Dr. John's Journal: Heroes of the Small Screen, 1

Record Shelf Playlists

Dr. John's Record Shelf is my weekly radio program on KDWG, 90.9 FM broadcast from the University of Montana Western. My goal is to offer an eclectic mix of various styles, genres and eras, focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on music that you won't hear anywhere else on the dial (at least not in SW Montana). My co-host, Art Vandelay and I (with the assistance of station flunky Rico Muckman) also provide some additional bits to liven up the show, including Three People I Know (where I mention three people I know), The Cultural Corner (where we engage in lively banter on art, literature and poetry), Dr. John's Top Five (where we take a shot at ranking almost anything), and Record Shelf Theater (where we re-create a scene from some famous movie, play or TV show). If you find yourself in Dillon, tune us in; otherwise, below are some lists of songs that have been aired on recent shows:

Dr. John's Record Shelf 121104

Bill Fay, "This World"
Steve Goodman, "Turnpike Tom"
Ani DiFranco, "Which Side Are You On?"
Bruce Springsteen, "We Are Alive"
Decemberists, "Don't Carry It All"
Carole King, "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
Drivin'n'Cryin', "Moonshot"
Bruce Cockburn, "Wondering Where the Lions Are"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, "Oh Susannah"
Texas, "Postcard"
Bob Dylan, "Soon After Midnight"
Charms, "American Way"
Belle & Sebastian, "I Want the World to Stop"
Krayolas, "Find a Girl"
Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Neko Case, "Things That Scare Me"
Avett Brothers, "Will You Return"
Craig Finn, "New Friend Jesus"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 121028

Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues"
Golden Shoulders, "I Will Light You on Fire"
Spoon, "Finer Feelings"
Girls, "Just a Song"
Devandra Banhart, "Shabop Shalom"
Gaslight Anthem, "The '59 Sound"
Those Darlins, "Mystic Mind"
Son Seals, "I Can't Hold Out"
Johnny Ace, "Pledging My Love"
Charlotte Gainsbourg, "Dandelion"
Aimee Mann, "Borrowing Time"
Elliott Smith, "Between the Bars"
Carpenters, "It's Going to Take Some Time"
Hayes Carll, "Girl Downtown"
Fiery Furnaces, "Even in the Rain"
Billy Ward & the Dominoes, "Chicken Blues"
Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause, "You Think You Know Me"
Sophie Zelmani, "Most of the Time"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 121021

Cabaret Voltaire, "No Escape"
Us3, "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)"
Hank Mobley, "The Break Through"
Rodriguez, "Sugar Man"
Mary Weiss, "My Heart is Beating"
Pete Shelley, "Think For Yourself"
Buddy Holly, "Take Your Time"
Raincoats, "No One's Little Girl"
Detroit Cobras, "Ya Ya Ya"
Public Image, LTD, "Public Image"
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, "Bad Reputation"
Love Is All, "Wishing Well"
Louie & the Lovers, "I KNow You Know"
Forty-Fives, "The Devil Beats His Wife"
John P. Strohm, "Better Than Nothing"
The Naysayer, "Currency"
Sir Douglas Quintet, "Who'll Be Next in Line"
The Seeds, "Mr. Farmer"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 121014

TV on the Radio, "Second Song"
Can, "Oh Yeah"
White Stripes, "300 MPH Torrential Downpour Blues"
Mary Lou Lord, "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"
T-Bone Burnett, "The Murder Weapon"
New Bomb Turks, "Statue of Liberty"
Ramones, "Surfin' Bird"
Paris Sisters, "Dream Lover"
Lee Dorsey, "Ride Your Pony"
Michael Hurley, "Sweet Lucy"
Gary Numan, "Cars"
Neil Diamond, "Delirious Love"
Undertones, "We All Talked About You"
Shadows of Knight, "Shake"
Cub, "Magic 8 Ball"
Rilo Kiley, "The Frug"
Terry Allen, "Lubbock Woman"
Kinks, "Lincoln County"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 121007

Corin Tucker Band, "Summer Jams"
Go-Betweens, "Too Much of One Thing"
Feelies, "Change Your Mind"
Billy Bragg & the Blokes, "Baby Faroukh"
Marcia Griffiths, "Don't Let Me Down"
Velvet Crush, "Hold Me Up"
Chris Mills, "Calling All Comrades"
Insect Trust, "Hoboken Saturday Night"
Broken West, "So It Goes"
REM, "Exhuming McCarthy"
Dire Straits, "Twisting By the Pool"
Tom Rush, "Urge for Going"
Paul Westerberg & Joan Jett, "Let's Do It"
Fred Astaire, "Cheek to Cheek"
The Who, "I Can See For Miles"
Liz Phair, "Uncle Alvarez"
Steve martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers, "King Tut"
Piano Red, "Rockin' With Red"
Ronnie Dee, "Action Packed"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 120930

Mumford & Sons, "I Will Wait"
Kelly Hogan, "Golden"
Asteroid #4, "Hail to the Clear Figurines"
Chesterfield Kings, "Disconnect"
Holly Golightly, "No Big Thing Baby"
Gordon Lightfoot, "Go Go Round"
Soundtrack of Our Lives, "Busy Land"
Poni-Tails, "Born Too Late"
Greg Kihn Band, "The Breakup Song"
David Bowie, "Rebel Rebel"
Antietam, "Rain"
Throwing Muses, "Graffiti"
The Halos, "Nag"
Sir Douglas Quintet, "Old Habits Die Hard"
TaIil Gators, "Brown Eyed Girl"
Hollywood Flames, "Buzz Buzz Buzz"
Bangles, "Going Down to Liverpool"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 120923

Gore Gore Girls, "You Lied to Me Before"
PJ Harvey, "This Is Love"
Leonard Cohen, "Dance Me to the End of Love"
The Embarrassment, "Elizabeth Montgomery's Face"
Crippled Pilgrims, "Under the Ladder"
Emitt Rhodes, "Tame the Lion"
Susan Cowsill, "I Know You Know"
Clutters, "Under Suspicion"
Iggy & the Stooges, "Gimme Danger"
The Dishes, "Shotgun"
The Scientists, "Swampland"
Isaac Hayes, "Theme From Shaft"
Dean Eubanks, "Oh Babe"
Bob Dylan, "Narrow Way"
Felt, "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Hub Moore & the Great Outdoors, "Walk Away"

Dr. John's Record Shelf 120916

Alejandro Escovedo, "Man of the World"
Poly Styrene, "I Love Ur Sneakers"
Sharon Van Etten, "Give Out"
Justin Townes Earle, "Rogers Park"
Black Keys, "Gold on the Ceiling"
Moe Tucker, "Too Shy"
R.E.M., "Moral Kiosk"
Pointed Sticks, "Out of Luck"
Marianne Faithfull, "The Crane Wife 3"
Magnetic Fields, "Andrew in Drag"
Graham Nash, "Military Madness"
Blue Aeroplanes, "Action Painting"
Yo La Tengo, "Avalon of Someone Very Similar"
Wide Right, "Rust Belt Girl"
Pistol Annies, "Takin' Pills"
Police, "Fall Out"
Bobby Bloom, "Montego Bay"
Badfinger, "Day After Day"

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Heroes of the Small Screen, 1

I learned everything there was to know about beatniks by watching Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis when I was a kid. In playing Maynard, Bob Denver honed the comedy chops necessary to go on to play the immortal Gilligan; but to my mind Maynard was the more inspired creation. Who needs Kerouac or Ginsberg when there's Maynard? This little snippet pretty much sums up what maynard was all about:

5 comments:

Lil' Sis said...: So when did you watch Dobie Gillis? The show ran 59-63 and I never remember you staying inside to watch tv anytime in the 60's? Were there other times it was shown in reruns? I always remember you just reading your Sporting News or those history books we got from (was it?) National Geographic? Or just out with Curtis and friends building forts, digging holes, playing ball... So when did you watch this when you were a kid?????
Lil' Sis; April 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM
John Hajduk said...: Lil Sis,
I watched Dobie Gillis all the time (well, whenever it was on)! I remember Zelda and the Thinker statue in front of which Dobie always ruminated on his love life and his dad's grocery store. For some reason I recall it being on Saturdays, but I could be wrong. You'd be surprised how many shows I remember from that era: Hazel, Checkmate, The Rifleman, Spin & Marty, O.K. Crackerby, Donna Reed, Time Tunnel, My Mother the Car... the list goes on and on. Admittedly, some of these I also saw later in syndication (including Dobie) but I definitely remember mimicking Maynard with my friends from a very early age. Sporting News and American Heritage (not National Geographic) came later.
Dr. John; April 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm with Liz on this one - I never thought I allowed you children to watch anything but Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo or Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, or certainly the Micky Mouse Club. Of course, I wasn't there all the time and your Dad was a dedicated TV watcher.; April 3, 2009 at 12:50 PM
John Hajduk said...: Yeah, and as I recall Dad was a Dobie Gillis fan too!
Dr. John; April 3, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Lil' Sis said...: I remember Dad watching things like Hogan's Heros, Lost in Space, Dick Van Dyke, Bananza, 60 Min (actually alot of news), Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, anything with John Wayne, later even MASH and All in the Family... None of what you list ;) He seemed to be always working in the 60-70's
Lil' Sis; April 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM

All-Time Favorite Movies (In Progress)

Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis, 1977)
The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1939)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1944)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)

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