gts111 “amerkish”
Apple pie with a hot dog cut up in it, don’t knock it ’til you try it.
The July 4th show finally made it on air haha! Actually, the delay placed tune 01-06 on WRFZ only 21 hours shy of an exact 50 years since it was performed. Sweet tradition.
01-01 Billy Murray – Edison 8910 – The Yankee Doodle Boy (1905)
01-02 Lenny & The Continentals – Donmar 103 – Yankee Doodle Rock (1961)
01-03 Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends 103 – America (1968)
01-04 Green Day – American Idiot 01 – American Idiot (2004)
01-05 Liam Lynch – Fake Songs 02 – United States Of Whatever (2002)
— the single version recorded in 1999, released ahead of the 2003 album
01-06 Grateful Dead – Selland Arena Fresno CA 1974-07-19 24 – US Blues (1974)
— saw Barnum & Bailey’s in this venue, saw this band once on July 4th itself. One thing nice about the Grateful Dead, their touring schedule always placed them in Rochester NY in the first week of July
02-01 Marquise Knox – Here I Am 06 – America’s Blues (2011)
— love the term “amarka”
02-02 REO Speedwagon – T.W.O. 204 – Golden Country (1972)
02-03 Mohombi – Movemeant 04 – Love In America (2011)
— a Swedish/Congolese artist does electrocalypso
02-04 Mort Marshall & David Thomas & Bernie West & Betty Oakes – All American OBC 102 – Melt Us (1962)
— the show’s book was written by Mel Brooks
03-01 Steve Vaus (as Buck Howdy) – Timepiece 05 – I Am America (2000)
— at one point, the US military was the largest exporter of country music
03-02 Shea Diamond – I Am America (single) (2020)
— she had a tough time 8 years in a mens prison
03-03 Krista Branch – I Am America 01 – I Am America (2010)
03-04 Tyburn Tall – Tyburn Tall 103 – I Am America Too (1972)
— scolded by a German band named after a British gallows. Ouch!
03-05 Violent Femmes – Why Do Birds Sing? 01 – American Music (1991)
04-01 Barry Wood & Leonard Joy Orchestra – Victor 27478 – Any Bonds Today (1941)
— more famous by the Andrews Sisters, wanted to play the version by Kay Kyser but this one is better than the girls too. Released before WW2 started, “here comes the freedom man”
04-02 The Rascals – Atlantic 2537 – People Got To Be Free (1968)
04-03 Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A. 101 – Born In The U.S.A. (1984)
04-04 David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails – Earthling 210 – I’m Afraid Of Americans (2004)
— one of 3 remixes from the expanded version of the album. The one made for the movie Showgirls replaces “americans” with “the animals”
04-05 Danny & The Juniors – Swan 4060 – Twistin’ USA (1960)
— most Danny & The Juniors songs have a gratuitous “woooo” but here it’s a “yeahhhh”
05-01 Jonathan Groff – Hamilton OBC 07 – You’ll Be Back (2015)
— bitter King George III gets so mad he considers going insane
05-02 Happy Revolvers – Suicide Is Alright 10 – Kids In America (1996)
05-03 Styx – The Grand Illusion 201 – Miss America (1977)
05-04 Mono – Under The Pipal Tree 07 – L’America (2001)
— one of the great dropped opportunities in musical history. Built a musical house undivided, at the 3 minute mark if this had started to ‘boogie’ it’d be remembered wide and far
05-05 Spirit – Sunrise & Salvation 608 – Wake Up America (197x)
— disc 6 is studio extras from 1974-1975
06-01 Joel Mabus – The Naked Truth 08 – Ain’t America Beautiful (1988)
— notably more beautiful, in the places where there is no more styrofoam. And plastic bags, why did they used to always end up in trees back in those days?
06-02 The Kinks – Low Budget – Catch Me Now I’m Falling (Original Extended Version) (1979)
06-03 Alyse Alan Louis – Soft Power O(off)BC 13 – Democracy (2020)
— musical about the spouse of a president who lost an election
06-04 Pearl Jam – Boston MA 2000-08-29 12 – I Am A Patriot (2000)
— the last edit, had “Critterland” by Willi Carlisle slotted here, but on a carefuller listen,
… and a bonus track…
07-01 Chet Atkins – At Home 06 – Yankee Doodle Dixie (1957)