Jon Raider’s Halloween Stomp and More On RFC.

Radio Free Charleston is ALL-NEW as we welcome back our guest programmer for a Halloween-themed Rockabilly rundown in our third hour Tuesday on The AIR!  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week we bring you two new hours of our famous recipe mix of local, independent and cult music, and we welcome back Jon Raider for the Westside at Midnight Halloween Stomp. It’s Halloween-flavored Rockabilly…part of a complete breakfast! Jon is an old friend who many folks may know as the drummer for Strawfyssh back in the day, and also as the creator and curator of The Scene group at Facebook.

When Jon’s schedule opens up, we hope to welcome him to The AIR to host his own show, but for now he’s going to pop up every few weeks by programming our third hour. This week he’s given us another Rockabilly goldmine, and it’s an absolute treat for your ears.

Before we get there, we have another killer collection of RFC music. Our first hour opens with a  classic track from Hitchcock Circus, Mark (and later Stephen) Beckner’s Nashville band from the post Go Van Gogh 1990s. Hitchock Circus will reunite this Friday at The Empty Glass, as you can see in the graphic at the beginning of this post.

Following that we are pleased to present the first public airing of the song, “Mona Lisa,” by my friend, Troy Baker.  Troy is an artist of no small talent, and has fully realized this song years after writing it. He has not yet decided where, or if, he will be selling it, so there’s no link down in the playlist.

In our first two hours we also have new music from The Silvers, Saycouth, Corduroy Brown, Schells & Vince, Erik Woods, Fischer-Z, Nothing To Protect, Hackett & Rothery, Vinto Van Go and more.

The playlist Jon gave us for our third hour is cram-packed full of Spooky Rockabilly greatness.  You’ll get 23 songs that will send shivers down your spine and dancing orders to your feet.

I don’t have links for the artists in the third hour because, let’s face it, not a lot of folks who recorded seven decades ago are all that web-savvy, but you folks who are curious do know how to use the Google, right?

Right now the plan is to turn over hour three of RFC to Jon every three or four weeks.  When the timing works out, Jon will likely be spinning off to host his own show on The AIR.

Check out this playlist, with links to most of the artist’s page for the first two hours of the show…

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hour one
Hitchcock Circus “Save My Own Life”
Troy Barker “Mona Lisa”
The Silvers “Passing by”
Saycouth “Heartbreaker”
Corduroy Brown “Medicine (live)”
Canoe Speed “I Am My Own Person”
Schells & Vine “A Little Romance”
Erik Woods “Get You Down/Horse Named Better”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Love Me Not”
Tim Morse “To Set Sail”
Fischer-Z “Perfect”
Ghoulbox “Diggin’ You”
Novo Combo “Don’t Fear The Reaper”

hour two
Duck City Music “Do It Again”
Nothing To Protect “Black Coconut”
Noise Structures “Not of Oneself”
Hackett & Rothery “The Black Sea”
YES “Ariadne (instrumental)”
David Synn “Indulgence of the Flesh”
Tearle Ashby “Repression”
Vinto Van Go “Ventian Rumors”
The Phantom Surfers “Mrs. Robinson”
Roger Taylor “Don’t Photograph Food”
The Surfrajettes “Paint It Black”
Matching Outfits “Mini Moon”

hour three
Westside at Midnight Halloween Stomp

Marcel Bontempi “The Ghost of Darlin’ Corey”
Elroy Dietzei “Rock-N-Bones”
Steve King “Satan Is Her Name”
Billy Taylor and the Teardrops “Wombie Zombie”
Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars “Howl At the Moon”
Johnny Reb “The Munsters Theme”
Bobby Bare “Vampira”
The Misfits “American Nightmare”
Cris Kevin “Haunted House”
Mack Allen Smith “The Skeleton Fight”
Carl Bonefede “Were Wolf”
Link Wray “The Black Widow”
The Montaesas “Igor’s Party”
Archie King “He’s A Vampire”
Lee Ross “The Mummy’s Bracelet”
Sonny Day “Creature From Outer Space”
Mad Jack and the Hatters “Frankenstein Baby”
Lavern Baker “Voodoo Voodoo”
Jim Burgett “The Living Dead”
The Diamonds “Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula”
Ronnie Cook “Goo Goo Muck”
Gene Vincent “Spaceship to Mars”
Rod Willis “The Cat”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. We bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the best Swing Music from the last century!

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.