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Favoriting October 8, 2009: That Bad Man Stagger Lee

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Ma Rainey  Stack O' Lee Blues   Favoriting Ma Rainey's Black Bottom      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Long "Cleeve" Reed and Little Harvey Hull  Stack O' Lee Blues   Favoriting The Stuff Dreams are Made Of: Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920's and 30's      0:03:40 (Pop-up)
Furry Lewis  Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee   Favoriting People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938      0:06:50 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington  Stack O' Lee Blues   Favoriting       0:08:39 (Pop-up)
Frank Hutchison  Stackalee   Favoriting Anthology Of American Folk Music      0:12:14 (Pop-up)
Sol Hoopii  Stack O' Lee Blues   Favoriting Master of Hawaiian Guitar      0:14:52 (Pop-up)
Mississippi John Hurt  Stack O' Lee   Favoriting Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings      0:17:33 (Pop-up)
Cliff Edwards  Stack O' Lee- Part 1   Favoriting I'm a Bear in a Lady's Boudoir      0:20:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Sounds from the Point Pleasant Boardwalk  

 

 

Field Recording 

0:29:51 (Pop-up)
Woody Guthrie  Stackolee   Favoriting Woody Guthrie: The Early Years      0:30:21 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway  Stack O' Lee Blues   Favoriting The Early Years, 1930-1934      0:32:26 (Pop-up)
Alan Lomax Recording  Stackerlee   Favoriting Negro Prison Blues and Songs      0:35:32 (Pop-up)
Archibald  Stack A Lee   Favoriting       0:39:35 (Pop-up)
Tennessee Ernie Ford  Stack-o-Lee   Favoriting The History of Country & Western Music      0:42:00 (Pop-up)
Margaret Walker  Stagger Lee (Stagolee)   Favoriting Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes      0:44:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Sounds from the Point Pleasant Beach  

 

 

field recording 

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Lonnie Donegan & Dickie Bishop  Stackalee   Favoriting As Good As It Gets - Skiffle 1      0:53:20 (Pop-up)
Lloyd Price  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Footstompin' Oldies      0:55:51 (Pop-up)
Collins Kids  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       0:58:09 (Pop-up)
Jerry Lee Lewis  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:00:20 (Pop-up)
Fats Domino  Stack & Billy   Favoriting Out of New Orleans      1:02:59 (Pop-up)
Don Revel & The Primettes  Return of Stagger Lee   Favoriting The Soul of Detroit      1:05:07 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner  Stagger Lee   Favoriting The Sensational Ike & Tina Turner      1:07:53 (Pop-up)
Shirley Ellis  Stagger Lee   Favoriting The Complete Congress Recordings      1:10:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Sounds of Sideshows by the Seashore  

 

 

field recording 

1:18:42 (Pop-up)
The Rulers  Wrong'em Boyo   Favoriting Trojan Ska Box Set      1:17:57 (Pop-up)
Doc Watson  Stackolee   Favoriting Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection 1964-1998      1:21:05 (Pop-up)
Spooky Tooth with Keith Emerson  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:24:53 (Pop-up)
Billy Glenn and Shelly Taylor  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Everything That's Beautiful  Carellen Recods    1:28:12 (Pop-up)
Wilson Pickett  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:31:27 (Pop-up)
Taj Mahal  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:33:46 (Pop-up)
Johnny Otis Show  The Great Stack A Lee   Favoriting Cold Shot/ Snatch and the Poontangs      1:37:42 (Pop-up)
Pacific Gas & Electric  Staggolee   Favoriting Are You Ready?      1:43:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Sounds From Coney Island Boardwalk  

 

 

 

1:47:47 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:53:43 (Pop-up)
Freddy Weller  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       1:54:55 (Pop-up)
Terry Melcher  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Terry Melcher      1:57:40 (Pop-up)
Professor Longhair  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Live on the Queen Mary      1:59:51 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Dick's Picks Vol. 9      2:04:50 (Pop-up)
The Clash  Wrong'em Boyo   Favoriting London Calling      2:12:32 (Pop-up)
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       2:15:51 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Sounds from the Point Pleasant Boardwalk  

 

 

field recording 

2:23:42 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Stack A Lee   Favoriting World Gone Wrong      2:27:30 (Pop-up)
Huey Lewis and The News  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Four Chords & Several Years Ago      2:31:00 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Murder Ballads      2:33:41 (Pop-up)
Theodis Ealey  Stagger Lee   Favoriting       2:38:51 (Pop-up)
James Booker  Tubby (Part 1)   Favoriting Gonzo: More Than All the 45s      2:42:43 (Pop-up)
The Black Keys  Stack Shot Billy   Favoriting Rubber Factory      2:45:12 (Pop-up)
The Blue Aeroplanes  Stagger Lee   Favoriting Harvester      2:48:30 (Pop-up)
Samuel L. Jackson  Stack-o-Lee   Favoriting Black Snake Moan      2:54:49 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  6:03am
Chuck:

Morning! Almost overslept, glad I made it...
  6:05am
Meghan:

Morning! Yeah it's one of those mornings.... I am still waking up myself.....
  6:06am
Dave B in NYC:

thank goodness for insomnia, UWTP and bad movies in the collection...

Oh, and coffee too!

Morning all!
  6:06am
Pieter:

Morning all, sadly missed last show in it's live format, making up for it now!
  6:07am
Chuck:

Coffee! Good.............
  6:08am
Meghan:

Good Morning Dave and Pieter! Yeah i am hoping the coffee starts to kick in soon
  6:11am
Chuck:

I can't help wondering if Stagger Lee was a real person and the story is true... Come across anything in your research to tell, Meg?
  6:12am
Meghan:

I am going to go over the history, but in quick... he was a VERY real person....
  6:14am
Chuck:

Bad people can become legends....
  6:34am
Chuck:

Must've bee a really nice hat to have to kill someone over it... Of course, alcohol had to be involved...
  6:37am
Meghan:

yeah no doubt... all over a hat! You make history cause you want your hat back... go figure huh!
  6:39am
Chuck:

Also interesting how the actual story got changed musically... There was no mention of gambling in the newspaper story you read... Very typical of legends...
  6:41am
Meghan:

Yep.... granted there is news and word on the street news...
  6:43am
Chuck:

Yeah, but both are subject to distortion... "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see."
  6:48am
Chuck:

Now they turned him into a cop killer!?! Glad I'm known for other things...
  6:59am
Pieter:

It just went from 2 to 3 children? Or did I mishear that?
  7:03am
Meghan:

I heard 3 now....
  7:03am
Chuck:

I don't think I've ever heard a version of this song where the lyrics where exactly the same... Artistic license?
  7:05am
Meghan:

That is what makes this fun..... it's like the game telephone....
  7:07am
Chuck:

It would be fun to find a band that could play the song and have them ask: "Which version? hehe...
  7:10am
Pieter:

One song I heard had the lyrics saying he had 'one girl and one boy' ... so there I would assume it was 2 ...
  7:12am
Chuck:

Careful, Pieter! Clearly there are few facts in the music about the actual events... Much has been fabricated for the songs...
  7:17am
Chuck:

Where, Oh Where can my baby be... I had an originial 45 of it as a kid...
  7:22am
Meghan:

That was that messed up song.... Thanks Chuck
  7:24am
Chuck:

Yeah, there where a slew of tragedy songs from that era... Go figure...
  7:28am
Dirty Old Man:

Great show. How about a "Little Red Rooster" show sometime?
  7:29am
Meghan:

You are right... i have thought of that too.... heard XM do a huge run of it before...
  7:29am
Chuck:

Humm... Tragedy songs as a possible theme? Keep it on a back burner otherwise UWTP could turn too depressing and grim...
  7:38am
steve krinsky:

He was a bad man! There's a great chapter in Greil Marcus' book, MYSTERY TRAIN, on the Staggerlee legend.
  7:39am
rick:

Of course, there is Beck's version on Avalon Blues, the Mississippi John Hurt tribute album.
  7:39am
Chuck:

Check your gmail when you get home, Meghan... I just sent you a murder theme song that I love...
  7:40am
Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:

Inquiring minds want to know: Will Meghan actually play the Grateful Dead on her show today?
  7:41am
Meghan:

Morning Steve and Rick! There are a couple great books on Stagger Lee.... I didin't pick up the Beck one unfortunately... i was looking for some like the Ventures and James Brown... too little time to play them all unfortunately. I have to find the Beck one to listen!
  7:42am
Meghan:

hehehe... Morning Dum Dum..... the answer is yes........ I had to. Not a fan, but it fit too well.... I even skipped out on Neil Diamond for it too.... what is wrong with me...
  7:44am
Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:

The sky is yellow and the sun is blue.
  7:50am
jeff p:

welcome to thursday, everyone!
  7:52am
Ogden Peepee:

milk.
  7:55am
Meghan:

Morning Jeff and Ogden.....
  7:56am
Chuck:

Jeez, "The King" sounded drunk! It's happened...
  7:58am
Meghan:

Well it is the time of Fat Elvis.... plus it was just him messing around and they happened to be recording.
  8:04am
Chuck:

Again, the song is NEVER the same... Every version totally different... Melcher's having no resemblence to anyone elses...
  8:09am
Chuck:

Well, I never thought I'd hear a Dead song on your show, Meg... But, you're right, it is appropriate...
  8:10am
Meghan:

I am kind of in pain here..... Is Jerry even remembering the words? Thank GOD the Clash is next to wipe this clean
  8:12am
David:

Love that pretty Dead in the morning! words secondary.
  8:12am
jeff p:

god i hate The Dead.
  8:12am
Chuck:

LOL!!! Funny, Meg! Jerry isn't remembering much of anything anymore... Speaking of being grateful they're dead... HA!
  8:13am
Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:

It is even more shocking when you learn that Garcia used a teleprompter on stage in his later years, and still managed to boot the lyrics quite regularly.
  8:14am
Meghan:

Glad someone is enjoying the Dead... i am there with you Jeff..... Wow, really Dum Dum? Scary....
  8:16am
Chuck:

Heavy drug usage never helps...
  8:21am
Chuck:

That's supposed to be Asbury Jukes, Meghan...
  8:22am
Meghan:

thanks.... fingers working without the brain attached....
  8:31am
Chuck:

Ah, BD's voice gets progressively worse every year... At least his song writing ability doesn't seem to deminish...
  8:33am
messica:

how is it possible that johnny cash didn't record a stagger lee?
  8:35am
Meghan:

GREAT question! Too bad he is not around to let us know.... Wonder if I just never found one.... but i did a lot of research..... hmmm
  8:35am
Chuck:

Who knows? Maybe he did but the recording hasn't come to light as of yet... There are still plenty of hidden or lost songs out there...
  8:51am
jeff p:

The Black Keys is another band i can't stand. I've given them a ton of chances but every time I listen to them I go " Nope. This sucks."
  8:53am
Meghan:

Oh really? I actually do like their stuff... hell it's not the Dead!
  8:54am
Chuck:

Taste in music is a individual as taste in food, Jeff... Like I hate bell peppers, but love hot peppers...
  8:54am
jeff p:

they remind me of cream and the rest of the mid-60's british white boy blues band
  8:55am
Meghan:

Wow...i totally don't get that from them.... interesting....
  8:57am
Chuck:

Samuel L. Jackson! The actor?!?! That's weird, yet cool...
  8:58am
Meghan:

Yep he did this song in a movie....
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