Wildlife: Ice was forming on Firehouse Pond, just below Little Foy's Lake yesterday. Migrating flocks of Canadian Geese were still swirling around in the evening.



Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!

Weather: It rained last night -- just like the predictions said. It is warmer today, and there are gorgeous intervals of sunshine in between soft squalls.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site Click to help feed people, buy books, help animals, save forest land, pay for mammograms, and aid children.

Media Watch: Montana Public Radio out of Missoula played a huge chunk of The Specialty Story 5 CD set before and after midnight the other evening. It was hard staying awake the whole time, but those great R&B singles made for some sweet dreams when I nodded off --


Tracks of Disc 1: 1. Boogie #1 ~ Sepia Tones 2. Voo-It! Voo-It! - The Blues Woman 3. Milton's Boogie ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 4. R.M. Blues ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 5. True Blues ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 6. Thrill Me ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 7. Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 8. Everything I Do Is Wrong ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 9. Hop Skip Jump ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 10. Information Blues ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 11. The Hucklebuck ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 12. Rainy Day Blues ~ Jump Jackson Band 13. Ice Cream Freezer ~ The Blues Man 14. Rockin' Boogie ~ Joe Lutcher & His Society Cats 15. Teardrop Blues ~ Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy 16. Cadillac Boogie ~ Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy 17. Careful Love ~ Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy 18. Don't Put Me Down ~ Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy 19. X-Temporaneous Boogie - Camille Howard 20. You Don't Love Me ~ Camille Howard 21. Fiesta In Old Mexico ~ Camille Howard 22. Fat Meat ~ Jim Wynn 23. Big City Blues ~ Big Maceo 24. I Want A Roller ~ Smokey Hogg 25. The Honeydripper ~ Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 26. Rag Mop ~ Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Tracks of Disc 2: 1. Pink Champagne ~ Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 2. Junior Jives ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 3. Where There Is No Love ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 4. Everything's Gonna Be All Right Tonight ~ King Perry & His Pied Pipers 5. Please Send Me Someone To Love ~ Percy Mayfield 7. Little Joe's Boogie ~ Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 8. Oh Babe! ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 10. Frankie Lee ~ Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 17. Strange Angel ~ Amos Easton 18. Best Wishes ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 22. The Wheel Of Fortune ~ The Four Flames (A Cappella slice of Heaven) 26. Night And Day (I Miss You So) ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Tracks of Disc 3: 1. Oooh Oooh Oooh ~ Lloyd Price 3. Dream Girl ~ Jesse & Marvin 4. Tell Me Pretty Baby ~ Lloyd Price 6. Frantic ~ Frank Motley & His Crew 7. Too Close To Heaven ~ Alex Bradford 8. I'm Coming Home ~ The Swan Silvertones 9. I've Got A New Home ~ The Pilgrim Travelers 10. One Room Country Shack ~ Mercy Dee Walton 11. Lucy Mae Blues ~ Frankie Lee Sims 12. Early In The Morning ~ Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 13. She's Been Gone ~ H-Bomb Ferguson 14. Hard Living Alone ~ Floyd Dixon 20. I'm Your Best Bet Baby ~ Earl King

Model: Mamie Van Doren
They ran out of time before getting to even BETTER cuts! I've heard most of the following over the years, and they are well worth the time of anybody who loves Rock and Roll at it's wildest. Many of these singles were recorded in New Orleans with Lee Allen on Sax, Clarence Williams on drums, Professor Longhair on Piano, and more of the FUNKIEST musicians who ever swung an axe! The Los Angeles sessions were classics on their own:
15. Drunk ~ Jimmy Liggins & His 3-D Music (...reach for the knob, miss the whole darn door!) 19. The Things That I Used To Do ~ Guitar Slim (Ray Charles leading the band on piano.) Tracks of Disc 4: 1. Nite Owl ~ Tony Allen & The Champs 2. Tutti Frutti ~ Little Richard (His best work was recorded in New Orleans for Specialty Records!) 5. Squeeze Box Boogie ~ Clifton Chenier (King of Zydeco.) 6. Touch The Hem Of His Garment ~ Sam Cooke/The Soul Stirrers (Yep, Sam Cooke started as a Gospel singer.) 7. Long Tall Sally ~ Little Richard (Paul McCartney got his WOOOO from this record.) 8. Slippin' & Slidin' (Peepin' & Hidin') ~ Little Richard 11. Cherokee Dance ~ Willie Joe & His Unitar/Bob Landers (Proto-Heavy Metal guitar) 12. Rip It Up ~ Little Richard 13. Ready Teddy ~ Little Richard 14. Sweet Breeze ~ Vernon Green & The Phantoms (LOVE those Doo-Wop vocal groups!) 15. (Every Time I Hear That) Mellow Saxophone ~ Roy Montrell (Not just ONE sax, but a whole bunch of 'em -- blowing strong & LOUD with a screaming lead vocal!) 16. She's Got It ~ Little Richard 17. Heeby-Jeebies - Little Richard 24. Lucille ~ Little Richard 25. Send Me Some Lovin' ~ Little Richard Tracks of Disc 5: 2. Jenny Jenny Jenny ~ Little Richard 3. Miss Ann ~ Little Richard 6. Keep A-Knockin' - Little Richard 7. Bony Maronie ~ Larry Williams (His biggest hit.) 10. Good Golly, Miss Molly ~ Little Richard 11. Slow Down ~ Larry Williams (My pick for one of the best singles of ALL TIME -- The Beatles did a fine version too.) 12. Dizzy, Miss Lizzy ~ Larry Williams (The Beatles really rocked on this song as well.) 13. Justine ~ Don & Dewey (Good as the Righteous Brothers were, these guys were better.) 14. True Fine Mama ~ Little Richard 15. Ooh! My Soul ~ Little Richard 18. Koko Joe ~ Don & Dewey (Don "Sugarcane" Harris later made a name for himself playing electric violin.) 20. There's A Moose On The Loose ~ Roddy Jackson (Insanely fun, big-band R&B) 21. Haunted House ~ Johnny Fuller (Big fat sound, big fat hit.) 22. She Said, "Yeah" ~ Larry Williams (The Rolling Stones covered this one.) 23. Bad Boy ~ Larry Williams (John Lennon sang some of his best leads on Beatles versions of Larry Williams' songs.) 25. Big Boy Pete ~ Don & Dewey (Succesors -- The Olympics' cover version in the 60's, The Kingsmen "Jolly Green Giant," Jim Croce's "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and "Bad Bad Leroy Brown")