HFTVJ Part 4 - Kalamari Down The Khazi

Again I think I'm really offering something of significance here, and if you don't.... well then switch it off, and go do something less earnest and borgnine instead... (Anyone here remember the UK T.V. series 'Why Don't You?)

The Show consists of found 'objets d'art', gleaned from the hands of little old ladies in charity stores nationwide, by yours truly, DJ Wallypants - the quiet and hidden voice behind this ' shennanigans'!

T-list:~
1. The Coasters - Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
Wow when I found this B-Side to their much more well known 'Yakety Yak' I nearly pleasured myself, Zing when the zip on my aural bulge and I knew I was in love.... again..... I hope you enjoy it too...but try not to get carried away!

2. Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time. ... I said baby, baby, baby, you're out of time.
Produced by Mick the Jagger, and if you listen real close, that's surely him doing the BVs in the background!!!
I'm not that impressed, it's alright, but the quality of the recording, or perhaps the pressing is shite... so much for Jagger's production career... sounds confused, like a cardboard box version of Spector's 'Wall o' Sound' sound... oh well... it's something I guess,...on Immediate records...

3. Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted
It's a classic, it's not rare, or diffficult to find, and you WILL have heard it before, unless you're some teen nob-end who has never seen a 7" single and doesn't listen to anything that was produced before 1989. I fucking hate 'em. Shit generation, shit record collections... and the girls are slim and have long hair and wear tight jeans... and... and... and, well we had dumpy girls, with flicky short hair and the fucking New Romantics to contend with... it was awful... and I'm jealous right? Yeah,... but not of the music!! That in the main... is shit, actually come to think of it, so was ours... and the older I get, the further back in time I'm going... .

4. Ebenezer Calender and his Maringer Band - Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So
From Marvellous Boy - Calypso from West Africa / Honest Jons Records / HJRLP38, I will have to admit that this isn't something I found at a boot fair, jumble sale or massage parlour, actually I paid money for it... can you believe it? Not the most sophisticated recording in the history of the planet, but I particularly like the guy, who obviously can't afford a Kazoo, and so, quite naturally, imitates one with his nasal passages ... wonderful!!!

5. Count Sticky and his Calypsonians - Chico Chico
From - - Soundman Shots, The Caribou & Downbeat 78's Story, another one I paid good cash for! I'm not doing well am I!! What I love about this is the solo on the Steel Guitar, who would have guessed that they even had a steel guitar in Jamaica in the late 1950s! Where they go tht electricity from we'll never know... perhaps it was one of those Hawaiian bicylce powered steel guitars, as played by Shocking Johnny and the Dynamos?

6. The El Crappo Mariachi Band - El Crappo Mariachi Tuneo
I mean do you care?, do I care?, well sort of, if I'm using their music the least I could do is credit them I guess..., and yet...fuck it.. This sounds like a tune Tarantino would have used, if only he'd known about it...see Quentin, you can have so much and yet you can't have it all... I have this tune, and you don't so hah!! Take that... 'hah... ah haha hah hah hah hah hah hah' (do this with an Evil, 'El Whappo' greasy mexican Bandito type voice in your head while you read it please)

7. Horace Faith - Black Pearl
Trojan Records do a typical stringsy do-over version for Horace here, that particular 'strings' Trojan sound isn't something that sits easy on my main show - Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio, but it sounds perfect for this little couch in the corner,...oh so twinky, I think this one was recorded in it's entirity in th UK, sounds like it anyway, probably down at Chalk Farm....

8.Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
In 1978 Moore's solo career was furthered with help from Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). The combination of Moore's blues-based guitar and Lynott's voice, produced a Top Ten hit in the UK Singles Chart in April 1979. It is Schmaltzy, slightly nauseating, synthy, soft rock. The texture of this tune when juxtaposed with the rest of the tunes on this 'compilation' fills a void in me... your compiler. (Well that told you didn't it!)

9. The Scaffold - Ide B The First
I mean, listen to this stuff, the only reason this sort of shite got released is because it was 1967 when it got written, recorded, and released into a highly befuddled and confused public's collective 'ear', and the ever silly wankers in the record business were too stoned and screwed up on Acid to tell what was shit or not! Someone should have shot these jerks. I guess the same experimental attitude also let artists such as Hendrix, or The Incredible String Band do their thing relatively un-hindered... you couldn't imagine Peter Andre being allowed to do this sort of thing these days could you, and he's one of the most experimental and 'out there' artists we've got... He sings Lullabys to Princess like a God too... I have it on good authority!

10. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Were Made For Walking
A Bona Fide CLASSIC.. and the S&M crowd's favourite tune.... walk on me baby... make sure it's in Stillettos, but in my case, can you sing this at the same time?

Thanks for listening, tell your friends about it,... intermittent shows, always with something different to listen to, spreading the turd... sorry word... about what music I've fallen through in my short years of musical obsession.

Take care, until next time.

Regards,

DJ Wallypants
(well that's what Zachary said)

HFTVJ Part 3 - Dj Wallypants

I think this is quite a special little compilation tape... the kind I might have given a prospective girlfriend, only to have her call me a madman and go back to her copy of NOW 200. Do all us guys do the compilation thing? Nick Hornby seemed to think so in High Fidelity... I'm not so sure,... I certainly did, and met my future wife clutching a cd that had at least one tune here on it... 'Waterbound'

We're all 'waterbound' people, it's what you do in the boat and where you're rowing your friends and family to in the meantime that counts... my boat's pretty much sinking right now, so I'm falling back to what I know... music. If it be the food of love, I'm playing it on, because I need to eat!

T-list:~

Boyd Bennett - 'Cool Disc Jockey',
This was donated by Greddy G, who plays some of the best music here on podomatic!

Dirk Powell - 'Waterbound',
this song truly made me cry, when I first heard it, it made me burst into tears, later I wrote to Dirk Powell and got the most wonderful letter back from him, which I have kept.

Earth Opera - 'Death By Fire',
for those of you who might like country music, you'll recognise the tune as being adapted from the 'Streets of Laredo', and you might recognise Peter Rowan and Dave Grisman as being members of Earth Opera a 'Hippy' group signed by Elektra alongside stable mates the Doors, they released this Lp in 1967 and had the release party on my birthday, and I mean my actual birthday, no wonder the invite is still inside the Lp then. My Dad used to share a chicken shack with Pete Rowan and he still visits us ocassionally. I never did meet Dave Grisman, but he used to jam with Jerry Garcia from the Greatful Dead.

Ivor Cutler - 'The Agressive Onion Vendor'
Like all 80s radio listeners I too held a tranny to my ear (oh Missus) and listened to John Peel, he was a hero, I still miss him, it was there on his show that I first heard Ivor Cutler, it's his harmonium playing i like, his poetry is shit (not really), I was amazed when I found out that he was a Glaswegian Jew. Something of a rarity I'm guessing and quite an exotic creature obviously! - Sorry for the sound quality!! I nicked this from somewhere Mp3'ish already, converted it twice and back again....

John Hartford - 'Don't Leave Your Records In The Sun'
I found this on a Lp in a £1 bargain bin, and it's just perfect for anyone interested in records and collecting them... perfect. I get a bit bored with the 'scratch' joke, but I guess overall it's an okay tune, and he's a very respected musician, who has over the years produced some really interesting music.

Vibrations - 'Ain't No Greens In Harlem'
Got to be one of the best Funk tunes Eva! My Bro is really nto Rare Groove and it's from him that I first Minidisc'd this tune, have kept it as a prized 'chanson tres amuseant' since....A man tells a tale of Vegetable aquiring woe.... 'Ain't No Greens In Harlem' - Vegetable man's on strike!'

The Occassional Word - 'Delta Underground'
Some obscure 60s thing a mate played me in the late 80s when we were art students and I was completely stoned, we both thought it was a good idea at the time, these days I'm inclined to think that's it's silly buggers!

Johnny Pineapple and his Hawaiian Orchestra - 'Maui Chant'
Believe it or not this is the tune I want played at my funeral as the pallbearers bring in the coffin, all wearing Hawaiian shirts I hope... Morbid? - Nawww... I like to think it's just plain silly...The only thing I've ever been able to understand in what he's saying is 'Roasted On An Egg'... why is he saying this?

Johnny Allan - 'Promised Land'
Cajun Rock N' Roll from 1974, released on it's second pressing in the UK on Stiff records!! They used to play this kind of music on the radio believe it or not, fucking fabulous, well... a darn sight more fabulous than the shite the play now, A'Kon, El'Bow, Knee Jerk, or A'Hole.....

Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers - 'I know my baby loves me in her own perculiar way'
From a live festival, this tune has always made me chuckle and impresses musically too, always a good combination if you're a musician, or just have standards that must be kept, but also like to have a good laugh. Musical comedy is not something many people do at all well. These guys though, are the Monkey's.

Red Sovine - 'Teddy Bear'
Two country songs by people called 'Red', this is one of the saddest, funniest and downright most Country songs ever written,... just who was Red Sovine though, I know nothing, he was probably a Ukranian Tractor Driver or summat!
This never fails to have me urinate in an uncomfortable way that requires Persil automatic and a couple of hours with me legs showing...

Pama International - 'Equality and Justice For All'
This is the 'B-Side' of their release due on the 2nd of November this year 'I Still Love You More' which I found reminiscent of the best Pop Reggae of the 70s, people like Dandy spring to mind .... Sent as a promo to Murphy Towers
(aka Dj Wallypants domicile), I have to be really honest I don't always go for what these guys do, but enjoyed the washy roots feel of the second tune... I hope you do too, I'd really like these guys to suceed, as they do what they do, very well indeed....

The Searchers - 'Wow Wow Baby'
Does it get any better than this? Another tune first sent to me by the great Greedy G (he really knows his doin's) everytime I play it makes me jiggy, and my son who is only just under two, ALWAYS dances to this, and requests a second play...thank you G. It's a complete mystery as to why it took nearly 40 years for me to discover Black 50s R&B from the USA, .... i'd been into stuff that circled round it, Black Blues and White Rock N' Roll, little bits of Cab Calloway and so on, but I never quite reached it, and there it was sitting waiting for me.... all this time. if I wasn't some crazed collector of Jamaican music, I'd be collecting Country, Texas Swing and Hillbilly, or this stuff...

Haircut 100 - 'Love Plus One'
Every now and then you just have to own up to your 80s roots.... and the thing I love about this tune is the memory of 5th form common room and the exciting girls there it engenders... Vicky and Karen, you know who you are. They all felt so out of reach at the time... I love the intro to this tune, I can't deny it. - Sorry, but I just had to... can you bear with me?

Jam and Spoon 'Interlude'
Just some strange outake from a Jam and Spoon album

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - 'Somwhere Over The Rainbow'
We might all have heard this a thousand times behind some commercial for toilet roll, or some programme about the Pacific, but it truly is one of the most beautiful recordings, if not the most beautiful recording of this song. From what I understand the man who performed this is now sadly no longer here on this planet.

Seasick Steve - 'Salem Blues'
Now here's the thing about seasick Steve... in my opinion, he tries too hard, to... look like a tramp, play like a tramp, sound like a blackman, live like a redneck, be a bluesman,.... blah blah blah...he's a construct, if not of his own mind, then the marketing dept of shitstain records or some such, I think he believes the hype. In the meantime everyone has latched on to him as the ideal presenter of 'folk' programming, presenting as he did the Barbican shows recently... sitting in a rocking chair, no doubt sippin' shine and chewin' baccy! - BUT some of his music is okay.

Thanks for listening, tell your friends about it,... intermittent shows, always with something different to listen to, spreading the turd... sorry word... about what music I've fallen through in my short years of musical obsession.

Take care, until next time.

Regards,

DJ Wallypants
(well that's what Zachary said)

02 Hits From The Vinyl Junkyard.

Another edition of the totally not popular show 'Hits From the Vinyl Junkyard', chock full 'o nuts, or rather chock full 'o nutty music, with a leaning towards the 50s and Rock 'n Roll, this is a subtle offering... one for the ladies.

Only 8 tunes this time, as my other Radio show and showbiz personaility commitments put the scuppers on spending more time annoying my wife by ... well just not being there...

Tunes . . .
Buddy Greco - The Lady Is a Tramp - Fontana 7"
The Kinks - Set Me Free - Pye 7"
Elvis Presley - I Got Stung - RCA 7"
Mike Murphy - Underground - Taken from the forthcoming album 'Sad Songs For Suicidals'
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Hungry For Love - HMV 7"
Paul Anka - Crazy Love - Columbia 7"
Mike Murphy - Mouse Powah - D.A.T. Exclusive never released Mix
Duane Eddy - Detour - London 7"
Rory Gallagher - Out Of My Mind - Taken from 1971 Lp 'Deuce'
KLM Cordettes - A Whiter Shade of Pale - Taken from their only Lp

HFTVJ 2009 - All Music has been sourced by HFTVJ in the bargain bins of British charity stores.

Hits From The Vinyl Junkyard.

Oddments No 1.
With a leaning towards JAzz, Doo Wop and 60s pop memorabilia, this is one for your ears if they've got a bit tired of life.

1. Vanilla Fudge - 400 cycles per second
2. (Outake electronic percussion Lp. by some mad German)
3. The Lecuona Cuban Boys 'Say Si Si'
4. Al Green 'Which one do you think?'
5. Troggs 'With A Girl Like You'
6. Chet Atkins 'Heartbreak Hotel'
7. The Who - 'Can't Explain'
8. Fats Waller 'Sweetie Pie' (I bet fats was a one with the 'ladies'!)
9. Hugh Malcolm Good Time Rock
10.Bessie Smith 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' (This woman once knifed a man for 'treating her mean'!)
11.Le Mans '66
12.Sounds Inc.
13.Beach Boys 'Do Yuh Wanna Dance?'- WALL OF SOUND STUFF, where do you think the Ramones got their sound?
14.Ella Fitzgerald 'Summertime'
15.Marcells - 'Blue Moon'
16.The Strawbs - 'On My Way' (Sandy Denny sings with the Strawbs, a song that almost always makes me cry, you?)
17.Decca 'How to Give Yourself a Stereo Check Up'
18.Firehouse Five plus TWO 'Yes Sir That's Mah Babee'
19.Johnny Kidd 'Please Don't Touch' (if it wasn't for the slipping tempo this would almost be Rock N' Roll)
20.Wings 'Mumbo'
21.Animals 'Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' - Susan Sayers and I used to listen to this as kids on Pennington Bend in Nashville Tennessee when I was a kid, while Captain Bob had a snooze on the Porch... this is a rare Demo version that got accidentally released! Worth a bit too...
22.Ray Charles 'yesterday', not a particularly good version of the tune...
23.Booker T Sapps etc. - Alabama Blues (This one was recorded on Wire recorders in the 1930s, it still f@@kin' rocks though eh!)
24.Joe Tex 'Get Back Leroy'
25.Mr. Bassman (I can't remember who this is buy, and now I've sold it! Answers on a postcard please!)
26.Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Run Through The Jungle' - This tune always reminds me of my tour in Nam (and I wasn't even there!)
27.Otis Redding - 'My Girl' 'Otis does a version of someone else's tune.... and it's better'.
28.T.Rex 'Organ Blues' (I hate anything by Bolan, indulgent creep, but this one is as much as I could ever stand)
29.Tornadoes - ? Some Jungle thing follow up to Telstar I guess....the label was gone.
30.Animals 'I'm Crying' 'I bloody love the Animals, and Chas sold his cabs for Jimmy, and I love 'em for that if nothing else.
31.Unknown Bluesman, also recorded in Texas by Lomax's Dad on Wire in the 30s. This is haunting shit man.
32.Miles Davis 'Blue In Green'
33.Small Faces 'Grow Your Own'
34.Count Basie 'One O'Clock Jump'
35.Outro

HFTVJ exists to pleasure you, but only because some anonymous individual is spending time doing so, so don't be a lazy ass ipod generation grab all and not even pay nothing later... give me your money and I'll either play more and more tunes, or go buy some new ones...see the PAYPAL button, you can use it you know... yeah you've seen it, suh don't try to tell me you've not!
Hope you enjoyed the show....

HFTVJ 2008 - All Music has been sourced by HFTVJ in the bargain bins of British charity stores.

Hits From The Vinyl Junkyard.

Taster.
Likkel Zydeco Music and Country Rock?, just to get this thing off... not really representative...

Clifton Chenier - Party Down
Loudon Wainwright the III - Motel Blues

HFTVJ exists to pleasure you, but only because some anonymous individual is spending time doing so, so don't be a lazy ass ipod fool generation X grab all and not even pay nothing fuh it later type inividual... give me your money and I'll either play more and more tunes, or go buy some new ones...see the PAYPAL button, you can use it you know... yeah you've seen it, suh don't try to tell me you've not!
Hope you enjoyed the taster, full production will be reached soon....

HFTVJ 2008 - All Music has been sourced by HFTVJ in the bargain bins of British charity stores.