Favoriting Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from October 23, 2024 Favoriting

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Twangs of all stripes and stuff that ends in -billy.

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Favoriting October 23, 2024: Unexpected Country

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Artist Track Album Label Format Comments Approx. start time
Mickey O'Bryan Quartet  New York Mets Calypso   Favoriting   Ivanhoe  7"    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Paul Evans 
Woman   Favoriting
Big Steel Guitar 
Paragon 
LP 
 
0:03:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Max Romeo  Please Help Me, I'm Falling   Favoriting   Jackpot  7"    0:07:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pat Kelly  Top Of The World   Favoriting   Starapple  7"    0:10:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hugh Hendricks & the Buccaneers  Tennasee Waltz   Favoriting   Randy's  7"    0:13:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Skatalites  Occupation   Favoriting   Trojan  7"    0:17:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Merlene Webber  Stand By Your Man   Favoriting   Trojan Records  7"    0:19:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Paul Evans 
Falling Star   Favoriting
Big Steel Guitar 
Paragon 
LP 
 
0:23:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ray Charles  Hey, Good Lookin'   Favoriting Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music  ABC-Paramount  LP    0:27:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Supremes  Tumbling Tumbleweeds   Favoriting The Supremes Sing Country Western & Pop  Motown  LP    0:29:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dean Martin  Gentle On My Mind   Favoriting Gentle On My Mind  Reprise  LP    0:31:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Peter Hinnen  Doch der Mississippi   Favoriting   Ariola  7"    0:33:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mr. Hyunh (Randy Travis)  The Simple Things   Favoriting       Hey Arnold!  0:36:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Paul Evans 
Release Me   Favoriting
Big Steel Guitar 
Paragon 
LP 
 
0:38:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The The  Lonely Planet   Favoriting Dusk        0:43:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David J  Dress Sexy At My Funeral   Favoriting         0:48:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bill Callahan  Riding For the Feeling   Favoriting Apocalypse  Drag City  LP    0:52:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Becky! Tonkies!
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DanFA:

Howdy Becky, sorry about the Mets.
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Deano de los Muertos:

Howdy Becky 🤠
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Handy Haversack:

Becky! Tonkers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
loveless:

Eclectic. Hello all.
Avatar 8:06pm
cristinap:

this is amazing
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Woman" by "Paul Evans"
wow
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Destroit:

Hi Becky, hi gang o tonks. Glad to be here
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
DanFA:

Would you consider that country song Mr. Hyunh sings in that one episode of Hey Arnold as fitting into this category?
www.youtube.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Handy Haversack:

K8 and I were just talking about how it's getting to be close to time for her to launch her country-adjacent project, Catahoula Pit.

(Patent pending!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Good evening, Becky and fellow Honky Tonkers!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Top Of The World" by "Pat Kelly"
The Carpenters?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Becky:

↳ DanFA @8:11
Oh WOW @DanFA
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
DanFA:

↳ Becky @8:15
If you wanna have a good cry, watch the Christmas episode where he's reunited with his daughter after giving her away to GIs to get her out of the country at the Fall of Saigon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
listener 126464:

↳ DanFA @8:11
The Simple Things!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
ultradamno:

Or James Cagney media.tenor.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Handy Haversack:

Zappa did a reggae version of "Ring of Fire," as I recall.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:19
Yeah it was on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, and probably other albums too?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

"Theme from Rawhide" was also unexpected in the Blues Brothers movie.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
DanFA:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @8:24
Didn't the Dead Kennedys do a tongue and cheek cover of Rawhide?
  8:25pm
traven:

Becky is showing us a side of her we little knew, and it's wonderful.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
ultradamno:

The Lurkers did a fine Little Ole Wine Drinker Me (B-Side of the New Guitar In Town single)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

We celebrated an anniversary in the Village tonight, and since we took advantage of the early bird special, we got back in time for Honky Tonk Radio Girl! Getting older ain't all bad.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @8:23
And the Live in '88 stuff?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:27
(also CDs of God's Lonely Men)
Avatar 8:29pm
cristinap:

↳ DanFA @8:25
yes they did a version and I'm spacing on the album
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
ultradamno:

Yeah, and Viva Las Vegas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
ultradamno:

Divine Horsemen do a really good Field Of Stone (on the Middle Of The Night ep)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
DanFA:

↳ ultradamno @8:30
The DK cover of Viva Las Vegas is hysterial. Used best in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:28
Yeah there were a few recordings that documented the 1988 world tour, Ring of Fire was probably is heavy rotation for that whole era.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @8:31
"in"
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @8:32
Was Probably Is should definitely be our new band.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:32
Was Not Was cover band? The world is ready!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:32
Do the dinosaur
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "Gentle On My Mind" by "Dean Martin"
Deano! Steubenville's Finest.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
ultradamno:

I've mentioned this before, but the cover band the world needs is an old-school industrial band that only does muppet songs called Erniestürzende Neuberten
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
ultradamno:

There is an all-female Devo cover band called Oh! No, It's DIVA ohnoitsdiva.bandcamp.com...
  8:37pm
Harry Corvair:

Hearing this for first time.
Thank you, Becky.

Tumbling Tumbleweeds by The Supremes (The Supremes Sing Country Western & Pop)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
DanFA:

↳ ultradamno @8:36
Sold. I have some construction tools you can use.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:32
First single: Cynar Typo.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "The Simple Things" by "Mr. Hyunh (Randy Travis)"
Instant request, DanFA!
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:36
OH, NO! It's DIVA, rather
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DanFA:

Only 90s kids remember Hey Arnold.
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ultradamno:

Speaking of Neubauten, they did Morning Dew, of course...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
DanFA:

I think Randy Travis also played himself in a King of the Hill episode.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
ultradamno:

Houston...which The Fall covered (and a couple of Gene Vincent songs)
  8:43pm
Piper from Toronto:

HI BECKY! one time you played this song called "today is the day" by dee graham (i think??) and i loved it a lot and i'd love to hear it againnnnn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Stevel:

I had kids in the 90s, which qualifies me as a Hey Arnold watcher. Pretty good, overall.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
D Rok:

I watched all the original Nicktoons, (Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Rugrats, and Rocko's Modern Life), but I aged out before Hey Arnold hit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Stevel:

Thuh thuh
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DanFA:

↳ Stevel @8:43
I'll approve it!
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:42
(definitely Rollin' Dany (sic) and Race With The Devil)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

The Residents doing Teddy Bear.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Lonely Planet" by "The The"
I forget the gentlemen's name, the lead singer of The The, but Mona interviewed him last Friday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
ultradamno:

...and a whole side of Hank Williams songs, mentioned last week
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Handy Haversack:

↳ DanFA @8:45
Yup, real good interview.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Becky:

↳ Piper from Toronto @8:43
Hey Piper! I'll play it next week if I can!!
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PiperFromToronto:

↳ Becky @8:46
woooooo thank youuuuu
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Stevel:

↳ Song: "Lonely Planet" by "The The"
I've liked everything I've ever heard from ThTh. Still haven't found a rocker that I might have seen on TV, earlier than their 80's alt rock prominence.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:45
...and a whole album of EP, The King & Eye
  8:48pm
AS from MP:

Honky Tonk Radio Girl spins The The - I got laid off today, it is quite a red letter day! October Hellraiser is the best.
  8:49pm
The Hay Wain:

Sounding good DJ, gracias
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Dress Sexy At My Funeral" by "David J"
This is fantastic.
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Becky:

↳ AS from MP @8:48
They didn't deserve you! But we're lucky to have you listening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
ultradamno:

Barry Adamson covered Boots (as did The Boys Next Door and Meteors)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
DanFA:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @8:44
Is it as weird as this: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Handy Haversack:

Many heaping piles of thanks, Becky! Great stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Becky:

Alright, I'm calling it now!!! Next week's show is all requests! Send them here!
Avatar 8:53pm
cristinap:

I feel like "alienation's for the rich" would fit on this show
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Destroit:

Thanks Becky, twas a fun show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Becky:

Haha WOW of all the artists to put at 45 RPM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
ultradamno:

↳ DanFA @8:52
Did she have this going on? i.ytimg.com...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Becky @8:54
Heh. Unsafe at any speed!
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DanFA:

↳ ultradamno @8:54
You win. Also, that is pure nightmare fuel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
ultradamno:

(from their Night Music appearance)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
DanFA:

↳ Becky @8:54
Can they be country adjacent?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Dolly's "Tennessee Homesick Blues."
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Deano de los Muertos:

Thank you Becky 🏜️
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ultradamno:

I forgot The Residents did Boots too...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
DanFA:

Great show tonight, Becky.
  8:58pm
AS from MP:

↳ Becky @8:51
Thanks, Becky - you're sweet to say so - It's all good
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greg g:

Always nn board with Smog or Bill Callahan! Thanks Becky!
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greg g:

↳ greg g @9:00
"on board" that is!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
ultradamno:

All the stuff I've mentioned above can be regarded as my requests
  10:19pm
no dough dropped here:

Boring show. You start on a new medicine or something?
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