WFMU: The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from May 12, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Kris slept like crap last night and feeling it. I’ll catch up in the archive. Have a good show.
	9:50pm Kris Holmes: Ok Matt, your presence will be missed.
	🥁 10:02pm WR: Connected. Interested to hear your take on this.
	10:05pm Kris Holmes: I am a huge Little Richard fan & really the biggest problem here is having to reign it into this first hour.
	10:06pm chresti: Hi Kris and homers!
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: Hi Chresti, how are you guys doing?
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: greetings Kris and all
	10:15pm Kris Holmes: Hi Coel, welcome!
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: stoked to hear a legit Little Richard tribute
	10:18pm Kris Holmes: I am gonna do my best
	🥁 10:22pm WR: I had figured you would not be playing many of the initial Specialty hits which everyone already has on re-issue, right everyone.
	10:22pm Little Danny: Hi Kris 'n' all
	🥁 10:23pm WR: And where did Paul McCartney get his whooos...
	🥁 10:24pm WR: That Green Power song is interesting, Little Richard doing a James Brown thing.
	10:26pm Kris Holmes: exactly, Paul got his from Richard!
	10:27pm Kris Holmes: Green Power is great, love that cut
	10:28pm Little Danny: These LR Brunswick sides are cool. And seemingly forgotten about.
	🥁 10:29pm WR: I've stopped looking up release details, can do that later. These are so good I need to fully focus on what I'm hearing.
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: Hi Dan, yes, agreed, this is the only one I have :-(
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: We're around 1964 right now WR
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: i once said something along the lines of Little Richard had about 15 great songs and ...please forgive me if it was here or on cool blue flame but i think it was Larry Grogan said oh no you haven't heard enough Little Richard then, and said he'd do a dedicated show. if he did that i missed it.
	10:32pm Kris Holmes: Ha, yeah, people only think of the rock & roll hits but there is a lot more
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: so far tonight i've only heard try some of mine ...this because it's on a Hendrix boot that i've got
	10:32pm Little Danny: @coel: It might be said that there about 15 different songs at the core of Little Richard, and that the rest are variations. That's still a better average than most.
	🥁 10:34pm WR: Who is the lady singing Baby What You Want... with him?
	10:36pm Kris Holmes: not sure
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: maybe so Danny...i think i based that harsh judgement on considerably more ignorance than that though! - i have a Little Richard comp and that's the number of songs on it that i don't dislike. (i have no interest in hearing "when the saints go marching in" or by the light of the silvery moon...etc)
	10:41pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: WooooooOOO!
	10:42pm Little Danny: He was an entertainer first. I think his recorded legacy was secondary to his legacy as a performer, a lot of second-rate output got churned out in the studio.
	10:44pm Kris Holmes: as far as a legacy goes, a lot of legacies are built on less than his initial Specialty outburst
	10:44pm Kris Holmes: just listen to the band on these, hot!!
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: hey dr.j!
	10:45pm doctorjazz: Hi Coel!
	10:46pm doctorjazz: Never heard this Kansas City, boy for Paul owe him a lot!
	10:47pm doctorjazz: ... boy DID Paul owe him a lot...
	10:47pm Kris Holmes: Hear James Brown in this right?
	10:48pm Franco Twinkie: Kris, this is the shit!
	10:48pm Little Danny: Roy Montrell on guitar on a lotta those Specialty sides from NOLA. And Earl Palmer, drums. And Lee Allen, sax.
	10:48pm doctorjazz: Absolutely!
	10:49pm Kris Holmes: Thanks guys & thank you Little Richard.
	10:50pm Little Danny: I think "The Girl Can't Help It" remains my fave Speciality side. Very New Orleans-sounding.
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: one thing i've said for most of my days is that, despite being into Chuck Berry since childhood and thusly correcting anyone who called Elvis Presley "the king of rock and roll", once i got into Little Richard (even by those aforementioned 15 songs only) he may've been "the king"! he certainly took it to the next level.
	10:56pm Franco Twinkie: How about Baby Face? His version cracks me up!
	10:56pm Kris Holmes: I don't think I have that
	10:57pm coelacanth∅: ahh, you've played both my favorites now
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: baby face is one of those on my compilation record that made me wonder if he only had 15 good songs! (sorry Franco!)
	10:59pm Little Danny: Haha yeah "Baby Face" is a little rough
	11:00pm Little Danny: Yeah!
	11:00pm Little Danny: That drum beat!
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: maybe i should hear all those again now i might feel differently when i was like 22 i filled one side of a cassette with my favorites and haven't heard those others since then.
	11:01pm Kris Holmes: New Orleans, Cosimo Matassa's studio
	11:01pm Franco Twinkie: I know Coel, strictly bottom of the barrel, but it still makes me laugh. Just because it's a stupid song, I guess.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: yeah this opens that comp. blew me away at first i must've played it 3-4X/day!
	11:02pm Little Danny: I never realized that LR's piano is somewhat somewhat subsumed by the rest of the band here. Maybe what's why I like it. It's a bit different.
	11:02pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy.
	11:02pm doctorjazz: The band is amazing!
	11:02pm Doug Schulkind: Roll Holmes roll!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: drums and vox up front
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: hey Phillippe
	11:03pm Kris Holmes: The drummer on all these is just on point the whole time, such a hot band
	11:04pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey coel
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: i heard John Lennon's version of rip it up first. took a few years to learn it was LR's
	11:09pm northguineahills: Thanks for the LR tribute. Sounded great in the car...
	🥁 11:09pm WR: Thank you Kris. Particularly for the later sides.
	11:10pm Dean: Only just occurred to me that Channel 3, an early '80s LA area punk band, echoed the refrain from "The Girl Can't Help It" in their superlative tune, "You Make Me Feel Cheap."
	11:10pm doctorjazz: That was fun!
	11:11pm Kris Holmes: glad you guys enjoyed it
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: (channel 3's best song by far too, in my opinion)
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: Loving the Betty Wright as well. have i really only heard clean up woman by this woman?
	11:22pm Little Danny: I think that was her sole national pop hit, coel, but Kris will know
	11:23pm Kris Holmes: Clean Up Woman was the biggie
	11:24pm Kris Holmes: But she is fantastic the whole way through
	11:28pm Franco Twinkie: Did you say she married King Sporty!?!
	11:29pm Little Danny: That was news to me too Franco
	11:30pm Kris Holmes: I think so. Someone google if it was King Sporty or someone else?
	11:32pm Kris Holmes: I have been known to get my carribbean Kings & Princes confused
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: That makes no never mind to me what she did. I just want to know about King Sporty!
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: wikipedia says yes. her 3rd marriage.
	11:35pm Kris Holmes: co-writer of Buffalo Soldier for one Robert Marley
	11:37pm chresti: Wow, King Sporty.
	11:38pm Franco Twinkie: Yup! Dudes a player. Also, a gas tank on a Harley Sportster apparently.
	🥁 11:38pm WR: Is it you: killer track!
	11:44pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): sounding good. hi, Kris and WFMU crew, chatters, lurkers!
	11:47pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Granny! How's your world?
	11:50pm Kris Holmes: check out the song "The Wrong Girl" coming up, how on earth Clarence Reid hit on that subject matter but made it sound so stunning is beyond me
	🥁 11:55pm WR: Yes, didn't see that twist in Wrong Girl coming.
	11:56pm Kris Holmes: crazy right!
	11:59pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Kris!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Great program Kris! Thanks for the tributes rest in peace Betty Wright, Little Richard, Millie Small, Tony Allen, Florian Schneider, John Prine....... take care y'all
	12:02am chresti: Thanks Kris! Nice tributes.
	12:03am Kris Holmes: super sad amounts of legends leaving us, hard to keep up
	12:03am Franco Twinkie: She was a busy lady for sure. Thanks Kris.
	🥁 12:05am WR: Thanks Kris. Betty Wright is such a loss. Little Richard had his time. We are richer from them both.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from May 12, 2020

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May 12, 2020: Little Richard & Betty Wright Tribute Show

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Artist	Track	Label	Format
Little Richard	Do It To It "Do It To It" by "Little Richard"	Reprise	7"
Little Richard	Green Power "Green Power" by "Little Richard"	Reprise	7"
Little Richard	Dancing In The Street	Reprise	7"
Little Richard	I Saw Her Standing There	Reprise	7"
Little Richard	Freedom Blues "Freedom Blues" by "Little Richard"	Reprise	7"
Little Richard	Try Some Of Mine "Try Some Of Mine" by "Little Richard"	Brunswick	7"
Little Richard (w/Jimi Hendrix)	I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)	Vee Jay	7"
Little Richard	Dance What You Wanna	Vee Jay	7"
Little Richard	Baby What You Want Me To Do	Modern	7"
Little Richard	She Knows How To Rock	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Bama Lama Bama Loo	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	I Got It "I Got It" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Kansas City "Kansas City" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	True Fine Mama "True Fine Mama" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Good Golly Miss Molly	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Poor Boy Paul "Poor Boy Paul" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Lucille "Lucille" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Tutti Frutti "Tutti Frutti" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Little Richard	Rip It Up "Rip It Up" by "Little Richard"	Specialty	7"
Betty Wright	Where Is The Love "Where Is The Love" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Shoorah Shoorah "Shoorah Shoorah" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Secretary "Secretary" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	One Thing Leads To Another	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Let Me Be Your Lovemaker	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	It's Hard to Stop (Doing Something When It's Good To You)	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Baby Sitter "Baby Sitter" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Is It You Girl "Is It You Girl" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	If You Love Me "If You Love Me" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman "Clean Up Woman" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	If You Love Me Like I Love You	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Pure Love "Pure Love" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	The Wrong Girl "The Wrong Girl" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	The Best Girls Don't Always Win	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Watch Out Love "Watch Out Love" by "Betty Wright"	Alston	7"
Betty Wright	Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do	Alston	7"
The Insiders	Good Golly Miss Molly

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Listener comments!
	9:46pm Matt from New Orleans: Kris slept like crap last night and feeling it. I’ll catch up in the archive. Have a good show.
	9:50pm Kris Holmes: Ok Matt, your presence will be missed.
	🥁 10:02pm WR: Connected. Interested to hear your take on this.
	10:05pm Kris Holmes: I am a huge Little Richard fan & really the biggest problem here is having to reign it into this first hour.
	10:06pm chresti: Hi Kris and homers!
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: Hi Chresti, how are you guys doing?
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: greetings Kris and all
	10:15pm Kris Holmes: Hi Coel, welcome!
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: stoked to hear a legit Little Richard tribute
	10:18pm Kris Holmes: I am gonna do my best
	🥁 10:22pm WR: I had figured you would not be playing many of the initial Specialty hits which everyone already has on re-issue, right everyone.
	10:22pm Little Danny: Hi Kris 'n' all
	🥁 10:23pm WR: And where did Paul McCartney get his whooos...
	🥁 10:24pm WR: That Green Power song is interesting, Little Richard doing a James Brown thing.
	10:26pm Kris Holmes: exactly, Paul got his from Richard!
	10:27pm Kris Holmes: Green Power is great, love that cut
	10:28pm Little Danny: These LR Brunswick sides are cool. And seemingly forgotten about.
	🥁 10:29pm WR: I've stopped looking up release details, can do that later. These are so good I need to fully focus on what I'm hearing.
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: Hi Dan, yes, agreed, this is the only one I have :-(
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: We're around 1964 right now WR
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: i once said something along the lines of Little Richard had about 15 great songs and ...please forgive me if it was here or on cool blue flame but i think it was Larry Grogan said oh no you haven't heard enough Little Richard then, and said he'd do a dedicated show. if he did that i missed it.
	10:32pm Kris Holmes: Ha, yeah, people only think of the rock & roll hits but there is a lot more
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: so far tonight i've only heard try some of mine ...this because it's on a Hendrix boot that i've got
	10:32pm Little Danny: @coel: It might be said that there about 15 different songs at the core of Little Richard, and that the rest are variations. That's still a better average than most.
	🥁 10:34pm WR: Who is the lady singing Baby What You Want... with him?
	10:36pm Kris Holmes: not sure
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: maybe so Danny...i think i based that harsh judgement on considerably more ignorance than that though! - i have a Little Richard comp and that's the number of songs on it that i don't dislike. (i have no interest in hearing "when the saints go marching in" or by the light of the silvery moon...etc)
	10:41pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: WooooooOOO!
	10:42pm Little Danny: He was an entertainer first. I think his recorded legacy was secondary to his legacy as a performer, a lot of second-rate output got churned out in the studio.
	10:44pm Kris Holmes: as far as a legacy goes, a lot of legacies are built on less than his initial Specialty outburst
	10:44pm Kris Holmes: just listen to the band on these, hot!!
	10:45pm coelacanth∅: hey dr.j!
	10:45pm doctorjazz: Hi Coel!
	10:46pm doctorjazz: Never heard this Kansas City, boy for Paul owe him a lot!
	10:47pm doctorjazz: ... boy DID Paul owe him a lot...
	10:47pm Kris Holmes: Hear James Brown in this right?
	10:48pm Franco Twinkie: Kris, this is the shit!
	10:48pm Little Danny: Roy Montrell on guitar on a lotta those Specialty sides from NOLA. And Earl Palmer, drums. And Lee Allen, sax.
	10:48pm doctorjazz: Absolutely!
	10:49pm Kris Holmes: Thanks guys & thank you Little Richard.
	10:50pm Little Danny: I think "The Girl Can't Help It" remains my fave Speciality side. Very New Orleans-sounding.
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: one thing i've said for most of my days is that, despite being into Chuck Berry since childhood and thusly correcting anyone who called Elvis Presley "the king of rock and roll", once i got into Little Richard (even by those aforementioned 15 songs only) he may've been "the king"! he certainly took it to the next level.
	10:56pm Franco Twinkie: How about Baby Face? His version cracks me up!
	10:56pm Kris Holmes: I don't think I have that
	10:57pm coelacanth∅: ahh, you've played both my favorites now
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: baby face is one of those on my compilation record that made me wonder if he only had 15 good songs! (sorry Franco!)
	10:59pm Little Danny: Haha yeah "Baby Face" is a little rough
	11:00pm Little Danny: Yeah!
	11:00pm Little Danny: That drum beat!
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: maybe i should hear all those again now i might feel differently when i was like 22 i filled one side of a cassette with my favorites and haven't heard those others since then.
	11:01pm Kris Holmes: New Orleans, Cosimo Matassa's studio
	11:01pm Franco Twinkie: I know Coel, strictly bottom of the barrel, but it still makes me laugh. Just because it's a stupid song, I guess.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: yeah this opens that comp. blew me away at first i must've played it 3-4X/day!
	11:02pm Little Danny: I never realized that LR's piano is somewhat somewhat subsumed by the rest of the band here. Maybe what's why I like it. It's a bit different.
	11:02pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy.
	11:02pm doctorjazz: The band is amazing!
	11:02pm Doug Schulkind: Roll Holmes roll!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: drums and vox up front
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: hey Phillippe
	11:03pm Kris Holmes: The drummer on all these is just on point the whole time, such a hot band
	11:04pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey coel
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: i heard John Lennon's version of rip it up first. took a few years to learn it was LR's
	11:09pm northguineahills: Thanks for the LR tribute. Sounded great in the car...
	🥁 11:09pm WR: Thank you Kris. Particularly for the later sides.
	11:10pm Dean: Only just occurred to me that Channel 3, an early '80s LA area punk band, echoed the refrain from "The Girl Can't Help It" in their superlative tune, "You Make Me Feel Cheap."
	11:10pm doctorjazz: That was fun!
	11:11pm Kris Holmes: glad you guys enjoyed it
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: (channel 3's best song by far too, in my opinion)
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: Loving the Betty Wright as well. have i really only heard clean up woman by this woman?
	11:22pm Little Danny: I think that was her sole national pop hit, coel, but Kris will know
	11:23pm Kris Holmes: Clean Up Woman was the biggie
	11:24pm Kris Holmes: But she is fantastic the whole way through
	11:28pm Franco Twinkie: Did you say she married King Sporty!?!
	11:29pm Little Danny: That was news to me too Franco
	11:30pm Kris Holmes: I think so. Someone google if it was King Sporty or someone else?
	11:32pm Kris Holmes: I have been known to get my carribbean Kings & Princes confused
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: That makes no never mind to me what she did. I just want to know about King Sporty!
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: wikipedia says yes. her 3rd marriage.
	11:35pm Kris Holmes: co-writer of Buffalo Soldier for one Robert Marley
	11:37pm chresti: Wow, King Sporty.
	11:38pm Franco Twinkie: Yup! Dudes a player. Also, a gas tank on a Harley Sportster apparently.
	🥁 11:38pm WR: Is it you: killer track!
	11:44pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): sounding good. hi, Kris and WFMU crew, chatters, lurkers!
	11:47pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Granny! How's your world?
	11:50pm Kris Holmes: check out the song "The Wrong Girl" coming up, how on earth Clarence Reid hit on that subject matter but made it sound so stunning is beyond me
	🥁 11:55pm WR: Yes, didn't see that twist in Wrong Girl coming.
	11:56pm Kris Holmes: crazy right!
	11:59pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Kris!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Great program Kris! Thanks for the tributes rest in peace Betty Wright, Little Richard, Millie Small, Tony Allen, Florian Schneider, John Prine....... take care y'all
	12:02am chresti: Thanks Kris! Nice tributes.
	12:03am Kris Holmes: super sad amounts of legends leaving us, hard to keep up
	12:03am Franco Twinkie: She was a busy lady for sure. Thanks Kris.
	🥁 12:05am WR: Thanks Kris. Betty Wright is such a loss. Little Richard had his time. We are richer from them both.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from May 12, 2020

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