WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:09.000 Hudson River Radio dot com. 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.439 Yum yo, how does Sasa Jonnifer Leasberry Jukes. 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:14.679 Hey, this is Tom Chapin. 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:17.079 Hello, just preaching in Rock and Roll History Show. 5 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:18.120 You're listening right now. 6 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.760 Welcome to the latest installment of the Rock and Roll 7 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.239 History Show. And no, I did not kidnap Brian and 8 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:34.759 lock him in a closet. He's here, but they're going 9 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:39.000 to torture me today, so I get to leave the show. Fun, fun, fun. 10 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:44.759 Every so often we do an episode where it's all 11 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:50.679 about songs with an instrument that one of us hates, 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.920 and we've already done Barbara with the ukulele and Mercedes 13 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.359 with the harp. So now it's my turn. And what 14 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:11.599 instrument do I usually hate to hear? Harmonic? Before we 15 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:18.799 get started, let me introduce the Corimbos. Let's start with 16 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:25.239 our usual host Ryan. Ryan used to play bass by ear, 17 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.359 but he's doing much better now because he's switched to 18 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:39.680 using his hands. Go. Neil heard a rumor about butter, 19 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.239 but he decided not to spread it. 20 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:54.159 People lies or lies, and you do everybody. 21 00:01:54.680 --> 00:02:00.480 Mercedes from Silver Screen saw a skeleton walk into a 22 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.799 bar and she wanted to see what happened. The skeleton 23 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.599 said to the bartender, a bartender, I'll have one beer 24 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.120 and a mop. 25 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.560 Yes, hey, everybody. 26 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:24.000 Barbara feel from shaving cream. She saw a snowman throwing 27 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.120 a tantrum. It was a real meltdown. 28 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.719 Oh good one. 29 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.800 Gil and. 30 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:45.080 A retired teacher John got carded at a liquor store 31 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.199 and he went to take out his license from his 32 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:52.319 wallet and his Blockbuster card fell out by mistake. The 33 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.840 cashier said, never mind. 34 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.840 You know, Blockbuster brings brings up a lot of good. 35 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.199 Running to Blockbuster to get that, uh, you know, the 36 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.000 latest release before the you know, thirty other people went 37 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:12.400 clamber to get it as well. 38 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:14.680 Yeah, it was fun. 39 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.560 It was you know, adjacent to go into the record store. 40 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.000 Yeah, all the time. Yeah, you go to block. 41 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.479 At a Blockbuster, go to the record store, grab a slice, 42 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:25.639 grab some pizza. 43 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:25.919 Bring it home. 44 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:27.560 Yeah, popcorn. 45 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:28.960 Yeah, good times. 46 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:29.960 Yeah. 47 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.960 Now you scroll endless screens on Netflix going nah yeah doom. 48 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.879 Scroll for like three hours trying to find something. 49 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.759 Yeah, I don't I don't have any of the streaming channels, 50 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:46.479 so I don't even know like how that is. But anyway, 51 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.000 so before we get started with the songs, one of 52 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.360 which I actually really love, so it's not going to 53 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.680 be torturing me at all in spite of the harmonica. Uh, 54 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.879 let's talk a little bit about harmonic, because it's considered 55 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:07.400 a loose reed instrument, and these poor people. Loose read 56 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:11.879 instruments not to be confused with lou reed instruments, date 57 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.400 back to China around eleven hundred BC. Oh my god, 58 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.879 they tortured people even back then. What we would recognize 59 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:23.480 as a mouth organ. I'd rather have a kidney or liver, 60 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:27.639 thank you. Dates to around eighteen twenty when it spread 61 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.040 around Europe, Oh God help them, and into the US. 62 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:37.199 Oh no, And that's when the evil began. It was fun, huh. 63 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:44.879 That's subjective, portable, and relatively inexpensive. A German clock maker 64 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:50.680 named Matthias Hohner started the Honer Company in eighteen fifty 65 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:57.079 seven when he realized that custom clocks were fading in popularity. Personally, 66 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.759 I think a custom clock would be really cool, much 67 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:02.959 less annoying, sound wise. 68 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:04.120 Way more expensive. 69 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:11.040 Yeah. He started selling harmonicas in Germany, those poor people, 70 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:12.199 and it found out. 71 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:13.800 From there they. 72 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:20.839 Are still by far the biggest selling brand. It's popularity. 73 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.399 Soword after World War One and lasted through World War Two, 74 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.319 and a lot of these old World War One movies 75 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:32.279 you see these guys, one guy is sitting around mournfully 76 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:33.519 playing the harmonica. 77 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.959 A lot of Western a lot of Western movies have that. Well, yeah, 78 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:37.920 you guys. 79 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.879 Sitting cowboy by the fire. 80 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:42.480 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. 81 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:48.639 So the popularity lasted through World War II, when it 82 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.879 faded a bit, thanks be to God, but came back 83 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.920 in the folk music revival of the nineteen sixties, which 84 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.560 is why I am mostly not a folk music. 85 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.639 You might want to be kind of grateful because it 86 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.959 got Bob Billin to stop singing for a minute. 87 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:19.439 Oh goodness. So I believe that. First to start out 88 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.160 is Neil. 89 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.920 All right, Well, I will ask a rhetorical question before 90 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.160 we start into Gail. Is that I mean, you've professed 91 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.319 here on the Rock and Roll History Show your love 92 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:39.879 of the blues and the harmonica is like, it's like 93 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:45.360 the number one instrument in blues and and and you 94 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:46.480 don't you don't have to answer. 95 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.720 I'm just like, it's no, I can explain it totally. 96 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:50.720 Okay. 97 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:55.879 It depends on the type of harmonica playing. If it's 98 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:03.199 the high pitched shrieky like some of Stevie Wonders music 99 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:07.800 has that type the high pitched, shrieky, kind of gritty 100 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:13.560 sounding harmonica. Hate it, absolutely hate it. It literally is 101 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:15.800 physically disturbing to me. 102 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.040 Okay, now, let just you know we. 103 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.839 Should want you to pick Stevie wonder Then. 104 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:22.959 I want you to make sure I want you to 105 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.199 that you don't have ear plugs inside your headphones. That's cheating. 106 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.759 You have to listen. You have to listen. 107 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.920 Rats. I thought I had the situation solved. 108 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.720 Well, I'll tell you because when the topic of torture 109 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.920 or the torture topic of the harmonica came up, when 110 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.000 it was first mentioned, I immediately thought of the Jay 111 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.199 Giles band. Now, not the Jay Giles band that dominated 112 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.560 the early nineteen eighties MTV charts with a mainstream, semi 113 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.920 new wave commercial sound. Oh no, no, no, no, I'm 114 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.360 I'm talking about the Jay Giles band that I saw 115 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:06.079 back in the early nineteen seventies as a young high 116 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.120 school teenager at places like the Fillmore East and the 117 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.879 Academy of Music down in Manhattan in New York City. 118 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.319 A simple R and B influenced blues rock group that 119 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:22.480 just happened to kick major ass. Okay, let's talk about them. 120 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.839 The Jay Giles Band were formed in Boston or the 121 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:32.120 Boston area in nineteen sixty seven. Original members included the 122 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.639 band's namesake, John Giles but you can call him Jay 123 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:42.840 On guitar, singer and frontman extraordinaire Peter Wolfe, keyboardist Seth Justman, 124 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.879 bassist Danny Klein, drummer Stephen Joe Blad and the man 125 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:52.240 at the center of our topic today, mister Richard Solwitz, 126 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:57.399 but you can call him Magic Dick or as Peter 127 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.919 wolf would call him magic Dick on the licking stick. 128 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.799 And I knew you'd like that, and we'll have more 129 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.440 about him later. But The Jay Giles Band released their 130 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:12.360 eponymously titled debut album in late nineteen seventy and although 131 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.320 the song We're about to hear called Whammer Jammer didn't 132 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.639 appear until their second album, called The Morning After, which 133 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.080 was released in late nineteen seventy one, it was already 134 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:27.240 a staple of their live shows, and it would later 135 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.519 appear on a live LP called Full House in nineteen 136 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:35.159 seventy two. Now generally the main focus of the band 137 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.320 was there, flamboyant frontman Peter Wolf with his rapid fire 138 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.159 between song banter and his swagger like Mick Jagger. But 139 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:49.600 on this song an instrumental, no words, it's whammer jammer, 140 00:09:49.639 --> 00:10:00.440 where Magic Dick took center stage. 141 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:12.440 Sometimes drinking hand comes shrinking hand time, baking, Baking had 142 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:17.639 story entire tab. 143 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:31.200 The root sign, the rock. 144 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:51.559 Your cap, your cap saying since thank you? 145 00:10:52.879 --> 00:12:25.120 Seconds All right, Gail, let's hear it. 146 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.799 What is your reaction to wamma jammer? 147 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.559 I'd rather not ever hear it again? 148 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.879 If people at home listening at home, If if you 149 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:39.200 could see her, it looked like she was We were 150 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.799 watching her, Yes, a big bite out of a lemon. 151 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.200 Yeah, you're watching her face contort all through that. 152 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.399 It was Yes, that was a lot of fun. 153 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:48.799 You know. 154 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.519 It is it rocks? Oh yeah, oh yeah. 155 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.679 It was a little easier to handle when the other 156 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:02.919 instruments came in too, so I wasn't just listening to 157 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:03.840 shrieking air. 158 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.879 If we had turned down the volume on our headphones, 159 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.480 we could tell the pitch of the harmonica by the 160 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.320 scrunch on Gail's face. 161 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.360 Yes, yes, yeah, I don't even have to say anything, 162 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.240 Mike gooms my face has subtitles. 163 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.440 If we ever played poker, Invite Gael. 164 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:28.879 At this point in my life, I wouldn't even be 165 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.759 able to remember the rules of this state. 166 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:36.799 So let's get back to Magic Dick, like I said before. Okay. 167 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.480 He was born in New London, Connecticut, in nineteen forty five. 168 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.679 In addition to the harmonica, he also plays the trumpet 169 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:49.840 and the saxophone, and in nineteen seventy nine, music critic 170 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:54.080 Dave Marsh described Magic Dick as quote possibly the best 171 00:13:54.200 --> 00:14:00.200 white musician to ever play blues harmonica. Now I take 172 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.000 a little lumberge, I would say simply he was the 173 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.360 best musician period to play blues harmonica, or at least 174 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:12.159 one of them. But I'll get off my soapbox. Magic 175 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:16.960 Dick also co created a harmonica design called appropriately the 176 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:21.480 Magic Harmonica, and he's still based in the Boston area 177 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:26.279 and he is a member of the Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra. Gail, 178 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.639 you want to get tickets? Oh god, I'll take that 179 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:31.200 as a yes. 180 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.279 Okay, What an abomination road trip? 181 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:37.879 How I really feel? 182 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:39.480 No? 183 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:41.039 No, no, no, no no no. 184 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.559 The Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra front row, all right, the Jay 185 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.799 Giles band did have several top forty singles in the 186 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.919 early nineteen seventies, but as I mentioned earlier, the majority 187 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.720 of their success came in the nineteen eighties, with hits 188 00:14:55.799 --> 00:15:01.919 like Freeze, Frames, Centerfold and of Course Loves Things So hey, 189 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.679 you know, and I'll say I like those records too, 190 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.840 but I was always partial to the earlier stuff because 191 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.240 that's what I heard first. So just to say, you know, 192 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:16.559 everybody knows my eighties bias somewhat, but no, I'd like 193 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:21.480 those songs too, so don't worry. So but what does 194 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.279 a band do after striving for years to reach the 195 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.039 top and they finally make it in the nineteen eighties, 196 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:27.559 what do they do? 197 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:30.080 Stop making shrieking sounds? 198 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.399 No? They break up? Of course? What do you think? 199 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.960 Peter Wolf left the band in nineteen eighty three to 200 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.360 pursue a solo career. The band did release one more 201 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.639 album without Wolf in nineteen eighty four, before breaking up 202 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.679 for good in nineteen eighty five, But beginning in nineteen 203 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.600 ninety nine, the band did get back together for several 204 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:58.120 reunion tours with and without Jay Giles, the latter resulting 205 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.000 in a bitter lawsuit over the use of the guitarist name, 206 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:06.320 as you might think, being that the Jay Giles Band 207 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.159 did not have a Jay Giles in them at that point. Anyway, Sadly, 208 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:15.600 J Giles himself passed away in twenty seventeen. Now, the 209 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.159 Jay Giles Band, they were nominated for induction into the 210 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.639 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, not once, not twice, 211 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:28.039 five different times, but were not voted in on any 212 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:32.720 of those attempts. So that I find that criminal. I 213 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.080 find that felonious. I find that is why I don't 214 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:38.879 really take much stock in the Rock and Roll Hall 215 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.440 of Fame, because that's crazy that they and the people 216 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.200 that they do induct. No, no, this is there is 217 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:50.360 no justice. But as I also mentioned, I did get 218 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.799 to see the band live a number of times throughout 219 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:58.240 the nineteen seventies, and they always were incredible. Peter Wolf 220 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.000 is out there too. I've seen him solo and he's incredible. 221 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.880 And I also got to see Magic Dick perform along 222 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.559 with a guitarist named Seun Eng as an acoustic duo 223 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:11.440 and they were great. That was up at Daryl's house 224 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.480 in paul in, New York, and that was back in 225 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.440 twenty nineteen. So he's still out there playing too, So 226 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.240 get out there and catch these people. That's all I 227 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:23.720 can say. 228 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:29.519 And Gail, I hope you liked it well, Neil, that 229 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.000 was interesting. 230 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:34.559 Nice. I can see how happy you are. 231 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.559 Okay, I'm surprised you don't have alcohol in front. 232 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:38.960 Of you right now. 233 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.519 I do have a bottle of wine in the other room. 234 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.279 I should go get it. So John, what do you have? 235 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:48.599 Okay? 236 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:50.440 I don't know you. 237 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.440 You might like this, you might not because there's a 238 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.319 lot of harmonica in it, but there's also a lot 239 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.279 of guitar in it as well, so the selection is 240 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:01.160 a little long tonight. 241 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:02.319 It's the work song. 242 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:06.160 By the late great Paul Butterfield and the Paul Butterfield 243 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.279 Blues Band from nineteen sixty six. It was from their 244 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.960 East West, their second album, East West, released in August 245 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:20.079 of that year. And Paul Butterfield does the harmonica and 246 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.480 Mike Bloomfield does the guitar, and I think this is 247 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.680 a classic. It's a bit of a long one. So 248 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.319 I think we're gonna do about three three and a 249 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.319 half minutes and then we're gonna kind of fade out 250 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:34.880 from there, and then I'll just say tell you a 251 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:36.720 little bit, a little bit of a teaser after that 252 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:37.160 as well. 253 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.200 So, Gail, I. 254 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:45.200 Hope you enjoy this little this little blues selection Butterfield 255 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:46.359 blues band. 256 00:18:46.440 --> 00:19:22.000 So enjoys. 257 00:19:14.680 --> 00:21:50.279 Sn the style montas. 258 00:21:45.519 --> 00:22:23.319 Sometimes okay, And that was the work song by Paul 259 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:24.839 Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield. 260 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:27.400 Great song. 261 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:29.279 Uh, it's got a great beat. 262 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:29.720 Uh. 263 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:31.960 It goes on for about seven and a half minutes scales, 264 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.079 so there's a lot more after that. So uh, we 265 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.440 were kind enough to only give you about three and 266 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:38.519 a half minutes. 267 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:43.279 There, but thank you. Actually I liked the guitars and 268 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:45.400 the percussion and the keyboard. 269 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.359 Yes, it's it's it's got a lot of bass. 270 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.319 Hello, sorry the bass, yes, the back all right, then, 271 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:55.400 whether you meant it or not, you have to say it. 272 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.680 It's got a lot to it. 273 00:22:57.880 --> 00:22:59.759 Well, that was They were a good band. 274 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:02.880 That a really great I mean, and to think what 275 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:07.680 they could have achieved had both Bloomfield and Butterfield not 276 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:12.039 engaged in a lot of recreational pharmacology, which led to 277 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:16.400 their demise. Mister Butterfield nineteen eighty seven in Bloomfield in 278 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:22.160 eighty one, I believe. So again, it's a great piece 279 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.160 of music, but gone too soon. 280 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:30.920 So but hope you know, I know this will shock you, 281 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:34.279 But I did get to see a later version of 282 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.599 the Butterfly Field Blues Band, not the one we just 283 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:40.119 heard right, probably just a couple of years later. It 284 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:44.799 was probably around nineteen seventy one. Yeah, but they were 285 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:48.240 still great. Yeah, it was still the same groove going there. 286 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:50.680 That kind of music is a kind of music I 287 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:54.240 would love to just listen to in like a smoky 288 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:56.160 bar somewhere, you know, and just. 289 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:57.359 I don't know. 290 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.880 You obviously don't have asthma like I do, well. 291 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.079 I could do that pretty bad lung problems, but still 292 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.960 would have been a fun thing to just kind of 293 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:10.519 just kick back and hill with a drink in hand 294 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:12.400 and a low key kind of. 295 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:14.880 Smoky bar and just kind of take in that harmonica. 296 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.920 It's the kind of thing I think, even if you 297 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.759 don't necessarily like it, when it's live. 298 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.160 For some reason, it just hits better. 299 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:22.839 Yeah, yeah, exactly play it, you know. 300 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:24.920 No, you're right, You're you're right, Brian. 301 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.240 It's just I could see enjoying that down in Pyramont 302 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:32.200 at what's the club down in Pyramount? We go to 303 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:36.079 uh point yes, I would love I would love to 304 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.720 hear somebody do that kind of a do a remake 305 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:41.960 of it at the turning point. That'd be a lot 306 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:45.720 of fun, I really would So anyway. 307 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:46.359 I hope you all enjoyed it. 308 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:48.920 Gail, it was a pleasure to uh. 309 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:56.680 All right, well I survived that one. But we need 310 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:58.599 to take a very quick break. 311 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:00.759 What's the the River Radio? 312 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:02.759 Your dog likes us. 313 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:06.359 This concludes the first part of this cassette. 314 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.720 Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side too. 315 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.480 This is Hudson River Radio dot Com. 316 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.079 A y. 317 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.880 All right, so we're back at the middle section of 318 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:33.519 today's Rock and Roll History Show episode where my fellow 319 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:40.240 crambones are torturing me with songs of my least favorite instrument, 320 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:46.240 the harmonica. Up next is Barbara. What do you have 321 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:49.480 to drive me nuts? Barbara? 322 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.920 First, I want to say when you were telling us 323 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.119 the story of the Harmonica, I loved your little commentary. 324 00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:58.640 That is excellent. 325 00:25:58.880 --> 00:25:59.839 The poor Chinese. 326 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:07.880 Oh my gods, wait wait till you see Sunday at church, 327 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.480 I have to give a talk on St. Teresa of Avola, 328 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:15.000 and I put little things like that in there. When 329 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.920 I'm giving my talks about saints, and I think that's 330 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.880 why everybody shows up when we only have morning prayer 331 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.000 and I'm the one doing it. 332 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.319 Gone, Jesus may have suffered, but I had to listen 333 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:31.240 to the harmonica. 334 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:33.720 No. 335 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:37.839 No, I usually start out saints, Who are they, what 336 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:40.240 do they do? And why do we like them? 337 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:49.519 Excellent? Excellent. So besides saying that praise on your commentary, 338 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:51.519 the second thing I wanted. 339 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:52.559 To say is more. 340 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:01.720 And the song I chose to torture Gale for today's 341 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:05.680 theme is called I Want My Mama and it's by 342 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:10.400 Salty Holmes. Born Floyd Holmes on March sixth, nineteen ten 343 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:17.200 in Kentucky. He played jug and guitar, but was famous 344 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.920 for his harmonica playing. He specialized in the style called 345 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:28.160 talking harp, in which the harmonica sounds like a human voice. 346 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:37.039 Oh joy, I'm twirling my imaginary mustache right now. Holmes 347 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:40.240 formed the group the Kentucky Ramblers in nineteen thirty, but 348 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.160 they changed their name to the Prairie Ramblers three years 349 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:49.559 later and began broadcasting on WLSAM in Chicago. I Want 350 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.759 My Mama was recorded during the nineteen forties, but I 351 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:56.559 could not find an exact date, despite searching multiple sites. 352 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.480 The recording we Will Hear was included on the two 353 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:05.519 thousand and five compilation album Harmonica Masters, which I'll be 354 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:07.279 gifting to Gail next Christmas. 355 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.359 She needs another coaster, don't waste the money. 356 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:19.440 Out of all harmonica songs, I chose this one especially 357 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:23.400 for Gail because not only does it feature the dreaded harmonica, 358 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.000 but Holmes makes it sound like a child crying. 359 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:27.839 I want my. 360 00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:33.720 Let the torture begin. 361 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:40.400 Harmonica and crying children, do I know? 362 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:41.880 Gil? And no Gail. 363 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:02.680 Lame from. 364 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:06.960 No No no no. 365 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:13.000 M m m. 366 00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:27.920 M la La La from no no no no no 367 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.400 no no no no. 368 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:50.000 L l la la la. 369 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.960 La la la la la la la la la la 370 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:55.279 la la. 371 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:59.200 La la l l l l l l l l 372 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:00.160 l l l l la l. 373 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:17.119 L l l l l l l l l l 374 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:17.559 l l. 375 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:21.039 L l l l la la la la la. 376 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:36.680 La la la la la la la la. 377 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:38.920 La la la la. 378 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:54.720 La la lo lo lo. 379 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.480 Okay, before I proceed, Gail, what say you? 380 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.400 That was interesting? 381 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:23.119 I cringe. 382 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:28.680 I like the old timy sounds. I do too. I 383 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:33.119 swear they don't have talent like that nowadays. That could 384 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:39.240 do the same thing. It was fascinating to me to 385 00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:44.559 figure out or try to figure out how the performer 386 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:50.680 was making those sounds, the quick inhale exhale things. I 387 00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:53.039 could maybe do that twice and then I would need 388 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.680 my asthma inhaler. So I'm surprised. You know, maybe he 389 00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:59.920 had an oxygen tank waiting for when he was done. 390 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:00.559 I don't know. 391 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.200 My tombstone would actually say died by playing harmonica too fast. 392 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.160 Yeah, I think it's like a ditchery too, isn't it 393 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:10.279 Like you breathe in and out at the same time. 394 00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.720 Yeah, you get you get different sounds. 395 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:15.839 Breath. 396 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:18.960 Yeah, that's that's what you do when your coffee is 397 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.680 too high, pretty much. 398 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.240 Yeah, I mean the harmonica is actually it's not an 399 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.440 at least to me, not an easy instrument to play. 400 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.720 It's easy to start, it's very difficult, not if you 401 00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:36.599