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Favoriting May 6, 2023: The Leila Hyams Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Approx. start time
The Baymen  Bonzai   Favoriting Merri  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Keno  Surfin' In The Orient   Favoriting Pacific  0:05:21 (Pop-up)
The Shades  Tidal Wave   Favoriting Eye-Ball  0:07:23 (Pop-up)
The Twilights  .007   Favoriting Cuca  0:09:57 (Pop-up)
Hank The Drifter and His Drifting Hillbillies  I'm Gonna Spin My Wheels   Favoriting New England  0:16:51 (Pop-up)
Johnny Bachelor  Mumbles   Favoriting Era  0:17:41 (Pop-up)
Junior Thompson with the Meteors  Raw Deal   Favoriting Meteor  0:19:51 (Pop-up)
Jimmy and Johnny  Knock On Wood   Favoriting Republic  0:21:59 (Pop-up)
Joe Wallace and Al Woody's Owls  Leopard Man   Favoriting Moon  0:24:59 (Pop-up)
Chris Clay and his West Virginia Buckle Busters  Hot Rod Lincoln   Favoriting Veltone  0:28:00 (Pop-up)
Donna Harris  My Hi-Fi To Cry By   Favoriting ABC  0:30:10 (Pop-up)
Curley Day  Sorrow City 1963   Favoriting Day Records  0:32:37 (Pop-up)
Truitt Cunningham  The Truck That Peter Built   Favoriting Dot  0:43:22 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Lawson  C.B. Chant   Favoriting Preamp  0:44:14 (Pop-up)
Jim Fitzgerald  A Day On The Highway Patrol   Favoriting Sully  0:48:21 (Pop-up)
Curtis James and the James Gang  Get Behind Me Satan   Favoriting Jawa  0:53:36 (Pop-up)
Bill Carter with the Cooper Brothers  Jailer Man   Favoriting Honee B  0:54:11 (Pop-up)
The Crawford Brothers  I Ain't Guilty   Favoriting Aladdin  1:02:28 (Pop-up)
Sugar Boy  No More Heartaches   Favoriting Checker  1:04:36 (Pop-up)
Wynonie Harris  Get With Grits   Favoriting King  1:05:08 (Pop-up)
Daddy Cleanhead and the Chuck Higgins Band  Something's Goin' On In My Room   Favoriting Specialty  1:08:12 (Pop-up)
Percy Mayfield  Losse Lips   Favoriting Specialty  1:10:34 (Pop-up)
Howlin Wolf  My Life   Favoriting Chess  1:12:50 (Pop-up)
Edgar Blanchard & his Band  Steppin' High   Favoriting Specialty  1:15:53 (Pop-up)
Catalinas  Why Oh Why   Favoriting Wonder  1:24:21 (Pop-up)
The One Way Streets  Jack The Ripper   Favoriting Sunrise  1:26:03 (Pop-up)
Terry and The Pirates  What Did He Say   Favoriting Valli  1:28:06 (Pop-up)
Robert Williams and the Groovers  Loud Mufflers   Favoriting Tip Top  1:30:37 (Pop-up)
Los Rockin' Devils  Perro Lanudo   Favoriting Orfeon  1:31:59 (Pop-up)
Ron and Joe and the Crew  Riot In Cell Block #9   Favoriting Strand  1:34:24 (Pop-up)
The Jay Randall Group  Hamburger   Favoriting Lanor  1:38:51 (Pop-up)
The Inconcievables  Hamburger Patti   Favoriting Columbia  1:39:58 (Pop-up)
Warren Storm  Slow Down   Favoriting Sincere  1:48:49 (Pop-up)
Eddie Alexander & the Greats  I'm In Love   Favoriting Seven Seas  1:50:23 (Pop-up)
The Ardells  Stronger Than Dirt   Favoriting Thor  1:52:37 (Pop-up)
Gary Usher  Driven Insane   Favoriting Titan  1:56:59 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Chris Hiatt:

Turning up the dial on my radio that controls volume!
Avatar 1:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Gabba Gabba !...
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Bruce S.:

Fools Paradise= Two Hour Of Rock and Roll Power
Avatar 🌮 1:04pm
Mailman Tom:

Leila Hyams was incredibly beautiful. Watch her in the 1930 movie, Way Out West. Some honey!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
Marley P. Dogg:

Happy weekend Rex and friends! Giddy up’
  1:08pm
tuskandhusk:

tuned in from the end of the Oregon trail
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Surfin' In The Orient" by "Jimmy Keno"
I love the Cliche "oriental" sounds in this Good record
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
The Butterman:

Yay!, Rex is back. Don’t ever leave me again, Rex. Unfortunately, I will be called away shortly to meet my jerk brother for lunch at the diner as he passes by from NYC back to Syracuse. He really should plan around Fool’s Paradise.
Avatar 1:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Fool'sParadise really should be playing in Diners...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
DjLorraine:

Catching a wave, howdy!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:10
That would have to be a real Greasy Spoon
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
The Butterman:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:10
So true!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
DjLorraine:

↳ tuskandhusk @1:08
Which end?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
UncleHeavy:

↳ Song: ".007" by "The Twilights"
Wow... between this and Surfin' In The Orient, I think we may have hit a new lunkhead low. Well done!!
  1:16pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Rex!! Just happy to be part of the team!!
  1:17pm
davefromtoronto:

any version of this tunes kick ass!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
The Butterman:

Hank Williams was Luke the Drifter, now this guy is Hank the Drifter? What the HELL is going on here?
Avatar 1:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

If Hank had just suffered the back pain a few more years...
Avatar 1:25pm
Jett:

Hello @DjLorraine, hope you are well.
Avatar 1:25pm
Jett:

Rex always comes through with the best!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Mumbles" by "Johnny Bachelor"
This Record addressed a serious social Problem....Mumbleing who says we don't listen to relevent music
Avatar 1:27pm
Jett:

Spelling can be a problem also.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Jett @1:27
spelling is not my strong suit
Avatar 1:30pm
Jett:

It's okay @Bruce S At least you know great tunes.
Avatar 🌮 1:39pm
VantuckyEd:

Fabulous show today, Rex!
Avatar 🌮 1:41pm
RevComX:

One of my favorite memories was going out to see a double bill of Freaks and Eraserhead at the local reparatory theater back when I was in high school...and was changed forever
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Bruce S.:

The Bighouse was a good movie, Wallace Beery was great in that
  1:43pm
P-90:

Maybe someday the original, pre-Mayer-cuts version will resurface…
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Bruce S.:

↳ RevComX @1:41
That sounds like it was a great,somewhat strange night
Avatar 1:47pm
Jett:

Sounds like a great double feature, both films are big favorites of mine.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
Bruce S.:

I'll never forget that spooky elevator in Eraserhead
Avatar 1:49pm
Jett:

↳ Bruce S. @1:48
How about the man made chickens?
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:51pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Jett @1:49
YES! that ooze coming out of those chickens and the way they were flappin around was kind of creepy
Avatar 🌮 1:52pm
RevComX:

↳ Bruce S. @1:46
I had grown up watching plenty of B-films, but I had never seen anything quite like Freaks at that point...and I certainly had never seen anything like Eraserhead either, which was only a few years old
  1:53pm
egould:

This story is made up.
  1:53pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Tonight, 8:30PM, free over the air, ch. 13, in H.D. ,ELVIS PRESLEY: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL...
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
Bruce S.:

↳ RevComX @1:52
I was a big fan of the Midnight Movie seen in the 70s, El Topo was another weird and wonderfull film playing back then
Avatar 🌮 1:56pm
Mailman Tom:

I was lucky enough to see both Eraserhead and Freaks on the big screen, thanks to my local arthouse cinema which is now long gone (sniff).
Avatar 1:57pm
Creature Boy:

↳ Song: "Jailer Man" by "Bill Carter with the Cooper Broth...
I've got this one
Avatar 2:05pm
Mister Dobalina:

❤꧁ღ⊱♥ 𝑀 𝒪 𝓂 𝑀 𝒜 ♥⊱ღ꧂❤
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Jett @1:25
Things are looking up. How are you?
Avatar 2:06pm
Don Gorden:

REX! got my Real Gone Racked LP last week, So cool, I haven't had an LP in my hands in years, THANKS WFMU!!! MAAMA!!
Avatar 2:08pm
Annette:

Hi Rex!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
Bruce S.:

Big Bill Collins will Never Steer You Wrong
Avatar 2:11pm
Jett:

I'm doing okay, trying to hang in there. Taking a break from my show for a while. @DjLorraine
Avatar 2:11pm
Jett:

You can never go wrong with some Wynonie Harris.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
Bruce S.:

Go Rex Go
Avatar 2:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "My Life" by "Howlin Wolf"
WOOOVF
  2:16pm
Little Danny:

The best
Avatar 2:16pm
Annette:

↳ Song: "My Life" by "Howlin Wolf"
Sing it 🐺!!!
  2:16pm
Bill C:

Pfizer is renaming viagra to howlin wolf
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Jett @2:11
Good to know. I enjoyed the ones i heard.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
Joe R.:

Just got a 500 page EC Comics anthology in the mail and I can't think of a better soundtrack for reading it than Fool's Paradise
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Joe R. @2:17
WOW Enjoy,that is some good reading
Avatar 2:21pm
Jett:

↳ DjLorraine @2:17
I'll eventually return, glad you enjoyed what you heard.
Avatar 🌮 2:23pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Joe R. @2:17
Been a fan of EC comics ever since attending the EC convention in NYC back in '72!
Avatar 🌮 2:27pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Jack The Ripper" by "The One Way Streets"
What's in the bag, Jack?
Avatar 🌮 2:31pm
Mailman Tom:

They left holes in the asphalt during the start of the Mermaid Day Parade years ago. A lot of black smoke, too!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:32pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:23
the EC Comics Convention in 1972 that is supercool
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Joe R.:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:23
Oh man, that must have been wild! I’d guess the creators must have been ready to rip with stories of those days!
Avatar 🌮 2:37pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Joe R. @2:36
They sure did! The transcripts can be read in the fanzine, Squa Tront #4
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Riot In Cell Block #9" by "Ron and Joe and the Crew"
I feel like a lunkhead listening to this
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
Joe R.:

↳ Bruce S. @2:19
Yeah, I’ve read stories here and there over the years but it’ll be cool to read the “greatest hits” in one fell swoop
Avatar 🌮 2:40pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Bruce S. @2:32
I went all 3 days. I lived and worked in Manhattan at the time!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Joe R.:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:37
cool, I’ll have to dig around for that
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Joe R. @2:39
The artwork is wow excellent enoy it
  2:41pm
Cosmic Caveman:

Hi Rex!
Hey missed it back then, caught yer awesome 2004 interview with Lux and Poison Ivy on Youtube. Fellow Fools check it out!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9DRxLU7-Ak&list=WL&index=47
Avatar 🌮 2:41pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Joe R. @2:40
Can be bought from Ebay for about $25. Worth every cent.
  2:43pm
egould:

Lunkhead
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
efd:

↳ Song: "Hamburger Patti" by "The Inconcievables"
Quite possibly the greatest song ever recorded.
Avatar 2:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's Free ComicBook Day apparently.
Avatar 2:43pm
Sonny Rickles:

OMG this song is epic!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:44pm
dave miss:

Brows covered in grease
  2:45pm
Cooh John:

Rex, fools, 🙋DjLorraine.
  2:45pm
SeanG:

NO BROW!
  2:47pm
morphe':

Thanks Rex and all ...
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:52pm
Bruce S.:

what the hell do you think I listen to
  2:53pm
Cosmic Caveman:

↳ Bruce S. @2:52
Bop, slop, & schlock radio!
  2:54pm
Cosmic Caveman:

Thanks Rex!
  2:55pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Rex!!!
Avatar 2:55pm
Annette:

Thanks Rex 🔥!
Avatar 🌮 2:55pm
Mailman Tom:

Thanks, Rex.
  2:56pm
Kathleen:

Rex, Why do you refer to Todd as "the one potato, two potato man"?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
egould:

Thank you Rex. My BAC went up 45% and my IQ went down by 45%. Perfect symmetry.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Bruce S.:

Thanks Rex and all have a good week
Avatar 2:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Stronger Than Dirt" by "The Ardells"
Wow. They Really Got Me ...their Bird can kick Surfin' Birds' tailfeathers. Even sounds like SoftMachine 'We Did It Again'...
  2:58pm
Cosmic Caveman:

'You Really Got Me' with 'Stronger than Dirt'
  2:58pm
Little Danny:

Love this Gary Usher!!!
Avatar 🌮 2:58pm
RevComX:

↳ Song: "Stronger Than Dirt" by "The Ardells"
This may be the greatest song ever recorded....outdoing yourself today, Rex!
Avatar 2:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Rex ~
  2:59pm
Dolemite:

Goodbye Cosmic Man😢
  3:00pm
Cosmic Caveman:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:57
Was hearing that big time too.
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