In which Ginger Baldy suffers the weather in Small Town Talk’s collapsing studio and keeps his big mouth firmly shut.

1. Rockin’ Bones - Ronnie Dawson (The Blond Bomber) 1959

2. Somebody Told You - Irma Thomas 1962

3. Desdemona - John’s Children 1967 (Marc Bolan second vocalist - obviously!)

4. Just A Little Bit - Tiny Topsy 1959

5. Daddy Daddy - Richard Berry 1954

6. Daddy Daddy - Ruth Brown 1952

7. Pneumonia - Joe Tex 1956

8. Come In the Morning - Moby Grape 1967

9. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner 1961

10. You’re Losing Me - Barbara Lynn 1968

11. His Last Summer - The Barracudas 1980 (This month’s death song)

12. Suspended Animation - Rachel Sweet 1978

13. It’s Raining - J. D. McPherson 2023 (The Warm Covers vinyl album compiled for Record Store Day)

14. Home Home Home - Pokey LaFarge 2024

15. Devil In His Heart - The Donays 1962

16. I’m Calling You - The Cactus Blossoms 2019

17. Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison 1960 (This month’s earworm)

18. You’ve Got Your Good Thing Down - Sir Douglas Quintet (mid sixties)

19. Choo Choo Ch’Boogie - Louis Jordan 1946

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles

You reach your destination, but alas and alack

You need some compensation to get back in the black

You take a morning paper from the top of the stack

And read the situations from the front to the back

The only job that's open needs a man with a knack

So put it right back in the rack, Jack

From ‘Choo Choo Ch’Boogie’ - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - 1946

Written by Denver Darling, Milton Gabler and Vaughn Horton.

Every line of every verse in this clever song ends in a word that rhymes with Jack.

A few notes this episode to compensate for the lack of song introductions.

Track 7: Pneumonia - Joe Tex. On the label the writing credits go to Joe Tex, but this song is clearly a facsimile of Little Willie John’s ‘Fever’, written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell under his songwriting alias of John Davenport.

Track 8: Come In The Morning - written by Bob Mosley and the terrific B side of Hey Grandma (see episode 29) It was one of 5 Moby Grape singles released simultaneously, a move that backfired and contributed to the band’s downfall.

Track 15: Famously recorded by the Beatles on their second album ‘With The Beatles’ and sung by George Harrison. The Donays’ original was the flipside of their only single ‘Bad Boy’ and was never a hit either in the States or the UK. Small Town Talk played Bad Boy in our Two Songs, One Title feature in episode 18, Oct 2021.

Track 16: I’m Calling You - The Cactus Blossoms - for Andrea who cemented the idea of Two Songs, One Title and since she loves the Everlys she will probably like this!

Track 18: You’ve Got Your Good Thing Down - Sir Douglas Quintet. Only released later on several compilation albums, but recorded by producer Huey Meaux, The Crazy Cajun, for Tribe records sometime in the mid sixties. In my book Doug Sahm can do no wrong.

Check out JD McPherson’s new album, Nite Owls at:

https://www.jdmcpherson.com/

He and I play similar old soul and R&B, but Johnny Corsair dares to play contemporary R&B so if you wanna be down with the kids get over to Bright Lights Big City where the lights get brighter every time you click the switch:

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

Our favourite record label, ACE Records: - and they are British; go check them out, you can find all the above tracks from Richard Berry, Ike & Tina Turner, Barbara Lynn, and The Donays on Ace CD’s

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

Any comments, queries, complaints, or anything relating to Small Town Talk's podcast can be fired off to:

smalltowntalkrecords@gmail.com

Episode 54 Illustration: Ginger Baldy flits back to the 40's to hear the sound of the Clickety Clack.

In which Ginger Baldy enjoys some Tex-Mex, gets excited about a new release, and looks back at John Mayall.

1. You Mostest Girl - Bobby Lee Trammell

2. Shirley Lee - Ricky Nelson

3. Who Will The Next Fool Be - Charlie Rich

4. Laredo Rose - Texas Tornados

5. Looking Back - Clarence “Frogman” Henry

6. Looking Back - John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers

7. Gangster Of Love - Johnny Guitar Watson

8. Mary Lou - Young Jessie & The Cadets

9. I Wish You Would - J. D. McPherson

10. I Was Fooled - Billy Boy Arnold

11. O Death - Ralph Stanley (This month’s death song)

12. Hard Time Killing Floor - Chris Thomas King

13. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band (This month’s earworm)

14. Forty Days - Ronnie Hawkins

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles

A MILLION DOLLAR REWARD FOR ME

IN EACH AND EVERY STATE

SHERIFF SAY “IS YOUR NAME JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON?”

IN A VERY DEEP VOICE,

AND I SAY “YES, BROTHER SHERIFF

AND THAT’S YOUR WIFE ON THE BACK OF MY HORSE”

Gangster Of love - Johnny “Guitar” Watson: 1957

The Doug Sahm article can be found at: https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-370-september-2024-nick-cave/

Check out JD McPherson’s Nite Owls at:

https://www.jdmcpherson.com/

It’s always there, so go get it; it’s our sister show, Johnny Corsair’s Bright Lights Big City - and this month there’s a super Ace CD “This is Goldwax 1964-1968” to be won, 28 tracks including James Carr with the best deep soul song ever made.

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

And on the subject of ACE Records: go check them out, you can find all the above tracks from Young Jessie, Johnny Guitar Watson, Clarence Frogman Henry, John Fred and Ronnie Hawkins on Ace CD’s

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

Any comments, queries about Small town talk's podcast can be fired off to:

smalltowntalktalk@gmail.com

Episode 53 Illustration: Flaco Jimenez, one of the nicest guys you can ever meet.

In which Ginger Baldy gets Real Real Gone and remembers a man who never ever did what he should.

1. Ride Jockey Ride - The Lamplighters

2. My Gal’s A Jockey - Big Joe Turner

3. Real Real Gone - Van Morrison

4. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard

5. Chain Gang - Bobby Scott

6. Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

7. Ella Speed - Leadbelly (This month’s death song)

8. He’s A Rebel - The Crystals (The Blossoms)

9. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals

10. Chicken Payback - The Bees (This month’s earworm)

11. Magazine Lady - “Spider” John Koerner & Willie Murphy

12. You Can’t Stop Love - Popa Chubby

13. Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac

14. All Your Love ( I Was Missing) - Otis Rush

15. Time After Time - Miles Davis

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles

"HE’S A REBEL AND HE’LL NEVER BE ANY GOOD HE’S A REBEL BECAUSE HE NEVER EVER DOES WHAT HE SHOULD BUT JUST BECAUSE HE DOESN’T DO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES THAT’S NO REASON WHY WE CAN’T SHARE OUR LOVE

Written by Gene Pitney, produced by Phil Spector & credited to The Crystals but recorded by The Blossoms with Darlene Love on lead vocals.

The true story of the murder of Ella Speed (track 7) can be found at:

https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=3584.0

Small Town Talk’s sister show, Johnny Corsair’s Bright Lights Big City, can be found burning ever so brightly over at:

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

The Lamplighters compilation "Loving Rocking Thrilling" (track 1) can be found at the finest record company there is:

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

Any comments, queries about Small Town Talk's podcast can be fired off to:

smalltowntalktalk@gmail.com

Episode 52 Illustration: Tom Absolom’s excellent “Real Real Gone”