Joe Houston - Two Pizzaburgers Please
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Super Heavy Blues Express
Forty-two years ago today in downtown Atlanta, the Super Heavy Blues Express came to town. And what a truly astonishing line-up - Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Al Hibbler, with Jelly Roll as an added attraction.
Via the pages of Atlanta's radical underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird and the Georgia State University Library Archives.
Monday, May 13, 2013
The Lovely Jewel Brynner
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Devil In George Jones
This richly illuminating profile of George Jones comes to us from Nick Tosches, and was published by Texas Monthly back in 1994. It's highly recommended reading and a mighty fine way to spend an hour or two
Nick Tosches Month.
Image via Tommy Bishop.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Six Days On The Road
From 1961, here is the rarely heard original version of Six Days On The Road by Paul Davis, made into a timeless country truck-driving classic when Dave Dudley recorded it in 1963. Thanks to YouTuber Mattys45s for sharing it.
The tune was co-written by Carl Montgomery (brother of singer Melba Montgomery) and Earl Green, who also co-wrote another indispensable trucker classic, the Willis Brothers ' Give Me Forty Acres.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Ichiban's #1 Song Of All Time
Our team of experts has concluded that Ernie K Doe's "Mother-In-Law" is the greatest song ever recorded. Written by Allen Toussaint and featuring Benny Spellman's perfect back-up singing, it sounds fresh and inspiring after repeated listenings. Thanks for the magic.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Do The Ginza!
Thanks to listener Rich Z for sending in this handy Hullabaloo Discotheque Dance Book!!
The Entertainers - (At The) Ginza
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Moonlight Mile
The Ichiban webstream has been updated with new tracks for your listening pleasure. Apologizes for the interruptions overnight!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Country Music Time featuring Joe & Rose Lee Maphis
Country Music Time featuring J. David Sloan
Dedicated to Johnny "Big Hand" Bartlett. Get well soon, brother!
Friday, April 26, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Johnny Jenkins And The Pinetoppers
Love Twist was a hit in Macon, Georgia in the early 1960's. When The Pinetoppers went back into the studio for the follow up, Otis used the extra studio time to record "These Arms Of Mine".
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Newton Collier Month
Newton Collier was decended from Charles Collier who owned the Silas Green Show, one of the country's largest vaudeville troupes. His parents led a group called The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm.
He started taking piano lessons from Gladys Williams at age 9. He came for a lesson one day and Sammy Davis Jr. was hanging out on the couch. Sammy handed Newton his first trumpet and that was all it took. Newt was listening to Hamp Swain on WIBB and began sneaking into parties. He was playing with Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers by age 16. Sam & Dave hired him when he was 17. He's appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Merv Griffin and The Beat!!!!
I Take What I Want (1966)
Friday, April 12, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
April Is Newton Collier Month On Ichiban
Friday, March 29, 2013
His Name's Big Daddy
Thanks to Rex from Fool's Paradise for this killer diller dedicated to our hero.
From a deep, dark catacomb down in the Fool’s Paradise fur-lined fallout shelter comes this true Big Daddy Roth rarity courtesy of Attila and the Huns. Issued as the B-Side to their anthemic Sonics-rip “Mojo Cools”, this crunchy copy includes an autograph to “Sharon” from Attila himself!
Atilla and The Huns - My Name's Big Daddy
Thursday, March 28, 2013
I Can't Tell The Boys From The Girls (MP3)
Lester Flatt - I Can't Tell The Boys From The Girls
Sure Fire Kisses (MP3)
Justin Tubb & Goldie Hill - Sure Fire Kisses
Justin's 45-themed Nudie attire is likely the best stage wear any of us will ever see. Surely, Ernest was beaming with pride. Courtesy of Bear Family's superb Pepper Hot Baby, a collection of Tubb's honky-tonkin' 1950s sides.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
My confession: The Rat Fink book I co-wrote with Ed Roth. IT'S FINKING TIME!
One of the hardest things I ever did was write this book with Ed Roth. He was so nuts! He made me make up a lot of his autobiography. Haha. He had a letter that I wrote him in nutso beatnik slang, that i wrote after meeting him in 1986 with Miriam Linna, Billy Miller, Andrea Kusten, etc.(see Miriam's recent postings here & on Facebook for info on that fateful day, Miriam wound up writing the intro to this book. I was pretty vocal that i wanted her to write the book but it was too late...), this letter was the blueprint for all writing of Fink stuff from that point on. He had called & asked me to write the comics he was publishing, but I couldn't get it together. So some years later in fine small town hick style, not realizing just how large a city Noo Yawk really iz, the Grand Finkster hisself jingled our ol' bud Pat Redding who was handling the krazy book deal-o in da big rotten apple & sez "Hey Pat! You live in New York, do ya know this cat named Howie Pyro?" (kinda slipped into the sorta lingo the book was scrawled in...). Miraculously she did & he said he wanted me to write it. He just happened to wind up on the phone with the one person in the publishing field in the biggest city on earth (or there abouts) who DID know me. Too weird. Or maybe not weird enough. Anyhooo this thing was WRITTEN, yeah, written with pencil/pen & paper! Waaay before computers, and i couldn't type. Still can't! It took forever & was beyond difficult. Big Daddy turned out to be pretty darned difficult as well. I loved him to death & don't wanna tarnish his rep (hahaha) but truth is he hated Rock N Roll & I seriously hadda fight to get it in the book. And other stuff too. And he insisted on mentioning his wife Bev literally about every other sentence, like a thousand times. (We counted cuz they had to pay me to remove her damned name & change it to "my wife" when she left him & he didn't want her name in it anymore! It had to be done by hand & i wanted to be paid ten cents or a quarter or some nonsense per name. Somewhere i have it written down...hahaha). I just found all the letters i got from Roth festooned with tons of drawings, on great stationery with cassette tapes and all kindsa good stuff. Luckily i had moved to LA in 2,000 and Roth was gonna be at the Rat Fink Reunion at Moon Eyes the following year & that same day I was just starting to reord the first Danzig record that I was on & I had to sneak out & see Ed. I just HAD to. I got in trouble, but Glenn understood, being a fan & big collector. This photo is from that meeting & Big Daddy died literally weeks after this & I just knew it was meant to be. I really am one lucky fink to have gotten to do all this stuff. See you all at the big LA Norton Records Benefit. I'll have lotsa krazy surprises in store for you fellow finks there!
Rat On!
Howie Pyro 3/26/13
Do The Rat Fink With Howie Pyro!
Big thanks to Howie Pyro over at Luxuria Music for playing an Ed "Big Daddy" Roth set on his show! Listen here. You can catch Intoxica Radio with Howie every Tuesday night live at 9 PM PST. The show is also archived every week!
Hardrock Gunter
Hardrock Gunter - February 25th 1925 - March 15th 2013
Hardrock Gunter passed away a few weeks ago. Give a listen to this fantastic interview that took place back in 2010 on Fool's Paradise with Rex. Learn the origin of the "Hardrock" name and hear how he acheived the amazing echo Boppin to Grandfather's Clock.
Great Music and Great tales from the man himself.
Thanks Rex for this amazing interview.
For further study: http://www.hardrockgunter.com
Monday, March 25, 2013
Thinking About Lee "The Burner" Austin And A Few Nice Things
March 22, 1934 I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart) ~EMMA~
Published in The Augusta Chronicle on March 22, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
COWABUNGA!!! IT'S BIG DADDY'S SURFITE!
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| Ed Big Daddy Roth's ULTIMATE Surf Buggy Seen in Beach Blanket Bingo & Village Of The Giants |
Monday, March 18, 2013
Divorce Court: So Much For Me, So Much For You
1 Carole King: A Road To Nowhere
2 Del Shannon: Break Up
3 The Five Du-Tones: Divorce Court
4 Gladys Knight & The Pips: The End Of Our Road
5 Marvin Gaye: You Can Leave But It's Going To Cost You
6 Hank Snow: Marriage And Divorce
7 Hoosier Hot Shots: Divorce Me C.O.D
8 Skeeter Davis: Set Him Free
9 Dolly Parton: D-I-V-O-R-C-E
10 Tammy Wynette: The Divorce Sale
11 Johnny Moore with "Col." Tex Herring: Sold To
The Highest Bidder
12 Stonewall Jackson: Recess Time
13 Waylon Jennings: For The Kids
14 Irma Thomas: We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore
15 Skeets McDonald: Mrs. Right's Divorcing Mr. Wrong
16 Buck Owens & Rose Maddox: Mental Cruelty
17 Hank Williams: Help Me Understand
18 Joan Rivers: The Shaft
19 Jerry Reed: She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft)
20 T-Bone Walker: Alimony Blues
21 Bobby Bare: Alimony
22 Mickey Rooney: Alimony Blues
23 The Belvederes: Wage Assignment Blues
24 Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: So Much For Me, So Much
For You
25 Carole Bayer Sager: You're Moving Out Today
26 Wreckless Eric: 33s And 45s
27 Doris Duke: Divorce Decree
28 Laura Lee: The Rip-Off
29 Richard "Dimples" Fields with Betty Wright: She's
Got Papers On Me
30 Kitty Wells: Will Your Lawyer Talk To God
31 George Jones: Divorce Or Destroy
32 Beth-Anne Hayes: Oh Please Dear Santa Claus
33 Vikki Carr: With Pen In Hand
34 Sonny (Bono): You Better Sit Down Kids
35 Rob Orbison: It's Over
36 Lenny Bruce (with Steve Allen): All Alone
37 Elvis Presley: Suspicious Minds (live)
38 Molly Bee: I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
Arigatou!
Thanks to all the Ichibaners who have pledged to our 2013 - Year Of The Snake Fundraising Marathon! We reached our goal!!!
Ichiban All-Stars include William T in NY, Stephanie C in Boise, our own Bill Kelly, Paul T in Ma, Eugene R in Jersey City, Carmen S in Philly, Michael F in Brooklyn, Justin C in Brooklyn, Sebastian V in Canada, Keenan P in Brooklyn, Erick Z in NYC, Joe R in NYC, Paul H in Canada, Anna A in Brooklyn, Mark E in Canada, Vito D in Canada, Station Manager Ken, last week's co-host, Chris T!, Give The Drummer Radio's Doug Schulkind, our own Terre T, Eva Z in Brooklyn, Wasted T in Brooklyn, Andrew S in NJ, Kelly H in Canada, John T in beautiful Burbank, California, Greg G in Georgia, Jonathan L in Ca, Matthew C in Ky, Dan M in Sea Bright, NJ, Tania B in Somerville, Ma, Steven Rk in Arlington, VA, Laura B in Brooklyn, Thomas P in Sweden, Mike D in Palm Harbor, Fla, Brian D in Chicago, John S in Kingston, NY, our own Irene Trudel, Gaylord Fields, Rex Doane and Kevin Nutt, Arjan P in the Netherlands, Holly in Durham, NC, Andy R in Greeneville, TN, Chris H in Hackensack, Chris P in the UK August G in NYC and Colin M from Austria. You guys rule!!
"Fanilla Fudge"
A while back, a nice woman named Debbi* contacted me at work about buying her son's Star Wars toys, and mentioned that she also had some comics and trading cards from her childhood. I bought what she had, and in our conversation, she mentioned that she thought that she had some more Monkees memorabilia packed away, which I urged her to bring in. A few weeks later, she returned with a batch of cool stuff... two partial fan club kits that had belonged to her and her sister (which, combined, mad one near-complete one), some newsletters, some of the mail-order-only magazines from Tiger Beat, and a batch of trading cards. Also among them was this oddly mislabeled ticket for a Vanilla Fudge show in her hometown of Simsbury, Connecticut. I'm not really a fan of their sludgy sound, even if they were produced by the late, great Shadow Morton, but this is pretty cool. Thanks, Debbi!
Here they are on the Ray Anthony Show. I'd like to
imagine that they closed the show by jamming with
Ray on an extended version of Bunny Hop, but I
expect that that was not what happened.
*No relation to our Glorious Leader.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands 11
You could win this great comp when you pledge to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban today!!
Mr. Gasser And The Weirdos
Thanks to our pals over at Sundazed Records for donating these limited edition "Black Friday" LPs to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon! Rods n' Ratfinks & Surfink!
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Sharkskin Louis Jordan
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Ray Price & Wanda Jackson
Mother's Worry
You could win a sealed "Mother's Worry" model kit from 1996, if you pledge $15 or more to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon before Sunday!
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