Various - Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: Season 1, Ep.10: Summer and Season 3, Ep. 19: Happiness

These two uploads were requested by my fellow blogger David, the famous metalbastard. Since in the previous TTRH post, a broadcast from season 2 was uploaded, I chose to upload one broadcast for each of the remaining seasons. Furthermore, the themes chosen were "Summer" (an obvious selection amidst a mild heatwave) and "Happiness" (for which all of us are in its constant pursuit).

Tracklisting for "Summer":
Summertime — Billy Stewart (1966)
Summertime Blues — Eddie Cochran (1958)
(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave — Martha & the Vandellas (1963)
Heat Wave — Sol K. Bright and His Hollywaiians (1935)
Sunny — Bobby Hebb (1966)
Juneteenth Jamboree — Fatso Bentley (?)
So Nice — Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley (1966)
Youth of 1000 Summers — Van Morrison (1990)
Hot Weather Blues — Mr. Sad Head (1951)
Summer in the City — Lovin’ Spoonful (1966)
Too Hot — Prince Buster (1967)
In the Summertime — Mungo Jerry (1970)
Ice Cream Man — John Brim (1953)
Fourth of July — Dave Alvin (1994)
Hot Fun in the Summertime — Sly & the Family Stone (1969)

Tracklisting for "Happiness":
Feelin' High and Happy - Hot Lips Page (1938)
Love and Happiness - Al Green (1972)
(I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I'll Be Happy - Jimmy Heap and The Melody Masters
Happy Home - Elmore James (1955)
Happy - The Rolling Stones (1972)
I Want To Be Happy - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra (1937)
Happy - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins (2006)
You've Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway (1967)
Happy Rovin' Cowboy - The Sons of the Pioneers (1935–1936)
Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks (1979)
Smile - Judy Garland (1963) - [music by Charlie Chaplin, from "Modern Times"]
Happy Trails - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with Frank Worth & His Orchestra (1950)

download link for "Summer": here (link removed)
download link for "Happiness": here (link removed)

Various - Stoned To The Bone - Songs The Rolling Stones Made Famous (@320)

The Rolling Stones remain a fundamental ingredient for rock music and it's for sure that they will be among the very few groups and artists that will be mentioned when rock will die and will be a museum section and a topic for the researchers of the future. It's therefore a shame that for three and a half years that this blog exists, there hasn't been a single post dedicated to them. Better late than never I reckon. The return after 38 years of Exile On Main Street to the top of the UK album chart, as well as its runner-up position in the US album chart was an excellent opportunity for me in my attempt to make up my unexplainable omission.
I think (any comments that will prove the opposite are welcome) that the uploaded cd is the first in the long series of premiums that compiled tracks that influenced/were covered by the Stones. It's not a surprise that it came along with a 1997 issue of the Greek magazine Zoo that, believe it or not, could only be compared with the best moments of Mojo! The compilation itself is of course full of blues and early rock'n'roll standards, which comprised the solid ground on which the Stones built their career.

Tracklisting:
01-Muddy Waters - Rolling Stone
02-Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster
03-Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You
04-Bo Diddley - I'm A Man
05-Muddy Waters - Look What You've Done
06-Tommy Tucker - Hi-Heel Sneakers
07-Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
08-Bo Diddley - Mona
09-Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away
10-Bo Diddley - Crackin' Up
11-Muddy Waters - I Just Wanna Be Loved
12-Howlin' Wolf - Little Baby
13-Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
14-Hank Snow - I'm Moving On
15-Chuck Berry - Come On
16-Chuck Berry - Round And Round
17-Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny
18-Chuck Berry - Carol
19-Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me

download link: here (link removed due to a relevant request)

Muddy Waters - At Newport (1960) (@256)

It's a little bit dated, but I saw the film Cadillac Records during the weekend. It's a biopic that deals with Chess records, a Chicago-based label that established what is now considered as Chicago blues. Colossal artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley built their careers in the studios of Chess. It's a pity that such a great subject was not developed in a satisfactory way. As Lois Wilson writes in Mojo (issue 190, Sep. 09) "this Chess-inspired romp takes too many liberties with the truth". One could argue that such "liberties" could be justified in a film loosely based in real-life events, where the real names are not used; the film Dreamgirls is I guess a good example. Here is the whole review:
"JUST OVER half way through Cadillac Records, a very-worse-for-wear Etta James played by Beyonce Knowles, kisses her label boss, Chess records co-founder Leonard Chess, played by Adrien Brody. It's implied that they are about to embark on an affair, the action taking place some time in the '60s.
After he saw the film Leonard's son, Marshall Chess — who was consultant on this Darnell Martin-written and directed film based on the Chess label story — rang up Etta James (the real one). "Did you really have an affair with my father?" he asked her, hoping that Leonard hadn't copped off with his leading lady. Of course not, was Etta's reply and therein lies the main problem with Cadillac Records. Not content to just tell the story of the label founded in 1947 by Polish emigre brothers Leonard and Phil Chess (the latter is airbrushed out, presumably to keep the plot simpler), it feels a need to tell great big lies. Like the one wherein blues harpist Little Walter (Columbus Short) shoots a man who is using his name. Perhaps Martin got him muddled up with Sonny Boy Williamson, another important Chess recording artist, who doesn't appear in the film, didn't kill anyone, but did steal his name from a different bluesman called Sonny Boy Williamson after he was murdered. Another player missing from the tale astonishingly is Bo Diddley, who signed to the label in 1955 and whose guitar playing caused a musical revolution. Even those with just a fleeting interest in Chess would recognise how integral Bo is to the label's evolution. And, of course, Leonard Chess didn't really discover Etta James: that was Johnny Otis, who conceived and recorded Etta's 1955 debut The Wallflower, a Number 1 US R&B hit five years before she joined Chess.
So either Martin didn't do, or has ignored, her research to come up with a script so inaccurate
that there's little point running the tag, "based on a true story". Sadly, her bending of the truth hasn't made the screenplay any more enticing.
And yet, when Cadillac Records sticks to the making of the music it delivers some great moments: Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf turns in a mighty fine rendition of Smokestack Lightnin', Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, a convincing I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and Mos Def as the wild child Chuck Berry is compelling throughout.
The same can't be said for Adrien Brody, who is expressionless as the elder Chess brother, or Beyonce, who remakes every Etta James song into a hysterical modern R&B number. As such, there's very little to celebrate here. But should you want more, also included is a documentary on the making of the film, another one on the design and a director's commentary."

In any case, the film was a great opportunity to upload this Chess release, which is one of the greatest live recordings ever. And in order to cover the unreasonable absence of Bo Diddley from the film, I urge to discover another Chess release, uploaded earlier in this blog.

review link: here

download link: here