Radio What Wave Playlist February 22/2019. All Black Show as this is Black History Month
- Screaming Jay Hawkins….I Put A Spell On You….started with Screaming Jay’s best known song to get things rolling. From 1954!
- Rance Allen….Lying On The Truth….from a Stax Profiles release which came out in 1982, but this track is live and probably from the Wattstax Concert 1973.
- Rufus Thomas….Memphis Train….1967 release and from a Best Of Stax compilation.
- Sam And Dave….I Take What I Want….from the Stax Years compilation.
- Otis Redding….Shake….from 1965 and on the double LP of Otis’ Greatest Hits that came out in the early 70’s.
- Eddie Floyd…Raise Your Hand….a 1967 release and this and the above 4 songs were all released on Stax Records out of Memphis.
- Titus Turner….Build A Bridge Not A Wall….1961 recording and on his Sound Off release and should be played during these times.
- Nina Simone….Mississippi Goddam….from 1964 and on a Greatest Hits compilation.
- John Lee Hooker….Motor City Is Burning….1967 recording and on a Chess Greatest Hits compilation.
- Stevie Wonder….Living In The City….from the Innervisions release from 1973 and we played the full album length version.
- Last Poets….New York New York….from their 1970 self titled release and one of the first rap releases.
- Curtis Mayfield….If There’s A Hell Below….from a Curtis Greatest Hits and the album full length version.
- Bell Rays….Hole In The World…from their Let It Blast release from 1998.
- Gil Scott-Heron….The Revolution Will Not Be Televised….from the release of the same name and from 1971.
- The Impressions….Choice Of Colors…..from the Young Mods Forgotten Story from 1969.
- Marvin Gaye….What’s Going On?...from his Anthology release and from 1971.
- Cleo Page…..California Prison Farm….from a compilation called Going To California on JSP and this song was released in 1979. Searching for more Cleo Page if anyone can help.
- Blind Willie Johnson….Dark Was The Night….from a release of the same name and from 1928. This song, along with many others were launched into space several years back. The idea being that if aliens find this and can listen to this they will get an idea what our music is like….
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe….I Shall Know Him….from her 1956 Gospel Train release and wasn’t the song I intended to play….if there were no screwups, it wouldn’t be a Radio WW!
- Phillips Specials….I’m A Soldier….a 1976 release on the compilation Fire In My Bones, an excellent compilation of gospel from 1944-2007. It’s on the Tompkins Square label and came out in 2009.
- Reverend Charlie Jackson….God’s Got It….from the Crypt release of the same name and recorded back in 1973.
- Muddy Waters….Tomcat….from Muddy’s least favourite release, 1968’s Electric Mud. Way different than any of Muddy’s other work, but a fave of mine.
- The Temptations….Psychedelic Shack…..from the Psychedelic Soul compilation and this is the album length version of the track from 1969.
- Bo Diddley….Elephant Man….1970 recording on the Drive By release.
- Death…..Freakin’ Out….from the For The Whole World release that came out in 2009 and introduced the world to Death. Originally recorded in 1975.
- Tarig Abubakar and the Afro Nubians….Hobey Laik….from the release of the same name from 1997 and these guys used to play Sunfest fairly regularly. Their live shows here were incredible and none of their releases have captured that intensity. Tarig went home to Sudan and ended up dying in a traffic accident.
- Andre Williams….Psycho….from his 1999 Red Dirt release featuring The Sadies as his backup band.
- Pat Hare….I’m Gonna Murder My Baby….Sun recording from the early 50’s but what makes it scary is that Pat went out and did just that. He ended up spending the rest of his life in prison. Alcohol and Pat did not mix well.
- Howlin’ Wolf….Highway Man….another early Sun recording and it might be Pat Hare playing the guitar on this track.
Out of time, certainly not tunes. Back again next week with tribs to Rick Rivets, Peter Tork and Jackie Shane and a ton of new releases!
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