Posts by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
(DIR) Post #ASh4utsDWbbdqNtoiO by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T03:42:29Z
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RIP to Huey "Piano" Smith, one of the all time greats of New Orleans music. His influence on rock and roll is unimpeachable. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/new-orleans-rock-n-roll-pioneer-huey-piano-smith-dies/article_1a451915-0f9f-5e14-a98d-c1372185dc62.html#NewOrleans #RockNRoll #RhythmAndBlues #Blues #RIP
(DIR) Post #ASh4v4cJa4QDAFXlxI by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:10:21Z
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I'm gonna post a few Huey Smith classics. I'm sure all of these and more will get plenty of airplay on WWOZ and WFMU in the next few days. First up, his biggest hit, Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, which has been covered by many. When I taught a clinic on New Orleans drumming a few years ago, I played this tune as an example of the unique (and impossible to notate) swing of the NOLA groove, sitting in the region between swing and straight eighths. https://youtu.be/-WWlwgoAxPE
(DIR) Post #ASh4v6NV27l8cscy8m by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:15:40Z
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Next up, Don't You Just Know It. This was a top ten hit on both the pop and r&b charts in 1958. The call and response chorus is unforgettable! https://youtu.be/3P3yqQ4vgHA
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2023-02-15T04:17:58Z
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The b-side to Don't You Just Know It was High Blood Pressure, another stone cold classic. Surely one of the greatest double-sided singles of early rock and roll. https://youtu.be/zzaFE7CqLJo
(DIR) Post #ASh4v9x3kMzDi2HuU4 by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:24:04Z
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Little Liza Jane is a standard of New Orleans brass band and Mardi Gras Indian repertoire, with roots going way back into the 19th century. Huey's version from 1956 brought the song into the rock n' roll era, and is still one of the best known. https://youtu.be/ob0umJgcY5E
(DIR) Post #ASh4vBdzSEvAxTNi2S by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:28:27Z
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Well I'll Be John Brown is another scorcher, with the great Bobby Marchan on lead vocals. This song along with High Blood Pressure and Don't You Just Know It were covered in a medley to great effect on Dr. John's Gumbo album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0HvvHevlPY
(DIR) Post #ASh4vDRImNxaWhSbXU by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:40:09Z
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Frankie Ford had a big hit with Sea Cruise, but it was actually a Huey Smith and the Clowns song in disguise. Huey recorded it and sung it as a duet with Gerri Hall, but the label owner replaced the vocal track with teenager Frankie Ford because he thought it would sell more with a white singer. Here's Huey's original version with the same instrumental track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7BA1pu4sXk
(DIR) Post #ASh4vFR1MOvKiPLPNY by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T04:58:39Z
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And I'll end the thread with a couple of examples of Huey's session work. As a regular at Cosimo Matassa's studio in the '50s, he recorded with damn near everyone in New Orleans. He was on one of Earl King's first hits, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, in 1955. https://youtu.be/lfYx4hg75nU
(DIR) Post #ASh4vH1DTJTFcxHpR2 by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T05:03:23Z
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Also from 1955, I Hear You Knocking was the biggest hit for singer Smiley Lewis, with Huey Smith on piano. https://youtu.be/F3-2nOlO528
(DIR) Post #ASh4vIlKzJxR2HsAxk by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-02-15T05:13:27Z
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And finally, I'll note that Huey Smith was in the house band that backed Little Richard on his first recording session in New Orleans for Specialty Records. The sources I checked were in conflict as to which ones he played and which ones Little Richard played himself, so I won't link to any here. But Huey *might* have been on Tutti Frutti. After everything we have heard in this thread, would you be surprised? RIP one more time to Huey Piano Smith, a hugely influential artist. /end thread
(DIR) Post #ATYjcOPMqTkAlhpcqO by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-03-12T16:24:20Z
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The slow demise of AM radio continues as Ford drops AM from the 2024 Mustang. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/the-2024-ford-mustang-is-the-next-car-to-lose-am-radio/#radio
(DIR) Post #ATYoRiRUWAHVUNYMeO by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-03-13T03:39:07Z
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@elizamccarthy This is already an option. It's called brokered programming, and it's mostly done by religious groups and infomercials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_programming
(DIR) Post #AbXEtfD03jpNAU0pxA by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2023-11-06T14:22:23Z
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If you're missing baseball already, you should know that @internetarchive's Old Time Radio collection includes hundreds of recordings of full baseball games from 1934 to 1973. World Series, all star games and regular season, from Ruth and Gehrig to Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan. https://archive.org/details/classicmlbbaseballradio#baseball #radio #OldTimeRadio
(DIR) Post #Ai0mvSgaZSgRDE9GfQ by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2024-05-06T03:50:56Z
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I really dug the heady jams of Emergency Group at the Knitting Factory / Baker Falls tonight, with WFMU's @dmandl on bass. It's so cool to have awesome music happening so close to home. My only complaint is that the set was way too short!
(DIR) Post #Ai0mvUpWbD1HrWLQsC by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2024-05-06T03:54:33Z
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As an aside, tonight was the first time I have been in that room since 1995 or '96, when I played at what was then the Pyramid Club for my very first rock gig in NYC with one of my bands from SUNY Binghamton, Tokyo Sexwhale. The room looks pretty much the same as it did back then. I remember we played well, and then after our set I went across town to Smalls, where I hung out watching the jam session till sunrise.
(DIR) Post #AkAGcttfAgs3xl6Nto by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2024-07-20T05:18:03Z
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Hello from the top of the Empire State Building (79th floor to be exact) where I am participating in an overnight test of WNYC's disaster recovery systems. While our colleagues are downtown at the studios testing backup power generators, I'm up here running the station's programming from our little studio in the sky. #WNYC #NYC #radio
(DIR) Post #AlCOULJ381tk7DqFlI by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2024-08-21T17:21:01Z
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Just about every time I travel abroad someone will come up to me on the street or in the subway system to ask me for directions in the local language. It just happened again, this time in Berlin!
(DIR) Post #ApmGgTriJ9Px6EFdIW by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2025-01-05T16:32:54Z
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@futurebird As a Manhattan resident, if the policy cuts down on traffic, noise, road rage, "accidents," etc., I don't really care how they spend the money! Today is already the quietest day in my apartment (next to the FDR drive) since April 2020.
(DIR) Post #Av0Idm4pqCy3dfoNuq by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2025-06-10T23:42:50Z
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Big ol' anti-ICE protest outside the immigration office on Varick Street, visible (and audible) from my office #nyc
(DIR) Post #Awpx3CjFpHF9SehGUK by jasonisaacdrums@heads.social
2025-08-04T13:21:15Z
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Today is Louis Armstrong's birthday! Check out my birthday tribute to Pops from the WFMU archives and start your week with a smile! https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154720#LouisArmstrong #Satchmo #PopsIsTops #WFMU