POP-A-LOOZA: Lights Camera! REACTION! My Life At The Movies

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my attempt to remember the first movies I ever saw when I was a little kid in the '60s: "Lights! Camera! REACTION! My Life At The Movies."

This was first posted here in 2017 as the inaugural entry in a sporadic blog series. I haven't gotten back to writing very many editions of Lights! Camera! REACTION!, but I have a few notions that may yet inspire sequels. Hey, it's a franchise! Pop--Looza has already reprised "Read The Movie," my reminiscence of reading paperback movie adaptations. A few more entries in this series will likely be among near-future shared posts at Pop-A-Looza. Some of them will need to be updated before sharing, and a L!C!R! about the movies I saw in 2019 is too time-specific to bother re-posting at Pop-A-Looza. (And a line in its closing paragraph, hoping that 2020 would bring many more opportunities to visit movie theaters, provides a cold, prickly feeling in the context of how that miserable year played out.)

For now, we look back at where my movie story began. "Lights! Camera! REACTION!" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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10 SONGS: 3/30/2021

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. Given my intention to usually write these on Mondays, the lists are often dominated by songs played on the previous night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1070.

THE CLIQUE: Superman

The closest thing White Whale Records act The Clique ever had to a hit was their cover of Tommy James and the Shondells' "Sugar On Sunday," which peaked at # 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. That single's B-side was a song called "Superman," which ultimately became the group's most enduring contribution to pop culture. More people know it from R.E.M.'s 1986 cover, and many folks likely presume it was written by R.E.M. The Clique's original is a little bit quirkier, sort of calling to mind the late '60s Bee Gees sound without that group's trademark falsetto. And since mentioning one comic-book song gets me thinking about another comic-book song....

BEEBE GALLINI: Nobody Loves The Hulk

HA! Ya wanna talk about a choice of cover song that hits my personal demographic right on the gamma-irradiated noggin? "Nobody Loves The Hulk" was a 1969 single by an obscure group called The Traits, and we've played it several times on past TIRnRRs. Beebe Gallini's take on the tune appears on their new Rum Bar Records release Pandemos, and it is indeed incredible, mighty, and Marvelous. They even throw in a heartful 'n' appropriate Hulk SMASH!! that I don't recall hearing in The Traits' original. Listen to it. Buy it. Don't make angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm...y'know.

STONEWALL JACKSON: Me And You And A Dog Named Boo

I'm prepared to presume no one expected this one to turn up on the playlist this week (though I also imagine no one's all that surprised by it either, given our repeated insistence that it's ALL pop music). Honestly, I didn't even know this track existed until about a week and a half ago. I was toying with the idea of playing a Lobo track some time, though if I did, it (probably) wouldn't be "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo." Anyway. I was looking for Lobo-inspired inspiration when I stumbled upon this 1971 cover by country singer Stonewall Jackson. Inspiration acquired! Sorry, Mr. Lobo; I now regard Stonewall Jackson's rendition as the definitive "Me And You And  Dog Named Boo." Yeah, the Brady Bunch kids' attempt at it notwithstanding.

ALLAN KAPLON: Notes On A Napkin

Some time back, our friend and listener Allan Kaplon sent us a track called "Flesh And Blood," recorded under the dba The Non Prophets. We dug it, and we played it on the radio. Now, Allen's recording under his own name, and his album Notes On A Napkin intrigues and delights. Jamie Hoover of The Spongetones produced six of the album's 11 tracks, Jamie's fellow Spongetone Steve Stoeckel pops up on one of those six, and Elena Rogers chips in some exquisite backing vocals. That Kaplon lad's pretty good, too. 

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him

This makes 20 weeks in a row that TIRnRR has played at least one song featuring a lead vocal from Simone Berk. Shall we make it 21 next week?

THE RUTLES: Ouch!

I was a freshman in college when the classic TV special All You Need Is Cash aired in 1978, offering the world at large its first long-form view of the fabulous Faux Four, The Rutles. The guys in the dorm room across from me had a television, one of those guys happened to be a big Beatles fan, so a bunch of us settled in front of the tube to experience Rutlemania.

Unlike my peers, I was already a Rutles fan. I was hooked about a year and a half before that, when Monty Python's Flying Circus luminary Eric Idle guest-hosted Saturday Night Live in October of '76; that show included a clip of Eric and this fake band The Rutles cavorting their moptopped way through "I Must Be In Love," a FABrication which turned out to be the musical brainchild of Neil Innes. Innes played The Rutles' John Lennon counterpart Ron Nasty alongside Idle's Dirk McQuickly; the clip had previously appeared on the 1975 BBC series Rutland Weekend Television, but it was new to me on SNL in '76. Innes returned as Nasty on SNL in 1977, leading up to the 1978 TV special. 

The Friday night prior to the March 22nd, 1978 airing of All You Need Is Cash, NBC included two Rutles clips on its weekly musical showcase The Midnight Special. One of those clips was The Rutles' "Help!" parody, "Ouch!"

Awrighty. We love you Rutles, oh yes we do.

Alas, I was the only one of those assembled in that Thompson Hall dorm room to appreciate The Rutles. Story of my life: I, Square Peg. I bought the "I Must Be In Love"/"Doubleback Alley" 45, and my sister gave me a copy of The Rutles' LP that she picked up in the UK. A legend that will last a lunchtime? Ouch. 

THE STAN LAURELS: I'm Only Sleeping

It wasn't by design, but we wound up playing a number of covers on this week's extravaganza. The Stan Laurels' fab rendition of The Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" is the virtual B-side of their recent Big Stir Records digital single "This Is Your Life." Since we've played the A-side in the past, we figured we'd flip instead. It is, of course, far from the first time we've flipped for The Beatles.

TAVARES: Free Ride

In a previous 10 Songs post about Tavares' hit "It Only Take A Minute," I wrote about how their cover of "Free Ride" served as my actual (if belated) gateway into all things Tavares:

"It was the late great Dick Clark who got the ball rolling in my belated discovery of Tavares. In (I think?) the '90s, VH1 was running selected, edited archival episodes of American Bandstand, and one such episode included Tavares lip-syncing their 1975 cover of The Edgar Winter Group's "Free Ride." I always liked EWG's original, and I'd never before heard Tavares' take on it, but that cover instantly became the definitive version for me...."

BADFINGER: Baby Blue

We closed this week's show with two examples in our ongoing discussion of The Greatest Record Ever Made!: "Baby Blue" by Badfinger and "September Gurls" by Big Star. An infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as the take turns. I've been writing a book about that subject, and while that project has hit some roadblocks, I aim to continue bludgeoning its path forward in my usual charmingly stubborn fashion.

The Badfinger song and the Big Star song both rate chapters in the book, and "September Gurls" was the first track I ever described as GREM! "Baby Blue" looms large in my legend as the single that meant the most to me on the radio, a song spinning in my ears at the very moment that I fell permanently in love with radio. 

BARNEY RUBBLE AND THE FLINTSTONE CANARIES: The Soft Soap Jingle

A post-playlist coda. Because it's important to be clean.

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This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1070

It would be an exaggeration to say that Rich Firestone saved our radio station. But Reechie sure did us an awful lot of good with his weekly show Radio Deer Camp, which celebrates its first anniversary today. For years, both Dana and I have wished that Rich would be able to do a show on this station; Rich and his wife Kathy Firestone had been in-person guest hosts of TIRnRR a couple of times, and Rich programmed and recorded the first-ever remote edition of TIRnRR one Sunday back in 2017. Man, remember when radio by remote was a novelty? Those were the days!

Anyway. Because necessity is Frank Zappa (or however the saying goes), it took a global pandemic to prompt weekly Reechie radio. A year ago, when it became clear that none of our local Syracuse programmers (us included) would be doing shows in the studio any time soon, Dana drafted Rich to do something, just to ensure SPARK's airwaves wouldn't have to be all reruns all the time. Rich stepped up bigtime with Radio Deer Camp, a destination radio show that offers The Best Two Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. Radio Deer Camp has occupied that 5 to 7 pm Eastern time slot on our station ever since, and SPARK is better for it. Furthermore, RDC inspired TIRnRR to begin programming remotely, and some other SPARK shows have also followed suit. Rich Firestone led the way.

So, did Rich Firestone save our radio station? Close enough. He has certainly made it better. We thank Rich, Kathy, and RDC's producer Harry for their efforts. Now, c'mon guys: would it hurt you to play some ABBA every once in a while? Well...either way, TIRnRR salutes you. And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

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TIRnRR # 1070: 3/28/2021

TIRnRR FRESH SPINS! Tracks we think we ain't played before are listed in bold

THE RAMONES: Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (Rhino, End Of The Century)

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RICH FIRESTONE: If The Sun Doesn't Shine (thememusictribute.bandcamp.com, THE TM COLLECTIVE: Green Thoughts)

WRECKLESS ERIC: Kilburn Lane (Fire, 12 O'Clock Stereo)

LES HANDCLAPS: Surfin' Barista (Handclaps, Sessions: Brooklyn)

HARRY NILSSON: Everybody's Talkin' (RockBeat, VA: The Wrecking Crew)

THE SMITHEREENS: Green Thoughts (Capitol, Green Thoughts)

THE JAM: Away From The Numbers (Polydor, Direction Reaction Creation)

THE TWEAKERS: Super Secret Mystery Track (Futureman, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 3 [expanded edition])

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ALLAN KAPLON: Notes On A Napkin (n/a, Notes On A Napkin)

ATHENSVILLE: Head Start (athensville.com, Undressing Minds For Show)

THE BUSBOYS: Boys Are Back In Town (Rattlesnsake Venom, The Best Of The BusBoys)

THE VIBRATORS: Bad Time [1977] (Cherry Red, VA: 1977: The Year Punk Broke)

THE ADDRISI BROTHERS: We've Got To Get It On Again (Collectables, We've Got To Get It On Again)

THE CLIQUE: Superman (Varese Sarabande, The Clique)

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BEEBE GALLINI: Nobody Loves The Hulk (Rum Bar, PANDEMOS)

CELIA & THE MUTATIONS: Mony Mony (Cherry Red, VA: 1977: The Year Punk Broke)

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Mexican Road Race (A & M, SRO)

TOMMY ROE: Dizzy (Varese Sarabande, VA: Bubblegum Classics Volume Two)

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS: Wake Up (Columbia, Time Has Come: The Best Of The Chambers Brothers)

THE ASSOCIATION: Windy (Rhino, Just The Right Sound)

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THE STAN LAURELS: I'm Only Sleeping (Big Stir, single)

PROFESSOR MORRISON'S LOLLIPOP: You Got The Love (Craft, VA: The Land Of Sensations & Delights)

STONEWALL JACKSON: Me And You And A Dog Named Boo (Columbia, Me And You And A Dog Named Boo)

THE LAUGHING GRAVY: Vegetables (Craft, VA: The Land Of Sensations & Delights)

TAVARES: Free Ride (EMI, The Best Of Tavares)

THE REZILLOS: I Wanna Be Your Man (Sensible, single)

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THE BEATLES: Thank You, Girl (Capitol, The Beatles' Second  Album)

THE COUNT BISHOPS: I Need You (Ace, The Count Bishops)

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: Time Will Tell (Damaged Goods, Truly She Is None Other)

MARY LOU LORD: Some Jingle Jangle Morning (Work, Mind The Gap)

THE GOLD NEEDLES: Have You Ever Loved Somebody (Jem, What's Tomorrow Ever Done For You?)

AMY RIGBY: Wait Til I Get You Home (Koch, The Sugar Tree)

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TOMMY RAY: Beer Wine And Whiskey (Kool Kat Musik, Handful Of Hits)

THE RINGS: I Wanna Be Free (Chiswick, single)

URIAH HEEP: Easy Livin' (Sanctuary, The Ultimate Collection)

HAL BLAINE: The Beat Goes On (RockBeat, VA: The Wrecking Crew)

STAR COLLECTOR: Stranger (Renting Space In My Head) (Clockwise, Game Day)

THE STRANGLERS: London Lady (Parlophone, Rattus Norvegicus)

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THE MONKEES: Sunny Girlfriend [acoustic remix of master vocal] (Rhino Handmade, Headquarters Sessions)

THE ANSWER: I'll Be In (White Whale, single)

THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Day Job (single)

THE BEVIS FROND: In Another Year (Rubric, Bevis Through The Looking Glass)

THE JIVE FIVE: What Time Is It (Collectables, Their Greatest Hits)

SAM COOKE: Another Saturday Night (Abkco, Portrait Of A Legend)

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DOLPH CHANEY: Pleasant Under Glass (Big Stir, This Is Dolph Chaney)

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him (Red On Red, single)

GOSPEL SWAMPS: Great Distances (Big Stir, single)

SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN': Got A Good Love (Craft, VA: The Land Of Sensations & Delights)

THE RUTLES: Ouch! (Rhino, The Rutles)

THE SMALL FACES: Shake (Deram, The Anthology 1965-1967)

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STEVE STOECKEL & HIS THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO ALL-STARS: I Could Be Good For You (Futureman, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 3)

KELLEY RYAN: The Church Of Laundry (single)

THE HARRISONICS: Holly Goes Away (harrisonics.basndcamp.com, Love Songs For All Occasions)

MOTÖRHEAD: Motörhead (Sanctuary, The Best Of Motörhead)

THE RECORDS: Paint Her Face (Virgin, Smashes, Crashes & Near-Misses)

THE BOYS: I Don't Care (Cherry Red, VA: 1977: The Year Punk Broke)

THE RAMONES: I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You (Rhino, Ramones)
THE BEATLES: I Should Have Known Better (Apple, A Hard Day's Night)

BADFINGER: Baby Blue (Apple, Straight Up)

BIG STAR: September Gurls (Ardent, # 1 Record/Radio City)

BARNEY RUBBLE & THE FLINTSTONE CANARIES: The Soft Soap Jingle (from The Flintstones TV series)

Tonight On THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO

Hey, first things first! Congratulations to our pal Rich Firestone as we celebrate the first anniversary of his fabulous show Radio Deer Camp. Radio Deer Camp airs every Sunday afternoon from 5 to 7 pm Eastern right here on SPARK!, and we've been delighted to have our Reechie as part of the team. We'll use that anniversary as an excuse to party with a few RDC-influenced selections scattered throughout our own playlist tonight, mixed with new releases from Allan Kaplon, Beebe Gallini, Dolph Chaney, Tommy Ray, Athensville, and The Stan Laurels, plus recent and/or classic sides from The Gold Needles, The Chambers Brothers, Amy Rigby, The Ramones, Sam Cooke, Kid Gulliver, Star Collector, Mary Lou Lord, Kelley Ryan, The Beatles, and more. RADIO! Let's celebrate. Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, http://sparksyracuse.org/

POP-A-LOOZA: My Guitars

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is the story of my guitars.

I have written previously of my inability to sing, play guitar, or create music of any agreeable kind. "My Guitars" supplements the longer-form chronicle "I've Got The Music In Me (And That's Where It's Going To Stay)," and my annoying predilection for drumming on counters, walls, body parts, or what-have-you is described in "To Beat Or Not To Beat." 

Given my lack of musical prowess, my pervasive love of tunes hadda find a way to express itself in other ways: as someone who writes about music, and as someone who co-hosts a radio show. The Road To GOLDMINE goes into detail about the origin of my freelance writing career at Goldmine magazine in the '80s; it is one of my favorite pieces among all I've ever written. And the weird but compelling tale of The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet unfolds in Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet: The History Of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio With Dana & Carl. 

None of it happens without the music. I sing the now-familiar refrain: I can't play, but I can write. "My Guitars" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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Update And Pause: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (VOLUME 1)

An infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns.

It's been a little over two years since I announced my intention to turn my Greatest Record Ever Made! blog series into a book. The book project made a little bit of progress in 2019, as I secured the services of a literary agent and put together a formal proposal for the book. I was encouraged, and things seemed promising.

Alas, there has been no real progress on the book's prospects for publication since late in 2019.

I alluded to some of this in last week's post about where I think I am and what this place looks like today. I mentioned some specifics in this week's GREM! video. Because of legitimate real-world complications (including but not limited to, y'know, a global pandemic), my agent has not shown the proposal to any potential publishers. And I want to be clear when I say that I bear her no ill will for that; she has been in a difficult situation, and this could not be helped. 

Nonetheless, we have agreed to part company. She was an enormously positive factor in getting the project on track at its beginning, and in coaching and/or coercing me into crafting a decent book proposal. I really wish that we would have been able to continue working together, but it simply wasn't gonna happen. The parting is amicable, as I have expressed my gratitude and she has replied, "I also hope that I can read your finished work when it's available because Greatest Record Ever Made has a lot of style and heart; it was and is a worthwhile and moving piece of writing."

And now, I have to figure out a way to move forward with it.

At this time, I am not interested in self-publishing or ebooks; that may change, but I'm going to continuing pursuing my original goal for now. That will require professional representation, so I will be starting the process of finding another agent. I will continue to work on the book itself, perhaps tweaking the proposal and certainly tweaking the selection of songs. I believe very much in this book, and I remain confident that it will become a book. Eventually. Someday.

It just won't become a book as quickly as I had hoped.

In the mean time, the weekly GREM! videos will also continue. And I am currently pursuing an unrelated book project directly with a publisher; that project, win or lose, should not require an agent. 

GREM! does need an agent. So yeah, it's just like starting over. Take two. We'll get it done. Time is not infinite; but our music is. My turn's coming soon.

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The many fine This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:

Volume 1: download
Volume 2: CD or download
Volume 3: download
Volume 4: CD or download

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MY WEEKLY VIDEO BLOG: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! # 23: The Carpenters, "Only Yesterday" and Material Issue, "Kim The Waitress"

An infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. I like that idea so much I'm writing a book about it. And I'm promoting that book with a weekly video series, discussing each of the book's chosen tracks one by one.

As the video will tell you, the book's path to publication just got longer; I'll talk a little bit more about that in Friday's blog post. Meanwhile, the video series now offers TWO! [smack] TWO! [smack] TWO songs in one: "Only Yesterday" by The Carpenters and "Kim The Waitress" by Material Issue. It's an emotional entry, a willful example of my intention for the book to show how the songs we love are integral parts of our lives, in happy times and in, y'know...other times. Refresh your memory of the magic of the Carpenters song and the Material Issue song, then witness my own testimony:

If you dig whatever the hell it is I'm doing in these weekly videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. NEXT WEEK: uncertainty notwithstanding, we'll be back with more from The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: The Carpenters, "Only Yesterday" and Material Issue, "Kim The Waitress"

GREM! # 22: The Beatles,"Yesterday"

GREM! # 21: The Bay City Rollers, "Rock And Roll Love Letter"

GREM! # 20: Buddy Holly, "Peggy Sue"/"Everyday"

GREM! # 19: The Monkees, "The Girl I Knew Somewhere"

GREM! # 18: Melanie with the Edwin Hawking Singers, "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)"

GREM! # 17: The Romantics, "What I Like About You"

GREM! # 16: The Hollies, "I Can't Let Go"

GREM! # 15: Wilson Pickett, "In The Midnight Hour"

GREM! # 14: Crazy Elephant, "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'"

GREM! # 13: Neil Diamond, "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"

GREM! # 12: Little Richard, "The Girl Can't Help It"

GREM! # 11: Eytan Mirsky, "This Year's Gonna Be Our Year"

GREM! # 10: The Monkees, "Riu Chiu"

GREM! # 9: Patti Smith, "Gloria"

GREM! # 8: Big Mama Thornton, "Hound Dog"

GREM! # 7: Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"

GREM! # 6: The Sex Pistols,"God Save The Queen"

GREM! # 5: Dusty Springfield,"I Only Want To Be With You"

GREM! # 4: Chuck Berry, "Promised Land"

GREM! # 3: Baron Daemon and the Vampires, "The TransylvaniaTwist"

GREM! # 2: Badfinger, "Baby Blue"

GREM! # 1: The Ramones, "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?

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The many fine This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:

Volume 1: download
Volume 2: CD or download
Volume 3: download
Volume 4: CD or download
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Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)will contain 165 essays about 165 tracks, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1). My weekly Greatest Record Ever Made! video rants can be seen in my GREM! YouTube playlist. And I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl.