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“Every place I go, and I go a lot of places, people say hello.”

The Singers and The Songs

Sherman Williams Orchestra – Hello “A little riff rocker”

Ricky Nelson – Hello Mary Lou “One person we got to say hello to is someone who said goodbye much too soon. He’s the man who brought rock and roll into America’s living rooms. Here’s a song that reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts…then they turned it over, and the B side went all the way to number 1.”

The Nazz – Hello, It’s Me “As Todd (Rundgren) always used to say to me ‘Dum vivimus, vivamus,’ which roughly translated means, ‘While we live, let us live.’ Todd’s a smart guy.”

Conway Twitty – Hello Darlin’ “His dad was a river boat pilot who taught him guitar at age 4. And as much as he loved music, he loved baseball just as much. He actually received an offer to join the Philadelphia Phillies, but patriotic-minded Harold joined the army instead. When he got out of the army, he heard Elvis’ Mystery Train, and started writing songs.”

Long Gone Miles (Luke Miles) – Hello Josephine “This record is probably most familiar to ya from Fats Domino, but I couldn’t resist playing this hard rocking version.”

Pee Wee King – I Wanna Say Hello “The man who brought accordion into Western Swing.”

Mardi Gras Loungers – Hello Mello Baby “A song that’ll help you get down to the real nitty gritty.”

Buck Owens – Hello Trouble “Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. nicknamed himself after a mule on his family farm.”

The Radiolites – Hello! Aloha! How Are You? “Here’s an example of some great Hawaiian-influenced music that caught the ear of New Yorkers...An example of how Hawaiian music met big bands and created something new.”

Willie Nelson – Hello Walls “Another great American…”

The Carter Family – Hello Stranger
(AP, Sara, and Maybelle)

Barbara Lewis – Hello Stranger

John Prine – Hello In There

(Groucho Marks – Hello I Must Be Going)

The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye “The song was originally called ‘Hello, Hello’ and if it had kept that name we couldn’t have played it here, because we need a hello song that says goodbye!”

“I always love the crazy fade on that record…”

Other singers and players
Skippy Brooks
Elvin Woods
James Brown
Gene Pitney
The Crystals
Carson Van Osten
Lord Buckley
Elvis
Fats Domino
Minnie Pearl
Freddie Coleman
The Buckaroos
Don Rich
Eddie McDuff
Orville Crouch
Don Helms
Faron Young
Bette Midler
Joan Baez

Other Folks
Jesus
Emily Post
“Call me old fashioned, but I still always say ‘How do you do?’ when I see someone.”
Abelard and Eloise
Mark Twain
The President
Bugs Bunny
John Wayne
Ransom Stoddard
Jimmy Stewart

Other People With Diminutive Nicknames
Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Reese
Pee Wee Herman
Little Miss Dynamite – Brenda Lee
The Little Sparrow – Edith Piaf
Reverend Parker – Little Junior Parker
Little Milton
Little Richard
“And my personal favorite, big Tiny Kennedy”
Little John

Femme Fatales
Lilith
Morgan le Fay
Delilah
Lucretia Borge
Mata Hari

Femme Fatales In Movies
Theda Bera – A Fool There Was
Marlena Dietrich – Blue Angel
Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity
Rita Haworth – The Lady from Shanghai
Faye Dunaway – Chinatown
Kathleen Turner – Body Heat
Sharon Stone – Basic Instinct
“One of my personal favorites is Lila Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice. She’s beautiful, and deadly. Listen to this.” – clip

Record Labels
Bullet
Kent
Capital Records

Places
Nashville
Nazareth
Friars Point, MS
Arkansas
Twitty City
Paris
Notre Dame
Avalon
New Orleans
Bourbon Street
Hawaii
Mexico
Niagara Falls
Michigan
Israel
Italy
Korea
Liverpool

New Orleans Lounges
500 Club
Sho Bar
Casino Royale

New Orleans Dancing Girls
Lilly Christine the Cat Girl
Evangeline the Oyster Girl
Alouette LeBlanc the Tassel Twirler
Rita Alexander the Champagne Girl
Tee Tee Red
The Cupid Doll
“Nowadays it seems like every girl is named Amber”

Other songs
Travelin’ Man
He’s a Rebel
The Nazz – a retelling of Jesus’ story in ‘Hipster Patois’
Mystery Train
It’s Only Make Believe
Tennessee Waltz

Guests
Richard Lewis
Deke Dickerson “our resident hillbilly expert”

Movies
Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol - clip
Robinhood – clip
Pete Kelly’s Blues
Pretty Baby
Angel Heart
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Books
Roughing It – M. Twain
The Stranger

Poets / Writers
Albert Camus – “poet of existentialist nothingness”

Young and Old

It’s night time in the big city.
A man bangs the 8 ball into the corner pocket.
Neon sputters and goes out.

(Smells Like Teen Spirit (instrumental) – The Bad Plus)

Bob reads from William Shakespeare

“As usual, Willie the Shake / Sheik said everything you need to say, so for the next hour we’ll just be presenting footnotes of a musical variety on the subject of youth and age, young and old…”

The Singers And The Songs

NBC background music - Albert King, "As the Years Go Passing By."

Mose Allison – Young Man Blues “Here’s that madman, the gentleman out of Tippo, MS, no stranger to you long-time listeners.”

Hot Lips Page – Small Fry “A trumpet player and a singer who filled that gap between rhythm and blues and jazz.”

Linda Lawson – Like Young “Got kind of a beatnik sound to it, so feel free to snap your fingers, on the two and the four, please!”

“Yeah, Ridin’ that rainbow to cloudsville…crazy, man!”

The Ramones – I Don’t Wanna Grow Up “The Ramones mostly wrote their own songs, so when they decide to do someone else’s, it better be a hell of a song.”

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians – Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) “Here’s an example of how a great song is not a prisoner of time or place. Music travels through the air, so it knows no boundaries, it knows no borders.”

Prince Buster – Enjoy It (Enjoy Yourself)

Laura Lee – Separation Line

The Flying Burrito Brothers – Older Guys “Recorded for A & M. And I believe the A & M Studios were on the site of Charlie Chaplin’s old studio, right there on Labrea. I’m not sure if this song was recorded there, but it would be somehow appropriate because Charlie Chaplin was definitely an older guy who had a taste for the younger girls.”

Muddy Waters – Young Fashioned Ways “Maybe some day there will be a question on the Trivial Pursuit card ‘Who was the first artist ever played on TTRH.”

Jimmie Murphy – We Live A Long Long Time To Get Old

Charlie Poole – Old And Only In The Way “Interestingly, oftentimes when Charlie Poole performed live, he would obscure parts of the lyrics when he sang. He forced record buyers to buy his records, simply so they could figure out what he was singing…He was known as a country artist, so that’s mostly what he recorded, but if you saw him live, you would hear a mixture of minstrel songs, Victorian ballads, humorous burlesque-type numbers, as well as old-timey country music.”

(Little) Esther Phillips – Aged And Mellow

Neil Young (and the Stray Gators ) – Old Man “From his best selling album, Harvest…gee I thought it would have been ‘Trans’”

Ray Barretto – Happy Birthday Everybody

Albums
Mose Allison Sings
Live At Leeds
Adios Amigos
Introducing Linda Lawson
Burrito Deluxe
Harvest
Trans (album)

Places
Tippo, MS
Bloomington, IN
Hollywood
The Sands
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Glendale
London
Jamaica way
Chicago
Detroit
Berlin
Birmingham, AL
Nashville
Bimini
Bahamas
Spain
St. Augustine, FL
Argentina
Aruba
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Vietnam

Record Labels
Prestige
A & M Records
RCA Victor
Columbia
Federal

Other People and Players
The Who
Hoagland Howard Carmichael
The Carmichael Syringe Orchestra
Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke -- He threw my judgment all out of kilter (H. Carmichael)
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Henry Mancini
Kathleen Brennan
Tom Waits
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Andre Previn
John Foreman
Jack Sheldon “I saw him playing the other night in Glendale; he sounded great.”
Mary Martin
Frank Moody
Aretha Franklin
Charles Mason
Jeremiah Dixon
Gram Parsons
Charlie Chaplin
Marie Antoinette
Clark Gable
Winston Churchill
Don Law
Robert Johnson
Joe Bussard, ‘78 Collector
Johnny Otis
Dinah Washington
Ben Webster
Methuselah
Noah
Kenny Buttrey
Russ Kunkel
Tim Drummond
Ben Keith
Jack Nitzsche
Ponce De Leon – “He discovered Florida, but not the fountain of youth. Ponce De Leon is currently living in an assisted living facility in Boca Raton. He never calls, he never writes.”
Christopher Columbus
JFK
Madonna – “In the 1980’s, Madonna began a trend of wearing underwear as outer wear. You see that happening to this day…Thanks, Madge!”

Ages
The coming of age
The age of consent
The Stone Age
The Age of Reason
The Age of Aquarius

Movies and Plays and other Entertainment
As You Like It
Stan Freberg Show -- Old Man River (clip)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Sometimes a Great Notion
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Man Who Would Be King
Prizzi’s Honor
The Threat
Peter Pan (The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up)
It Happened One Night

Other Songs
Stardust – “One of the most famous songs Hoagie ever wrote was Stardust, and like many songwriters, he wasn’t sure where it really came from. This is what he had to say, the first time he heard a recording of Stardust: ‘And then it happened, that queer sensation that this melody was bigger than me. Maybe I hadn’t written it at all. The recollection of how, when, and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, maybe I didn’t write you, but I found you’… I know just what he meant.”
What a Difference A Day Makes

Syndromes
Peter Pan Syndrome “Some people think this is a bad thing, but I think if more adults kept their youthful sense of wonder, this might be a better world.”

Guests
Marianne Faithful

Other Separation Lines (in the background-Allen Toussaint, "Second Liner.")
The Mason Dixon Line
The Equator
The Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
The 38th Parallel
The Intl Date Line
The 50 Yard Line

May / December Romances in the Oval Office
James Madison (43) & Dolley Payne Todd (26)
Grover Cleveland (49) & Frances Folsom (21)
Benjamin Harrison (62) Mary Scott Lord Dimmick (37) (also the niece of his first wife)
John Tyler (64) & Julia Gardner (24)

“Your home for youthful schemes, mature themes, and timeless dreams...”

Days of the Week

It’s night time in the big city
A storm is coming
A woman wonders.

Monday 's child is fair of face.
Tuesday 's child is full of grace.
Wednesday 's child is full of woe.
Thursday 's child has far to go.
Friday 's child is loving and giving.
Saturday 's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
-- Mother Goose

The Singers and The Songs
Sterling Harrison – Seven Days “There is great music happening all over the country, and sometimes you got to seek it out and if you don’t seek it out, it’s just gonna disappear.”

U2 – Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Frankie Lee Sims – Lucy Mae Blues “That song is kind of a mash-up between a couple of blues standards“

Smiley Lewis – Blue Monday “It’s time for Monday, and if I know my radio show that sounds like a sound cue.”

Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday “Supposed to only be a B side, for those of you who don’t know what a b side is, that was other side of a 45 that wasn‘t a a hit. The A side, in this case, was supposed to be Let’s Spend the Night Together but most DJs thought it was too sexual”

Lonnie Johnson – Tomorrow Night

The Undertones – Wednesday Week “Kind of an English / Irish way of saying next Wednesday” “The Finnish call it something I can not pornounce, but it is transpated as ‘center of the week’. Here in the US we just call it Hump Day.”

Morphine – Thursday “ they had kind of an unusual instrumentation…the got a drummer, a guy playing saxaphone, and Mark Sandman who sings and wear a homemade D-tuned, 2 string bass that he built himself.”

Jolie Holland-Old Fashioned Morphine *clip*

The Easybeats – Friday On My Mind

Charlie Rich “The Silver Fox” – Lonely Weekends

Tom Waits – The Heart of Saturday Night

Doug Sahm – Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Comin’ Down “After all those wasted days and wasted nights, you know there’s gonna be a Sunday morning coming down.”

Other Artists, DJs and Producers, etc.
Holland Dozier Holland
Little Junior Parker
Lightnin‘ Hopkins
Mississippi John Hurt
Fats Domino
George Jones
Brian Jones
Eddie Lang
Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5
Duke Ellington
Elmer Snowden
The Blues Revivalists
DJ John Peel
The Clash
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sheryl Crow “Sheryl Crow sells hair-dye, more power to her…have you ever seen a Victoria Secret’s Ad?”
Jimmie Rogers
Sam Phillips
Johnny Cash
Warren Smith
Billy Lee Riley
Ray Smith
Nick Drake
Buddy Holly
Mark Sandman – singer from morphine
Harry Vanda and George Young - The Easybeats
Grace Jones
Freddie Fender (who was sentenced to Angola State Prison for marijuana Possession)
Jimmie Davis-Governor
Billy Wilder

Places
Ireland
Derry
New Orleans
Dallas
Philadelphia
Toronto
Rome
San Benito TX

Names of the people who died that day (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Patrick Joseph Doherty
Bernard McGuigan
Hugh Pious Gilmour
Kevin McElhinney
Michael G. Kelly
John Pius Young
William Noel Nash
Michael M. McDaid
James Joseph Wray
Gerald Donaghy
Gerald (James) McKinney
John Johnson

Holidays
Easter Sunday
Ash Wednesday

Guests
Jack White

Gods
Jupiter
Venus

Things days of the week are named after
Saturn
Wodan
Thor
Freyja

Other Songs and Albums
Between the Buttons – album
“He’s a jelly roll baker“
Teenage kicks
Cure for Pain – Morphine
“Hey, St. Peter”
“Walking in the Rain”
“Not Fade Away” – clip
The Heart of Saturday Night
“You Are My Sunshine“ – clip
The Heart of Saturday Night – album

Instruments
Recorders
Flute “I think it’s one of the most beautiful sounds known to man. I brought mine with me today and if you don’t mind I’m going to play you a little something…” *Bob plays Blowin’ in the Wind*
Theremin

Literature, etc.
Anton Chekov
Percy Bysshe Shelley – “Good Night"
The Bible

Record Labels
Okeh Records
King Records
Bluebird label
Prestige
Sire Records
National Label

Clairvoyants
Madame Blavatsky– founded theosophical society
Edward Casey
The Amazing Criswell -- clip “He had a great voice and even better hair”

Movies and TV
Plan 9 from outer space
The Addams Family-clip
The Flintstones – clip
The Lost Weekend
Frankenstein

The Army Disease – Morphine addiction

Mother Goose Rhyme
Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end of Solomon Grundy... clip of ska song

“Well I can see the sun coming up over the hotrizon meaning our day here is done. Night creeps in, throwing shadows across the Abernathy building.”

California

(Dragnet Theme in Background)
“This is the city-Los Angeles, Ca...Sometimes you want to know about more than just the city, you want to know ahout the whole state. That’s where I step in, I host the radio show.”

The Singers and The Songs
Al Jolsen “Worlds Greatest Entertainer” (Asa Yolsen)-California Here I Come
Joni Mitchell-California
(clip) Woody Guthrie speaking about California, the dust bowl and fruit picking
Webb Pierce-California Blues
Geraint Watkins-Go West “That 2-handed piano pounder”
Dionne Warwick-Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Sir Douglas Quintet-Mendocino
(clip) California Blues?
“There’s a lot of earthquakes in California. If you feel a tremor there’s 2 things you should do: get in a doorway and makes sure that doorway’s in Cleveland.”
Thee Midniters- Whittier Blvd
Dave Alvin-Surfer Girl
Jesse Fuller-San Francisco Bay Blues (Fuller was the creator of the Fodella) “It never caught on enough to get it in you local music store. I wish it had, it’s sure cut down costs on the road”
(clip) Going to Hollywood
Dorothy Shay- Been to Hollywood
Bobby Womack-California Dreamin’
Jolie Holland-Goodbye California

Places
Fresno-Raisin capital of the world
San Francisco (original Spanish name means good herb or good grass) “ironic isn’t it”
Hollywood
San Jose
Lithuania
Vaudeville
Texas
Alaska
Eureka
Mt. Whitney
Death Valley
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Laurel Canyon
Paris
Mexico
S. Wales
Colorado
Nevada
Silicon Valley
LA
Sacramento
Medocino County CA
Little River, CA
Caspar, Ca
Albion, CA
Boonville, CA
Elk, Ca
Westport, Ca
Cleone, CA
Silver Lake, CA
Colmont, CA-The only incorporated US city where the dead outnumber the living
Boston
Texas
New Jersey

Other Singers and music industry folks
Bud Desilva
Joseph Meyer
Jimmy Rodgers
Van Morrison
Paul McCartney
Tracy Ullman
Hal David
Bert Bacharach
Hank Ballard
Willy Garcia
The Beach Boys “The Kennedy family with surf boards”
John and Michelle Phillips

Guest
David Hidalgo
Amy Sedaris
Richard Lewis

Other Songs and Albums
Blue-album
“Feudin' and Fightin’”
Escondido-album

Literature
“The Grapes of Wrath”-Steinbeck (exerpt)

Other People
Richard Nixon
Archimedes
Fred Allen “California is a wonderful place to live if you happen to be an orange.”
Walt Disney (clip) Wish Upon a Star
John B. L. Soule -Newspaper Writer
Horris Greeley- “Go west young man and grow up with the country.”
John Sutter
James Marshall
President Polk
Levi Strauss
Gucci
Queen Califia of Spain
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev-Kitchen debates (The discussion of Krushchev and Nixon appears from a quick research to be somewhat accurate and somewhat fiction, made up.  The Kitchen Debates did not occur in the year identified, the conversation then did not contain what is stated, and Krushchev's-Nixon's confrontation later was not quiet as described.  Someone (probably Bob) is playing with the history for effect.  Fair enough.  The Cold War produced much in the way of nonsense that was issued sincerely.)
Pachuco (Background- Mambo Del Pachuco by Don Tosti Y Su Conjunto)
Dwight Eisenhower

TV and Movies
It's a Gift (clip)
The Egg and I (clip)
Superman  (1978) (clip)
Blow (clip)

Record Labels
Vocalion
Anti

*Bob Reads from Woody Guthrie (This Land is Your Land in the background) ”We rounded a few hills and knolls, curving in our little jitney, and all at once, coming over a high place, the lights of Los Angeles jumped up, running from north to south as far as I could see, and hanging around on the hills and mountains just as if it was level ground. Red and green neon flickering for eats, sleeps, sprees, salvation, money made, lent, blowed, spent. There was an electric sign for dirty clothes, clean clothes, honky tonky tonks, no clothes, floor shows, gyp-joints, furniture in and out of homes. The fog was trying to get a headlock on the houses along the high places, Patches of damp clouds whiffed along the paving in crazy, disorganized little bunches, hunting some more clouds to work with. Los Angeles was lost in its own pretty lights and trying to hold out against the big fog that rolls in from that ocean, and the people that roll in just as reckless, and rambling, from the country as big as the ocean back East.”

“West coast schemes, California dreams and specific pacific themes”

Classic Rock

It’s night time in the big city
A woman dances beneath a strobe light
A man rolls a joint on the second Johnny Winter album
(Jimi Hendrix, Third Stone From The Sun in background)

“It’s October, or as I like to call it, Rock-tober. Which of course means next month is Roll-vember…May you never hear surf music again. That’s actually Jimi’s thought, not mine.”

The Singers and The Songs

The Staple Singers – Be Careful of the Stones That You Throw

Ray Anthony Orchestra – Rock Around the Rock Pile “You’ll hear a siren on this record; it’s not really a siren, it’s Jane Mansfield screaming.”

Muddy Waters – Rolling Stone

The Stanley Brothers – Rock Of Ages

Ray Charles – Sticks and Stones “A lot of people think that Ray Charles stopped making tough R & B when he left Atlantic Records. They think all of his records had strings and he was going after the pop audience. While a lot of his albums were like that, he was still issuing singles that had that great combo sound. Here’s an example.”

Hardrock Gunter – Gonna Dance All Night “You know why that record sounds so good? Because it was a performance. The whole band was playing together in the studio. It wasn’t a thing assembled from parts, put together in little bits and pieces, until you had a complete take. Everyone started at the same time and finished pretty much at the same time, and all the time in between you just hung on for dear life. You can feel that energy in the record. And you can hear also in there how the line is blurry. It’s a hillbilly record, but if I told you Louis Jordan recorded that song you wouldn’t blink an eye.”

The Heartbreakers (featuring Johnny Thunders) – Chinese Rocks

The Osborne Brothers – Rocky Top

Dick Curless – A Tombstone Every Mile “If you’re listening to this show while driving, pull over and get your rest. Don’t be tempted by those little white pills: the crossroads, the greenies, the bennies, the West Coast turnarounds…no matter what they’re called, they spell trouble, and that’s with a capital T. A public service announcement from your friends here at TTRH.”

The Marigolds – Rollin’ Stone

Warren Smith – Uranium Rock “This one’s for all the metal heads.”

The Dirtbombs – Your Love Belongs Under a Rock

Swamp Dogg – Sam Stone

Other Singers, Players, and People
Jesus
Fats Domino
Rockpile
Eddie Cochran
Tom Ewell
Jayne Mansfield
Frank Tashlin
Bugs Bunny
Bob Hope
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Edmund O’Brien
Mimi Vandoren “Another sex-pot”
Bobby Troup
Little Richard
Augustus Montegue Toplady
Henry Glover
Titus Turner
Dash Riprock
The Hoot Owl Ramblers
Johnny and The Jaywalkers
The New York Dolls
The Sex Pistols
Boudeleaux and Felice Bryant
Tony Bennett
Jim Reeves
Eddie Arnold
Ruth Brown
Joe Stampley
Moe Bandy
Leo Sayer
The Everly Brothers
Gary Dahl
Johnny Cash
Sly Stallone
Mohammed Ali
Chuck Webner
Thomas Jefferson
Aristophanes
Mick Collins
The White Stripes
Sharon Stone
John Prine
Jacob Reese

Movies and Other Entertainment
The Girl Can’t Help It
Pet Rocks
Rocky

Record Labels
Atlantic
Excello

Places
Tahiti
Chile
Blagdon, England
Stonehenge
Ft. Fairfield, ME
Athens
Persian Empire
Greece
Marathon
Lagrange, TX
Huntsville, AL
Longview, TX
Detroit

Other Songs and Albums
The Girl Can’t Help It (clip)
Bye Bye Love
Wake Up Little Susie
All You Have To Do Is Dream
Love Hurts
Iron Man (Black Sabbath) (clip)
Gonna Fly Now (clip)
Cuffed, Collared, and Tagged (Swamp Dogg)

Guests
Cat Power
Porky Pig
Jack White

Bob’s geology lesson
“The earth is divided into three layers: there’s the core, the mantle, and the crust. The core is very hot. The middle layer, the mantle, is made of minerals and it rides on top of the hot core. The very top, the part we’re standing on, is the crust. There are two types of crust: flaky and graham cracker…nah, just checking to see if you were listening.”

Famous people’s headstones
W.C. Fields: I’d rather be in Philadelphia
Oscar Lavonte: I told them I was ill
Alexander The Great: A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
Jackie Gleeson: And Away We Go!
Groucho Marx: Excuse me, I can’t stand up.
Emily Dickinson: Call Back.
Aeschylus: This tomb, the dust of Aeschylus doth hide
Euphorion’s son and Gela’s pride
How tried his valour, Marathon may tell;
Long-haired Persians knew it all too well.
Mel Black: That’s all folks.

“For all you first time listeners, this is how we roll: with nothin’ but classic rock!”

Cadillac

It’s night time in the big city
Vandals deface a wall
There are no stars in the sky.

“Here at TTRH, we’ve always aspired to be the Cadillac of radio shows. So it’s only apropos that we take one of those baby’s out on the road!”

The Singers and The Songs

Buddy Johnson and Ella Johnson – A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac and Some Money) “That’s from 19 and 64, and you can tell by the way that saxophone roars in that rock and roll was just around the corner.”

Vince Taylor and The Playboys – Brand New Cadillac “Perhaps the best rockabilly record to come out of England.”

Paul and Dud Bascomb – Pink Cadillac “You can tell those guys got their start in a swing band. You hear a little bit of Count Basie’s ‘Sent For You Yesterday and Here You Come Today’ in that song.”

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – Cadillac And Model A “One of them mid-fifties recordings. Features Bob’s brother, Billy Jack Wills. I like this song because it uses Cadillac as a verb.”

Bo Diddley – Cadillac

Howie Strange – Real Gone Daddy

Mildred Jones – Mr. Thrill “A song that’s kinda like a single entendre”

Andre Williams – Cadillac Jack

Red Simpson – Jeannie With The Light Brown Cadillac

Jerry McCain – Courtin’ in a Cadillac “A record like this isn’t even about the song, it’s about the whole thing: the singer, the musicians, the lyrics and the sound – especially the sound. You couldn’t make a record that sounds like this today.”

The Blasters – Long White Cadillac

The Cadillacs – Speedo “One of the premier rhythm and blues vocal groups…In front and center was Earl Carroll, with a straw hat and a cane. He would always bring down the house when he sang the song that gave him his nickname. In 1961, Earl got an offer to join The Coasters, and for the next 20 years her toured and recorded with them. That was a time when there was more than one Coasters group out there on the road. I can’t speak about the other ones, but if you saw the Coasters with Earl Carroll you were in for one hell of a show. ”

Michael Martin Murphey – Geronimo’s Cadillac “The veracity of this song is not total; however, it is quite catchy.”

Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got

Other People and Players
Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac
Elvis Presley – reportedly gave away over 200 Cadillacs.
Webster
The Clash
Scheherazade
Joe Barbera
William Hanna
Robert Taylor
David Bowie
Natalie Minster
Erskine Hawkins
Count Basie
Pink “I don’t know what color car she drives, but I like her. Silver is the most popular color right now. I don’t know any singers named ‘Silver;’ if you’re a young singer, it’s a good name and it’s available.”
Billy Jack Wills “Billy Jack was 20 years younger than Bob, and brought in a breath of fresh air and some new inspiration to the Texas Playboys.”
James Dean
Donald Trump
Jay Ohrberg
Pluma Davis
Robert Thurston
Robert Miller
Buck Owens
Merle Haggard
Stephen Foster
Jane McDowell
Hank Williams
Charles Carr
Charles “Cholly” Atkins
The Coasters
Geronimo
The Apaches
Teddy Roosevelt
John Wesley Work
Hannah Shepherd

Famous People Who Drove Cadillacs
Willamena of the Netherlands
Gustaffe V of Sweden
Pope Pius XII
John The 13th
Ike
Teddy Roosevelt
Nixon
Calvin Coolidge
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton

Famous Person Who Died in the Back of a Cadillac
Hank Williams

Famous Mr.’s
Reggie Jackson – Mr. October
James Brown – Mr. Dynamite
Joe DiMaggio – sold Mr. Coffee
Mr. T
Milton Burle – Mr. Television
Don Rickles – Mr. Warmth
Ray Milland – Mr. X, the man with the X-ray eyes
Mr. Zip

Other Songs and Albums
Mushmouth (Instrumental)
London Calling
Sent For You Yesterday and Here You Come Today (Count Basie) (clip)
Faded Love
Jail Bait
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair (played in background, Bob recites lyrics)
Beautiful Dreamer
Oh, Susannah
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Places
French North America
Lake Erie
Lake St. Clair
Detroit
California
England
Switzerland
Connecticut
Burbank
Bakersfield
Blackboard Club
Higley, AZ
New York
Canton, OH
Bristol, WV
Oak Hill, WV
Arizona
New Mexico
Mexico
Washington, DC

Books, Movies, TV and Other Entertainment
1001 Nights
Aladdin’s Lamp
Webster’s Dictionary
Huckleberry Hound
Quick Draw McGraw
Rebel Without A Cause
Chicken

Record Labels
Gem
Peacock
Chess Records
Excello –The distinctive orange and purple

Cadillac Commercials
1958 Cadillac Commercial
Cadillac 1974

Kinds of Cadillacs:
El Dorado
Coupe Deville
Cimarron
Allante
Sedan DeVille
Series 75
Series 62
CTS
XLR
Escalade
The Catera

Head to Toe

It's nighttime in the Big City
2 high school kids steal a case of beer
Sneakers hang from a phone wire.

“ ‘What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals!
…Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’
William Shakespeare was asking ‘What a piece of work is man’. Here on TTRH we’re more concerned with all the pieces. Tonight, or today if you’re listening during the day, I’ll be speaking off the top of my head. I excited down to the tips of my toes cause I have my fingers in a lot of pies but I’m not going to leave you without a leg to stand on. I’m gonna tell you that today we’re gonna be talking about the human body from head to toe.”

The Singers and The Song

“It’s important in a show like this to define our parameters, so lets start things off with
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles-From Head to Toe”

“Did you know that it only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off? Everyone’s tongue is different. They’re like fingerprints, though they wouldn‘t be as convenient for identification. Many people think that parts of your body continue to grow after your dead. This is not true. It’s an illusion. Your nails and your hair look like they keep growing because your body dries out and begins shrinking. Strange but true.”

The Delta Rhythm Boys with Lee Gains– Dry Bones

“We’re discussing the human body here on TTRH, and here’s the largest organ of the body, it grows faster than any other organ; I know you’re way ahead of me. You know it’s the skin.”

Louis Prima and Keeley Smith – I’ve Got You Under My Skin “Louis was an influence on many people. As a matter a fact, back in the 50’s when they asked Elvis Pressley where he got his wiggle, he told them ‘from Louis Prima, of course.’ ”

“This is TTRH with Boney Themes, Sinewy Schemes, and Muscular Dreams”

Loretta Lynn – Fist City “that combination of fingers you don’t want to be on the business end of”

Johnny Copeland – Down On Bended Knee

Heart of Glass-Blondie (in background)

Sol Hoopii – Ten Tiny Toes, One Baby Nose

“Here’s another great finger song”
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters – Finger Poppin’ Time

The Monroe Brothers – Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms – “Like the speed metal of blue grass”

Gene Phillips – Big Legs “He’s in love with a woman who’s got some big legs. I understand his position completely.”

The Barbarians -- Moulty

Archibald – She’s Scattered Everywhere

“We’d like to remind you that what soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul and the more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.”
(Shorty Walters-If I Only Had A Brain) background

Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys – Brain Cloudy Blues

Pete Seeger – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Rilo Kiley – With Our Arms Outstretched (Feat. Blake Senate, Jenny Lewis, Pierre Dereeder, Dave Rock)

Record Labels
Motown Records
RCA Victor Label
King Label
Modern Record Label

Places
Helsinki, Finland
Caanes, France (Bob’s there for the festival) “I wish you could see it. The planes going by, the girls in bikinis. Hard to keep my mind on the show but press on we must.”
Butcher Hollow, KY
Honolulu, HI
Los Angeles
Rural China
Southern Central LA
Houston, TX
Penn Station
Blarney Stone
Turkey, TX (where they have the Bob will’s Festival every April) “ I guess you know where you can find me next April.”

Other people, etc.
Hugh Bryant
Billie (Betty) Friedan-feminist
Aimee Semple McPherson – evangelist
Ford Motors
Bahari Brothers -Modern Record Label
Doug Morris-Universal Music group “Hey Doug! Why don’t you write some more songs!”
Dave Bartholomew
Captain Hook
Lyndon Johnson
Lon Cheney – one of the greatest actors ever

TV, Entertainment and Movies
Disney
The Jungle Book (clip)
The David Frost Show
Movie or something clip “Human heart in circulation”
Jimmy Durante – clip
The Twist-dance
Sanford and Son – clip
Movie Clip – Marx Brothers??
The Wizard of Oz
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Unknown (Lon Cheney as Alonzo)

Other Songs Singers and Albums
Van Lear Rose (2004 Loretta Lynn)
Jack White
Sonny Boy Williamson
Big Mama Thornton
Freddy King
The Royals
Bert Monroe
“Big Fat Mama”
“Fatso”
“Pumpkin Headed Woman”
Victor Moulton
Yip Harburg
Tommy Duncan

7 primary odors of the nose
camphor
Musk
Floral
Peppermint
ether
pungent
putrid

Literature
“The sense of smell is closely related to memory perhaps most famously explained by Marcel Proust. ‘When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered· the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls· bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory’ -Marcel Proust-Prose Author“ (The Remembrance of Things Past)

Laxative Makers
Texas Crystals Company
Crazy Water Crystals

Guest
Tom Waits (guest) x2 “I don’t tell a lot of people this, but Tom Waits and I have been sending cassettes back and forth to each other for quite some time…“

History of handshake
When meeting, an open right hand shows you are not carrying a weapon.
Left hand considered the bathroom hand and is never used.
“I don’t know, I still don’t trust anybody who shows me only one hand.”

Rhythms Popular in the Past
Mambo
Tango
Cha Cha
The Twist
Mad Beats
“Great Music is not a prisoner of time. I love listening to stuff from 100 years ago and I love listening to stuff made last Tuesday. There’s a whole world out there and I hate think you’re going through it wearing blinders…Gettin’ crunk, here on TTRH.”

“Well, as the sun sets over the harbor here in Caanes, I can see that it’s time for us to go. In Closing I want to leave you with the words of Walt Whitman:
'I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?’

Good Question Walt. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go get a full body massage. I’ll see you next week right here on TTRH with more full-bodied Themes, Dreams and Schemes.”

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