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Smoking

It’s night time in the big city
A man’s wife confronts his mistress
There’s a low cloud cover
Two runaways sleep in a doorway.

“This week we’ve got kind of a controversial subject…Something you’re not allowed to do inside a restaurant, or even a bowling alley. It didn’t used to be that way. It was something you used to be able to do right out in public. You didn’t have to hide in your own house doing it. Today’s show is all about smoking. We’re not here to encourage it or to glorify it. You’re smart enough to look up all the facts…So sit back, smoke em if you got em, and enjoy the next 60 minutes as we blow a few musical smoke rings your way.”

The Singers and The Songs

Tex Williams and His Western Caravan – Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)

The O’Jays – Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette “…can get you in trouble or can remind you of the wonders of the night before”

Joe Maphis & Rose Lee – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music

Baron Lee – Reefer Man
“You know some people don’t smoke tobacco. They’re smoking some other stuff. Perhaps you’re familiar with it. Some people call it pot, weed, grass, marijuana, loco weed, ganja, reefer, chiba, sensimilla, chronic, mary jane, or dope. Whatever you call it, you smoke it and you get high. Here’s a song all about it. It was written in 1927, though this version’s from a few years later...You gotta be smokin’ something to be calling watermelons pickles!”

Steve Purdy and the Studs – The Weed “Here’s the crazy part of this record – it’s a band of 15 year olds! Imagine a group of 15 year olds singing about smoking now days…the mind boggles!”

The Replacements – More Cigarettes
(Paul Westerberg, the Stinson Brothers, and Chris Mars)

The Reverend J. M. Gates – Smoking Woman in the Street

Sam Cooke – Smoke Rings

Billy Briggs – Chew Tobacco Rag I & II

Paul Champlain and the Emeralds – Nicotine “The thing I like about bands that put out only one record is that sometimes both sides of it are amazing. I turned over Shortnin’ Bread and I found this!”

Brownsville Station – Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room

Red Ingle and the Natural Seven – Cigareets, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women

The Visions – Cigarette “It’s one of the great mysteries of life that I know more about Spud cigarettes than I do about our next artists, but that’s not gonna stop me from playing ‘em.”

John D. Loudermilk – Tobacco Road

Other Players and People
Oscar Wilde
Merle Travis
Spade Cooley “Smart man that Spade Cooley – at least until he beat his wife to death.”
Christopher Columbus
Jean Nicot
Gamblin’ Huff
Alan Toussaint
Robert Golag
Tex Ritter
Rick Nelson
Wanda Jackson
Semie Moseley
Native Americans
Lakota and Sioux
Douglas Leigh
James Joyce
Lucky Millender
Lew Chudd
Willard Scott
Wayne McLaren
David McLean
Cub Koda
The Del-Tinos
Houndog Taylor
Motley Crue
The Hombres
Gary McEwen
B.B. Cunningham
Huey P. Meaux
Spike Jones
Ernie Kovacs
Edie Adams “Hats off to Edie Adams: sexy, loyal, patron of the arts.”
Erskine Caldwell
Jeeter Lester
Cherokee
Paul Revere and The Raiders
Luis Bunuel– If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort…

Other Songs and Albums
I’m A Fool For a Cigarette (Ry Cooder) (clip)
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
Mr. Soul
Shortnin’ Bread
Let it All Hang Out
Indian Reservation

Places
Texas
Ramsey, IL
LA
Europe
France
Walworth, England
Fort Worth, TX
The Plaza Hotel
Palmer House
Chicago
Webster, MA
Georgia
Durham, NC “I’m pretty sure that’s tobacco country.”

Record Labels / Guitar Companies
Bear Family
Mosrite Guitars
Imperial
Harper

TV, Movies, Books, and Magazines
Ranch Party
Ranch Party
The Tonight Show
John Wayne PSA (clip)
The Magnificent Seven (music played in background)
The Vinyl Junkie “It was a constant booster of music you couldn’t hear anywhere else – at least until Theme Time Radio Hour came on. Cub was a good writer and had great taste. He opened a lot of people’s ears to a lot of great music.”
Goldmine Magazine
God’s Little Acre
Tobacco Road

Guest
T Bone Burnett “Thanks for calling, Bone…enjoy the Weed!”
John Cusack

Cigarette Brands and Advertisement
Lucky Strike
Virginia Slims commercial – last cig commercial shown on TV
Times Square Camel Billboard
The Marlboro Man “From 1943 to 1944, Marlboro ads were created to attract women. The cigarettes were more feminine. But eventually they wanted to butch it up a bit.”
Marlboro commercial – clip
The Flintstones Winston commercial
Kool
Spud
Muriel Milds

Slang for Cigarettes
Smokes
Butts
Ciggies
Stogies
Bogies
Darts
Straights
Jacks
Fags
Cancer Sticks
Coffin Nails
Doogies and Rollies (Australia)
“Whatever you call ‘em, light ‘em up!”

Misc
The All Music Guide
Peace Pipe

“Well that’s it; we’ve covered the pros and cons of smoking. I’m gonna empty out the ashtrays, air the room, and get ready for next week, cause you know there’s another theme just around the corner, and I hope you’ll be there when we hold it up to the light.”

Dreams

It’s night time in the big city
Thunder echoes through the streets
A man rents a hotel room under an assumed name.

“Every week we tell you that we specialize in dreams, schemes, and themes. Every week we play a theme. The show itself is kind of a scheme. Well that leaves one subject left.”

The Singers and the Songs

Dinah Washington – Darn That Dream “We play a lot of jazz singers on this show…but sometimes the great soloists go unappreciated. In the background, there’s a long tenor saxophone solo from a live recording by Dinah Washington. The saxophone player’s name is Harold Land http://hardbop.tripod.com/land.html , and like many great horn players he came from Texas. He moved to Los Angeles and played with both of the Liggins brothers, starting off with Jimmy’s band and then going with the more famous Joe Liggins”

The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream “I got to hear that intro again, can we hear that, Tex?”

Tony Bennett – Boulevard of Broken Dreams (song)

Otis Redding – I’ve Got Dreams to Remember

Roy Orbison – In Dreams

Charlie Mingus – Weird Nightmare

The Chords
“I always make a point whenever possible to give the names of vocal groups, because all too often they’re just given as a collective noun. Like in this case, you talk about the Chords, you’ve heard them played on oldies shows, on roots of rock shows, but no one ever gives them a moment as individuals. So for James, Carl, Claude, the other James, and Floyd, here’s their big hit, in 1954 – and they wrote it, by the way! It wasn’t even supposed to be the hit. You know Jerry Wexler, who was their A & R guy, had them record this Patty Page song, ‘Cross Over the Bridge,’ but the buying public wasn’t having it. They turned it over, and found this on the B side. Listen carefully to the saxophone solo. A lot of the guys that play horn on these records have deep jazz roots, and if you listen to the beginning of this solo, you can hear the sax player quote the standard, ‘Mean to Me.”

The Louvin Brothers – When I Stop Dreaming

The Lovin’ Spoonful – Daydream “…who by the way got their name from the same place as the English rock band, 10cc ”

The Cherry Pies – Do You Keep On Dreaming?

Big Bill Broonzy – Just a Dream (On My Mind)

Arnett Cobb – When I Grow Too Old To Dream

Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream “Here Tom Waits captures that drunken sea-sick lurch that dreams sometimes have, while he bemoans the real world.”

Other Songs and Albums
The Honey Dripper
Pink Champagne
Otis Redding
Camptown Races
Swanee River
My Old Kentucky Home
Hard Times
Oh, Susannah
Flying Home
Frank’s Wild Years

Other People and Players
Clifford Brown
Max Roach
Eric Dolphy
Tangerine Dream
Chet Atkins “Probably the most recorded solo instrumentalist in music history. He built RCA Studio B, probably the most hit-generating studio in Nashville. He lived for the music, and at one time said, ‘Years from now, after I’m gone someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They might not know or care who I was but they’ll hear my guitar speaking for me. We hear ya, Chet.”
Les Paul
Dolly Parton
Skeeter Davis
Waylon Jennings
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jose Canseco
Mitch Miller
Langston Hughes
The Bar-Kays
Stephen Foster
Roy Orbison
David Lynch
Dennis Hopper
Frank Booth
Duke Ellington
Willie Smith
Bucky Thompson
Lester Young
Lee Young
Claude Treniers
The Treniers
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick August Von Kekule “He once had a dream about a snake biting its own tail. From that dream, he figured out the structure of Benzene. I woulda just figured it was a sex dream or something.’”
The Greeks
Heraclides
The Romans
Alfred Maury
Elvis Presley
James Edwards
James Keyes
Floyd McCrae
Pete Townsend
Faye (Ira Louvin’s 3rd wife)
Anne Young
10cc
John Sebastian
Lionel Hampton
Illinois Jaquet (tenor sax solo on Flying Home) “It was great on the record, but especially when played live people could hear the birth of rock and roll.”
Oscar Hammerstein
Sigmund Romberg
William Butler Yeats “Emerald Poet”

Record Labels
Cadence Records
Columbia

Places
Texas
Madison, WI
The South
Pennsylvania
Cincinnati
New York City
Ancient Egypt
Kansas City
Williamsburg, MO
Houston, TX

Books and Poems
The Talmud
Dreams (L. Hughes)
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Aunt Sally’s Policy Players Dream Book
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (WB Yeats)
Ode (Arthur O’Shaughnessy) (Quote from this poem also used in movie Willie Wonka, below)

Guests
Elvis Costello (sings a few lines of Beautiful Dreamer)
Jenny Lewis
Marianne Faithful – ran into her at Dunkin Donuts “She had an old fashioned powdered and I had a cruller”

Movies
Blue Velvet
Willie Wonka (clip)
The Wizard of Oz (clip)

Common Dreams (according to Bob anyway)
Being chased or attacked
Being injured, ill, or dying
A car or other vehicle trouble
House or property loss or damage
Poor tests or other poor performances
Falling or flying
Being naked in public or inappropriately dressed
Missing the boat or other transport
Machine or telephone malfunction
Sex
Natural or man made disasters
Being lost or trapped
Being menaced by the dead or a spirit

“These are the most common dreams, as opposed to candy colored clowns.”

Party

It’s night time in the big city
A woman cuts pictures of places she’ll never visit out of a magazine
I wonder if there’s any cake left.

Words for parties and partying
Banquets and bashes
Benders and binges
Carousels and Crushers
Feasts and galas
Get-togethers
Hoedowns
Hops
Hullabaloos
Jags and jigs
Carousing
Cavorting
Celebrating
Commemorating
Drinking
Getting down
Grooving
Hanging loose
Having fun
Letting down our hair
Making merry
Painting the town red
Raising the roof
Rejoicing
Reveling
And whooping it up
“Let’s get this party started!”

The Singers and The Songs

The Showstoppers – Ain’t Nothin’ But A House Party “I love records like this one where they use the baritone sax to drive the bass along. It’s a sound you never get sick of.”

Wanda Jackson – Let’s Have A Party “Elvis recorded this record before Wanda did, but you can give me Wanda’s version any day…You know, it’s almost criminal that she isn’t in the rock and roll hall of fame. I mean you just heard that record.”

Jesse Allen – Let’s Party “He was a guy I don’t know a lot about. I know he’s from New Orleans. I like the way he sings; love the way he plays guitar. And other than that, I don’t know anything.

Don and Dewey – Baby Gotta Party “Here’s a wild record, two twin bundles of TNT.”

Lesley Gore – It’s My Party

Buddy Knox – Party Doll

Smiley Lewis – Caledonia’s Party

The Enchanters – I Paid For The Party

Claudine Clark – Party Lights “It’s a shame this was her only hit but if you have only one it’s a good thing it sounds like Party Lights.”

Al Johnson – Carnival Time

Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 – House Party “He had 57 R & B chart hits and many more that are less known, but they still rock with a steady roll.”

Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – The Party “One of those melodramatic life lessons that country music is so full of”

Lord Beginner – After the Bacchanal

Elvis Costello & the Attractions – Party Girl

Blossom Dearie - The Party’s Over

Other People and Players
Alec and Laddy Burke
Solomon Burke
Amy Winehouse
Nick Thompson (discovered Wanda Jackson)
Gene Shepherd
Elvis Presley
Link Wray
Richard Barrie
Don Terry
Don Bowman
Don Harris
Don Sugarcane Harris
Art Rupee
Dale and Grace
The Osmonds
The Righteous Brothers “Pretty much based their entire act on Don and Dewey”
Lee Allen (musician)
Earle Palmer
John Lee Hooker
Johnny Otis
Frank Zappa
Quincy Jones
Lionel Hampton
Dizzy Gillespie
Jimmy Bowen
Roy Orbison
William S. Burroughs
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldren
Michael Jackson
Steven Spiel berg
The Rhythm Orchids
Norman Petty
Buddy Holly
Garnet Mimms
Bob Elgin
Jerry Ragovoy
Spanish Missionaries
Aztecs
Bacchus– Roman god of wine and intoxication
Eduardo Sa Gomes
Attila the Hun
The Growling Tiger
Lord Kitchener
Emily Post
Paris Hilton
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Jule Styne
Woody Herman
Alvino Ray
The Blue Stars of France
Norman Granz

Artists in the TTRH Wing of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
Wanda Jackson
Link Wray
Richard Berry
Jesse Allen

Other Songs and Albums
Rehab (clip)
Hot Barbecue (clip)
Off The Wall
Thriller
The Theme from the Cosby Show
I’m Leaving It Up To You
Cocoa Joe
Justine
Big Boy Pete
Willie the Pimp
Hot Rats
Austin Powers music
Fly Me To The Moon
I’m Stickin’ With You
Soul Bossa Nova (clip played in background)

Places
New Orleans
Paris
Clovis, NM
Philadelphia
Macon, GA
Mexico
Italy
England
Trinidad and Tobago
New York
The Catskills

People Who Made ‘Party Records’ “…would be kind of tame by today’s standards, but they were titillating and risqué in their day.”
Belle Barth
Bruce Wallace
Kay Martin
Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite)
Redd Foxx (Clip)

Record Labels
Specialty Records
Roulette Records
Port-Of-Spain Label
Verve Records

Books and Poems
The Wild Party – Joseph Moncure March (W.S. Burroughs once said it was this book that made him want to become a writer)

Movies, TV Shows, Etc.
The Pawn Broker
In Cold Blood
In The Heat of the Night
The Color Purple
The Fresh Prince of Belair
Mad TV
What Makes a Good Party
The Warriors (clip)
Mary Jane (clip)

Guests
Amy Sedaris
Richard Lewis

Ways to light a party
Rope lights
Colored bulbs
Chinese paper lanterns
Tea candles
Black light
Glow sticks

“Well, that’s it for us this week. I gotta go fish the cigarette butts out of the sink, sweep up the broken glass, call the carpet cleaners, and I got to figure out who that is sleeping on my couch. While I’m gonna do all that, you do what you got to do and we’ll meet up here again next week for an all new theme on TTRH. Party on dude!”

Countdown

It’s nighttime in the big city
Rain beats against the window pane
A woman takes a shower before going home to her husband

“Remember, some cars can go from zero to sixty in under 10 seconds. But, here on TTRH we can go from 10 to zero in just a little under an hour.”

The Singers and The Songs
Eve's Ten Commandments - Helen Fleming

Nine Have Tried (And Nine Have Died) - The Carlisles “We could use some great musicians to don’t take themselves to seriously nowadays.”

Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar - The Andrews Sisters

7 H Du Matin - Jacqueline Taieb “Wear the red one, Jackie!”
(clip of English version as well)

007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker “Song about the rude boy gansta ghetto culture in Jamaica”

James Bond Theme (clip)

Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley

Five O'Clock Whistle - Duke Ellington & Ivie Anderson

Four Five Or Six Times - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies

Three Hearts In A Tangle - James Brown

Cocktails For Two - Spike Jones & His City Slickers “That was all done live in the studio…”

“What we just heard was ridiculous-delightfully so…”

I Want Two Wings - Rev. Utah Smith “He wore giant angel wings strapped to his shoulder blades when he performed this song as a street corner evangelist…”

One Bad Stud - The Honey Bears

One Hand Loose - Charlie Feathers “The wild man himself, the tip top daddy…”

Less Than Zero (Dallas Version) - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (the rare Dallas live version)

Other Singers, Players and Songs
Rocket # 9 – song clip Sun Ra (Herman Sunny Blount)
Going Home
Bill Carlisle
Cliff Carlisle
Chet Atkins
Hee Haw Gospel Quartet
Michael Fugain
Vivian Tibot
Eve Montagne
Jacqueline Tiab is Back – album
Truck Driving Son of a Gun -- song
Trucker’s Prayer – song
5 O’Clock Shadow
Dick Nixon and The Richards (faux)
Roy Dusky– song clip
Casey Kasem American Top 40 clip
Ray Pennington (Ray Star)
Sid Nathan – talking clip
Sam Coslow
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
Sam Phillips
Elvis
“I Forgot to Remember to Forget”
“Radio, Radio”

Other People
Charlton Heston
Moses
Cecil B. DeMille
Leona King Carlisle
Ian Fleming
Sean Connery
Jack Mcall – shot wild bill
Oswald Mosley

Record Labels
Bluebird
Golden Wing Label
Constitution Label
King Record Label
Spark Record Label
Sun Records
Flip records
King records

Places
Cahn
Spencer, WI
Minneapolis
Hollywood
NYC
Slayton MS
Memphis

Movies, TV and Entertainment
The Ten Commandments (1956)– movie clip
Touch of evil
The Big Country
Planet of the Apes
Soilent Green
The Eight to the Bar Ranch (radio show)
Sesame Street – clip
Goldfinger
Casino Royale
License to Kill
Warner Brothers (cartoons)
Murder at the Vanities
SNL

Awards
Gene Hershelt Humanitarian award
Kennedy Center Lifetime Achivement Award

Guests
Cat power
Amy Sedaris
Elvis Costello

Etc.
Busman’s Holiday – doing something on your day off that you do all week at work

People who died while playing cards
Wild Bill Hickok
Al Jolson
Buster Keaton
Arnold Rothstein – fixed 1919 World Series

“I got to blast off!”

One

“It’s night time in the big city
Temptation is on every corner
A man rents a hotel room under an assumed name.”

“For the next sixty minutes, we’re gonna be talking about one horse towns, one track minds, one armed bandits, one false move, one in a million, one too many, one way or another, one brick shy of a load, and one and only. So stay here one and all, and listen to songs on a singular subject, that subject being ‘number one.’”

The Singers and The Songs

Harry Nilsson – One

Buddy Guy -- First Time I Met the Blues

Jan Howard and Wynne Stewart – The One You Slip Around With

The Five Royales – Dedicated to the One I Love “I don’t think anybody ever did it as good as the folks who did it first.”

Smiley Lewis – One Night (clip)

Elvis Presley – One Night ““Even though it’s a little cleaner (than S. Lewis’s version), you can’t fault Elvis. It was the taste of times and he’d already broken enough rules.”

The Contours – First I Look At The Purse

Anita O’Day – Johnny One Note

Josh White – One Meat Ball

The Impressions – I’m The One Who Loves You “…had Curtis Mayfield at the helm. Curtis was a triple threat: he wrote the songs, he played guitar on the songs, he sang on the songs.”

Miriam Makeba and the Skylarks – Make Us One

Los Lobos – One Time, One Night “It’s like a series of snapshots of a neighborhood in the bayou.”

Billy Gayles w/ Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm– Just One More Time “He was a tortured soul capable of great darkness, but you can’t always let someone’s bad qualities be the only thing that you remember them by. Ike Turner was capable of great art and the world of music is a poorer place for his loss.”

George Jones – Just One More

Otis Spann – One More Mile To Go

Other Singers, Players, and Folks
The Monkees
The Yardbirds
The Beatles
Godzilla
Willie Dixon
Herman Melville
Ishmael
Harry Stanley
King George IV
Caroline of Brunswick
The Earl of Malmesbury
Harlan Howard
Kitty Wells
Patsy Cline
Bill Anderson
James Browne
Eric Clapton
Steve Cropper
The Mamas and Papas
Lowman Pauling
The Shirelles
Agatha Christie
Maurice Chevalier
Albert Pierrepoint
Perry Como
The Eagles
Bill Haley
Joe Turner
Thomas and Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Charles Thompson
Smokey Robinson
Hubert Johnson
Jackie Wilson
Berry Gordy
Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart
Alexander Dumont
The Hells Angels “A noted motorcycle gang”
Pete Seeger
Roosevelt
Pete Rose
Cincinnati Reds
Harry Belafonte
JFK
Marilyn Monroe
Hugh Masekela
Stokely Charmichael
Nelson Mandela
Betsy Ross
Carl Sandburg
Thomas Paine
Edgar Allen Poe
Mozart
Tina Turner
Howling Wolf
B. B. King
Johnny Guitar Watson
Beethoven
Dallas Frazier
Muddy Waters
Dirty Rivers (pseudonym)
James Cotton

Movies, TV, Broadway and Books
Midnight Cowboy
The Point
Moby Dick
The Matrix
Sunshine and Shadow
The Secret Adversary
Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity
The Family Shakespeare
High Times, Hard Times
The Garrick Gaieties
Babes in Arms
The Three Musketeers
Spinal Tap
King Kong (the musical)
Common Sense

Record Labels
Cobra
Federal
Sun Records
Chess Records
Prestige

Other Songs and Albums
Mommy for a Day
I Fall to Pieces
My Son (Jan Howard)
Catch a Falling Star
The Eagles Greatest Hits Worlds – 1st platinum record for selling over 1 million copies “I know I musta
bought it five times.”
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Do You Love Me
Lady is a Tramp
My Funny Valentine
Pata Pata

Bob’s Perfect Meatball Recipe
3 minced cloves of garlic
¼ c veg oil for frying
1 lb. ground meat (Bob uses equal parts beef, pork, and veal)
¼ c grated parmesan cheese
9 saltine crackers, (crush ‘em up fine)
½ t each of salt, black pepper, oregano, and dried basil
1 T chopped fresh parsley (gotta be fresh)
¼ c water
1 egg
1 t tomato paste
Heat oil over low heat in a large Dutch oven
In a big bowl add meat garlic cheese crackers spices
Mix with fingers, don’t be shy, get into it
In a small bowl whisk water egg and tomato paste
Add the two mixtures and mix lightly with fingers
Form into balls
Cook in batches until brown on both sides, about 5 minutes

Walking

It's nighttime in the Big City
A local band packs their gear into a van
It’s easier to buy a gun than cold medicine.

“You’ll have to forgive me if I sound a little out of breath. I just got back from my morning constitutional. A good walk is important for both body and soul.”

The Singers and Songs
Jack Scott (Jack Scarfone JR.) – The Way He Walks
(Frankie Lee Sims – Walkin’ With Frankie)
Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers – Walk Right In
Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra – Walk ‘Em
“This is TTRH. Strolling themes, parading schemes and walking dreams.”
Fats Domino – I’m Walkin’
Jimmy Rogers – Walking By Myself
Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side
Waylon Jennings – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line
Jimmie Rushing – Walkin’ Slow Behind You
Allen Brothers – Jake Walk Blues
The Mills Brothers w/ Louis Armstrong – My Walking Stick “A man isn’t completely dressed without a hat and walking stick.”
Jimmy McCracklin – The Walk
(Johnny Smith – Walk Don’t Run! -background)
Stonewall Jackson – Why I’m Walking

Other people
Frederick Nietze
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Jefferson
Picasso
Renee Fladen – girlfriend of Tom Fin
Arthur Blessed – walked across the country and world w/ a 12 foot cross (1969) “I wonder if he ever ran into Art Garfunkle?”
Lucky Luciano
Meyer Lansky
Bugsy Segal
Murder Inc.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Pete Fisher – General manager of Grand Ole Opry

Other singers and songs
Robert Gordon
Link Wray
The Weavers
Eric Darling
Pete Seeger
Lynn Taylor
Frank Sinatra
Sophie Tucker
Jerry Lewis
Brian Wilson
Michael Brown
The Beach Boys
Tom Fin
“Pretty Ballerina”
Earl Palmer
Frank Fields
Walter Papoose Nelson
Ricky Nelson
“I’m Walking”
Art Garfunkle
Muddy Waters
“Sloppy Drunk”
“Back Door Friend”
Big Walter Harden – harmonica – “playing like his life depended on it”
The Velvet Underground
Transformer
David Bowie
Mick Ronson
Andy Warhol
Berlin-Lou Reed Record
Waylon Jennings-disc jockey on KLLL
Buddy Holly
Holy Blanc? – song
The Big Bopper
Count Basie
Paul Gonzalez
“Walking with Mr. Lee”
Smiley Lewis
Bill Richard
Lloyd Price
The Blasters
Lee Allen
Austin Allen
The Chattanooga Boys
“Salty Dog Blues”
“Bow Wow Blues”
Laughing and Crying Blues
Harry Mills
Irving Berlin
The Ventures
Johnny Smith
NBC Pit Orchestra
Stan Goetz
“Moonlight in Vermont”
Grand Ole Opry
Ernest Tubbs and the Texas Troubadours

Places
Canada
The Left Bank
Boston
New Orleans
Manhattan
New York
Oregon
Chicago
Nicaragua
Morocco
Tanzania
Lithuania
Kenya
Assisi, Italy
Nigeria
Lubbock
Phoenix
LA
Piqua, OH

Record Labels
Vanguard Records
A and M Records
RCA
Victor Records
Columbia (Race Series and Old Time Series)
Chess Records

Guest
Ricky Gervais
John C. Raleigh (Chicago guy)

TV, Lit., Movies etc.
Lord Byron-She Walks in Beauty
Zoolander(clip)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett
A Midnight Cowboy (clip)
“…any guy that we hit, he asked to be hit.” (movie clip)
Robert Frost – The Fork in the Road
Jake – Jamaican ginger extract
The Jake walk, the Jake leg

“Until next week, if I see you or you see me, just keep walking”

Around The World pt.1

It’s night time in the big city
A pawn shop owner shuts his iron gate
A man realizes he is in love.

“As we told you on our ‘Hello’ show, there’s many ways to say hello. Well I hope you’re taking notes, cause this week we’re gonna use em.”

The Singers and The Songs

Blossom Dearie – Rhode Island Is Famous For You

The Coasters – Down In Mexico

Freddy Fender – Acapulco Rock

Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London

The Pogues – Dark Streets of London

Edith Piaf – Sous le Ciel de Paris

The Four Lads – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Shoba – A Sambe Siye E Goli (Let’s Go To Johannesburg)

Joe Ely – She Never Spoke Spanish to Me

Toots Thielemans & Elis Regina – Aquerela Do Brasil

The Byrds – Blue Canadian Rockies

Hal Swain and His Band – Hunting Tigers Out In India (Yah)

Buck Owens – Made in Japan “The last man to hit the top 10 with a crew cut.”

(Sonny Rollins – How are Things in Glocca Morra – (background)

The Beatles – Back in the USSR

Other People and Players
Howard Dietz
Arthur Schwartz
Jack Haley
George M. Cohan
Nelson Eddy
Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Spalding Gray
H.P. Lovecraft
Gilbert Stuart
Scott Hamilton
Aztecs
El Santo
Fats Domino
Big Joe Turner
Eddy and the Shades
Scotty Wayne
Eddy Medina
Billie Holiday
Louis Leplee
Johnnie Ray
Mitch Miller
Constantine the Great
Sultan Mehmet II
George Bernard Shaw
L.L. Zamenhof
Bernard Stollman
Pharaoh Sanders
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
The Fugs
The Holy Modal Rounders
William Burroughs
Paul Bley
Butch Hancock
Samuel De Champlain
Queen Victoria
Sean Connery
Spice Girls
Yip Harburg
Burton Lane
James Hilton
Plato
Donovan
Superman
Brainiac (comics)
C.S. Lewis
L. Frank Baum
The Marx Brothers

Movies, TV, Broadway, Books
Inside U.S.A.
The Wolf Man
ESPN
Finian’s Rainbow
Lost Horizon
Duck Soup

Places
Mexico
Rio Grande
Turkey
Paris
Africa
Warsaw, Poland
Lubbock, TX
South America
Sao Paulo
Rio De Janeiro
Brazil
Canada
Quebec
France
India “…has half the world’s population of tigers; I think the rest of them are in Detroit.”
The Indian Empire “There were rumors at one point we were going to swap England India for Canada, but actually this is just a rumor I’m trying to start.”
Suez Canal
Bakersfield, CA
Shangri-La
Himalayas
Atlantis
Kandor
Krypton
Narnia
Oz
Utopia
Freedonia
Moscow
Armenia
Estonia
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

Places that have undergone a name change
Ethiopia / Abyssinia
Ceylon / Sri Lanka
Persia / Iran
Mesopotamia / Iraq
Siam / Thailand
Moldavia / Moldova

Record Labels
Atco
ESP

Guest
Luke Wilson

Other Songs and Albums
Cry “Cry and Little White Cloud on one single…that’s value for your buck!”
The Little White Cloud That Cried
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
(not Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
Freedonia National Anthem (clip)
The White Album

Random Etymology
POSH

Around the World pt. 2

It’s night time in the big city
A woman realizes she’s no longer in love
The batteries in the remote control are dead

“Here at TTRH, we circumnavigate the globe and bring back music for your edification.”

The Singers and The Songs

Little Willie John – All Around the World

Sir Douglas Quintet – Nuevo Laredo

Gerry and the Pace Makers – Ferry Cross the Mersey

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie – Night in Tunisia (clip background)

Celia Cruz – Africa

The Ink Spots – When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano “Everybody wanted to sing like Bill Kinney. You can hear him in Clyde McFadder, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, and a host of others who don’t even know they’re trying to sing like Bill Kinney, who try to sing like Clyde McFadder, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, etc. etc., and so it goes, down the lines of history.”

Chris Powell & The Blue Flames – I Come From Jamaica “This song’s from the early 50’s and it’s one of the first American records I know to be influenced by the rhythms coming out of Jamaica.”

Lloyd Clark – Japanese Girl

Cannon’s Jug Stompers – Going to Germany

Warren Smith – Ubangi Stomp

Hank Thompson – Rockin in the Congo “A lot of the rockabilly and country guys were fascinated with this part of the world.”

Maxine Sullivan – Loch Lomond “…along with her husband John Kirby, swinging the traditional song.”

The Clancy Brothers -- The Irish Rover “This song…is an old songs. There’s lots of variant versions of it, but these are the guys I first heard singing it. I heard it live; you’re gonna have to hear it on a record.”

Ricky Nelson – Travelin’ Man

Josh White – I Don’t Intend to Die in Egyptland

Dean Martin – Arrivederci Roma “Italy is shaped like a boot, and one guy I get a boot out of is Dean Martin. He was the smoothest singer of the 50’s and 60’s; Elvis Presley wanted to be him, as did Frank Sinatra, for two very different reasons. Here’s Deano…and I call him Deano.”

Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World

Other People and Players
Sid Nathan (clip about a trip he took to Europe)
Alfred Wegener
Brian Epstein
George Martin
Bob Wooler ‘DJ of The Cavern Club’ “I can only hope I can be as influential as a disc jockey as Bob Wooler was.”
The Beatles
Chano Pozo
Clyde McFadder
Jackie Wilson
Elvis Presley
Max Roach
Clifford Brown
Derek Morgan
Derek and Lloyd
Yoko Ono (song clip in background)
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sean Connery
Annie Lennox
John Hannah
Robert Burns
Loch Ness Monster
Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson
John Huston
John Ford
Leif Erickson
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco De Gama
Vasco Balboa
Cortez
Fernando Desoto

Places
Italy
The Congo
Pangaea “a super-continent…and I’m not makin that word up.”
Texas
The River Mersey
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Cavern Club
The North End Music Store
Capistrano
Albania
Philadelphia
Jamaica
Tokyo
London
Carnegie Hall
India
Italy
Spain
Memphis
Ubangi River
The Republic of Congo
The Central African Republic
The Sudan
Uganda
Rwanda
Burundi
Tanzania
Zambia
Angola
The Atlantic Ocean
Memphis, TN
Scotland
Loch Ness “no relation to Elliot”
Ireland
Dublin
New Bedford, MA
County Cork
County Galway
North America
China
W. Indies
Caribbean Isles
Panama
Mississippi River
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley

Record Labels
King
Sun
Capital

Guests
Steve Earle
Tom

Other Songs and Albums
Satellite Radio (clip)

Movies
Braveheart
Moby Dick

“Some people are just travelers. Other people want to get there first; they’re called explorers.”

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