Johnny Paycheck — (Like Me) You’ll Recover in Time
from The Real Mr. Heartache: The Little Darlin’ Years
Love in a straightjacket, on this late-60s track from Johnny Paycheck. Brilliant.
Songe Nimasow and Khandu Degio rap in the endangered Aka language of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The rap is about love.. and chili peppers. (2008)
recorded by Dr. K. David Harrison with the Enduring Voices Project with National Geographic
Massara — Margherita (1979)
Today we’ve got a special double feature — one song, two ways. The first (and original) track is the Italian dancefloor hit ‘Margherita,’ aka ‘Daisy’… which repackages the “he loves me, he loves me not” children’s rhyme into an orgiastic italo-disco blow-out.
The genius behind this anthem was Pino Massara, an Italian composer and producer who wrote songs for some of the leading men and ladies of Italian music—Mina, Adriano Celentano and Nicola Arigliano among them. (This track actually samples Celentano’s 1968 hit ‘Azzurro,’ which Pino did not write.)
What I would give to be in a Milanese disco circa 1979, knowing Italians’ love for sing-alongs… pazzesco.
(Stay tuned for part two…)
Talking Heads — Love → Building on Fire
from Love → Building on Fire 7” b/w ‘New Feeling’ (1977)
Hadn’t heard this before—the first single by Byrne & Co., released in Feb 1977, seven months before their debut LP, Talking Heads: 77. (This track didn’t appear on the LP until the 2005 reissue, whereas the b-side ‘New Feeling’ did get a spot on the original release.)
Characteristically strange and lovely Byrne lyrics. Again, the obsession with buildings!
Been listening to this on repeat lately. Infectious.
It’s not love, which is my face, which is a building, which is on fire.
Greatest weird song ever. Or weirdest great song ever.
Arthur Alexander — Keep Her Guessing (Dot, 1963)
A little love advice from the king of country soul.
Gather round boys let me give you some learning
A little education about a love that’s burning
If you got a girl that you love so true
There’s just one thing you gotta do
Keep her guessing, keep her guessing!
(another great track here)
Hank Thompson — The Wild Side of Life (1952)
This Country Sunday we’ve got a double feature—Hank Thompson’s weepy letter to his ex-lover, who’s left him to become a ‘honky tonk angel,’ drinking up wine and liquor and waiting “to be anybody’s baby.” The tune spent 15 weeks at the top of the country charts in 1952.
Just a few months later, the Queen of Heartbreak, Kitty Wells, came out of semi-retirement to release her reply, ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,’ [listen] in which she counters:
“It’s a shame that all the blame is on us women
It’s not true that only you men feel the same
From the start most every heart that’s ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame.”
The NBC radio network promptly banned the song for being “suggestive” and the Grand Ole Opry prohibited her from performing it. Clearly, the good old boys of the country music scene weren’t happy to be told their carousing ways might be to blame.
Nevertheless, Kitty’s song became a number one hit, outselling “The Wild Side of Life” and launching the 33-year-old housewife and mother into country superstardom. You tell ‘em, Kitty…
The second coming of YER DARLING MIX! Finely aged tunes for you and yers to listen to while melting into your blankets under the summer sun, or when the lights are out and a night breeze is coasting through the window into your bedroom.
Inspired by a night at Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, a country juke joint in the rocky hills outside Joshua Tree National Park. The night I watched my 60-year-old doppelganger kick ass at pool. Yessiree folks.
Download HERE. (66 minutes, 65 MB, VBR m4a file with tracking and art)
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A Night at Pappy and Harriet’s (66 minutes)
1. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Them – Them Again (1966)
2. Lonely Boy – Nirvana – Story of Simon Simopath (1967)
3. Bummer In The Summer – Love – Forever Changes (1967)
4. Sit With The Guru – Strawberry Alarm Clock – Wake Up…It’s Tomorrow (1968)
5. Hello – D.R. Hooker – The Truth (1972)
6. I Could Be Happy – The Dovers (1965)
7. Life Will Pass You By – Kaleidoscope – A Beacon From Mars (1968)
8. Sugar Babe – The Youngbloods – Zabriskie Point (1970)
9. You Ain’t Going Nowhere – The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
10. Cod’ine – Buffy Sainte-Marie – It’s My Way! (1964)
11. I’ve Got Time – Kak – Kak-Ola (1968)
12. About a Quarter to Nine – The Electric Prunes – Too Much to Dream (1966)
13. Jericho Jerk – Pierre Henry – Mass for the Present Time (1968)
14. Flowerman – Syn – Original Syn (1969)
15. My Mary (More Than Ever) – Jade – Faces Of Jade (1970)
16. Trust – The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow (1968)
17. Forget All About It – The Nazz – Nazz Nazz (1969)
18. Weather Girl – D.R. Hooker – The Truth (1972)
20. I Wonder – Rodriguez – Cold Fact (1970)
21. White Bird – It’s A Beautiful Day – It’s A Beautiful Day (1969)
22. High Coin – Van Dyke Parks – Anything Goes (1968)
23. Everybody’s Talkin’ – Fred Neil – Everybody’s Talkin’ (1969)
