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January 8, 2021: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 2 - Chapter 1: Jello Biafra pt. 24 - The Singing Logger, Country Tear-Jerkers, Country Music From Other Countries and Heino (lots of Heino)...
Episode art: "EFPHLEGM ZIMBALIST, J.R. -or- F. Murry Abraham Lincoln Zimbalist, JR" by Michael Brunelle
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Buzz Martin | Used Log Truck | Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man | (Notes: “He sings about how much he loves his logging truck and his chainsaws and hates the forest service and environmentalists.” - Jello) | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Buzz Martin | Whistle Punk Pete | Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man | (Notes: “You can learn a lot of logging’ lingo from songs like “Whistle Punk Pete,” “Cat-Skinning’ Gyppo,” “Two High on the Stump,” and “Since They Repossessed My Used Log Truck.” - Jello) | 0:04:22 (Pop-up) | |
Buzz Martin | Cat-Skinning’ Gyppo | A Logger's Reward | 0:07:10 (Pop-up) | ||
Buzz Martin | Two High on the Stump | A Logger's Reward | 0:09:16 (Pop-up) | ||
Buzz Martin | Since They Repossessed My Used Log Truck | A Logger's Reward | 0:13:07 (Pop-up) | ||
Buzz Martin | My Old McCulloch | The Old Time Logger: A Different Breed of Man | (Notes: “…speaking of vanishing breeds, just look at the size of that tree he’s cutting down! - Jello) | 0:15:57 (Pop-up) | |
Buzz Martin | Unemployment Compensation | Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man | (Notes: “Buzz has a fairly powerful song about being stuck on unemployment, which of course is happening to many loggers now, but not for the reasons they think.” - Jello) | 0:18:34 (Pop-up) | |
Hank Williams | I Can't Help It | The Great Hits of Hank Williams | (Notes: “Ain’t nothin’ like a country tear-jerker. There’s the kind that really hit you: when Hank and Patsy do ‘em right.” - Jello) | 0:20:26 (Pop-up) | |
(Bonus Track) Dottie West | Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy | Suffer Time | (Notes: “Then there’s the other kind where you almost wipe out your car ‘cuz you’re laughing so hard.” - Jello (This one does that to me when I hear the kid start singing. - Your DJ)) | 0:22:46 (Pop-up) | |
Kenny Starr | The Blind Man in the Bleachers | The Blind Man in the Bleachers | (“For country tear-jerkers, this one takes the cake…” - Jello) | 0:25:41 (Pop-up) | |
Ferlin Husky | Drunk Driver | The Hits Of Ferlin Husky | (A couple favorite extra country tear-jerkers. - Your DJ) | 0:29:01 (Pop-up) | |
Buzz Martin | There Walks A Man | Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man | Featured album cover on top of page. 35. | 0:32:27 (Pop-up) | |
Rocky Jones | Smokey Bear | I'm Smokey Trucker | (Featured album cover on the bottom of pg. 35) | 0:34:31 (Pop-up) | |
(Bonus Track) John Bult | Julie's Sixteenth Birthday | Julie's Sixteenth Birthday | Sorry, didn't have this one ready when I wanted to earlier. lol Things got a little out of order. Oh well. | 0:37:26 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | Ballad of Muk Tuk Annie | Stompin' Tom Meets 'Muk Tuk' Annie | (Notes: Country Music From Other Countries: “Canada: Stompin’ Tom Connors is the Canadian Hank Williams. All his songs are about Canada, e.g.: “Muk Tuk Annie,” “When you Mention Manitoba” (Titled “Manitoba” on the LP), “Sudbury Saturday Night,” and “Roll On Saskatchewan,” - Jello) | 0:41:20 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | Manitoba | To It And At It | 0:45:34 (Pop-up) | ||
Stompin' Tom Connors | Sudbury Saturday Night | Bud the Spud | (Notes: “He’s called Stompin’ Tom because he stomps on a piece of plywood to keep time, so his fans have him autograph pieces of plywood!” - Jello) | 0:48:26 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | Roll on Saskatchewan | Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors (November 2, 1973) Youtube audio | (“You can learn a lot of Canadian geography and history from his down-to-earth, simple, old-style songs…” -Jello | 0:50:58 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | Opening Credits Track | Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors (November 2, 1973) Youtube audio | 0:52:44 (Pop-up) | ||
Stompin' Tom Connors | Bud The Spud | Bud the Spud | (“He’s so fiercely patriotic he won’t let his records be released in the United States! I heard he threw a public *@#-fit when he discovered a truck stop he ate at was using hash browns from a mix instead of good Canadian potatoes!” - Jello) | 0:54:16 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | Prince Edward Island, Happy Birthday | To It And At It | (“I’m waiting for him to do a song about his native Prince Edward Island, where the growers are now forbidden to grow potatoes because there’s an indigenous weevil or worm that eats tobacco plants there, and American tobacco growers don’t want this pest imported. So they’ve exerted pressure to forbid an entire island of farmers from growing their own food and making a living!” - Jello) | 0:55:58 (Pop-up) | |
Stompin' Tom Connors | The Hockey SOng | Stompin’ Tom and the Hockey Song | (Notes: Featured album cover top of page 36) | 0:58:16 (Pop-up) | |
(Bonus Track): Stompin' Tom Connors | Where the Chinooks Blow | The Unpopular Stompin' Tom Connors | How could I not pick this up at the thrift store a decade ago. | 1:00:46 (Pop-up) | |
Slim Dusty | A Pub With No Beer | 78 Single Youtube Audio | (“The Australian country-western singer has got to be Slim Dusty, whose hit was “A Pub With No Beer” - he’s made a ton of albums.” - Jello) | 1:04:09 (Pop-up) | |
Rolf Harris | Sun Arise/Click Go the Shears | The Original Sun Arise | (“Also, early ’70’s Rolf Harris records contain some great cuts. According to Rolf Harris-collector Mick Dillingham, “Sunarise,” “Tutankhamun” and “Click Song” are epic tracks.” - Vale) - Sorry forgot to make a post for the 2nd track. | 1:06:58 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Carnival in Rio | Seine Grossen Erfolge 3 | Had to skip ahead. It's Heino Time! (Notes: “I think Heino’s animal magnetism extends to South America, where he may have a large audience among a certain population that moved there. Almost every album has these Latin Lover songs like “Carnival in Rio,” “Karamba Karachi Ein Whiskey,” “En Einer Bar in Mexico,” and even “Komm in Meinen Wigwam” (sung in German of course.)” - Jello ) | 1:17:02 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Karamba Karacho Ein Whiskey | 20 Super Hits - Seine Allergrößten Erfolge | 1:18:56 (Pop-up) | ||
Heino | En Einer Bar in Mexico | 20 Super Hits - Seine Allergrößten Erfolge | 1:21:17 (Pop-up) | ||
Heino | Komm In Meinen Wigwam (Regenbogen-Johnny) | 20 Super Hits - Seine Allergrößten Erfolge | (“Can you imagine being enticed into a wigwam and finding Heino inside?” - Jello) | 1:24:35 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | ...Und Sie Hieß Lulalei | Greatest Hits #5 | (Notes: “I have Heino’s Great Hits #5, which has his hula song, plus his cover of “Paloma Blanca” and “Spanish Eyes.” - Jello) | 1:27:48 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Paloma Blanca | Greatest Hits #5 | (Notes: “He’s wearing black leather and rectangular black plastic sunglasses (it’s rumored he bought the company so no one else could have the design.)” - Jello | 1:31:31 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Spanish Eyes | Greatest Hits #5 | 1:34:54 (Pop-up) | ||
Heino | Niedersachsenlied (Von Der Weser Bis Zur Elbe) | Uns Geht Die Sonne Nicht Unter - Heimat- Und Vaterlandslieder | (“On another he’s sitting on a fencepost with an obviously fake sunset in the background.” - Jello) | 1:38:23 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | In Honolulu | Seine Großen Erfolge 6 | (“His packaging comes in many different flavors: “Macho Heino” (posed with two German Shepards)” - Jello) | 1:40:51 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | La Paloma | Die Schönsten Volkslieder Der Welt | (Lysergic Heino (sleeve shaded acid-pink with him holding two poodles)” - Jello) | 1:44:39 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Schwalbenlied | Ich Hab' Ehrfurcht Vor Schneeweißen Haaren | ("Nosferatu Heino" - Jello) | 1:48:07 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | Mohikana Shalali | Mein Star | (Notes: “Heino in Space” - Jello) | 1:51:14 (Pop-up) | |
Heino | La Mamma | Liebe Mutter... Ein Blumenstrauß, Der Nie Verwelkt | (“… and even an entire album of Mother’s Day songs. Here he’sin a skintight black turtleneck with this wicked Village of the Damned grown-up-child look on his face, holding a bouquet of roses you swear are about to explode. There’s something so sinister about him - that’s partly what makes it all work.” - Jello) | 1:55:26 (Pop-up) |
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Yes, Dottie. It truly is, THAT time.
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The album I just found has this on it - a compilation Seine Grossen Erfolge 3.
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I just hope he keeps his sunglasses on. There's that one video where he takes them off on stage with like 100 Heino's it seems on stage with him. Or maybe I am having another daymare.
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Saw this a few years back here with a friend and was looking at it and he said OMG, are you going to buy that?! I said, no, here, you can have it for a dollar. Ha!
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