Can the Grouse handle doing a radio show 3 weeks in a row? We’re about to find out. Last week, DJ86 was off getting some much deserved R&R, and the Grouse stepped in to fill his Mighty shoes. We didn’t want to shock 86’s normal listeners, so we tried to keep it generally within the same format. The regularly scheduled weirdness of Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall will be back tonight.

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Bold text indicates relatively new releases (including reissues and comps).

• Baker Knight and the (K)nightmares - “Hallucinations” (from Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults)
• Howie Thayer and His Psycho-Electric Happening Psychedelic Sounds - “Movin’ Groovin Fairy Tale” (from Single-Mindedness: Tony Coulter’s 2011 WFMU Marathon Premium)
• Harper’s Bizarre - “Come to the Sunshine” (from Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults)
• Modern Folk Quartet - “This Could Be the Night” (from Phil Spector - Back To Mono)
• Misty Wizards - “It’s Love” (from A Heavy Dose Of Lyte Psych)
• Orange Alabaster Mushroom - “Your Face is in My Mind” (from Space & Time: A Compendium Of The Orange Alabaster Mushroom)
• The Searchers - “Love Potion No. 9” (KJB-27)
• Gandalf - “You Upset the Grace of Living” (from Gandalf)
• Traffic - “Heaven Is In Your Mind” (from Heaven Is In Your Mind)
• Lord Apologizer is always sorry.
  • Duane Eddy - “Detour b/w The Lonely One” (33 rpm) (Jamie 1117 )
• Etta James - “Plum Nuts” (from The Second Time Around)
• Howard Tate - “Ain’t Nobody Home” (VK 10420)
• Johnny Otis - “Willie and the Hand Jive” (from Capitol Years)
• The Music Machine - “Talk Talk” (from (Turn On) The Music Machine)
• The Amboy Dukes - “Journey to the Center of the Mind” (Mainstream 684)
• Tunnel of Love - “Time Don’t You Pass Me By” (TAPES-013)
• Teenage Gang Debs (1966) Trailer (from YouTube)
• The Chymes - “Quite a Reputation” (from Girls in the Garage)
• Mikal Cronin - “Get Along” (from Mikal Cronin)
• Ty Segall - “Goodbye Bread” (from Goodbye Bread)
• Apache Dropout - “Sam Phillips Rising” (from Apache Dropout)
• Crystal Stilts - “Sugar Baby” (slr91)
• The Rantouls - “Little Green Hat” (CCR-006)
• Mark Sultan - “Axis Abraxis” (from Whatever I Want)
• The Troggs - “With a Girl Like You” (Atco 45-6415)
• The Mighty Grouse gives a goodbye fakeout.
  • Booker T & the MGs - “Soul Dressing” (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Moon - “Mothers and Fathers” (from Without Earth & The Moon)
• Brute Force - “To Sit on a Sandwich” (from I, Brute Force - Confections of Love)
• David Peel & the Lower East Side - “I Want to Kill You” (from The American Revolution)
• Lance Romance (Kim Fowley) - “Hollywood Nights” (from Living In The Streets)
• The Hollies - “Signs That Will Never Change” (Epic 5-10180)
• The Everly Brothers - “I’m So Lonely” (from Two Yanks in England)
• Adrian Pride - “Her Name is Melody” (from Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults)
• Pisces - “Mary” (from Pisces: A Lovely Sight)
• An exciting study of the calendar with the Mighty Grouse
  • The Mar-Keys - “Bo-Time” (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Easybeats - “Friday On My Mind” (UA 50106)

This mix isn’t lyrically Christmas themed. Such a compilation might take a few years of exhaustive research. I tacked some Christmasy stuff on at the end, just to get in the spirit. There’s also a song about a guy pulling out his sausage at a Christmas party. 

I believe a non-affiliated CPR friend got my mix. I was lucky to pull DJ Wanako’s. I’m excited to hear it!

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• My Intention Is War - Lord Invader and Mighty Dictator
• Etheopia - The Jamaican Calypsonians
• Red Tomato - Chin’s Calypso Sextet
• Roosevelt In Trinidad - Duke of Iron
• You Are My Sunshine - Mike Alexander/Pott Steelers
• Cinemascope - Carlie Binger and His Calypsonians
• Human Race - Lord Pretender
• Russian Satellite - The Mighty Sparrow
• Indrani - Lord Shorty (Ras Shorty I)
• Shame and Scandal - Duke Errol And The Lords
• Tribute to Luther King - Canary
• My Donkey Wants Water - Macbeth The Great
• Atomic Nightmare - Talbot Brothers
• Sausage - Baldhead Growler
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Mighty Sparrow
• Christmas is Joyful - The Executor
• Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner

Last Saturday the Grouse and several other CPR DJs provided audible entertainment during the annual Radio CPR Fundraising Record sale. Grouse brought his digital recorder so that you, the Internet listener, might enjoy the same tunes. Keep an eye out, DJ Dianamatic might also be posting her set some time soon.

I had originally thought of doing an entirely calypso based set for my hour. But the last time I pulled that trick, I had half the crowd snoozin, and half in a riot (Philistines!). Instead we get a brief prologue with Calypsos from across the Caribbean. The set then veers totally off course into 50 minutes of freeform mess!

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• The Mighty Terror - “Chinee Children, Call Me Daddy” (from Calypsos From the West Indies (Monogram 834))
• Duke and His Jamaica Five - “Shame and Scandal” (from Kalypso and Ska)
• Sidney Bean - “Bloodshot Eyes” (from Calypso Holiday in Bermuda)
• Wynonie Harris - “Good Morning Judge” (from Good Rockin’ Blues)
  • If I might explain my thinking here… Duke has covered “Chinee Children” and “Bloodshot Eyes,” which of course was originally recorded by Wynonie…
• Bent Leg Fatima - “Cup & Saucer” (from Bent Leg Fatima)
• Illaiyaraaja - “Sorgam Madhuvile feat. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam” (from Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 Vol. 1)
• The Emperors - “Karate” (from MALA 543)
• The Shag - “Stop & Listen” (from The Pebbles Box, Record 1)
• Hugh Masekela - “Mace & Grenades” (from UNI 55102)
  • NB: First heard this song while Ted Leo and Chris Wilson were DJing a bar in Chicago. Emphatically air-drumming the whole time.
• The Mighty Sparrow - “Chinese Love Affair” (from Hot and Sweet)
• Rocketship - “Your New Boyfriend/Like a Dream” (from Why Popstars Can’t Dance: A Slumberland Compilation)
• Fire Engines - “Candyskin” (from POP 010)
• The Rantouls - “Little Bit of This” (from CCR-006)
• Terry Malts - “Something About You” (from SLR 159)
• Jimmy Jukebox (Kim Fowley) - “Motor Boat” (from Living in the Streets)
• Pere Ubu - “Street Waves” (from The Modern Dance)
• The Meters - “Tippi-Toes” (from Struttin’)
• Can - “I Want More” (from 12spoon047)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson - “Brain Smashing Dub” (from LKJ in Dub)

(NB: The last show, 11/3/11 will be posted soon! Hopefully before the next show… which is later today!)