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It's night in the big city. A man says a prayer, puts down a 20 and rolls the dice, the faucet won't stop dripping. This is TTRH with your host BD. (wild reggae/organ music)
Welcome to season 3 of TTRH and we're glad to have you - we've had a lot of fun playing the greats and near greats - the fondly rembered and the barely - Harry S. Truman - the buck stops here
yen, sheekle, nickle dime - piggy banks -barter system, bushel of corn - most def. cash n/ carry
VO - where we go - we see money being used - convenient method of exchanging many different kinds of goods and service betwee
let's start of with -Excello label - A side from Cadillac show in 1955 - harmonica player - Christopher Collins on guitar
Jerry McCain & His Upstarts - That's What They Want
Wrote that song for an American market if he was looking for a world wide - Albania - gotta work real hard to get it.
Louis Prima - Pennies From Heaven
King of NOLA (New Orleans, LA) - 1st of Italian Singers - Many to follow including Perry Como, Vic Damone, Dino (great NOLA sound)
Penny from top of Empire State Building story. Can be dangerous - would it kill a guy - it is 1250' tall - wind resistance - 280 fps - .22 or .25 - 800/1100 fps - bullet shaped - science .
Bob & Ray - money treasury department - our money is your money. lovely green color, pictures, numbers are large and clearly legible. Use money everyday - It's the American way
When a man is 20 years old he wants to save the world, when he's 40 he can't save...
Papa Charlie Jackson - You Put It In, I'll Take It Out
recorded in 1934 - half-banjo/half-guitar
much in demand as a side man played with -3 mentioned???
one of the creators of Hookum - a spicy form of popular double-entendree
maranian - made some great records,
I almost think we play to much Van Morrison -then I play one of his records, no we don't - 1970 release
Van Morrison - Blue Money
Only 2 places I've found blue money Terry Southern novel and
Monopoly (buy) Elizabeth Magie - Landlords game - how to be rich by buying property - used in colleges - students - taxes & mortgages - naming local streets and landmarks - then Charles Darrow brought it Parker Brothers. After a few tries they bought it and don't worry they paid royalties to Elizabeth Magie. Darrow became a Gentleman Farmer - retired 46 -It was banned in Russia and China and still outlawed in N. Korea and Cuba.
1957 - Atlantic - baritone sax -probably Hard Cooper? - I like to give you something a little extra to listen to in a song, it helps you listen closer to the whole song.
here's Ray Charles - Greenbacks
green ink - readily available - green with credit of the government. photography developed and black and white would be easy to copy- was tinted green to make it harder to counterfeit.
If you listen to a show regularly you know I often give all the slang names of the theme - haven't done it this time because Mel Blanc beat me to it.d it with this song.
Mel Blanc - fellow capitalist Stan Friberg Money
a man who knows what he wants - double-eagle -front of dollar bill valuable
How much does a million dollars weigh? You've seen actors In the movies they have a $1 million dollar payoff in a little satchel -$1 would weigh a ton with 100's a easily manageable 20.4 lbs.
The ridges on the edge of coin stop people from filing away precious metals - there are 119 in the quarter, the thin sliver of silver has 118 dime, 160 Kennedy half-dollar.
Right now Buddy and Ella Johnson one of early tracks, big band - R&B -splitting hairs, Decca
Buddy Johnson & His Band - It's The Gold-
I got a dollar in my pocket. We just heard It's the Gold -Paul Kruger, Boer leader. Republic of South Africa - Krugerrand - 1970 - 54mm sold - almost pure gold - copper for stability - Reagan against Krugerrand because of apartheid -In 1985 Ronald Regan banned the Krugerrand. Cand - Ronald Reagan, friend of the black man striking a blow
Nic Jones folk record of the year 2 years later had a car crash critically injured and was forced to retire
Nic Jones - Farewell To The Gold
song written by Paul there's no mystery or doggeral - came out of my - Goat Fields of Central - July of 63 - 1863 - flood - whole story of the song. you no mystery now.
how much you are you worth... (great scene from Chinatown - Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) and Noah Cross (John Huston) - Jake thinks it's about the money - Cross knows it's about the power_.
The year this record came out this artist had 4 songs in country top ten, a record, although The Beatles had 5 in pop category in 1964, grand ol opry decided he didn't like it. It was the Opry's loss, Lefty was one of the great singers. Tell em/ Lefty.
Lefty Frizzell - My Baby's Just Like Money
That was one of the true
If your baby goes from man to man- Nymphomania - not scientfically - 1st laid out, if you pardon the expression by French physician
behaviors - novels, chocolate ,
Alfred Kinsey - sexual pioneer - nymphomanic has more sex than you do - grass is always greener
This is TTRH and we're talking about money - the phones light up - fernando - Mexico - talking spanish - need to translate (Bob speaks Spanish pretty well)
amigo hombre
Buddy Guy - 100 Dollar Bill
that was Buddy Guy - amigo hombre
sounds a little like Barret Strong's - Money
not enough to get sued I guess
voice-over - PSA - you should be familiar w/ the pictures of these great men whose picture is engraved Washington on the 1's, Jefferson on the 5's, Hamilton on 10's, Jackson 20, Grant 50, Franklin on 100
the almighty 100 - cnote - others know it as the Benjamin
P Diddy - It's All about the Benjamin's baby
A whole bunch of folks but mainly P Di
Disraeilli, harrison, pope II, St. Benjamin, Arthur Be, Richard Benjamin, Ben
music
The Clovers helped build Atlantic Records, It's because of them we have the sax, the 1st times a sax sound on vocal group - Atlantic - back the krogers
frank - Ahmet Ertegün - if pay - play - 1954
The Clovers - Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
when money gets worn out they shred it - goes into landfills - or sometimes plastic bags for souvenirs -
21 months - $1, $5 16 months, - $10 one & half years, $20 - 2 yrs, $50 -,$100 - 89 months
when it's all said and done, it doesn't matter how much you have because you can't take it with you. Jesse Price played with Count Basie, and it seems like an appropriate song for the last one of the show.
Jesse Price - You Can't Take It With You
one reason you can't take it with you is that it usually leaves before you do.
too many songs - can do 2 about money - filthy lucre
7 days - 2 shows about money - it makes good cents.
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