Saturday, October 14, 2006

My Best Friend and I saw Roy Head in the late 80's at a club in Houston. He was playing to the country audience then, so we got a bunch of Alabama songs, along with his country hits from the late 70's. At the end of the night, his band launched into "Treat Her Right". It was a quarter century after this clip, but he could still do these moves.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Performing his big hit "Treat Her Right",
Mister Roy Head!!!


Love and Peace, Clarence

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Extra! Nearly Hip Playlist on CJ's Radio Olio!!

Unit rotation is what armies do to move fresh troops into an area. CJ's Radio Olio adds tracks and sends a fresh playlist into your ears.
Which artistes are newly added? Annuals - Artisian - Barbra Streisand - Beirut - Cheese on Bread - Delia Derbyshire - Dion - Griffin and the True Believers - Heartless Bastards - Inner Surge - New Cassettes - Organ Failure - Out of Clouds - Panic! at the Disco - Patrice Pike - Richard Laviolette - Slow Hand Motem - Strap-On Tools - Tamsen and Elliot - The Lemonheads - The Petty Bones - The Postmarks - The Sweethearts - Thunderbirds are Now! - Tom Waits - and White Demons. A lotta newer stuff and some old Faves too.
Until next time, enjoy The Olio's eclectic sounds...you'll never hear anything else like it!
Love and Peace, Clarence

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

CJ's Radio Olio's Top 25 for September

Ahhh...the seasons are changing, All Hallow's Eve is coming, and (of course) the Top 25 for September is up at CJ's Radio Olio! As always, the Top 25 are the top 25 tracks (plus ties, so there are 29 this month) as rated by Listeners to CJ's Radio Olio over the past 30 days.
This month's group includes a lot of older tracks (earliest is from 1905!), with a large bunch from the 20's & 30's, along with spoken word pieces from the 60's through the 90's. Now, I KNOW y'all like newer stuff too, and I've been adding more & more tracks from bands on MySpace. So let's not forget about all the great sounds of today!
Thanks once again to all the Listeners who rated tracks: this is your list. Till next time,
Love and Peace,
Clarence

Monday, September 18, 2006

New Sounds of Freeform Goodness on CJ's Radio Olio

There's a new playlist in town...and CJ's Radio Olio has it! Yep Pilgrim, of all the webcasts in all the sites in all the world, some cool music had to walk into mine. Opps...mixed movie quotes...
So who are the Artistes added to The Olio this time? Well, how about: Al Green and Lyle Lovett - Big Joe Williams - Blind Blake - Cows - Elaine Stritch - George Gershwin - Halo of Flies - Julie Andrews - Leo Kottke - Lou Reed - Rod Stewart - Roddy McDowell - Scott Walker - Sergei Rachmaninov and Fritz Kreisler - The Futureheads - The Rolling Stones - The Vals - Today is the Day - Tommy McClennan - Van Morrison - and Widescreen Mode. Quality sounds all.
One sad thing to note, the Becky Juro Podcast will no longer be on The Olio. It is simply a matter of not enough server space & not enough money to expand the amount of server space. To hear and/or subscribe to Becky's wonderful podcast, go to her show's homepage: http://beckyjuro.podomatic.com/. I'll keep subscribing & you should too!
Till next post,
Love & Peace, Clarence

In Memorium

Ann Richards 1933-2006
We'll miss you, but we'll carry you with us forever.
Molly Ivans remembers her friend Ann Richards

Love & Peace, Clarence

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Helping Hurricane Katrina-affected teachers and students

I know...people are getting tired of "Katrina this'n'that". But please read on and see if you can help Gulf Coast schools and teachers.
DonorsChoose.org has requests from teachers in this area for donations towards supplies, computers, etc. to help their classes learn. The page is here. You can choose which project(s) to donate towards & see how close they are to the financial goal for each project. You can also see, on the right beside each project, the economic status of the children in that class (percentage of students living below the poverty line - and those are likely pre-Katrina numbers). If you'd rather help folks closer to your home, there are other areas of the country (the 'View All Regions' box on the left) with requests outstanding.
What is unique about this is that these are teacher requests, not school system staffers or politicians. It's grass roots efforts like this that make the Internet so cool.
Love and Peace, Clarence