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September 2, 2014 Favoriting
The Japanese surrendered 68 years ago today
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"Naniwaya Okita's Lunch, after Kitagawa Utamaro" by Mike Licht is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
James Brown 
Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Favoriting b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1976)

Tiger Lily  Let's Go! Shake   Favoriting Girls Sazanami Beat!,
Volume 1
Cicala Mvta  Ohfuku Jinta   Favoriting Ching Dong:
Return of Japanese Street Music
(Trop 1999)
Maki Asakawa  Yo Ga Aketara   Favoriting Asakawa Maki no Sekai
(EMI 1970)
Masato Minami  Train Blue   Favoriting Kaikisen (The Tropics)
(RCA 1971)
Akiko Nakamura  Nijiiro no Mizuumi (Rainbow Lake)   Favoriting De Luxe
(King 1968)
Mari Atsumi  Suki Yo Ai Shite   Favoriting Japanese Grooves from the '60s and '70s

Talkover Music:
Kodo 
Sai-So (Strobe's Satori Beats)   Favoriting Sai-So
(Sony (Japan) 1999)

Ryoko Moriyama  The Cattle Call   Favoriting In Nashville
(Philips 1969)
Kazuhiko Katoh  Iewo Tsukurunara   Favoriting Super Gas
(Capitol 1971)
Gypsy Blood  Wasurekaketa Kotoba   Favoriting Rokko Oroshi
(Vertigo 1971)
Kiyoko Itoh  Goji Kara Juji Made no Watashi   Favoriting Woman at 23-Hour Love-In
(Showboat 1971)
Hiroshi Segawa  This Feeling   Favoriting Pierrot
(Phantom 1972)

Talkover Music:
Kodo 
Sai-So (Ibuki Reconstruction by DJ Krush)   Favoriting Sai-So
(Sony (Japan) 1999)

Michiko Hamamura  Mama Look a Boo Boo   Favoriting Japan Goes Latin
Kazuki Tomokawa  Akai Polyan   Favoriting Akai Polyan
(OSF 2000)
Go Takao  The Morning That Sunset Cicdas Sing   Favoriting Jako Toshi
( 1975)
Takashi Nishioka  Osaka-ben   Favoriting Manin No Ki
(Avex Io 1972)

Closing Theme:
Specks Williams 
We Gave the Drummer Some   Favoriting b/w Specks' Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:38pm Gary:

After a few tortured minutes of struggling unsuccessfully to come up with a witty reference to today's playlist theme, I've decided to just give up.
Avatar 5:39pm glenn:

and after they bombed pearl harbour, they gave hawaii spam sushi.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:40pm Doug Schulkind:

Quitters never win, Gary. Quilters sometimes do, but that is completely different.

Spam sushi is worth starting a war over, glenn.
Avatar 5:46pm glenn:

from your mouth to putin's ear.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:46pm Gary:

Never a blender nor a quilting bee.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:48pm listener james from westwood:

Thirty minutes over Tokyo or the pizza's free.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:49pm Doug Schulkind:

@glenn
Put in whose ear?

@Gary
I like what you're Waring!

@LJFW
Thirty pizzas over Tokyo beats a Fat Man and a Little Boy.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:55pm listener james from westwood:

Perfect timing: Just finished listening to an archive of a fill-in Inner Ear Detour by the mighty David S.! Banner Tuesday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56pm Doug Schulkind:

@LJFW
I believe those are called Inner Earchives.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm Jeff Golick:

With 6 (pm) we get eggroll?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm listener james from westwood:

@Doug: Perfect!
Pointless fact: Many of the hotels in Downtown Las Vegas cater to a Hawaiian clientele, and therefore advertise Spam-based dishes on their restaurant/coffee shop menus.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm Jeff Golick:

(sorry/notsorry)
Avatar 5:58pm ndbob:

evening Doug and everyone!
Avatar 5:58pm glenn:

huh. really, you would think that hawaii would have lots of casinos, no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
That was not egg lol.

Good evening to you, ndbob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm Jeff Golick:

@Doug: Tojoke's on you.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm Gary:

I think I can safely star every song in advance
Avatar 6:04pm glenn:

what gary said.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm Doug Schulkind:

Because, dear Gary, the tracks (at least this one) came from Bodega Pop!

@Jeff Golick
Go listen to a Cubs game and commit Harry Caray.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm Gary:

Maki!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm Doug Schulkind:

Didn't you once post 18 Maki albums, Gary?!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm Jeff Golick:

HOLY COW.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm Gary:

Today would be the ideal day to start Michael Bourdaghs' Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon. (It's been sitting on my shelf for over a year.) And, yes, I think those Makis are still up there
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm listener james from westwood:

@glenn: IIRC Hawaii and Utah are the two states w/ no gaming. You would indeed think they'd have taken advantage of the captive audience. OTOH, with all the cruise ships coming in, there's chips ahoy just offshore.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm Doug Schulkind:

Anyone wanna upload some broiled eel right about now? Just asking!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm Gary:

Just found & DLed Miami's Tropics ... thanks, Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm listener james from westwood:

We in NJ could actually sell Hawaii one of the THREE casinos in Atlantic City going ventral-surface up in the waning days of summer, if they'd like one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm Doug Schulkind:

You will love, it Gary. Well...you already are...

Interesting story behind this Tropics record.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm listener james from westwood:

Doug, it's been too darn long since I last hit a Japanese steakhouse, I must say. Instead I'm drinking a mango/banana/kale smoothie that looks like I blent up Kermit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm listener james from westwood:

Yes, I typed "blent." Don't look at me like that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey, nobody blents Kermit on my watch!!

I forget what the interesting story is about The Tropics. One thing I remember is I first downloaded the album at the first great bloglove of my life, Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll: citiesonflamewithrockandroll.blogspot.com...
Avatar 6:17pm glenn:

gambling is tax on people who can't do math. i don't get it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm listener james from westwood:

Hang on, Kermit just passed me a blent. On the left-hand side, even.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm Doug Schulkind:

It was heartbreaking when the blogger at Cities on Flame, a young Dutch fellow, died of cancer. I wrote a eulogy for Dirk on WFMU's blog here: blog.wfmu.org... (Read it with a tissue in hand.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm Gary:

Oh, man. Doug, the blog owner, Dirk ... did you read about what happened? ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm Gary:

Going to read it now, Doug -- obviously my last comment posted crossed paths with yours ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm listener james from westwood:

Happy pre-birthday to Dad! Mother of mercy, 95!! Some good genes on both sides of this family.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:24pm listener james from westwood:

Re: Dirk: That is quite thoroughly horrifying. Why do we lose the good ones while the Karl Roves and Donald Trumps still draw air?
Avatar 6:24pm ndbob:

@Doug yep - I remember that well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm northguineahills:

I dare you to find a genre the Japanese haven't attempted and had a rabid fanbase.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm Doug Schulkind:

Ohmigod I LOVE this Gypsy Blood song much.

@Gary
I will gladly cross paths with you any day.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:29pm Gary:

It's true, NGH. Anyone else been to the Shibuya Tower Records? There are whole WALLS devoted to Japanese ska, rap, etc. There's a store within walking distance of Tower that carries nothing but Japanese reggae.
Avatar 6:30pm Joe McG:

@Doug: This Gypsy Blood is great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm Doug Schulkind:

There is also a rather fascinating fan base of Japanese samba enthusiasts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:31pm Gary:

What Joe said
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm Doug Schulkind:

Great greetings to you, Joe McG!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:32pm listener james from westwood:

A friend of mine recently returned from Japan, and he posted a shot of a Tower Records. If there's only one Tower in Japan, then he's been to the Shibuya one, the lucky duck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm Doug Schulkind:

I think you will find the title of our next LP to be rather... suggestive.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm Gary:

What are they doing during that other hour?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm Doug Schulkind:

Shpritzing the Purell?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm Jeff Golick:

This is a very intimate number on headphones.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm Doug Schulkind:

I hope they were your headphones, Jeff Golick.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm Jeff Golick:

The Japanese embrace of jazz in all of its varied forms is also awe-inspiring.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm Jeff Golick:

@Doug S: yeah, my headphones, though I'm happy to share.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:41pm Jeff Golick:

[My cans, one might say.]
Avatar 6:43pm Holly in NC:

Hi Doug & the Dougettes (Dougies?) Anyway, everyone!

Dirk's story always makes me cry.

As for blents. I can only picture this cat smoking a "blent" while craving "fud" ;-)

catasters.tumblr.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm Jeff Golick:

That "kissing soldier" died earlier this year: www.npr.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Jesse Kaminsky's Kaminsky Kamoutsky is up next!!!!

Here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm listener james from westwood:

Holly, that cat is indeed the Conquering Lion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm Doug Schulkind:

Oh Holly, I'm glad you're here! Dirk was my entree to much Japanese pop and rock. Bless him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Did they ever ID the woman in that photo?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm Jeff Golick:

That V-J Times Sq kiss i.d. is not confirmed by this less flattering story: www.motherjones.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm Doug Schulkind:

The opening of this Kazuki tune always makes me thing of the theme from the Godfather.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm Jeff Golick:

@Doug: here's more on the photo, and the nurse, and, well... more: cratesandribbons.com... Pt. 2: cratesandribbons.com...
Avatar 6:52pm Holly in NC:

@Jeff G - the V-J photo has always creeped me out because it has always struck as non consensual, even when I had no way to articulate that feeling other than "drunken sailor grabs random woman"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm Doug Schulkind:

This killer Go Takao track was included on Rob Lim's (Janitor from Mars) marathon premium a number of years ago. The collection was called "Anthology of Japanese New Folk 1960-1976"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm Gary:

I'm going to go serve the awesome dinner I just made for me & the GF ... this show was one of my favorites, Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm Doug Schulkind:

There is nothing particularly western about our next (and, sniff sniff, last) track, but I just had—HAD—to play it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm Doug Schulkind:

It was a very Bodega Popian show, Gary. Can't wait to taste what you've cooked up for Wednesday evening.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm Jeff Golick:

Off to tend to die Kinder.
Thanks so much, Doug, and bye, all!
Avatar 6:55pm ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm Doug Schulkind:

New horror film: Die, Kinder, Die!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, ndbob. Glad you were here/hear!
Avatar 6:57pm Holly in NC:

Thank you, Doug. Only heard 2 songs, will catch up on archives! xo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm Doug Schulkind:

XoHollyoX!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm listener james from westwood:

Thanks muchly, Doug, for the great Japan mix!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm Doug Schulkind:

You are entirely completely and absolutely welcome, Listener James.
Avatar 🥁 7:01pm Jeff:

That flew by so quick...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm Doug Schulkind:

And boy are your arms tired!
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