VAN DYKE PARKS & TOM MCDERMOTT
Conversation with and music from Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, and Randy Newman, among many. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott’s recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula — so named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th-century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair, and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.
HOUR ONE
"America" Van Dyke Parks Tokyo Rose, Warner Bros.
"Sailin' Shoes" Little Feat Sailin' Shoes, Warner Bros.
"Sail On Sailor" The Beach Boys Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol
"Jack Palance" Mighty Sparrow The Early Years, BLS
"F.D.R in Trinidad" Ry Cooder Into the Purple Valley, Warner Bros.
"Wah She Go Do" Bonnie Raitt Takin' My Time, Rhino
Instrumental: "Simple Calypso" Esso Trinidad Steel Band Esso, Minky
SEGMENT: Van Dyke Parks
Instrumental: "Available Space" Ry Cooder Ry Cooder, Warner Bros.
CLIP: Van Dyke Parks on Randy Newman
excerpt: "Vine Street" Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle, Warner Bros.
"Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad" Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun, Reprise
"Cheek to Cheek" Lowell George Thanks, I'll Eat It Here, Warner Bros.
"De Camino a la Vereda" Buena Vista Social Club feat. Ibrahim Ferrer Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
"Hawaiian Roughrider" Leabert Lindsay Na Mele O Paniolo, Warner Bros.
"Cowboy" Van Dyke Parks Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, Warner Bros.
"Heroes and Villians" The Beach Boys Smiley Smile, Capitol
End Bed: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Tom McDermott and Matt Perrine New Orleans Duets, Rabadash
HOUR TWO
"The Chrysanthemum" Tom McDermott Danza, STR Digital
"The Banjo, Opus 15" Louis Moreau Gottschalk American Piano Music Played by Amiram Rigai, Smithsonian Folkways
"East St. Louis Baby" Professor Longhair Professor Longhair's Boogie, Catfish
"Java" Allen Toussaint The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family
"Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" Jelly Roll Morton and Tom McDermott New Orleans Duets, Rabadash
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" James Booker Junco Partner, Hannibal
Instrumental: "So Swell When You're Well" James Booker Spiders on the Keys: Live at the Maple Leaf, Rounder
SEGMENT: Tom McDermott
"The Peanut Vendor" Billi & De De Pierce Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
"Bamboula" Tom McDermott Bamboula, Minky
Instrumental: "Boll Weevil Blues" Eubie Blake Memories of You, Shout Factory
"Have You Seen My Baby" Ringo Starr Ringo, EMI
"Hey Good Lookin'" Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott Live at Chickie Wah Wah , Chickie Wah Wah
"Lewis Boogie" Jerry Lee Lewis Complete Sun Singles, Bear Family
"Eh, Petite Fille" Clifton Chenier Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Arhoolie
"Early in the Morning" Irma Thomas with Tom McDermott Simply Grand, Rounder
End Bed: "The Crave" Tom McDermott The Crave, STR Digital