Sunday, August 23, 2015
4...3...2...1...MORTE! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET!
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Double Trouble with Ike and Tina on Crayons to Perfume at 7pm today!
YES! You are seeing double! We've got the girls, and the guys behind the girls tonight on Crayons to Perfume's DOUBLE TROUBLE featuring our guy and girl of the week, Ike and Tina! Check 'em out at 7pm WFMU.org Ichiban Stream or Tune In Radio!
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Casual vibes on the latest What's Happening?!?!
Today on What's Happening?!?! Got a smattering of this and a smattering of that.
Including this latest find.
The Casuals were a late 60s post-pepper British beat group. With their groomed locks and scrubbed faces, they scored a massive hit in 1968 with "Jesamine." Heavy dose of Bee Gees influence on their music. Their next effort "Toy" was a more uptempo rocker with the expected horns and strings, but it retains that classic beat group sound.
Tune in today at 3pm!
https://wfmu.org/playlists/AT
Sunny and the Sunliners, one-hit wonders ?
Sunny and the Sunliners (originally Sunny and the Sunglows) were a group of chicanos from San Antonio, featuring lead singer Sunny Ozuna and his fellow students from Burbank Vocational School. They were mainly active from 1959-1966, with lots of singles and several albums, bowing out with a final LP in 1977. (The band name may be a reference to the slick Ford Sunliner convertibles, current in the 50s.)
Ichiban listeners know this brilliant, rockin' number, with Tex-Mex and soul/R&B influences.
No One Else Will Do
Which leaves the burning question : what else did they have ? Friends, I just listened to a hundred of their songs on YouTube, and while there is some solid work, there seems to be no other comparable track. Impossible to say where this aberration came from.
The band's output seems to fall into several categories. Many songs are what I will call – out of my ignorance – "mariachi" style. In any case, they sound like this.
De Mi Nada Mas
Then there are some with a Tex-Mex border sound, like their San Antonio neighbors the Sir Douglas Quintet.
Sufriendo Y Penando
Others are slow ballads.
Talk to Me (Little Willie John cover, charted #11 pop, #12 R&B)
Think it Over
Some songs are more soul-oriented.
It's Okay
Or R&B.
Oop Oop Pidoo [sic]
Here, they put the brass section to work.
Hip Huggin Mini
If anybody knows of anything else in their repertoire like No One Else Will Do, call me collect !!!
Stop press !!! Bazooka Joe sez check this one out. Thanks, Joe !
Every Week Every Month Every Year
Sunday, August 16, 2015
The Devil Is Mad!!! Tune in to THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET!
Friday, August 14, 2015
Meet Kliph Nesteroff
Now that WFMU's Beware Of The Blog has closed, you'll have to get your old showbiz fix straight from the source. Listen to his interview with Marc Maron on WTF. And, don't miss his book coming this Fall from Grove Press: The Comedians - Drunks Thieves, Scoundrels and the History Of American Comedy.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Ichiban Live!
Tune in to all our live shows here on the Ichiban webstream.
What's Happening?!?! with Matt M
Crayons to Perfume with DJ GirlGroupGirl
Fringe Factory with GirlGroupGirl, Richard W and Vikki V
Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves with Julea
Debbie Does WFMU with Debbie D
Live From The Admiral with Dr. Filth
The Real Nitty Gritty with Nitty Gritty Tania and Thomas Torment
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Garage Punk Knowns and Unknowns - on the Fringe Factory at 8!
The Fringe Factory takes you from Snarl to Surf tonight at 8pm et. Check us out on Tune In Radio or find us at WFMU.org Ichiban Stream
NANCY NANCY NANCY on Crayons To Perfume! at 7 tonite!
Everything's NANCY tonite at 7pm, you can listen using Tune In Radio by clicking on this text link or check out the stream at WFMU.org and look for the Ichiban Stream!!
Sunday, August 9, 2015
THE PROFESSOR'S CHOICE!!! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7pm ET!
Tonight at 7:00 on The Real Nitty Gritty: it's THE PROFESSOR'S CHOICE! Tune in to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban and hear the wild spins of our special guest The Mighty Manfred !
Tune in at wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls
Did you miss it? Listen to the archived show here
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Do The Twist!
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Thanks to Jeff Moore for getting our new server up and running! Dig our new, improved sound!!
Thursday, August 6, 2015
The Kitchen Cinq : that means "five" in French
The Kitchen Cinq - Please Come Back To Me (1966)
The Y'alls (pre-Kitchen Cinq) - Run For Your Life (1966)
According to this fascinating, detailed blog, they went on to record an album produced by Suzi Jane Hokom and featuring the Wrecking Crew on some of the instruments. Jim Parker, one of the guitarists, went on to a successful career in country music.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The Fringe Factory: features the Teamsters and other fave 60's sounds
We kick off today's show with the Teamsters, and then assault your ears with all sortsa sounds from the 60's or just sound like they're from the 60's on tonight's Fringe Factory Radio Show. LISTEN HERE!
Beatles Girls! Today on Crayons to Perfume! at 7
They love the Beatles, and I bet you do too, (at least, secretly!). Today the girls sing Beatles songs, and sing songs about the Beatles at 7pm ET. You can click here to listen!
Monday, August 3, 2015
Ichiban's Jon von Zelowitz - JON & THE VONS - Ichimania!
Ichiban's Paris correspondent Jon Von Zelowitz has a super Ichiban influenced garage band, Jon & The Vons! Check out their bandcamp page full of great garage songs, and look for TWO singles to be released this year! Stay tuned to Ichiban for more Von-tastic news!
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves on Ichiban!
Bossa Nova and Samba with Astrud Gilberto on Crayons to Perfume at 7!
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Today on What's Happening?!?! 3PM EST
Cheers out there in Radio Land! Matt from What's Happening?!?! here
Got a show today crammed with that good time swing of the Beat Boom!
Featuring The Applejacks, The Four Pennies and The Rattles!
Join me today at 3PM and twist!
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/AT
Monday, July 27, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
SCORCHED!! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM!
Don Nix
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Don Nix (56:00)
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
FLIP OUT! with Ladies Choice! On Crayons to Perfume! at 7pm
I've flipped out over my latest and greatest girl group, female fronted soul, and country pop 45's from the 60's and you will too, tonight at 7! Check it out - download the live stream or stream with Tune In Radio
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Shout Bamalama!!! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Crayons to Perfume presents THE CLINGERS! an interview with Patsy Clinger Wed. July 15that 7pm
Patsy Clinger (now Walker) tells the story of how the Clinger Sisters turned into the Clingers and became the first all-female rock group to sign to a major label in the US. From the very beginning as little kids learning to sing harmony to the mid 60's when they had their own record label and worked with pre-Millenium Curt Boettcher and Lee Mallory, right up to their musical culmination with Michael Lloyd and Kim Fowley and the Clingers version of Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight, Patsy tells the girls story and you won't want to miss it! So check it out now, in our archive!
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Hot Sauce! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM!
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Long or short, bald or fake, everyone can WHIG OUT! 8pm tonite!
Tonight we've got some surfin' some skirtin' and strange connections to the Steve Miller Band. It's all here on WHIG OUT! at 8pm, and you can find it HERE on the Ichiban stream!
Crayons To Perfume! Sunshine Pop and Flower Power girls at 7pm tonite!
Lots of girls and even a few guys tonight on Crayons to Perfume with sunny sunshiny 60's pop and flower power perfection! Just click here to have a listen!
Thursday, July 2, 2015
DJ Terry Knight leads the Pack!
Musician and songwriter, Terry Knight started his career as DJ Terry Knapp as a teenager in Michigan in the early 60's. He used Knapp for a few years, then changed to Terry Knight - and even began working at CKLW in Windsor which is where he got the idea to start a band.
He was frustrated at having to fit into a particular radio format, and preferred a more freeform style. You gotta wonder if that's when he thought up How Much More
The Pack made some killer records! Check out Numbers!
Being in the Pack didn't stop Terry Knight from also being a DJ, he went on to work for WTRX, who apparently really liked his band!
Terry was also infamous for scoring a Capitol Records solo gig in the late 60's, sitting in on the Beatles White album sessions and writing his Paul is Dead song Saint Paul. He also put Grand Funk Railroad together with a few x-Pack members and a few ? & The Mysterians - hoping to manage and produce them. Everyone fired him.
Then he went on to start his own label in the early 70's but the drug scene won over.
In Nov. 2004 Terry Knight was stabbed to death by his daughters boyfriend as he tried to protect her from the assault.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Canadian and American Freak Out..on The Fringe Factory tonight at 8!
Tonight the Fringe Factory pays homage to some Canadians and some Americans ... click here to listen to our free for all freakout at 8!
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