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Numbers 11 And Up
It’s night time in the big city
A man tries to wash the lipstick off his collar in the men’s room sink
It’s hard to find a legitimate masseuse around here.
The Singers and The Songs
Bobby “Blue” Bland – 36-22-36 “I always wanted an introduction like this for myself.”
Prince Buster – 30 Pieces of Silver
Muddy Waters – Forty Days and Forty Nights “Many days and many nights…not to be confused with the Mennonites, who are also in the bible”
Lattie Moore – 100,000 Women Can’t Be Wrong
Floyd Dixon – Girl Fifteen
Jim Ford – 36 Inches High “…with a song that you’re gonna say after you heard it, ‘What’d he say?!?’”
Sonny Boy Williamson – Ninety-Nine “Our next artist is one of only three performers that we play on TTRH who had his face on a bag of flour…if you think you know the other two make sure and take the TTRH quiz, available now on line. There’s no prizes to speak of, we’re just trying to gather some information on our listeners.”
Toots and the Maytals – 54-46 Was My Number
The Showmen “A slightly different shape on a slightly different woman – a man after my own heart.”
Connie Allen with Todd Rhodes and his Orchestra – Rocket 69 “I don’t know how they got this one past the censors.”
Joe Mooney Quartet – A Man With One Million Dollars
Ann Peebles – 99 Lbs. “Every time I see her name, I think she’s Fred Flintstone’s daughter.”
Howlin’ Wolf – Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
NRBQ – 12 Bar Blues
Merle Haggard – C’mon 65 “Life’s musical reporter”
Other People and Players
B.B. King
Roscoe Gordon
Barbie Doll “If Barbie was a real person, she would be six feet tall and weigh only a hundred pounds. Her measurements would be 39-19-33. Her neck would be twice the length of an average person’s, and she would wear a size three children’s shoe. If she were life sized she wouldn’t be able to walk with those tiny feet and her top-heavy frame, and she couldn’t have both a trachea and an esophagus because her neck was too narrow. She would have to choose between breathing and eating. With a figure like that I’m guessing she’s gonna choose breathing.”
James Thurber
Judas Iscariot
Jesus
The Roman Soldiers
The 12 Apostles
King Saul
King David
King Solomon
Elijah
Moses
The Mennonites
Anatole France
King Henry VII
George Jones
Preacher James Burton
Jim Keltner
Dr. John
Billy Barty
General Johnson
Peter Paul Rubens
Paul Reubens
Pee Wee Herman
King Henry IV
Marie De Medici
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
Leslie Kong
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
Benny Carter
Coleman Hawkins
Rex Stewart
Doc Cheatham
Don Cheadle
Wynonie Harris
Gene Vincent
Alan Freed
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Nat Cole
Fred Flintstone
The Peebles Choir
Erasmus
John Lee Hooker
Jack Butwell
Some Famously Corpulent People
Winston Churchill
Notorious B.I.G.
Refrigerator Perry
Jackie Gleason
Alfred Hitchcock
President Taft “our fattest president”
Guests
Tom Waits
Billy Vera
Record Labels
Duke “Where the smart money always was”
Del-Fi
Places
Egypt
Canaan
England
New Orleans
California
Helena, AR
The United Kingdom
Japan
Hungary
Puerto Rico
Norway
Cleveland
Patterson, NJ
Hollywood
Birmingham, AL
Burlington, VT
Little Rhodie
New York
4 of Bob’s Other Favorite Bars (other than the 12 bar blues, that is)
Rojo
The Three Needs
The Met Café
Elmo’s Lounge
Other Songs and Albums
Juke Joint Johnny
Drunk Again “Good name for a country song”
Hey, Bartender
Harlan County
Blues For The Red Boy
I Love Florida
Hey Fat Man (Fats Domino) (clip played in background)
Movies, TV, and Other Entertainment
Out All Night
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Spike Jones Show
King Biscuit Flour Hour (clip)
The Moon Dog Show
Mattel Barbie commercial (clip)
Misc. References
The Last Supper
The Lost Gospel of Judas
The Little People in America Organization
Lou Gehrig’s Disease
“This is TTRH, where we’re lookin’ at the new math…nah, I’m just kidding. We’re talking about numbers, old school.”
Work
“This week we're talking about work. We're talkin' about golden parachutes, poison pills, golden handshakes. We're talking about workin' like a dog, work around the clock, workin' 9 to 5; talking about all the workin' stiffs who're workin' for a livin', who live to work, labor intensive, doin' odd jobs, married to their job, them employee of the month hard at work.”
The Singers and The Songs
First, You've Got to Recognize God - The Bernadettes
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) - T-Bone Walker
Workin' Man Blues - Merle Haggard “you can't say enough about Merle Haggard”
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Sarah Vaughan
“I had a boss so mean once, his time clock punched me.”
Payday - Jesse Winchester
Gotta Find a Job - Lee Dorsey
The Coat and the Pants Do All the Work (and The Vest Gets All The Gravy)
- Six Jumping Jacks (Harry Reser & His Orchestra with Tom Stacks)
I Can't Work No Longer - Billy Butler & The Enchanters
I'll Do Anything But Work - Ray Charles
Payday Blues - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Want Ads - Honey Cone
Whistle While You Work - Adriana Caselotti
Call My Job - Detroit Junior
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) - Tom Waits “A song with a very long title”
You Got to Have a Job (If You Don't Work, You Can't Eat) - Marva Whitney & The J.B.'s
Lit
Walt Whitman-I hear America Singing (Bob read) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or
at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day―at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Robert Frost-”By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -”He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”
Longfellow-The Blacksmith (bob reads)
TV. Movies and Entertainment
Why do people work-ad
Interview on process of working with Charlie Chaplin
Jackie Cougan
The Kid
Vaudeville
MGM Studios
High School Confidential
The Adams Family
Mesa of Lost Women
Damsel in Distress
Make yourself valuable at work-ad
Fiddler on the Roof
In Living Color
Office Supply-ad
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
Fishing for a job-Ad
Make you own opportunity-Ad
Other People
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Edison-“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Dwight Eisenhower-”Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Abe Lincoln-log splitter
Rod Stewart-Printer, grave digger
J Lo-Legal Assistant, Fly Girl
Papa Doc Duvalier-Doctor
Madonna-Duncan Doughnuts
Jack Nicholson-Mail room Clerk
Walt Disney
Larry Morey
Frank Churchill
Cassandra Peterson-Elvira
Places
California
Santa Monica
Apollo Theater
Shreveport, LA
Montreal
Port Au Prince
Haynes, AZ
Record Labels
Divinity Label
Veejay
Amy Label
Atlantic
Hotwax
Motown
Other Singers and Songs, etc.
Barry Gordy
Blue Monday
“Hungry Eyes”
"Okie from Muskogee”
Miles Davis
Bud Johnson
Benny Green
Tony Scott
Jimmy Jones
Freddie Green
Billy Taylor
JC Heard
Jerry Butler
Garret Mitten ?
Curtis Mayfield
The Impressions
Betty Hall Jones
“Buddy Stay Off That Wine”
Last Train to Hicksville
Bobby Sax and the Blue Jeans
Holland Dozier Holland
Darlene Love
The Nightcats
Small Change
Jobs that have disappeared (or will soon)
Milkman
Travel agent
Typesetter
Sewing Machine Operator
Elevator operators
Telex Operator
Polaroid plant worker
Least Popular Jobs
Poultry Processor
Sewing Machine Operator
Farm Laborer
Laundry Worker
Roofer
Recycling plant worker
Street Prostitute
“I wonder which is worse, street prostitute or poultry processor?”
Jobs Bob mentions
gambler
cashier
bartender
taxi driver
taxidermist
playwright
copy editor
skylark
bookie
police officer
judge
fireman
shaman
weatherman
mailman
zoo keeper
manufacturer
inventor
gym teacher
history teacher
janitor
plumber
baker
manager
painter
tailor
seamstress
banker
concierge
podiatrist
pharmacist
apple picker
field hand
physicist
“I'm gonna get outta here and see if I can beat the traffic. You know what it's like when everybody gets off work.”
Nothing
It’s night time in the big city
A wealthy man terrorizes a waitress
The dogs can smell rain.
“We’re gonna be talking about next to nothing, for nothing, nothing doing and all or nothing. We’re gonna be talking about nothing to write home about and nothing to shout about. Nothing to sneeze at, good-for-nothings, and nothing going for ya. Much ado about nothing, next to nothing, thinking nothing of it, and having nothing to do with ya.”
The Singers and the Songs
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg – Ain’t Nuthin But A G Thang (Background during intro)
The Fugs -- Nothing
The Cookies – Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)
Sammy Davis, Jr. – There Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame
Brenda Lee – Sweet Nothings
Frank Sinatra – I Got Plenty O’ Nothin’
Harry Johnson – It’s Nothing To Me
“Always enjoy a song with a story attached. It’s like getting a two for one, and he makes a good point. Mind your own business! You don’t have to get involved; you don’t know that whole story. Before you go jumping in, take a moment. Look at the situation. Ask yourself: Will I really be making this better? I guarantee ya, 9 times outta 10, the answer is nooooo.”
Peter Wolf (with Mick Jagger) – Nothing But The Wheel
Marlene Dietrich – No Love, No Nothin’ “Boy, what can you say about that? Just fabulous.”
Toussaint McCall – Nothing Takes the Place of You “With a song this good, you only need one”
Mose Allison – I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues
Mac Curtis – That Ain’t Nothin’ But Right
Rockin’ Sidney – You Ain’t Nothin’ But Fine “Huh-ha, that sounded like me playing harmonica. Short and sweet with a steady beat.”
Townes Van Zandt – Nothing
Other People and Players
Ed Sanders
Tuli Kupferberg
N.W.A
N.R.A
W.B.A
The Manson Family
The Family
The Eagles
Shakespeare
Carole King
Gerry Goffin
Margie Hendricks
Jean McCrea
Don Kirshner
Oscar Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers
Myron McCormick
Luther Billis
Frank Sinatra
Jean Passerat
Ronnie Self
American Rose Society
George and Ira Gershwin
DuBose Heyward
Ariel Durant– One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Albert Einstein
JFK
Ted Williams
Marie Magdalene Dietrich
Josef Von Sternberg
Burt Bacharach
Duke Ellington
Sid Nathan (clip)
Floyd Soileau
Allison Kraus
T-Bone Burnett
Benjamin Franklin
Famous Roadtrippers
Lewis and Clark
Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey (“took a bus full of people”)
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda
Michael Paternini
Literature and Entertainment
The Winter’s Tale
Macbeth
Hamlet – there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
King Lear
The Great White Way
South Pacific
Three Amigos (clip)
Porgy and Bess
Easy Rider
The Blue Angel
The Edinburgh Festival
Fight Club
Tao Te Ching
Scrabble “one place where nothing takes the place of U”
The Scrabble Dictionary
Record Labels
Dimension Records
Reprise Records
Columbia “Back when there was a Columbia Record Label”
King Label
Gin Records
Places
Paris
Schoenberg, Germany
Monroe, LA
Cincinnati
Floyd’s Record Shop
Ville Platte, LA
Types of Therapy
Freudian
Jungian
Reichian
Theme Timeian Therapy
Guests
Amy Sedaris
Luke Wilson
Elvis Costello
Other Songs and Albums
God Less America
Sleepless
My Toot Toot
Misc. References
Zen Buddhism
Medal of Freedom
Chevalier Legion d’honneur
Some Words That Have a Q But No U:
Qat – the leaves of a shrub that can be chewed like tobacco or used to make tea
Qindar – a subunit of Albanian currency
Qorty – keyboard
Qi – variation on chi
Something
It’s night time in the big city
A man falls asleep far from home
There’s a strange car parked outside.
The Singers And The Songs
The Beatles – Something “I think we all know there’s only one way to begin.”
Earl-Jean McCrea – I’m Into Something Good “Ya know when I heard Herman’s Hermits sing it I thought it was just about having a piece of cake, or ridin’ on a Ferris wheel. But when I hear Earl-Jean sing it, I know exACTly what she’s talkin’ about!”
Vic Damone – Something’s Coming
Billy Ward and the Dominoes (with Clyde McPhatter) – Do Something For Me “Ya know, nobody sings like that anymore. He makes it sound effortless, no matter how difficult it really is. I like the elegance of a guy like Clyde McPhatter; it’s like watching Fred Astaire.”
Jimmy Ballard – She’s Got Something “You can just tell he’s one of those guys raised on Western swing, looking forward to rockabilly. I sure would like to know more about him; if ya know anything, give us a call here at the station.”
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (clip in background) – Steven (Valentine Patrick William) Allen http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/allensteve/allensteve.htm
The Velvelettes – He Was Really Sayin’ Something
Eddie Cochran – Somethin’ Else “You know, sometimes I get jealous of you people listening. Some of you are hearing these songs for the first time, and that must be exciting. I remember what it was like when I first heard ‘em, and I tell ya even after all these years it’s still an amazing record – but that first rush of hearin’ it…wow!”
Daddy Cleanhead – Something’s Goin’ On In My Room
Charlie Rich – When Something is Wrong With My Baby “Here’s The Silver Fox, back when he still had a little bit of black in his hair.”
June Christy with Pete Rugolo – Something Cool “A beautiful song of quiet despair…a lot of times the arranger gets ignored, but on a record like this you can’t imagine it without his touch.”
Bobby Marchan – There’s Something on Your Mind Pt. 2 “Next up, part two of a two part record. Side one is kind of a straight read. Part two – it’s wild! Not surprisingly, the guy performing it is wild too.”
Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle (with the Carlisles) -- Something Different
Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air
Other People and Players
Plato
George Harrison
Joe Cocker
Patty Harrison
The Cookies
Little Eva
Herman’s Hermits
Carole King
Gerry Goffin
Perry Como
Pier Angeli
James Dean
Diane Carol
Leonard Bernstein – “hell of a cat”
Stephen Sondheim
Serge Koussevitzky
The New York Philharmonic
Black Panthers
The Million Dollar Quartet
Elvis Presley
Jackie Wilson
Jayne Meadows
Bennie Goodman
Bertha Barbee
Carolyn Gill
Bananarama
Louisa May Alcott
Tallulah Bankhead – her last words: “Codeine…bourbon...”
P.T. Barnum
Humphrey Bogart
Lou Costello
Heinrich Heine
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Sharon Sheeley
Gene Vincent
Jimmy Ballard
Chuck Higgins
Fred Astaire
Isaac Hayes
David Porter
Sam and Dave
Beethoven
Fluffy Hunter
Billy Barnes
Stan Kenton
Nat Cole
Harry Belafonte
The Four Freshmen
Johnny Vincent
Bobby Fields
Huey Piano Smith
The Clowns
Bobby Robinson
Little Sonny Warner
Sonny Parker Bob names him as the vocalist on Big Jay McNeely’s ‘There is Something on Your Mind’, which is incorrect. It’s Little Sonny Warner).
Big Jay McNeely
Cliff Carlisle
Hotshot Elmer – Bill Carlisle’s comic alter ego “I’m gonna get me one a those”
James Simon Kunen
Israel Horovitz
Ad-Rock
The Beastie Boys
Bruce Davidson
Kim Darby
Jack Sheldon
Speedy Keen
The Who
Jimmy McCulloch
Pete Townsend
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.G. Wells
Other Songs and Albums
Abbey Road
Layla (clip)
The Loco-Motion
The Girl Can’t Help
20 Flight Rock
“The same song that Paul McCartney used to impress John Lennon when they first met”
Summertime Blues
Something Cool
Artistry in Bass
Artistry in Percussion
Artistry in Bolero
Artistry in Boogie
Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
The Who Sell Out
Armenia City in the Sky (Bob refers to this song ‘Armenia in the City’ which is incorrect)
Movies, TV and Other Entertainment
West Side Story (clip)
On The Waterfront
Candide
The Fugitive
Run For Your Life
The Chitlin Circuit
The Powder Box Revue
The Porter Wagoner Show
The Strawberry Statement
Poetry
Something Left Undone
Places
Brooklyn, NY
The Paramount Theatre
Manhattan
New York
Lawrence, MA
Tanglewood, MA
The United States
Lexington, KY
Western Michigan University
Totonno’s Pizza “You can take it on the bus with ya.”
Neptune Avenue
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
Memphis
Italy
Santa Rosa, CA
New Orleans
Dew Drop Inn
Youngstown, OH
The UK
Record Labels
Federal
Motown
Specialty
Sun
Stax
Hi Records
Capital
Ace Records
Fire Records
Books
The Ground is Our Table
Ripoff: The Corruption that Plagues America
The Guinness Book of World Records
Miscellaneous Mentions
Triumph Motorcycles
Vietnam War
Guest
Tom Waits
Cats
It's nighttime in the city.
A man makes a promise he'll never keep.
Spring just won't come.
Pink Panther Theme (background)
“Keep it tuned right here. I know it's not actually a dial, I just like saying that...”
Three Cool Cats - The Coasters
Hep Cay Holiday (background)
Tom Cat Blues - Cliff Carlisle
Leave My Kitten Alone - Little Willie John
I've Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Tigers have more than 100 stripes and no 2 have identical stripes, unless they're wearing the same pajamas”
Sell The Puss-y - The Mighty Sparrow
Put A Nickel In The Kitty - Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers
Dead Cats On The Line - Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - Walter "Kid" Smith And Norman Woodlief
A Fish House Function (For A Cross Eyed Cat Named Sam) - Emmy Oro “a song that raises more questions than it answers... First time I heard it was on a hot summer day. I thought I was hallucinating”
My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone - Hop Wilson & His Buddies
Stray Cat Blues - The Rolling Stones
The Theme From Top Cat - Joseph Barbera (Hanna Barbera Cartoons)
Other Singers and Songs
Brother Jack McDuff
Henry Mancini
Plaz Johnson
Jelly Roll Morton
James Brown
Mable John
Sid Nathan
The Beatles
Merle Haggard
Del Mayers?
Wynn Stewart
Rose Maddox
Melvin Brown and His Musical Brownies
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“Precious Lord”
“Peace in the Valley”
Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds
Alan Lomax
Pete Seger and The Weavers
The Kingston Trio
Hugo and Luigi
Muddy Waters
Joe Cocker
Dr. John
Beggar's Banquet
Hoagie Carmichael
Hoyt Curtain
Other People
Mark Twain-”Of all Gods creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.”
Jayne Mansfield
Mamie Van Doren
Diana Dors “You probably have a picture of her in your house right now! If you don't believe me, pull out a copy of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. Front and off to the side. HEY! There I am!”
Peter Sellers
The Zulu
Phil Silver
Arnold Stang
Places
Grand Road Bay, Granada
Swaziland
Wichita
Grapeland, TX
Manhattan
Hoagie's Alley
Record Labels
Decca
TV, Movies and Entertainment
There's a Girl in My Soup
Clear Channel
Siegfried and Roy
Cat women of the Moon?
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Cat Dancers
Top Cat
Hanna Barbara
Guest
Cat Power
John C Reilly
Lit
William Blake-Tiger “Cool cat poet”
Nan Porter “If cats could talk, they wouldn't”
Misc.
Cat as a Hipster Phrase- Hip, Hep and Hippie mean “to be alive or aware of what's going on” (at least that's the way Bob always heard it
History of the term Kitty
Cat in a bag/Pig in a poke
Black Cat Bone
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