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Favoriting May 27, 2023: The Dick Elliot Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Comments Approx. start time
The Tradewinds  Congo Beat   Favoriting Dan-Tone    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jackie Lowell With Duane Diamond And The Astronauts  War Path   Favoriting Band Box    0:05:27 (Pop-up)
Dale Hawkins  Cross-Ties   Favoriting Checker    0:07:10 (Pop-up)
The Celts  Confusion   Favoriting Bo-An    0:10:44 (Pop-up)
Jesse Stevens and The Big Sandy Boys  Mama, Mama   Favoriting Bluegrass    0:15:41 (Pop-up)
Jeff Daniels  Switch Blade Sam   Favoriting Big Howdy    0:17:14 (Pop-up)
Red West  Ain't Nobody Gonna Take My Place   Favoriting Sonnet    0:18:51 (Pop-up)
Harry Carter the Rock n Roll Apache with The Dixie Rhythmaires  Jump Baby Jump   Favoriting Mar-Vel    0:20:46 (Pop-up)
York Brothers (Leslie and George)  Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby   Favoriting Decca    0:23:25 (Pop-up)
Dub Dickerson  Mama Laid The Law Down   Favoriting Todd    0:25:32 (Pop-up)
Wiley Jeffers  She's Coming Back Again   Favoriting Ace    0:29:10 (Pop-up)
Kearney Williams  Travelin' Man   Favoriting Hickory    0:29:57 (Pop-up)
Freddie Hart  The Neon And The Rain   Favoriting Kapp    0:32:23 (Pop-up)
Hoot Gibson  Waiting At The Station   Favoriting Peach    0:34:38 (Pop-up)
Bill Blevins Westlanders  Fall Apart   Favoriting Westland  Included on Corn Fed Vol 8 on Dagnabbit Records!!  0:44:32 (Pop-up)
Chuck & Jackie  Your Big Mouth   Favoriting Rose Garden    0:46:43 (Pop-up)
Broken Arrow and the Tomahawks  I Get Rainy River Blues   Favoriting Salamanca    0:47:45 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Smith and The Generation  Little Billy   Favoriting Hap    0:52:10 (Pop-up)
Three Shif'less Skonks  Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You   Favoriting Clown  Yup! This is Included on Corn Fed Vol 8 on Dagnabbit Records!!  0:53:51 (Pop-up)
Willie Egans  Come On   Favoriting Mambo    1:00:31 (Pop-up)
Jimmy McCracklin and His Blues Blasters  Beer Tavern Girl   Favoriting Irma    1:01:18 (Pop-up)
Rudy Moore  The Buggy Ride   Favoriting Federal    1:04:27 (Pop-up)
Little Walter  Flying Saucer   Favoriting Checker    1:07:02 (Pop-up)
Little Walter  Nobody But You   Favoriting Checker    1:10:55 (Pop-up)
Krazy Kris and the Swinging Gentlemen  Floyd's Guitar Blues   Favoriting King    1:18:26 (Pop-up)
The Nomads  Coolsville   Favoriting Skoop    1:25:01 (Pop-up)
The Riverias  Rip It Up   Favoriting Riviera    1:25:48 (Pop-up)
The Troup  Jungle Jive   Favoriting RTB    1:28:08 (Pop-up)
Arch Hall Jr.  Konga Joe   Favoriting Signature    1:30:23 (Pop-up)
Rivieres  Knock On Wood   Favoriting K-Lee    1:34:24 (Pop-up)
Donnie Williams  Boogie Chilluns Playhouse   Favoriting Pure Gold    1:36:15 (Pop-up)
Gordo  Cocktails Darling   Favoriting Brite Leaf    1:39:07 (Pop-up)
Al Garris  That's All   Favoriting Glodis    1:47:19 (Pop-up)
Glenn and Christy with The Adventures  Wombat Twist   Favoriting Sonic    1:49:55 (Pop-up)
The Escos  Thank You Mister Ballard (For Creating The Twist)   Favoriting Federal    1:52:35 (Pop-up)
The Midnighters  Rock N Roll Wedding   Favoriting Federal    1:53:20 (Pop-up)
The Pitter Pats  It Do Me Good (Pt. 1)   Favoriting Instant    1:56:00 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  1:02pm
davefromtoronto:

fool's day out!
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Jessie:

Happy Saturday Rex and everyone!
Avatar 1:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

' Richard Damon Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death...
Elliott was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician '...
Avatar 1:04pm
Ernie:

Radio on
Brain off...
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
Bruce S.:

good day Rex and all
  1:05pm
modern blaze:

↳ Song: "Congo Beat" by "The Tradewinds"
Good song, Rex
Avatar 🌮 1:06pm
Hubig Pie:

Mr. Elliot was the man seen fleeing the market in the noir classic Gun Crazy
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
egould:

↳ Ernie @1:04
Brow off!
  1:07pm
modern blaze:

I’ve played GUN
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
luka:

indian noises in the first 15 min means strap in
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
The Butterman:

Hi Rex and foolish ones.
Avatar 🌮 1:08pm
Mailman Tom:

Can't wait to hear that hillbilly stuff you promised us!
  1:08pm
modern blaze:

↳ Song: "Cross-Ties" by "Dale Hawkins"
too good dang
  1:09pm
P-90:

Rex seems to have one of the world’s best collections of mind-blowing surf instrumentals
  1:10pm
modern blaze:

↳ P-90 @1:09
Yeah and he still with us bless him more
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Dick Elliot appeared in over 50 movies in a 3 year stretch. Slacker.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
DjLorraine:

* puts on wfmu socks ; )
  1:12pm
modern blaze:

↳ DjLorraine @1:11
Wow Lorraine go-go-goo
  1:14pm
morphe':

Top Gf = Looks like Uncle Joe from Petticoate Junction ????
  1:16pm
modern blaze:

↳ morphe' @1:14
long time no see baby
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
egould:

↳ DjLorraine @1:11
When listening to Fool’s Paradise, the custom is to wear your socks on your hands.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
Bruce S.:

I think Dick Eliot spent some time in Mayberry
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
The Butterman:

Does his baby sleep with her head in the kitchin and feets in the hall! I wunduh?
  1:16pm
modern blaze:

haha
  1:17pm
davefromtoronto:

i was at the MOMA just last weekend and was disappointed to not hear rex's battle cry echoing through the galleries
  1:17pm
Jeech the Jooch:

↳ DjLorraine @1:11
They have socks?! Where??
Avatar 1:17pm
Colin in Durham England:

Every time my postman comes I’m like SOCKS! But no, my estranged mother had just moved back to the country so it’s just lots of debt letters following her. Yay
  1:18pm
modern blaze:

Beacon beef with backdonna donuts with vegetables
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Mama, Mama" by "Jesse Stevens and The Big Sandy B...
Sounds like yr baby's got a drinkin' problem, son ..
Avatar 🌮 1:19pm
Mailman Tom:

Dennis Hopper!
  1:23pm
morphe':

↳ Colin in Durham England @1:17
The PostMan Always Rings Twice =>
heard an interview with Cain about the origins of the title = had so many rejected manuscripts from publisher(s) = bulk envelope - told the postperson to ring once for a letter=check and twice if a bulky returned manuscript ... ?? noir truth or noir false???
Avatar 🌮 1:23pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ morphe' @1:23
True, as far as I know.
Avatar 1:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Jump Baby Jump" by "Harry Carter the Rock n Roll ...
...'The New Early History of the RawkaRollaz'
- Accordion to Rex...
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
The Butterman:

2 “Sam”songs in a row, can we get 3. ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Jeech the Jooch @1:17
Swag for life members designed by Love & Victory sizes 9-11 or 10-13. # represents your foot inches. It has a radio tower on it!
  1:27pm
davefromtoronto:

no "cali sober" in this here set!
Avatar 1:27pm
David Shortell:

I see Dick Elliot played Marryin' Sam in the 1940 film "Li'l Abner"--the part that Stubby Kaye played in the 50's musical.
  1:27pm
Steiner:

Rock and Roll Salvation. Thank you, Rex! Thank you, fellow listeners! Bless.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
egould:

I’m out of pinot grigio….
  1:31pm
morphe':

↳ morphe' @1:23
Cain ..
The PostMan Always Rings Twice =>
the post box was a small walk down from the house/LA cottage to the box...
Avatar 1:31pm
David Shortell:

↳ Bruce S. @1:16
If so, it would have to have been in the Andy Griffith Show's first season.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
The Butterman:

New Jersey afternoon inebriated.
Avatar 🌮 1:34pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart"
This isn't going to end well.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Bruce S.:

↳ David Shortell @1:31
wasn't he like the mayor of mayberry or something?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Karl Ward:

A power move
  1:35pm
morphe':

Earle H. Hagen d.2008
He wrote the folksy, countrified whistle that opened “The Andy Griffith Show,” accompanying Sheriff Andy Taylor (Mr. Griffith) and his young son, Opie (Ron Howard), down a dirt road toward a fishing hole; he did the whistling himself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/arts/television/28hagen.html
Avatar 1:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart"
..nuthin' good be happening by the time the needle hits the runout ...I just got a feelin'...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
DjLorraine:

↳ egould @1:16
Checks out. Yup. Sock it to me. *Waves 🧦
Avatar 1:36pm
Billy Jam:

wow the whole gang is here for Rex inc. morphe' The (inebriated) Butterman, Greg from ZONE 5 and RevRabbit - love it!
  1:36pm
modern blaze:

↳ Song: "Waiting At The Station" by "Hoot Gibson"
Lover man explains it
  1:36pm
davefromtoronto:

geez this set's extra demented.
  1:37pm
SeanG:

hey Billy Jam!
  1:37pm
morphe':

↳ The Butterman @1:32
GoButter!!! Lubricate the machinery so it functions correctly !!! Don't get Breathe tested at the shool door on Tuesday => enjoy the extra Monday..
Avatar 1:38pm
Billy Jam:

hey SeanG
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David Shortell:

↳ Bruce S. @1:34
You're right! A little of the 2nd season too, before he died.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
The Butterman:

↳ morphe' @1:37
Thanks morph, no of course
  1:40pm
bobobob plasticland:

I live in Smyrna in Cobb Co....Right next to Douglasville Ga
Avatar 1:41pm
PaulRobeson1923:

↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart"
Oo
Suspense…
Hi hi hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Pedro in Arlington:

Was that Elvis's Red West?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
egould:

Cheers to Dick Elliott! *clink*
  1:43pm
P-90:

380 credits is indeed a very successful run as a character actor
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
steveo:

Very good Saturday afternoon everyone. I am enjoying the twang. Mama.
  1:45pm
modern blaze:

I was commenting earlier years on this show and it was Dick Elliot birfday
Avatar 1:45pm
Megadano:

Holy smokes, i'm just finding out now that Rex is on Saturdays on this schedule. This made my day.
I worked as a volunteer for an FMU marathon with Rex in '96 and he had just moved from San Francisco. He said to me "I don't know if you've been there, but being in NYC makes SF feel like it is the size of a thimble."
Avatar 1:46pm
David Shortell:

"The Third Man" (starring Michael Rennie and Jonathan Harris) lasted 5 seasons but I've never seen it. I guess Harry Lime didn't die in that sewer after all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
steveo:

↳ Megadano @1:45
Was Scott the volunteer director already in 96?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
The Butterman:

I’ll storm the station if no Rex on schedule
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
Bruce S.:

↳ David Shortell @1:46
It lasted for five seasons? how could I have not known about that? but Michael Rennie as Harry Lime seems Interesting
Avatar 1:51pm
Megadano:

↳ steveo @1:49
maybe '97 ? it was the Upsala house.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:51pm
steveo:

↳ steveo @1:49
I guess probably not. Looks like his first broadcast was late 97.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
steveo:

↳ Megadano @1:51
Musta been cool to be there back then
Avatar 1:53pm
David Shortell:

↳ steveo @1:51
How long before was the Hound fired?
Avatar 1:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Little Billy" by "Lonnie Smith and The Generation"
Oh ! ...so TheWho's anti-smoking LittleBilly has shall we say some precedent...
Avatar 1:55pm
Megadano:

↳ steveo @1:52
eh. it was HARD to find and in a super sketchy neighborhood. I remember upstairs there was a little walk in closet with a mattress in it that Diane Kamikaze slinked into for a long nap thru most of the day. LOL
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
egould:

↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less...
Oh good. Puke. Diarrhea. Stinky underwear. Very no brow.
Avatar 1:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less...
How Punk is this I arsks yer.
  1:57pm
morphe':

Lonnie Smith and The Generation Little Billy
Knew from my father "The Ballad of the Green Beret" 1970??? but " Little Billy " was a surprise...
Avatar 🌮 1:58pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @1:46
I've listened to several old time radio episodes of the Adventures of Harry Lime. Narrated by Orson Welles in 1951!
  1:58pm
modern blaze:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:56
…Makes me sick…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm
steveo:

↳ Megadano @1:55
Haha
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Bruce S.:

when the world seems particularly absurd to me, I still like to listen to the third man theme
  2:01pm
modern blaze:

↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans"
Mambo
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:02pm
egould:

↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans"
Nice guitar solo.
Avatar 2:02pm
David Shortell:

↳ Bruce S. @1:50
Apparently it was a BBC co-production---and Jonathan Harris was also doing "The Bill Dana Show" for some of that time!
  2:03pm
morphe':

↳ Megadano @1:55
My Arnan (7?) and I went to So Orange = pre Greasey Kids .. 1990?? '91?? ..Ken thinking a kid for a Sat am kids show .. Bryce or Storck was sleeping on the couch in the entrance ...
Avatar 🌮 2:04pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @2:02
My name, Jose Jiminez!
  2:04pm
modern blaze:

okay it’s almos hour in the end and i do admire this program today will revisit when doing fallout things outside stay informed i need leathers
  2:05pm
davefromtoronto:

with retch! lol
  2:07pm
modern blaze:

MA to NJ friend shows up to go boom boom to make your boyfriend screw him uo
  2:09pm
modern blaze:

radio on🇺🇸
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Flying Saucer" by "Little Walter"
Little Walter,always great
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Hubig Pie:

Big Bill lookin' fer a widness
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
egould:

This set is makin’ me wanna’ crawdad holdin’ in the mornin’.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:11pm
egould:

The Prosecco is chilled. Bellini anyone?
  2:11pm
SeanG:

boin k-doe boin
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:13pm
The Butterman:

Now what you do is you sprinkle some erbahseckstimuler on your ribtip and look out!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:13pm
Bruce S.:

Little Walter Double Play!
Avatar 🌮 2:13pm
Mailman Tom:

If you knew the ingredients of a hot link you wouldn't want to eat it!
  2:13pm
P-90:

I wonder what’s at that address in Illinois these days. Or if there are any photos around of City BBQ in its glory days…
Avatar 2:14pm
HeyJimbo66:

So far I have every record on this blues set.😎
  2:14pm
modern blaze:

↳ egould @2:11
yes please
  2:14pm
SeanG:

pass the biscuits please
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:14pm
The Butterman:

Buttah
  2:17pm
modern blaze:

↳ Song: a song
Good song, Rex this trouble
  2:18pm
davefromtoronto:

WBLK from detroit?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:18pm
egould:

↳ modern blaze @2:14
Cheers!
  2:19pm
modern blaze:

goes boom boom deta
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Mailman Tom:

Angola prison population: 6,300!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
egould:

↳ P-90 @2:13
It’s a bodega/general merchandise store now. It’s findable on Apple maps.
Avatar 🌮 2:20pm
Hubig Pie:

Too-lane and Broad, right by Criminal Court and the Dixie Brewery
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
The Butterman:

Makes me miss the days of Radio Thrift shop into a 3 hour Fools Paradise.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
egould:

It’s *very* imbecilic!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
egould:

Brunch. Bye. Thanks Rex.
  2:23pm
modern blaze:

Bye
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
dave miss:

baptized in buttah
  2:27pm
davefromtoronto:

one eyed cat in the seafood store.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Bruce S.:

The Riverias,of california sun fame
  2:31pm
morphe':

↳ morphe' @2:03
1998 Angola Prison Doc = for later

The Farm: Angola, USA ( 1998 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odx9NEHc17M
  2:33pm
davefromtoronto:

did he say eegah?
  2:37pm
Late Bloomer:

Thanks for the memories Dick! The tunes are coming
Through loud and clear. Never sound better!
  2:39pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Boogie Chilluns Playhouse" by "Donnie Williams"
Top shelf selection!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...they all good man !...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo"
I'll take this over Tchaikovsky any day.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
Bruce S.:

one little rinky dinky drinkie
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Ernie:

↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo"
This isn't going to end well
  2:41pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo"
This one making me think of Kids In The Hall. Characters and sketch content.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Dave the Spazz:

↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo"
For years, I thought that this was an instrumental with voices overdubbed by Rex
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
The Butterman:

“Hey, this cultural stuff is great”. That’s what I say to poke fun at my wife’s side of family.
  2:44pm
morphe':

If ya see a cro mag lookin dude with a uni-brow and a shaved head and the chubby bumpy ridges betwixt the skull and the neck ..
can ya deicede to make decisions???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Dave the Spazz @2:43
Wasn't there are bidding war for that song between Brite Leaf and Spazzco?
  2:48pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Hitchcock? There’s a Hitchcock twofer tonight/tomorrow! Free, over the air on CUNY-TV’s CITY CINEMATHEQUE, no doubt followed by an egghead discussion. First, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH at 9:30PM, then THE 39 STEPS at midnight, which is tomorrow Sunday. You can have dinner in between them as two other programs separate them. Channel 25.3 on yer teleblaster...
  2:49pm
morphe':

Near dusk in Madrid - Swalllows doing last sorties ... Magpies looking for more than crumbs ... bats on the uptake ... a wee walk for me .... Thanks Rexy and all !!!
Avatar 🌮 2:55pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Thank You Mister Ballard (For Creating The Twist)...
I have the greatest hits of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on a compact disc
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
radioronan:

Thanks Rex..until next time!
  2:57pm
Andres:

Thanks for all the cultural stuff, Rex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
SeanG:

epic show
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Annette:

Bye Rex, thanks for the laughs and good 🎶 music 🎶
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Bruce S.:

Thanks Rex,have a good week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
DjLorraine:

Nice seeing ya Dick Elliot and Rex!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
The Butterman:

Yeah what they said, thanks Rex, too good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
Chili MacPagoda:

Looking for a Little Walter comp at my local(Temescal!) rekkid shop today thanks to this good n greasy show - cheers Rex
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Rex ~
  4:01pm
P-90:

I remember Pat Byrne. He might not remember me.
Avatar 3:38pm
RevWaldo:

Dick Elliot!

Dohhh, youth is wasted on the wrong people!
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