Am I getting the hang of this? I dunno, but I had a lot of fun doing this week's episode, which featured birthdays by heroes of mine like Scott Walker & David Johansen, & death anniversaries by geniuses like Amiri Baraka & Peter Cook. Sometimes it feels just a little too easy.
In any event, I hope you're liking it too, & maybe catching it later if you're too busy on your damn Saturday night. Because you can! It's on the Self Help Radio website! Please remember you'll need a username & a password to listen to the show, & that that information is right there on the front page. The songs I played are below.
By the way! I received a sort-of complaint about a previous show when someone wrote to me & said that I was playing music by someone who hadn't died &/or it wasn't his or her birthday. That's because often I play music in which the artist in question is not the main performer. In the case of this week's show, I play music by two songwriters (the Frank Sinatra & Loretta Lynn songs). You have to listen to the show to find out who it is I am celebrating. Sorry for the confusion!
Here's hoping you dig.
(part one: birthdays)
"Country Music Time" Lonzo & Oscar _Country Music Time_
"South Rampart Street Parade" Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band _This Kid's The Greatest!_
"Saturday Blues" Ishman Bracey _When The Sun Goes Down, Vol. 2: The First Time I Met The Blues_
"Honeysuckle Rose" Benny Goodman & His Orchestra _Charlie Christian: The Genius Of The Electric Guitar_
"Railroad Bill" Frank Hovington _Folk Music In America, Vol. 6: Songs Of Migration & Immigration_
"Richard Nixon" Rod & The MSR Singers _The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood & Brush?_
"The Addams Family" Vic Mizzy _Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1_
"Grandad" Clive Dunn _A Time To Remember, 1970_
"Hello In There" Joan Baez _Diamonds & Rust_
"Pennies" Modern Folk Quartet _Modern Folk Quartet_
"Cream Puff" Jimmy Boyd _Teen Town USA, Vol. 3_
"The Seventh Seal" Scott Walker _Scott 4_
"Bye, Bye, Bye/Vine Street" Harpers Bizarre _The Secret Life Of Harpers Bizarre_
"White Summer" The Yardbirds _Little Games_
"Personality Crisis" New York Dolls _New York Dolls_
(part two: death anniversaries)
"Change My Mind Blues" Clarence Lofton & Walter Davis _Cripple Clarence Lofton & Walter Davis_
"Dat's Love (June Hawkins, vocals)" Cozy Cole _1944-45_
"I'm Gonna Quit You Pretty Baby" Silas Hogan _Authentic Excello R & B_
"It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)" Erbie Bowser, T.D. Bell, & The Blues Specialists _Down Home Saturday Night_
"Saturday Night Special" Eddie LeJeune _Cajun Soul_
"Sitting On The Bench" Peter Cook _British Comedy Classics_
"Ol' MacDonald" Frank Sinatra _All The Way_
"The Pill" Loretta Lynn _The Pill_
"Gotta Get To Oklahoma" The Hagers _The Hagers_
"The Legend Of Xanadu" Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich _Greatest Hits_
"Mi Shebeirach" Debbie Friedman _Songs Of The Spirit: The Debbie Friedman Anthology_
"Goodbye Johnny" Bridie Gallagher _The Essential Collection_
"Cuando Vuelvas" Ruth Fernandez _Canciónes Del Ayer_
"The Last Revolutionary (For Abbie Hoffman)" Amiri Baraka with David Murray & Steve McCall _New Music - New Poetry_
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