SMALL TOWN TALK: Episode 14

In which Small Town Talk celebrates it’s First Birthday with the Wild Tchoupitoulas at the Mardi Gras   1. Let’s Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 2. Meet The Boys On The Battlefront - The Wild Tchoupitoulas 3. Go To The Mardi Gras - Professor Longhair 4. Land of 1000 Dances - Cannibal & The Headhunters 5. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett 6. Sally Go Round The Roses - Tim Buckley 7. Having A Party - Sam Cooke 8. Dancing The Night Away - The Motors 9. Dancing The Night Away - The Amazing Rhythm Aces 10. My Heart Went Do Dat Da - Barbara Lewis 11. Fat Girl - Otis Redding 12. I’m Your Puppet - Helen Watson 13. Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups 14. Lovin’ Machine - Wynonie Harris   Theme Tune: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles   UP TO MY HOUSE, I’VE GOT SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER SEEN I GOT WISE TO MYSELF AND BUILT ME A LOVIN’ MACHINE Wynonie Harris’s Lovin’ Machine finishes off by dispensing a bottle of HADACOL This was a so-called “miracle” tonic, popular in the forties because of it’s high alcohol content in the ”dry” states in America. It was short lived and had little or no medical benefit, but it’s memory is preserved in at least a dozen or so songs!   Link to Johnny Corsairs excellent Bright Lights Big City podcast: https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/   For further information and musings on the music contact me at: [email protected]   Illustration: Ginger Baldy dons a Mardi-Gras Indian costume.