radio shimmy podcast: food and beverage
this one might get you hungry with its tales of grits, polk salad, and... white rose?
download: 128k mp3 (39.8mb // 43min)
Full track list below...
setlist:
Jerry Reed - She Got the Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) - Jerry gets in trouble when he marries due to lack of cooking ability. No surprise! From a K-Tel label comp LP called "Rowdy Country" (stereo)
Isley Brothers - Cold Bologna - Written by Bill Withers from the all-covers LP "Givin' It Back" (stereo)
Howlin' Wolf - Chocolate Drop - from a Charly 80's reissue LP from his Sun sessions...(mono)
Gene & Larry - White Rose Theme - from a 1964 compilation LP put out by White Rose Petroleum Jelly and put together by legendary DJ Bill "Hoss Allen" ! (mono)
Kathy Zee - Cracker Jack - from the "Girls in the Garage" CD comp, Kathy was apparently only 12 when she recorded this nugget (a b-side) on Laurie in 1958 ! More info here. (mono)
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Soul Brothers - Please Pass the Ketchup - possibly the doowop group on Red Bird / Blue Cat records of Philadelphia, this 45 was released on G-D records ('61 ?) More info and the flip here. (mono)
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie - the biggest US hit from this late 60's real Lousiana swamp rocker / country soul singer (mp3). (stereo)
Devo - Too Much Paranoias - from their first (and best) LP (Are We Not Men?), someone's got a Big Mac attack !
The ID - Boil the Kettle Mother - from a 1968 45 on RCA Victor, possibly a studio session group featuring Jerry Cole... More info at Julian Cope's HeadHeritage site here.
Melvin van Peebles - Hoppin' John - from a great compilation LP of Stax Funk (The Funky Truth), this tune from Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song soundtrack (a movie he directed) with backing from Earth, Wind & Fire. Also father of actor Mario. (stereo)
Gino Washington - Doin' the Pop Corn - from a 45 on ATAC, '68 or '69. Washington was a crazed Detroit soul/funker and was compiled by Norton a few years back. Get down with your bad self!
Maxine Weldon - Grits Ain't Groceries (All Over the World) - from her 1969 Mainstream LP "Right On" - a song made famous by Little Milton but written by Titus Turner. (stereo)
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Nathan Beauregard - Spoonful - from a Blue Thumb label comp called "All Day Thumbsucker" ... Born blind in Ashland, Mississippi in the 1860's, yes, EIGHTEEN 60's, Beauregard was convinced to start a second (brief) recording career in the NINETEEN 60's during the revival of interest in the blues and this one of those recordings... He died in 1970 at over 100 years old. He was known as the "King of the Country Blues" and this recording of the classic Willie Dixon tune goes a long way to justifying that title!
07.mar.2007