Fool's Paradise Playlists for August 13, 2011

Listener comments!

1:14pm Jay/ London:

just to say hi

1:34pm Buttster Brown:

I used to be a Hipster..now im just a Buttster

1:35pm Junior Fuel dragster:

How is the flip on the Bill Carter 45 ? (Ride Gunman, Ride)

1:38pm Don (trip dub):

Hi Rex - diggin' the show. Settin' me up for the Sun tribute at LCOD.

1:39pm siggi:

Listening as always from sweden, best regards an Icelander in sweden

1:45pm Count Reeshard:

Today's set feels a bit like The Purple Knif Show - some songs on today's FP in common with Lux Interior's legendary DJ set. A nice touch, whether intentional or serendipitous. You is a hip cat, Rex, you gotcher boots on! Why don' somebody TELL me these things?

1:46pm Tom:

Mantan Moreland was good, but he couldn't hold a candle next to Willie Best!

1:47pm Lefty Mudersbach:

Bill Carter - Born 1929 in Eagletown, Ark. A regular on KBOX (Modesto, Calif.) and at the Riverbank Clubhouse (Riverbank, Calif.) in 1956.

1956/Mar. 24
Bb c&w rev. Republic (Tenn.) 7126-F
(pressed by RCA)

to

1961/July 31
Bb c&w rev. MGM (N.Y.) K13026

1:53pm Lefty Mudersbach:

Bill Carter was a native of Eagleton, Arkansas, but his family moved to Broken Bow, Oklahoma when he was eight years old. In 1943, the Carter family, (who were a farming family) moved out west to California to the town of Idaho, which was where Bill got his start as a professional singer.

He got his first how over station KREO, where he performed until entering the U.S. Air Force in 1950. Even while in the service, he managed to keep up his singing while stationed in San Antonio, Texas.

1952 saw him transferred to a military base near the Bay area in northern California. There, he met up with folks such as Cottonseed Clark and Big Jim De Noon. When he was discharged in 1953, he had a recording contract with the 4 Star label. He also appeared a few times on Cottonseed Clark's television show called "The Hoffman Hayride". (AKA The Spade Cooley Show) on KTLA.

2:02pm ChooChoo - ATL:

Hay from ATL! It is finally cool enough (90-deg) to go outside for the first time in two months.

2:02pm Lefty Mudersbach:

Cottonseed Clark -

January 14, 1992

Clark Fulks, a retired disc jockey who wrote for radio and television, has died at a Thousand Oaks hospital. He was 82.

Fulks, who moved to Thousand Oaks from Van Nuys six months ago, died of complications of a brain hemorrhage, said his wife, Mozelle Fulks.

Born in Paris, Tex., Fulks was a radio producer in New York before coming to California in the early 1940s. Fulks, who also used the name Cottonseed Clark, was master of ceremonies and writer for a weekly CBS radio show called "Cottonseed Clark's Hollywood Barn Dance" and later wrote radio skits for Gene Autry and the Andrews Sisters.

In 1952, he moved to Northern California to be a disc jockey at KEEN-AM in San Jose. Fulks also created, produced and wrote for the "California Hay Ride" television show in San Francisco during the 1950s.

He retired from radio in 1985 and moved to Van Nuys.

2:07pm Don (trip dub):

Luv laffing records almost as much as crying ones.

2:12pm Jungle Worm:

Only 79 more shopping days til Halloween !

2:15pm Big Mama:

Big Mama wanna ROCK

2:19pm Eli Grba:

That Little Johnny track screams to be twin spinned with the The Artestians "Trick Bag"

2:29pm rave:

never fails to amaze me how many great tunes can come from the same three-chord progression!

luv ya rex!

2:36pm Harry Harrison:

Hey Dave! You sound great tonite!

2:39pm Bela Lugosi Jr.:

Dave, when do you want me to make my next radio spot.

2:44pm Sammie Davis Jr.:

Hey Dave, Thank Blood,Sweat & Tears for me will ya.

2:57pm Stankfoot:

Be Stankin!

12:01am Dick Blackburn:

Rex, Pls xcuse 45 trivia BUT I have Rat Fat (On Rye) by The Roaches on Guyden 2109 - does yours have the same number?

2:56pm Rex:

My copy of "Rat Fat" has the band name "The Go-4's" hastily pasted over what I now know is the band's true identity: The Roaches!