Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour 08-24-20

NEW tune from Headcat 13 kicks the show off this week!  Turn this one up!  We're also spinning killer new tracks from The Ramblin' Bandits, Jake Calypso, Marcel Bontempi, Charley Crockett, Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen, Dead Rock West, Whitney Rose, Marti Brom and a new track from Messer Chups in our instru-Mental Breakdown as well as The Jaguars from 1959 featuring the late, great Charlie Daniels.  Beth Riley has a Slim Harpo classic for us in Beth's Blues Break, we spin a Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week AND we hear another "Stars In Their Eyes" segment playing early tracks of arts we love!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Intro Music Bed: Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Headcat 13- "Let's Go Crazy"

The Ramblin' Bandits- "We Are The Ramblin' Bandits"

Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen- "Come On Angels"

instru-Mental Breakdown:

The Jaguars (feat. Charlie Daniels/1959)- "Jaguar"

Messer Chups- "Beware Of Sentimentality"

Marti Brom- "Get In The Car, Loretta"

Charley Crockett- "Run Horse Run"

Marcel Bontempi- "Gonna Have Myself A Ball"

Beth's Blues Break:

(Music bed: Buddy Guy- "Slow Blues")

Slim Harpo- "Baby, Scratch My Back"

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Wanda Jackson- "Sticks & Stones"

Jake Calypso- "When The Pretty Girl Bop"

Dead Rock West- "I'll Never Get Over You"

Stars In Their Eyes segment (artists we love before we loved them):

Wink Westerners (feat. Roy Orbison/ 1955)- "Ooby Dooby"

Jerry Lee Lewis (demo 1952)- "Don't Stay Away (Till Love Grows Cold)"

Love Sculpture (feat. Dave Edmunds/ 1968)- "Wang Dang Doodle"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

Waylon Jennings- "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
Whitney Rose- "I'd Rather Be Alone"
Celine Lee- "Don't Let The Screen Door Hit Ya"
Stray Cats- "Elvis On Velvet"

Outro Music Bed: Danny B. Harvey- "Cattin' Around"

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60th anniversary of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper plane crash/ Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour 02-03-19

We look back 60 years ago to that plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper on February 3rd, 1959.  We'll spin tunes from each of those along with Dion and Waylon Jennings.  Dion also shares memories of Buddy, Sonny Curtis sings of the real Buddy story and we also hear a track from a recent release of Buddy Holly and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  Listen for a snippet of a Dick Clark interview from 1958 with Buddy & The Crickets as well.  Rave on!!!

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Larry Welborn, Buddy Holly, Bob Montgomery
mid-50's

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Big Bopper on stage

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey
Intro Music Bed: Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Buddy Holly & Bob Montgomery (with Sonny Curtis)- 
"Midnight Shift" (alternate version with false start)
Ritchie Valens- "Ooh! My Head"
Dion on Buddy Holly
Dion & The Belmonts- "I Wonder Why" (with studio chatter)
The Big Bopper- "Chantilly Lace"
Ritchie Valens- "Donna"
The Crickets- "Maybe Baby"

Buddy Holly (with Waylon Jennings handclaps)- 
"You're The One" (recorded at KLLL in Lubbock, TX)

Dion & The Belmonts
(Waylon Jennings far left)

Dick Clark interview with Buddy Holly & The Crickets
The Crickets- "It's So Easy"
The Big Bopper- "White Lightning"
Buddy Holly- "Heartbeat"
Dion- "Hug My Radiator"
Ritchie Valens- "La Bamba"
Newsreel from plane crash
Buddy Holly- "Crying, Waiting, Hoping"
(recorded at Buddy's apartment 
11 Fifth Ave, New York City Dec. 14, 1958)
Ritchie Valens- "Boney Maroney"
Dion- "Oh Boy"
Sonny Curtis- "Real Buddy Holly Story"
Buddy Holly & The Crickets with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra-
"Rave On"

Ritchie Valens on stage

Outro Music Bed: Link Wray- "That'll Be The Day"

Buddy Holly setlist February 2nd Surf Ballroom
Clear Lake, IA:
Gotta Travel On
Salty Dog Rag
It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Peggy Sue
That'll Be The Day
It's So Easy
Everyday
Oh Boy
Early In The Morning
Rave On
Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Ritchie Valens setlist February 2nd:
La Bamba
Come On, Let's Go
Donna
Fast Freight
Framed

The Big Bopper setlist February 2nd:
Chantilly Lace
The Big Bopper's Wedding
Witch Doctor and The Purple People Eater

Dion & The Belmonts setlist February 2nd:
Still researching and will post when found.

Buddy Holly (with Waylon Jennings & Tommy Allsup)
Clear Lake Iowa February 2, 1959

Waylon, Buddy, Tommy

Buddy and Dion

Ritchie Valens, Dion, Big Bopper on stage
Winter Dance Party tour 1959

Unreleased Johnny Cash album from the '80's being released March 25, 2014

Out Among The Stars is a collection of unreleased tracks Johnny recorded with Billy Sherrill from sessions in 1981 and 1984.  Waylon Jennings and June Carter Cash appear on this project as well.  Johnny's son John Carter Cash discovered the recordings in 2012 and with the help of Marty Stuart, Buddy Miller, Jerry Douglas and others helped finish off the recordings.  Here's the track listing for this upcoming release:

1. Out Among The Stars
2. Baby Ride Easy (Feat. June Carter Cash)
3. She Used To Love Me A Lot
4. After All
5. I’m Movin’ On (Feat. Waylon Jennings)
6. If I Told You Who It Was
7. Call Your Mother (written by Johnny Cash)
8. I Drove Her Out Of My Mind
9. Tennessee
10. Rock and Roll Shoes
11. Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time (Feat. June Carter Cash)
12. I Came To Believe (written by Johnny Cash)

Waylon Jennings- Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings released today!

Goin' Down Rockin' : The Last Recordings is a posthumous album of Waylon Jennings.  Waylon recorded these playing guitar and singing while his producer Robby Turner accompanied him on bass.  They planned to round out the instrumentation until Waylon's death in 2002.  Waylon's band The Waylors helped Turner complete the project 10 years later.

Billboard 1960 reports Dion & The Belmonts are splitting

Billboard's report from this day in 1960 states that Dion & The Belmonts were splitting.  The group had enjoyed such hits as "I Wonder Why", "Where Or When", "Teenager In Love", "No One Knows" and many others.  They were part of the Winter Dance Party in 1959 when a plane crash tragically took the lives of fellow headliners Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson).  You can see them on stage on a date from that tour with a young Waylon Jennings playing bass (far left):

After the split, Dion went on to such solo hits as "The Wanderer", "Runaround Sue", "Ruby Baby" and more.  The group did reunite for the 1966 album Together Again as well as the 1972 Live From Madison Square Garden album.  Enjoy some great footage of their hits below:

"I Wonder Why"

"A Teenager In Love"

Waylon Jennings born this day/ Buddy Holly's bass player

Country superstar Waylon Jennings was born this day in 1937.  Even though he left us in 2002 his music still remains a big influence on country music today.  While working as a DJ in the 50's, Waylon befriended Buddy Holly.  Buddy produced a couple of early Waylon singles on the Brunswick label and then toured as Buddy's bass player on the Winter Dance Party tour that also featured Dion & The Belmonts, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson.  Waylon got on the bus with Dion and the other band members as Buddy, Ritchie and J.P met an untimely death as their plane crashed shortly after takeoff.  Pictured above from left to right from the Winter Dance Party tour are Waylon, Buddy and guitarist Tommy Allsup.  In the video below, hear a tune Buddy and Waylon wrote called "You're The One".  Buddy sings and plays guitar while Waylon provides the handclaps.