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Favoriting October 28, 2023: Tell Them Michael Sent You

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Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers  Monster Mash   Favoriting
Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker  I Got The Music In Me   Favoriting
Alex Chilton  The Happy Song   Favoriting
Jason Faulkner  Afraid To Be Himself   Favoriting
Sig-Heils  Sez Who   Favoriting
Roy Hall  You Ruined My Blue-Suede Shoes   Favoriting
Clovers, The  Hey Doll Baby   Favoriting
Byron Lee and The Dragonaires  Jamaica Ska   Favoriting
Chris Mars  Skipping School   Favoriting
Dick Dodd  Under Construction   Favoriting
Hagers, The  Looney Caboose   Favoriting
Dennis J. Leise  Listen With Your Eyes   Favoriting
Pretty Purdie And The Playboys  Artificialness feat. Gil Scott-Heron   Favoriting
Jonathan Richman  Vincent Van Gogh   Favoriting
Elvis Costello  Sneaky Feelings   Favoriting
Del Shannon  I Can't Be True   Favoriting
Willie Nelson  On The Road Again (Bluegrass version)   Favoriting
Winfield Parker  She's So Pretty   Favoriting
Golden Boys, The  Wake Up Little Susie   Favoriting
Thee Headcoatees  When The Night Comes   Favoriting
Travelin' Troubadors, The  The Isrealites   Favoriting
Tommy Cash  Come See What's Left Of Your Man   Favoriting
Young Jessie  I Smell A Rat   Favoriting
Roves, The  I Am The Flood   Favoriting
Hollies, The  Everything Is Sunshine   Favoriting
Johnnie Taylor  Changes   Favoriting
Three Keys, The  Nagasaki   Favoriting
Jamie Turner  Memory Box   Favoriting
Bucky  Rockin' Bat   Favoriting
Satyrs, The  Get Out Of That Rut   Favoriting
Nick Lowe  I Got The Love   Favoriting
Greg Townson, Todd Bradley And Caitlin Moss  Topsy Turvy   Favoriting
Teenage Head  Picture My Face   Favoriting
Gonzalez Smith  She's My Girl   Favoriting
Donald Trump (AKA James Austin Johnson)  Scooby Don   Favoriting

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

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

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

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 Baby:

Baby. If Count Dorkula shows up, I’ll be ready for him. I’ve got your back. Oh the damage he hath done. And, good morning!
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PS. He’s pure evil. But I think we are clear of him this year. Half of me wishes he would show his pathetic face. Can you believe how ugly that dude is?
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Baby! Big mistake! You’re on my list!
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“Count Dorkula” really…
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Hey now!
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Hey now! This is #1!!
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You can write?
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If you can Michael, please play the monster mash again later. My wife was vacuuming.
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I can write an X on your heart!
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Squints:

↳ Count Mikeula! @11:05
Not on the forehead, though.

That's Count Mansonula.
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Don Gorden:

Mike you don't speak to a man like Mo Green like that. Ghoul morning all.
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Don Gorden:

wow haven't heard that in years
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Scott from Denver:

Good morning from snowy D-Town.
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Squints:

Wasn't the hit the second time just a re-release?
  11:08am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "The Happy Song" by "Alex Chilton"
yes!
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Barno in Akron:

Michael Shelley: Did you say Gary Paxton was a former guest on the show?
  11:09am
paul:

↳ Song: "The Happy Song" by "Alex Chilton"
Send in four Bpx Tops
  11:09am
bela lugosi's dad:

he's not here, can we take a message??
  11:10am
Dennis Diken:

Bobby "Boris" PIckett told me it was Jesse Sailes on drums on "Monster Mash." Mel Taylor told me it was Mel Taylor.
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Barefoot Jimmy G:

Michael - do you know who plays the slide on The Happy Song?
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Listener Baby:

↳ Count Mikeula! @11:05
On this day, fine sir, I have no heart. I accept your challenge. PS. This song is great
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Dennis Diken @11:10
Well, any rate, it was a graveyard smash!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:09
Yes - wfmu.org...
  11:11am
bela lugosi's dad:

baby... BABY!!!
  11:12am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:11
where's your costume??
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Listener Baby:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:11
Hello BLD!
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Squints:

↳ Dennis Diken @11:10
Who does Bernard Purdie say was on it?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Monster Mash" by "Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Cry...
Despite my antipathy to both overexposed Hits ...& overexposed Holidays (well - Halloween least ok)
...I always kinda delight in 'MonsterMash'. It's just that good.
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Barno in Akron:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:11
Whoah! Thank you Michael. As a teen, I was a fan of his hippy country gospel music - Terminally Weird but Godly Right
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Hughie Considine:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:12
I'm wearin' it, Dad!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Afraid To Be Himself" by "Jason Faulkner"
I believe this song is about Jon Briton.
  11:13am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:13
ah ah ahhhh!!!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Afraid To Be Himself" by "Jason Faulkner"
Brion
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Dano59:

↳ Song: "Afraid To Be Himself" by "Jason Faulkner"
super good! is this off 'Author Unknown'?
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drr:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:12
On the other hand, I'll listen to "Wonderful Christmastime" as often as it's played, but I'd happily never sit through the interminable "Monster Mash" again.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Morning all
  11:14am
bela lugosi's dad:

mawnin' suh!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:12
...yerknow - I'm a ♏︎Scorpio & I love Monsters. :D
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Squints:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:14
Float on.
  11:16am
bela lugosi's dad:

LB Horny!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ drr @11:14
Is why Heniz has 57 varieties my friend. I'm done with Xmas generally. & I think SirMacca is Thee Melodic Genius of PopRawk ...but that's surely his shallow end...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Sez Who" by "Sig-Heils"
Well then. This is something.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:09
He said one of the Gosdin Brothers put a hit out on him!
  11:17am
Glistener MW:

This is so much lovelier and more melodic than I’d expect from a band named this. (Apparently a Japanese hardcore band in the 1980s used similar name)
  11:18am
burpage:

Asbury Dog Park on the beach and of course WFMU.people seem to enjoy the tunes because they’re setting up closer
  11:18am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:17
can't have been vern.
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Dano59:

↳ drr @11:14
I'm with you drr ... I usually eschew most 'novelty' records when sharing holiday songs, because there's too much good to let the bad ones in.
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Dano59:

.. all the bad Bela Lugosi impressions ugh...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Barefoot Jimmy G @11:10
need time to check
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Listener Baby:

↳ Count Mikeula! @11:05
Did you take the man’s shoes Dorkula? It’s just like something you would do.
  11:20am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
  11:20am
bela lugosi's dad:

ah ahhh!!!
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Squints:

↳ Dano59 @11:18
I grant an exemption for "Christmas Dragnet." Although not a song per se.

And I still ain't made up mind about Toledo.
  11:21am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Squints @11:20
i ain't my my mind up about toledo, either.
  11:23am
bela lugosi's dad:

-made
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Dano59:

↳ Squints @11:20
I have a Dickie Goodman joint in my Halloween show but that's about it
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Squints:

↳ Dano59 @11:23
I like the one where every other drop, representing the flying saucer people, is the hook from "Little Bitty Pretty One."
  11:26am
SeanG:

where's my man clarke?
  11:26am
bela lugosi's dad:

i won the rocktobaaaah!!!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ SeanG @11:26
He's incognito. Isn't that neato?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Dano59 @11:19
That's my favorite part!
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Dano59:

↳ Squints @11:25
this wasn't a drop-in but a "Beetles' monster parody.
i think Michael played Albert Brooks' drop-in parody recently which has special celebrity guests
  11:28am
Dennis Diken:

↳ Squints @11:12
Ringo?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ SeanG @11:26
Yes, where's Clarke?
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Squints:

↳ Dennis Diken @11:28
Heh.
  11:28am
bela lugosi's dad:

ah ah ahhhh!!!
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Bob Barth:

Check out the "READER" everyone!! lol
  11:30am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "Skipping School" by "Chris Mars"
yep!!!!
  11:31am
SeanG:

ah yes bela lugosi's dad! uncle pappy!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Skipping School" by "Chris Mars"
Those Chris Mars albums are great.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Ah!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Somehow I had exposure to what is the original 'Break-In' record (a term resonate of unlawful entry...) - 'The Flying Saucer' :
en.wikipedia.org...
Geez ...might even have been a neighbor kid had the 45...
  11:31am
bela lugosi's dad:

Uncle Pappy could not be here, today.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Skipping School" by "Chris Mars"
I loved the snappy pop numbers on his first solo LP, especially Popular Creeps, a "salute" to his bandmates.
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Dano59:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:31
agreed! power pop nonpareil
  11:33am
Matt:

I have this Chris mars album, haven’t played it in years. Now it’s interesting how much the guitar sounds like the Mats. When this came out, as a big replacements fan, I felt the insult of the title which sorta wrecked it for me
  11:33am
bela lugosi's dad:

you see Uncle Pappy coming.. RUN!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:31
...was, say, Spike Jones an influence on the 'Break-In' concept ? Or did it arrive spontaneously & whole in Dickie Goodman's idiosyncratic psyche... I'ma think DJs overall are undercredited for their Cultural potency ...but I digress...
  11:34am
Dennis Diken:

another 50s NYC drummer I'm trying to find our more about is Joe Marshall, another jazzer who did r&r and r&b sessions. then there's Osie Johnson and Gene Brooks, who played on Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"
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Hughie Considine:

Jim Ford said he wrote "Ode to Billie Joe."
  11:35am
bela lugosi's dad:

Fools - great drums!
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Pete from Hoboken:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:31
i agree! i"ve recently revisited these albums. great "poppy" tunes
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Under Construction" by "Dick Dodd"
This is hot AF
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

EarlPalmer B-Day other day.
☕️☠️Saluting Thee Assembled with the DeathWish Coffeez☠️☕️
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Handy Haversack:

Brunch is served. I cooked it on this music.
  11:37am
bela lugosi's dad:

jalapenos!!!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:37
Ah, hear comes the spice
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Handy Haversack:

Jalapenos, eggs, onions, potatoes, leafy greens, fake meat, cheese. Assemble as desired.
  11:38am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "Looney Caboose" by "Hagers, The"
dang! these guys are much better if you cain't see 'em!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:38
...faces for Radio
...line starts in the back...
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Squints:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:39
Hee Haw flashback.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

"Looney caboose" is not a phrase I expected to hear in this life.
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Don Gorden:

didn't the Standlles appear on the Munster's ??
  11:40am
bela lugosi's dad:

of course! those neat guys are the standells, dad!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Don Gorden @11:40
Sure did.
'The future of America is safe in the hands of fine young men like TheStandells.'
- HermannMunster
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Listen With Your Eyes" by "Dennis J. Leise"
Dennis does Ben Vaughn?
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drr:

hey Mr Lugosi Sr: seen clarke anywhere?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:40
That episode was like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for me.
  11:42am
bela lugosi's dad:

naw suh. not fer a while.
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drr:

I thought there was some connection between Haggar slacks and "The Haggar Twins".
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I've mentioned this before, but opening for The Standells was a huge honor. So much fun.
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Pedro in Arlington:

As has been pointed out elsewhere but still cool: the father of Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo created and was exec producer of Hee-Haw. If you need to pick a team, tho they lost Game 1.
  11:42am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ drr @11:42
there WAS
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Hughie Considine:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:42
Last I heard, he was headed to LA ... via Omaha.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:38
[websearches...]
Some high foreheads / receding hairlines ...nothin' worse than say DougSahm or JamesWoods ?...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:43
Via Transylvania!
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Hughie Considine:

mwahahahaha....
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Bob Barth:

That was a GOOD ONE. Agreed getting the celebs to do ID's tends to be a funny endevor
  11:44am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:42
they were ahead much of the game, so i start watching Frankenstein on TCM (!) and then tune back in - rangers won.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Bob Barth @11:44
...Studio Pros - forever fumbling four letters...
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Handy Haversack:

I am embarrassed for our species that it's shorts weather on pumpkin-carving day in New York City.

This celebration somehow gets me down.
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Squints:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:42
That's pretty neat.

Sticking with the Rangers, though. Nate Eovaldi. Why can't the Red Sox get hurlers like that?
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drr:

oh yeah, also: tere was a band in our town called Strychnine Five, and the drummer bought his drum kit from the Hager Twins, which we found hilarious. The kit had no cymbals but he was trying to fix that.
  11:46am
Cooh John:

Hello Michael and #1ers.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Squints @11:45
Ha! Or the Yankees.
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Bob Barth:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:45
Or frequently I find that the celeb thinks that they're a better improvisor then they actually are and it falls apart.
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Hughie Considine:

I just learned that the Hager twins were featured in the second issue of Playgirl magazine. Thanks, wikipedia -- that's why I chip in a few bucks a year.
  11:47am
bela lugosi's dad:

Hee Haw host buck owens always prounounced it: hay-gers.
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Squints:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:46
Never in one's life has one yearned so for polyester.
  11:48am
bela lugosi's dad:

no candy - bad for fangs!!
  11:48am
Officer Pupp:

I’m carving pumpkins as I listen!
  11:49am
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The pledge button does not work on n my iphone
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Bob Barth @11:46
To my point that DJs deserve some credit here...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Squints @11:48
Haha --you shoulda seen the Grandpa Jones feature a few months later!
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Bob Barth:

uhh... you mean BEST PARENT AWARD!! Kids are dumb you're whole job as a parent is to prevent them from killing themselves.
  11:51am
paul:

Find my bass!
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Squints:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:50
Let alone the month they had Stringbean.
  11:51am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:50
ha ha ha lol
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Listener John from NJ:

Did you work as a bartender in Ithaca NY? The story about the witches sounds like it would occur up there.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Squints @11:51
uncle!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:50
that's right!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hardly anything easier to grab & run - & fence for profit than a Gittar. Stealing an Instrument from a Musician ...super bad Mojo in my book. But no one asks...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ @11:49
pledge.wfmu.org...
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Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ:

howdy y'all
  11:53am
bela lugosi's dad:

FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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egould:

↳ Song: "Artificialness feat. Gil Scott-Heron" by "Pretty ...
A strongly worded letter gets results!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Listener John from NJ @11:51
lol - yes it does! I went to IC and boy I miss that town.
  11:53am
bela lugosi's dad:

er, that's: GREEEN FuZZZZZZZZZ!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wash it before you stick it in your mouth ...sound advice I reckon...
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Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @11:53
you're not my real dad!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Artificialness feat. Gil Scott-Heron" by "Pretty ...
This took a turn that I didn't foresee.
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Handy Haversack:

Michael, I still feel bad -- I was about 15' away from you working the FMU tables at Record Fair and somehow was unable to say hi. Lost you in your adoring fans after your show. Next time!
  11:54am
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ @11:54
but i play him on television.
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Squints:

↳ Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ @11:54
You're, um, blood relatives now, son.
  11:55am
Rick A:

Hello Michael and Fellow Listeners, I saw Yo La Tengo at the Westbeth Theater Center on Halloween night 1997, It was a Friday night, so it was especially electric. At the end of the show, Ira celebrated the fact that almost nobody was in costume. That is my signature Halloween memory. A few years back, I saw the original Halloween film in a movie theater and was reminded what a masterpiece that film truly is.
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Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ:

↳ Squints @11:54
i knew i shouldn't have stayed in a holiday inn express last night
  11:56am
bela lugosi's dad:

ah ah ahhhhh!!!
  11:56am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Halloween is huge in our houshold. mrs. scabin puts together paper lunch bags full of different candies, a pencil, srickers, bags of pretzels or cheetos. Hundreds of bags. The house is a Halloween wonderland: skulls, black candles etc.. We sit on the porch and send the bags down a chute that I made (a holdover from COVID that still delights the kids). mrs. scabin is a teacher in our small town, so the children demand hugs as well. My contribution: scary music. We get well over a hundred visitors.
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egould:

Nobody ever called Vincent van Gogh an asshole…
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Vincent Van Gogh" by "Jonathan Richman"
My mom put minimal effort into things like Halloween costumes. One year she’d find a straw hat in the attic and secure your dungarees with a length of rope and you’d be a cowboy. The following year, a colorful scarf, a snap-on earring, and a swipe of eyeliner would render you a pirate. I've forgiven her.
  11:58am
paul:

↳ Song: "Sneaky Feelings" by "Elvis Costello"
Great choice!
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Hughie Considine:

I directed that to Jonathan Richman because he would understand.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Rick A @11:55
I think the funnest Halloween show I went to was They Might Be Giants at Irving Plaza in ... 1993? First 50 people to show up with a guitar and in costume got in free and were up in the balcony. Then they joined the band to play a song that they didn't know, with roadies holding up chord cards. It was "Horse with No Name."
  11:59am
bela lugosi's dad:

they pulled another Menudo!!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:58
I LOVE that story. TMBG is the best!
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egould:

Will pouring 2oz of Jim Beam into this pumpkin spice latte make it more festive? Yes, it will.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob Barth @12:00
I have taken I think maybe a half dozen people who didn't know the band to see them over the years, and every single man jack of them came away a fan.
  12:01pm
bela lugosi's dad:

also, Del recorded a bit in london, too
  12:01pm
johnk77:

nice work selecter
sneaky feelings recording band:
john mcfee, sean hopper, ciambotti & mickey shine
  12:02pm
andy fuchs:

Del Shannon's NY sessions included Vinnie Bell, famous guitarist and inventor. I have a couple of backing tracks from Shannon sessions w/o vocals...
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Joe B:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:58
one of my favorite gigs on the actual Halloween day was Guitar Wolf at CBGBs in 1999. They came out wearing gorilla masks with their trademark shades, then at the end of the 1st song ripped off the masks to reveal ... they all had backup shades on underneath!
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myron feld:

Am is nice, but it's an established fact Dm is the saddest of keys.
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Bob Barth:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:01
Impossible not to! I'm not sure if you've heard this but just in case... wfmu.org...
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Joe B:

Del also re-recorded Runaway in 1967
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Hughie Considine:

↳ myron feld @12:02
Yes. On full display in "Lick My Love Pump"
  12:04pm
bela lugosi's dad:

blew grass
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myron feld:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:04
Indeed.
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egould:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:04
Thank you. :-)
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob Barth @12:03
I had *not*! Many thanks!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "On The Road Again (Bluegrass version)" by "Willie...
When Willie opened up for the Dead at the Meadowlands, he and the band played this one three times. Must have figured no one would notice.
  12:06pm
bela lugosi's dad:

did they notice??
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Joe B:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:05
when I saw willie at irving plaza, the three-peat was whiskey river - 1st, last and encore
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Bob Barth:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:05
:) that whole show is pretty special to me. I think you'll dig it.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "She's So Pretty" by "Winfield Parker"
GGY. And then some.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Joe B @12:07
Never seen a three-Peet! Saw a U2 I will Follow double shot.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Joe B @12:07
I guess it actually could have been Whiskey River ... it was a Dead show after all:)
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Squints:

Did the Swinging Medallions every place "Double Shot" twice?
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Squints:

↳ Squints @12:09
"Ever play."

Yeesh.

Stupid fingers.
  12:10pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Squints @12:09
they did NOT, but they found paul's bass!!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Squints @12:10
Double Vision?
  12:12pm
Dennis Diken:

the AFM contract is missing for the "I Can't Be True" session but 2 days later on 7/28/66 the players on that date were Dennis Budimir & James Burton gtrs, Bob West Fender bass, Victor Feldman percussion, Jim Gordon drums, Larry Knechtel piano. session leader was George Tipton. so maybe that gives some clues? this info is the book for the Bear Family Del box
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Handy Haversack:

I try to live a good life, but the "scoop my bagel" people should be lined up and shot.
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Squints:

↳ Listener Baby @12:11
If I was to go to a Foreigner, which I wouldn't, Double Vision is one I'd be happy to hear twice. Like the stuttering guitars in the chorus.
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Bob Barth:

I would have thrown the bagel at his head.
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Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:12
i'm 99.999% certain that "scoop my bagel" is a euphemism...
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egould:

Scoop your own bagel, dude.
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SheWolf:

NYC adjacent born and bred. No idea what a scooped bagel is and I'm thinking that's good.
  12:14pm
maryevey:

Scoop you bagel yourself if that’s how you want it!
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Hughie Considine:

I'm not scooping your effing bagel, bro? We've come a long way from "I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges"
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Squints:

This begs to have been done by The Detroit Cobras.
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drr:

hey, you can't scoop it after it has the cream cheese on it!
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Handy Haversack:

Wow, the stoned kids at out bagel place make the whole process pretty great. And remember everything.

I can't even imagine what they would do if someone asked them to scoop their bagel.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ @12:13
Only one way to find out!
  12:15pm
Rick A:

I vote that nobody should ask a counter person to scoop a bagel. If you don't want the calories, then just don't order a bagel. You must know what you are getting into when eating a bagel.
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Prof. "Green" FuZZZZZZ:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:15
SCIENCE!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "The Isrealites" by "Travelin' Troubadors, The"
This is so demented it's now my absolute favorite version.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "The Isrealites" by "Travelin' Troubadors, The"
It’s comforting that this dude doesn’t know what the first line of this song is, either.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Dennis Diken @12:12
Oohhh THANKS!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Squints @12:16
Hard not to love!
  12:16pm
g:

<3
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drr:

But, if carbs are an issue (they are for me), you just can't have a bagel in good conscience. I had a great bagel the day Biden was elected and then realized that was the last one.
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alan the painter:

Hey Michael, great toones this morning.
was that a very old Jonathan Richman song quite a while ago?
  Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

"on that 335"
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "The Isrealites" by "Travelin' Troubadors, The"
Kind of like that wacky version of "Wimoweh" by Karl Denver.
  12:17pm
Rick A:

Incidentally, I have Celiac disease. In my experience, gluten free bagels tend to be much smaller than the glutinous ones. Also, counter people are already under siege. They don't need more work to do.
  12:17pm
maryevey:

Look if you want a scooped bagel with cream cheese, do it at home. It’s embarrassing enough to ask for that in a bagel shop no? But who am I to question your questionable choices if you do it at home 😂
  12:18pm
bela lugosi's dad:

mid-period richman - about the time of the "& The Modern Lovers"
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egould:

Plus, don’t be posting a simple transaction to Insta. Let the bagel dude work without being the “subject” of your exhibitionism.
  Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

What the hell is "scooping a bagel?"
  12:19pm
tonyb:

Didn’t one of John Cash’s brothers die tragically?
  12:19pm
bela lugosi's dad:

i'm glad you asked that...
  12:20pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ tonyb @12:19
VERY!! it wasn't tommy, obviously.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:19
Show him what he's won, FuZZZZZ!
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Count Mikeula!:

I like rats!
  12:21pm
bela lugosi's dad:

with jalapenos!
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Count Mikeula!:

W 11 herbs and spices
  Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

I'm not even close to being from NYC and my response is with the counter guy. Eff that.
  Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

(I googled it)
  12:23pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Count Mikeula! @12:22
KFR!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:22
You have no idea how much dripping sarcasm can be packed into the Spanglish word "escoopada" from behind a sneeze guard. I have witnessed it many times.
  12:23pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:23
hep a bruvvah out??
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egould:

↳ Song: "I Am The Flood" by "Roves, The"
Number one amongst number ones. Hit, that is.
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G:

↳ drr @11:41
Clarke was on show boards Monday saying he was sick. Maybe still is??
  12:24pm
bela lugosi's dad:

he still is!!
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Handy Haversack:

OK, gotta run some errands. Booze. Pumpkins. Cash. Maybe I'm starting a crime empire!

Thanks, Michael! Stay bulleted, Number Ones!
  12:25pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:25
Tommy Cash!
  Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

It's literally scooping some of the bread out of a bagel for fewer calories.
  12:26pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:25
fug theees!!!
  12:27pm
bela lugosi's dad:

Liquor Scam in progress!!
  12:27pm
Rick A:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:19
Yeah, I had to look it up.
  12:29pm
bela lugosi's dad:

how many times do i have to tell you? puppet show first, spinal tap second!!
  12:29pm
ChrisB.:

Tell them “Rocktober! I won!” At the door, winner.
  12:29pm
bela lugosi's dad:

Journey is the band of the week!
  12:32pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "Changes" by "Johnnie Taylor"
hah -- there is someone yelling out the CHANGES in the background!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Changes" by "Johnnie Taylor"
There are a great many songs called "Changes." That is all. (Donovan's is a great one)
  12:34pm
burpage:

Little Rascals
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Nagasaki" by "Three Keys, The"
Oh, this is sweet - I have it by Django but this is sublime.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "Nagasaki" by "Three Keys, The"
Danny Barker does a splendid version.
  12:34pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "Nagasaki" by "Three Keys, The"
these guys were in some movie, but i can't place it..
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egould:

Country Rockers wearing Adidas.
x.com...
  12:37pm
bela lugosi's dad:

four guys wearin' sweatahs
singin' like boids!!
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Bob Barth:

Michael if you enjoy the adjacent accent of their kiwi neighbors I HIGHLY reccomend THE BETHS!!
  12:38pm
Baby:

I love Gilbert O’Sullivan!
  12:39pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Song: "Memory Box" by "Jamie Turner"
bueno!!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Puppet slam, you say? Fun!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Bob Barth @12:38
Michael has definitely played the Beths! He's hip to all kinds of stuff.
  Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Rockin' Bat" by "Bucky"
Holy crap
  12:41pm
bela lugosi's dad:

i'm thinkin': Lincoln!!
  12:41pm
norske_jersey_boy:

Bucky for the people!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:40
coolio
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egould:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @12:41
If you’re thinking; thinking Lincoln!
Better carpeting; for less!
Call National two nine thousand.
National two nine; thousand!
  12:43pm
bela lugosi's dad:

reverb tank = overtime.
  12:44pm
bela lugosi's dad:

7/10
  12:45pm
tonyb:

Well, since kiwi was mentioned: “Go, All Blacks”. I don’t understand the rules, but Susannah is from Piha so we’ll be watching @ 3pm.
  Swag For Life Member 12:45pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "I Got The Love" by "Nick Lowe"
Freakin' out about seeing him again in three weeks or so. Headlining!
  12:46pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:45
on yer burfday!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @12:46
Yes!
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Count Mikeula!:

↳ Song: "Rockin' Bat" by "Bucky"
This is about me!
  12:46pm
bela lugosi's dad:

you got the love!
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Count Mikeula!:

↳ Song: "Everything Is Sunshine" by "Hollies, The"
If it’s one thing, I hate it’s sunshine
  12:48pm
bela lugosi's dad:

and crosses.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Is more cream cheese less calories & fat than actual bagel ? Less carbs... Not sure how many people up heah NewHampshuh are concerned with hollowing out their bagels per se...
  12:49pm
Baby:

Guitar genius /. Mench
  12:49pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:48
Scoop Free Or Die!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Topsy Turvy" by "Greg Townson, Todd Bradley And C...
Man I'd love to Jam with a Drummah could break out stuff like this...
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egould:

Hey Michael, earlier you mentioned you like the “commercial ambition” of a song. Have you ever considered a show highlighting actual commercial jingles that are also #1 hits? I’m thinking “I’d like to buy the world a Coke”, “Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet”, etc?
  12:50pm
Brian c:

Woo hoo! Teenage head!!
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

↳ Song: "Picture My Face" by "Teenage Head"
Yeah!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Rockin' Bat" by "Bucky"
Dorkula, didn’t you mean to play “I am Dark”?
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:49
Agree - she's a monster player
  12:54pm
Panther:

Would this be considered power pop? Just wondering
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egould:

↳ Panther @12:54
Yes. Power pop.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Panther @12:54
One could make a powerful argument in favor of that theory.
  12:55pm
bela lugosi's dad:

↳ Panther @12:54
panther pop.
  Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

Thanks Michael!
  12:55pm
bela lugosi's dad:

i'm not scooby-ing your fucking bagel, bro!!!
  12:56pm
Panther:

Thanks!!!
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egould:

Oh hell it’s over.
Thank you Michael Shelley.
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Count Mikeula!:

↳ Listener Baby @12:51
No. Mind your business mortal
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Count Mikeula!:

↳ Listener Baby @12:51
No. Mind your business mortal
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Scoopy Don't...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ bela lugosi's dad @12:55
It all makes sense now....
  12:56pm
bela lugosi's dad:

A to B. good nite.
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William Hellfire:

Haaaaaaaaaa!
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Hughie Considine:

Wishing you all a fine fine day! Thanks, Michael!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Scooby Don" by "Donald Trump (AKA James Austin Jo...
These arguments are too logical is the thing ...still funny.
  12:57pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Scooby Don’t l!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:57
...altho he is missing the point, so...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ MS ~
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