Each week, several cats battle it out over the same song. I ask you to listen to the audio file below, which contains a themed music program and concludes with several versions of the same song by many different artists. Listen to both versions in their entirety before deciding which one you TRULY DIG THE MOST! Then vote below and see how your fellow Cat Fighters voted. That's the Friday Night Cat Fight from MattTheCat.com.
The “bird” theme continues on this week’s Podcast with songs about “Chickens”. These songs are about chickens as birds, as food and also the dance. You’ll hear groovy tunes by Cab Calloway, Amos Milburn, Lighnin’ Slim and The Rolling Stones.
This week’s Cat Fight is between Howlin’ Wolf and Sam Cooke over the classic blues tune, “The (Little) Red Rooster”. Dig on the show and then vote for your favorite version below.
This week’s Friday Night Cat Fight is truly for the birds! I’m featuring a full hour of songs about “birds”. You’ll hear classic tunes from Les Paul & Mary Ford, The Beatles, Ersel Hickey, Leonard Cohen and many more. However, there will be NO songs about chickens or songs that refer to airplanes as “birds”.
Vote for your favorite version of “We Like Birdland” as Huey Smith battles Chubby Checker on this week’s “world famous” Cat Fight!
B.B. King just celebrated his 84th birthday on Wednesday, September 16th and this week I’m honoring “The King Of The Blues” with a full podcast featuring his music. I’m focusing on his entire career to demonstrate the various “periods” that B. B. has been through musically. From his strong beginnings right out of the gate on RPM Records in the early 1950s to his incredible live performance at Chicago’s Regal Theater. His huge pop crossover breakthrough in 1970 to his duets with U2 and Eric Clapton. I will also feature his most recent work, “One Kind Favor”, which came out in 2008.
This week’s Cat Fight is between the birthday boy and Howard Tate. Listen to both versions of “Ain’t Nobody Home” before you voice your choice and vote for your favorite.
Here’s to the legendary B. B. King rolling on strong for many more years to come!
In his new book, Lloyd Price makes a convincing claim to be “The TRUE King Of The ’50s”. After all, he was the cat who helped integrate the races when both black and white kids were dancing to and buying his 1952 smash, “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”. He was the first teenager to sell over a million copies of a record. He was barely in his 20s when he started his own record label. He was one of the first artists to get a lucrative deal from a record label and he dominated the pop and R&B charts at the end of the decade with “Stagger Lee”, “Personality” and “I’m Gonna Get Married”. And now for the first time, Lloyd Price tells his OWN story in his OWN words to me, Matt The Cat.
This is the uncut, unadulterated, unabridged Lloyd Price interview, complete with his insight, his stories and his music. Lloyd talks about his entire career, from helping to invent rock n’ roll with “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” to staging one of the biggest sporting events in history with “The Rumble In The Jungle”. It’s all here for you to enjoy.
At the end of the program, we’ll have a traditional Friday Night Cat Fight and a chance for YOU to VOTE for the TRUE KING of the ’50s!
The Friday Night Cat Fight features its FIRST EVER profile of an artist and I can’t think of someone more deserving of this inaugural honor than the much under-appreciated MARVIN PHILLIPS.
He began his career with Richard Lewis & The Barons. He then sang for a time in Big Jay McNeely’s vocal group, Three Dots And A Dash before hooking up with friend Jesse Belvin as Jesse & Marvin. They were the first successful vocal duo in rhythm & blues and their #2 R&B hit, “Dream Girl” remains a classic. This program features Marvin Phillips’ time with Marvin & Johnny as well as his work as a solo artist. This show is for anyone who enjoyed my old “Harlem” show on XM Satellite Radio. I am very proud to shine a light on the very underrated talents of Marvin Phillips.
I hope you enjoy this labor of love and will vote for your favorite version of “Cherry Pie” below.
This week’s Friday Night Cat Fight takes us down to The Big Easy for a New Orleans themed Cat Fight Show. The battle royale this week is between two natives of New Orleans doing slightly different versions of the same song. We begin with “Jock-A-Mo” from Sugar Boy Crawford & His Cane Cutters from 1953. It’s up against The Dixie Cups classic top 20 hit from 1965, “Iko Iko”. Only you can decide who will take the Mardi Gras Friday Night Cat Fight. Grab a hurricane and dig, baby, dig. Where ya at?
This is a very exciting Friday Night Cat Fight this week as the Five Keys go for FIVE stright wins. If they win this week, they’ll be inducted into the MattTheCat.com Alley Of Fame. We’re going back to their original winning song from five week’s ago, “The Glory Of Love”. This week, they’ll battle The Velvetones and their 1957 version of the song. The choice is yours, Cats n’ Kittens. Will The Keys makes it into the Ally Of Fame OR will The Velvetones stop them dead in their tracks. Vote below and pass this on to all your friends on the web.
Which One Do You DIG The Most? - "The Glory Of Love" Pt. 2
The Friday Night Cat Fight began in 2002 on Matt The Cat's "Night Prowl Show" on XM Radio as a one-off, fun feature. The idea was to put the Crew-Cuts cover of "Sh-Boom" up against The Chords original version. The response was so overwhelming, that the Friday Night Cat Fight became a weekly feature on "The Night Prowl Show". When the program ended its run on XM in October of 2008, Matt The Cat decided it should continue on the web. The voting never closes on the web, so tell everyone you know to drop by and voice their choice for the version of the song that they truly DIG THE MOST!
The “bird” theme continues on this week’s Podcast with songs about “Chickens”. These songs are about chickens as birds, as food and also the dance. You’ll hear groovy tunes by Cab Calloway, Amos Milburn, Lighnin’ Slim and The Rolling Stones.
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