SMALL TOWN TALK: Episode 14

In which Small Town Talk celebrates it’s First Birthday with the Wild Tchoupitoulas at the Mardi Gras

 

1. Let’s Have A Party - Wanda Jackson

2. Meet The Boys On The Battlefront - The Wild Tchoupitoulas

3. Go To The Mardi Gras - Professor Longhair

4. Land of 1000 Dances - Cannibal & The Headhunters

5. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

6. Sally Go Round The Roses - Tim Buckley

7. Having A Party - Sam Cooke

8. Dancing The Night Away - The Motors

9. Dancing The Night Away - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

10. My Heart Went Do Dat Da - Barbara Lewis

11. Fat Girl - Otis Redding

12. I’m Your Puppet - Helen Watson

13. Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups

14. Lovin’ Machine - Wynonie Harris

 

Theme Tune: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles

 

UP TO MY HOUSE,

I’VE GOT SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER SEEN

I GOT WISE TO MYSELF

AND BUILT ME A LOVIN’ MACHINE

Wynonie Harris’s Lovin’ Machine finishes off by dispensing a bottle of HADACOL This was a so-called “miracle” tonic, popular in the forties because of it’s high alcohol content in the ”dry” states in America.

It was short lived and had little or no medical benefit, but it’s memory is preserved in at least a dozen or so songs!

 

Link to Johnny Corsairs excellent Bright Lights Big City podcast:

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

 

For further information and musings on the music contact me at:

smalltowntalkrecords@gmail.com

 

Illustration: Ginger Baldy dons a Mardi-Gras Indian costume.