Money

It’s night in the big city
A man says a prayer, puts down a $20 and rolls the dice
The faucet won’t stop dripping

“Welcome to Season Three of TTRH, and we’re glad to have ya. We’ve had a lot of fun the last couple of years, presenting the greats and near-greats, the fondly remembered and the almost forgotten, performing a wide variety of music on a veritable cornucopia of subjects. But as we start season 3 we’re gonna take our cue from a sign Harry S. Truman kept on his desk: The Buck Stops Here. And not just the buck, the yen, the sheckle, the nickel and dime, and if you still subscribe to the barter system, maybe a bushel of corn. So break open your piggy banks and cash in your bonds. This week’s episode of TTRH is most definitely cash and carry.”

The Singers and the Songs
Jerry McCain & His Upstarts – That’s What They Want

Louis Prima – Pennies From Heaven

Papa Charlie Jackson – You Put it in, I’ll Take it out – “If ya listen, it’s a very unusual instrument he’s playing. It’s kinda half banjo, half guitar. It’s a six string instrument, tuned and fingered like a guitar but with a banjo body, so it has that trebly banjo sound, but there’s more notes available.”

Van Morrison – Blue Money “I almost think we play too much Van Morrison. Then I listen to one of his records and I think, no we don’t!”

Ray Charles – Greenbacks “There’s a great baritone sax solo on this record. It’s probably Howard Cooper, and you can almost hear him stepping back into the reed section to blend back in at the end of his solo. I always like to give you a little something to listen to in a song; I find it makes you listen to the whole thing more carefully.”

Mel Blanc – Money

Buddy Johnson and His Band – It’s the Gold

Nic Jones – Farewell To The Gold

Lefty Frizzell – My Baby’s Just Like Money “One of the true honky-tonk heroes”

Buddy Guy (Amigo Hombre) – 100 Dollar Bill “Sounds a little bit like Barrett Strong’s ‘Money’ – not enough to get sued I guess.”

P. Diddy (Featurning Lil’ Kim, The Lox, and the Notorious B.I.G.) – It’s All About the Benjamins

The Clovers – Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash “It’s because of them we have the familiar sound of the saxophone solo on vocal group records. You see what happened was, back on February 22nd, 19 and 51, tenor saxophonist Frank ‘Floorshow’ Culley brought his band into the Atlantic studios to back the clovers. Well Ahmet Ertegun only wanted to use the rhythm section; Frank knew if he didn’t play he wasn’t gonna get paid. Ahmet said to him, ‘Now listen man, if I pay you, you’re gonna play!’ so play he did and it was the first saxophone solo on a vocal group record. It reached number one, and the bootin’ tenor solo was a mainstay on vocal group records ever since.”

Jessie Price – You Can’t Take It With You

Record Labels
Excello Records
Vocalion
Atlantic
Capital
Decca

Other People and Players
Christopher Collins
Italian Singers
Perry Como
Vic Damone
Tony Bennett
Dino (Dean Martin)
Freddie Keppard and his Jazz Cardinals
Johnnie Dodds
Tiny Parham
Kid Ory
Johnny Burke
Arthur Johnston
Ma Rainey
Ida Cox
Terry Southern
Elizabeth Magie
Charles Darrow
Parker Brothers
Howard Cooper
Stan Freberg
Porky Pig
Daffy Duck
Ella Johnson
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Ronald Reagan “friend of the black man, striking a blow for world justice”
Paul Metsers
Jimmy Williams
The Beatles
M.D.T. Bienville – French physician who “laid out” (if you’ll pardon the expression) the theory of nymphomania
Alfred Kinsey “A nymphomaniac is just someone who has more sex than you do”
Barrett Strong
Lil’ Kim
The LOX
The Notorious B.I.G
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Harrison
Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople
Pope Benjamin II
Saint Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin
Asher Benjamin
Judah P. Benjamin
Richard Benjamin
Ben Cartwright – “Patriarch of the Ponderosa”
Frank “Floorshow”Culley
Ahmet Ertegun
Stan Kenton
Louis Armstrong
Slim Gaylord

Places
Albania
Bosnia
Denmark
Slovakia
Poland
Mozambique
New Orleans
America
Empire State Building
Boardwalk
Marvin Gardens
Russia
China
N. Korea
Cuba
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
South Africa
The goldfields of Central Otago
Constantinople
Persia
The Federal Reserve
Memphis, TN
Los Angeles

Other Songs and Albums
Shake That Thing
His Band and the Street Choir
Penguin Eggs
Money (B. Strong) (clip)
Got a Penny Benny (Nat King Cole) (clip)

Games, Movies, and other Entertainment
Hokum – “A spicy form of popular song that was chock full of double entendres”
Monopoly
The Landlord’s Game
Melody Maker magazine
Chinatown (clip)
Grand Ole Opry

“One reason you can’t take it with you is that is usually leaves before you do.”

Money Part 2

The Singers and the Songs

Moon Mullican & The Blue Ridge Playboys – Gimme My Dime Back, Gimme My Money
“The king of the hillbilly piano players…Many people think he was an uncredited co-writer on Hank Williams’ Jambalaya, and I can believe it, ‘cause it has that bounce.”

James Brown – I’ve Got Money

Eric “Monty” Morris – Penny Reel

Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters – Money Honey “This one’s for you Aaron (Neville)”

Johnny Dove and the Magnolia Playboys – Lookin’ for Money

Slim Harpo – I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)

Everly Brothers – Man with Money

Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Clean Money

Johnnie Taylor – Last Two Dollars

Johnny Paycheck – Down To My Last Dime

Tiny Grimes – Romance Without Finance
“He once told me that money isn’t the key to happiness, but if you have enough, you can have a key made.”

The O’Jays – For the Love of Money

Johnny “Guitar” Watson – You Can’t Take it With You

Other People and Players
Samuel Butler
Jimmy Davis
Fred Clement
Hank Williams
Emperor Augustus
Penn Jillette (guest)
Penn and Teller
Clayton Fillyau “James Brown always said, ‘give the drummer some”
FDR
George McCann
King Farouk of Egypt
Baba Brooks
Smokey Robinson
Ben E. King
Jackie Wilson
The Dominoes
Michael Buble
Carlo Ponte
Josh Groban
Aaron Neville – Anything Clyde McPhatter sings is a prayer
Egyptian Pharos
The Greeks
The Romans
Americans
Alexander the Great
The Norse
Albert Einstein – if the bees die off man will only have four years left to live
Al Urban
Charles Calhoun / Jesse Stone
William Kidd
Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus
The Money Changers
The Who
DB Cooper
FBI
The hippies
J. Edgar Hoover
Robinhood
Van Morrison
Charlie Parker
Ingmar Kamprad (IKEA founder)
Eddie O’Jay
Gamble and Huff
Ronnie Baker
Hetty Green
Jessie Price

Famous Literary Misers
Ebenezer Balfour
Milburn Drysdale
Silas Marner
Scrooge McDuck
Henry F. Potter
Ebenezer Scrooge

Places
Louisiana
Tennessee
Egypt
Cairo
New York
World Trade Center
Jamaica
Peru (home to the sandwich-making ants of Peru)
Massapequa
Long Island
New York
The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
Superstition Mountains
Apache Junction, AZ
Jerusalem
The Cascade Mountains
Columbia River
Chitlin’ Circuit
Philly
Houston, TX
Yokohama, Japan

Other Songs and Albums
Jambalaya
Beat & Soul (Everly Brothers)
Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But Trash
Disco Lady (Johnnie Taylor)
Love Train
Livin’ For The Weekend
Back Stabber
Used To Be My Girl

Record Labels
Dove Record Label
Excello Records
Cadence
Savoy Records

Books, Radio, Movies, other Entertainment
Mento
Dr. Demento
Monty Python – the money program
Wall Street
The New Testament
Ace in the Hole
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
It’s a Wonderful Life
Fargo

Kinds of Penny Candy
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Mary Janes
Wax Lips
Lik-M-Aid
Lil’ Nips
Button Candy
Candy Necklaces
Salt Water Taffy
Root Beer Barrels
Candy Cigarettes
Atomic Fireballs
Chico Stix
Red Hots
Pixie Stix (also the name of Bob’s first girlfriend)

Night
It’s night time in the big city
A Brinks truck pulls up in front of a bank
A man makes a promise he’ll never keep.

“Why did it take us 78 shows to do one as obvious as the subject of night?”

The Singers and The Songs
Joe Houston and His Rockets – All Night Long “…A saxophone player who joined the band at age 16. The band leader hired him because he had the right color suit, he could read the charts pretty good, and he said he could be at the train station at 7 AM. The same way I choose a band.”

Dr. John – Such a Night “Whenever I listen to Dr. John I can almost smell the night blooming jasmine.”

The Drifters – Another Night With The Boys

LeRoy Carr – When The Sun Goes Down “Sounds just like Love In Vain by Robert Johnson. Robert recorded it 8-10 years later, but he must have heard that record. You play the two back to back and it’s remarkable. There’s nothing new under the sun – or in honor of tonight’s show, under the moon neither.”

Fred Astaire – The Way You Look Tonight

Willie Nelson – Night Life

Chick Carbo – In The Night “What always kills me about this record is that every time I listen to it I’m totally convinced that the background singers are singing ‘Shoebox.’ Doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what I hear. Shoebox. You be the judge.”

Buddy Holly – Midnight Shift

Zuzu Bollin – Why Don’t You Eat Where You Slept Last Night

The Strangeloves – Night Time

Professor Longhair – In The Night “I got nothin’ to say about him, we told you about him before, and you know how to look him up in Wikipedia. That’s where he lives – Wikipedia, Louisiana.”

The Latin Playboys – Forever Night Shade Mary “Most of these songs started out in the still of the night in David’s kitchen on a beaten up four track recorder, and it sure sounds like it. And I mean that in the best possible sense.”

Charles Brown – Black Night

Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night “The only man I know who could write a song for Janis Joplin and then act with Barbara Streisand.”

Other People and Players
Charlie Feathers
Wanda Jackson (Why isn’t she in the rock and roll hall of fame?)
Samuel Johnson
JJ Cale
Professor Longhair
Gerry Goffin
Carole King
Yes
Dylan Thomas (not mentioned directly but Bob references Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night)
Bing Crosby
Nat Cole
Ray Charles
Eric Clapton
Robert Johnson
Peleus
Achilles
Adele Astaire
Norman Granz
Oscar Peterson
Flip Phillips
Barney Kessel
Charlie Shavers
Ray Brown
Antonio Porchia – Night is a world lit by itself
The French
Cornell Woolrich
F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. B. King
Radiohead
Chuck Carbo
The Spiders
The Zion Harmonizers
The Delta Southernaires
Allen Toussaint
Batman
Superman
Bob Kane
Bob Montgomery
E.X. Brooks
Fathead Newman
Howard Cooper
Ray Charles
Bob Feldman
Jerry Goldstein
Richard Gottehrer
David Hidalgo
Louie Perez
Tchad Blake
Mitchell Froom
Vincent Van Gogh
Walt Whitman
Brahms
Mozart
Native Americans
Janis Joplin
Barbara Streisand
Carl Sandburg

Places
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Sampson’s Diner
The Northern Hemisphere
The Arctic Circle
Alaska
Canada
Greenland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Russia
(The extremities of) Iceland
“If you’re listening up there, try to keep warm and I’ll see you tomorrow night.”
New Orleans
Los Angeles
New York
Bolivia
The British Empire
Oxford
Hutchinson Junior High School
Texas
Armstrong, Australia
New York
New England
St. Remy
West Germany
Nashville

Other Songs and Albums
In The Right Place – Dr. John
Love in Vain
Rule Britannia (clip)
Batman Theme (clip)
Rock-A-Bye Baby
Mockingbird (aka Hush Little Baby)
Tura-Lura-Lural
All The Pretty Little Horses
Hush-A-Bye Baby
Kristofferson

Night Flowers
Angels Trumpet
Night Blooming Jasmine
Moonflower
Evening Primrose
Night Blooming Cereus

Other Plants
Deadly Nightshade

Record Labels
Atlantic Records
Instant Record Label
Decca
Coral Records
Brunswick Records
Columbia

Books, Movies, and other Art & Entertainment
Vaudeville
Swing Time
Rear Window
The Bride Wore Black
The Black Curtain
The Black Alibi
The Black Angel
Rendezvous in Black
The Black Path of Fear
Rolling Stone Magazine
Detective Comics #27
Starry Night
A Clear Midnight
Good Night

“Like all creatures of the night it’s about time for me to scurry back to my cave. But we’ll be back again next week with another theme, and anecdotes and tales to tantalize and delight.”

Beginning, Middle, and End

It’s night time in the big city
A woman goes through her husband’s pockets while he sleeps
Everyone’s either asleep or in the emergency room
It’s Theme Time Radio Hour with your host from coast to coast, Bob Dylan.

The Singers and The Songs
Antita O’Day – I Can’t Get Started

Sonny Boy Williamson – Don’t Start Me To Talking

J. Geils Band – Start All Over Again

Peggy Lee – Beginning To See The Light

(Artie Shaw and his Orchestra – Begin the Beguine – clip

Amos Milburn – In the Middle of the Night “We usually think of our next artist as a piano pounding boogie master. But I wanted to take a second to show another side of him, his deep blue side.”

Manfred Mann – The One in The Middle

Ray Charles – Smack Dab in the Middle “Sometimes ya play a song for just one reason. This song has a lot going for it: it’s got a swingin’ arrangement done by Benny Carter; The Raelettes sound great on it; and Ray sings his ass off. But the reason I like this record – it’s got the best recorded finger snaps I’ve ever heard.”

Wanda Jackson – In The Middle of a Heartache “She’s known as a rockabilly singer but she doesn’t get enough credit for singing straight country. She deserves it, too.”

Nick Lowe – Half a Boy and Half a Man “…One of the forefathers of punk. He earned this by producing The Damned, and he made a lot of records on his own…you might not know this one, where he channels his inner Doug Sahm. His keyboard player does a pretty good Augie Myers impression too…That’s a knees-up rocker.”

Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys – At the End of the Lane

Skeeter Davis – The End of The World

Richard Thompson – The End of The Rainbow

Buddy Guy “South of the border, they know him as Amigo Hombre”

Other People and Players
Ishmael
Herman Melville
Winston Churchill
Norman Granz
Gene Krupa
Bob Hope
Eve Arden
Ira Gershwin
Robert Edwin Peary
Big Walter
Little Walter
Middle Walter
Johnny Little John
Big Daddy Simpson
Melvin Simpson
Julian Schnabel
Dr. Niels Birbaumer
Pete Wolff
Seth Justman
David Lynch
Duke Ellington
Johnny Hodges
Don George
Harry James
Shelly Manne
Erika Eigen
Sunforest
Stanley Kubrick
August Ferdinand Mobius
Cole Porter “In 1935 Cole Porter went on a round the world cruise to write Jubilee. He took with him a piano, a small organ, 24 pencils…a typewriter, a metronome, and three cases of champagne. He said that he wrote Begin the Beguine in the Fiji Islands, after seeing a native dancer. I think it was after he finished the champagne.”
Martha Rae
Paul Jones (singer)
Benny Carter
The Raelettes
Kermit the Frog (clip)
John Lee (Hooker)
George Thorogood
Jules Verne
Alexandre Dumas
Gaston (Jules Verne’s nephew)
The Damned
Doug Sahm
Augie Meyers
Jeffrey Eugenides
Oprah
Fred Howard
Nat Vincent
Richard Brautigan
The Diggers
The Davis Sisters
Native Americans
Piute Indians
Cheyenne Indians “…have a story of the giant pole that holds up the universe and it’s gnawed down by the Great White Beaver of the North, with the earth falling into a bottomless pit. I wonder what they were smoking.”
Mayans
Sir Martin Rees
Leprechauns
Ike Turner
Charles Dickens
Robert W. Service

Famous Middle Children
Bill Gates
JFK
Madonna
Princess Dianna
Richard Nixon
George Burns
Bob Hope (clip)

Famous Carnival Sideshow Hermaphrodites
Josephine Joseph
Esther Lester
Leo Leola
Jean Eugene
Henrietta
(And the He-Man Martha Rae)

Books, Movies, and other Entertainment
Moby Dick
Ziegfield Follies
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
New Scientist
A Clockwork Orange
Jubliee
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Three Musketeers
Count of Monte Cristo
Airport 79: The Concorde
Five Weeks in a Balloon
From the Earth To The Moon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Middlesex (Bob read it because it was part of the Oprah Book Club)
The Scarlatti Tilt
Trout Fishing in America
Our Final Century
A Tale of Two Cities
The End of The Trail

Places
The North Pole
Chicago
Gary, Indiana
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
La Caruna lighthouse
Spain
Fiji Islands
Houston
England
Johannesburg, South Africa
The United States
Lebanon, KS
The Equator
Ecuador
Columbia
Brazil
Democratic Republic of Congo
Uganda
Somalia
The Maldives
Indonesia
Kiribati
Paris
San Antonio
San Francisco
Dry Ridge, Kentucky

Record Labels
Chess Records
Atlantic
Bluebird Label

Other Songs and Albums
I Wanna Marry A Lighthouse Keeper (clip)
Chicken Shack Boogie
Bad, Bad Whisky
Let Me Go Home, Whisky
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
The End of the World

Miscellany
Mobius Strip
Ouroboros

Blood

It’s night time in the big city
The hotel room smells like cigarettes and cheap perfume
A woman shops for fruit in a trench coat. I don’t know if this city’s more like Sodom or Gomorrah.

“Along with sweat and tears, it’s among the most popular of the bodily fluids.”

The Singers and The Songs

Little Esther – Flesh, Blood, and Bones

Da Costa Woltz and the Southern Broadcasters – Are You Washed in the Blood of The Lamb “Here’s an unusual record, with an interesting story behind it…D. Woltz was in the patent medicine business and he was the mayor of Galax, Virginia in 1930 and 1931. (He) vanished into obscurity after swindling the town of Galax while he was the mayor. Lemme see now…patent medicine business, crooked mayor, swindled the town, disappeared in obscurity…of course they recorded a gospel record!”

Memphis Slim – Cold Blooded Woman “The tale of a woman who is positively reptilian”

Jerry Lee Lewis – Lust of the Blood “Ya know if anyone ever asks me why I do this radio show I can just play ‘em that. Jerry Lee Lewis singing Shakespeare — that’s what this show is all about.”

Ike Turner – She Made My Blood Run Cold

Nervous Norvus – Transfusion
“That record made it to number 8 on the pop charts. Imagine a record like that on the charts now. We lived in great times.”

Honeyboy – Blood Stains on the Wall “Another great example of saying a lot by saying a little.”

Paul Clayton – Go Down You Blood Red Roses

Danny Barker – Blood On The Moon

Big Boy Groves – Bucket Of Blood “Playing the organ there for ya too. Mighty fine sound…A tuneful little ditty about a violence-prone establishment.”

The String Kings – Bloodshot

The Zion Travelers – The Blood

The Mississippi Sheiks – I’ve Got Blood In My Eyes For You “Walter Vinson on guitar and vocals; Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle; Sam Chatmon on guitar; and Bo Carter on guitar – don’t let the name fool you, he was also a Chatmon. I mention their names because it is important to remember that these are people. This is how they made their living. They went somewhere to record it and went many places to perform it. That’s how they got life experience to write and record more songs. Sure you can sit around your house, without ever leaving home, stick in your ear buds, and listen to it all alone. But you gotta ask yourself, what’s the next generation gonna write about? Sitting home alone, you’re not gonna write a song like this.”

Movies, Books and other Entertainment
Dracula (clip)
Blood in the Streets (promo clip)
The Old Testament
The New Testament
Othello
Catch my Soul
LA Times
Death of a Salesman
Oxford English Dictionary
In Cold Blood
To Kill a Mockingbird
Capote
Infamous
Roshoman
The Book of Revelation
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Grand Guignol
Sin City

Other People and Players
Kenny Rogers
Anne Boleyn
King Henry the Eighth
John Lee Rockefeller
Abraham
Isaac
God
The Israelites
Angel of Death
Matt Murphy “Slim gave a shout out to his guitar player Matt Murphy there and made played pretty nice, though he wasn’t what you’d call a “Guitar God.” They love the flashy fingers and the solos full of filigree. Be careful, these might be false gods. I hope if you’re a young guitar player, listening to this show, with your guitar in your lap, hoping to cop some licks, you’re paying attention. You don’t have to fill up every moment with a hundred notes. People like Guitar Slim only played a few notes, but every single one of those notes was like an ice pick to your heart.”
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Iago
Desdemona
Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Rosco Gordon
Otis Rush
Tina (Turner)
Truman Capote
Harper Lee
Sylvester Graham – “Dedicated his life to a battle against masturbation. He was also into healthy eating. I’m with him on the healthy eating part.”
W.K. Kellogg
Honeyboy Edwards
Napoleon
The British Army
Thomas Jefferson
Blue Lu Barker
Onward Brass Band
King Oliver
Sidney Bechet
Babe Son
Kid Rena
Benny Carter
Cab Calloway
Bill Buckner
Andre Escobar
Oscar Metenier
Max Maury
Paula Maxa
Mary Queen of Scots
George Jessel
Willie Nelson
Lord Byron
Winston Churchill

Places
Galax, Virginia
Louisiana
England
Kansas
New Bedford, MA
New Orleans
Colombia
London
The Lamb and Flag
Paris, France
St. Paul, MN
Harry’s Bar, Paris

Record Labels
Federal
Specialty Records
Gaiety Records

Guest
Billy Vera

Types of Sea Shanties
Short Haul Shanties
Capstan Shanties
Halyard Shanties

Bob’s instructions for getting blood stains out of clothing
1. Wet the stain with cold water.
2. Coat the blood stain with powdered meat tenderizer and more cold water; that makes sense – blood is found in meat and tenderizer can break it down.
3. Rub this paste into the shirt and let it sit for about half an hour.
4. During this half hour, consider what you have done. Then rinse, and head for Mexico.

Bob’s Bloody Mary Recipe
2/3 of a cup of tomato juice – don’t pinch pennies here, get a good tomato juice
Add 2 go 3 oz of vodka – I sometimes add 4
1 t of horseradish – “use freshhorsh…fresh horshwa…use fresh horshradish”
Sprinkle a little Tabasco sauce in there
1 t of Worcestershire Sauce – “I can say that easier than horseradish!”
Take the juice of ½ a lime
A little bit of salt – “I use the coarse sea salt; I like the texture”
A little fresh ground pepper
Then stick a celery stalk in there
“Put on a couple of Willie Nelson records, sit for a while, and it’s good night, Martha”

War
(The sounds of war)

The Singers and The Songs
Louis Jordan and his Tympany 5-”GI Jive”
Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles-Fightin’ in the War with Spain
The Horrors Of War – Attila The Hun “He has the same middle name as Smokey the Bear” Raymond
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – Eric Bogle
Was My Brother In The Battle ? – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Johnny Horton-The Battle of New Orleans
Drive Soldiers Drive – Little Maxie Bailey
The Cold War With You – Floyd Tillman
Universal Soldier – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Let A Soldier Drink – Jerry Lee Lewis (from the rock version of Othello)
Buffalo Soldier – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Forgotten Soldier Boy – The Monroe Brothers
Day After Tomorrow – Tom Waits
Bring the Boys Home – Freda Payne
I Believe I’m Gonna Make It – Joe Tex (Shouted on stage before shows to make himself hoarse to sound more authentic and then became a Muslim Minister)
Peace – Los Lobos

Other Singers and Songs
Edwin Starr -War
“blood is spilled too often for too little”
Johnny Mercer
Charlie Poole
Roy Acuff (singer)
Jim England (song writer)
Bailes Brothers-Kyle, Johnny, Walter, Homer-Searching For a Soldier’s Grave
Louvin Brothers
Johnny and Jack (Singing groups)
Fred Rose
Hank Williams
Roy Orbison
Doc Gibson
Boudleaux
Felice Bryant
The Everly Brothers
Peewee King
“Tennessee Waltz”
Linda Rondstat
Album-Hot like a Wheel
“American Patrol”
Stephan Foster
Jimmy Driftwood
“They took the Stars out of Heaven”
“GI Blues”
“Slipping Around”
Robert Vincent (records for Military Use only)
Donavon
Ry Cooter
Crazyhorse
Elvis
John Paul Jones
“I got ya”
Wilson Picken
Ben E King
Don Covey
Percy Mayfield
Jack Good
Jerry Lee Lewis
Duke Ellington
Barry Gordey
Quincy Jones
Bill Crosby
“Band of Gold”
Angelo Bond
Greg Perry

Other People
Bertrand Russell “War does not determine who it right, only left.”
Plato
General Patton
Mars and Aires
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
President McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt
Other Attila the Hun
Pope Leo I
Winston Churchill
Lord Kitchener
Matthew Bradley Photography
Bernard Baruch (coined phrase cold war)
Herbert Bayes Swope
Gerald Holtham
Shanghai Scheck
Shakespeare
John Bailey Tyler
George S Lamkin
Calvin Graham
President Coolidge
General Johnson
Albert Einstein “You can not prevent and prepare for war at the same time”
Simon Goldman
Fredric March
Ben Andrews
Harold Russell
William Wyler

Places
Cuba
US Maine
Havana
Spain
Puerto Rice
Guam
Grand Ole Opry
Roman Empire
Austria
Germany
Italy
Rome
Peebles, Scotland
Australia
Gallipoli
Black Sea
Pasadena
Korea
Nashville
Saskatchewan
Germany
Hamburg
Dusseldorf
Frederick, Maryland
Mississippi
Chicago

Entertainment, TV, Radio and Lit
Sun Su-The Art of war
Lt. Don Briggs press conference (speaking on behalf of Cop. Bob Carroll. Sgt. Mel Powell Sgt Ray McKinley) (clip)
Bugs Bunny (clip) Tall Man with the High Hat (Penny Bonds)
Tokyo Rose Radio (clip)
Sesame Street
Officer and A Gentleman
Jack Neichtze
Othello
(clip) Othello ‘So do I too, good lieutenant”
The Banana Splits (clip)
Nutty Professor II
Today’s Black Woman (TV SHOW)
The Best Years of Our Lives (film) (clip)

Military Abbreviations
PRF-Private First Class
CPL Corporal
SGT Sergeant
LT Lieutenant
CP Command Post
OD On Duty or Operation Directive
MP Military Police
PVT Private
LIEUG Lieutenant
KP Kitchen Patrol
QT Quick Time
AWOL Absent Without Official Leave
MEDIVAC Medical Evacuation
MIA Missing In Action
KIA Killed In Action
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
“and WILCO is the name of a band, and we can not forget FUBAR and SNUFU. I can‘t tell you what those mean because this is a family program.”

Record Labels
Paramount label
Sony Label
Excello Label
Bluebird Label

Wars
Spanish American War
Civil War
Cold War
War of Independence
War of 1812

Misc
Yellow Journalism
Waltzing Matilda (Carry your pack around the bush)
History of the Peace Symbol

Important Civil War Battles (in which coffins and embalming were big business)
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Harper’s Ferry, WV
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Sharpsburg
Antietam
Battle of Long Island

Civil War firsts
Workable Machine gun
Snorkel breathing device
Aerial Reconnaissance
Flame Throwers
Military Telegraphs
Metal of Honor
Telescopic sites for riffles
Repeating riffles
Bugle call “Taps”

Celebrities that fought in war
Yogi Berra
Mel Brooks
Clark Gable
Brock Hudson
“All the Kennedy’s” Jack, Robert and George
Rod Sterling
Bridges Meridice
Rod Steiger
Ted Williams
Sylvester Stallone

Fruit

It’s nighttime in the big city.
The rain soaked streets reflect the glare of passing headlights.
A man pace around in his hotel room.
Do you know where your children are?

The Singers and The Songs

Tutti Frutti – Little Richard

Peaches In The Springtime – Memphis Jug Band “I always loved that voice that anwsers him in the records. I always love to hear them yell ‘yeah’ and ‘what’ “

Don’t Squeeze The Peaches – Jack Costanzo & Gerrie Woo

Lemon ‘N Ice – Latin Playboys

Cherry Oh Baby – Eric Donaldson

Where the Sweet Old Oranges Grow – Sam Montgomery

Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White – Perez Prado

“I had a friend staying at my house recently. The other morning I came into the kitchen and saw him staring at a carton of orange juice. I asked him what he was doing and he said the carton sai ‘concentrate’. “

W-P-L-J – The Four Deuces

Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

I’m Gonna Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight – The Savoy Havana Band

Eatin’ Watermelon – Crown Prince Waterford

Yes, We Have No Bananas – Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers featuring June Hutton

The Banana Boat Song (Day-O) – Harry Belafonte

Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday

Other Singers and Songs
Bumps Blackwell
Dorothy Labostrie
The Stray Cats
“Mr. Bongo”
Desi Arnaz
Stan Kenton
Nat Cree ?
Judy Garland
Frank Sinatra x2
Sonny Boy Williamson
The Rolling Stones
“Black and Blue”
Pete Seger
The Byrds
Robert Johnson
“Sweet Home Chicago”
“Komono Blues”
Billy Regis
Eartha Kitt
Rosemary Clooney
Frank Zappa
Rudy Vallee
Billy Rosario
Con Conrad
Jay McShad
Jimmy Witherspoon
Cassandra Wilson
Louis Allen

Other People
Marlon Brando
Albert Einstein
Sir Issac Newton
Jayne Russell
Hugh Lasater
Lloyd Bright
Danny Kay
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Barney Josephson
Milt Gabler
Billy Crystal

Places
The Big Apple
Georgia
Greece
Germany
Havana
Kent Village, Jamaica
Gold’s Gym
Jonesboro, AR
Cafe Society

Record Labels
Specialty
Arch
Commodore

TV, Movies and Entertainment
Ad-The True festive meal
Ad-Take a bite of Peach
Bells of St Martin
Ad-Florida Sunshine Orange Juice
Underwater
Ad-Sunsweet Prunes
Clip-Death of a Salesman

Lit
Dylan Thomas

Guest
John C Reilly

Fruit Based Dessert
Apple Pie
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Strawberry Shortcake
Peach Cobbler
Pineapple Upsidedown cake
Key Lime Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Apple Crisp
Blueberry Crumble
Banana Bread
Jello
Apple Brown Betty
Pan Dowdy
Strutel
Apple Tan Tan
Apple Cobbler

Street Map

It’s night time in the big city
A cold wind blows no good
A woman tries to remember when things first went wrong
I can’t believe it’s not butter.

“Today on TTRH, we’re gonna walk down that weary road, spend a little time on Easy Street, visit Primrose Lane, and attempt to steer clear of Skid Row. We’ll traverse the avenues and boulevards. We’ll take the road less traveled, and hopefully you’ll find us right up your block. We’ll drive down Route 66, America’s Main Street now sadly gone. We’ll get a little bit of southern exposure on Route 90 and find out the skinny from the man on the streets. Let’s go where the rubber meets the road. That’s right, we’re traversing the highways and byways, the promenades and roadways. We’re on the road to ruin. I may not be a Rhodes Scholar, but I got my share of street smarts! So join us for the next hour as we consult the street map. You are here.”

The Singers and The Songs
Laura Cantrell – 14th Street “Gives you a real sense of the serendipitous wonder that is New York City.”

The Pilgrim Travelers – Straight Street

The Skatalites – Streets of Gold (clip)

Roger Miller – King Of The Road

Ray Charles – Lonely Avenue “You know I don’t usually like to tell people what I’m doing, but I am talking to a couple of car companies about possibly being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you’re looking for directions and you heard my voice saying something like, ‘Take a left at the next street…no a right…you know what, just go straight.’ I probably shouldn’t do it, ‘cause whichever way I go, I always end up in one place: on Lonely Avenue. Luckily I’m not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there.”

Percy Mayfield – Hit The Road Jack (clip) “It’s a capella. This allows the inherent dysrhythmia of the song to shine through”

Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Mississippi Fred McDowell – 61 Highway

Hank Williams – Lost Highway

Little Feat – Willin “This song has gone on to become a country classic and a truck driver’s anthem. So if you’re driving on the back roads, turn this one up.”

The Nat King Cole Trio – Route 66 “Back in the 60’s, I used to hear the word ‘groovy’ all the time – I had no idea what people were talking about. For me a record like this was the definition of grooviness. So here’s the grooviest song I know, all about America’s main street.”

Clarence ‘Bon Ton’ Garlow – Route 90

Mud Boy and The Neutrons – Dark End of the Street “(Sid Selvidge, Lee Baker, Jimmy Crosthwait,) and of course, that magical musical maestro from Memphis, Jim Dickinson…he was never one of those guys who could fit into a pigeon hole…He was the kind of guy you could call if you needed someone to play the piano, fix a tractor, or make red coleslaw from scratch.”

Woody Guthrie – Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

Other People and Players
Emily Spray
Tennessee Williams
Sam Cook
J.W. Alexander
Ethiopian Clowns
New Orleans Crescent Stars
Ben Webster
Huck Finn
Minnie Pearl
Faron Young
Charlie Chaplin
The Little Tramp
Percy Mayfield “We’ve told the Percy Mayfield story a couple of times here. If you haven’t heard it, go download some of our old shows illegally.”
Ray Charles
Perry Mason
Della Street
Picabo Street
Big Sid Catlett
Tony Bennett
Stephen King
Sherlock Holmes
Bob Nolan
Leon Payne
James Dean
Tom Mix
Eddie Cochran
Isadora Duncan
Jayne Mansfield
Sam Kinison
Jackson Pollock
Princess Grace of Monaco
Princess Diana
Lowell George
Bill Payne
Richie Hayward
The Mothers of Invention
Roy Estrada
Bobby Troup
President Eisenhower
John Steinbeck
Jack Kerouac
Yogi Berra
James Carr
Ry Cooder
The Stones
Aretha Franklin
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Big Star
The Replacements
The North Mississippi All-Stars
Okies
Carl Sandburg “road weary poet”

Places
Chelsea
Greenwich Village
Union Square
Broadway
The Academy of Music
Vaudeville
Houston
The Gunbarrel Highway
Northern Territory (Aus)
South Australia
West Australia
Yonge Street
Toronto
Rainy River, Ontario
Minnesota
Number 1 Bistro
Mckay’s Hotel
Wick, Scotland
Ebenezer Place
New York
Corner of Houston and Bowery
Pacific Northwest
Idaho
National Ski Hall of Fame
Rossville, TN
Como, MS
The Mississippi Delta
Chicago
Highway 61
Tunica
221 B Baker St., London, England
10 Downing St.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The White House
The U.S. Department of Commerce
The Mother Road
I-55
I-44
I-40
I-10
Route 90
Jacksonville, FL
Tallahassee
Pea Ridge
Pensacola
Mobile, AL
Slidell, LA
New Iberia, LA “That’s where they make Tabasco Sauce. You know, I kissed a girl from New Iberia once; had a burning sensation for weeks.”
Beaumont
Harlow, TX
Van Horn
Champs Elysee
Bourbon St.
Rodeo Drive
Tiananmen Square
The Autobahn
Memphis
The Dust Bowl
The Great Plains
The West Coast
California

Record Labels
Specialty Records

Books, Movies, Plays, Poems, and Other Entertainment
The Book of Acts, Chapter 9, Verse 11
Big River
Easy Street
Carrie
The Moose Murders
Nightmare on Elm St. (promo clip)
The Bon Ton Show
On The Road (clip of Jack reading)
The Road and the End

Other Songs and Albums
Just a Riff
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Eleanor Rigby
American Idiot
Happy Rovin’ Cowboy
Bon Ton Roulet
They Walk Among Us
Chilly Winds “In our last show of season two, we talk about the song ‘Chilly Winds.’ We told you how that song kind of morphed into ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.’ Well you didn’t think I was gonna let our Street show go by without playin’ that, did ya?”

The Most Common Street Names (in order)
1. 2nd St.
2. 3rd St.
3. 1st St.
4. 4th St.
5. Elm St.

The Road and the End – Carl Sandburg
I shall foot it
Down the roadway in the dusk,
Where shapes of hunger wander
And the fugitives of pain go by.

I shall foot it
In the silence of the morning,
See the night slur into dawn,
Hear the slow great winds arise
Where tall trees flank the way
And shoulder toward the sky.

The broken boulders by the road
Shall not commemorate my ruin.
Regret shall be the gravel under foot.
I shall watch for
Slim birds swift of wing
That go where wind and ranks of thunder
Drive the wild processionals of rain.

The dust of the traveled road
Shall touch my hands and face.

Famous People

It’s night time in the big city
There’s a new coffee place on the corner
I hope somebody has change for a dollar.

“Please, no flash photography”

The Singers And The Songs
Mighty Sparrow – Jack Palance

Janis Martin – My Boy Elvis

Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Sweet Gene Vincent

King Stitt – Lee Van Cleef

They Might Be Giants – Meet James Ensor

Dinah Washington – Christopher Columbus

Charlie Adams – Hey Liberace!

Ken Lazarus & Keith Lyn – The Beatles Got To Go

Bill Cox – The Fate of Will Rogers and Wiley Post

The Clash – The Right Profile

Leadbelly – Jean Harlow “A full-voiced powerful singer…we last heard from him on our Christmas show. We told his story then, so go listen to that show if you want to know about him.”

(Perez Prado – Marilyn Monroe Mamba) (partial)

Simon and Garfunkle – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

Other People and Players
Andy Warhol
Ed Koch
Elvis Presley
Steve Sholes
Grady Martin
Buddy Herman
Floyd Kramer
Colonel Tom Parker
P. Diddy Combs
Sylvester Stallone
Pol Pot
Mussolini
Bill Murray
Rush Limbaugh
Gene Vincent
Eddie Cochran
Mark Twain
Tom Hanks
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety”
Mensa
Fats Waller
Rodrigo – sailor on Columbus’ ship
Colonel Sanders (KFC radio commercial)
Umberto Eco
Emily Dickinson “famous poet”
Liberace “By the mid-50s, he had 162 certified fan clubs”
Roy Rogers
Smiley Burnett
Paul Bley (clip)
Ida Lupino “She doesn’t get the credit as a ground breaker, which she surely was…you may be forgotten by most Ida, but you’re surely not forgotten here.”
Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
William Talman
Directors Guild of America
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare
Montgomery Clift (clip)
Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Burns
Jean Harlow
Paul Bern
William Powell “Star of the Thin Man movies…sorry Astra!”
Marilyn (Monroe)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr.
Samuel Johnson

Movies and TV
Panic in the Streets
City Slickers (clip)
The Girl Can’t Help It
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Thin Man
They Drive By Night
Road House
High Sierra
The Hitch Hiker
Perry Mason
A Place in the Sun
From Here to Eternity
The Misfits
Suddenly Last Summer
Judgment at Nuremberg
Something’s Gotta Give
Some Like It Hot
The Seven Year Itch
A Face in The Crowd (clip)

Other Songs and Albums
Fame (David Bowie) (in background during intro)
Fame and Fortune (clip)
Heartbreak Hotel
Ida Lupino (song clip)

Record Labels and Movie Studios
RCA Records
Imperial Records
MGM

Places
Cambodia
Missouri
England
Canterbury Art College
Jamaica
Bahamas
The Hollywood Bowl
Walakpa Lagoon
Point Barrow, AK
Oklahoma City
Hollywood
England
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Guggenheim Museum
New York City
Falling Water
Bear Run, PA
Pittsburgh
Hollyhock House
Price Tower
Marin County Civic Center

Famous Animals and Their Real or Original Names
Asta (wire haired terrier named Skippy)
Lassie (collie named Pal)
Ol’ Yeller (yellow lab named Spike)
Toto (Terry)
Mr. Ed (Palomino named Bamboo Harverster) “A horse is a horse of course of course”
Trigger – (Golden Cloud, another palomino)

Literature and Art
Henry V
Christ’s Entry Into Brussels

I’d rather be thin than famous
I don’t wanna be fat
And a woman throws me outta bed
callin me Gordo
And every time I bend
to pickup my suspenders
from the davenport floor
I explode loud, huge grunt-o
and disgust everyone in the familio

I’d rather be thin than famous
But I’m fat

Paste that in your Broadway show.

— Jack Kerouac

Numbers 11 And Up

It’s night time in the big city
A man tries to wash the lipstick off his collar in the men’s room sink
It’s hard to find a legitimate masseuse around here.

The Singers and The Songs
Bobby “Blue” Bland – 36-22-36 “I always wanted an introduction like this for myself.”

Prince Buster – 30 Pieces of Silver

Muddy Waters – Forty Days and Forty Nights “Many days and many nights…not to be confused with the Mennonites, who are also in the bible”

Lattie Moore – 100,000 Women Can’t Be Wrong

Floyd Dixon – Girl Fifteen

Jim Ford – 36 Inches High “…with a song that you’re gonna say after you heard it, ‘What’d he say?!?’”

Sonny Boy Williamson – Ninety-Nine “Our next artist is one of only three performers that we play on TTRH who had his face on a bag of flour…if you think you know the other two make sure and take the TTRH quiz, available now on line. There’s no prizes to speak of, we’re just trying to gather some information on our listeners.”

Toots and the Maytals – 54-46 Was My Number

The Showmen “A slightly different shape on a slightly different woman – a man after my own heart.”

Connie Allen with Todd Rhodes and his Orchestra – Rocket 69 “I don’t know how they got this one past the censors.”

Joe Mooney Quartet – A Man With One Million Dollars

Ann Peebles – 99 Lbs. “Every time I see her name, I think she’s Fred Flintstone’s daughter.”

Howlin’ Wolf – Three Hundred Pounds of Joy

NRBQ – 12 Bar Blues

Merle Haggard – C’mon 65 “Life’s musical reporter”

Other People and Players
B.B. King
Roscoe Gordon
Barbie Doll “If Barbie was a real person, she would be six feet tall and weigh only a hundred pounds. Her measurements would be 39-19-33. Her neck would be twice the length of an average person’s, and she would wear a size three children’s shoe. If she were life sized she wouldn’t be able to walk with those tiny feet and her top-heavy frame, and she couldn’t have both a trachea and an esophagus because her neck was too narrow. She would have to choose between breathing and eating. With a figure like that I’m guessing she’s gonna choose breathing.”
James Thurber
Judas Iscariot
Jesus
The Roman Soldiers
The 12 Apostles
King Saul
King David
King Solomon
Elijah
Moses
The Mennonites
Anatole France
King Henry VII
George Jones
Preacher James Burton
Jim Keltner
Dr. John
Billy Barty
General Johnson
Peter Paul Rubens
Paul Reubens
Pee Wee Herman
King Henry IV
Marie De Medici
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
Leslie Kong
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
Benny Carter
Coleman Hawkins
Rex Stewart
Doc Cheatham
Don Cheadle
Wynonie Harris
Gene Vincent
Alan Freed
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Nat Cole
Fred Flintstone
The Peebles Choir
Erasmus
John Lee Hooker
Jack Butwell

Some Famously Corpulent People
Winston Churchill
Notorious B.I.G.
Refrigerator Perry
Jackie Gleason
Alfred Hitchcock
President Taft “our fattest president”

Guests
Tom Waits
Billy Vera

Record Labels
Duke “Where the smart money always was”
Del-Fi

Places
Egypt
Canaan
England
New Orleans
California
Helena, AR
The United Kingdom
Japan
Hungary
Puerto Rico
Norway
Cleveland
Patterson, NJ
Hollywood
Birmingham, AL
Burlington, VT
Little Rhodie
New York

4 of Bob’s Other Favorite Bars (other than the 12 bar blues, that is)
Rojo
The Three Needs
The Met Café
Elmo’s Lounge

Other Songs and Albums
Juke Joint Johnny
Drunk Again “Good name for a country song”
Hey, Bartender
Harlan County
Blues For The Red Boy
I Love Florida
Hey Fat Man (Fats Domino) (clip played in background)

Movies, TV, and Other Entertainment
Out All Night
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Spike Jones Show
King Biscuit Flour Hour (clip)
The Moon Dog Show
Mattel Barbie commercial (clip)

Misc. References
The Last Supper
The Lost Gospel of Judas
The Little People in America Organization
Lou Gehrig’s Disease

“This is TTRH, where we’re lookin’ at the new math…nah, I’m just kidding. We’re talking about numbers, old school.”

Work
“This week we’re talking about work. We’re talkin’ about golden parachutes, poison pills, golden handshakes. We’re talking about workin’ like a dog, work around the clock, workin’ 9 to 5; talking about all the workin’ stiffs who’re workin’ for a livin’, who live to work, labor intensive, doin’ odd jobs, married to their job, them employee of the month hard at work.”

The Singers and The Songs
First, You’ve Got to Recognize God – The Bernadettes
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) – T-Bone Walker
Workin’ Man Blues – Merle Haggard “you can’t say enough about Merle Haggard”
Big Boss Man – Jimmy Reed
Nice Work If You Can Get It – Sarah Vaughan
“I had a boss so mean once, his time clock punched me.”
Payday – Jesse Winchester
Gotta Find a Job – Lee Dorsey
The Coat and the Pants Do All the Work (and The Vest Gets All The Gravy)
– Six Jumping Jacks (Harry Reser & His Orchestra with Tom Stacks)
I Can’t Work No Longer – Billy Butler & The Enchanters
I’ll Do Anything But Work – Ray Charles
Payday Blues – Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Want Ads – Honey Cone
Whistle While You Work – Adriana Caselotti
Call My Job – Detroit Junior
I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) – Tom Waits “A song with a very long title”
You Got to Have a Job (If You Don’t Work, You Can’t Eat) – Marva Whitney & The J.B.’s

Lit
Walt Whitman-I hear America Singing (Bob read) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or
at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day―at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Robert Frost-”By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -”He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”
Longfellow-The Blacksmith (bob reads)

TV. Movies and Entertainment
Why do people work-ad
Interview on process of working with Charlie Chaplin
Jackie Cougan
The Kid
Vaudeville
MGM Studios
High School Confidential
The Adams Family
Mesa of Lost Women
Damsel in Distress
Make yourself valuable at work-ad
Fiddler on the Roof
In Living Color
Office Supply-ad
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
Fishing for a job-Ad
Make you own opportunity-Ad

Other People
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Edison-“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Dwight Eisenhower-”Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Abe Lincoln-log splitter
Rod Stewart-Printer, grave digger
J Lo-Legal Assistant, Fly Girl
Papa Doc Duvalier-Doctor
Madonna-Duncan Doughnuts
Jack Nicholson-Mail room Clerk
Walt Disney
Larry Morey
Frank Churchill
Cassandra Peterson-Elvira

Places
California
Santa Monica
Apollo Theater
Shreveport, LA
Montreal
Port Au Prince
Haynes, AZ

Record Labels
Divinity Label
Veejay
Amy Label
Atlantic
Hotwax
Motown

Other Singers and Songs, etc.
Barry Gordy
Blue Monday
“Hungry Eyes”
“Okie from Muskogee”
Miles Davis
Bud Johnson
Benny Green
Tony Scott
Jimmy Jones
Freddie Green
Billy Taylor
JC Heard
Jerry Butler
Garret Mitten ?
Curtis Mayfield
The Impressions
Betty Hall Jones
“Buddy Stay Off That Wine”
Last Train to Hicksville
Bobby Sax and the Blue Jeans
Holland Dozier Holland
Darlene Love
The Nightcats
Small Change

Jobs that have disappeared (or will soon)
Milkman
Travel agent
Typesetter
Sewing Machine Operator
Elevator operators
Telex Operator
Polaroid plant worker

Least Popular Jobs
Poultry Processor
Sewing Machine Operator
Farm Laborer
Laundry Worker
Roofer
Recycling plant worker
Street Prostitute
“I wonder which is worse, street prostitute or poultry processor?”

Jobs Bob mentions
gambler
cashier
bartender
taxi driver
taxidermist
playwright
copy editor
skylark
bookie
police officer
judge
fireman
shaman
weatherman
mailman
zoo keeper
manufacturer
inventor
gym teacher
history teacher
janitor
plumber
baker
manager
painter
tailor
seamstress
banker
concierge
podiatrist
pharmacist
apple picker
field hand
physicist

“I’m gonna get outta here and see if I can beat the traffic. You know what it’s like when everybody gets off work.”

Nothing

It’s night time in the big city
A wealthy man terrorizes a waitress
The dogs can smell rain.

“We’re gonna be talking about next to nothing, for nothing, nothing doing and all or nothing. We’re gonna be talking about nothing to write home about and nothing to shout about. Nothing to sneeze at, good-for-nothings, and nothing going for ya. Much ado about nothing, next to nothing, thinking nothing of it, and having nothing to do with ya.”

The Singers and the Songs
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg – Ain’t Nuthin But A G Thang (Background during intro)

The Fugs — Nothing

The Cookies – Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)

Sammy Davis, Jr. – There Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame

Brenda Lee – Sweet Nothings

Frank Sinatra – I Got Plenty O’ Nothin’

Harry Johnson – It’s Nothing To Me
“Always enjoy a song with a story attached. It’s like getting a two for one, and he makes a good point. Mind your own business! You don’t have to get involved; you don’t know that whole story. Before you go jumping in, take a moment. Look at the situation. Ask yourself: Will I really be making this better? I guarantee ya, 9 times outta 10, the answer is nooooo.”

Peter Wolf (with Mick Jagger) – Nothing But The Wheel

Marlene Dietrich – No Love, No Nothin’ “Boy, what can you say about that? Just fabulous.”

Toussaint McCall – Nothing Takes the Place of You “With a song this good, you only need one”

Mose Allison – I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues

Mac Curtis – That Ain’t Nothin’ But Right

Rockin’ Sidney – You Ain’t Nothin’ But Fine “Huh-ha, that sounded like me playing harmonica. Short and sweet with a steady beat.”

Townes Van Zandt – Nothing

Other People and Players
Ed Sanders
Tuli Kupferberg
N.W.A
N.R.A
W.B.A
The Manson Family
The Family
The Eagles
Shakespeare
Carole King
Gerry Goffin
Margie Hendricks
Jean McCrea
Don Kirshner
Oscar Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers
Myron McCormick
Luther Billis
Frank Sinatra
Jean Passerat
Ronnie Self
American Rose Society
George and Ira Gershwin
DuBose Heyward
Ariel Durant– One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Albert Einstein
JFK
Ted Williams
Marie Magdalene Dietrich
Josef Von Sternberg
Burt Bacharach
Duke Ellington
Sid Nathan (clip)
Floyd Soileau
Allison Kraus
T-Bone Burnett
Benjamin Franklin

Famous Roadtrippers
Lewis and Clark
Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey (“took a bus full of people”)
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda
Michael Paternini

Literature and Entertainment
The Winter’s Tale
Macbeth
Hamlet – there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
King Lear
The Great White Way
South Pacific
Three Amigos (clip)
Porgy and Bess
Easy Rider
The Blue Angel
The Edinburgh Festival
Fight Club
Tao Te Ching
Scrabble “one place where nothing takes the place of U”
The Scrabble Dictionary

Record Labels
Dimension Records
Reprise Records
Columbia “Back when there was a Columbia Record Label”
King Label
Gin Records

Places
Paris
Schoenberg, Germany
Monroe, LA
Cincinnati
Floyd’s Record Shop
Ville Platte, LA

Types of Therapy
Freudian
Jungian
Reichian
Theme Timeian Therapy

Guests
Amy Sedaris
Luke Wilson
Elvis Costello

Other Songs and Albums
God Less America
Sleepless
My Toot Toot

Misc. References
Zen Buddhism
Medal of Freedom
Chevalier Legion d’honneur

Some Words That Have a Q But No U:
Qat – the leaves of a shrub that can be chewed like tobacco or used to make tea
Qindar – a subunit of Albanian currency
Qorty – keyboard
Qi – variation on chi

Something

It’s night time in the big city
A man falls asleep far from home
There’s a strange car parked outside.

The Singers And The Songs

The Beatles – Something “I think we all know there’s only one way to begin.”

Earl-Jean McCrea – I’m Into Something Good “Ya know when I heard Herman’s Hermits sing it I thought it was just about having a piece of cake, or ridin’ on a Ferris wheel. But when I hear Earl-Jean sing it, I know exACTly what she’s talkin’ about!”

Vic Damone – Something’s Coming

Billy Ward and the Dominoes (with Clyde McPhatter) – Do Something For Me “Ya know, nobody sings like that anymore. He makes it sound effortless, no matter how difficult it really is. I like the elegance of a guy like Clyde McPhatter; it’s like watching Fred Astaire.”

Jimmy Ballard – She’s Got Something “You can just tell he’s one of those guys raised on Western swing, looking forward to rockabilly. I sure would like to know more about him; if ya know anything, give us a call here at the station.”

This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (clip in background) – Steven (Valentine Patrick William) Allen http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/allensteve/allensteve.htm

The Velvelettes – He Was Really Sayin’ Something

Eddie Cochran – Somethin’ Else “You know, sometimes I get jealous of you people listening. Some of you are hearing these songs for the first time, and that must be exciting. I remember what it was like when I first heard ‘em, and I tell ya even after all these years it’s still an amazing record – but that first rush of hearin’ it…wow!”

Daddy Cleanhead – Something’s Goin’ On In My Room

Charlie Rich – When Something is Wrong With My Baby “Here’s The Silver Fox, back when he still had a little bit of black in his hair.”

June Christy with Pete Rugolo – Something Cool “A beautiful song of quiet despair…a lot of times the arranger gets ignored, but on a record like this you can’t imagine it without his touch.”

Bobby Marchan – There’s Something on Your Mind Pt. 2 “Next up, part two of a two part record. Side one is kind of a straight read. Part two – it’s wild! Not surprisingly, the guy performing it is wild too.”

Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle (with the Carlisles) — Something Different

Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air

Other People and Players
Plato
George Harrison
Joe Cocker
Patty Harrison
The Cookies
Little Eva
Herman’s Hermits
Carole King
Gerry Goffin
Perry Como
Pier Angeli
James Dean
Diane Carol
Leonard Bernstein – “hell of a cat”
Stephen Sondheim
Serge Koussevitzky
The New York Philharmonic
Black Panthers
The Million Dollar Quartet
Elvis Presley
Jackie Wilson
Jayne Meadows
Bennie Goodman
Bertha Barbee
Carolyn Gill
Bananarama
Louisa May Alcott
Tallulah Bankhead – her last words: “Codeine…bourbon…”
P.T. Barnum
Humphrey Bogart
Lou Costello
Heinrich Heine
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Sharon Sheeley
Gene Vincent
Jimmy Ballard
Chuck Higgins
Fred Astaire
Isaac Hayes
David Porter
Sam and Dave
Beethoven
Fluffy Hunter
Billy Barnes
Stan Kenton
Nat Cole
Harry Belafonte
The Four Freshmen
Johnny Vincent
Bobby Fields
Huey Piano Smith
The Clowns
Bobby Robinson
Little Sonny Warner
Sonny Parker Bob names him as the vocalist on Big Jay McNeely’s ‘There is Something on Your Mind’, which is incorrect. It’s Little Sonny Warner).
Big Jay McNeely
Cliff Carlisle
Hotshot Elmer – Bill Carlisle’s comic alter ego “I’m gonna get me one a those”
James Simon Kunen
Israel Horovitz
Ad-Rock
The Beastie Boys
Bruce Davidson
Kim Darby
Jack Sheldon
Speedy Keen
The Who
Jimmy McCulloch
Pete Townsend
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.G. Wells

Other Songs and Albums
Abbey Road
Layla (clip)
The Loco-Motion
The Girl Can’t Help
20 Flight Rock
“The same song that Paul McCartney used to impress John Lennon when they first met”
Summertime Blues
Something Cool
Artistry in Bass
Artistry in Percussion
Artistry in Bolero
Artistry in Boogie
Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
The Who Sell Out
Armenia City in the Sky (Bob refers to this song ‘Armenia in the City’ which is incorrect)

Movies, TV and Other Entertainment
West Side Story (clip)
On The Waterfront
Candide
The Fugitive
Run For Your Life
The Chitlin Circuit
The Powder Box Revue
The Porter Wagoner Show
The Strawberry Statement

Poetry
Something Left Undone

Places
Brooklyn, NY
The Paramount Theatre
Manhattan
New York
Lawrence, MA
Tanglewood, MA
The United States
Lexington, KY
Western Michigan University
Totonno’s Pizza “You can take it on the bus with ya.”
Neptune Avenue
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
Memphis
Italy
Santa Rosa, CA
New Orleans
Dew Drop Inn
Youngstown, OH
The UK

Record Labels
Federal
Motown
Specialty
Sun
Stax
Hi Records
Capital
Ace Records
Fire Records

Books
The Ground is Our Table
Ripoff: The Corruption that Plagues America
The Guinness Book of World Records

Miscellaneous Mentions
Triumph Motorcycles
Vietnam War

Guest
Tom Waits

Cats

It’s nighttime in the city.
A man makes a promise he’ll never keep.
Spring just won’t come.

Pink Panther Theme (background)

“Keep it tuned right here. I know it’s not actually a dial, I just like saying that…”

Three Cool Cats – The Coasters

Hep Cay Holiday (background)

Tom Cat Blues – Cliff Carlisle

Leave My Kitten Alone – Little Willie John

I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail – Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Tigers have more than 100 stripes and no 2 have identical stripes, unless they’re wearing the same pajamas”

Sell The Puss-y – The Mighty Sparrow

Put A Nickel In The Kitty – Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers

Dead Cats On The Line – Tampa Red & Georgia Tom

The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens

The Cat’s Got The Measles, The Dog’s Got The Whooping Cough – Walter “Kid” Smith And Norman Woodlief

A Fish House Function (For A Cross Eyed Cat Named Sam) – Emmy Oro “a song that raises more questions than it answers… First time I heard it was on a hot summer day. I thought I was hallucinating”

My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone – Hop Wilson & His Buddies

Stray Cat Blues – The Rolling Stones

The Theme From Top Cat – Joseph Barbera (Hanna Barbera Cartoons)

Other Singers and Songs
Brother Jack McDuff
Henry Mancini
Plaz Johnson
Jelly Roll Morton
James Brown
Mable John
Sid Nathan
The Beatles
Merle Haggard
Del Mayers?
Wynn Stewart
Rose Maddox
Melvin Brown and His Musical Brownies
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“Precious Lord”
“Peace in the Valley”
Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds
Alan Lomax
Pete Seger and The Weavers
The Kingston Trio
Hugo and Luigi
Muddy Waters
Joe Cocker
Dr. John
Beggar’s Banquet
Hoagie Carmichael
Hoyt Curtain

Other People
Mark Twain-”Of all Gods creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.”
Jayne Mansfield
Mamie Van Doren
Diana Dors “You probably have a picture of her in your house right now! If you don’t believe me, pull out a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Front and off to the side. HEY! There I am!”
Peter Sellers
The Zulu
Phil Silver
Arnold Stang

Places
Grand Road Bay, Granada
Swaziland
Wichita
Grapeland, TX
Manhattan
Hoagie’s Alley

Record Labels
Decca

TV, Movies and Entertainment
There’s a Girl in My Soup
Clear Channel
Siegfried and Roy
Cat women of the Moon?
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Cat Dancers
Top Cat
Hanna Barbara

Guest
Cat Power
John C Reilly

Lit
William Blake-Tiger “Cool cat poet”
Nan Porter “If cats could talk, they wouldn’t”

Misc.
Cat as a Hipster Phrase- Hip, Hep and Hippie mean “to be alive or aware of what’s going on” (at least that’s the way Bob always heard it
History of the term Kitty
Cat in a bag/Pig in a poke
Black Cat Bone

Madness

It’s night time in the big city
The worst has already happened
A well dressed couple lean on the balcony; they laugh as they sip martinis.

The Singers and The Songs
Patsy Cline – Crazy

Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra – I’m Nuts About Screwy Music

Eddie Cochran – Nervous Breakdown

James Brown and his Famous Flames – I’ll Go Crazy

Charlie Parker – Relaxing at Camarillo (clip)

Prince Buster – Madness

Jimi Hendrix – Manic Depression (clip in background) “I can’t imagine Jimi Hendrix writing a song called ‘Bipolar Disorder.’

Peggy Lee – You’re Driving Me Crazy

Bo Diddley – Crackin’ Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqh-tFgh8M

Johnny Paycheck – (Like Me) You’ll Recover in Time

Annie Ross – Twisted “A lot of people are unfamiliar with the way that Annie and other vocal lead singers would take jazz solos and put words to them; well this is one of the most famous ones.”

The Tibbs Brothers – I’m Going Crazy

The Mighty Sparrow – The Mad Bomber

Little Walter – Crazy Mixed-Up World
“Walter basically reinvented the harmonica. When he was growing up, he was obsessed with the Louis Jordan records, and would practice playing Louis’ saxophone solos on his harmonica.”

Dinah Washington – Blow Top Blues

Porter Wagoner – The Rubber Room “The Thin Man from West Plains”

Beatrice Kay w/ Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra – Hooray, Hooray, I’m Going Away

Redd Foxx – It’s Fun To Be Living In The Crazy House “Here’s a wild record with a surprising person at the helm.”

Mose Allison – Lost Mind “Here’s a man that some call the William Faulkner of jazz. Now I’ve got to tell you, I’ve heard this guy play since the 60s, and I’ve never heard anybody call him the William Faulkner of jazz. But there it is in a book. I mean, somebody just wrote that; I can’t imagine anyone calling him the William Faulkner of jazz! I mean that would be like calling Garnet Mimms the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of soul music. It’s just not done. I’m getting excited over nothin’, let me just play the record. By the way, I consider William Faulkner to be the Mose Allison of literature. Here they are, together again, Mose Allison and William Faulkner, singing the Percy Mayfield song ‘Lost Mind.’”

Jack Kittel – Psycho “The third in our trilogy of demented country songs”

Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

Other People and Players
Allen Ginsberg
Willie Nelson
Patsy Montana
Floyd Cramer
Harold Bradley
Owen Bradley
Buddy Harman
Walter Haynes
The Jordanaires
Grady Martin
John Lee Hooker
Otis Redding
Randy Hughes
Cowboy Copas
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Aristotle
Plato
Fred Rose
Roy Acuff
Sy Oliver
Harry Partch
Andral and Jonas Kilmer
Val (Kilmer)
Sid Nathan
Ernest Hemingway
Mary Welsh Hemingway
Charlie Mingus
Joey Gallo
Roky Erickson
Syd Barrett
Bud Powell
Charlie Parker
LAPD
Bill Gaines — “Madman of free speech…he never sold advertising in the magazine while he was alive, and there were no sacred cows.”
Madness
Benny Goodman
Ben E. King
Dave Barbour
Walter Donaldson
Patrick Hamilton
Charles Boyer
Ingrid Bergman
Jimmy Piersall
The Boston Red Socks
The Yankees
Billy Martin
Mickey McDermott
Vern Stephens
Dom DiMaggio
The Indians
Larry Napp
The White Sox
The Mets
Casey Stengel
Anthony Perkins
Carl Malden
Aubrey Mayhew
Porter Wagoner
Ray Price
Faron Young
George Jones
Wardell Gray
Bette Midler
Joni Mitchell
Dave Lambert
John Hendricks
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross “Who were kind of the Crosby, Stills & Nash of jazz”
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Art Blakey
Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
George P. Metesky
Louis Jordan
Muddy Waters
Leonard Feather
Ralph Kramden
Hippocrates
Dr. Phil
Napoleon the 14th / Jerry Samuels
Ken Kesey “Earned a little money by doing drug testing. This was in the late 50’s and he was gobblin’ down LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin – this will become important later, hold onto this information…”
Kirk Douglas
Jack Nicholson
The Merry Pranksters
Neal Cassady
Dean Moriarty
Jack Kerouac
The Grateful Dead
Ken Kesey “Psychedelic Pioneer of the Insane”
William Faulkner
Garnett Mimms
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Percy Mayfield
Dr. Alois Alzheimer
Leon Payne
Charles Whitman
Eddie Noack
Alfred Hitchcock
Frances Farmer
Lillian Farmer
Leif Erickson
Clifford Odets
Kurt Cobain
Charles Bukowski “Voice of the barroom, poet of the gutter, and the Shakespeare of the alleyway”
Frederick Nietzsche

Literature, Movies, TV and Other Entertainment
Howl “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
Grand Ole Opry
The Girl Can’t Help It
EC Comics
Mad Magazine
Gas Light
Gaslight
Fear Strikes Out
Fear Strikes Out
Psycho
Calypso
The Honeymooners (clip)
The Koran
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
On The Road
The Acid Tests
The Voice of Action (leftist newspaper)
Broadway
Golden Boy
Ed Sullivan Show
Some People
Cocoa puffs commercial (clip)

Places
Nashville
Oakland
China
Minnesota
Southern CA
England
Binghamton
Bellevue
Camarillo State Hospital
Chicago
Westborough State Hospital
Los Angeles
Italy
The Alps
Austria
Germany
West 54th St.
The New York Public Library
Grand Central Station
Penn Station
Radio City
Port Authority
The RCA Building
Waterbury, CT
Bedlam
New York (x3)
La Junta, CO
Oregon
La Honda, CA
University of Texas
Seattle, WA
Soviet Union
Moscow
Russia
Indianapolis

Other Songs and Albums
20 Flight Rock
Live at the Apollo
Twisted (instrumental)
Take This Job and Shove It
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha (clip)
Mention My Name in Sheboygan “We’ll be playing that one on our all Sheboygan show”
Lost Highway
I Love You Because
It’s a Gas
Record Labels & Movie Studios
Liberty Records
Capital Records
RCA/Victor
Columbia
GRC Label
Paramount Pictures

Medicine Show Tonics
Richard Stoughton Elixer
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Old Dr. Kaufmann’s Great Sulfur Bitters
Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment

Types of Chickens
Rhode Island Red
White Leghorn
Andalusian Blue

“Few things go together as well as country & western music and crazy people.”

Happiness

It’s night in the City.
A cop runs a license plate.
Ten will get you twenty.

“Welcome everybody to TTRH. It’s good to see so many familiar faces… Yes indeed-ee-doo, I could not be happier to be with you today.”

The Singers and The Songs

Feelin’ High and Happy – Hot Lips Page

Love and Happiness – Al Green

(I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I’ll Be Happy – Jimmy Heap And The Melody Masters

Happy Home – Elmore James

Happy – The Rolling Stones “It just goes to show ya, ya leave people alone in a studio and you don’t really need anyone else. Look what Keith did there! Of course, he’d been up for about 4 days when he came up with it. But you have to suffer for your art.”

I Want To Be Happy – Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra

Happy – Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

You’ve Made Me So Very Happy – Brenda Holloway

Happy Rovin’ Cowboy – The Sons Of The Pioneers

Everybody’s Happy Nowadays – Buzzcocks

Smile – Judy Garland (Music written by Charlie Chaplin for his farewell movie “Modern Times”)

Happy Trails – Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with Frank Worth & His Orchestra

Other Singers, Songs and Music Industrials.
Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Count Baise
William Mitchell
Hodges Brothers
Anne Peebles
Otis Clay
“The Wild Side of Life”
“Release Me”
Ester Phillips
“Anchors Away”
“Happy Days Are Here Again” (background)
Bobby Keys
Jimmy Miller
“Get Happy” (background)
Wardell Gray -sax
“Twisted”
Annie Ross
Ben E Carter
Teddy Hale
David Sanborn
Louie Jordon
“A-Tisket A-Tasket”
Ella Fitzgerald
“Safety Song”
Irving Caesar
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Joe Cocker
Hank Williams
Will Rogers “Everything is funny as long as it’s happening to someon else ” “You know everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects” “The only time people dislike gossip is when it’s about them ”

Nat Cole
Charlie Chaplin
John Turner
Jeffery Parsons
Dale Evans

Other People
Schecky Greene “Some people need to get high to make other people happy; take the case of Schecky Greene.”
Mary Whitsen (grits)
Richard Gere
Dalai Lama “.If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ”
Roosevelt

Places
Las Vegas
Memphis
Texas
LA Zoo
China

Record Labels
Motown
Stax
Sun
High
Flair

Lit, TV, Movies and other Entertainment
Albert Camus “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
James Elroy
Chasing Rainbows (film)
Plastics (AD)
Robert Frost “Happiness makes up in length what it doesn’t have in width”
State of Relaxation (AD)
Modern Times (film)
Jane Kenyon “Happiness”

Types of Stalkers “I personally think they might make good personal assistants. Afterall, they already know where you pick up your dry cleaning.”
Obsessional
Erotio-Maniac
Love Obsessional

Cops and Robbers

“We’re gonna be looking at officers and fuzz, bulls and coppers, private eyes, private investigators, police and private detectives, deputies and constables, lawmen, marshals, and meter maids, the law, and the man. But of course that’s just one side of the law. We’re also gonna turn the Theme Time spotlight on bandits and buccaneers, burglars and cheats, conmen and crooks, looters and marauders, something and pickpockets, stickup men, swindlers, thieves, thugs, gangsters, gunmen and hijackers. Bruisers and Godfathers, Mafioso and mobsters. I’m sure we have a lot of listeners on both sides.”

The Singers and the Songs

Nat Cole Trio – Call The Police “What made their sound so swingin’ is that they didn’t use a drummer and the rhythmic pulse was carried by that big bass fiddle.”

Red Simpson – The Highway Patrol “The forgotten man of the Bakersfield sound”

Blind Willie Walker – Dupree Blues

Billy Bragg and Wilco – Against the Law

The Crickets – I Fought The Law

Freddie ‘Bama Boy’ Hall and his Gadsden Band – This Crooked World

Bascom Lamar Lunsford – Poor Jesse James

The Byrds – Pretty Boy Floyd

The Coasters – Bad Detective “Using bad as a bit of braggadocio and not casting any aspersions on his abilities.”

Los Socios De San Antonio – La Muerte De Fred Gomez Carrasco

Eddy Grant and the Equals – Police On My Back

Smiley Lewis – Dirty People

Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive “A man who never forgot where he came from; he’s the real deal.”

Other People and Players
Lao Tzu
Oscar Moore
Wesley Prince
Reverend Gary Davis
Josh White
Buddy Holly
Norman Petty
Jerry Allison
Sonny Curtis
Earl Sinks
Bobby Fuller
Ernesto Miranda – “Many of you have probably heard these (Miranda Rights), probably first hand.”
Ernest Hemingway
Theodore Dostoyevsky
Jesse James
John Newman Edwards
Robin Hood
Tom Howard
Bob and Charlie Ford
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd
John Dillinger
Woody Guthrie (x 2)
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Fred Gomez Carrasco
Bonnie Raitt
The Clash
Fred Caswell (?) – under house arrest but figured out how to make a living by cooking and distributing crack out of his grandmother’s kitchen. “American ingenuity at work.”
Chicago Crime Commission
Al Capone
Johnny Cash
Jack the Ripper
Don King

TV and Movies
Highway Patrol (clip)
Mr. Scarface
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (clip)

Other Songs and Albums
Police and Thieves – Junior Murvin (played in background during intro)
Betty And Dupree
Boy With The Be-bop Glasses
That’ll Be The Day
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Electric Avenue
Public Enemy #1
Baby Come Back
His Majesty the Policeman (by Lord Buckley ) (clip)

Places
St. Petersburg
Great Britain
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
Chicago
Alabama
Indiana
Texas
St. Joseph, MO
Nebraska
Bartow County, GA
East Liverpool, OH
Kansas City
South Bend, IN
Huntsville Prison (in TX)
British Guyana
England
East London
Oklahoma
Muscogee
San Quentin
The Louvre

Record Labels
Decca
Brunswick Records

Guests
Ricky Jay
Steve Earle

Famous Sheriffs
Tom Smith
Doc Holliday
Judge Roy Bean
Bass Reeds
Bat Masterson
Buck Garrett
Isaac Parker

Books
Crime and Punishment
Webster’s Dictionary
Spiderman Comics

Art
Mona Lisa
The Scream

“This is TTRH, your police headquarters for illicit themes, illegal schemes, and hijacked dreams”

Sugar and Candy

Its night time in the big city
The bartender wipes the counter with a damp rag
That car’s been parked there all night
There’s no one left to call.

“This week we’re gonna indulge our sweet tooth, go into sugar shock, look at some eye candy, meet back at the sugar shack, take some candy from a baby, give some sweets to my sweet, get sweet and low-down, and maybe even revisit the sweet bird of youth.”

The Singers and The Songs
Joe Liggins – The Honeydripper

Elizabeth Cotton & Brenda Evans – Shake Sugaree “Listen to this and you think it’s a traditional song but it’s not – Elizabeth wrote it”

Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia

Millie Small – My Boy Lollipop

Lazy Lester – Sugar Coated Love

Ray Batts – Stealin’ Sugar “I don’t know anything about Ray Batts except for this song…another mystery man, another great record”

Lara and The Trailers – Sugar Town “You play me a Nancy Sinatra record, and I’ll play you a cover of it by a band from Singapore”

Joe Tex – If Sugar Was As Sweet As You

The Strangeloves – I Want Candy “Listen to that Bo Diddley beat!”

Harry McClintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Astors – Candy

Elvis Costello – So Like Candy “Listen the drums on this record, they’re quite good. You owe me five bucks, Jim.”

Cleveland Crochet and the Sugar Bees – Sugar Bee Boy, when was the last time a record hit the charts with accordion or a guitar like that?! Been much too long. It’s not that I like old music, it’s just that I’m not hearing anything like that from out in left field nowadays”

Dave Van Ronk – Candy Man “Here’s a guy who could talk about Trotsky as well as about the Delta Blues. He could tell you about politics and literature, could identify all the French symbolist poets, and play blues and ragtime on the guitar. I could talk about Dave Van Ronk for a long time. He could totally electrify a coffee house and you could never tell when he was drawing to an inside strength. It was a privilege to know him; he was a singular individual, and hearing just one song will only give you a clue.”

Other People and Players
Mark Twain
The Liggins Brothers
Sammy Franklin’s California Rhythm Rascals
Winnie The Pooh
Delmore Schwartz
Peggy Seeger
Pete Seeger
Mike Seeger
Lily Cotton (Elizabeth’s daughter)
Robert Hunter
Bob Weir
John Barlow
Amber Throated Finch
Francis Coppola
Jerry Garcia
George Smith
Little Walter
Lightnin’ Slim
Jay Miller
Lee Hazlewood
Nancy Sinatra
George Clinton
Bob Feldman
Jerry Goldstein
Richard Gottehrer
The Angels
The British Invasion
Bow Wow Wow
Bo Diddley
Johnny Otis
Burl Ives
The Duntinos
Carl Thomas
Steve Cropper
Isaac Hayes
Leo Hirschfield
Eduard Hoss III
Paul McCartney
Eddie Schuler
The Hillbilly Ramblers
Trotsky

Literature
The Heavy Bear That Goes With Me

Places
Chapel Hill, NC
Washington, DC
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Singapore
Sugarland, TX
Hershey, PA
Brooklyn
Australia
Memphis
New York City

Other Songs, Jingles, and Albums
Freight Train (clip in background)
Sugaree
American Beauty
Keith Moon / The Who – Great Shakes
Juke
Chocolate City
The Love You Save
Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
Let’s All Go To The Lobby
My Boyfriend’s Back
Big Rock Candy Mountain (children’s version)
Cracker Jack Commercial
My Brave Face
Mighty Like a Rose

Record Labels
Excello Records
Stax
Gold Band Records

Types of sugar
Sucrose / Table sugar
Castor sugar
Brown sugar
Powdered sugar
Turbinado sugar
Sugar in the raw
Sugar and spice and all things nice (that’s what little girls are made of)

Movies
Tootsie
The Man With The Golden Arm (clip)
Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (clip)
Tootsie Roll
Milk Duds
Three Musketeer Bar
Pez
Cotton Candy / Fairy Floss

Questions

“Welcome to Theme Time Radio Hour. Are you havin’ a good time? Are you enjoying yourself? Are you comfortable? Does it seem like I’m asking a lot of questions? Well you better get used to it ‘cause that’s all you’re gonna be hearing for the next hour.”

The Singers and Songs

Bo Diddley

Who Do You Love ?

The Robins

Whadaya Want?

Allen Toussaint

What Do You Want The Girl To Do?

The Everly Brothers

When Will I Be Loved?

Lloyd Price

Where You At?

“This is Theme Time Radio Hour, where we’re asking the burning questions, we’re popping the question, we’re saying don’t ask don’t tell, we’re not ducking the question, we’re there for the asking. The question is, where y’at?”

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

I Wonder Where You Are Tonight

“Bill had a strong temperament. He rarely granted interviews and seldom performed on television. Once he even canceled a concert at Carnegie Hall, ‘cause he believed the promoter, Alan Lomax, was a communist. He may have been wrong, but he stood by his decision.”

Bobby Tuggle

The $64,000 Question

The Colettes

Who’s That Guy?

“A band that there’s little information about. But like I always say, you don’t dance to the information!”

The Isley Brothers

Who’s That Lady?

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks

How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?

“Sounded real out of place back then, but it seems timeless to me.”

Marvin Gaye

What’s Going On?

Billie Holiday

What is This Thing Called Love?

Brinsley Schwarz

(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?

Other People and Players

Voltaire

Rudyard Kipling

“Questionable Poet”

Leiber and Stoller

The Coasters

The Boasters

Alan Fried

The Tijuana Brass

Dr. John

Labelle

The Meters

Bonnie Raitt

Boz Scaggs

Lowell George

Suffragettes

David Bowie

Susan B. Anthony

Socrates

“Looking for truth until the end”

Plato

Dave Bartholomew

James Thurber

“He was smart, funny, and he knew how to draw a dog.”

Bill Monroe

Johnny Bond

Alan Lomax

Charles Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren

Herbert Stempel

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Piano Red

Jimi Hendrix

R. Kelly

Mr. Biggs

Ronald Isley

Margaret Dumont

Marx Brothers

Budd Schulberg

Edward Albee

Philip K Dick

Horace McKoy

The Charlatans

The Hot Club of France

Sphinx

Sophocles

Oedipus

Jocasta

Eddie Lawrence

Humphrey Bogart

John Marley

Bruce Cabot

Field Marshall Alexander

Leo Durocher

Cole Porter

Joe Guy

Stanley Webb

Tiny Grimes

Bob Haggart

Specs Powell

Elvis Costello

Nick Lowe

Brinsley Schwarz (band)

Brinsley Schwarz (musician)

Ian Gomm

Billy Rankin

Bob Andrews

Carl Sandburg

“Poet with the answer… so I’m gonna take my cue from Carl and just shut up.”

John Entwistle

Other Songs and Albums

Whipped Cream

(Clip played)
Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Stagger Lee

Personality

Shout

This Old Heart of Mine

It’s Your Thing

Body Kiss

The Old Philosopher (comedy single)

(Clip played)

The Plays & Musicals

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Threepenny Opera

Record Labels

Checker Records

Specialty

Motown

Decca

Places

San Quentin

New York

Wyoming

“Today, women can actually vote in 37 of our states.”

Athens

Carnegie Hall

Egypt

San Francisco

Thebes

The Borscht Belt

North Africa

The States

Broadway

Magazines

The Daily Mail

Books and Poems

Just So Stories

The Elephant’s Child

What Makes Sammy Run?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Answer

Movies and TV Shows

The Dating Game

Quiz Show

(Clip played)

The $64,000 Question

Twenty-One

The Today Show

The Maltese Falcon

Casablanca

The Lady Eve

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gold Diggers of ‘33

Legend

Willow

Midget in Shadows

The Creep

Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Oxbow Incident

National Velvet

The Sound Of Music

All About Eve

Birdman of Alcatraz

Showboat

Gone with the Wind

Ma and Pa Kettle

Meet Me In St. Louis

Network

Mystic Pizza

Erin Brockovich

Up in Arms

Duck Soup

(Clip played with Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont)

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Wars

World War two

Famous Character Actors

Sydney Greenstreet

Charles Coburn

Billy Barty

Rondel Hatton

Famous Character Actresses

Thelma Ritter

Hattie McDaniel

Marjorie Main

Conchata Ferell

Margaret Dumont

Truth and Lies

“Heh heh heh…Welcome to the Underground Garage. I’m Little Steven.”

The Singers And The Songs
The Chromatics – Tell A Lie

Aretha Franklin with The Dixie Flyers – Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)

Fats Domino – Don’t Lie To Me “People think of him as just a jolly fat man from New Orleans, but they don’t realize what a bluesy piano player he is. Here he is with a song that’ll help you get down to the real nitty-gritty.”

Leon Chappel – True Blue Papa

Graham Parsons – How Much I’ve Lied

Guitar Slim – Twenty Five Lies “He’s flamboyant and an artist you can’t ignore.”

Carl Perkins – Your True Love “Everybody always thinks of rockabilly as being a guitar-based music, but you can’t imagine that record without Jerry Lee Lewis pumpin’ the piano all over it. During the 60’s and the 70’s the guitar hero became popular, but for my money give me that pumpin’ piano. The only reason the guitar became so popular is because you could wear it around your neck and stand in the middle of the stage. The poor guy playin’ the piano was stuck in one spot and unless you were Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis you were relegated to the background. I feel we lost something when it became all guitars and no piano. Another thing that happened is that somewhere along the line people seemed to think the solo was more important than the song. On some of my favorite blues records there isn’t even a solo at all. The guitar playing is mostly call and response to the vocals. If you’re lucky maybe there’s a one chorus guitar solo. It’s not about the length of the solo, it’s the feel, and a lot of those blues records had more feel than you could ever put in a twenty minute solo.”

Faye Adams – I’ll Be True

Duke Reid & The Silvertones – True Confessions

Willie Mabon – He Lied

Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe

Bobby Moore & The Fourmost – It Was A Lie “Here’s another one of those records that I don’t know anything about. There was more than one artist named Bobby Moore, and the records I have don’t all sound like the same guy.”

The Who – La-La-La Lies “Before they started making operas, The Who were one of the great singles bands of the 60’s.”

Other People and Players
Mark Twain
Ben E. King
Ahmed Ertegun
Betty Nelson
Orson Welles
Elmyr De Hory
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Richard Gere
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
LBJ
Nixon
George Bush, Sr.
Scotch Presbyterians
The Shelton Brothers
The Lone Star Cowboys
Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys
The Lone Star Ramblers
Jimmie Davis
The Sunshine Boys
Diogenes
The Sect of the Cynics
Socrates
Alexander the Great
Penn and Teller
Garfunkel
Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens
The Big Bopper
Sam Phillips
George Harrison
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
The Mormons
The Celts
Gilmore Grant
Keith Coley
Delroy Denton
Shakespeare
George Orwell
Winston Churchill
Billy Tipton (clip in background)
Ezzy Dame
Rusty Goff
Charles Kuralt
Harold Jenkins
The Golem
Carlo Collodi
The Blue Fairy
Disney
The Mods
Roger Daltrey
John Entwistle
Pete Townsend
Arthur Schopenhauer
Carl Sandburg

Places
Long Beach, CA
The West Coast
Las Vegas
L.A.
New Orleans
United States
Viet Nam
Gilmer, TX
Louisiana
Jamaica
Chicago, IL
Hollywood, TN
Reno
Montana
New York
Twitty City, USA
Hendersonville, TN
Pigeon Forge, TN
Dollywood
Smoky Mountains
Hyde Park

Record Labels
Million
Atlantic
Capital
Specialty
Sun “Back then there were regional sounds and those sounds were reflected in the record labels, who had a distinctive sound of their own, based on the size of the recording studio and the man sitting behind the console. One of these days we’re gonna fool ya and make our theme Sam Phillips and do nothing but play records he recorded.”
Herald
Treasure Isle
Chess (x2)
Brunswick
London

Other Songs, Albums, and Concerts
It’s a Sin To Tell A Lie (background clip)
Don’t Know Why I Cry
When You Wish Upon A Star (background clip)
My Generation
Won’t Get Fooled Again (clip)
Live Aid
British Music Awards
Wire and Glass

The Seven Deadly Sins (just as a reminder…)
Pride
Envy
Wrath or Anger
Sloth
Avarice
Gluttony or Greed
Lust
“Lemme see…good for about five of ‘em.”

Movies
F For Fake (clip) – “sort of a fly by the seat of your pants documentary; little bit free form”
Hoax
Jamboree
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Pinocchio
Putney Swope

Guest
Penn Jillette

Tabloid Magazines from the 50’s and 60’s
True Confessions
Confidential
Blast
Hush Hush
Uncensored
Exposed
The Lowdown
Side Street

Literature
A Winter’s Tale
Hamlet
Pinocchio
The Liars

Miscellaneous
Handfasting “Where do I sign up for that?!”
Kabbalah

Family Circle

It’s night time in the big city
The city lights reflect off the Burnett (?) River
Working girls share an inside joke.

“We’re gonna take a few ticks of the clock to look at heart and hearth. We’ll look at family trees, family dinners, family planning, and family jewels. There’ll be Dutch uncles, grandfather clocks, kissing cousins, sons of a gun, and maybe a couple of SOBs. It’s all in the family. Let’s get it goin.’”

The Singers and the Songs

Lonzo and Oscar – I’m My Own Grandpa

Memphis Jug Band – Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues

Clannad – Two Sisters

Peter Tosh – Shame and Scandal (In the Family) “He was a brilliant singer and one of the best guitarists to come out of Jamaica…he was a proselytizer of the healing powers of marijuana…he was kinda like the Dr. Phil of ganja.”

The Olympics – I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

Elvis Presley – Little Sister “You know, people used to go into the studio when they had a song or two, when they had something to say. Nowadays, people just go into the studio ‘cause they got time to kill. They sit around, they order sushi, get some Starbucks, wait for inspiration to hit, and the records sound like that. There’s some records that take two years to make and you listen to ‘em, and there’s nothin’ on ‘em! This record, I guarantee you, took less than two hours to make, and wasn’t even the A side. You be the judge. What would you rather listen to? A whole record about nothin’ or a 45 called Little Sister?”

Boozoo Chavis – LA Women Love Uncle Bud “It’s kind of ironic: we’re doing our family show, and this is probably the least family-oriented song we’ve ever played. It is not for the pusillanimous listener, so if you’re listening with young children please send them out of the room for a few minutes. Unless you’re listening in the car. In that case turn the radio down for a while.”

The Flamin Groovies – Second Cousin

The Wild Tchoupitoulas – Brother John “As good as that record sounds, you gotta see what they look like! That, my friends, is what I call showmanship.”

Rilo Kiley – A Better Son / Daughter

Willie Mabon – The Seventh Son

Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers – Bring It On Home To Grandma “The question I have is, ‘Bring WHAT on home to grandma?”

Sly & the Family Stone – Family Affair “A weary skeptical record, with a darkness born of drug use. This song was all over the radio and its power could not be denied”

People and Players
Thomas Jefferson “Ol’ T.J. was a smart guy”
Lloyd George
Rollin Sullivan
Eddie Arnold
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
Mandy Smith
Steven Wyman
Patsy Smith
Jerry Lee Lewis
Caroline Dye
Will Shade (clip)
Ben Ramey
Charlie Borse
Hambone Lewis
Francis J. Child
The Wailers
Bob Marley
The Temptations
Louis Armstrong
Sean Connery
Harry Fox
Dr. Phil
Doc Pomus
Mort Shuman
Cyril Jordan
Roy A. Loney “Not to be confused with another famous product of San Francisco, Rice-A-Roni.”
Slim Gaillard
Mardis Gras Indians
Big Chief Jolly (George Landry)
The Neville Brothers
Amos Landry (Spy Boy)
Booker Washington (Trail Chief)
Thomas Jackson(3rd Chief)
Norman Bell(2nd Chief)
Carl Christmas (Flag Boy)
French Settlers
Les Blank
Willie Dixon
Mose Allison
George Bernard Shaw
Richard M. Jones
The Beau Brummels
Bobby Womack
Johnny Guitar Watson
Ike Turner
Miles Davis
Charlie Chan

Places
England (x2)
Jamaica
Shreveport
Lafayette
San Francisco
Mexico
Canada
New Orleans
California
Romania
Ireland

Other Songs and Albums
Newport News Blues
Cruel Sister
The Bonny Broom
The Wind and The Rain
Adams Family Theme (clip)
Simmer Down
Legalize It
Steppin’ Razor
Walk and Don’t Look Back
Flamingo “Or as I like to call it, Flaming ‘O’”
The Execution Of All Things
I Don’t Know
There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Laugh, Laugh
Dance to the Music
Everyday People
Stand
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (clip)

Movies and Other Entertainment
Ziegfeld Follies
Always For Pleasure
Woodstock
Charlie Chan’s Secret
The Chinese Cat

Dance Crazes
The Twist
The Texas Tommy
The Turkey Trot
The Grizzly Bear
The Bunny Hug
The Foxtrot
The Charleston
The Breakaway
The Lindy Hop
The Jitterbug
The Balboa
The Black Bottom
The Conga
“How many can you do?”

Kissing Cousins
Queen Victoria & Prince Albert
Charles Darwin & Emma Wedgewood
Franklin D. Roosevelt & Eleanor Roosevelt
Edgar Allen Poe
Jesse James & Zerelda Mimms

Books
Leviticus 18
The Bible

Mystical Things With the Number ‘7’
The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Seven Sages
The Seven Sisters
Seven Hills of Rome
Seven Ages of Man
Seven Stars
Seven Wonders of the World
Seven-league Boots
77 Sunset Strip

Record Labels
Chess

Noah’s Ark – Part I

It’s night time in the big city
A burly man sells factory-seconds tube socks out of his trunk
An abandoned balloon is stuck in a tree.

“I like to think of myself as a glass half full kinda guy. I don’t like to think about all the people that drowned in the great flood, I like to think about all the animals Noah saved. So this week we’re gonna climb aboard Noah’s Ark and take a look around. It’s gonna be a marvelous musical menagerie as we listen to songs about, for and by the many members of the animal kingdom. Come on! Watch where you step.”

The Singers and the Songs

Jimmy Cliff – King of Kings

Cousin Emmy with Frank Moore & His Log Cabin Boys – Ground Hog

Eric Von Schmidt and Rolf Cahn – Grizzly Bear

Dave Bartholomew – The Monkey Speaks His Mind “D. Bartholomew has a writing credit on this song, but I think the lyrics go back a lot further. I have a postcard with a poem on it from at least the 30’s; but Dave did put a distinctive, driving guitar beat behind it. Anything that gets this type of thought across, I’m all in favor of…A tale of morality and monkey business.”

Joe D. Johnson – Rattlesnake Daddy “Here’s a rockabilly rave-up”

The Marvelettes – Too Many Fish In The Sea

The Sons of the Pioneers – Hold That Critter Down “It’s not totally politically correct but we must remember it was a different time.”

Bonnie Raitt – Baby Mine “It sounds like she’s singing it to the man she loves but no, she’s singin’ to an elephant!”

Rolf Harris – Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport

Tex Ritter – Froggie Went A-Courtin’ “Orginially the song was a satire. Queen Elizabeth had a habit of referring to her ministers with animal nicknames. She called Sir Walter Raleigh her fish. The French Ambassador Simier was her ape. And the Duc d’Alencon was her frog. So this song wasn’t just about marriage in the barnyard, but it was a scathing political satire. I didn’t get that the first time I heard it.”

Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five – Barnyard Boogie “One of the few R & B records I know that has as steel guitar solo in it”

Waylon Jennings – Will the Wolf Survive?

Sonny Boy Williamson – Fattening Frogs for Snakes “Ya know, like when you take a gal out to dinner and then at the end of the night she gives you a little peck on the cheek, and then she calls me to come over? You know what you were doing buddy? You were fattening frogs for snakes.”

Lesley Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra – Jollity Farm

The Kinks – Animal Farm

People, Players, and Animals
Werner Keller
Noah
Coxsone Dodd
Duke Reid
Prince Busta
Cynthia May Carver
New Lost City Ramblers
Pete Seeger
Bill Murray
German Settlers
Punxsutawney Phil
Sir Walter Wally
Long Island Chuck
Grizzly Adams
Dan Haggerty “…was a good actor; whatever happened to him?”
Bonobo monkeys “Bonobos engage in group sex to resolve conflicts. I kinda miss the 60’s.”
Bill Carlisle
Norman Whitfield
Eddie Holland
Bob Nolan
Jesse Chisholm
Charles Goodnight
Buddy Holly
Oliver Loving
Dumbo
Isoroku Yamamoto
Walt Disney
Bill Tytla
Topsy the Elephant
Thomas Edison
Nikolai Tesla
James Bond “the platypus of espionage”
Aborigines
Dante
Johnny Cash
Wanda Jackson
The Collins Kids
Big Al
Thelma Ritter
Edward White
David Hidalgo
Louis Perez
Lonesome George
Charles Darwin
Ray Davies
George Orwell
Memphis Minnie

Books
Bible
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Animal Farm

Movies and Other Entertainment
Bill Cosby Noah’s Ark routine (clip)
Grand Ole Opry
Swing in the Saddle
Under Western Sky
Newport Folk Festival
Groundhog Day
Electrocuting an Elephant
A Lifetime in Paint
Green Grow the Lilacs
Song of the Gringo
Town Hall Party
Disney World’s Country Bear Jamboree

Places
Lamb, KY
Sherman Oaks, CA
Disney Land
Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney, PA
Raleigh, NC
Long Island, NY
Central Plains
Texas
Kansas
Chisholm Cattle Trail
New Mexico
Colorado
The Goodnight/Loving Trail
The Slaughter Ranch
Garza County
The Halsell Ranch
The 6666 Ranch
The Clayton Ranch
The Borden Ranch
The Rafter T Ranch
Lubbock
The JA Ranch
Crosby County
Pearl Harbor
Luna Park @ Coney Island
The National Gallery
Murvaul, TX
Beaumont
University of Texas
New York
North America
Pinta Island
Galapagos Islands
England

Record Labels
Motown
Capital
Decca

Other Songs and Albums
The Frog Came To My Door
A Most Strange Wedding of the Frog and the Mouse
The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse
Mr. Frog Went A-Courtin’
A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go
The Frog and The Mouse
The Frog’s Wedding Day
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
One Black Rat

Guest
Pete Wolf

Battles and Wars
Pearl Harbor
The Spanish American War

Noah’s Ark Part II

It’s night time in the big city
A cop runs a license plate
I never tell the truth

“Don’t be a jackass! We’re gonna go ape. Take the bull by the horns. Play a little cat and mouse. Shoot some fish in a barrel. And go hog-wild. ‘Cause I’m crazy like a fox, proud as a peacock. So unless you’re ugly as a toad I’m ready to talk turkey. There’ll be no weaseling out as we have as much fun as a barrel of monkeys.”

The Singers and The Songs
The Meters – They All Asked For You

Roddy Jackson – There’s a Moose on the Loose “One of my three favorite songs about meese.”

The Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit “Telling us to feed our heads. That’s not a direct quotation from the dormouse, by the way.”

Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell – Carried Water for the Elephant

Randy Newman – Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

The Country Gentleman – Fox on the Run

Nina Simone – See Lion Woman

Joni Mitchell – Coyote “Here’s another strong-willed woman, and I mean that in the best possible way… (Coyotes are) a very vocal animal… use short barks to warn of danger…whine and whimper when they are establishing bonds. They produce high pitched barks to summon puppies and sometimes, late at night when they’re all relaxing, they sing Joni Mitchell songs.”

Johnny Mercer – The Possum Song

Toots and the Maytals – Monkey Man “I think that might have been produced by the Chinese-Jamaican producer, Leslie Kong. Chinese-Jamaican…that’d be a good kinda food. Get myself some General Tso’s Jerk Chicken!”

Dick “Two Ton” Baker – Bert the Turtle (The Duck and Cover Song) “A very sick song from a very sick time”

The Blues Rockers (featuring Lazy Bill Lucas) – Calling All Cows

Memphis Minnie – One Black Rat

Ferlin Husky – On the Wings of a Snow White Dove

Other Songs and Albums
I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers (clip)
Big Ten Inch Record
Somebody to Love
Sketches of Spain
Sail Away
Hejira
Nuclear War – Sun Ra (clip)
United We Stand, Divided We Fall – The Wailers (clip)

People and Players
Ziggy Modeliste
Art Neville
Leo Nocentelli
George Porter, Jr.
Bull Moose Jackson
Elephant Taylor
Joseph Smith
Ella Fitzgerald
Redd Foxx
Bobby Bare
Gary Mule Deer
Richard Rabbit Brown
Eddie Rabbit
Armadillo Slim
The Great Society
Darby Slick
Miles Davis
Jimmy Stewart
Elwood P. Dowd
Thornton Wilder
Voltaire
Walt Whitman “Poet unleashed”
Charlie Waller
Buzz Busby
The Bayou Boys
John Duffey
Bill Emerson
Tom Morgan
King Charles II
W. Dunham & T. Shand
George Jones “Had the nickname of ‘Possum,’ not because he played dead but because he kinda looked like one.”
Leslie Kong
Helping Hands
Leon Carr
Leo Corday
Leo Langlois
Dave Lambert
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Early Drane
Temple Grandin
James Cagney
Simon Crum
Aesop

Record Labels
Specialty
King Records
Choral
Excello Records

Literature
Jabberwocky
Alice In Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan
Song Of Myself
Aesop’s Fables
The Four Oxen and the Lion

Places
Haight-Ashbury
United States
Hawaii
The Marshall Islands
Boston, MA
Colorado State
Franklin Pierce College
Arizona State
Colorado

Movies
Harvey
“Another blow struck for the non-conformist”
Duck and Cover film

Vaudeville Animal Acts
Laura Comstock’s Bag Punching Dog
Professor Leonardo’s Troop of Cats and Dogs
Jumbo the Trained Elephant

Guests
Ricky Jay

“This is TTRH, your home for barking dreams, roaring themes, and slithering schemes. Climb aboard Noah’s Ark with us. It’s a musical menagerie, animalistically speaking.”

Clearance / Clarence Sale

It’s night time in the big city
Everything must go, and we pass the savings onto you
It’s Theme Time Radio Hour with your host from coast to coast, Bob Dylan.

The Singers and The Songs
Clarence Ashley – Little Sadie

Clarence “Bon Ton” Garlow – Bon Ton Roula / Let The Good Times Roll

Rex Griffin – You Got To Go To Work (left off ‘Work and Jobs’ show)

Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra – When You’re Smiling (left off ‘Happiness’ show)

Clarence Frogman Henry – Ain’t Got No Home

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys – Big Balls in Cow Town “Come on in, Bob.” (left off ‘Noah’s Ark’ shows)

Walter Smith & Friends – My Evolution Girl (in honor of Clarence Darrow)

Steve Earle – Copperhead Road “Here’s a guy as far away from the prodigal son as you can imagine.” (left off ‘Street Map’ show)

Jerry Lee Lewis – End of the Road “He sings this song, he pounds the piano. He says he wrote it and that’s good enough for me.” (left off ‘Street Map’ show)

Van Morrison & The Chieftains – Raglan Road “A traditional song, but in the hands of someone like Van Morrison you can see how hard it is to separate the performer from the
performance. It’s like a great jazz musician bringing a new interpretation to a song you’ve heard dozens of times.” (left off ‘Street Map’ show)

Clarence White http://www.clarencewhiteforum.com/index.html – Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree

Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man “Born with the name Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien – a lovely Jewish name.” (left off ‘Family Tree’ show)

O.V. Wright– A Nickel and a Nail (left off ‘Money’ show)

Anita Harris – Somebody’s In My Orchard “Let’s wander over to the succulent fruit department…ya know I better get out of the peach orchard before I get myself in trouble.” (left off ‘Fruit’ show)

Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Boogie Uproar “He had a loud guitar and a swingin’ band…you hear this (trombone) solo and you can’t believe that Al (Grey) played with Duke Ellington’s band…it’s pure gutbucket!…We don’t play a lot of instrumentals all the way through, but that one was so swingin’ we had to play the whole thing.”

Joe Turner – Rock Of Gibraltar “America’s favorite singing bartender.” (left off ‘Classic Rock’ show)

The Lion – Bing Crosby (left off ‘Famous People’ show)

Ben Vaughn – Jerry Lewis in France (left off ‘Famous People’ show)

Cripple Clarence Lofton — Strut That Thing

Jimmy Heap and The Melody Masters – You’re Nothin’ But A Nothin’ (left off ‘Nothing’ show)

Ike & Tina Turner – You Can’t Miss Nothing That You Never Had (left off ‘Nothing’ show)

Jim Ford – Go Through Sunday (left off ‘Days of the Week’ show)

Clarence Carter – Too Weak To Fight

Annisteen Allen – Fujiyama Mama (left off ‘Around the World’ episode) “We don’t often play two versions of one song, but these two are so different, and Wanda’s rocks so hard, that we got to play both of them.”

Wanda Jackson – Fujiyama Mama (left off ‘Around the World’ episode)

Rilo Kiley – 15 (left off ‘Numbers 11 And Up’ show)

Johnny Cash – Mean Eyed Cat (Left off ‘Cat’ show)

Clarence Reid – Fools Are Not Born

Mississippi John Hurt – Candy Man (left off ‘Sugar and Candy’ show) “The sweet, gentle sounds of Mississippi John Hurt. You can hear elements of the songster tradition, the music that came before the blues, carrying elements of minstrel songs and other native American forms.”

Bob Marley and the Wailers – Sugar Sugar “In a crypt near his birthplace, buried along with him, were his Gibson Les Paul guitar, a ring he wore every day that was given to him by Prince Asfaw Wossen of Ethiopia, a marijuana bud, a soccer ball, and a bible. His needs were simple.” (left off ‘Sugar and Candy’ show)

Clarence Palmer & The Jive Bombers – Bad Boy

Betty Carter — ‘Round Midnight “…known as Betty Bebop, but she hated that name. She thought that bebop was limited and she wanted to do more, and she did.” (left off ‘Night’ show)

Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (left off ‘Blood’ show)

Other People and Players
Doc Watson
The British Royal Family
Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp
Johnny Winter
Clifton Chenier
Jimmie Rogers
Hank Williams
Lefty Frizzell
Lester Young
DJ Poppa Stoppa
Clarence Darrow
John T. Scopes
Sam Phillips
The Dubliners
Patrick Kavanagh
The Byrds
The Kentucky Colonels
The Springfields
John Hurley
Ronnie Wilkins
Marvin Gaye
Wyclef Jean
John Ashcroft
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jerry Wexler
Arif Mardin
Tom Dowd
Don Robey “was kinda like the Syd Nathan of Texas”
Syd Nathan
James “Widemouth” Brown
Wilson “Gapmouth” Brown
Al Grey
Duke Ellington
Hercules
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
The Calypsonian Association
Jimmy Stewart
Arthur Alexander
Phil Specter
Jerry Lewis “I like to believe they (the French) just appreciate a good pratfall when they see one. Magnifique, Jerry.”
Thomas Jefferson
Earl Wilson
Bruce Springsteen
Clarence Clemons
The E Street Band
Clarence and Calvin
Etta James
Charles Atlas
Lucky Millender
Clarence Birdseye “The father of the TV dinner. Soon of course they’ll be called internet dinners.”
Floyd Dixon
Humbert Humbert
Graham Greene
Stanley Kubrick
Betty Wright
Gwen McCrae
Blowfly
Kool Keith
Ol’ Dirty Bastard
The 2 Live Crew
Tom Hoskins
The Monkees
The Archies “We’re not gonna play The Archies…we gotta draw the line somewhere!”
Ziggy Marley
Prince Asfaw Wossen
Sonny Austin and the Jive Bombers
The Palmer Brothers
Thelonius Monk
Bernie Hannigan
Clarence Williams
Miles Davis
Ray Charles
Clarence Williams III
Clarence Holbrook Carter
Clarence Saunders
Clarence Thomas
Keith (Richards)

Places
Clare River
Ireland
Gadsden, AL
Algiers, LA
Joy Lounge
Memphis
United States
England
Clarence, MO, NY, PA, LA
Lithgow, New South Wales
Clarence River
Australia
Clarence, Tasmania
Clarence, New Zealand
Clarence-Rockland, Ontario
The Rock Of Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Europe
Spain
Atlantic Ocean
The Mediterranean
Northern Africa
The Strait of Gibraltar
Philadelphia
Memphis
Mississippi
Chicago
Taylor, TX
Austin
Maryland State College
Mt. Fuji
Japan
Ethiopia
Brooklyn
The Arctic
Paris
Cochran, GA
Avalon, MS
Pawtucket, RI
Switzerland

Other Songs and Albums
The Last Letter
Lovesick Blues
The Dawning of the Day
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
Dusty in Memphis
8 Men and 4 Women
You’re Gonna Make Me Cry
The Ballad of John and Yoko (clip)
Papa Chunks
You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Bing Crosby) (clip)
The Wild Side of Life
Release Me
Nebraska
Tunnel Of Love
Tell Daddy
Tell Mama
Patches
Snatching It Back
Dark End Of The Street
Girl Fifteen
Clean Up Woman
Avalon Blues
Honky Tonk Women
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Let It Bleed (album)

Movies and TV
Inherit the Wind (clip)
3rd Rock from the Sun
That 70s Show
Diff’rent Strokes
Nash Bridges
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Airplane The Movie (clip)
Birds Eye Steak and Kidney Pie commercial
Rashomon
Lolita
The Mod Squad

Record Labels and Recording Studios
Sun
Back Beat
Peacock “Where the smart money always was”
Savoy Records
Volcalion Records
Capital
Atlantic
Criteria Studios
Okeh Records

Poems
On Raglan Road
Clarence

Books & Publishers
Lolita
Olympia Press

Miscellaneous
The Smoking Gun (website)
The Insult
Birds Eye Frozen Foods
Piggly Wiggly

Goodbye