Listener comments!

  7:05am
: Hi MHLee! ♥ 10:35am
MHLee: Hi Andrew!   🎸 ♥ 11:00am
Jay Current: Hello everyone!   🎸 ♥ 11:01am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Rock & Roll Music" by "Chuck Berry"

And we're off to a great start! ♥ 11:01am
MHLee: Hi Jay!   11:02am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay Current @11:01

Hi Jay! ♥ 11:04am
Roger: Wow, show 22 already, time flies! ♥ 11:05am
MHLee:

↳ Roger @11:04

Hi Roger. Sure does! 🎸 ♥ 11:06am
Krys O.: Hi! ♥ 11:07am
MHLee: Hi Krys O! ♥ 11:07am
Roger: Hi Krys! ♥ 11:07am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Let the Four Winds Blow" by "Roy Brown"

The production on this really puts Roy's voice in the forefront.   11:08am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Krys O. @11:06

Hi Krys! ♥ 11:12am
MHLee: Whooops it's chickenshackers ♥ 11:15am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "What Can I Do" by "Amos Milburn And His Aladdin C...

Very much outside his normal sound   🎸 ♥ 11:17am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "I'm In Sharp When I Hit The Coast" by "Joe Turner...

Conversely, this is exactly in Joe Turner's wheelhouse. ♥ 11:20am
MHLee: Not sure what just happened there.   🎸 ♥ 11:21am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Tamburitza Boogie" by "Louis Jordan and his Tympa...

I think this is the first Louis Jordan song I've heard with organ (at least with organ this prominent.) ♥ 11:22am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:21

Yeah, I thought the same   🎸 ♥ 11:23am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:22

It makes him sound a lot more modern. ♥ 11:24am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Flying Disk" by "Todd Rhodes Orchestra"

not sure if this about ufos or frisbees 🎸 ♥ 11:25am
WR: Hello MHLee and folks. Listening but busy choring 🎸 ♥ 11:25am
Jan Turkenburg: Hello! ♥ 11:25am
MHLee: Hi WR and Jan   🎸 ♥ 11:26am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:24

Projectile 78s? ♥ 11:28am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:26

Pretty brittle for that ♥ 11:31am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "You Got to Run Me Down" by "Jazz Gillum"

I believe all the musicians were on strike in 1947 yet records still got made   🎸 ♥ 11:38am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:31

While I know 45cat may not be the most comprehensive catalog, the dropoff in 78s due to WWII and the musician's strike is staggering to see charted out. 1943 was the worst year for new releases since the '10s: www.45cat.com... ♥ 11:39am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:38

There was a second strike 1947-1948 ♥ 11:40am
Feldy: Hey MHLee! I’m gonna work on my girlfriend’s car and this is the perfect soundtrack ♥ 11:40am
Feldy: (Just replacing the speaker inside the door panel, nothing crazy) ♥ 11:41am
MHLee: Hey Feldy!   🎸 ♥ 11:44am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:39

I assume there were more specialty and small labels by that point, given the post-war economy and end of government rationing? ♥ 11:45am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:44

www.spontaneouslunacy.net... ♥ 11:50am
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Situation Blues" by "Duke Henderson"

Kinda got the Jay Hawkins operatic effect going here   🎸 ♥ 11:50am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @11:45

Thanks for the link.   11:53am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Feldy @11:40

Hi Feldy. ♥ 11:54am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @11:50

I found that blog a few weeks into this. It's helpful for dates and sometimes has good information too. ♥ 12:02pm
Mr. Oxford: Hey MHLee, Andrew, Jay, Krys O, Roger, WR, Adam! ♥ 12:03pm
MHLee: Hi Mr Oxford!   12:03pm
tup: hi, great 40-50's pl   12:03pm
Andrew in Toronto: Hi Mr. Oxford! ♥ 12:03pm
MHLee: Hi Tup! ♥ 12:06pm
Feldy: The show is great, MHLee ♥ 12:06pm
Mr. Oxford:

↳ Feldy @12:06

I concur, good sir. ♥ 12:07pm
MHLee:

↳ Mr. Oxford @12:06

I was looking at water faucet earlier... you're the only person to have favorited it outside of this show... on my other show ♥ 12:08pm
MHLee:

↳ Feldy @12:06

Thanks Feldy   12:14pm
JoeH: Hey MHLee glad I could catch another portion of your show. ♥ 12:14pm
Mr. Oxford:

↳ MHLee @12:07

Oh I missed that track as I missed the first hour of the show. I do remember listening to it on your Merrily We Roll Along show back in Jan 2023. It was a Friday afternoon (in this part of the world) and I was at home recovering from a surgery. So I was listening to WFMU shows I usually did not get a chance to listen to as I'd otherwise be in the office for work. Good memory. ♥ 12:15pm
MHLee: Hey Joe! ♥ 12:20pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Tears On My Pillow" by "Little Anthony and the Im...

curious label on that one   🎸 ♥ 12:25pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Zing Zing Zing" by "The Dells with Al Smith's Orc...

Some more Vee-Jay vocals ♥ 12:26pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Get Way Back" by "Joe Tex"

How about this one? 🎸 ♥ 12:30pm
WR: Those early Joe Tex you have been playing all have such personality. As they say, I really slept on his pre-Skinny Legs and All career.   🎸 ♥ 12:31pm
Jay Current:

↳ WR @12:30

Joe Tex didn't have a charting single on the Hot 100 or the R&B chart until 1964, so it seems like a lot of people sadly slept on him. ♥ 12:31pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:30

I'm impressed by the arrangement and vocals on that one. It sounds much more like a 60s soul number, ♥ 12:38pm
Mr. Oxford: Unfortunately I have to head out. THanks MHLee for a great show, I shall check it out again especially for "Water Faucet". Have a lovely Saturday everyone! ♥ 12:39pm
MHLee:

↳ Mr. Oxford @12:38

See you later!   🎸 ♥ 12:41pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Baby Be There" by "The Kings featuring Bobby Hall"

Kind of surprised they didn't use the sax for the J in Jax ♥ 12:43pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:41

not all of these designs are logical... as modern shows us ♥ 12:43pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "Fishin' Pole" by "Tom Archia And His All Stars"

The only thing I know about this label is early Muddy Waters is on it   🎸 ♥ 12:44pm
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @12:43

Makes the record label name seem a bit grandiose in that context   12:44pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ MHLee @12:43

Great show!
Thanks! 🎸 ♥ 12:45pm
WR:

↳ Song: "My Big Brass Bed Is Gone" by "Eddie "Cleanhead" V...

Enjoyed that Vinson track. Well worn song form but nice twists to the story it told. 🎸 ♥ 12:46pm
Krys O.:

↳ MHLee @12:43

This is a link to a Clemson University article on Aristocrat Records

campber.people.clemson.edu...

♥ 12:49pm
MHLee:

↳ Krys O. @12:46

thanks Krys O.   🎸 ♥ 12:50pm
Jay Current:

↳ Krys O. @12:46

Ah, a predecessor to Chess Records, but not to the extent that the two have corporate continuity with each other. Thanks for the link.   🎸 ♥ 12:52pm
Jay Current: I wonder how many of these labels are still around and active with new music. I know Mercury and Atlantic are. 🎸 ♥ 12:53pm
Krys O.:

↳ Jay Current @12:50

My pleasure. This history is in my wheelhouse. That Clemson article is a behemoth. 🎸 ♥ 12:55pm
WR:

↳ Song: "What's Her Whimsy Dr. Kinsey" by "Stomp Gordan an...

Until recently, I didn't know that The Kinsey Report had mainstream recognition when it came out in the early '50s. Sure, most of it was scandal gossip and my small town Texas parents my not have heard about it (though I have to wonder even about that). 🎸 ♥ 12:56pm
Krys O.: That's so funny! I start my show with The Valentines. Dave Clowney, who became Dave "Baby" Cortez is in the band. ♥ 12:56pm
MHLee:

↳ WR @12:55

I thought it was kinda shocking material to see in a song to be honest. ♥ 12:57pm
MHLee:

↳ Krys O. @12:56

Synergy!   🎸 ♥ 12:57pm
Jay Current:

↳ Krys O. @12:56

There's impressive continuity between WFMU shows at times. ♥ 12:58pm
MHLee:

↳ Song: "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" by "Dave "Baby" Cortez"

love this label design 🎸 ♥ 12:58pm
Krys O.:

↳ WR @12:55

People would present their shock at the Kinsey Report all the while secretly wanting to read it. It was the Fifty Shades of Gray of its day. 🎸 ♥ 12:59pm
Krys O.:

↳ MHLee @12:57

I yam psychic.   🎸 ♥ 12:59pm
Jay Current: That later Imperial label looks so dull compared to the saturated red one. 🎸 ♥ 1:00pm
WR: thank you! MHLee! ♥ 1:01pm
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @12:59

Agreed