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Favoriting March 22, 2025: The Frances Drake Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Comments Approx. start time
The Starlets  Guitar Twist   Favoriting Middle C    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hi-Fives  Fujikami The Warrior   Favoriting Hitt    0:05:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Champs  Caramba   Favoriting Challenge    0:08:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Saturday Knights  Texas Tommy   Favoriting Swan    0:09:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Eddy Bell  Rock 'N Roll USA   Favoriting Lucky Four    0:17:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jim McDonald  Let's Have A Ball   Favoriting KCM    0:18:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Little Ronnie Sessions (12 years old)  Keep A-Knockin'   Favoriting Pike    0:20:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Huelyn Duvall  Three Months To Kill   Favoriting Challenge    0:22:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Marvin Rainwater  Hot And Cold   Favoriting MGM    0:24:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sanford Clark  Love Charms   Favoriting Dot    0:26:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Homer & Jethro  Tennessee Border No. 2   Favoriting RCA Victor    0:29:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mel Tillis  It's My Life   Favoriting Columbia    0:31:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Porter Wagoner  Banks Of The Ohio   Favoriting RCA Victor    0:34:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brownie McGhee  Anna Mae   Favoriting Savoy    0:43:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bo Diddley  My White Horse   Favoriting Checker    0:45:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Junior Wells  You Don't Care   Favoriting Profile    0:47:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Red Johnson  Mama Does The Boogie   Favoriting Mercury    0:50:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sticks McGhee  Head Happy With Wine   Favoriting King    0:56:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cile Turner  Crap Shootin' Sinner   Favoriting Colonial    0:57:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Warren (Tenor Sax) Luckey and Combo  Paradise Roll   Favoriting Jay-Dee    0:59:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Turbans  No No Cherry   Favoriting Money    1:05:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Hollywood Flames  Crazy   Favoriting Ebb    1:07:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Moonglows  Chickie Um Bah   Favoriting Chess    1:11:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Prells  It's A Wig   Favoriting Skymac    1:12:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Velvetones  Glory Of Love   Favoriting Imperial    1:16:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Byron Peterson Combo  Shake   Favoriting Hector    1:22:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bert Weedon  Twist It Pretty Baby   Favoriting HMV    1:23:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Little Dion  Lonely Tear Drops   Favoriting RCA    1:25:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Guise  Chumpy McGee   Favoriting Musicland U.S.A.  For the Sisters Clerc!  1:27:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Del-Tinos  Pa Pa Ooh Mau Mau   Favoriting Sonic    1:30:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Nite-Caps  See The Monkey Ride The Mule   Favoriting Way Out    1:32:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frank Gary  Speed Demon   Favoriting Twin Record Productions    1:37:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
King Louie's Court  King Louie's Glue   Favoriting Sticky Records    1:39:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jim Bogle and The Beaumen  Beware Bogle Bear   Favoriting TRC    1:47:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Lancers  The Moocher   Favoriting Central    1:49:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Moon Stones  Love Call   Favoriting Dolton    1:53:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Spades  Everytime (I Think About You)   Favoriting Out    1:54:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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William Hellfire:

Hi Fools!
Avatar 🌮 1:02pm
Mailman Tom:

Who can ever forget Frances Drake in 1935's Mad Love with Peter Lorre
Avatar 1:02pm
Mister Dobalina:

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ m o MM a ♥
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
The Butterman:

This effin’ Guy! Rex! Hi! Foolish folk.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Bruce S.:

paradise, this is nice hey
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hiya, fools!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
ironybread:

Cannot quite believe "Fujikami the Warrior" just happened. Brain broken. Have received total money's worth from my weekly Fools Paradise investment in under ten minutes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17pm
PaulRobeson1925:

The Garden ls Open…
Avatar 🌮 1:17pm
David Shortell:

↳ Mailman Tom @1:02
Me.
I somehow also forgot Colin Clive was in it!
fawesome.tv...
Avatar 🌮 1:19pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @1:17
Colin Clive always had that tortured look about him. Perfect for horror movies.
Avatar 🌮 1:20pm
Hubig Pie:

Les Jardins de Fools
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Cat Show at the Ancaster Fairgrounds:

Came for the no brow, staying for the taco.
Avatar 🌮 1:21pm
David Shortell:

↳ Mailman Tom @1:19
I also forgot Keye Luke was in it! And Ted Healy of Three Stooges fame!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Hubig Pie @1:20
wasn't Les Jardins a famouse LA session muscian?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @1:17
The spice smells begin to run! Great day for central park if yer in the city
  1:24pm
DG:

Wow, just put MAD LOVE on the DVR, will check it out. I was surprised, also, to see Healey (the Stooge) in the cast.
Avatar 🌮 1:24pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @1:21
Number One Son!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
The Butterman:

↳ Song: "Three Months To Kill" by "Huelyn Duvall"
Love this one. Been listening to it on my last day of school/work since Rex played it a few years ago. Nice!
  1:27pm
Space Cowboy:

She didn't look like a heck of a nice girl to me either......
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Love Charms" by "Sanford Clark"
I don't understand why Sanford Clark wasn't more famouse then he was, he made so many great records
  1:30pm
???:

Did you get this surface noise special from G minus Mark? How can it be possible to be g minus minus minus and still track!? Bravo! Listen to da grind in Delano!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
PigeonsAndRust:

Wait, how did she get the corn through the picket fence?
Avatar 1:32pm
Mister Dobalina:

↳ Song: "Tennessee Border No. 2" by "Homer & Jethro"
Bananners... hahah. Clicky star material !
Avatar 1:34pm
Mark T:

What a knee slappin' Yee haa.... set today. enjoying the heck out of it.
Avatar 🌮 1:36pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "Banks Of The Ohio" by "Porter Wagoner"
Gawd, I loves me some murder ballads.
Avatar 🌮 1:37pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Banks Of The Ohio" by "Porter Wagoner"
I fondly recall watching the Porter Waggoner Show on a UHF-TV channel from Sacramento
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
PaulRobeson1925:

I have nearly 30 Peter, Paul and Mary albums
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:41pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder if she was teased as "Sir" Frances Drake in grade school.
  1:42pm
Douglas R:

I just crossed the Ohio River on my way from NC to Columbus for Lost Weekend Records 22nd Anniversary Show on 2 stages tonight featuring old friend Ron House and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments. Thanks Rex!
Avatar 🌮 1:43pm
Hubig Pie:

DJ had to take a sip o' Fresca .
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @1:41
BA BUM BUM
  1:46pm
P-90:

Frances Drake: most definitely under-recognized for her contributions to The Movies
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
steveo:

Good afternoon. I am very pleased to make myself available as a witness to today's show!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:51pm
Bruce S.:

I think I got Frances Drake confused with Frances Dee
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
The Butterman:

Follerin night.
Avatar 🌮 1:52pm
Hubig Pie:

The Daniel's Bros can help with dreams you haven't even had yet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
Fuzzy:

↳ Song: "Anna Mae" by "Brownie McGhee"
"Maybelline" became a hit the same year as this -- which one came first?
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Mama Does The Boogie" by "Red Johnson"
smoooth
  1:53pm
Machine Stamp:

Contact Info:
Sheldon (1959)
6742 N. Trumbull
Chicago, IL
  1:56pm
Reek:

Where is that Daniel’s Brothers ad from? It has popped into my head many times over the years and I have no idea what it is!
  1:56pm
Rocker98:

↳ Machine Stamp @1:53
What is Sheldon?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Fuzzy:

↳ Machine Stamp @1:53
Bazinga!
Avatar 🌮 1:58pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "Head Happy With Wine" by "Sticks McGhee"
Our cat's name is Suds McGee
  2:01pm
P-90:

Cile gets an A+
  2:02pm
florida:

who dropped the bomb on the chick in the gif
  2:03pm
Jeech the Jooch:

its ½ way thru the show
  2:06pm
Jeech the Jooch:

↳ Jeech the Jooch @2:03
. . . time for Kendrick Lamar to call Drake a pedo
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:07pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "No No Cherry" by "The Turbans"
The Turbans were great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:08pm
steveo:

Best ID
  2:12pm
Machine Stamp:

↳ Rocker98 @1:56
You can find Jack's machine stamp (etched in long hand) "Sheldon" stamped in the runout grooves of a number of swell platters! Only the best in this bunker of jive and boogie woogie!
  2:17pm
Adventure Man:

I just remembered I need to go get my wig steamed
  2:18pm
Adventure Man:

Loving the doo wop. Miss the bop shop on wvos
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:18pm
Tony in Durham NC:

Yay we made the goal. Yay.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Glory Of Love" by "The Velvetones"
some of these Doo Wop versions are like the Definitive versions of the song
  2:19pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good afternoon, Rex and Everyone.
  2:21pm
Richard Whig:

lunkhead me, bay-bee!!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
Deano de los Muertos:

MAMA!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Lonely Tear Drops" by "Little Dion"
I think he was a big influence on Micheal Jackson
Avatar 2:29pm
Kitschy Mama:

↳ Song: "Lonely Tear Drops" by "Little Dion"
Fabulous
  2:29pm
Richard Whig:

is this a gimmick or a schtick?
  2:30pm
Richard Whig:

hell yeah! fkn love this 45. fuzz and hilarious lyrics!
Avatar 🌮 2:31pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Chumpy McGee" by "The Guise"
As wide as she is tall
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:31pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Kitschy Mama @2:29
I remember in the '60's he use to be on 9th Street West in L.A. - a teen dance show in the afternoon on channel 9.
  2:31pm
Harry Corvair:

#thicc

Chumpy McGee by The Guise
  2:31pm
florida:

chumpy can chow down
  2:32pm
florida:

bumpin chumpy's
  2:32pm
Richard Whig:

this set is reason alone to justify WFMUs existence!!!
Avatar 2:35pm
Kitschy Mama:

↳ Franco Twinkie @2:31
Must have been adorable! So much soul for a lil fella. 😄
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "See The Monkey Ride The Mule" by "The Nite-Caps"
this really grew on me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Kitschy Mama @2:35
He was! He would hop from side to side while singing.
  2:38pm
Richard Whig:

who wants some wheat cheapies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ Song: "Speed Demon" by "Frank Gary"
Tisk, tisk, tisk
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
Deano de los Muertos:

yeah baby
  2:42pm
Richard Whig:

glue > heroin.....got it!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Gaylord Fields:

I really appreciate Wolfman thinking on his feet and offering glue sniffing as a healthy alternative.
  2:42pm
florida:

Da Wolfman don't speed snif testors glue
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "King Louie's Glue" by "King Louie's Court"
A huff fit for a King
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Bruce S.:

Jump out of a window but don't shoot your self
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

No Brow springs forth! 🌼
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Richard Whig @2:42
Besides, you can't build an Aurora Monsters model kit with heroin. Too expensive and not adhesive enough.
  2:45pm
Adventure Man:

What ever happened to The Fur Lined Fallout Shelter mearly miles below the earth’s crust ???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @2:45
I'm a no brow. They fell out.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @2:42
Glue: It's a Habit and a Hobby!
Avatar 🌮 2:47pm
Hubig Pie:

That Wolfman, always gettin' the kiddos hooked on glue.
  2:48pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

@Richard Whig no justification needed.🍸
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Gaylord Fields @2:47
So many uses!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Beware Bogle Bear" by "Jim Bogle and The Beaumen"
this is like a conceptual tongue twister
  2:51pm
P-90:

Sounded like “Beware Boba Fett”
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:52pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ P-90 @2:51
probably sound advice
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:52pm
Deano de los Muertos:

another cautionary tale
  2:52pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Thank you, Rex and Everyone. I am glad that I made it before the party ended. It is a party, isn't it?
  2:53pm
florida:

they be smokin 405's down here
Avatar 2:53pm
Mister Dobalina:

Had to step away for a minute, making bolognese later & needed some ingredients.
  2:54pm
Adventure Man:

Glad he finally got his cigarette but now flip that biscuit over and let’s see if he finds a match
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
The Butterman:

I say this almost every week, but this was one of THE best, Rex! Tanks a lot! Latr
Avatar 2:54pm
Mister Dobalina:

And also need to re-up on some Stimulah.
  2:56pm
Adventure Man:

Needs me some stimulah baby
  2:56pm
Audiocarp:

I’ve been wondering about that “it’s been weird knowing you” clip: is that Fred macmurray?
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Bruce S.:

Thanks Rex, Great as is always the case
Be well everybody Thanks
  2:57pm
florida:

fuk beer i'm goin with the Wolfman's pick, Glue
  2:57pm
Adventure Man:

Not sure what to do wearing my green pants tonight
Avatar 🌮 2:57pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Audiocarp @2:56
It's Fred
  2:57pm
Audiocarp:

↳ Adventure Man @2:57
Too late for st patty’s
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Deano de los Muertos:

It’s been swell, thanks Rex
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Everytime (I Think About You)" by "The Spades"
the Spades were great
  2:58pm
Audiocarp:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:57
Thanks
  11:57am
seezer:

↳ Song: "It's A Wig" by "The Prells"
Love it...so naughty 60's !
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