It’s night in the big city
A lawyer has troubled sleep
The dogs can smell rain
“We’re gonna play doctor, we’re gonna doctor the books. We’re gonna talk about Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Who, Dr. Doom, Dr. Phil, Dr. Zhivago , Dr. Death, and Dr. Nick .”
It’s night in the big city
A lawyer has troubled sleep
The dogs can smell rain
“We’re gonna play doctor, we’re gonna doctor the books. We’re gonna talk about Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Who, Dr. Doom, Dr. Phil, Dr. Zhivago , Dr. Death, and Dr. Nick .”
“I love Mick’s hillbilly accent.”
“Just like Jimmy Nelson, he had his mind blown by hearing Big Joe Turner when he was 15…Nobody loved music like Doc; you could always see him at clubs in New York, right up front.”
“..recorded in the style that was known as rural mento. It was kinda the pre ska which was kinda the pre reggae. The mento band would usually feature banjo, acoustic guitar, percussion and something called the rumba box. Like calypso, this music was often taken from the newspaper and usually quite risqué. Here’s a song that meets both those criteria.”
“Ya know sometimes you see a record and the title just doesn’t make sense to ya. The first time I saw this 45 I thought the name was Walking Dr. Bill; I didn’t know who Dr. Bill was. But I listened to it and I realized that B.B. King is saying that he’s a walking Dr. bill, cause he’s messed up ever since his lady left him. Well now it makes perfect sense.”
“That’s for all the folks who wonder what it might have sounded like if Robert Plant sang The Monster Mash – and I mean that in the best possible way, Jack!”
“According to his (Dr. Kinsey’s) research, there were 6 different outlets to sexual orgasm. They were: masturbation, petting, nocturnal dreams, heterosexual coitus, homosexual behaviors, and bestiality. I’m batting about 40 percent.”
“I got nothing against downloads and mp3s, but getting’ this cd without the pictures and liner notes – well, it’s not as good as having it on the big twelve inch record, but at least there’s a booklet there. And believe it or not folks, you can even read it in a power failure – as long as it’s daytime.”
“You know we’ve gotten a bunch of emails, people saying they don’t like gospel music. Mostly they say they don’t like don’t like it cause of the subject matter; they don’t want to hear religious music. Let me just point out, you can just listen to it as music. The beautiful part of it is that the people singing believe it so much. Any time people sing about what they believe, it elevates it. You don’t have to be a junkie to enjoy the Velvet Underground song, ‘Heroin.’ You don’t have to have horns and a pitchfork to enjoy ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ but it does help. The thing is it’s all music, and when the people believe what they’re singing, it’s just better.”
“Theme Time Radio Hour, where music meets medicine.”