I planned on checking the archives, but I wasn't able to get around to it last week.
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11:03am
Jay Current:
If you were wondering, here are the highest similarities scores for Jukejoint Gold:
Weekly World Blues with Matt Fiveash 17.61
Rama Lama Ding Dong with medson 10.12
Fool's Paradise with Rex 7.01
The Crescent City Connection with Jason Isaac 6.85
Make With The Shake with DJ Pat K 6.48
Greasy Kid Stuff with Belinda and Hova 11.80
Bitslap with KBC 5.38
Cheek In Tongues with Barno and DJ Kreightoven 2.50
Forbidden Zone / PoGo•a•GoGo with Herb 1.97
Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael 1.76
I believe Mr. Fab's Live From Sheena's Jungle Room show has the lowest similarities of all the Sheena's Jungle Room hosts. The only remotely similar show is an earlier variation of his own show:
Mr. Fab 6.27
Stop Hitting Yourself with DJ Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop 3.39
The Hour of Crap with Don-O 2.99
Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz 2.89
Provocative Percussion with DJ Rubberband Girl 2.88
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11:19am
MHLee:
I seem to recall Merrily We Roll Along had low similarity with things when it wasn't me doing a fill in but I can't get that one to load.
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11:19am
Roger:
THanks Jay, I was unaware of that feature!
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Song:
"Cement Mixer (Put-ti, Put-ti)" by "Slim Gaillard ...
that was a great version of Cement Mixer. Interesting great musicians accompanying Slim: Zutty Singleton and Tiny Brown. While listening I was watching for some typical Slam Stewart bass and vocal and wondered why I didn't.
Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg 10.46
NA 8.34
The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar 8.23
Stop Hitting Yourself with DJ Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop 5.73
Jukejoint Gold with MHLee 5.26
The 2nd show is unavalialble for some reason. If you exclude that one, the next one would be The Hour of Crap with Don-O with a score of 5.16
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Song:
"Pound Dog" by "Lalo "Pancho Lopez" Guerrero"
Not a great singer, but there's a lot of energy to that performance
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11:26am
Jay Current:
Oh wow, the similarity scores for The Underworld are some of the lowest on the entire station:
Summer Camp 2.07
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison 0.93
Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee 0.88
The Mellow Tambourine with Jan Turkenburg 0.62
Hits From The Crypt 0.60
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11:27am
MHLee:
the summer camp is also me doing a special one-off
If you exclude Summer Camp, you may have the lowest scores of anyone. The only thing I see that's close is Music of Mind Control:
The Clock Strikes Midnight with Herk Hilligoss 1.37
Micah 1.07
Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama 0.75
Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei 0.65
Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder 0.63
He seems to have jumped on rock'n'roll. Some of his recordings are very close to Elvis. He never seems to be between rock and r'n'b on these 50s records. You know where he stands.
I think he's pretty late in the show's span. Still the production of that one is leages ahead.
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12:10pm
MHLee:
"The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues, soul vocal group[1] founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd. James Brown first began his career as a member of the Famous Flames, emerging as the lead singer by the time of their first appearance in a professional recording, "Please, Please, Please", in 1956."
I always associate James Brown with the soul and funk of the '60s and early '70s, so it always feels a bit odd that he had his first hit the same year Elvis and Buddy Holly were breaking through.
Funnily enough, his arch-rival Joe Tex is probably a similar story for many people. I can definitely imagine there are people that associate Tex with his '70s comeback hits instead of his earlier material.
The early '60s is such a weird era of popular music. There was some great music being released during that time and a fair amount of variety, but it's like almost no artist had any staying power. It also tends to get ragged on a good bit by critics due to the heavy volume of novelty tracks and sappy love ballads on the charts.
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12:37pm
MHLee:
RnB and blues are better than they give credit to
But then you get a chubby checker album where every song is dance going back to the 1920s... Pony Time has the Charleston, Let's Twist Again, the Watusi, the land of 1000 dances...
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12:41pm
MHLee:
In about a month, I'll be taking a two week break to move myself
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12:44pm
MHLee:
I'm thinking this could be Red Norvo on 'phone but I don't know
In addition to some good R&B and blues, the early '60s also have some fun girl group material, early surf rock, and guys like Link Wray laying the foundation for hard rock. An often forgotten element of the early '60s was the rise of country music in the mainstream following the success of Marty Robbins's "El Paso." But then of course you look at the Billboard and Cash Box year-end charts and see tons of novelty dances and soppy adult contemporary crossovers.
But upon checking the charts for that era, there really is shockingly little rock outside of soft rock/singer-songwriter material. Most rock had shifted to FM radio and towards album sales.
Listener comments!
: I missed last week as I was on vacation and perusing stores on Record Store Day. I'm back now for this week though.
MHLee: You missed the answer to 60 Minute Man
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:00
I planned on checking the archives, but I wasn't able to get around to it last week.Jay Current: If you were wondering, here are the highest similarities scores for Jukejoint Gold:
Weekly World Blues with Matt Fiveash 17.61
Rama Lama Ding Dong with medson 10.12
Fool's Paradise with Rex 7.01
The Crescent City Connection with Jason Isaac 6.85
Make With The Shake with DJ Pat K 6.48
Roger: ah, you are always so kind.
you must want something!
MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:03
Yeah, Jason ended up in here last week.Roger:
↳ Jay Current @11:03
Jay, how is that determined?MHLee: Hi Roger!
Roger:
↳ MHLee @11:05
howdeeeee MHLee!Jay Current:
↳ Roger @11:05
It's on the WFMU playlist analyzer. It measures the overlap of artists between shows: wfmu.playlistanalyzer.netMHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:07
It apparently updates every so often. This show wasn't listed for a while.Jay Current:
↳ Jay Current @11:07
Your show's closest are:Greasy Kid Stuff with Belinda and Hova 11.80
Bitslap with KBC 5.38
Cheek In Tongues with Barno and DJ Kreightoven 2.50
Forbidden Zone / PoGo•a•GoGo with Herb 1.97
Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael 1.76
MHLee: Pretty low similarities there.
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:08
It apparently updated about 10 or so days ago. Roman Angelos's new show is on it now too.Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:10
I believe Mr. Fab's Live From Sheena's Jungle Room show has the lowest similarities of all the Sheena's Jungle Room hosts. The only remotely similar show is an earlier variation of his own show:Mr. Fab 6.27
Stop Hitting Yourself with DJ Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop 3.39
The Hour of Crap with Don-O 2.99
Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz 2.89
Provocative Percussion with DJ Rubberband Girl 2.88
MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:03
The first track and the clovers track both have favorites from weekly world bluesJay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:14
Cement Mixer has some from a show called Old Codger, that apparently specialized in 78s.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:16
Yeah Old Codger is kinda famous. I saw people posting about it my 78 group yesterday,Jay Current:
↳ Song: "Yakety Yak" by "The Coasters"
Of course this one has seen plenty of WFMU playWR: Hello MHLee and folks.
MHLee: I seem to recall Merrily We Roll Along had low similarity with things when it wasn't me doing a fill in but I can't get that one to load.
Roger: THanks Jay, I was unaware of that feature!
MHLee: Hi WR!
Roger: It says I have 100% match with myself, so we know it's accurate!
WR:
↳ Song: "Cement Mixer (Put-ti, Put-ti)" by "Slim Gaillard ...
that was a great version of Cement Mixer. Interesting great musicians accompanying Slim: Zutty Singleton and Tiny Brown. While listening I was watching for some typical Slam Stewart bass and vocal and wondered why I didn't.Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:19
Merrily We Roll Along:Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg 10.46
NA 8.34
The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar 8.23
Stop Hitting Yourself with DJ Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop 5.73
Jukejoint Gold with MHLee 5.26
The 2nd show is unavalialble for some reason. If you exclude that one, the next one would be The Hour of Crap with Don-O with a score of 5.16
Jay Current:
↳ Song: "Orange Coloured Sky" by "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, doing something jazzy here, in a way that only he could ever do.WR:
↳ Jay Current @11:07
Interesting. How did you find that?Jay Current:
↳ WR @11:22
I saw a few people posting about it in the chat on one of the main channel shows. I think it may have been Ken's show.MHLee:
↳ Song: "Pound Dog" by "Lalo "Pancho Lopez" Guerrero"
Not a great singer, but there's a lot of energy to that performanceJay Current: Oh wow, the similarity scores for The Underworld are some of the lowest on the entire station:
Summer Camp 2.07
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison 0.93
Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee 0.88
The Mellow Tambourine with Jan Turkenburg 0.62
Hits From The Crypt 0.60
MHLee: the summer camp is also me doing a special one-off
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:27
If you exclude Summer Camp, you may have the lowest scores of anyone. The only thing I see that's close is Music of Mind Control:The Clock Strikes Midnight with Herk Hilligoss 1.37
Micah 1.07
Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama 0.75
Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei 0.65
Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder 0.63
MHLee:
↳ Song: "Open the Door Richard!" by "Jack McVea And His Al...
I do like the Dusty Fletcher one better I think betterJay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:33
I think I've heard about a half-dozen versions of this song over the years.MHLee: i;'ve played 3 between two shows
MHLee:
↳ Song: "Richard's Answer (I Ain't Gonna Open That Door)" ...
i apologize there's no good recordings of this oneMHLee:
↳ Song: "Cecil Boogie" by "Pvt. Cecil Gant "The G.I. Sing-...
This feels like a rare record. Gilt-Edge wartimeWR:
↳ Song: "Richard's Answer (I Ain't Gonna Open That Door)" ...
I hope there's a better copy of this out there somewhereMHLee:
↳ WR @11:38
there's a 6 minute short from the theatre's called "lazy richard" on YTMHLee:
↳ Song: "You Little Baby Faced Thing" by "Joe Tex"
I thought this a remarkable Little Richard impressionJay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:43
I've rather liked most of these early Joe Tex songs you've played.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:44
He seems to have jumped on rock'n'roll. Some of his recordings are very close to Elvis. He never seems to be between rock and r'n'b on these 50s records. You know where he stands.MHLee:
↳ MHLee @11:46
Commentary I've found of Floyd Dixon is that whether he's playing blues or rock is never clear.MHLee:
↳ Song: "Tired, Broke, and Busted" by "Floyd Dixon"
This might be a 1962 imperial recording? It was on an imperial comp but every version I found is the same record.Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @11:50
It doesn't appear on my Fats Domino "They Call Me the Fat Man" boxset, although that compilation was not intended to be all inclusive.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @11:57
It's on my all-inclusive one, but I think it first appeared on a comp called Rare DominosMHLee:
↳ Song: "Greyhoud" by "Wynonie Harris"
Some weird stuff going in that productionJay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:02
Yeah, with the percussion strikes especially.Jay Current:
↳ Song: "Good Good Lovin'" by "James Brown and the Famous ...
I always forget that James Brown was fairly active in this era.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:08
I think he's pretty late in the show's span. Still the production of that one is leages ahead.MHLee: "The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues, soul vocal group[1] founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd. James Brown first began his career as a member of the Famous Flames, emerging as the lead singer by the time of their first appearance in a professional recording, "Please, Please, Please", in 1956."
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:10
I always associate James Brown with the soul and funk of the '60s and early '70s, so it always feels a bit odd that he had his first hit the same year Elvis and Buddy Holly were breaking through.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:14
Yeah< i definately think "I Feel GOOOOD"MHLee: It's also funny how late Chubby Checker is though you probably group him with like Elvis...
MHLee:
↳ Song: "Sittin' At The Window" by "Little Junior Parker's...
Piano chord progression is wild hereMHLee:
↳ Song: "Gumbo Blues" by "Smiley Lewis"
Some people consider this his best performance.Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:16
I feel like Chubby is the gatekeeper of that post-Elvis, pre-Beatles period.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:21
see in my head i thinking pre-Beatles American rock... um "Louie Louie"coelacanth∅: g'morning MHLee and all
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:15
Funnily enough, his arch-rival Joe Tex is probably a similar story for many people. I can definitely imagine there are people that associate Tex with his '70s comeback hits instead of his earlier material.MHLee:
↳ coelacanth∅ @12:26
hey coelacanth∅MHLee:
↳ Song: "Telephone Boogie" by "Johnny Guitar Watson & Jean...
There's so much of this stuff on this show that just randomly was not releasedMHLee:
↳ MHLee @12:27
speaking of which, I think I played the original unreleased version of "You Put a Spell On Me" last weekJay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:23
The early '60s is such a weird era of popular music. There was some great music being released during that time and a fair amount of variety, but it's like almost no artist had any staying power. It also tends to get ragged on a good bit by critics due to the heavy volume of novelty tracks and sappy love ballads on the charts.MHLee: RnB and blues are better than they give credit to
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:27
I've been wondering about that. I recently got a Chess blues box set and many of the recordings are listed as alternative or unreleased versions.MHLee: I know in the late 60s there were tax scam record labels run by Roulette and stuff
MHLee:
↳ MHLee @12:37
But then you get a chubby checker album where every song is dance going back to the 1920s... Pony Time has the Charleston, Let's Twist Again, the Watusi, the land of 1000 dances...MHLee: In about a month, I'll be taking a two week break to move myself
MHLee: I'm thinking this could be Red Norvo on 'phone but I don't know
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:40
In addition to some good R&B and blues, the early '60s also have some fun girl group material, early surf rock, and guys like Link Wray laying the foundation for hard rock. An often forgotten element of the early '60s was the rise of country music in the mainstream following the success of Marty Robbins's "El Paso." But then of course you look at the Billboard and Cash Box year-end charts and see tons of novelty dances and soppy adult contemporary crossovers.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:47
Fats Domino also survived the first "death of rock'n'roll" eraJay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:48
How many times has rock'n'roll died now? About six times?Jay Current:
↳ Song: "I Could Love You" by "Hank Ballard and the Midnig...
I was about to comment before your back announce that this was a surprisingly gentle number for Hank Ballard.Jay Current:
↳ Song: "Lotsa Poppa" by "Jimmy Rushing"
Feels like a combination of jazz and the Imperial Records soundMHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:50
Well the last significant year for it in charts was imagine dragon's big year... there's plenty of good rock... it's just not mainstream nowWR: Thanks for the great tunes, MHLee.
You know the "gap" isn't empty. The Sheena and Drummer auto stream plays great tunes, just unpredictable (within parameters).
MHLee:
↳ WR @12:53
I've found some very interesting songs from the stream, for sure.MHLee: I might jump to Fools Paradise for more in a similar vein!
Jay Current:
↳ MHLee @12:52
The fact that there was a "rock is dead" narrative in the early '70s seems wild in retrospect.Jay Current:
↳ Jay Current @12:57
But upon checking the charts for that era, there really is shockingly little rock outside of soft rock/singer-songwriter material. Most rock had shifted to FM radio and towards album sales.MHLee:
↳ Jay Current @12:57
it could come back yet as genz is very '90s leaning in music tastes... a bunch of inspired by the 1990s kids might make bandsMHLee: Like how the 90s looked back to the 60s.
Jan Turkenburg: Hello MHLee, Roger, Jay, WR.
MHLee: Hello and goodbye!
WR: Hi Jan. Laters folks.
Jan Turkenburg: I completely forgot the time ...
Jan Turkenburg: so... bye everybody...
coelacanth∅: Thanks MHLee