Favoriting Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from February 12, 2025 Favoriting

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

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Favoriting February 12, 2025: Trenton State Prison

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Artist Track Label Format Approx. start time
Johnny Cash  I Can't Help It   Favoriting Sun  EP  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Johnny Cash  You Win Again   Favoriting Sun  EP  0:06:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Toothpick Tommy and the Truckers  Bip Bop   Favoriting Era Records  7"  0:08:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Billy Riley  Down By The Riverside   Favoriting Sun  7"  0:10:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Peck Touchton  You've Changed Your Tune   Favoriting Sarg  7"  0:12:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Freddy King 
The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist   Favoriting
Federal 
7" 
0:15:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Billy Mize  Solid Sender   Favoriting Decca  7"  0:18:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Davy Mills  Trenton State Prison   Favoriting Coin Depo  7"  0:20:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jerry Reed  Have Blues, Will Travel   Favoriting NRC  7"  0:24:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jimmy Gene Smith  Bottle of Gin   Favoriting Dupar  7"  0:26:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tennessee Ernie Ford  Sixteen Tons   Favoriting Capitol  7"  0:28:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Freddy King 
The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist   Favoriting
Federal 
7" 
0:30:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Johnny Sea  Stranger   Favoriting NRC  7"  0:33:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sanford Clark  A Cheat   Favoriting Dot  7"  0:36:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jean Shepard  Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar)   Favoriting Capitol  7"  0:38:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gene Norton  Gravy Train   Favoriting Brand X  7"  0:40:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gary D. Whatley  Where's My Baby   Favoriting Portland Records Ltd.  7"  0:43:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Freddy King 
The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist   Favoriting
Federal 
7" 
0:46:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Merle Haggard  I'm a Lonesome Fugitive   Favoriting Capitol  7"  0:47:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bob Allen and the Wanderers  It's About Time   Favoriting White Cliffs  7"  0:51:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bill Cleaton  Lovers Hall Of Shame   Favoriting Kanwic  7"  0:52:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hershel Hamilton  Is It Really Warm In Tampa   Favoriting JLB Records  7"  0:54:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Becky! Tonkies!
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DanFA:

Howdy Becky
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Listener Bop Monroe:

greetings from another man in black DJ HTRG and all.
Losing my Blues.
  8:05pm
Audiocarp:

Hello honkies!
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Deano de los Muertos:

Howdy Becky 🤠 starting off right with Johnny…although i enjoyed the stank on that opening bed music
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Becky:

Howdy friendos!
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Becky:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @8:05
Glad you're here.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

glad you found them again!
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Good evening, Becky and fellow Tonkies.
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Bri The Beatnik:

Had pears in my cider now pears in whipped cream
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Hi Becky and honky tonkers. Johnny Cash is always all right.
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Becky:

Happy birthday Johnny on the 26th, I'll get back to him then too.
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steveo:

Evenin'!
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Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ Song: "Bip Bop" by "Toothpick Tommy and the Truckers"
didn't know this was the orig....
  8:10pm
carlos danger:

↳ Song: "Bip Bop" by "Toothpick Tommy and the Truckers"
did not know the Wings version was a cover!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:10pm
loveless:

I'm late to the party. Hello everybody!
  8:10pm
Daybreak!:

Where were these great records hiding Becky?
Where will you put them after lugging them to the station?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:10pm
ultradamno:

They're just now considering Chubby Checker? The rock hall is stupid
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ carlos danger @8:10
Woah was not aware of the Wings version, this is cool though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm
ultradamno:

(I'm not even that big a fan...but the twist)
  8:11pm
honest Bernardo from Argentina:

Oooo Bip Bop 😂 I thought they were saying hip hop
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Bri The Beatnik:

Hey loveless!
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Becky:

↳ Daybreak! @8:10
They were in a box. I'll probably put them in another box that I'll lose track of. Generally my 45s are well organized but if I take them out of their places sometimes my refiling habits aren't pristine.
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loveless:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:12
Back at ya!
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ ultradamno @8:11
Let’s see, if Hank Ballard and the midnighters (not to be confused with Thee midnitets) aren’t in the rock n roll hall of fame, they should be cos they invented the Twist!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:14pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @8:11
all you need to know that you shouldn’t give it much credence 😂
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:16pm
ultradamno:

Nobody who invents the thing doesn't get screwed out by the better marketer
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Song: "The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist" by "Freddy King"
and speaking of the twist!
  8:16pm
Audiocarp:

I wonder why they changed the words from @ain’t gonna study war no more”?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:17pm
ultradamno:

We'd be talking a lot more about Big Mama Thornton if rock n' roll was fair
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ ultradamno @8:17
This is true
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:18pm
coelacanth∅:

good evening Becky, y'all
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Bri The Beatnik:

Heya again Coel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:18
hi Bri!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @8:16
isn’t that the Tesla/Edison gist?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ Song: "Bip Bop" by "Toothpick Tommy and the Truckers"
Yes it's on Wings first album, Wild Life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @8:17
diff currents I know..
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ultradamno:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:19
It is! The 'guy who kills the elephant wins' rule!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
ultradamno:

Poor Topsy.
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Becky:

Wait, hold up. For the Macca experts in the group, is the melody to Bip Bop the same? He claims to have written it. The lyrics to the chorus are the same (three nonsense words).
  8:23pm
traven:

↳ ultradamno @8:21
I take it you've seen the footage?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24pm
ultradamno:

Yeah.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:27pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Have Blues, Will Travel" by "Jerry Reed"
That you, Paladin?
  8:27pm
Audiocarp:

↳ Song: "Trenton State Prison" by "Davy Mills"
Is there really a record label called Coun Depo?
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Becky:

↳ Audiocarp @8:27
Coin Depo
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ultradamno:

www.discogs.com...
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Becky @8:23
Toothpick Tommy says Macca wrote it
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Sixteen Tons" by "Tennessee Ernie Ford"
🕺🏻⛏️🕺🏻⛏️
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Song: "Sixteen Tons" by "Tennessee Ernie Ford"
60s hot rod vibes on this version, James Bond too
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Becky:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:28
Indeed!!
  8:30pm
Brett’n’Honey-max-Mia:

I love this version ✨🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Listener Bop Monroe:

only missing the sitar
  8:31pm
Dan from PEI.:

This version is crazy...

"..I owe my soul to the Cumberland Coal..."
  8:31pm
Audiocarp:

I don’t know about this version. The original is so perfect
  8:31pm
yippie:

buffalo gals go around the inside
  8:31pm
Brett’n’Honey-max-Mia:

🤣🤣
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David Shortell:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:29
Technically, the title is "Sixteen Tons '65".
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Listener Bop Monroe:

great 1st half hour, m'am. thnx!
  8:33pm
Brett’n’Honey-max-Mia:

Yesssss! Great show as always Becky✨🌺✌🏼
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ David Shortell @8:31
Ah makes sense!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
ultradamno:

Well if a song about backbreaking labor and merciless exploitation doesn't lend itself to freewheeling go-go dancing, what does?
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Becky:

↳ David Shortell @8:31
Not according to the label on my 45!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
DanFA:

RE: your question about a crypto-sponsored prison, give it a year.
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ ultradamno @8:34
They probably danced to Sam Cooke’s chain gang too!
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Becky:

↳ DanFA @8:34
Guantanamo Bay sponsored by Meta (TM)
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "Stranger" by "Johnny Sea"
Is that French horn or euphonium? Either way, nice touch.
  8:35pm
Audiocarp:

↳ Becky @8:34
They left off the “65” for savings
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:35pm
Deano de los Muertos:

The META Maximum Security Prison has a nice ring…a freebee for Zucc
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Becky @8:35
beat me to it!
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Bri The Beatnik:

I’m just learning about Prisons owned by corporations. My grandma l lives in a nursing home by a prison, reminds me of Baebecue Bess
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Listener Bop Monroe:

riccollllaaahh...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37pm
coelacanth∅:

"CVS Federal Prison". can't wait.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37pm
DanFA:

↳ Becky @8:35
Don't know about Meta sponsoring it. Zuck is more about augmented reality.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37pm
ultradamno:

Ugh, I know www.yahoo.com...
  8:37pm
Audiocarp:

Capital One Leavenworth
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DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:35
Is that you, Mark Hurst? Just kidding.
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:37
HAHA! Get ur perscripsitons at the Prison!
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:37
you have to stay %75 more time than other prisons
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Becky:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:37
They're already great at locking stuff up
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @8:37
I missed Techtonic for the first time in a long time this week 🙉😂
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Destroit:

Hi Becky and all! Happy to be listening, not happy to still be workin 😕
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Listener Bop Monroe:

...the you'll just love the happy happy joy joy incarceraterium™
  8:39pm
Brett’n’Honey-max-Mia:

GITMO oh nooooo gotta get back to Brooklyn asap!
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David Shortell:

↳ Becky @8:34
New Jersey got snubbed on the wikipedia page for the song.
When listing the artists who covered it, they don’t mention New Brunswick’s Destroy All Bands or Monmouth County’s Hunchback!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:40pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:38
I've kinda gotten burned out on Techtonic, to be honest.
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @8:37
Oh, they’re all wearing MetaGlasses or whatever he’s calling them in my vision
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:41pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar)" by "Jean Shepard"
nice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:41pm
ultradamno:

Seth Myers did a integrated ad for Ray Ban Meta glasses the other night, it was gross.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:41pm
Destroit:

This Jean S track is pretty great
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Listener Bop Monroe:

now THAT was some class A yodellin'!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:42pm
DanFA:

↳ ultradamno @8:41
(screaming into pillow)
  8:42pm
Audiocarp:

Holy crap! I didn’t know Jean shepherd could yodel 🤯
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:43pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @8:40
If you mean by the negatively, he had two very positive episodes/guests recently. One was about stone carving, the other about making your own synth
  8:43pm
Audiocarp:

↳ ultradamno @8:41
Is that the euphemism for product placement?
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:43
I have a friend who makes synths!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
ultradamno:

↳ Audiocarp @8:43
Sort of, but more aggressive...like an ad that seems like a skit in the show
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:43
it was a very interesting episode!
Check it out if you haven’t
  8:44pm
Audiocarp:

That Sanford Clark record was odd, I like odd
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:43
Yeah, the negativity. Like, I know exactly what perspective Mark is gonna take every time. Everything is horrible, tech is bad, etc. Also, I feel that his whole "avoid _" is just not a tenable position, unless you live in the middle of nowhere.
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:44
Cool!
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Audiocarp @8:44
Me too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @8:44
understandable, and I think he does sense that…maybe why he’s switching up the guests
  8:48pm
Barbaric Yawp:

Another of my favorite shows where I never have to hear the political opinions of the host-just pure love of the music. That’s joy! That’s real! And radical! Thank you!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:48pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:44
i had to work through that episode.
there should be a law. . .
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:48pm
brycepunk1:

Strong Bad shout-out!
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bill hanke:

↳ Song: "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" by "Merle Haggard"
my theme song. Thank You!!!!
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Listener Bop Monroe:

he's an oakie
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Becky:

↳ brycepunk1 @8:48
Are they all archived? Want to go home and watch them now.
THE PAPER!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:50pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ brycepunk1 @8:48
🥊
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DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:47
Yeah, you can only do the same type of show for so long before the average listener gets tired.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ brycepunk1 @8:48
I have a “raised by a cup of coffee” shirt somewhere
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ bill hanke @8:49
yes, look on the bright side... you'll never have to wipe the moss off your clothes
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:53pm
ultradamno:

If you're looking for a new show and are around Friday mornings...Mr Fab's Live From Sheena's is worth investigating
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:53pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "It's About Time" by "Bob Allen and the Wanderers"
have i ever been turtledovin'? i'm not sure...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:53pm
ultradamno:

(and then there's always archives, of course)
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bill hanke:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:51
that IS the bright side. thank you!
  8:54pm
Audiocarp:

I was thinking about how capitol recorded such great country and rockabilly artists, rock artists, but somehow completely missed the great folk artists and signed the Kingston Trio instead 😡
Avatar 8:54pm
Bri The Beatnik:

↳ ultradamno @8:53
Yes!! Been meaning to check that one out
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:55pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:53
come in pairs, I hear
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Thanks, DJ Becky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
Destroit:

Really really enjoyed the selections tonite. Thanks Becky!
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bill hanke:

↳ Song: "Is It Really Warm In Tampa" by "Hershel Hamilton"
rarely snows in Tampa.
  8:57pm
Audiocarp:

Jesus, the Kingston trio… 🤮
Avatar 8:58pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

so glad you found that box of vinyl! til next week, B safe.
thanky kindly m'am.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
ultradamno:

A Mighty Wind oddly redeems The Kingston Trio, because if I think of them Harry Shearer immediately comes up in my mind
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Becky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
brycepunk1:

↳ Becky @8:50
I think they're on YouTube
  8:59pm
dave:

Thanks Becky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Deano de los Muertos:

thank you, Becky, unofficial Queen of bed music
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
brycepunk1:

Thank you for the great music Becky :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
ultradamno:

Ea A Oe's!
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coelacanth∅:

enjoy your week away!
  9:00pm
Audiocarp:

↳ ultradamno @8:59
Great show, beckles
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