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March, 2009

Save my aerosoul

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Mattie McFerrin   “Keep a Lamp Shining Bright”

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Closing time

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Canciones de America con Ernesto Hill Olvera   RCA Victor   This is really kind of beautiful.   The orange glow.   The dramatic light on her shoulder, neck and hands.   The yellow wisp of illuminated, exhaled smoke.   His posture and hand poised just like that.   His ring.   His cool shades.

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“No, dear God! No Lila, not the log again, no!”

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Mario Y Lila Conjunto Mario Suarez “Tronco Seco”   Velvet Records

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There’s plenty of room, but there’s no atmosphere

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The Angelic Gospel Singers   “Gotta Find a Better Home”

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Pain or pleasure?

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Luis Alberto del Parana and His Trio Los Paraguayos   “Mood for Romance”   Philips Records   She’s either in a state of pure ecstasy or can’t believe this guy won’t go to another table!

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Who’s that knockin’ at my door?

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“Crazy Little Mama”   The Eldorados     Guest Artist:   The Magnificents   Vee Jay Records   (1957) Listen up:   “At My Front Door

The El Dorados did a week at Chicago’s Regal Theater starting February 22, 1957. They shared the boards with Bobby Charles, the Spaniels, Jimmy Reed, Arthur Prysock, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the Rhythm Kings, Gene & Eunice, Big Joe Turner, Priscilla Bowman, Brook Benton, and the Tab Smith Orchestra.

In March, while the group was in Atlanta, Vee Jay announced that the El Dorados would have the honor of being the subject of the company’s first LP.   Issued as VJLP-1001 (“Crazy Little Mama”), it contained ten songs by them: “My Loving Baby,” “Baby I Need You,” “Annie’s Answer,” “I Began To Realize,” “At My Front Door” (“Crazy Little Mama”), “Now That You’ve Gone,” “I’ll Be Forever Loving You,” “Rock ‘N Roll’s For Me,” “There In The Night,” and “A Fallen Tear.”   For some reason, while they left off some of the El Dorados releases, they included two tunes by the Magnificents: “Up On The Mountain” and “Caddy Bo.”

Crazy little mamma come knockin’

Comes a-knockin’ at my front door, door, door

Crazy little mamma come knockin’

Knockin’ at my front door

Crazy little mamma come knock, knock, knockin’

Just like she did before

I woke up this morning with a feeling of despair

Looking for my baby and she wasn’t there

Heard someone knockin’ much to my surprise

There stood my babe lookin’ at my eyes

Crazy little mamma comes knock, knock, knockin’

Just like she did before

If you got a little mamma and you wanna keep her neat

Keep your little mama off my street

Same thing will happen like it did before

She’ll come knock, knock, knockin’ at my door

Crazy little mamma come knock, knock, knockin’

Just like she did before

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A skinny Santa returns post-recession for a hand out

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“Eterno Natal”

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Lieutenant kernel

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The Pop Corns   “Zero-Zero”   Festival Records

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Sisters morphing

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The Jensen Sisters “Dancin’ in the Autumn Breeze”   Check out that double neck! Jimmy Page eat your heart out.

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Detroit breakdown

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MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (“motherfuckers”)   1969 Elektra Records   Vocals, Rob Tyner; Guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith (Later Mr. Patti Smith); Michael Fraser on vocals/bass and Grant Palmer on drums.

Radical and revolutionary. in the late sixties MC5 was banging out hard punk jams that meshed out jazz, political anger and garage band rock.   MC5 was signed to Elektra in 1969 along with fellow motor city madmen The Stooges.

Stupefaction hips us to this site of MC5 drummer Dennis “Machinegun” Thompson.   Check it out.

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