Quick Bobby Fuller doc

Only about 6 minutes long but with cool footage and a little history. No good excuse not to watch this

Rob Schneider is a pretty good rockabilly vocalist

We live in a very strange world.

I don't know how this came to pass, I don't even particularly like the Night Marchers, but I gotta hand it to everybody involved, that's pretty fun

thanks to HDNMD crew member Daryl Fucking Hall

Ernie K-Doe at WTUL

As I've said a few times here, I DJ at Tulane's Radio station. My show right now is nothing I'd recommend tuning into, but I certainly would have tuned into Burn K-Doe Burn. Such exuberant DJ stylings are pretty much gone on that station now.



And since there might be a little draught of vinyl rips for a while (most of the out-of-print stuff I have is pretty boring or put up by somebody else) here's MY favorite Ernie K-Doe song. For those of you unacquainted with this New Orleans music personality, his biggest number is Mother In Law, though he's getting a little post-humous popularity resurgence since "Here Come The Girls" was used in a Levis commercial.

If this song "Ain't it the truth" (sometimes "Tain't") doesn't impress you just give it one more listen and be surprised when it doesn't leave your head for a month. Or maybe thats just because I mangled its meaning to be about New Orleans when I was evacuating for Gustav.

UFO's and ET's presented by Brad Steiger

Just the intro folks, the rest is on Youtube from some other user

The Lifeguards - C'Mon and Swim

So there's Bobby Freeman performing his 1964 hit, apparently written by Sly Stone and... some other guy named Thomas Coman. And this post is about The Lifeguards' 1964 album starting with a nearly identical song.

So what's the deal here? I have no idea, this is just some album I found and the internet isn't helping me. I can't find any references to original writers or even band members on this album, all I've got is Wynecote Records. But if the Lifeguards are ripping Bobby Freeman off they're putting a lot of effort into selling this new dance craze of theirs. All 10 songs here include the word swim and more than one are describing just how to do this dance. And more importantly, they're actually pretty catchy and energetic, to the point where I really don't have a preference between this version of "C'Mon and Swim" or Bobby's (assuming it's a different band). The rest of the songs, while not matching that single, are all pretty worthy, especially Slow Swim

My copy's in pretty good condition, though there's some pretty loud crackles between tracks for whatever reason. But I'll give you a present: while it's downloading, listen to this excellent cover of C'Mon and Swim by The Flakes. And wonder what "Licorice Swim" could be about.

The Lifeguards are here

And the Flakes:

A very short tribute to the French

Google Analytics tells me that outside of America I get more visits from France than anywhere else. I have no idea why the Rock&Roll Hoo-Ha What What appeals so disproportionately to you guys, but thank you for giving the world SPACE



and a secondary thanks Ian Staub for exposing me to them on the WESU blog

I hate Blogger

I spent so much time making a nice huge post and it didn't save my changes despite clicking the little save now button. If you're ever thinking about this blog nonsense, try something else.

I'm going to give you some previews and bric-a-brac to feel like I did SOMETHING today.

First: Home of the Groove is the best blog around for educating yourself about New Orleans r&b. They just posted a cool thing about later Ernie K-Doe
http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2008/08/k-does-final-45-revelation.html\

Second: a cool article that has to do with what I was working on http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2008-03-11/feat.php

Third: on the backburner I've got two surf vinyl rips that I've been working on. As far as I can tell, you can't find them anywhere else. Stay tuned

Fourth:

But if you don't live in New Orleans here's something

I can't believe this wasn't my first post.