The Higher We Get The More Informal We Are

Do Wacka Do!
Roger Miller hamming it up on TV in 1966.
Complete with genius Thumbs Carlisle sportin' a nifty Batman shirt!!!

(Excuse the picture-less first 10 seconds or so)

Editor's note: see the entire show here!

Country A Go-Go

 

With Debbie D

The Frontiersman - Hi-Pardner

The Gee Cees - Buzz Saw Twist

Bonnie Owens - My Hi-Fi To Cry By 

Wilda Humphrey - Hot Pants 

Kenni Huskey - Number One Heel

Baldemar Huerta Con Los Romanceros - No Seas Cruel 

The Ventures - Guitar Twist

Gene O’Quin - I Don’t Know Anything About Love

Marvin Rainwater - Hot And Cold

Chuck Berry & His Combo - Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Shirley Jean Wiley - Long Tall Sally

Sunny Gale - Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad

Speedy West - Rippling Waters

The Hombres - Let It All Hang Out

Loretta Lynn - The Pill

Stoney Edwards - You Can’t Call Yourself Country

Roger Miller - Invitation To The Blues

Flatt & Scruggs - Folsom Prison Blues

Thumbs Carlisle - Hold It

Maddox Bros. & Rose - Milk Cow Blues

Texas Wanderers - Waitin’ At the End Of The Road

Arthur Smith - Guitar Boogie

Eddie Bonds - Rockin’ Daddy

Million Dollar Quartet - Paralyzed

Jim & Jesse - Farewell Blues 

Kenny Rogers - Daytime Friends

Batman - The Bat's Kow Tow Pt.2

IMDb:  Batman and Robin escape Catwoman's trap by hitting the precise note needed to shatter the glass chamber in which they're prisoners. They quickly get on the trail of Catwoman. The feminine feline criminal eventually "steals" the voices of Chad and Jeremy, Commissioner Gordon and talk-show host Allen Stephens. She blackmails the British government, which faces the lost of revenue from the taxes on Chad and Jeremy's performances. Batman and Robin eventually capture Catwoman and her gang, but not before Batman and Catwoman express obvious affection for each other. Written by Bill Koenig

*Note Catwoman's shout out to Ichiban's Mr. March, Roger Miller!

Today's Ichiban Mix

With Boss Jock Mark Ehmcke!

1. Bad Little Woman - Shadows of Knight (#91)
2. See See Rider - Eric Burden and the Animals (#85)
3. My Uncle Used To Love Me Then She Died - Roger Miller (#82)
4. All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield (#81)
5. Hurray For Hazel - Tommy Roe (#75)
6. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators (#60)
7. All Strung Out - Nino Tempo and April Stevens (#52)
8. Sugar and Spice - Cryan Shames (#51)
9. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - Standells (#48)
10. With A Girl Like You - The Troggs (#45)
11. Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees (#43)
12. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five (#42)
13. 7 & 7 Is - Love (#38)
14. Open the Door to Your Heart - Darrell Banks (#31)
15. 96 Tears - Question Mark and the Mysterians - (#25)
16. Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond (#24)
17. Wipeout - Surfaris (#20)
18. Black Is Black - Los Bravos (#18)
19. Turn Down Day - The Cyrkle (#16)
20. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks (#15)
21. Working In A Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey (#13)
22. Born A Woman - Sandy Posey (#12)
23. Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett (#7)
24. Bus Stop - The Hollies (#5)
25. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes (#1)

Country A Go-Go

 

With Debbie D

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’

Lawrence Welk - Gentle On My Mind

Freddie Hart - Snatch It and Grab It

Barbara Pittman - Handsome Man

Rose Maddox - Wild Wild Young Men

Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover

Jerry Reed - Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right

Bobby Smith and The Boys From Shiloh - Tractor For Sale

Cal Smith - The Lord Knows I’m Drinking

Merle Travis - Merle’s Boogie Woogie

Johnny Horton - Lover’s Rock

The Collins Kids - Hop Skip and Jump

Cliff Carlisle - You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone

Bill Justis - Raunchy

Charlie Rich - Another Place I Can’t Go

Lefty Frizzell - Just Can’t Live That Fast (Any More)

Buddy Holly - Blue Days, Black Nights

Marvin Rainwater - Gotta Go Get My Baby

Rusty Adams - Hippie From Mississippi

Thumbs Carllile - Candy Girl

Roger Miller - A World So Full Of Love

Ernest Tubb - Half A Mind

Faron Young - That’s The Way I Feel

Ray Price - Invitation To The Blues

George Jones - Nothing Can Stop

Jim & Jesse - Farewell Blues

Joe Tex: The Dapper Dropper

"If I were a disease - Dr. Feelgood would cure me!"

King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, JT

Joe was a master of the shout out. Whether shouting out to Rufus Thomas at the end of his "Walking the Dog" rip, "Looking for My Pig", or telling Elvis to "get it!" in his "Heartbreak Hotel" cover, JT always gave credit where it was due. 

The Ichiband of merry posters are huge fans of "I'm a Man", where Joe name checks B.B. King, Rufus Thomas, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Willie Mays and Roger Miller. I think it's been posted four/ five times this month, but what the heck, here it is again.

The flip of SYSLJFM!!!!

But that's far from the end of the story - there are numerous examples of Tex giving his fellow soul singers some love in song. There was the 1970 single "You're Right, Ray Charles", wherein RC tells JT that he needs to stop singing slow songs and rock it out. Considering Ray's tendencies to cover "Eleanor Rigby" around this time I'm not entirely sure that this song makes any sense, but since Joe wrote from life, I wonder what the conversation described in this song was really like.

On "Woman Stealer", Joe, B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland and Little Johnny Taylor have gotten together to stop woman stealers from stealing women.  Joe goes upside somebody's head yet again, but at least this time he's doing it to dudes. 

But the ultimate Joe Tex name drop song didn't get released until a 1985 UK double LP called Different Strokes, even though it's a 1970 recording. More on this comp in a few days. The song is a cover of a 1955 Ruth Brown hit, "I Can See Everybody's Baby". 

Joe's version is radically different. He turns it into a travelogue - Ruth sticks close to home looking for her baby, but Joe travels all over the US looking for his. And he just can't find her. But while he's looking, he "sees" the following women: Ray Charles', Johnny Taylor's, James Brown's (waitaminute! that's Joe Tex's woman!), Wilson Pickett's, Tom Jones', Clarence Carter's, Marvin Gaye's, Elvis Presley's, Joe Simon's, the Chambers Brothers', Sam and Dave's, Isaac Hayes', Lee Dorsey's, Bobby Bland's, Junior Walker's, Little Richard's, and Bobby Womack's.

Roger Miller Month Hangover Special!

Attention all "Whovians!" Check out this contestant on Britain's Got Talent and his... er... different approach to "King of the Road!" All I can say is that these limeys are amateurs! Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr would know how to deal with this sort of thing.

Roger Miller Meets Dino

Songs of 1964

 

By Mark Ehmcke

1. Keep Searchin' - Del Shannon

2. The Crusher - The Novas

3. Don't Bring Me Down - The Pretty Things

4. C'mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman

5. Boom Boom - The Animals

6. Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin

7. Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers

8. Don't Give Me No Lip Child - Dave Berry

9. Loose Talk - Buck Owens and Rose Maddox

10. Wishin' and Hopin' - Dusty Springfield

11. The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

12. Gonna Get Along Without You Know - Skeeter Davis

13. Laugh, Laugh - The Beau Brummels

14. You Really Got Me - The Kinks

15. Downtown - Petula Clark

16. Farmer John - The Premiers

17. Sittin' In An All Nite Cafe - Warner Mack

18. She's Not There - The Zombies

19. Can't You See That She's Mine - Dave Clark Five

20. Dang Me - Roger Miller

21. Mountain of Love - Johnny Rivers

22. The Cat - Jimmy Smith

23. Keep On Pushing - The Impressions

24. How Do You Do It - Gerry and the Pacemakers

25. Give Me 40 Acres - The Willis Brothers

26. Try It Baby - Marvin Gaye

Roger Miller Month

Oh, so it's answer songs you want, eh?  Here's one from Mr. Mike Sarne

An Englishman Sings America Swings (mp3)

The Mal Thursday Show: Laugh

 Playlist:
The Tidal Waves: Laugh
The Monkees: Laugh
The Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh
The Apolloes: Laugh in My Face
The Turtles: She Always Leaves Me Laughing
Sonny Bono: Laugh at Me
The Detroit Cobras: Laughing at You
The Ventures: Joker's Wild
The Marmalade: The Laughing Man
The Counts: Laughing Inside
The Bee Gees: And the Children Laughing
The Tropics: Laughing Again
Love: Laughing Stock
The Guess Who: Laughing
Dave Stryker: Nancy with the Laughing Face
The Kinks: Funny Face
Mike Jones Group: Funny Feeling
The Burlington Express: Funny Feeling
The Robbs: In a Funny Sort of Way
The Troggs: Miller Beer spot/Everything's Funny
Billy Childish: Dead Funny
Mary Wells: Laughing Boy
Bobby Darin: That Funny Feeling
The Reactions: Love Is a Funny Thing
The Long & The Short: Love Is a Funny Thing
The Mergers: Love, You Funny Thing
The Cramps: Don't Get Funny
Bob Dylan: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (take 8)
Super Session: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Willie Nelson: Funny How Time Slips Away
Waylon Jennings: Woman, Don't Ever Laugh at Me
The Mal Thursday Quintet: Joke's on Me

Duane Eddy: The Laughing Guitar
Peter & Gordon: The Jokers
Anthony Newley: The Joker
The Vandals: The Joker
The Druids: The Girl Can't Take a Joke
The Bee Gees: I Started a Joke
Manfred Mann: Ha! Ha! Said the Clown
The Lazy Eggs: I'm a Clown
Dave Davies: Death of a Clown
Jim Backus & Friend: Delicious

Bonus Tracks:
Freddy Cannon: The Laughing Song
Jolly Roger & The Poppiteers: Joker in the Fokker
The Satan's Breed: Laugh Myself to the Grave
Sweet Cherry: Funny Things Flowering
The Rockin' Rogues: Gotta Funny Feeling
Ray Charles: Funny, But I Still Love You
Mott the Hoople: Laugh at Me
David Bowie: The Laughing Gnome
Bobby Goldsboro: See the Funny Little Clown
Gary Lewis & The Playboys: Everybody Loves a Clown
The Rising Storm: Frozen Laughter
Steve Miller Band: The Joker
The Del-Mars: Joke That Isn't Funny
Sammy Davis Jr: The Joker

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Debbie D Archives

 From July 6, 2013

Del Shannon - She

Remains - Why Do I Cry

The Animals - Boom Boom

Clem Saaico - I'm Shake

Slim Harpo - Tee Na Nee Na Nu

The Troggs - Summertime 

The Tip Tops - Rama Lama 

Jerry McCain - Tryin' To Please

The Underbeats  - Annie Do The Dog

Rufus Thomas - Can Your Monkey Do The Dog

Hound Dogs - Beach Girl

Wes Dakus - Dog Food

Jimmy Page - She Just Satisfies

Frankie Miller - True Blue

 Bobby Dole - Sittin' On A  Hot Seat

 Music Explosion - I See The Light

Roger & The Tempests - Bad Bad Way

The Luv'd Ones - La Da Da Da Du Da Da

Flamin' Groovies - In The USA

The Four Blazers - Peanut Butter

The Enchanters - Cafe Bohemian

Mabel Scott - Just Give Me A Man

Muddy Waters - You Need Love 

Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Aunt Molly

Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee

Slim Harpo - Buzz Me Baby

Slim Harpo - Tip On In

Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips

Slim Harpo - Got Love If You Want It

Slim Harpo - My Home Is A Prison

Young Jessie - Big Chief

Mighty Hannibal - Fishing Pole

Chris Kenner - She Can Dance

Fats Domino - Do You Know What It Means

Allen Toussaint - Soul Sister

Robert Parker - Hip Huggin' 

 Eddie Jefferson - Getting Better 

Roscoe Gordon - Cheese and Crackers 

      

 

 

 

FOOL'S PARADISE TWIN - GRAND REOPENING

THE FOOL'S PARADISE TWIN

REOPENS THIS WEEKEND!!

THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY !

ROGER CORMAN
DOUBLE BILL !!

 

NOT OF THIS EARTH

(1956)

Vampires in wrap-around shades !

Flying, head-crushing bat creatures !

Matter-transformation machines !

with

Paul Birch & Corman stalwart/good-luck charm, Dick Miller !!

B/W

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS

(1957)

Brain-eating atomic mutations !

Giant ventriloquist crabs (with visible human feet) !

with 

Richard Garland & Jonathan Haze !  

THEN...

SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAY DUSK-TO-DAWN PROGRAM !! 
BEGINNING SUNDAY EVENING ! 

MAMM-O-RAMA !!! 

RUSS MEYER SEX-TUPLE FEATURE !! 

 

Full service snack bar featuring: 

Tasty corndogs!  Refreshing beverages! Savory BBQ!

*No Outside Food Or Drink*

 

THE FOOL'S PARADISE TWIN ACCEPTS

JAMES BROWN BLACK & BROWN STAMPS