Louisiana Events Wall Calendar Found!

Since the recent Gambit Weekly issue detailing all the upcoming festivals in Louisiana, I figured it would be much easier to just get a calendar to map it all out, not to mention the keep track of the mountain of music coming in for Jazz Fest etc. I had once seen a wall calendar that already had all the festivals, but nobody I talked to knew where to find them.

Until I asked the guys at Louisiana Music Factory, who had run out but gave me the answer. Google Huli and there you go. Unfortunately it doesn't increase the amount of hours in a day to 36, but some organization might be the next best thing. Thought it was worth passing along

edit: oh hey, looks like my server's down... welp, I'm in Florida and can't fix it

We're not done with the Lifeguards just yet

Oh no, there's no more unraveling of the mystery of the Lifeguards album I posted before , but it is fun to find that not only is "C'mon and Swim" not entirely their own but their name isn't either.

As far as I can tell, these Lifeguards have no relation to the Wynecote records boys. In fact, they're probably more high profile; The A side is written by Frank Pingatore who penned songs for Bill Haley, and the B side is by a drummer of the same band, Ralph Jones. They don't particularly sound alike either.

Everybody Outta The Pool is a fun, mostly instrumental, novelty song. Fun enough that apparently it showed up on one of those great comps of music given a seal of approval by Lux Interior. Which is a much cleaner version than mine so here's an MP3 I found from that.

The Lifeguards - Everybody Outta The Pool


Teenage Tango isn't exactly a riot but is a pretty simple and nice little thing. I'd be surprised if you liked it enough to download and cherish it but know knows
The Lifeguards - Teenage Tango

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And one more thing: the little thingy I had on the Lifeguards before ended with a Come on and Swim cover by the Flakes. I love that version and just discovered that another version was on my hard drive all along by the Japanese surf\garage combo Mach Kung Fu. Siiiiiick

Storm Surge of Reverb Playlist and...

Played a show last night:

Messer Chups - Agent Tremolo
Hypnomen - Intruder
Rubens & The Barichellos - Tamburello
Five Outsiders - El Hobo
Gasolines - El Moroco

Atlantics - War of the Worlds
DC5 - Chaquita
Swiv-o-matics - Charm City Surfer
Ghastly Ones - Diabolo's Theme
Lively Ones\Surf Mariachis - Baja
Atomic Mosquitos - Dark Side of the Chimps

Jim Messina & His Jesters - Yang Bu
Barbwires - Go Go Gasoline
Satelliters - Oasis
Switch Trout - Shake Some Rod Action
Richie Allen - The Lonely Surfer
The A-Bones - Lugnut
Menster Phip and his Phipsters - Wiped Out
Monomen - Rat Fink
Rat Holic - Yu-Hi
Bitch Boys - Shockwave

Satan's Pilgrims - Dilation
Satan's Pilgrims - Ginza Lights
Crossifres - Out of Control
Pozor Vlak - Pistol pete
Treblemakers - Organ Failure
Surf Teens - Moment of Truth
The Weisstronauts - Fisticuffs

The Ramblin' Ambassadors - Lonesome Rambler
The Ventures - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Fifty Foot Combo - Sugar No Cream

Dick Dale - Gypsy Fire

and admittedly I'm a little interested in testing the might of my little home-cooked webserver (note to self: close internet stuff before you go to work), so I guess you can listen to this one. Spot the huge whoopsie I made

Little Richard - Tutti Fruitti \ Baby Face (on Trip Records)

This isn't the first time Trip Records has made an appearance on here and hopefully we'll see more of it. I have a few other 45s from them and haven't been familiar enough with the songs to be able to tell whether they were simple reissues or whether they were something Trip had cooked up. In this case either my turntable is slow or these are different recordings than the ones that you normally here. It's a little more booming and Little Richard's voice slightly reminds me of another album I love. I'm really curious about trip and how often they liked to cash in on the big names. I want to know what sort of people ran this outfit.

Maybe after you listen to this version of Tutti Frutti you'll think "I don't know, this is pretty much the same". Fine, maybe I'm imagining things, but who can really complain about listening to Tutti Frutti again? There's plenty of sci-fi that loves to tell us "it's love and imperfection that make us human and that's good" but is anybody aware of a movie that praises rock & roll as what makes us such a beautiful thing? Because Tutti Frutti is exactly the sort of thing that makes me so proud that I'm not a FRACKIN' CYCLON. Getting back to the song at hand though, the end gets a little messed up but the surface wear doesn't seem to suggest that anything like that would happen. Maybe it's the recording?

Tutti Fruitti

Baby Face here is also pretty similar to normal recordings (I don't think I have a Specialty or other label 45 for either song) but it sounds like it might be in a slightly different key (I'm not a musician) and the occaisional scream isn't really the same. Perhaps the mix for different instruments are a little different? Both are fine and practically interchangeable with the originals to me.

Baby Face

By the way, things are a little different on the technical end of things on this blog. If this isn't working please let me know. If it's working well I'd like to know too.

STORM SURGE TONIGHT + a few other things

That's right, another show of unapologetic instrumental rock & roll at 2AM CST, WTULNEWORLEANS.COM (as in Thursday morning)

but in the meantime, two things:

1) I actually just listened to a 45 I'm going to slip on here. Blog's not dead.

2) but my file hosting is. For some reason Wesleyan doesn't want to host their alumn's website crap forever. Unless somebody knows a good, free solution for hosting and easy streaming of single songs, there might be a little downtime for 45s while I figure out my own little server.

playlist:
Dick Dale - Mr Eliminator
Krontjong Devils - Skateboard USA
The Ventures - The Fourth Dimension
The El Caminos - Big Surf
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Orbit (The Spy)

Earl Palmer's Party Rockers - Johnny's House Party Part 1
Red Garrison & His Zodiacs - Taboo
Dave "Baby" Cortez - Hot Cakes! 1st SXerving
Kip Tyler and His Flips - On the Flipside
Alan Pierce - The Growl
The Lifeguards - Everybody Outta The Pool

The Razorblades - Grease Your Hair and Get Tattoed
Barbacoa - Taco Bell's Cannon
The Sir Finks - Can't Be Still
The Bahareebas - Dunewalk
The Mobsmen - Chunkje

The John Schroeder Orchestra - Nightrider
Alvin Cash & the Crawlers - Twine Time
Laika and the Cosmonauts - Disconnected
The Weisstronauts - Get it Together
The Castanets - Funky Wunky Piano
The Hypnomen - Lucumba

The Bad Beers - Russian Rocket
The Ramblin' Ambassadors - Cupcakes di Milo
Mad 3 - Ali Baba
Switch Trout - Pedal Pressure(Bomb the Radio)
Famous Monsters - International Monster Pressentation
The Mag Seven - Sleepwalk
Wau Y Los Arrrrgs!!! - Copa, Raya Paliza

Urban Surf Kings - And the Horse You Rode In On
Cozy Cole - Bad
Bill Justis - College Man

The Dream Girls - I'm In Love With You \ Crying In The Night

After a monthish hiatus while I tried to find stuff to put on here, The Rock & Roll Hoo-Ha What What is back with another information-free post. About all I've been able to find about this one is a page confirming its existance (and the group's small output). It's a shame because to be called "The Dream Girls" you'd think they would be sold somewhat on their delectable appearance, but just how they do appear and who they were appears to be lost to time. So we'll just have to settle with the inevitable: imaginging the cast of the recent movie Dream Girls singing these songs.

This is plain old girl group stuff but high quality (and high volume, I had to trim my line in way down to keep the recording from clipping).

I'm In Love With You is an upbeat cutesy thing about being in love and all, but swung in a fun way

I'm In Love With You

Cryin' in the Night is a little more sassy and but the same sort of tempo and just as good if lyrically unoriginal as the other side.

Crying in the NIght

Storm Surge of Reverb Tonight

From 2:00 to 3:30 or so CST. Post will be updated with a playlist at earliest coherence the next day. Ideally I'll do a real post some day, I swear I'm trying

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speedball jr - teaserama (whiplash) green cookie
the centurians - surfin' at mazatlan (bullwinkle pt. 2) collectibles
billy mure - firecrackers (fireworks) rca
the surfaris - yep (wipe out and surfer joe) dot
johnny and the hurricanes - sandstorm (45) warwick

pat salvador and the dufrene brothers - red river rock (45) houma
the mighty gordinis - return to baronville (fueled on fuzz) cherry bomb
link wray dixie doodle 45 epic
famous monsters - hairy eyeball (in the night!!!) 
Duane Eddy - mason dixon lion (45) jamie
impala - st. james infirmary (square jungle) estrus

the applejacks - stop! red light! (45) cameo
dex romweber duo - lookout (ruins of berlin) bloodshot
sandy nelson - big jump (45) original sound
bill justis - raunchy (45) phillips
Man...or Astro-Man? - put your finger in the socket (inside the head of... Mr. Atom) Estrus
johnny fortune - soul surfer (cowbunga disc 2) 
the exotics - jetsetter (go go guitars) Tiki Tone
thurston lava tube - forgot to put the chain on baxter (pink elephants with nipples for tusks) cordelia
weisstronauts - get it together (instrotainment) dren
the champs - midnighter (45) challenge

the coffin daggers - dr. guillotine (coffin daggers) self-released
tape man - space monster party (goes to outer space) kato music
the ramblin' ambassadors - cabbage diablo (vista cruiser county squire) mint records
junior raymen -ace of spades (rumble '66) norton
the roulettes - surfers charge (surf guitar rumble)
 
the new dimensions - misirlou (best of the new dimensions) sundazed