Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #148

 Another 2 hour expedition into the darkest recesses of Kogar’s record collection! Show #148 features a surf set as well as a set of monkey/ape/Tarzan Toons! Kick back and relax to the soothing jungle sounds of Jungle Juice!

01 The Revels Church Key IMPACT  

02 The Continental Four Scramble FORTUNE

03 Dick Dale The Wedge CAPITOL

04 Rich Clayton and the Rumbles Flip Side DAWN CORY

05 The Avantis Wax Em Down CHANCELLOR

06 The Casuals - Moon Dawg REX ACETATE

 

01 Billy Ward and his Dominoes Pedal Pushin Papa FEDERAL

02 Fred Harris' Red Tops Organ Trio Flang Dang Do NEW SONG

03 The Velvets Dance Honey Dance FURY

04 Tony Allen and the Chimes Check Yourself Baby SPECIALTY

05 The Lamplighters I Wanna Know FEDERAL

06 The Hawks Why oh Why POST

 

01 Bobby and Buddy What's the Word - THUNDERBIRD FURY

02 Jimmy Norman I Don't Love You No More LITTLE STAR

03 James McCleese - Tell Me Why MARCO

04 Professor Longhair Look What You're Doin to Me EBB

05 Rudy Greene Juicy Fruit EMBER

06 Sinner Strong Don't Knock It SEROCK 

 

01 Joe Penny Bip a Little Bop a Lot FEDERAL

02 Junior Shank and the Jesters - Be Bop a Lula MADISON

03 Jimmie Belden Darling Ann PLA-ME

04 Ronnie Person I dig That Girl the Most HERALD

05 Russ Veers Warm as Toast TREND

06 Johnny Bell The Third Degree BRUNSWICK

07 The Heathens Steady Girl vrs 1 BLACK WYATT RECORDS

08 Bruce Culver Square Record M.M.I.

 

 

01 Harmonica Slim I'll take Love CENCO

02 Jesse Thomas Cool Kind Lover HOLLYWOOD

03 Elmore Nixon Playboy Blues MERCURY

04 The All Stars - 225 Special Part 2 VON

05 Doug Quattlebaum Don't be Funny Baby GOTHAM

 

01 Kip Tyler and the Flips Let's Monkey Around STARLA

02 Lee Tillman Tarzan SONORA MUSIC

03 Sonny Day and the Rare Breed Tarzan JUBILEE

04 The Montereys Ape Shape ROSE

05 Wee Willie Harris I Go Ape -sedaka- CP PARKER

06 The Ascots Monkey See Monkey Do SUPER RECORDS

07 Zeke Jackson Show – Red Rose Tea GINK

08 Bobby Darin Similau ATCO

 Outro Laverne Baker Romance in the Dark

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #147

 Kogar’s Jungle Juice Show #147 is ready to hit the back alleys of your mind with another 2+ hour excursion into depravity and the primitive sounds of rock n’ roll! This episode has a BOSS RADIO 76 knuckledragger set that features a song from the first Cramps record to be released on the recently reformed Vengeance Records!

01 Rimfires – UnGowa SOUNDS OF THE RIMFIRES

02 The Starfires  Hand Full of Blood SONIC

03 Mickey Baker – Baia ATLANTIC

04 Al Duncan - bawana jinde – STACY

05 The Enchanters - Tum Tiki TOM TOM

06 Cy Wagner Orchestra with Mary and Marty Mah-Mah Limbo STAR

 

01 Boss-Tones – Mope-Itty Mope BOSS

02 Nu-Tones Annie Kicked the Bucket HOLLYWOOD STAR

03 The Danderliers Little Man STATES

04 The Robins Loop De Loop Mambo SPARK

05 The Tenderfoots - Watussi Wussi Wo FEDERAL

06 Lee Maye Honey Honey CASH

 

01 Young Jessie with maxwell davis orchestra Mary Lou MODERN

02 The Rivingtons Papa Oom Mow Mow LIBERTY

03 Wild Child Gipson with Freddie Tieken and the Rockers Uncle John IT'S A HIT

04 The Premiers with Sonny Hey Miss Fancy RCA VICTOR

05 Jimmy Liggins I ain’t Drunk ALADDIN

06 Jackie Brenston - Trouble up the Road SUE

 

01 Johnny Powers Be Mine All Mine SUN

02 Curley Griffin Rock Bottom Blues ATOMIC

03 Eddie Bond and the Stompers Rockin Daddy MERCURY

04 Gene Maltais With The Anita Kerr Singers – Crazy Baby DECCA

05 Mickey Hawks with Moon Mullins and his Night Raiders Rock and Roll Rhythm PROFILE

06 Ronnie Vare and the Inspirations - Let's Rock Little Girl DELL

07 David Gates Walkin and Talkin EAST WEST

08 Johnny Phelps Tom Katt SKI

09 Wade Curtiss & the Rhythm Rockers - puddy cat (mama -meow-mow) NORTON

10 Ron Hines and the Rockin Cat-Tels Last Night PAR – FORE

11 Bill Flagg Go Cat Go TETRA

12 Jesse Hector and the Rock n Roll Trio All By Myself NO HIT

 

01 The Cramps TV Set from the forthcoming album Gravest Gravy VENGEANCE

02 sickidz she's my witch BIG BEAT I Could Go To Hell For You ...

03 Mad Daddys  Come with Me Music For Men NEW ROSE

04 Slickee Boys - what a boy can't do DACOIT RECORDS

05 Tav Falco & The Panther Burns Train Kept a-Rollin' The Unreleased Sessions

06 Gun Club For the Love of Ivy RUBY

07 Jim Dickinson and The Cramps Red Headed Woman

 Lavern Baker Romance in the Dark

The Cramps -- Gravest Gravy!

 

Well, the pussy is out of the bag, I guess! I’ve been dying to talk about this for months now! Gravest Gravy really IS a thing! And you’ll all be listening to it soon enough! The TV Set video is just the tip of the iceberg!  I’ve been writing a review of the full album that I will post down the road when we get closer to the August release date. But here is a portion of it, because this can’t be stated ENOUGH!

 First thing’s first; you’ve NEVER heard what’s in these grooves. Ever. You don’t have a bootleg LP of it; your cool uncle doesn’t have it on a tape in the back of his closet somewhere; you’ve never heard it at a hip DJ’s birthday party in Bushwick that one time; you didn’t download it from some blog in the late 90’s: This is the real deal Jack and Jill’s. It’s an honest to badness album full of songs you’ve never heard by The Cramps! Well, to be more specific, recordings you’ve never heard before, and a few never recorded with this line up in a studio.  Got it? Get with it! “Ancient Knowledge! Believed Lost To The World!! Can now be YOURS!”

So, if that isn’t apparent enough, Gravest Gravy has NEVER been released in any form whatsoever. PERIOD. Making it one of the most significant releases, in my mind, in MANY years.

The Cramps Official Website - read the press release, check out the TV SET VIDEO, see social media links, order OFFICIAL merch and preorder GRAVEST GRAVY!

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #146

 

Show #146 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice is ready to GO GO GO! Bongo’s and Saxophones are our stock in trade for this episode! Don’t miss another exiting feast of Jungle Sounds to shock and amaze!

01 the gimicks - (get off my trail you) sneaky snail ENSIGN

02 J.C. Davis - The Splib part 2 ARGO 

03 Sam Kimble and his orchestra Stop and Go MARBLE

04 the Jaguars - Exit 6 EPIC

05 Pat and the Wildcats - green tomatoes CRUSADER 

06 Butch Vaden And The Nite Sounds   Harem Girl FORTUNE

 

01 Diadems - Ala Vevo LAVERE

02 The Eternals - rock n roll cha cha HOLLYWOOD

03 The Cashmeres Boom Mag-Azeno Vip Vay MERCURY

04 The Creators - Booga Bear HI-Q

05 The Olympics The Stomp ARVEE

06 The Robins Empty Bottles RCA VICTOR

 

01 Joe Houston We're Gonna Rock n Roll COMBO

02 Wynonie Harris Git With The Grits KING

03 Chuck Higgins and his Band Greasy Pig LUCKY

04 andre williams the greasy chicken FORTUNE

05 Hal Paige and the Whalers - Thunder Bird  J AND S RECORDS

06 Mel Smith & The Night Riders – Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Sox) SUE

 

01 Jesse Hector and the Rock n Roll Trio My Buckets Got a Hole In It NO HIT

02 Allen Page with The Deltones Dateless Night MOON 

03 Johnny Scat Brown -Johnny Powers- Mama Rock LEEDON

04 Marvin Rainwater   Hot and Cold MGM

05 Pete De Bree Hey Mr. Presley FORTUNE

06 Ronnie Gill and the Pastel Keys Geraldine  RIP

07 John and Jackie Little Girl ALLADIN

08 Red -HOT- Russel Pedro Joe PORTER

 

01 Slim Harpo Don't Start Cryin Now EXCELLO

02 Harold Burrage Feel So Fine STATES RECORD CO.

03 Koko Joe and the Jobhunters I'm Georgia Bound LMI

04 Harmonica Slim Budda CENCO

05 Reverend Julius Cheeks and the Sensational Nightingales Standing at the Judgement PEACOCK

 

01 Knight Beats - naughty rooster CRYSTELETTE

02 J.J. Jackson and the Jackals Oo-Ma-Liddi STORM

03 the Teddy Boys – Mona CAMEO

04 Apparitions - She's so Satisfyin' NORTON

05 Roger Binninghof Over my Head MINART

06 Jim Doval and the Gauchos Mama Keep Yo Big Mouth Shut DIPLOMACY

07 The Embers - I Walked all Night HAMMER LOCK

08 The Jet Streams Hey Phoebe Get off the Phone DECCA

 

Outro Laverne Baker Romance in the Dark

Gene "Mad Man" Maltais

 

Today we celebrate the birthday of Rockabilly Mad Man Gene Maltais! Born in Concord New Hampshire in 1933!

Gene was super popular in the New England area and traveled the country numerous times in effort to make it big, serving as his own manager and promotor. His big break was running into Chet Atkins in Nashville, recognizing him and asking him for advice. Atkins suggested DECCA records, so he went over there directly to sweet talk the receptionist. Webb Pierce happened to hear him singing an impassioned version of Crazy Baby and the rest is history. DECCA released the amazing two sider Crazy Baby b/w Deep River Blues.

Sadly the record didn't do much for DECCA and that was it for him at the label.

He had a few other records but that was it until he recorded his magnum opus for LILAC records, the absolutely mind blowing Gang War b/w The Raging Sea.

Gene went on to record again for Norton Records and even make some appearances at Rockabilly Festivals.

Lux and Ivy spoke about Gene in the Incredibly Strange Music book on RE/Search books:

Lux (talking about suicide records) "I got the Deep River Blues, I feel so sad and blue/I lost my love, what am I gonna do?" Even the Anita Kerr singers couldn't fuck this up. Then he sings 'Now the deep river blues is a callin', callin' for me to come home, where I'll never be bothered, and never have to roam.'"

Ivy: "The other side, CRAZY BABY, is such great rockabilly--equally unique vocals. There's a line where he says 'you're golden touch' but it sounds like he says 'your golden crotch.' I can't believe he says that. Then he WHISTLES the instrumental solo--well, why not?

Gene Maltais appears on multiple volumes of Lux and Ivy's Favorites.

Crazy Baby appears on Volume 1

Gang War appears on Volume 4

Deep River Blues appears on Volume 15

and the Maltais penned and compilation stalwart, Little Girl appears on Volume 7

Crazy Baby

Gang War

Deep River Blues

Little Girl

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #145

 Kogar’s Jungle Juice Show #145 is on the loose! 2 hours of wild and crazy (or is it crazy and wild?) records presented (mostly) at 45 RPM! Special tribute set for departed Rock n’ Roll madman Jesse Hector!  Sorry, no unique art this week!

01 Comrade X - Theme from Spacenik ERA

02 The Bob-Chords Hi-Voltage SIOUX

03 The Rocking Ghosts Ghost Walk MOD

04 The Rangers Mogul Monster CHALLANGE

05 The Rollettes Orchestra Venus Rock CINCH

06 The Roemans Miserlou arr. by ray stevens ABC PARAMOUNT

 

01 The Squires - Do Be Do Be Wop Wop MAMBO

02 the 5 Willows Baby Come a Little Closer HERALD

03 The Gatorvettes Midnight BOCALDAN

04 The Daybreakers Up Up and Away ALADDIN

05 The L'Captans Home Work SAVOY

06 The Mariners - Zindy Lou CADENCE

 

01 Good Rockin Sam with Kid King's Combo Funny Funny Feelin EXCELLO

02 Johnny Guitar Watson Ruben RPM

03 Piano Slim and his Rockin Four Lot of Shakin Lot of Jivin C AND P

04 Rudy Green Teeny Weeny Baby EXCELLO

05 The Premiers with Leroy Run Along Baby RCA VICTOR

06 Tommy Louis and the Rythm Rockers  I love You So MURIEL

 

01 Billy Riley The Little Green Men – Pearly lee SUN

02 Jerry Hawkins Cha Cha Chu EBB  Swing Daddy Swing DALE HAWKINS

03 Ronnie Ray and the Playboys - mean mama blues CIRCLE DOT

04 Terry Dunanvan and the earthquakes - Rock-It on Mars FANFARE

05 Sammy Gowans Rockin By Myself UNITED ARTISTS

06 Sid King and the Five Strings Oobie Doobie COLOMBIA

07 Tommy Angel Black night NASCO RECORDS

08 Sanford Clark - a cheat DOT

 

01 Arthur Gunter Mind Your Own Business Babe EXCELLO

02 Guitar Slim and his Band Stand by Me SPECIALTY

03 Lowell Fulson Guitar Shuffle HOLLYWOOD

04 Harmonica Slim You Better believe it VITA

05 Earl Hooker Apache War Dance AGE

 

01 Jesse Hector & the Rock'n'Roll Trio - fast train to Memphis 1961 NO HIT

02 The Clique - We Didn't Kiss, Didn't Love, But Now We Do 1965

03 Crushed Butler - It's My Life 1969

04 Hammersmith Gorillas - You Really Got Me 1974

05 Gorillas - Outa My Brain 1978

06 Helter Skelter - Goodbye Baby  1971 / 1977

07 Jesse Hector & the Rock'n'Roll Trio – Nightmares 1961 NO HIT RELEASED 1998

For Further Study!

Links for Jesse Hector Documentary and Jon Bipbopboom's video as well. DON'T MISS THESE!

 

Jesse Hector A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD (Caroline Catz) Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4TuOsII9i0

 

Jon Bipbopboom’s Jesse Hector overview!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXnWPTjBzkQ

Ronnie Ray and the Playboys - The Vulture

 Released on May 9, 1960! The Vulture by Ronnie Ray and the Playboys!

A fantastic 2 sider with their version of Mean Mama Blues on the A-side, and a killer instrumental "The Vulture" on the flip.

The Vulture ended up on "volume 3" of the Vip Vop tapes.

What are The Vip Vop Tapes anway? As far as I can tell, they were two cassette tapes (30 minutes a side) that Lux Interior made back in the day. Amazing tapes with great music and portions of movie trailers sandwiched between the songs. Somewhere along the line someone got a copy of the tapes and started selling them at swap meets in California.

Back in the napster days, someone reached out to me and got me copies of these tapes (that had NO track listing) and they became a big part of Lux and Ivy's Favorites. To this day, there are still some songs from these tapes that have yet to be identified.

Years later, another tape's audio was given to me from The Cramps European tour from A Date with Elvis and portions of the Vip Vop Tapes were on there, with other songs as well, officially making the connection that the tapes were indeed made by Lux.

The Vulture is on Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 5!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Vfqp_2t-4