Listener comments!

♥ 11:01am
: Hang tight, I'm struggling to connect 🎸 ♥ 11:05am
WR: And the automatic stream isn't playing. Not silence. Client cannot connect.   11:06am
avspuk: 🤞 ♥ 11:09am
MHLee: I've notified John Dalton. Hold tight and we'll get there when we do. 🎸 ♥ 11:11am
WR: I take back what I wrote. I connect but it is silent. Are we sure that Abbie disconnected? But I guess Mr Dalton can resolve whatever. ♥ 11:12am
MHLee:

↳ WR @11:11

Not sure. Would explain the issue. ♥ 11:14am
MHLee: Refresh and we have music! 🎸 ♥ 11:15am
WR: 👍   🎸 ♥ 11:17am
Jay Current: I'm coming in late, but it seems like things are just getting started. ♥ 11:18am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:17

Indeed. So we'll probably cut a set... gets me started on next week ♥ 11:20am
MHLee: in theory i could go over since Krys O. isn't following us today. 🎸 ♥ 11:21am
WR:

↳ MHLee @11:20

Yes, and have the show manually archived so it will all be available. ♥ 11:22am
MHLee: I can do that after the show. Sounds like a plan. ♥ 11:30am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Rippin' And Runnin'" by "Tiny Bradshaw (ft. Tiny ...

Tiny Kenndey was a "female impersonator" ♥ 11:33am
MHLee: www.queermusicheritage.com...
Though seemingly only vocally... not in drag or anything
www.spontaneouslunacy.net...   🎸 ♥ 11:36am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "How Many More Years" by "The Howlin' Wolf"

Interesting that he was "The" Howlin' Wolf on this early single.   🎸 ♥ 11:37am
Jay Current:

↳ Jay Current @11:36

Looks like you mentioned it in the backannounce ♥ 11:37am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:36

I was thinking the same ♥ 11:43am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "I've Got a Girl" by "Roland Cook"

lots of dances listed there ♥ 11:44am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "I've Got a Girl" by "Roland Cook"

whats it quoting at the end in the horns?   🎸 ♥ 11:45am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:43

It kind of reminds me of "Tallahassee Lassie" with all the dance callouts. ♥ 11:47am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:45

i think the horns just reminded me of wonderful world by sam cooke   🎸 ♥ 11:47am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Don't You Just Know It" by "Huey (Piano) Smith An...

I love this one - such as goofy track   🎸 ♥ 11:48am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:47

If you're ever in the mood for a gimmick episode, you could do one on songs that borrow and quote bits from previous songs. ♥ 11:49am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:48

might be a hellraiser idea ♥ 11:51am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Okie Dokie Stomp" by "Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ...

killer guitar work here   🎸 ♥ 11:52am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:51

Production feels quite polished for 1954 as well ♥ 11:54am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "The Fish" by "Willie M. Thornton"

she never has consistent billing on these   🎸 ♥ 11:55am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "The Fish" by "Willie M. Thornton"

Big Mama Thorton and Howlin' Wolf are probably my favorite blues singers from this show's era. They both seem to be at 100% at all times, but it never feels overbearing. ♥ 11:56am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Gee" by "The Crows"

seems to me like a bunch of the doowoop hits were on no name labels ♥ 11:57am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:55

good choices ♥ 11:57am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Gee" by "The Crows"

also this is really jazzy ♥ 12:00pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "(Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone" by "Ro...

not exactly mellow   🎸 ♥ 12:01pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:00

Every time he hears that mellow saxophone he wishes for faster saxophone? ♥ 12:03pm
MHLee: Here's a great one note solo   🎸 ♥ 12:04pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:56

Doo-wop just kind of seems like a musical Wild West. It had a lot of impact on music and a fairly long time in the limelight, yet it was mostly fly-by-night artists and labels. 🎸 ♥ 12:06pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Screamin' Boogie" by "Dick Davis And Orchestra Fe...

first time I remember seeing this on a record label: For Non-Commercial Purposes Only   🎸 ♥ 12:06pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Screamin' Boogie" by "Dick Davis And Orchestra Fe...

The attack on that piano... ♥ 12:07pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:06

Some say not for radio broadcast tho ♥ 12:07pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Screamin' Boogie" by "Dick Davis And Orchestra Fe...

label looks remarkably like imperial   🎸 ♥ 12:10pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Hey Sweet Thing" by "Peppermint Harris"

Bit of an odd label name ♥ 12:10pm
MHLee: I thought so as welll, nice label art tho 🎸 ♥ 12:10pm
WR:

↳ MHLee @12:07

Yes, the radio broadcast thing was a major issue not resolved until the late 40s. For this notation, I can only guess something related to juke box wars. Less well documented than the radio licensing and much more messier with regional mob territories. ♥ 12:13pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:10

i need to read up on that, the fess would record bunches of songs under bunches of names for that 🎸 ♥ 12:14pm
WR: In other words, the note means the record is for personal use, not in juke boxes or radio? Sorta like the labelling on most DVDs & BluRay of today.   🎸 ♥ 12:16pm
Jay Current:

↳ WR @12:14

Reminds me of the "Not for Resale" label on all those old Sonic the Hedgehog cartridges. ♥ 12:16pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:14

some of the jukeboxes had slightly oddly sized 78s i think ♥ 12:20pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "You've Been Mistreating Me" by "Big Bill Broonzy ...

i never knew he made it to boogie woogie and jump blues but seems like he did exxcellently 🎸 ♥ 12:23pm
WR:

↳ MHLee @12:13

I got a book a year or so ago that I've not read yet, that covers some of the mob world entry into juke box distribution. Written from the POV of a bio of jukebox manufacturer from Canada.

And this web blog entry has good info:
www.clicktrack.fm...

♥ 12:25pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Goomp Blues" by "Johnny Otis Orchestra"

how do you say this on? Goo-Mmm-P? 🎸 ♥ 12:26pm
WR: Here is the book I was referring to
jukeboxempire.com...   🎸 ♥ 12:27pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:25

I assume just a quick Goo-mmp ♥ 12:29pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:26

to add to my reading ♥ 12:35pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Shake, Rattle & Roll" by "Joe Turner and His Blue...

a little dirtier than the hit ♥ 12:37pm
MHLee: we are slowly making up time... we are 7 minutes of now   🎸 ♥ 12:40pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Put Your Arms Around Me" by "Bobby Charles"

Really good one here! (And of course Shake, Rattle & Roll is a classic in any form.) ♥ 12:41pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:40

i got that from a boxset of fats domino but the boxset never was properly releashed and i dunno why it's in it ♥ 12:43pm
MHLee:

↳ MHLee @12:41

I guess because they did an attempt at the song in 1960   🎸 ♥ 12:43pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:41

I have a Chess Blues boxset, but it seems that song isn't on it. ♥ 12:49pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Lucy Brown" by "Duke Henderson"

to me this sounds like it could have been produced about 5 years earlier ♥ 12:50pm
MHLee: not necessarily in the fidelity but the use of orchestra   🎸 ♥ 12:50pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Lucy Brown" by "Duke Henderson"

Specialty Records have had some great stuff on this show. ♥ 12:54pm
MHLee: Having little richard on label helps   🎸 ♥ 12:58pm
Jay Current: The painfully obvious innuendo set ♥ 12:59pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:58

never knew how old my ding-a-ling was   🎸 ♥ 1:01pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:59

I feel like Dave Barthlomew's version you played was more of a song than Chuck Berry's take though, which always felt more like a comedy skit set to music to me. ♥ 1:03pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @1:01

it's certainly a different take   🎸 ♥ 1:03pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Cut It Out" by "Joe Tex"

A wild one! 🎸 ♥ 1:04pm
WR:

↳ Jay Current @1:01

good comparison. Note that Berry's version of Ding a Ling that became the hit was from a live concert recording. ♥ 1:05pm
MHLee: Yeah, Joe Tex really seems to me like a post-Elvis rocker... he definitely had followed all the developments ♥ 1:06pm
MHLee: Now you can see how much that Miracle record resembles this 🎸 ♥ 1:08pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Cut It Out" by "Joe Tex"

I've been enjoying the early Joe Tex recordings that you have played. Never investigated them before. His mainstream popularity with "Skinny Legs and all" started in the late 60s and that is what I knew of him.   🎸 ♥ 1:09pm
Jay Current:

↳ WR @1:08

Then there was his disco era hit "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" 🎸 ♥ 1:10pm
Herbie: Hi MHL & crew! Listening whilst building cabs but wanted to say hi. ♥ 1:11pm
MHLee: Hi Herbie. Just fading out. We got a little behind but no one follows for a bit. ♥ 1:13pm
MHLee: This will obviously be a big hit for Hank Ballard ♥ 1:13pm
MHLee: (it's actaully a b-side)   🎸 ♥ 1:13pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @1:13

Can't wait to see Hank Ballard on American Bandstand! ♥ 1:13pm
MHLee: Thanks everyone! ♥ 1:14pm
MHLee: Uhoh... still issues going on with stream? Let me refresh 🎸 ♥ 1:14pm
WR: Thank you! 🎸 ♥ 1:15pm
WR: strange, the stream hasn't started yet.   🎸 ♥ 1:15pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @1:14

Hank Ballard brought the house down. 🎸 ♥ 1:16pm
WR: even restart the player and just silence ♥ 1:16pm
MHLee: it's acting as if I'm still connected and also not allowing me to reconnect... must have been what happened with Abby too 🎸 ♥ 1:19pm
WR: Someone should make a recording of "John Dalton to the Rescue". ♥ 1:19pm
MHLee: We had music for a split second,.. 🎸 ♥ 1:20pm
WR: Yes, just heard a couple of short blips of music.   🎸 ♥ 1:21pm
Jay Current:

↳ WR @1:19

You could find a recording of Ray Davies announcing Kinks bass player John Dalton for the intro. ♥ 1:25pm
MHLee: i tried going into airplane mode to see if that would fix it, maybe my computer was silently still connecting but didn't seem to do 🎸 ♥ 1:26pm
WR: Seems back to normal mow 🎸 ♥ 1:27pm
WR: now