Route 78 West Sunday 12/14/2003 back
Show #146 Hot Clean 78's audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Jimmy Davis, You Are My Sunshine-Bloodshot, CD
02     Ernst Tubb & His Texas Troubadours, I'll Be Walking The Floor This Christmas-Rhino, LP
03     Ernst Tubb, Answer To Walking The Floor Over You-Proper, CD
- break 5:09 pm
04     Red Foley, Birmingham Bounce, LP
05     Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseeans, Steel Guitar Chimes-Columbia, 78
06     Los Strait Jackets, Let It Snow-Yep Rock, CD
07     Melton Brown & The Musical Brownies, Where You Been So Long, Corina Corina, 78
- break 5:24 pm
08     Roy Newman & His Boys, Sadie Green-Epic, LP
09     Five Harmanics, Sadie Green
10     Kansas Man-Victor, 78 (1926)
- break 5:34 pm
11     The Tune Wranglers, Texas Sand-Bluebird, 78 (1932)
12     Webb Pierce, Drifting Texas Sand-Krazy Kat, LP (1948)
13     Speedy West, Stainless Steel-Capitol, 78
- break 5:44 pm
14     Kenny Lee, I Gotta Get My Baby-RCA Victor, 78
15     Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan, RFD Blues-Capitol, 78
16     Tibby Edwards, If You Love Me Let Me Know It-Mercury, 78
- break 5:52 pm
17     Emmett & His Georgia Crakers, Lovesick Blues-Epic, LP
18     Hank Williams, Lovesick Blues
19     Hawksaw Hawkins, Loaded With Love-King, 78
- break 6:04 pm
20     Sid "Hardrock" Gunter, Bloodshot Eyes-Cowgirlboy, LP
21     Red Ingle & The Natural Seven, You're A Dopey Gal-Capitol, 78
22     Los Strait Jackets, Sleigh Ride-Yep Rock, CD
23     Merle Travis, That's All-Atlas, 78
- break 6:17 pm
24     The July 4th, Mr. Miff-Romulan Records, LP
25     Los Strait Jackets, The Christmas Song-Yep Rock, CD
- break 6:24 pm
26     Stalin Wasn't Stallin', Golden Gate Quartet-Okeh, 78
27     Texas Jim Robertson, The Last Page Of Mein Kampf, 78 (a nice victory song)
28     Heavenly Gospel Singers, In That Jersulem-Bluebird, 78
- break 6:34 pm
29     Jimmy Selph, Easy To Please-Majestic, 78
30     George Morgan, The Best Mistake-Columbia, 78
- break 6:42 pm
31     Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas-Rhino, LP
- break 6:46 pm
32     Bruce Springteen, The Circus Song-Great Dane Records, CD
33     King Crimson, Circus-Club18, CD
Notes: Eric Allen joined Loki and Uncle Jeff for tonight's show which kicked off with "You Are My Sunshine." A fitting description of the mood in the studio. Every so often Jeff would slip in a Christmas song to remind me that I hadn't finished my shopping just yet. As "Sadie Green" by the Five Harmanics played Uncle Jeff winced, "...beware the mp3's." He made it through the pain without a doctor.

I enjoyed the outer limits of space with Speedy West's hot and clean "Stainless Steel." The trak was easily the standout of this show. Runner up goes to Jimmy Selph's, "Easy To Please" on a Majestic 78. The sweet vocals and light accordion were memorable.

As I sat digging the songs Uncle Jeff and Eric conversed as they passed LP's back and forth. "Who knows who Kenny Lee is? This is a great song." But no one in the room knew anything about the artist. The studio monitors were turned up about as loud as possible to still allow a conversation. A plea was put out over the air, "Kenny Lee please call in."

About 6:30 pm things went from mellow martini to political unrest. This surprised me since Loki had left 20 minutes previous. The riff was short-lived and even a nice surf tune, "The July 4th", made its way into the playlist.

The evening wrapped up with an odd trio... Commander Cody, Bruce Springsteen and King Crimson. If I hadn't been there I would not of believed it. A reminder, this is not a scripted show.

Post-show milkshakes serenaded by jukebox music concluded this evenings adventure. Till next week!.
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