Summer is here and so we’ll be celebrating those lazy, hazy, crazy days that come with it. We’re approaching the dog days, as they say, and that also means festivals, music, cool drinks, swimming gear, and lighter beers. This week’s show has us getting serious about summer songs: Elvis, Sam Cooke, The Chantels, Dolly Parton, Dave Brubeck, and just a touch of surf sounds from The Sandals. Summer winds, summer wages, summer rain, and summer love this week on Deeper Roots, recorded at the KOWS studios planted square in the Cherry Street District of Santa Rosa.
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Nat King Cole
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S
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The Sandals
Theme from "Endless Summer"
The Perfect Day: The Music from 40 Years of Surfing Magazine
4
The Beach Boys
Your Summer Dream
Surfer Girl
5
The Percy Faith Orchestra
Them From A Summer Place
Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1]
6
The Fleetwoods
They Tell Me It's Summer
Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods
7
The Chantels
Summers's Love (Richard Barrett with the Chantels)
The Best of the Chantels
8
Robin Ward
Wonderful Summer
Early Girls: 1
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Johnny Rivers
Summer Rain
Best Of Johnny Rivers
10
Frank Sinatra
Something Wonderful Happens In Summer
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [Disc 3]
11
Sam Cooke
Summertime
Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
12
Ian & Sylvia
Summer Wages
So Much For Dreaming
13
It's a Beautiful Day
Hot Summer Day
It's a Beautiful Day
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Frank Sinatra
Summer Wind
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
15
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Summertime
Sing America
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Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin
Summertime
Cheap Thrills
17
Dave Brubeck
Summer Song [Album Version]
Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
18
Seals & Crofts
Summer Breeze
AM Gold 1972
19
Dolly Parton
Sweet Summer Lovin'
I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1
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Elvis Presley
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
Elvis for Everyone!
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Nelson Riddle
The Green Leaves of Summer
The Best of Nelson Riddle
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Willie Nelson
Summer Of Roses [Album Version]
One Hell Of A Ride
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Desert Rose Band
Summer Wind
Running
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Robbie Fulks
Rose of the Summer
Gone Away Backward
25
Don Henley
The Boys of Summer
Building the Perfect Beast
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Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
We’ll be serenading you with some island melodies, country tunes, and rock, all featuring the steel guitar, an instrument whose origins take us back to the late 19th and early 20th century invention by native Joseph Kekuku. The music this Friday features some early Hawaiian popular influences including Sol Ho’opi, Hoot Gibson, and King Nawah’s Hawaiians. The focus moves to mid-to late century greats featuring Pete Drake, Buddy Emmons, Buster Martin and Speedy West. The popularity of the ‘island sound’ in the early century brought us the sound of steel across many genres, including gospel, folk, blues, and country. Spend a couple of hours on an August morning in Sonoma County taking a journey from Hawaii to Forth Worth.
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King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Hawaiian Capers
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Trio De Hawaii
Melodias Populares Mexicana
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Sol Ho'opi'i
Singing The Blues
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1
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Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
An Orange Grove in California
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Hoot Gibson
Mai Givee (Don't Give It Away)
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
7
Kalama's Quartet
Sassy
Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
8
Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians
Heat Wave
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
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Sol Ho'opi'i
I Like You
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
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King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Under a Texas Moon
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
11
Madame Riviere's Hawaiians
Ellis March
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
12
Buster Martin
Herbie's Steel Guitar Polka
Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 10]
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Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians
Bob & Jim by The Waters of Minetonka
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jim & Bob
The Song of the Range
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
I Won't Stand in Your Way
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons
Singing Strings Of Steel
The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds
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Lone Star Playboys
Steel Guitar Bounce
The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
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Albert Lee
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
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Howard White
Steel Guitar Swallow
Western Swing And Steel Instrumental
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Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar
For Pete's Sake [Instrumental]
For Pete's Sake [Gusto]
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Pete Drake
Pedal Jumpin'
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
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Speedy West
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar
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Tiny Murphy & His Bar 69 Boys
Hot Steel
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jerry Byrd
Hilo Steel Guitar
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
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Bob Wills
Texas Playboy Rag
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
27
Bobby Lee
Steel Guitar Rag
Quasar Steel Guitar
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Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Journey To The Beginning – A Steel Guitar Tribute To The Byrds
One way to lounge about in the summer heat is to go directly at it with songs that complement the temperature from different angles (and genres). Tune in Saturday afternoon for a fresh look as Dave sits in for Steady Eddie once more with some rockabilly with Jimmy Simmons and Billy Lee Riley, hot country biscuits from Asleep at the Wheel and Al Dexter, hot soul stew from James Brown and Major Lance, and some humid yet playful pieces from Fats Waller and Lee Press-on & The Nails. We’ll also be taking a drone flight above some Mason-Dixon Line tradition from the very distant past with the Old South Quartette (featuring Polk Miller), and Victoria Spivey and Don Flemons. It’s summer and the heat will be with us for some weeks; too hot to handle? Too darn hot? Too hot for (fill in the blank)? Join this hot little collection in a special fill-in on a Saturday afternoon in Sonoma County. At least it’s a dry heat.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Too Darn Hot
Music & Moonlight
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Iris DeMent
Hotter Than Mojave In My Heart
Infamous Angel
4
Old South Quartette
When De Corn Pone's Hot
Music Of The Old South: Polk Miller & The Old South Quartette
5
Al Dexter
Hot Foot Shuffle
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
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Lonnie Johnson
Hot Fingers
Hot Fingers
7
Asleep at the Wheel
Hot Like That
Reinventing the Wheel
8
Jimmy Simmons
Too Hot To Handle
100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks
9
Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets
Hot Tamale Pete
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
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Johnny Carroll
Hot Rock
Classic Rockabilly
11
Billy Lee Riley
Red Hot
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
A couple of months ago we featured about 20 minutes on a songwriter special featuring the music of the husband and wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. We’ll take a bit more time in this week’s show sharing their tunes with you. From the Brill Building onwards, their songs easily defined the soundtrack for a generation of young Americans of the 1960s. Light-hearted love songs, songs of reflection, and dreamlike hooks were the order: Carole the tunes and Gerry the lyrics. Join Dave Stroud in a look back featuring the music of The Cookies, Earl Jean, Lou Rawls Skeeter Davis, and many more on a Friday evening on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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The Cookies
Chains
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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Gene Pitney
Every Breath I Take
Anthology: 1961-1968
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Aretha Franklin
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Smooth Grooves: The '60s, Vol. 2: Mid-'60s
5
Tammy Montgomery
Make The Night A Little Longer
Come On And See Me: The Complete Solo Collection
6
Freddie Scott
Hey, Girl
Malt Shop Memories: Save The Last Dance For Me (Disc 2)
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Maxine Brown
Oh No Not My Baby
Time-Life Classic Rock: 1964 – The Beat Goes On
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Skeeter Davis
I Can't Stay Mad At You
Early Girls: 1
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Little Eva
The Loco-Motion
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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Dusty Springfield
That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) [*]
Dusty in Memphis [Deluxe Edition]
11
The Righteous Brothers
Just Once in My Life
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 3
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The Drifters
Some Kind of Wonderful
Drifters' Golden Hits
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The Drifters
Up on the Roof
Drifters' Golden Hits
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Maurice & Mac
So Much Love
Chess Uptown Soul
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Carole King
It Might As Well Rain Until September
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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The Cookies
Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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The Crystals
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 1
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The Chiffons
One Fine Day
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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The Ronettes
Is This What I Get for Loving You?
The Best of the Ronettes
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The Blossoms
So Much Love
So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958 – 1998
We revisit the blues with some pairings of old and new. Join Dave Stroud for a selection of classic delta, Chicago, and folk blues from the likes of Robert Wilkins, Elmore James, Magic Slim, and Bukka White. The original classics pair up with updated versions from contemporaries like Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers, and Rory Block. Blues is the big muddy and the the tributaries flow through vast expanses of cleansing and clarifying. But, unlike those wide rivers like the Mississippi, the tributaries explode into new, deeper channels in the heart of the American landscape.
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Turtle Island String Quartet
Crossroads
A Little on the CD Side
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Muddy Waters
Trouble No More
Trouble No More: Singles (1955-1959)
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The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars
Trouble No More (featuring Mick Jagger & Keith Richards)
Blues Blues Blues
5
Black Cats And The Kitten
Step It Up And Go [Album Version]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
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Warner Williams With Jay Summerour
Step It Up And Go
Blues Highway
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Robert Wilkins
That's No Way to Get Along
Roots of Rock
8
The Rolling Stones
Prodigal Son
Beggars Banquet
9
Elmore James
One Way Out
The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings [Disc 1]
10
John Hiatt
One Way Out
All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
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Howlin' Wolf
I Ain't Superstitious
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
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Jeff Beck
I Ain't Superstitious
Truth
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Big Joe Williams
Baby Please Don't Go
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
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Tom Rush
Baby Please Don't Go
Town and Country Blues
15
Elmore James
Dust My Broom
Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
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Sonny Landreth
Dust My Broom
Bound by the Blues
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Howlin' Wolf
Back Door Man
Blues Masters Vol. 6 – Blues Originals
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John Hammond
Backdoor Man
The Best Of
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Koko Taylor
Wang Dang Doodle
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
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Dr. John
Wang Dang Doodle
The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
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Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie
When the Levee Breaks
People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
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Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton
When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1
Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin
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Bukka White
Parchman Farm Blues
Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [Disc 1]
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Rory Block
Parchman Farm Blues
Keepin' Outta Trouble: A Tribute to Bukka White
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Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
RCA Record Label: The 1st Note In Black Music [Disc 1]
“The only thing that interests me is history – reviewing the past and making something out of it”. A man after our own heart here at Deeper Roots, shining bright like that old harvest moon. We lost Leon this past week and his family lovingly announced his passing with the following prose deserving of the mysterious Mr. Redbone: “It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127. He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence.” We’ll take some time to honor the music that so inspired this delightful entertainer who elevated the blues, early century pop, and country into a form that extracted the joy of life and bottled like fine wine over the past 40 years. We’ll even reach into the Redbone bins for a handful of delightful covers. A simple tip of our hat to Leon as he crosses to the other shore…
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Leon Redbone
If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
Double Time
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Merle Travis
If We Never Meet Again
Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
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Emmett Miller
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
Minstrel Man From Georgia
5
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
The Sheik Of Araby
Saints Ramble & Sensation
6
Laurel and Hardy
Shine on Harvest Moon
The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999
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Nat King Cole
Sweet Lorraine
The Cocktail Combos [Disc 1]
8
Billie Holiday Feat. Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
Sugar
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 05]
9
Hoagy Carmichael
Lazybones
Sometimes I Wonder….
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Hoagy Carmichael
Lazy River
Sometimes I Wonder….
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Lonnie Johnson
He's A Jelly-Roll Baker
Tomorrow Night
12
Peetie Wheatstraw
Shake That Thing
ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48
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Dave Van Ronk
Shake That Thing
Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
14
Elvis Presley
You're A Heartbreaker
Elvis – The King Of Rock 'N' Roll – The Complete 50's Masters (CD1)
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Julia Lee
Breeze
Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
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Cowboy Copas
Breeze
1954-1958
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Leon Redbone
Breeze
Sugar
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Rex Griffin
Sweet Mama Hurry Home
1935-1936 (Warped 3520)
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Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy
Bouquet Of Roses
Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
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Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 2 : Brownie Special
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Emmett Miller
Lovesick Blues
American Yodeling
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Blind Blake
Diddie Wa Diddie (Pm 12888, 15459-A)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
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Leon Redbone
Diddy Wa Diddie
Double Time
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Shirley Temple
Polly Wolly Doodle
America's Sweetheart
25
Boswell Sisters
When I Take My Sugar to Tea
Boswell Sisters
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Paul Specht
Sweet Lorraine
Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930
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Ruth Etting
Shine on, Harvest Moon
Art Deco: Lovely Ladies of Stage and Screen
28
Joe Keawe
My Little Grass Shack
Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I
Back to the bayou once more, but this time with less the rocking rhythms of the mid-to-late century and more with tradition. We pick on the sound of cajun music, celebrating a simple dance style born of early century French/Canadian, African Creole from the Caribbean, and American Country: the two-step. It’s music is full of accordion, fiddle, washboard, bass fiddle, triangle, and percussion of all kinds…giving it a consistently energetic and lively signature. And the dance which is our focus is a simple but expressive one similar to the western two-step…just without the fancy turns and spins. Our performances include some classics from the early century including Amede Ardoin and Jimmy Newman as well as contemporaries and mid-century legends like Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys, Al Berard, Michael Doucet, and Louisiana energy from the swamps to Lake Pontchartrain. Tune in!
We’re going to count down the top ten of the year 1954…in pop, country, and R&B. Nothing special about that year, just a random pick; but it was the year that Marilyn Monroe married Joltin’ Joe D. It was the year the Army-McCarthy hearings convened. The words “under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance. It was also a year of firsts: That’s Alright, Mama, Elvis’ first big hit, was released on Sun Records, the first Burger King opened, and the first transistor radio was developed and announced by high-tech’s Texas Instruments. The DOW Jones average closed at an all-time high of (a whopping) 382.74. Tune in for the countdown. 65 years in the rear-view on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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Frank Sinatra
Young At Heart
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [Disc 1]
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The Midnighters
Annie Had a Baby
Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2
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Archie Bleyer
Hernando's Hideaway
Your Hit Parade – 1954
5
Johnnie & Jack
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely
Golden Age of Country Volume 4: Honky-Tonk Man [Disc 2]
6
The Midnighters
Sexy Ways
Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1
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Doris Day
Secret Love
The Best Of Doris Day
8
Jim Reeves
Bimbo
Classic Country Hits 'Your Cheatin Heart' Disc 1
9
Guitar Slim
The Things That I Used To Do
Living The Blues: Blues Masters
10
The Four Aces
Three Coins In The Fountain
A Proper Introduction To The Four Aces – Heart And Soul
11
Webb Pierce
Even Tho
All Hits! [Disc 1]
12
Faye Adams
Hurts Me to My Heart
Keeper of My Heart
13
Four Knights
I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You)
Your Hit Parade – 1954
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Hank Snow
It Don't Hurt Anymore
The Essential Hank Snow
15
Roy Hamilton
You'll Never Walk Alone
Anthology 1
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Eddie Fisher
Oh! My Papa
Your Hit Parade #1 Hits Of The '50s
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Eddy Arnold
I Don't Really Want to Know (Remake)
The Essential Eddy Arnold
18
The Chords
Sh-Boom
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
19
Jo Stafford
Make Love To Me
Your Hit Parade – 1954
20
Webb Pierce
More And More
All Hits! [Disc 1]
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Ruth Brown
Oh What A Dream
Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2
22
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2)
23
Kitty Wells
One By One (w/Red Foley)
Singles
24
Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Big Joe Rocks
25
Rosemary Clooney
Hey There
Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1)
26
Webb Pierce
Slowly
All Hits! [Disc 1]
27
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Work With Me Annie
The Roots Of Frank Zappa
28
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra/Perry Como
Wanted
The Very Best of Perry Como
29
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Wake Up Irene
Vintage Collections
30
The Drifters With Clyde McPhatter
Honey Love (Single/LP Version)
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
31
Kitty Kallen
Little Things Mean A Lot
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)
32
Stuart Hamblen
This Ole House
Classic Country
33
Rosemary Clooney
This Ole House
16 Most Requested Songs (K)
34
The Crows
Gee
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
35
Bill Haley & His Comets
Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere) (Single Version)
For the birds, about the birds, and don’t you know that we’ll be wingin’ it on Deeper Roots….literally and figuratively. Our theme this week celebrates these descendants of prehistoric times and we’ll celebrate with flights of music and lyrics by all of the best including stories of robins, blackbirds, bluebirds, mockingbirds, and whipporwills. Tune in for music from LIttle Jimmy Dickens, Buffalo Springfield, Bill Monroe, and The Handsome Family on a Sonoma County Community radio morning that promises the brightest and warmest of the year so far. What better way to enjoy a Friday morning.
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Al Jolson
When the Red Red Robin (Birds)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
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Steve Goodman
Red Red Robin
Live at the Earl of Old Town
4
Cyril Grantham With Geraldo & His Orchestra
Robins And Roses
Penny Serenade – Rare Recordings From The 1930s
5
Jimmy Martin
Little Robin
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
Founded in 1957 by brother and sister Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton as Satellite Records, Stax Records would become a powerhouse soul and R&B label in the sixties. Their ‘open door’ policy of welcoming artists to prove themselves in the studio produced an unparalleled cadre of talent. Although it looked as if the label went down with its biggest talent, Otis Redding, in 1967 when Atlantic Records had Stax forfeit all of its studio recordings through its power of majority stakeholder, under the guiding hand of Al Bell, the catalogue was rebuilt and a whole new generation of performers would surface in the 1970s. We’ll share the stories and the music from the Stax label this Friday on Deeper Roots on Sonoma County’s powerhouse low power station, KOWS.
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Ruby Johnson
I'll Run Your Hurt Away
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9)
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Veda Brown
Short Stopping
Stax 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 3]
4
Mable John
Your Good Thing (Is About To End)
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
5
Judy Clay & William Bell
Private Number
Stax 50th [[Disc 1]]
6
Jean Knight
Mr. Big Stuff
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 2]
7
Mel & Tim
Starting All Over Again
Stax 50th [[Disc 1]]
8
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Tramp
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
9
Otis Redding
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
