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1950s-70s collector's music on Sat midnight radio. 90.7fm or wwoz.org Streaming at: https://exchange.prx.org/series/31889-saturday-night-new-orleans-radio

Music from that time when rhythm and blues and rock and roll were emerging but hadn't yet become a predictable formula. A time when musicians were listening to and incorporating these music's exciting emergence into their own style of music. We focus on music that is difficult to categorize. C&W that sounds like rockabilly and rockabilly that sounds like R&B which sounds an awful lot like rock. Th

at's the sweet spot for the music on the show and, sure enough, that's where the New Orleans sound is centered. Songs are arranged in sets originating from an overall theme and between songs are short interstitial sound clips that sometimes tell a parallel story or a contrasting story or are simply audio cultural artifacts used that frame the music. Presented like the radio shows of the times, nothing staid or overly serious. This is "music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" without the culture vulture perspective or the competitive provenance contests of music collectors.

14/08/2024

Finally got the substitute show from last June posted on PRX at:
https://exchange.prx.org/p/539773

I'll get last weekend's show posted in a few days.

At the beginning of rock and roll a fad was to add a couple gong strokes and play the black keys on a piano to imitate what Americans thought was a "Chinese sound." Of course, China with the world's largest population might probably didn't have as many rock and roll bands as any typical American hig...

10/08/2024

240811 show is gestating for another 14 hours in the "Easy Bake Oven" of pre-hurricane New Orleans. WWOZ.org at midnight CST or 90.7 fm if you're near the light bulb.
Playlist and your comments follow:

04/08/2024

240804 show is baking in the "august" convection oven. First hour, songs with crying or laughter (or both) in the lyrics. There aren't many of them because it's hard to cry or laugh in tune and you can bet my songs are not in tune. Playlist below.

28/07/2024

240728 show? It found me. One song where musicians used animal noises to make the melody lead to another and soon enough I have four shows worth of songs where musicians were using sound effects as music (and that's after excluding songs with car engines, train sounds, guns, chickens, etc.) It'll be fun.

20/07/2024

240721 midnight show can be avoided at 90.7 fm within our line of piled-up clay holding out the world's oceans. wwoz.org if you live where your air isn't a alternating current of water up, water down.

https://www.deltaboogie.com/rockabillydays/callaball/index.htm

https://www.listeningsessions.ca/p/the-tale-of-dale-mcbride-one-of-country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5IXeLqXlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Oiutmf02s&list=RDEM7JTr2mAao3PjwaTl4vLNww&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zi314KyuE

https://www.uncamarvy.com/ShirleyGunter/shirleygunter.html

https://www.minniepaulmusic.com/artists/k-to-n/mike-waggoner-and-the-bops/

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/21/132051999/ella-may-morse-the-voice-of-capitol-s-first-hits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6-UZP3_idA

https://deviationstreetmagazine.com/the-vibrators/

Red Berry and the Bel Raves out of Omaha, Nebraska
https://itsgreatshakes.blogspot.com/2005/07/red-berry-and-bel-raves-what-dollyhot.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtnhELXUTmA

https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-johnny-jones/

https://louisianamusichalloffame.org/lenny-capello/

https://www.tommyridgley.com/

https://www.uncamarvy.com/TommyRidgley/tommyridgley.html

https://countryqueer.com/stories/article/esquerita-the-flamboyant-lost-rock-n-roll-pioneer/

Varetta Dillard (one of my favorites)
https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/artists-varetta-dillard/
https://www.uncamarvy.com/VarettaDillard/varettadillard.html

The great missing chapter in the history of rock and roll would be titled "Indo Rock" and would feature The Tielman Brothers. This chapter could completely negate the chapter on the highly dilutive version of the Tielmans, Elvis Presley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muKkVufgkAE
https://indo-rock.jimdofree.com/t/the-tielman-brothers-breda-hedel/biography-english/

Percy Welch
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=186818

Bogard Brothers from South Africa
https://thehoundnyc.com/tag/bogard-brothers/
https://electricjive.blogspot.com/2013/02/bogard-brothers-street-corner-rock-c1961.html

14/07/2024

240715 is available for streaming anytime without expiration at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/536230-240721-favorite-songs

Here's how the show unfurled live:

Show starts at midnight on WWOZ.org and 90.7 FM if you live in the mush between the levees. We're posting here.

07/07/2024

240707 show starts while my air condition only quits. Midnight on wwoz.og and 90.7 fm here in the sauna of mosquitos. We're posting here:

30/06/2024

240630 show is streamable anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/534737-240704-phone-number-as-lyrics-and-early-canadian-r

As the show unfurled:

240630 midnight show at 90.7 where there's both heat and stupidity and wwoz.org where you get a choice. We're posting here.

Tonight lyrics consisting of telephone numbers, showdown songs, Canadian rockers, and spin the bottle.

What? I didn't create these songs.

23/06/2024

240623 is available for streaming anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/533880-240630-early-new-zealand-rock-and-roll-and-b-sid

The show as it unfurled live:

240623 show from the humidor starts at midnight on wwoz.org and 90.7 if you prefer your modulation ala frequency instead of the cruder amplitude. (It's a phase pun I'm going through.) Early rock from New Zealand in the first hour. Dreck from me in the rest of the show. We're posting here:

20/06/2024

I'm on WWOZ at 7pm tonight. A bunch of Synthetic Chinese rock and roll to help with your take-out dinner plans. We're posting here and listening there -------> wwoz.org and 90.7 fm in the giant poke bowl made of clay levees.

16/06/2024

240616 is streamable anytime into the indefinite future at:
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/532991-240623-swamp-pop

The live show as it unfurled is below. Swamp pop songs starts at midnight on wwoz.org or 90.7 FM in the land of humidity and morbidity. We're posting here:

13/06/2024

240613 Show starts at 7pm on WWOZ.org or 90.7 FM. We're posting here:

09/06/2024

240609 show is posted for streaming at anytime into the indefinite future at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/532174-240616-songs-about-mobile-alabama-and-songs-from-t

Here's how the lives show unfolded:

240609 show starts at midnight and we're posting here. WWOZ.org or 90.7fm in the sweat pit.

06/06/2024

240606 (Tonight!) I'm doing the Thursday 7pm to 10pm show.

Two hours after I posted this ... I drop my hardrive of music and fatally broke it. I've got a backup but it takes at least a day to get the computer to recognize all the songs so there I am, naked in front of my homeroom class, expected to give a book report.

I'm at the studio, trying to ride this recycled show from 2019 that features songs sung by the casts from McCales Navy and Ginger, Mary Ann, and Lovie Howell. You know, the usual dreck from my usual wreck of a show. We're posting here. Kinda. I think I'll go get a bunch of drinks.

02/06/2024

You can stream this show anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/531309-240608-the-primitive-sound-and-wild-man-songs

Here's how it unfolded on a rainy Saturday night in the French Quarter:

We're posting here for the 240602 show at midnight on 90.7fm in soggy-town and WWOZ.org if you're uphill. Tonight, primitive songs and too many songs about "wild" women and men. Playlist and photos of some of the musicians:

26/05/2024

The May 26th show is archived for streaming anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/530680-240601-cees-klopp-s-white-label-records

Below is how the live show unfolded with all my usual urrrpss, schzenits, and zurps:

240526 show features The White Label record company of Cees ("Casey") Klopp a record collecting Dutchman who fell so deep into The Music he bootlegged and released hundreds of "White Label" and "Collector" compilation albums. "Bootlegger" and "curator of lost songs;" Cees had a great ear and the diligence to put this music back into ears that would never have found it without Cees' bootlegging.

https://theelvisforum-phoenix.com/viewtopic.php?t=6525

https://www.stomping.nl/herinner/cees.pdf

https://hillbillycountry.blogspot.com/2017/08/cees-klop-rip.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=MwWYPSBHHss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sueSz5q0U8

19/05/2024

240519 show can be streamed anytime at:
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/529852-240526-cool-records-of-new-jersey

Here's how the live show unfolded:

240519 starts at midnight featuring the Cool Records out of New Jersey. We're posting below. Listen to the show and tell everyone you know you heard New Orleans radio before the 2020 hurricanes revisited New Orleans.

Playlists, photos of the bands, links to the music and writings throughout this post.

Ray Condo
https://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/ray_condo_and_his_ricochets

Bay Bops
https://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2009/03/bay-bopsfollow-rock.html

Big Jeff Bess and His Radio Playboys
https://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=17664

Al Barkle
https://rocknrollgraffiti.blogspot.com/2007/11/up-rockabilly-star-left-mark.html

T. Valentine
https://chicagoreader.com/music/the-secret-history-of-chicago-music-t-valentine/

https://www.facebook.com/p/T-Valentine-100063880096918/?paipv=0&eav=Afbivg4XGASDcWsNLFug4RQrx1Jo00MBEBbfIDPXs_JCvECajxKKetQzWDuVj5n9Pw4&_rdr

And the worst lip sync performance... no wait, that's not right. The lip sync performance that's pitch perfect for T. Valentine:
https://www.facebook.com/p/T-Valentine-100063880096918/?paipv=0&eav=Afbivg4XGASDcWsNLFug4RQrx1Jo00MBEBbfIDPXs_JCvECajxKKetQzWDuVj5n9Pw4&_rdr

Clyde Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNegKN1J1fc

One of the few Rip Tides mentions:
https://poparchives.com.au/the-thunderbirds/machine-gun/

Aki Aleong
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/aki-leonard-gonzales-aleong-40

https://www.facebook.com/AkiAleongActor/

Jimmy Kirkland
https://www.discogs.com/artist/887923

Four Teens / Terry Noland
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1428455-Terry-Noland

Sabers have a paragraph in this write up:
https://popdiggers.com/garage-rock-school-lesson-4-garage-roots-the-official-pre-british-invasion-investigation/

12/05/2024

240512 show can be streamed anytime at:
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/529054-240518-congo-songs-and-kit-records-of-nashville

The live version unfurled this way:

240512 show starts at midnight on wwoz.org in normal boring world or 90.7 fm in flying termite land. We're posting under the playlist and photos

05/05/2024

240505 is posted on PRX for listening anytime: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/528535-240507-songs-about-women-s-socks

Here's how it unfurled live last Saturday night:

Show starts at midnight hell-hole-bowl inside the levee (they don't keep the water out but they keep the humidity and stupidity in). 90.7 fm here and there, wwoz.org everywhere.

We're posting under the playlist

28/04/2024

We mostly posted on the post just below this string. You can hear the recorded version of this live show any time at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/526990-240504-eanie-meanie-miney-mo-songs-plus-music-from

The first song of the night and the inspiration for all these Eenie Meanie Miney Mo songs:

Websites: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-sweethearts-emc Origin: Dawson Creek, British Columbia (Bob Regan); St. Boniface, Manitoba - Port Coquitlam, British Columbia (Lucille Starr) Biography:

28/04/2024

240428 show is posted here for streaming anytime

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/526990-240504-eanie-meanie-miney-mo-songs-plus-music-from

Below is how the live show unfolded:

240428 show starts in a whisker on wwoz.org or 90.7 in the bowl of humidity. We're posting under the playlist and photos of tonight's musicians

21/04/2024

240421 can be streamed anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/526210-240428-accordions-in-rock-music

The original posts are below:

240421 show starts at midnight on wwoz.org and 90.7 in the bowl of humidity and stupidity where I luxuriate. We're posting here:

14/04/2024

240414 can be streamed at anytime at:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/525176-240421-looking-for-munsters-ufos-and-rockets

Playlist is mixed in with the musician photos below and here's what was posted last Saturday night:

240414 finally a live show at midnight on WWOZ.org We're posting below the playlist:

10/04/2024

I'm doing the 7pm to 10pm shift tonight on WWOZ.org. We're posting here:

08/04/2024

I was traveling last night but the 240407 show is available for streaming here:

We often present music based on it geographic region of origin. Another cut is by "record label" who also have an identifiable "sound" permeating their releases. Tonight, three Los Angeles based record companies but who represented regional musics from the other coasts of America - The Dirty Coast o...

13/08/2023

230813 live show starts at midnight on WWOZ.org or 90.7 fm in the bowl of heat and stupidity. We're posting under the playlists

06/08/2023

230806 show begins at midnight on wwoz.org and 90.7 fm. We're posting here.

30/07/2023

230730 We're posting here.

The live show starts at midnight on WWOZ.org or 90.7fm. Tonight (as in every show) we explore the post WWII emergence of rock and roll as the definitive end of musical orthodoxy and syrupy pop songs.

This week, a different take on our theme. Surely Spike Jones did more to murder musical orthodoxy and syrupy pop in the 1940s and long before rock and roll became "a thing." Seeing a single Spike Jones performance is enough inspiration to bury even the most ingrained orthodoxy and find a do-it-yourself rock and roll sensibility. Only three songs by Spike Jones but do yourself a favor and watch this documentary about him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2jRWpr_Wo

23/07/2023

230723 live show on WWOZ.org or 90.7 FM at midnight Central Time. We're posting here and I'll keep you up until the Women's World Cup matches.

16/07/2023

230717 Live show on WWOZ.org / 90.7fm begins at midnight. We're posting here:

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