In which Ginger Baldy revisits Roy Orbison and Friends at the Black & White Night.

1. I Got A Rocket In My Pocket - Jimmy Lloyd

2. Riding In My Car - NRBQ

3. Thieves - She & Him

4. Train Train - The Count Bishops

5. He Will Break Your Heart - Kane & Abel

6. He Will Break Your Heart - Jerry Butler

7. Too Hurt To Cry, Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye - The Darnells

8. Laughing Boy - Mary Wells

9. Death Letter - The Alexis Korner Skiffle Group (This month’s death song)

10. Jim Dandy - LaVern Baker

11. Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison (This month’s earworm)

12. Miss Chatelaine - k d lang

13. Third Rate Romance - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

14. Go Back - Crabby Appleton

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles

And I know, and you know too That a love like ours is terrible news

Thieves - She & Him (written by Zooey Deschanel from the album "Volume 2" 2010)

This next link is to the terrific TV performance of Son House performing Death Letter Blues on his National Resonator guitar in 1968:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4QamCLNnmE

This half hour program is worth watching in its entirety, but just for Son House’s Death letter Blues, scroll forwards 3 mins 50 seconds.

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black & White Night

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C8JueuPAfPhlH1Q2v9DSuUzRPiVS2vJ

This page features videos of individual songs from this not to be missed concert and a 4 minute behind-the-scenes chat with guests. Oh Pretty Woman is included. Check out James Burton’s astonishing guitar solo.

Just Released! It’s the second CD in Ace Records’ series Black America Sings the Beatles - Black America sings Lennon, McCartney & Harrison, and Johnny Corsair is giving it away in his Bright Lights Big City podcast. Go, listen in and win that album. Somebody will win it. It should be you!

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

This month eight of the twelve tracks on Small Town Talk can be found on our favourite record label, ACE Records:

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

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Episode 55 Illustration: The magnificent Roy Orbison, inspired by The Black & White Night (see above)