Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from April 4, 2023 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting April 4, 2023: The Wiggle Room with Krys O. pays tribute to Ethel Waters

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Portrait of Ethel Waters by Luigi Lucioni 1939
Portrait of Ethel Waters by Luigi Lucioni 1939
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Portrait of Ethel Waters by Luigi Lucioni 1939

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Ethel Waters  Am I Blue?   Favoriting   Columbia  1929   
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Ethel Waters, Dooley Wilson, Butterfly McQueen  Bill the Babysitter   Favoriting March 6, 1951 episode of The Beulah Show    1951  Starring Ethel Waters as Beulah, Dooley Wilson as Bill, and Butterfly McQueen as Oriole Full IMDb credits here 
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Ethel Waters  Interviewed by Edward R. Murrow   Favoriting Person to Person TV episode    1954   
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Ethel Waters  Taking a Chance On Love   Favoriting Jubilee radio show July 17, 1944    1944  Introduced by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman 
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Ethel Waters  Underneath the Harlem Moon   Favoriting     1933   
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Ethel Waters and Pearl Bailey  When the Trumpet Sounds   Favoriting from the Pearl Bailey TV show    1971   
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello
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Krys O.:

Hi, Austin! Welcome!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @7:48
Howdy. This proves to be educational; I'm not familiar with Ethel Waters.
Avatar 7:56pm
HyperDose:

Miss Krys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Krys O.:

Hi, HyperDose!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @7:55
I can only scratch the surface in just an hour. Hopefully it sparks some interest in checking out her music and movies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hiya Krys, gang!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Pauly!
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Sarcofiguy:

Hello
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Krys O.:

Howdy, Sarcofiguy!
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Feldy:

Hi Krys and Wigglers
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Krys O.:

Feldy!
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Sarcofiguy:

When black folks saved the white folks, it is affectionately known as the black person being the, "Magic Negroe." It was a phrase I only heard when I first saw the review for The Legend of Bagger Vance. It's even a term used for the movie with Queen Latifah and Steve Martin's movie, "Bringing Down the House."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Krys O.:

↳ Sarcofiguy @8:09
YES! That is exactly it. Many Hollywood directors have used that trope as well. Oliver Stone is possibly the worst at it.
Avatar 8:14pm
Sarcofiguy:

↳ Krys O. @8:10
I've always wanted to really go nuts with the concept with Queen Latifah playing a blaxploitation version of Mary Poppins, and call it "Ms. MARry!" And pronounce it like Jackee Harry used to call Marla Gibbs' character on 227 with the same sing song way.
Avatar 👻 8:15pm
Mr Fab:

Krys O., thanks for this. Shows without laff-tracks are that much funnier.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Krys O.:

↳ Sarcofiguy @8:14
Jackee! I love her. There's a hilarious skit from A Black Lady Sketch Show that actually has Marla Gibbs and Jackee Harry in it. Won't spoil it. You have to see it.
Avatar 👻 8:17pm
Mr Fab:

Dooley Wilson NOT in "Casablanca"?!
Never encountered him anywhere else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:15
It was quite unusual even then to not have a laugh track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:17
Yup, that Dooley Wilson. Dooley is in Stormy Weather with Lena Horne.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Krys O.:

This is before The Bad Seed.
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Mr Fab @8:15
If there's no laff track, how will I know when to laff?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Krys O.:

↳ Sarcofiguy @8:21
Ha!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Krys O. @8:17
HAH! I'll seek it out!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Krys O.:

I worked with a woman named Beulah when I had an after school job at a dry cleaners. She was a sweetheart.
Avatar 👻 8:25pm
MarkTime:

Have this as background "music" to mailing out my zine and other typical afternoon chores. I'd never heard of "The Beulah Show" before ... Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Krys O.:

Hi, MarkTime! I didn't know about it until friends gave me the DVD. Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers have their own approach to the role.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Krys O.:

Very much like Rhoda in The Bad Seed.
Avatar 8:30pm
HyperDose:

Hey now! 🥛
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Krys O.:

Beulah saves the day!
Avatar 👻 8:33pm
Mr Fab:

I love some of those lines: "If you vice-versa that, you might get the idea."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Krys O.:

Beulah was a radio show and, this is awful, but so typical. The role of Beulah was played by a white man on the radio. :(
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
Mr Fab:

Way to give out her address, Ed!
Avatar 8:39pm
HyperDose:

I love how enthusiastic she was!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Krys O.:

She is being quite modest. She's an incredible singer.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:42
This is delightful!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, Austin.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @8:42
Agree. If she's not a singer, what's she doing?
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Krys O. @8:42
❤️❤️❤️❤️
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HyperDose:

Forget singing. White folks gotta get clapping on beat down first lol
Avatar 8:46pm
Sarcofiguy:

This is a WONDERFUL rendition of EYE ON THE SPARROW!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Krys O.:

↳ HyperDose @8:45
Truth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Krys O.:

Ethel was in the film Member of the Wedding with Julie Harris based on Carson McCullers' book.
Avatar 8:47pm
HyperDose:

I ADORE this woman
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Jim Price:

That was great!
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
Mr Fab:

↳ HyperDose @8:45
Crystal Waters is her great-niece!?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Krys O.:

Jim! Hello and thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:49
Yes, that's right.
Avatar 8:55pm
HyperDose:

↳ Mr Fab @8:49
Crystal is from NJ!
Avatar 👻 8:55pm
Mr Fab:

"Once we were Republicans, now we're Democrats" haha
Avatar 👻 8:55pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jim Price @8:48
Hey Jim, thanks for stopping by!
Avatar 8:56pm
HyperDose:

Thank you for sharing Ethel's gift with us, Krys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Krys O.:

It's my pleasure! Thank you, everyone for stopping by. Take care of yourselves. See you on Saturday afternoon.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:55
Yeah... that was pretty good.
Avatar 8:58pm
Sarcofiguy:

DAMMIT, KRYS! I was just thinking of PEARL BAILEY!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Krys O.:

↳ Sarcofiguy @8:58
Neat! I wish I could see more of her TV show.
Avatar 8:58pm
HyperDose:

↳ Sarcofiguy @8:58
YOU SEE, IT'S ALL CONNECTED!
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Annette:

Thank you krys! Loved this show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Krys O.:

↳ Annette @8:59
Thank you, Annette! xxx
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Jim Price:

Good job Krees!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ HyperDose @8:58
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Avatar 👻 9:01pm
Mr Fab:

oh that was wonderful, thanks so much Krys
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