Playlist Date & Time: 9/20/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

Special Show Blog Post: ????? Riddle Me This ??????

Riddle Me This

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We are all taught to speak and write in the active voice.  Say what you mean and directly address the subject matter.  Keeping with the backwards traditions of Saturday night's drunk drive time shift, tonight we present songs and quotes that don't directly address anything, instead they ask a question.  

Oh you big baby, don't reach for the TV remote and give up on this theme.  New Orleans greats Lloyd Price and Allen Toussaint lead the league in these songs and Fats Domino, Little Sonny Jones, Dr. John and so many others put out some of their finest music under this format.  

But the real fun is hearing sound clips of familiar quotes between these songs that are also in the form of a question.  Quotes like:

Attorney Welch breaking the witch-hunt with "Senator McCarthy, have you no shame?"

Travis Bickle's haunting "You talkin' to me?"  

Or more onto the spirit of Saturday night, "Klink, what is going on here?" and "Ahhhh, what's up doc?"

Maybe The Riddler and originators of Jeopardy were onto something. 

Okay to make it more interesting we'll string the selections together into a story progression.  Well maybe just a miserable sequence of 16 songs starting with: 

The "jilted lover" subtheme and placed within the criminal law context:

1.   Where were you?  The reasonable suspicion / probable cause questioning.

2.   How long has this been going on?  Arrest and evidence gathering for prosecution.

3.   Who do you love?  Asking for an impartial adjudication. 

4.   Where were you?   The discovery and cross examination.

5.   The final miserable acts of drunk dialing and unanswered calls

Then our descent gets worse as a private matter become a public act out: 

1.  Intoxicate yourself as if this will fix anything

2.  The bar fight

3.  The subsequent court appearance

This story is getting too miserable for a Saturday night.  

Pull yourself together.  Read a bit of philosophy and put your trouble in context by listening to songs about, "What is Success, Happiness, and Love?"  (Toussaint, Prima and Hank Ballard.)  Then get some self-respect with a new hairdo via Hank Ballard and Ted Hawkins songs about natural hair dos and with your appearance fixed, find some direction by asking yourself, Where Ya At Mule?  Where You Going Sapphire? and Where Yat? until you find the the Right Place (Dr. John, The Upsetters, Lloyd Price and The Royal Lancers).

Box Score

85   Selections

82   Ending is a question mark

  3 Prostitutes hanging around my house

  3 Times Lyle Lovett called in requests

 10 Total Lovett requests

  2 Requests fulfilled

  0 Of his requested recordings

100% Embarrassed over my library

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