Jazz

2/27 in a nutshell…

Lotsa ska and rocksteady oldies made their “Ooh” debut this week. Including tunes by Desmond Tucker (not Dekker), King Rocky (not Sporty), Andy & Lloydie (not Andy & Joey) plus… a second Studio 1 take of Lord Creator’s “Evening News” (actually, for all I know, it might’ve been the first Studio 1 take!) Anyhoo, we compared the endings of the two on-air… listen for the completely different piano splashes that end each take… ‘nuff said! Sherwood got about five songs into his set when it hit him that all five were on RCA Victor, including two by Henry Mancini from Breakfast at Tiffany’s… so he ran with the ball and devoted a fair chunk of his air this week to an extended all-RCA set that included Dick Schory, the Three Suns, the Sauter/Finegan Orchestra and Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, among others. The Home Stretch put February, and the Lollipop-of-the-Week, to bed with something we just recently found… Yvonne Prenosilova’s “Lollipop” (“Mne Se Libi Bob”), but not the nearly-halved just-over-a-minute vidclip edit we’ve played before, but the full 1:57 song as Bob intended. Then The Sideburns follow up last week’s “Exodus” with an Exo-Dub, and there’s a 5@5:05 from across the Atlantic… Spain, to be exact, and wait’ll you hear Barcelona’s Sybarites skank their way through “Lady Marmalade” …morphing it into “Oye Como Va” before they finish! Before the show wraps up, we hear Runa Miyoshida put her Ska Flavor touch on John Denver’s “Country Roads” (which song you also heard during Sherwood’s Planet, played by the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-produced Zaki) and another Spanish outfit, Dr. Calypso, play ska with Patrick Hernandez’s old disco tune “Born to Be Alive.” Next week, the first Ska Trip of March… which means calendar-album time again on Sherwood’s Planet! That, plus lotsa ska and more, when you tune in… and stay tuned!

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