’66 Sunset Strip
09.28.20
Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as Dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.
This episode originally aired 11/26/18.
Tracklist:
The Rising Sons – “Take a Giant Step” The Rising Sons – “Statesboro Blues”* The Rising Sons – “Sugar Pie” (*the latter two are early demos from 1965, recorded for a short Rising Sons film) The Red Roosters (pre-Spirit) – “Walkin’ the Dog” The Red Roosters (pre-Spirit) – “Evolution Mama” Western Union (pre-Spirit) – “Four in the Morning” (1966, demo produced by Jack Nitzsche) Canned Heat – “Got My Mojo Workin’” Canned Heat – “On the Road Again” John Fahey – “The Yellow Princess” Spirit (live at The Ash Grove) – “Tunji” Spirit (early demo) – “If I Had a Woman” Spirit – “I’ve Got a Line on You” The Masters (Frank Zappa, lead guitar) – “Break Time” The Mothers of Invention – “Jelly Roll Gum Drop” Vernon Green & the Phantoms (’50s L.A. group) – “Sweet Breeze” Bob “Froggy” Landers w/ Willie Joe and his Unitar – “The Cherokee Dance” The Mothers of Invention – “Love of My Life”Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra – “Pico and Sepulveda (The Street Song)” (Felix Figueroa was a pseudonym for Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, who were in 1947 when the record was cut, house band at The Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove Ballroom on Wilshire Boulevard. Record originally released on the Ambassador label. “Figueroa” itself is also a major Los Angeles thoroughfare.)
1.) Barret Hansen, later known as Dr. Demento, back in 1960 at the now-defunct Reed College radio station KRRC-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2.) ’66 SUNSET STRIP host Domenic Priore with Barret Hansen at dublab.com on November 26, 2018 when this episode was taped.
3.) Specialty Records compilation “Doo Wop” from 1968, compiled by Barret Hansen spinning off the idea from The Mothers of Invention’s “Cruising with Ruben & the Jets” LP.
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