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Comic Book Crazy

2012-01-30T11:56:00.003-05:00

Little Sammy Yates - Comic Book Crazy
What? No Archie!?

Wynonie Harris, 1954

2012-01-28T20:23:00.003-05:00

No matter where he goes, no matter what he does, the law enforcement ladies want to bust up Wynonie's party! Ten hours later: "Good morning, judge!" Photo courtesy the JET archives.

Wynonie Harris, 1958

2012-01-27T22:14:00.003-05:00

From the JET archives.

"Mini-skirts, Kids, Stores and Long Hair" ("Magasins Des Jeunes Mini Jupes et Cheveux Longs")

2012-01-27T15:07:00.001-05:00

Documentary footage from France. Featuring an Ultra-Cool French Pop-Psych/Freakbeat band called "Les Something", who I don't think made any records. I couldn't find any info on them, anyway. Lots of great shots of cool 60's French dancing teens. It was labeled "Magasins Des Jeunes Mini Jupes et Cheveux Longs" which Google Translate tells me means "Mini-skirts, Kids, Stores and Long Hair". Not sure if that's an actual title or just something somebody made up. No idea when this was broadcast or on what show. via Bedazzled.tv

The Impressions

2012-01-26T20:35:00.000-05:00

With Binky Griptite and the Dee-Kays!!!

The Impressions - We're A Winner (2:18)

Desperate Man Blues

2012-01-26T15:11:00.000-05:00

Tune in to Joe Bussard's Country Classics every Friday from 5-6 PM on WREK. Underwritten by Dust-to-Digital records.

Podcasts via itunes

1966

2012-01-25T11:38:00.003-05:00

These photos were shot in 1966 at an NCO club in Amberg, Germany. Via mcbooney.

Ted Barron Live On The Ichiban Webstream

2012-01-24T15:45:00.000-05:00

Tune in to the WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban webstream every Wednesday night from 8-10 PM to hear Ted Barron spin some of his favorite rock 'n' soul hits!! Ted is the proprietor over at the Boogie Woogie Flu blog and a damn fine photographer to boot. Expect to hear plenty of 78 RPM discs, the way rock 'n' soul was meant to be heard.

Playlists and archives will be available for your convenience. Welcome Ted!!

Tassel Twirler Tuesday!

2012-01-24T15:37:00.002-05:00

Alba's_Shake!

That Fly Belongs To Me

2012-01-23T14:48:00.007-05:00

Lanz Miles - That Fly Belongs To Me
There sure is a lot going on in this song. R&B vocals, Country/Jazz instrumentation, Outer Space, Singing Flies... What more could you want? And just dig that label art!

(Your Last Kiss) TAKE IT AND GIT! - Pete Cooke and the Baby Dolls

2012-01-23T13:55:00.003-05:00

Pressed on wacky Easter-egg blue vinyl in the early 60s. The Baby Dolls just want Pete to git, despite his hollering protestations that him not gitting will git them all the pleasures of the world. At least they give him one last kiss as they kick him out the door.

Git! Git! Git git git git!

I Dig You Baby

2012-01-22T17:59:00.000-05:00

Marvin Rainwater

Behind the scenes at FAME Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, AL (1969)

2012-01-18T15:19:00.003-05:00

Featuring Brook Benton & Booker T & The MGs recording sessions (could this really be them recording "Time Is Tight?"), The Muscle Shoals horns working out an arrangement (that's gotta be Isaac Hayes playing sax, right?) and more. (A L'affiche Du Monde 3.22.69) via Bedazzled.tv

MARVIN & LINK CRY TOGETHER

2012-01-18T14:36:00.000-05:00

Grab yo'sef some of that tasty Link Wray backing!

1961 Boo Hoo

Tassel Twirler Tuesday

2012-01-17T12:57:00.003-05:00

Louie_and_the_Fat_Men_-_Fat_Man!

"Cajun" Radio Promos

2012-01-16T17:04:00.008-05:00

Here are some old cajun themed radio spots for a New Orleans car dealership.
Trosclair Radio Spots

MLK Mover: Shirley Wahls

2012-01-16T12:32:00.003-05:00

KIP ANDERSON: I Wanna Be the Only One

2012-01-16T12:01:00.005-05:00

Kip Anderson's first record. Blazing guitar by (I believe - let's see how long it takes the internet to tell me I'm wrong) Drink Small, singer of the immortal "Tittie Man" (on Ichiban Records). Things get pretty ridiculous at a minute thirty.

I Wanna Be the Only One

Ichiban New Bin

2012-01-15T21:13:00.000-05:00

Norma Jean - Heaven Help The Working Girl

NEW!! Mp3 Jukebox!

2012-01-15T16:24:00.002-05:00

Check it out HERE

Happy Sunday from Bunker Hill!!!

2012-01-15T11:21:00.000-05:00

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy featuring David "BUNKER HILL" Walker on scorching lead vocals.
HALLELUJAH!!!

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - You'll Never Know (1963)

Marijuana Grave (MP3)

2012-01-15T10:29:00.006-05:00

Sam & Annie Taylor - Marijuana Grave

Here's some first-rate anti-drug propaganda warning of the perils of marijuana use.

Marvin Rainwater Month

2012-01-14T14:38:00.001-05:00

Texas Bill Strength - Hillbilly Hades

Marvin Rainwater - A Gambler AND A Lover

2012-01-13T12:52:00.001-05:00

Two goodies from Marvin Rainwater - both with ass whuppin' guitar!

First we have Marvin's version of Gamblin' Man (Roving Gambler)

And here's the loving "Rustic Rhythm" of (There's Always) A Need For Love

Ichiban Live, Take Two!!

2012-01-13T09:18:00.000-05:00

Last week, as you recall, we debuted a live show on the Ichiban webstream. Tune in every Friday from 3-5 PM for Debbie Does WFMU!! Or catch the archives at your convenience. For requests/dedications email me at Debbie@wfmu.org. Live accuplaylist at HQ.

Coming soon: Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Matt Fiveash and Ted Barron LIVE on the Ichiban webstream!!

Tonkobushi!

2012-01-12T14:14:00.004-05:00

Tonkobushi Rock & Roll

Rainwater Goes Fuzztone!

2012-01-10T20:06:00.004-05:00

Marvin Rainwater - Indian Momma (1:56)

Here's a breathtakingly cool Marvin Rainwater track with some extra snarl provided by a fuzztone guitar.

Marvin Rainwater - Mr. Blues

2012-01-10T17:47:00.003-05:00

Marvin Rainwater - Mr. Blues

Monday Morning wake 'n' shake: GUITAR GABLE and KING KARL go Walking in the Park

2012-01-09T09:34:00.006-05:00

Ever wonder what happened when Aunt Mary finally caught bald head Sally and Uncle John "ducking" in the alley?

Turns out, Sally gets a truly brutal tongue lashing, climaxing with the immortal quatrain: "I'm gonna tear you apart like a dishrag; ain't gonna give you a chance to cry - and when I get through, you know that you will have to get better to die!"

Sally flees. Uncle John gets dragged home and accepts his lot in life.

Walking in the Park

Don't Knock Elvis (MP3)

2012-01-08T15:05:00.006-05:00

Felton Jarvis - Don't Knock Elvis

In celebration of what would've been Elvis Presley's 77th birthday, here's an odd artifact from a very early stage in the career of songwriter and producer Felton Jarvis (1934 - 1981).

Jarvis was Elvis Presley's producer between the years 1966 and 1977, when Presley died. While still struggling to make a name for himself, he recorded this Elvis Presley tribute 45, which was released on the tiny VIVA label in August, 1959. While in the Marines in 1955, Jarvis experienced a life-changing event when was lucky enough to catch a live Elvis Presley show in Norfolk, Virginia.

Upon getting out of the Marines, he returned to Atlanta and went to work as a sheet music printer at Bill Lowery's National Recording Company (NRC). At the time, the label was over-flowing with talented performers who, in less than a decade, would be national stars: Jerry Reed, Mac Davis, Joe South, Ray Stevens and Freddy Weller. Jarvis moved into songwriting and producing, making a name for himself in 1961 by producing Every Beat Of My Heart, the first R&B #1 hit (of eleven, in all) for a local band called the Pips, soon to be renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips. From NRC, Jarvis went to work for the ABC label, where he produced "Sheila" a huge national hit for Tommy Roe, another graduate of Lowery's NRC concern. After a few years at ABC, he moved over to RCA where he and Presley established a solid working relationship that worked out pretty well for both of them.

Welcome to the Marvin Rainwater Friendship Club

2012-01-08T12:17:00.003-05:00

Marvin Rainwater Friendship Club Record (thanks to Billy Miller)

Marvin Rainwater - The Haircut (MP3)

2012-01-07T01:26:00.007-05:00

Marvin Rainwater - The Haircut (2:37)

Marvin's problem? His kid refuses to get a haircut, so Marvin rounds up one of his pals and they hatch a plan give the kid a haircut that even Sgt. Carter would love. Let's just say things don't exactly go according to plan.

Hot And Cold

2012-01-05T17:31:00.003-05:00

Whole Lotta Woman!

2012-01-05T10:51:00.001-05:00

It just can't be Marvin Rainwater month without this clip.
Live in London!!!

January is Marvin Rainwater Month!

2012-01-04T15:47:00.004-05:00

Down In The Cellar - Marvin Rainwater

Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders Live

2012-01-04T08:20:00.002-05:00

Os Mutantes - "Caminhante Noturno" (English Version) (Chansons Du Bout Du Monde 7.20.69) Live in Color with Orchestra

2012-01-03T16:13:00.002-05:00

Rare Os Mutantes clip from French TV, I don't think they ever recorded this song in English. cross-posted from Bedazzled.tv

THE BIG MASHER: Lee "The Big Masher" Lilly

2012-01-02T13:38:00.006-05:00

Like, oh baby, here I am! The Big Masher!

Happy New Year!

2012-01-01T16:48:00.000-05:00

Takeshi Tadatsu

Starting Friday, January 6, 2012

2012-01-01T15:37:00.001-05:00

Ichiban Live 3-5 PM

On the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban webstream!

Request line - debbie@wfmu.org

The Girl That Radiates That Charm

2011-12-31T19:18:00.003-05:00

The Girl That Radiates That Charm - Arthur Alexander

Bon Scott Sings Arthur Alexander

2011-12-31T16:00:00.003-05:00

Every Day I Have To Cry - The Valentines

Fool's Paradise

2011-12-31T00:00:00.000-05:00

Tune in today from 1-3 PM on WFMU to get yourself in the mood for Amateur Night. Rex will be playing some of the Fool's Paradise Favorite drinking songs of all time to coax the pink pussy cats out of the closet.

Tiny Tim's Crutch (via Grade "A" Fancy)

1 1/2 ounce Gordon's Gin
1/2 ounce Harvey's Bristol Creme Sherry
1/2 ounce brewed and cooled Lapsang Souchong tea

Put some sugar on a plate. Moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with a citrus wedge and dip glass into the sugar.
Stir all liquids over ice until very cold and strain into the cocktail glass.

Happy New Year from the Ichiban crew! Kancho!!

Rufus Thomas - Pink Pussy Cat Wine Spot

Ladies & Gentlemen

2011-12-30T20:54:00.000-05:00

Making The Monkees

2011-12-30T20:24:00.000-05:00

Full Episode

New Year's Eve with Nay Dog

2011-12-30T18:55:00.007-05:00

On New Year's Eve 2004 Fortune recording artist Nathaniel Mayer dropped by Spazz HQ for the craziest party of all time; one that the neighbors are still probably pissed about. Nathaniel (for those that didn't know him) cut some incredible records in Detroit in the early sixties including the regional hit Village of Love. By the end of the sixties Nathaniel hit upon some tough times and for decades nobody could figure out if he was alive or dead. Unexpectedly, in 2003 Nathaniel (or "Nay Dog" as he liked being known) popped back on the scene and reignited his performing career. His voice was a little raspier but he still had the pipes. With charisma to spare, no one could work a crowd like Nathaniel and when he sang falsetto it was nothing less than spine chilling. Most of all he was sweet and funny and an all around great guy. What else could you possibly ask for in a soul legend? Nathaniel was cut down by a series of strokes in 2006 and his passing a couple of years later left a hole in many hearts.

Nay Dog was in town for the big Norton Soul Revue at Southpaw and he was in stellar form that night. When I asked him what he wanted to hear he requested Nathaniel Mayer songs. After singing along to every one of his records (with The Diablos' "Ali Coochi" thrown in), Nay Dog requested some Sex Machine-era James Brown, organized the room into two Soul Train dance lines and pretty soon things went from nuts to crazy. He also regaled us with a "dozens" rap that was so smutty it would have made Dolemite blush. Thanks to Billy Miller, Miriam Linna, Michael Hurtt and Dan Rose. I don't remember which one of you brought him to the party (as well as escorting him to the radio show the following night) but I do know one or more of you guys were responsible for this.

Happy Birthday, Bo!!!

2011-12-30T12:38:00.000-05:00

Arthur Alexander Month: The King James Version

2011-12-29T20:45:00.006-05:00

Let's open up the Book of Alexander t0 KING JAMES & MEL's little known but magnificent New Orleansed-up take on "You Better Move On". Very snazzy early Gamble-Huff production.

Can I get an AMEN?

New Year's Resolution

2011-12-29T18:22:00.001-05:00

Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (mp3)

Radio Alert!

2011-12-29T08:34:00.000-05:00

Think Link!

Tune in to Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz tonight from 9-12 when Christopher Kennedy stops by to discuss the Lost Photographs Of Deejay Tommy Edwards.

Listen Now!

Bad TV Beat: 'Blue Bloods'-- Once Riotous Cop Show Misses a Beat

2011-12-26T19:16:00.001-05:00

By Gene Sculatti

As the Everly Brothers said, it’s “So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad.” Almost as sad, if you’re a fan of bad TV, is watching one of the species’ strongest contemporary contenders just roll over and play good. Unfortunately, that seems to be what’s happened in the second season of Blue Bloods, CBS’s Tom Selleck starrer about a tri-generational family of NYC cops. It’s a shame too, since the show started out as a shining example of one of the richest but least-traversed goofspaces in all of popular culture: Sentimental Fascism.

The SF genre’s best exponents were, of course, oak-solid, cedar-hewn Chuck Norris’ Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001) and the criminally undervalued The District, with Craig T. Nelson as Washington, D.C’s chief cop (2000-2004). Norris’ Walker walked a fine line between heart-tug subplots (to the distraught Latina slapping masa in a tortilla factory: “I’ll see that Jose doesn’t join the gang, Mrs. Garcia”) and Miranda-busting fuzz-play (warrantless door-kicks a specialty). Nelson’s Chief Jack Mannion grew misty around his dog or his single-mom assistant, but played hardball with softie judges, drug lords and his arch-nemesis, a Russky agent named Putin.

What made Blue Bloods such a comer was just what makes the best classic bad TV great: the commitment to craft—the creators’ on-time delivery of piping hot clichés of story and dialogue designed to satisfy loopy, often dated assumptions about the desires of the target demo. CBS’ 2010 decision to launch a series about a tough, conservative commissioner (“Frank Reagan”!), his dad (an ex-commish who rues the day when bulls had to stop using concealed “sappers” [blackjacks] to crack heads) , two cop sons and assistant-D.A. daughter surely reflects the network’s interpretation of the midterm elections as a huge cultural right turn. Clearly, the reasoning must’ve gone, the lumpenprole now crave a liberal-bashing law-and-order show, just as they did when Walker debuted—during the cultural dustup that presaged the Republicans’ 1995 Congressional putsch.

Selleck himself is a laff riot. His toolbox, once overflowing with enough affability and beefcake-lite appeal to power eight seasons of Magnum P.I., now holds just one item: gravitas. The duties of gig, moral grounds-keeping and paterfamilias weigh so heavily on his I-beam shoulders that deep sighs, solemn head-hangs and marathon silences are all he can manage. Those and snippy retorts to his mayor boss—in Season 1 a craven pol (aren’t they all?), in 2 a smug black manager who tells Frank that the city’s “old, white, Irish-Catholic days are over” and gets smacked with Frank’s reply that he, the noble mick, missed out on the benefits of affirmative action and a “community organizer” background. Hoo-boy! Plus, Selleck comes off about as ‘New York’ as you’d expect a 1962 graduate of Grant High, Sherman Oaks, California, to come off.

The kicks came fast when Blue Bloods debuted. How did we know the Reagans were blue-collar anti-elites? At Frank’s pad, kibitzing or enjoying communal Sunday dinners (with offspring a party of 10: those Irish-Catholics!), they drank nothing but beer—out of the bottle. Anti-intellectualism roamed the show like a python, crushing the slightest hint of world knowledge or book-learnin.’ College-educated rookie-cop son Jamie was relentlessly tagged “Harvard” by his dese-dem-and-dose sergeant , “Anthony Renzulli” (those kooky dagos!) and by his own older brother, Danny (ex-NKOTBer Donnie Wahlberg, sporting a Howard Devoto liver-slice haircut), who often reminded Jamie “Remember, you’re not in Cambridge anymore.”

Prosecutor daughter Erin Regan, who at least understood suspects’ rights, was routinely pilloried by Danny and daddy Frank (“Why do we bother catching the criminals if you’re just gonna let them go?”) and her grandfather. Frank’s pappy, ex-commissioner Henry Reagan, once berated Erin for pushing her pre-teen daughter onto an “arts” track in school, potentially ruining the Reagans’ sprint to a four-generation dynasty.

I tell you, it was rich. But now Blue Bloods has had its edges trimmed and usually resembles a run-of-the-mill procedural, its pro-active mildness besting the bad but unfunny Castle only by degrees. There may yet be hope, though. In a recent episode Sergeant Renzulli , at the apartment of a crime victim, asks her what’s playing on her stereo. “Shostakovich,” she answers. “Oh,” says Renzulli. “Sounds like the guy who makes my vodka!”

Christmas Fun...or Christmas Misery. Choose Wisely!

2011-12-25T22:36:00.002-05:00

(This post was supposed to go up around lunchtime, but I didn't press "post".)

Spike Jones & His City Slickers - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"

Bill Anderson - "My Christmas List Grows Shorter Every Year"

WARNING: If you're having a bad Christmas, or are alone right now, I strongly urge you not to click on this one. Seriously. Proceed at your own risk!

HILLBILLY HOLIDAY

2011-12-25T22:33:00.005-05:00

CREIGHTON CHANEY

2011-12-24T23:22:00.000-05:00

Dear Santa

2011-12-24T08:21:00.000-05:00

All I Want For Christmas Is A C.B. (MP3)

2011-12-24T00:01:00.007-05:00

Jim Hubler - All I Want For Christmas Is A CB

Get A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues

2011-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:00

by Richard Younger 2000 - University of Alabama Press

Paradise

2011-12-22T16:32:00.000-05:00

Concrete Jungle

Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas

2011-12-22T16:16:00.004-05:00

Here's some indisputably bleak Yuletide "cheer" from Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen, the pride of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Double Shot

2011-12-22T16:04:00.000-05:00

Soldier Of Love

Where Have You Been?

I Need You Baby

2011-12-22T09:32:00.000-05:00

"Get the tissues out boys, this one's gonna hurt"

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-22T06:52:00.002-05:00

Bobby Flores - Every Day I Have To Cry

Merry Damn Christmas!

2011-12-21T10:46:00.000-05:00

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Christmas Time For Everyone But Me
1963

MOBILE MUNTZ

2011-12-21T04:44:00.000-05:00

Arthur Alexander Month: The Death of Joe Henderson

2011-12-21T01:12:00.000-05:00

So... while browsing through old issues of Billboard for info about Mr. Alexander, I stumbled upon this article in the November 7, 1964 issue:

While on the one hand, this does answer the question of why I'd never seen any further records by Henderson, on the other, it just generates further questions. What causes a 27-year old to have a heart attack? A congenital heart defect? Amphetamines (certainly a common thing in the Music City)? Or something else? And why was he bunking with Arthur, rather than his wife and kids? Mrs. Henderson died in 2008, so she's obviously not a good resource.

If you're only going to have one song that people remember, you could do a lot worse than this.

I have no answers for those questions, but thanks to the efforts of crack digital librarian and first-rate spouse Mandy Mastrovita, I do know a few things about where Alexander was as his roomie lay dying:

"Social...Spin," Red and Black, October 22, 1964, p. 6
Presented online by the University
of Georgia Libaries.

Homecoming 1964 at the University of Georgia would have been a pretty good weekend to crash some Greek parties. I can't say which one I would have chosen, though. How could you? Not just Mr. Alexander at Chi Psi, but The Five Du-tones, Eddie Floyd, The Tams, The Sensations (I'm assuming it was these Sensations), The Upsetters (minus Little Richard), The Catalinas, whichever sets of "Ambassadors" and "Vibratones" these were... even Dionne Warwick (or "Warlick", as they render it here) would have been worth seeing at that point. Of course, you'd have had to go to a frat party. And, since the Bulldogs apparently won their game by 21-7, they were probably especially wild and rowdy that night.

Chi Psi House, 320 S. Lumpkin St.

Here's a tiny photo of the house where you'd have been attending the party in question; it was pretty new at the time, having only been built in 1960. The frat was kicked off campus for booze violations in the late '80s, and the building was razed in 2004.

Jungle 45's

2011-12-20T15:00:00.004-05:00

Here is the complete "Jungle 45 of the Week" compilation that I have been sporadically putting up the last year and a half or so. Now you can download it in one fell swoop with a nifty cover by J.R. Williams!

Jungle_45's

Liza Jane

2011-12-19T20:10:00.004-05:00

Cecil Surratt & Smitty Smith - Liza Jane (2:03)

Cecil and Smitty absolutely nail it here with their 1960 instrumental country take on an old standard.

Kentucky Fried Christmas?

2011-12-19T12:33:00.001-05:00

OK!

Joyeux Anniversaire à la Reine du Rock Français!

2011-12-19T11:51:00.000-05:00

Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 11 October 1963

I refer of course, to the "Little Sparrow", Édith Piaf, who would have been 96 today, though realistically, everyone knew she was never going to get that far (as it is, she was lucky to have made it almost halfway). You may question my characterization of her in the above title, but to that challenge, I offer her 1956 rendition of a popular Leiber & Stoller composition about the life and death of a leather-clad motorcyclist thug... and what's more Rock 'N' Roll than that?

Edith Piaf - "L'Homme á la Moto"*

Also: Happy Birthday wishes to the great Professor Longhair (he'd have been 93) and to Phil Ochs (who'd have been a mere 71, but like our featured artist, has now been gone as long as he was here).

* Pairhops zis ees bettair known to you feelthy Americain peegs undair eets original title, "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots", as first recorded by ze Cheers.

SUNDAY MOVIE! SHAKE, RATTLE & ROCK!

2011-12-18T20:41:00.000-05:00

Enjoy this full movie free download!

OR GO TO WEBSITE: http://www.archive.org/details/ShakeRattleAndRock

Arthur Alexander: Me and Mine

2011-12-16T17:41:00.003-05:00

Some people think I'm lucky, but life don't think that way!

Me and Mine

Jungle 45 of the Week!

2011-12-16T07:30:00.002-05:00

Tropic_of_Cancer

Rufus Thomas

2011-12-15T17:29:00.000-05:00

Patron Saint of Ichiban

10 years gone but not forgotten.

One Hundred Years Ago Today

2011-12-14T22:49:00.003-05:00

December 14, 1911- May 1, 1965

On this day in the year Nineteen Hundred and Eleven, in the city of Long Beach in the land of California, a child was born unto a humble railroad agent and his bride, and they did christen the infant Lindley Armstrong Jones. And lo, because he was so slender, like unto a railroad spike, men did call him "Spike." And when he became a man, he gathered unto him many odd-looking Disciples, and together they made Music of a nature unlike any the the world had ever heard. And they traveled throughout the land, bringing this Music to all the people, and their Glorious Cacophony brought Joy unto the Multitudes,even unto his death and beyond, and his Song shall sound throughout the world, until the End of Days. Amen.

Call Me Lonesome

2011-12-14T22:25:00.000-05:00

Arthur Alexander - Call Me Lonesome

Black cat bone.

This Just In

2011-12-14T12:32:00.001-05:00

Sugar Pie DeSanto on Fool's Paradise with Rex this Saturday 1-3 PM! See her live at the Bell House in Brooklyn on December 31st with Lee Fields!

Arthur Alexander Month: The Monument Years CD

2011-12-14T10:52:00.004-05:00

The Monument Years CD covers Arthur's post-Dot 60s work. Over half of it was unreleased at the time and while there's some duff cuts, most of it sounds great. Arthur is a little bit less despairing than during his Dot years, so there is the occasional lapse in intensity, but not on this great pissed off (and otherwise unreleased) self-penned rant where he actually bucks fate instead of just giving into it. "I PLAY SANTA CLAUS FOR YOU!"

You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)

Jazzed Up And Bonkers!!

2011-12-14T08:06:00.005-05:00

Dan and Travis do a radio podcast. It's called Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! They play funny tapes and dumb songs. Do you like funny tapes and dumb songs? Sure you do. We do too. That's why the staff here at WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban are honored that Dan and Travis have created a special episode of Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! especially for the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban audience. Oh yeah--the stuff they play rocks out like crazy, also. Check out the special Jazzed Up And Bonkers!! episode now!

WFMU’S ROCK AND SOUL ICHIBAN- JAZZED UP AND BONKERS!! #1

1. Don & Dewey- “Jungle Hop”
2. The Lifeguards- “Everybody Out of the Pool”
3. Rico & The Ravens- “Don’t You Know”
4. Denny & The Catalinas- “It Ain’t No Big Thing”
5. Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns- “Beatnik Blues”
6. Roy Brown – “Party Doll”
7. Little Walter- “Crazy, Mixed-Up World”
8. Roy Gaines- “Skippy is a Sissy”
9. Little Richard- “Keep A Knockin’ (live medley)
10. Ronnie Dawson- “Do Do Do”
11. Jim Backus- “Caveman”
12. The Gestures- “Run, Run, Run”
13. The Jalopys- “A Real Bonkers Jalopy Mess”
14. The Bantams- “Suzy Q”
15. Baby Jean- “If You Wanna”
16. Vonnie Fritchy- “Sugar Booger Ave.”
17. Elvis Presley- “She’s A Machine”
18. Bobby Lee Trammell- “Uh-Oh”
19. Link Wray- “Walking Down the Street Called Love”
20. Ronnie Self- “Bop-A-Lena”
21. Gino Washington- “I Gotta Move On”

Midnight To Six Man

2011-12-13T19:44:00.001-05:00

Jungle 45 of the Week

2011-12-11T11:48:00.002-05:00

KAN_GU_WA!

Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp

2011-12-11T08:48:00.001-05:00

The Rolling Stones - You Better Move On

2011-12-10T22:21:00.001-05:00

Wife Of The Party

2011-12-10T11:46:00.003-05:00

Liz Anderson - Wife Of The Party (2:28)

Robert Altman's Nashville 1975

2011-12-10T09:04:00.001-05:00

Arthur Plays The Macon, Ga Auditorium 1963

2011-12-08T21:07:00.000-05:00

Arthur Alexander - Two Sides Of The Cover Coin

2011-12-08T11:26:00.001-05:00

Always loved Arthur's cover of LOVE ME WARM & TENDER on his Dot album - simple & clean.

AND... his upbeat cover of BLACK NIGHT released on 45 in 1964.
Originally issued by Charles Brown in 1951.

Arthur definitely put his own unique country/soul stamp on every thing he cut.

Anna

2011-12-07T14:08:00.001-05:00

Arthur didn't like the Beatles' version of "Anna". He thought they were "little girl shit". He preferred the Stones' version of "You Better Move On".

Arthur Covers Alex Chilton

2011-12-07T12:38:00.001-05:00

1965-1972

Cry Like A Baby (mp3)

Gemini Spacecraft Honors Arthur Alexander

2011-12-07T10:17:00.001-05:00

Our pals over at Gemini Spacecraft did a fine post on Arthur last year. Thanks, Bob!

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T22:57:00.001-05:00

You Don't Love Me, (You Don't Care)

2011-12-06T22:31:00.001-05:00

Arthur's favorite cover of his songs was Dusty Springfield's "Everyday I Have To Cry Some"

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T22:11:00.001-05:00

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T22:02:00.001-05:00

Rainbow Road (fiction)

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T21:44:00.001-05:00

"Detroit City" was a hit for Bobby Bare in 1963. Written by Mel Tillis and Danny Dill.

Arthur Alexander Month!

2011-12-06T20:25:00.001-05:00

The Hound and Rex at the Ichiban launch party

The Hound's interview with Arthur Alexander April 17, 1993 on WFMU, Arthurs's last.

Entire show (mp3)

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T20:05:00.001-05:00

WSM Radio Tower

Arthur was born in Florence, Alabama on May 10, 1940. He must've listened to the Opry on Saturday night.

Down The Backroads

Arthur Alexander Month

2011-12-06T19:29:00.001-05:00

The Fame Gang

"You Better Move On" was the first chart hit for FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

ARTHUR ALEXANDER MONTH

2011-12-02T02:22:00.000-05:00

Hank Ballard

2011-12-01T16:44:00.001-05:00

Hat tip: Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop.

Itchy Bon?

2011-12-01T15:15:00.003-05:00

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