Madness

It’s night time in the big city

The worst has already happened

A well dressed couple lean on the balcony; they laugh as they sip martinis

Singers and Songs

  • Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
    I’m Nuts About Screwy Music
  • Eddie Cochran
    Nervous Breakdown
  • James Brown and his Famous Flames
    I’ll Go Crazy
  • (Charlie Parker)
    (Relaxing at Camarillo - clip played)
  • Prince Buster
    Madness
  • (Jimi Hendrix)
    (Manic Depression - clip played in background)
    “I can’t imagine Jimi Hendrix writing a song called ‘Bipolar Disorder.’
  • Peggy Lee
    You’re Driving Me Crazy
  • Bo Diddley
    Crackin’ Up
  • Johnny Paycheck
    (Like Me) You’ll Recover in Time
  • Annie Ross
    Twisted
    “A lot of people are unfamiliar with the way that Annie and other vocal lead singers would take jazz solos and put words to them; well this is one of the most famous ones.”
  • The Tibbs Brothers
    I’m Going Crazy
  • The Mighty Sparrow
    The Mad Bomber
  • Little Walter
    Crazy Mixed-Up World
    “Walter basically reinvented the harmonica. When he was growing up, he was obsessed with the Louis Jordan records, and would practice playing Louis’ saxophone solos on his harmonica.”
  • Dinah Washington
    Blow Top Blues
  • Porter Wagoner
    The Rubber Room
    “The Thin Man from West Plains”
  • Beatrice Kay w/ Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra
    Hooray, Hooray, I’m Going Away
  • Redd Foxx
    It’s Fun To Be Living In The Crazy House
    “Here’s a wild record with a surprising person at the helm.”
  • Mose Allison
    Lost Mind
    “Here’s a man that some call the William Faulkner of jazz. Now I’ve got to tell you, I’ve heard this guy play since the 60s, and I’ve never heard anybody call him the William Faulkner of jazz. But there it is in a book. I mean, somebody just wrote that; I can’t imagine anyone calling him the William Faulkner of jazz! I mean that would be like calling Garnet Mimms the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of soul music. It’s just not done. I’m getting excited over nothin’, let me just play the record. By the way, I consider William Faulkner to be the Mose Allison of literature. Here they are, together again, Mose Allison and William Faulkner, singing the Percy Mayfield song ‘Lost Mind.’”
  • Jack Kittel
    Psycho
    “The third in our trilogy of demented country songs”
  • Nirvana
    Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

Other People and Players

Other Songs and Albums

  • 20 Flight Rock
  • Live at the Apollo
  • Take This Job and Shove It
  • They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha
    (Clip played)
  • Mention My Name in Sheboygan

    “We’ll be playing that one on our all Sheboygan show”

  • Lost Highway
  • I Love You Because
  • It’s a Gas

The Plays & Musicals

The Radio Shows

Record Labels

Places

Magazines

Books and Poems

  • Howl

    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”

  • Fear Strikes Out
  • The Koran
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • On The Road

Movies and TV Shows

Medicine Show Tonics

Types of Chickens

“Few things go together as well as country & western music and crazy people.”