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Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.
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September 8, 2002: Show 159 (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)
The start and end times of each song and set are exact.
Show time: 3 AM - 6 AM
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Set 1 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO |
Pink Lady Lemonade (You're So Sweet) (track: entire CD #1)
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Do Whatever you Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want !! | Earworm | Slowly shimmering, magical and sweet on the outside, with an easy to take, slightly noisy middle. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 2: the first old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| One Out Of Seven |
Third World War
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Originally broadcast March 13, 1946. | (no label) | Quite relevant to the debate today over Iraq, or any rush to war by anybody. Stars Jack Webb. | ||||||
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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| Duke Ellington |
Whispering Grass (Side 5, track 2)
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Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 LIVE | Book Of The Month Club | A sweet ballad. No seats to sit in that evening: people came to dance. Virtually the entire evening was recorded, and it's one of the greatest dance evenings the band ever played. | *** | |||||
| Comedian Harmonists |
Creole Love Call (track 4)
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Comedian Harmonists | Hannibal | From haunting and sad to "out there" vocalizing, all in under 4 minutes. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 4: the second old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| One Out Of Seven |
Senator Bilbo
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Originally broadcast February 6, 1946. | (no label) | The series often took a direct and uncompromising stand against racism, and this is definifely an example. Stars Jack Webb. | ||||||
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Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 5: a quiet reflection of September 11. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| below the sea |
L'Hotel des Malheureux (track 4)
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Les Arbres Depayseront Davantage | Where Are My Records | Delicate, like looking sadly at a memory of happy times before.... | *** | |||||
| Gavin Bryars |
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Opening Part II (track 7)
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | Point Music | The Sinking Of The Titanic is based on an account by the radio operator of the Titanic that the band played a hymn as they - on deck - and the ship sunk into the sea. | ||||||
| Gavin Bryars |
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Titanic Lament (track 8)
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | Point Music | |||||||
| Gavin Bryars |
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Woodblocks (track 9)
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | Point Music | |||||||
| Gavin Bryars |
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Last Hymn (track 10)
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The Sinking Of The Titanic | Point Music | *** | ||||||
| Low |
Shots And Ladders (track 13) (ended at -0:20)
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Trust | Kranky | Slow, reverberant. I listen first and foremost to the sound of music (not words), and this fit perfectly with the feeling I wanted for this set. | *** | |||||
| Evyind Kang |
Heads On Red Lakes Return (track 1) (ended at -0:30)
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Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age | Abduction | |||||||
| Henryk Gorecki |
Lento e Largo: Tranquillissimo (track 2)
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Symphony #3 | Elektra/Nonesuch | Grimness and beauty. | *** | |||||
| Troum |
Licht - Brandung (track 2)
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Tjukurrpa | Drone | Slow, gradual, warm, uplifting. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 5 & 6. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 6 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Stephen Vitiello |
Lobby at 5 PM (track 3)
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World Trade Center Recordings | Stephen Vitiello | Recorded in July 2001, in the lobby of 1 World Trade Center. | *** | |||||
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