Hound Howl Historic – 19870523


Originally aired May 23, 1987 on WFMU.
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Instrumental
Long John Hunter – El Paso Rock
Chuck Miller – Chuck’s Boogie
Crowns – Rebel Yell
Benny Sharp – St. Louis Sunset Twist
Earthworms – Fishtail

2nd set
Bob “Froggy” Landers – Cherokee Dance
Mel Smith & the Nite Riders – Pretty Plaid Skirt
Screamin’ Joe Neal – Don’t Quit Me Baby
Roosevelt Sykes – She’s Jail Bait*
Don & Dewey – Just a Little Lovin’

3rd set
Travis Wammack – Rock & Roll Blues
Bobby Brown & the Curios – Down at Big Mary’s House
Cheerleaders – The Wiggle
Dinky Harris & the Spades – She Left Me Cryin’
Hardrock Gunter – Birmingham Bounce

4th set
Reverend Anderson Johnson – God Don’t Like It
Bo Diddley – I’m Bad
Dr Ross – I’m Not Dead
Orbits – Knock Her Down
Bobby Lewis – Mumbles Blues
Medallions – Buick 59

5th set
Don Covay – Have Mercy
Shorty Long – Function at the Junction
James Carr – The Dark End of the Street
Andre Williams – Pearl Time
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters – I’m Gonna Miss You
JJ Jackson & the Jackals – O My Liddy

Battle of the Greatest Live Show on Earth
Jerry Lee Lewis – Mean Woman Blues
Bo Diddley – Hey Bo Diddley
Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire
Bo Diddley – I’m Alright
Jerry Lee Lewis – Long Tall Sally
Bo Diddley – Roadrunner
Jerry Lee Lewis – High School Confidential

7th set
Del-Tinos – Papa Ooh Mow Mow
Rivieras – Rockin’ Robin
Trashmen – Henrietta
Bobby Fuller Four – Wine, Wine, Wine
Velvet Underground – Sweet Bonnie Brown/It’s Just Too Much

8th set
Screamin’ Joe Neal – Rock & Roll Deacon
Slim Dortch – Big Boy Rock
Dr Ross – Cat Squirrel
Charlie Rich – Don’t Put No Headstone On My Grave
Sam Price – Chicken Out

9th set
MC5 – Fire of Love
Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
Stooges – Head On
Kinks – I’m Not Like Everybody Else
Troggs – Strange Movie

Den’s Corner
Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby

10th set
Katie Sweet – I Love to Rock
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters – Broadway
Larry Williams – Heebie Jeebies
Marvin Moore – I’m On This Rocket
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies – Garbage Man Blues
Chuck Berry – Tulane

Guitar Slim – The Things I Used to Do
* by request

Hound Howl #047 – Aircheck & Playlist

Aired 01/12/2020
Length 1:18:31 (Partial Aircheck)

– Set List –

Instrumental

1) Night People – The Troubled Streets
2) Jim Myers & His Gems – J & D Hop
3) Nightbeats – Nightbeat
4) Rel-Yea’s – The Rugged Rock
5) Ronnie Hawkins – There’s A Screw Loose

Set Break
10:13 – 11:42

2nd Set

1) Ivory Lee – Alley Oop!
2) Jimmy Williams – You’re Always Late
3) Jaguars – Picadilly
4) Tommy Moreland – Bang, Bang
5) Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers – Oh What A Dream
6) Jimmy Witter & The Shadows – If You Love My Woman

Set Break
25:57 – 28:23

Blues Hangover

1) John Lee Hooker – 609 Boogie
2) Lee Jackson – Fishin’ In My Pond
3) Clifford King – Want To Jump With You Baby
4) Dr. Ross – Come Back Baby
5) Dixie Blues Boys – My Baby Left Town
6) Mo-Jo Buford – Whole Lotta Woman
7) Sam “Lightning” Hopkins – Big Mamma Jump
8) Eddie Burns – Hello Miss Jessie Lee

Set Break
50:56 – 54:27

4th Set

1) Wayne Williams & The Sure Shots – Red Hot Mama
2) Shamans with William Powell Group – Shubby Dubby Doo
3) Jim Morrison – Ready To Rock
4) Sevilles – Charlena
5) Rufus Shoffner & Joyce Songer – Orbit Twist
6) ‘June Bug’ Bailey – Louisiana Twist
7) Hasil Adkins – Chicken Walk

Set Break
1:11:19 – 1:15:33

5th Set

1) Bo Diddley – Let Me In (Alternate Take) | (Aircheck End, 1:18:31)
2) Rebel Rousers featuring Doug & Terry – Red Headed Woman
3) Shirley Gunter & “The Queens” – Why
4) Eddie Cochran – Pretty Girl
5) Guitar Gable featuring King Karl – Walking In The Park
6) Chris Cerf & The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir with Gordy Main & The Maniacs – The Penguin
7) Vernon Green & The Phantoms – Sweet Breeze
8) Tommy Castle – Wanderlust
9) Billy Wright – The Question (Wha’Cha Gonna Do?)

Set Break

6th Set

1) Ronnie Hawkins – Hey! Bo Diddley
2) Royals (Midnighters) – Get It
3) Pat Cupp – Long Gone Daddy
4) Nite Riders – Women And Cadillacs
5) Storey Sisters with Al Browne & His Orchestra – Bad Motorcycle

Set Break/Outtro

Joker (Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers) – What Is A Fisterris?

End

Hound Howl #041 – Aircheck & Playlist

Aired 12/01/2019
Length 1:58:55

– Set List –

Instrumental

1) Freddie & The Heartaches – Womp – Womp
2) Catalinas – Destruction
3) Crew – The Jaguar Hunt
4) Fabulous Continentals – Rockinental
5) Hully Gully Boys – Yabba

Set Break
11:24 – 12:25

2nd Set

1) Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell – Duck Tail
2) Chet Oliver with Joe Weaver & His Blue Notes Band – Cool As A Cucumber
3) Mike McAlister – I Don’t Dig It
4) Earl Brown – Shake Your Shimmy
5) Kent Parry & The Rogues – Stop Then Rock
6) Bo Diddley – Crackin’ Up
7) Tune Masters featuring Mike Hanyan – Down The Line
8) Andre Williams with The Don Juans – Going Down To Tia Juana

Set Break
33:36 – 35:50

Blues Hangover

1) Paul Clifton – Are You Alright?
2) Junior Brooks – Lone Town Blues
3) Little Walter & His Jukes – I Hate To See You Go
4) Lazy Lester – I Hear You Knockin’
5) Abner Jay – My Mule
6) Eddie Hope & Manish Boys – A Fool No More

Set Break
51:36 – 55:58

4th Set

1) Bogard Brothers – Flying Rock
2) Royal Teens – Sham Rock
3) Jesse Powell Orchestra with Fluffy Hunter – The Walkin’ Blues (Walk Right In, Walk Right Out)
4) Pat & Dee – Gee Whiz
5) Nite Riders – Women And Cadillacs
6) Long John (Hunter) – She Used To Be My Woman
7) Vince Anthony – Too Hot To Handle

Set Break
1:14:30 – 1:16:10

5th Set

1) Link Wray & The Raymen – Hidden Charms
2) Big Slim – Don’t Cry Baby
3) Trashmen – Whoa Dad!
4) Victor – Stop A Knockin’
5) Clyde Stacy & The Nitecaps – So Young
6) Little Richard with Johnny Otis’ Band – Little Richard’s Boogie
7) Moon Mullican with Boyd Bennett & His Rockets – I’m Mad With You
8) Billy (The Kid) Emerson – When It Rains It Pours
9) John “Rocky” Rhule – Rock And Roll Baby

Set Break
1:42:06 – 1:45:00

6th Set

1) Bobby Wall with Howard Biggs – Baby It’s Too Much
2) Lee Andrews & The Hearts – The Girl Around The Corner
3) Sonny Fisher – Rockin’ Daddy
4) Percy Mayfield – Stranger In My Own Home Town

Set Break/Outtro
1:56:33 – 1:57:24

Dion & The Belmonts – I Got The Blues

End

Billy Boy Arnold

Original Version before Jimmy Reed and Yardbirds cover versions.
His First and Best Disc.

Sure Sounds Good At 78 RPM.
Billy Boy Arnold circa 1993.

In late 1954, when Bo Diddley showed up at Chess Records to record a demo of an x-rated tune called Uncle John (where is that demo today?), he didn’t arrive alone. In tow where three friends, the mainstays on a loose musical aggregation that played on the streets of Chicago for loose change who called themselves The Langley Avenue Jive Cats. With Bo where Jerome Green whose maracas were an important ingredient in the group’s unique sound, drummer Clifton James, and our subject today, harmonica player and singer William “Billy Boy” Arnold (b. September 17, 1935 in Chicago). Missing were guitarist Jody Williams, who’d soon join the group in the studio, Roosevelt Jackson who played washtub bass and another guitarist known only as Buttercup.   Leonard Chess, who recorded the demo told Bo to clean his song up and bring his group back to record it for real, which they did on March 2, 1955. In addition to the cleaned up version of Uncle John which was re-written as Bo Diddley and recorded without Arnold, they also recorded Bo’s originals I’m A Man, Little Girl, You Don’t Love Me (You Don’t Care) and three tunes with Billy Boy Arnold leading the group– You Got To  Love Me, I’m Sweet On You and the harmonica instrumental- Rhumba.  Chess issued Bo Diddley b/w I’m A Man on his Checker label and the rest was history. A second session with the group was scheduled for May.
Billy Boy Arnold had already recorded back in ’53 when he was just 17 years old–  I Ain’t Got No Money b/w Hello Stranger, his recording debut, was issued on the Cool label, today it’s so rare that he doesn’t even have a copy and I’ve never seen nor heard it.  In the intermittent months between Bo Diddley’s first and second sessions, Arnold, convinced Leonard Chess, who already had Little Walter under contract, had little use for his talents,  made his way across the street to Vee Jay Records. There he cut a session for Vee Jay with fifteen year old guitarist Jody Williams (who would re-join Bo’s band, as well as doing session work for Howlin’ Wolf, and recording under his own name for Argo and as Little Papa Joe for Blue Lake), and session men Henry Gray on piano, Earl Phillips on drums and Milton Rector on bass. From this session, in early May of ’55 Vee Jay released under the nome du disque Billy Boy– I Wish You Would b/w I Was Fooled (Vee Jay 146), a smoldering slice of vinyl and/or shellac depending on how many RPM’s you prefer, as ever emanated from Chicago. 
Meanwhile, a week later, at Bo’s second  recording session,  Billy Boy Arnold played on She’s Fine, She’s Mine,  but when they set about recording Diddley Daddy, Arnold explained to Chess he’d just recorded the song as I Wish You Would for Vee Jay. Billy Boy was promptly shown the door, to be replaced by Little Walter on Diddley Daddy. The songs were different enough that both men would take writer’s credit on their respective discs, but Billy Boy Arnold was persona non grata with the brothers Chess.  It didn’t matter anyway, since that fall Billy was back in the studio for Vee Jay recording four more sides, this time with Fred Below on drums and Syl Johnson and Odell Cambell playing guitars. Two singles were released in 1956– I Ain’t Got You b/w Don’t Stay Out (Vee Jay 171) and You’ve Got Me Wrong b/w Here’s My Picture (Vee Jay 192). His third Vee Jay session came in November of ’56 which produced the single Kissing At Midnight b/w My Heart Is Crying (Vee Jay 238) and two un-issued tunes. His final Vee Jay disc was recorded in September of ’57– Rockin’-itis b/w Prisoner’s Plea (Vee Jay 260), as well as two more outtakes–No, No, No, No and Everyday and Every Night.  I Wish You Would was a small, local hit, as was I Ain’t Got You, the next three singles sold very few copies and Vee Jay let him go. Bo Diddley would set on a career as a rock’n’roll star, touring the world for over fifty years and leaving a recorded legacy on Checker that is second to none. Billy Boy Arnold would return to the streets, and later the clubs of Chicago’s south and west sides, where his career as minor, second tiered (in terms of fame and popularity, not musical worth) bluesman lasts until this day. He wouldn’t record again until 1963 when he cut his first LP for Prestige, More Blues From The South Side with Mighty Joe Young on guitar. A surprisingly good album, in my own opinion blues like rock’n’roll is a form best enjoyed on singles, whether 78 or 45, and would suffer from recording sessions where an artist would be expected to produce a whole album instead of two sides of a single. Starting in the early 60’s, these blues albums were mostly aimed at white “folk blues” fans, and most of them are garbage. 
 But getting back to the five Vee Jay singles, which remain the high point in a long recording career.
All five singles have a rocker on one side and a slow blues or shuffle on the flip. I Wish You Would would become something of a standard after the Yardbirds version, a version even ending up on David Bowie’s 1974 Pin Ups (an album of “mod” covers made while his manager negotiated a new publishing deal) and is still something of a blues standard today. But all five singles are great, as good as anything you’ll ever hear. All use some variation of the Bo Diddley beat on one side, and all his songs are of superior quality. Arnold was an excellent lyricist, clever, never falling back on the cliches of the genre.  They have a unique sound, and a touch of menace, making them quite unique.
Eventually, as the big names died off, Billy Boy Arnold would gain fame and respectability with blues fans, especially in Europe, touring often, playing festivals in the summer months, cutting at least a dozen albums, probably more.  Having learned to play harmonica from Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Williamson, the original Sonny Boy), although he plays harp more like Rice Miller, the second Sonny Boy, he was even making good records into the 70’s, his version of Dirty Mother Fucker, on Red Lightnin’, backed by a charmingly inept white British boogie band called the Groundhogs, remains popular among fans of such things.  Billy Boy was re-united with Jody Williams at the first Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans back in 2003 and they sounded great together. Arnold’s still alive today, although he no longer tours much. His best sides- the Vee Jay recordings, are sadly out of print (Charley in the UK had released an album of all his Vee Jay material called Cryin’ and Pleadin’ in the eighties, some of the tunes later showed up in the US on a series of Vee Jay blues compilations A Taste Of The Blues, all have gone out of print). That will hopefully be corrected some day soon. Whoever undertakes such an endeavour should add the Cool single and the three songs from the first Bo Diddley session to the twelve existing Vee Jay recordings, that would make a nice CD, an excellent testament to Billy Boy Arnold’s greatness. That would be called “getting it right”, a rare occurrence in the music biz,  Maybe it will even appear before he dies. Stranger things have happened.  

Bo Diddley 3

Lobbycard for the Big TNT Show sent in by reader JNeilNYC

Sorry if I’m repeating myself, this is the third Bo Diddley post in less than a year. The first( here) and the second which has footage from The Legend Of Bo Diddley documentary I ran a couple of weeks ago, but the latter footage has been pulled, so if you missed it, you missed it. Here’s the best of the Bo Diddley footage on Youtube these days. The bottom clip I decided to run the entire segment from the Ed Sullivan show with Tommy “Dr. Jive” Smalls, the Five Keys, Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, and Lavern Baker. Feel free to write if there’s something really great out there that I missed.

Bo and the Duchess (Norma Jean Wolford)

Bo, the Duchess, and his entire band from the Big TNT Show, I love when they kick into the cross rhythm near the end.

This was new to me….

Bo Diddley In The Studio

Quick, before they take it down again, check out this great Bo Diddley footage–


http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6537865&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Welk Goes Latin from Debbie Fountain on Vimeo.

ADDENDUM: Well, I knew it would get pulled soon. On 9/19/09 it was yanked. I wish the person who was writing to the director (see comments) didn’t! If you missed it, the Legend Of Bo Diddley is one of the greatest documentaries of all time, and hopefully it will be made available again. Keep an eye on this blog for more Bo Diddley soon….btw when will Bo’s home made porno films surface? See Etta James’ autobiography Rage To Live for more on that subject….

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