ANALYSIS OPINION and ENTERTAINMENT
We’re back. It’s been a few months since we’ve done a Red Blooded Tunes post. We’ve been so busy covering political issues that we haven’t been able to get to it. Here’s the latest installment of our FICTIONAL radio broadcast (which we now call Red Blooded Tunes, complete with links to some fabulous tunes (and videos). Below that is or will be a video which addresses Trump’s dangerously idiotic anti-NATO policy.
Here’s the radio broadcast:
Hey folks!
Remember me? It’s your old pal Stony
Stony Riva
And yes the old gang’s here too
Rufus Coldwater
Our assistant executive producer of everything
Suzi
And, of course,
Our resident Oracle of all things musical GURU
We’ll dispense with a big history discussion
And get to what REALLY matters….
…besides how short is Suzi’s skirt….
…I’m talkin’ about the tunes.
Here’s a group we’ve introduced to you folks about 2 years ago
…though they’ve been around for a good while…
In fact…back to 1983 …
They’re from North Carolina,
Around Henderson, Raleigh, Chappell Hill
The current lineup has been together since 1987.
They are:
Rick Miller guitar, vocals
Hary Huff, bass vocals and
Dave Hartman, drums
We loved ‘em last time
And we like this tune to kick us off
Here’s
Southern Culture on the Skids
With…..Let Me Make You Happy
https://youtu.be/xU9HeAZOJWg?si=Q9KHsWMIYk_8snUQ
Next up this group needs absolutely no introduction
This is taken from a clip of the Ed Sullivan Show in September of 1969
…which by my calculation would have been the very beginning
of the next to last season for the 23 year run
Of Ed’s long running Sunday night variety show.
No one got more ridicule and kidding than Ed
But clearly he is/was one of the most important persons
in U.S. entertainment history.
But we’re here to listen to what
In my own humble opinion is the greatest
Male Motown group ever.
And, it’s amazing but Ed more or less required artists
to actually sing. (No pre-recorded lip syncing)
And, almost all exceptions to his requirement for
actual “live” performances were instrumental portions
where technical reasons made live performing not feasible.
In any event,
Here are
The Temptations
With I Can’t Get Next to You
https://youtu.be/YDasi1jiqRs?si=Z0ix9mrqaudLwawJ
Next up is what we refer to as
A typical Alden Aaroe tune one might hear
On WRVA radio in Richmond VA early in the morning
Circa 1965 or so
Actually I think I’ve heard it on a Western soundtrack somewhere too.
…all of which makes me wonder why the tune has the title it does
Village Stompers Haunted House Blues
https://youtu.be/Qzw-K81Rd3k?si=zMBlfryEXhs7ETA9
Folks we interrupt this program
It’s just amazing
But Rufus has informed me that
He has to go out into the parking lot
To help GURU find a missing tooth
Yes a missing tooth.
This is amazing.
4 years ago, GURU bit into an Egg McMuffin
And lost a front tooth.
Rufus is telling me that it’s happened yet AGAIN,
Albeit with a different front tooth!!
Can you believe that?
As our regulars know
It’s usually at this point that
Our station manager
Rufus Coldwater provides us with a
Deep dive into a topic
No one cares about.
Just kidding Rufus…
But Rufus is busy working on
The new contract with us
That he thinks we’re gonna sign
Just kidding just kidding.
Rufus, please tell GURU
Our thoughts are with him
And happy hunting.
I frankly don’t know for the life of me
How that can happen.
But in any event
Since there’s no Rufus editorial
We have time to do another tune….
As yinz know, both GURU and myself are
Big time British Invasion and British rock and roll fans
That means sooner or later, we’re gonna tune into
An old show called Top of the Pops
Which was basically the British version of Shindig
Albeit just a teeny weeny bit calmer.
Long story short, Top of the Pops featured a female dance group.
Originally it was Pans People
Then it became Legs & Co
And frankly they were and are still….addicting
They must be, if they can get both myself and GURU
To feature a kind of discoey tune like this next one…
Disco not being one of GURUs favorite eras
(I always point out to him, that disco is still eons better
than today’s noise….and I must have
convinced him of that…because….
Here’s Legs and Co
Dancin’ sublimely to
Odessey’s
Use it Up Wear it Out
https://youtu.be/11mTYoYNKqM?si=YyB6CW7EdUhEFu7b
Leg’s choreography and dancing are simply amazing
Because their formations constantly shift
and their movements are executed so well
And they did a new show with a different tune and different
movements every week.
Talk about being in shape
Work work work
Movin’ on.
Now it’s the time everyone
…especially all the young dudes out there
Have been waiting for
It’s time for our station eye candy
Our Assistant Executive Producer of Everything
And all around heartthrob
….drum roll…
Suzi….
Suzi, We’re gonna have to get you some knee pads.
Woops….Folks, excuse me
I don’t want anyone getting any ideas
Suzi’s been down in our Station’s garage downstairs
…apparently on her hands and knees
Rummaging through some old moldy boxes
Of 45 LPs….music from the 50s and 60s…mostly
To provide us, as she always faithfully does,
with a tune for this segment
the segment that typically starts the second half of the show
folks Suzi as always has come through with an oldy but a goody
This time a little garage rock for ya
Here are
The Poets
With Wooden Spoon
https://youtu.be/bKdWWTvcaPk?si=ibep4gPJKm0MzvA5
next up we have a very special group
that…actually performed once on Saturday Night Live
Their lead singer is/was Su Tissue
A couple of years ago we featured another tune by them
That dealt with misunderstanding a conversation being held by
Two other people in a very loud and crowded place.
…confusing the word Janitor for genitals.
…I’m a janitor versus hold my genitals ??….
This next tune as sort of grown on me as well.
Think of it as a musical Picasso.
Actually if you listen long enough the Janitor/genital tune
Comes on too.
Here’s
Suburban Lawns
with
Gidget Goes to Hell 7 (and more)
https://youtu.be/rjaSemnU7Rk?si=Wogc9rWkUq1eWqqU
Well, now that we are all a little more artsy
Let’s get this vehicle back on the road
Before we start dressing like Andy Warhol
(who was from Pittsburgh incidentally)
This tune was originally made famous by one of those
Earliest of early British rock and rollers….Cliff Richard.
He and the Shadows that is.
Cliff’s version is pretty good and I like it.
But, and I have to apologize to Sir Thomas,
When I heard tonight’s version,
I just knew it had to be the cleanup hitter tune
For tonights show
The tune
To take us all home
I simply cannot understand why this tune
Wasn’t a big hit here in America
Here’s
Tom Jones
With
The Lonely One
https://youtu.be/L3cOXk5Uy8A?si=AIg3d6c0BRTDKjL-
Well folks
That’s gonna do it.
So,
For Rufus,
And
Oh my God….BUCK
How could I forget our sound man engineer
And good time station traffic manager Buck
….Buck , I’m sorry for forgetting you…
I’ll have to buy you a beer or something
Yeah….er…okay…we’ll talk
Anyway folks
for Suzi, GURU and
Yours truly
Good night
And don’t let those nasty bed bugs bite.
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