WFMU: Teenage Wasteland Playlist

Listener comments!

3:06pm asheville jon:

Cool version of who do you love. Who is it?

3:09pm howard:

Bill, i love it whey you spin up the Graham Parker

3:10pm SHAKIN885:

Rockin' Rochester checking in, sir!

♥ 3:12pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Oh boy, check out the home page! The WFMU marathon is coming, starting March 5. Start checking behind the couch cushions now.

3:24pm Eddie:

Great tunes. Playlist?

♥ 3:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@DaveinPA: ...continuing from last week...Joe informs of a doc called 'Garage Rock USA'. Thx Joe!
@Eddie: BillKelly does his playlist later. It's the BlackHole of Rawk'n'Roll.

3:31pm Al:

@Eddie: Bill posts the playlist after the show.

3:34pm looking stuff up:

"NY Doo Wop" titles a YT poster of The Desires - "Rendezvous with You", from Hull Records (nautical theme) near Brill Bldg.
http://home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/hullgroups.html

3:44pm Eddie:

Thanks. I have listened to his archives but never live until now.

3:45pm Mailman Tom:

1950. That's the earliest song I've heard on your show, Bill.

3:50pm looking stuff up:

Feb 19, 2012 Bill played The Orioles - "Tell Me So", a 78, listed 1949
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/43966

3:54pm Mailman Tom:

We had front row seats for Slim Harpo in 1968. He opened for Sly and the Family Stone.

3:57pm looking stuff up:

No, it was on July 28, 1969

4:01pm noel:

Outlaws on the radio. Not played on the commercial one's in years.

4:03pm noel:

Sly opened for Hendrix at the Fillmore East May 68 first rock show ever for me.

4:06pm Mailman Tom:

That's a great way to begin!

♥ 4:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...unless all the others disappoint !

♥ 4:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@noel: www.concertvault.com...

4:39pm noel:

Revolution Rabbit how did someone record everything that happened back then. I lost hearing in my ear I was in row 12 so when I went to the Singer Bowl in August I took cotton wool.

4:47pm Forty Nineteens:

Rock on Bill ! Tuned in from Calif!

4:49pm Mailman Tom:

I'm surprised more bands don't cover this great R&R song

4:54pm Al:

I love British Invasion music!

4:55pm looking stuff up:

fake Beatles meets fake Hermans Hermits

4:56pm future transport:

ANNA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

♥ 4:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

But it's another one from Santa Barbara ! I lived there 16 years - decades later of course. Always wondered which corner...

♥ 4:58pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, BK. Have a good week.

5:00pm Al:

@future transport: Your avatar has a hypnotizing effect.

♥ 5:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yeah Thx DJ BK !

5:01pm SHAKIN885:

Excellent show, Bill!

5:02pm looking stuff up:

"Unlike many street groups of New York, The DESIRES worked with a vocal coach, Eddie Jones, formerly of the Demens on Teenage and the Emersons on Newport. In 1959 the group attracted the attention of BOBBETTES manager James Dailey, and it was he who took the youngsters to Hull Records with several demos of songs they'd written. Their first release was a solid New York-style ballad, "Let It Please Be You," with Bootsie singing his Frankie Lymon-like heart out. Despite its weak national showing, it was a song destined to become an East Coast favorite and a part of almost every '60s doo wop group's repertoire. The uptempo B side, "Hey Lena," also showcased their strong harmonies and a sound reminiscent of The Teenagers. Taking advantage of regional radio reaction to "Let It Please Be You," the Desires played such swank venues as Bellevue Hospital (home of the Bonnie Sisters) in New York and Jocko's Rollerskating Rink in New Jersey while traveling up and down the East Coast performing with The Paragons, The Jesters, and The Kodaks, among others. The Desires' second 45, "Rendezvous with You," was released in 1960 and received somewhat less response than their previous . . . . "
- - - American Singing Groups: A History From 1940s to Today

8:40am looking stuff up:

The entire Desires passage is in the READ MORE YT video description
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0-tWNnaLs

12:31am John from CDA:

Looking Stuff Up, I heard Bill play a song older than "Tell Me So". It was from the Mills Brothers.

10:25am looking 78s up:

@ Mailman Tom
Yes, John from CDA!
The Mills Brothers' 1944 "Till Then," beautiful song, played 2014 & 2012.
TW's earliest 5:
1944: "Till Then" - The Mills Brothers (78)
1949: "Tell Me So" - The Orioles (78)
1950: "Pink Champagne" - Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers (78, played this show)
1952 (tie): "The Glow Worm" - The Mills Brothers (45)
1952 (tie): "One Mint Julip" - The Clovers (45)

11:25pm John from CDA:

Looking, you forgot the Ames Brothers' 1950 hit, "Ragg Mopp".

11:26pm John from CDA:

Looking, you forgot the Ames Brothers' 1950 hit, "Ragg Mopp".

12:02am John from CDA:

And Louis Jordan's "Caldonia".

5:30am looking 78s up:

Apparently vinyl 45s that warped but were less prone to breaking began displacing shellac 78s around 1950-1952. Think I read the 16 2/3 rpm format with its large center hole didn't work out for Chrysler car players, got some use for speech for the blind, was sent to space on Voyager or such.
The revised list of TW's earliest records:
1931 - Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway (78) [Brunswick] played February 3, 2013
1939 - If I Didn't Care - The Ink Spots (78) [Decca] played July 3, 2011
1942 - Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - The Andrews Sisters (78) [Decca] played July 20, 2014
1944 - Till Then - The Mills Brothers (78) 1944 [Decca] played March 23, 2014
1945 - Caldonia - Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five (78) [Decca] played January 10, 2016
1946 - That's All Right - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (78) [RCA Victor] played March 23, 2014
1947 - Good Rocking Tonight - Roy Brown (78) [DeLuxe] played June 26, 2011
1948 - Gloria - The Mills Brothers (78) [Decca] played May 5, 2013
1949 - Tell Me So - The Orioles (78) [Jubilee] played February 19, 2012
1949 - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams (78) [Sterling] played April 17, 2011
1949 - Grandma Plays The Numbers - Wynonie Harris (78) [King] played April 6, 2014
1950 - Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers (78) 1950 [Specialty] played February 19, 2017
1950 - Rag Mop - The Ames Brothers (45) [Coral] played September 18, 2016
1951 - Dust My Broom - Elmore James (78) [Trumpet] played June 14, 2009
1952 - The Glow-Worm - The Mills Brothers (45)
1952 - One Mint Julip - The Clovers (45)

10:54am Iamthedj:

Y'all missed "Rock & Roll" by Wild Bill Moore from the late 40's (vocal by Scatman Crothers). It's cool that you compiled the list. Grazie!

11:00am Iamthedj:

I've prolly also spun "When the Levee Breaks" by Memphis Minnie and what's-his-name, circa '29.

11:04am Iamthedj:

"Fat Man" by Fats, "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston, yadda yadda