45 Number Thirty-Nine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAH1ioLiaHw&feature=related

I just checked in with Webster, and there, right next to Power Pop, it says "Starry Eyes by the Records." This was the lead off track on my well worn out mixed tape "Pure Pop for Then People." This single and Dave Edmunds' "A1 on the Jukebox" have gone back and forth in the A1/A2 slot on my jukebox.

Hey wait a minute. I just checked the run time on this song. It's 10 seconds past a perfect pop record, 3:40. Damn!

45 Number Thirty-Eight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnuijDieOvY

Yeah I'm singing along. The Prince and I, who would a thought it.

Best Prince covers:

Martin Sexton - "Purple Rain" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhF2Frlbyc
If you don't know Martin you should.

Hindu Love Gods (Warren Zevon) - "Rasberry Beret" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR0JngoD5p4

Bangles - "Manic Monday" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZgLcK5LzI

Are there more?

Hey, I found another I like.

Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-dOfWnTNQ&feature=related

45 Number Thirty-Seven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhKlIRuOvM&feature=related

Just a little band from East LA. The link is a live version with Cesar Rosas singing, rather than David Hidalgo. These guys play so well together, tight as tight. I have to say they may be the best "band" I have ever seen. I have seen them several times through out their career. In the early days at the little 9:30 club dancing right in front of them. Then again in the 90s in the way too massive Carrier Dome opening for U2. And then most recently at the State Theater in Ithaca, where Cesar spotted my NRBQ shirt standing against the stage and gotta kick.They are big Q fans and I was able to chat with them about the band after the show. My favourite LB album is still "How Will the Wolf Survive" from all those years ago. This link takes you to Los Lobos radio, where you can listen to that album and any other The Wolves' albums for free http://www.loslobos.org/site/player/index.html .

Oh yeah, this 45 is a Richie Valens cover, so "Come on Lets Go" with Richie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vj7t8vdoNY&feature=related .

45 Number Thirty-Six

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_HnBac5jWs

I have always loved the cover of this song by REM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mG6CBE9I . I know, an oldies song right. Be careful of labels. I was returning my son to college this weekend. As we headed out in the car he plugged in his I-Pod and said "I know I'll play my oldies mix," and then "Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Ramones came on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyFpJ3M1xM .

45 Number Thirty-Five

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXcGUM_KNE

So it's 1982 or 83, and I am at some bar in the Foggy Bottom region of D.C. seeing Tex Runbinowitz, backed by Switch Blade (featuring the guy who went on to form Los Strait Jackets, Eddie Angel is his name I think, as well as the infamous Ratso). Tex finishes his first set, and my buddy George and I step out front for some fresh air. There is a guy sitting on the curb drinking a beer, and he is wearing some serious 50s gear. We walk up to him and George says (insert great Greek accent), "Holy Shit Kev, it's Brian Setzer." He chatted with us (thick LI accent), and then we all walked in for Tex's second set. A couple of songs in, Setzer gets up and played several songs with Tex and the boys. Nice night. I remember I wore my pink hi-top converse with black laces, size 11 and a half. Hard to find pink shoes that big. I bought them out of the back of some car from a street vendor. I still have those bad boys.

Here's some Tex (Crank it up Mona):

"Hot Rod Man" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYTuvTsFvQ

"Rockin' Roll Ivy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL6mhlIpFuo

45 Number Thirty-Four

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWUdtU1t4k

Wow! Check out this live version of "Johnny." Vintage Warren. I was lucky enough to see him on several occasions; with band at GW's Lisener Auditorium during the Stand in The Fire Tour, and several times solo at at the Bayou in Georgetown. Many great videos form various points in his career to select from on You Tube. I never realized how much I miss him being around. Here's a couple.

"Gorilla You're a Desperado" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5puAN1PGQw&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXd6mOaOzl8HbP54didjDDek

"Mohammad's Radio" (1976, w/Jackson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmchOwrrjF4&feature=related

45 Number Thirty-Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUBE850kay0

Best concert of my life. Late winter/early spring of 1986. Chinese food in D.C.'s small Chinatown. 9:30 Club at 930 F Street. Fine Young Cannibals. First date with my wife!

These guys were a tight band on their first LP. Such a groove. What a voice. If you never listened to their first sounds, before they "drove you crazy," give a listen to these songs. They are super.

"Funny How Love Is" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vmoywl_CY

"Suspicious Minds" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDkESCyw4Y&feature=related

"Blue" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCnc9Ql_o5U

45 Number Thirty-Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMGq_HRH7A8

You gotta love pop songs with suggestive lyrics. Reminds of The Traveling Wilburys' song "It's a Dirty World" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKj4MOKrkSI (" He loves Your Big Refrigerator"). My current favourite suggestive song is the Joan Jett/Paul Westerberg cover of "Let's Do It, Lets Fall In Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFISpND6Bs ("...with a doodle and cock"). Oh yeah I like The Who too. I need to show my son and daughter The Kids Are All Right and Quadrophenia before I get turned in for child abuse.

P.S. My wife says; "Ulmie will like this post, he's just one big suggestive lyric."

45 Number Thirty-One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlU105lkgs

Three minutes and twenty-two seconds of pop bliss. I guess this band falls in my category of one-hit wonder, although this was probably not a hit. How does it happen that bands can have just one fabulous song?

45 Number Thirty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw&feature=related

The Box Tops included their legendary front man Alex Chilton, who went on to power pop fame in the band Big Star. Big Star has been critically acclaimed, and was a huge influence on many bands such as The Replacements, who immortalized Alex Chilton in song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw . Big Star is one of those bands I feel like I should like, but they just don't click with me. There are several bands/artist like that. I read about them. Hear my rockin' roll heroes rave about them. I run out and get some of their music, and then, nothin'. It doesn't grab me at all. This is how it was with Tom Waits, Ani Defranco, Van Morrison, and even Wilco (easy Dan). These are artists that should be right up my alley. I don't detest them like say Steely Dan or Phil Collins. I kind of feel bad I don't get them, like maybe I should listen again. But nope, it's just not happen. So I go back to the Box Tops for my Alex Chilton, and "Cry Like a Baby" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJQ4288J7A&feature=related .

45 Number Twenty-Nine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTWF7eirJw

I think more than any other band these guys take me back thirty years. I love this and all the other great Squeeze tunes. The catchy hooks, Difford and Tilbrook's vocals, and Jools Holland's infectious piano playing. Lucky enough to see them several times in the early 80's, although Jools had moved on. One of the shows had Paul Carrack with them. He sang their biggest, but in no way their best, hit "Tempted." If you haven't Squeezed in a while I suggest you give it a go. These songs really hold up after all these years. A couple of my faves:

"Cool for Cats" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2cEc_TCH8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

"Up The Junction" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3635AFfu0s

"Labelled With Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3635AFfu0s

"Is That Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAY9Vyo0g0A&feature=related

And many, many more!

45 Number Twenty-Eight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEHFBupgIk

In 1976 my buddy Ozark (not his real name) and I raked leaves in my back yard so we could earn some money to see Billy Joel play in the SUNY Oneonta gym. At least that is how I remember it. My memory has Billy playing solo; only him and the piano, but don't hold me to it. I always think of this as my first concert. The link above is from that same time period; a 1976 NYC show. 1970s Billy Joel was good stuff. Turnstiles was my favourite Joel record. Billy Joel was also a common bond my wife and I had when we first met. My nephew Sean once won Billy Joel concert tickets on a radio contest. This must have been early 90s. He had to name as many Billy Joel songs as he could. He missed one. Some song Billy did on a Disney soundtrack. That was good enough for the win. Now a days I count the Billy Joel references in Fountains of Wayne songs. Give a listen, they must be fans.

45 Number Twenty-Seven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs

Broadway show tunes on 45; a shock to my kids. I do a fairly awful Louis Armstrong impression, and it provided one of the more memorable answering machine recordings of the Deery household past. My children beg me not to do that voice. The video here is a live performance, and is well worth watching to see the animated Louis doing his signature song.

45 Number Twenty-Six

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lkZSjCVA0

"Land of a Thousand Dances" - Cannibal and The Headhunters

You gotta love band names. My band;

Geoff and the Nondairy Creamers, with their hit " Just Because My Eyes Look Like Road Maps Don't mean I Know the Way."

45 Number Tweny- Five

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ptavYnUBM

For any of you that doubted I pull these things randomly.

I have no idea why I own this, other than to bring back memories of high school friends running around in cowboy hats. Only two good things came out of country rock:

1. Back in the summer of 1979 or 78 my friend Mona did his best Jethro Bodean imitation as he danced down the isle at a Saratoga Performing Arts Center show that featured Marshall Tucker and Pure Prairie League.

2. The original band called OMD; Ozark Mountain Daredevils. I still love these guys. I have fond memories from high school days of stomping around the fire to Chicken Train. Click this link and you can almost here me stomping," bawk bawk"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZSxyCtF1M

45 Number Twenty-Four

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qso7_pete-townshend-uniforms-corp-d-espr_music

This one came all the way from London back in the early 80s, courtesy of a college buddy. It got me thinking about my "uniforms" throughout my years; high black converse, various black clothing, long green trench coat, rockin' roll buttons, band shirts, NRBQ hat, black and white two tone shoes, black cowboy boots, 50s looking salvation army shirts, etc. Some of these items are still in the back of my closet. Wonder if I still have a uniform.

I really loved the early Pete Townsend solo records. Over the past couple of years I became obsessed with finding acoustic Pete music. I think I dug out the Secret Policeman's Ball record from 1979, and fell back in love with his acoustic versions of several Who songs he does on the record. Then I started searching for more.

Here is "Drowned" from the Secret Policeman's Ball record http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9slqL_eSw .

While poking around tonight on the net I found this, "If I Was a Carpenter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUmXllDGPFw&feature=related . It's from a record called Pete Townsend, The Road House, London, April 14th 1974.Not sure if the record is all acoustic, but I will find out.

45 Number Twenty-Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Efu7oJZnE&feature=fvsr

Soundtrack single, but the link is to the much better earlier version from the Talk, Talk album. This often leads off the college soundtrack of my life, but the story keeps changing depending on the mood.

Favourite Furs song "The Ghost in You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmA8PsTvPA&feature=related

45 Number Twenty-two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwtAU0XyMj8

This version of the song is a live film from the 1977 Live Stiffs tour. Anyone know if there is an available video of that tour?

I wonder if Elvis ever thought back then that his song would be the theme song for a Public Television show. I have mixed feelings about that. It's exposure and money for him, but that song was supposed to be different and off beat, you know. " I Melt With You" selling burgers for Burger King? Maybe it's just me, but is nothing sacred? Although I first heard Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" as a car commercial, and ran out to buy it. But again, that's probably just me living in a hole, and not really commercialism exposing me to new music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw&playnext=1&list=PL9DCCA653B098F38c.
(Lust for Life video complete with commercials and clips from movies)

You really know your old when you hear the Muzak versions of you favourite "radical" songs from your youth as you push the full grocery cart through the store, and you hum along. Makes me think of this song that my children recently performed with their acting troupe; "Money Makes the World Go Around."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q

45 Number Twenty-One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVzYxqG9N1c

Hard to read this label. It's Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." Perhaps my favourite love song. I just love his smooth voice. I remember the feeling the first time I heard this song, in the late 80s, well after it's debut in the early 70s. It was like when you go into a thrift shop and you find this really cool old shirt. You try it on, and it fits like a glove. This song was meant to hang in my closet.

45 Number Twenty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_9k8-W1Po

This is a very important record to me. First, my love is a teacher. My wife Cathleen was and is my "Teacher, Teacher."

Second, The Rockpile album, which is where "Teacher Teacher" comes from broadened my musical landscape more than any other record. I went off to college in 1979 with a history of very typical musical exposure for the time. Big fan of Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Billy Joel, CSN, James Taylor, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and the Eagles. All bands I still love (well not so much the Eagles). I had been to all your big arena shows; Styx, Doobie Brothers, Journey, etc. I had even seen some hard to admit shows; Little River Band, Air Supply, and (gulp) Olivia Newton John.

I pretty much stuck to my musical beginnings my first year of school. There was a group of people on my dorm floor who dug the same stuff. They sat around with guitars playing "Teach Your Children." But in my sophomore year a guy from New Jersey moved in. Todd Abramson. He was a short, skinny guy, with a weird laugh, wearing a Sonics t-shirt. Todd had a whole different sound. The sounds of rockabilly, pop, and garage rock. And not the sounds of now, but the sounds of yesterday and tomorrow. And not just the sounds of FM radio, LA, NYC and London, but the sounds of local music playing in the bar down the street.

He played the Rockpile album for me and that was it. I payed attention to what this guy was bringing. Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Todd, sent me in every direction. I went back to the 50s with Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. Through the 60's with the garage rock sound,and early stuff from bands I knew, but didn't know, like the Stones and The Kinks. I went forward to Marshall Crenshaw, Squeeze, and the power pop coming out of England. I went forward and back with NRBQ, Elvis Costello, and The Ramones. And very importantly I went out to see live music in small spaces, both local musicians and national bands passing through. In our eyes back then local acts (Tex Rubinowitz, Little Red and the Renegades) were just as important as the nationals touring acts.

( Ulmie!! Tex and Little Red on YouTube: "Hot Rod Man" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYTuvTsFvQ , "Bad Boy" video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpmjfCrL5PE , and "They Call Me Little Red"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2g1-6iFmyY&feature=related )

The artists were so accessible. I never had thought you could go see your musical heroes, and then talk to them after the show. Not the case with the big stadium shows. I was fortunate to be in a city, D.C., where there was lots of choices.

Rockpile was a very unique band. There is only one official Rockpile album, but the Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds albums from the late 70s are all Rockpile albums, with the band backing the front man. For each of Dave and Nick's solo albums the group would tour. I never got to see them together. The biggest hole in my musical grazing. But I have seen Nick and Dave on their own. Many great memories; such as tracking down Dave's hotel room at the Oneonta NY Holiday Inn, and skipping headliner The Cars at the Capital Center in Landover MD to follow the bus of the opener, "Nick Lowe and His Noise to Go" , to the bar at the Holiday Inn, where we chatted with Nick and Paul Carrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4GagrfqO8&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXd_Z90TYTkxTyVB4cJ4ycIf

This link takes you through a mix of Rockplile and related music. The first video is classic Rockpile. It is a live version of Nick Lowe's song "So It Goes" from the album "Jesus of Cool" , or as we in the the politically correct States got it "Pure Pop for Now People." Both just fantastic titles. The video features the band with Nick out front wearing the green ? suit that Frank Gorshen wore as the Riddler in the Batman television series. That is just perfect.

Thank you Nick, Dave, and Todd

45 Number Nineteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcjTP9RTiY&feature=related

If I was to think about the jukeboxes of the sixties at some road house this would definitely be a selection. It's one of those songs that seems like it has always just been there. I don't think I have ever paid too much attention to it, but if it didn't exist I would feel like something was missing.

Favourite Tommy James and The Shondells cover; "Crimson and Clover" - Joan Jett. Check out this video. Holy Smokes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZBBNRrano

45 Number Eighteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg

I forgot what a good song this is. The video is well worth watching Michelle looks sooo young.
This is the first female singer song writer to make the list. Actually, I am not sure I have many more 45s of female singer song writers. Seems like female singer song writers are not what you find on most jukeboxes. That seems wrong. Lucinda Williams definitely belongs on the jukebox. This seems like an idea for a good mixed tape (Can we still call them mixed tapes, or do we have to say playlist?); "Female Singer Song Writer Jukebox Songs." My starting list:
Lucinda Williams - "Can't Let Go", Get Right With God"
Dar Williams - "Teen for God", "Mystery", "I Won't be Your Yoko Ono"
Patti Griffin - "No Bad News"

Oh well that's a start. But alas, I have none of those on 45. I am sure some of you can come up with more suggestions for the playlist.

Ok, as soon as I posted other songs for the mixed tape came flooding in:
Jill Sobule- "I Saw a Cop", "Cinnamon Park"
Kirsty McCall (sp?)- "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Thinks He's Elvis"
Amy Rigby - "Dancin' With Joey Ramone", "I'm Like Rasputin"

45 Number Seventeen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p000dsuy8oI&feature=related

WAIT!!!
Don't Click the link!

Little did I know that this infectious dance song from my college days was a cover! Today for the first time I have heard the original, and it is better. Go here instead; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKUjI_CbIY0&feature=related .

That Soft Cell song sounded so new wave and fresh to my young ears back in the early 80s. In music I continue to find that what's new is often old.

45 Number Sixteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cd8NQmJp88

Chuck is the King of rockin' roll. Who else can tour for fifty years without a band, knowing that in any town he plays, the best local musicians will know his songs, and be his band. Every night he blows into town without a band. Does the show backed by local musicians. Gets his money. Then rolls on down the line. My wife and I had the good fortune to catch Chuck in Rochester, NY in the late 80s. I recently heard he became ill while touring this past year, and had to cut the tour short. Here's hoping he is able to keep "reelin' and a rockin."

Favourite Chuck covers;

"Around and Around" - Rolling Stones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2n2iiiIGQ&feature=related
"Nadine" - Steve Forbert
"It Don't Take But a Few Minutes" - NRBQ
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" -Buddy Holly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT96UoUAz_Y&feature=related

45 Number Fifteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAmop1sSi3I&feature=related

This is John Fogerty's first post CCR project from back in 72 or 73. I believe there were no Rangers, just John. John covered a number of great country standards on the Blue Ridge Rangers album. Listening to it now it seems to fit right in with the current roots music scene. It reminds me that many musicians were doing "Americana" music way before the Grammy category, which I believe has only existed for a couple of years.

One of the songs on that album was "I Ain't Never," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjkO8lDE8s which was co-written by Mel Tillis. I went to school with Mel's daughter Cindy. I can remember listening to this song one day, but I think it was the cover by Dave Edmunds. Cindy was there, and she says "Oh that's daddy's song." I grabbed the album, looked at the label, and damned if she wasn't right (as though she would be wrong about a song her father wrote). Made me think about how snobbish I can be about music. I always thought of Mel as the country star stuttering on Carson. He has written some really good songs. Anyway, now there are only 3 degrees of separation between me and Edmunds. I know Cindy, whose father is Mel, who wrote the song that Dave recorded. That's how it works, right?

45 Number Fourteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

Well lots of mixed feelings on this one. When I pulled it out of the box, my first thought was "put it back", but randomly selected is what I said. So I slipped it on the turntable, and started singing along right away. I am pretty anti classic rock radio. It's just that their play lists are so narrow and predictable, but that doesn't mean hearing this song once a year is bad.

My BOC memory is seeing the special effects they used to haul around for songs like "Godzilla" (probably may favorite BOC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHRm2DioMA . There was one song about the Ayatollah Khomeini around the time of the Iran hostage crisis in the early 80s, and they lyric went "...and he can got to hell," then flames would shoot into the air on stage. I am sure some of you were with me to see this and will let me know the song name.

The best thing to come out of this pick though has to be this You Tube clip of them performing on The Merv Griffin Show. It's like straight from Spinal Tap. From Merv and some guy talking seriously about why big rock acts won't perform on TV, to the costumes and posturing when the band comes out to play "Burnin' for You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXqLZRwp1II&feature=related .

45 Number Thirteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiYtoVMvvo&feature=related

This Nick Lowe produced song is from a movie called "Club Paradise". I've never seen it, but from the music video it looks like it featured Robin Williams and a young Eugene Levy. Not the greatest Costello song, but I'm not likely to pass on a 45 that features the duet of Elvis and Jimmy Cliff. There are so many great Elvis Costello songs. I tend to prefer the early power pop, but he certainly has contributed great tunes to the air waves. Speaking of duets, well more like backing vocals, on the Bridge School Concerts Vol. 2 (I think?), Elvis does an acoustic version of "Alison" with Neil Young singing the backing vocals. I always thought that was cool. I've only seen Costello once. It was at SUNY Oswego in upstate NY. A double solo acoustic bill with Nick Lowe. My favourite Elvis song has to be "Pump it Up" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo&feature=fvsr ,which is the runner up for my theme song when I get my radio show.

45 Number Twelve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0saf-DKQoM8

Now we're talkin'! The Long Ryders!

This was a great overlooked band. Listening to these songs with old ears; I forgot how great. Folks don't skip over these songs lightly. Put 'em on your music makers and turn them up loud. I am making arrangements to get them on my I-pod now. They'll make my walk to work fly, and can do the same for your bus ride, car jaunt, or motor cycle cruise.

This is actually a two 45 package. The A side and three non album tracks. "Looking for Lewis and Clark" really rocks, and is the link above. I really wish I could give you a link to "If I Was Bramble, and You Were a Rose." It's a song that really deserves some attention from all you folk singers out there. It's just beautiful. Alas I couldn't find the song on the net, so you will have to come over to my house and hear it, or buy it yourselves.

One of my best Long Ryders' memories is riding along back in the mid 80's in my black, T-top, Firebird, with my beautiful wife, listening to one of our favourites; "Run Dusty Run." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4b2gucSPBI&feature=related

Several other notable Long Ryders tunes that shouldn't be missed; "State of My Union" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVfzComP60 and their cover of the NRBQ classic "I Want You Bad" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-B0Q8ESpQ&feature=related .

45 Number Eleven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy51CTN6AfE

(Bam, Bam, Bam)

(Bam, Bam, Bam)

Who is it?

It's me man, Dave. Open up.

Who?

Dave, man! I got the stuff. Open up.

Who?

Dave!

Dave's not here.

(Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam)

Who is it?

Dave!! Open the door!

Who?

Dave! Dave!

Dave's not here man.


Cheech and Chong. We used to repeat their skits over and over. I had all the albums; the big rolling paper, the car with all the dope. Cheech pops up pretty regularly;either as the voice of a Chihuahua or a Latino police side kick. Tommy not as much. I'll have to check out Up In Smoke sometime and see if it holds up after all these years.

"I got a basketball jones, I got a basketball jones, I got a basketball jones, so baby ooohh, ooohh......."

45 Number Ten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7r5RYThiHM Studio Recording

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfEsmXbjcyg&feature=related Live

One of my best memories of college in Washington D.C. is WHFS. It was a homegrown, free form, radio station in Bethesda MD. The DJs created their own playlists, and all types of music was played. It was a noncommerical,commercial radio station. It exposed me to so much new and old music. My favourite DJ was the Weasel. He sounded just like that, a weasel. I luckily have a cassette of him I recorded doing about an hour and half on a St. Patrick's day. Every once in awhile I will pull this out and go back to those days.

I am sure that was the first place I heard this pop gem. It has made it's way on to many a mix tape. I put two links, as I didn't really like the live performance, but thought some of you may enjoy seeing what they looked like. I didn't. I likely bought this single at the record shop in Rockville MD (home of Joan Jett, "She put the rock in Rockville" as Weasel used to say), on the Rockville Pike. I can't believe I don't remember the name of the shop (Got it. Yesterday and Today Records). They had two store fronts in a strip mall. One dedicated to 45s. All the 45s categorized and on shelves or in bins. Not many places devote that kind of time and space to 45s.

This song is the perfect example of a song that was played on WHFS , but nowhere else in DC. Now a days I get my musical appetite fed from WFUV out of NYC and a new station WITH out of Ithaca NY. Both public radio stations that I listen to on the net. Look them up you can listen too.