Playlist: General Confessional - The Electric Prunes Where Do I Go? - Alyn Ainsworth Wish That I Could Talk To You - The Sylvers Venti'anni - Massimo Ranier Like A Rolling Stone - The Living Voices Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart I Don't Care If You Disrespect Me - The Frogs Stop Your Sobbin' - The Kinks The Feeling is Mutual - The Manhattans I Wish It Would Rain - The Cougars (Interlude) Tear Drop Falls - Freddy Fender Look What You've Done - Smokestack Lightning Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms Stay In School Anouncement - Otis Redding To Susan On The West Coast Waiting - Donovan Catwalk - Miriam Sognando la California - Dik Dik Big Chief (Part 1) - Professor Longhair Beatnik - The Clean Pencil Neck Geek - Freddie Blasse Crystal Lake - The Intervales Yeah Yeah - Blackrock (Interlude) Such A Night - Darondo Ain't It a Lonely Feeling - Camille Yarbrough Bring Me the Disco King - David Bowie Glass, Concrete, & Stone - David Byrne Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live At Southpaw) - Yat-Kha In The Pines - Smog Hospital - Modern Lovers Swimming Song - Louden Wainwright III No One's Gonna Love You - Nicole Willis My Heart Said - Emily Yancy (interlude) I Can't Write Left Handed - Bill Withers
Due to a technical problem with epsode 4, the good folks at east village radio opted to air our demo submission, or pilot episode, in it's place. If you have this one already, we apologize for the redundancy. However, we think it is a strong show and we hope you enjoy it (again). Episode 4 will air next thursday night, and up on the blog sometime next week. We promise to get our shit together and prevent miscues of this nature in the future. Thanks for bearing with us. Wolf out.
1. intro (my people) 2. prisoner of love – bo diddley 3. taxman – junior parker 4. don’t be cruel – billy swan 5. love gonna pack up – sly, slick and wicked 6. darkroom – paul mccartney 7. nightclubbing – grace jones 8. little boy – the beatstalkers 9. flowers everywhere (interlude) 10. china doll – leon thomas 11. singing a song for my mother – hamilton bohannon 12. fugitive song – jojo and the fugitives 13. pirates gospel – alela diane 14. i can’t keep from crying sometimes – davy graham 15. harlem hendoo – al hirt (interlude) 16. for the dollar bill (break) – tommy tate 17. sugar man – sixtoo rodriguez 18. welfare city – eugene mcdaniels 19. house for sale – val mckenna 20. i wonder – the bubble gum machine 21. young man’s blues – mose allison 22. going in circles – the natural four 23. before the night is over – joe simon 24. little bird – the beach boys 25. light my fire – brian auger & julie driscoll 26. ar goll - sidan 27. the old man’s back again – scott walker 28. sneakin up on you – peggy lee 29. midnight freeze – brian saint (interlude) 30. take me with you – lyn cristopher 31. things get a little easier – biz markie 32. the reason young people use drugs – abner jay 33. i can’t help myself – the gems 34. if you think it – the emotions 35. you are what you love – jenny lee and the watson twins 36. black winds – little john and the monks 37. davey crockett – the headcoatees 38. 10 lb moustache – man man 39. funnel of love – wanda jackson 40. kites – simon dupree and the big sound 41. heartbreaking years – barbara lynn 42. you’re gonna want me back – dionne warwick 43. graveyard – leroy bowman 44. (outro) wand’rin star – lee marvin
Episode # 3
This one here is a banger full of heaters and long-standing gems.
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Tracklist:
1. 2001 - Brooklyn Bridge
2. Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries - Willie Bobo
3. For Your Love - The Yardbirds
4. Everybody's Got To Live - Love
5. Nigel Blows A Tune - Caravan
6. Toast - Streetband
7. Cherrystones - Eugene Macdaniels
8. Love and Money - Marianne Faithful
9. Lonesome Road - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
10. True Love Don't Grow On Trees - Helene Smith
11. Down Home Girl - The Coasters
12. Mao - Joe Ki Peter Thomas Sound Group
13. I Am Superman - The Clique
14. Y La Amo - Carrion
15. Some Velvet Morning - Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra
16. Pancakes - Marvin Pontiac
17. Sixteen Tons - Paul Robeson
18. It's Great To Be Young And In Love - Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
19. (interlude) Oy Tate - Metropolitan Klezmer
20. (Interlude) Fever (Instrumental) - Essence
21. Martin's Funeral - Bill Cosby
22. Sunny - Bobby Hebb
23. The Letter - The Box Tops
24. Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie
25. The Backbone Of America Is A Mule and Cotton - Abner Jay
26. Funkee - Andre Brasseur
27. Lost & Looking - Sam Cooke
28. Life's Gone Down Low - The Lijadu Sisters
29. Eternal Life - Shira Small
30. My Simple Neighborhood - Carol King
31. Oogum Boogum - Brenton Wood
32. California Dreamin' - Bobby Womack
33. San Francisco Nights - Eric Burdon
34. Spanish Is The Loving Tounge - Robert Zimmerman
35. No Home - Michael Hurley
36. Season Of The Witch - Al Kooper Steven Stills Mike Bloomfield
37. Either Way I lose - Nina Simone
38. Evening News - Cee-Lo Green
39. Grits - RZA
40. As Long as I've Got You - The Charmels
41. Heaven on Their Minds - Sam Taylor
42. (Interlude) - Apache
43. Johnny Is The Boy For Me - Les Paul and Mary Ford
44. Mercy Mercy Mercy - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
45. See Ya - The Magic Garden
So maybe you were wondering about this joint, maybe you weren't. Either way, here's the story. In the back of old comic books, rolling stone magazines, etc., there used to be these ads that said "So, you think you got what it takes to write a hit song? Send lyrics and a check to such and such and we will make make it happen for you". Basically, you write words and pay some one you've never met to interpret them and put them to music. These ghost collaborations became known as "song poems". There is a really interesting (if a little unsettling) film about the phenomenon, which is still going on today, mind you. One of the standouts is the Jimmy Carter number, so we've posted a little clip. The writer of the tune is Waskey Elwood Walls Jr. And for the record, of the thousands of song poems recorded over the years, not one has ever charted.
Another slept on film..."King of the Gypsies" 1978, with Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Eric Roberts, and Brooke Shields. Actually pretty good.
...And the real King of the Gypsies (Baronul Arthur din Soroca of the Bassarabian Gypsies). I can't find anything out about this guy.
And another gypsy woman.
Gypsy Joe Harris was one of the most gifted and popular boxers in Philadelphia's rich pugalist history. He stormed throught the welterweight ranks and even defeated reigning champ Curtis Cokes in a 1967 non-title fight. In 1968, he lost his boxing license when it was discovered that he was blind in one eye. He tried to get reinstated, but the commission wasn't having it, and at 22, his dreams of becoming champ were crushed. He never really found another direction in life, and died of heart failure at the age of 44. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Bala Cynwood, PA. The good folks at Philly Boxing History (who provided this picture & info) placed a headstone on his grave in 2006. I'm not a big boxing fan or anything, it's just one of those stories...
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Old Cherokee proverb:
The wise old man tells his grandson, "My son, there is a battle that goes on inside people. The battle is between 2 wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,"Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "Whichever one you feed."
Tracklist:
1. Coffee Cold - Galt McDermont 2. Devil Woman -Charles Mingus 3. Devil Woman - Marty Robins 4. Some Say (I got Devil) - Melanie 5. Pretty Good Love - Big Maybelle 6. Hit Or Miss - Odetta 7. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw 8. Tomorrow Never Knows - Junior Parker 9. Midnight Cowboy - Ferrante & teicher 10. Everybody's Talking - Bill Withers 11. Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty 12. Jimmy Carter Says "Yes" - The American Song-poem Anthology 13. Mommy - The Cenubites 14. Love me, Love my Children - Lorri Zimmerman 15. Working In A Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey 16. Run On For A Long Time - Bill Landford & The Landfordaires 17. California Soul - Marlena Shaw 18. (Interlude) - Smilin' Billy Suite Pt. 2 - The Heath Brothers/Apache - Burt Wheedon 19. Man, oh, Man - The Impressions 20. Royalty - Cody Chessnut 21. Morning Sun - All Barr & The Cimarons 22. Johnny Get Angry - Joanie Sommers 23. I Was a Teenage Caveman - Randy Luck 24. Dum Maro Dum - Asha Bhosle & Chorus 25. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Loretta Lynn 26. Bad Girl Pt. 1 - Lee Moses 27. Memories Are Here To Stay - The Intruders 28. Fire and Rain - Isley Brothers 29. Paint a Lady - Susan Christie 30. Today Withou You - Samantha Jones 31. Danger! She's a Stranger - The 5 Stair Steps 32. More Than One Way Out The Ghetto - Showbiz & A.G. 33. Rome - Horace Andy 34. (Interlude) - Bamboo Child - Ryo Kawasaki 35. Once Upon a Time - Robert Bradley 36. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jimmy Ponder 37. Dimming of The Day / Dargai- Richard And Linda Thompson
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Tracklist:
1. Away - Jim Bartow & the Harlem Blues Consort 2. Everglades - Dale Hawkins 3. He's Gone - Doris Duke 4. Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan 5. Hate Street Dialoge - Sixtoo Rodriguez 6. Didn't I - Darondo 7. If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin 8. This Little Bird - Marianne Faithfull 9. I Hear Voices - Screamin' Jay Hawkins 10. Stoned in the Bathroom - Chubby Checker 11. Stoned Is - Listening 12. Wined And Dined - Syd Barrett 13. Lost - The Darlettes 14. Invitation To Black Power Pt. 2 - Shahid Quintet 15. The End Of Silence - Elaine Brown 16. I don't Like You - Bo Diddley 17. I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over - David Porter 18. Go On And Cry - Les McCann 19. Time For Everything - Ed Pauling & The Exciters (The 5 Royales) 20. Ruler of My Heart - Irma Thomas 21. (Interlude) - Ou Est-Tu Amour ? - Willie Nelson 22. Remember (Walking In The Sand) - The Shangri-Las 23. Remember Me - Rita Pavone 24. Lost Vein of Love - Billy Carson 25. Suicide is Painless - Johnny Mandel 26. Exodus - Hank & Carol Diamond 27. My World Full Down - Sagitarius 28. Tell Me Why Has Our Love Turned Cold - Willie Hutch 29. Dear Prudence - Ramsey Lewis 30. Vegetables - The Beach Boys 31. Just Memories - Eddie Kendricks 32. Lovin' You - Johnny Guitar Watson 33. Kimberley - Patti Smith 34. Deep Down - Ennio Morricone 35. Le Reve - Sheila 36. Baltimore - Nina Simone 37. You Don't Know - Bob Andy 38. Only When I'm Dreaming - Minnie Ripperton 39. Ordinary Joe - Terry Callier 40. (Interlude) Harlem Nocturn - Neil Lewis And His Quintet 41. Long Way Home - Tom Waits
"80 Blocks from Tiffany's" is a documentary about the Savage Skulls and Savage Nomads gangs in the Bronx in the late 70's. It is such an important piece of nyc street culture that goes largely unrecognized in the cannon of films about the youth experience in NYC. We've all seen Style Wars, Beat Street and Wildstyle like 500 times, but this kind of sets the stage for all that.
It's also interesting because it catches the gangs at the tail end of their prominence in the city. In the late 60's and early 70's there were an estimated 70,000 gang members in the 5 boroughs. There were a lot of factors that lead to their decline, not the least of which being the indrduction of the crack game, which transformed the gangs what were until that point basically neighborhood "social clubs", to groups that existed solely for financial gain. We posted the first part of the film here, you can youtube the rest if you're interested.
And if you're intot hat sort of thing, there is also a really interesting book about post WW2 youth gang culture called "Vampires, Dragons and Egyptian Kings", which starts out by telling the story of Salvador Agron, "The Capeman", on whom the short-lived but recenty ressurected Paul Simon Musical was based.
Oh and one more thing. I always thought this was an amazing companion piece to the films we grew up watching. "Streetwise" is a film by Martin Bell that documents a group of runaway kids in the early 80's in Seattle's Tenderloin district. Its fascinating to see what american street kids were up to 3000 miles from where I was when I was growing up. It is also simply a beautiful film, both visually and in the way they handle the content. Again, this is just the first part...
