The first hour of the show was mostly given over to excerpts from Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, a collection of street toasts -- most of them really filthy -- recorded largely at prisons in Texas in the '60s. ("Tom from Ellis," for example, was incarcerated at the Ellis Unit in Huntsville.) I mixed those spoken-word performances with funk and jazz, thus highlighting the ways they foreshadowed hip hop, and in-between I played other tracks that fit the theme, from Wilson Pickett's soul version of "Stagger Lee" to a Last Poets proto-rap about smack addiction.
The other two hours didn't include as much mixing on my part, though I did do a really absurd live mash-up between Yes and James Chance; and, later, combined some music with an old LP of the premillennialist preacher Hal Lindsey.
Here's the playlist:
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man (excerpt, mixed with "Titanic") Tom from Ellis: Titanic Ben Taylor: Dolemite Herbie Hancock: Chameleon (excerpt, mixed with "Stackolee") Henry from Ramsey: Stackolee Wilson Pickett: Stagger Lee Isaac Hayes: Shaft Pee Wee Ellis: Chicken (mixed with "Pimpin' Sam" and "Up on the Farm") Henry from Ramsey: Pimpin' Sam Peter from Wynne: Up on the Farm Walter Roland & Lucille Bogan: I'm Gonna Shave You Dry Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball Henry from Ramsey: Dance of the Freaks Earth, Wind, and Fire: Sweet Sweetback's Theme (mixed with "Dance of the Freaks" and "Jones Comin' Down") The Last Poets: Jones Comin' Down Jimmy Smith: J.O.S. (excerpt, mixed with "The Signifying Monkey") Tom from Ellis: The Signifying Monkey Jon Brown: 30 Days The Bad Livers: Love Songs Suck Brian Eno & David Byrne: Regiment Was (Not Was): Dad I'm in Jail James White and the Blacks: Contort Yourself Yes: Würm (sped up & mixed with "Contort Yourself," then slowed down and spun backwards) Taj Mahal: Corinna Joe Tex: Trying to Win Your Love Dr. John & The Meters: Peace Brother Peace The Bar-Kays: Mean Mistreater Juicy Bananas: Bad Man Cookie Monster: Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco The Bobs: Disco Inferno The Doors: Peace Frog The Commodores: Brick House The Kinks: Demolition The Section: Black Dog The Section: Bron-Y-Aur The Recliners: Back in Black Mrs. Miller: Tiptoe Through the Tulips Monty Python: Sit On My Face Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk Firesign Theater: Young Guy Motor Detective Keith Jarrett: Second Invocation Hal Lindsey: Questions and Answers About the End Times (excerpt, mixed with "Second Invocation" and "New World Order") Presage: New World Order Ministry: N.W.O. The Ramones: Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll Radio? Fear: Let's Have a War Patti Smith: My Generation The Shaggs: My Pal Foot Foot Nina Hagen: Spirit in the Sky Bob Dylan: All the Tired Horses George Harrison: If Not for You Henry Mancini: March of the Cue Balls Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: Nobody's Fault But Mine The Bobs: Is That All There Is?