Listener comments!

  7:13am
: Hi MHLee and others! ♥ 10:34am
MHLee: Hi Andrew   10:50am
Andrew in Toronto: Greetings. 🎸 ♥ 11:06am
Krys O.: Hello! ♥ 11:06am
Mr Fab: nice to be Walkin' With Mr. Lee live for a change.   11:06am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mr Fab @11:06

Hi Mr. Fab. ♥ 11:06am
MHLee: Hi Krs O abd Mr Fab!   11:07am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Krys O. @11:06

Hi Krys! 🎸 ♥ 11:07am
WR: Hello MHLee and folks ♥ 11:08am
MHLee: Hi WR!   🎸 ♥ 11:09am
Jay Current: The Coasters and Fats - breaking out some big one in the opening set. ♥ 11:10am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:09

Fats playing stride piano seemingly ♥ 11:11am
MHLee: Fats comes up again as a backing artist   11:13am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay Current @11:09

Hi Jay.   🎸 ♥ 11:14am
Jay Current:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:13

Hello Andrew in Toronto ♥ 11:14am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "At The Hop" by "Danny and the Juniors"

I try to avoid just the 1950s hits but this one is such an earwormand the piano is very lively ♥ 11:21am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "The Slop" by "Louis Jordan"

Man, we're hoppin' and sloppin!   🎸 ♥ 11:21am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "At The Hop" by "Danny and the Juniors"

Strange fact about Danny and the Juniors - they never released a standard studio LP. That wouldn't be that all that odd for an early to mid '50s group, or for a more fly-by-night doo-wop group, but Danny and the Juniors were quite prolific in the late '50s and into the '60s. ♥ 11:22am
MHLee: This reminds me of a song in a weird Dr. Seuss animated special ♥ 11:22am
Mr Fab:

↳ MHLee @11:14

and those types of vocal harmonies are fairly extinct in modern rock. ♥ 11:23am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:21

I think I Die You Die has a right up about how that outfit fell apart... tragic   🎸 ♥ 11:23am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "The Slop" by "Louis Jordan"

There's kind of an odd recursive influence going on with Louis Jordan. He helped lay the foundation for rock and roll, and then by the '50s, it seems like rock and rollers were influencing him. ♥ 11:23am
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @11:22

The Nightsweats are the only band off the top of my head thatn I think really mines old R&B sounds   🎸 ♥ 11:24am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:22

When you think about it, is there really a particularly normal Dr. Seuss animated special? ♥ 11:24am
MHLee:

↳ MHLee @11:23

pleasekillme.com... it was please kill me... dang these names are too similar ♥ 11:26am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:24

No, Grinch Night is horrific.... but this one "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?" isn't even related to a book   11:29am
JoeH: Howdy MHL, I managed to catch a show on a week you are here! Good times! ♥ 11:30am
MHLee: Hi Joe!   🎸 ♥ 11:30am
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @11:22

For whatever reason, horror punk bands like The Misfits and Blitzkid seemed to like throwing some doo-wop harmonies into their choruses.   11:31am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay Current @11:30

Hi Jay. 🎸 ♥ 11:31am
Jan Turkenburg: Hello everybody!   🎸 ♥ 11:31am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:24

At a certain level, it is weird how quickly musical acts can just rise and fall. ♥ 11:31am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Your Line Was Busy" by "Big Bob"

Dang, pretty solid guitar work for someone I've never heard of ♥ 11:32am
MHLee:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @11:31

Hi Jan!   11:33am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @11:31

Hi Jan! ♥ 11:35am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "After While (We Gonna Drink A Little Whiskey)" by...

You can tell these guys were gospel singers   🎸 ♥ 11:38am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:26

Apparently the music in "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?" was written by a Sesame Street composer. It was also the last or second to last of the DePatie-Freleng Dr. Seuss specials depending on how you're counting. (The crossover "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" was made by Depatie-Freleng staff, but after the company had been bought out by Marvel Productions.) ♥ 11:40am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:38

it's a weird one, also i challenege the idea the house song is the same tune as my bonnie   🎸 ♥ 11:44am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Don't Blooper" by "The Suedes & Grady Chapman"

So many record labels with "Hollywood" and "Records" on their 45 labels. ♥ 11:45am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:44

A lot of them were owned by the Dolphins ♥ 11:46am
MHLee: en.wikipedia.org... ♥ 11:48am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Long Tall Sally" by "Johnny Otis Orchestra"

who was the Little Richard impersonator? He was pretty good. 🎸 ♥ 11:50am
WR:

↳ Mr Fab @11:48

I'm wondering that too, if it was actually Johnny Otis singing, or, if not, then who. ♥ 11:51am
MHLee:

↳ WR @11:50

Johnny sings lead on a lot of it. it says on the album the vocal Jayos are Johnny, Mel Willaims, and Arthur Lee Mayle   🎸 ♥ 11:52am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:46

Murdered for an alleged no-pay: a firm reminder that the music industry has never been a pleasant place behind the scenes.   11:56am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mr Fab @11:48

Hi Mr.Fab. ♥ 11:57am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:52

In front of Sandy Nelson ♥ 11:57am
Mr Fab:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:56

Aloha, Andrew! ♥ 11:58am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "You Done Me Wrong" by "Felix Gross & His Orchestra"

This is really solid for 1951   🎸 ♥ 12:00pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:58

Chess is usually ahead of the game in terms of guitar, but this is a solid sax-focused single. ♥ 12:03pm
MHLee: For some reason discogs has this listed as bop ♥ 12:04pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Dig This Menu Please" by "Red Rodney Sextet"

that was like some Screamin Jay lyrics, if sung by Pat Boone. ♥ 12:05pm
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @12:04

I was thinking he was very smooth on those vocals ♥ 12:07pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "No More Doggin'" by "Rosco Gordon"

"The song featured Gordon's signature "Rosco Rhythm" piano style which became a precursor to Jamaican ska music."   🎸 ♥ 12:08pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @12:04

Sing-talking Jay Hawkins 🎸 ♥ 12:10pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Dig This Menu Please" by "Red Rodney Sextet"

Red Rodney was a red headed trumpet player. ♥ 12:11pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Love Is Strange" by "Mickey & Sylvia"

the basis of the New York Dolls's "Trash."
so does this count as "proto-punk"?   12:12pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay Current @12:08

Hi Jay! ♥ 12:13pm
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @12:11

it's very poppy but I'm reached the conclusion there's more going on than meets the eye there   🎸 ♥ 12:13pm
Jay Current:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:12

Hello Andrew in Toronto ♥ 12:15pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Forgive Me" by "Big John Greer"

For some reason trying to find anything about when big john greer did anything is pulling teeth ♥ 12:16pm
MHLee: Another one of these artists where the CD booklet probably is telling   🎸 ♥ 12:17pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Forgive Me" by "Big John Greer"

The music here kind of reminds me of those Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry shorts that take place in the city. ♥ 12:19pm
MHLee: It also sort of sounds like it should have been in the previous decade   🎸 ♥ 12:20pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:19

Yeah, although funnily enough those Tom & Jerry shorts were made in the next decade. ♥ 12:22pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Kansas City" by "Hank Ballard and The Midnighters"

I think the Hank Ballard & billing is a 1959 on thing ♥ 12:22pm
MHLee: Also pretty sure the guitarist in this era is still alive   12:23pm
Oleh from Pittsburgh: Hi MHL and jukers ♥ 12:24pm
MHLee: Hi Oleh!   12:25pm
Oleh from Pittsburgh: This Moonglows tune is sweet. ♥ 12:26pm
MHLee:

↳ Oleh from Pittsburgh @12:25

Soulful vocals   🎸 ♥ 12:27pm
Jay Current: Hank Ballard and Joe Tex are two of my favorite discoveries from this show. I may have heard some of Joe Tex's later songs, but I never looked into his early R&B stuff. ♥ 12:29pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:27

Both are really up-to-date with the sounds of the day. Ballard starts ahead. ♥ 12:38pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Boogie in the Park" by "Joe Hill Louis, The One M...

Joe plays every insturment here   12:50pm
Oleh from Pittsburgh: Thanks MHL. My man Slim!   🎸 ♥ 12:51pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Potatoe Chips" by "Slim Gaillard And His Bakers D...

This song title must have haunted Dan Quayle.   12:51pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ MHLee @12:38

Thanks! ♥ 12:51pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:51

I had the same thought ♥ 12:53pm
Mr Fab: when my daughter was little, she liked a Slim Gaillard CD i used to play in the car. Slim's so silly, I bet Roger must have played him.   12:54pm
JoeH: This is such a fun show, glad I caught some of it! ♥ 12:56pm
MHLee: Thanks for listening!   12:58pm
Oleh from Pittsburgh: Slim later career on made some specifically kid l. I loved that goofy man. Bill Shute once called him the proto Robyn Hitchcock. 🎸 ♥ 12:58pm
Jan Turkenburg: Thanks, MHLee! ♥ 12:59pm
Mr Fab: thanks for a real vout-o-roony show, mr Lee!   🎸 ♥ 12:59pm
Jay Current: Good show MHLee!   12:59pm
Oleh from Pittsburgh: * made some specifically kid friendly songs* 🎸 ♥ 1:14pm
WR: thank you!