Witchy Women & Weird Warblings (long)

[katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie)]

Vickie here.  Long post here too, but full of lots of music.

Greg Blouch talks spooky music:

> Trick or treat!  Get away from me you sponging, freeloading, scrubbers!
> Diamanda Galas will *definitely* be blasting out of strategically placed
> speakers on Halloween night.  Hopefully the little tykes won't be 
> escorted by easily offended parents.  Any suggestions for other
> halloween music?  I can eat the candy myself if I can scare off (or
> at least discourage) kids from coming to my door.

I love doing Halloween radio shows! This will be the 4th year that I've
done a "Witchy Women & Weird Warblings" show. Here's my playlist for 2
years ago, when I was allowed 3 hours for the show. Not all the songs
will seem particularly witchy or weird by their titles, if you don't
know the song, but they are, really. Well, maybe not Dead Can Dance. It 
didn't matter what I played by them, I just _had_ to play them for their
name. :-)

"Music Mecanique" and "Fear of Spiders" are instrumental jazz pieces that
are full of creaking doors and spooky sounds. Diamanda Galas _always_ 
sounds creepy, so it wouldn't matter what I played. "Metamorfosi" is on 
John Zorn's album _The Big Gundown_ and, is one of my favorite things
Diamanda has done. "Leroy" by Fibonaccis is based on the classic creepy 
killer kid movie _The Bad Seed_ and has lines from the film ("I hit him 
with my SHOE!"), it's great fun! The Danielle Dax song was on a 12" 
that I had just picked up and I wanted an excuse to play it without breaking
the show's theme. Luckily it turned out the song sounded creepy anyway. :-)

Kate's "Carmilla" (remember your post Larry DeLuca? :-) is based on the
vampire story, but my mind's a blank at the moment as to who wrote it.
Happy's "I'm Going Back" has monsters, cats, attic antiques, and bats in it.
Very creepy and wonderful. Toyah's "Angel & Me" is a ghosty tale and "Trust
In Me" just sounds creepy too. Most everything else is self-explanatory. 

Styles and eras run the gamut, from Diamanda to Toyah to Buffy St. Marie
to Valaida Snow, a singer/songwriter/trumpet player (!) from the 30s. At
the height of her career she was incarcerated in a German-occupied Dutch 
prison camp (no one knows why) and when she was released tried to revive
her career. She never was able to and died in poverty. "You Bring Out The 
Savage In Me" is an upbeat swing number that's lots of fun.

This was a such a *fun* show to put together! Definitely one of my all-time
favorite SIGs. I love every song. All these songs are female vocalists
and/or musicians too and I could have gone on and on. I still had a bunch
more to play that I didn't get to. I could have done _entire_ shows of 
Diamanda Galas, Kate, and Siouxsie & the Banshees, maybe Happy too. I
didn't even really look that hard to find these other songs I did play. 
They're so much fun to find too. Yeah, there's lots of Halloween-perfect
songs out there. 

   
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                       Suspended In Gaffa KC86
                    Witchy Women & Weird Warblings    
                              10-28-89

         Siouxsie & the Banshees.....Halloween
                           Toyah.....The Creepy Room
                    Happy Rhodes.....Asylum Master
                    Jane Siberry.....The Strange Well
                      Hugo Largo.....Scream Tall
                     Nina Simone.....I Put A Spell On You
                      Carla Bley.....Musique Mecanique III
                    Danielle Dax.....The Passing Of The 3rd Floor Back
                  Dead Can Dance.....De Profundis
        Diamanda Galas/John Zorn.....Metamorfosi
                       Kate Bush.....Carmilla
                       Kate Bush.....The Infant Kiss
                    Happy Rhodes.....Ecto
                           Toyah.....Angel & Me
                     Mary Kelley.....Ghostriders In The Sky
                       Kate Bush.....Get Out Of My House
                    Annabel Lamb.....Things That I Fear
                      Fibonaccis.....Old Mean Ed Gein
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia.....Fear Of Spiders
               The World Of Skin.....Blood On Your Hands
                       Kate Bush.....Mother Stands For Comfort
                      Fibonaccis.....Leroy
                            Nico.....Janitor Of Lunacy
         Siouxsie & The Banshees.....Trust In Me
                    Happy Rhodes.....I'm Going Back
                       Kate Bush.....Waking The Witch            
                  Dead Can Dance.....Mesmerism
                  Diamanda Galas.....Wild Women With Steak Knives
                    Valaida Snow.....You Bring Out The Savage In Me
                     Lene Lovich.....You Can't Kill Me
                       Kate Bush.....Hammer Horror
                          Santra.....Mein!
                          Santra.....As A Mirror
                 Buffy St. Marie.....The Vampire
         Siouxsie & The Banshees.....Head Cut
         Siouxsie & The Banshees.....Voodoo Dolly
                      The Shaggs.....It's Halloween!

                                 Boo!

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For long-timers who might be confused...we weren't yet on the net 
when this show aired but I used to give Andy/IED my playlists and he
would type them in and post them. This is one he did for me. We got on
the net about a month later, thanks to Joe Turner (yay! thanks!) who
introduced us to the wonders of modern Public Access Unix sites.

Suspended In Gaffa (A celebration of the female voice)
currently airs on:

Kansas City  KKFI 90.1fm Sat. 10:00pm-11:00am
Chicago      WZRD 88.3fm Wed. 7:00pm-8:00pm

Soon (really Kiri) to air in WTSC in Potsdam, NY 


Vickie (one of Vickie'n'Chris)
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us


        "Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please"
                                                     PG