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"Lord, Have Mercy" by Christine Kittrell, 1953

Exciting R. & B. jump number featuring Christine's strong contralto vocals. Particularly interesting, however, for the fact that Little Richard supplied the pounding piano and helped with the back-up vocals.

  1. Rock N Rhythm Revue: Podcasts
  2. Doo Wop Nation
  3. Blue Highway (Blues)
  4. Fifties Website
  5. Marv Goldberg's Yesterday's Memories Rhythm & Blues Party
  6. Black Gospel Music Clef
  7. Trinidad Calypso Tent
  8. Classic Urban Harmony

CARIBBEAN TRAVEL AND CULTURE LINKS:

  1. Aruba Travel Guide
  2. Bahamas Homepage
  3. Barbados Tourism Authority
  4. Caribbean Supersite
  5. Trinidad and Tobago Homepage
  6. Bahamas Online

DR. HEPCAT ON YOU TUBE!

If you dig boogie woogie and gospel piano check out these two You Tube performances:

Boogie 1

Where Shall I Be?

Listen to Dr. Hepcat broadcast the "Golden Oldies" show on WEGL - Auburn, FM 91.1 on Fridays, 2 - 4 p.m. (Central Standard Time). He plays the best rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, doo wop, rockabilly, Black gospel, blues, early country, ska, calypso, and related music of the 1940's and 1950's! Check out WEGL's web site at http://wegl.auburn.edu/
Tune in!

Play List: See Below

Just married! (October 28, 2006)


Last updated February 3, 2012 at 4:27 p. m. Copyright (c) 2011.

Send any e-mail comments to me at dodgeti@auburn.edu

Play List

While I was broadcasting on December 1, 2006, a listener called me up to make a very good suggestion: that I keep an online play list of the Golden Oldies records I play on each show! Just so everyone knows, I started out on radio as a trainee on WSRN - Swarthmore, Pa. in the fall of 1975. In those days, even on a college radio station, you had to take a written test from the F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission) in order to get your license as a Third Class Radiotelephone Operator. Consequently, my real on-air radio career did not start until Sunday, February 1, 1976 at 5:00 a.m. when I played my very first song. It was "Speedo" by the Cadillacs (1955).

I remained a d.j. on WSRN until May 1979. My next radio experience took place Summer 1984 - July 1987 when I hosted a Blues and also sometimes a Gospel program on WDNA - Miami. After that I hosted both a Golden Oldies and a Calypso Carnival show on WUNH - Durham, N.H. from January 1988 - June 1992.

Finally, in May 1998 I joined WEGL - Auburn, Ala. as host of the Golden Oldies. Just wanted to let you all know that even though my online listing of radio show play lists only reflects the current academic semester, I've actually broadcasted many hundreds, possibly even a thousand or two thousand radio shows off and on since February 1, 1976!

NOTICE: As I have typed in these playlists, I have come to the realization that this web site is becoming a bit too long, so starting with the Summer 2007 Semester, I think I will only provide playlists for the length of the current semester. This means I will delete the playlists of the previous semester at the start of the new semester. Since this is University-supplied server space, I know I will eventually run into server space limits anyway. Thank you for taking note.

PLAY LISTS: Spring 2012

January 6, 2012

  1. "Up above my Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1947
  2. "Don't Be Careless" by Billy the Kid Emerson
  3. "Tonight's the Night" by the Shirelles, 1960
  4. "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" by the Collegians, 1957
  5. "You Know I Love You" by B.B. King, 1952
  6. "Romance in the Dark" by Lil Green, 1940
  7. "Sneaky Pete" by Bull Moose Jackson, 1948
  8. "W-P-L-J" by the Four Deuces, 1955
  9. "Fujiyama Mama" by Annisteen Allen, 1954
  10. "Yama, Yama, Pretty Mama" by Richard Berry, 1956
  11. "Who Is your Friend?" by the Trumpeteers, 1950
  12. "Were You There When They Crucified my Lord?" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Rosetta Gospel Singers, 1949
  13. "Little Side Car" by the Larks, 1951
  14. "Pigtails" by Joe Houston, 1953 (Live HOT saxophone instrumental!)
  15. "Willie and the Hand Jive" by the Johnny Otis Show, 1958
  16. "Miss You So" by Tiny Topsy, 1957
  17. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" by Sonny Til and the Orioles, 1949
  18. "After New Year's Eve" by the Heartbeats, 1957
  19. "Ringing in a Brand New Year" by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, 1953
  20. "Talk about Him, Girlie" by the Hearts, 1955
  21. "Rock a Rock" by the Eldaros, 1958
  22. "My Cherie" by the Shells, 1957
  23. "Tell Me Now" by the Dolls, 1958
  24. "That's All Right" by Elvis Presley, 1954
  25. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" by Elvis Presley, 1954
  26. "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Elvis Presley, 1954
  27. "Baby, Let's Play House" by Elvis Presley, 1955
  28. "I Love You Because" by Elvis Presley, 1954
  29. "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" by Elvis Presley, 1955
  30. "Working on the Building" by Elvis Presley, 1960
  31. "Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet" by Kitty Wells
  32. "Motor City Boogie" by the York Brothers, 1950
  33. "I Gotta Know" by Wanda Jackson, 1956
  34. "The Bells Are Ringing" by Smiley Lewis, 1952
  35. "The Things that I Used to Do" by Guitar Slim, 1953
  36. "You Don't Love Me No More" by Jerry McCain
  37. "Lord, Have Mercy" by Christine Kittrell, 1953 (Hot rocker! Interesting: Little Richard plays pounding piano and helps with back-up vocals!)
  38. "Fool at the Wheel" by Little Richard and the Duces of Rhythm with the Temp Toppers, 1953
  39. "Heeby-Jeebies" by Little Richard, 1957

January 13, 2012: Show had to be scrapped because some absolutely inconsiderate oaf had left various cables to the turn tables unplugged and the Station Engineer happened to be in North Carolina and thus was not around to fix things. Sorry for the inconvenience to us all! Great way to start the new semester but, I suppose, I can partly blame this on being Friday the 13th. If all goes well, station equipment will be properly working next Friday - January 20 - and I will then be able to broadcast the mini-segment I had planned for observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

January 20, 2012

  1. "Up above my Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1947
  2. "Creole Alley" by Lee Allen and Paul Gayten, 1954
  3. "Don't Rush Me, Baby" by Peggy Saunders, 1954
  4. "I'm Gonna Leave You, Baby" by Lazy Lester
  5. "Please Surrender" by the Eldaros, 1958
  6. "In the Chapel" by Ann Cole, 1956
  7. "Got a Pretty Little Baby" by the Embraceables, 1959
  8. "Book of Love" by the Monotones, 1958
  9. "Pushover" by Etta James, 1962
  10. "Old Smokie" by Johnny and the Hurricanes
  11. "Bring It on Home to Me" by Sam Cooke, 1962
  12. "(Today I Met) the Boy I'm Going to Marry" by Darlene Love, 1963
  13. "Christian's Automobile" by the Dixie Hummingbirds, 1957
  14. "The Ball Game" by Sister Wynona Carr, 1952
  15. "Wyatt Earp" by the Marquees, 1957
  16. "Hey, Little Schoolgirl" by the Marquees, 1957
  17. "A Thousand Miles Away" by the Heartbeats, 1956
  18. "Angel on my Shoulder" by Kathy Young and the Innocents
  19. "You're in Love" by the Five Vets, 1957
  20. "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Big Joe Turner, 1954
  21. "New Kind of Mambo" by Big Maybelle, 1954
  22. "Let the Four Winds Blow" by Roy Brown, 1957 (Nice breezy rocker! Yes, the same song made into a big hit by Fats Domino in 1961 but this is the original version!)
  23. "Born to Be with You" by the Chordettes
  24. "You" by the Aquatones, 1958
  25. "Black, Brown, and White" by Big Bill Broonzy, 1947
  26. "Brown" by Eddie "Tex" Curtis, 1954
  27. "No Jim Crow in Heaven" by the Capitol City Quartette, 1950
  28. "Martin Luther King" by the Mighty Sparrow, 1963 (Great Trinidadian Calypso about the American civil rights leader!)
  29. "Dry your Eyes" by Brenda and the Tabulations, 1966
  30. "Up the Aisle (Just You and I)" by Linda Carter, 1964
  31. "I Was There When It Happened" by Johnny Cash, 1957
  32. "Jesus Remembered Me" by Kitty Wells with Johnny and Jack with the Tennessee Mountain Boys
  33. "Drivin' Nails in my Coffin" by Floyd Tillman
  34. "Fool's Paradise" by the Cochran Brothers
  35. "Strange Romance" by Shirley Gunter, 1954
  36. "Sittin' Here Drinking" by Christine Kittrell, 1952
  37. "House Rockin' Boogie" by Howlin' Wolf, 1951
  38. "I Got a Man in the 'Bama Mines" by Sweet Pease Spivey, 1937

January 27, 2012

  1. "Up above my Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1947
  2. "Mama, He Treats your Daughter Mean" by Ruth Brown, 1953 (Her biggest hit! A true R. & B. rocker but this is the fast version rather than the actual hit version which had a slower but heavier beat!)
  3. "Rock, Little Frances" by the Five Willows, 1953
  4. "Rocking Jenny Jones" by Big John Greer, 1954
  5. "Wise Man Blues" by Bobby "Blue" Bland, 1952
  6. "I'll Be Around" by Edna McGriff, 1952
  7. "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard, 1955
  8. "Rendezvous with You" by the Desires, 1960
  9. "Little Star" by the Elegants, 1958
  10. "Little Boy Blue" by the Elegants, 1960
  11. "Seven Steps to Hell" by Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke, 1963
  12. "Everything You Need" by the Caravans, 1963
  13. "The Clapping Song" by Shirley Ellis, 1965
  14. "Shake a Tail Feather" by the Five Du-Tones, 1963
  15. "Wild Weekend" by the Rebels, 1958 (Exciting instrumental! Recorded in 1958 but not actually a hit until 1962!)
  16. "Rock a Rock" by the Eldaros, 1958
  17. "I Want to Be Loved (Only by You)" by the Sharmettes, 1962
  18. "My Search Is Over" by the Carols, 1956
  19. "Tick Tock" by Marvin and Johnny, 1954
  20. "Let's Do the Boogie" by B.B. King, 1956
  21. "Go to Work, Pretty Daddy" by Eunice Davis, 1953
  22. "Let's Go to the Rock 'n' Roll Ball" by the Pastels, 1958
  23. "Teenager's Letter of Promises" by Juanita Rogers and Lynn Hollings with Mr. V's Five Joys, 1961
  24. "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" by the Spaniels, 1953 (The soulful doo-wop ballad original hit version!)
  25. "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" by Johnnie and Jack, 1954 (The surprisingly effective Country remake. Slightly faster but still very soulful!)
  26. "When my Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" - by Johnny and Jack (Nice Country remake of the Country original by Gene and Wiley from 1941! Elvis Presely remade this into a Rock 'n' Roll classic in 1956!)
  27. "Ashes of Love" by Johnnie and Jack, 1951
  28. "Poison Love" by Johnnie and Jack, 1950
  29. "Slow Poison" by Johnnie and Jack
  30. "Sweeping through the Gate" by Johnnie and Jack, 1949-50
  31. "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr, 1952 (Nice original pop version! Melodious ballad!)
  32. "Wheel of Fortune" by the Cardinals, 1952 (Nice R. & B. remake! Melodious ballad with vocal harmony!)
  33. "On the Highway" by Rosa Shaw, 1952
  34. "I Hope I May Join the Band" by the Robinson Children, 1942
  35. "Death Ray Boogie" by Pete Johnson, 1941
  36. "I Got Love for Sale" by Big Joe Turner, 1946
  37. "Is It Too Late?" by Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes, 1947
  38. "Evil-Eyed Woman" by Christine Kittrell

February 3, 2012

  1. "Up above my Head" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1947
  2. "Evil Gal Blues" by Dinah Washington, 1943
  3. "Evil" by Howlin' Wolf, 1954
  4. "Space Guitar" by Johnny (Guitar) Watson, 1953
  5. "You're Mine Again" by the Capris, 1954
  6. "Let It Please Be You" by the Desires, 1960
  7. "Almost Grown" by Chuck Berry, 1959
  8. "He-Man Looking for a She-Girl" by the Four Dots, 1956
  9. "Nasty Boogie" by Champion Jack Dupree, 1958
  10. "Satisfy my Soul" by Ella Johnson and the Buddy Johnson Orchestra, 1950
  11. "If I Could Make You Mine" by the Love Notes, 1957
  12. "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, 1959
  13. "He's a Friend of Mine" by the Spirit of Memphis, 1954
  14. "Get Right with God" by the Davis Sisters
  15. "Harlem Nocturne" by Johnny Otis, 1945
  16. "Omaha Flash" by Johnny Otis, 1946
  17. "Double Crossing Blues" by Little Esther and the Johnny Otis Orchestra, 1949
  18. "Oopy Doo" by Johnny Otis and Group, 1953
  19. "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton (and Johnny Otis), 1952
  20. "Rock Me, Baby" by Johnny Otis and Group, 1954
  21. "One o' Clock Jump" by the Johnny Otis Band, 1953 (Live!)
  22. "Willie and the Hand Jive" by Johnny Otis, 1958
  23. "Hand Jive One More Time" by Johnny Otis, 1961
  24. "Shake It, Lucy Baby" by the Johnny Otis Show, 1958
  25. "Somebody, Call the Station" by Johnny Otis, 1962
  26. "All in my Mind" by Maxine Brown, 1961
  27. "Cry On" by Irma Thomas
  28. "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe, 1956
  29. "Medley: Mango Walk/Give Me Back Me Shilling/Sweetie Charlie" by Lord Tickler
  30. "Matilda" by King Radio, 1939 (the ORIGINAL version of this frequently-recorded Calypso! From Trinidad and Tobago!)
  31. "When Matilda Comes Back" by Jimmy Soul, 1962
  32. "Call on Me" by Beverly Ann Gibson, 1959
  33. "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man" by the Carter Family, 1928
  34. "Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath" by the Carter Family, 1934
  35. "It's All Right Now" by Arizona Dranes, 1926
  36. "I Didn"t Hear Nobody Pray" by the Dixon Brothers, 1938

NOTICE: NO SHOW on February 10 or 17 due to being pre-empted by sports broadcasts! Grrr! I might be able to get a half-hour slot on February 17 but otherwise, NO SHOW until Friday, February 24!!

Last updated February 3, 2012 at 4:27 p. m. Copyright (c) 2011.