Favoriting Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from December 23, 2020 Favoriting

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

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Favoriting December 23, 2020: Records I Got At Mays'

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Artist Track Label Format Approx. start time
G.L. Crockett  Look Out Mabel   Favoriting Checker  7"  0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Arthur Smith and His Crackerjacks 

Shhh   Favoriting

Choice 

7" 

0:07:26 (Pop-up)
Zeb Turner  Chew Tobacco Rag   Favoriting King  7"  0:07:37 (Pop-up)
Gene Nitz  Running From The Law   Favoriting Country Caravan  7"  0:10:03 (Pop-up)
Eddie Marshall  Mine All Mine   Favoriting RCA Victor  7"  0:12:41 (Pop-up)
(Mr.) Connie Dycus  Wrap It Up   Favoriting Cathay Records    0:14:56 (Pop-up)
Bill Emerson  Money Makes A Man Careless   Favoriting Topic  7"  0:17:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chet Atkins 

Boo Boo Stick Beat   Favoriting

RCA Victor 

7" 

0:20:09 (Pop-up)
Ray Taylor and Alabama Pals  My Hamtramck Baby   Favoriting Clix  7"  0:23:34 (Pop-up)
Whitey and the Rhythm Four  I Feel Sorry For You   Favoriting A-B-S  7"  0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Dan Folger  Inside My Heart   Favoriting Hickory  7"  0:28:42 (Pop-up)
Ray Smith  Makes Me Feel Good   Favoriting Judd  7"  0:30:14 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Martin  I'm Trading Loneliness   Favoriting Cinch  7"  0:33:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Trubert Brothers 

Rockin' Miss Billett   Favoriting

Sashay 

7" 

0:34:42 (Pop-up)
The Moonglows with Red Holloway's Orch.  Ooh Rocking Daddy   Favoriting Chance  7"  0:38:34 (Pop-up)
Emanuel Lasky  Welfare Cheese   Favoriting Thelma  7"  0:41:08 (Pop-up)
Kuf-Linx feat. John Jennings  Service With A Smile   Favoriting Challenge  7"  0:43:55 (Pop-up)
Andre Williams  Sweet Little Pussycat   Favoriting WinGate  7"  0:46:11 (Pop-up)
Robert Ward  I Will Fear No Evil   Favoriting Groove City Records  7"  0:50:07 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Whitey and the Rhythm Four 

Tinkerin'   Favoriting

A-B-S 

7" 

0:51:18 (Pop-up)
Ann Jones  A Big Fat Gal Like Me   Favoriting King  7"  0:54:07 (Pop-up)
Christine Hall  Bill Bailey   Favoriting Country Lovin' Records  7"  0:56:04 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
ultradamno:

Becky! Tonkies!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Handy Haversack:

Becky! Tonka Trucks! Yes! Let's drive on down that winter road!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hiya Becky, Crew, revelers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Becky:

Hey everybody!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
loveless:

How are ya, how are ya, how are ya?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Richard S:

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Handy Haversack:

Listening by treelight, Becky!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Viva Mr. Mays!
Avatar 8:06pm
Doug in JC:

Absolutely fine with a break from the christmas stuff
  8:06pm
Vince:

Thank you for not playing Christmas music!
  8:07pm
cabroncito:

thank you! im so tired of the Christmas crap
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Actually Hazel Park sits on the northern edge of Detroit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Becky:

By the way, my punctuation in the title of this week's program is deliberate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Becky:

Sorryyyyyyy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Becky! Handy! Mr Fine Wine! Pauly!

What a great tribute show. I think we've all got memories of a record seller or flea market vendor like that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Ha it's an obscure weird hickish suburb and it's kind of amazing that it butts up against Detroit
  8:09pm
P-90:

Merry Christmas, Ms. Becky and Beckaroos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Richard S:

Love the percussion in this one!
  8:10pm
P-90:

Someday maybe I’ll find a nice obscure weird hickish suburb to settle down in...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Quintessential Mays record, Gene Nitz. :(
  8:11pm
Andres:

Evening Becky and all! First glance at song title and I misread Chewbacca. Perhaps the origins of the character's name?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Becky:

Chewtobacca, Chewie's country cousin
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Ha! Here's a map of Detroit country music sites. carcitycountry.com...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Handy Haversack:

Hey, Lizzie!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Country Caravan is a division of Mutt.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Evening, SCL!!
  8:15pm
BH:

Looking at the Detroit area on JusticeMap.org and yep, the location of 8 Mile Rd is pretty obvious there. (Full disclosure: i'm from a different midwestern metro that also has obvious residential segregation)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Little Danny:

Hey Becky, all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Becky:

Hi Danny!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Little Danny:

Awesome map, MFW. So many great Michigan country records. I swear they have their own fidelity.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Did other northern urban centers have as big a country scene? I assume Chicago must have, but I don't really know the answer.
  8:22pm
P-90:

The Madalorian Season 3 rumored to introduce a new character: Chewbecka, the Honky Tonk Radio Wookiee.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi there. I'm ready for a honky-tonk Christmas.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Becky:

P-90, I just squealed at how absolutely wonderful that idea is.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Handy Haversack:

@Mr. FW, I met a guy in Muskegon a few years ago who was telling me that Grand Rapids has a pretty vibrant rockabilly scene.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

I wish I knew more about the Del Shannon demo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
listener 126464:

More Songs About Hamtramck
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Little Danny:

Becky would know best but Chicago's didn't compare, at least in my experience. Detroit's greater auto industry seemed to draw all the Appalachian (and Ohio) cats, a cottage country "scene" develops, more country musicians are drawn to the city in turn, ad infinitum. It didn't hurt that Detroit (rather than, say, a Cleveland or a Pittsburgh) had a vibrant local recording infrastructure (studios, spaces, DJs, good economy, promoters, like-minded musicians, etc.) that existed already by World War II.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Handy Haversack:

(Please have a song about the Boblo ferry! Please have a song about the Boblo ferry!)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Excellent points, Danny. Handy, isn't "I met a guy in Muskegon" itself the first line of a country song??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Becky:

One of my all-time favorite records - this live Chicago recording of the Sundowners, a local honky tonk act: www.bloodshotrecords.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Becky:

And Toronto and Montreal had strong country scenes, for sure.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Handy Haversack:

It's a whole subgenre, Mr. FW.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
G:

Tons of folks from Kentucky were in southeast Michigan in the car industry. I lived down the street from some as a kid, circa 1970. Locals even jokingly called Ypsilanti "Ypsitucky."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Becky and I were on the recommissioned Boblo boat for Gino Washington's birthday party.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Handy Haversack:

Yeah, US 41 and then I-75 were direct corridors from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Decommissioned? Repurposed? Whatever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Becky:

I remember we had to go around and around in a tight circle to avoid going under the bridge on one side and crossing into Canada on the other.
  8:30pm
HopeWithFeathers:

Channeling my own Honky Tonk self to bake some Peanut Blossom cookies. Enjoying the tunes — keep ‘em spinning Becky!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
ultradamno:

Converted, maybe?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
G:

@Handy: Yep, a family down the street from me was in a bad car accident on I-75 around 1970, coming home from visiting relatives back in Kentucky.
  8:31pm
Christo:

Hey Becky! That was cool! This is country music
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Handy Haversack:

Sorry, US 23. (It and 41 sort of trade places by Atlanta.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Little Danny:

Funny, all that Detroit lacked in terms of being a real national country industry powerhouse were the labels. Which were all in still Nashville (and all the major Southern and Texan cities) and Los Angeles in the '50s and '60s.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Gaylord Fields:

@Mr. Fine Wine: Did Gino actually show up?
  8:33pm
Christo:

Love your show Becky! Merry Christmas 🎄
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Becky:

Thanks Christo!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Little Danny:

I'm blanking on the name of Motown's country subsidiary.
  8:34pm
Andres:

I was thinking Windsor, Ontario must have had a strong country music scene, with its proximity to the Detroit scene and the rural counties surrounding it. I guess Shania Twain's birth there is the proof.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Handy Haversack:

Moedown? Hoetown? These can't be right, Little Danny.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
ultradamno:

Mel-o-dy
  8:36pm
BH:

Although Windsor, Ontario is South Detroit, so.. it makes sense for country to be big there.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Little Danny:

Mel-o-dy! Thanks UD.

Some good hardcore honky-tonk 45s on that label, too.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
ultradamno:

I think because it was run by Mel O. Dyson.

I just made that up. Talking out of my ass again, I can't stop.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Handy Haversack:

Still better than my made-up guesses, ultradamno.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Little Danny:

I heard about the 78 burial, too! Heard that on different occasions from Bob Mays enthusiast Pete Wilgus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Those lost 78s! I'm tearing up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Becky:

Gaylord: Gino showed, but refused to sing all night (despite it being HIS birthday and a whole band being assembled and ready to accompany him), until after midnight when the boat pulled back into the dock. Then he sang 2 songs and RAN off the boat.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Handy Haversack:

Let's get shovels and meet in Detroit!

(OK for a song opener, Mr. FW?)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Gino was a big tease that night but it was still fun. A "white party"!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Gaylord Fields:

@Becky @MFW: That is so bizarre, but that level of cowardice is certainly on brand for Gino.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Ha. Okay, here's what I know of the 78 burial: Bob had a green thumb and had some pots he wanted to plant seedlings in but needed potting soil. He decided he'd use the rich, black Hazel Park dirt in his backyard. But that would leave unsightly holes! He also had a few hundred copies of undesirable local 78, Briant Holland's "(Where't the Joy) In Nature Boy"/"Shock" on the Kudo label, taking up a lot of space. So he decided to fill the holes with 78s and top them off. Years went by, maybe decades. Grass grew over the 78s.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Gaylord Fields:

It just occurred to me that between Emanuel Lasky and Nathaniel Mayer, Detroit certainly had its share of Black singers with Jewish-sounding names.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
ultradamno:

This is like a customer feedback card set to music.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Then inquiries started coming in. Wants lists. People were after the 78. He tried to dig them up and kept not finding them. Eventually he found (some of? most of? all of?) them, but the labels were all corroded completely off. A helpful customer made exact replica labels that he glued on to the unburied 78s.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
ultradamno:

...OK, a warmer than usual one, but still.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Gaylord: Yes! Also, Detroit store-front soul food restaurants all feature corned beef!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Becky:

My debut funk instrumental 45 is going to be Asian Corned Beef b/w Boogaloo Sandwich after iconic Detroit delicacies. (Asian Corned Beef is Black-owned and serves corned beef-stuffed egg rolls, of course).
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Sorry I made you run in
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
ultradamno:

Well, I never knew how much I wanted corned beef eggrolls before today
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Gaylord Fields:

That story just goes to show you that one more limitation of digital media is you can't do absolutely boneheaded things with an mp3 file that make for great anecdotes. RIP, Bob Mays, and heartfelt sympathies, Becky and MFW.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Handy Haversack:

Math checks out, Becky.

And thanks for a great show! So good to be in Michigan through the music for a night. This was the first year since I was in high school that I didn't get out there to visit my aunt and my uncle. I miss it and them super hard. This was great. Many, many thanks.

Sending wishes for happy happy days!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

So true. Thanks, Gaylord.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Little Danny:

Just checked out that Briant Holland thing. Great! Not what I was expecting.
  8:53pm
Dean from Old Bridge:

Great show as always, Becky!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Danny: exists on 45 too. Yeah, love it!
  8:54pm
Andres:

Funny story about my dog eating a USB stick...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Little Danny:

My Mays 45 sleeves have cryptic little 0's on them, I forget what that meant.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

I FORGET TOO! O's with X's through them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Becky:

I WAS WONDERING THAT
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Becky:

I pulled out a representative sample and could not find a through line at all.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Gaylord Fields:

@Little Danny @MFW @Becky: Maybe it's shaped note transcription for singing along with the records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
radioronan:

Thanks Becky & Mr. Mays! Thanks Scott & skeletons..
  8:57pm
Andres:

Through line was they are all gold! Excellent show tonight, Becky!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Little Danny:

It believe it was the "good" side according to Bob
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Becky, wonderful show!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Mr. Fine Wine:

Danny: He was a vocal stickler about keeping the records facing the right way in his long homemade boxes!
  8:59pm
P-90:

EVERYTHING’s better with steel guitar on it...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Little Danny:

Yes he was, MFW. I pissed him off a lot thusly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
listener 126464:

Thank you Becky, and also message board for the stories.
  9:00pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

greetings from stove-top Tannersville. thnx Ms. B!
  9:00pm
P-90:

Thanks Becky, and Happy Honky Tonk Holidays to all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Tommy in Neversink:

thanks Becky
  9:13pm
P-90:

Terribly funkfestive mood achieved already!
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