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ElwoodBlues · M
For one of the satellite radio services, Bob Dylan did 50 episodes of a radio show called "Theme Time Radio Hour," and episode 1 had the theme of weather. Here it is on YouTube:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhyuPx83Ac]
The Singers and Songs
Muddy Waters: Blow Wind Blow
Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis): You Are My Sunshine
Joe Jones: California Sun
“Alright now, goin’ out west where I belong, get away from the G-Rind.”
Dean Martin: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
The Prisonaires: Just Walking in the Rain
The Consolers: After the Clouds Roll Away
“Brother Sullivan Pugh on guitar and his wife, Lola”
Jimi Hendrix: The Wind Cries Mary
Judy Garland: Come Rain or Come Shine
Irma Thomas: It’s Raining
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Didn’t it Rain
Slim Harpo (“With his harp in a rack”): Raining in My Heart
“Slim wrote a bunch of his songs with his wife, Lavelle…boy, wish I had a wife like that t’ help me write songs.”
Lord Beginner: Jamaica Beginner
Fats Domino: Let the Four Winds Blow
The Spaniels: Stormy Weather
“The Spaniels were on that ill fated tour, which means probably I saw them. Winter Dance Party, 1959, the day that music supposedly died.”
Stevie Wonder: A Place in the Sun
Frank Sinatra: Summer Wind
“West coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank’s singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank.”
The Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day
The Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhyuPx83Ac]
The Singers and Songs
Muddy Waters: Blow Wind Blow
Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis): You Are My Sunshine
Joe Jones: California Sun
“Alright now, goin’ out west where I belong, get away from the G-Rind.”
Dean Martin: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
The Prisonaires: Just Walking in the Rain
The Consolers: After the Clouds Roll Away
“Brother Sullivan Pugh on guitar and his wife, Lola”
Jimi Hendrix: The Wind Cries Mary
Judy Garland: Come Rain or Come Shine
Irma Thomas: It’s Raining
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Didn’t it Rain
Slim Harpo (“With his harp in a rack”): Raining in My Heart
“Slim wrote a bunch of his songs with his wife, Lavelle…boy, wish I had a wife like that t’ help me write songs.”
Lord Beginner: Jamaica Beginner
Fats Domino: Let the Four Winds Blow
The Spaniels: Stormy Weather
“The Spaniels were on that ill fated tour, which means probably I saw them. Winter Dance Party, 1959, the day that music supposedly died.”
Stevie Wonder: A Place in the Sun
Frank Sinatra: Summer Wind
“West coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank’s singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank.”
The Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day
The Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side