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Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Real Nitty Gritty Got Sumpin' for You -- Tonight at 7:00


The Real Nitty Gritty Got sumpin' for you: savage R&B, greasy rockabilly, gutbucket blues, gruesome garage, sweaty soul, sleazy instrotrash -- tonight at 7:00 on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban http://www.wfmu.org/

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Gettin' all Ready Eddy for the holidays!

Friday, December 11, 2015

Instrumental 45 of the Week!



FLING! (listen/download)

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Tune In Today!

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

The Fringe Factory Plugs Your HEAD IN!


Things are getting weird at the Fringe Factory while Vikki spins 60s mind-melters and silly songs and Pietro from the Midnight Larks pops in again to visit! Show and playlist here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64027

Psychotronic Movie of the Week: I Drink Your Blood (1970)



"Let it be known sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup. pledge yourselves, and together we'll all freak out."

One of the most infamous psychotronic films of all time, I Drink Your Blood is one of those rare gems that just delivers and delivers and delivers, from the very first frame right up until the very last. There's just so much going on in this Satanic cult, post-Manson hippie gore exploitation movie that it would take an essay to fill you in on everything which awaits you. But I'm posting this for those who haven't seen it yet, I don't want to ruin one moment of it, so I'll resist the temptation to list all of the inanity that's packed into these 83 batshit crazy minutes. 

There's really nothing else quite like it. It was released by Jerry Gross' Cinemation Industries and paired up with I Eat Your Skin, an obscure 1964 voodoo zombie film, for the double feature circuit. The result was an ad campaign for the ages. 


There are some stellar performances here, most notably from Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, who plays Horace Bones, the leader of the cult, Jadin Wong as Sue-Lin, and George Patterson as Rollo. Lynn Lowry (The Crazies, Shivers, Score) says nothing but looks beautiful throughout in her film debut. It's really well made, written and directed by David Dunston, who had a brief and otherwise nondescript career in the movies, but what he gave us here is something very special, one of a handful of the greatest psychotronic/grindhouse/drive-in movies of all-time. 

A definitive special edition DVD of I Drink Your Blood was issued by Grindhouse Releasing in the early 2000s which is now out of print, grab it if you can. Until then, dig this DVD rip which is currently residing on YouTube. 


 

French Swinging Mademoiselles special on Crayons to Perfume

Thanks to DJ GirlGroupGirl for inviting me to present my perspectives on the French Swinging Mademoiselles during two episodes of Crayons to Perfume, a weekly show featuring girl group sounds 1960-69 !!!

Katty Line

My show is called the Atomic Jukebox. Below are the texts that I read at the beginning of the shows, just for the record. The shows will appear live on the Ichiban stream, and then be archived. I will put links to the archives below when they are available. The archive pages include a full setlist. Thanks for listening !

Show 1 archive

Show 2 archive

I'm going to spotlight French 60s music. Its history is long and complicated, and its problems are numerous, so I am going to summarize. If you want the full story, buy me a drink some time.

You might hope I'm gonna do a show with some great 60s soul, R&B and garage from France. But I can't, because basically there isn't any. While Americans, and to a limited extent the British, were turning out tens of thousands of incredible records in the 60s, the French simply were not.

The explanations are long but boil down to, on one hand, control of the artists, media and record labels by a handful of people and corporations seeking to exploit a lame and uninformed public, and keep them that way, and on the other hand, a cultural impediment to rock n roll. Can you imagine Frank Sinatra doing a convincing reggae record ? No. Well, culturally speaking, and with a few exceptions, the French can't do rock n roll.

However, there was one thing they did do well, a certain category of female vocal music now known as the "Swinging Mademoiselle" style (with various spellings), a term coined by a certain Sasha Monett who put out a series of outstanding compilations with that name. At its best, this style is comparable to what would be called "pop music" in America, like Nancy Sinatra or Tom Jones, featuring a vocalist rather than a group, often with sappy orchestral accompaniment, often a bit precious or with a novelty angle, and very far from garage, soul or r&b. There is a lot of mediocre material, but a few remarkable records as well, and a very few that really stand out.

Thanks, in particular, to several excellent compilations, you have probably heard the handful of really brilliant pop hits that came out of France in the 60s. I'm going to go a little deeper today, in the Swinging Mademoiselle style, and I have some cool songs to play. But I'll be a little critical again and say that, while you may get excited and imagine that these songs are the tip of a fantastic iceberg of thousands of groovy tunes, I would say that's not the case. There are some more good ones, but not a whole lot.

Liz Brady

In the last episode I talked about some of the problems that affected French music in the 60s : cultural impediments, centralized control of the industry and the attraction of adapting Anglo-saxon hits rather than writing their own.

I mentioned that there are some excellent compilations available that feature the best of what the French produced in the 60s. The Swinging Mademoiselle series (3 volumes) is, of course, indispensable. Other compilations that feature the Swinging Mademoiselle sound you're hearing today include :
Girls in the Garage vol 10, 12
Pop à Paris vol 5
Ultra Chicks
Femmes de Paris
Ace C'est Chic! series (3 volumes)

If you are interested in other French 60s music, you can also check out
Gentlemen de Paris
Psychegaelic
Ils Sont Fous Ces Gaulois
Wizzz
Pop à Paris

And sorry if I came off as negative or sarcastic about the limited amount of good French 60s music, but it's simply the truth. There are perhaps 30 good compilations of French 60s music out there (counting both male and female vocals). My friends, who are literally the experts in the field, all agree that there is basically no good stuff left that's not on a compilation.

Another part of the French story is the Scopitone, a sort of jukebox that projected 16mm sound films that what we now realize were the precursor to video clips. This unreliable gadget came and went in 10 years, but they happened to be the right 10 years. With the imperative to fill the machines, the company filmed many of the French artists of the 60s. You can see them now on YouTube, and the 16mm reels have become collectible.



Jacqueline Taïeb

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Bloodstains on the Wall: The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7

Bloodstains On The Wall: The Real Nitty Gritty BLUES (& rhythm) Edition - with a guest set by Erin from Down to the Crossroads- tonight at 7:00 on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63974?dm=1449446893

Whig Out with Brian Poust, dj Agent 45, and Georgia Garage 'n Soul!



Brian Poust is probably best known for his Georgia Soul website where he writes about his favorite Georgia soul sides, and his adventures in record collecting. Although recently re-locating to San Antonio Texas, Brian is still working his Georgia angle, and has a feature article in Oxford America Magazines' Georgia Music Issue 'Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Soul' coming out in mid-December. Brian talks about the artists he spotlights in his article, plays some of his favorite Atlanta Garage 45's and gives us the low down on some of his best Georgia finds. Join us at 8pm, right after the Real Nitty Gritty. Tune in here! -> https://wfmu.org/playlists/WT

Friday, December 4, 2015

Instrumental 45 of the Week!



BOSS! (listen/download)

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Johnny Cash in Five Minutes To Live (1961)



Five Minutes To Live (aka Door to Door Maniac) was a 1961 thriller starring Johnny Cash and Vic Tayback. They hatch a scheme to rob a bank by taking the branch vice president's wife hostage and giving him five minutes to hand over the money or she'll get it. Only hitch? He was about to ask her for a divorce, throwing a monkey wrench into the plan. It's a well paced, fast little potboiler, and Cash is great in his first acting role as a cold blooded killer with a guitar. He performs the title song and is shown pickin' and singin' a few times in the film. 



Tayback is suitably sleazy as his partner in crime, and the movie also stars Donald Woods as the bank executive and Cay Forester, who also wrote the screenplay, as his wife. Director Bill Karn previously did a lot of tv work, most notably Gang Busters, and also helmed Ma Barker's Killer Brood the previous year. Sutton Pictures handled the original 1961 release, but AIP got a hold of it in '66 and gave it the Door to Door Maniac title. 



Timi Yuro & the girls at 7 tonite!

Timi Yuro is our Girl of the Week! She sings along with the Shangri-Las, Anna King, The Jewels, Judi & The Affections and Patti Drew! Listen Here! https://wfmu.org/playlists/CE

and make sure you tune in the next two weeks as the Atomic Jukebox fills in for Crayons to Perfume! Jon Von Zelowitz will bring you the best in French 60's girl pop, swingin' Mademoiselles, Ultra Chicks .... ye ye girls! Ohh, la la! I'll be back again on the 23rd of December...but the fun doesn't stop there! The Real Nitty Gritty Tania is going to help kick of the Crayons to Perfume! new year in style so keep your dial tuned to WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Ichiban!

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