Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream: October 2010

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”

The one-time golden gloves victor was a well-oiled booze machine when unloading the demented spooky carnage of “I Put A Spell On You.” It was intended to be a sweet love ballad before head of Columbia Records Arnold Maxim fetched some gin and whiskey for the session; sinister pie-eyed madness ensued.

Throughout his finest three minutes on wax, his first — and only — hit, backed by a menacing ghoulish shuffle, Hawkins comes off as a deranged R&B evangelist. His wicked spectral baritone oozing snarled feral shouts, “I put a spell on you / Because you're mine,” The spine-chilling track became an underground smash, selling a quarter of a million copies, in spite of being outlawed from the radio waves.

“I Put A Spell On You”
OKeh Records, 1956
Written by: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Produced by: Leroy Kirkland

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine

Stop the things you do
Whoahuh - what's up?
I ain't lyin'
Yeaaah, i can't stand - hoo!
No runnin' around
I can't stand
No put me down
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
Whoahaa - yeah!
Woah!

[sax solo]

Stop the things you do
Whoahuh - what's up?
I ain't lyin'
Aahh!! aah! i love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
I don't care if you don't want me
I'm yours right now
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine, mine
Mine!!! aah whoahh huh

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Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Rock ‘n roll’s majestic elder statesman Robert Plant’s first long player since 2007's triumphant, Grammy-winning Raising Sand, alludes to the Birmingham-based, blues wielding gang he fronted in the mid-sixties, Band of Joy.

The former Led Zeppelin lead man resurrected Band of Joy with a new cast of players — co-producer Buddy Miller, electric guitar; Darrell Scott, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, accordion, pedal steel; Patty Griffin, vocals; Byron House, bass and Marco Giovino, drums. Recorded in Nashville, the album was recently ruled one of the doctors’ and nursemaids’ favorite records of the year. Plant remarks, “I wanted to bring my personality to other people’s songs and kick the door open a little bit…or edge it open with my hips.”

Check out the rejuvenated Los Lobos track “Angel Dance.” An unwavering onslaught of stormy reverb leads into rhythm rocked gently; Plant uproots his weathered croon, “And they'll laugh up and down the hall / Don't you go shout when you hear them fall / Let them fly across the wall / Let them cry 'til the morning calls / Little angel dance."

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Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

The Gospel According To Gordy

Spawned off the success of the Motor City hit machine Motown records, Berry Gordy’s short-lived subsidiary, Divinity served as an outlet for spiritual and gospel music. Narrowly unleashing four singles: The Wright Specials’ “That’s What He Is To Me” (9904), Gospel Stars’ “Give God A Chance“ (9906), Burnadettes’ “First, You’ve Got To Recognize God (9907) and our favorite, a bona fide pew burner, The Wright Specials second Divinity single, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do” (9905). You might be accustomed to the versions by Wilson Pickett and Creedence Clearwater Revival – this fevered take on the gospel spiritual is an open-hearted, savior summoning call to action, a stunning blow to the “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do” canon.

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Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

The Kings of Leon, meddling sons of a preacher man, have set up at a crossroads after their multi-platinum, Grammy-winning breakthrough Only By The Night. Nine years on and five albums in, the Followills’ have risen from indie darlings, once christened the Southern Strokes, to glossy arena-ready rockers, soaring into the mainstream – heirs to the rock ‘n roll throne.

For their fifth long-player, Come Around Sundown, the Followill family band, uprooted from Nashville and recorded in Midtown Manhattan – they stick to their guns, cloning the template that fueled sales upwards of 6 million, making for an unremarkable experience, an unfocused album lacking bite. Yeah, you guessed it patients, the doctors and nursemaids are suckers for the first three KoL albums, with the lads Followill riding their Southern-fried swagger and moonshine-fueled rollercoaster: Youth and Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak and Because of the Times.

Tennessee’s rock patriarchs shine on the anthemic standout track, “Mary,” where they toy with hard-driving doo-wop, bringing it South of the Mason Dixon line. The track gets off the ground swaying with frontman Followill drawling, “Mary, if you want to / I waive my right / I'll be on the corner / Just passin' time,” backed by spurred guitar jabs and steady as bedrock rhythm. There’s even an indulgent, on the loose guitar solo – a rarity in their canon.

Come Around Sundown is out now on RCA

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Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Discovered by soul general, James Brown during a stint as an usherette at Harlem’s Apollo, Doris Troy bagged her first top-ten hit for Atlantic with, “Just One Look” in 1963. She continued, singing backup on “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” and on celebrated albums, Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd's, Dark Side Of The Moon.

In 1970 George Harrison signed ‘Mama Soul’ to Apple Records and waxed her self-titled long player, to little promotion and fanfare -- even though the album featured a mighty troupe of all-stars: Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Jackie Lomax, Klaus Voorman, Peter Frampton, George Harrison and Delaney & Bonnie. Check out the doctors’ and nursemaids’ favorite number, the Troy/Harrison/Starr/Stills penned groover, “You Give Me Joy Joy” – a track steeped in soulful British blues revival, featuring six-string assaults by Harrison and Stills.

Doris Troy, vocals; George Harrison, guitar; Stephen Still, guitar; Ringo Starr, Drums; Klaus Voorman, bass; Leon Russell, piano.

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Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

The Black Angels lifted their name from the Velvet Underground cut "The Black Angels Death Song" – their sound: stirring up the late 60s with threatening bolts of bleeding reverb and bone-chilling psychedelic tidal waves, sturdy as the hangman's rope.

With two albums under their belts, Passover and Directions to See a Ghost, the Austin-based quintet signed to the iconic and recently re-launched Blue Horizon Records, setting free their highly anticipated Phosphene Dream. Produced by Dave Sardy, this set finds the band pushing and expanding, further into a new direction: Less doom, tighter reverb drenched drone-spun rock and added heavy handed pop sensibilities.

The biggest eye-opener comes nine songs in with the album’s zippy second single, “Telephone.” The band deep-sixes the drone, pops the clutch and hightails it with a take charge rave-up – a darting retro nod that unpacks overjoyed surges of frisky go-go organ and gusty six-string jangle, in under two minutes.

Phosphene Dream is out now on Blue Horizon Records

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Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”
Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

The Willie Dixon-penned, “Wang Dang Doodle” employs one of the most colorful casts of back alley juke joint characters ever assembled: Automatic Slim, Razor Totin' Jim, Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, Fast Talking Fanny, Washboard Sam and Pistol Pete. Enter fire-breathing wailer Koko Taylor, the South Side dame who injected heart and soul into this stomping, no-nonsense shakedown about kicking off your shoes and partying down.

Discovered by Willie Dixon in the early sixties, Koko Taylor cut the earthquake-inducing “Wang Dang Doodle” in 1966, selling over a million – Chess Records’ last top ten hit. Koko’s take is an earsplitting force of nature, detonating with her thrilling barbarous wail and the hurried gallop and shotgun bite of her backing, no wonder she was crowned Queen of the Blues – all rise.

“Wang Dang Doodle”
Written by: Willie Dixon

Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin' Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall

We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Kudu-Crawlin' Red, tell Abyssinian Ned
Tell ol' Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
we gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam
Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there'll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long

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Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”
Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”
Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity””

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

With her brick red mane and milky white complexion, red-hot British belle Karen Elson is more than a fetching face in the crowd -- yeah she’s Jack White’s ball and chain, but she is also a founding member of cabaret troupe The Citizens Band.

Recorded at Third Man Studios in Nashville, Music City chanteuse’s debut outing, The Ghost Who Walks covers sweeping swathes of haunted terrain: from vintage dust bowl country twang to weather beaten gothic folk stylings. The breathtaking second single, “The Truth Is In The Dirt” has managed to take hold as the asylum’s favorite cut: shocks of spooky organ crack while slinking guitar lines entombed in fuzz lurk behind Elson’s distilled croon: “The truth is in the dirt on the ground / not on the blazing horse from the midnight sun / the fire will turn your bones to dust,”

“The Truth Is In The Dirt”
Written by: Karen Elson

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your gilded cage with your rusted spoon
when the ground splits open it will swallow you

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your poison tongue or your acid tears
let the truth howl in your ears

You should come, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes
here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
Not in your claws, drawn-out scratch 'til it bleeds
knocked down dead gets what she needs

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not on the blazing horse from the midnight sun
the fire will turn your bones to dust

here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes
here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your gilded cage with your rusted spoon
when the ground splits open it will swallow you

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John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”
Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”
Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity””
Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Cast off as a Beatles single release at the tail end of their Abbey Road sessions, the raucous guttural stomp of “Cold Turkey” made its inaugural appearance during the Toronto Rock & Roll Revival 1969. Two weeks later, Lennon and his band of misfits, The Plastic Ono Band, including Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, recorded the ode to kicking heroin cold turkey style at Abbey Road and Trident Studios. The track hit number 14 in the United Kingdom, and number 30 in the United States, despite being banned from American airwaves.

You can practically feel the shiver-inducing, heavy heroin gloom in this track: suffering, pain and anguish in Lennon’s smack-addled, tortured wail, along with Clapton’s potent, hypnotizing jagged riff. The lack of treble and echo in Starr’s kit and Voormann's bass evokes an eerie hopelessness. Lennon moans, “I promise you anything / Get me out of this hell / Cold turkey has got me / On the run,”

John Lennon, vocals, electric guitar; Eric Clapton, electric guitar; Klaus Voormann, bass; Ringo Starr, drums.

“Cold Turkey”
Written by: John Lennon

Temperature's rising,
Fever is high,
Can't see no future,
Can't see no sky.

My feet are so heavy,
So is my head,
I wish I was a baby,
I wish I was dead.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.

My body is aching,
Goose-pimple bone,
Can't see no body,
Leave me alone.

My eyes are wide open,
Can't get to sleep,
One thing I'm sure of,
I'm in at the deep freeze.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.
Cold turkey has got me on the run.

Thirty-six hours,
Rolling in pain,
Praying to someone,
Free me again.

Oh I'll be a good boy,
Please make me well,
I promise you anything,
Get me out of this hell.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.
Oh-, oh-, oh--, oh...

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