Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’, but he should have been belly dancing!
Posted by: Greg in Playlist
Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 30, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)
Notes:
– Yet more belly dancing! This time just one album, from 1974, featuring Joseph Karkour on nay (a flute-like instrument) and Ahmed Menaymne on kanoun (a zither instrument similar to the cimbalom or ţambal, or even the Chinese guqin, which I featured last week), among other folks.
– I’ve been listening to a considerable amount of early UFO lately, spurred on by my discovery of the video for their 1972 jammer, "Prince Kajuku," which evidently aired for some TV program or other. Super heavy, with super heavy hair.
– I cleaned up the Johnny Thunders song "I’m a Boy, I’m a Girl" for airplay. I’ve wanted to play that song for ages. It appears on his killer live acoustic record, Hurt Me, but it was originally written for Actress, the original incarnation of the New York Dolls (see the release of rehearsal recordings, Actress: Birth of the New York Dolls).
– Shaina brought in two gems today: the weird, dissonant UK folk of the Watersons doing "Souling Song" from their 1965 debut, and the priceless "Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’," recorded in 1943 by the Golden Gate Quartet, a black jubilee-style gospel quartet from Norfolk, VA, which featured the song’s writer, Willie Johnson (not the blind blues guy, or the later not-blind blues guitarist). Robert Wyatt covered the song in 1980 for a single, and it later appeared on his 1982 album, Nothing Can Stop Us. See the wikipedia article on the song for more info.
Background Music: Joseph Karkour et al. - Belly Dance! Spectacular Rhythms from the Middle East (Peters International, 1974)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randy Holden | Fruit & Iceburgs | Population II | Guitar God Music | 1970, legitimate reissue 2007 | |
| Boris | Buzz-in | Smile | Southern Lord | with Michio Kurihara | * |
| Geronimo | Medicine Man | Geronimo | Three.One.G | L.A., 2007 | |
| Miles Davis | Rated X | Get Up with It | Columbia | 1972 recording, from On the Corner sessions | |
| UFO | Prince Kajuku | UFO 2: Flying | Beacon/Repertoire | 1972, check out the video | |
| Richard Swift | Phone Coffins | Richard Swift As Onassis | Secretly Canadian | L.A., 2008 | * |
| Plastic Bertrand | Ça Plane Pour Moi | An1 | Sire | Belgium, 1977 | |
| The Black Angels | Science Killer | Directions to See A Ghost | Light In The Attic | Austin, TX, 2008 | * |
| A Place to Bury Strangers | Breathe | A Place to Bury Strangers | Killer Pimp | Brooklyn, 2007 | |
| The Moles | Rebecca | Untune the Sky | Flydaddy | Sydney, Australia, 1991 | |
| Johnny Thunders | I’m a Boy, I’m a Girl | Hurt Me | New Rose | 1984 | |
| Sun City Girls | 3D Girls | Mister Lonely OST | Drag City | soundtrack also featuring J. Spaceman compositions | * |
| The Watersons | Souling Song | Frost & Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs | Topic | UK, 1965 | |
| John Jacob Niles | The Mad Creed from the Gallows | My Precarious Life in the Public Domain | Rev-Ola | reissue of "Folk Balladeer" album, recorded 1939-1941. John Jacob Niles was from Kentucky. | |
| Singer | Slow Ghosts | Unhistories | Drag City | Chicago, 2008 | * |
| Portishead | Silence | Third | Island | UK, 2008 | * |
| Martial Canterel | Refuge Underneath | Refuge Underneath | Wierd | Brooklyn, 2007 | |
| These Are Powers | Chipping Ice | Taro Tarot EP | Hoss | Brooklyn, 2008 | * |
| The Magic I.D. | Feet Deep | Till My Breath Gives Out | Erstwhile | Berlin, 2008 | * |
| Golden Gate Quartet | Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’ | VA - Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition: Songs of World Wars I & II | New World | compilation issued 1977 | |
| Duke Ellington | A Little Max (Parfait) | Money Jungle | Blue Note | 1962 | |
| Sun Ra | Yera of the Sun | Media Dreams | Art Yard | 1978, new expanded reissue | * |
| Propinquity | You Don’t Have to Hurry | Propinquity | * | Boulder, CO, 1972 | |
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