We’re at it again! Excavations below the crust of some pretty simple-minded teenage pap that seemed to occupy the Billboard Top 100 in the year 1960. Marketers had found the right blend of country, rhythm, pop, sentimentality and rock and this led to a churning out of as much and as they could as fast was possible. The result was a mixed bag: quantity over quality in most cases. We call it spit-balling these days. We’ll dig into the substrate of popular music that did not make the Top 40, and in some cases, the Top 100. We’ll hear from Wanda Jackson, Billy Bland, Donnie Brooks, Johnny Preston, Esther Phillips, and a few dozen others in this week’s show. Not withstanding what we do here, we have to consistently remind ourselves of the classic Tony Soprano quote: “’Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.” So, we’re mining for the ones we don’t necessarily remember. And the big news? It’s a rare two-parts-over-two-weeks extravaganza. Hope you can join in!
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | John D Loudermilk | Tobacco Road | You Heard It Here First! |  |
| 2 | Wanda Jackson | Dona'a Wan'a | Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks] | |
| 3 | Peter Sellers & Sophie Loren | Goodness Gracious Me | The Greatest Novelty Songs, Disc 3 | |
| 4 | The Flares | Hotcha Cha-Cha Brown | Foot Stompin' | |
| 5 | Sugar Pie DeSanto | I Want to Know | 100 Northern Soul Classics | |
| 6 | Ruth Brown with Howard Biggs Orchestra | Takin' Care Of Business | Wail Man Wail!: The Best Of King Curtis 1952-1961 (Disc 3) | |
| 7 | Billy Bland | Let The Little Girl Dance | The Rock 'n' Roll Era: 1960 | |
| 8 | Larry Hall | Sandy | The Forgotten 45's 1960-1962 | |
| 9 | Varetta Dillard | A Little Bitty Tear | Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry | |
| 10 | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | Finger Poppin' Time | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 11 | Earl King | Come On, Pt. 1 | Living The Blues: Blues Classics 1960-1964 | |
| 12 | Ernie K-Doe | A Certain Girl | The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] | |
| 13 | Skip & Flip | Cherry Pie (1960 #11) | Greatest Hit Singles Collection | |
| 14 | Donnie Brooks | Mission Bell | The Teen Years Collection: Volume 1- Dream Lover [Disc 2] | |
| 15 | Manos Hadjidakis | Main Title: Never On Sunday | Never On Sunday | |
| 16 | The Mark II | Night Theme | Banana Split for My Baby | |
| 17 | The String-A-Longs | Wheels | Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 2 | |
| 18 | The Piltdown Men | Brontosaurus Stomp | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 19 | Esther Phillips | Wild Child | The Great American Soul Book Chapter 1: Any Way You Wanta! | |
| 20 | Brenda Lee | That's All You Gotta Do | The Brenda Lee Story: Her Grea | |
| 21 | Eddie Cochran | C'mon Everybody | Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1] | |
| 22 | Duane Eddy | Peter Gunn | Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology [Disc 1] | |
| 23 | Joe Jones | You Talk Too Much | Pure R&B: Vol. 4- Whatd I Say [Disc 1] | |
| 24 | Ral Donner | The Girl Of My Best Friend | War Paint – The Gone Records Story | |
| 25 | The Everly Brothers | When Will I Be Loved | The Complete Cadence Recordings 1957-1960 Disc 2 | |
| 26 | Johnny Preston | Cradle Of Love | Running Bear | |
| 27 | Little Willie John | Sleep | Little Willie John: All 15 of His Chart Hits from 1953-1962 | |
| 28 | Paul Evans | Happy-Go-Lucky-Me | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 29 | The Safaris | Image of a Girl | Teen Ballads | |
| 30 | Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs | Stay | Pure R&B: Vol. 4- Whatd I Say [Disc 2] | |
| 31 | Sam Cooke | Wonderful World | Greatest Hits | |
| 32 | Dinah Washington & Brook Benton | A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around & Fall In Love) | First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story [Disc 2] | |
| 33 | Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks | Hey Boba Lou | The Best of Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks | |
| 34 | Bobby Vee | Devil Or Angel | Malt Shop Memories – Top Down Convertible Sound ( Disc 1) | |
| 35 | Neil Sedaka | Stairway To Heaven | The Brill Building Sound Disc 1 | |
| 36 | Roger Miller | In The Summertime (You Don't Want My Love) | Super Hits | |
There’s an echo in the well of Americana and it reverberates from tradition and some of the early songsmiths and blues masters who delivered the blues proper through the depths of the past century of America’s music. We’ll be pulling some of the classic blues covers of songs composed by just a small collection of the great blues masters: Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake and beyond in this week’s episode. There is seldom enough time to make a dent in only two hours but we’ll do our best with covers from some of the inheritors like BB King, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Jorma Kaukonen and a couple dozen others. We’re excavating some deeper roots this week and then tilling the airwaves with freshly turned songs of the earth; a landscape of blues cutting a deep swath across the musical landscape of the past 100 years. Celebrating blues and those who brought it home this week on KOWS Community Radio.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Graham Parker | Poor Me | Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton | |
| 2 | Rising Sons | By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version] | Rising Sons | |
| 3 | Charlie Musselwhite | Pea Vine Blues | Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton | |
| 4 | Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson | Police Dog Blues | Quah [Bonus Tracks] | |
| 5 | Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Black Snake Moan | Braver Newer World | |
| 6 | Bo Diddley | Diddy Wah Diddy | Bo Knows Bo | |
| 7 | Bob Dylan | See That My Grave Is Kept Clean | Bob Dylan | |
| 8 | Andy Fairweather Low | Matchbox | The Invisible Bluesman | |
| 9 | Carl Perkins | Matchbox | Dixie Fried | |
| 10 | Sam Price and his Texas Blusic | Match Box Blues | 1929-1941 | |
| 11 | B.B. King | Tomorrow Night | Reflections | |
| 12 | Lonnie Johnson, John Hughes, Roy Coulter | Tomorrow Night | Tomorrow Night | |
| 13 | John Sebastian | I Found A Dream – (Live At Winterland) | Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 3] | |
| 14 | Lonnie Johnson | I Found A Dream | Blues & Ballads (With Elmer Snowden) (Reissued 1990) | |
| 15 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott | Rambler's Blues | A Stranger Here | |
| 16 | Elmore James | Call It Stormy Monday | Greatest Blues Legends | |
| 17 | Roomful of Blues | I Know Your Wig Is Gone | That's Right | |
| 18 | Boz Scaggs | T-Bone Shuffle | Come On Home | |
| 19 | Peter Wolf | Rollin' & Tumblin' | A Tribute To Muddy Waters – King Of The Blues | |
| 20 | Shannon McNally | The Stuff You Gotta Watch | Black Irish | |
| 21 | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown | Cross My Heart | Chess Blues Guitar / Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969 | |
| 22 | Johnny Winter | Help Me | The Progressive Blues Experiment | |
| 23 | Dr. John/John Hammond, Jr./Michael Bloomfield | Last Night | Triumvirate | |
| 24 | Tommy Castro And The Painkillers | Bad Luck | Method To My Madness | |
| 25 | Dinah Washington | Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? | Verve Unmixed | |
| 26 | Louis Jordan | Caldonia | Number Ones | |
| 27 | B.B. King | Jack, You're Dead! | Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan | |
| 28 | Muddy Waters | Don't Go No Farther | His Best, 1956 To 1964 | |
| 29 | Muddy Waters | Got My Mojo Working | Chess Blues Disc 3 | |
| 30 | Muddy Waters | The Same Thing | The Definitive Collection | |
| 31 | Big Daddy Wilson | Couldn't Keep It to Myself | Deep in My Soul | |
Put another nickel in that nickelodeon ‘cause rhythm saved the world. This week on Deeper Roots we’re spinning up songs about the jukebox, hit records, little bitty records, disc jockey pleas, and swinging syncopated rhythms from across the past century. That’s right, we’re taking a trip across ninety years featuring jazz from Jimmie Lunceford, country from the Sons of the Pioneers, gospel from the Chuck Wagon Gang, and swinging send-ups from Louis Armstrong, NRBQ, Slim Gaillard, and The Sensations. Well, you can also count on more from the usual suspects in this week’s thematic celebration of the very best of Americana. Whether that’s reaching out to the jukebox, the DJ or that record hawker…we’ve got two hours of rhythm here on KOWS Community Radio. Spend your time with music, not your hard earned dough on this day of resistance.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Commercial | Nuclear Survival Course Record Album (1954) | Rock'N'Roll & Rock-A-Billy Inferno | |
| 2 | The Sensations | Please Mr Disc Jockey | Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 3] – The Rock 'n' Roll Era | |
| 3 | Fred Astaire | Music Makes Me | American Songbook Series | |
| 4 | Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven | The Music Goes Round And Round | Me & Orson Welles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
| 5 | Louis Prima | The Music Goes 'Round and Around | Capitol Collectors Series | |
| 6 | Louis Armstrong | Rhythm Saved The World | Rhythm Saved The World | |
| 7 | Tex Beneke, The Modernaires | Jukebox Saturday Night | Stagedoor Canteen Music Of The War Years Vol 1 | |
| 8 | Jimmie Lunceford | Rhythm Is Our Business | An Introduction To Jimmie Lunceford | |
| 9 | The Boswell Sisters | That's How Rhythm Was Born | Music From The Motion Picture – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | |
| 10 | Three Sharps And A Flat | That's The Rhythm | Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 1: That's the Rhythm | |
| 11 | Ella Fitzgerald | Vote For Mr Rhythm | The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald [Disc 3] | |
| 12 | Ella Fitzgerald | My Last Affair | The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald | |
| 13 | Fats Waller | Music Maestro Please | Music Maestro Please | |
| 14 | The Cats & The Fiddle | Mr. Rhythm Man | The Very Best Of | |
| 15 | Slim Gaillard | Jumpin' At The Record Shop | Vout For Voutoreenes | |
| 16 | The Mills Brothers | Rhythm Saved The World | The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4 | |
| 17 | George Kent | Hello, I'm A Jukebox | The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) | |
| 18 | Boyd Bennett & His Rockets | Cool Disc Jockey | Bob Dylan – Radio Radio Vol.5 | |
| 19 | Sons of the Pioneers | Syncopated Rhythm | Songs of the Prairie – CD4 | |
| 20 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jukebox Junky | Killer Country | |
| 21 | Brook Benton | Hit Record | Mercury 1962 | |
| 22 | Charles Senns | Dig Me A Crazy Record | One More Record Please | |
| 23 | Norma Jean | I Heard the Jukebox Playing | 1965-1966 | |
| 24 | Willie Nelson | Mr. Record Man | One More Record Please | |
| 25 | Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue | Jones On the Jukebox | Set Two | |
| 26 | Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones | Turn Your Radio On | 70th Anniversary | |
| 27 | Bill Kirchen | Little Bitty Record | King of Dieselbilly: Classic Kirchen | |
| 28 | NRBQ | Music Goes Round And Around | Tiddly Winks | |
| 29 | BR5-49 | A1 On The Jukebox | Dog Days | |
| 30 | The Blasters | Border Radio | Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) | |
| 31 | Dillard & Clark | The Radio Song | The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark | |
| 32 | Teresa Brewer | Music ! Music ! Music ! | Music ! Music ! Music ! | |
| 33 | Gene Kelly | I Got Rhythm | The Big Picture: Great Music from Films You Love | |
A Century of America's Music
