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 Cold James Brown – Cold Sweat (in background over intro) It’s night in the big city A man falls asleep far from home The last piece of pie is gone. “This is Theme Time Radio Hour, and there’s a chill in the air. We’re cold as ice. We’re looking at cold cuts, cold feet, we’re giving you the cold shoulder but we’re not a cold fish. We’re out cold. We’re talking about cold snaps and we’re coming in from the cold.” The Singers and The Songs T-Bone Walker – Cold, Cold Feeling “Here’s the king of Texas blues guitar…got his nickname from his middle name which is Thibeaux. You won’t find that name on those little license plates that you can buy for your bicycle but I hear it was a pretty common name down in the Bayou.” Porter Wagoner – The Cold Hard Facts of Life “A great example of how you can tell a complete short story in a little over two minutes.” Ray Charles & Betty Carter – Baby, It’s Cold Outside John Lennon – Cold Turkey Lightnin’ Slim – Winter Time Blues “Where do you even begin with a record like that, there’s so much right with it! First of all, nobody’s in any hurry, you could just about drive a truck between the beats. You got a girl named Priscilla, barely 16 years old. Lightnin’ Slim employs the Socratic Method, starts asking himself questions half way through the song. Just the perfect record. Nobody makes records like that any more.” Loretta Lynn – When the Tingle Becomes a Chill Big Joe Turner – The Chill Is On Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley – Chilly Winds (Lonesome Road Blues) “It was originally recorded back in the 20’s and many people recorded variations of it. Riley Puckett did it in 1924, Bill Monroe did a version of it. Woody Guthrie turned it around a little bit and got ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.’” Willie Walker – Warm to Cool to Cold Charlie Feathers – Defrost Your Heart The Charmer – Stone Cold Man “In the interests of equal time we’ll let other people discuss politics and we’ll just stick with the music.” Roy Hogsed – So Cold, So Dead, So Soon “He’s one of those guys that you don’t know where to put his records. Are they country boogie? Are they early rockabilly? Are they country and western? That’s why I file everything alphabetically. I don’t separate it by style. That’s why you find Thelonius Monk right next to the Monkees.” The Parliaments – I Can Feel the Ice Melting “George Clinton back when he still wanted to be Curtis Mayfield, before he went off in outer space. I like the outer space stuff too, but Curtis Mayfield, come on!” Tom Waits – Cold Cold Ground Other People and Players Chuck Richardson Charlie Christian Dolly Parton Lionel Hampton Miles Davis Keith Richards Charles Bukwoski, Streetwise Poet “While we’re on the subject of junkies and thieves, here’s a poem about that ilk…” (Trashcan Lives) Slim Harpo Riley Puckett Bill Monroe Woody Guthrie Duane Allman Quinton Claunch Louis Farrakhan Thelonius Monk The Monkees George Clinton Curtis Mayfield Buddy Holly – clip David Hidalgo Blind Willie Johnson Hamlet Horatio Osric Willa Cather Places The Country Music Hall of Fame St. Louis, MO Memphis Record Labels Apple Records ExCello Records Goldwax Checker Revilot Records Movies, Books and Other Entertainment Kellogg’s Cornflakes jingle Prophet of Rage Hamlet (Act V, Scene I) Words That Mean Emotionally Cold Cool Dead Emotionless Frigid Impersonal Indifferent Icy Joyless Lukewarm Passionless Reserved Reticent Stony Unfeeling Distant Unmoved Inhospitable Other Songs and Albums Going Down The Road Feeling Bad I Wanna Testify Frank’s Wild Years Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground “This is TTRH and we’re talking about cold. The chill. The cool chill crisp. The frosty frozen icebox. The intense nippy one dog night. The snappy snowy stinging wintery. The icy sleet, and the frosty glare. And I know what I’m talking about. I come from a very cold part of the country. The part of the country I come from is so cold that when you talk to somebody outside the words freeze in mid air and you have to bring em in and thaw em out by the fire so that people can hear what you’re saying. It’s so cold out there that the politicians have their hands in their own pockets.”