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STREETBEATS
We got the beat. From second line rhythms and tap dance in the street, to funk in the studio and the cowbell on concert stage, rhythm’s something we all have. This week, check out the beats of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Cuban bandleader Cachao and tap-dancer Savoin Glover. Plus drummer Earl Palmer tells us about playing with Little Richard and Fats Domino. We’ll dig into the clave rhythm with Tom McDermott, and Elvis’ man in the pocket DJ Fontana keeps the beat with American Routes.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Big Noise from Winnetka Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
South Rampart Street Parade, Conifer - The Big Beat Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie - Doin' the New Low Down Bill Bojangles Robinson
Stars of the Apollo Theater, Columbia - Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia - Instrumental: Drum Village (Part 1) Earl Palmer & His Ten-Piece Rockin' Band
Backbeat: the World's Greatest Rock ‘N' Roll Drummer, Ace - INTERVIEW: Earl Palmer
Listen - I'm Walkin' Rebirth Brass Band
Feel Like Funkin' It Up, Rounder - Sir Duke Stevie Wonder
Songs in The Key of Life, Motown - Flea-Ridden Sheep Dog Carl Stalling
The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2, Warner Brothers - Laughin in Rhythm Slim Gaillard
Best of the Verve Years, Verve - Rockin' In Rhythm Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, Polygram - Instrumental: Trompeta Y Bongo Jack Costanzo
Back From Havana, Cubop - Pulse Henry Cowell
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble - Cage, Cowell, etc., Grammofon - Grazing in the Grass Hugh Masekela
Rock Instrumental Classics - Vol. 4, Soul, Rhino - Yayabo Orquesta Riverside
Cuba Classics 2 - Dancing With the Enemy, Luaka Bop/Warner Brothers - Evil Ways Santana
Viva Santana!, Columbia - The Wedge Dick Dale
Dick Dale Anthology, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Mumblin' Guitar Bo Diddley
The Chess Box, MCA - Postcard: Domenic Joseph "DJ" Fontana
- Hound Dog Elvis Presley
Elvis - the King of Rock 'n' Roll, the Complete '50s Masters Box, RCA - Gotta Lot Of Rhythm Patsy Cline
The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA - Stay a Little Longer Bob Wills
San Antonio Rose Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Bear Family - Forever Blue Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band
The Mountain, E squared - Not Fade Away Buddy Holly
Greatest Hits, MCA - Instrumental: Untitled Instrumental Bo Diddley
The Chess Box, MCA - SEGMENT: Clave Rhythm
Listen - Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
The Chess Box, MCA - El Premio Gordo Orquesta Babuco
The Cuban Danzon: Before There Was Jazz, Arhoolie - La Conga En Nueva York Desi Arnaz. Y Su Orquesta
The Music Of Cuba 1909-1951, Columbia/Legacy - America Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story, - Willie and the Hand Jive Johnny Otis
Land of 1000 Dances, Ace - Magic Bus The Who
My Generation: The Very Best of the Who, MCA - INTERVIEW: Tom McDermott
- Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic Jazz - Descarga Cachao Cachao
Cachao Vol 1: Master Sessions, Cine Son - Taxi Bring In Da' Noise, Bring In Da' Funk
Bring In Da' Noise, Bring In Da' Funk Original Broadway Cast, RCA - Soul Power James Brown & the JB's
Star Time, Polydor - Reggae Hit the Town The Ethiopians
Reggae Hit the Town, Trojan - Instrumental: Soul Style Tommy McCook & The Supersonics
Roots of Reggae Vol.2: Rock Steady, Rhino - Berta Big Louisiana, Rev. Rogers & Roosevelt Charles
Prison Worksongs, Arhoolie - Chain Gang Otis Redding
The Definitive, Rhino - All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson, Fantasy - I Got Rhythm Fats Waller
Valentine Stomp, RCA Victor - Limehouse Blues Buddy Rich & Max Roach
Rich Versus Roach, Mercury
