The Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast
“Oh, Babe!”
This week’s Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast features a song that was a flicker in time. Back in late, 1950, no less than 6 artists charted with versions of the Louis Prima penned song, “Oh, Babe!.” Many of them charted on the rhythm and blues side of things, but Kay Starr and Prima himself had hits with the tune on the pop lists. Since 1950 and 1951, this song has faded from the public’s musical consciousness, but now it returns thanks to the Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast with Matt The Cat.
Listen to all six versions of “Oh, Babe!”, VOTE and DIG!
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“Red Hot”
The Friday Night Cat Fight takes on one of the most rockin’, hot burnin’ rockabilly sides of all-time, “Red Hot.” But the tune didn’t start out as a rockabilly barn burner. It began as a cheerleader’s chant “Our team is red hot,” which was turned into a mid-tempo R&B tune by its writer Billy “The Kid” Emerson. He cut his original for Sun Records in 1955, the same label that would issue Billy Riley’s immortal version in 1957. Also in ’57, the great Bob Luman cut a cover of “Red Hot” for Imperial Records. We round off this week’s competition with Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs 1966 stab at it, which went to #82 on the national charts. Then in 1977, Robert Gordon took the tune back 20 years to its rockabilly glory with his rendition, which hit #83 nationally.
So, which version of “Red Hot” is TRULY RED HOT? You decide. Listen to the Cat Fight Podcast and then vote for the one you dig the most in our online poll.
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“Good Rockin’ Tonight”
The Friday Night Cat Fight presents “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” one of the most important and influential songs every recorded. Three versions are in contention with week, with the tune’s author, Roy Brown leading the pack with his original version from 1947. Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris and Elvis Presley also take a shot at the song. Wyonie’s went to #1 on the R&B lists in 1948 and Elvis’ version helped to spark the “Rock n’ Roll Revolution” of the mid-1950s.
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