DoublePlusGood Thu Feb 8 with Lizbot on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Greetings!

Howdy!

That's good!

and howdy

Hello Hello!

H Number 6 !

H Roffle!

Hi Rob!

Are you barging it today. The new signage is up!

I am in full Mardi Gras mode. My mom had all these rrecords and raised me on them! She lives for a parade

You'll see the Zulu King down on St. Claude & Dumaine

@Number 6 - Yes! I am!

I got it at a thrift store.

@Number 6 - I was so distracted doing the show transition, I didn't notice it at first! But I THINK these sailor knots and ship weren't here before! I feel like I'm in The Salty Dog on the Ocean City Boardwalk!

AH!

I like that there's a Dr. Seuss reference in this song

I was lucky enough to randomly stumble upon a free outdoor Dr. John concert in Cooper River Park when I was 15 while walking the dog!

Cool!

I saw a few small pix of boats at the Dr.s office in the bathroom, and thought for a second about liberating them for the station.

BARGE WILDLIFE UPDATE: The most ROBUST FOX I have EVER seen trotted casually right by when as I exited my car on the way to the studio today. These Princeton foxes are decidedly less scrawny than our Philly ones!

Very happy to hear not one, but two! Dr. John songs. Heya Lizbot, Number 6

and Rob and Roffle

Hi DSM!

@DSM - There MIGHT be another up my sleeve!

woot woot!

@DSM - More clavinet to come!

@Number 6 - oh man, The Barge could eventually harbor...the largest collection of pilfered nautical artworks!

Hi DSM and all!

@Lizbot- Ha!

@DSM - There we are! Tempted to play even more, but I think I'll cap it at 3!

I wanna see visions of dumplings dancing in my head! DOn't make me hungry, Dr. John!

@liz..yes cap it at 3.. need some room to show Mojo some love tonight

Hi Carlos Ramone!

lol Thanks!

@Lizbot- If I see a cheap copy of Moby Dick or some other nautical tome, I will have to get it for the collection.

@Carlos Ramone - No Mojo Nixon here on ++good tonight as it's all NOLA all night, but I am sure Mojo will be getting some love on our airwaves again soon! RIP.

Tami Lynn gives Betty Davis a run for her money

@Carlos Ramone - I didn't get to see Kevin McDonald of Kids In the Hall at PhilaMOCA last night, but I heard Joe from Dead Milkmen opened and played Punk Rock Girl in tribute to Mojo

@Number 6 - Yes! To be displayed on the shelf with New Emph CDs so that DJs can read some Melville over the air if the mood strikes them!

@liz.I work for a snack company..in many grocery stores thru the day. All today when customers asked me where something was my answer was ..Much like Mojo Nixon I don’t work here..never led to a conversation

@Lizbot- Or to read while waiting to go on the air, etc.

@Carlos Ramone - ha!

@Number 6 - Before my show today, I was looking out the window trying to figure out where that fox trotted off to and whether it absconded with a WPRB recordm, possibly inspired by the WPRB fox logo. Its probably seen that sticker on cars around the station!

Hi Lizbot, DSM, Robust Fox, and everyone!

Hello friends! Lizbot, this is just the sort of jollity I need this evening!

Hi Rob from Maryland! I have heard the foxes here in Princeton are getting rowdy! Max, who was on air before me, said he's seen them fighting. I'm used to them confiding themselves to the darkness in Philly!

@Lizbot- I guess no record in the foxes mouth?

Hi Addie!!

@Addie - Glad to hear it! Yeah, am this early spring weather is making me feel optimistic. Not sure what it's doing up there in Vermont, weather-wise, but it's been sunny and in the 40s and 50s in Philly!

@Addie - I WISH I was in New Orleans this weekend! Instead I'll be having teens over for a sleepover and trying to do damage control as they are planning out a buncha cooking projects!

One time my partner accidentally petted a fox in Philly late at night. It just sauntered up to their bike and they thought initially it was a dog.

If anyone remembers the David Simon show Treme, about NOLA in the aftermath of Katrina, THIS is the original song, and alternative lyrics were recorded for the theme song of that show

@Addie - oh my god!

@Addie - I want to pet a fox, and at the same time, I very much do not!

I freakin loved that show. And I was just talking about it with my boss in the context of mentioning your show.

I want to make a fox giggle! Have you seen those videos?

@Addie - If anything, the way they slink around so long and low to the ground, I might mistake one for a cat rather than a dog.

@Addie - oh my god, yes! I follow so many foxes and coyotes on YouTube, I've basically fallen down a fox content vortex. They are constantly suggested to me. Parrot/bird videos and then fox videos. The fox giggle is the best!

@Addie - I am fascinated by the woman who keeps dozens of foxes in her backyard as some kind of informal sanctuary. Possibly a recipe for disaster, though they appear well-cared-for. She has a favorite, "Finnian Fox," and he downright smiles manically when she pets him!

I'm about to create a disturbance in your mind

or rather, Jessie Hill will

Dozens of foxes sounds like a smelly proposition.

Treme was an excellent show!

Hi Travis in TechniColor ado!

@Travis in TechniColor ado - Yes! I loved that show

Hi and bye. I've been listening as I've been in and out of meetings, but I'm have to go somewhere now. Digging the tunes today though!

@Travis in TechniColor ado - Controversial opinion: I liked Treme better than The Wire. Okay, to be fair, I watched all of Treme as it aired, and I could never bring myself to watch much of The Wire. SO many people told me I needed to see The Wire that I started to resent it, and every time I started it, it didn't grab me. Treme immediately appealed to me

Festive evening Space Susan Bot!

Hi Ossy!!

That is understandable. I feel that way sometimes about music or films/shows that get so much hype. I think I may have watched them in that order as well. I did enjoy the Wire too though. Maybe it's worth another shot

These sound what Readie Rainbow would play!!

@Travis in TechniColor ado - Thanks for stopping by!

It's hard to beat the food and music themes of Treme!

@Ossy - It's true, this is a particularly R&B and funky show and Readie brings the funk! Readie & Lizbot reunited for the Spring Membership Drive this April!

@Travis in TechniColor ado - Yeah, I also felt that way about The Sopranos and also The Matrix. I watched a couple episodes of The Sopranos and then skipped ahead to the Pine Barrens episode, which reminded me of Miller's Crossing

@Addie - That woman with the dozens of foxes in her yard at least seems to run a clean and tight ship. OTHER people are keeping foxes IN THEIR HOUSES. I can't IMAGINE the smell!

This song makes me want a muffaletta

I like how hyper Louie Prima is in that transition from Basin Street Blues to Sleepy Time Down South. He is stumbling over his words!

Great sounds Lizbot! Laissez les bons temps rouler

Hi Brian D! I'm glad you're digging it!

@Brian D - Let 'em roll, let 'em roll!

Liz - That time again Spring Drive and cute duo you two are!! Princeton downtown was a sight to see and so many amazing smells from the restaurants!

Hello Lizbot! Loving the theme today—coincidentally, my mom’s making jambalaya for dinner tonight.

@Ossy - haha, I can't wait! The energy will dialed up to 11 when Readie & I unite!

Hi Mary Jones! Nice! My mom had a bunch of these records. she LOVES NOLA, and she loves a parade

Liz - Like having a sweet cozy peaceful and relaxing sound cloudy night, and loud festive jamming metal sounds explosively play!

I’m very envious of you getting to Mardi Gras—that’s a goal of mine some day.

@Mary Jones - There's nothing like it! I hope to go back in 2025. The date lines up well that year with a break

@Ossy - haha, that's what we're going for here!

@Mary Jones - My mom went to New Orleans on a solo trip when I was a teenager and I was so jealous. I had been reading Alan Lomax's "The Land Where Blues Began" and I wanted to go so badly. She came back with a shirt that had "But Tuesday's just as bad" printed on the back, and it became one of my most-worn shirts in high school. I kind of liked that other kids never knew what the hell it referred to!

Killing it

HI Admiral Wilson! Thanks!

Thanks for the spins, Lizbot. Happy Mardi Gras everyone! We're heading out for a little while.

@Lizbot a t-shirt with a cultural deep-cut like that—of course you became a WPRB dj!

@Rob from Maryland - thanks for listening!

@Mary Jones - haha, yeah I was an insufferable little music nerd!

Old records have the coolest hippest sound!

Hi Space Cowboy! It's a fact!

Once we were at a local diner with our kids. We couldn’t help noticing our waitress had an unusual accent we couldn’t place. It was very southern, but also traces of French, which should have been a clue. We carefully asked her about it and she told us she was up from New Orleans. She was a Katrina survivor, which had just happened the previous year. We welcomed her to Philadelphia and told her we hoped she found our town friendly.

Hi Wes Steenson!

Good everning everyone

@Wes Steenson - We heard so many stories about Katrina, especially from cab drivers, while in NOLA. The whole landscape changed. So many New Orleans transplants ended up in Houston.

Hi TAndy!

Thanks to Harry K-Tel for making me aware of this song when I was 13 on his crazy K-Tel Records comps!

Oh, Corey Haim in a bubble bath! That’s all I can think when I hear this song.

Clarence "Frogman" Henry is STILL alive and living in NOLA!

@Addie - oh god, haha! I had forgotten!

Ultimate teen crush fodder!

@Addie - Time to dial The Corey Hotline!

This one is for that muffaletta I ate in NOLA 2020. RIP Muffaletta.

@ Lizbot (host) Ahhhhh ... Louie Prima! I am transported to bliss-ville!

And, yes, let's not forget backup by Gia Maione & Sam Butera & The Witnesses. That's Sam -- Louie's lead sax man and arranger -- wailin' right now!

Hi Richard from Rocky Hill!

And let's also not forget that Sam Butera arranged Louis Prima's hit medley of "Just a Giggilo" and "I Ain't Got Nobody" ... which David Lee Roth shamelessly copped note-for-note for his MTV-era hit, with nary even a tip o' the hat to Sam.

@ Lizbot (host) Fab pre-Fat Tuesday show, Liz, thanks!

@Richard from Rocky Hill - oh GOD, that terrible cover! I had blocked it out of my memory!

@Richard from Rocky Hill - Thanks! Some of the biggest parades are this weekend in NOLA!

Richard from Rocky Hill - Including the Fools of Misrule!

@ Lizbot (host) Ha, the Fools of Misrule! A must-dig!

@Richard from Rocky Hill - I love the names! The Krewe of Barkus is another favorite!

You're _always_ singin' with a swing with Louis Prima and The Wildest Show in Tahoe. Would you perchance take a request for Louis Prima & Keely Smith's big hit "That Old Black Magic"?

@Richard from Rocky Hill - True! I DO have that song with me! I will try to fit it in, but am rapidly running outta time!

I heard this in a basketball movie Coach Carter in a different version

@ Lizbot (host) If you can't cast the spell of "That Old Black Magic" tonight, another time is fine. Thanks.

@Ossy - oh huh, I gotta check that out! I first heard Soul Rebels Brass Band in Treme neighborhood when I very sleekly-dressed very tall guy with a portable speaker strapped to his back strolled down the street blasting that Stand Up & Get Up song! I'm glad I asked him what it was!

I can’t believe someone younger than me knows I Ain’t Got No Home! I used to hear it on the AM Rock ‘n’ Roll stations here when I was a little boy! 🐸

@Wes Steenson- Thank Harry of K-Tel Records that i know that song! I found those K-Tel records in used book and record stores my dad took me took during his endless searches for antiquarian books. AND of course Dr. Demento also played it!

@Wes Steenson - And my late childhood neighbor, Joe Kelly, didn't have Frogman, but he played me some other great oddball stuff, like Barnes & Barnes and Larry Wildman Fischer, all of which he heard of Dr. Demento

Looking at Louis Prima, he was King Louie the Orangutan from Disney's 1967 Jungle Book !

@ Ossy Yessir! And in the Disney classic, Louie joined with another entertainment legend Phil Harris on the duo number "I Want to be Like You!"

I know that very too well Rich! Phil Harris was also Aristocat's Thomas O Malley alley cat!

Thanks for the detour into Mardi Gras, bcnu!

Thank you so much for the show Lizbot!!

@ Lizbot (host) OHHHHH! Lizbot, the PERFECT ending to this marvelous show. Fats Domino "Walkin' to New Orleans." It even leaves us with a powerful image ... Fats goin' over the hill, grip in hand ...

Thanks everyone!

5:02 PM		Professor Longhair Go to the Mardi Gras Go To The Mardi Gras / Everyday, Everynight Ron Records 1959
5:05 PM		Dr. John Right Place Wrong Time In the Right Place Atco 1973
5:09 PM		Leroy Jones Carnival Is in the Air Leroy Jones Carnival Is in the Air - Single
5:11 PM		Dr. John Qualified In the Right Place Atco 1973
5:16 PM		Dr. John Life R In the Right Place Atco 1973
5:21 PM		Professor Longhair Big Chief Pt. 2 Big Chief
5:22 PM		The Meters Look-Ka Py Py Look-Ka Py Py
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5:25 PM		Tami Lynn Mojo Hannah Tami Lynn Love Is Here and Now You're Gone Cotillion 1972
5:27 PM		James Andrews Ghetto Funk Music (feat. Monk Boudreaux) James Andrews The Big Time Stuff James Andrews 2011 Lead singer and trumpeter of New Birth Brass Band. Older brother of Troy Andrews aka Trombone Shorty.
5:34 PM		Wynton Marsalis Oh, But On the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) The Majesty of the Blues CBS 1989
5:41 PM		Rebirth Brass Band Do Whatcha Wanna, Pt. 2 Feel Like Funkin' It Up Rounder Records 1989 New Orleans brass band formed in 1983 by Philip and Keith Frazier, jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and other musicians attending Clark High School in Treme at that time.
5:49 PM		Jessie Hill Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Part 1 Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Part I / Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Part II Minit Records 1960 New Orleans R&B singer and songwriter who began his career as a drummer in the 1950s and, after performing with Professor Longhair and Huey "Piano" Smith, focused on singing and songwriting.
5:52 PM		Fats Domino Blue Monday R Blue Monday / What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You 7” Imperial Records 1956
5:54 PM		Betty Harris Hook, Line 'N' Sinker Hook Line 'N' Sinker / Show It Sansu Records 1968
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6:00 PM		The Duke of Iron Calypsonian Invasion Calypso Carnival (Mono Version) BNF Collection 1958
6:04 PM		Cousin Joe When Your Mother's Gone From New Orleans JSP Records 2011 American pianist, singer and guitarist, Joseph Pleasant aka Smilin' Joe and later as Cousin Joe was first a blues player before settling in New York in 1942 and entering into the jazz scene (thanks to Mezz Mezzrow). He came back few years later in New Orleans.
6:06 PM		Kid Eggplant and The Melatauns Boy Big Trouble in Little Chalmette Independent 2019
6:12 PM		Louis Prima Basin Street Blues/ When It's Sleepy Time Down South The Wildest! Columbia 1956
6:15 PM		Big Al Carson & The Wild Magnolias All On a Mardi Gras Day All On a Mardi Gras Day American blues and jazz singer from New Orleans. He performed with his band, the Blues Masters, in New Orleans, and played the Sousaphone. The Wild Magnolias are a Mardi Gras Indian tribe who also record and play as a funk band, hence the mention of Magnolia Street in this song
6:21 PM		Professor Longhair Tipitina Professor Longhair Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo Blue Star 1974 Written and recorded by Professor Longhair in 1953 and instantly a classic that's been covered many times
6:25 PM		Blue Lu Barker Don't You Feel My Leg Don't You Feel My Leg / That Made Him Mad Apollo 1946
6:27 PM		The Meters Hey Pocky A-way Rejuvenation Reprise Records 1974
6:31 PM		Rosetta Howard Men Are Like Street Cars Rosetta Howard (1939-1947) Document Records 1994
6:33 PM		Fats Domino Blueberry Hill Sammy Kaye This Is Fats Domino! Imperial Records 1956
6:36 PM		Eddie Bo Tell It Like It Is Tell It Like It Is / Every Dog Got His Day Ric Records 1960
6:45 PM		Stop, Inc. The Second Line The Second Line
6:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:47 PM		Al Johnson Carnival Time Carnival Time / Good Lookin' Ron Records 1960
6:49 PM		The Dixie Cups Two-Way-Poc-A-Way Two-Way-Poc-A-Way / That's Where It's At ABC 1965 girl group formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in 1963. They are best known for a string of hits including their 1964 million-selling record "Chapel of Love", "People Say", and "Iko Iko".
6:50 PM		Allen Toussaint West End Blues Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi Nonesuch 2009
6:54 PM		The Wild Tchoupitoulas Big Chief Got A Golden Crown The Wild Tchoupitoulas Mango Records 1976 The Wild Tchoupitoulas are a group of Mardi Gras Indians formed in the early 1970s by George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry. Landry, with his Autochthon American (Choctaw) heritage. The group is named after the Tchoupitoulas tribe who also gave their name to Tchoupitoulas Street. With help from local New Orleans musicians The Meters, The Wild Tchoupitoulas recorded an eponymous album, which featured the "call-and-response" style chants typical of Mardi Gras Indians. Vocals were provided by Landry, as well as other members of his Mardi Gras tribe. Instrumentation was provided in part by members of the Meters. The album also notably featured Landry's nephews, the Neville Brothers, providing harmonies and some of the instrumentation. The album was produced by famed New Orleans writer-musician-producer Allen Toussaint.
6:57 PM		The Duke of Iron Pepper Sauce Milly Cecil Anderson Calypso Carnival RCA VIctor 1957
7:01 PM		Allen Toussaint Bono Allen Toussaint The Wild Sound of New Orleans 1958
7:03 PM		Clarence "Frogman" Henry Ain't Got No Home Ain't Got No Home / Troubles, Troubles 1956 Clarence Henry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in 1937, moving to the Algiers neighborhood in 1948. He started learning piano as a child, with Fats Domino and Professor Longhair being his main influences. When Henry played in talent shows, he dressed like Longhair and wore a wig with braids on both sides. He joined Bobby Mitchell & the Toppers in 1952, playing piano and trombone, before leaving when he graduated in 1955 to join saxophonist Eddie Smith's band
7:06 PM		Fats Domino Let the Four Winds Blow Let the Four Winds Blow Imperial 1961
7:08 PM		Jelly Roll Morton King Porter Stomp The Pearls / King Porter Stomp Vocalion 1926
7:11 PM		Louis Prima Buona Sera (feat. Gia Maione & Sam Butera & The Witnesses) The King of Clubs (feat. Gia Maione & Sam Butera & the Witnesses) Prima 1964 From the Italian district of New Orleans, (from whence originated the muffalett!) Prima was a trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, although he touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s.
7:15 PM		Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Basin Street Blues Basin Street Blues / Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya Brunswick 1954
7:18 PM		Nina Simone The House of the Rising Sun Sings the Blues RCA/Legacy 1967
7:24 PM		Louis Prima Sing, Sing, Sing (feat. Gia Maione & Sam Butera & The Witnesses) The Wildest '75 (feat. Gia Maione & Sam Butera & the Witnesses) Prima 1975
7:26 PM		Soul Rebels Brass Band Halftime: Stand Up & Get Up Nothing But Love EP
7:29 PM		Preservation Hall Jazz Band Choko Mo Feel No Hey New Orleans Preservation, Vol. 1 Preservation Hall 2009
7:34 PM		Lonnie Johnson Raise the Window High Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson The Complete Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1993 Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter from New Orleans. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin. He said of his musical childhood: "There was music all around us," he recalled, "and in my family you'd better play something, even if you just banged on a tin can."
7:38 PM		Pete Fountain & His Mardi Gras Strutters Careless Love Mr. New Orleans Decca 1972
7:40 PM		Tommy Ridgley Please Hurry Home Tommy Ridgley Please Hurry Home / Do You Remember Ric Records 1960 AKA: The Shrewesbury Kid!
7:44 PM		Kid Ory Song of the Wanderer Edward Ory Song of the Wanderer Verve 1957 with Darnell Howard, Cedric Haywood, Frank Haggarty, Charles Oden. New Orleans trombonist and band leader, acclaimed as the greatest trombone player in the early years of Jazz.
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8:00 PM		Fats Domino Walking to New Orleans Walking to New Orleans 1960
8:00 PM		Quiana Lynell Sing Out, March On Quiana Lynell A Little Love Concord Jazz 2019

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