HGRNJ Show #16 Bonniwells, Blondies, Bobs, Buddy's & Billy's....The 5 B's
Greetings and salutations, Brothers and Sisters....this weeks episode features a jukebox full of 45's!Â
After our opening salvo The Chants tell a tale about a dick....Dick Tracy that is.
The Chants lineup featured a cat named Mickey Lee Lane so he follows up with a 7" platter of wax on the Swan label - Hey Sah-Lo-Ney fresh off the presses in 1965!
Heading over to the UK for The Contrast and a killer tune - Clue followed up by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros with Sandpaper Blues....Strummer didn't record and clunkers, buddy!
Our 2nd set features the 5 B's -Bonniwell, Blondie, Bob, Buddy and Billy...
Sean Bonniwell's Music Machine knows what the f**k is goin' on via their Masculine Intuition [1967 / Original Sound / Stereo version]...Don't tell Sean girl but Debbie Harry wants to Rip Her To Shreds while Bob [Montgomery] & Buddy [Holly] hit the road with Down the Line / 1959 / Brunswick Records....Got Love if you Want it by Billy Gibbons and the BFG's finishes the set.
Set 3....The Gibbons cover of Slim Harpo's Got Love, etc gets us hip shakin' with Hip Shakin' baby by Slim hisself….The Peacheroos with one of my favorite 45's of all time....Be Bop Baby checks in...what show would be complete without the Onion Radio News followed by Dusty Springfield's 1st 45 - I only want to be with you...and the Rolling Stones with their 2nd 45 written by McCartney / Lennon - I wanna be your man
Set 4...NRBQ offa their incredible debut with Eddie Cochran's C'mon Everybody / The Flying Burrito Brothers offa their debut - Do you know how it feels.
Heading up north to Canada where The Ugly Ducklings FYI with Just in case you wonder and from Canada to Peru for Traffic Sounds' Mescalina from 1970
I'm signing off and I'll see everybody next week on the internet.....sayonara...