“The creature vibrated like a radio”

{quote from page 93 of William S. Burroughs’

experimental novel “The Ticket That Exploded”}

Face the Music 7-8 PM on WCBN FM: 7.18.13

No Parking

The Cotton Pickers 1929

We're in the Money
from the soundtrack 
of the Busby Berkeley film
Gold Diggers of 1933
spoken introduction
by George Raft

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Bing Crosby 1932

Bye Bye Empire

parody of “Bye Bye Blackbird”

Charlie & his Orchestra 1941

big band working for the Nazi propaganda ministry

The Blue Danube

Pat Flowers 1945

Detroit-based pianist and Fats Waller devotee

Mack the Knife

from Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s

Die Dreigroschenoper 1928

performed by the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

under the direction of Arthur Weisberg

On a Slow Boat to China

Al Hibbler 1956

bracingly backed by the Jack Pleis Orchestra

Garbage

Pete Seeger 1979

written in 1969 by Bill Steele

Money, Money, Money

Slim Gaillard Trio 1947

with pianist Dodo Marmarosa

& bassist Bam Brown

St. Louis Blues

Jaki Byard Trio 1967

with bassist David Izenzon

& Elvin Jones playing the tympani!

It Hurts So Good

played by St. Louis trombonist Ike Rodgers

& barrelhouse pianist Henry Brown 1929

with spoken encouragements by Alice Moore

Meningitis Blues

Memphis Minnie

with the Memphis Jug Band 1930

Bring Me Flowers While I’m Living

Peetie Wheatstraw 1941

Pay Day

Mississippi John Hurt 1966

Interview with Mr. Martin

William S. Burroughs 1963

backed by Ry Cooder’s

soundtrack from Paris Texas

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Charlie Parker 1954

Muskrat Ramble

Humphrey Lyttelton’s Paseo Band 1953

with a brace of live bongos!