Playlist and more, after the break...
While listening to the show in the studio, I read a few articles online about "Ode to Billy Joe", and found frustrating the irritation people get about the song's lack of specificity. To me, obviously, the vagueness is what makes the song great. Do we really want a work of art (music, fiction, painting, poetry, what have you) to tell us everything. Why would we go back? Trying to figure out what happened is the listener's job. There's enough there for you to build your own tale (Roger Ebert's review of the movie where someone tried to fill in the blanks for you begins "Now that I know why Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, I almost wish I didn't."), to have your own mysterious object thrown from the bridge (although I think it's pretty obvious, but it's something that people don't like to discuss, especially in 1967, let alone now). This is just a pop song, albeit a great one, but it fulfills an obligation of great art that only the fiercest snob would deny.
| artist | song | album | comment | label / date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie Lee | Real Sick Sounds | Songs of Couch and Consultation | 1st part of theme | Commentary Records 1957 |
| Naked City | Inside Straight | Naked City | 2nd part of theme | Nonesuch 1989 |
| Steve Lacy Sextet | Gay Paree Bop | The Gleam | Steve Lacy (ss) Steve Potts (as) Irène Aebi (vln, voc) Bobby
Few (p) Jean-Jacques Avenel (b) Oliver Johnson (d) music by Steve Lacy, poem by Brion Gysin |
Silkheart 1986 |
| Robert Whitney / the Louisville Orchestra | Symphony No. 15 ("Thesis"), HC 887 - 1st Movement: 3. Presto | Henry Cowell: Works for Orchestra | music by Henry Cowell | First Edition 1961 |
| Booker Ervin and Larry Young | Autumn Leaves | Gumbo! | Booker Ervin (ts) Larry Young (org) Jerry Thomas (d) |
Prestige 1963 |
| Wayne Horvitz | This New Generation | This New Generation | music behind DJ | Nonesuch 1985 |
| Sarah Vaughan | Teach Me Tonight | How Long Has This Been Going On? | Sarah Vaughan (voc) Oscar Peterson (p) Joe Pass (g) Ray Brown
(b) Louie Bellson (d) song by Gene DePaul and Sammy Cahn |
Pablo 1978 |
| Nina Simone | My Baby Just Cares for Me | Little Girl Blue | Nina Simone (voc, p) Jimmy Bond (b) Albert "Tootie"
Heath (d) song by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn |
Bethlehem 1957 |
| Chet Baker | Blame It On My Youth | sings and plays from the film Let's Get Lost | Chet Baker (trp, voc) Frank Strazzeri (p) John Leftwich (b)
song by Edward Heyman and Oscar Levant |
Novus 1987 |
| Karin Krog and Dexter Gordon | Ode to Billy Joe | Don't Just Sing: A Karin Krog Anthology 1963-1999 | Dexter Gordon (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Niels-Henning Ørsted
Pedersen (b) Espen Rud (d) song by Bobbie Gentry originally from Some Other Spring, Blues and Ballads hear an interview with WFMU's DJ Trouble |
Light in the Attic 1970 |
| Count Basie and Joe Williams | The Comeback | Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings | Reunald Jones, Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (tp), Bill Hughes, Henry Coker, Benny Powell (tb), Marshall Royal (as, cl), Bill Graham (as), Frank Wess (as, ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts, arr), Charlie Fowlkes (bs, b-cl), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), and Sonny Payne (d)song by Charles Frazier, arr. by Frank Foster | Verve 1955 |
| Fats Waller | I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby | The 1935 Transcriptions | song by Fats Waller and Alex Hill | Naxos 1935 |
| Aimee Mann | Nothing is Good Enough | Magnolia [Original Soundtrack] | music behind DJ | Reprise 1999 |
| What Cheer? Brigade | Ja Helo | Return to the Somerville Theater | Trad. Czech; arr. Infernal Noise Brigade | 2010 |
| Asiko Rock Group | Lagos City | Asiko Rock Group | music behind DJ | EMI 1972 |
| Bang on a Can All-Stars | Instructional Video | Big Beautiful Dark and Scary | Ashley Bathgate (vc) Robert Black (b) Vicky Chow (p) David
Cossin (prc) Mark Stewart (g) Evan Ziporyn (clt) music by David Longstreth |
Cantloupe 2011 |
| Meridian Brothers | Somos los Residentes | Salvadora Robot | music by Eblis Álvarez | Soundway Records 2014 |
| Ornette Coleman and Prime Time | Guadalupe | Tone Dialing | Ornette Coleman (as) Dave Bryant (keys) Chris Rosenberg, Ken Wessel (g) Bradley Jones, Al MacDowell, Chris Walker (b) Denardo Coleman (d) Badal Roy (tbl) | Harmalodic 1995 |
| Jaco Pastorius | (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha | Jaco Pastorius | Jaco Pastorius (b) Hubert Lawes (pcc) Herbie Hancock(p) Lenny White(d) Don Alias (prc) | Epic 1976 |
| Talking Heads | I Zimbra | Fear of Music |
David Byrne (voc,
g) Jerry Harrison (g,
keys, voc) Tina Weymouth (b,
voc) Chris Frantz (d)
Brian Eno (electronic
treatments, voc) Julie
Last (voc) Robert
Fripp (g) Ari,
Gene Wilder,
Hassam Ramzy,
Abdou M'Boup,
Assane Thiam (prc)
music by Brian Eno and David Byrne, poem by Hugo Ball |
Sire 1979 |
| John Zorn | The Golden Boat (Turntable Mix) | Filmworks 1986–1990 | Vicki Bodner (ob), Robert Quine (g), Anthony Coleman (k),Carol Emanuel (h), David Shea (trntbl), Mark Dresser (b), Ciro Baptista (p), Bobby Previtte (d) | Tzadik 1990 |
| Luciano Berio; Ensemble Musique Vivante; Chorale Expérimentale | Laborintus 2 - Deuxieme Partie | Laborintus 2 | Christiane Legrand, Janette Baucomont (sop), Claudine Meunier
(alt) Edoardo Sanguineti (spk) music by Luciano Berio, text by Edoardo Sanguineti |
Harmonia Mundi 1970 |
| Jaki Byard | The Hollis Stomp | Solo Piano | Prestige 1969 |
|
| Roland Kirk with the Benny Golson Orchestra | Roland Speaks | The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets The Benny Golson Orchestra |
Roland Kirk (ts, misc.)
Virgil Jones, Richard Williams (trp) Charles Greenlee, Tom
McIntosh (tbn) Harold Mabern (p) Richard Davis (b) Albert Heath
(d) Benny Golson (cnd, arr)
|
Mercury 1963 |
| The Section | Lucky | Strung Out On OK Computer: The String Quartet Tribute To Radiohead |
music behind DJ
|
Vitamin 2001 |
| The Go! Team | Everyone's a VIP to Someone | Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
samples Everybody's Talkin" by Fred Neil and
"Stoned Soul Picnic" written by Laura Nyro as performed
by The 5th Dimension
|
Memphis Industries
2004 |
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