Sunday, October 30, 2016
Friday, October 28, 2016
R.I.P. John Zacherle, "The Cool Ghoul"
The great John Zacherle, known to generations of horror fans as Zacherley, "The Cool Ghoul," has passed away at 98. The news came tonight as author Tom Weaver, a close friend of the Zacherle family, began informing colleagues of the the sad news, and an outpouring of tributes has already begun across the internet.
A veteran of World War II, Zacherle started working at WCAU in Philadelphia in 1954, and in 1957, he got the job of being Philly's first late night horror movie host on Shock Theater, creating the character of Roland (pronounced Ro-LAND), who talked to his dead wife in her coffin. An association with Dick Clark, whose American Bandstand was based in Philadelphia, led to the recording of "Dinner With Drac" in 1958. He moved to New York's WABC in '59, became known as Zacherley and his show was renamed Zacherley At Large. He later hosted the Newark teenage dance show Disc-O-Teen, and was a DJ on WNEW and then WPLJ, where he stayed for ten years.
Considered by many to be the greatest TV horror host of all-time, Zacherele has spent the last several decades appearing on TV, radio, and film and making personal appearances at conventions and special events.
His horror-themed novelty records have remained perennial Halloween favorites, and you will surely hear them played on WFMU and elsewhere over the course of the next week. So, instead of posting those, I've decided to share the REAL DEAL, actual episodes of Shock Theater and Zacherley at Large as they were originally broadcast in the late 1950s. What we have here are three classic poverty row horrors: two Bela Lugosi features - The Devil Bat and Bowery At Midnight, and Rondo Hatton as The Creeper in The Brute Man. This is how original Monster Kids in the Northeast first saw these movies, and I'd recommend taking them all in for a great Halloween triple feature this weekend, just make sure you raise a glass of blood in honor of the Cool Ghoul himself before you're done. He gave his all!
Shock Theater: The Devil Bat
Zacherley At Large: Bowery At Midnight
Zacherley At Large: The Brute Man
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Shake your skeleton to DJ Pat K's Halloween Mix!
DJ Pat K has undergone his yearly transformation into his terrifying bat form to provide a HALLOWEEN MIX of fiendish 45s to shake your skeleton to this Halloween weekend!
Featuring The Rattles, Gene Maltais & his Flat Duo Jets, Ben Vaughan Group, The Denims, The In-B-Tweens, Virgil Holmes, Bo Diddley, The Pharaohs, Billy Ford & the Thunderbirds, The Arrows, R. Dean Taylor, Christine Pilzer, and more!
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Halloween Hootenany at 7pm tonite!
Halloween Hootenany on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific with Norma Dragoo, The Fabulous Frauleins, 5,6,7,8's, Glen and Glenda, La Luz and many more haunting honeys!
Monday, October 24, 2016
No, Johnny, No! More death disc dames and splatter platter sweeties!
Last week, Crayons to Perfume! featured Death Disc Dames - an hour of dead football teams, car crash victim boyfriends and murdered mademoiselles - in fact there were too many splatter platter sisters to fit into the hour, so here are the rest, plus a few of the best!
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
COP MY STUFF! - The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00PM on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul ICHIBAN!
Today on DJ Roulette: "Make With The Shake" with DJ Pat K!!
Skip church and have a little shake with your Sunday morning coffee as DJ Pat K brings "Make With the Shake" to DJ Roulette!
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Death Disc Dames on Crayons to Perfume!
It's an hour of Death Disc Dames - sad senoritas filled with tales teen tragedy! Hear obscure versions of Ode To Billy Joe and Terry, death defying answer songs, car crashes, dear departed boyfriends and even an entire extinct football team! Tune in right here at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific for the Shangri-Las, Cobey Carson, Fern Dauth, and even Dallas star Linda Gray!
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Whig Out!
Whig Out! on Ichiban at 8pm (5 Pacific), right after The Real Nitty Gritty. It's an Internation hip flippin' time trippin' good time right here!
and don't forget to throw us a bone or two!
Feeling Peckish -THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM ET on ICHIBAN!
FEELING
PECKISH - The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7:00PM on WFMU's Rock-n-Soul
ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul,
greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash platters! Then stay tuned
for the Whig Out! at 8:00
Tune in AND see the playlist here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
AND furthermore, It's SILENT FUNDRAISER TIME for October here at WFMU and we badly need your support. There's new swag, including our Typographic Critters T-shirt and Malevolent Bunny T-shirt! You can pledge at: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Tune in AND see the playlist here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
AND furthermore, It's SILENT FUNDRAISER TIME for October here at WFMU and we badly need your support. There's new swag, including our Typographic Critters T-shirt and Malevolent Bunny T-shirt! You can pledge at: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Make A Donation
WFMU is having a silent fundraiser for the month of October. We won't be yakking about it too much on the air, but we really could use some scratch to get through the winter months. Please consider making a pledge to your favorite show! THANKS.
What's Happening?!?!
Crayons To Perfume
Fringe Factory
Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves
Debbie Does WFMU
Live From The Admiral
DJ Roulette
The Real Nitty Gritty
Whig Out!
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The Girls of Barry Records
The Barry Records Label was a shadow imprint label from Toronto, Ontario issuing records from other labels in the US and a handful from the UK - and even had a few of it's own original releases. Labels like Barry made it affordable to buy and to find what would have essentially been import records - and it also created a way for other labels to get their records on local radio stations. I grew up listening to 1050 Chum they played tons of girl group stuff and were really dialed into the teen set. I even uploaded a few of their jingles! Here's a good one! and then here is another fun jingle! Today I play girls issued on the Barry Records label, the girls that first got me so interested in girl groups! Listen here at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific or 5 Central!
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Baby Let Your Hair Down!
Today, right after the Real Nitty Gritty, the Whig Out! spins freakbeat and garage gold! 8pm Eastern, 5 Pacific with rainy mournings, prozac, zoloft, and all the things that get you walkin' down the road to Monday.
Let's WABBA again!
AND furthermore, It's SILENT FUNDRAISER TIME for October here at WFMU and we badly need your support. There's new swag, including our Typographic Critters T-shirt and Malevolent Bunny T-shirt! You can pledge at: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Friday, October 7, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Sitar Sweethearts on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm
Is it a guitar? or is it a sitar? you be the judge as the girls sing with sitar! Heaping helpings of psychedelia, plus a smattering of country and soul sitar starting at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific right here, helping you groove right on into the Fringe Factory at 8!
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Swim Through The Darkness
Don't miss the new book out by Mike Stax about the life of Craig Smith! Listen to an interview on Whig Out and hear some rare recordings here.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Sugar Town
Sugar Town -- tonight on The Real Nitty Gritty we spin the sweet stuff
at 7:00PM on WFMU's Rock -n-Soul ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, greasy rockabilly & sleazy instrotrash platters!
Tune in AND see the playlist here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Tune in AND see the playlist here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Whig Out! with author Mike Stax of Swim Through The Darkness
Sunday at 8pm (right after The Real Nitty Gritty) author Mike Stax discusses his new book - Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali on The Whig Out! Hear how Mike became fascinated with Craig Smith's music - first discovering his psychedelic alter ego Maitreya Kali and then realizing it was Craig Smith of the Good Time Singers and Chris and Craig. Hear unreleased music from the Happeners (the TV show that never was), Chris and Craig, plus the strange juxtaposition of the Monkees Salesman and Maitreya Kali's Salesman. It's all happening here on Ichiban!
October is WFMU's silent fundraising month! You can donate in care of the Whig Out! or any of your favorite Ichiban and WFMU programs right here! Thanks!
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Don't Hang it Up! The Chick Habit on Crayons to Perfume!
Don't hang up your chick habit daddy-o! 'cause tonight, Crayons To Perfume! gives you your fix of the chicks with wild garage girls, psychedelic sweeties, and a smattering of teen rock'n'roll sounds. Tune in here at 7pm, right before the Fringe Factory and then keep on listening all evening long!
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Howwwwwwwwwwlin' Whig Out!
We're HOWLIN' for you baby! Right after The Real Nitty Gritty at 8pm! Old, old faves and new, new faves and even some new old faves! Dig into the sounds of Jon & The Vons, The Bo Street Runners, The Godz, Yardbirds, Black Hollies and many more. Don't forget to tune in starting at 7, and kick your week of right then keep right on listening all evening!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Light Your Incense! Smoke your Peppermints! Time for the Fringe Factory! 8pm ET, 5pm PT
More International Garage & Psych 60s to Now Sounds with WFMU Ichiban host DJ Vikki Vaden! Tune in to hear the NOW Sounds of The RetroBates, The Wands, The MadCaps, The ThunderBeats, The Sore Losers, Wooly Bandits, Electric Mess, Viv & the Sect, Reverberations& Gamonides PLUS classic 60s Fringin Faves by The Electric Prunes, Sainte Anthony's Fyre, Ty Wagner & more!
TUNE IN AND TURN IT UP AT 8PM ET, 5PM PT http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68640
And if you didn't get to Ride High during the show last week; check the archived show here:
Sex and the Single Girl!
Crayons to Perfume welcomes special guest Helen Gurley Brown with her sage advice to the single gals about luscious lovin' Join me tonight at 8pm Eastern, 4 Pacific for an hour of French Femmes, Insatiable Italians, Cuddly Canadians and adorable Americans! then stay tuned for another Fringe Factory freakout right afterwards!
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Handle It!
Then stay tuned for the Whig Out! at 8:00
Listen right here: http://wfmu.org/
Ichiban Archives
No need to record all your favorite shows on Ichiban! We have every show archived for your listening convenience. You can even save them on your phone with the WFMU app.
What's Happening?!?!
Crayons To Perfume
Fringe Factory
Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves
Debbie Does WFMU
Live From The Admiral
DJ Roulette
The Real Nitty Gritty
Whig Out!
The Reverberations on the Whig Out!
Take the hip trip that'll make you flip and tune into the Whig Out! at 8pm (5 Eastern) right after the Real Nitty Gritty - for an hour of Northwest Nuggets featuring the Reverberations from Portland Oregon - we're gonna Mess Up Your Mind!
DJ Roulette with DJ Pat K - Sunday 9/18 11am EST!
Sunday morning on DJ Roulette, DJ Pat K stops by with some soul, surf, psych, and assorted weirdness on 45rpm at 11am EST! The second half of the show will feature a special exclusive tour of rare 1960s Buffalo, NY garage 45s from the finest purveyors of fuzz to ever emerge from the Nickel City! Have a little shake with your morning coffee!
Here's a preview, courtesy of long-lost stompers from the shores of Lake Erie, The Rogues:
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Soiled Doves! Crayons To Perfume 7pm Wednsday
Besmirched beauties, demoralized dames and wild wild women putting the hump in hump day - today at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific right here on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Ichiban and Crayons to Perfume! The girls sing about the sassier, and less classier side of being a lady. The Soiled Doves were originally women from the American Western Frontier - ladies who kept the men entertained in the baudy houses, behind closed doors. Women in the 50's and 60's frequently sang about the world's oldest profession and I've got shanty tramps, girls most likely to, Roberta Wolfson, Elaine Arthur, Bobby Gentry and even the Chiffons right here! So tune in! and then turn on to the Fringe Factory at 8pm, right after Crayons to Perfume!
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Firewater! tonight at 7:00
Firewater! tonight on The Real Nitty Gritty -- 7:00 WFMU's Rock -n-Soul ICHIBAN! Savage R&B, greasy rockabilly, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, & sleazy instrotrash records --then stay tuned for the Whig Out! at 8:00
Fink U!
The Topp button company started the Fink University craze as part of their Wise Guy button series. The madness spread thru the back of magazines with ads offering sweatshirts, pennants and even beer mugs! Catch the wave as Ichiban goes back to school, tonight at 8pm, right after the Real Nitty Gritty!
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Platter Playlists
As my inaugural set on the WFMU Ichiban blog, I'd like to post my September mix from a few years back. Hopefully some of the selections will take you back and more than a few can push you forward!
Chuck Berry – Oh Louisiana
James Taylor – Jelly Man Kelly
Melanie – Carolina In My Mind
Mike Cooper – The Singing Tree
Mother Earth – Living With The Animals
Area Code 615 – Just Like A Woman
Loudon Wainwright III – Motel Blues
Ramsey Lewis – Cry Baby Cry
Amanaz – Khala My Friend
Fred Neil – The Dolphins
Mike Cooper – Broken Bridges
Hamilton Camp – I Shall Be Released
Augusto Martelli – Djamballa
You can check out my blog for weekly mixes :: www.platterplaylists.com
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