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The Jewel Case: Monkey Business (05-07-20)

This week's theme? Glad you asked. It's MONKEY BUSINESS; two hours of songs about monkeys, orangutans, gorillas...apes of all varieties- maybe even some damned dirty ones. Grab a banana and meet us at 91.3 WYSO.

  • X- Alphabetland
  • Lester Sterling & Stranger Cole- Bangarang
  • Fela Kuti- Zombie (RIP Tony Allen)
  • Rare Earth- I Just Want to Celebrate (HB Ray Monette)
  • Buzzcocks- Harmony in My Head (HB Steve Diggle)
  • Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers- One Track Mind (HB Jerry Nolan)
  • Jimmy Ruffin- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (HB)
  • Art of Noise- Close (To the Edit) (HB Anne Dudley)
  • The Tubes- White Punks On Dope (HB Prairie Prince)
  • Graham Nash & David Crosby- The Wall Song (HB Bill Kreutzmann)
  • Sinkane- How We Be
  • Gorillaz- Starshine

----------THEME: Monkey Business----------

  • The Rolling Stones- Monkey Man
  • Louis Prima- I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)
  • Major Lance- The Monkey Time
  • Dave Bartholomew- The Monkey (Speaks His Mind)
  • Elvis Costello & The Imposters- Monkey To Man
  • The Kinks- Apeman
  • The Dickies- You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
  • Pixies- Monkey Gone To Heaven
  • Low- Monkey
  • The Upsetters wi/the Heptones- Super Ape
  • The Miracles- Mickey’s Monkey
  • Gino Washington- Come Monkey With Me
  • The New York Dolls- Dance Like A Monkey
  • Patti Smith Group- Space Monkey
  • Warren Zevon- Gorilla, You’re A Desperado
  • The J. Geils Band- Monkey Island
  • Amy Winehouse- Monkey Man
  • The Ideals- Go-Go Gorilla
  • Rufus Thomas- Can Your Monkey Do The Dog?
  • Big Maybelle- One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
  • The Beatles- Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  • Dave Rawlings Machine- The Monkey And The Engineer
  • Buck Owens & His Buckeroos- You Made A Monkey Out Of Me
  • Ten Years After- Hard Monkeys
  • I-Roy- Fashion Monkey
  • David Byrne- Monkey Man
  • Ikenga Super Stars Of Africa- Soffry Soffry Catch Monkey
  • Chuck Berry- Too Much Monkey Business
  • Clinic- Orangutan
  • B.B. King- Sell My Monkey
  • Ducks Can Groove- Hideous Orangutan

Join Tod Weidner on Thursday, 8-11pm for The Jewel Case, a weekly celebration of all manner of musical goodness: deep cuts, forgotten treasures, and curiosities with a new theme each show spanning all genres, eras and locales

A lifelong Miami Valley resident, Tod Weidner grew up in Ludlow Falls before moving to Dayton in the early 1990s. Tod has been heavily involved in the Dayton Music Scene for over 20 years, as both a solo performer and a member of such bands as The Motel Beds, Shrug, The American Static, and Set The Controls, to name just a few.