Playlist for Tuesday January 16, 2007 (Broadcast 2-5:30 p.m.)
The topics of this week's Wiggy's Ramblings:
My life-changing experience seeing the 1001st performance of the off-Broadway show Slava's Snowshow--easily the best stage production I've seen in my life. Mystic, magical, brilliant.
The Patriots win over the San Diego Chargers. Go Pats!
This week's musical theme: Texas Almost Always Makes Me Cry.
Van Morrison:
Call Me Up in Dreamland (CD single, recorded live in Switzerland/Point Blank Records) Precious Time (from the CD: Back on Top/Point Blank Records) Sweet Thing & Cypress Avenue (from the CD: Astral Weeks/Warner Bros.) Carry on Regardless (unreleased CD: recorded live in London)
Roy Head: from the CD "White Texas Soul Shouter: The Crazy Cajun Recordings" (Edsel Records)
Soul Train
Bring it On Jerome
Drivin' Wheel
Doug Sahm: from the CD "The Last Real Texas Blues Band, featuring Doug Sahm"/Antone's Records)
(Doug passed away in 1999, he was the "Douglas" in the Sir Douglas Quintet and is a legendary Texas musician)
Here's a good short bio link: http://www.laventure.net/tourist/sdq_hist.htm
My Girl Josephine
I'm a Fool to Care
Something to Remember You By
Home at Last
Mickey Gilley:
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels (from the CD: "Sir Douglas Presents: Lone Star Jukebox: Two Decades of Texas Treats"/WestSide Records)
Rod Bernard:
Colinda (From the CD: "Sir Douglas Presents: Lone Star Jukebox: Two Decades of Texas Treats"/WestSide Records)
Van Morrison:
I'll Take Care of You (composer: Brook Benton) (from the CD: "Too Long In Exile"/Polydor)
Doug Sahm:
I'll Take Care of You (Benton) (from the CD: "Hell of a Spell")
Irma Thomas
I'll Take Care of You (Benton) (from the vinyl recording: "The Way I feel")
Norman Corwin: First in a series of broadcasts of radio dramas from the 1940's master of radio drama, Norman Corwin. We heard the story The Odyssey of Runyon Jones. I'll
be broadcasting a new 30-minute drama each 3rd Tuesday of the month at
4 p.m. At one time Corwin had audiences exceeding 60 million listeners!
For more on his career (he's still alive, by the way), go to:
http://www.normancorwin.com/
(picking up here around 4:35 p.m.)
Jive Aces (from the CD "Planet Jive"/Golden Era Productions)
When You Wish Upon a Star
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
Jimmy LaFave (all from the CD "Highway Trance"/Bohemia Beat Records)
one of my favorite Texas artists, he's the guy with that sort of soulful, whiney, blues twang...
Leslie, Talk to Me
Cafe in the Rain
Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon
I've Got Your Picture
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez (from the CD "The Trouble with Humans"/Train Wreck Records)
Laredo
Dirty Little Texas Story
...and from their cd single "Angel of the Morning"/Train Wreck Records:
Angel of the Morning and the show faded out on the cd single version of Laredo
