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Renny's Riot
Wednesday April 17th, 2024 with Retrorocket Renny
SAY WHAT? Decoding the ancient languages of vout-o-reenee, hep & jive. What is the true meaning of "Tutti Frutti", "Shoobie oobie", or "Oop Shoop"? 2 hours of jump, jive & gibberish in R&B, rockabilly, jazz & rock & roll dialects.

Renny's Riot
The Scarlet Drops - The Scarlet Drops 1984-1992 - 1989 What Wave/2021 Harriet Records/Bandcamp Canadian
Ain't Got No Home
Clarence "Frogman" Henry - The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry • Ain't Got No Home - 1956 Argo/1994 MCA, Chess
Hooty Sapperticker
Barbara & The Boys - Las Vegas Grind Part 1 - 1958 Dot Records/1988 Strip
Mumbles
Jack Ross - Las Vegas Grind Part 2 - 1962 Dot Records/1990 Strip
A Recording Session With One Of His Artists...
Louie Oversees - Las Vegas Grind Part 1 - unknown year, unknown label
She Said
Hasil Adkins & His Happy Guitar - Out To Hunch - 1964 Jody Records/1986 Norton Records
Tongue-Tied Jill
Charlie Feathers with Jody & Jerry - Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-69) - 1956 Meteor Records/1998 Revenant
Onie's Bop
Onie Wheeler - Onie's Bop - 1956 Columbia/1991 Bear Family Records
Ooby Dooby
Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings - The Sun Records Story - 1956 Sun/1995 Charly Records
Ooba Gooba
The Charts - Las Vegas Grind Part 2 - 1959 Guyden Records/1990 Strip
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
The Rivingtons - Toga Rock II - 1962 Liberty/1989 DCC Compact Classics
Surfin' Bird
The Trashmen - Rockabilly Psychosis & The Garage Disease - 1963 Garrett Records/1984 Big Beat Records
Shout Bamalama
Otis Redding & The Pinetoppers - The Best Of Soul Music - 1961Confederate/unknown label & date of reissue
Menin Aeide Thea (Homer)
Big Brown & The Gamblers - Desperate Rock 'N'Roll Vol. 11 - 1962 Palette/1989 Flame
Bip Bop Boom
Mickey Hawks With Moon Mullins And His Night Raiders - The Roots Of Psychobilly - 1958 Profile/2012 Not Now Music
Tutti Frutti
Little Richard - The Georgia Peach - 1955/1991 Specialty
Bama Lama Bama Loo (Little Richard)
Tom Jones - In The Beginning - Day II - 1966 Parrot/1984 ATV Music
Oop Shoobie Doop Bam a Lam
The Fabulous Four - Let's Go Down The Congo! Kogar's Vocal Group 45's - 1962 Melic Records
Oop-De-Oop
Earl Phillips Feat. Jody Williams - Diary of a Chicago Bluesman (1954-62) - 1955 Vee-Jay Records/2018 Jasmine Records
What Is a Fisterris?
The Joker - Lux & Ivy’s Good for Nothin’ Tunes—The Wild, The Weird & The Wang Dang Doodlin' - 1958 G&F Records/2019 Righteous
Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee
Dizzy Gillespie - The Champ - 1956 Savoy Records/1992 Savoy Jazz
Incoherent Blues
Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry - Oscar Peterson Trio +1 Clark Terry - 1964 Mercury/1985 EmArcy
The Frim Fram Sauce
The King Cole Trio - Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' - 1945/1997 Capitol Records Canadian
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Pt.1
Wynonie Harris With The Hamp-Tone All Stars - Rockin' The Blues - 1946 Hamp-Tone/2001 Proper Box
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Pt. 2
Wynonie Harris With The Hamp-Tone All Stars - Rockin' The Blues - 1946 Hamp-Tone/2001 Proper Box
Shoobie Oobie
Rosco Gordon - I'm Gonna Shake It! - The Sun Recordings - 1956 Sun/2002 Varèse Sarabande
Oo-Pa-Pa-Da
Babs' Three Bips & A Bop (Babs Gonzales) - Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' - 1947 Blue Note/1997 Capitol Records
Mumbles
Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry - Oscar Peterson Trio +1 Clark Terry - 1964 Mercury/1985 EmArcy Canadian
Oke-She-Moke-She-Bop
Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings - Greatest Hits - 1954 Atlantic/1989 Atlantic Jazz
Oopy-Doo
Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - That's Your Last Boogie! The Best Of Johnny Otis 1945-1960 - 1952 Mercury/2012 Fantastic Voyage
Oop-De-Doo
Helen Foster & The Rovers - I'm A Bad, Bad Girl 1: Seven Dozen Dusky Divas 1939 - 1953 - 1952 Republic/2004 Indigo Recordings
Oop Shoop
Shirley Gunter & The Queens - R&B Confidential No.1 - The Flair Label - 1954 Flare Records/1989 Ace
Oop Shoop
Big John & The Buzzards - The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957 - 1954 OKeh Records/1993 Epic
Mumbles Blues
Paul Bascomb & His Band - The Big Horn: Honkin' & Screamin' Saxophone - 1952 Mercury/2003 Proper Box
You Gotta Ho-Di-Ho (To Get Along With Me)
Cab Calloway - Cab Calloway: Best Of The Big Bands - 1932 Brunswick/1990 Columbia
Diga Diga Doo (Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Orchestra)
Original Sloth Band - Hustlin' & Bustlin' - 1976 Woodshed Records
Mumbles Blues (Paul Bascomb)
Big Connie - Rare Grooves - 1956 Groove/unknown date & label of reissue
Vout Oreenee
Slim Gaillard & His Boogiereeneers - Laughing in Rhythm - 1945 Queen/2003 Proper Box
Yip-Roc-Heresay
Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans - Laughing in Rhythm - 1951 Verve/1989 The Official Recording Company
Punchy Wunchy Wickey Wackey Woo
Hasil Adkins - The Wild Man - 1987 Norton Records
Bip Bop Bip (Pretty Boy aka Don Covay with The Upsetters)
Crazy Rhythm Daddies - Crazy Rhythm Daddies! - 1996 Igloo Records Canadian
Sh-Boom (The Chords)
Stan Freberg - The Capitol Collectors Series: Stan Freberg - 1953/1990 Capitol Records
Mumblin' Mosie
The Johnny Otis Show - That's Your Last Boogie! The Best Of Johnny Otis 1945-1960 - 1960 Capitol Records/2012 Fantastic Voyage
Interactive CKCU
Renny G (host)
Just plain silly!

1:37 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzonii
Holy skamolli! What a riot already!!! No pardono el pun-o!

1:38 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Thanks Bobby.

1:42 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Theres 2 sises to Rock n Roll: There's Michael J. Fox playin guitar And the guys smokin reefer in the car!

1:46 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
And if you're smokin' reefer in the car it helps to be able to speak in a hep language that the cops & squares don't understand.

1:48 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Also a great scène in Blake Edwards The Party... which is quite a riot in its own right! One of my favorite alltime films.

1:50 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby C
Looks like its only you and me Renny G!

1:54 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Oh well. It's a beautiful spring day outside.

1:57 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Sure is, Im on the deck, in the country, with my cats, and à beerr, not à souli around, nothin but the good CKCU vibes!

1:59 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Sounds like the life of Riley. Warm cats & a nice cold beer.

2:06 PM, April 17th, 2024
Frankie
Enjoying this. fine, themed musical assemblage. We're dipping back into the thirties and forties, and moving around the decades with ease.

2:08 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Around thirty years of music.

2:16 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Speaking of decoding language, you played ooby-dooby, i dont know if you heard Tom Waits' Roy Orbison story? I cant find it anymore on the net, but Waits said that after taping Black & White night, at the after party Orbison told him that all his lyrics backwards were égyptian and then he proceeded to recite them backwards to him!

2:25 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Those early rockabilly and country cats on Sun used to go on grueling tours of the South, playing county fairs, auditoriums, dance halls etc. To keep up they used to pop pills, speed, which had become popular after the Second World War. The army used to give it to the troops to keep them awake and alert in long battles.

2:33 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Take enough of those pills and I'm sure you think you can speak backwards.

2:34 PM, April 17th, 2024
Daragh
Doing math with a student but she's interested in the music - time for a listening break! Hello from Duncan, BC!

2:38 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Hello Daragh!

2:39 PM, April 17th, 2024
Neil & DL
Been in the car with the radio emitting some sweet sweet tunes, Renny my man! That Wynonie Harris is one seriously priceless piece of spinning wax!!!! Only you would pull that outta the hat!!

2:47 PM, April 17th, 2024
Neil & DL
Bobby That Tom Waits tale is the craziest and best story I have heard in at least a decade!! Tom and Roy are both in my Top 50 artists of all time! You have inspired me to watch my copy of Black and White Night again tonight for like the 100th time hahaha. Nobody gets more play at home during the summer than Roy Orbison

2:52 PM, April 17th, 2024
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2:53 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Glad you dug the tunes like they should be dug, dig?

2:56 PM, April 17th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
I thought the show was over? ... For Neil, there's more to that Tom Waits Roy Orbison Black & White story. As Tom Waits recalls, it was a hell of à - well deserved - party, they were partaking in multiple pottables... the last three standing were Orbison and Tom waits, Jackson Browne was K-o, and when Orbison told the backwards égyptian lyrics story he was staring right into Waits eyes and kept on staring all through recitiing the lyrics backwards, and when finished promptly told Waits yo leave! Im bit surprises its not on the net anymore. Barbara Orbison probably had it pulled. Thats her style. I met her, and hwr dog. I was production manager at dép distribution we were responsable for the canadien distribution and tv ad canpaign

3:16 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
I shudder to think what Roy did to Jackson Browne when Tom Waits left.

3:23 PM, April 17th, 2024
Renny G (host)
My mistake..... "Sh-Boom" was a Chords song.

3:24 PM, April 17th, 2024
Neil & DL
You are a storied dude, Bobby!! There is a campfire waiting somewhere for story exchanges. Stay in the groove Bud!!

3:59 PM, April 17th, 2024
Nancy
Well, that was a lovely background to spending a rainy Saturday afternoon marking. . . . . Seems like I went back in time. Nicely done, Renny 👍

4:12 PM, April 20th, 2024