Stack-A-Records

Wednesday Mayhem 21 7PM-10PM
Hosted by Robert Emmett

I got a stack a records here,
A stack of records there,
I’ve got records scattered all over everywhere.
But I’m looking for one that I can’t find,
The one where the guitar plays so fine,
‘Cause that’s the only one my baby loves to hear.

Before the digital age, before the age of CDs, there was vinyl and acetates spinning in juke joints, shotgun shacks, and smoky bars. In 1948 Billboard magazine started calling ?race music? rhythm and blues. Hip hillbillies were going electric. Suave entertainment personalities were flirting in these sweaty backwaters, and rock had 4-letter-word connotations. The 40?s and 50?s were a great time for music. Jump Blues, Rockabilly, Rhythm & Blues - just all this crazy hopping music. On the special, we?ll be listening at has-been?s, the shoulda-been?s, the never-were?s playing on 78s and 45s from the 40?s and 50?s and the edge of the 60?s. Some of these were big hits - on small stations and in places like Motormouth Maybelle?s Baltimore record store (John Waters Hairspray - AND Maybelle was played by RnB legend Ruth Brown!).