gts010 “countsheep” Get out your slide rule, it’s time to interpolate your butts off! Integers are nice and discrete, they come at regular times like a steady tympani backbeat, and then along comes Kate Bush to blow that all up. 01-01 Phil Harris & Alice Harris – ARA 136 – One-Zy Two-Zy (1946) — the…

gts072 “lindish” Birthday 1946-07-15 = 80 years old now! Dated Governor Jerry Brown (of “California Uber Alles” fame) and was for a time the fiance of George Lucas. 01-01 Linda Ronstadt & Kermit The Frog – All I Have To Do Is Dream 01-02 Linda Ronstadt – How Do I Make You 01-03 Linda Ronstadt…

gts009 “magish” Snap your fingers past the graveyard, walk around that ladder. Or, some people take it a bit farther. No matter, this episode is your grimoire for defense against the dark arts. What they don’t teach you in school, is that Cornish pixies can be easily baited with corned beef. 01-01 Dell’Isola & Ezio…

gts198 “mylandish” Also, this land is your land. 01-01 Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys – Okeh 6742 – Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima (1945) — in the Country Music Hall Of Fame, understandable. But also in the Rock And Roll HOF, which baffles. Bob sounds pretty happy, with hoots and hollers in the…

gts194 “moojoosh” Think this bucket’s got a hole in it. 01-01 Louis Jordan – Decca 9-27129 – Show Me How (You Milk The Cow) (1950) — from Arkansas, at the time Jordan would have been denied entry, as a customer, to many of the venues he played as a bandleader. Only after a predominance of…

gts197 “desheray” Da Doo Doobie 01-01 Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers – Brunswick 6240 – Dinah (1932) — common for Bing to do collabs with other artists, rare for them to out-do him. 01-02 Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley & Company 103 – Diana (1962) 01-03 John Cougar – American Fool 102 – Jack…

gts196 “mooosh” “I’ll carve off what I want, then ride the rest home.” — Denis Leary 01-01 Rob Barrett Jr. & Terry Esau – It’s A Cow Christmas 107 – Deck The Stalls (With Oats And Barley) (1991) — amazingly, they kept the shtick up for a full cassette, more amazing: it’s pretty good stuff.…

gts195 “carolynsh” 01-01 Louis Lasky – unknown label matrix # 946B – Caroline (1935-04-02) 01-02 Neil Diamond – UNI 531 – Sweet Caroline (1971) — no idea why this is played at every Red Sox game. 01-03 Neil Sedaka – RCA Victor 47-7595 – Oh! Carol (1959) — Carole King wrote many Sedaka songs, on…

gts004 “insomnish” A wink’s as good as a nod. 01-01 Andrews Sisters – Well All Right (Tonight’s The Night) (1939) — backed by Vic Schoen’s Orchestra, Decca release #2462. I just put some coffee on, but you should get to sleep. 01-02 Tim Armstrong & Skye Sweetnam – Into Action (2007) — yes, Tim Armstrong…

gts193 “beeshee” No Brooke songs, but Barbie gets her dream house. 01-01 Rudy Vallée And His Connecticut Yankees – Victor 22473 – Betty Co-Ed (1930) — one of the first “teen idol” singers, back when panties were too heavy to throw on stage. 01-02 Bobby Freeman – Josie 841 – Betty Lou Got A New…