gts097 “shekillsagain”
Didn’t stop collecting tunes for the topic after Go To Sleep episode number 007, thus show number 097 isn’t a repeat, it’s a sequel!
01-01 Betty Hutton – RCA Victor 47-4179 – Murder, He Says (1951)
— flipside of this single, released both on 7″ 45rpm and 10″ 78rpm, is the original of “It’s Oh So Quiet!”. Covered by Bjork 45 years later, we’ll hear both versions in an upcoming show.
01-02 Terry Reid – Bang, Bang You’re Terry Reid 01 – Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (1968)
01-03 John Lee Hooker – The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker 104 – She Shot Me Down (1963)
— recorded in 1962, those chipper backing vocals are Mary Wilson and the Andantes.
01-04 LOLO – Hit And Run (2014)
— her real name is Lauren Pritchard.
01-05 Possum Dixon – Possum Dixon 103 – Watch The Girl Destroy Me (1993)
01-06 Atarashii Gakko! – Ichijikikoku 01 – じゃないんだよ (Janaindayo) (2023)
— please go watch the video! Their idiom is dress like schoolgirl! But they support traditional Japanese values! Baby Assassins movie is also great! Not great for small children! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mut79ElOqBU
02-01 Catherine Zeta Jones, Susan Misner, Dierdre Goodwin, et al. – Chicago OST 04 – Cell Block Tango (2002)
— probably the best song tonight.
02-02 Randall King – West Live Story 18 – She’s Gonna Kill Me (2023)
— compared to other songs tonight, this guy is getting off easy.
02-03 Bobby Blue Bland – Live On Beale Street 17 – She’s Puttin’ Somethin’ In My Food (1998)
— oddly, Bobby’s trademark vocal effect, the “throat hork” is not present in this tune.
02-04 Howlin’ Wolf – Chess 1632 – I Asked For Water, She Gave Me Gasoline (1956)
02-05 The Bomboras – Organ Grinder 04 – She Kills Me (2003)
— sounds like it’s from 40 years earlier. Pleasing retro!
02-06 Julie London – Whatever Julie Wants 104 – Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah) (1961)
— been waiting ages to play this.
03-01 Karla Devito – Is This A Cool World Or What? 11 – Bloody Bess (1981)
— reminds me of the movie Cuthroat Island. Critics hated it, failed at the box office, but that lady pirate can run me through anytime she wants. So can Karla.
03-02 The Courettes – Goo Goo Muck- A Tribute To The Cramps 02 – Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (2023)
— is it fair to call them the Norwegian ABBA?
03-03 Guitar Shorty – Get Wise To Yourself 08 – She’s Built, She’s Built To Kill (1995)
03-04 Pinkard & Bowden – Gettin’ Stupid 09 – Woman With A Gun (1993)
— what a couple of jackasses, always welcome on my playlist.
03-05 And Then She Came – And Then She Came 12 – I Just Killed A Man (2016)
03-06 The Murderburgers – How To Ruin Your Life 11 – She Better Stop Killing Me (2012)
— great band name!
04-01 Ginger Rogers – Roberta OST – I’ll Be Hard To Handle (1935)
— decent movie, great song. Love it when a white girl tries to scat, especially if she’s got a Betty Boop voice.
04-02 Jennie Smith – Canadian-American Records 135 – It’s Murder For Roberta (1962)
— Canookian doo-wop, a fairly rare animal.
04-03 Wesley Ialacy – Word Gets Around 05 – She Wants To Kill Me (2005)
— he needs more than a pitbull.
04-04 Sophia Loren – Presenting Sophia Loren 103 – To Keep My Love Alive (1955)
— originally from the 1920s, written for a production of A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court. If memory serves, it’s a Cole Porter tune. Sophia was half of one of the greatest photographs ever snapped, here, read about it:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/story-sophia-loren-jayne-mansfield-photo/
04-05 Amy Arena – Amy Arena 05 – I Will Always Love You (1995)
— really surprised that no words had to be bleeped from an Amy Arena tune!
04-06 The Plasmatics – New Hope For The Wretched 205 – Butcher Baby (1980)
— Webster NY used to be ashamed of Wendy O. Williams.
04-07 Cirrus – Mama Please 06 – She Kills (2009)
— great gypsy stuff, only learned of the tune from a friend’s suggestion a week ago.
05-01 Katarina Pejak – Blues Caravan 2019 02 – She’s Coming After You (2019)
05-02 Ewan MacFarlane – Always Everlong 02 – She Comes For The Kill (2021)
05-03 Julie Brown – Trapped In The Body Of A White Girl 10 – The Homecoming Queen’s Got A Gun (1987)
— classic 80s gadfly about town.
05-04 Chloe Moriondo – Blood Bunny 08 – Bodybag (2021)
— one of 2 Chloe Moriondo tunes considered for this show, the other one will get aired in a few weeks.
05-05 Blackie Crawford & The Western Cherokees – Coral 64138 – Jump Jack Jump (1952)
— left over from the “leap” show last week, this one is clearly a perfect fit for this week.
06-01 Linda Gail Lewis & Robbie Fulks – Wild! Wild! Wild! 06 – Till Death (2018)
06-02 R.J. Mischo & The Teddy Morgan Blues Band – Ready To Go 01 – She’s Murder (1997)
06-03 Hans Vandenburg – Commercial Break 14 – She Wants To Kill (1994)
06-04 ZZ Top – Rhythmeen 08 – She’s Just Killing Me (1996)
— featured in the movie From Dusk Til Dawn.
06-05 Bob Wills – Lost Tiffany Transcriptions 214 – She’s Killing Me (1946-05-27)
06-06 Selena Gomez – Revival 02 – Kill Em With Kindness (2015)
— this is the “acoustic” version from the NFlix series “13 Reasons Why”