WFMU: Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from April 8, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:59am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	10:00am mmmz: Hello!
	♥ 10:01am Jan Turkenburg: Hi mmmz!
	♥ 10:01am WR: glad to hear over 64 today.
	♥ 10:01am Jan Turkenburg: Hi WR!
	♥ 10:03am chresti: Morning/afternoon Jan and WR and over/unders!
	♥ 10:03am Jan Turkenburg: Hi chresti!
	♥ 10:09am MHLee: i assume the huntington in the last song is actually in WV and not Va... was a major producer of Pullman cars
	♥ 10:11am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee! You tell me... ;-)
	♥ 10:12am WR: I guess that would be something "The Singing Brakeman" would have known about.
	♥ 10:14am fred: Greetings Jan and listeners
	♥ 10:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi fred!
	♥ 10:16am WR: Hi Fred.
	♥ 10:20am WR: double double entendre with Jones & Murray
	♥ 10:21am Jan Turkenburg: 😊
	10:24am zivilars: Hi Jan and everyone else!
	♥ 10:26am Jan Turkenburg: Hi zivilars, welcome aboard!
	10:29am zivilars: 6 degrees celsius – not really nice ...
	♥ 10:29am WR: I'm feeling slow today because i spent nearly 2 hours browsing bandcamp last night when i should have been sleeping.
	♥ 10:32am fred: @WR: But the next (last?) bandcamp Friday is next month
	♥ 10:33am Jan Turkenburg: Is bandcamp closing down???
	♥ 10:34am MHLee: Bandcamp Friday being a regular thing was part of the coronavirus deal I think
	♥ 10:36am Jan Turkenburg: oh, I've been too busy with other musical sources, I guess... didn't know that.
	♥ 10:39am Rick from SC: I feel like I'm listening to Spanky and his gang.
	♥ 10:40am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Rick!
	♥ 10:41am WR: Yes May 7 is still the last announced bandcamp Friday. I was looking at what Andrew in Waterloo has on his purchases and wishlist.
	♥ 10:45am Rick from SC: There was a story about Tipping and the Pullman Porters played a important role, on the Throughline podcast. Very interesting
	♥ 10:46am chresti: Bandcamp is closing down or just the Fridays?
	♥ 10:47am fred: @chresti: It's only the end of the Fridays when they give up their cut
	♥ 10:48am MHLee: I didn't realize Jolson was recording this early.
	♥ 10:48am Jan Turkenburg: Rick, do you mean this one? www.npr.org...
	♥ 10:49am Rick from SC: Thats it Jan. The history of tipping is quite convoluted
	♥ 10:50am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee, I didn't either, but he must have been about 27 in 1913, so it makes sense...
	♥ 10:51am MHLee: The Pullman Porters were also important to the early civil rights movement because it was an okay paying job that hired mostly African Americans
	♥ 10:53am chresti: Ah, thanks fred.
	♥ 10:54am Mx. Granny (e/em): Yay, trains!!! Whoo! Whooo! I've been to the town where Buster filmed The General. murals of him are all over the little town of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Hi, Jan and folx!
	♥ 10:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Granny!!
	♥ 10:55am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Guten tag, alles!
	♥ 10:55am Mx. Granny (e/em): Bandcamp was so helpful to a lot of my friends over the past year. Yay! chrestikins!
	♥ 10:55am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Granny, I was just reading about The General and that train/bridge bit.
	♥ 10:56am fred: @Mx. Granny: Did you get a message from The Baffler? I suspect something went wrong, because I got the same message last week, but I haven't asked them about it yet
	♥ 10:57am Mx. Granny (e/em): Rich, it's such a fun place to visit, you can still see the land, it looks quite similar still. Also, child prodigy nature mystic Opal Whitely was from there, and her face is all over the town, too. What an odd little town.
	♥ 10:57am MHLee: That was Rick that suggested the podcast!
	♥ 10:57am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: I haven't received a message from them yet. Wonder what happened? hmmmm…
	♥ 10:58am Rick from SC: Thanks, MHLee. The pod is well worth listening.
	♥ 10:58am chresti: Grannykins!
	♥ 10:58am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I missed your house tour, Granny. Are you maybe going to do that again?
	♥ 10:59am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Rich!
	♥ 11:00am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Hi Jan!
	♥ 11:00am Mx. Granny (e/em): hey Rich, that's too bad! We don't have any others scheduled, though it was such a blast folx may be interested in more. Perhaps we could set up our own little tour for Sheena's pals?
	♥ 11:00am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: That would be groovy!
	♥ 11:00am fred: @Mx. Granny: most likely, what happened is that they're a small outfit, and something got lost (I mean, when I renew, I get an email about a gift subscription from me to myself). I'll contact them, but I don't want to press them about it, it's free stuff, it happens or it doesn't
	♥ 11:02am MHLee: Jan, I think that image is Memphis Minnie.
	11:02am Ursula1000: good morning Jan and Junglistas!
	♥ 11:02am Franco Twinkie: Hi Jan! I love me some trains songs when I can hardly open my eyes.
	♥ 11:03am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: yeah, I appreciate the offer, either way. They're a cool publication. Thanks!
	♥ 11:03am Mx. Granny (e/em): Franco! Did you ever hop trains?
	♥ 11:03am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Trains loom large in my childhood. My maternal grandfather was a train engineer. He ran up and down the Pacific Northwest on the SP&S (Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway).
	♥ 11:04am Mx. Granny (e/em): U1K! I feel like I haven't seen anyone in a century. I've been offline a bunch.
	♥ 11:04am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee. Here's where I got it from: blondiecutsarug.blogspot.com...
	♥ 11:04am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: and my paternal grandparents had a house just feet from the tracks in Manhattan Beach, Oregon and we'd stand on the porch and wave to the engineers.
	♥ 11:04am Jan Turkenburg: Hi U1k! Hi Franco!
	♥ 11:04am fred: @Mx. Granny: it's tough for such publications. I've been trying to get Dissent to take my money for more than a month, to no avail so far...
	♥ 11:05am Jan Turkenburg: Ah, MHLee, you're right...
	♥ 11:05am Jan Turkenburg: I didn't read the comments...
	♥ 11:06am MHLee: I think there's a photo of her on last fm...
	♥ 11:07am MHLee: lastfm.freetls.fastly.net...
	♥ 11:07am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: times are tough when you can't even make people take your money!
	♥ 11:08am Feldpausch: Hi Jan and gang!
	11:08am Ursula1000: Good to see you Granny!
	♥ 11:10am Mx. Granny (e/em): I love Henry Hall! This is great!
	♥ 11:10am Franco Twinkie: Granny, I lived by a Southern Pacific switching yard, so after school we would walk over and climb on the trains, jump on for short rides, get all dirty, then walk home. But never long rides. Chresti on the other hand
	♥ 11:12am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Adam!
	♥ 11:13am Mx. Granny (e/em): alright, chrestikins, do tell!!!
	11:14am Listener Robert: "I've been working on the railroad" was definitely our song as children, because Mother's side of the family really did work on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors -- 3 generations.
	♥ 11:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Robert!
	♥ 11:15am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, I've used the picture you've posted now
	♥ 11:15am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I want to go to the railroad museum in Weed Oregon.
	11:15am Listener Robert: Two cousins only recently retired from there. Hi, Jan!
	♥ 11:16am Franco Twinkie: Granny, I just scrolled backwards. I didn't realize The General was filmed in Cottage Grove. I remember staying there and the banana slugs put the California variety to shame.
	♥ 11:16am Mx. Granny (e/em): Listener Robert: so cool! I heard that my great grandfather was a conductor on the trains, but it's a part of the family I have not much knowledge of… I always liked to wear the conductor caps and overalls!
	♥ 11:16am Mx. Granny (e/em): I guess the conductors don't wear the overalls! who does?
	♥ 11:19am MHLee: @granny those sort of fmaily rumors are dangerous to me... i spent weeks tracking my family to the old country based on a rumor of great-grandparent's occupation.
	11:19am Listener Robert: Daddy never did any RR work to my knowledge (though he did various things transiently in his youth), but he did have a good train whistle by forming his hands into an ocarina shape and blowing. Mine works only sometimes -- not at the moment, I just tried it. I think it depends on the skin's condition.
	♥ 11:20am chresti: A couple friends and I climbed onto a sitting boxcar in Guadalupe, expecting to wake up in SF in the morning, but only got as far as San Luis Obispo.
	♥ 11:20am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I would be funny to hear 'audiophile' conversations from around the Edison cylinder, 78 RPM record era. "Listen to this, Ted! It's as shrill as a Bosun's whistle!"
	♥ 11:21am chresti: *This was in '73, I think.
	♥ 11:22am Franco Twinkie: I'm waiting for a wax cylinder collector to step up and have a show somewhere on WFMU.
	♥ 11:23am MHLee: We've got trains here that go out about 100 East then go North and back West to about 60 miles directly North of us. It doesn't look like it would be efficient way to hobo.
	♥ 11:24am MHLee: Got to get around mountains and rivers
	♥ 11:24am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: My maternal grandfather died before I was born. He died on the job of a massive heart attack. They couldn't stop or the train would be late. A doctor declared him dead at a stop and he 'finished out his shift' (as the man who took over for him said) and they delivered him to his base station near his home where my grandmother met the coroner.
	♥ 11:25am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Franco, wasn't there a wax cylinder show? Or did he just play 78s?
	♥ 11:26am Mx. Granny (e/em): I am digging these tales!!!
	♥ 11:29am Franco Twinkie: Rich, I don't know. I haven't been listening to WFMU that long. There are worlds within worlds I know nothing about.
	♥ 11:31am chresti: Continental Subway's theme song!
	♥ 11:31am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 11:31am Jan Turkenburg: couldn't do a choo choo show without it!
	11:33am Listener Robert: There was a weekly slot where one program (the Antique Phonograph Radio Show) alternated with Thomas Edison's Attic. I think the latter was independently produced or at least pre-recorded, and if it wasn't exclusively cylinders they were prominently featured.
	♥ 11:34am MHLee: @Franco I actually slept on this station for years. I have no idea how I got here, but originally I had a copy of Songs in the Key of Z. Somehow, I ended up regularly listening to this one. --------------------------------------------------------- there's a Sun Ra version of this from live in Monrtreal where he spends like five minutes with an out there piano intro
	♥ 11:35am Jan Turkenburg: It's one of the links at the left under the playlist. It's what i could find within wfmu archives, maybe there's more...
	♥ 11:37am fred: I think MAC played old stuff, some cylinders might have been involved at least in part
	♥ 11:38am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I play a lot of cassette releases on my show, but due to the relative unpredictability of the medium, difficulty in cueing, etc, I just play digital rips of them. I'm hoping to get my studio type cassette deck to the tape machine hospital soon, so may be playing cassettes live without a net.
	11:38am Listener Robert: Here: wfmu.org... . My recollection had it back a lot farther than it actually was. I thought it was in the 20th Century, but it was exclusively in the 21st, and my memory is probably spuriously merging it with some other (probably WFMU) program.
	♥ 11:40am WR: quick work break to read comments and skim the playlist. Thank you to Jan and all you WFMU streamers. Great program, great stories. Laters.
	♥ 11:41am fred: I think MAC played cylinders (previous comment didn't get through)
	♥ 11:41am MHLee: @RiCh Yeah that's what I do with vinyl... copy it to digital and collect digital recordings.
	♥ 11:42am chresti: I've listened off and on via itunes for a number of years, it's after I lost itunes that I came to the website to listen and discovered commenting was possible.
	♥ 11:43am MHLee: There's a fantastic version of this one a posthumous release called Tiny Tim's America.
	♥ 11:43am Jan Turkenburg: I'm glad you made that discovery, chresti :-)
	♥ 11:46am Franco Twinkie: MHLee, funny, I remember exactly when I jumped on this train, but I don't remember what show it was. The DJ(?) was musing about where a live recording of The Great Society was from. I thought I knew answer but had no idea on how to comment. I fixed that, and having been shooting off my mouth ever since.
	♥ 11:48am MHLee: I can tell you when I got here, but not why I went to the site. All I know is my fascination with the Tiny Tim archive got me interested in these old songs so when I saw this show I jumped in...
	♥ 11:49am Jan Turkenburg: Good to have you aboard, MHLee!
	♥ 11:50am chresti: Franco, I think it was Larry Grogan's show?
	♥ 11:50am Franco Twinkie: I love your avatar MH! Creepy funny weird.
	♥ 11:52am MHLee: Thank you! It's a favorite out of the surreal memes that the internet produces. I have created a few myself but this one felt like a better choice for an avatar.
	11:55am Mister Shambolic: Great stuff today, Jan. Already looking forward to the second instalment.
	11:56am Ursula1000: thanks Jan--check out a new Sounds Spectacular next wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:56am chresti: Thanks Jan!
	11:56am Dave in St Albans UK: Thanks Jan. Good one.
	11:57am mmmz: see ya
	♥ 11:57am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Thanks, Jan!
	♥ 11:57am Jan Turkenburg: Hey Mister Shambolic! Bye everyone!
	♥ 11:58am Feldpausch: Thanks Jan! Choo-choo!
	♥ 11:58am fred: Thanks Jan
	♥ 11:43am Lizardner Dave !: Couldn't tune in live for this but enjoyed the archive!

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from April 8, 2021

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Artist	Track	Year	Images	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Rhythm Club (NL)	If I Had You "If I Had You" by "Rhythm Club (NL)"			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Synco Jazz Band	Railroad Blues "Railroad Blues" by "Synco Jazz Band"	1920		0:01:15 (Pop-up)
Vernon Dalhart	Billy Richardson's Last Ride	1926		0:04:02 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Rodgers	Hobo Bill's Last Ride	1930		0:07:15 (Pop-up)
Billy Mayerl	Railroad Rhythm "Railroad Rhythm" by "Billy Mayerl"	1938		0:09:52 (Pop-up)
Count Basie (vocal - Earl Warran)	Ride On	1942		0:14:23 (Pop-up)
Billy Murray & Ada Jones	There's Lots Of Stations On My Railroad Track	1914		0:17:38 (Pop-up)
Fletcher Henderson	Lonesome journey blues	1923		0:20:38 (Pop-up)
Bert Ambrose	Night Ride "Night Ride" by "Bert Ambrose"	1936		0:23:16 (Pop-up)
Jack Payne (vocal - Crackerjacks)	Takin' The Trains Out	1945		0:29:20 (Pop-up)
Charles Trenet	Le Voyage Au Canada	1950		0:32:07 (Pop-up)
Martha Copeland	Mr Brakes Man Let Me Ride Your Train	1927		0:35:04 (Pop-up)
Benson Orchestra Of Chicago	In A Covered Wagon With You	1923		0:38:00 (Pop-up)
Ada Jones & Edward Meeker	Pullman Porters On Parade	1913		0:43:11 (Pop-up)
Al Jolson	Pullman Porter's Parade	1913		0:46:24 (Pop-up)
Clarence Williams	Pullman Porter Blues	1921		0:49:23 (Pop-up)
Collins & Harlan	Porters On A Pullman Train	1922		0:52:23 (Pop-up)
Straun's Pullman Porters (Nathan Glantz)	Casey Jones	1925		0:58:36 (Pop-up)
Trixie Smith	Freight Train Blues "Freight Train Blues" by "Trixie Smith"	1938		1:01:10 (Pop-up)
Roy Acuff	Freight Train Blues "Freight Train Blues" by "Roy Acuff"	1947		1:04:22 (Pop-up)
Henry Hall BBC Dance Orchestra	Wild Ride	1934		1:06:54 (Pop-up)
Edith Piaf	Le Grand Voyage Du Pauvre Negre	1938		1:12:19 (Pop-up)
Eduard Jacobs	Spoorwegwee In Indie	1914		1:16:01 (Pop-up)
Willie ' the Lion ' Smith	I'm Gonna Ride The Rest Of The Way	1949		1:19:31 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Waitin' For The Train To Come In	1945		1:22:35 (Pop-up)
Henry Red Allen	Ride Red Ride "Ride Red Ride" by "Henry Red Allen"	1944		1:27:42 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington	Take The 'A' Train	1941		1:30:07 (Pop-up)
Charlie Barnet	Take The ' A ' Train	1943		1:33:06 (Pop-up)
Vrij En Blij	Speelt Papa Met Zijn Spoortje	1950		1:35:44 (Pop-up)
Arthur Collins	Railroad Rag "Railroad Rag" by "Arthur Collins"	1911	Arthur Collins Arthur Collins	1:41:24 (Pop-up)
Edward Meeker	That Railroad Rag "That Railroad Rag" by "Edward Meeker"	1912		1:44:13 (Pop-up)
Walter van Brunt	That Railroad Rag	1912		1:46:19 (Pop-up)
Bessie Smith	You've Been A Good Ole Wagon	1925		1:48:56 (Pop-up)
Nat Gonella	Thanks For The Boogie Ride	1945		1:52:23 (Pop-up)
Doris Day	Choo Choo Train (Ch ch foo)	1953		1:56:58 (Pop-up)

Lots and lots of other audio antiquities on WFMU:

Centennial Songs - The Antique Phonograph Music Program contextually presented by Michael Cumella

The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar Original ragtime, jazz, and pop music from the first quarter of the 20th century, with historical background on vaudeville-era artists

Thomas Edison's Attic The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

Rare Oldies Radio hosted by Kitschy Mama, featuring lost songs from the 50s & 60s: Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama

Music from the 1920s in the January 7, 2020 episode of Continental Subway with David Dichelle

Music and other recordings of Lynda Barry in the june 7, 2020 episode of Canibal Stew with DJ ARB

and you might want to check out the Surface Noise archives with DJ Joe McGasko from 2008 and 2009

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:59am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone!
	10:00am mmmz: Hello!
	♥ 10:01am Jan Turkenburg: Hi mmmz!
	♥ 10:01am WR: glad to hear over 64 today.
	♥ 10:01am Jan Turkenburg: Hi WR!
	♥ 10:03am chresti: Morning/afternoon Jan and WR and over/unders!
	♥ 10:03am Jan Turkenburg: Hi chresti!
	♥ 10:09am MHLee: i assume the huntington in the last song is actually in WV and not Va... was a major producer of Pullman cars
	♥ 10:11am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee! You tell me... ;-)
	♥ 10:12am WR: I guess that would be something "The Singing Brakeman" would have known about.
	♥ 10:14am fred: Greetings Jan and listeners
	♥ 10:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi fred!
	♥ 10:16am WR: Hi Fred.
	♥ 10:20am WR: double double entendre with Jones & Murray
	♥ 10:21am Jan Turkenburg: 😊
	10:24am zivilars: Hi Jan and everyone else!
	♥ 10:26am Jan Turkenburg: Hi zivilars, welcome aboard!
	10:29am zivilars: 6 degrees celsius – not really nice ...
	♥ 10:29am WR: I'm feeling slow today because i spent nearly 2 hours browsing bandcamp last night when i should have been sleeping.
	♥ 10:32am fred: @WR: But the next (last?) bandcamp Friday is next month
	♥ 10:33am Jan Turkenburg: Is bandcamp closing down???
	♥ 10:34am MHLee: Bandcamp Friday being a regular thing was part of the coronavirus deal I think
	♥ 10:36am Jan Turkenburg: oh, I've been too busy with other musical sources, I guess... didn't know that.
	♥ 10:39am Rick from SC: I feel like I'm listening to Spanky and his gang.
	♥ 10:40am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Rick!
	♥ 10:41am WR: Yes May 7 is still the last announced bandcamp Friday. I was looking at what Andrew in Waterloo has on his purchases and wishlist.
	♥ 10:45am Rick from SC: There was a story about Tipping and the Pullman Porters played a important role, on the Throughline podcast. Very interesting
	♥ 10:46am chresti: Bandcamp is closing down or just the Fridays?
	♥ 10:47am fred: @chresti: It's only the end of the Fridays when they give up their cut
	♥ 10:48am MHLee: I didn't realize Jolson was recording this early.
	♥ 10:48am Jan Turkenburg: Rick, do you mean this one? www.npr.org...
	♥ 10:49am Rick from SC: Thats it Jan. The history of tipping is quite convoluted
	♥ 10:50am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee, I didn't either, but he must have been about 27 in 1913, so it makes sense...
	♥ 10:51am MHLee: The Pullman Porters were also important to the early civil rights movement because it was an okay paying job that hired mostly African Americans
	♥ 10:53am chresti: Ah, thanks fred.
	♥ 10:54am Mx. Granny (e/em): Yay, trains!!! Whoo! Whooo! I've been to the town where Buster filmed The General. murals of him are all over the little town of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Hi, Jan and folx!
	♥ 10:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Granny!!
	♥ 10:55am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Guten tag, alles!
	♥ 10:55am Mx. Granny (e/em): Bandcamp was so helpful to a lot of my friends over the past year. Yay! chrestikins!
	♥ 10:55am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Granny, I was just reading about The General and that train/bridge bit.
	♥ 10:56am fred: @Mx. Granny: Did you get a message from The Baffler? I suspect something went wrong, because I got the same message last week, but I haven't asked them about it yet
	♥ 10:57am Mx. Granny (e/em): Rich, it's such a fun place to visit, you can still see the land, it looks quite similar still. Also, child prodigy nature mystic Opal Whitely was from there, and her face is all over the town, too. What an odd little town.
	♥ 10:57am MHLee: That was Rick that suggested the podcast!
	♥ 10:57am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: I haven't received a message from them yet. Wonder what happened? hmmmm…
	♥ 10:58am Rick from SC: Thanks, MHLee. The pod is well worth listening.
	♥ 10:58am chresti: Grannykins!
	♥ 10:58am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I missed your house tour, Granny. Are you maybe going to do that again?
	♥ 10:59am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Rich!
	♥ 11:00am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Hi Jan!
	♥ 11:00am Mx. Granny (e/em): hey Rich, that's too bad! We don't have any others scheduled, though it was such a blast folx may be interested in more. Perhaps we could set up our own little tour for Sheena's pals?
	♥ 11:00am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: That would be groovy!
	♥ 11:00am fred: @Mx. Granny: most likely, what happened is that they're a small outfit, and something got lost (I mean, when I renew, I get an email about a gift subscription from me to myself). I'll contact them, but I don't want to press them about it, it's free stuff, it happens or it doesn't
	♥ 11:02am MHLee: Jan, I think that image is Memphis Minnie.
	11:02am Ursula1000: good morning Jan and Junglistas!
	♥ 11:02am Franco Twinkie: Hi Jan! I love me some trains songs when I can hardly open my eyes.
	♥ 11:03am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: yeah, I appreciate the offer, either way. They're a cool publication. Thanks!
	♥ 11:03am Mx. Granny (e/em): Franco! Did you ever hop trains?
	♥ 11:03am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Trains loom large in my childhood. My maternal grandfather was a train engineer. He ran up and down the Pacific Northwest on the SP&S (Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway).
	♥ 11:04am Mx. Granny (e/em): U1K! I feel like I haven't seen anyone in a century. I've been offline a bunch.
	♥ 11:04am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee. Here's where I got it from: blondiecutsarug.blogspot.com...
	♥ 11:04am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: and my paternal grandparents had a house just feet from the tracks in Manhattan Beach, Oregon and we'd stand on the porch and wave to the engineers.
	♥ 11:04am Jan Turkenburg: Hi U1k! Hi Franco!
	♥ 11:04am fred: @Mx. Granny: it's tough for such publications. I've been trying to get Dissent to take my money for more than a month, to no avail so far...
	♥ 11:05am Jan Turkenburg: Ah, MHLee, you're right...
	♥ 11:05am Jan Turkenburg: I didn't read the comments...
	♥ 11:06am MHLee: I think there's a photo of her on last fm...
	♥ 11:07am MHLee: lastfm.freetls.fastly.net...
	♥ 11:07am Mx. Granny (e/em): @fred: times are tough when you can't even make people take your money!
	♥ 11:08am Feldpausch: Hi Jan and gang!
	11:08am Ursula1000: Good to see you Granny!
	♥ 11:10am Mx. Granny (e/em): I love Henry Hall! This is great!
	♥ 11:10am Franco Twinkie: Granny, I lived by a Southern Pacific switching yard, so after school we would walk over and climb on the trains, jump on for short rides, get all dirty, then walk home. But never long rides. Chresti on the other hand
	♥ 11:12am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Adam!
	♥ 11:13am Mx. Granny (e/em): alright, chrestikins, do tell!!!
	11:14am Listener Robert: "I've been working on the railroad" was definitely our song as children, because Mother's side of the family really did work on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors -- 3 generations.
	♥ 11:15am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Robert!
	♥ 11:15am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, I've used the picture you've posted now
	♥ 11:15am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I want to go to the railroad museum in Weed Oregon.
	11:15am Listener Robert: Two cousins only recently retired from there. Hi, Jan!
	♥ 11:16am Franco Twinkie: Granny, I just scrolled backwards. I didn't realize The General was filmed in Cottage Grove. I remember staying there and the banana slugs put the California variety to shame.
	♥ 11:16am Mx. Granny (e/em): Listener Robert: so cool! I heard that my great grandfather was a conductor on the trains, but it's a part of the family I have not much knowledge of… I always liked to wear the conductor caps and overalls!
	♥ 11:16am Mx. Granny (e/em): I guess the conductors don't wear the overalls! who does?
	♥ 11:19am MHLee: @granny those sort of fmaily rumors are dangerous to me... i spent weeks tracking my family to the old country based on a rumor of great-grandparent's occupation.
	11:19am Listener Robert: Daddy never did any RR work to my knowledge (though he did various things transiently in his youth), but he did have a good train whistle by forming his hands into an ocarina shape and blowing. Mine works only sometimes -- not at the moment, I just tried it. I think it depends on the skin's condition.
	♥ 11:20am chresti: A couple friends and I climbed onto a sitting boxcar in Guadalupe, expecting to wake up in SF in the morning, but only got as far as San Luis Obispo.
	♥ 11:20am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I would be funny to hear 'audiophile' conversations from around the Edison cylinder, 78 RPM record era. "Listen to this, Ted! It's as shrill as a Bosun's whistle!"
	♥ 11:21am chresti: *This was in '73, I think.
	♥ 11:22am Franco Twinkie: I'm waiting for a wax cylinder collector to step up and have a show somewhere on WFMU.
	♥ 11:23am MHLee: We've got trains here that go out about 100 East then go North and back West to about 60 miles directly North of us. It doesn't look like it would be efficient way to hobo.
	♥ 11:24am MHLee: Got to get around mountains and rivers
	♥ 11:24am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: My maternal grandfather died before I was born. He died on the job of a massive heart attack. They couldn't stop or the train would be late. A doctor declared him dead at a stop and he 'finished out his shift' (as the man who took over for him said) and they delivered him to his base station near his home where my grandmother met the coroner.
	♥ 11:25am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Franco, wasn't there a wax cylinder show? Or did he just play 78s?
	♥ 11:26am Mx. Granny (e/em): I am digging these tales!!!
	♥ 11:29am Franco Twinkie: Rich, I don't know. I haven't been listening to WFMU that long. There are worlds within worlds I know nothing about.
	♥ 11:31am chresti: Continental Subway's theme song!
	♥ 11:31am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 11:31am Jan Turkenburg: couldn't do a choo choo show without it!
	11:33am Listener Robert: There was a weekly slot where one program (the Antique Phonograph Radio Show) alternated with Thomas Edison's Attic. I think the latter was independently produced or at least pre-recorded, and if it wasn't exclusively cylinders they were prominently featured.
	♥ 11:34am MHLee: @Franco I actually slept on this station for years. I have no idea how I got here, but originally I had a copy of Songs in the Key of Z. Somehow, I ended up regularly listening to this one. --------------------------------------------------------- there's a Sun Ra version of this from live in Monrtreal where he spends like five minutes with an out there piano intro
	♥ 11:35am Jan Turkenburg: It's one of the links at the left under the playlist. It's what i could find within wfmu archives, maybe there's more...
	♥ 11:37am fred: I think MAC played old stuff, some cylinders might have been involved at least in part
	♥ 11:38am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: I play a lot of cassette releases on my show, but due to the relative unpredictability of the medium, difficulty in cueing, etc, I just play digital rips of them. I'm hoping to get my studio type cassette deck to the tape machine hospital soon, so may be playing cassettes live without a net.
	11:38am Listener Robert: Here: wfmu.org... . My recollection had it back a lot farther than it actually was. I thought it was in the 20th Century, but it was exclusively in the 21st, and my memory is probably spuriously merging it with some other (probably WFMU) program.
	♥ 11:40am WR: quick work break to read comments and skim the playlist. Thank you to Jan and all you WFMU streamers. Great program, great stories. Laters.
	♥ 11:41am fred: I think MAC played cylinders (previous comment didn't get through)
	♥ 11:41am MHLee: @RiCh Yeah that's what I do with vinyl... copy it to digital and collect digital recordings.
	♥ 11:42am chresti: I've listened off and on via itunes for a number of years, it's after I lost itunes that I came to the website to listen and discovered commenting was possible.
	♥ 11:43am MHLee: There's a fantastic version of this one a posthumous release called Tiny Tim's America.
	♥ 11:43am Jan Turkenburg: I'm glad you made that discovery, chresti :-)
	♥ 11:46am Franco Twinkie: MHLee, funny, I remember exactly when I jumped on this train, but I don't remember what show it was. The DJ(?) was musing about where a live recording of The Great Society was from. I thought I knew answer but had no idea on how to comment. I fixed that, and having been shooting off my mouth ever since.
	♥ 11:48am MHLee: I can tell you when I got here, but not why I went to the site. All I know is my fascination with the Tiny Tim archive got me interested in these old songs so when I saw this show I jumped in...
	♥ 11:49am Jan Turkenburg: Good to have you aboard, MHLee!
	♥ 11:50am chresti: Franco, I think it was Larry Grogan's show?
	♥ 11:50am Franco Twinkie: I love your avatar MH! Creepy funny weird.
	♥ 11:52am MHLee: Thank you! It's a favorite out of the surreal memes that the internet produces. I have created a few myself but this one felt like a better choice for an avatar.
	11:55am Mister Shambolic: Great stuff today, Jan. Already looking forward to the second instalment.
	11:56am Ursula1000: thanks Jan--check out a new Sounds Spectacular next wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:56am chresti: Thanks Jan!
	11:56am Dave in St Albans UK: Thanks Jan. Good one.
	11:57am mmmz: see ya
	♥ 11:57am RiChoo-Choo in Washington: Thanks, Jan!
	♥ 11:57am Jan Turkenburg: Hey Mister Shambolic! Bye everyone!
	♥ 11:58am Feldpausch: Thanks Jan! Choo-choo!
	♥ 11:58am fred: Thanks Jan
	♥ 11:43am Lizardner Dave !: Couldn't tune in live for this but enjoyed the archive!

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from April 8, 2021

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