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Monday, May 07, 2007
1.
I'M A HUMAN RADIO STATION
The Black Pope
Courtesy of: WFMU
Not the Black Pope who secretly controls the Vatican, but the Black Pope of New Orleans: Never in your life have you heard a disc jockey come through here like him. Then again, never have you heard a disc jockey like Bob Dylan, who gives the Black Pope a run for his money in the greatest-radio-personality-in-the-world department:
BOB DYLAN INTRODUCING THE PRISONAIRES
& ANSWERING AN EMAIL FROM JOHNNY DEPP
Theme Time Radio Hour
XM Radio : 2006
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PUPPET ON A STRING
Gino Washington
Correc-tone : 1962
Available on: Out of This World
Norton : 1999
[Buy It]
I've spent a week getting to the bottom of Gino Washington's "Puppet on a String" and - I'm still not at the bottom to it. Is he singing "you turn me off/and you turn me on"? Or "you tie me off/and turn me on"? It's the difference between a perfectly dark love song and a more or less perfect song about heroin. If it's the latter, the images are that much darker and deeper, and the title - a junkie's belt : a puppet's string - becomes the greatest image of all. Also nice: the jews harp.
Not to be confused with Geno Washington, Gino Washington still performs in and around Detroit; here he is on WFMU, in 2003. And here he is on coming up in the Detroit club scene, alongside of Bob Seger et al. Also from Detroit, a song about how blacks and jews didn't always hate on each other:
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EXODUS
Harold & Carol Diamond
Motown :1962
Available on: The Complete Singles vol. 2
Hip-O : 2006
[Buy It]
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Hannah from the internet writes: "I love, love, love your blog - this lot made me glad to be alive today." Thanks, Hannah! We're glad you stopped by, and stayed long enough to recognize that we at Moistworks support the culture of life. So this follow-up to the Coasters' epic reworking of the Searcher's "Love Potion No. 9" is dedicated to the blacks, to the jews, to you, and to the 3 or 4 other ladies we at Moistworks like to imagine are out there, listening:
DOWN HOME GIRL
The Coasters
Date : 1966
Available on: 50 Coastin' Classics
Rhino : 1992
[Buy It]
& (on account of its "Russian students in the closet/hung up on jazz and funk"), "Down Home Girl"'s A-side:
SOUL PAD
ibid.Labels: alex, radio, soul
posted by Alex
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