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Trains (part 1)

It’s night time in the big city
A night watchman rinses out his thermos
The last train from Overbrook pulls into the station.

“Today we’re gonna hit the road, we’re gonna ride the blinds, and dodge the yard bulls. We’re gonna take a ride on the Redding, transfer over to the B & O, and if we have time, pick up our tickets for the Orient Express. So all you box car tourists, get yourselves out of the roundhouse and hop aboard, as we spend the next hour contemplating the iron horse. It’s not a crazy idea, but we got a ‘loco motive’ and it’s all about trains. In the background, Meade Anderson Lewis; perhaps you know him better as Mead Lux Lewis. He was one of the kings of the honky tonk piano and, like a lot of the great piano players, he used his rockin’ left hand to imitate the rhythm of the trains on the tracks.”

The Singers and The Songs

Johnny Burnett Trio – Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track “Believe it or not, the Johnny Burnett Rock and Roll Trio were invited to appear on Ted Mack Amateur Hour, where they won the competition three times in a row. I want you to listen to this record, and just imagine anything this raw winning 3 weeks in a row on American Idol.”

Little Junior Parker – Mystery Train

Jimmie Rodgers – Waiting For A Train “Well you can’t do a show about trains without playing something by the Singing Brakeman. We played him a bunch of times, and we’ve talked about him, and the most you’re gonna get here is a sample. There’s no substitute for going out and listening to all of his records or reading about his life. There’s a bunch of great books about him, or you can just look him up on Wikipedia!”

Scottie – Draw Your Brakes

The Clash – Train In Vain (Stand By Me)

Jimmy Forrest – Night Train

The Delmore Brothers – Freight Train Boogie

Freddie King – Lonesome Whistle Blues

Frankie Lane – Mule Train “HeyAAHH!”

Lord Buckley – The Train “An eccentric performer who got his start as the master of ceremonies at dance marathons. He had a unique vocal style, rhythmic in presentation, as you can hear for yourself on this little piece all about trains.”

Tiny Bradshaw – Train Kept Rollin’ “I want you to listen to the beginning of this record. There’s a call and response section. Tiny goes ‘Boodow!’ and the whole band goes ‘Boodow!’ Then Tiny goes ‘Booday!’ and the whole band goes ‘Booday!’ Except for one guy who still goes ‘Boodow!’ Nowadays, you’d just take pro tools and take that guy out, or maybe you’d re-record the whole track. But back then, it was more important to be great than to be perfect.”

The Monkees – Last Train To Clarksville “I’ve always believed that the first rule of being subversive is not to let anybody know you’re being subversive.”

Leadbelly – Midnight Special

Laura Cantrell – Yonder Comes a Freight Train

The Jubalairs – Casey Jones

Grateful Dead – Casey Jones

Other People and Players
John Coltrane (played briefly in background before Bob’s intro)
Milton Subotsky
Glen Moore
Sam Phillips
Elvis Presley – “the swivel hipped rockabilly cat”
Auburn Hair
Muddy Waters
Derek Harriott
Benny King
Don Kirby Allen
Augustus Chapman Allen
Sam Houston
Wayne Raney – “King of the choke style harmonica”
Johnny Hodges
Duke Ellington
Bunky Parker
W.H. Auden
Hound Dog Taylor
Grand Funk Railroad
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
The Yardbirds
Sid Nathan (clip)
Ray Pennington
Kenny Price
The Reno Brothers
Jim and Jesse McReynolds
Casey Jones

Other Songs and Albums
Honky Tonk Train Blues – Meade Lux Lewis (played in background during Bob’s intro)
I’m Gonna Murder My Baby (clip)
London Calling
That’s The Blues, Old Man
Hide Away
We’re An American Band
When The Roses Bloom Again
Two Trains Running -- Muddy Waters
(plays as Bob is saying goodbye)

Places
Minneapolis
Texas
Tennessee
Gilmore, TX
Chicago
Sugar Land, TX
Memphis
Canton

Record Labels
Sun
Federal
King

Movies
Strangers on a Train
The Harder They Come
Night Train
Runaway Train
W. H. Auden's "Night Train"--also titled "Night Mail" (Commentary for a G.P.O. Film, July 1935)

“So we’re just gonna pick up our bags at the station, pull our arms outta the window when we go through a tunnel, get our ticket punched, and we’ll see ya back at the depot next week, on your home for interstate travel, Theme Time Radio Hour. Look out for the cow catcher.”

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More Trains

It’s nighttime in the big city
Fog horns bellow in the gloom along the wharf
A spinster finishes a jigsaw puzzle

“This is Theme Time Radio Hour and last week we played a bunch of train songs. We had so many that this week we’re gonna do it again this week. We’re gonna buckle the rubbers, grease the pig and hook her up and pull her tail because it’s railroad time.”

The Singers and The Songs
Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West-Railroadin’ “Mind the gap now!”
Curtis Mayfield-People Get Ready “Where’d I put my luggage?”
Papa George Lightfoot-That Mean Old Train
Captain Beefheart-Click Clack
Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra-Blues in the Night Part1
Lord Kitchener-The Underground Train
Sister Rosetta Tharpe-This Train
Johnny Cash-Train of Love
Muddy Waters-All Aboard
Los Lobos-That Train Don’t Stop Here No More
Lil’ Eva- The Loco-motion
Louis Armstrong-2:19 Blues
“We’re talking about trains. Tackle hairs, flagmen, teamster, herders, boomers, brass buttons, britch hogs brownies, broken knuckles.”
Jimmy Martin-Mr. Engineer
Randy Newman-Gone Dead Train
Furry Lewis-Kassie Jones Part 1
The O’Jays-Love Train

Railroads and Train Stuff
Reading
Shortline
B&O
Pennsylvania
Orange Blossom Special
Orient Express “Which is in Europe”
The Super Chief
The Blue Train
TranSiberian
Train Deluxe
Chihuahua Pacifico
Glacier Express
Palace on Wheels
Frontier Mail
Grand Trunk Express
Broadway Limited
Canadian
20th Century Limited
California Zephyr
Indian Pacific
Puffing Billy
The GulfLander “Take a guess where that train is. You guess Australia? You got it mate!” (chuckles)

Chapel Cars (churches on wheels)

Places
New York
Miami
Chicago
LA
Russia
S. Africa
Johannesburg
Victoria Falls
Switzerland
India
Pakistan
Ireland
Natchez, MS
Woodstock
Italy
Scotland (Tay Bridge Disaster)
Edinburgh
Dundee
Memphis

Other Singers
Howlin’ Wolf
Chet Baker
Romano Mussolini
Carole King
Gerry Goffin
Didi Sharp
Jack Nitsche
Russ Titelman

Other Songs and Albums
The Spotlight Kid
“The 5:15”
“The 12:30”

TV, Film and Lit
For a Few Dollars More (clip)

Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River exerpt-Thomas Wolfe (Bob plays passage read by Utah Phillips from his Starlight on the Rails) “We walked along a road in Cumberland and stooped, because the sky hung down so low; and when we ran away from London, we went by little rivers in a land just big enough. And nowhere that we went was far: the earth and the sky were close and near. And the old hunger returned - the terrible and obscure hunger that haunts and hurts Americans, and makes us exiles at home and strangers wherever we go.
Oh, I will go up and down the country and back and forth across the country. I will go out West where the states are square. I will go to Boise and Helena, Albuquerque and the two Dakotas and all the unknown places. Say brother, have you heard the roar of the fast express? Have you seen starlight on the rails?”

Choo Choo Charlie ad

Other People
Joshua Lionel Cowen
Martin Davis
Greg Feldman
Neil Young
Harriett Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Benito Mussolini
Clara Petachi
Casey Jones

Guest
Matt Groening “I was talking to Matt Groening. He’s the guy that created The Simpsons. I never miss an episode. I’m a real Mr. Burns fan.”
Charlie Sheen

Record Labels
Chess
Dimension Records
Deckard

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Fools

It’s nighttime in the big city
A businessman kisses his secretary under a street light
A drunken security guard drops his flashlight

“James Thurber once said, ’you can fool too many of the people too much of the time’ and for the next hour we’re gonna try and do just that…for the next hour we‘re gonna play the greatest records about our favorite half-wits, the fools.”

The Singers and The Songs

Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools

Hank Snow – Now And Then There’s A Fool Such As I

Otis Rush – Three Times a Fool (or as Bob calls it, three times a Frenchman) “Among the most atmospheric and unusual sounding of all the Chicago blues.”

Third on a Match “As bad as it is to be three times a fool, it’s even worse to be third on a match.” (background)

Sanford Clark – The Fool “I always thought it was one of the best Elvis Presley records that Elvis never made”

The Clovers – Fool, Fool, Fool “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

Eddie Hope and the Mannish Boys – A Fool No More “If you want to be a fool no maore, you might wasn’t to try some Ginkgo Biloba. It’s the extract of the Ginkgo plant. Some people say that it’s a memory enhancer. I read that somewhere but I just can’t remember where.”

Sonny Stitt – Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)—background “I always liked songs with parentheses in the title.”

Ike and Tina Turner – A Fool In Love

The Crickets – Love’s Made a Fool of You

The Drifters – Fools Fall in Love

Bobby Blue Bland – I Pity The Fool

Little Walter – Just Your Fool

Buddy and Ella Johnson – Just your fool (clip)

James Carr and Bettie Harris – I’m a Fool For You

Teddy Humphries – Guitar Pickin’ Fool “The kings of the chord and the sires of the solo”

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Other People
Don Covey
Evon Kruger? Match seller
Sam Patch “Yankee Leaper”
Anne Bolin
Henry The 8th
Gene Brown – foolproof systems
Shakespeare – “Hell of a cat”
William S Burroughs
Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Sir, I admit your general rule that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, every fool is not a poet."
Mr. T
Mohammed Ali
Waldo Peirce – painter
Abraham Lincoln
MLK
Rpy Riegels-- 1929 Rosebowl
Jim Marshall – MN Vikings “And I was there that day. (chuckles) Strange but true.”

Other Singers and Songs
Pop and Mavis Staples
Willie Dixon (producer)
Nancy Sinatra
Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
Bob Mongomery
Lee Hazelwood – composer and producer
Al Casey
Matthew McCarter
Jerome Windley
Bill Harris
Sonny Curtis
Bobby Fuller
“I Fought the Law”
Clyde McFatter
Johnny Paycheck
David Allen Coe
"You’re Gonna Make it After All"
Ahmet Ertegun “He was that rare creature who could lead a business and still be in love with the music. We could sure use a lot more of that now.”
Michael Jackson
Diana Ross
Billy Ward and The Dominoes
OV Wright
Ray Charles
Little Walter
Buddy and Owen Johnson
Rodger Humphries
Frank Humphries
Eldridge Humphries

Record Labels
Atlantic Records – “Looks like we’re gonna play a lot of records This week from the Atlantic Label. Don’t know sure if that means anything but I find it interesting”
RCA
Cobra Record
Chess
Marlin
Duke
Goldwax

Literature
Stephen Crane (foolish poet)– (Bob Reads) "Why do you strive for greatness, fool? Go pluck a bough and wear it. It is as sufficing. My Lord, there are certain barbarians Who tilt their noses As if the stars were flowers, And Thy servant is lost among their shoe-buckles. Fain would I have mine eyes even with their eyes. Fool, go pluck a bough and wear it."
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Twelfth night
As You Like It
Gene Brown“Fool-proof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools”
Mark Twain “The first day of April is the day that we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”
T.S. Elliot – The Waste land

TV and Movies
The Maltese Falcon
“I’m no fool, no siree, we play safe” jingle
The Simpsons (clip) “I’ve got to fool before the day is out….” Bart
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Rocky III
“I’m No Fool” [Jiminy Cricket] - Cliff Edwards [Husker Du's version]
(from The Music of Disney: A Legacy of Song)

Places
New Jersey
Niagara Falls
East St. Louis
Paris
Memphis

Guest
Deke Dickerson – “He’s a walking hillbilly encyclopedia”

Other
History of April Fools Day

“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.”

New York

It’s night time in the big city
The rain soaked streets reflect the glare of passing headlights
A cab driver tosses a fifty cent tip out the window
A woman with a torch stands in the harbor.

“Tonight we’re gonna be goin’ from the Bowery to the Bronx, from the East Village to Harlem, from Hudson Heights to Lenox Hill and from Korea Town to Little Italy, from Hell’s Kitchen to Greenwich Village , from Manhattan Valley to Marble Hill, from Midtown South to Midtown itself, from Murray Hill to NoHo, from Roosevelt Island to SoHo, from Spanish Harlem to Sugar Hill, from Sutton Place to Tribeka, from Tudor City to Turtle Bay, from the upper Eastside to the upper Westside, from the West Village to Washington Heights, from West Harlem to Yorkville…”

The Singers And The Songs

Duke Ellington – Take The A Train (background)

Jimmy Reed – Goin’ to New York

Dyke and the Blazers – Funky Broadway, Pt. 1

Lou Reed – Dirty Boulevard

Ray Charles – New York’s My Home “It might not be totally true, but who cares? It’s a good song.”

Johnny Colon -- New York Mambo

Harry Nilsson – I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street “I’ve always been partial to the demo…shows how funky you can be with a couple of acoustic guitars.”

Autumn In NY – Vernon Duke (background) played by Charlie Parker

NRBQ – Boys In The City

Anita O’Day & Roy Eldridge – Let Me Off Uptown

Gene Krupa drum solo

James Brown – Down And Out In New York City
Moondog (background)

The Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters – Broadway “That one just about made me drop my mustard squirter!”

Dinah Washington – Manhattan “If there was ever a love song to a city, I’d say it was this one.”

Other Singers, Players, Writers, etc.
Billy Strayhorn (Sweet Pea)
Art Laboe
The O’Jays
Wilson Pickett
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Gustaffe Eiffel “Designed the famous tower in France, the Gustaffe Tower…”
Emma Lazarus
Neil Simon
Moss Hart
Fred Neil
Bobby Womack
Quentin Tarantino
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yaphet Kotto
Anthony Quinn
Tony Francioso
Vincent “Chin” Gigante
Saul Bellow
Joey Spampinato
Skeeter Davis
Gene Krupa
Larry Cohen
Leonard Bernstein
Arturo Toscanini
Rogers and Hart

A Few People Who Were Born in New York
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Humphrey Bogart
Herman Melville
Ogden Nash
Barbara Stanwick
Martin Van Buren
Tupac Shakur

Places
Pittsburgh
Dunlieth, MS
Chicago
Phoenix
Buffalo
Los Angeles
Georgia
Beverly Hills

Other Songs and Albums
Blood Count
And His Mother Called Him Bill
Everybody’s Talking
Cookie Puss (clip)
License to Ill

Quiz Shows that took place in New York
The 64,000 Question
Information, Please
Winner Take All
Quiz Kids
What’s My Line?
It Could Be You
The Big Surprise
Beat The Clock

Record Labels
Original Sounds Label
Atlantic Records
Prestige
Def Jam

Movies
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Midnight Cowboy features Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight
Across 110th Street
Black Caesar
An Affair To Remember features Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
The Naked City (clip)
Sweet Smell of Success

“Blaxploitation” Movies
Foxy Brown
Shaft
Superfly
Coffee
Cleopatra Jones

Books and Poems
The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus)
Seize the Day
The Great Gatsby

“New York has always been good to me, I hope I was nice to it for the last hour. I’ll see you on the streets of Manhattan.”

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Death and Taxes

It’s nighttime in the big city
A woman pulls out a 1099 form
A man lies about his deductions

“Well it’s the middle of April, and if you’re like me you were up all night last night finishing your tax returns. As Benjamin Franklin once put it, in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. One other thing is certain, for the next hour we’re going to be covering both those subjects with our usual musical abandon so call all the deductions into the room, gather around the radio and enjoy the next 58 minutes. It would 60 minutes, but the government wants its taste…”

The Singers and The Songs

Gene Autry – I paid my income tax today

(The Kinks – Lazing on a sunny afternoon)

The Beatles – Taxman “Written by George Harrison, and recorded by his group, the Beatles”

Prince Buster – Taxation “Like all great artists, he was able to turn things that bothered him into three minutes of musicsal pleasure, like here.”

Hank Penny – Taxes Taxes

(J.B. Lenoir -- Eisenhower Blues)

J.B. Lenoir – Tax Paying Blues “The names were changed to protect the guilty.”

New Lost City Ramblers – Sales Tax On The Women “New Lost City Ramblers Mike Seeger, John Cohen, Tom Paley– They never made the big time like the Kingston Trio, but they never did wear striped shirts. One of the things the New Lost City Ramblers did was uncover great old songs. Songs that you could only find those days in piles of 78s in somebody’s barn. They breathe new life into those songs and their records stand the test of time, just like the originals.”

“As bad as taxes are, you will eventually recover. On the other hand, death is something you never come back from. It a subject we visit in every episode of Theme Time Radio Hour, but right now we’re gonna shine the spotlight on it for just a few songs.”

Bukka White – Fixin’ To Die Blues

Carolyn Sullivan – Dead! “One of the darkest, saddest songs ever recorded.“ “Kind of a jaunty organ for such a sad song”

(Milton Brown and his musical Brownies – I’ll be glad when you’re dead you rascal you)

Louis Armstrong w/ Louis Jordan and his Tympani 5 – I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You “Jazz meets R and B meets jump blues and you hear the beginnings of rock and roll”

Curtis Mayfield – Freddy’s Dead

David Bowie – Rock ‘N Roll Suicide

The Stanley Brothers – Oh Death “Kind of a roots music greatest hit since it’s appearance in…”

Richard and Linda Thompson – Withered And Died

Other people
Irving Berlin
Barry Goldwater “The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
Mark Twain – “What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? A taxidermist takes only your skin.”
Ralph Limbo-Victor Records
Lester Melrose
John Feyhee
Ed Denson
Major Bill Smith – record producer
Isadora Duncan-Strangled by her own scarf
Frank Hayes, Jockey had a heart attack during a horse race, his horse, Sweet Kiss went on to finish in 1st.
Li Po, Chinese poet-drowned trying to kiss the moons reflection the water from a boat
Gordon Parks, Jr.
Cohen Brothers

Other Singers and Songs
Ray Davies
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
“Prince Rodney”
Spade Cooley
Dude Martin – had a show
Jack White
Will Rogers “The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
The Dixon Brothers
Songs from the Depression – New Lost City Ramblers
The Kingston Trio
Charlie Patton
The Mach 2
Vycretia Watson
Sam Thread – wrote I’ll be glad…
Mick Ronson
Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust – told everyone he was going to retire from the stage after the Ziggy Stardust tour “I remember that; I told him not to do it”
“Crying, Give Me Your Hands”
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Willie Nelson
Redd Foxx
Sanford and Son Theme Song

Places
England
Las Vegas
Nashville
Detroit
Parchment Farm
Chicago
Aberdeen MS
Memphis
Cairo
Fort Worth
Brooklyn
London

Movies and TV
“Not taxis, death and taxes” – movie like the Benjamin Franklin book
The Hank Penny Show
Stranger Than Fiction
The Untouchables
Betty Boop
Superfly
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

Guest
Deke Derkerson

Record Labels
Victor “I think I like the world better when talent scouts also sold furniture”
Bluebird
Ahooley

Lit
e e cummings “capital poet” – Dying is Fine, but Death “For my money the most profound poet of the 20th century”
Nascalus – Greek playwright --killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head
Aesop’s fable, the dog and the bone
Dorothy Parker – Resume
Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Famous Suicides
Johnny Ace
Cleopatra
Hart Crane
Virginia Wolf
V. Van Gogh
Hemingway
Sylvia Plath
Socrates
Lupi Valez
Sigmund Freud (took morphine) – “hmm I wonder what that means…”

“I want to leave you with the words of Willie Nelson and Red Foxx ‘Pay your taxes!’ ”

Spring Cleaning

It’s night time in the big city
You can smell rain in the air
I really gotta get those boxes out of the basement

The Singers and The Songs

(Fran Landesman and Tommy Wolf – Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most)

Betty Carter – Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most “Crazy man, crazy!”

Fats Domino – Be My Guest “A lot of music historians point to this song and say it’s one of the big influences on ska… I listen to it and I can hear that, but even more important it’s just a great record.”

Memphis Minnie – You Need A Friend “That was the smooth tongued Memphis Minnie, sleek and slick, rippleless, slyly loquacious and harsh and rugged as they come.”

Roy Orbison – Crying “Here’s a classic, a nail bitin’ mini-drama, sung by…one of the sweetest, strongest voices in popular music.”

Cookie & The Cupcakes – I Cried

Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters l – Cry Baby “You can hear it in his voice, he started off as a gospel singer.”

Ruth Brown – Teardrops From My Eyes “Frankie Laine gave our next artist her nickname, Miss Rhythm”

Joe South – Rose Garden

(Igor Stravinsky – Rite of Spring)
“The premier was scandalous. Never mind that the ballet was a bizarre story of pagan sacrifice, Stravinsky’s musical innovations tested the patience of the audience to the fullest. Stravinsky had a bassoon player play higher in range than anyone had ever done; it was unrecognizable as a bassoon. People walked out. When the curtain came up and the dancing began, a musical theme without a melody began. It was a loud pulsating and dissonant chord, with jarring irregular accents. The audience responded to the ballet with hisses and catcalls. Nowadays the Rite of Spring is recognized as a groundbreaking work. Igor Stravinsky: madman with a fountain pen.”

Elvis Costello – Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes “Let’s open up this closet and get rid of some of these shoes. We got a bunch of them left over from a few weeks ago, when we did our shoes show. I think this first pair is a size nine.”

Vernon Oxford – Little Sister, Throw Your Red Shoes Away “…singin’ about the red shoes that tell everyone your business!”

Elmore James– Dust My Broom “Speaking of brooms, here we have Elmore James with a song that’ll drive you round the bend.”

Roy Milton – Fools Are Getting Scarcer

The Main Ingredient – Everybody Plays the Fool

Fats Waller – Spring Cleaning (Getting Ready For Love)

Bobby Bare – Detroit City

Buck Owens – Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line

Dinah Washington – Richest Guy In The Graveyard

Porter Wagoner – Skid Row Joe “Next up, a very sad song. A recitation a sermon. A speechifyin’ testification…telling a tale of a sad man, down on his luck in the dirty part of town.”

(Eric Dolphy – Spring Is Here)

Howlin’ Wolf – I Ain’t Superstitious

George Jones – Take The Devil Out of Me “Nothing less than a reinterpretation of one of the great myths.”

The Producers – Springtime for Hitler

The Mississippi Sheiks – Sales Tax

Faron Young – Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

Tex Williams – Brother Drop Dead “Some people die too soon, others you’re kind of hopin.’ Tex Williams has a song for just such a situation.”

Buster Brown – Fannie Mae

Rockpile – Heart

Hank Williams – Crazy Heart “A song of sadness born of desperation”

Jackie DeShannon – Put A Little Love in Your Heart

The Spaniels – House Cleaning

Tom Waits – You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Poets and Poems
T.S. Eliot
The Wasteland
Sylvia Plath
Alfred Austin
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Spring
Dorothy Parker
Locksley Hall
Alfred Lord Tennyson “A poet with a spring in his step”
Jack Kerouac
On The Road
Stephen Crane “Crimson Poet”
The Red Badge of Courage

Movies, TV and other Entertainment
Ajax laundry detergent commercial
Moulin Rouge Club
Fibber McGee and Molly (clip)
(characters)
Mayor LaTrivia
Doc Gamble
Abigail Uppington
Horatio K. Boomer
Wallace Wimple
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
Wizard of Oz
MGM Studios
Smithsonian Museum
Johnson’s Wax commercial
The Producers
Monty Python
The House In The Middle

Singers, Players, and Others
Phil Phillips
Jerry Ragavoy
Janis Joplin
Irma Thomas
Rolling Stones
The Evening Stars
The Harmonizing Four
The Norfolk Four
Joe Simon
Frankie Laine
Rudy Toombs
Charles Dickens
Billie Joe Royal
Deep Purple
Elvis Presley
Simon and Garfunkel
Gilbert Adrian
Cuba Gooding, Sr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Amos Milburn
Martha Raye
The Farmer Boys
Luke the Drifter
Red Sovine
Rodgers and Hart
Willie Dixon
Henry Gray
Hubert Sumlin
Sam Lay
Jimmie Rodgers
Mel Brooks
Denzel Best
Thelonius Monk
Red Norvo
George Shearing
William Gottlieb
Deek Dickerson
St. Francis of Assisi
Eric Idle
The Pretenders
Audrey May Shepherd
Lucretia and Bocephus Williams
Billie Jean Jones
Eddie Cochran
Randy Myers

Places
Lake Charles, LA
New York City
Philadelphia
Nashville Songwriters’ Hall Of Fame
England
Hazel, KY

Other Songs and Albums
Matilda
Piece Of My Heart
Bye, Bye Baby
Get It While You Can
Try Just a Little Bit Harder
Sea of Love
Time Is On My Side “…which the Rolling Stones took from Irma Thomas”
Games People Play
Down In The Boondocks
Hush
Walk a Mile In My Shoes
The Sound of Silence
Bad, Bad Whiskey
I’ve Got To Get Peter Off Your Mind
Field of Flowers
Thinkin’ and Drinkin’
Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
One Bourbon, One scotch, One beer
Good, Good Whiskey
Confessions of A Broken Man
Big Joe
Phantom 309
Move
D.D.s Dance
Bemsha Swing
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Needles and Pins
When You Walk in the Room
Orphans

Record Labels
Atlantic Records
Duotone Records
Aladdin Records

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