WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 9, 2015

Listener comments!
	9:03am Cheri Pi: JOE!
	♥ 9:03am Marcel M: Morning Joe and people drinking Joe.
	♥ 9:04am Marcel M: I guess I shouldn't have capitalized the second Joe. Edit: Good morning Joe and people drinking their joe. There.
	♥ 9:04am Sem Chumbo: Hiya.Joe.
	♥ 9:05am Joe McG: Cheri, you're first today! Hi, Marcel! Hi, Sem!
	♥ 9:05am DCE: nice, Joe! g'marnin
	♥ 9:07am Joe McG: Garmarnin, DCE!
	♥ 9:07am Polyus: Arrived at work cold and wet, but things are now trending upward with Miles.
	9:08am Claw!: Yo, Joe! Good morning, Folks!
	♥ 9:08am Joe McG: Yo, Claw! Hope you dry out, Polyus!
	♥ 9:10am MD: "feelin' freeform man...feelin' freeform UP!!!"
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Feel the freeform, MD, feel the freeform, baby.
	9:13am SeanG: Miles and Mclaughlin are rippin' on this---hola Joe!
	9:13am steve: good mornin
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Hola, SeanG! Hey hey, Steve!
	9:16am pierre: 7 th !
	9:16am pierre: Bonjour Joe !
	♥ 9:17am Joe McG: Bonjour, pierre!
	♥ 9:18am Greg from Bloomfield: Morning, gang! Working the late shift tonite, so I'm here early for once!
	♥ 9:19am Joe McG: Hey Greg! You're just in time for the first part of the show!
	♥ 9:21am Andrew Waterloo: Good morning!
	9:21am Brendan: Hi Joe
	♥ 9:21am Joe McG: Good morning, Andrew! Hi, Brendan!
	9:29am redkayak: Hi all! Sounding good out here in the Imperial Midwest :)
	♥ 9:31am Joe McG: Hi, redkayak from the wild woods of New Jersey!
	♥ 9:32am dale: love mr. johnson. oh, for a great white hope.
	9:32am Brendan: The intonation and enunciation is pure Ali
	9:33am the Canterbury wood-elf: The timing and intonation of this Jack Johnson monologue almost sounds like an ecclesiastical Latin incantation. All on one note except the ending of each phrase where it descends. Morning Joe!
	♥ 9:33am Joe McG: @Brendan: Wow, you're so right! @Canterbury: Morning! Welcome, dale!
	♥ 9:34am Marcel M: I love how people dragged out words back then.
	♥ 9:34am dale: wow, the fight is all over youtube. who knew?
	9:34am redkayak: @brendan @canterbury I was thinking the same thing...very cool
	♥ 9:36am Joe McG: Hey, dale: Can you throw up a link?
	9:37am Parq: Brilliant set so far.
	♥ 9:38am Joe McG: @Parq: I thought about going with the Jamie Brockett, but that's more about pot than Jack Johnson.
	♥ 9:42am dale: two or three of them all seem to have the same narration, which is fine. from a site by max baer - father of jethro bodine? www.youtube.com...
	9:43am jennielowe: good morning all..Miles of movement getting the body shaking! Great show so far Joe with a capital J!
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: @dale: Yeah, it was a silent, so any narration would be after the fact. The Jack Johnson record was actually meant to be a soundtrack for it!
	9:45am Brendan: Modelos for everyone, this rounds on me
	♥ 9:45am Joe McG: Thanks, jennielowe! Good morning!
	♥ 9:46am Ken From Hyde Park: Alert and focuseded this morning!
	9:48am Mick: Joe McG is BRINGING IT today!
	♥ 9:48am Marcel M: This is a bunch of HS kids? Wow!
	9:48am Parq: Joe, are there copies of the Brocket left in the world that aren't all scratched and poppy?
	♥ 9:48am Joe McG: @Parq: I found one! :) Hi, Mick, Ken from HP!
	9:50am jennielowe: the singer on ladder was feeling it...: O
	♥ 9:51am Joe McG: @jennielowe: She co-wrote it, so it was hers all the way!
	9:53am jennielowe: what?!...that makes sense! Her name?
	♥ 9:56am Polyus: Oh hey Joe - I picked up a sci-fi disco record last week by a band called Apollo, from '79. Perchance did they make it on to your 2015 premium? Apparently Berry Gordy's kid was in the band,
	♥ 9:58am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	9:58am Claw!: Joe, you STAY blowing my mind.
	9:59am bobdoesthings: Is Marcel here?! It's his birthday! Happy Birthday Marcel!
	10:00am jennielowe: oh i see her name!
	10:01am Claw!: Holy shit! Marcel! Berfday??
	♥ 10:02am Marcel M: Yes the rumors are true! Thanks Bob!
	10:03am βrian: Leaden skies over the isthmus today. Good morning.
	10:03am Claw!: Happy Berfay, Marcel! Hope it's hella sweet. Mine is next Thursday. ;-}
	♥ 10:04am Marcel M: Hehe. Thanks Joe! Thanks Claw! Happy almost birthday!
	10:05am bobdoesthings: Wahaha! I let the cat out of the bag (which is a bizarre expression)
	♥ 10:05am Guido from Cologne: Guten TZAG everyone! Spring and sun over here!
	♥ 10:06am Joe McG: Marcel, I hope you have a GREAT one! Guten tzag, Guido!
	♥ 10:06am Marcel M: @Bob: hehe. yes ... it is quite bizarre... and kind of dark.
	♥ 10:06am Mark the Sardine: This grey day just got funky and it's all better now. Thanks, Joe
	♥ 10:06am Joe McG: Good morning, Brian and bobdoes!
	♥ 10:06am Brian in UK: After a misty start the sun filters around the mosque today. Hey Joe.
	10:07am Brendan: The duality of Jack Johnson's psyche is boggling. He can go from soft pop feel good surf folk music to bludgeoning another man into submission with either weapon.
	♥ 10:07am Brian in UK: Joe, is this the one with the mandrill on the cover?
	♥ 10:08am Joe McG: @Brian: No, this just has the fellows standing around looking cool. Hey, Brian! And Mark the Sardine!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: hey Joe! @marcel - well we can't say for sure.. maybe the bag is where it's at for cats.. could be a happenin' time
	♥ 10:09am Marcel M: @Bob: True, cats DO like going into bags.
	♥ 10:09am Marcel M: My mind goes right to the darkness I guess..
	10:11am jennielowe: shout out to @Marcel! Happy Birthday...April is full of some amazing bday folks...Billie Holiday...and now you : )
	10:11am Brendan: That's just their bag man.
	♥ 10:12am Marcel M: Thanks Jinnielowe! One of the many things Lady Day and I have in common..
	♥ 10:12am DCE: funkee Thursdee
	♥ 10:14am Brian in UK: Happy bday Marcel. Make the most....
	♥ 10:15am Sem Chumbo: Love the steel. Thx, Joe!
	♥ 10:16am Marcel M: Thanks Brian!
	10:17am bobdoesthings: cherish every moment
	♥ 10:18am Joe McG: Good advice, bdt!
	♥ 10:18am Marcel M: Well I didn't die at 27... I guess that was my last shot at getting into THAT club.
	10:20am oks: Marcel, is it your b-day?! :O
	♥ 10:21am Marcel M: Yep Oks.. the secret is out! And now, thanks to Joe, the whole tri state area is gonna be all over me today!
	10:22am oks: SWEET!! HAPPY B-DAY!!! XX
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: @Marcel: I'm glad you didn't join the 27 Chump Club.
	10:22am jennilowe: oh man..i was just craving some old school reggae! u read my mind Joe!
	10:22am Claw!: Marcel, do you have any plans for your special day?
	♥ 10:23am Marcel M: Thanks OKS! @Claw!: Lunch with my sister and dinner with my wife just chillin'
	10:23am Cooh John: Hello Joe and all extraneous noisemakers. Made it in time for single file.
	♥ 10:24am Joe McG: Hey, CJ! Hey, oks!
	♥ 10:28am Marcel M: Gotta head to work, bye Joe and thanks all!
	10:28am bobdoesthings: HappybirthdayMARCEL
	10:28am fleep: [waves to the departing birthday human] Greetings, Joe and everyone heading nowhere.
	10:30am oks: Marcel say hi to your lovely lady <3 Hi, Joe :)
	♥ 10:30am SeanG: WORD
	♥ 10:30am Joe McG: Greetings, fleep!
	♥ 10:30am Sem Chumbo: No sleep for fleep of the deep. G'day.
	♥ 10:31am Joe McG: If you missed DJ Therese performing this song at the end of the fundraiser, you owe it to yourself to dial up the archive!
	♥ 10:32am Mike Sin: Very happy to be listening to the live broadcast signal today... adjusting an antenna and everything... Hello!
	10:32am Cooh John: Humming the song earlier today. Mmmmmm
	♥ 10:32am DCE: oh gawd...
	♥ 10:33am Brian in UK: I am heading to see Noura Mint Seymali tonight. That is not nowhere.
	♥ 10:33am Joe McG: Hey, Mike Sin! Very happy to have you tune in!
	10:34am Claw!: I love that you decided to play this song.
	10:34am KP: I should be dancing
	10:34am the Canterbury wood-elf: what's up? > wuddup? > word up > word (word to everyone's mothers) The nasal vocals and funk-squelch on this are just perfect! I never appreciated it in '86, but saw the wonderful Ahoribuzz mash this up with "Purple Haze" live in NZ last year and that changed everything...
	♥ 10:35am Uncle Michael: The two native-American brothers at my boarding school would kick your ass if you disagreed that Redbone was the best band ever.
	10:35am fleep: And everyone heading somewhere.
	♥ 10:36am Joe McG: Hey, KP! Hey, Unca Mikey!
	♥ 10:36am Sem Chumbo: @BrianiUK: I see Noura Mint Seymali is in London tonight, and in Brooklyn at Roulette on the 30th of the month. World music, world traveler.
	10:38am d¢ pät: Hey Joe McG, can you play that good song?
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: @dcpat: Nah, I only like the bad ones!
	10:41am d¢ pät: oh, OK. Just checking, thanks.
	10:41am steve: if single file is truly random... does that imply 80+% of 45s are good?
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @steve: How kind! Well, no, there's selecting going on, believe it or not. I don't play the ones I don't like!
	10:44am steve: ah! you really had me wondering. also wondering if ~10% of all songs contain sexy moaning
	10:45am Sparkle Tornado: WWWWwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
	♥ 10:46am Brian in UK: Sem, Well you got to spread the message. I pointed the Brooklyn date out to Bill Mac who seemed to play her last album a few times. Do not know if he has plans to see her.
	♥ 10:46am Joe McG: @steve: At least 40% on the Casablanca label.
	10:47am Brendan: Don't read to much into numbers or percentages. 84.3 percent of statistics are made up on the spot.
	♥ 10:47am Santos L Halper: Good morning, Joe "Funk" McGasko! Hot start w/Miles, still burning it up
	10:47am fleep: DJ Stashu must have some really good coffee this morning.
	♥ 10:47am Brian in UK: 40% of the White House is GOOD!!!
	♥ 10:48am Joe McG: Hey Santos! Hey, Sparkle T!
	10:48am JakeGould: Woke up to “Cameo” in 2015. Thanks, Joe!
	10:49am fleep: The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, so songs are a tad superfluous.
	♥ 10:49am DCE: f*in Harry
	♥ 10:49am Joe McG: You bet, JakeG! @DCE: Ha ha ha!
	10:50am d¢ pät: god Harry's a DICK!
	♥ 10:50am Brian in UK: New biography of Hitchcock just come out by Peter Ackroyd. www.independent.co.uk...
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: Ha ha ha! That Harry. @Brian: Neat-o!
	10:52am Brendan: Thats alright they'll sign the first Harry Dick or Tom session pianist that walks through the door
	♥ 10:53am Joe McG: @Brendan: But he took the damn piano with him!
	10:55am Parq: Leave it to Beaver to find the body. Again.
	10:56am Brendan: Yeah like a folk singer, a ramblin guy. Threw his piano on his back , hopped a freight and traveled this great country, going from hobo jungle camp to camp singin songs
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: He's a ramblin' guy!
	10:57am Claw!: This track is really good, Joe!
	♥ 10:58am dale: wow - karen beth is great.
	10:58am bobdoesthings: Karen Beth... huh..
	♥ 10:58am Joe McG: @Claw!: I like Karen Beth. She has that weird Karen Dalton sound, which I love.
	10:59am βrian: Yes, Dalton comes to mind immediately.
	♥ 11:00am dale: just searched her and that image of her in front of the tree is familiar. she must have gotten play here before and i searched her then. i thought karen dalton as a muppet at first.
	11:00am bobdoesthings: @Brian - I thought this was Karen Dalton at first as well..
	11:01am OTB: @ dale - I thought muppet also.
	11:04am herb.nyc: hi joe, and all. nice set of music, and glad we're all learning of KAREN BETH. and LEROY HUTSON gives me a chance to tell you that the HUDSON park branch of ny pub libr, 66 LEROY street, will have a 2pm showing of "plan 9 from outer space" today. plus, i read this play many moons ago: The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name.
	♥ 11:04am Sem Chumbo: Used to a session moaner for Casablanca. Just braggin'.
	♥ 11:05am ChrisB.: I say yes to "Harry," Joe. Features a very young Jerry "Beaver" Mathers.
	♥ 11:05am Polyus: Did Kiss ever use a session moaner?
	♥ 11:06am Neil: My feeling is that The Trouble with Harry is for hard core Hitchcock fans. Not one of his best by a long shot, but it's still Hitchcock. Also not sure what the song has to do with that movie. It has more to do with Rear Window to me as it sounds like Ross Bagdasarian, who appears in that movie as a piano player/songwriter playing the same song throughout the entire movie, although not for laughs.
	11:07am Andy: Well I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that gets "Come and Get Your Love" stuck in his head relentlessly.
	11:07am rw: What's a session moaner? I think I may have kissed one.
	♥ 11:09am Sem Chumbo: @Polyus:Gene used to borrow my tongue when his got tired. Giraffe tongues are longer, and tireless. And blue.
	11:09am OTB: Joe - The Wrecking Crew is showing at IFC center, though only at 12:30 PM after today....
	♥ 11:11am Joe McG: Thanks for the info, Chris and Neil! I'll check it out eventually! @OTB; Thanks for the IFC info, I'll try to get there....
	♥ 11:11am BLCKDGRD: As a DC native THANKS FOR ROOT BOY!
	♥ 11:12am Greg from Bloomfield: YES!!
	♥ 11:12am MD: ROOT BOY!!! I HAVE NOT HEARD HIM SINCE MY COLLEGE YEARS IN CENTRAL NY...!!!
	11:12am OTB: You're welcome, Joe. I've been meaning to get over there for several weeks now....
	11:12am Claw!: Whoa! Root Boy is a huge guy in the local scene here in MD. All the boomer dads around here turn into major fanboys when they reminisce over him. I never really got into him like that, but it really surprises me to hear him played right now.
	♥ 11:12am MD: he was really big up there,,,,but now I listen to Beef Heart...
	11:12am GUMBY: Root Boy Slim Christmas at KMart Greatest Story ever told!
	11:12am Claw!: See? hahaha
	11:13am Carmichael: Root Boy! What an incredible song, by an incredible band.
	♥ 11:13am Uncle Michael: Only five archived instances of the Root Boy.
	♥ 11:13am Greg from Bloomfield: YES YES YES!!!
	11:14am MenfussMike: ahhh, my 2ND favorite Beef song.
	11:14am d¢ pät: perfect! Beefheart! ..I was thinking the same damn thing!
	♥ 11:14am paul b: Root Boy Slim. Good lord! I saw him play once. So long ago I've forgotten everything about it, like when or where -- DC, sometime in the early eighties
	11:15am oks: yes! captain beefheart!!
	11:15am KP: Saw some great Captain Beefheart vids at Moma. Wonder if they are permanent.
	11:17am Carmichael: Root Boy was a contemporary of George Dubya. They went to Yale together. Root Boy called him "a stuffed shirt".
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: @KP: Really? What was that about, KP?
	11:18am Carmichael: Oh, and Hi Joe!
	♥ 11:18am Joe McG: Hi, Carmichael! Love the Dubya story!
	11:20am Chris from DC: Aw man, yeah. Sorry I missed Root Boy.
	11:20am KP: There was real Tv commericial for an album, i guess his first one. And other clips.
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: @Chris from DC: Maybe I'll hit "Mood Ring" before the show is over. I love that song.
	11:22am Chris from DC: Me too. That would be great.
	♥ 11:23am SeanG: "Legs" is a great book about ole Jack Diamond
	11:24am Brendan: a friend from way back tells me we did bong hits in someones living room in MD with Root Boy in the late 70s. Didn't seem unusual as there were always new folks
	♥ 11:24am SeanG: love this song
	11:25am Brendan: Me Love the Mekons
	11:25am d¢ pät: whoa. Don't have this Mekons album. What the HELL?
	11:27am Carmichael: Here's a complete background on the Root Boy for anyone who cares to read it: www.furious.com...
	11:28am Carmichael: Mood Ring is such fun, demented Southern Rock.
	11:28am jt: Listen: You have got to see "Trouble with Harry". Then I will talk to you again.
	11:29am KP: Re: Decals/Beefheart, i saw this stuff at Moma: An early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial was also filmed that included excerpts from "Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in the middle of a road. The video was rarely played but was accepted into the Museum of Modern Art, where it has been used in several programs.
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @jt: Ha! @KP: I'll see if that stuff is on the YouTubery.
	♥ 11:34am ChrisB.: I remember seeing the Beefheart commercial during the "Midnight Special" show. It all happened so fast, and I never saw it again.
	11:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: Fokes!
	♥ 11:39am chris: I missed a Cameo cameo. Man, this Ryley Walker is good stuff!
	11:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: Aw hell, missed Root Boy's signature tune! Local legend..
	11:40am Laura L: Got this new Ryley Walker--it's a keeper. BTW, Joe, thanks for the fine proofreading on "Radio Alphabet"--it turned out great, didn't it.
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @Rev/chris: I think I'm gonna bring the Root Boy back for a cameo, so don't worry!
	♥ 11:41am Brian in UK: Great show as ever, Joe. Got to cut & run. Griots to see.
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @Laura: It looks great! You did an incredible job!!
	♥ 11:41am common: diggin. happy thursday!
	11:43am Claw!: Hola, common!
	♥ 11:44am Joe McG: Happy Thursday, common!
	11:45am tonyb: two of my pet artists in one set must be my day!
	11:45am Laura L: Aw, thanks--glad to contribute work to benefit WFMU--I think will delight all who receive it.
	♥ 11:45am Joe McG: @tonyb: Your story the other day made me pull this LP!
	11:49am steve: i got to flip through the Radio Alphet book and WOW it is a beautiful thing. it'd go straight onto my coffee table, if i had a coffee table. wait maybe i should get a coffee table.
	11:50am tonyb: hope there's a happier asbury story for the sonics tonite sounds like irwin had a blast last night
	11:50am bobdoesthings: thanks Joe!! great show.
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Thanks, bobdoesthings! And thanks everyone for listening and commenting today! Have a great weekend.
	11:53am Listening Out There: Am I too early?
	♥ 11:53am Sem Chumbo: Been wonderful, Joe. Later!
	11:54am Claw!: Thanks for another great show, Joe!
	11:55am Laura L: @ Steve--I'm so glad you enjoy the book. We don't know who made the orig. illustrations, but they are wonderful. It was a pleasure to re-create the book for the station. Cheers--and may your day not turn into a clambake.
	11:55am Brendan: Thank you yet again
	11:55am Ben: Joe, this has been an incredible freeform show
	11:56am Chris from DC: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:57am BLCKDGRD: Damn. I was young once.
	11:57am d¢ pät: Yeah more Root Boy!
	♥ 11:58am ChrisB.: Keep Root Boy in mind for the Holiday show with "Christmas at K-Mart."
	11:58am oks: Great show Joe! Thank you!!!!!
	11:59am bobdoesthings: OH MAN. root boy is gold..
	12:00pm Carmichael: Yeah baby ...

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 9, 2015

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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April 9, 2015: Root Down

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Miles Davis	Right Off "Right Off" by "Miles Davis"	A Tribute to Jack Johnson	Columbia Legacy	1992	CD	From 1970		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Champion of the World	My Own Story of the Big Fight at Reno, Nevada July 4 1910 (Part 1)	Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922	Archeophone	2005	CD	From 1910; Watch the fight here		0:28:46 (Pop-up)
Leadbelly	The Titanic "The Titanic" by "Leadbelly"	The Titanic	Rounder	1994	CD	From 1948		0:32:30 (Pop-up)
Sly & the Family Stone	Sing a Simple Song	Stand!	Epic Legacy	2007	CD	From 1969		0:37:17 (Pop-up)
Lucky Brown	Negra Modelo "Negra Modelo" by "Lucky Brown"	Mystery Road	Tramp	2015	CD		*	0:41:08 (Pop-up)
The Singers and Musicians of Washington HIgh School	The Ladder	Spiritual Jazz 6: Vocals	Jazzman	2015	CD	From 1973; vocal by Linda Theus	*	0:44:02 (Pop-up)
Marva Josie	You Lied "You Lied" by "Marva Josie"	New Breed Blues with Black Popcorn	Ace	2015	CD	From 1962	*	0:48:48 (Pop-up)
The In Crowd	Cat Dance "Cat Dance" by "The In Crowd"	Modernists: A Decade of Rhythm & Soul Dedication	Kent/Ace	2015	CD	From 1965	*	0:50:37 (Pop-up)
Powers of Blue	You Blow My Mind "You Blow My Mind" by "Powers of Blue"	Flipout	Gear Fab	2015	CD	From 1967	*	0:52:53 (Pop-up)

Mandrill	Fencewalk "Fencewalk" by "Mandrill"	Composite Truth	Universal Music	2014	CD	From 1973	*	1:05:01 (Pop-up)
The Sylvers	Don't Stop, Get Off "Don't Stop, Get Off" by "The Sylvers"	Forever Yours	Casablanca	1978	LP			1:09:40 (Pop-up)
John Gibbs & the U.S. Steel Orchestra	J'ouvert	single	Em	2014	12"	From 1979	*	1:12:42 (Pop-up)
Cynthia Richards	If You're Ready, Come Go with Me	Here Comes That Feeling - Hit Songs Jamaican Style	Trojan / Sanctuary	2004	CD	From 1974		1:20:01 (Pop-up)
The Jan Davis Guitar	To the Door of the Sun	Hot Sauce	Ranwood	1975	LP			1:22:47 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of random 45s played in a row
Cameo	Word Up "Word Up" by "Cameo"	single	Atlanta Artists	1986	45			1:29:16 (Pop-up)
Redbone	Come and Get Your Love "Come and Get Your Love" by "Redbone"	single	Epic	1973	45			1:33:12 (Pop-up)
Plastic Idols	Remix "Remix" by "Plastic Idols"	single	Clay	1980	45			1:36:41 (Pop-up)
Teri DeSario	With Your Love "With Your Love" by "Teri DeSario"	single	Casablanca	1979	45			1:39:33 (Pop-up)
Wynton Kelly	Little Tracy "Little Tracy" by "Wynton Kelly"	single	Verve	1964	45			1:43:47 (Pop-up)
Alfi and Harry	The Trouble with Harry	single	Liberty	1955	45	"Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Trouble with Harry'"		1:46:21 (Pop-up)
Salt Water Taffy	He'll Pay "He'll Pay" by "Salt Water Taffy"	single	Buddah	1968	45			1:48:48 (Pop-up)
Leroy Hutson	In the Mood "In the Mood" by "Leroy Hutson"	single	Curtom	1978	45			1:51:33 (Pop-up)
Karen Beth	The Joys of Life "The Joys of Life" by "Karen Beth"	single	Decca	1969	45			1:55:09 (Pop-up)

Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with The Rootettes	Boogie Till You Puke	Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with The Rootettes	Warner Bros.	1978	LP	To see the best in mid-70s eyewear, look no further		2:09:47 (Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby	Sun Zoom Spark 1970-1972	Rhino/Warner Bros.	2014	CD	From "The Spotlight Kid," 1972	*	2:12:27 (Pop-up)
Jay Boy Adams	The Legend of Jack Diamond	Jay Boy Adams	Atlantic	1976	LP			2:17:00 (Pop-up)
Mekons	Diamonds "Diamonds" by "Mekons"	Natural	Quarterstick	2007	CD	We'll be showing the Mekons documentary at Monty Hall in May		2:22:51 (Pop-up)
Simon Joyner	Nostalgia Blues "Nostalgia Blues" by "Simon Joyner"	Grass, Branch, & Bone	Woodsist	2015	LP		*	2:26:54 (Pop-up)
Ryley Walker	Summer Dress "Summer Dress" by "Ryley Walker"	Primrose Green	Dead Oceans	2015	CD		*	2:33:55 (Pop-up)
Angela Babin	Thank U 2 4 the Uke "Thank U 2 4 the Uke" by "Angela Babin"	I Never Meta Guitar Three	Clean Feed	2015	CD		*	2:39:41 (Pop-up)
Mink DeVille	Just to Walk That Little Girl Home	Le Chat Bleu	Capitol	1980	LP			2:42:10 (Pop-up)
George Van Eps	It's Easy to Remember	Once in Awhile	Delmark	2014	CD	From 1946; Eddie Miller, sax	*	2:45:52 (Pop-up)
Harry James and His Orchestra Featuring "Pretty" Kitty Kallen	I'm Beginning to See the Light	Best of the Big Bands Series	Columbia	1990	CD	From 1944		2:49:02 (Pop-up)
Noro Morales & His Orchestra	Noro's Jump	Tumba Rumba	University of Vice	2015	LP	From 1951	*	2:52:31 (Pop-up)
Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with The Rootettes	Mood Ring	Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with The Rootettes	Warner Bros.	1978	LP	By popular demand!		2:55:29 (Pop-up)

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	9:03am Cheri Pi: JOE!
	♥ 9:03am Marcel M: Morning Joe and people drinking Joe.
	♥ 9:04am Marcel M: I guess I shouldn't have capitalized the second Joe. Edit: Good morning Joe and people drinking their joe. There.
	♥ 9:04am Sem Chumbo: Hiya.Joe.
	♥ 9:05am Joe McG: Cheri, you're first today! Hi, Marcel! Hi, Sem!
	♥ 9:05am DCE: nice, Joe! g'marnin
	♥ 9:07am Joe McG: Garmarnin, DCE!
	♥ 9:07am Polyus: Arrived at work cold and wet, but things are now trending upward with Miles.
	9:08am Claw!: Yo, Joe! Good morning, Folks!
	♥ 9:08am Joe McG: Yo, Claw! Hope you dry out, Polyus!
	♥ 9:10am MD: "feelin' freeform man...feelin' freeform UP!!!"
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Feel the freeform, MD, feel the freeform, baby.
	9:13am SeanG: Miles and Mclaughlin are rippin' on this---hola Joe!
	9:13am steve: good mornin
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Hola, SeanG! Hey hey, Steve!
	9:16am pierre: 7 th !
	9:16am pierre: Bonjour Joe !
	♥ 9:17am Joe McG: Bonjour, pierre!
	♥ 9:18am Greg from Bloomfield: Morning, gang! Working the late shift tonite, so I'm here early for once!
	♥ 9:19am Joe McG: Hey Greg! You're just in time for the first part of the show!
	♥ 9:21am Andrew Waterloo: Good morning!
	9:21am Brendan: Hi Joe
	♥ 9:21am Joe McG: Good morning, Andrew! Hi, Brendan!
	9:29am redkayak: Hi all! Sounding good out here in the Imperial Midwest :)
	♥ 9:31am Joe McG: Hi, redkayak from the wild woods of New Jersey!
	♥ 9:32am dale: love mr. johnson. oh, for a great white hope.
	9:32am Brendan: The intonation and enunciation is pure Ali
	9:33am the Canterbury wood-elf: The timing and intonation of this Jack Johnson monologue almost sounds like an ecclesiastical Latin incantation. All on one note except the ending of each phrase where it descends. Morning Joe!
	♥ 9:33am Joe McG: @Brendan: Wow, you're so right! @Canterbury: Morning! Welcome, dale!
	♥ 9:34am Marcel M: I love how people dragged out words back then.
	♥ 9:34am dale: wow, the fight is all over youtube. who knew?
	9:34am redkayak: @brendan @canterbury I was thinking the same thing...very cool
	♥ 9:36am Joe McG: Hey, dale: Can you throw up a link?
	9:37am Parq: Brilliant set so far.
	♥ 9:38am Joe McG: @Parq: I thought about going with the Jamie Brockett, but that's more about pot than Jack Johnson.
	♥ 9:42am dale: two or three of them all seem to have the same narration, which is fine. from a site by max baer - father of jethro bodine? www.youtube.com...
	9:43am jennielowe: good morning all..Miles of movement getting the body shaking! Great show so far Joe with a capital J!
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: @dale: Yeah, it was a silent, so any narration would be after the fact. The Jack Johnson record was actually meant to be a soundtrack for it!
	9:45am Brendan: Modelos for everyone, this rounds on me
	♥ 9:45am Joe McG: Thanks, jennielowe! Good morning!
	♥ 9:46am Ken From Hyde Park: Alert and focuseded this morning!
	9:48am Mick: Joe McG is BRINGING IT today!
	♥ 9:48am Marcel M: This is a bunch of HS kids? Wow!
	9:48am Parq: Joe, are there copies of the Brocket left in the world that aren't all scratched and poppy?
	♥ 9:48am Joe McG: @Parq: I found one! :) Hi, Mick, Ken from HP!
	9:50am jennielowe: the singer on ladder was feeling it...: O
	♥ 9:51am Joe McG: @jennielowe: She co-wrote it, so it was hers all the way!
	9:53am jennielowe: what?!...that makes sense! Her name?
	♥ 9:56am Polyus: Oh hey Joe - I picked up a sci-fi disco record last week by a band called Apollo, from '79. Perchance did they make it on to your 2015 premium? Apparently Berry Gordy's kid was in the band,
	♥ 9:58am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	9:58am Claw!: Joe, you STAY blowing my mind.
	9:59am bobdoesthings: Is Marcel here?! It's his birthday! Happy Birthday Marcel!
	10:00am jennielowe: oh i see her name!
	10:01am Claw!: Holy shit! Marcel! Berfday??
	♥ 10:02am Marcel M: Yes the rumors are true! Thanks Bob!
	10:03am βrian: Leaden skies over the isthmus today. Good morning.
	10:03am Claw!: Happy Berfay, Marcel! Hope it's hella sweet. Mine is next Thursday. ;-}
	♥ 10:04am Marcel M: Hehe. Thanks Joe! Thanks Claw! Happy almost birthday!
	10:05am bobdoesthings: Wahaha! I let the cat out of the bag (which is a bizarre expression)
	♥ 10:05am Guido from Cologne: Guten TZAG everyone! Spring and sun over here!
	♥ 10:06am Joe McG: Marcel, I hope you have a GREAT one! Guten tzag, Guido!
	♥ 10:06am Marcel M: @Bob: hehe. yes ... it is quite bizarre... and kind of dark.
	♥ 10:06am Mark the Sardine: This grey day just got funky and it's all better now. Thanks, Joe
	♥ 10:06am Joe McG: Good morning, Brian and bobdoes!
	♥ 10:06am Brian in UK: After a misty start the sun filters around the mosque today. Hey Joe.
	10:07am Brendan: The duality of Jack Johnson's psyche is boggling. He can go from soft pop feel good surf folk music to bludgeoning another man into submission with either weapon.
	♥ 10:07am Brian in UK: Joe, is this the one with the mandrill on the cover?
	♥ 10:08am Joe McG: @Brian: No, this just has the fellows standing around looking cool. Hey, Brian! And Mark the Sardine!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: hey Joe! @marcel - well we can't say for sure.. maybe the bag is where it's at for cats.. could be a happenin' time
	♥ 10:09am Marcel M: @Bob: True, cats DO like going into bags.
	♥ 10:09am Marcel M: My mind goes right to the darkness I guess..
	10:11am jennielowe: shout out to @Marcel! Happy Birthday...April is full of some amazing bday folks...Billie Holiday...and now you : )
	10:11am Brendan: That's just their bag man.
	♥ 10:12am Marcel M: Thanks Jinnielowe! One of the many things Lady Day and I have in common..
	♥ 10:12am DCE: funkee Thursdee
	♥ 10:14am Brian in UK: Happy bday Marcel. Make the most....
	♥ 10:15am Sem Chumbo: Love the steel. Thx, Joe!
	♥ 10:16am Marcel M: Thanks Brian!
	10:17am bobdoesthings: cherish every moment
	♥ 10:18am Joe McG: Good advice, bdt!
	♥ 10:18am Marcel M: Well I didn't die at 27... I guess that was my last shot at getting into THAT club.
	10:20am oks: Marcel, is it your b-day?! :O
	♥ 10:21am Marcel M: Yep Oks.. the secret is out! And now, thanks to Joe, the whole tri state area is gonna be all over me today!
	10:22am oks: SWEET!! HAPPY B-DAY!!! XX
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: @Marcel: I'm glad you didn't join the 27 Chump Club.
	10:22am jennilowe: oh man..i was just craving some old school reggae! u read my mind Joe!
	10:22am Claw!: Marcel, do you have any plans for your special day?
	♥ 10:23am Marcel M: Thanks OKS! @Claw!: Lunch with my sister and dinner with my wife just chillin'
	10:23am Cooh John: Hello Joe and all extraneous noisemakers. Made it in time for single file.
	♥ 10:24am Joe McG: Hey, CJ! Hey, oks!
	♥ 10:28am Marcel M: Gotta head to work, bye Joe and thanks all!
	10:28am bobdoesthings: HappybirthdayMARCEL
	10:28am fleep: [waves to the departing birthday human] Greetings, Joe and everyone heading nowhere.
	10:30am oks: Marcel say hi to your lovely lady <3 Hi, Joe :)
	♥ 10:30am SeanG: WORD
	♥ 10:30am Joe McG: Greetings, fleep!
	♥ 10:30am Sem Chumbo: No sleep for fleep of the deep. G'day.
	♥ 10:31am Joe McG: If you missed DJ Therese performing this song at the end of the fundraiser, you owe it to yourself to dial up the archive!
	♥ 10:32am Mike Sin: Very happy to be listening to the live broadcast signal today... adjusting an antenna and everything... Hello!
	10:32am Cooh John: Humming the song earlier today. Mmmmmm
	♥ 10:32am DCE: oh gawd...
	♥ 10:33am Brian in UK: I am heading to see Noura Mint Seymali tonight. That is not nowhere.
	♥ 10:33am Joe McG: Hey, Mike Sin! Very happy to have you tune in!
	10:34am Claw!: I love that you decided to play this song.
	10:34am KP: I should be dancing
	10:34am the Canterbury wood-elf: what's up? > wuddup? > word up > word (word to everyone's mothers) The nasal vocals and funk-squelch on this are just perfect! I never appreciated it in '86, but saw the wonderful Ahoribuzz mash this up with "Purple Haze" live in NZ last year and that changed everything...
	♥ 10:35am Uncle Michael: The two native-American brothers at my boarding school would kick your ass if you disagreed that Redbone was the best band ever.
	10:35am fleep: And everyone heading somewhere.
	♥ 10:36am Joe McG: Hey, KP! Hey, Unca Mikey!
	♥ 10:36am Sem Chumbo: @BrianiUK: I see Noura Mint Seymali is in London tonight, and in Brooklyn at Roulette on the 30th of the month. World music, world traveler.
	10:38am d¢ pät: Hey Joe McG, can you play that good song?
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: @dcpat: Nah, I only like the bad ones!
	10:41am d¢ pät: oh, OK. Just checking, thanks.
	10:41am steve: if single file is truly random... does that imply 80+% of 45s are good?
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @steve: How kind! Well, no, there's selecting going on, believe it or not. I don't play the ones I don't like!
	10:44am steve: ah! you really had me wondering. also wondering if ~10% of all songs contain sexy moaning
	10:45am Sparkle Tornado: WWWWwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
	♥ 10:46am Brian in UK: Sem, Well you got to spread the message. I pointed the Brooklyn date out to Bill Mac who seemed to play her last album a few times. Do not know if he has plans to see her.
	♥ 10:46am Joe McG: @steve: At least 40% on the Casablanca label.
	10:47am Brendan: Don't read to much into numbers or percentages. 84.3 percent of statistics are made up on the spot.
	♥ 10:47am Santos L Halper: Good morning, Joe "Funk" McGasko! Hot start w/Miles, still burning it up
	10:47am fleep: DJ Stashu must have some really good coffee this morning.
	♥ 10:47am Brian in UK: 40% of the White House is GOOD!!!
	♥ 10:48am Joe McG: Hey Santos! Hey, Sparkle T!
	10:48am JakeGould: Woke up to “Cameo” in 2015. Thanks, Joe!
	10:49am fleep: The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, so songs are a tad superfluous.
	♥ 10:49am DCE: f*in Harry
	♥ 10:49am Joe McG: You bet, JakeG! @DCE: Ha ha ha!
	10:50am d¢ pät: god Harry's a DICK!
	♥ 10:50am Brian in UK: New biography of Hitchcock just come out by Peter Ackroyd. www.independent.co.uk...
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: Ha ha ha! That Harry. @Brian: Neat-o!
	10:52am Brendan: Thats alright they'll sign the first Harry Dick or Tom session pianist that walks through the door
	♥ 10:53am Joe McG: @Brendan: But he took the damn piano with him!
	10:55am Parq: Leave it to Beaver to find the body. Again.
	10:56am Brendan: Yeah like a folk singer, a ramblin guy. Threw his piano on his back , hopped a freight and traveled this great country, going from hobo jungle camp to camp singin songs
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: He's a ramblin' guy!
	10:57am Claw!: This track is really good, Joe!
	♥ 10:58am dale: wow - karen beth is great.
	10:58am bobdoesthings: Karen Beth... huh..
	♥ 10:58am Joe McG: @Claw!: I like Karen Beth. She has that weird Karen Dalton sound, which I love.
	10:59am βrian: Yes, Dalton comes to mind immediately.
	♥ 11:00am dale: just searched her and that image of her in front of the tree is familiar. she must have gotten play here before and i searched her then. i thought karen dalton as a muppet at first.
	11:00am bobdoesthings: @Brian - I thought this was Karen Dalton at first as well..
	11:01am OTB: @ dale - I thought muppet also.
	11:04am herb.nyc: hi joe, and all. nice set of music, and glad we're all learning of KAREN BETH. and LEROY HUTSON gives me a chance to tell you that the HUDSON park branch of ny pub libr, 66 LEROY street, will have a 2pm showing of "plan 9 from outer space" today. plus, i read this play many moons ago: The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name.
	♥ 11:04am Sem Chumbo: Used to a session moaner for Casablanca. Just braggin'.
	♥ 11:05am ChrisB.: I say yes to "Harry," Joe. Features a very young Jerry "Beaver" Mathers.
	♥ 11:05am Polyus: Did Kiss ever use a session moaner?
	♥ 11:06am Neil: My feeling is that The Trouble with Harry is for hard core Hitchcock fans. Not one of his best by a long shot, but it's still Hitchcock. Also not sure what the song has to do with that movie. It has more to do with Rear Window to me as it sounds like Ross Bagdasarian, who appears in that movie as a piano player/songwriter playing the same song throughout the entire movie, although not for laughs.
	11:07am Andy: Well I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that gets "Come and Get Your Love" stuck in his head relentlessly.
	11:07am rw: What's a session moaner? I think I may have kissed one.
	♥ 11:09am Sem Chumbo: @Polyus:Gene used to borrow my tongue when his got tired. Giraffe tongues are longer, and tireless. And blue.
	11:09am OTB: Joe - The Wrecking Crew is showing at IFC center, though only at 12:30 PM after today....
	♥ 11:11am Joe McG: Thanks for the info, Chris and Neil! I'll check it out eventually! @OTB; Thanks for the IFC info, I'll try to get there....
	♥ 11:11am BLCKDGRD: As a DC native THANKS FOR ROOT BOY!
	♥ 11:12am Greg from Bloomfield: YES!!
	♥ 11:12am MD: ROOT BOY!!! I HAVE NOT HEARD HIM SINCE MY COLLEGE YEARS IN CENTRAL NY...!!!
	11:12am OTB: You're welcome, Joe. I've been meaning to get over there for several weeks now....
	11:12am Claw!: Whoa! Root Boy is a huge guy in the local scene here in MD. All the boomer dads around here turn into major fanboys when they reminisce over him. I never really got into him like that, but it really surprises me to hear him played right now.
	♥ 11:12am MD: he was really big up there,,,,but now I listen to Beef Heart...
	11:12am GUMBY: Root Boy Slim Christmas at KMart Greatest Story ever told!
	11:12am Claw!: See? hahaha
	11:13am Carmichael: Root Boy! What an incredible song, by an incredible band.
	♥ 11:13am Uncle Michael: Only five archived instances of the Root Boy.
	♥ 11:13am Greg from Bloomfield: YES YES YES!!!
	11:14am MenfussMike: ahhh, my 2ND favorite Beef song.
	11:14am d¢ pät: perfect! Beefheart! ..I was thinking the same damn thing!
	♥ 11:14am paul b: Root Boy Slim. Good lord! I saw him play once. So long ago I've forgotten everything about it, like when or where -- DC, sometime in the early eighties
	11:15am oks: yes! captain beefheart!!
	11:15am KP: Saw some great Captain Beefheart vids at Moma. Wonder if they are permanent.
	11:17am Carmichael: Root Boy was a contemporary of George Dubya. They went to Yale together. Root Boy called him "a stuffed shirt".
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: @KP: Really? What was that about, KP?
	11:18am Carmichael: Oh, and Hi Joe!
	♥ 11:18am Joe McG: Hi, Carmichael! Love the Dubya story!
	11:20am Chris from DC: Aw man, yeah. Sorry I missed Root Boy.
	11:20am KP: There was real Tv commericial for an album, i guess his first one. And other clips.
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: @Chris from DC: Maybe I'll hit "Mood Ring" before the show is over. I love that song.
	11:22am Chris from DC: Me too. That would be great.
	♥ 11:23am SeanG: "Legs" is a great book about ole Jack Diamond
	11:24am Brendan: a friend from way back tells me we did bong hits in someones living room in MD with Root Boy in the late 70s. Didn't seem unusual as there were always new folks
	♥ 11:24am SeanG: love this song
	11:25am Brendan: Me Love the Mekons
	11:25am d¢ pät: whoa. Don't have this Mekons album. What the HELL?
	11:27am Carmichael: Here's a complete background on the Root Boy for anyone who cares to read it: www.furious.com...
	11:28am Carmichael: Mood Ring is such fun, demented Southern Rock.
	11:28am jt: Listen: You have got to see "Trouble with Harry". Then I will talk to you again.
	11:29am KP: Re: Decals/Beefheart, i saw this stuff at Moma: An early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial was also filmed that included excerpts from "Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in the middle of a road. The video was rarely played but was accepted into the Museum of Modern Art, where it has been used in several programs.
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @jt: Ha! @KP: I'll see if that stuff is on the YouTubery.
	♥ 11:34am ChrisB.: I remember seeing the Beefheart commercial during the "Midnight Special" show. It all happened so fast, and I never saw it again.
	11:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: Fokes!
	♥ 11:39am chris: I missed a Cameo cameo. Man, this Ryley Walker is good stuff!
	11:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: Aw hell, missed Root Boy's signature tune! Local legend..
	11:40am Laura L: Got this new Ryley Walker--it's a keeper. BTW, Joe, thanks for the fine proofreading on "Radio Alphabet"--it turned out great, didn't it.
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @Rev/chris: I think I'm gonna bring the Root Boy back for a cameo, so don't worry!
	♥ 11:41am Brian in UK: Great show as ever, Joe. Got to cut & run. Griots to see.
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @Laura: It looks great! You did an incredible job!!
	♥ 11:41am common: diggin. happy thursday!
	11:43am Claw!: Hola, common!
	♥ 11:44am Joe McG: Happy Thursday, common!
	11:45am tonyb: two of my pet artists in one set must be my day!
	11:45am Laura L: Aw, thanks--glad to contribute work to benefit WFMU--I think will delight all who receive it.
	♥ 11:45am Joe McG: @tonyb: Your story the other day made me pull this LP!
	11:49am steve: i got to flip through the Radio Alphet book and WOW it is a beautiful thing. it'd go straight onto my coffee table, if i had a coffee table. wait maybe i should get a coffee table.
	11:50am tonyb: hope there's a happier asbury story for the sonics tonite sounds like irwin had a blast last night
	11:50am bobdoesthings: thanks Joe!! great show.
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Thanks, bobdoesthings! And thanks everyone for listening and commenting today! Have a great weekend.
	11:53am Listening Out There: Am I too early?
	♥ 11:53am Sem Chumbo: Been wonderful, Joe. Later!
	11:54am Claw!: Thanks for another great show, Joe!
	11:55am Laura L: @ Steve--I'm so glad you enjoy the book. We don't know who made the orig. illustrations, but they are wonderful. It was a pleasure to re-create the book for the station. Cheers--and may your day not turn into a clambake.
	11:55am Brendan: Thank you yet again
	11:55am Ben: Joe, this has been an incredible freeform show
	11:56am Chris from DC: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:57am BLCKDGRD: Damn. I was young once.
	11:57am d¢ pät: Yeah more Root Boy!
	♥ 11:58am ChrisB.: Keep Root Boy in mind for the Holiday show with "Christmas at K-Mart."
	11:58am oks: Great show Joe! Thank you!!!!!
	11:59am bobdoesthings: OH MAN. root boy is gold..
	12:00pm Carmichael: Yeah baby ...

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