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Post #764829 by Dr. Zarkov on Wed, Jun 8, 2016 3:29 PM

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Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: June 8, 2016

On this week’s Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge radio show we are going to climb into the Wayback Machine and take all you hepcats and cool kittens, and swingerettes and swingeroos on a bedazzling journey to the beatnik era, including its progenitors, popularizers and actualized authors, such as the plangent poet Allen Ginsberg, who would have turned 90 years old on June 3rd.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm Eastern Time (2-3 pm on the West Coast) at http://www.radiofairfax.org. The show is broadcast live; no recorded shows are archived, but some listeners choose to record it on their computers to listen later. Radio Fairfax also can be heard on Tune In Radio at tunein.com, and streamed on smartphones by downloading the Tunein app. It also can be streamed on Roku and Google TV at: http://tinyurl.com/3uqfsz9

  1. The “Route 66 TV Show Theme” by Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra from the CD: Route 66 – More Hit TV Themes. This television series running from 1960 to 1964 featured the adventures of two young men traveling the length and breadth of the United States in their Corvette, based on Jack Kerouac’s novel: “On the Road.” Route 66 & Other TV Themes -- More Hit TV Themes.

  2. “The San Francisco Scene” read by Jack Kerouac that you could cove if you dove the treasure trove that is the CD Box Set called: The Beat Generation.

  3. “Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World (‘Cause That’s Where Everything Is),” the 1950 recording of the song inked by Les Clark and Matt Dennis, which was deeply derived from The Capitol Collectors Series: Peggy Lee, Volume 1 – The Early Years.

  4. “Sightseeing Boogie” was waxed in 1945 by Slim Gaillard, whose hip stance and language he invented called Vout impressed the early Beats like Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy. This appears on his beatific box set: Laughing in Rhythm.

  5. “MacDougal Street Special” composed, arranged and conducted by Elmer Bernstein for the TV series Johnny Staccato, starring John Cassavetes as a jazz musician who also worked as a detective, which ran for only a single season in 1959 and 1960. Featured are the young pianist and future Star Wars composer John Williams; Don Fagerquist, Pete Candoli and Uan Rasey on Trumpets; Joe Howard, Si Zentner and George Roberts on Trombones; Ted Nash, Dave Pell, Gene Cipriano, Ronnie Lang, Marty Berman and Chuck Gentry on Reeds; Barney Kessel and Bob Bain on Electric Guitars; Red Norvo on Vibes; Red Mitchell on Bass and Shelley Manne on Drums. This was taken from the mislabeled but comprehensible compilation: Jazz on Film…Crime Jazz! which only includes music from old TV series, not movies.

  6. “Kookie Talk” was written by Paul Stephens and performed in 1961 by Scott Peters, and was drawn with swizzle sticks from that boho bundle called: Soho Blondes & Peeping Toms! Saucy Vocals From the ‘50s and ‘60s

  7. “Long, Lean, and Lanky” was composed by Rudy Toombs and sung by Beverly Kenney on her 1958 lagoon LP: The Sesac Sessions, supported by the Bassist Eddie Safranski & His Orchestra, who were Dale McMickle, Jimmy Nottingham and Bernie Glow on Trumpet; Will Bradley, Bob Alexander and Lou McGarity on Trombone, Artie Baker on Clarinet; Dick Hyman on Piano, Mundell Lowe on Electric Guitar, Al Klink on Tenor Sax and Hymie Schertzer on Alto Sax.

  8. “Goof & I,” the tune written by saxateer Al Cohn and found on the righteous retrospective: Serge Chaloff: The Baritone Sax Master, recorded in 1950 from a WRIV radio broadcast from the Celebrity Club in Providence, R.I., featuring Sonny Truitt on Trombone, Nat Pierce on Piano, George Jones on Bass and Joe MacDonald on Drums.

  9. “Your Mind Is on Vacation” was composed, vocalized and pianistically presdigitized by none other than Mose Allison on his absent-minded album of the same name, with David Sanborn on Alto Sax, Joe Farrell on Tenor Sax, Al Porcino on Trumpet, Jack Hannah on Bass and Jerry Granelli on Drums.

  10. “I'm Sure You're Hip” appears on the copacetic compact disc: Surprise Visit by The Sweater Set, who are Maureen Andary and Sara Curtin on Vocals, Guitar, Flute Kazoo, Ukuleles, Toy Xylophone.

  11. “Get Your Juices at the Deuces” written and warbled by Harry “The Hipster” Gibson, who also appears on his pious production: Boogie Woogie in Blue, including John Simmons on Bass.

  12. “Cafe Bohemian,” the 1959 magnum opus by The Enchanters, found on the academical anthology: Popcorn Exotica – R&B, Soul & Exotic Rockers From the ‘50s & ‘60s.

  13. “Lord Buckley,” the title of a timeless track from Mark Murphy’s coolish compact disc: Kerouac, Then and Now, in which the late singer – superbly supported by Adam Nussbaum on Drums – renders one of his Lordship’s immortal routines translating Mark Anthony’s oration from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar into jive.

  14. “Gasser,” by The Exotics from their gumptious conglomeration: Go Go Guitars, featuring Doug Chasteen on Guitars, Paul Wall on Electric Guitar, Jonathon Ziegler on Vibes and Bass, and Donald Nelson on Drums and Percussion.

  15. “Pull My Daisy” comes from the cool compact disc: The Best of the Beat Generation by the composer David Amram’s Quintet with Lynn Sheffield on the Vocal. This music was, from the 1959 short film of the same name, directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, and the artists Larry Rivers and Alice Neel, and was narrated by Kerouac.

  16. “Cassidy,” the song about Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg’s companion and inspiration, Neal Cassidy, who at the end of his life piloted Ken Kesey’s busy bus and lysergic limo named “Further.” With lyrics by John Barlow and music composed by Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, this appears on Weir’s 1972 appelational and elegiac effort titled “Ace,” with Jerry Garcia on Guitar, Phil Lesh on Bass Guitar and a host of Mr. Weir’s friends from the San Francisco music scene of the day on backing vocals.