Playlist for August 11, 2018

The Rocket Morton Show, WRFI-FM Ithaca

Typical seat-of-the-pants show, no particular theme other than the anniversary date of Heddy Lamarr & George Antheil's patent granting on frequency hopping, the forerunner of wifi.


  • S.M. Dorsey High School Band - Frankenstein

  • P. M. Pocket Music - Kratae (Thailand)

  • Wally Burke - I Am A Ginseng Digger

  • Jimmy Reed - Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby

  • Ofege - Adieu (Nigeria)

  • Viachan Maneechot - Dance Dance Dance (Thailand)

  • George Antheil - Ballet Mecanique (1959 version, Los Angeles Contemporary Music Ensemble conducted by Robert Craft)

  • Alice Cooper - Return of the Spiders

  • Renfro Brothers - Just Over A Girl

  • Danny & The Trends - Froggy

  • The Monterays - Blast Off

  • Pink Floyd - Paint Box

  • Capt. Beefheart - Woe Is A Me Bop

  • The Wailers - Hang Up

  • Rodd Keith - Do The Pig

  • Johnny Fortune - Dragster

  • Roy Orbison - Ooby Dooby

  • Link Wray - Johnny Bom Bonney

  • The Hooterville Trolley - No Silver Bird

  • Ros Sereysothea - Have You Seen My Boyfriend? (Cambodia)

  • Feathers From Your Tree - Blue Cheer

  • William S. Burroughs - Dinosaurs (read over The Velvet Undergrounds’s “The Gift”)

  • Rodd Keith - Elmer 21st-Century Hop

  • The Who - So Sad About Us

  • James Carr - Coming Back To Me Baby

  • Flat Duo Jets - Wild Wild Lover

  • The Victims - I’m Flipped Out Over You (Australia)

  • Ronnie Dawson - Rockin’ Bones

  • The Penetrators - The Scandalizer

  • James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose

  • The Pinetoppers - Shout Bamalama