TTRH2.04 Bob Dylan TTRH Season 2 Ep 4 - 'California'

Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Season 2 - Episode 3

California

Misc /mp3 192 kbps/ 93 MB/ RS

Theme Time Radio Hour – Your home for dirty Dreams, titty Themes and silicone Schemes

Now, pull that drummer out from behind that bottle.
Bring me my pipe, we're gonna shake it.
Slap that drummer with a pie that smells.
Take me down to California, baby

-Bob Dylan

Sometimes you want to know more about just the city, you want to know about the whole State. That’s where I step in. I host a radio show.

-Bob Dylan

Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues with this great new episode themed on that very strange State, where resides the epicentre of world's porno industry (hurrah!), where the Governor is a bodybuilding, z-actor, Austrian, republican terminator with, allegedly, a dubious nazi ancestary (erm ... how the fuck could that happen?) and where all the ladies are at least 20% plastic and at least 90% dumb (some are 100% plastic and 100% dumb)!

A sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
that's why I can hardly wait
to open up that golden gate
California, Here I Come

-Buddy DeSylva / Joseph Meyer / Al Jolson

This week's show on the theme of ‘California' was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio on 10 October '07.

If I didn't tell her
I could leave today
California dreamin'
on such a Winter's day

-John Phillips

Thought I heard my baby, Lord,
the way she used to call my name.
If I ever get her back to stay,
it's going to be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby
down by the San Francisco Bay

-Jesse Fuller

It’s a very eclectic mix of songs and bon-mots this week. We get unexpected, somewhat obscure, stuff from the likes of Sir Douglas Quintet, Thee Midniters, Don Tosti Y Su Cojunto, with some more famous acts like Joni Mitchell, an unsual cover of 'California Dreamin’, "that two handed piano pounder" Geraint Watkins, the great John Steinbeck, some Richard Lewis neuroticism, Archimedes and his hot bath, along with the normal quota of supreme Dylan wit.

Fame and fortune is a magnet.
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away

- Burt Bacharach

Nice show Bob! The leaves ain’t brown but I’m dreaming of Cali now (well, dreaming of the booby, bimbo Barbies there, anyway!)

(Surfer Girl) was originally done by the Beach Boys who I kind of think of as the Kennedy family with surfboards.

-Bob Dylan

Tracklisting

Al Jolson – California Here I Come
Joni Mitchell – California
Webb Pierce – California Blues
Geraint Watkins – Go West
Dionne Warwick – Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Sir Douglas Quintet – Mendocino
Thee Midniters – Whittier Boulevard
Don Tosti Y Su Cojunto – Mambo Del Pachuco
Dave Alvin – Surfer Girl
Jesse Fuller – San Francisco Bay Blues
Dorothy Shay – I’ve Been To Hollywood
Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’
Richard Lewis
Jolie Holland – Goodbye California
Bob reading Woody Guthrie

Best Songs:

Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’ (far from being as good as the original though)

Jesse Fuller – San Francisco Bay Blues

Webb Pierce – California Blues

Best Moments:

No one item particularly stands out but Dylan's in particularly fine form throughout with quips about earthquakes, the Beach Boys, the Military, Kruschev, bowling shoes, Woody Guthrie poetry etc!

Here she be Dylanite dogs – in two different forms!

The full show on one mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/61762026/S2-Ep04-TTRHCalifornia10-10-2007.zip

Various individual show components recorded as individual mp3s

http://rapidshare.com/files/61819293/Split-S2-Ep04-TTRHCalifornia10-10-2007.zip

Big Thanks to blindwilly and Charlespoet!!

INDEX FOR ALL TTRH SERIES 2 SHOWS - CLICK HERE !!!!

Banzai !!