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June 11, 2013 Favoriting
Radio hero Edwin H. Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM
on this date in 1935, in Alpine, New Jersey
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
 James Brown  		Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Favoriting b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1967)

Frans Mudau  Radio Announcers Kwela   Favoriting Bona Bantu
( 1962)
Louis Prima  Rhythm on the Radio   Favoriting
( 1937)
Joe Boot & the Fabulous Winds  Rock and Roll Radio   Favoriting b/w That's Tough
(Celestial 1958)
George "Bongo Joe" Coleman  Transistor Radio   Favoriting Bongo Joe
(Arhoolie 1969)

Talkover Music:
 Sabu Martínez  		High Tension   Favoriting Sabu in Orbit
(SMC 1960)

Vin Scelsa  The "Last" show on WFMU   Favoriting
(August 31 1969)
Eric Bentley  To the Little Radio   Favoriting Bentley on Brecht
(Folkways 1965)
Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats  Radio Blues   Favoriting Memphis Shakedown
(JSP 1940)
Red Johnson  This Old Radio of Mine   Favoriting
Jim Ford  She Turns My Radio On   Favoriting Harlan County
(Sundown 1969)

Talkover Music:
 Blind Idiot God  		Death Hollow Canyon, Utah   Favoriting Cyclotron
(Avant 1992)

Brigitte Fontaine, Areski avec Art Ensemble of Chicago  Comme à la Radio   Favoriting Comme à la Radio
(Saravah 1970)
John Cage  Radio Music   Favoriting Fluxus Anthology
(Recorthings )
Sun City Girls  Ben's Radio   Favoriting Funeral Mariachi
(Abduction 2010)
Carl Shook  Broadcaster's Prayer   Favoriting Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wastelands,
Volume. 10
(Trailer Park )

Closing Theme:
 Specks Williams  		We Gave the Drummer Some   Favoriting b/w Specks' Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm Artie:

How to wreck a nice beach.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:42pm Doug Schulkind:

Welcome to another Moral Tuesday, Artie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:43pm Artie:

A lovely day for a beach sit-in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:46pm Doug Schulkind:

Except only the good people will get sand in their buttcracks.
Avatar 5:59pm ndbob:

evening Doug, Artie, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:59pm Doug Schulkind:

'allo, ndbob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm Parq:

*Anything* to postpone the wedding night ...
Avatar 6:00pm Carmichael:

I'm here to get some. Hi Doug and persons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:01pm listener james from westwood:

i can see armstrong's broadcast tower in alpine from a hill one town over from here.
Avatar 6:01pm Carmichael:

Some drum, not some sand in the buttcrack ...
  6:02pm Aurélie:

Great I'm a lover of music & radio
Avatar 6:03pm hyde:

is this a radio show or a history lesson?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm Doug Schulkind:

Parq! Carmichael! Listener James! Aurélie! hyde! Hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm davex:

Evening Doug and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for staying up late, davex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm listener james from westwood:

it's a history lesson AND a floor wax!
  6:07pm Aurélie:

perfect radioshow for a sunny wednesday
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm davex:

Always a pleasure, Doug...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm Doug Schulkind:

Perfect show for a sunny Aurélie.
Avatar 6:15pm still b/p:

It took a few tries before my attempt to favorite Bongo Joe was successful and I had me a little panic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm listener james from westwood:

you want to fave joe, you've gotta give him your transistor radio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm Parq:

Actually, for a while there, it sounded like Bongo Joe was essaying a Nina Simone impression.
  6:19pm admiral a:

I want to buy some land just to keep it from being developed on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:21pm Doug Schulkind:

The NSA heard that, admiral a.
Avatar 6:22pm still b/p:

Among the transistor radios of childhood memory is the one a friend gave me as a birthday gift -- sold for $3.99 at Sunoco stations, it looked a little bit like one of their gas pumps. I think I mighta dropped and lost it in the salt water at a boat dock.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm Doug Schulkind:

I have a transistor radio with me almost literally at all times. I sleep with it. I take it in the shower.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm Doug Schulkind:

By "sleep with it," I assume you know what I mean. Get your minds out of the gutter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm Parq:

Ah, but what do you mean by "take it in the shower"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:27pm Doug Schulkind:

Just some good, clean fun, Parq.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm listener james from westwood:

the dead transmitter thing still happens occasionally.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm Parq:

My saintly departed mother once said that I don't know what good clean fun is. And she was right; I haven't got the vaguest idea what good it is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm davex:

Hey, if you broadcast this over the air it could panic some listeners.
Avatar 6:29pm hyde:

Hey, mister on the radio. You're really my best friend.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm Doug Schulkind:

davex, we could have our own little "War of the Worlds" event.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm davex:

Exactly! Another stunt would be to make FMU sound like a mainstream station for an hour or two. Maybe with fake commercials to complete the experience.
Avatar 6:32pm ndbob:

had no idea that Eric Bentley made records
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm Doug Schulkind:

I adore Eric Bentley. He also has a recording on Folkways singing Hanns Eisler.
Avatar 6:33pm northguineahills:

Thought something might happen today, just got email asking me for an interview next week.
Avatar 6:34pm ndbob:

Sounds good NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm Parq:

Wear a clean bowling shirt, NGH.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm Doug Schulkind:

davex, no, that would be too scary.

Fingers x'd for you, NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm Uncle Michael:

Man...this is such a good show, Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm davex:

Doug, yes and cruel, very cruel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm listener james from westwood:

fine news, ngh; knock 'em dead!
Avatar 6:37pm Carmichael:

One of my first memories is my brother listening to RTE Radio on a Paddy transistor radio out in the barn. Da didn't like us doing that.
Avatar 6:37pm hyde:

@northguineahills congrats, dude. good luck. i've got phone and meatspace interviews coming up myself. i could use some work.
Avatar 6:38pm Carmichael:

Good luck ngh!

@hyde: "meatspace"??
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm davex:

Good luck ngh and hyde!
Avatar 6:39pm Carmichael:

@Doug: Nilsson's Turn On Your Radio?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm Uncle Michael:

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE
Avatar 6:40pm northguineahills:

Thanks everyone!

Hyde, make sure the steaks are located properly ;)
Avatar 6:40pm hyde:

@Carmichael yeah, y'know. in the flesh ;)
Avatar 6:41pm Aurélie:

@Doug Thanks doug History of American Broadcasting can be so interesting, I read the only book about radios in the Pacific published by the University of Hawai'i www.amazon.com...
Avatar 6:43pm Carmichael:

He he ... Thought maybe it was for an abattoir.
  6:44pm The French Foreign Legion:

"Kaminsky/Kamowsky will commence..." so flowing and un-Brechtian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:45pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
The playlist page for Jesse Kaminsky's Kaminsky Kamoutsky is here: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm Parq:

Tish, that's French!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm Doug Schulkind:

@Aurélie
"Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio," by Tom Lewis is a good one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm Parq:

Doug, wasn't this an FMU deejay's theme song at one point?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey there Uncle Michael. How'r you feeling?
Avatar 6:47pm hyde:

But I know I can't live without my radio.
Avatar 6:47pm Aurélie:

merci !! haha love Brigitte fontaine
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm Doug Schulkind:

@Parq
Yes, this was the theme for Raymond Franks' show. RIP Ray Franks.
Avatar 6:52pm Aurélie:

have to leave, thanks for the show, the book and the historical lesson Doug!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:52pm Uncle Michael:

I'm well, Doug. In time for tomorrow's "procedure." Thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm Uncle Michael:

We're DX'ing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm davex:

This would be about time for that song with the "numbers stations", if anyone knows what I mean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm davex:

UM: All the best for tomorrow...
Avatar 6:54pm ndbob:

Glad you are better UM!
Avatar 6:55pm Carmichael:

You mean the stations of the cross, davex? (A little Catholic humor there ...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm Doug Schulkind:

OK, Uncle Michael. As long as you're not, um, D&Cing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm davex:

Funny - and possibly psychic - if you saw the text that I am editing right now, Carmichael.

I actually meant something from the Conet Project.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm Uncle Michael:

Everyone read the article about WFMU and KCRW? I'm glad it was the KCRW dude that used the word "tastemaker" and not Ken! www.engadget.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey davex, are you safe from all that flooding? Looks horrible out your way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm davex:

Thanks for asking Doug! We got really lucky here in Leipzig (the sandbags may have helped too), but the region has been hit hard.
Avatar 6:58pm northguineahills:

Wait, number stations of the cross?
Avatar 6:59pm hyde:

well, I'm off to listen to Cheap Trick and LL Cool J. Good show! & good health, UM.
Avatar 6:59pm northguineahills:

A healthy Uncle Michael is an awesome Uncle Michael disc jockey.
Avatar 6:59pm ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Bye hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks gang. I'll be here Friday if the flesh is willing. The spirit is never weak.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm listener james from westwood:

this shut-in has not forgotten his troubles and is sure as shit not going to church. :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm listener james from westwood:

hell, wfmu is my church!
many thanks doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Let us pray! Thanks for hanging with me, everyperson!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm davex:

Fun show, Doug - thanks as always!
Avatar 7:27pm Holly in NC:

Specially looking forward to catching up on this show Doug :-) (drat I have to change my avatar back, Joe McG wanted to see folks' pjs)
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