After Darren filled in for my regular show, it was time for my turn for the first-ever/best-ever CITR Show Swap Week by taking the reins of a show I've done twice before: the soul/R&B wonder that is Shake A Tail Feather. In many ways, I was hoping to land a show I hadn't done before along with a format I had no hope in tackling, but I didn't envy the programming co-coordinator's task this week of working with everyone's schedules. That and some of the DJ's have tight schedules outside of radioland, meaning that not every host could participate. There's been some delights throughout the week and I'm hoping someone's compiled a list of which person tried which show after it's all done on Sunday.
As I found out when I showed up for the show, the programming co-coordinator, show swap organizer and host of Tuesday mornings' Third Time's The Charm Bryce Dunn took over DJ B-FAD's Rainbow Groove, trading his garage rock crunch for classic 80's-inspired dance. In fact, I wound up speaking with him for a good chunk of the middle half of the show, hence the possible wonderful side-effect of an invisible DJ for at least a 20 minutes. That forced me to really quickly identify the seven songs you heard in a row, and unfortunately, I let my tiny profile on the Daptone singles collection go unnoticed as it was in the midst of the epic set.
Otherwise, fun transpired as the turntables were previewing fine and misbehaving live, making for a couple madcap moments as I dove to recover off the iPod, which earned its stripes this week. Towards the end, I sorted it out as I checked the console settings when using the mixer and remembered to check the headphones, but hey, what's campus radio without the occasional blown cue? Oddly enough, I finally ran into the notorious Chris Dryden, host of the genre-blending I Like the Scribbles, as I spilled over the midnight hour and he showed up earlier than usual.
Next week – or more specifically, on Monday – everything turns back into a pumpkin and all the shows turn (more or less) back to normal. All signs point to a successful first deconstruction of regular programming, with increased ambitions for future attempts.
Playlist follows:
East of Underground: Poppin' Popcorn/Oye Como Va (East of Underground, 1971) U.S. Army/Wax Poetics
Chairmen of the Board: Give Me Just A Little More Time (Give Me Just A Little More Time, 1970) Invictus
Lee Moses: Time and Place (Time and Place, 1970) Maple
Allen Toussaint: Southern Nights (Southern Nights, 1975) Water
Joy Denalane: Soweto '76-'06 (Born & Raised, 2006)
Tommy Guerrero: Badder Than Bullets (From the Soil to the Soul, 2006) Quannum
O.V. Wright: A Nickel and a Nail (A Nickel And A Nail And Ace Of Spades, 1971) Backbeat
Wilson Pickett: I'm in Love (I'm in Love, 1968) Atlantic
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Fried Okra [Mono] (Hot Heat and Sweet Groove, 1967) Warner Bros.
Charles Bradley & the Menahan Street Band: The World (is Going Up in Flames) (Daptone 7" Singles Collection, Vol. 2, 2008) Daptone
Lee Fields: Could Have Been (Daptone 7" Singles Collection, Vol. 2, 2008) Daptone
Irene Kral: Going to California (Gilles Peterson Digs America 2, 2007) Luv N'Haight
Marvin Holmes & the Uptights: Oomph (Oomph 7", 1967) Spotlight
Sticks of Dynamite: It's Football, Baby (It's Football Baby 7", 1968?) Saxton
The Intruders: Together (Together 7", 1967) Gamble
Sly, Slick & Wicked: Sho' Nuff (Sho' Nuff single, 1973) People
Daryl Hall & John Oates: She's Gone (Abandoned Luncheonette, 1973) Atlantic
Rufus & Chaka Khan: You Got the Love (Rags to Rufus, 1974) ABC
Roberta Flack: Reverend Lee (Chapter 2, 1970) Atlantic
Irma Thomas: I Gave You Everything (A Woman Will Do Wrong 7", 1967) Chess
Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers: If You Love Her (I Am Your Man 7", 1968) Gordy
Different Strokes: Sing a Simple Song (Sing a Simple Song 7", 1969) Okeh
Bobby Byrd: I'm Not to Blame (Bobby Byrd Got Soul, 1995) Polygram
Gnarls Barkley: Who's Gonna Save My Soul (The Odd Couple, 2008) Atlantic
Denise LaSalle: A Love Reputation (Northern Soul, 2005) Chess
The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra: Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Big City Soul, 1975) Pye
When the clue-by-four struck me, you heard the Mar-Keys with Last Night and the Bar-Kays with Soul Finger in the background, two essential instrumentals off the turntables. Wilson Pickett was originally going to played off vinyl, but hey, you can't keep that soul sound down.
You can download Swap a simple soul as a hearty rich MP3 [98.5 Mb, 107:31 — Alternate link as an alternative source of soul power.]
