New Shows Every Thursday at 1:00 and 8:00pm EST streaming on the TuneIn Boss Radio 66 page! This show streamed September 21 and features artists like Kipper and the Exciters, Hayden Thompson, The Five Owls and Mickey Lee Lane! Full playlist and streaming icon at the link below!
01 the enchanters - cafe bohemian (vocal) ORBIT
02 muvva (guitar) hubbard - congo mambo
03 the dawn beats - road block NO LABEL
04 Ted Russell (And His) Rhythm Rockers – Brang GLEE
05 The Night Raiders Cottonpickin PROFILE
06 The Thundermen - Thunderbeat KISKI
07 Baker Knight Theme From the Devil's Hand CHESS
08 The Pendeltons Itchy Bon Mash RENDEZVOUS RECORDS
01 The Spades I'm on Fire MAJOR RECORD CO
02 Teen Tones Gypsy Boogie NU CLEAR
03 The Danderliers Chop Chop Boom STATES RECORD COMPANY
04 The Jaytones Gasoline BRUNSWICK
05 Billy Ward and his Dominoes Can't do Sixty no More
FEDERAL
06 The Versatones Tight Skirt and Sweater ALL STAR
01 Mercy Baby Rock and Roll Baby ACE
02 Bobby Charles One Eyed Jack CHESS
03 Jerry Mcain and his Upstarts - Courtin in a Cadillac
EXCELLO
04 Floyd Dixon Oooh Little Girl EBB
05 Esquerita - Hey Miss Lucy CAPITAL PROMO
06 Little Johnny and The Silvertones Rock till the End of
Time NORTON
01 Guitar Gable Cool Calm Collected EXCELLO
02 Ron Haydock 99 Chicks CHA CHA
03 Vi-Kings with Nils King - Rock a Little Bit DEL-MANN
04 Bobby and Terry Caraway and the Rockats Ballin Keen
CREST
05 Dorsey Burnette Bertha Lou
CEE-JAM
06 Janis Martin Will You WillYum RCA VICTOR
07 Jules Blattner and his Teen Tones Rock and Roll Blues
BOBBIN
08 Allen Page with sandy and sue and the big four oh Baby
MOON
01 TV Slim and his Hearbreakers Flatfoot Sam CHECKER
02 Jimmy ANderson Goin Crazy Over TV EXCELLO
03 James Walton and his Blues Kings - Miss Jesse James HI
Q
04 Harmonica Slim Mary Hellen ALADDIN
05 J.T. -Big Boy- Brown w Elmo James and his Broom
Dusters Dumb Woman Blues METEOR
06 Johnny Wright with Ike Turner's Orchestra The World is
Yours RPM
07 Harold Burrage Messed Up COBRA
01 The Executioners - Don't Put Me On ACTION
02 Bedforde Set Girl Go Run Away RCA VICTOR
03 Del Shannon Move it on Over AMY
04 The Shamrocks Balla Balla INTERNATIONAL POLYDOR
05 Donni Jerald Im a Bum SQUARE
06 The Plunderers Boss ROULETTE
07 Link Wray and the Wraymen Rumble Mambo OKEH
Outro Lavern Baker - Romance In the Dark
Here is show 29! Thee last of the monthly shows before the weekly craziness starts on September 7th! Dig it here:
Welcome to Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 18! The last one
was over 10 years ago, believe it or not. What a crazy 10 years it’s been. I
stopped (or took a break) at 17 because of all the bootlegs that began
appearing at that time. I had been approached for at least decade before that
about putting these out and said “NO” emphatically, and so folks started doing
their own (even down to using some of my personal 45 rips, I recently
discovered!). I can’t imagine ANY self-respecting
fan buying these things. But I digress, and won’t waste space talking about
them.
In that time I would pick up a new song here or there, or
identify a song from the Vip Vop tapes (that have ALSO been booted, haha) and
threw them in the “LAIF” folder. Back in
2012 someone sent me a tape with NO track listing called Lux’s Space Discs. Lux
had given this 90 minute tape to the person who eventually sent it to me. The
tape includes all sorts of amazing space related songs from either 45 or
LP’s. A bunch of these songs have
appeared already on other volumes that I was able to find from other reference
points over the years.
This volume is a nice mix (I think) of some of those “space
discs” as well as a BUNCH of songs that I was able to finally identify from the
Vip Vop Tapes. I always used to go by the belief that many of those songs came
from the original 45’s, but in a few cases they came from one of the many LP
compilations that came from Europe in the 70’s and 80’s. If you check out the track listing from American
Rock 'N' Roll Instrumentals Vol 4 you’ll see what I mean, half the songs on
that record are ON the Vip Vop Tapes. I
stumbled upon this accidently and discovered a few of the unnamed VV songs.
The lead off track on this volume is the amazing and
overlooked Enchanted Island that is on the Spark Plugs album (where Chicken was
originally sourced from). The person who did the original Born Bad LP’s had
wanted to include that track back then, as it was the source for……Kizmiaz! Now, some say it was Duane Eddy’s Lost
Island, but listen to the ending of Enchanted Island and hear the “ooh, ooh”
parts and it’s totally from Enchanted Island. That ISN’T to say that The Spark
Plugs (or whoever this band was) didn’t copy it from Eddy’s song originally.
Let’s see, a few other notables. Get Me to the World on Time
was mentioned in the new and amazing Kid Congo book as the inspiration for the
guitar sound on New Kind of Kick. Thanks Kid for an amazing and moving book, as
well for giving us this piece of info about one of my favorite Cramps tunes.
Another big song for me was Discoteque Dance Party by the
Panics. On the Vip Vop Tapes it’s about a two minute song, so I had always
assumed that it was from a 45. For YEARS I searched for a 45 called “Dance
Everybody Dance” or something like that. Turns out the song is by The Panics
and comes from an LP and is part of an almost 5 minute song! The whole song is
included here.
Recently, someone sent me about 90 minutes’ worth of audio
of the time The Cramps appeared on Rodney’s show on KROQ. It’s a great show
from around the time that Psychedelic Jungle came out (Lux hilariously reads
the concert listings and purposely messes up the names or makes snide comments,
much to Rodney’s chagrin), and features a handful of records they brought to
the studio.
Other songs are odds and ends I’ve picked up over the years.
I’m very happy with the way this cover turned out. I had
wanted to use this image for years. It is from the amazing LP by Jimmie Haskell
called COUNT DOWN. The Mad Daddy was a huge fan of this record and used it on
his radio show. So I figured it would work for a cover because of some of the
“space” related songs, and EVERYONE knows what a fan of Lux was of the Mad one. Two Haskell songs appeared on LAIF #12. Adam
Fitch did the design and layout from my idea. Thanks Adam!
That’s it, in the words of Lux; “Hope you enjoy the
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!”
Thanks to Bruce Milne, DJ Not Rodney, West Brook, Howie Pyro
(who is the ONLY person I told about Enchanted Island) and anyone else who
helped along the way!
Here is show #28! Technically our 3 year anniversary for
my show on Boss Radio 66! Thanks for all the support and being a bunch of cool
Streaming Mee Mee’s! This show features a Tassel Twirler set by request as well
as a spin through the THREE 45’s on the great FORTUNE label attributed to the
fabulous NITE SOUNDS (Technically 3 different records with the Nite Sounds as
the backing band). You can read all about them in the fabulous KICKS BOOKS
Fortune Records book by Billy Miller and Michael Hurtt (you ALL own that by
now, right? If not GET ON IT. Norton has been running all sorts of sales, now
is the TIME!). Also, a surprise new station ID by one of our national
treasures!
Here is the remaster of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 10.
This is one of my favorite volumes. At
around this time I had kind of hit the wall when it came to finding songs they
mentioned. I believe this was 2008, as best as I can determine. Around this time
Howie Pyro sent me scans of tapes that Lux had made and that he had gotten
copies of. He had forgotten who had given him the tapes. Howie had laboriously
gone through the tapes and determined what the tracks were. What year that was,
is lost to time, but way before the internet could’ve helped out. I’m sure
there was a lot of trial and error.
Howie had become fascinated with my project and we became friends,
partly, because of it. He was always so excited when a new volume was coming
out, and was always happy to help ID songs, which he did numerous times. Thanks
as always to the King of the Weirdos…
This volume has a good amount of jungle oriented tunes, some
tassel twirlers, rockers and other stuff that influences my show to this day.
This volume’s cover is, again, laid out by Adam Fitch from
my idea. He was able to magically adapt the original lettering from the 45
sleeve of Los MortÃferos EP from Spain. The ONLY way you can get some of these
songs on 45 RPM! Of course, Los MortÃferos, are The Deadly Ones, who released
ONE amazing LP called It’s Monster Surfing Time on Vee Jay Records. Some of
these songs have appeared on other volumes because Lux used some of them on the
Purple Knif Show (on LAIF 5, 9 and 15). Since
those volumes already had covers, I decided to use the image here because of
the Mummy’s Bracelet which appears on this volume, and let’s face it, it’s just
a cool as hell image…
Volume 11 will be next, and THEN (bongo roll!) the newest
volume, number 18 will rear its moss covered skull! Until then enjoy this
remaster of Volume 10.
