RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese

Subject: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 06:58 PM

Well, this should be fun. Call in and play your versions of Stagger Lee, Frankie and Albert/Johnny, Delia, Freight Train and Stewball. Listen to more versions than you ever cared to.

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Bert
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:01 PM

Thread of the week...

BS: how wierd is this?

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:41 PM

Wish you would list the performers here as we go. Trying to keep them straight - with difficulty

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:49 PM

Was that Lloyd Price a few samples back?

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:51 PM

1. Alan Lomax Prison Recording

2. Coastline Band

3. Doc Watson

4. Dr. John

5. Fats Domino

6. Furry Lewis

7. Huey Lewis & The News

8. Johnny Otis

9. Mississippi John Hurt (1928)

10. Neil Diamond

11. Mississippi John Hurt (1967)

so far...

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:52 PM

Loyd Price will come soon.

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:06 PM

12. Dion and the Belmonts - Please make it stop. PLEASE!!!!!

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Justa Picker
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:08 PM

Play the Lester Flatt clip I e-mailed you this afternoon, Max. Good comic relief.

(short MP3 of Lester Flatt really chewing out a radio DJ during an interview.)

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:17 PM

13. Professor Longhair

14. Musicman (live on the phone)

15. Taj Mahal - (Live At Ronnie Scott's)

16. The Journeymen

17. Tom Rush

18. Tommy Roe

19. Ventures

20. Wilson Pickett

21. Woody Guthrie

22. Dave Van Ronk

so far and to come...

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:29 PM

That was bad. The Journeymen?

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:35 PM

Where's your version LEJ?

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:41 PM

No Mitch Miller????

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:50 PM

Just posted a thread announcing Mudcat gathering here April 27+.

~S~

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Dani
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:10 PM

Gee, that sounds like Max! It IS Max!!

Dani

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:12 PM

I had to leave early, but I didn't hear any Frankie, just Stagger/Stack O'.......what happened to Frankie??

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Dani
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:16 PM

Well, allright! Where are the Stag-ettes?!

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Dani
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:27 PM

No, I meant for your dancing to the PG&E cut. You need Bert and MaryMac as a doowop chorus!

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:28 PM

I agree Max, that's a good one. I also liked Longhair's. Who did the Top 40 version back in the mid-60s? Was that Wilson Pickett? Joe Cocker had a pretty rocking version too.

Mine? Still in the studio...

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Max
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:34 PM

I think...

23. MaryMac

24. Bert

25. Max (Mandolin)

26. Guy Wolff

27. The Staggers (punk)

28. Max (Lap Steel)

29. Pacific Gas and Electric

30. Taj Mahal - In Progress & In Motion 1965

31. Taj Mahal - An Evening of Acoustic Music

OK, well we just got to stagger Lee tonight, and fell 15 versions short of what I have in my collection, but even I couldn't take no more. We'll do this again with other songs sometime. We may have just set a world record.

Subject: RE: RADIO: More Stagger Lee than Cheese
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:53 PM

Get onto the Guiness Book of Records! Then it might have all been worthwhile... *grin*

Noreen