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Smith is currently involved in a delayed until the fall. lawsuit with Marshall Sehorn concerning The session that was to take place this material that he intended to record for past month had to be delayed until October Alligator. Clarence "Frogman" Henry is due to some difficulties, Mindy Giles of being considered as Smith's replacement. Alligator Records reports. Alligator's Giles said, "We at Alligator are as ex­ engineer, Fred Breitberg, would have been cited as ever about the project and want to unable to engineer the session this month assure New Orleans that this is just a slight due to prior commitments. postponement." - Almost Sill GOLDENMOMENTSINN.O. ROCK'N'ROLL BOLPENH Bf>OKSHOI? 823 ROYAL • 524-9259 RACQUETS PIANO 4040 TULANE 486-6111 join us Monday-Friday for HAPPY HOUR 4 :30-7 p.m. 2 drinks for the price of 1 • free hors d'ouvres also featuring WILLIE TEE on piano Monday-Friday 7 p.m.-11 p.m . October 1961 - Ernie K-Doe is in the process of feeding his young son, Ernie K-Doe Saturday Jr., while.playing a copy of "Old Time Shuffle" by Lowell Fulsom. As he is amusing his 9 p .m.-2 a.m. son with some fancy dance steps, the younger K-Doe inquires, " Daddy, what 'cha do­ closed Sunday ing? Look like dat old Popeye." To which Ernie senior replies, "Well, maybe it is!" plenty of free parking Thus was born a new dance that would soon sweep the nation, "The Popeye." 4 WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1981 Top 20 SATURDAY -For more than a been playing blues clubs for about 25 years, 1decade, Motown's most prolific hit and he's always a crowd pleaser. songwriter, and a dynamic performer, TUESDA Y-A good night to enjoy Sllolley Robinson brings his show to the 18 the amazing pianistics of James Saenger Theatre tonight only. Booker at the Maple Leaf. He's there every lltSUNDA Y-Golden-throated Bobby Tuesday night, and his talents on the 88's M"Biue" Bland sings ballads and blues are unmatched. tonight, the fmal appearance of a two­ THURSDAY - Bluesman Charlie nilht engagement at Prout's on North 20Musselwhite returns to Tipitina's Oaibome. tonight only. Musselwhite does most of his TUESDA Y-Cruise-0-Matic, a rock picking on the West Coast these days, so 4band specializing in the sound of the this is a rare opportunity to catch him on a Sixties, makes its local debut tonight at local stage. Jed's, on Oak Street. FRIDAY- Tonight and tomorrow £THURSDAY-Old Man River's 21 night Mike Doucet, a student of the \~presents some flashy rock from the Raf­ ethnic music of Louisiana, brings his band, re,s tonight preceded by the always enter­ Beau Soleil, into the Maple Leaf for some llining RZA, featuring the incomparable good time traditional Cajun music. Lamy Zenith. SATURDAY- Big Walter Horton, FRIDA Y-The Maple Leaf Bar on Oak 22for decades a monster on the blues 7Street hosts some powerful contem­ harmonica, and his band complete a porary jazz tonight, the Earl Turbinton weekend stand at Tipitina's tonight. Big QB!tet, including the best rhythm section Walter visits our town very rarely, and he is )"'U'U hear in the barroom, Jim Singleton one of the last of a dying breed. and Johnny Vidacovich. SUNDAY-One of the longest SATURDAY-Tonight only Roberta 23 running partnerships in blues music, 8Flick graces the concert stage at the Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee make N.O. Theatre for the Performing Arts. their ftrst appearance at Tipitina's tonight TICkets are expensive, but this lady can only. melt your heart with a song. WEDNESDAY- Remedy will cure TUESDAY-Here's a mid.week 26the midweek blues at Luigi's on the 11 treat: the Psychedelic Furs bring Lakefront tonight. No cover charge and 10111e bizarre rock into Jed's tonight only. one of New Orleans' premiere parking lots THURSDAY- Bourre, a good­ adds to the attraction. 13time, two-stepping Cajun band plays FRIDAY- Tbe Cold plays Ole Man 10111e grass roots Louisiana music at the 28River's tonight, one of the few local Maple Leaf. Bring your dancing shoes clubs large. enough to accommodate their along. legions of young fans. SATURDAY-Levon Helm, SATURDAY- Am amazing string 15 drummer, vocalist, mandolin and 29quintet known as Hot Strings, who barmonica player, and a former member of knocked me out at the last two Jazz Fests, the Band, brings a rock 'n roll party into will be making a rare barroom appearance Iunmy's tonight only preceded by the Fish at the Maple Leaf tonight. Head Music of the Radiators. {\SUNDAY- Ballad and blues belter SUNDAY-This is the second night 3VEtta James will be choking 16of a two-night stand for veteran microphones tonight only at Tipitina's. bluesman Albert King at Tipitina's. King's -Bill Cat WAVELENOTH / AUGUST 1981 5 ledance floor is packed. Couples move with a composition is minimal, with rhythmic melodies and sim­ smooth roU of the shoulders and a steady six-beat dance to ple lyrics. Many songs are a capella, with the only accom­ the feet. Willie Tee is his best on the classic "Thank You paniment a beat provided by a deep sax. But the crucial John" while the dancers work studiously on their shag factor is a "shagable" beat. For the beach music purist, steps. Willie goes right into his next one, "Teasin' You," you've got to be able to shag to it before it can be beach. and the crowd makes a slight shift in its dance beat. There is considerable dispute on the origin of the shag New Orleans? Guess again. It's Myrtle Beach, South dance. Some people say that vacationing white teenagers Carolina - the beach music and shag capital of the world. developed the step after being exposed to the smooth and What's beach music? Some of it is New Orleans rhythm cool jitterbug-type dancing of coastal area blacks. Others and blues (Ernie K-Doe's "Te Ta Te Ta Ta" is a beach claim that it was worked out by fraternity brothers while classic). But the music has many sources, including the partying at Nags Head, North Carolina. Currently there Carolinas, Detroit, and California. Beach music is a are three people in the Carolinas alone credited, separate­ phenomenon peculiar to the small resort beaches from ly, with creating the shag. (One of them has a Jacksonville, Florida, to Carolina Beach, North Carolina. group of professional shaggen that performs and ..Myrtle Beach is its capital and "SiXty Minute Man" by the on the art.) But in any case, the shag was so farmly Dominoes its national anthem. Beach music themes usual­ ched in the culture by the Fifties that you just didn't ly have something to do with the young, innocent girl-boy out on the dance floor unless you intended to shag.