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Artist Track Album Label Format Comments Approx. start time
Phil Kraus  Nola   Favoriting The Percussive Phil Kraus        0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Mel Brooks  It's Good To Be The King Pt. 1 & 2   Favoriting     12"    0:02:40 (Pop-up)
Barbara Streisand  Doing the Reactionary   Favoriting Needles & Pins      25th anniversary edition of the hit musical revue  0:10:02 (Pop-up)
Kameelah Waheed  America the Beautiful (North Street West Vocal Remix)   Favoriting       https://ramrock.bandcamp.com/album/rrr018-kameelah-waheed-america-the-beautiful-ep-original-north-street-west-remixes  0:11:54 (Pop-up)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings  This Land is Your Land   Favoriting Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Is In)        0:16:42 (Pop-up)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes  Wake Up Everybody   Favoriting Wake Up Everybody        0:21:40 (Pop-up)
All Night Chemists  Mourning in the USA   Favoriting       https://allnightchemists.bandcamp.com/track/mourning-in-the-usa  0:29:05 (Pop-up)
Steivie Wonder  I Ain't Gonna Stand For It   Favoriting Hotter Than July        0:31:44 (Pop-up)
XTC  Statue of Liberty   Favoriting     7"    0:36:26 (Pop-up)
Ray Bolger & Chorus  Melt Us - What a Country!   Favoriting All American (Original Broadway Cast Recording)      Book by Mel Brooks!  0:38:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Phil Kraus 

Kashmiri Love Song   Favoriting

The Percussive Phil Kraus 

 

 

 

0:44:33 (Pop-up)
Simon and Garfunkel  America   Favoriting Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits        0:49:55 (Pop-up)
Sunny Intervals  South Carolina   Favoriting Sunrise        0:53:19 (Pop-up)
Barrence Whitfield with Tom Russell  Freedom Highway   Favoriting Cowboy Mambo        0:56:59 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash  I've Been Everywhere   Favoriting The Legend of Johnny Cash        1:01:05 (Pop-up)
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos  The Wind Blows Every Day in Oklahoma   Favoriting     7"    1:04:17 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole  Get Your Kicks On) Route 66   Favoriting The Nat King Cole Story        1:07:05 (Pop-up)
Chevrolet Motors  See The USA   Favoriting TeeVee Toons: The Commercials        1:09:55 (Pop-up)
Camper Van Beethoven  The History of Utah   Favoriting Camper Van Beethoven        1:10:47 (Pop-up)
Jo Dee Messina  Heads Carolina, Tails California   Favoriting Jo Dee Messina        1:13:39 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Phil Kraus 

Kashmiri Love Song   Favoriting

The Percussive Phil Kraus 

 

 

 

1:17:10 (Pop-up)
Cowboy Charlie  Deep in the Heart of Jersey   Favoriting       Uncle Floyd (Floyd Vivino), actually  1:23:16 (Pop-up)
Hoosier Hot Shots  Connie's Got Connections In Connecticut   Favoriting         1:26:19 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Blue Moon of Kentucky   Favoriting     7"    1:28:48 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams  Tennessee Border   Favoriting The Unreleased Recordings        1:30:45 (Pop-up)
The Carter Family  My Old Virginia Home   Favoriting The Carter Family: Vol Two (1935-1941)    CD box set    1:33:13 (Pop-up)
The Fall Guys  Gettysburg U.S.A.   Favoriting     7"    1:36:28 (Pop-up)
Carter Family  Don't Forget Me Little Darling   Favoriting The Carter Family: Vol Two (1935-1941)        1:38:30 (Pop-up)
Patti Page  Allegheny Moon   Favoriting     7"    1:43:31 (Pop-up)
Blossom Dearie  Rhode Island Is Famous For You   Favoriting Verve Jazz Masters 51        1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Adrianne Lenker  Indiana   Favoriting Hours Were the Birds        1:46:18 (Pop-up)
Humbird  Lincoln, Nebraska   Favoriting       https://humbird.bandcamp.com/track/lincoln-nebraska  1:48:35 (Pop-up)
John Denver  Rocky Mountain High   Favoriting The Essential John Denver        1:51:13 (Pop-up)
Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, and Chorus  Oh, What a Beautiful Day   Favoriting Oklahoma!      Members of the Original New York Production  1:55:31 (Pop-up)
George Carlin  The Ten Commandments   Favoriting       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk81tUUhRig  1:57:26 (Pop-up)
Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, and Chorus  Oklahoma!   Favoriting Oklahoma!  Decca    Members of the Original New York Production  2:03:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Phil Kraus 

Kashmiri Love Song   Favoriting

The Percussive Phil Kraus 

 

 

 

2:06:02 (Pop-up)
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers  New England   Favoriting Roadrunner: The Beserkley Collection        2:13:32 (Pop-up)
John Linnell  Maine   Favoriting State Songs        2:15:36 (Pop-up)
Alice Ghostley  Boston Beguine   Favoriting New Faces of 1952        2:17:38 (Pop-up)
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black  Going to Alaska   Favoriting A National Health Care        2:21:31 (Pop-up)
Vagabon  Minneapolis   Favoriting Infinite Worlds        2:25:55 (Pop-up)
Andre Williams  I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City   Favoriting I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City        2:29:08 (Pop-up)
The Presidents Of The United States of America  Cleveland Rocks   Favoriting Pure Frosting        2:32:06 (Pop-up)
Dead Kennedys  Viva Las Vegas   Favoriting Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables        2:34:46 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock  Viva! Sea-Tac   Favoriting Jewels For Sophia        2:37:07 (Pop-up)
Loretta Lynn & Jack White  Portland, Oregon   Favoriting Van Lear Rose        2:41:16 (Pop-up)
X  Los Angeles   Favoriting Los Angeles        2:44:54 (Pop-up)
Freddy Cannon  Tallahassee Lassie   Favoriting The Best Of Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon - Big Blast From Boston!        2:47:08 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Phil Kraus 

Kashmiri Love Song   Favoriting

 

 

 

 

2:49:48 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Mississippi God-Damn   Favoriting Anthology        2:52:40 (Pop-up)
Blossom Seeley  Alabamy Bound   Favoriting Come Josephine in My Flying Machine: Inventions and Topics in Popular Song 1910–1929        2:57:26 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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WR:

Hearing Tommy Ridgeley's Jam Up Twist as prelude to this program was a treat.
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TDK60:

DJ Tamar, hello!
(Or "Saluton!" like David might say in Esperanto.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
love2laf:

Yay! Tamar fill-in #2! And another 2 to come! Hello fellow followers of Tamar, hope you're having a fabulous day. And Happy 4th of July to my downstairs and upstairs neighbours.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Michael 98145:

Hellos on this nerve-wracked 4th
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Stork:

A big Yankee-doodle-oo to you, Tamar, and all ye dreamy streamy types!
  Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Tamar:

If you don't hear Mel Brooks, let me know. The set-up was not the way I usually see it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Tamar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Yvang:

Hello! Are we there yet? Ouh là là!
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Stork:

↳ Tamar @12:04
I'm hearing Mel!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ Good ♃Thursday FMUvianz ~
  Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Tamar:

Thanks, Stork! Hi Henry, yvang, Michael, love2laf, TDK60, WR, Rev Rabbit!
  12:08pm
kev:

Hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Tamar @12:07
Hi there, Tamar, and all other listeners!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @12:04
Hiya, Yvang!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ TDK60 @12:02
Hi there, TDK60!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Tamar. You are here, there and everywhere lately.
Avatar 12:14pm
Stork:

↳ Tamar @12:07
Elena sez hi
  Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Tamar:

Hi KenfHP, Andrew, and Kev. Sticking with the USA today, but it's a big country.
  Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Tamar:

Hi Elena!
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢):

↳ Song: "America the Beautiful (North Street West Vocal Re...
this rocks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
chresti:

Hi Tamar!
Hi to the hear and there!
  Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Tamar:

Hi chresti and bixa!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Tamar!
  12:16pm
rich:

hello tamar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
Yvang:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:08
Hi Andrew!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Michael 98145:

↳ chresti @12:15
Howdy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
chresti:

↳ Michael 98145 @12:18
Hiya!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Hello also to non-Tamar people!
  Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Tamar:

Rich! Wendy!
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TDK60:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:09
Andrew, hello. I was in the kitchen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ chresti @12:20
Hiya, crestikins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Song: "Wake Up Everybody" by "Harold Melvin & the Blue N...
It's always a good time for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
chresti:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:25
Hi Andrew in TOkins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Doing the Reactionary" by "Barbara Streisand"
hey ... Pins & Needles ...a Harold Rome classic, and this record is awesome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "America" by "Simon and Garfunkel"
A good version of this: Bowie on Omnichord youtu.be...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
chresti:

↳ Webhamster Henry @12:49
I missed it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Yay, Tamar!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:00pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Tamar! Where are we?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @1:00
Hi there, doc!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:01
Hi Andrew!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:02pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "I've Been Everywhere" by "Johnny Cash"
All right!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
WR:

↳ Song: "I've Been Everywhere" by "Johnny Cash"
en.wikipedia.org...

Just found out from Wikipedia that song was written by an Australian about Australia and then adapted for the USA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
Michael 98145:

Speaking of road songs, gonna be 114F in Fresno this weekend.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Dan S:

↳ WR @1:05
Interesting. Someone should find and play the Australian version sometime. They've got some great-sounding place names there.
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TDK60:

↳ Song: "Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" by "Nat King Cole"
Ah, the Nat trio. Classy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "See The USA" by "Chevrolet Motors"
I remember this ad when it was new. I'm dating myself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" by "Nat King Cole"
Love the Cole!
  Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Tamar:

Greetings, Summer and Michael and Sylvia, and Dan S and doctorjazz!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Deep in the Heart of Jersey" by "Cowboy Charlie"
That's where I be!
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TDK60:

↳ doctorjazz @1:24
Howdy! pardner docjazz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Deep in the Heart of Jersey" by "Cowboy Charlie"
Let's hear it for Uncle Floyd!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Michael 98145:

Food Fest is the best way to celebrate the Fourth
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
doctorjazz:

↳ TDK60 @1:25
Howdy Mister Tapeman!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Michael 98145:

and watching cartoons
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Connie's Got Connections In Connecticut" by "Hoos...
;- )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Connie's Got Connections In Connecticut" by "Hoos...
The Hoosier Hot Shots are always appropriate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

There are a whole buncha good state songs on John Linnell's Sate Songs record.
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TDK60:

I just read that the English in pre-US days called most of the Eastern seacoast Virginia.
  Swag For Life Member 1:41pm
Tamar:

↳ Webhamster Henry @1:29
Oh yes, the question is which one(s)?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Tamar @1:41
I'm kind of partial to Montana.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
Dan S:

You're covering all the American bases today, Tamar. Good job!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:51pm
doctorjazz:

Gotta run, thanks for the great trip Tamar!
  1:52pm
Dean:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smith-map-of-virginia.htm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Rocky Mountain High" by "John Denver"
Much put down and parodied, but it is a nice song, IMHO.
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TDK60:

↳ Dan S @1:55
Dan, it's a good song.
  1:58pm
Dean:

If it weren't so long--approaching 40 minutes--Delius' Florida Suite would be nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "The Ten Commandments" by "George Carlin"
All gods are pretty strange.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "The Ten Commandments" by "George Carlin"
Are you listening, Louisiana? :)
  2:04pm
Dean:

Halle-fuckin'-lujah, George!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Oklahoma!" by "Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, and Ch...
Soon you'll be in Acid Jazz Hands territory, Tamar! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
Bas NL:

Hi Tamar! Great to have you filling in for David! Hi all!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "The Ten Commandments" by "George Carlin"
i.pinimg.com...
  2:10pm
rich:

10 commandments louisiana
bible oklahoma though that includes the 10 commandments
  2:11pm
Dean:

@rich: Correct.
  2:14pm
Dean:

But then Jonathan moved to Marin, thence to Chico, CA.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Boston Beguine" by "Alice Ghostley"
...almost thot JudyGarland...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:20pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Dean @2:14
I saw Johnathan talking about why he loved The Boston Museum of Fine Art. It was not the Cezanne's, but the girls from B.U. looking at the Cezanne's.
  2:21pm
Dean:

Jonathan: "Get a load o' them apples!"
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Jeff Moore:

↳ Song: "Boston Beguine" by "Alice Ghostley"
Wait, THAT Alice Ghostly?
(or Ghostley?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Jeff Moore @2:22
Yep! She was a NYC Revuer!
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Jeff Moore:

↳ Franco Twinkie @2:20
I totally get that.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Franco Twinkie @2:20
...gotta get 'em when they're young & Impressionismable...
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Dan S:

↳ Franco Twinkie @2:20
Well, that was honest of him. Perhaps he had just read the Ten Commandments. :)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife's ass.
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Jeff Moore:

↳ Webhamster Henry @2:23
Cool!

There are SO many people I know from doing speaking parts on the teevee whom I only realize decades later were singers or hoofers or full-on song and dance performers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Dan S @2:24
....how did he put it - 'smoking French cigarette, long long hair, suede jackets, boots up to here...'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Dan S:

↳ Franco Twinkie @2:26
College co-ed look circa..?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
Franco Twinkie:

I'm thinking '69 -'70?
  2:30pm
Dean:

I would not tune out for Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:33pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Dean @2:30
How about Los Angeles by X?
  2:34pm
Dean:

Nor that. It's one of the very few X songs I enjoy, another being their take on Dave Alvin's "Fourth of July."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:35pm
Dan S:

↳ Dean @2:30
Or Warren Zevon's answer to it, "Play it all Night Long."
  2:36pm
Dean:

Minnesota's already covered, but an option was The Dictators' "Minnesota Strip."

Word has it that Las Vegas won't be viva-ing a whole lot today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Viva Las Vegas" by "Dead Kennedys"
The Dead Kennedys do Elvis. Obviously. :)
  2:37pm
Dean:

Fear, "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Dean @2:34
I managed to work Fourth of July into a set last Sunday. Hearing it coming out of big speakers, I realized I didn't like it as much as I thought I did.
  2:38pm
Dean:

X's or Dave's?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
Franco Twinkie:

X.
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Dan S:

I don't think we've heard any NY songs yet. Something by Lou Reed, maybe?
  Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Tamar:

Hi Dean, Jeff, Bas and Franco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Viva! Sea-Tac" by "Robyn Hitchcock"
This is clever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Tamar!
Testify! coming up at 3PM ET: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Tamar @2:40
Hi Tamar! Great show today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:44pm
Andrew in Toronto:

What a wonderful show!
Thanks, Tamar!
  2:45pm
Dean:

Heh.
  2:46pm
Dean:

Mark Lindsay, "Arizona"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Song: "Los Angeles" by "X"
I love you Tamar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Yvang:

Great american show! Pure Joy! Thanks Tamar!
  2:48pm
Dean:

More suitable than Delius, I agree.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:49pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Tallahassee Lassie" by "Freddy Cannon"
To become the Fla state song?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
chresti:

Thanks for the state-by-state tour, Tamar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
Dan S:

A great show for July 4th, Tamar! Thanks so much for coming in on this holiday! If you're heading out afterward to the Jersey City festivities, enjoy! Whatever you're going to do, stay safe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Song: "Mississippi God-Damn" by "Nina Simone"
Still relevant, still painfully true.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
WR:

Great topical episode. Thank you!
  2:57pm
Dean:

And here I thought we'd be treated to Nina's lament about Randy Newman's "Baltimore." She was not a fan of the album that included the track.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Tamar ~
  3:00pm
kev:

Thanks try and keep your fingers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Tamar!
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