Jake Brennan's podcast "Disgraceland" profile's Spade Cooley in the 12th episode of his second season.
(meta data) TITLE: S2E12 Spade Cooley — Disgraceland About Disgraceland ### Episode #24 | 10.30.18 # Spade Cooley: Jealousy, Torture, Murder Listen Free: iHeart | Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Spade Cooley was one of the Postwar America's biggest celebrities and most talented musicians. He was also a violent, drunk and homicidal psychopath who had no heart. Mean, jealous, abusive and almost totally driven by the deep seeded insecurity that he wasn't good enough for any of the women who flocked to see him in concert, on television and on the movie screen, Spade Cooley couldn't bare the thought of his wife with another man so he he did the unthinkable and what followed was at the time, the trial of the century. ## Sponsors "You Can't Make This Up" is a new podcast from Netflix that takes a look behind the scenes of the shows everyone's talking about. Available on all podcast platforms. Go listen, subscribe and review now. CALM gives you the tools you need to live a happier, healthier, and more mindful life. For a limited time, Disgraceland listeners can get 25% off a Calm Premium subscription at Calm.com/DISGRACELAND. ## Sources The Californian: The Talented and Tormented Spade Cooley Please Kill Me: The Wife and Death of Spade Cooley by Burt Kearns Spade Cooley, A Novel by Ellen Melinkoff Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes. ## Music Score by Jake Brennan. Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin. Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor. This episode featured the song, "One Lip Smile" by the Disgraceland Players. Written and produced by Jake Brennan, Adam Taylor and Tony Goddess and recorded at Bang A Gong Studios. *illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak
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Spade Cooley
In popular culture.
Walt: "That'd be 'Three Way Boogie', Spade Cooley" He then gives the salacious bits of the above history. 
 Ry Cooder's 2008 album "I, Flathead" features a reference to Cooley on the track "Steel Guitar Heaven" ("There ain't no bosses up in heaven / I heard Spade Cooley didn't make the grade"), as well as a track named "Spayed Kooley", the name of the singer's dog.
 In 2015, the Ella Mae Evans murder was profiled in an episode of the Investigation Discovery series "Tabloid". 
 Radio personality Phil Hendrie would occasionally refer to Spade Cooley in his comedy sketches. 
 Tyler Mahan Coe's podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones profiles Spade Cooley in the third episode of season one. 
