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Money
It’s night in the big city
A man says a prayer, puts down a $20 and rolls the dice
The faucet won’t stop dripping
“Welcome to Season Three of TTRH, and we’re glad to have ya. We’ve had a lot of fun the last couple of years, presenting the greats and near-greats, the fondly remembered and the almost forgotten, performing a wide variety of music on a veritable cornucopia of subjects. But as we start season 3 we’re gonna take our cue from a sign Harry S. Truman kept on his desk: The Buck Stops Here. And not just the buck, the yen, the sheckle, the nickel and dime, and if you still subscribe to the barter system, maybe a bushel of corn. So break open your piggy banks and cash in your bonds. This week’s episode of TTRH is most definitely cash and carry.”
The Singers and the Songs
Jerry McCain & His Upstarts – That’s What They Want
Louis Prima – Pennies From Heaven
Papa Charlie Jackson – You Put it in, I’ll Take it out – “If ya listen, it’s a very unusual instrument he’s playing. It’s kinda half banjo, half guitar. It’s a six string instrument, tuned and fingered like a guitar but with a banjo body, so it has that trebly banjo sound, but there’s more notes available.”
Van Morrison – Blue Money “I almost think we play too much Van Morrison. Then I listen to one of his records and I think, no we don’t!”
Ray Charles – Greenbacks “There’s a great baritone sax solo on this record. It’s probably Howard Cooper, and you can almost hear him stepping back into the reed section to blend back in at the end of his solo. I always like to give you a little something to listen to in a song; I find it makes you listen to the whole thing more carefully.”
Mel Blanc – Money
Buddy Johnson and His Band – It’s the Gold
Nic Jones – Farewell To The Gold
Lefty Frizzell – My Baby’s Just Like Money “One of the true honky-tonk heroes”
Buddy Guy (Amigo Hombre) – 100 Dollar Bill “Sounds a little bit like Barrett Strong’s ‘Money’ – not enough to get sued I guess.”
P. Diddy (Featurning Lil’ Kim, The Lox, and the Notorious B.I.G.) – It’s All About the Benjamins
The Clovers – Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash “It’s because of them we have the familiar sound of the saxophone solo on vocal group records. You see what happened was, back on February 22nd, 19 and 51, tenor saxophonist Frank ‘Floorshow’ Culley brought his band into the Atlantic studios to back the clovers. Well Ahmet Ertegun only wanted to use the rhythm section; Frank knew if he didn’t play he wasn’t gonna get paid. Ahmet said to him, ‘Now listen man, if I pay you, you’re gonna play!’ so play he did and it was the first saxophone solo on a vocal group record. It reached number one, and the bootin’ tenor solo was a mainstay on vocal group records ever since.”
Jessie Price – You Can’t Take It With You
Record Labels
Excello Records
Vocalion
Atlantic
Capital
Decca
Other People and Players
Christopher Collins
Italian Singers
Perry Como
Vic Damone
Tony Bennett
Dino (Dean Martin)
Freddie Keppard and his Jazz Cardinals
Johnnie Dodds
Tiny Parham
Kid Ory
Johnny Burke
Arthur Johnston
Ma Rainey
Ida Cox
Terry Southern
Elizabeth Magie
Charles Darrow
Parker Brothers
Howard Cooper
Stan Freberg
Porky Pig
Daffy Duck
Ella Johnson
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Ronald Reagan “friend of the black man, striking a blow for world justice”
Paul Metsers
Jimmy Williams
The Beatles
M.D.T. Bienville – French physician who “laid out” (if you’ll pardon the expression) the theory of nymphomania
Alfred Kinsey “A nymphomaniac is just someone who has more sex than you do”
Barrett Strong
Lil’ Kim
The LOX
The Notorious B.I.G
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Harrison
Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople
Pope Benjamin II
Saint Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin
Asher Benjamin
Judah P. Benjamin
Richard Benjamin
Ben Cartwright – “Patriarch of the Ponderosa”
Frank “Floorshow”Culley
Ahmet Ertegun
Stan Kenton
Louis Armstrong
Slim Gaylord
Places
Albania
Bosnia
Denmark
Slovakia
Poland
Mozambique
New Orleans
America
Empire State Building
Boardwalk
Marvin Gardens
Russia
China
N. Korea
Cuba
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
South Africa
The goldfields of Central Otago
Constantinople
Persia
The Federal Reserve
Memphis, TN
Los Angeles
Other Songs and Albums
Shake That Thing
His Band and the Street Choir
Penguin Eggs
Money (B. Strong) (clip)
Got a Penny Benny (Nat King Cole) (clip)
Games, Movies, and other Entertainment
Hokum – “A spicy form of popular song that was chock full of double entendres”
Monopoly
The Landlord’s Game
Melody Maker magazine
Chinatown (clip)
Grand Ole Opry
“One reason you can’t take it with you is that is usually leaves before you do.”
Money Part 2
The Singers and the Songs
Moon Mullican & The Blue Ridge Playboys – Gimme My Dime Back, Gimme My Money
“The king of the hillbilly piano players…Many people think he was an uncredited co-writer on Hank Williams’ Jambalaya, and I can believe it, ‘cause it has that bounce.”
James Brown – I’ve Got Money
Eric “Monty” Morris – Penny Reel
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters – Money Honey “This one’s for you Aaron (Neville)”
Johnny Dove and the Magnolia Playboys – Lookin’ for Money
Slim Harpo – I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)
Everly Brothers – Man with Money
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Clean Money
Johnnie Taylor – Last Two Dollars
Johnny Paycheck – Down To My Last Dime
Tiny Grimes – Romance Without Finance
“He once told me that money isn’t the key to happiness, but if you have enough, you can have a key made.”
The O’Jays – For the Love of Money
Johnny “Guitar” Watson – You Can’t Take it With You
Other People and Players
Samuel Butler
Jimmy Davis
Fred Clement
Hank Williams
Emperor Augustus
Penn Jillette (guest)
Penn and Teller
Clayton Fillyau “James Brown always said, ‘give the drummer some”
FDR
George McCann
King Farouk of Egypt
Baba Brooks
Smokey Robinson
Ben E. King
Jackie Wilson
The Dominoes
Michael Buble
Carlo Ponte
Josh Groban
Aaron Neville – Anything Clyde McPhatter sings is a prayer
Egyptian Pharos
The Greeks
The Romans
Americans
Alexander the Great
The Norse
Albert Einstein – if the bees die off man will only have four years left to live
Al Urban
Charles Calhoun / Jesse Stone
William Kidd
Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus
The Money Changers
The Who
DB Cooper
FBI
The hippies
J. Edgar Hoover
Robinhood
Van Morrison
Charlie Parker
Ingmar Kamprad (IKEA founder)
Eddie O’Jay
Gamble and Huff
Ronnie Baker
Hetty Green
Jessie Price
Famous Literary Misers
Ebenezer Balfour
Milburn Drysdale
Silas Marner
Scrooge McDuck
Henry F. Potter
Ebenezer Scrooge
Places
Louisiana
Tennessee
Egypt
Cairo
New York
World Trade Center
Jamaica
Peru (home to the sandwich-making ants of Peru)
Massapequa
Long Island
New York
The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
Superstition Mountains
Apache Junction, AZ
Jerusalem
The Cascade Mountains
Columbia River
Chitlin’ Circuit
Philly
Houston, TX
Yokohama, Japan
Other Songs and Albums
Jambalaya
Beat & Soul (Everly Brothers)
Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But Trash
Disco Lady (Johnnie Taylor)
Love Train
Livin’ For The Weekend
Back Stabber
Used To Be My Girl
Record Labels
Dove Record Label
Excello Records
Cadence
Savoy Records
Books, Radio, Movies, other Entertainment
Mento
Dr. Demento
Monty Python – the money program
Wall Street
The New Testament
Ace in the Hole
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
It’s a Wonderful Life
Fargo
Kinds of Penny Candy
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Mary Janes
Wax Lips
Lik-M-Aid
Lil’ Nips
Button Candy
Candy Necklaces
Salt Water Taffy
Root Beer Barrels
Candy Cigarettes
Atomic Fireballs
Chico Stix
Red Hots
Pixie Stix (also the name of Bob’s first girlfriend)
Night
It’s night time in the big city
A Brinks truck pulls up in front of a bank
A man makes a promise he’ll never keep.
“Why did it take us 78 shows to do one as obvious as the subject of night?”
The Singers and The Songs
Joe Houston and His Rockets – All Night Long “…A saxophone player who joined the band at age 16. The band leader hired him because he had the right color suit, he could read the charts pretty good, and he said he could be at the train station at 7 AM. The same way I choose a band.”
Dr. John – Such a Night “Whenever I listen to Dr. John I can almost smell the night blooming jasmine.”
The Drifters – Another Night With The Boys
LeRoy Carr – When The Sun Goes Down “Sounds just like Love In Vain by Robert Johnson. Robert recorded it 8-10 years later, but he must have heard that record. You play the two back to back and it’s remarkable. There’s nothing new under the sun – or in honor of tonight’s show, under the moon neither.”
Fred Astaire – The Way You Look Tonight
Willie Nelson – Night Life
Chick Carbo – In The Night “What always kills me about this record is that every time I listen to it I’m totally convinced that the background singers are singing ‘Shoebox.’ Doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what I hear. Shoebox. You be the judge.”
Buddy Holly – Midnight Shift
Zuzu Bollin – Why Don’t You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
The Strangeloves – Night Time
Professor Longhair – In The Night “I got nothin’ to say about him, we told you about him before, and you know how to look him up in Wikipedia. That’s where he lives – Wikipedia, Louisiana.”
The Latin Playboys – Forever Night Shade Mary “Most of these songs started out in the still of the night in David’s kitchen on a beaten up four track recorder, and it sure sounds like it. And I mean that in the best possible sense.”
Charles Brown – Black Night
Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night “The only man I know who could write a song for Janis Joplin and then act with Barbara Streisand.”
Other People and Players
Charlie Feathers
Wanda Jackson (Why isn’t she in the rock and roll hall of fame?)
Samuel Johnson
JJ Cale
Professor Longhair
Gerry Goffin
Carole King
Yes
Dylan Thomas (not mentioned directly but Bob references Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night)
Bing Crosby
Nat Cole
Ray Charles
Eric Clapton
Robert Johnson
Peleus
Achilles
Adele Astaire
Norman Granz
Oscar Peterson
Flip Phillips
Barney Kessel
Charlie Shavers
Ray Brown
Antonio Porchia – Night is a world lit by itself
The French
Cornell Woolrich
F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. B. King
Radiohead
Chuck Carbo
The Spiders
The Zion Harmonizers
The Delta Southernaires
Allen Toussaint
Batman
Superman
Bob Kane
Bob Montgomery
E.X. Brooks
Fathead Newman
Howard Cooper
Ray Charles
Bob Feldman
Jerry Goldstein
Richard Gottehrer
David Hidalgo
Louie Perez
Tchad Blake
Mitchell Froom
Vincent Van Gogh
Walt Whitman
Brahms
Mozart
Native Americans
Janis Joplin
Barbara Streisand
Carl Sandburg
Places
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Sampson’s Diner
The Northern Hemisphere
The Arctic Circle
Alaska
Canada
Greenland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Russia
(The extremities of) Iceland
“If you’re listening up there, try to keep warm and I’ll see you tomorrow night.”
New Orleans
Los Angeles
New York
Bolivia
The British Empire
Oxford
Hutchinson Junior High School
Texas
Armstrong, Australia
New York
New England
St. Remy
West Germany
Nashville
Other Songs and Albums
In The Right Place – Dr. John
Love in Vain
Rule Britannia (clip)
Batman Theme (clip)
Rock-A-Bye Baby
Mockingbird (aka Hush Little Baby)
Tura-Lura-Lural
All The Pretty Little Horses
Hush-A-Bye Baby
Kristofferson
Night Flowers
Angels Trumpet
Night Blooming Jasmine
Moonflower
Evening Primrose
Night Blooming Cereus
Other Plants
Deadly Nightshade
Record Labels
Atlantic Records
Instant Record Label
Decca
Coral Records
Brunswick Records
Columbia
Books, Movies, and other Art & Entertainment
Vaudeville
Swing Time
Rear Window
The Bride Wore Black
The Black Curtain
The Black Alibi
The Black Angel
Rendezvous in Black
The Black Path of Fear
Rolling Stone Magazine
Detective Comics #27
Starry Night
A Clear Midnight
Good Night
“Like all creatures of the night it’s about time for me to scurry back to my cave. But we’ll be back again next week with another theme, and anecdotes and tales to tantalize and delight.”
Beginning, Middle, and End
It’s night time in the big city
A woman goes through her husband’s pockets while he sleeps
Everyone’s either asleep or in the emergency room
It’s Theme Time Radio Hour with your host from coast to coast, Bob Dylan.
The Singers and The Songs
Antita O’Day – I Can’t Get Started
Sonny Boy Williamson – Don’t Start Me To Talking
J. Geils Band – Start All Over Again
Peggy Lee – Beginning To See The Light
(Artie Shaw and his Orchestra – Begin the Beguine – clip
Amos Milburn – In the Middle of the Night “We usually think of our next artist as a piano pounding boogie master. But I wanted to take a second to show another side of him, his deep blue side.”
Manfred Mann – The One in The Middle
Ray Charles – Smack Dab in the Middle “Sometimes ya play a song for just one reason. This song has a lot going for it: it’s got a swingin’ arrangement done by Benny Carter; The Raelettes sound great on it; and Ray sings his ass off. But the reason I like this record – it’s got the best recorded finger snaps I’ve ever heard.”
Wanda Jackson – In The Middle of a Heartache “She’s known as a rockabilly singer but she doesn’t get enough credit for singing straight country. She deserves it, too.”
Nick Lowe – Half a Boy and Half a Man “…One of the forefathers of punk. He earned this by producing The Damned, and he made a lot of records on his own…you might not know this one, where he channels his inner Doug Sahm. His keyboard player does a pretty good Augie Myers impression too…That’s a knees-up rocker.”
Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys – At the End of the Lane
Skeeter Davis – The End of The World
Richard Thompson – The End of The Rainbow
Buddy Guy “South of the border, they know him as Amigo Hombre”
Other People and Players
Ishmael
Herman Melville
Winston Churchill
Norman Granz
Gene Krupa
Bob Hope
Eve Arden
Ira Gershwin
Robert Edwin Peary
Big Walter
Little Walter
Middle Walter
Johnny Little John
Big Daddy Simpson
Melvin Simpson
Julian Schnabel
Dr. Niels Birbaumer
Pete Wolff
Seth Justman
David Lynch
Duke Ellington
Johnny Hodges
Don George
Harry James
Shelly Manne
Erika Eigen
Sunforest
Stanley Kubrick
August Ferdinand Mobius
Cole Porter “In 1935 Cole Porter went on a round the world cruise to write Jubilee. He took with him a piano, a small organ, 24 pencils…a typewriter, a metronome, and three cases of champagne. He said that he wrote Begin the Beguine in the Fiji Islands, after seeing a native dancer. I think it was after he finished the champagne.”
Martha Rae
Paul Jones (singer)
Benny Carter
The Raelettes
Kermit the Frog (clip)
John Lee (Hooker)
George Thorogood
Jules Verne
Alexandre Dumas
Gaston (Jules Verne’s nephew)
The Damned
Doug Sahm
Augie Meyers
Jeffrey Eugenides
Oprah
Fred Howard
Nat Vincent
Richard Brautigan
The Diggers
The Davis Sisters
Native Americans
Piute Indians
Cheyenne Indians “…have a story of the giant pole that holds up the universe and it’s gnawed down by the Great White Beaver of the North, with the earth falling into a bottomless pit. I wonder what they were smoking.”
Mayans
Sir Martin Rees
Leprechauns
Ike Turner
Charles Dickens
Robert W. Service
Famous Middle Children
Bill Gates
JFK
Madonna
Princess Dianna
Richard Nixon
George Burns
Bob Hope (clip)
Famous Carnival Sideshow Hermaphrodites
Josephine Joseph
Esther Lester
Leo Leola
Jean Eugene
Henrietta
(And the He-Man Martha Rae)
Books, Movies, and other Entertainment
Moby Dick
Ziegfield Follies
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
New Scientist
A Clockwork Orange
Jubliee
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Three Musketeers
Count of Monte Cristo
Airport 79: The Concorde
Five Weeks in a Balloon
From the Earth To The Moon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Middlesex (Bob read it because it was part of the Oprah Book Club)
The Scarlatti Tilt
Trout Fishing in America
Our Final Century
A Tale of Two Cities
The End of The Trail
Places
The North Pole
Chicago
Gary, Indiana
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
La Caruna lighthouse
Spain
Fiji Islands
Houston
England
Johannesburg, South Africa
The United States
Lebanon, KS
The Equator
Ecuador
Columbia
Brazil
Democratic Republic of Congo
Uganda
Somalia
The Maldives
Indonesia
Kiribati
Paris
San Antonio
San Francisco
Dry Ridge, Kentucky
Record Labels
Chess Records
Atlantic
Bluebird Label
Other Songs and Albums
I Wanna Marry A Lighthouse Keeper (clip)
Chicken Shack Boogie
Bad, Bad Whisky
Let Me Go Home, Whisky
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
The End of the World
Miscellany
Mobius Strip
Ouroboros
Blood
It’s night time in the big city
The hotel room smells like cigarettes and cheap perfume
A woman shops for fruit in a trench coat. I don’t know if this city’s more like Sodom or Gomorrah.
“Along with sweat and tears, it’s among the most popular of the bodily fluids.”
The Singers and The Songs
Little Esther – Flesh, Blood, and Bones
Da Costa Woltz and the Southern Broadcasters – Are You Washed in the Blood of The Lamb “Here’s an unusual record, with an interesting story behind it…D. Woltz was in the patent medicine business and he was the mayor of Galax, Virginia in 1930 and 1931. (He) vanished into obscurity after swindling the town of Galax while he was the mayor. Lemme see now…patent medicine business, crooked mayor, swindled the town, disappeared in obscurity…of course they recorded a gospel record!”
Memphis Slim – Cold Blooded Woman “The tale of a woman who is positively reptilian”
Jerry Lee Lewis – Lust of the Blood “Ya know if anyone ever asks me why I do this radio show I can just play ‘em that. Jerry Lee Lewis singing Shakespeare -- that’s what this show is all about.”
Ike Turner – She Made My Blood Run Cold
Nervous Norvus – Transfusion
“That record made it to number 8 on the pop charts. Imagine a record like that on the charts now. We lived in great times.”
Honeyboy – Blood Stains on the Wall “Another great example of saying a lot by saying a little.”
Paul Clayton – Go Down You Blood Red Roses
Danny Barker – Blood On The Moon
Big Boy Groves – Bucket Of Blood “Playing the organ there for ya too. Mighty fine sound…A tuneful little ditty about a violence-prone establishment.”
The String Kings – Bloodshot
The Zion Travelers – The Blood
The Mississippi Sheiks – I’ve Got Blood In My Eyes For You “Walter Vinson on guitar and vocals; Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle; Sam Chatmon on guitar; and Bo Carter on guitar – don’t let the name fool you, he was also a Chatmon. I mention their names because it is important to remember that these are people. This is how they made their living. They went somewhere to record it and went many places to perform it. That’s how they got life experience to write and record more songs. Sure you can sit around your house, without ever leaving home, stick in your ear buds, and listen to it all alone. But you gotta ask yourself, what’s the next generation gonna write about? Sitting home alone, you’re not gonna write a song like this.”
Movies, Books and other Entertainment
Dracula (clip)
Blood in the Streets (promo clip)
The Old Testament
The New Testament
Othello
Catch my Soul
LA Times
Death of a Salesman
Oxford English Dictionary
In Cold Blood
To Kill a Mockingbird
Capote
Infamous
Roshoman
The Book of Revelation
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Grand Guignol
Sin City
Other People and Players
Kenny Rogers
Anne Boleyn
King Henry the Eighth
John Lee Rockefeller
Abraham
Isaac
God
The Israelites
Angel of Death
Matt Murphy “Slim gave a shout out to his guitar player Matt Murphy there and made played pretty nice, though he wasn’t what you’d call a “Guitar God.” They love the flashy fingers and the solos full of filigree. Be careful, these might be false gods. I hope if you’re a young guitar player, listening to this show, with your guitar in your lap, hoping to cop some licks, you’re paying attention. You don’t have to fill up every moment with a hundred notes. People like Guitar Slim only played a few notes, but every single one of those notes was like an ice pick to your heart.”
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Iago
Desdemona
Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Rosco Gordon
Otis Rush
Tina (Turner)
Truman Capote
Harper Lee
Sylvester Graham – “Dedicated his life to a battle against masturbation. He was also into healthy eating. I’m with him on the healthy eating part.”
W.K. Kellogg
Honeyboy Edwards
Napoleon
The British Army
Thomas Jefferson
Blue Lu Barker
Onward Brass Band
King Oliver
Sidney Bechet
Babe Son
Kid Rena
Benny Carter
Cab Calloway
Bill Buckner
Andre Escobar
Oscar Metenier
Max Maury
Paula Maxa
Mary Queen of Scots
George Jessel
Willie Nelson
Lord Byron
Winston Churchill
Places
Galax, Virginia
Louisiana
England
Kansas
New Bedford, MA
New Orleans
Colombia
London
The Lamb and Flag
Paris, France
St. Paul, MN
Harry’s Bar, Paris
Record Labels
Federal
Specialty Records
Gaiety Records
Guest
Billy Vera
Types of Sea Shanties
Short Haul Shanties
Capstan Shanties
Halyard Shanties
Bob’s instructions for getting blood stains out of clothing
1. Wet the stain with cold water.
2. Coat the blood stain with powdered meat tenderizer and more cold water; that makes sense – blood is found in meat and tenderizer can break it down.
3. Rub this paste into the shirt and let it sit for about half an hour.
4. During this half hour, consider what you have done. Then rinse, and head for Mexico.
Bob’s Bloody Mary Recipe
2/3 of a cup of tomato juice – don’t pinch pennies here, get a good tomato juice
Add 2 go 3 oz of vodka – I sometimes add 4
1 t of horseradish – "use freshhorsh…fresh horshwa…use fresh horshradish"
Sprinkle a little Tabasco sauce in there
1 t of Worcestershire Sauce – "I can say that easier than horseradish!"
Take the juice of ½ a lime
A little bit of salt – "I use the coarse sea salt; I like the texture"
A little fresh ground pepper
Then stick a celery stalk in there
"Put on a couple of Willie Nelson records, sit for a while, and it’s good night, Martha"
War
(The sounds of war)
The Singers and The Songs
Louis Jordan and his Tympany 5-”GI Jive”
Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles-Fightin’ in the War with Spain
The Horrors Of War - Attila The Hun “He has the same middle name as Smokey the Bear” Raymond
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
Was My Brother In The Battle ? - Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Johnny Horton-The Battle of New Orleans
Drive Soldiers Drive - Little Maxie Bailey
The Cold War With You - Floyd Tillman
Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Let A Soldier Drink - Jerry Lee Lewis (from the rock version of Othello)
Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Forgotten Soldier Boy - The Monroe Brothers
Day After Tomorrow - Tom Waits
Bring the Boys Home - Freda Payne
I Believe I'm Gonna Make It - Joe Tex (Shouted on stage before shows to make himself hoarse to sound more authentic and then became a Muslim Minister)
Peace - Los Lobos
Other Singers and Songs
Edwin Starr -War
“blood is spilled too often for too little”
Johnny Mercer
Charlie Poole
Roy Acuff (singer)
Jim England (song writer)
Bailes Brothers-Kyle, Johnny, Walter, Homer-Searching For a Soldier’s Grave
Louvin Brothers
Johnny and Jack (Singing groups)
Fred Rose
Hank Williams
Roy Orbison
Doc Gibson
Boudleaux
Felice Bryant
The Everly Brothers
Peewee King
“Tennessee Waltz”
Linda Rondstat
Album-Hot like a Wheel
“American Patrol”
Stephan Foster
Jimmy Driftwood
“They took the Stars out of Heaven”
“GI Blues”
“Slipping Around”
Robert Vincent (records for Military Use only)
Donavon
Ry Cooter
Crazyhorse
Elvis
John Paul Jones
“I got ya”
Wilson Picken
Ben E King
Don Covey
Percy Mayfield
Jack Good
Jerry Lee Lewis
Duke Ellington
Barry Gordey
Quincy Jones
Bill Crosby
“Band of Gold”
Angelo Bond
Greg Perry
Other People
Bertrand Russell “War does not determine who it right, only left.”
Plato
General Patton
Mars and Aires
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
President McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt
Other Attila the Hun
Pope Leo I
Winston Churchill
Lord Kitchener
Matthew Bradley Photography
Bernard Baruch (coined phrase cold war)
Herbert Bayes Swope
Gerald Holtham
Shanghai Scheck
Shakespeare
John Bailey Tyler
George S Lamkin
Calvin Graham
President Coolidge
General Johnson
Albert Einstein “You can not prevent and prepare for war at the same time”
Simon Goldman
Fredric March
Ben Andrews
Harold Russell
William Wyler
Places
Cuba
US Maine
Havana
Spain
Puerto Rice
Guam
Grand Ole Opry
Roman Empire
Austria
Germany
Italy
Rome
Peebles, Scotland
Australia
Gallipoli
Black Sea
Pasadena
Korea
Nashville
Saskatchewan
Germany
Hamburg
Dusseldorf
Frederick, Maryland
Mississippi
Chicago
Entertainment, TV, Radio and Lit
Sun Su-The Art of war
Lt. Don Briggs press conference (speaking on behalf of Cop. Bob Carroll. Sgt. Mel Powell Sgt Ray McKinley) (clip)
Bugs Bunny (clip) Tall Man with the High Hat (Penny Bonds)
Tokyo Rose Radio (clip)
Sesame Street
Officer and A Gentleman
Jack Neichtze
Othello
(clip) Othello ‘So do I too, good lieutenant”
The Banana Splits (clip)
Nutty Professor II
Today’s Black Woman (TV SHOW)
The Best Years of Our Lives (film) (clip)
Military Abbreviations
PRF-Private First Class
CPL Corporal
SGT Sergeant
LT Lieutenant
CP Command Post
OD On Duty or Operation Directive
MP Military Police
PVT Private
LIEUG Lieutenant
KP Kitchen Patrol
QT Quick Time
AWOL Absent Without Official Leave
MEDIVAC Medical Evacuation
MIA Missing In Action
KIA Killed In Action
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
“and WILCO is the name of a band, and we can not forget FUBAR and SNUFU. I can‘t tell you what those mean because this is a family program.”
Record Labels
Paramount label
Sony Label
Excello Label
Bluebird Label
Wars
Spanish American War
Civil War
Cold War
War of Independence
War of 1812
Misc
Yellow Journalism
Waltzing Matilda (Carry your pack around the bush)
History of the Peace Symbol
Important Civil War Battles (in which coffins and embalming were big business)
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Harper’s Ferry, WV
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Sharpsburg
Antietam
Battle of Long Island
Civil War firsts
Workable Machine gun
Snorkel breathing device
Aerial Reconnaissance
Flame Throwers
Military Telegraphs
Metal of Honor
Telescopic sites for riffles
Repeating riffles
Bugle call “Taps”
Celebrities that fought in war
Yogi Berra
Mel Brooks
Clark Gable
Brock Hudson
“All the Kennedy’s” Jack, Robert and George
Rod Sterling
Bridges Meridice
Rod Steiger
Ted Williams
Sylvester Stallone
Fruit
Delayed due to Technical difficulties
Street Map
It’s night time in the big city
A cold wind blows no good
A woman tries to remember when things first went wrong
I can’t believe it’s not butter.
“Today on TTRH, we’re gonna walk down that weary road, spend a little time on Easy Street, visit Primrose Lane, and attempt to steer clear of Skid Row. We’ll traverse the avenues and boulevards. We’ll take the road less traveled, and hopefully you’ll find us right up your block. We’ll drive down Route 66, America’s Main Street now sadly gone. We’ll get a little bit of southern exposure on Route 90 and find out the skinny from the man on the streets. Let’s go where the rubber meets the road. That’s right, we’re traversing the highways and byways, the promenades and roadways. We’re on the road to ruin. I may not be a Rhodes Scholar, but I got my share of street smarts! So join us for the next hour as we consult the street map. You are here.”
The Singers and The Songs
Laura Cantrell – 14th Street “Gives you a real sense of the serendipitous wonder that is New York City.”
The Pilgrim Travelers – Straight Street
The Skatalites – Streets of Gold (clip)
Roger Miller – King Of The Road
Ray Charles – Lonely Avenue “You know I don’t usually like to tell people what I’m doing, but I am talking to a couple of car companies about possibly being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you’re looking for directions and you heard my voice saying something like, ‘Take a left at the next street…no a right…you know what, just go straight.’ I probably shouldn’t do it, ‘cause whichever way I go, I always end up in one place: on Lonely Avenue. Luckily I’m not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there.”
Percy Mayfield – Hit The Road Jack (clip) “It’s a capella. This allows the inherent dysrhythmia of the song to shine through”
Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Mississippi Fred McDowell – 61 Highway
Hank Williams – Lost Highway
Little Feat – Willin “This song has gone on to become a country classic and a truck driver’s anthem. So if you’re driving on the back roads, turn this one up.”
The Nat King Cole Trio – Route 66 “Back in the 60’s, I used to hear the word ‘groovy’ all the time – I had no idea what people were talking about. For me a record like this was the definition of grooviness. So here’s the grooviest song I know, all about America’s main street.”
Clarence ‘Bon Ton’ Garlow – Route 90
Mud Boy and The Neutrons – Dark End of the Street “(Sid Selvidge, Lee Baker, Jimmy Crosthwait,) and of course, that magical musical maestro from Memphis, Jim Dickinson…he was never one of those guys who could fit into a pigeon hole…He was the kind of guy you could call if you needed someone to play the piano, fix a tractor, or make red coleslaw from scratch.”
Woody Guthrie – Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Other People and Players
Emily Spray
Tennessee Williams
Sam Cook
J.W. Alexander
Ethiopian Clowns
New Orleans Crescent Stars
Ben Webster
Huck Finn
Minnie Pearl
Faron Young
Charlie Chaplin
The Little Tramp
Percy Mayfield “We’ve told the Percy Mayfield story a couple of times here. If you haven’t heard it, go download some of our old shows illegally.”
Ray Charles
Perry Mason
Della Street
Picabo Street
Big Sid Catlett
Tony Bennett
Stephen King
Sherlock Holmes
Bob Nolan
Leon Payne
James Dean
Tom Mix
Eddie Cochran
Isadora Duncan
Jayne Mansfield
Sam Kinison
Jackson Pollock
Princess Grace of Monaco
Princess Diana
Lowell George
Bill Payne
Richie Hayward
The Mothers of Invention
Roy Estrada
Bobby Troup
President Eisenhower
John Steinbeck
Jack Kerouac
Yogi Berra
James Carr
Ry Cooder
The Stones
Aretha Franklin
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Big Star
The Replacements
The North Mississippi All-Stars
Okies
Carl Sandburg “road weary poet”
Places
Chelsea
Greenwich Village
Union Square
Broadway
The Academy of Music
Vaudeville
Houston
The Gunbarrel Highway
Northern Territory (Aus)
South Australia
West Australia
Yonge Street
Toronto
Rainy River, Ontario
Minnesota
Number 1 Bistro
Mckay’s Hotel
Wick, Scotland
Ebenezer Place
New York
Corner of Houston and Bowery
Pacific Northwest
Idaho
National Ski Hall of Fame
Rossville, TN
Como, MS
The Mississippi Delta
Chicago
Highway 61
Tunica
221 B Baker St., London, England
10 Downing St.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The White House
The U.S. Department of Commerce
The Mother Road
I-55
I-44
I-40
I-10
Route 90
Jacksonville, FL
Tallahassee
Pea Ridge
Pensacola
Mobile, AL
Slidell, LA
New Iberia, LA “That’s where they make Tabasco Sauce. You know, I kissed a girl from New Iberia once; had a burning sensation for weeks.”
Beaumont
Harlow, TX
Van Horn
Champs Elysee
Bourbon St.
Rodeo Drive
Tiananmen Square
The Autobahn
Memphis
The Dust Bowl
The Great Plains
The West Coast
California
Record Labels
Specialty Records
Books, Movies, Plays, Poems, and Other Entertainment
The Book of Acts, Chapter 9, Verse 11
Big River
Easy Street
Carrie
The Moose Murders
Nightmare on Elm St. (promo clip)
The Bon Ton Show
On The Road (clip of Jack reading)
The Road and the End
Other Songs and Albums
Just a Riff
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Eleanor Rigby
American Idiot
Happy Rovin’ Cowboy
Bon Ton Roulet
They Walk Among Us
Chilly Winds “In our last show of season two, we talk about the song ‘Chilly Winds.’ We told you how that song kind of morphed into ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.’ Well you didn’t think I was gonna let our Street show go by without playin’ that, did ya?”
The Most Common Street Names (in order)
1. 2nd St.
2. 3rd St.
3. 1st St.
4. 4th St.
5. Elm St.
The Road and the End – Carl Sandburg
I shall foot it
Down the roadway in the dusk,
Where shapes of hunger wander
And the fugitives of pain go by.
I shall foot it
In the silence of the morning,
See the night slur into dawn,
Hear the slow great winds arise
Where tall trees flank the way
And shoulder toward the sky.
The broken boulders by the road
Shall not commemorate my ruin.
Regret shall be the gravel under foot.
I shall watch for
Slim birds swift of wing
That go where wind and ranks of thunder
Drive the wild processionals of rain.
The dust of the traveled road
Shall touch my hands and face.
Famous People
It’s night time in the big city
There’s a new coffee place on the corner
I hope somebody has change for a dollar.
“Please, no flash photography”
The Singers And The Songs
Mighty Sparrow – Jack Palance
Janis Martin – My Boy Elvis
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Sweet Gene Vincent
King Stitt – Lee Van Cleef
They Might Be Giants – Meet James Ensor
Dinah Washington – Christopher Columbus
Charlie Adams – Hey Liberace!
Ken Lazarus & Keith Lyn – The Beatles Got To Go
Bill Cox – The Fate of Will Rogers and Wiley Post
The Clash – The Right Profile
Leadbelly – Jean Harlow “A full-voiced powerful singer…we last heard from him on our Christmas show. We told his story then, so go listen to that show if you want to know about him.”
(Perez Prado – Marilyn Monroe Mamba) (partial)
Simon and Garfunkle – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Other People and Players
Andy Warhol
Ed Koch
Elvis Presley
Steve Sholes
Grady Martin
Buddy Herman
Floyd Kramer
Colonel Tom Parker
P. Diddy Combs
Sylvester Stallone
Pol Pot
Mussolini
Bill Murray
Rush Limbaugh
Gene Vincent
Eddie Cochran
Mark Twain
Tom Hanks
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety”
Mensa
Fats Waller
Rodrigo – sailor on Columbus’ ship
Colonel Sanders (KFC radio commercial)
Umberto Eco
Emily Dickinson “famous poet”
Liberace “By the mid-50s, he had 162 certified fan clubs”
Roy Rogers
Smiley Burnett
Paul Bley (clip)
Ida Lupino “She doesn’t get the credit as a ground breaker, which she surely was…you may be forgotten by most Ida, but you’re surely not forgotten here.”
Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
William Talman
Directors Guild of America
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare
Montgomery Clift (clip)
Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Burns
Jean Harlow
Paul Bern
William Powell “Star of the Thin Man movies…sorry Astra!”
Marilyn (Monroe)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr.
Samuel Johnson
Movies and TV
Panic in the Streets
City Slickers (clip)
The Girl Can’t Help It
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Thin Man
They Drive By Night
Road House
High Sierra
The Hitch Hiker
Perry Mason
A Place in the Sun
From Here to Eternity
The Misfits
Suddenly Last Summer
Judgment at Nuremberg
Something’s Gotta Give
Some Like It Hot
The Seven Year Itch
A Face in The Crowd (clip)
Other Songs and Albums
Fame (David Bowie) (in background during intro)
Fame and Fortune (clip)
Heartbreak Hotel
Ida Lupino (song clip)
Record Labels and Movie Studios
RCA Records
Imperial Records
MGM
Places
Cambodia
Missouri
England
Canterbury Art College
Jamaica
Bahamas
The Hollywood Bowl
Walakpa Lagoon
Point Barrow, AK
Oklahoma City
Hollywood
England
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Guggenheim Museum
New York City
Falling Water
Bear Run, PA
Pittsburgh
Hollyhock House
Price Tower
Marin County Civic Center
Famous Animals and Their Real or Original Names
Asta (wire haired terrier named Skippy)
Lassie (collie named Pal)
Ol’ Yeller (yellow lab named Spike)
Toto (Terry)
Mr. Ed (Palomino named Bamboo Harverster) “A horse is a horse of course of course”
Trigger – (Golden Cloud, another palomino)
Literature and Art
Henry V
Christ’s Entry Into Brussels
I’d rather be thin than famous
I don’t wanna be fat
And a woman throws me outta bed
callin me Gordo
And every time I bend
to pickup my suspenders
from the davenport floor
I explode loud, huge grunt-o
and disgust everyone in the familio
I’d rather be thin than famous
But I’m fat
Paste that in your Broadway show.
-- Jack Kerouac
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