WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from December 6, 2013

Listener comments!
	12:00pm Uncle Michael: This thing on?
	12:01pm Blubbery Mess: Ready to party.
	12:02pm Rick from SC: sounds like party time
	12:02pm glenn: funk 49ish.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: howdy, UM! crazy with work but crazy for music!
	12:02pm Alex In Illinois: . . . WhooshoopwhoooshoopWhooshoopwhoooshoop what's that whirly thing! Okay, safely landed.
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: Not connected, Michael!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Welcome all of you.
	12:05pm K Wilde: Never heard the opening
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Hey, the audio problem did not happen this time! At least not yet. I was waiting for the music stream to stutter so I know when to pause and restart it. Wait! What I am hearing does not match the play list.
	12:05pm glenn: i hear no hinky, or no dinky neither.
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Did not hear your opening theme. It went right from my closing theme to the stream's queue.
	12:06pm K Wilde: Never heard the opening
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: hang on
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: I have no idea yet why SAM isn't getting the audio
	12:08pm Alex In Illinois: I am hearing a Brazilian guy accompanied by one of those machete guitars, and a string section. Now it is silent. I will try restarting.
	12:08pm Doug Schulkind: Now a lovely Dick Gaughn number is spinning. I think the stream has been hypnotized by your gif.
	12:09pm Alex In Illinois: Okay, the stream did the stuttering, so I restarted. Now I am hearing a Scottish guy with a guitar.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: seriously no clue yet
	12:10pm K Wilde: Not Bob Hood but nice folky ballad
	12:10pm slater: same here
	12:10pm Doug Schulkind: There was a moment of silence, now we're back to the stream. Maybe reboot your machine or your router? Did you re-up the license key number for SAM? Um, um...
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: gonna reboot
	12:11pm still b/p: I got the stutter and the no show. Far from a win-win, it's a woe-woe.
	12:11pm Alex In Illinois: Stream stuttered again. I stopped and restarted, and I still hear the Scotsman whom Doug identified as Dick Gaughan
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: seriously, everything is configured fine...hopefully rebooting will fix it.
	12:13pm Alex In Illinois: @still b/p: That cracked me up! Almost as hard as I laughed the other night when I failed to get my dog to watch the Dog Channel.
	12:13pm glenn: sounds like either the spark plugs or the rotor to me.
	12:14pm slater: poof!
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: THERE WE GO!
	12:15pm Alex In Illinois: Okay! I think we are at Hinky Dinky time now! Yes! We Are!
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: Nothing happened. I don't know what you're all talking about. Shaddup!
	12:19pm glenn: i cannot comment on a hinky dinky time i may not have heard, or that does not exist.
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: Live radio, folks...with fucking computers.
	12:23pm still b/p: I've read about that religion: "The success of our prayers had a simple foundation. We regarded it as "Error" -- our name for Evil -- to believe the evidence of our senses and if we had influenza or consumption, or had lost our money or were unemployed, we denied the reality of these things. We said that since God could not have made them, they therefore did not exist." - The Saint, by V.S. Pritchett
	12:25pm Uncle Michael: That's a creed for me.
	12:27pm slater: u.n.c.l.e.
	12:34pm listener james from westwood: i'm here! hearing you loud & clear!
	12:35pm pacific standard simon: Who's a lazy bum? I'm a lazy bum, yes I am. Just woke up. Enjoying the show from bed.
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: Hey Simon.
	12:42pm pacific standard simon: Not for long, though; battery's almost drained.
	12:46pm glenn: hey, another great song that was stolen by a certain james page.
	12:48pm Uncle Michael: Did Pagey stick a writing credit on it?
	12:52pm Parq: My timing is excellent for a change. I love this Lovitch single, and Streisand makes my hair stand on end.
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Perfect!
	12:54pm Dominick: Zep version of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You beckoned two nights ago. Out of curiosity I checked writing credit. Listed as "traditional"
	12:58pm kat330: No time to properly log in, but wanted to say the first version of "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" I ever heard -- and performed myself -- was Joan Baez'.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for the research, Dominick.
	12:59pm Roberto: UFO was in fact aired in the U.S. in the early '70s, at least in New York. If I recall correctly most of the super-futuristic action was supposed to take place in 1980. Um, yeah.
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: Hi Kat...thanks for the information. I haven't heard Joan do it.
	1:00pm Alex In Illinois: I remember watching the UFO series on TV in ST. Louis. It was in the 1970's but it took place in the FUTURE in the 1980's. Most of the characters wore wigs, and when female personnel were stationed in the Moon Base, they would wear purple wigs. I am not making this up.
	1:00pm kat330: And, yes, a traditional ballad.
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: I stand corrected!
	1:01pm kat330: No problemo! I might be able to free my hands to properly return to comments a bit later, but listening in the meanwhile.
	1:01pm glenn: i think that traditional may have been listed to avoid a songwriting credit in many cases.
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: I think so too.
	1:04pm glenn: not that i'm accusing anybody in the music industry of perfidy, you understand.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: My heart cries out 'perfidia.'
	1:07pm kat330: Daggummit -- NOT traditional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_I%27m_Gonna_Leave_You Anne Bredon. Learn something new every day.
	1:07pm pacific standard simon: Hink-a-dink-a-doo, look, Ma, I'm on the radio!
	1:09pm Alex In Illinois: Listing a song as "Traditional" is still a way that companies selling sheet music get away with not paying royalties to songwriters.
	1:09pm Parq: "Nobody But Me" brings to mind the thinking I've been doing lately about rock and roll standards -- songs with a lot of different versions. The most prolific one, I suspect, is "Stranded in the Jungle" -- seems I hear a new one almost every week. "Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)" seems up there as well.
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: I can't for my house to smell like pibil.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Wow, I'd be curious to hear a lot of versions of Stranded...
	1:12pm glenn: hmmmm. warren smith and the dolls are the two i can think of.
	1:13pm glenn: at least i think warren smith did the original. was it billy lee riley?
	1:16pm pacific standard simon: The Jayhawks?
	1:16pm Uncle Michael: Did they? The drummer in the Jayhawks is an old drinking buddy.
	1:17pm glenn: no, the Jay Hawks.
	1:19pm pacific standard simon: Yeah, Wikipedia credits the Jay Hawks with the original, and the Cadets with the hit cover version.
	1:19pm glenn: "Stranded In The Jungle" was written by Ernestine Smith & James Johnson in 1956; the same year this R&B novelty classic was a huge hit for the West Coast vocal group The Cadets (Modern 994). The Cadets version of the song was actually a cover of the Jay Hawks original version, although much more polished and energized.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: in 2040 they will be fulminating against this era's use of pro tools.
	1:20pm Dominick: Future generations will despise brickwalled compression
	1:22pm Dominick: How did Bop-a-Lena get past Mitch Miller's "No rock 'n roll" edict?
	1:24pm pacific standard simon: My dream DJ set would feature "Long Cool Woman" by The Hollies, "Jeepster" by T. Rex, "O.D.'d On Life" by Blue Oyster Cult, and any other song that used THAT riff -- it seems like THAT riff was very popular in the early '70s.
	1:26pm pacific standard simon: The hard part would be figuring out what order to play them in.
	1:28pm Uncle Michael: hmmm
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: no mistaking lee for anyone else. nice one.
	1:30pm Uncle Michael: Been on a LH kick. Almost played a set...might one day.
	1:31pm pacific standard simon: I saw a picture of Lee surrounded by naked women, the other day; it would be VERY hard to mistake him for anyone else in that picture.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: He had the only unbleached mustache.
	1:33pm kat330: I recommend that Ruth expand her skills and diversify. :)
	1:34pm listener james from westwood: wasn't there some sort of hazlewood release recently? thought i read something about it in the nyt.
	1:35pm listener james from westwood: btw, don't stand on ceremony for a hazlewood set. those are always revelatory.
	1:35pm kat330: Awww, sweet Neil.
	1:35pm Uncle Michael: The picture Simon mentioned is used as the cover of a recent compilation.
	1:38pm Dominick: Neil's number for some reason reminded me of Beaker performing "me-me" (Feelings)
	1:39pm kat330: @James, et al: No one despises autotune more than I, but SOME of the reason "musicians" don't like DAWs and pro tools is because it's leveling a playing field that was only for the rarefied few who "made it" into the biz by worse illegitimate methods, such as nepotism and payola.
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: Heh.
	1:41pm kat330: And back to the Baez version of "Babe..." I no longer have the vinyl -- got stolen from me -- but my guess is she DID credit Anne Bredon. She wouldn't knowingly do otherwise, and I don't think Vanguard would either.
	1:43pm Dominick: Baez's version originally was credited to "traditional" as well.
	1:45pm kat330: For all I know wikipedia's full of it -- wouldn't be the first time -- but again, I can't believe Baez or Vanguard would knowingly rob someone of royalties.
	1:46pm glenn: i remember seeing a picture of pete townshend in his home studio. there are probably 25 openreel tape decks surrounding him. THAT'S what a studio should be.
	1:48pm Uncle Michael: most significaantly, it had pete townshend in it
	1:48pm kat330: That's what a studio USED to be. Once upon a time we were using semaphore and smoke signals, too. Seriously, the biggest uproar about digital recording is how it's reducing the income of the big artists. Yes, and the Internet's leveling of the information playing field is upsetting a lot of rich folks, too. The times they are a-changin.
	1:51pm Uncle Michael: I trust that everyone was ready to rock.
	1:51pm efd: I'm here, I'm here! I've just been busy.
	1:51pm glenn: i LOVE the internet. after all, i would never have discovered wfmu, and all that entails without it. but neil young is right - digital audio is no comparison to analogue.
	1:52pm kat330: There were / are a lot of no-talent "artists" who could afford studio time or could even build themselves vanity studios to make "authentic" recordings -- many played on these very waves! -- but there are actual musicians on SoundCloud and elsewhere who put them to shame.
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: HAH! efd-bait always works.
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: pro tools came to mind b/c i'm copyediting a musician's autobiography, and one of the producers he'd worked with, who had also worked with many rock-radio regulars & thus had a perspective similar to that townshend pic, went on an anti-pro tools rant in his contribution to the book.
	1:53pm pacific standard simon: I'm too old to have the ears to tell the difference.
	1:56pm Dominick: Take it to Gearslutz please
	1:56pm kat330: Oh, yeah, and sweet Neil himself rants against it in his autobio. I still say the TRUE reason these successful, rich artists are P.O'd is not "horrible sound quality" but it's horning in on their bottomline bucks. I hardly feel sorry for them riding the gravy train for so long.
	1:57pm pacific standard simon: Any woman who likes chili dogs can't be all bad.
	1:57pm ndbob: Heya UM and everyone!
	1:57pm kat330: I also have somewhat a different perspective because I saw up close and personally how the record industry operated. My dad owned a radio station.
	1:57pm glenn: p.s.s brings up something i've always found interesting - by the time most people can afford the stereo they've been dreaming about for 20 years, they're deaf, and thus immune to it's wonders.
	1:59pm ndbob: 45 min to de ice and clean the snow off my blazer and still coming down
	1:59pm kat330: We're finally getting snowflakes falling down here, so it must have warmed up a bit.
	2:01pm kat330: @Dominick: Take what to Gearslutz exactly?
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: Hi Bob. No fighting in the War Room.
	2:02pm pacific standard simon: Perhaps the sound is muffled by the geezer-hair growing out my ears.
	2:03pm Dominick: @kat330: digital vs. analog
	2:03pm kat330: No fighting from my end, though provoked. @Dominick: Surely it can't be OK to discuss photos of naked women on this list but, god forbid, never music production! ;)
	2:04pm Dominick: @pss: they make these battery powered hair trimmers...
	2:05pm glenn: how about naked women producing records?
	2:05pm kat330: Whatever -- got better things to do anyway. It's my last try here, so by all means, get back to naked women week after week.
	2:05pm ndbob: quite an interesting playlist UM - will catch what I missed on the archive... haven't heard "Communication" by David McCallum in a while -remember it well from the radio
	2:06pm glenn: which probably brings us back to lee hazlewood somehow.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, another train wreck playlist today. No reason, just rhymes!
	2:09pm pacific standard simon: Better watch it with all those naked women on the show, UM -- you're gonna get condemned by the audio stream decency league.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: I haven't removed my bustier.
	2:13pm pacific standard simon: I've got my sexy black long-johns on.
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: There's a true whiplash moment coming.
	2:15pm pacific standard simon: The Seekers followed by Black Sabbath?
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: Damn. Shoulda.
	2:17pm pacific standard simon: Ahh. The Bee Gees telling us that we SHOULD be moved.
	2:19pm pacific standard simon: I'm thinking that "War Pigs" should ALWAYS follow "Masters Of War".
	2:22pm ndbob: @UM agree re Nora and BIlly
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: I think they did well and the blend is spot on but I'm not sure I see the point.
	2:25pm pacific standard simon: Now this Fleur De Lys thing is what it would be nice to have gigantic expensive speakers for.
	2:28pm Alex In Illinois: I agree with Kat330 on a lot of her points, maybe all. But I am often not an either/or person, but like to have multiple options available, each with its trade-offs.
	2:30pm pacific standard simon: WOW. Groucho Marx's passport is for sale on Ebay.
	2:33pm Uncle Michael: I want captain Spalding's.
	2:34pm Parq: I want Maurice Chevalier's.
	2:35pm Dominick: Did someone call me Schnorer?
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: mmhmm
	2:36pm Dominick: I'll have another cup of coffee!
	2:37pm pacific standard simon: Unused. Current bid: $1,250.
	2:38pm glenn: i wonder how much zeppo's is going for.
	2:39pm pacific standard simon: You really ARE all over the place today, Michael. Fun.
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Unused?
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: $1.25
	2:39pm glenn: a mint passport.
	2:40pm pacific standard simon: No stamps, apparently. Issued in 1939, so he was still busy in Hollywood.
	2:41pm pacific standard simon: No mustache, either.
	2:41pm glenn: how long before there's a mossad agent named g. marx?
	2:42pm pacific standard simon: I like Freddy King's version, but he keeps calling it "Lowdown".
	2:43pm pacific standard simon: @glenn - That would be Julius H. Marx.
	2:45pm pacific standard simon: Ah. Here's the naked woman I've been hearing so much about.
	2:46pm Uncle Michael: The history of funk needs to give Betty more respect.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: Or she'll beat its ass with her belt.
	2:48pm glenn: oh yeah. that makes more sense. okay, how long until there's a mossad agent named julius h. marx?
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: that's right, PSS
	2:54pm pacific standard simon: Might as well pass along the link, in case someone wants to see a picture of a 49-year-old Marx with no mustache, and his painfully thin wife. www.ebay.com...
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:56pm glenn: well hell, i can't go to china with it, so why bother?
	2:58pm pacific standard simon: You also can't go anywhere for the purpose of joining their armed forces, so no IRA for you.
	2:58pm listener james from westwood: if it's not stamped "freedonia," it's null and void in my eyes. fine show, UM! thanks, and be well and warm, all!!
	2:59pm pacific standard simon: OH NO! We just got started!
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Damn. I wanted to join the Swiss Guard.
	2:59pm Dominick: upstart!
	3:00pm pacific standard simon: I want Shemp Howard's passport.
	3:04pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from December 6, 2013

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Artist	Track	Album
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
P.P. Arnold	The First Cut Is The Deepest	b/w Speak To Me (Immediate - 1967)
Bob Hood	It's Nothin' to Me "It's Nothin' to Me" by "Bob Hood"	b-side to The Alamo (Golden Crest - 1964)
Ike & The Crystalites	Illya Kuryakin	b/w Anne Marie (Island - 1968)
David McCallum	Communication "Communication" by "David McCallum"	b/w My Carousel (Capitol - 1966)
Beauregard and the Tuffs	Ramblin' Rose	b/w Big Bad Guitar (Decca - 1965)
Smiley Lewis	One Night "One Night" by "Smiley Lewis"	b/w Ain't Gonna Do It (Imperial - 1956)
Music behind DJ: The Merced Blue Notes	Bad, Bad Whiskey	b/w Mama Rufus (Galaxy - 1966)
Merle Haggard	If We Make It Through December	b/w Bobby Wants A Puppy Dog For Christmas (Capitol - 1973)
The Davis Sisters	Rock-A-Bye Boogie	b/w I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (RCA Victor - 1953)
The Heartbreakers	Love Comes In Spurts	R.I.P.: The ROIR Sessions (ROIR - 1975)
The Association	Babe I'm Gonna Leave You	b/w Baby, Can't You Hear Me Call Your Name (Jubilee - 1965)
Barbra Streisand	I Am Woman "I Am Woman" by "Barbra Streisand"	b-side to People (Columbia - 1964)
Lene Lovich	Say When "Say When" by "Lene Lovich"	b/w One Lonely Heart (Stiff - 1979)
Jerry Butler	Moody Woman "Moody Woman" by "Jerry Butler"	b/w Go Away, Find Yourself (Mercury - 1969)
Music behind DJ: Barry Gray	UFO Main Theme "UFO Main Theme" by "Barry Gray"	UFO: The Original Television Series Soundtrack Music By Barry Gray (Trunk - 2004)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils	If You Wanna Get To Heaven	b/w Spaceship Orion (A&M - 1973)
Ronnie Self	Bop-A-Lena "Bop-A-Lena" by "Ronnie Self"	b/w I Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Columboia - 1958)
King Nawahi Hawaiians	Under a Texas Moon	10" (unk. - 1930)
The Isley Brothers	Nobody But Me "Nobody But Me" by "The Isley Brothers"	b/w I'm Laughing To Keep From Crying (Wand - 1963)
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages	Runnin' and Hidin'	Ow! Ow! Ow! (Rounder - 1987)
The Chi-Lites	We Need Order "We Need Order" by "The Chi-Lites"	b/w Living In The Footsteps Of Another Man (Brunswick - 1972)
Music behind DJ: The Monkees	For Pete's Sake (Master Backing Track)	Headquarters Sessions (Colgems - 1967)
The Olympics	The Same Old Thing "The Same Old Thing" by "The Olympics"	b-side to I'll Do A Little Bit More (Nirwood - 1966)
Grodeck Whipperjenny	Inside Or Outside	The Grodeck Whipperjenny (People - 1970)
Lee Hazlewood	Rosacoke Street "Rosacoke Street" by "Lee Hazlewood"	Love And Other Crimes (Reprise - 1968)
Ruth Etting	I'm Good For Nothing but Love	b/w I'm Falling In Love (Columbia - 1931)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	My Heart	Sleeps With Angels (Reprise - 1994)
Music behind DJ: The Citations	Moon Race "Moon Race" by "The Citations"	b/w Slippin' And Slidin' (Sara - 1963)
Dawn's Early Light	Dawn's Early Light Monday Kind Of Friday	b/w Look In Her Eyes (Diamond - 1967)
Os Mutantes	Quem Tem Medo De Brincar De Amor	A Divina Comedia ou ando meio desligado (Polydor - 1970)
Link Wray	Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes	Link Wray (Polydor - 1971)
The Yardbirds	A Certain Girl "A Certain Girl" by "The Yardbirds"	b/w I Wish You Would (Columbia - 1964)
Free Fall	Power & Volume "Power & Volume" by "Free Fall"	Power & Volume (Nuclear Blast - 2013)
Dusty Brooks	Chili Dogs "Chili Dogs" by "Dusty Brooks"	b/w Whoa Mule (Bullet - 1951)
Music behind DJ: The Popcorn Orchestra	Going To A Happening	Popcorn's Detroit Soul Party (Palmer - 1967)
Wings	Deliver Your Children "Deliver Your Children" by "Wings"	London Town (Capitol - 1978)
The Mercy Brothers (Barrence Whitfield & Michael Dinallo)	Down That Road	Strange Adventure (Corazong - 2006)
The Everly Brothers	Long Time Gone	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (Cadence - 1958)
Fred Neil	Bleecker & MacDougal "Bleecker & MacDougal" by "Fred Neil"	Bleecker & MacDougal (Electra - 1965)
The Seekers	We Shall Not Be Moved	b-side to The Carnival Is Over (Columbia - 1965)
The Bee Gees	You Should Be Dancing	b/w Subway (RSO - 1976)
Music behind DJ: Elliott Fisher	Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Bang! Bang! Bang! (Capitol - 1966)
Les Fleur De Lys	Wait For Me "Wait For Me" by "Les Fleur De Lys"	b-side to Moondreams (Immediate - 1965)
The Bonzo Dog Band	We Are Normal "We Are Normal" by "The Bonzo Dog Band"	Urban Spaceman (Imperial - 1968)
Hawkwind	Urban Guerilla "Urban Guerilla" by "Hawkwind"	b/w Brainbox Pollution (United Artists - 1973)
Carla Thomas	Love Among People "Love Among People" by "Carla Thomas"	b/w I Have A God Who Loves (Stax - 1973)
Al Wilson	Lodi "Lodi" by "Al Wilson"	b/w By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Soul City - 1969)
Music behind DJ: The Ventures	Home "Home" by "The Ventures"	b-side to Walk Don't Run (Dolton - 1960)
Betty Davis	If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up	Betty Davis (Just Sunshine - 1973)
Foxx	Into Something Real "Into Something Real" by "Foxx"	b/w The Revolt of Emily Young (Decca - 1970)
Tommy Tucker & His Orchestra with Amy Arnell and the Voices Three	I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire	b/w This Love Of Mine (Okeh - 1941)
Harry Nilsson	Turn On Your Radio "Turn On Your Radio" by "Harry Nilsson"	Son of Schmilsson (RCA - 1972)
Guy Lombardo voc. Kenny Martin	Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart	b/w Half As Much (Decca - 1952)
Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"

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Listener comments!
	12:00pm Uncle Michael: This thing on?
	12:01pm Blubbery Mess: Ready to party.
	12:02pm Rick from SC: sounds like party time
	12:02pm glenn: funk 49ish.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: howdy, UM! crazy with work but crazy for music!
	12:02pm Alex In Illinois: . . . WhooshoopwhoooshoopWhooshoopwhoooshoop what's that whirly thing! Okay, safely landed.
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: Not connected, Michael!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Welcome all of you.
	12:05pm K Wilde: Never heard the opening
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Hey, the audio problem did not happen this time! At least not yet. I was waiting for the music stream to stutter so I know when to pause and restart it. Wait! What I am hearing does not match the play list.
	12:05pm glenn: i hear no hinky, or no dinky neither.
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Did not hear your opening theme. It went right from my closing theme to the stream's queue.
	12:06pm K Wilde: Never heard the opening
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: hang on
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: I have no idea yet why SAM isn't getting the audio
	12:08pm Alex In Illinois: I am hearing a Brazilian guy accompanied by one of those machete guitars, and a string section. Now it is silent. I will try restarting.
	12:08pm Doug Schulkind: Now a lovely Dick Gaughn number is spinning. I think the stream has been hypnotized by your gif.
	12:09pm Alex In Illinois: Okay, the stream did the stuttering, so I restarted. Now I am hearing a Scottish guy with a guitar.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: seriously no clue yet
	12:10pm K Wilde: Not Bob Hood but nice folky ballad
	12:10pm slater: same here
	12:10pm Doug Schulkind: There was a moment of silence, now we're back to the stream. Maybe reboot your machine or your router? Did you re-up the license key number for SAM? Um, um...
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: gonna reboot
	12:11pm still b/p: I got the stutter and the no show. Far from a win-win, it's a woe-woe.
	12:11pm Alex In Illinois: Stream stuttered again. I stopped and restarted, and I still hear the Scotsman whom Doug identified as Dick Gaughan
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: seriously, everything is configured fine...hopefully rebooting will fix it.
	12:13pm Alex In Illinois: @still b/p: That cracked me up! Almost as hard as I laughed the other night when I failed to get my dog to watch the Dog Channel.
	12:13pm glenn: sounds like either the spark plugs or the rotor to me.
	12:14pm slater: poof!
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: THERE WE GO!
	12:15pm Alex In Illinois: Okay! I think we are at Hinky Dinky time now! Yes! We Are!
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: Nothing happened. I don't know what you're all talking about. Shaddup!
	12:19pm glenn: i cannot comment on a hinky dinky time i may not have heard, or that does not exist.
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: Live radio, folks...with fucking computers.
	12:23pm still b/p: I've read about that religion: "The success of our prayers had a simple foundation. We regarded it as "Error" -- our name for Evil -- to believe the evidence of our senses and if we had influenza or consumption, or had lost our money or were unemployed, we denied the reality of these things. We said that since God could not have made them, they therefore did not exist." - The Saint, by V.S. Pritchett
	12:25pm Uncle Michael: That's a creed for me.
	12:27pm slater: u.n.c.l.e.
	12:34pm listener james from westwood: i'm here! hearing you loud & clear!
	12:35pm pacific standard simon: Who's a lazy bum? I'm a lazy bum, yes I am. Just woke up. Enjoying the show from bed.
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: Hey Simon.
	12:42pm pacific standard simon: Not for long, though; battery's almost drained.
	12:46pm glenn: hey, another great song that was stolen by a certain james page.
	12:48pm Uncle Michael: Did Pagey stick a writing credit on it?
	12:52pm Parq: My timing is excellent for a change. I love this Lovitch single, and Streisand makes my hair stand on end.
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Perfect!
	12:54pm Dominick: Zep version of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You beckoned two nights ago. Out of curiosity I checked writing credit. Listed as "traditional"
	12:58pm kat330: No time to properly log in, but wanted to say the first version of "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" I ever heard -- and performed myself -- was Joan Baez'.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for the research, Dominick.
	12:59pm Roberto: UFO was in fact aired in the U.S. in the early '70s, at least in New York. If I recall correctly most of the super-futuristic action was supposed to take place in 1980. Um, yeah.
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: Hi Kat...thanks for the information. I haven't heard Joan do it.
	1:00pm Alex In Illinois: I remember watching the UFO series on TV in ST. Louis. It was in the 1970's but it took place in the FUTURE in the 1980's. Most of the characters wore wigs, and when female personnel were stationed in the Moon Base, they would wear purple wigs. I am not making this up.
	1:00pm kat330: And, yes, a traditional ballad.
	1:00pm Uncle Michael: I stand corrected!
	1:01pm kat330: No problemo! I might be able to free my hands to properly return to comments a bit later, but listening in the meanwhile.
	1:01pm glenn: i think that traditional may have been listed to avoid a songwriting credit in many cases.
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: I think so too.
	1:04pm glenn: not that i'm accusing anybody in the music industry of perfidy, you understand.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: My heart cries out 'perfidia.'
	1:07pm kat330: Daggummit -- NOT traditional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_I%27m_Gonna_Leave_You Anne Bredon. Learn something new every day.
	1:07pm pacific standard simon: Hink-a-dink-a-doo, look, Ma, I'm on the radio!
	1:09pm Alex In Illinois: Listing a song as "Traditional" is still a way that companies selling sheet music get away with not paying royalties to songwriters.
	1:09pm Parq: "Nobody But Me" brings to mind the thinking I've been doing lately about rock and roll standards -- songs with a lot of different versions. The most prolific one, I suspect, is "Stranded in the Jungle" -- seems I hear a new one almost every week. "Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)" seems up there as well.
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: I can't for my house to smell like pibil.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Wow, I'd be curious to hear a lot of versions of Stranded...
	1:12pm glenn: hmmmm. warren smith and the dolls are the two i can think of.
	1:13pm glenn: at least i think warren smith did the original. was it billy lee riley?
	1:16pm pacific standard simon: The Jayhawks?
	1:16pm Uncle Michael: Did they? The drummer in the Jayhawks is an old drinking buddy.
	1:17pm glenn: no, the Jay Hawks.
	1:19pm pacific standard simon: Yeah, Wikipedia credits the Jay Hawks with the original, and the Cadets with the hit cover version.
	1:19pm glenn: "Stranded In The Jungle" was written by Ernestine Smith & James Johnson in 1956; the same year this R&B novelty classic was a huge hit for the West Coast vocal group The Cadets (Modern 994). The Cadets version of the song was actually a cover of the Jay Hawks original version, although much more polished and energized.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: in 2040 they will be fulminating against this era's use of pro tools.
	1:20pm Dominick: Future generations will despise brickwalled compression
	1:22pm Dominick: How did Bop-a-Lena get past Mitch Miller's "No rock 'n roll" edict?
	1:24pm pacific standard simon: My dream DJ set would feature "Long Cool Woman" by The Hollies, "Jeepster" by T. Rex, "O.D.'d On Life" by Blue Oyster Cult, and any other song that used THAT riff -- it seems like THAT riff was very popular in the early '70s.
	1:26pm pacific standard simon: The hard part would be figuring out what order to play them in.
	1:28pm Uncle Michael: hmmm
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: no mistaking lee for anyone else. nice one.
	1:30pm Uncle Michael: Been on a LH kick. Almost played a set...might one day.
	1:31pm pacific standard simon: I saw a picture of Lee surrounded by naked women, the other day; it would be VERY hard to mistake him for anyone else in that picture.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: He had the only unbleached mustache.
	1:33pm kat330: I recommend that Ruth expand her skills and diversify. :)
	1:34pm listener james from westwood: wasn't there some sort of hazlewood release recently? thought i read something about it in the nyt.
	1:35pm listener james from westwood: btw, don't stand on ceremony for a hazlewood set. those are always revelatory.
	1:35pm kat330: Awww, sweet Neil.
	1:35pm Uncle Michael: The picture Simon mentioned is used as the cover of a recent compilation.
	1:38pm Dominick: Neil's number for some reason reminded me of Beaker performing "me-me" (Feelings)
	1:39pm kat330: @James, et al: No one despises autotune more than I, but SOME of the reason "musicians" don't like DAWs and pro tools is because it's leveling a playing field that was only for the rarefied few who "made it" into the biz by worse illegitimate methods, such as nepotism and payola.
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: Heh.
	1:41pm kat330: And back to the Baez version of "Babe..." I no longer have the vinyl -- got stolen from me -- but my guess is she DID credit Anne Bredon. She wouldn't knowingly do otherwise, and I don't think Vanguard would either.
	1:43pm Dominick: Baez's version originally was credited to "traditional" as well.
	1:45pm kat330: For all I know wikipedia's full of it -- wouldn't be the first time -- but again, I can't believe Baez or Vanguard would knowingly rob someone of royalties.
	1:46pm glenn: i remember seeing a picture of pete townshend in his home studio. there are probably 25 openreel tape decks surrounding him. THAT'S what a studio should be.
	1:48pm Uncle Michael: most significaantly, it had pete townshend in it
	1:48pm kat330: That's what a studio USED to be. Once upon a time we were using semaphore and smoke signals, too. Seriously, the biggest uproar about digital recording is how it's reducing the income of the big artists. Yes, and the Internet's leveling of the information playing field is upsetting a lot of rich folks, too. The times they are a-changin.
	1:51pm Uncle Michael: I trust that everyone was ready to rock.
	1:51pm efd: I'm here, I'm here! I've just been busy.
	1:51pm glenn: i LOVE the internet. after all, i would never have discovered wfmu, and all that entails without it. but neil young is right - digital audio is no comparison to analogue.
	1:52pm kat330: There were / are a lot of no-talent "artists" who could afford studio time or could even build themselves vanity studios to make "authentic" recordings -- many played on these very waves! -- but there are actual musicians on SoundCloud and elsewhere who put them to shame.
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: HAH! efd-bait always works.
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: pro tools came to mind b/c i'm copyediting a musician's autobiography, and one of the producers he'd worked with, who had also worked with many rock-radio regulars & thus had a perspective similar to that townshend pic, went on an anti-pro tools rant in his contribution to the book.
	1:53pm pacific standard simon: I'm too old to have the ears to tell the difference.
	1:56pm Dominick: Take it to Gearslutz please
	1:56pm kat330: Oh, yeah, and sweet Neil himself rants against it in his autobio. I still say the TRUE reason these successful, rich artists are P.O'd is not "horrible sound quality" but it's horning in on their bottomline bucks. I hardly feel sorry for them riding the gravy train for so long.
	1:57pm pacific standard simon: Any woman who likes chili dogs can't be all bad.
	1:57pm ndbob: Heya UM and everyone!
	1:57pm kat330: I also have somewhat a different perspective because I saw up close and personally how the record industry operated. My dad owned a radio station.
	1:57pm glenn: p.s.s brings up something i've always found interesting - by the time most people can afford the stereo they've been dreaming about for 20 years, they're deaf, and thus immune to it's wonders.
	1:59pm ndbob: 45 min to de ice and clean the snow off my blazer and still coming down
	1:59pm kat330: We're finally getting snowflakes falling down here, so it must have warmed up a bit.
	2:01pm kat330: @Dominick: Take what to Gearslutz exactly?
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: Hi Bob. No fighting in the War Room.
	2:02pm pacific standard simon: Perhaps the sound is muffled by the geezer-hair growing out my ears.
	2:03pm Dominick: @kat330: digital vs. analog
	2:03pm kat330: No fighting from my end, though provoked. @Dominick: Surely it can't be OK to discuss photos of naked women on this list but, god forbid, never music production! ;)
	2:04pm Dominick: @pss: they make these battery powered hair trimmers...
	2:05pm glenn: how about naked women producing records?
	2:05pm kat330: Whatever -- got better things to do anyway. It's my last try here, so by all means, get back to naked women week after week.
	2:05pm ndbob: quite an interesting playlist UM - will catch what I missed on the archive... haven't heard "Communication" by David McCallum in a while -remember it well from the radio
	2:06pm glenn: which probably brings us back to lee hazlewood somehow.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, another train wreck playlist today. No reason, just rhymes!
	2:09pm pacific standard simon: Better watch it with all those naked women on the show, UM -- you're gonna get condemned by the audio stream decency league.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: I haven't removed my bustier.
	2:13pm pacific standard simon: I've got my sexy black long-johns on.
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: There's a true whiplash moment coming.
	2:15pm pacific standard simon: The Seekers followed by Black Sabbath?
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: Damn. Shoulda.
	2:17pm pacific standard simon: Ahh. The Bee Gees telling us that we SHOULD be moved.
	2:19pm pacific standard simon: I'm thinking that "War Pigs" should ALWAYS follow "Masters Of War".
	2:22pm ndbob: @UM agree re Nora and BIlly
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: I think they did well and the blend is spot on but I'm not sure I see the point.
	2:25pm pacific standard simon: Now this Fleur De Lys thing is what it would be nice to have gigantic expensive speakers for.
	2:28pm Alex In Illinois: I agree with Kat330 on a lot of her points, maybe all. But I am often not an either/or person, but like to have multiple options available, each with its trade-offs.
	2:30pm pacific standard simon: WOW. Groucho Marx's passport is for sale on Ebay.
	2:33pm Uncle Michael: I want captain Spalding's.
	2:34pm Parq: I want Maurice Chevalier's.
	2:35pm Dominick: Did someone call me Schnorer?
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: mmhmm
	2:36pm Dominick: I'll have another cup of coffee!
	2:37pm pacific standard simon: Unused. Current bid: $1,250.
	2:38pm glenn: i wonder how much zeppo's is going for.
	2:39pm pacific standard simon: You really ARE all over the place today, Michael. Fun.
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Unused?
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: $1.25
	2:39pm glenn: a mint passport.
	2:40pm pacific standard simon: No stamps, apparently. Issued in 1939, so he was still busy in Hollywood.
	2:41pm pacific standard simon: No mustache, either.
	2:41pm glenn: how long before there's a mossad agent named g. marx?
	2:42pm pacific standard simon: I like Freddy King's version, but he keeps calling it "Lowdown".
	2:43pm pacific standard simon: @glenn - That would be Julius H. Marx.
	2:45pm pacific standard simon: Ah. Here's the naked woman I've been hearing so much about.
	2:46pm Uncle Michael: The history of funk needs to give Betty more respect.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: Or she'll beat its ass with her belt.
	2:48pm glenn: oh yeah. that makes more sense. okay, how long until there's a mossad agent named julius h. marx?
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: that's right, PSS
	2:54pm pacific standard simon: Might as well pass along the link, in case someone wants to see a picture of a 49-year-old Marx with no mustache, and his painfully thin wife. www.ebay.com...
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:56pm glenn: well hell, i can't go to china with it, so why bother?
	2:58pm pacific standard simon: You also can't go anywhere for the purpose of joining their armed forces, so no IRA for you.
	2:58pm listener james from westwood: if it's not stamped "freedonia," it's null and void in my eyes. fine show, UM! thanks, and be well and warm, all!!
	2:59pm pacific standard simon: OH NO! We just got started!
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Damn. I wanted to join the Swiss Guard.
	2:59pm Dominick: upstart!
	3:00pm pacific standard simon: I want Shemp Howard's passport.
	3:04pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from December 6, 2013

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