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Madness
It’s night time in the big city
The worst has already happened
A well dressed couple lean on the balcony; they laugh as they sip martinis.
The Singers and The Songs
Patsy Cline – Crazy
Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra – I’m Nuts About Screwy Music
Eddie Cochran – Nervous Breakdown
James Brown and his Famous Flames – I’ll Go Crazy
Charlie Parker – Relaxing at Camarillo (clip)
Prince Buster – Madness
Jimi Hendrix – Manic Depression (clip in background) “I can’t imagine Jimi Hendrix writing a song called ‘Bipolar Disorder.’
Peggy Lee – You’re Driving Me Crazy
Bo Diddley – Crackin’ Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqh-tFgh8M
Johnny Paycheck – (Like Me) You’ll Recover in Time
Annie Ross – Twisted “A lot of people are unfamiliar with the way that Annie and other vocal lead singers would take jazz solos and put words to them; well this is one of the most famous ones.”
The Tibbs Brothers – I’m Going Crazy
The Mighty Sparrow – The Mad Bomber
Little Walter – Crazy Mixed-Up World
“Walter basically reinvented the harmonica. When he was growing up, he was obsessed with the Louis Jordan records, and would practice playing Louis’ saxophone solos on his harmonica.”
Dinah Washington – Blow Top Blues
Porter Wagoner – The Rubber Room “The Thin Man from West Plains”
Beatrice Kay w/ Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra – Hooray, Hooray, I’m Going Away
Redd Foxx – It’s Fun To Be Living In The Crazy House “Here’s a wild record with a surprising person at the helm.”
Mose Allison – Lost Mind “Here’s a man that some call the William Faulkner of jazz. Now I’ve got to tell you, I’ve heard this guy play since the 60s, and I’ve never heard anybody call him the William Faulkner of jazz. But there it is in a book. I mean, somebody just wrote that; I can’t imagine anyone calling him the William Faulkner of jazz! I mean that would be like calling Garnet Mimms the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of soul music. It’s just not done. I’m getting excited over nothin’, let me just play the record. By the way, I consider William Faulkner to be the Mose Allison of literature. Here they are, together again, Mose Allison and William Faulkner, singing the Percy Mayfield song ‘Lost Mind.’”
Jack Kittel – Psycho “The third in our trilogy of demented country songs”
Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
Other People and Players
Allen Ginsberg
Willie Nelson
Patsy Montana
Floyd Cramer
Harold Bradley
Owen Bradley
Buddy Harman
Walter Haynes
The Jordanaires
Grady Martin
John Lee Hooker
Otis Redding
Randy Hughes
Cowboy Copas
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Aristotle
Plato
Fred Rose
Roy Acuff
Sy Oliver
Harry Partch
Andral and Jonas Kilmer
Val (Kilmer)
Sid Nathan
Ernest Hemingway
Mary Welsh Hemingway
Charlie Mingus
Joey Gallo
Roky Erickson
Syd Barrett
Bud Powell
Charlie Parker
LAPD
Bill Gaines -- “Madman of free speech…he never sold advertising in the magazine while he was alive, and there were no sacred cows.”
Madness
Benny Goodman
Ben E. King
Dave Barbour
Walter Donaldson
Patrick Hamilton
Charles Boyer
Ingrid Bergman
Jimmy Piersall
The Boston Red Socks
The Yankees
Billy Martin
Mickey McDermott
Vern Stephens
Dom DiMaggio
The Indians
Larry Napp
The White Sox
The Mets
Casey Stengel
Anthony Perkins
Carl Malden
Aubrey Mayhew
Porter Wagoner
Ray Price
Faron Young
George Jones
Wardell Gray
Bette Midler
Joni Mitchell
Dave Lambert
John Hendricks
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross “Who were kind of the Crosby, Stills & Nash of jazz”
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Art Blakey
Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
George P. Metesky
Louis Jordan
Muddy Waters
Leonard Feather
Ralph Kramden
Hippocrates
Dr. Phil
Napoleon the 14th / Jerry Samuels
Ken Kesey “Earned a little money by doing drug testing. This was in the late 50’s and he was gobblin’ down LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin – this will become important later, hold onto this information…”
Kirk Douglas
Jack Nicholson
The Merry Pranksters
Neal Cassady
Dean Moriarty
Jack Kerouac
The Grateful Dead
Ken Kesey “Psychedelic Pioneer of the Insane”
William Faulkner
Garnett Mimms
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Percy Mayfield
Dr. Alois Alzheimer
Leon Payne
Charles Whitman
Eddie Noack
Alfred Hitchcock
Frances Farmer
Lillian Farmer
Leif Erickson
Clifford Odets
Kurt Cobain
Charles Bukowski “Voice of the barroom, poet of the gutter, and the Shakespeare of the alleyway”
Frederick Nietzsche
Literature, Movies, TV and Other Entertainment
Howl “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
Grand Ole Opry
The Girl Can’t Help It
EC Comics
Mad Magazine
Gas Light
Gaslight
Fear Strikes Out
Fear Strikes Out
Psycho
Calypso
The Honeymooners (clip)
The Koran
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
On The Road
The Acid Tests
The Voice of Action (leftist newspaper)
Broadway
Golden Boy
Ed Sullivan Show
Some People
Cocoa puffs commercial (clip)
Places
Nashville
Oakland
China
Minnesota
Southern CA
England
Binghamton
Bellevue
Camarillo State Hospital
Chicago
Westborough State Hospital
Los Angeles
Italy
The Alps
Austria
Germany
West 54th St.
The New York Public Library
Grand Central Station
Penn Station
Radio City
Port Authority
The RCA Building
Waterbury, CT
Bedlam
New York (x3)
La Junta, CO
Oregon
La Honda, CA
University of Texas
Seattle, WA
Soviet Union
Moscow
Russia
Indianapolis
Other Songs and Albums
20 Flight Rock
Live at the Apollo
Twisted (instrumental)
Take This Job and Shove It
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha (clip)
Mention My Name in Sheboygan “We’ll be playing that one on our all Sheboygan show”
Lost Highway
I Love You Because
It’s a Gas
Record Labels & Movie Studios
Liberty Records
Capital Records
RCA/Victor
Columbia
GRC Label
Paramount Pictures
Medicine Show Tonics
Richard Stoughton Elixer
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Old Dr. Kaufmann’s Great Sulfur Bitters
Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment
Types of Chickens
Rhode Island Red
White Leghorn
Andalusian Blue
“Few things go together as well as country & western music and crazy people.”
Happiness
It's night in the City.
A cop runs a license plate.
Ten will get you twenty.
“Welcome everybody to TTRH. It's good to see so many familiar faces... Yes indeed-ee-doo, I could not be happier to be with you today.”
The Singers and The Songs
Feelin' High and Happy - Hot Lips Page
Love and Happiness - Al Green
(I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I'll Be Happy - Jimmy Heap And The Melody Masters
Happy Home - Elmore James
Happy - The Rolling Stones “It just goes to show ya, ya leave people alone in a studio and you don't really need anyone else. Look what Keith did there! Of course, he'd been up for about 4 days when he came up with it. But you have to suffer for your art.”
I Want To Be Happy - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra
Happy - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
You've Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
Happy Rovin' Cowboy - The Sons Of The Pioneers
Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks
Smile - Judy Garland (Music written by Charlie Chaplin for his farewell movie "Modern Times”)
Happy Trails - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with Frank Worth & His Orchestra
Other Singers, Songs and Music Industrials.
Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Count Baise
William Mitchell
Hodges Brothers
Anne Peebles
Otis Clay
“The Wild Side of Life”
“Release Me”
Ester Phillips
“Anchors Away”
“Happy Days Are Here Again” (background)
Bobby Keys
Jimmy Miller
“Get Happy” (background)
Wardell Gray -sax
“Twisted”
Annie Ross
Ben E Carter
Teddy Hale
David Sanborn
Louie Jordon
“A-Tisket A-Tasket”
Ella Fitzgerald
“Safety Song”
Irving Caesar
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Joe Cocker
Hank Williams
Will Rogers “Everything is funny as long as it's happening to someon else ” “You know everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects” “The only time people dislike gossip is when it's about them ”
Nat Cole
Charlie Chaplin
John Turner
Jeffery Parsons
Dale Evans
Other People
Schecky Greene “Some people need to get high to make other people happy; take the case of Schecky Greene.”
Mary Whitsen (grits)
Richard Gere
Dalai Lama “.If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ”
Roosevelt
Places
Las Vegas
Memphis
Texas
LA Zoo
China
Record Labels
Motown
Stax
Sun
High
Flair
Lit, TV, Movies and other Entertainment
Albert Camus “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
James Elroy
Chasing Rainbows (film)
Plastics (AD)
Robert Frost "Happiness makes up in length what it doesn't have in width”
State of Relaxation (AD)
Modern Times (film)
Jane Kenyon “Happiness"
Types of Stalkers “I personally think they might make good personal assistants. Afterall, they already know where you pick up your dry cleaning.”
Obsessional
Erotio-Maniac
Love Obsessional
Cops and Robbers
“We’re gonna be looking at officers and fuzz, bulls and coppers, private eyes, private investigators, police and private detectives, deputies and constables, lawmen, marshals, and meter maids, the law, and the man. But of course that’s just one side of the law. We’re also gonna turn the Theme Time spotlight on bandits and buccaneers, burglars and cheats, conmen and crooks, looters and marauders, something and pickpockets, stickup men, swindlers, thieves, thugs, gangsters, gunmen and hijackers. Bruisers and Godfathers, Mafioso and mobsters. I’m sure we have a lot of listeners on both sides.”
The Singers and the Songs
Nat Cole Trio – Call The Police “What made their sound so swingin’ is that they didn’t use a drummer and the rhythmic pulse was carried by that big bass fiddle.”
Red Simpson – The Highway Patrol “The forgotten man of the Bakersfield sound”
Blind Willie Walker – Dupree Blues
Billy Bragg and Wilco – Against the Law
The Crickets – I Fought The Law
Freddie ‘Bama Boy’ Hall and his Gadsden Band – This Crooked World
Bascom Lamar Lunsford – Poor Jesse James
The Byrds – Pretty Boy Floyd
The Coasters – Bad Detective “Using bad as a bit of braggadocio and not casting any aspersions on his abilities.”
Los Socios De San Antonio – La Muerte De Fred Gomez Carrasco
Eddy Grant and the Equals – Police On My Back
Smiley Lewis – Dirty People
Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive “A man who never forgot where he came from; he’s the real deal.”
Other People and Players
Lao Tzu
Oscar Moore
Wesley Prince
Reverend Gary Davis
Josh White
Buddy Holly
Norman Petty
Jerry Allison
Sonny Curtis
Earl Sinks
Bobby Fuller
Ernesto Miranda – “Many of you have probably heard these (Miranda Rights), probably first hand.”
Ernest Hemingway
Theodore Dostoyevsky
Jesse James
John Newman Edwards
Robin Hood
Tom Howard
Bob and Charlie Ford
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd
John Dillinger
Woody Guthrie (x 2)
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Fred Gomez Carrasco
Bonnie Raitt
The Clash
Fred Caswell (?) – under house arrest but figured out how to make a living by cooking and distributing crack out of his grandmother’s kitchen. “American ingenuity at work.”
Chicago Crime Commission
Al Capone
Johnny Cash
Jack the Ripper
Don King
TV and Movies
Highway Patrol (clip)
Mr. Scarface
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (clip)
Other Songs and Albums
Police and Thieves – Junior Murvin (played in background during intro)
Betty And Dupree
Boy With The Be-bop Glasses
That’ll Be The Day
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Electric Avenue
Public Enemy #1
Baby Come Back
His Majesty the Policeman (by Lord Buckley ) (clip)
Places
St. Petersburg
Great Britain
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
Chicago
Alabama
Indiana
Texas
St. Joseph, MO
Nebraska
Bartow County, GA
East Liverpool, OH
Kansas City
South Bend, IN
Huntsville Prison (in TX)
British Guyana
England
East London
Oklahoma
Muscogee
San Quentin
The Louvre
Record Labels
Decca
Brunswick Records
Guests
Ricky Jay
Steve Earle
Famous Sheriffs
Tom Smith
Doc Holliday
Judge Roy Bean
Bass Reeds
Bat Masterson
Buck Garrett
Isaac Parker
Books
Crime and Punishment
Webster’s Dictionary
Spiderman Comics
Art
Mona Lisa
The Scream
“This is TTRH, your police headquarters for illicit themes, illegal schemes, and hijacked dreams”
Sugar and Candy
Its night time in the big city
The bartender wipes the counter with a damp rag
That car’s been parked there all night
There’s no one left to call.
“This week we’re gonna indulge our sweet tooth, go into sugar shock, look at some eye candy, meet back at the sugar shack, take some candy from a baby, give some sweets to my sweet, get sweet and low-down, and maybe even revisit the sweet bird of youth.”
The Singers and The Songs
Joe Liggins – The Honeydripper
Elizabeth Cotton & Brenda Evans – Shake Sugaree “Listen to this and you think it’s a traditional song but it’s not – Elizabeth wrote it”
Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia
Millie Small – My Boy Lollipop
Lazy Lester – Sugar Coated Love
Ray Batts – Stealin’ Sugar “I don’t know anything about Ray Batts except for this song…another mystery man, another great record”
Lara and The Trailers – Sugar Town “You play me a Nancy Sinatra record, and I’ll play you a cover of it by a band from Singapore”
Joe Tex – If Sugar Was As Sweet As You
The Strangeloves – I Want Candy “Listen to that Bo Diddley beat!”
Harry McClintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Astors – Candy
Elvis Costello – So Like Candy “Listen the drums on this record, they’re quite good. You owe me five bucks, Jim.”
Cleveland Crochet and the Sugar Bees – Sugar Bee Boy, when was the last time a record hit the charts with accordion or a guitar like that?! Been much too long. It’s not that I like old music, it’s just that I’m not hearing anything like that from out in left field nowadays”
Dave Van Ronk – Candy Man “Here’s a guy who could talk about Trotsky as well as about the Delta Blues. He could tell you about politics and literature, could identify all the French symbolist poets, and play blues and ragtime on the guitar. I could talk about Dave Van Ronk for a long time. He could totally electrify a coffee house and you could never tell when he was drawing to an inside strength. It was a privilege to know him; he was a singular individual, and hearing just one song will only give you a clue.”
Other People and Players
Mark Twain
The Liggins Brothers
Sammy Franklin’s California Rhythm Rascals
Winnie The Pooh
Delmore Schwartz
Peggy Seeger
Pete Seeger
Mike Seeger
Lily Cotton (Elizabeth’s daughter)
Robert Hunter
Bob Weir
John Barlow
Amber Throated Finch
Francis Coppola
Jerry Garcia
George Smith
Little Walter
Lightnin’ Slim
Jay Miller
Lee Hazlewood
Nancy Sinatra
George Clinton
Bob Feldman
Jerry Goldstein
Richard Gottehrer
The Angels
The British Invasion
Bow Wow Wow
Bo Diddley
Johnny Otis
Burl Ives
The Duntinos
Carl Thomas
Steve Cropper
Isaac Hayes
Leo Hirschfield
Eduard Hoss III
Paul McCartney
Eddie Schuler
The Hillbilly Ramblers
Trotsky
Literature
The Heavy Bear That Goes With Me
Places
Chapel Hill, NC
Washington, DC
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Singapore
Sugarland, TX
Hershey, PA
Brooklyn
Australia
Memphis
New York City
Other Songs, Jingles, and Albums
Freight Train (clip in background)
Sugaree
American Beauty
Keith Moon / The Who – Great Shakes
Juke
Chocolate City
The Love You Save
Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
Let’s All Go To The Lobby
My Boyfriend’s Back
Big Rock Candy Mountain (children’s version)
Cracker Jack Commercial
My Brave Face
Mighty Like a Rose
Record Labels
Excello Records
Stax
Gold Band Records
Types of sugar
Sucrose / Table sugar
Castor sugar
Brown sugar
Powdered sugar
Turbinado sugar
Sugar in the raw
Sugar and spice and all things nice (that’s what little girls are made of)
Movies
Tootsie
The Man With The Golden Arm (clip)
Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (clip)
Tootsie Roll
Milk Duds
Three Musketeer Bar
Pez
Cotton Candy / Fairy Floss
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