DANGERMAN - "Let's Make A Deal" (1999)

 

Dangerman is one of those kinds of groups that makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

Dangerman was a duo from New York comprised of Chris Scianni, vocals and guitar, and Dave Borla playing the drums.

This self-titled album from 1999 was their only release. They had a couple of singles the same year, but that's about it. It does look they went on to do some other things as individuals with other people, but not a whole lot.

Here's a great song from them for you! 

 DANGERMAN - "Let's Make A Deal"

ALBERT KING - "Crosscut Saw" (1967)

 

It ain't Friday, so Saturday is gonna have to do!

Just in case you ever wondered, No, B.B. King, Freddie King, and Albert King are not related.

 

 That just might be the King Sisters you're thinking of.

 

I did not know this until now, and it's info like this is why we have the internet. It was supposed to be information and communication, not ads, ads, ads.

Anyway, Albert King's real name was Albert Nelson.

He adopted the last name King in 1953 as an attempt to be associated with B.B. King, and sometimes he was billed as "B.B. King's brother."

He didn't really need to go to those lengths as he was a standout guitar player on his own without the hype.

ALBERT KING - "Crosscut Saw"

THE BRIKS -THE MUMMIES (1966 - 1991)

 

I don't see where this song by the Texas band The Briks was ever released as a single in the 60's, but it is on this 1986 release called "TEXAS PUNK 1966:Volume 7" that besides The Briks, also featured another Texas band, The Chaparrals.

THE BRIKS - "Keep Down" 

 

The Mummies are one of the most ridiculous bands there has ever been, and that's the reason you have no choice but to love them!

 

 

The Mummies were from the Bay Area, and I'm really sorry I never got to see them perform live. I'm sure they were 100 times more entertaining than another costumed band named KISS.

From 1991, here's a very insane performance from a cable access TV show. These guys literally had no filters, thank goodness!

Two songs, two generations, two keyboards!  

THE MUMMIES - "The Fly" 

MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES - "Graveyard" (2025)

 

Rich here. A mere handful or fewer of you may recall that a few months after I first started contributing to this excellent blogsite last year, I opined that the definitive Surf Guitar song of all time was "Miserlou" by Dick Dale back in 1962, which was not only the record that came to define the sound of  Surf Guitar, but also was the first commercially successful surf song, instrumental or vocal.

 

Now it's true that Surf Music hit its commercial peak not long after "Miserlou" hit the charts. And the genre was mostly forgotten by the time of "Rubber Soul," so much so that by the end of the Sixties Jimi Hendrix jokingly declared: "you'll never hear surf music again." Although no surf guitar records have topped the record charts since then, Surf Rock never died and has had a revival or two. And particularly since the Eighties, Surf Rock has remained a consistently popular underground phenomenon up to the present day, with bands like The Aqua Velvets; The Blue Stingrays, a band led by  Mike Campbell, the lead guitarist from the late Tom Petty's band The Heartbreakers; The Surfragettes, an all-female surf-rock band; and Laika & The Cosmonauts from Finland, of all places! And all of them revitalizing the sounds of the heyday of Surf Rock.

 

But here in 2026 who would have foreseen that the best surf group in the world may arguably be a band best known as a hip country band, Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives, who last year released "Space Junk," an album chock-full of the retro-future sounds of Surf and Space Rock guitar, including this song.

 MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES - "Graveyard" 

B. BUMBLE AND THE STINGERS - "Nut Rocker" (1962)

 

There is so much to the story of  B. Bumble & The Stingers, all I can do is hit on some of the highlights.

The song "Nut Rocker" was written by whiz kid Kim Fowley, and was released in 1962. 

Kim had secured a copyright to an arrangement from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker. 

B. Bumble & The Stingers was not a real band, but a bunch of very talented studio musicians.

The first version was recorded by Jack B. Nimble And The Quicks, and when that didn't sell well, it was re-recorded by a different group of studio musicians as B. Bumble & The Stingers.

 

The single  made it to  #23 in the U.S. and was a number one hit in the U.K. which went against all the rules at the time.

The BBC had a very strict policy against playing records that parodied or mocked classical music, but a committee reviewed the song and decided it was a harmless homage rather than an offensive parody.

The song was so successful, they had to throw together a touring band to support the single that didn't include any of the original musicians.

They also had another hit in 1961 titled "Bumble Boogie," but you can only push a concept so far, and "Apple Knocker," and "Dawn Cracker" went nowhere.

B. BUMBLE AND THE STINGERS - "Nut Rocker" 

TONY JOE WHITE "...Continued" (1969)

 

 I think Tony Joe White is one of the most underrated, and underappreciated musicians of all time. To most people he's like a one-hit wonder with his killer hit "Polk Salad Annie." 

But his songs are all stories, he's got a deep and soulful Southern voice as good as any, he plays an insane guitar with effects Jimi Hendrix would be proud of, and he always surrounds himself with the best players on bass, drums, and keyboards, and last by not least, his music is totally unique!

His second album was titled "... Continued," and came out in 1969. He kept cranking them out for decades. 

Damn, he died in 2018, and I never even knew it.  

Here's to you Tony, you were the Boss!

TONY JOE WHITE - "Elements And Things" 

 

I'M A HOG FOR YOU BABY (1959 -1966)

 

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were two of the greatest songwriters of all time, if not "The Best."

They wrote so many hit songs, I couldn't even attempt to list them all. 

They wrote "Yakety Yak," Charlie Brown," "Poison Ivy" and "Searchin" for The Coasters.

They wrote the giant hits "Stand By Me," Jailhouse Rock, "Hound Dog," "Love Potion Number 9," and "Kansas City," which have all been recorded by multiple artists. There's just basically no end to the list, and one really fun song, "I'm A Hog For You," has been recorded by not just The Coasters, but groups as divergent as Dr. Feelgood, The Drifters, and The Grateful Dead.

Here's three glorious versions I enjoy a lot. 

This was the first recorded version from 1959!

THE COASTERS - "I'm A Hog For You" 

 

Before they became The Kinks, they recorded this demo as The Boll-Weevils in 1963.

THE BOLL-WEEVILS - "I'm A Hog For You, Baby" 

 

The first time I heard this song, it was probably 1966, and by The Surfaris when it was the B Side of their monster hit "Wipe Out."

THE SURFARIS - "I'm A Hog For You"