Song Information Song Title: Theme Time Episode 58: Smoking Artist: Theme Time Radio Hour [Visit artist website] Album: Theme Time Radio Hour Season 2 Track Number: Length: Last Played: Last Requested: 58 60 minutes, 58 seconds Thursday, April 18 @ 6:00 AM Never Information Information provided courtesy of the Bob Dylan Fan Club's annotated Theme Time project at http://www.thebobdylanfanclub.com/themetime/ where you'll find even more info/links than included here Smoking It’s night time in the big city A man’s wife confronts his mistress There’s a low cloud cover Two runaways sleep in a doorway. “This week we’ve got kind of a controversial subject Something you’re not allowed to do inside a restaurant, or even a bowling alley. It didn’t used to be that way. It was something you used to be able to do right out in public. You didn’t have to hide in your own house doing it. Today’s show is all about smoking. We’re not here to encourage it or to glorify it. You’re smart enough to look up all the facts So sit back, smoke em if you got em, and enjoy the next 60 minutes as we blow a few musical smoke rings your way.” The Singers and The Songs Tex Williams and His Western Caravan – Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) The O’Jays – Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette “ can get you in trouble or can remind you of the wonders of the night before” Joe Maphis & Rose Lee – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music Baron Lee – Reefer Man “You know some people don’t smoke tobacco. They’re smoking some other stuff. Perhaps you’re familiar with it. Some people call it pot, weed, grass, marijuana, loco weed, ganja, reefer, chiba, sensimilla, chronic, mary jane, or dope. Whatever you call it, you smoke it and you get high. Here’s a song all about it. It was written in 1927, though this version’s from a few years later...You gotta be smokin’ something to be calling watermelons pickles!” Steve Purdy and the Studs – The Weed “Here’s the crazy part of this record – it’s a band of 15 year olds! Imagine a group of 15 year olds singing about smoking now days the mind boggles!” The Replacements – More Cigarettes (Paul Westerberg, the Stinson Brothers, and Chris Mars) The Reverend J. M. Gates – Smoking Woman in the Street Sam Cooke – Smoke Rings Billy Briggs – Chew Tobacco Rag I & II Paul Champlain and the Emeralds – Nicotine “The thing I like about bands that put out only one record is that sometimes both sides of it are amazing. I turned over Shortnin’ Bread and I found this!” Brownsville Station – Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room Red Ingle and the Natural Seven – Cigareets, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women The Visions – Cigarette “It’s one of the great mysteries of life that I know more about Spud cigarettes than I do about our next artists, but that’s not gonna stop me from playing ‘em.” John D. Loudermilk – Tobacco Road Other Players and People Oscar Wilde Merle Travis Spade Cooley “Smart man that Spade Cooley – at least until he beat his wife to death.” Christopher Columbus Jean Nicot Gamblin’ Huff Alan Toussaint Robert Golag Tex Ritter Rick Nelson Wanda Jackson Semie Moseley Native Americans Lakota and Sioux Douglas Leigh James Joyce Lucky Millender Lew Chudd Willard Scott Wayne McLaren David McLean Cub Koda The Del-Tinos Houndog Taylor Motley Crue The Hombres Gary McEwen B.B. Cunningham Huey P. Meaux Spike Jones Ernie Kovacs Edie Adams “Hats off to Edie Adams: sexy, loyal, patron of the arts.” Erskine Caldwell Jeeter Lester Cherokee Paul Revere and The Raiders Luis Bunuel– If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort Other Songs and Albums I’m A Fool For a Cigarette (Ry Cooder) (clip) Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash Mr. Soul Shortnin’ Bread Let it All Hang Out Indian Reservation Places Texas Ramsey, IL LA Europe France Walworth, England Fort Worth, TX The Plaza Hotel Palmer House Chicago Webster, MA Georgia Durham, NC “I’m pretty sure that’s tobacco country.” Record Labels / Guitar Companies Bear Family Mosrite Guitars Imperial Harper TV, Movies, Books, and Magazines Ranch Party Ranch Party The Tonight Show John Wayne PSA (clip) The Magnificent Seven (music played in background) The Vinyl Junkie “It was a constant booster of music you couldn’t hear anywhere else – at least until Theme Time Radio Hour came on. Cub was a good writer and had great taste. He opened a lot of people’s ears to a lot of great music.” Goldmine Magazine God’s Little Acre Tobacco Road Guest T Bone Burnett “Thanks for calling, Bone enjoy the Weed!” John Cusack Cigarette Brands and Advertisement Lucky Strike Virginia Slims commercial – last cig commercial shown on TV Times Square Camel Billboard The Marlboro Man “From 1943 to 1944, Marlboro ads were created to attract women. The cigarettes were more feminine. But eventually they wanted to butch it up a bit.” Marlboro commercial – clip The Flintstones Winston commercial Kool Spud Muriel Milds Slang for Cigarettes Smokes Butts Ciggies Stogies Bogies Darts Straights Jacks Fags Cancer Sticks Coffin Nails Doogies and Rollies (Australia) “Whatever you call ‘em, light ‘em up!” Misc The All Music Guide Peace Pipe “Well that’s it; we’ve covered the pros and cons of smoking. I’m gonna empty out the ashtrays, air the room, and get ready for next week, cause you know there’s another theme just around the corner, and I hope you’ll be there when we hold it up to the light.”