The Sin-Ti-Lating sirens of Italian 60's Soundtracks on Crayons to Perfume! at 7 tonite

Everyone give thanks for those slinky, silky voices of Italian 60's soundtracks! These Sin-Sational soundtrack ladies ooh and ah their way through jazzy little numbers - and you can hear them all tonight at 7 on Crayons to Perfume! so listen here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/CE

Take a trip back to New York's Dive with Michael Stark on the Whig Out! Sunday at 8

Today on the Whig Out, New Yorker Michael Stark tells us about the 80's garage scene in NYC at the Dive and on Long Island - including his band Stinky & The Skunks! He's brought lots of his favorite bands from that time including the Secret Service and the Mosquitoes, the Optic Nerve & Cheapskates, along with some 60's sounds from New York state! Join us at 8, right after The Real Nitty Gritty! ... Listen here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/WT

instrumental 45 of the Week!

EGGHEAD! (listen/download)

Oh NO!! The Fringe Factory has a BAD TRIP!!!

Tonight the Fringe Factory has a BAD TRIP!! (In a good, bad way) Featuring the psych, garage and hard rockin' sounds of the sixties and music by The Wailers, New stuff from Mikey & The Drags, Les Gry Grys , Bob Segar Sound System, Them Belfast Gypsies & More! Listen right here at 8pm ET and the archive after: https://wfmu.org/playlists/FY

Crayons to Perfume! at 7 with special guest DJ's Brian Phillips and Jason Stone!!!

Tonite, Crayons to Perfume's special guest dj's are the Electrophonic Brian Phillips, and the The Stepfather of Soul, Mr. Jason Stone who recently wowed the Ponderosa Stomp crowd with a blazing set of soul stormers during the Hip Drop, the Stomp's pre-party dance evening. Tonight they bring their favorite girls, you won't want to miss it, so tune in HERE!

HIP SHAKEN GoGo! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7

savage R&B, greasy rockabilly, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, sleazy instro-trash

tune in here: wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls

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Go places with the Whig Out! Today at 8 pm!

Go Places!
Listen to the Whig Out at 8pm right after the Real Nitty Gritty every Sunday evening! Today we've got electric jugs, weird instruments in garage songs, the San Diego 80's scene and our special guest Marti Whig, Richard Whig's mom who tells us a little bit about seeing Link Wray live in the mid 60's! Check it out!

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Sundays

WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban is happy to announce the weekly re-webcast of our daily live shows.

4 AM - Debbie Does WFMU

5 AM - The Real Nitty Gritty

6 AM - Whig Out

7 AM - What's Happening?!?!

8 AM - Crayons To Perfume

9 AM - Fringe Factory

10 AM - Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves
11 AM - Coming Soon

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

JUNGLE_FEVER! (listen/download)

The Fringe Factory Loses It's Mind!!

TAKE A LYSERGIC DIVE INTO THE PSYCH, GARAGE, FREAKBEAT
& HARD ROCKIN’  SIXTIES UNDERGROUND WITH DJ VIKKI VADEN! This week
Pietro Di'Gennaro of The Midnight Larks, Bad Spell & The Forty Fives stops by The Fringe Factory to play new tunes and talk fashion! Listen to archived show, add comments & view the playlist to The Fringe Factory Lose It's Mind!! See all the past shows & playlists archived right here.

The Voice of Experience on Crayons to Perfume at 7 tonite...ICHIBAN

Tammi voices her experience on Crayons to Perfume! tonight at 7 along with Maria Dallas, Carmela Altobelli, Jackie deShannon, The Goodees, Ros Sereysothea and the rest of the girls! Listen Here!

Rest In Peace Allen Toussaint

Please enjoy the Allen Toussaint Special with Matt Fiveash from August 2012.

Hully Gully All Night Long! The REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET!

Ichiban is where the ACTION is! Tune in here: wfmu.org/wfmu_rock.pls

Who's going to the WHIG OUT! tonight at 8 on Ichiban!

It's the 2nd installment of Ichiban's newest show, the Whig Out! right after The Real Nitty Gritty - so tune in at 7, and stay here until 9!

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

JUNGLE_RUN! (listen/download)

 

The Fringe Factory Rock-Outs With Your Psych-Out! Wed at 8PM ET

Tonight!!  Fringe Factory DJ Vikki V presents an extra LYSERGIC DOSE of Psychedelic, Freakbeat, Garage and Hard Rockin' Sixties sounds with an emphasis on the years 1967-69. Tune in at 8pm ET to the live stream, view the playlist & comment at https://wfmu.org/playlists/FY

Yeah, talkin' about BOYS!

Yeah, talkin' about boys! Tonite at 7 on Crayons to Perfume! We've got Karo, Sandy Shaw, The Mirettes, The Hollywood Jills, and loads of melodrama with the Satisfactions and the Shangri-las! Tune In right here!

Sam Phillips & Jerry Lee & Jesus

Good Gravy, Baby! The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00 on Ichiban

Tonight at 7:00 -- The Real Nitty Gritty brings you Good Gravy, Baby!

Followed at 8:00 by the Whig Out!

Tune in here http://wfmu.org/listen-live/ichiban 

WHIG OUT! New Show starting Nov 1 at 8pm

The Whig Out! is Ichiban's newest show on Sundays at 8pm, hosted by Richard Whig and Glynis, djgirlgroupgirl. We love garage, garage, garage, (and more garage!) - psychedelia, surf, r&b, beat, bubblegum, freakbeat, girls in the garage's-n from the 60's-now! Check us out!


Our archive page with a few past fill-ins: http://whiggedout.blogspot.com/

Ichiban Halloween Special

Tonight!

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Halloween Edition

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

JUNGLE_FEVER! (listen/download)

October 31st - 6 PM

Join us for the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Halloween Special!  Starting at 6 PM, your ghost hosts will be providing your trick or treat soundtrack.  You'll hear monster hits from What's Happening?!?!, Crayons To Perfume, Fringe Factory, Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves, Debbie Does WFMU, The Real Nitty Gritty, special ghost Jordan from Weird-O-Matic Wax a new show from DJ GirlGroupGirl & Richard Whig, Whig Out and finally a Midnight Monster Hop with Live From The Admiral & Dr. Filth.  Tell all your Ghoul Friends!!

Mind Melting Monster Hop and Graveyard Mash at 8pm!

Monster Mash and Grave Yard Hop - the 60's garage psych time machine of the Fringe Factory takes you there tonight at 8 on Ichiban and don't forget to tune into Ichiban starting at 6 on Halloween!!!

Spooky girls this Evening on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm

At 7, in the cool of the evening tune into WFMU's rock'n'soul Ichiban for some SPOOKY girls! Then tune in again on the 31st at 6 for an entire night filled with the scariest, ickiest Ichiban ills and chills and Halloween thrills!

Saturday, October 31st. 6 PM -

Lookie There! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET on Ichiban!

Tune in here:http://wfmu.org/listen-live/ichiban

Singles Going Steady

Tune in to Debbie Does WFMU today from 7-8 PM for some 45s I've never played on the air before.

Ichiban Saiko!!

Ichiban Halloween Special

Freak Out with the Fringe Factory! 8pm tonite

Freak Out with the Fringe Factory tonite at 8 pm! click to listen! -> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/FY

The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

All self respecting Ichibaners will want to pick up this new book from Peter Guralnick about the life of our hero, Sam Phillips!  Peter will be in NYC on November 23rd at the Strand Bookstore.

Gene Simmons - Call Sam

DJ's Choice on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm Wed.

Playing whatever I want, as long as they are girls! Join me here at 7pm tonite! http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/CE

Instrumental 45 of the Week!

HAND_FULL_OF_BLOOD! (listen/download)

Send Greg Germani A Vintage Post Card!

Here's an update on our good pal, Greg Germani.  As many of you know, he was run over on his bicycle on the way home from work last year.  He's still at home recovering and I think he would really enjoy hearing from all of us here at Ichiban.

Greg Germani

PO Box 846

Atlanta, Georgia

30301

Tonight at 7:00 on Ichiban: The REAL NITTY GRITTY's servin' up some SOUL FOOD mmmmmmmm http://wfmu.org/listen-live/ichiban

Haunted Halloween

Trashy Trailers Vol. 1

Just in time for Halloween, enjoy 101 horror & sleaze movie trailers from the Ichiban era.  And don't forget to tune in to Ichiban on Saturday, Oct. 31st at 6 PM for the dusk to dawn - trick or treat explosion!

instrumentala 45 of the Week!

PANIC! (listen/download)

Benny Joseph Photographs At ICP!

Don't miss!

The Fringe Factory Goes OUT of Their HEADS...WAY GONE!

The Fringe Factory Goes Way GONE at 8pm Wed! DIG!

Halloween Archives

Don't miss this incredible archive of spooky radio/tv shows from the archives.

Ups and Downs with Ruby Johnson & The Girls Crayons to Perfume! 7pm Wed

The girls are here at 7pm Wednesday! Dig it!

Don't You Know Yockomo ???

Huey "Piano" Smith, owner of a black belt in gobbledygook, was at the top of his game in Don't You Know Yockomo.

The other day my friend Pete Menchetti spun a cool version I didn't know, by cute New Zealander Dinah Lee. It cracks me up to hear her make her way (rather effectively for a kiwi) through Huey's goofy New Orleans lyrics. Her version reached #1 in Australia and New Zealand in 1964. And here's a nice live clip.

According to this blog, the Y-word comes from "Jockomo" as found in the song cut in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford : Jock-A-Mo.

That number was later a hit for the Dixie Cups as Iko Iko. Here's a live clip.

And to bring one more cute chick into this blog, here's a French adaptation by Julie D. and its charming clip (unfortunately out of sync)*.

Bonus track : Casey Jones and the Governors, a second-rate British beat band, tries their best to do Yockomo, but loses the groove.

They nonetheless continued their campaign to bring Huey's music to the British public with a somewhat more successful cover of Don't You Just Know It. But even their clever renaming as Don't Ha Ha was not sufficient to make it a hit. And if that's not enough, here's a live clip !

* As a particularly astute reader pointed out, the chicks in the Julie D. clip are actually the Parisiennes.