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The Jewel Case: Dead & Undead (10.31.19)

WYSO | By Tod Weidner
Published November 1, 2019 at 11:23 AM EDT

This week's theme, in honor of that spookiest of holidays, is DEAD & UNDEAD- we'll be spinning tunes about ghosts, vampires, zombies, and such from Red Sovine to Marianne Faithfull to Outkast to the Misfits, with a multitude of stops in between, so stock up on garlic, stakes, incantations, baseball bats..."whatever gets you through the night" as a wise man once said. It'll be a scream.

  • Ramones- Pet Sematary
  • Otis Redding- Trick Or Treat 
  • Tito Puente and his Orchestra- 3-D Mambo (RIP Ray Santos)
  • Little Feat- Skin It Back (RIP Paul Barrere)
  • The Smiths- How Soon Is Now? (HB Johnny Marr)
  • U2- Bullet The Blue Sky (HB Larry Mullen, Jr.)
  • Beastie Boys- Something’s Got To Give (HB Adam Horovitz)
  • Chic- Good Times (HB Bernard Edwards)
  • Queen- Another One Bites the Dust
  • Jim Campilongo- Harlem Nocturne 
  • Marcus Miller- Frankenstein

----------THEME: Dead & Undead----------

  • Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting 
  • The Cramps- Zombie Dance
  • Tegan And Sara- Walking With A Ghost
  • Neutral Milk Hotel- Ghost
  • Gorillaz- Dracula
  • King Flash- Zombie Jamboree
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers- Mr. Brown 
  • Johnny Cash- (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
  • The Raveonettes- Attack Of The Ghost Riders
  • Ghost- If You Have Ghosts
  • Roky Erickson- I Walked With A Zombie
  • Outkast- Dracula’s Wedding
  • Marianne Faithfull- Ghost Dance 
  • Rickie Lee Jones- Ghost Train
  • Alice Cooper- I Love The Dead
  • Allan Sherman- My Son, The Vampire
  • Joan Osborne- Dracula Moon
  • The Specials- Ghost Town 
  • Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
  • Misfits- Astro Zombies 
  • Richard Thompson- Now That I’m Dead
  • Karen Elson- The Ghost Who Walks
  • Red Sovine- Bringing Mary Home
  • Tom Waits- Big Joe And Phantom 309
  • Warren Zevon- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
  • Bauhaus- Bela Lugosi’s Dead 
  • Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Death Is Not The End 

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. 

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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.
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