16/10/14 Slagg Brothers Rhythm & Blues, Soul & Grooves Show
Ain't Nobody Here But Us 3:08 Louis Jordan 1946 song, number one on the US Billboard Rhythm and blues Chickens
Backslop 2:33 Baby Earl & The Trinidads
The Chicken 2:51 Rosco Gordon Recorded at Sun Studios, 1955.
Written and originally recorded by Sleepy John Estes in 1930. With Scotty Moore on Milkcow Blues Boogie 2:38 Elvis Presley guitar and Bill Black on bass, recorded at Sun late 1954. Keep On Churnin' (Till The Born 1915, Wynonie Harris, born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter 2:54 Wynonie Harris Butter Come) and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often racy lyrics. Reached no 6 in UK in 1966, written by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing by Holy Cow 2:33 Lee Dorsey the Meters. Wilko Johnson left in 1977 - just before this, their biggest hit. Written by Nick Lowe Milk And Alcohol 2:51 Dr. Feelgood and Gypie Mayo, who replaced Wilko on guitar. A cowpunk band which formed in San Diego, California in 1983 by Country Dick Happy Boy 1:21 Beat Farmers Montana, he died of a heart attack in 1995. Traditional American folksong, written in 1890s. Makes the point that ultimately, The Farmer Is The Man 1:42 Pete Seeger everyone lives off the farmer, because without him nobody eats. This from 1946. From twentieth studio album, released in 1992. Many of the musicians appearing on it Harvest Moon 5:03 Neil Young also appeared on his 1972 album Harvest. The band is composed of founding members (and sisters) Martie Erwin Maguire and Ready To Run 3:53 Dixie Chicks Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines. 1948 jump-boogie style song by West Coast blues artist Amos Milburn. It was the first Chicken Shack Boogie 2:30 Amos Milburn of his four number-one hits on the R&B chart.
The Chicken And The Hawk 2:40 Big Joe Turner 1956, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Released on the Decca label as the B Side of "Delaney's Donkey". Although it failed to chart, it Paddy Mcgintys Goat 2:32 Val Doonican became one of the song's most readily associated with Doonican during his five decade plus career. 1963, from their first album Meet the Searchers. Original by Don & Dewey, 1959. Farmer John 1:59 The Searchers Album also featured Love Potion Number Nine - original by The Coasters
I'm A Hog For You 2:01 The Coasters B side of Poison Ivy, 1959, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Comprising two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley, Po Fasis - A Roll With It 2:32 The Shirehorses known collectively as Mark and Lard.
Chicken Payback 3:15 The Bees
Crazy Horses 2:32 The Osmonds November 1972. A protest about the amount of pollution created by cars.
Papa's Got A Brand New 3:37 Pigbag The title being a clear pun on James Brown's song. Pigbag
sheep 2:16 The Housemartins 1986, 2nd single from album London 0 Hull 4.
me and the farmer 2:54 The Housemartins 1987 single from The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death albym
1983. From Swindon, England, led by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding Love On A Farmboy's Wages 3:59 XTC and active between 1976 and 2005, but retired from live performance in 1982. From Norwich, formed in the early 1980s and were briefly called 'Bang Goes My Muck It Out! 3:24 The Farmer's Boys Stereo' before changing their name. This reached no 48 in 1983. 1955, first single from American country music duo consisting of Bobby Adamson You're A Humdinger 2:36 Farmer Boys and Woody Murray
King Horse 3:01 Elvis Costello
Written by Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first cotton fields 2:57 Creedence Clearwater Revival recording of the song in 1940. This from 1969 album Willy and the Poor Boys. Let's Do It (The Chicken 2:41 Jimmy Cracklin Biggest hit was The Walk in 1957 Scratch)
Harvest For The World 3:55 The Isley Brothers 1976, title track from their fourteenth album
Do The Funky Chicken 3:15 Rufus Thomas 1969 on Stax Records
No Milk Today 2:52 Herman's Hermits
Written for the 1942 Abbott & Costello film Ride 'Em Cowboy, which included Ella Cow Cow Boogie 2:54 Ella Fitzgerald Fitzgerald as a cast member