© 2026 WOSU Public Media
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

The Jewel Case: What the Hex? (08.01.19)

WYSO | By Tod Weidner
Published August 2, 2019 at 10:35 AM EDT

Park your broom for another edition of your weekly musical multivitamin, the Jewel Case. This week's theme is "What the Hex?"; we'll be spinning tracks about witches, witchcraft, spells, potions, and whatnot, from Louis Prima to Ozzy Osbourne and most, if not all, stops in between.

  • The Mystery Lights- What Happens When You Turn The Devil Down 
  • The Doors- Strange Days
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins- Mojo Hand
  • Heart- Magic Man 
  • The Meters- Little Old Money Maker (RIP Art Neville)
  • Ultramagnetic MCs- Ease Back 
  • Patti Smith- Stride of the Mind 
  • Grateful Dead- Jack-A-Roe (Live) (HB Jerry Garcia)
  • Public Enemy- Fight the Power (HB Chuck D)
  • Billy Cobham- Stratus (HB Tommy Bolin)
  • Max Roach- Abstrutions 
  • Prince & the Revolution- The Beautiful Ones
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Spell

----------THEME: What the Hex?----------

  • Black Sabbath- The Wizard 
  • Fleetwood Mac- Rhiannon 
  • Fleetwood Mac- Black Magic Woman
  • The Lollipop Shoppe- You Must Be A Witch
  • Blood, Sweat & Tears- Lucretia Mac Evil
  • The Sonics- The Witch 
  • Deep Purple- Burn
  • Dr. John- Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival- I Put A Spell On You 
  • Screamin’ Jay Hawkins- Alligator Wine
  • Johnny Otis- Castin’ My Spell 
  • Richard Thompson- Business On You
  • Donovan- Season Of The Witch 
  • Ozzy Osbourne- Mr. Crowley 
  • Shannon & The Clams- The Warlock In The Woods
  • Louis Prima & Keely Smith- That Old Black Magic
  • Frank Sinatra- Witchcraft 
  • Masters Of Reality- JB Witchdance
  • Jeff Buckley- Witches’ Rave
  • The Searchers- Love Potion No. 9 
  • Radiohead- Burn The Witch 
  • Queens Of the Stone Age- Burn The Witch 
  • The Kinks- Wicked Annabella 
  • Muddy Waters- Got My Mojo Working
  • Papa Celestin’s New Orleans Band- Marie La Veau
  • Benny Spellman- Fortune Teller 
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Voodoo Chile 

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. 

Copyright 2021 WYSO. To see more, visit .

WYSO Stories
Tod Weidner
A lifelong Miami Valley resident, Tod Weidner grew up in Ludlow Falls before moving to Dayton in the early 1990s. Tod graduated from Milton-Union High School and Sinclair Community College, and also attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design until his scholarship ran out and he moved home to pursue the lucrative career of a struggling musician. 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. When he's not playing, listening to, or reading about music, Tod keeps busy by fixing up his house, where he and his wife Patrice live under the strict and watchful authority of their two cats, Mikey and Joey.
See stories by Tod Weidner