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• 50 more tracks drawn from Bob Dylan’s third season of Theme Time Radio Hour and once more it is as eclectic a mix of music as you’ll find anywhere.
• Spanning 76 years, it contains artists as diverse as Roy Rogers, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Nirvana, Toots & the Maytals, Laura Cantrell, the Mississippi Sheiks - shuffle that lot on your iPod.
• This time there is a nod to the topical collapse of Western capitalism in Joe Mooney’s ‘The Man With $1 Million’ and Mel Blanc’s irresistibly alliterative (but blunt) ‘Money’. Speaking of Mel we even got Pat Boone to write the sleeve note for that one. A prize for the first person to guess why.
• The introduction has been written by the novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw, whose book “The Importance of Music To Girls”, is a must-read for music lovers and we have a spectacular array of annotators this time, ranging from the man who introduced us to the blues, Paul Oliver, to Sir Tim Rice on Elvis (Presley) and Elvis (Costello) on Dave Bartholomew’s ‘The Monkey (Speaks His Mind)’ that he once covered.
• Also on the subject of Elvis: is this the first compilation with both Elvises on it? And if so what a coincidence that the only known cover by Elvis C of Elvis P is ‘Little Sister’ and the original is on here.
• The track everyone is hollerin’ for is Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago singing William Shakespeare from the Jack Good musical Catch My Soul - ‘Lust Of The Blood’ will still not be believed, even when heard.
• Once more we have a fantastic array of illustrations for the package, including a previously unseen shot of the New Boots and Panties LP cover to illustrate ‘Sweet Gene Vincent’, and the photo of Annie Ross with her then boyfriend Lenny Bruce that illustrates ‘Twisted’ is just the hippest.
• And as that song says, ‘my analyst told me / I must be out of my head’ and so must you be if you can’t ship truck-loads of this little baby.
• And did I mention that we are making available a very groovy outer case to house all 3 volumes of Theme Time and to encourage those back sales of Seasons one and two?
Disc 1:
1. 36-22-36 - Bobby “Blue” Bland
2. BRING IT ON HOME TO GRANDMA - Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers
3. PAYDAY - Jesse Winchester
4. I’M NUTS ABOUT SCREWY MUSIC - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
5. THE MONKEY (SPEAKS HIS MIND) - Dave Bartholomew
6. LITTLE SISTER - Elvis Presley
7. I CAN'T WORK NO LONGER - Billy Butler & The Enchanters
8. IT'S NOTHING TO ME - Sanford Clark (played TTRH from bootleg as Harry Johnson)
9. BUCKET O BLOOD - Big Boy Groves
10. W-P-L-J - The 4 Deuces
11. GO NOW - Bessie Banks
12. SO LIKE CANDY - Elvis Costello
13. LUST OF THE BLOOD - Jerry Lee Lewis
14. IN THE NIGHT - Professor Longhair
15. TWISTED - Annie Ross
16. LITTLE SADIE - Clarence Ashley (Thomas C Ashley)
17. YOU GOT TO HAVE A JOB (IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU CAN'T EAT) - Marva Whitney & The J.B.'s
18. THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT - Jerry McCain (& His Upstarts)
19. 54-46 THAT’S MY NUMBER - Toots & The Maytals
20. WHERE THE SWEET OLD ORANGES GROW - Sam Montgomery
21. “King of Spades”
22. 14TH STREET - Laura Cantrell
23. BYE BYE BLUES - Oscar Aleman
24. SHAKE SUGAREE - Elizabeth Cotten & Brenda Evans
25. FOREVER NIGHT SHADE MARY - The Latin Playboys (Los Lobos)
26. SOMETHING COOL - June Christy
Disc 2:
1. THIS IS THE END - Buddy Guy
2. I FOUGHT THE LAW - The Crickets
3. A NICKEL AND A NAIL - O.V. Wright
4. NO LOVE, NO NOTHIN’ - Marlene Dietrich
5. SWEET GENE VINCENT - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
6. WHERE YOU AT? - Lloyd Price
7. SO LONG, GOOD LUCK AND GOODBYE - Weldon Rogers & The Teen Kings
8. STRUT THAT THING - Cripple Clarence Lofton
9. MONEY - Mel Blanc
10. DON’T YOU LIE TO ME - Fats Domino
11. JACK PALANCE - The Mighty Sparrow with Cyril Diaz Orchestra
12. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT - Sarah Vaughan (with Miles Davis)
13. A MAN WITH ONE MILLION DOLLARS - Joe Mooney Quartet
14. LA MUERTE DE FRED GOMEZ CARRASCO - Los Socios De San Antonio
15. (LIKE ME) YOU’LL RECOVER IN TIME - Johnny Paycheck
16. THE BLOOD - The Zion Travelers
17. THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT - Fred Astaire (with The Oscar Peterson Group)
18. AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA - Eric Bogle
19. BABY MINE - Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)
20. NIGHT LIFE - Willie Nelson
21. I’VE GOT BLOOD IN MY EYES FOR YOU - The Mississippi Sheiks
22. BROTHER JOHN - Wild Tchoupitoulas
23. FRANCIS FARMER WILL HAVE HER REVENGE ON SEATTLE - Nirvana
24. SO LONG, IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH (DUSTY OLD DUST) - Woody Guthrie
25. HAPPY TRAILS - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with Frank Worth & His Orchestra
