The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
After Philosophy and Death, we continue on our series of cheerful, light and uplifting themes.
We are having a serious conflict at the Haunted House and we are solving it in the only way we know: we are on the WARPATH!
Listen to your Ghost Host and Popoff as they fight each other on a musical journey through war, battles and killings! Take your bets!
With
Wilmoth Houdini, Lord Invader and Mighty Dictator, Lord Bryner, The
Clash, Leonard Cohen, Hoyt Ming and his Pep-Steppers, Bambino, Arthur
Alexander, Machito, Charlie Haden and more!
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
On this show, once again we bring you a cheerful subject: Death.
We
celebrate the Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos or Todos los Santos and we talk about the
only inescapable fact of life outside of taxes: La Parca, La Huesuda,
La Dama Fría, la Muerte.
It is possible that Death is the biggest
subject in the history of world music. Only love can compare. And can it
be that they're related? Listen and find out!
With Reverend Anderson Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Phil and Frank Crow, Blind
Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Brother Claude Ely, Arthur
Fiddlin Smith, Chavela Vargas, La Chabela, Machito and more!
Check out our Show #7, from one year ago, for more thoughts on Death!
We love Halloween, that day of the year when everybody dresses and behaves like we do at the House on a regular basis!
Our spirits were so high that had an Open House on this show.
Come discover what skeletons we have in the closet, where does that funky green door that is never opened lead to, what incredibly strange creatures lurk in the basement...
Sit with us at the living dead room! We will answer all your questions: does the vampire room have cable TV? Do the ghosts need their own private bathroom?
We have all the goods for you: zombies, black cats, skeletons, vampires, demons, monsters, ghouls, fiends, werewolves... All in one hour of songs!
With The Shaggs, The Cramps, The Upsetters, Los Sleepers, Los Saicos, Los Monstruos, The Deadly Ones, Jimmy Walker, Archie King, Alfredo Kaiser, The Sonics, Los Jardineros, Curtis Mayfield and more!
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
On this day, October 24th, we celebrate Houdini's last performance with a look at MAGIC, MISTERY, ILLUSION and ESCAPISM.
We have straitjackets, chinese torture cells, seances and mediums, good magicians, bad magicians, so-so magicians, hoodoo ladies,
alchemy, breakaways, daring escapes...
With Yma Sumac, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, Wilmoth Houdini, Los Saicos and more!
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
In this show at the Haunted House we celebrate Nietzsche's birthday (some years ago) with a look at PHILOSOPHY.
We examine ethics, logic, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, the idea of progress, nihilism, reality and more, all through music!
The selection of songs we have for you today will answer all your questions: Who are we, where do we come from, where are we going, why are we here, how can we be happy, is progress good or bad, how to organize a society...
We will have students, scholars and masters of philosophy for a sizzling debate!
With Tom Zé, The Shaggs, The Ramones, Noel Rosa, Rodriguez, Boris Vian, Charles Mingus, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Skatalites...
-"Yes, Popoff, I insist: we MUST play the Skatalites. For it is said that Ska is the Moving Cause of the Universe".
- "But, my dear Ghost Host, are the Skatalites real? Are they evil or good? How do I know they don't exist only in my mind?"
On October 11th, the Haunted House came full circle, with a round show with the round number 30, and a reinterpretation of the "Cristopher Columbus" show we did exactly one year ago. This one we entitled "Encounters and Missencounters", and instead of focusing on Columbus, the Indies and the Native Peoples as we did last year, we focused on the mixing, the melting, the syncretism, the clash of cultures and the bastard results we so much enjoy. This
Unfortunately, the show got lost. Burned. Gone.
There are several theories about this. Our Inca oracle thinks it no wonder that a show dedicated to indigenous tribes just 'disappeared' in the hands of a Spaniard. Our Ghost Host blames the intrusion of living people in our world of spirits and ethereal forms (we had two living presences with us on the show).
But as the weeks go on, it seems more and more clear that it was the censorship of the Spanish Inquisition that made this show disappear.
And so, sadly, the show is gone forever. But the music isn't! Here we have for you a playlist of what we played on that program. Unfortunately you can't enjoy our Ghost Host's stuttering nor Popoff's sneering retorts, but you still can listen to the music on our playlist:
If you are not a member of Spotify, you are not a member of the 21st Century. Go back to your galleons, your facescroll and your sextants!
It is extremely easy and it is free! Go and make an account now, you can do it with your email account, facebook or whatever it is you have. Just follow the link above to wherever it leads you.
Now, did you or didn't you listen to that diabolical radio show?
This is the tracklist of what we played:
1Fats Waller –
Cristopher Columbus
2Dave Harris & the Powerhouse Five - Dinner Music
for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
3Joseíto Mateo - Quirikichi
4Cochon St Antoine - Ti Paris
5Culture –
Capture Rasta
6Bob Marley and The Wailers - 400 Years
7Derrick Morgan - Conquering
Ruler
8 Miguelito Valdés y la Orquesta Casino de la Playa - Bruca Manigua
9Celina y Reutilio
– Aggayú Solá
10Celia Cruz - Oyeme Aggayú
11Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes - Canto de Iemanja
12Jorge Ben – Assim
Falou Santo Tomaz de Aquino
13 Reverend Roger L. Worthy and His Sister Bonnie - Get Back Satan
An old Spanish song for children, very famous at every school:
The Haunted House is a radio program on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST). This is the 29th show, aired on Friday, Oct 3rd 2014.
In this show, the Scrooge of Christmas Past Host and Popoff McDuck take a look at MONEY.
"Money alone sets all the world in motion", says a Roman from Syria. “The love of money is the root of all evil”, says St Paul back from the road to Damascus, to which Melville responds: "Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!"
We talk about funds, green power, buck, dough, bread, jack, brass, spondulix, lettuce, cabage, kale, mazuma, moolah, long green, shekels, simoleons, beans, cheaps, berries, bucks, pony. Parné, jurdó, dinero, plata, guita, pasta, mosca, tela...
With Lord Invader, the Supremes, James Brown and His Famous Flames, Lil Millet & His Creoles, The Invaders, Andrews Sisters, Gil Scott Heron, Mistinguett, Ellington, Mingus and Roach and many more.
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
This was the second, even more perilous, show dedicated to DANGER. Your Daredevil Ghost Host and Stuntman Popoff explore the risks of everything from friendship to drug traficking, voodoo, guns, zombies, talking too much, bad men, chupasangres and much more! Even more daring! No safety net!
With Margarita Lecuona, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Meridian Brothers, Los Sleepers, Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon, Baba Brooks, Los Tigres del Norte, Johnny Cash, Originais do Samba, Martinho Da Vila...
Zombies For Dummies, Rule #23, page 666:
Show him your flashlight! Quick!
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
We have a handle-with-care show for you today. Stuntman Popoff and your Daredevil Host talk about EL PELIGRO: DANGER
and DANGEROUS STUFF: from dynamite to femme fatales, from snakes to
drug dealing, from the devil to your best friend, from taboo to voodoo
and even the atom bomb...
This reckless show proves that there is a world out
there, that it's fearful and that it can hurt you!
With Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Howlin’ Wolf, Cuarteto Machin, Mills
Brothers, Perez Prado, Artie Shaw, Charles Mingus, Revelators Quartet,
Getatchew Mekurya, Jorge Ben, Beny Moré and more!
OK, get to the corner, jump and use the flags as wings... Piece of pie!
The Haunted House is a show on kusf.org in San Francisco, every Friday from 3:00 to 4:00pm (PST).
Your Ghost Host and his lazy but loveable creature Popoff dedicate this one to THE 47 %: for all of you vagabonds, loafers, bums and bohemians out there, our brothers, our friends, this show takes a look at several of those reprehensible attitudes.
In hobo style we hop from Mexico to Texas, from Tennessee to Barcelona, from Cuba to Brazil and from New Orleans to North Carolina.
With Orlando Silva, La Terremoto, Hank Williams, Peret, Charlie Poole, Compay Segundo, Hermanas Huerta, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Roberto Carlos, Sydney Bechet and the by now usual presence of Tennessee Ernie Ford and Don Tosti's Pachuco Boys; explaining us concepts like "wild goose", "juma", "tírili", "viper" and more!
We are BACK for a second season at the Haunted House!
Your Ghost Host and his favourite creature, Popoff, return to work with a longing for some ideal professions and career opportunities for our audience: coal vendor, tripe vendor, milkman, candy man, cab driver, coffee planter, private detective, peanut vendor, pusherman...
A wide array of options for those who look at their lives and dont feel they are living up to their full potential!
We travel the world, as usual, from Cuba to Colombia and from Jamaica to Brazil, with stops in Spain, Mexico, the USA and more.
With Curtis Mayfield, Toña la Negra, el Trio Matamoros, Jorge Ben, Perez Prado, La Lupe, the Upsetters, etc!
This was our last show of the season and as such, Popoff and I celebrate our coming holidays and our inalienable and self-evident right to laziness. Like a couple of sloths, we loaf and invite your souls to be part of our rolling in the grass.
With Alberto Beltrán's famous "El negrito del batey" ("work is my enemy / and i leave all working to the ox / because work was created by God as punishment" - el trabajo para mi es un enemigo / el trabajar yo se lo dejo todo al buey / porque el trabajo lo hizo Dios como castigo), Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Tom Waits on shore leave, Don Tosti
getting tírili, Tennessee Ernie Ford, los Churumbeles de España, Machito, Lola Flores y Antonio Gonzalez and more!
Sorry we were so lazy we could not load this show for over two months! Who wants to work anyway?
Popoff, your Ghost Host and an improptu unknown loafing friend, preparing this show.
A show celebrating May Day (May 1st): Labor Day in most civilized countries.
With the help of the likes of Nina Simone, Roy Orbison, Raphael, Milton Brown and his Brownies, Lee Dorsey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Clash, Bob Marley, Carolina Tar Heels, Tom Waits and more, Popoff and your Ghost Host try to explain why working might not be such a good idea after all and how it does not really make you free.
This is a show dedicated to all of you busy bees and ants out there!
This is a twisted show! Here we have the sequel to our show dedicated to Dance Crazes and Fads. We did the Mashed Potatoes and the Bacon Fat, we skanked, we stomped, hitch hiked, boogalooed and we really, really twisted!
With Andre Williams, Link Wray, Marvin Gaye, Desmond Dekker, the Duke of Iron, Al Dean, Crystal Spring Ramblers and with the invaluable help of out House Pet, Popoff!
This is a very special show for The Haunted House as we were able to
rescue our Spirit of Contradiction, our beloved Popoff, from the crypt
in our cellar so that he could co-present the show along with your habitual Ghost Host.
We were so happy about it that we started dancing and dancing,
dedicating this show to songs that were dancing styles or dance crazes all over the world.
We had a whole section of chicken dance crazes: the Greasy
Chicken, the Funky Chicken, the Chicken Walk... then we moved on to The
Frog, the Chunga, the Champeta, the Jerk, the Pachuco Boogie, the
Boogaloo and the Salsa Caliente, among others.
With Perez Prado, Kako and his All Stars, James Brown and his Famous
Flames, Hasil Adkins, Rufus Thomas, Meridian Brothers, Pirañas, Don Tostis
and his Conjunto de Pachucos and more! A BAILAR!
On this show we welcome the cruellest month, ''April with his showres soote''.
''En abril, aguas mil'', April showers bring May flowers and all
that.
So we bring you a wet show soaking with Cuban drums, New York
proto-salsa, Cumbia, Mambo, Yodel, Blues, Jazz and Western Swing! With
some members of our usual crew: Lata, Patato y Totico, Jorge Ben, Pérez
Prado, Django Reinhardt, Beny Moré and more!
Your Ghost Host as he Goes to Host this Show (idealization)
By the road to the contagious sounds, we celebrate the arrival of the Spring with a set of songs devoted to one of our four favorite seasons.
We also have plenty of Poetry and Puppetry to honor the Vernal Equinox!
Listen to Nelson Cavaquinho, Jonathan Richman, Lata Mangeshkar, Lead Belly, Sonny Boy Williamson, Farid El Atrache, Django Reinhardt, Camarón, Bambino, Carmen Miranda, Bascom Lamar Lunsford... all our usual suspects! Cumbia, Bollywood, Flamenco, Brazilian, Egyptian, Blues... You know the deal! All around the globe in 60 minutes
Plus a band of ghost horses neighing and stomping all over the studio and a special spectral apparition by e.e. cummings!
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of a leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is our 18th show, aired on February 28th 2014, and since Feb. 28th is the Día de Andalucía (Day of Andalusia) and Paco de Lucía had just died, we devoted the show to one of the very best guitar players ever, and to Andalusian music in general.
A sun-drenched show full of gypsy song, from the deepes to the lightest! (what Aram Saroyan would call lighght).
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is the 17th Show, and it is a sobering balance to our Valentine Special, as we deal whith the second part of that sentence that says love is "sweet as syrup, bitter as bile" (dulce como el almíbar, amargo como la hiel). Here we have fifteen (or so) tales of love gone wrong.
Le dijo el tiempo al querer
Esa soberbia que tienes
Yo te la castigaré.
(Time said to love: that pride you have, I will crush it).
We have love deniers like Adriano Celentano (Non Essiste Lamore) and skeptics such as Arsenio Rodriguez (Un amor saca otro amor, because nobody dies of love anymore), along with more dramatic points of view by Fernanda de Utrera, Los Chichos, Bruno Lomas, Don Drummond, Jimmie Rodgers, Trio Matamoros, José Alfredo Jiménez and more!
Stories of bitter love, defeated love, dying love, woeful love,
doggone love, foolish love… We have love killings, broken hearts and so
on and on, from Puerto Rico to Texas and from Tennessee to Spain.
Join us in a celebration of the most universal theme ever put to song!
Let this show be a warning of where love can lead you if you don't stop it soon!
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is the 16th Show, and since it was aired on February 14th, we have a Saint Valentine’s special devoted to that feeling that "nobody has understood", for it is "sweet as syrup, bitter as bile" (dulce como el almíbar, amargo como la hiel).
This show is dedicated to the sweet side and the next one is an examination of all that bile.
We have eternal love, wild love, Indian love, royal love, go-go love, crazy love, jails, gardens and villages of love... Celina y Reutilio dedicated the show to Ochún, the Goddess of Love, and from then on we had Los Compadres, Sam Cooke, Shirelles, Nathaniel Mayer, la Terremoto de Málaga, Jackie Opel, Don Drummond, Lord Flea, Umm Kalsoum, Lola y Antonio, Hermanos Toronjo, Bambino, Yma Sumac, Spade Cooley, Ramito... All singing the praises of love and love alone!
We continue the saga of Alan Lomax started on the previous show, focusing on the international part of his work and we take a deep look into the World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. We visit dark, mysterious and barbaric lands such as England, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Italy, Gabon, Rhodesia, Congo, Java, the ex-Yugoslavia, Japan or India.
Follow us in a trip from African Pygmy yodeling to Andalusian Bulerías, from Native American chants to English and Scottish diddling and from Croatian dances to Italian tarantellas... Around the world in 60 minutes!
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is the 14th show, aired Jan. 31th 2014, coinciding with the
98th Birthday of Alan Lomax.
Thus we follow the story of the World's
most famous Song Hunter and folk music song collector in field
recordings.
Photo taken by Alan Lomax at a Church in Portsmouth, Va. in 1960.
We devoted this show to the American part of his endeavors
and thus we had Blues, Folk, Hillbilly, Calypso, Spirituals, Texas
Ballads and much more, from Georgia to the Mississippi Delta, from New
Orleans to New York; from Woody Guthrie and Jelly Roll Morton to Son
House and Muddy Waters. Plus the Duke of Iron and a homage to Alan's
friend Pete Seeger, who sang his "House Carpenter".
This is the first part of our humble homage (in 2 shows) to the man about whom Studs Terkel said
"what Caruso was to singing, Alan Lomax is to musicology ... a key
figure in 20th-century culture".
Alan Lomax (sosteniendo el micrófono) grabando en Escocia.
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is the 13th show, aired Jan. 24th 2014, and we celebrated the works of Lewis Carroll with a hodge podge and a hotchpotch of a show. A verituous gallimaufry in which we had everything from Doo-wop to Italo-Disco made in France and all you can think of in between (that's THREE prepositions ending ONE sentence).
Frumious Mambo, Uffish Folk, manxome Afrobeat, plus elephants and monkees, cabbages and kings, pawns and roots, rooks, Reggae...
From a Flamenco singer born in 1878, such as Manuel Torre, to Italo-Disco from the 1980s: more than a century of songs covered in one hour! Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Dylan, Captain Beefheart, T Rex, Pérez Prado, Mohamed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, Smiley Lewis, Magazine 60 and Fela Kuti are some of the artists that we had in this show, with music about going through the looking-glass, the Jabberwocky, the Mad Hatter, and all the pieces of chess from the Pawn to the Queen, and two different endings!
The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org
radio in San Francisco. This is the 12th show, aired Jan. 3 2014. We
celebrated the New Year paying homage to Spaghetti and Zapata Western film director
Sergio Leone (b. Jan. 3 1929), following his filmography from "For a
Fistfull of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" or "The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly" to later films like "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Duck,
You Sucker!" or "Once Upon a Time in America", and playing music related
to these films: from Irish fiddling to Cowboy ballads and everything in
between: surf, corridos from the Mexican revolution, Western-inspired
reggae, French and Italian Pop and more, including two amazing Spanish
renditions of Morricone's famous soundtrack themes to these Spaghetti
Westerns.
Join us and learn about the history of songs like La Cucaracha or Adelita!
With Serge Gainsbourg, Rita Pavone, Jim Morrison (Sligo fiddler, not
"the other" Morrison), Upsetters, Los Amaya, Esquivel, Lydia Mendoza...
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