Month: February 2026

Holly & Kit Dancing to the Hound

Hound Howl #105 – 20260208

Originally aired Feb. 8, 2026 on thehoundnyc.com. The Hound Howl is also available as a podcast on Amazon Music Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and Google Play.

SET 1: Instro-mental

  1. Challengers – Deadline (Tri-Dex)
  2. Jordan Brothers – Basin Street Rumble (Jordan)
  3. Frank Virtue Combo – Manhunt (Joy)
  4. Royal Rockers – Jet II (Bee)
  5. The Knights – Night Train (Feldsted)1

ON MIC

SET 2

  1. Jerry Thomas – You Don’t Have To Worry (Modern)2
  2. Jimmy Kinder & the T-Tones – Hangover Blues (Blue Hen)
  3. Phil & Marie Love Doctor(Sway)3
  4. Mack Vickery – Going Back To St. Louis (Gone)4
  5. Larry Dale –You Better Heed My Warning (Groove)5

ON MIC

SET 3: Blues Hangover

  1. Johnny Lee Hooker – Boogie Rambler (J-V-B)
  2. Cousin Leroy – I’m Lonesome (Ember)6
  3. Big Bill Broonzy – Hey Hey (Mercury)
  4. Floyd Jones & his Trio – Skinny Mama (J.O.B.)
  5. Les Vendor & his Boys – Goin’ Away Baby (Vendor)7

ON MIC

SET 4

  1. Lee Mitchell &his Combo – Rootie Tootie Baby (Sharp)
  2. Bo & Joe & the Niteriders – Jungle Rock (Sandy)
  3. Little Sonny Jones – Goin’ Up The Country (Imperial)
  4. Del-Reys – Fannie Mae (Delreco)
  5. Earl King – Eatin’ & Sleepin’ (Specialty)
  6. Kenny Spivey – Woke Up This Morning (Smokey)

ON MIC

SET 5

  1. Ashton Savoy – Denga Denga (Hollywood)
  2. Bobby Dean & the Amazons – Amazon Dance (Scarlet Target)
  3. Curley Moore – They Gonna Do What They Wanna Do (Teem)8
  4. Rhythm Rockers – Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby (Sun)9
  5. Johnny Wright – Wine Head Baby (Magnificent)
  6. Mickey Gilley – Down The Line (Astro)

ON MIC

SET 6

  1. Jim San & the Montclairs with Ted Walker’s Band – Dream Boat Rock (Hi-Q)10
  2. Divots – Diddy Wah Diddy (Savoy)
  3. Kip Anderson – I Want To Be The Only One (Vee Jay)
  4. Del-Heirs – Cradle Rock (Yucca)11
  5. Wynonna Carr – I’m Mad At You (Specialty)
  6. Bill Strickland – The Shape You Left Me In (Fabar)

ON MIC

SET 7

  1. Kine Morgan We’re Gonna Rock (Johnson)
  2. Rick West – Cop Car
  3. Vel-tones – Fool In Love (Satellite)12
  4. Duals – Wait Up Baby13
  5. Chuck Martin – Emma Lee (Nasco)

ON MIC

SET 8

  1. Tobie Pride & the Masters Of Rhythm Combo – Dark Shadows (Carter)
  2. Vince Maloy – Wine Bop Bop (Web)
  3. Jiving Juniors – Come On Honey (Crystal)14
  4. Scotty McKay – Mess Around (Desk)15
  5. Bayou Boys – Bamalaya (Checker)16

Dr. C.J. Johnson – This Is A Mean World (Savoy)

  1. The Knights – Unmistakably, that is Roy Buchanan on guitar. Felsted, 1962, prolly recorded in Philadelphia. ↩︎
  2. Jerry Thomas = Lafayette “The Thing” Thomas (born Lafayette Jerl Thomas) From the Bihari brothers Modern label circa 1955. When Ace (U,K.) re –issued this on the 1987 LP Bay Area Blues Blasters they changed the song title to “Jumpin In The Heart Of Town”. Thomas was guitarist with Jimmy McCracklin’s Blues Blasters and his then boss McCracklin is on piano and fellow Blues Blaster Johnny Parker on tenor sax. ↩︎
  3. Phil & Marie. Love Doctor. Phil is Phil Flowers, great DC area rocker who also waxed sides as Chris Allen, Skip Manning, and a variety other names. Sometimes billed as “the Back Elvis” and/or “The Man With 1,000 Voices”, he recorded for an equally bewildering variety of labels including Mercury, Hollywood, Domino, Josie, Dot, Bell, A&M, this one being on Sway. He even performed at the White House for LBJ in 1968 with his psychedelic group The Flower Shop and later toured everywhere and anywhere including Saudi Arabia. He died in 2001. I have no idea who Marie is. ↩︎
  4. Mack Vickery. This one features Wild Bill Emerson on guitar. Vickery who would go on to write “Meat Man” and “Rockin’ My Life Away” for Jerry Lee Lewis and hits for Waylon Jennings and George Strait later recorded an album live at the Alabama Women’s Prison. ↩︎
  5. Larry Dale On RCA’s Groove subsidiary, that blazing guitar is ex –pimp Mickey “Guitar” Baker. Any list of great R&R guitarists without Baker’s name near the top has been written by an idiot. Baker would go have a major hit with Sylvia Robinson (“Love Is Strange”) and then emigrate to France where he produced records and wrote guitar instruction books. He appears in Godard’s Masculin –Feminin (1965) as himself. ↩︎
  6. Cousin Leroy (Leroy Rozier). From Al Silver’s Ember imprint, with Champion Jack Dupree on piano and Larry Dale on guitar. His two sessions for silver produced two singles for Ember and on on Herald. A rare example of raw, juke joint blues recorded in New York City. He also cut a single for Groove. ↩︎
  7. Les Vendor= Joe Hill Louis (born Lester Hill 1921 –1957), on the Vendor label, this was a private pressing done by the white family, the Vendors, whom employed him at their Memphis home as a handyman. Louis died of tetanus later that year (anti –vaxxers take note). Only 100 copies were pressed, or so said the guy who wanted 9k for an admittedly cleaner copy than this one (but it was only $63…). ↩︎
  8. June “Curley” Moore joined Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns around 1960 and can be heard on most of their Imperial sides, he also cut a duet w/Huey as Huey & Curley on Ace in ’63. Curley later worked the road pretending to be Marvin Gaye and would go on to make soul and funk singles for a handful of New Orleans based labels (Nola, Sans, Hotline, Scram, House Of Fox). Moore hit the skids by the 70’s and did time at Angola Prison. In 1982 he got himself murdered in an alley cross river in Algiers, he was 42.
    “They’re Gonna Do What They Wanna Do” is on Teem, a subsidiary of Johnny Vincent’s Ace label, released (or maybe escaped) 1963. It was written by fellow dope fiend Earl King and produced by Jehovah’s Witness Huey ‘Piano’ Smith. ↩︎
  9. Rhythm Rockers. Sun Records, 1956 This one is Sidney “Hardrock “ Gunter (1925 –2013) his second single for the label, and despite it’s beautiful slapback echo sound it was not recorded at Sun but leased from Gunter who had pressed some copies on his own Cross County label. That version has a short bass solo that Sam Phillips edited out. Gunter is one of those names put forth as one of the inventors of rock & roll, and I guess he’s as good a choice as any, but my opinion since nobody asked is that nobody invented nuthin’ and never did. Rock & Roll has always been around – Cavemen had it. Like war, rock & roll was already here waiting for us before humans even existed. Charles Dickens describes seeing a 19th century rocker wailing and stomping away in a rough beer hall in Ohio. ↩︎
  10. Jim San with the Montclairs and Ted Walkers Band – “Dreamboat Rock.” Released in ’59 on Hi –Q, a subsidiary of Detroit’s Fortune Records, this tune (and it’s flip side) was released twice, with consecutive catalog’s #’s – Hi –Q 5009 and 5010, both sides of both releases are totally different takes. The 5009 release is rawer, and better. This number was retitled “We’re Gonna Rock” upon its second issue and had a more prominent flute, anticipating the inexplicable rise of Jethro Tull by a decade. ↩︎
  11. The Del –Heirs – Cradle Rock (Yucca) . The Del –Heirs – Chicano sisters – Virgie and Evelyn Galleges of Boyle Heights, East L.A. along with music biz hustler and songwriter Art Wheeler. ended up in New Mexico on Yucca Records, home of Long John Hunter and early Bobby Fuller. How? I’d assume by car. This tune was later covered by L.A. R&B group the Heartbreakers on Donna, that one was produced by Frank Zappa, a noted collector of 50’s R&B 45’s. The flip side “Strange World” (based on the old gospel dirge “This is A Mean World”) was covered by Gene & Eunice on Aladdin. ↩︎
  12. Vel-Tones. Released in 1959 by Satellite (which soon changed it’s name to Stax), this is an early Chips Moman production, He also wrote and played guitar on it. Dig that space age tone! The Tornados surely did. It’s seem too much of a coincidence for UK producer Joe Meek to have not heard this. It’s nearly identical to his hit “Telstar” which he wrote and produced for The Tornados in 63. It was eventually leased to Mercury, so it must of sold a few copies. Oddly enough Meek was sued by a guy called Jean Ledrut who accused him of stealing “Telstar” from his tune “La Marche d’Austerlitz” Ledrut lost his suit (Meek was already dead by the time it was all settled, killing his landlady and himself in 67). Moman never bothered sueing. He had bigger fish to fry like producing hits for Elvis and the Box Tops. The Vel –Tones were the first black group recorded by Satellite. Jerry “Satch” Arnold of “Race For Time” infamy is on drums. ↩︎
  13. The Duals. One of the few, maybe only white groups on Bobby Robinson’s Fury label. These greaseballs – Richard Martin and L. Russell Brown were from Bricktown — Newark, N.J – and Brown would go on to write “Open Up Your Door” for Richard & the Young Lions and “Sock It To Me” for Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, not to mention Tony Orlando & Dawn’s “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” and “Knock Three Times” ↩︎
  14. Jiving Juniors – Derrick Harriot, Eugene Dwyer, Herman Slang and Maurice Winter formed in Kingston, Jamaica in 1958 and started making hit R&B records for Duke Reid, Coxsone and Bluebeat labels. Lead singer Derrick Harriot then emigrated to the Bronx, worked in a factory and formed his own Crystal label in 1961. The first release was a cover of the Starlites’ “Valerie”, the second was this rocker in ’62. He went solo in 1965 racking up a string of hits in Jamaica in the rocksteady style. By the 70’s he was one of the top producers on the Island. He’s still around, and splits his time between Jamaica and New York. ↩︎
  15. Scotty McKay aka Max Liscomb was a time clapper boy with Gene Vincent’s Blue Caps. He can be seen in the 1966 film The Black Cat. ↩︎
  16. Bayou Boys – Bamalaya. From Checker records in 1954, the Bayou Boys were Lloyd “Fatman” Smith (Louis Jordan’s road manager) and jazz singer Eddie Jefferson. The fat guy was later a dj on phili’s WHAT, he eventually grew to 300 pounds before stroking out in 1989.
    Eddie Jefferson, one time singer in jazz star James Moody’s band, writing the lyrics and singing Moody’s big hit “Moody’s Mood For Love”. was shot and killed outside of Baker’s Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1979. A former dancer who had worked for Jefferson called William Perryman aka Amber Al –Mumeet Mujakid was arrested, tried and acquitted. ↩︎