Kogar's Jungle Juice 025

 

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Here is Kogar’s Jungle Juice Episode #25, Part One of my tribute to Mad Mike Metrovich, iconic DJ and record collector fiend from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Find out why we call him the “Father of Us All!” His influence on our “scene” cannot be measured! The amount of crazy amazing records that he dug up throughout his amazing life is mind blowing. Fan of the song Goo Goo Muck? Love those insane Instrumentals and haunting vocal groups? How about those crazy songs with one word blurted out here and there? Drinkin songs? Jump Blues with double entendres?  These were all Mike’s stock in trade! He drove the kids and adults insane for records.  While the rest of the US was knee deep in the British Invasion, Mike was pumping out crazy records that most people were trying to forget about!  So grab my hairy hand and follow me into the crazy world of Mad Mike Metro and his progressive sounds. Show one features songs with the Jungle Beat, Vocal Groups, Insane Dance Work Outs, and Drinkin’ Songs! Along the way we’ll hear from the man himself, culled from various air checks from my archive….

“Stay Mad and You’ll Always Be Glad….”

--Mad Mike

Kogar’s Jungle Juice Show #25

Mad Mike Special Part 1

Intro Ronny Kaye – Flight For Drums/Twistin Rumble

First set

01 The Rhythm Addicts - Oomp Boomp FRANTIC

02 Shane Kai-Ray – Jungle Talk LODESTAR

03 The Four Sounds Mama Ubangi Bangi RAN-DEE

04 the grand prees - jungle fever CANDI

05 The Wailers Mau Mau photo label GOLDEN CREST

06 The Saucers - Cha Wailey Routa FELCO

07 The Red Callendar Sextette Voodoo HOLLYWOOD RECORDS

Second Set (groups)

01 The Avalons - Malanese OLYMPIC

02 The Aladdins - Munch WITCH

03 shades of rhythm – gumbo CADDY

04 The Blentones  - Lilly MGM

05 The Aqua Nites Carioca ASTRA

06 The Cashmeres Boom Mag-Azeno Vip Vay MERCURY

07 moonglows Been Your Dog (Ever Since I've Been Your Man)

08 The Edsels Bone Shaker Joe CAPITOL

09 The Belltones Swingin Little Chicky OLIMPIC

10 The Grand Prees Sit and Cry CANDI

Third Set (monsters)

01 Hank Ballard Do it Zulu Style KING

02  J.J. Jackson and the Jackals Oo Ma Liddi PRELUDE

03 Patrice Holloway Do The Del Viking part one TASTE

04 Roy Brown - Slow Down Little Eva IMPERIAL

05 Harvey - Any Way You Wanta TRI PHI

06 Baby Earl and the Trinidads - Back Slop SPQR

07 Tasso (The Great) Kain And His Big Orch. – Castros Beat  KAIN

08 The Mosquitos The Fly SPEAR

09 lee tillman - will travel RON

10 Ronnie Cook And The Gaylads   The Goo Goo Muck AUDAN

11 Johnny Talbot And Band – Turkey In The Briar Patch IN RECORDS

Fourth Set (drinkin)

01 the fames - drinkin wine 

02 Jimmy Liggins I aint Drunk ALLADIN

03 Wynonie Harris Bloodshot Eyes KING

04 King Kurtis Wine Head MONARCH

05 johnny wright - wine head

06 The Emcees Wine Wine Wine CIMARRON

07 the devons - wine, wine, wine

08 block busters - cherry juice

Final song Outro

Hank Blackman and the Killers Everyone Has Someone BRENT

Kogar's Jungle Juice Mad Mike Special Pt. 2

 

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Kogar’s Jungle Juice #26 Part TWO of my Mad Mike Metrovich tribute! Two MORE hours of amazing Mad Mike Music and airchecks from the moldie oldie VAULTS! This episode features MORE wacked out instrumentals, rockers, rockabilly, 60’s fuzz and (my favorite) whacked out toons of the knuckledragger variety!  Along the way, you’ll hear something that not many people have heard, an acetate from an aircheck featuring a never before released track by Sonny and Premiers! Yow! We’ll also hear a bit about Hanky Panky, The Sonics and how Mad Mike was bigger than the Beatles in Pittsburgh!

Kogar’s Jungle Juice Show #26 Mad Mike Special Part 2

Intro The Revels – It’s Party Time WESTCO

1 Saxons camel walk SHOBIZ

2 The Renegades Geronimo AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RECORDS

3 The Premieres Firewater NU PHI

4 King Rock and the Knights Send-Di Boss Part 2 ZOOM

5 The Silvertones Get it GOLIATH RECORDS

6 The Vulcans - Shimmy Shuffle FLICK

7 The Coronas All Out Vota CORONA RECORDS

8 Calvin Cool El Tecolote CRC CHARTER

9 the savoys - slappin rods and leaky oil PDQ

10 B.B. Electrode COVER

11 Sonny and the Premiers – China Doll acetate

12 The Cornells - Malibu Surf CAREX

01 little ike - she can rock CHAMPION

02 The Night Raiders Featuring Mickey Hawks Hidi Hidi Hidi PROFILE

03 Big Danny Oliver Sapphire TREND

04 Ervin Rucker Done Done the Slop DUPLEX

05 Eunice Davis Get Your Enjoys DELUXE

06 Mel Williams with the Johnny Otis Orchestra I got Eyes DIG RECORDS

07 Flash Terry Cool It LAVENDER

08 Bobby Lee Trammell Come on Baby ALLEY RECORDS

01 hasil adkins - she said JODY

02 Ronnie Molleen Rockyn Up KING

03 Wailin Bill Dell and the Bachelors You Gotta Be Loose OJ RECORDS

04 Jo Ann Campbell Come on Baby EL DORADO

05 billy adams - you heard me knocking DOT

01 Tommy James and the Shondells Hanky Panky ROULETTE

02 sonics – psycho MAD MIKE MONSTERS – Norton Records

03 The Matches - Gonna Build Myself a Castle JAGUAR

04 J.C.W. Rat Fink Hong Kong Flu KAMA SUTRA

05 The Tulu Babies Hurtin Kind TEMA

01 the gardenias houdini HI-Q

02 James -Red- Holloway Al a Carte MAD

03 Bob Landers with WIllie Joe and his Unitar Cherokee Dance SPECIALTY

04 Boliver Shagnasty (Rusty York) Tapping that Thing QUARTERCASH RECORDS

05 Bob Strauss – Nameless CURTIS RECORDS

06 The Hong Kongs Surfin in the China Sea COUNSEL

07 The Dazzlers Oo Clazy KNICK

08 Chuck Daniels and the classics glass - pal WILCO

Last Song

The Poets Dead FLASH

Kogar's Jungle Juice Episode #1

Welcome to the first episode of Kogar’s Jungle Juice for Boss Radio 66!  A little background for everyone. Back in the early 90’s I did college radio (didn’t everyone?) in Manchester NH. Our college had a low power antenna that had about a 10 mile radius.  WRND (RADIO NOTRE DAME) ticked off a lot of people, not the least of which was the local (awful) classic rock station in the area. Our little station finally gave kids in town an alternative to George Thorough-Bad and his ilk. Radio was addicting.  My show, or our show, was called Broadcast Masterpiece. A nice mix of alternative/classic punk and something else I was just getting into; “oldies,” or music from the 50’s and 60’s.  I think it went on for about 5 – 6 years, until the college went belly up.

Year’s after that, I still hadn’t lost the Radio Bug, and did a show that lasted about a year in Portsmouth NH on WSCA (which is still going strong I hear), called Radio Kogar. This show was a mix of mostly modern garage punk and 50’s and 60’s stuff.  But the hour long drive each way got a little old and I had to let it go, as I was too busy concentrating on my band at the time.

Since then, it seems like EVERYONE has a show. For years I declined when people asked me to do one, as I felt it would just be ANOTHER show clogging the “airwaves.” I, myself barely have time to listen to the 3-4 shows that really knock my socks off.

Well, with all this lockdown going around, I figured I’d give it another go. Kogar’s Jungle Juice will basically be the aural version of my blog of the same name, and the stuff I’ve been posting on the Ichiban/Boss Radio 66 blog. Plus, getting the opportunity to interview Dr. Jim Moran from The Mask was too much to pass up. I will try and do a new show every month or so…

Enjoy!

Thanks to Adam Fitch for the promo layout, and Olaf Jens for the KJJ lettering!

Kogar's Jungle Juice #21 Lux & Ivy's Favorites Special

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"Here is Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #21! Almost THREE HOURS of amazing music from the Lux and Ivy's Favorites series that started nearly 30 years ago! Along the way I'll talk a little bit about the series and how it started while playing (mostly) 45's from the compilations with interview segments from various Lux and Ivy interviews that I've found over the years. All mashed together with horror and exploitation cuts from their favorite movies. Also in there will be a handful of tunes from a possible LAIF volume 18! It's enough to make you a cross eyed gurning sight! Yowwwwwww. Special added bonus the incredibly rare and insane PAPA OO MOW MOW relaxation tape! Something I put together to listen to when I want to get in touch with my inner Purple Knif!

So slap on your wig hat, polish up your Batty Bucks (or cha cha heels, whichever you prefer) and settle in to your favorite leopard print comfy chair and take a trip that will tickle your fissure of rolando!"

Kogar's Jungle Juice #009

 

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Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #101

 

Show #101 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice streams your way! 2 Hours of the best 50’s and 60’s sounds to soothe the savage beast in all of us! Boss Sounds! Boss Radio 66! This show highlights  more tunes from the Norton Records label as well as the usual schlock boppers! This show features artists like; The Lost Ones, Tony March, Kip Tyler, The Gee Cees, Carlo and the Cupids, Jack Munsey, Alton and Jimmy, Howlin Wolf, Fention Robinson, The Standells, The Artesians and the mighty King Uszniewicz And His Uszniewicztones! 

01 the lost ones - trouble in the streets VALIANT RECORDS

02 Cy Wagner Orchestra with Mary and Marty Mah-Mah Limbo STAR

03 Michael and the Jesters Screwdriver MINASA

04 Alberto Combo - the green monster TAMMY

05 Kipper and the Exciters - Drum Twist Part One TORCHLITE

06 the gee cees - Buzzsaw CREST

07 The Centars Weird Turtle ROCKET RECORDS

 

01 Johnny Bragg and the Marigolds Juke Box Rock and Roll EXCELLO

02 Joe Lyons and the Arrows Bop-A-Loop HIT MAKER

03 The Astro Jets - Boom a Lay IMPERIAL

04 The Pyramids - Ok Baby DAVIS

05 The Robins Ten Days in Jail RCA VICTOR

06 Carlo & the Cupids Crazy Rock PARKER RECORDS

 

01 Blonde Bomber Strollie Bun HULL

02 Della Thomas with Hopeton Jonson Orch. - Let it Roll  (Everybody) MONITOR

03 Flash Terry Cool It LAVENDER

04 Wee Willie Wayne Travelin Mood IMPERIAL

05 Lefty Guitar Bates Back Ground MAD

06 Hooks Coleman Teen Age Baby EXCELLO

 

01 Alton and Jimmy - no more cryin the blues  SUN 323

02 The Kids from Texas Long Legged Linda HANOVER RECORDS

03 Patt Cupp and his Flyin Saucers - Long gone daddy ROLLIN ROCK

04 David Gates Swingin Baby Doll EAST WEST

05 Vi-Kings with Nils King - Rock a Little Bit DEL-MANN

06 Alan Barnicoat and the bob freedman orchestra Savage ROCKET

07 Rockin Hi Lows I Need Your Love MARK RECORDS INC

08 Jack Munsey Come On JUN-TEEN RECORDS

 

01 Fention Robinson and the dukes Tennesee Woman METEOR RECORDS

02 Arbee Stidham - meet me half way ABCO

03 Hop Wilson Broke and Hungry GOLDBAND

04 Walter J Westbrook and his Phantom Five Bring Your Clothes Back Home Baby BOBBIN

05 Howlin Wolf - Do the Do CHESS

 

01 Standells - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White

02 Unknown - Voodoo NORTON

03 Night Crawlers Want Me NORTON

04 Cirkit Yesterday we laughed NORTON

05 Artesians  Koko Joe NORTON

06 Artesians - Trick Bag NORTON

07 King Uszniewicz And His Uszniewicztones  The Crusher NORTON

 

Outro Laverne Baker Romance in the Dark

 

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #100 Norton Records Special!

Here is show #100 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice! A 3 hour action packed tribute to the great NORTON RECORDS!!! One of the most important record labels of our time! Don’t miss this tour through some of my favorite Norton Records releases! Thanks Billy Miller and Miriam Linna for rescuing all these amazing talents (and more) from the record bins of history! This show BARELY scratches the surface of what Norton offers, but it’s a great place to start for newbies or if you just want to hear some truly amazing music! This show features artists like; Bobby Fuller Four, The Medallions, Wade Curtiss, Ron Haydock, Elroy Dietzel, Link Wray, The Cosmic Rays, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Powers and the A-Bones, Jack Starr, Hasil Adkins, Stud Cole, Florian Monday, Mad Mike Monsters, The New York Dolls, The Flaming Groovies, The Wildebeests, Mark Sultan and mo’, mo’ mo’!!!

01 c.j. and the casuals - zombie NORTON

02 The Medallions Blowin' Through Yokohama MUNRO

03 jerry lee trio – banshee NORTHWAY SOUND

04 los vampiranos - el vampiro NORTON

05 The Electric Experience Electric's Theme FENDER

06 Don And The Galaxiex Avalanche FOX FIDEL

07 link wray - the fuzzzzzzz SWAN

08 nautiloids - nautiloid reef NORTON/MR. MANICOTTI

09 Bobby Fuller Four miserlou NORTON

 

01 Delcos - arabia NORTON

02 The Saucers - Cha Wailey Routa FELCO

03 The Spades I'm on Fire MAJOR

04 The 4 after 5s Hello Schoolteacher ALL TIME RECORDS

05 Dreamtones Jelly Bean EXPRESS RECORDS

06 neons – Tucson NORTON

07 cosmic rays - daddy's gonna tell you no lie NORTON

 

01 Esquerita - Rockin' The Joint NORTON

02 Bunker Hill and the Raymen - The Girl Can't Dance NORTON

03 Joe Boots and the Four Winds Rock and Roll Radio NORTON

04 Otis Riley - Rock And Roll Riley NORTON

05 Gino Washington - out of this world NORTON

06 T. Valentine Do The Do VAL

07 Count Ferrell - wizard of ah's NORTON

08 Jerry McCain - A Cutie Named Judy NORTON

09 little johnny and the silvertones - rock 'til the end of time  NORTON

 

01 Gene Maltais  Gang War Demo  NORTON

02 Elroy Dietzel  rock n bones NORTON

03 Charlie Feathers - Bottle to the Baby  NORTON

04  Johnny Powers and the A-Bones NORTON 

08 Ron Haydock And The Boppers – knockout  NORTON

09  Morty Shann & the Morticians - Red Headed Woman NORTON

10 Gene Ross - Everybody's Trying To Kiss My Baby NORTON

11 Wade Curtiss and the Rhythm Rockers Bright Lights NORTON

12 Hasil Adkins - when i saw you last night NORTON

 

01 The Gentrys - Wild NORTON

02 c.j and the casuals - study hall NORTON

03 The Ready Men - Shortnin' Bread NORTON

04 Condas - The Bird NORTON

05 Wade Curtiss & The Rhythm Rockers - Puddy Cat NORTON

06 Morty Shann & the Morticians - Movin' In NORTON

07 Florian Monday and his Mondos Mondo REALM RECORDS

08 Stud Cole - The Witch NORTON

09 Jack Starr - Chicken NORTON

10 Jack Starr godzilla we love you NORTON

 

01 New York Dolls  Who Are The Mystery Girls? NORTON

02 Flaming Groovies Slow Death NORTON

03 Flakes Stupid Girl NORTON

04 Alarm Clocks Don't Get Left Behind NORTON

05 Figures of Light - It's Lame NORTON

06 The Wildebeests - Please Go Home NORTON

07 Mark Sultan - The Wind THE WIND RECORDS

 Outro Miriam  There Goes My Babe NORTON

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #27

 

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The Jaguars Roundabout EPIC promo

The Vigilantes Warm Wind HERMI RECORDS

The low-rocks - snooker S.A.K.

The Vigilantes Caterpillar Crawl HERMI RECORDS

 Les brown jr. - drum's safari GNP CRESCENDO

 The boys – cobra #1 RECORDS

 The Emcees Hot Rock CIMARRON

 

 The Delcos - Arabia EBONY

The Crenshaws Moonlight in Vermont WARNER BROTHERS

Joe Lyons and the Arrows Shufflin Jive HIT MAKER

The Butanes with Teddy Mcrae and orch. Don't Forget I Love You ENRICA

The Champions with Sonny Thompson Come On CHART RECORDS

The Eagles Please Please MERCURY

The Bel-Aires Let's Party Awhile FLIP RECORDS

The Dusters Teen Age Jamboree GLORY

The Elites Mama Look at Me CHIEF RECORDS

 

Mel McGonnigle Rattle Shakin Mama ROCKET RECORDS

Gene Maltais Lovemakin REGAL

Allen Page with The Deltones Dateless Night MOON

Billy Starr Hound Dog IMPERIAL

Junior thompson How Come You Do Me TUNE

Phil Bo Mr Train SOM RECORDS

Pico Pete Chicken Little JET

Big Al Downing Miss Lucy WHITE ROCK

 

Professor Longhair Look What You're Doin to Me EBB

Big Boy Myles and the Shaw-Wees Hickory Dickory Dock SPECIALTY

Lois and Louis - pow wow! SPECIALTY

Little Esther Hollerin and Screamin FEDERAL

Felton Jarvis Dimples THUNDER INTERNATIONAL COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI

Billy the Kid Emerson Something for Nothing SUN

 

Harold Burrage I Don't Care Who Knows COBRA

Lillian Offitt My Man Is a Lover CHIEF

JB Lenoire don't touch my HEAD CHECKER

Homesick James Set a Date COLT

Nappy brown - baby cry cry cry baby SAVOY

Little walter - i got to go  CHECKER

Stomp Gordon Ride Superman Ride SAVOY

 

Link Wray Blow Your Mind HEAVY

Travis Wammack Night Train ATLANTIC

The Warlocks I'll go Crazy DECCA

Merced Blue Notes Rufus JR MAMMOTH RECORDS

Mary Sue Gravy GIANT

Ty Terrell The Scratch part 1 LUTE RECORDS

Tony Ray - Bossa Nova Baby IMPERIAL 

Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 7 (Remaster)

 

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"As I build up to LAIF 18, here is the remaster/upgrade of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 7.  Nothing major,  just cleaned up the overall sound and got some better files. The “big” change was fixing the Stan Freberg track, John and Marsha. When I originally put this volume together, I ended up using the WRONG track! I used one of Freberg’s sequels to the original song. I know this will make one person happy anyway, unless he’s forgotten making a stink about it all those years ago! Now you can be annoyed by a completely different annoying track than the one that was on the original LAIF #7!

This cover was put together by Adam Fitch from my idea, and is taken from the Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards LP. I figured since one of her tracks is on the compilation, what better image to use?"

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Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 4 (Remaster)

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YEARS ago I had begun the laborious process of “remastering” the original LAIF’s because a lot of the early volumes that were made during the infancy of the internet had less than stellar sound quality. I began to remaster them and come up with covers for them as well.  This was done mostly so that when they popped up on my ipod (now phone) there was a cover to display for the compilation. I designed some of the covers myself, while other covers were done by artist pals like J.R. Williams, Haunted George, Gilles Fernandez, and King Trash (Michael Deforge).

When I first started doing these, they were the equivalent of a mix tape, nothing more than that.  Working on Kogar’s Jungle Juice Episode 21 was a blast and got me thinking about those volumes that didn’t have a cover, and still had some audio issues that bug the “audiophile” part of me. I began to go back and take a look at past volumes and see what I could do.

First up, Volume 4! Since this volume has a track from the soundtrack of the GREAT flick SATAN’S SADISTS, we used that as the basis for this cover. Adam Fitch did a FANTASTIC job (as always) with the cover, going that extra mile and recreating the Satan’s Sadists font. As always, THANKS Adam for making my ideas a reality!

Here’s Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 4 remastered for your enjoyment…

https://kogarsjunglejuice.blogspot.com/

Kogar's Jungle Juice #006

 

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Kogar's Jungle Juice - Tribute to Howie Pyro

 

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Kogar's Jungle Juice #12

 

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Kogar's Jungle Juice 023

 

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