Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from May 30, 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/)

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Favoriting May 30, 2023: Mr Fab: "Harry Belafonte Don't Give A Damn, He Done Dead Already"

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Harry Belafonte  Banana Boat (Day-O)   Favoriting  
your DJ speaks     
Harry Belafonte  Lean On Me   Favoriting  
Harry Belafonte  Suzanne   Favoriting 0:07:36 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Venezuela   Favoriting 0:10:56 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Coconut Woman   Favoriting 0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Matilda   Favoriting 0:16:42 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  there's a hole in the bucket (w/Odetta)   Favoriting 0:21:03 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  contemporary dance   Favoriting 0:22:40 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  one more dance (w/Miriam Makeba)   Favoriting 0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  lie stone dead in the market   Favoriting 0:31:07 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  zombie jamboree   Favoriting 0:31:52 (Pop-up)
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your DJ speaks    0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Bess You Is my Woman (w/Lena Horne)   Favoriting 0:34:27 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Man Smart (Woman Smarter)   Favoriting 0:40:56 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu Paloma   Favoriting 0:44:28 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Mama Looka Boo Boo   Favoriting 0:51:04 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Delia’s Gone   Favoriting 0:53:56 (Pop-up)
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your DJ speaks    0:57:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Jamaica Farewell   Favoriting 0:58:40 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:26pm
Mr Fab:

Hel-o! Helllll-o! Subway come and me want to go home. But as Krys O runs the show, yours truly will be updating the tracklist and commenting when I can. Join me in dipping into a small sliver of the great work of Jamaican/Harlem exotic music icon, sex symbol, and civil rights pioneer, Harry Belafonte March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023.
Avatar 7:54pm
Krys O.:

Hey, hey, hey!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @6:26
I've been plotting an upcoming "People Who Died" installment on MVM, and I've been torn as to what Belafonte tune to include. Perhaps you will help me decide?
Avatar 7:58pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @7:57
You'll have an hour's worth of suggestions tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
WR:

Here to hear.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @7:58
Or: should I try to fill in something you don't play? Choices...
Avatar 8:00pm
Mr Fab:

Getting a jump (in the line) on the playlist as I'm a bit busy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Aitch:

tally me bananas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hey-O Mr. Fab, Krys, gang!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Austin Rich:

Greetings, Pauly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Aitch:

What a voice
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aitch @8:05
I have not been tiring of the extra Belafonte we've been getting, via all the tributes and whatnot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Pauly from Clifton:

↳ Austin Rich @8:05
Hiya Austin!
Avatar 8:08pm
Krys O.:

This is such a treat.
Avatar 8:08pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Aitch @8:05
Yes i wanted to establish right off the bat that this man could SING.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Suzanne" by "Harry Belafonte"
Wow. I've never heard this one before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Pauly from Clifton:

↳ Aitch @8:05
That is a GOLDEN voice.
Avatar 8:12pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "Suzanne" by "Harry Belafonte"
I just remembered where I heard this one. It was in the film Harry made with Dorothy Dandridge called Bright Road. This was just before Carmen Jones.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:12
I haven't seen that! I wonder if I could stream it later...
Avatar 8:13pm
Mr Fab:

Running the playlist on the office/ walking down the street/ waiting for the subway. Another radio first!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:13
All in a day's work for... MR. FAB!
Avatar 8:14pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:12
It's worth looking for.
Avatar 8:16pm
Mr Fab:

He made another film with Dorothy Dandridge, “Island in the Sun.” Big hit song (that I didn’t have room for tonight)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Austin Rich:

Double Feature? I don't think I've seen that either.
  8:17pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Matilda" by "Harry Belafonte"
Cannot hear w/o also hearing "My Zelda".
Avatar 8:18pm
Krys O.:

Have you ever seen The Angel Levine? Harry haunts Zero Mostel as an angel.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:18
Damn! That sounds great! While I love old movies, I usually look for old horror or noir stuff these days. I should check that out.
Avatar 8:20pm
Mr Fab:

Ok folks the subway will be entering the no-internet zone for a bit, so I’ll be off the chat and falling behind on the playlist for a bit.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:20
Good Luck. If you run into The Warriors, just let them do their thing.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "one more dance (w/Miriam Makeba)" by "Harry Belaf...
I also had never heard this one, either. Wow.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

"Back to back, belly to belly..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Mr Fab and wigglyworms

...rest in peace Mr. Belafonte.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Austin Rich:

I can think of at least 10 versions of Zombie Jamboree. I sense a crazy mash-up in my future...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

I always wanted to see an experimental duo named "Korg-y & Bass."
Avatar 8:35pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:27
The “sick humor” portion of the show…
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:35
I'm filing that one away, for future use.
Avatar 8:37pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:35
Ha!

Or “Corgi,” a dog act?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:37
I mean, this is a rough draft. We can workshop it until it's just right. No reason to waste a good idea just yet?
Avatar 8:38pm
Mr Fab:

I used to find Belafonte albums for real cheap. There were a lot of em. I’d buy any one I found.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:38
You inspired me to check. I only have two... I feel like I need to get more, now.
Avatar 8:41pm
Mr Fab:

Doing my rum drunk spazzy dancing to this one
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

Probably time for a cocktail...
Avatar 8:43pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:39
He sold millions so there’s lots of his records out there. You may like some more than others, but basically Belafonte was incapable of sucking.
  8:45pm
Listener Robert:

As a child I heard so much Belafonte because Mother was nuts about him. But then, what woman wouldn't be? And yet he had that Sinatra-like quality of appealing to men too.
Avatar 8:45pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu Paloma" by "Harry Belafonte"
I say this one’s flamenco but doh! It’s Mexican. Yo soy estúpido.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:43
Marla and I would put on this one I have, a Greatest Hit deal, quite often. But this is certainly more of a "forgotten gems" show you've got here.
Avatar 8:46pm
Mr Fab:

How long can he hold his breath?!?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:46
Yeah, I don't know anyone who can do that.
Avatar 8:47pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:45
Yeah for example thanks to Beetlejuice “Jump In The Line” is pretty familiar so figured I could skip that one, good as it is.
Avatar 8:49pm
Mr Fab:

BIG breath…
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:47
You certainly exposed me to a lot I'd never heard, and I felt like I at least knew what he did. Now I feel like I had only scratched the surface before...
Avatar 8:49pm
Krys O.:

Could be circular breathing.
  8:49pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Mr Fab @8:47
But if you go by that standard, you could do like Irwin in leaving Belafonte out of his calypso series entirely, because "Belafonte you can get anywhere".
Avatar 8:50pm
Krys O.:

That takes a lot of practice and horn players use it.
Avatar 8:50pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Listener Robert @8:49
Yeah but his calypsos are fun! Had to include a few.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
WR:

Thank you for this survey, definitely reminded to explore Belafonte some more.
Avatar 8:52pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "Mama Looka Boo Boo" by "Harry Belafonte"
We used to sing this in chorus practice in junior high.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks again, for the lesson, and the leadin'. You are the best, Mr. Fab.
Avatar 8:58pm
Krys O.:

Thank you, Mr. Fab!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Aitch:

Thanks Fab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Thanks, Mr. Fab, Krys!
Avatar 8:59pm
Mr Fab:

Thank YOU Krys!

And all of you.
Stay tuned for Austin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am
Jan Turkenburg:

Thanks for this, Mr Fab. Belafonte was one of my heroes!
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