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Ep 020 – sunshine
gts020 “sunshine” Soak ’em if you got ’em! 01-01 Des Tooley & Frank Coughlan Orchestra – Parlophone A2960 – I’m Sailing On A Sunbeam (1930) 01-02 Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now 01 – I Can See Clearly Now (1972) 01-03 Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes 01 – Blister In The Sun (1983)…
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Ep 019 – religish
gts019 “religish” Tiptoe a tightrope, how not to offend anybody but still ensure that each ep of this show has something for everyone to hate? Humor, be thy crutch. 01-01 Carmen Lombardo & Guy Lombardo Orchestra – Victor 25357 – When Did You Leave Heaven (1936) 01-02 Neil Diamond – BLTSS 01 – Brother Love’s…
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Ep 018 – ships
gts018 “ships” If you’re gonna take a long walk on a short pier, have something parked at the end! 01-01 Lebert Lombardo & Guy Lombardo Orchestra – Victor 25435 – When My Dreamboat Comes Home (1937) — just like the Marx Brothers, there were several Lombardos, most now forgotten, just like Gummo. 01-02 Beach Boys…
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Ep 017 – economish
gts017 “economish” 01-01 Nat King Cole & Johnny Mercer – You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ — 01-02 Regina Spektor – Eleven Eleven – 2.99c Blues (2001) — 01-03 Coasters – What About Us — 01-04 D.R.I. – Dirty Rotten Imbeciles 08 – Money Stinks (1983) — 01-05 Tom Morello – 01 – Black Spartacus Heart…
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Ep 016 – shky
gts016 “shky” A bird! a plane! Oh no, it’s not that at all. How does that thing fly, it ain’t got wings. Rebecca, c’mere and take a look at this thing. 01-01 Vaughn Monroe – Victor 3411 – Riders In The Sky (1949) 01-02 Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky 01 – Sirius…
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Ep 015 – natshural
gts015 “natshural” Odd timing, the World Health Organization just announced they will be renaming monkeypox to eliminate stigma. Of course, offending chickens is just fine. Gilda Radner was onto chickens 50 years ago. 01-01 Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters – Decca 23940 – Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) (1947) 01-02 Kinks – Apeman (demo) — another…
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Ep 014 – shpace
gts014 “shpace” Looking up from here or looking out from up there, it sorta draws you. Oh duh, that’s what a vacuum does. 01-01 Joey Nash & Richard Himber Orchestra – Victor 24745 – Stars Fell On Alabama (1934) — that can happen when you let a jug of cane squeezins set a spell. 01-02…
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Ep 013 – utopish
gts013 “utopish” 01-01 Nat Shilkret – Victor 22444 – Get Happy (1930) — after Black Friday in 1929, record sales slumped hard. Tunes like this were the music biz trying to save their own ass. 01-02 Joey Ramone – Don’t Worry About Me 01 – What A Wonderful World (2002) — released after his death,…
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Ep 012 – endish
gts012 “endish” Nothing to see here folks, move along, it’s only the crumbling of time itself. Not that we’d miss it. Look at all the equations in cosmology and particle physics which have time as a variable. They work just fine if time is negative, if time runs backwards. So in theory, nothing really ends,…
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Ep 011 – rockish
gts011 “rockish” Getting robbed, getting took, it’s harder than it looks. That’s what they say, and they can’t all be wrong. 01-01 Al Jolson & Walter Rogers Orchestra – Victor 17081 – Ragging The Baby To Sleep (1912) — went looking for an oldie to introduce rock and Muddy Waters was a cinch, can’t believe…