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Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD

"I knew Cary Grant very well and he loved ... what did they call it? Acid! LSD. He said he liked to take the trip." - Debbie Reynolds

"I learned many things in the quiet of that room ... I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite ... You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream ... I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship." - Cary Grant

It was 1943. Cary Grant was starring in the motion picture Destination Tokyo; an action-filled wartime drama co-starring John Garfield and a deluge of racial slurs. While America was embroiled in the intense fighting of World War Two, Axis powers had surrounded the neutral country of Switzerland. Deep within Nazi surrounded boundaries, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was busy toiling away in a dimly lit laboratory, about to study the properties of a synthesis he had abandoned five years earlier. Hoffman was trying to devise a chemical agent that could act as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant when he accidentally absorbed lysergic acid through his fingers. While Americans sat in darkened theaters enjoying Cary Grant's portrayal of a submarine captain, Hoffman was experiencing accelerated thought patterns, polychromatic visions and an unbearable onslaught of intense emotion. This was the world's first acid trip. The discovery was soon to transform the life of one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars.

Celebrity Anti-Drug PSA's, Part Five of Five/The Big Wrap-Up

"Cash lies on his back on the earth, his head raised on a rolled garment. His eyes are closed, his face is gray, his hair plastered in a smooth smear across his forehead as though done with a paint brush. His face appears sunken a little, sagging from the bony ridges of eye sockets, nose, gums, as though the wetting had slacked the firmness which had held the skin full; his teeth, set in pale gums, are parted a little as if he had been laughing quietly. He lies pole-thin in his wet clothes, a little pool of vomit at his head and a thread of it running from the corner of his mouth and down his cheek where he couldn't turn his head quick or far enough, until Dewey Dell stoops and wipes it away with the hem of her dress."
William Faulkner / As I Lay Dying

And now, after spreading these out for as many months as I could, in order to savor them more fully, come the last eight in my initial big batch of Nineteen-Seventies Music Celebrity Anti-Drug PSAs. At least until I finally break down and put up the Mel Blanc ones. Being the crown jewels of that collection-I keep putting off the Blanc ones, but we'll get them up sometime this year. 

We begin with dear George Carlin, and one of the best of all of my Anti-Drug messages. Who better to lay it on the line in basic terms for the 'kids'? And of course we have at least one here who sounds like he recorded the spot on animal tranquilizers, rather dulling the effectiveness.

All together this will make 36 PSAs in this category, so if you like these, track back through my posts to get the whole set, as they're a great party stopper/enhancer.

 And the MP3s:    George Carlin     Jackson Browne     George Chambers     Billy Cobham     Deep Purple     Lamont Dozier     Bev Bevan (of ELO)     David Essex

Mainliner on Chicago Public Access TV

Julian Cope called them "the Banana Splits of noise"; Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Hajime Koizumi and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise) kick out the jams on Chicago public access TV show Chic-A-Gogo in the late 1990's during a US Tour (thanks to Dylan Going for link).

Senator Eric in the Mix

Tuerie Du Senateur Eric Fin Decembre 2009 1

Looking at the recent history of Ivorian popular music you can start to trace out the political struggle of a nation trying to sort out a collective identity.  The core question is defining Ivority.  In the 70's Congolese musicians settled in booming cities like Abidjan and Nairobi dominating scenes and studios on both the East and West coast, eventually putting their stamp on African music across the continent.  Alpha Blondy's worldwide success led to Ivory Coast becoming a Reggae country. In the 90's things started to change, and Ivorians started to turn the tide with their homegrown dance musics now a dominating influence across Africa.

The above mix is so amazing to me. Senateur Eric a young Ivorian DJ (I think based in France) has one of the baddassest Skyrock blogs out there and through this he really shows how innovative and just damn good Ivorian DJ's are. Of course you can draw paralles to Detroit, etc, they add new ways of mixing that are distinct to their cultural and (perhaps) a nationalistic understanding of music.  They put their own spin on old forms to make a new sound and style all their own, just as all those innovators of electronic music did in the 80's, or that group of young San Francisco DJ's did in the 90's (Excelsior what up!)

This mix will give you good insight into how Coupe Decale works both in the studio and live at the club. If you can't tell, there is generally a standard constant sample running of a clave snare pattern with a 4/4 kick drum, and the improvisation happens over that. I love how he chops up the big tunes from the year and throws in starts and stops of intros and vocal bits. Plus the mixing is so clean and on point!  For a visual example of this improv style check the video below where a guitarist plays over a Coupe Decale beat. In my opinion this is African Digital Music culture at its best, I can't wait to see where we go from here!

WFMU @ SXSW 2010: Broadcast Schedule

We wouldn't try the pizza down here, but WFMU is getting amped up for our 2010 SXSW showcase tonight!

We teamed up with Aquarius Records from SF to bring a 14-band throwdown to Austin's club Encore (611 Red River). Swing by if you're in town!

We'll be broadcasting live starting at 8pm EDT, and here's what we plan to bring you (we hope to cram more in, but it depends on how long sets last):

8pm Liturgy

9pm Drunkdriver, then Speedwolf

10pm Home Blitz

11pm Moon Duo

12am Sonny & the Sunsets, then Shit & Shine

1am Pierced Arrows                                              

2am Dengue Fever

Losey, Shostakovich, Dillinger

Okay, for starters, I just want to point out the fact that Joseph Losey's The Prowler (1951) is playing for the next week at Film Forum.  I'm a big Losey fan and have always wanted to see his legendary third feature.  A brief Hoberman review in this week's Village Voice alerted me to its re-release with a nice new print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.  Losey's first two American pictures are pure hokum, but The Prowler may be the lost noir we've all been waiting to see.  I'm going on Sunday.

I was unable to post last Friday because I was attending the opera for the first time in my life on Thursday evening, when I normally sit down to write.  I know nothing of opera and may even actively dislike it.  However, the current production of Shostakovich's 1930 work The Nose combines three things to make it appealing to one ignorant of the genre like myself: 1.) its source material is Gogol's proto-surrealist story of the same title, 2.) the music is almost entirely atonal, shrieking, percussive noise, and 3.) artist William Kentridge was enlisted to provide animated projections and set designs to structure the performance.  While Kentridge's aggressive visuals make it nearly impossible to concentrate on the score--it's a piece of white elephant art through and through--his contributions are stunningly beautiful and are executed in an idiosyncratic style that would likely appeal to many of this blog's readers.  The show, which runs from March 5-25 at the Met Opera, has been consistently sold out since the beginning of its short engagement.  I was convinced to go by my partner, Faith, who managed to get nosebleed tickets (ha, ha) via phone the morning of the performance.  If you don't mind standing on your feet for two hours (I do) while trying to appreciate high modernist art, then this is probably your cheapest and best bet.  You could also wait 3-4 hours on line for limited quantities of rush tickets; it is already quite a bit warmer than it was last Thursday.

The Nose has been staged very few times.  It was immediately suppressed as bad art upon its inaugural performance in 1930 and was only seen again in St. Petersburg in 1974.  Shostakovich was 22 when he wrote it; his other Gogol opera, The Gamblers, was never finished, though he did complete the Nikolai Leskov-based Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in 1934.  The Met has Paulo Szot playing Major Kovalyov, the petty bureaucrat whose nose has gone missing, and the score is conducted by Valery Gergiev.  A recent CD release by the Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra, and Chorus features many of the same performers, but alas, this being an all-Russian release, Szot is here preceded by Vladislav Sulimsky.  A few selections from their recording of The Nose: A Satirical Opera in Three Acts (Mariinsky, 2009) are provided below:

The Nose: Act I: Scene I

The Nose: Act I: Scene II

The Nose: Act I: Interlude

Interestingly, shortly after our attendance, Faith found a plaster nose on the streets of New City, NY while jogging.  It has a hook on the back, implying that this bizarre item was once hanging on the wall of someone's home.  Why is the bridge completely unfinished while the nostrils are so well-formed?  Many unanswered questions in this Gogol-meets-Blue Velvet scenario.

Completely unrelated--but what I've really been enjoying this past week is the following clip from Ted Bafaloukos' Rockers (1978).  Short and sweet but infinitely repeatable, it shows Bongo Herman, "the first man in Jamaica to break-dance in a movie," tearing it up to Dillinger's "Cool Operator" (aka "Stumbling Block").  There are so many great scenes in Rockers, but this one really says it all.

Have You Ever Been Jello?

  Tony Coulter here, with another parcel of vinyl goodies found since moving to Portland, OR late last summer. This time 'round, I'll be heavily focusing on soft sounds for mellow jello -- though righteous anger also makes an appearance. As always, I'll finish up with some eye candy -- or eye vegetables, if you prefer -- in this case, a mini-gallery of strange record covers.

Forward!

Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 59 (MP3s)

Give the Drummer Some's
Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere

A word of thanks to all you motherloders for coming through for WFMU in such a big way during our recent fund-raising marathon. Even in the throes of the Great Recession, WFMU listeners, Beware of the Blog readers and lovers of creative, unfettered cultural exposition shoved the cadaverous economy back in the closet and continued the party. We here at Mining the Audio Motherlode are happy to do our part by spiking the sonic punch on a weekly basis. As long as the full-album blogs keep posting mind-blowing rarities, out-of-print jaw-droppers and long-lost treasures, the Miner will keep digging them up so you can dig them too. Party!

Various  ~  "New Sounds of Africa: Phata-Phatas and Kwelas"
Volume 1  |  Volume 2
(Blog: Electric Jive)

Shebeen There, Done That
For South African music lovers, it is almost incomprehensibly amazing what is taking place over at the blog Electric Jive. Like jewels on cushioned pillows, one historic rarity after another is served up with abundant generosity and zero fanfare. The two collections referenced here are stocked with iconic performances by kwela maestro Spokes Mashiyane, a young Miriam Makeba and other other stalwarts of early township jive. Do yourself a favor and download every precious recording at this crucial resource.

Serendipity Singers  ~  "Love Is a State of Mind"
(Blog: Sir Psych's Psychedelic Shack)
From the album: Love to Love (MP3)

With Up People
The mighty wind emanating from the Serendipity Singers took a turn for the psychedelic on this 1967 LP for United Artists, the folky nonet's final album. Try to guess which track from this Bob Brainen included on his 2010 Marathon premium.

Cossi Anatz  ~  "Jazz Afro-Occitan"
(Blog: Hoochie Coochie Presents Jazz)

French Afro Free Jazz (or is it Free Afro French Jazz?)
Don't know much about this one, but its recent posting has quickened the pulses of veteran jazz-blog watchers. The combo here appears to comprise a quintet of second-wave French improvisers along with a Moroccan percussionist. The "Afro" in the album's title would seem to reflect the evident North African influences, but the reference to Southern France ("Occitan") is less clear. When I stopped keying the record sleeve's French text through Google Translate and started really listening, the exuberant, madly swinging melange was a thrill to behold.

Prince Mohammed  ~  "Bubbling"
(Blog: P.A. to da Reggae)
From the album: Jack Sprat (mp3)

Tiny Bubbles
Kingston-born George Nooks deejayed a string of discomix 12" records in the early 1980s under his own name as well as under the pseudonym Prince Mohammed—charting simultaneously under each at one point! His breakout track was the Joe Gibbs–produced "Bubbling Love," in '78 that was re-packaged four years later as the title track to this compilation LP. Soon after this album's release, Nooks took a decade-long sabbatical from the music biz, only to come back strong as a triple-threat: singer, producer and label owner.

Horden Raikes  ~  "King Cotton"
(Blog: Gonzo-Archive)
[Password = gonzoHRKC ]

Work of the Singing Class
Performing as a self-described "semi-professional" folk duo Horden Raikes, Brian Dewhurtst (now Preston) and Ron Flanagan released two albums, including this one, which bares the subtitle "Songs of the Working Classes During the Period 1750-1850."

Peregoyo y Su Combo Vacana  ~  "Peregoyo y Su Combo Vacana"
(Blog: El Stinkeyes)
From the album: Ola de Agua (mp3)

Teacher of the Year
Nicknamed after a song about a fish, Enrique Urbano "Peregoyo" Tenoric was, in the early 1960s, a high-school music teacher in Bueneventura along Colombia's Atlantic coast. Seeking to bring the kids "mellow folk music where God set down his contentments," Peregoyo formed a quintet that quickly became a widely popular regional combo, translating traditional cumbias and currulaos into modern, electric dance-floor-fillers. Must've been some wild school dances.

Listen for music from these and other incredible finds on
Give the Drummer Some, Fridays on WFMU, 9 to Noon (ET).

Check out every installment of Mining the Audio Motherlode

This Friday: WFMU & Aquarius Records at SXSW

Just a reminder WFMU will be broadcasting live this Friday night 8PM to 3AM ET live from Austin, Texas and our joint SXSW show curated by us and our pals from Aquarius Records in San Francisco! Liz Berg, Brian Turner, Scott Williams, Jason Sigal, Diane Kamikaze and AQ's Andee Connors will give you the play by play and simulcast live sounds from the massive 14 band, two-stage bill taking place at Encore (formerly Spiro's), 611 Red River right in the heart of downtown Austin. The show is open to badge/wristband types, but also to the general public for a mere $7! That's 50 cents a band! We're super-excited about being back and also excited about the bill (which is a pretty unique blend of the poppy, psyched-out, heavy and otherwise that seems catered to both FMU and AQ listener/customer tastes!) The lineup:

OUTSIDE STAGE
7p Liturgy
8p Speedwolf
9p Iron Man
10p Moon Duo
11p Shit & Shine
12m Pierced Arrows
1a Dengue Fever

INSIDE STAGE
7p Epileptinomicon
8p Drunkdriver
9p Home Blitz
10p Headdress
11p Sonny & the Sunsets
12a True Widow
1a Todd

We'll also have some FMU swag for attendees to check out, and the special-designed posters by famed UK artist Savage Pencil (pictured)! Click below for more on the bands, and some MP3s and links to sounds in general. If you're in Austin, we'd love to see ya.

The Galactic Symposium Play The Rock Classics.

The Galactic Symposium were a group from Nottingham, UK formed "by mistake" in 1979.  All five members were competent musicians, except they decided to disallow themselves from playing the instruments they could play competently for the 'symposium'.  So, the semi-skilled punk rock guitarist became the slightly-better-than Shaggs drummer, etc.  And they also chose to only slog through the most obvious hit songs of the era.  During their short existence, the Galactic Symposium only released one single on Vague Records: covers of the Village People's 'YMCA' and Pink Floyd's 'Money'.  However, they also recorded about 10 more tracks, all them obvious top-40 covers, but these did not see the light until more than two decades later; someone found a 'David Price & the Galactic Symposium' cassette at a 'car boot' sale and sent it over the Low Down Kids record label, who pressed 100 copies onto vinyl in 2005.

So, the Galactic Symposium sounds like a sort of annoying and unlistenable in-joke, right?  All covers, drunk-sounding musicians, deliberately playing instruments they never played before.  Well, maybe, except I keep listening to them since I managed to track down a copy of that cassette-sourced LP.  And that YMCA single became a favorite of John Peel, who said that there "has seldom been a more joyous record" and that the sax player's solo on YMCA "remains one of the finest in recorded music'.

Here's their version of 'YMCA'

01 YMCA

And The Galactic Symposium's take on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit 'Baker Street'

09 Baker Street

Oooo - But it's Good! The Jack Sheldon Comedy LP

Jack Sheldon is a trumpet player best known as the band leader on The Merv Griffin Show and as the voice of School House Rock's Bill on Capitol Hill. He put out this unique comedy album in the early sixties showcasing his musician's sensibility. One of several jazz musicians to put out comedy records, this might be the best of the lot. Listen to the whole record, The Weird, Wonderful, Wigged Out Wit of Jack Sheldon, here.

WFMU is Not Trying to Start a Race War...

Almost exactly one year ago we posted this cultural relic courtesy the TerryToons company. Here's another in the genre of early nineteen thirties animated racism, courtesy the Van Beuren Studios. This one starts off crazy enough with the ol' "chinaman" type stuff, but it gets remarkably wilder when the customer that needs his laundry done turns out to be a jaw dropping Jewish caricature.

Rock 'n' Soul Shakers

You could be in the running to win this entire collection by making a pledge of $75 or more during Fool's Paradise today!  1-3 PM on the Fun 91.

Long time WFMU pal, J.R. Williams sent us his collection of Rock 'N' Roll-Soul-R&B-Funk-Sleaze & Tease Instrumental mp3s to add to our Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban   webstream!!   Including some of our favorite One-Liner Instrumentals.  Plus! 2 Boss Covers (NSFW!).  Tune in to hear the other 745!

Bo Diddley - Bo's Bounce
Big Moose & The Jams - Bright Sounds
Pancho Villa - Baby Cakes
Takeshi Terauchi - Caravan
The Turbo Jets - Far East Cha Cha Cha
Ken Jones - Chicken Pie
Jayne  Mansfield - Suey
The Teen Queens - You Good Boy, You Get Cookie
The Pagents - Big Daddy
Gene Walker & His Combo - Empire City

My Kid Could Preach That

And I don't even have a kid.

From a devout Episcopalian to Samuel Boutwell: You're too young, sport.  There are words you are too young to say and understand, strings of inspirational pabulum you are too young to belt out extemporaneously, obvious signs of coaching you are too young to discern, ulterior motives in which your daddy is engaged of which you are too young to be aware and deeper meanings behind the messages to which you are too young (and naive) to relate.  But you're still very entertaining.

Samuel Boutwell: the next Marjoe.  Okay, I'm getting off my soapbox now.  Amen.

WFMU Android App v1 Released

 

Two weeks ago we kicked off the 2010 marathon by releasing v2 of the WFMU iPhone app and before we wrap things up this weekend we're pleased to announce that Android users now have an app of their own.

Version 1 of the WFMU Android app has just hit the marketplace. You can grab it here.

For our initial release we are including all of our live streams (including "Ichiban Rock n' Soul", "UbuWeb Radio" and "Do or DIY"), all of our Archives and Podcasts as well as Station News from our homepage. We will be adding playlist functionality and some other more advanced features in the coming months.

Artwork by Nick Bertozzi

One thing we learned while putting this app together is that unlike the iPhone, performance and functionality across the full spectrum of different Android phones and OS versions varies somewhat considerably.

Initially we had hoped to make use of our mobile friendly 64k AAC+V2 mp4 archives (also used by the pop-up player on our site) for this app but found that some older versions of Android do not support AAC.
To ensure compatibility for everyone, we are instead using our less mobile friendly MP3 archives and have found that your mileage over 3G may vary a bit with these.  In version 1.1 of our app we will likely allow toggling between lower bit rate mp4s (for Android 2 users) and higher bit rate mp3s (for phones that can't handle AAC or people on WIFI).

Likewise we've found that some of the sliding and tapping functionality on the app does not always behave as nicely as we'd like on the Nexus One, though research abounds that this is likely a problem with the phone itself.

In short, because we have found that performance varies quite a bit from phone to phone please let us know in the comments if there is a problem with your model and OS version.

Since launching our iPhone app we've heard from quite a few people asking for mobile apps for the Blackberry and Palm Pre. In an ideal world we'd love to be able to provide an app for listeners on every mobile platform out there but the reality is that our resources are VERY limited and it simply is not in the cards. For the Blackberry, we've heard very positive feedback about moodio.fm and Berry Tunes and for the Palm Pre we've been told that clicking the mp3 links off the homepage should allow you to listen on the phone w/o installing additional software.

Free Music Archive recent highlights

it's raining musical gems at the Free Music Archive! 

 >> Percussion Lab <<
joins the FMA w/ 15 curated sets of forward-thinking electronic sounds
incl. Daedelus, Team Shadetek, Thavius Beck, Ezekiel Honig, Machinedrum...

  

   >> Burkina Electric <<  
 "Burkina Faso's first electronica band"

featuring Lukas Ligeti, Pyrolator, and the marimba lumina

 >> S.S. Records joins the FMA

>> Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations <<
 curated by WFMU's own Ergo Phizmiz (originally broadcast on Phuj Phactory)
  feat. David Fenech, Vernon Lenoir, Satanicpornocultshop, Tracky Birthday...

>> 2010 Golden Festival highlights mix <<  
25th annual Balkan/Roma/brass festival
from the Transpacific Sound Paradise remote

   >> Welcome Karl Blau to the FMA <<
19 tracks incl. this, from Zebra (K, 2009)

Science Fiction Trivia Challenge: John Hodgman vs Patton Oswalt

Last night's Best Show w/ Tom Scharpling was the scene of an epic nerd-off: a science fiction trivia contest between John Hodgman and Patton Oswalt. If the finer points of Dr. Who, majordomos, the Last Starfighter and Alec Guiness impersonations are things that float your boat then this might just be for you.

Click here to stream the battle and if you are not already subscribed to the Best Show Podcast you can do so via itunes. Hats off to Scharpling for pulling off the highest ever fundraising total for a marathon show! Good guys win!

Photo by John Dalton

Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 58 (MP3s)

Give the Drummer Some's
6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere

Hello there friends, it's fund-raising time at WFMU, and Mining the Audio Motherlode ain't hardly too proud to beg. Your tireless Miner hasn't been sucking down lungfuls of vinyl dust—unearthing free copies of sonic wonderment—just for his health. Sure, this weekly cornucopia of musical marvels is offered up freely as a labor of love, but the past year of labor putting these posts together is surely worth a couple minutes of your love. Please take a moment and make a pledge in support of WFMU.

As with all the other glamorous stars of the WFMU firmament, the Miner is eager to get virtually adopted for the next year. So, if you're a big Mining the Audio Motherlode fan and can pledge a dollar a day ($365), go here and stake your claim. For a pledge of only $75, you will automatically get Love Your Motherlode, an all-killer, no-filler CD compilation of the hottest tracks from the the past year of Mining the Motherlode offerings. To pledge your support and get your your copy of Love Your Motherlode, go here (select One Dee-Jay Premium, then head to the DJ Premiums & Prize Warehouse to select the CD). Thanks!

Listen for the Seaweed Horn
Ndikho Xaba and the Natives  ~  "Ndikho Xaba and the Natives"
(Blog: Private Press)

Life Affirming
Various  ~  "Drums of Death"
(Blog: Killed in Cars)

Mr. Françoise Hardy
Jacques Dutronc: "Les Play Boys" &  "A Tout Berzingue"
(Blog: Bomber Blog)
[Scroll down for link | pw = bomber-blog.blogspot.com]
From the "Les Play Boys" EP: On Nous Cache Tout, On Nous Dit Rien (mp3)

I'll Have What They're Smoking
Tool Shed  ~  "Tool Shed"
(Blog: Allegory of Allergies)
From the album: The Wave (mp3)

Live from London's Antler Lounge
Various  ~  "Trojan Reggae Party Recorded Live"
(Blog: Smoke Two Joints)

Fiebre Sabado Noche
Louie Ramirez  ~  "A Different Shade of Black"
(Blog: Orgy in Rhythm)
From the album: Do It Any Way You Wanna (mp3)

Listen for music from these and other incredible finds on
Give the Drummer Some, Fridays on WFMU, 9 to Noon (ET).

Check out every installment of Mining the Audio Motherlode

We Need A Lot More Jesus And A Lot Less Rock And Roll (MP3s)

In about 1960 or so, Wayne Raney, a veteran harmonica player from Wolf Bayou, Arkansas, took a look around and concluded that the world was in pretty pathetic condition.  Rather than simply sit back and complain, however, Raney proceeded to write a song detailing his plan for getting things back on the right track. The record came out on Nashville's Starday label.

The song, We Need A Lot More Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock And Roll), was a catalog of modern ills that came with a decidedly religious recipe for correction.  Writer Colin Escott called it "gloriously anthemic" and I really can't add much to that.

It's almost too bad the song came out when it did, though; had it been written a decade later, Raney almost certainly would have worked up a verse condemning the hippie movement.

So here are the 11 versions I've unearthed.  Are there are others?  Almost certainly there are.  If you know any I'm missing, feel free leave a comment so I can continue the quest. 

No doubt, several of these recordings were made in completely in earnest, while others were made with tongue in cheek.  All of them are enjoyable, though.

Wayne Raney & The Raney Family   (2:16)  

Cowboy Copas  (2:07)

Sunshine Boys   (2:02)

Skeeter Davis   (2:23)

Gospel Quartet   (1:29)

Greenbriar Boys   (2:07)

Larry Donn   (2:14)

Dick Monda   (2:01)

The Gas Company   (2:01)

Linda Ronstadt   (2:28)

Nate Gibson & The Gashouse Gang   (1:58)   Nate's version, released in 2007 on his All The Way Home CD, is the most recent one here.  Gibson is a budding musicologist and the the author of a forthcoming book that will likely be a mandatory addition to your library:  The Starday Story - The House That Country Music Built, which University Press Of Mississippi will publish a little later this year. 

                

New Facebook app

The WFMU Marathon is into its second and final week, and you can help us meet our goal by making a pledge!

Be sure to add our new Facebook App to your profile to help us spread the word.

Attend our Marathon Event on Facebook, add #wfmuthon to any Twitter posts about the Marathon, or visit wfmu.org/2010 for a wealth of embeddable code available for you to post on your blog or website.

We can do it with your help! The Marathon ends on Sunday...