Days (1960)


Sunday, August 11, 2013

Who Is That Knocking?



1 "Boodle It" Wiggins: Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In
2 Rex Allen: Knock Knock Rattle
3 Faye Adams: The Hammer (Keeps A Knockin')
4 The El Dorados: At My Front Door
5 Fletcher Henderson & His Orch.: Knock, Knock, Who's There
6 Boys And Girls Together: Knock Knock
7 Jimmy Work: Don't Knock (Just Come On In)
8 Bob Dylan: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
9 Earl Scott: Stop You're Knocking
10 Juanita Nixon: Stop Knockin'
11 Paula Watson: Stop That Knockin' At My Heart
12 Victor: Stop A Knockin' (courtesy Tom Taber)
13 Eddie Hodges: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
14 The Sonics: Keep A' Knock'in
15 Eileen Todd: Knock, Knock, Knockin'
16 Aimi Stewart: Knock On Wood
17 Ike & Tina Turner: A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)
18 Randy Rudolph: I Kept A-Knocking
19 Legendary Stardust Cowboy: Who's Knocking On My Door
20 The Genies: Who's That Knocking
21 The Genies: No More Knockin'
22 Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: Keep A-Knockin'
23 Smiley Lewis: I Hear You Knocking
24 Billy Adams: You Heard Me Knocking
25 The Pastels: Don't Knock
26 Pete Best Four: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
27 The Stereos: The Big Knock
28 Half Japanese: Knock On Wood
29 The Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knocking
30 Billy Fury: Don't Knock Upon My Door
31 Carol Fran: Knock Knock
32 Carol Fran: I Quit My Knocking
33 Conway Twitty: Knock Three Times
34 Bernd Spier: Klopf Dreimal
35 Grazina: I Ain't Gonna Knock On Your Door
36 Harpers Bizarre: Knock On Wood
37 Little Richard: Keep A Knockin'
38 Pat Shannon: Knock Knock (Who's There)
39 Nilsson & Cher: A Love Like Yours
40 The Go-Betweens: Knock Knock
41 The Green Beans: Knock On My Door (Tap On My Window)
42 The Isley Brothers: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
43 The Orlons: Knock! Knock! (Who's There)
44 The Primates: Knock On My Door
45 Brent Dowe: Knock Three Times
46 Death: Keep On Knockin
47 The Humane Society: Knock, Knock

KNOCK KNOCK

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Surf Crazy 1959


Slippery When Wet 1958


Bruce Brown shot 8mm films of surfers when he was stationed in Hawaii back in the 1950's.  After moving back to California, Dale Velzy gave him $5000 to shoot a 16mm film promoting the Velzy surf team.  Brown narrates and Bud Shank provides the soundtrack.  The goofy narration in these films is what makes it for me.


Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Sandals


The Endless Summer  (mp3s)

Side 1:
Scrambler
6-Pak
Driftin'
Theme From The Endless Summer
Good Greeves
Decoy

Side 2:
Out Front
Wild As The Sea
Trailing
Jet Black
Lonely Road
TR-6

August Is Bruce Brown Month


Sunday, August 4, 2013

Louis Armstrong

Happy birthday to Louis Armstrong, born 112 years ago today (08/04/1901) in the world's most musical city, New Orleans.  In 1961, he worked with another musical genius, Duke Ellington, on the soundtrack for the film Paris Blues, which featured Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Diahann Carroll and Joanne Woodward.  In addition to his soundtrack contributions, Armstrong appeared in the movie, playing a character, a trumpet player naturally, called Wild Man Moore.  Here's the song by that name from the soundtrack.

Duke Ellington featuring Louis Armstrong  -  Wild Man Moore


Photo: the Jet magazine archives.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Goodbye Slim Harpo

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ridin' with the Grumpy King: Broderick Crawford's 'Highway Patrol'



 

“Twenty-one-fifty to headquarters…What’s your ten-twenty?....Ten-four…Twenty-one-fifty by…”

 
If that numeral sequence is all Greek to you, you’re probably not familiar with the most utilitarian cop-show of all time. By comparison, Dragnet was high style, its dialogue sculpted like stanzas of Milton, Jack Webb’s Joe Friday a commanding presence every bit as authorial as Orson Wells. If The Untouchables was noir, Dragnet the boiled-harder reduction of a Forties radio drama, then Highway Patrol (1955-59) was the crime series that dispensed with all pretense and got down, most expediently, to the genre’s basic hood-bull transactions.

It helps that Broderick Crawford’s Lt. Dan Matthews is a gruff superior whose barked orders, issued from flapping jowls, betray nothing but an impatient drive to wrap the case pronto. Invariably, this means a quick trip to the wall map and a plan to “Put roadblocks here, here and here! Tell Twenty-one-ten to meet us there! I’m off to Centerville!” Matthews then hops into Car Twenty-one-fifty (a giant Buick) and burns rubber down open roads leading to Centerville and Capital City—which are, in reality, the palm-dotted country lanes of an as yet unsprawled San Fernando Valley.

The show’s thugs are generally great types: uncaring gunsels who’d just as soon plug a human obstacle as park illegally outside the gas station they’re robbing, and a fair amount of them are tough, good-looking dames who’d easily make a Miriam Linna bad-girls compendium. All, of course, are brought to justice, thanks to the unbeatable combination of roadblocks and Matthews’ bulky pursuit; Crawford’s weight doesn’t permit long chases, but he’s light on his tiny feet and has no problem hacking through the brush of a chaparral canyon in his dark suit and hard shoes if it means a brief shootout and swift apprehension of the perp.

Time constraints make mercy a luxury Matthews can’t afford. Wounded baddies are left to lie in the dirt, clutching exit holes. Victims are consoled with “Sorry about the loss of your husband and son, Mrs. Johnson. Now let’s get back to headquarters!” Nor is empathy or imagination wasted on the episode titles of the half-hour series: “Car Theft,” “Plane Crash,” “Released Convict.” An obvious promo tie-in with some SoCal aeronautics firm explains such riveting installments as “Desert Copter,” “Mountain Copter” and “Blast Area Copter.”

We’re talking functional, get-it-over-and-done TV. No brooding detectives, no smart-ass junior dicks, no quirky Goths manning under-lit crime labs. And each show closes with Crawford, anxious to get to his favorite after-work watering-hole, delivering a terse public-service announcement couplet—“If you care to drive, drive with care” or “Leave your blood at the blood bank, not on the highway…” Ten-four.

Now playing: on MGM DVD’s and the Antenna TV channel. Sample show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sA5hiI7ZI

 

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Slim Harpo LIVE!

via oldies.com
David Kearns and Joe Drago recorded Slim playing live at the Sage Avenue Armory back in 1961.  The sound isn't the greatest, but it's all we've got.  Here's a sample.

Slim Harpo Live - "I'm A King Bee", "Got Love If You Want It" and "When The Saints Go Marching In"

Junco Partner

via Billboard.com
Tune it to Music To Spazz By tonight, when Dave the Spazz welcomes Lily Keber, the director of Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius Of James Booker.  Catch a screening Sunday or Monday as part of the Sound + Vision festival at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center then head to the Great Jones where WFMU DJ, Matt Fiveash will be serving up unlimited Abitas.  Also, don't miss Charles Bradley: Soul Of America, the story of Daptone's latest star, which opens the festival Friday at 6:30.  (Also streaming via itunes and highly recommended).



  

Monday, July 22, 2013

That's Alright Baby (Don't Start Cryin' Now)


Don't Start Cryin' Now (1961)

Slim Harpo


Blues Hangover (1960)
b/w
What A Dream 

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Are In-Laws Really Outlaws?


1 Art Linkletter: mother-in-law joke
2 Calvin Arnold: Mama-In-Law
3 Jimmy Witherspoon: Don't Ever Move A Woman Into Your House
4 Champion Jack Dupree: Mother-In-Law Blues
5 Bing Crosby: The Whistler's Mother In Law
6 B.K. Anderson: Mother-In-Law Cha Cha
7 Ernie K-Doe: Mother In Law (incorp. alt. & studio chatter)
8 Gary Paxton: Mother-In-Law
9 Ernie K-Doe: My Mother-In-Law (Is In My Hair Again)
10 Bo Diddley: Husband-In-Law
11 Jim Nesbitt: Husbands-In-Law
12 Charlie Rich: Hawg Jaw
13 Champion Jack Dupree wtih Mr. Bear: Lonely Road Blues
14 Jamo Thomas: Jive Mother-In-Law
15 Little Junior Parker: Mother-In-Law Blues
16 Kursaal Flyers: Monster-In-Law
17 Kui Lee: Ain't No Big Thing
18 Lee Perry: Mother-In-Law
19 Lucas & Mike Cotton Sound: Mother-In-Law
20 Jim Nesbitt: Mother-In-Law
21 Chiquita: Father-In-Law
22 James Spencer: In-Law Trouble
23 Marion Harris: Brother-In-Law Dan
24 Paul Peek: Brother-In-Law (He's A Moocher)
25 Peetie Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law
26 The Nashville Teens: Devil-In-Law
27 The Blossoms: Son-In-Law
28 Louise Brown: Son-In-Law
29 The Satintones: You'd Make A Fine Son-In-Law
30 Edward Gates White: Mother-In-Law
31 Mack McQuire: Mother-In-Law Blues
32 Rod Bernard: My Old Mother-In-Law
33 The Allen Brothers: Mother-In-Law Blues
34 The Misfits: My Mother-In-Law
35 The Volumes: Oh My Mother-In-Law
36 Clarence Carter: Mother-In-Law
37 The Brochures: My In-Laws Are Outlaws
38 Sir Douglas Quintet: Are In-Laws Really Outlaws?


Friday, July 12, 2013

Mondo Topless Radio Extravaganza

Thanks to my pal Phil for sending along these fantastic screen captures of radio shots from Russ Meyer's Mondo Topless











Thursday, July 11, 2013

James Moore aka Slim Harpo

1924-1970
Slim's first record was produced by Jay Miller for Ernie Young's Excello Records out of Nashville.  Jay claims it was his idea for Slim to have a gimmicky, nasal sounding voice.  "I'm A King Bee" b/w "I Got Love If You Want It" is a good place to start.


Friday, July 5, 2013

July Is Slim Harpo Month


Thursday, July 4, 2013

Freedom Wins Again


Thanks to Jim Blanchard for sharing this patriotic themed comp!

Get it!


Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Adiós, Black Belt Jones


From FUNKY CRIMES: A radio spot for BLACK BELT JONES (R.I.P. Jim Kelly), plus "Get It" by Wilmer & the Dukes.

Get it, Jim...

Sunday, June 30, 2013

You better open up your door...

Thanks, Debbie D, for asking me to sit in on Jerry Lee Lewis month. I had a blast! I'll leave you all with a bit of Star-Club madness:

The morning after Saturday night...

Friday, June 28, 2013

The Dark Side of the Force is strong in this one


What do I spend my spare cash on?  Commissioned artwork of my favorite musicians meeting fictional characters.   'Cuz I'm a nerd that way.

Illustration by JT Dockery

Jerry Lee Lewis - FULL version of "Jukebox" from the London Sessions

In one of those cases of "clueless producers completely botching incredible Jerry Lee Lewis performances" (the 60s and 70s are full of these unfortunate occurances) - here is a completely mesmerizing version of "Jukebox" from his 1973 album The London Sessions.  Near as I can tell the released version, itself one of the highlights of the 2 LP set, is an almost randomly edited version of this 8 minute drunken biographical yodeling rant, with TWO great solo breaks and enough improvised asides, hollers, and hilarious band directions to fill an entire mid 60s SMASH LP.  Considering the overall sloppiness of the Session recordings in general, how this recording was deemed unfit for public exposure is beyond this Ichibaner's comprehension - this + "Headstone on My Grave" would make for one of the greatest sides of uncut Jerry Lee ever.

Stop what you're doing and give yourself eight minutes to pay attention to this one (actually 15, because you want to take it twice, killer) and if ANYONE can tell me where to acquire a hard copy of this recording in better thanYoutube fidelity, please inform me in the blog posthaste.  Near as I can tell it's not on the Complete London Sessions CDs or any Bear Family Box Set.  The only reference I can find to its existence might be on an Argentinian Jerry Lee fansite, but then again my researches are pretty half-assed, and my half assing is not nearly as genius as Jerry Lee's.

Think about it:







"How Can The Devil Save Souls?!"



Sam Phillips and Jerry Lee talk Jesus, 1957

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

"The heartaches that pulled Jerry though..."

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Jerry Lee Lewis month


In the mid 60s, the Killer would play anywhere that would have him. Silver Dollar Saloon at Terry Town, Loretto TN, July 1965.

Postcard via JERRYLEELEWIS.org

Saturday, June 22, 2013

The Dubious Career of Kid Chocolate

By Ken Eppstein

Friday, June 21, 2013

"His soul-shattering show..."

Review of JLL show, Town Hall, Birmingham, England. April 20, 1964. Via Graham Knight.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Who was the last man standing?


The Killer and Keef. The Ritz Club, NYC. January 29, 1981. Photo via JERRYLEELEWIS.org

Monday, June 17, 2013

"I’m no angel, but I’m a pretty nice guy.”


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Autobiography

Friday, June 14, 2013

The Many Moods Of Jerry Lee

 Thanks to Rob Santos for the link!

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The Remains

Thank You

Resolute

 

1969. Climbing back.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Wine Me Up


Jerry Lee Lewis  -  Wine Me Up 

Greg Cartwright 7

Studio C
Greg Cartwright returns with a stack of wax for Ichiban!

Listen now!

Mello-Tones - Twistin' Guitar
Mel Street - Moonshine Man
Elmer Lush - Tavern Song
Marvin Rainwater - Gamblin' Man
Buck Jones - Box Of Grass
Charlie Starr - Solitary Woman
Red West - My Babe
Wild Bill Cooksy - Mississippi Hippie
Ray Griff - Sugar From My Candy
Mel Tillis - Loco Weed
Rose Maddox - What Good Will It Do
Eddie Noack - Shotgun House
Ilene Rushing - Shake It Baby
Dean Greer - Who Can That Fool Be
Freddy McDuff - Jack Daddy
Red West - Bossa Nova Mommza
Les Waldroop - Watergate Bugs
George Darro - Eye'n You Up
Jerry McGill - I Wanna Make Sweet Love
Betty Foley - Old Moon
Ricky Wilkins - Hang Loose
Loyd Howell - Truck Driving Jack
Zookie & The Potentates - Bachelors Got It Made
Ray Smith - Let Yourself Go
Jerry Reed - Twist-A-Roo
Mello-Tones - Walkin' Charlie
Dennis Wheeler - Rock Bottom



Self-portrait: "My name is Jerry Lee Fuck-up Lewis"

"There Stands The Glass"

One of the Killer's greatest honky tonk performances.

"'Cause I love the women. Women. Women."

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

El Rancho Hotel, Sacramento, CA, August 21, 1976



Via JERRYLEELEWIS.org

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