Repressed Hostility Blues

 

Katie Lee, The Grand Dame of Dam Busting, in 1957

 Katie Lee - Repressed Hostility Blues

From her album Katie Lee sings Songs Of Couch and Consultation issued by Commentary Records, a small company formed by Bud Freeman and his colllaborator Leon Pober in Hollywood .

Kathryn Louise Lee (1919–2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.

From the 1950s, Lee often sang about rivers and white water rafting. She was a vocal opponent of Glen Canyon Dam, which closed its gates in 1963, and called for the canyon to be returned to its natural state.
 

Allmusic:

Jazz saxophonist Bud Freeman came up with the idea for Songs of Couch & Consultation, a cult classic comedy album that pokes fun at psychoanalysis and psychiatric jargon. Freeman wrote a dozen songs' worth of lyrics, which Leon Pober set to music and Bob Thompson arranged. Katie Lee, an extraordinarily pretty folk singer who previously recorded an album for Specialty called Spicy Songs for Cool Knights, was brought in to sing and pose for the cheesecake album cover. The songs describe an assortment of neuroses and psychiatric conditions in a variety of musical styles, delivered with a heavy dose of hand-wringing self-scrutiny. There's ragtime, big-band blues, and even cowboy music as Lee coos her way through topics such as schizophrenia, repressed hostility, and maladjustment. "Hush Little Sibling" lampoons parenting manuals and the venerated Dr. Spock, and "The Will to Fail" identifies a drive Nietzsche missed. The irony is that the sophisticated humor targets an educated audience that is also the group most likely to embrace psychiatric jargon and theories. Reprise reissued the album with a less striking cover, so the original Commentary Records pressing is the one to find.

 

Alligator Wine

 

The Dynamic Kapers

Alligator Wine
(Leiber & Stoller, Quintet Music, BMI)

JED International Records
[Jim E. Denny]

1964

 The Kapers on Bragg are probably the same band as the Bragg label was owned by Neil Wilburn who co-produced these JED sides.
 
Very little info about that band on internet. But I found this at nashvillescene.com  : 

Although many local bands at the time were based in, or at least played gigs around, West Nashville, groups popped up all over town. And, according to [Pat] Patrick, the sound changed depending on the area. For instance, south of town, in Franklin and Columbia, bands like the Fairlaines played straight rhythm and blues. Near Charlotte Avenue, Howard Hudgins formed a band with a bluesier, more harmonica-driven sound. Meanwhile, in East Nashville, combos like the Kapers blended the rawness of rock ’n’ roll with the horn-driven verve of R&B. The Fairlaines might play a James Brown song, Patrick explains, but the Kapers “would play a white version of an obscure James Brown song. So you wouldn’t know if it was their original, or if they pulled it off an R&B album and just whitened it up a little.”

Sturdivant, who eventually joined the Kapers after his stint in the Escorts, isn’t so sure that a combo’s sound was strictly defined by its home turf. Since all the bands were basically playing the same material, he explains, each one had to find its own sound. Nevertheless, there’s always been an undeniable split between East and West Nashville—and it isn’t just the Cumberland River.

John Edward Sturdivant. Age 66, of Madison, died Saturday, March 7, 2009 at his home. He was preceded in death by parents, Lathan and Elizabeth Sturdivant. Survived by wife, Sue Wright Sturdivant; sons, John, Jr., and David (Dianne); daughter, Stephanie; brothers, L.A. and Tom; grandchildren, Angeleah Rose, Daniel, Kristen, John Edward, III, Elijah Moon; devoted son-in-law to Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells. Mr. Sturdivant was a retired music industry executive. He began his music career in high school playing baritone saxophone in Top 40 rock bands- The Monarchs, Charlie McCoy and the Escorts, The Kapers, and The Nocturnes. Served as Vice President/ Southeastern Manager of Record World magazine. Also held positions with; Gibson Guitar; Music City News; ASCAP; RUBOCA Records; Tree International. Involvements and board memberships included the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Nashville Chapter of NARAS and Past National Vice Chairman of NARAS,  [John Sturdivant obituary]