Don’t tell me…it’s theme time but with the negative bent. No, no, no, honey don’t. This week’s show takes on songs of which there is no reduced supply chain: songs that ask us ‘not to’. A somewhat obscure theme, no question, but it’s all about the message after all. We’ll hear a variety of genres this week, all with their warnings prefaced with the contraction “don’t”. We’ll hear from Elvis (a favorite of the idiom), Blue Lu Barker, Julia Lee, Charles Brown, Buddy Emmons, and those representing doo wop, country, early rock, and Americana. All of this coming your way on our first show of May 2021, a rebroadcast of a KOWS show recorded live from the KOWS studios, located in the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa. Don’t get defensive, it’s all in fun.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Carl Perkins	Honey Don't	American Roots of the British Invasion
2	Johnny Cash	Don't Go Near The Water	Ragged Old Flag
3	Elvis Presley	Don't Cry Daddy	2nd To None
4	Elvis Presley	Don't	Elvis Is Back!
5	Elvis Presley	Don't Be Cruel	Elvis Presley (8 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles)
6	Fats Domino	Don't Come Knockin'	They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3
7	Billy Tate	Don't Call My Name (Peacock 1671)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
8	Shirelles	Don't Go Home (My Little Darlin')	The Shirelles
9	Lowell Fulson	Don't Be So Evil	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
10	Muddy Waters	Don't Go No Farther	The Definitive Collection
11	Blue Lu Barker	Don't You Make Me High	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
12	Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	Don't Come Too Soon	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
13	Etta James	Don't Cry Baby	The Essential Etta James [Disc 1]
14	Bee Arnold	Don't Do It Daddy	Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins
15	Continentals	Don't Do It Baby	Talkin' Trash: Lookey Dookey
16	The Drifters	Don't Dog Me	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy
17	The Penguins	Don't Do It	Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4
18	The Band	Don't Do It (Baby Don't You Do It)	To Kingdom Come [Disc 2]
19	Charles Brown	Don't Get Salty Sugar	The Classic Earliest Recordings [Disc 3]
20	Ella Fitzgerald	Don't Be That Way	First Lady of Song
21	June Christy	Don't Explain	Lady Sings the Blues [Disc 2]
22	Asleep At The Wheel	Don't Forget The Trains	Collision Course & The Wheel (1977, 78)
23	Grandpa Jones	Don't Bring Your Banjo Home	Grandpa Jones The Country Music Hall Of Fame
24	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Don't Fence Me In	Sons Of The Pioneers
25	Bobby Bare	Don't Do Like I Done Son	Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969
26	Bobby Bare Jr.	Don't Go to Chattanooga	A Storm – A Tree – My Mother's Head
27	Solomon Burke	Don't Give Up on Me	Don't Give Up on Me
28	Nina Simone	Don't You Pay Them No Mind	Wild Is The Wind/High Priestess Of Soul
29	The Handsome Family	Don't Be Scared	In the Air
30	J.J. Cale	Don't Go To Strangers	Naturally
31	Ramones	Don't Come Close (Remastered Version )	Road To Ruin: Expanded and Remastered
32	Johnny Burnette	Don't Do It	The Ballads Of
33	Conway Twitty	Don't Cry No More	The Rock 'N' Roll Years CD7
34	Buddy Holly	Don't Come Back Knockin' [Album Version]	Rave On: The Very Best Of &