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Favoriting June 17, 2023: A Few Minutes With Scott Schinder

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Nick Lowe  Cruel To Be Kind   Favoriting
Queimada  Let's Hang On   Favoriting
Merle Haggard  I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am   Favoriting
Eddie Floyd  I'll Take Her   Favoriting
Som Tres  Oh Happy Day   Favoriting
Liz Phair  Fuck And Run   Favoriting
Humpty And The Ivanhoes  In The Evening   Favoriting
Leb Brinson  Hobo A Go-Go   Favoriting
Barry White And The Atlantics  Tracy (All I Have Is Yours)   Favoriting
A Minute With  SCOTT SCHINDER   Favoriting
Amy Rigby  Keep It To Yourself   Favoriting
Kim Fowley  Me   Favoriting
Dorsey Burnette  It's Late   Favoriting
Clarence "Frogman" Henry  Come On and Dance   Favoriting
Sugar Stems, The  We Only Come Out At Night   Favoriting
Keith  To Whom It Concerns   Favoriting
Morells, The  Hair Of The Dog   Favoriting
Johnny Otis  High Heel Sneakers   Favoriting
Bambi Kino  You're 16   Favoriting
Rip Chords, The  Summer U. S. A.   Favoriting
Yo La Tengo  I Saw The Light   Favoriting
Lester Flatt  Girl From The North Country   Favoriting
Lil' Bob And The Lollipops  Sweet Soul Music   Favoriting
Kay Starr  Comes Along A Love   Favoriting
Queers, The  Today I Feel In Love   Favoriting
Del Shannon  Show Me   Favoriting
Laura Cantrell  Push The Swing   Favoriting
Larry Williams And Johnny Guitar Watson  Two For The Price Of One   Favoriting
Nuevo  Every Night   Favoriting
Delta Rhythm Boys  Take the "A" Train   Favoriting
Pat Cooper  On The Tomorrow Show March 6, 1981   Favoriting

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

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CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HERE for the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:08am
Listener Baby:

Baby, happy you are paying tribute to your friend, Scott Schinder. He will be missed. Good morning.
Avatar 10:09am
Michael Shelley:

Good morning Baby!
  11:00am
Peter Horvath:

Good morning Michael, good morning #1’ers
  11:01am
Cooh John:

Hello Michael and #1ers. Happy Father's day.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:02am
myron feld:

MS, they let Scott eat without a jacket at Galatoire's??
  11:02am
KWilde:

Good Morning!
  11:02am
Cooh John:

Noice start.🎸🎶😁
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Frank In Queens:

HEY now!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:03am
Frank In Queens:

RIP Scott
Avatar 11:03am
Michael Shelley:

↳ myron feld @11:02
Lunch
Avatar 11:03am
Bob Barth:

GOOOD Morning Michael! Hello all!
Avatar 11:04am
Christina Ginger:

Good morning, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04am
PaulRobeson1923:

Morninggggggg

YLT did a FaNtAstIc rendition of this song
  11:04am
KWilde:

I always loved the Schinder minutes
Avatar 11:04am
Roberto:

And when I ask you
To explain
You say:
"Duhhhhhhh"
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Squints:

ok then.

hey HEY hey now.
  11:06am
clarke:

heyyyy nowwwwww
reading up...
  11:06am
CalZone!:

Rockin in Rochester!
  11:07am
Greg g:

Morning Michael and everyone!
  Swag For Life Member 11:07am
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Cruel To Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
Finally gonna see this guy next week.
  11:07am
clarke:

very sorry to hear of the passing of SS (RIP) - always a standup fellow.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Let's Hang On" by "Queimada"
Gusty cover, and well played!
  11:08am
clarke:

the bass in Let's Hang On - whoah!!
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Song: "Cruel To Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
Greetings fellow nerds...right outta the gate with Nick Lowe! AWESOME!!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ clarke @11:08
YES!
  11:09am
clarke:

happy pappy, MS!!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ CalZone! @11:06
NICE!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Let's Hang On" by "Queimada"
This bass player is really, really good
  11:10am
rx scabin:

Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
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PatrickMC:

Merle is #1 forever and all time
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GeoSinPhilly:

↳ Song: "I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am" by "Merle Hag...
Very "elusive Butterfly of Love"
  11:13am
clarke:

photo of SS, in my favorite restaurant of ALL time!! Galatoire's.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "I'll Take Her" by "Eddie Floyd"
G
G
Y
  11:14am
clarke:

GGSq!!
  11:14am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:03
bang up job on guitar on monday - and sorry i (again) missed yer show, this week. someday.
  11:15am
Rick A:

Good Morning Michael and All, Scott's death is really sad. I always enjoyed his segments on your show and the banter between the two of you. You would always end by saying, "We only have a few seconds left...any last comments, Scott." He's always remembered at WFMU and in his writings.
  11:16am
clarke:

goddam right, rick A!
  11:16am
John in Parsippany:

Michael, you certainly seem like a very smart guy to me. Cheers!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:14
Thanks clarke. It was a fun session.
  11:17am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:16
it wAS!!!
  11:17am
Cooh John:

Killer piano. Doing more with less.
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Baja Joe:

Mornin' Michael.
  11:18am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Fuck And Run" by "Liz Phair"
chune
  11:19am
clarke:

another phair another planet
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:19
ha
  11:19am
clarke:

8/10 on the edits
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "Fuck And Run" by "Liz Phair"
Stayed too long at the Phair.
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Baja Joe:

This tune came up for whilst listening to my randomized private tune collection just yesterday- mine did not skip.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:19
Generous hahahaha
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Squints:

As Turntable One laughs and laughs.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Lol
  11:21am
clarke:

Turntable #1 has representation - thus he is not prehensible.
  11:22am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:20
hey it's saturday. right??? istn't it??
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Frank In Queens:

Indeed!

Very excited to see Bambi Kino tonight!
  11:24am
clarke:

no Handy - not a good sign. hope thangs're okay.
  11:24am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:23
i've never seen them, but it is a bucket list for moi.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:23
Where's that Frank?
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:24
Heaven Can Wait (the old Brownies/Hi-Fi)
  11:25am
clarke:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:24
that's as good of a eulogy for Scott that there could be!!!
  11:26am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:25
shitty club name, but glad there's something in that space! and they have the smarts to book BK.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

My condolences to all who knew Scott.
  11:26am
paul:

New Orleans was a major railroad hub.
  11:27am
clarke:

↳ paul @11:26
uh, still is!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:26
You can thank Todd for that. I'm ONLY going there because of Bambi Kino. I won't say anymore out of respect for the condition of one of the owners.
  11:28am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:27
mkayyy.
  11:28am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:27
perhaps heaven cannot wait.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Tracy (All I Have Is Yours)" by "Barry White And ...
But if you HAVE a copy, why would you let it go?
  11:29am
clarke:

bindle!!! ha ha. nice!!
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drr:

Dancing Queen? Steal the drummer.
  11:31am
clarke:

mornin' david!!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:28
Well, fortunately it's not life-threatening, but not something I would wish on anyone (well, most people) either.
  11:31am
clarke:

nuff said!
  11:32am
morphe':

Fathers Day Aftershave .. when I was 11-12 ..
I tried to shoplift a box set of English Leather After Shave and Cologne for my father on Fathers' Day from Century 21 in Bklyn... got caught and they called the house and he came into the back room gave me a right hook and knocked me down = Happy Fathers' Day
  11:32am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:31
i am not meaning this as a jibe, i haven't done the research - what's up with the mets? owner troubles?
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Joey!:

Happy Father's Day everyone!!! Great show Mike!
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G:

↳ clarke @11:32
They threw a ton of money as guys on the downslope?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ morphe' @11:32
Now that's a Father's Day story to cherish. I actually have a good association with dads and after-shave. I'd watch my dad shave and when he was done he'd slap a little 4711 on my cheeks. He wasn't very affectionate, so this was like a kiss.
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G:

*on guys...
  11:35am
clarke:

↳ G @11:34
but, what is he threatening to do?
  11:36am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:34
good thing it wasn't Hai Karate!! you'd have to fight off the ladies!!
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G:

Not sure what the Mets plan is now. The rap on Buck, from when he was in Baltimore and before, is players like him, but somehow he can't quite get a team over the top himself.
  11:37am
clarke:

↳ G @11:37
we'll take buck back at balti!!!
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evancuts:

I first met Scott at a bbq at your house. He was a real cirmugden (sp?) and we actually got in a pretty heated argument just a few minutes after you introduced me to him. But I could sense right away that he was an interesting guy and turned out to really like him. And I really enjoyed your minute together with him on the air every week. RIP.
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G:

Opinion is very divided about that among Orioles fans. Some love him, and some say he can't get you to the promised land. The rap is he can take a junk team and make them a contender (Yanks, Dbacks, Os), but he can't get them to the WS.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:32
Ownership is very committed, although perhaps a bit too much. It's the players. There's no way that roster should be playing this badly. At least Alvarez has been playing well.
  11:40am
clarke:

that could be said of 19 managers, a year.
  11:40am
jmd:

Lovely remembrance, Michael. Nice.
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PatrickMC:

I don't remember SS but your tribute, Michael, makes me wish I did. RIP.
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Frank In Queens:

Nice eulogy. Mavens are still a valuable commodity in this world.
  11:42am
clarke:

oh man, this is nice, thanks!!
  11:43am
CalZone!:

This tribute is perfect Michael! Thanks. He will def be missed!
  11:44am
clarke:

that's true - that New Cars album is GREAT!! STILL!!
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Baja Joe:

↳ Song: "SCOTT SCHINDER" by "A Minute With"
Loving this. Hate that I didn't experience these moments as they happened. Next best thing. Thanks.
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Chris Hiatt:

Hi, tuning in from Brooklyn.
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Matt Fiveash:

My condolences on the loss of your friend, Michael- you were the first person I thought of when I heard the very sad news.
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Listener Baby:

This is lovely, Baby
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Frank In Queens:

Were you sick for this installment?
  11:46am
Don & Tracy:

Thanks for the remembrance
  11:46am
clarke:

love the way jupe says "sender" - he was a Solid Sender!!
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drr:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:46
Frank beat me to it.
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drr:

This is what I remember--how he skips the pleasantries.
  11:47am
Kelly Jones:

Hi Michael,
Sorry to hear about Scott, and losing your friend. Thanks for sharing him and your friendship with him with us.
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egould:

RIP Scott Shinder.
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Song: "Keep It To Yourself" by "Amy Rigby"
One of my favorite Amy Rigby songs! Anybody else going to see her at City Winery on Monday?
  11:51am
clarke:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:50
i wish!!
  11:51am
tonyb:

“ …we’re out of time.” : (
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G:

↳ drr @11:47
He only had a minute haha
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Hughie Considine:

Loved those minutes with Scott, Michael. The essence of comes across, and likes so many who frequent this board, he seems like the kind of guy I could sit and talk about music with all day.
  11:52am
rx scabin:

Thank you, Michael and Everyone. I must go fill my day with other things.
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Dave the Spazz:

So tragic. Scott was a very funny guy and a genuinely good person. Well spoken eulogy, Michael. This was a tough one.
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Gaylord Fields:

Thanks for playing an audio document of the one and only time that Scott said I was right rather than "Well, actually…" I know you'll miss him as much as I will. It's a diminished world indeed.
  11:53am
mike east:

I’m am grateful that I lived through and was tuned into the era of “a minute with Scott shinder”….thank you, Michael for bringing it to us.
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drr:

↳ G @11:51
that's right!
  11:53am
morphe':

"Keep It To Yourself" by Amy Rigby
"... I hear they're pouring concrete out on Hwy #3 ..." the benefits of celibecy [sp?]
  11:54am
clarke:

↳ Gaylord Fields @11:53
well.. actually...
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Gaylord Fields:

↳ clarke @11:54
Now I feel complete. Thanks, pal!
  11:56am
clarke:

↳ Gaylord Fields @11:55
sorry for the loss of your pal, man!!
  11:56am
Tim from LH:

Nice and funny tribute to Scott, hearing all those clips back to back. Scott was so knowledgeable about everything, he even corrected Michael’s pronunciation of Lake Hopatcong after my pledge to the show and knew where it was and a bit about the lake.
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Gaylord Fields:

↳ clarke @11:56
I appreciate it.
  11:57am
DG:

Thanks for those clips, it was great to hear SS again (after I discovered him on your show). I wonder if our paths crossed at any NY-area shows over the years....
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Montmaster J:

I think the beer pouring incident was me...I just can't remember who poured on whom.
  11:59am
DG:

Back in high school, a fellow music fan lent me a copy of "Good Clean Fun," a weird KIm F. album, with songs, phony phone calls, etc. I also remember an early Warren Zevon song, "I'm Not Young Anymore," which I don't think Warren ever recorded. And yes, Kim's, um, legacy is a bit more complicated than Scott's. Always found him kinda creepy in interviews.
  12:00pm
frenchee:

Touching tribute! And Amy R’s song had me laughing and crying. Thanks, Michael. Gaylord was right (once)!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Me" by "Kim Fowley"
This is 90s college radio lo-fi
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Hugh:

Sorry to hear about Scott S. I enjoyed the minutes and he'll be missed.
  12:01pm
clarke:

↳ Montmaster J @11:58
then you must've been the pourER!!
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drr:

I didn't know Scott but I feel like I heard some of those clips the first time around. They really take me back to a very different time when I was living in NYC (somewhat involuntarily, post-Katrina).
I liked y'all's schtick of "we're both wasting each other's time" (like "Not interested!", etc.) but it does seem like he really came on to talk up the good stuff.
  12:02pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:01
like lewis and martin!!
  12:03pm
Dungaroos Kipawah:

Thanks for sharing your tribute Michael. After years of reading his pieces, I was delighted to meet him at one of the Stomps. He seemed to be one of the few ppl that consistently wrote abt NRBQ, so I kept track of his byline & sought his pieces out. Anyway, a good conversation, wish I’d gotten to know him better.
  12:03pm
Rhae:

Thank you for sharing some of Scott's minutes. It was so sweet, and sad, to hear his voice again. And it captured him so well, he was hilarious, even if you couldn't figure out if he hated you or loved you in his snarky comebacks. I only met Scott just before he fell ill, so only knew him these last 9 years or so. I knew so little about his actual work or life, but we spent a lot of time together as I drove him to medical appointments. As I posted on his FB, every time I picked him up he had a pocketful of old cassettes in his pocket, and sometimes I thought he really only accepted my help because I was the one person he knew that still had a cassette deck in a car. He was always thrilled to get to listen to stuff he hadn't been able to in years, as we drove to doctors and hospitals and sometimes stopped for pizza. He was gruff and lovable and I miss him so much already.
  12:05pm
clarke:

nice stories!!
  12:05pm
clarke:

my eyes don't see so good!!
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PaulRobeson1923:

U got this babe
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Mister Dobalina:

Do you need an appointment, Mr. Rosenberg?
  12:07pm
clarke:

they's goin' crazy!!
  12:09pm
morphe':

The clips were an audio flashback ... the way a fragerance [sp?] or specific smell brings a memory
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Mister Dobalina:

Ok honey baby.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "To Whom It Concerns" by "Keith"
The story goes that John Lennon complimented Keith's "98.6" while they were peeing at adjacent urinals at the Whiskey.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "To Whom It Concerns" by "Keith"
Horns. Proto-Candida? Was Tony Orlando taking notes?
  12:14pm
clarke:

missouri
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Springfield, Missouri. They used to play here pretty regularly.
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Squints:

Nah. Ya gotta wait until you get that second wind in the afternoon before you tee 'em up again.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

And, I do believe we got drunk together on a couple occasions.
  12:16pm
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:15
good people!~
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:16
Yep. I'd love to see them or the Skeletons again.
  12:17pm
clarke:

me, too!
  12:17pm
morphe':

Some Scott Schinder writings:

https://pleasekillme.com/author/sschinder/
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:17
Wait, did we ever talk about The Bel Airs?
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Montmaster J:

↳ clarke @12:01
Maybe...I loved talking to and arguing with Scott...RIP
  12:18pm
clarke:

we DID!!
  12:19pm
clarke:

↳ Montmaster J @12:18
my logic: i would certainly remember if i got doused
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:18
Couldn't remember. I probably should have seen them last week. Ah well, they'll be back in a couple weeks.
  12:20pm
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:20
wow - what a treat!!
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Listener John from NJ:

Hello all!
  12:21pm
clarke:

i think it is a ridiculously BAD song - but so bad it is good.
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Moammar:

Please, god, no Little River Band. No "Reminiscing." I am begging you.
  12:21pm
Rex P:

CUP OF TEA!! 🍵 ❤️ KEEP THE STATION
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GeoSinPhilly:

↳ Song: "Hair Of The Dog" by "Morells, The"
Lou Whitney RIP. In an early, very weird, shakey version of Philadelpia's Stickmen, I opened for "The Symptoms," an precursor of the Morells/Skeletons with Lou and D. Clinton Thompson. They were already ace players, yet Lou was nothing but delightfully encouraging.
  12:21pm
burpage:

Music is my cup of tea
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Moammar:

We invented punk rock to rid ourselves of this sort of thing.
  12:22pm
CalZone!:

Thar LRB song makes me queasy... not pleasy.
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Squints:

That song?Coin flip. Depends. My tuner finger would probably get itchy midway.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:20
I probably should or would have mentioned that one of my oldest friends has been Dick Pruitt's significant other for decades.
  12:22pm
Vpfavale:

Love the song even though the hook reminds me of the I Love Lucy theme...I also love the fact that John Lennon was a fan of the song...
  12:22pm
bad memory john:

no reminiscin for me
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Chris from Brooklyn:

That is a dose of serious 70’s nostalgia.

It defined an era.

Raise my teacup to LRB reminiscing
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Listener John from NJ:

The Little River Band song "Reminiscing" is not my cup of tea. I would change the station.
  12:23pm
Alan in Marblehead:

What makes reminiscing interesting for me is that it was supposedly John Lennon, and may pang’s “song”
  12:23pm
Faux Jean:

Listening in sunny California! LRB song has nostalgic factor me. Is it a number one hit?
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Moammar:

I had to live through "Reminiscing" once. I will never go back.
  12:23pm
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:22
you did! nice! what i said was that i had seen them, but didn't know the BelAirs.
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Chris Hiatt:

It's my cuppa of tea!
I would at least keep the station on until the end of the song, then who knows?
(If it was WFMU I'd most likely keep it on).
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Jenn in the BX:

🫖 Reminiscing would be on my playlist to sing along on a road trip with other similar sounding songs.
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nycmusicnerd:

RE: Little River Band "Reminiscing"--I don't HATE the song, but it's not my favorite. Exboyfriends do a decent cover of it.

I do love LRB's "Cool Change" though.
  12:24pm
Jimmy D:

Schmaltz overdose
  12:24pm
Paul in the OC:

Would not change the station, that one’s oke.
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drr:

I'll go first: I think Little River Band is among the worst things you're likely to hear on oldies, particularly "Cool Change", "Lady!" (ridiculous!), and "Reminiscing". (I also dislike "Miller's Band" based on some kind of transitive property of their being mentioned in an LRB tune.) HOWEVER...
"Happy Anniversary" is OK to roller-skate to, or I thought so when I was twelve.
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vanya haifa:

I was born in Soviet Union. I don't have that changing-station
mentality. There's only one station for me and I've chosen it myself, let Ken Friedman, our great leader, live a long life
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Jenn in the BX:

↳ Jenn in the BX @12:24
And I’d stick with that radio station
  12:24pm
gf2002:

Reminiscing is a great song with great production and a really crisp late 70's studio hi-fi sound. I am not ashamed to play that record for many people to point out the production. It's the same sentiment as The Kinks' "Come Dancing" in the lyrics. I never change the station.
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Moammar:

I would not change the station. I would pour gasoline on the radio and ignite it.
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Squints:

↳ nycmusicnerd @12:24
I don't mind "Lonesome Loser" and "It's A Long Way There."
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Listener Baby:

That listener, who is clearly astute, is absolutely correct. Reminiscing = #1 Hit.
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juan:

"Reminiscing" is not my cup of tea. But I probably wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "You're 16" by "Bambi Kino"
Have Nick Cave sing this as a ballad... suuuper creeepy
  12:25pm
mike east:

Gosh- super hits of the 70’s volume 1 was such an important record for me. Pretty sure I went through two copies of it…hopefully still have the second one somewhere. Explorers club beegees cover is still my favorite version of that song.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Song: "You're 16" by "Bambi Kino"
woooooooo!
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drr:

Oh, God, I forgot about "Lonesome Loser". Yuk.
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Hughie Considine:

I'd probably switch off "Reminiscing" but would crank up "Help Is on Its Way." "Diamantina Cocktail ... now THAT was an album.
  12:25pm
Cooh John:

An ambivalent answer. Came out when I was a teenager so I grew up with it. Good song. OK to hear a couple of times a decade.
  12:25pm
?:

If I was surfing the radio dial and that song came on I would not change the channel. Because it's mostly likely a livee DJ. They are hard to find these days
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Moammar:

↳ Squints @12:25
God, I had forgotten these until now. And now they're back. How many decades will it take to purge my memory again? Maybe ketamine is the thing for this.
  12:26pm
gf2002:

As a kid in the late 70's I went to a lot of family weddings where "Reminiscing" and "Just The Way You Are" were the married couple's first dance song
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Squints:

↳ gf2002 @12:24
I use "Chewy Chewy" as my go-to song to tell people, "Not that's how to put a record together."
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Squints:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:25
"Help Is On The Way, " I'd cheerily bellow along with.
  12:28pm
gf2002:

I still cannot get over the feeling of turning on the "oldies" station and hearing Goo Goo Dolls and Alanis. Is that part of growing older?
  12:28pm
mike east:

Oh and this yo la tengo! What a compilation!
  12:29pm
gf2002:

I switch off "Kokomo"
  12:29pm
clarke:

Reminiscing story: my old band The Incredible Casuals used to have a segment where we'd get our tone-deaf sound man to "sing" a song or two. when he did Reminiscing it brought the house down in a way that Alfalfa would have loved!!!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:29
Nice! Not everyone has a good "Reminscing" story.
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drr:

↳ Squints @12:26
For me it's "Foolish Fool" by Dee Dee Warwick or "Top Of the Stairs" by Collins and Collins. Perfect example of the producer saying "Make it more punchy."
I will Listen to "Chewy Chewy" with that frame of reference in mind.
  12:32pm
clarke:

true. this one is an indeliable memory, and i think exists on a cassette... somewhere.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ gf2002 @12:28
The other day I was at Trader Joe's and they were playing "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls and one of the TJs guys was doing his work and singing along. And I just wanted to tap him the shoulder and say, "I just want you to know that I know who you are."
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ nycmusicnerd @12:24
Yeah, I like Cool Change too.
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drr:

Sounds like Little Bob oiled up the kick drum pedal after "I Got Loaded".
  12:34pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:33
singer sewing machine erl.
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:34
that the stuff to get?
  12:35pm
clarke:

it used to be, pre-wd40
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Squints:

Never mind gluco.

There really needs to be an ingestible form of WD-40.
  12:37pm
clarke:

lol
  12:37pm
clarke:

it's called Watney's
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drr:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:33
My Goo Goo Dolls story is seeing them in the early 90s, before they were big, but they were headed that way.
They used the Sanford and Sons Quincy Jones-produced theme as their "walk on" music.
Well, you can't compete with that. With all their amps and live drums they just sounded thin and lame by comparison. The spell, such as it was, was broken.
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Listener Baby:

I think it bears mentioning. Two titans of 20th music. Who would both be on the Mount Rushmore of popular music, site Reminiscing as a favorite of theirs. Both, two, not one, two. And if Gershwin, and Ellington had heard it, they’d feel the same, maybe. It bears mentioning. I’d love to meet that listener who keeps bothering you with all this, Baby. Bet he’s a looker too.
  12:40pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:39
back then, they had some okay-sounding songs and then one gem: There You Are - still in my top200
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Squints:

↳ drr @12:39
Now "Broadway" is one which I never fail to crank up and bellow along with.
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egould:

↳ Song: "Today I Feel In Love" by "Queers, The"
Number oneiest of number ones.
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Squints:

↳ egould @12:40
<kermit the frog nod>
  12:41pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:39
me-thinks he lives close to you.
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Squints:

"Crzay people squatted in my house" Terry Melcher?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ drr @12:39
Oof. Painful when you see the man behind the curtain, so to speak. And to think that they leveraged various elements of the Replacements into a soft, squishy and agreeable stew that made them a ton o' dough.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Del Shannon"
it's CRUNCH-y!
  12:42pm
clarke:

scott schinder would definitely have enjoyed our chat, today, ha ha ha.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Del Shannon"
I learn something new every day.

Is there even a single bad Del Shannon record?
  12:43pm
gf2002:

↳ drr @12:39
I saw a Goo Goo Dolls show where the guitar tech gave the lead singer the wrong acoustic guitar, since they use some truly bizarre open guitar tunings on those mega-hits they had. So he starts the song, it sounds terrible, he takes off the guitar and literally slings it across the stage like a bowling ball and then the tech/roadie runs out and tosses him the "right" guitar. Wonder if he had a job after that gig...it was a televised show broadcast live.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Del Shannon"
Nice double track of himself on the chorus with the falsetto.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ gf2002 @12:43
WOW!
  12:45pm
clarke:

FuZZZZZZZZZZnotes
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G:

Galatoire’s is still here in NOLA. haha
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Push The Swing" by "Laura Cantrell"
Oh wow, and yeah, this cut has a completely different production thing going on than the cut from her that Scott Williams played the other day.
  12:46pm
clarke:

↳ G @12:45
went thar with my sis this spring!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ G @12:45
I tried to go eat there once but I was wearing sandals. Oops!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @12:39
Lennon also liked Yoko's music
  12:47pm
john:

this is a hit
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "Two For The Price Of One" by "Larry Williams And ...
This is a smoker.
  12:48pm
Niko, Copenhagen:

Can anyone tell me on which record to find that Lester Flatt-version of Girl from the north country. What a smashing tune!
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Moammar:

"Having plenty fuuuuuuuun ...." Deathless.
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drr:

"Two for The Price Of One"! My band used to play this. We handled the tricky bits by not playing them.

This album is way high on my grails list. I remember *not* buying it in my bright college days.
  12:49pm
HungryFreaks:

Johnny Guitar Watson, one of that group who died onstage while performing.
  12:49pm
clarke:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:47
deal-breaker!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Two For The Price Of One" by "Larry Williams And ...
The Doublemint commercial that never was!
  12:50pm
Ken S:

↳ Alan in Marblehead @12:23
I saw that article floating around. Timeline makes no sense. Lennon was back in the Dakota with Yoko and 3 year old Sean when Reminiscing hit the airwaves.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:47
What’s not to like?
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Squints:

↳ drr @12:49
"We handled the tricky bits by not playing them."

I LIKE this guy.
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drr:

↳ HungryFreaks @12:49
Etta James bio with David Ritz "Rage to Survive" is good for Etta reasons but also for being the closest thing we're gonna get to a Larry Williams/Johnny Watson book. Good Bo Diddley stories too.
  12:51pm
CalZone!:

I never met Scott in person, but we became FB pals through this radio show. We shared a connection as similar aged Long Island raised radio and music misanthropes, and I really enjoyed chatting with him about those kinda things. We both dug the Turtles, Del Shannon, and that ilk. He was very generous, always offering digital collections of rare music and information. Def a rock n roll mensch! He will be missed! Wonderful tribute, MS! Perfect, really!
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:47
They hand out dress shoes and dinner jackets at the front
  12:52pm
clarke:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:52
i don't know about shoes, but they have jackets and ties.
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DJ Johnny Cool:

If you like Nuevo check out The Last Jimenez. Some of the same guys.
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drr:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:52
@Hubig: "I bet I can tell you where you got them shoes!"
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @12:45
ClarkEEEEEEEEE
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Squints:

↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:53
Going immediately so I don't forget.
  12:54pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:53
sho nuff!!
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Hubig Pie:

↳ drr @12:53
On my feets on Bourbon street !
Gimmee 5 dollars
  12:54pm
morphe':

Thanks Mikey and all !!!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ clarke @12:52
Aha, can't remember if they offered those or not. One way or another, I'll be prepared next time. Really want to eat there!
  12:54pm
clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @12:53
Professor Fizz!! howdy suh!!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Every Night" by "Nuevo"
Did Nuevo lose some important momentum by releasing their new material one song at a time? I feel like they missed the bus for reason. Discuss?
  12:55pm
clarke:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:54
like this radio station, Galatoire's is the best of ALL worlds.
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egould:

Thank you Michael. Your selection of songs, and the order you presented them resulted in an enjoyable experience. I look forward to a similar experience next Saturday morning.
  12:56pm
clarke:

↳ clarke @12:55
and those worlds being: creole AND cajun!
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steveo:

Smooooth harmonies.ahhh
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Song: "On The Tomorrow Show March 6, 1981" by "Pat Cooper"
WHO TOLD YOU THAT???!!!!!!
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Chris Hiatt:

Thanks for the #1 hits, Michael Shelley!
  12:58pm
clarke:

anyone ever get the feelin' they been sendered?? good nite.
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drr:

what egould said.
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Bob Barth:

Great show Michael!!
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Moammar:

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Schinder
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Thanks for a great show. My one encounter with Scott was an afternoon show in downtown Brooklyn in the aughts. I think that it was Swampdogg.
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drr:

↳ KevinfromBayRidge @12:58
I was at that? Mint green suit?
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Bruce S.:

steve and edie don't bring the business in
  12:59pm
Dungaroos Kipawah:

Pat Cooper, punk rocker. He overturned the established order
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KevinfromBayRidge:

↳ drr @12:59
Yup
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Dominick:

Amen, Pat
  1:00pm
P-90:

RIP Scott and Thanks @ Michael as always
  1:40pm
P-90:

“Stick it to the Man, Baby”
  10:30am
Tom:

My friend Alan Bisbort was the editor of PleaseKillMedotcom and sent me this note:

Scott was a pleasure to work with as an editor. He talked me into letting him write a story on Archie Bell and the Drells by offering to do the "Tighten Up" for 30 minutes on the sidewalks of Austin if the story didn't reach 1,000 views within two months. I took his dare.
Needless to say, his story did just that and he was spared humiliating himself in his hometown.
I just reread his story.
He had a real touch.
https://pleasekillme.com/tighten-up-archie-bell/

a list of stories Scott wrote for PKM while I worked there.

https://pleasekillme.com/author/sschinder/
Condolences to you Michael and all of Scott's friends and family.
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