Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie Favoriting | A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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Playlist for 07 February 2005 Favoriting | How did this tradition get started? I'll tell you: I don't know

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Artist Song Album Label Approx. start time
g-d is my co-pilot  dayenu   Favoriting mir shlufn nisht  avant  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
zero mostel, cast  tradition   Favoriting fiddler on the roof cast album  rca  0:02:05 (Pop-up)
jack kerouac  american haikus (loop)   Favoriting in their own voices: a century of recorded poetry (various artists)  rhino word beat  0:04:11 (Pop-up)
todd barry  watermelon   Favoriting falling off the bone  comedy central  0:06:13 (Pop-up)
senor coconut vs. kocani orkester  usti, usti baba (altiplano mix)   Favoriting electric gypsyland (various artists)  six degrees  0:10:54 (Pop-up)
los del rio  macarena (river fe mix)   Favoriting macarena non stop (cdingle)  bmg  0:14:40 (Pop-up)
pere ubu  george had a hat   Favoriting the tenement year  enigma  0:18:41 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
ennio morricone 
un salotto borghese, from "un sacco bello"   Favoriting eviva! morricone  avanz  0:22:37 (Pop-up)
ann magnuson  this nothing life   Favoriting the luv show  geffen  0:25:35 (Pop-up)
the glove compartment  at the gym   Favoriting the hidden woman  matching  0:30:44 (Pop-up)
paul mark and the kokeshi dolls  pretty blue-eyed doll   Favoriting kokeshi shindig  zippy  0:33:19 (Pop-up)
yukiko ohtsuki  track 1   Favoriting record (3-inch cd single)  cafe disc  0:36:15 (Pop-up)
syzygys  such a face   Favoriting eyes on green: live at roppongi inkstick 1988  tzadik  0:38:41 (Pop-up)
muro (featuring gore tex)  sansyabontai   Favoriting bomb worldwide (various artists)  bomb  0:42:36 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
bonefish sam & his power orchestra 
struttin' along and then something neat happens   Favoriting fake fun  coming in second  0:47:23 (Pop-up)
kim fowley  face on the factory floor   Favoriting bad news from the underworld    0:50:29 (Pop-up)
bonzo dog band  the intro and the outro   Favoriting gorilla  (mp3 library)  0:53:16 (Pop-up)
rodney allen rippy  take life a little easier   Favoriting take life a little easier  bell  0:56:16 (Pop-up)
 
steve lawrence & eydie gorme  black hole sun   Favoriting lounge-a-palooza  hollywood  1:01:48 (Pop-up)
donna regina  late   Favoriting late  karaoke kalk  1:06:02 (Pop-up)
mouse on mars  yippie   Favoriting niun niggung  thrill jockey  1:08:35 (Pop-up)
funk cruel  track 4   Favoriting 10  none  1:14:11 (Pop-up)
halcali  track 4   Favoriting bacon    1:16:11 (Pop-up)
friend and lover  reach out of the darkness   Favoriting mp3 library    1:20:02 (Pop-up)
earl carter and the fantastic "6"  shake your po' po'   Favoriting ol' virginia soul part 2 (various)  arcania international  1:22:56 (Pop-up)
anthony newley  i guess i'll have to change my plan   Favoriting once in a lifetime  razor and tie / polygram  1:24:57 (Pop-up)
 
toru takemitsu  waltz, from "the face of another"   Favoriting film music of  nonesuch  1:30:22 (Pop-up)
koichi sugiyama  young wheat   Favoriting audio symphony: check up your sounds  rca japan  1:32:20 (Pop-up)
fetty  pariaman   Favoriting folk and pop sounds of sumatra vol. 2 (various artists)  sublime frequencies  1:36:53 (Pop-up)
shiang waun ching  a small umbrella   Favoriting (old chinese label cassette tape)    1:40:28 (Pop-up)
fat marley  xin   Favoriting world 2004 (various artists)  wrasse  1:43:52 (Pop-up)
dilated peoples  triple optics   Favoriting work the angles 12-inch single  abb records  1:49:33 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
oskar sala 
      1:53:34 (Pop-up)
kaada/patton  invocation   Favoriting romances  ipecac  1:59:07 (Pop-up)
r. stevie moore  showing shadows   Favoriting phonography  flamingo  2:01:49 (Pop-up)
pizzicato five  baby love child   Favoriting made in usa  matador  2:04:53 (Pop-up)
fleetwood mac  keep on going   Favoriting mystery to me  reprise  2:08:21 (Pop-up)
cab calloway ( * )  it ain't necessarily so   Favoriting porgy and bess (original soundtrack)  columbia  2:12:29 (Pop-up)
pere ubu  life of riley   Favoriting worlds in collision  fontana  2:15:22 (Pop-up)
 
jewel belle w. tommy dean & his gloom raiders  lonely monday   Favoriting yes indeed! women vocalists on united (various artists)  delmark  2:20:37 (Pop-up)
phyllis diller  (i can't get no) satisfaction   Favoriting born to sing  columbia  2:23:54 (Pop-up)
ann magnuson  i remember you   Favoriting the luv show  geffen  2:26:51 (Pop-up)
yusef lateef  straighten up and fly right   Favoriting the golden flute  impulse!  2:32:46 (Pop-up)
nouvelle vague  i melt with you   Favoriting nouvelle vague  peacefrog  2:36:15 (Pop-up)
lcd soundsystem  great release   Favoriting lcd soundsystem  capitol  2:40:24 (Pop-up)
brian eno  some of them are old   Favoriting here come the warm jets  e.g. (astralwerks/virgin reissue)  2:45:49 (Pop-up)
 
only a mother  rack #1   Favoriting the romantic warped  transmogrification  2:52:44 (Pop-up)
the free design  pineapple crabapple   Favoriting there is a song  light in the attic  2:54:38 (Pop-up)
pierre bastien  the thermodynamic orchestra   Favoriting boite no. 3  cactus  2:57:40 (Pop-up)
         
  * in the movie, sammy davis jr. plays sportin' life, the character who sings this song, but he was unable to record the album "due to exclusive recording commitments," so cab calloway sang the part for this record.