B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 19 JUNE 2010

Maverick US female singer, songwriter and arranger Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers) wrote and performed scores of '60's & '70's hit songs, such as "When You Walk In the Room," "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," and she also co-wrote with Jack Nitzsche, Jimmy Page, Randy Newman, Delaney Bramlett and Sharon Sheely, among others. Ms. DeShannon was recently interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air." Great informative interview with a class pop legend.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Put a Little Love in Your Heart/ JACKIE DeSHANNON (’69, Put a Little Love In Your Heart)

Needles and Pins/ THE RAMONES (’78, Road to Ruin )

When You Walk Into the Room/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

If I Needed Someone/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)

Vanishing Girl/ THE DUKES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (’87, Psonic Sunspot)

Talk of the Town/ THE PRETENDERS (’81, II)

Dressy/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

Love is All Around Me/ THE TROGGS (’67)

The High Road/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)*

Bad Days/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’95, Clouds Taste Metallic)

Perverted World/ SEBADOH (’91, III)

Cries of the Dead/ CHAD VANGAALEN (’08, Soft Airplane)

42 West Avenue /CASHIER NO 9 (’08, 7" single)

Driver 8/ REM (’85, Fables of the Reconstruction)

Shake Some Action/ THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES (’76, Shake Some Action)

I Want You Back/ THE HOODOO GURUS (’83, Stoneage Romeos)

Lindo Sonho Delirate/ FABIO (from ’10 collection, Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas:Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976)

Ma/ TOM ZE (’90 collection, Best of Tom Ze)

A Minha Menina/ OS MUTATANTES (’68, ’99 collection, Everything Is Possible!)

Dead Weight/ BECK (’97, A Life Less Ordinary, st)

Children Kiss Your Mother Goodnight/ PISCES (’69, ’09 issue, A Lovely Sight)

Mornin’ Time/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Plateau/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’83, II)

Caterpillar Girl/ LOU BARLOW (w/ THE MISSING MEN) (’10, Sentidoh III EP)*

SF Sorrow/ THE SF SEALS (’95, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows)

Shadow Line/ THE FLESHTONES (’82, Blast Off!)

Lines Her Eyes/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)*

Then She Remembers/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, The Days of Wine and Roses)

Kick Up Your Heals/ PRISONSHAKE (’93, The Roaring Third)

El Camino/ ELIZABETH COOK (’10, Welder)*

Women/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

1976/ REDD KROSS (’80, Third Eye)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 12 JUNE 2010

LA-based "band," Dum Dum Girls, created and led by singer/songwriter Kristen Gundred, has released its debut full-length album, I Will Be (Sub Pop). It's an impressive and fun summer rock record, filtering influences such as Blondie (mainly Deborah Harry's phrasing), Siouxsie Sioux, Jesus and The Mary Chain and '60's garage. Produced by The Strangeloves' Richard Gottehrer, who also produced the debut records by Blondie and Richard Hell & The Voidoids. We'll simply have to wait and keep an eye out where Gundred's young talent will lead her. Or not. Check out a local review of this record in The North Coast Journal.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long/ OTIS REDDING (live ’66 at Whisky A Go Go/ ’10, Otis Redding & His Orchestra: Live on the Sunset Strip)*

Nobody But You/ LITTLE BOB & THE LOLLIPOPS (’64, ’04 collection, I Got Loaded)

The Hawg, Pt. 1 (’63)/ EDDIE KIRK (’63)

Cadillac Jack/ ANDRE WILLIAMS (’67, ’06 collection, Movin On: Greasy and Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970)

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7” single)

Rockin’ Around (With You)/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (’76, self titled)

Keep on Running (’65)/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’65)

Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (’84, Learning to Crawl)

What I Like About You/ THE ROMANTICS (’80, self titled)

Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

Something Else/ EDDIE COCHRAN (’59)

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONIDE (’76, self titled)

Jail La La/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)*

Fire Engine/ THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of)

Aeba Suki Suki/ MARGARET & THE BUNNYS (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-1970)

Ah-So/ THE 5,6,7,8’S (’92, Can’t Help It)

Goin’ Out West/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)

I’ll Wait/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Way Down in the Hole/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95 collection, Gambling Days Are Over)

Million Miles Away (live, ’81)/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Buried Alive/ SNAKEHIPS (’92, 7” single)

Stiff Competition/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting/ ELTON JOHN (’73, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)

Freed Pig/ SEBADOH (’91, III)

Blood Dries Darker/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Men in Sandals/ AMY RIGBY & WRECKLESS ERIC (’09, self titled)

The Curse/ THE MEKONS (’91, Curse of The Mekons)

Past Time/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)

Death May Be Your Santa Claus/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’71, Brain Caper Kids)

Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (’77, Blank Generation)

Sleepyhead/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)

*new or recent release

THE BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ KHSU, 90.5/ BW SUBBAGE/ WED., 9 JUNE 10

UK singer/songwriter Rachel Unthank and her sister Becky, the main force of Rachel Unthank and The Winterset (now simply known as The Unthanks) deliver a cool version of The Beatles' "Sexy Sadie." Sexy sadies, indeed.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Bang, Bang (I Shot My Baby Down)/ NANCY SINATRA (’66, ’95 collection, How Does That Grab You)

I Move Around/ THE PURRS (’10, Tearing Down Paisley Garden EP)*

Chinatown/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)

The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)

Penelope Tree/ FELT (’83)

Get Back/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Father to a Sister to a Thought/ PAVEMENT (’95, Wowee Zowee)

I Can Be a Frog/ FLAMING LIPS (’09, Embyonic)*

Adventure Tour/ RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)

Lion in a Coma/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Golden Age/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)

Drunk Girls/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’10, This is Happening)*

Boys Keep Swinging/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

The Rest is Noise/ FIELD MUSIC ('10, Field Music (Measure)

Merely a Man/ XTC ('89, Oranges & Lemons)

Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)

Little Rage/ THE MICE (’87, Scooter)

New Slang/ THE SHINS (’01, Oh, Inverted World)

Ballad of Big Nothing/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, Either/Or)

You Can Take Your Time/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

R.I.P. Burn Face/ COCOROSIE (’10, Grey Oceans)*

Sexy Sadie/ RACHEL UNTHANK AND THE WINTERSET (’08, Mojo Magazine: The White Album Recovered)

Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)*

Christine/ SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (’80, Kaleidoscope)

Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (’86, The Queen is Dead)

Drive On Driver/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’08, Distortion)

Love Burns/ BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB (’01, self titled)

Far Gone and Out/ JESUS & THE MARY CHAIN (’92, Honey’s Dead)

Kidnapped By Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’05, Kidnapped By Neptune)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 5 JUNE 2010

NY-based singer/songwriter Nina Nastasia has finally released her first full-length record in three years, Outlaster (on FatCat Records). Brim full of dark tales, orchestral texture (thanks to arranger/bassist Paul Bryan), excellent instrumentation (especially from drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Jay Bellerose), Nastasia's new effort is a brooding gem.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Sixteen Tons/ TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD (’55)

I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’60)

So Glad (C. Burnett)/ THE BLASTERS (’80, American Music)

I Asked For Water/ HOWLIN’ WOLF (’56)

Bangkok/ ALEX CHILTON (’75, Bach’s Bottom)

Preachin’ the Blues/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

Red Eye #2/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

I Can’t Stand It Anymore/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, The Velvet Underground)

Garbage Man/ THE CRAMPS (’80, The Songs the Lord Taught Us)

Everybody’s Movin’/ GLEN GLENN (’58)

Howlin’ For You/ THE BLACK KEYS (’10, 12” single, b/w "Tighten Up")*

Road Runner/ BO DIDDLEY (’59)

Everyday Things (live at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go, LA, '81)/ THE PLIMSOULS ('10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

I Will Dare/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Ask Me No Questions/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

Venus of Avenue D/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Suffering Jukebox/ THE SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)

Lemon World/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

Goodbye Sweet Dreams/ ROKY ERICKSON w/ OKKERVIL RIVER (’10, True Love Cast Out All Evil)*

I Don’t Care If There’s Cursing/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s To Taking It Easy)*

I Wish It Was Saturday Night/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night Around This Time)

History Lesson - Part II/ MINUTEMEN (’84, Double Nickels on The Dime)

Inside Story/ DON McGLASHIN (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)

You’re a Holy Man/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

Trap Doors/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)*

Aspirations/ THE BICYCLE THIEF (’99, You Come and Go Like a Pop Song)

I Am a Scientist/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’94, Bee Thousand)

Dirty Water/ THE STANDELLS (’66)

20th Century Man/ T. REX (’73, Tanx)

The First Part/ SUPERCHUNK (’94, Foolish)

The English Civil War/ THE CLASH (’78, Give ‘Em Enough Rope)

When You Wish Upon a Star/ CLIFF EDWARDS ('41)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 29 MAY 2010

This 1980's LA-based power pop/rock n' roll quartet was, in some respects, an unusual outfit. Led by ex-Nerves Peter Case (white guy, singer/songwriter), The Plimsouls (Brit term for "sneakers") consisted of two Southern Californian Chicanos, guitarist Eddie Munoz and drummer Lou Ramirez, and a Samoan-American bassist Dave Pahoa. Aside the ethnic distinctions, The Plimsouls rocked, often exposing its young audience (with me as one of them) to a number of cool '60's covers, such as Thee Midnighters' "Jump Jive & Harmonize" and The Kinks' "Come On Now." A Halloween 1981 concert recording made at LA's Whiskey-A-Go-Go, which was just released, captures The Plimsouls at a high point, with the band seriously ripping it up (especially Munoz on blistering lead guitar). Any 'Souls fan, either past or present, should grab this great record, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal, excellently mastered (and previously unreleased, including members of The Fleshtones as special guests).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Do You Duty / BETTYE LAVETTE (’70, Do Your Duty)

If You Don’t Think/ ANNA KING (’64, Back to Soul)

Willy Nilly/ RUFUS THOMAS (’65)

I’m Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7" single)

Keep on Runnin’/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’64)

Sorry/ THE EASYBEATS (’66)

Jump Jive and Harmonize/ THEE MIDNIGHTERS (’67)

Jump Jive & Harmonize/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Come On Now/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, 10-5-60)

Canteloupe Girlfriend/ THREE O’CLOCK (’83, Sixteen Tamborines)

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes/ EDISON LIGHTHOUSE (’70)

Go All the Way/ THE RASPBERRIES (’72)

Cherry Bomb/ THE RUNAWAYS (’77, self titled)

Fox on the Run/ SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)

Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Dancing the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77, Motors 1)

Stop Foolin’/ DRESSY BESSY (’05, Electrified)

Why I Don’t Like August 93/ THE CONSTANTINES ('05, Believer Magazine Music comp.)

There Is an End/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE GREENHORNES (’05, Broken Flowers st)

The Race Is On/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)

Starry Eyes/ THE RECORDS (’79)

Date W/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT (’97, Brighten the Corners)

Venus Is Her Name/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City) [Bar/None]

Please Be Nice to Her/ AMY RIGBY & WRECKLESS ERIC (’08, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby) [Stiff]

Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around)

Radio Sweetheart/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’77, My Aim Is True)

The Singer/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Moves Away/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

My Friend/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)

Bloodbuzz Ohio/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

Pablo Picasso/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’76, self titled)

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 22 MAY 2010

There's not a whole lot of information available of Memphis soul singer Prince Conley. However, in 1961, The Prince cut this gem, "I'm Going Home," released by Satellite Records (pre-Stax) , featuring a young Steve Cropper on guitar. This seems to one of the sole documents of Conley's great voice. Check it out in the (first) box set, The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

In Orbit/ JOY LOVEJOY (’66, ’05 collection, Mojo Chess Soul Sisters)

I Can’t Rest/ FONTELLA BASS (’66, ’92 collection, Rescued)

Turn Back the Hands of Time/ TYRONE DAVIS (’70, Turn Back the Hands of Time)

Gimme Shelter/ MERRY CLAYTON (’70, Gimme Shelter)

Time Has Come/ MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO (’10, self titled)*

I’m Going Home/ PRINCE CONLEY (’61, ’91 collection, Complete Stax/Volt Singles, 1959-68)

I Love You Still/ ZILLA MAYES (’68, ’06 collection, Confessing: Deep Soul From New Orleans)

Dragging the Line/ TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS (’71)

Fields of Clover/ THE BOX TOPS (’68)

Forget It/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’10, Medicine County)*

Be-Bop-A-Lula/ GENE VINCENT (’56)

The Poor Side of Town/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’67)

Inner City Blues/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, Cold Fact)

Houses (Elyse Weinberg)/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)

The Mermaid Parade/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s To Taking It Easy)*

One Hundred Years From Now (rehearsal take #2)/ THE BYRDS (feat. Gram Parsons, lead vocals) (’68, ’97 reissue, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)

Before I Wake/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (w/ MARGARET GOODE) (’09, Country Club)

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)

Islands/ CAT POWER (’06, The Greatest)

Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’04, Abattoir Blues)

Wave/ CALEXICO (’04, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo)

The Wind/ PJ HARVEY (’98, Is This Desire?)

Run in the Dust/ JOHNNY MARR/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE (’09, The Sun Came Out)

Don’t You Want It/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)

Mambo Sun/ T. REX (’73, Electric Warrior)

Find the Torch, Burn the Plans/ PAUL WELLER (’10, Wake Up Nation)*

Sooner/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)

Your Hands (Together)/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)*

Club Mekon/ THE MEKONS (’89, The Mekons Rock n’ Roll)

Rosewood, Wax, Voltz + Glitter/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 15 MAY 2010

This high-fueled funk/soul instrumental outfit, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro, have definitely cut their teeth from James Brown's JB's and The Meters, as well as taking a page out of the Daptone Records gang (thanks to the Brooklyn label, along with Truth & Soul, for re-starting the retro-soul movement!). The Saitama, Japan band's US self titled debut is now available on Jazzman Records, even though it was originally recorded back in 2006. However, this group is not mere restoration artists - they sincerely groove hard, and they have a true feel for the music. MMK will be soon releasing their sophomore release, Uhuru Peak - though likely in Japan only. MMK proves that you don't have to be from Brooklyn to find the funk. Kanpai!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Don't Lie to Me/ "MISSISSIPPI" CHARLES BEVEL ('73, Meet Charles Bevel)

What a Good Man He Is/ TAMMI TERRELL (’68)

Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart/ THE SUPREMES (’66)

Baby I Love You/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68, Super Soul Sister)

Real Nitty Gritty/ SHIRLEY ELLIS (’63)

Better Things/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)*

You Can’t Buy My Love/ BARBARA LYNN (’65)

Let Me Come Within/ RENALDO DOMINO (’70, ’07 collection, Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation)

Yellow Soul Force (Parts II & III)/ MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO (’10, self titled)*

Return to Gijon/ THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS (’06, 102%)

Willie Chase/ J.J. JOHNSON (’73, Willie Dynamite st)

Mama Feelgood/ LYNN COLLINS (’73)

Tainted Love/ GLORIA JONES (’64)

Soul Butter/ JOHNNY BARFIELD & THE MEN FROM S.O.U.L. (’67)

Bar-B-Q/ WENDY RENE (’64)

Ye-Ye/ EIKO SHURI (’67, ’09, Nippon Girls)

I’m Am Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7” single)*

I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)

I Need You/ THE KINKS (’65)

Twilley Don’t Mind/ DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND (’77, Twilley Don’t Mind)

Monday/ WILCO (’96, Being There)

Too Bad/ THE FACES (’71, A Nod is as Good as a Wink…To a Blind Horse)

Cool Water/ THE REPLACEMENTS [w/ CHRIS MARS, lead vox] (originally ’87, 7” single, b/w “Can’t Hardly Wait,” ’08 reissue, Pleased to Meet Me)

I Don’t Care If There’s Cursing/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s To Taking It Easy)*

Burning House of Love (live)/ X (’95, Unclogged)

When He Come/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’10, Medicine County)*

It’s Not Enough/ THE WACO BROTHERS (’00, Electric Waco Chair)

Earthquake Heart/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’03, Dangerous Magical Noise)

Communication Breakdown/ LED ZEPPELIN (’69, self titled)

Kicking Television/ WILCO (’05, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago)

Definitely Clean/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, The Days of Wine and Roses)

White Light/White Heat/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’68, White Light/White Heat)

Public Image/ PUBLIC IMAGE (’78, self titled)

Iron Man/ SORENG SANTI (mid ‘70’s, Thailand)

*new or recent release