This edition of Florida Rocks Again! is made up of songs that have never been heard on any of the previous thirty episodes of the series on the GaragePunk.com Podcast. Among these tasty leftovers are some grade A, top-quality garage, soul, and rhythm & blues nuggets for your listening and dancing pleasure, from the likes of King Coleman, the Shaggs, Benny Spellman, We the People, White Witch, and many more.
Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.
Once again, it’s hurricane season in the Sunshine State, and this episode is all about the tropical storms that heap abuse upon Floridians every year around this time. So here’s a collection of garage, rock ‘n’ roll, deep soul, and country-rock nuggets all about the stormy weather that is an unfortunate fact of life in Florida. Batten down the hatches, and turn it up so you can hear it over the howling wind.
Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.
Here’s another Hall of Fame edition of the long-running radio series featuring the All-Time Greats from the Sunshine State. This time around, we tell the incredible true stories of Coconut Grove folk-rock genius Fred Neil, Gram Parsons and the International Submarine Band, and Orlando garage legends We the People. The latter originally ran in two parts in the very early days of the broadcast version. To hear We The People’s Wayne Proctor tell the tale of his tenure in the band in his own words, check out FRA! #18: Orlando Rocks Again!
Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.
Here’s another all-covers episode, as Florida artists cover other artists, other artists cover Florida artists, and Florida artists cover other Florida artists. Check out Florida Rocks Again! #13 for Volume One.
Dedicated to the memory of Bo Diddley, a Florida resident for 40 years.
Florida Rocks Again! returns to the Miami area for this most rocking episode, in honor of the upcoming “Geezerpalooza 2008,” a concert featuring some of the top South Florida bands of the ’60s. The Birdwatchers, the Montells, Dr. T & the Undertakers, the Dead End Kids, Geekus, and special guest star Steve Alaimo will be performing Saturday August 9, 2008 at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial in a benefit concert for the Majic Children’s Fund, MC’d by Miami radio legend Rick Shaw.
All of the above make appearances in this groovy installment of the long-running series, produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.
This very special episode features the incredible true tales of three charter members of the Florida Rocks Again! Hall of Fame: The Allman Joys, The Nightcrawlers, and Hoyt Axton. Great songs, great stories, and plenty of rockin’ garage sounds for all you maniacs to dig on.
This time out, it’s a rockin’ roll call of delightful dolls and delectable dames as the all-time greats from the Sunshine State sing songs with girls’ names in the title. Featuring a mess of fine Florida garage 45s, as well as some deep soul, psych, rockabilly, and even a TV theme song.
It’s a Rockabilly Riot as Mal Thursday presents an episode full o’ swingin’ sides from the Sunshine State circa the ’50s and early ’60s, waxed up by such three-chord geniuses as Johnny Red, Tracy Pendarvis, Benny Joy, and others. Edited down from its original form as an installment of Florida Rocks Again’s original broadcast run on WSOS/St. Augustine, this down-and-dirty, short-but-sweet set will make you hop, bop, and boogie.
In perhaps the most rockin’ episode yet of the long-running series, every song has the word “Night” or “Day” in the title, or both, as in the opening number by the Razor’s Edge out of West Palm Beach. Although the episode starts with a Cole Porter song, it quickly segues into garage greatness with rare cuts by some of the grooviest groups to ever emerge from the swamps, beaches, and backwaters of F-L-A, as well as two different 45s from the legendary Paris Tower label.
Here’s a Halloween double shot from from GaragePunk podcaster and part-time TV horror host Mal Thursday. First up, it’s an expanded version of Florida Rocks Again! #4, with the most haunted hits ever waxed up by the all-time greats from the Sunshine State. Highlights include “Count Stephen,” a.k.a. Steve Alaimo, doing a tribute to Mantan Moreland on the 1961 novelty record “Spooky,” and Jim Stafford’s immortal Everglades allegory “Swamp Witch.” Produced by Mal and JeffMiami in living mono.
Then it’s an abbreviated All Hallow’s Eve edition of The Mal Thursday Show, headlined by headless horsemen, horrible hobgoblins, and wicked, wicked witches. All together, it’s an hour of ghoulish garage, scary soul, and bone-rattling rockabilly.
Florida Rocks Again! returns to the GaragePunk Podcast with an hour of fuzztone favorites by the All-Time Greats from the Sunshine State, taken from the show’s original ‘04-’05 broadcast run on WSOS in St. Augustine. Although we’ve raided many of this episode’s tastiest nuggets for previous podcasts, there are still some gems that have yet to be heard on the GPP. So sit back, relax, and deep-fry your mind with a Florida Fuzz Feast!
Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.
The all-time greats from the Sunshine State return to the GaragePunk Podcast and emote for the ages with a three-hankie, five-star episode where all of the songs are all about shedding tears. Sometimes the singers are talking about making someone else cry, but more often than not, it’s the singers themselves who are the ones doing the crying. Featuring 21 weepin’ wailers from such artists as Benny Joy, Mouse & the Boys, the Montells, and many more. Produced by MalThursday and JeffMiami in living monophonic sound.
The all-time greats from the Sunshine State return to the GaragePunk Podcast with a very special episode where all of the songs are about the swamps, beaches, and backwaters of good ol’ F-L-A. Florida artists like Wayne Cochran, Noble “Thin Man” Watts, and the Corornados rock alongside out-of-state greats like Bing Crosby, the Butthole Surfers, and the Beach Bums, who open the show with this episode’s theme song. There’s even a cut from the soundtrack of our favorite Elvis movie, Girl Happy. Produced by MalThursday and JeffMiami in living monophonic sound. It’s Florida Time!
It’s summertime, and the unmistakable smell of love is in the air… OK, so it smells a lot more like hate and war out there, but FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! is going to beat ceaselessly against the tide with a show where every song has the word “Love” in the title. Starring the All-Time Greats from the Sunshine State, rocking the usual garage sounds, plus some tasty fuzz pop, folk blues, deep soul, and heavy rock flavors. Produced by host MalThursday and the incredible JeffMiami in living mono.
Host Mal Thursday takes you on a trip back in time to Orlando in the ’60s and early ’70s, before the Mouse came to town, when top teen combos kicked out the jams at the youth centers and armories of Central Florida. Featuring exclusive interviews with Wayne Proctor of We The People and members of Tin House, whose bands are topping the bill at the Orlando Reunion Concert on September 16th, 2006. For more information on this once-in-a-lifetime event, go to aliveandrockin.com. To get We The People’s genius 2-disc anthology Mirror of Our Minds, go to sundazed.com. To get Tin House’s 1971 Rick Derringer-produced LP on Epic, be prepared to spend big bucks on eBay, or you’ll get outbid by Malaysian record collectors. Produced by MalThursday and Jeff Lemlich in living monophonic sound.
The latest installment of FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! is an eclectic mix of ’60s sounds from the Sunshine State. The first half of the program features songs with the word “Man” in the title, while the latter half features songs with “woman,” “lady,” or “girl” in the title. There are primitive garage classics from We The People, the Dark Horsemen, and Billy Sandlin & the Interns (thanks to BossHoss for that one), plus Florida-born legends Gram Parsons, Fred Neil, and Tampa Red, not to mention the first appearance in the series of the infamous Blowfly, performing “Hole Man.” Produced by MalThursday and JeffMiami in living monophonic sound.
The latest installment of the series features a heapin’ helpin’ of Florida-related ’60s era rock & roll songs, all with the word “I” in the title. This episode is a GaragePunk.com Podcast exclusive, and one of the most rocking yet. Special thanks to forum fiend Eargasm! for the Bash track. Produced by MalThursday and JeffMiami in living monophonic sound.
The latest installment of Florida Rocks Again! is the purest expression of the show’s garage underbelly, with many great cuts from 1965 to 1968, but most from 1966. Together with “Sunshine State Garage Revisited” (FRA! #5 & 7) this episode makes the case for Florida’s garage greatness. Featuring We The People, the Allman Joys, Beaver Patrol, and many, many more. Produced by MalThursday and JeffMiami in living mono.
In honor of the birth of his daughter Lola Antonia (aka Tuesday Ann-Margaret), MalThursday presents this latest edition of Florida Rocks Again!, featuring the all-time greats from the Sunshine State singing songs with the word “Baby” in the title, as well as a set of songs with girls’ names in the title.
In addition to some great fuzz-punkers from the Tasmanians, Mor-Loks, and the Raven, there’s also primal rockabilly from Benny Joy and Kent Westberry. Produced by Mal and JeffMiami in living mono.
MalThursday brings you another action-packed episode of Florida Rocks Again! — this one’s all covers, with the all-time greats from the Sunshine State doing versions of songs made famous by other artists — a set of early rock ‘n roll and rhythm & blues, a set of ’60s songs, a set of Vanilla Fudge-inspired remakes — and bands like the Fifth Order, the Lyres, and the Remains doing covers of songs written by Florida artists. It’s Coverama, baby! Produced by Mal and JeffMiami.
