WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 04/10/15

Listener comments!

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8:41am listener james from westwood:

Suddenly I'm thinking of Bow Wow Wow....

8:44am glenn:

me too. but not the sixteen year old annabella lwin. nope.

8:45am Doug Schulkind:

Bow, Listener James! Wow, glenn!

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8:46am duke:

Happy Sounds www.fanpop.com...

8:49am Doug Schulkind:

Yeah, duke, that's whatimtalkinabout!

9:00am doca:

Hey, Doug, ljfw, glenn, duke! What a nice gif

9:00am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone

9:00am Doug Schulkind:

Brings back old memories, eh doca?!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Warm greetings, ndbob!

9:01am Konin:

Fini avec le fafafaaan, let's give the drummer some! Hiya all.

9:02am ndbob:

as usual when there are flashing GIFs I will refrain from commenting until I can tolerate looking at the board

9:02am doca:

Hahah I'm a hipster about it, @Doug. I'm kinda too young to have really get into cassette, though I did walk around school listening to my tape walkman. I'm still waiting for the CD Renaissance!

9:02am Uncle Michael:

I have scotch tape over my holes so that I can re-use myself.

9:02am Van in DC:

Haven't heard this intro in awhile...howdy

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Konin is here! Uncle Michael is here! Van in DC is HERE!

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9:05am listener james from westwood:

UM, I'm of that generation. Also of the generation where you could notch the side of a floppy to use the flip side. We jam econo.

9:07am Uncle Michael:

I preferred cassettes with shells that screwed together so that I could affect repairs as needed.

9:09am Doug Schulkind:

So many times, I got out my mini-Philips head screwdriver and opened up a cassette to detangle the tape and reassemble. It almost always worked. I LOVED cassettes.

9:09am ausmanx:

home taping is killing music, they told us...

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Why is that ausmanx, the feller whose pledge put WFMU over the top in reaching its goal? Why, yes. Yes it it!

9:10am Van in DC:

Those aren't cassette tapes. THIS is a cassette tape! :)

R.I.P. iPod: Sony unveils cassette tape that can hold 64,750,000 songs

consequenceofsound.net...

9:12am doca:

Yeah I've seen it, @Van. Actually that's a very large pen drive, isn't it? And how does one finds a specific track on it? It's listener's hell(/paradise)!

9:12am Van in DC:

beats me :)

9:12am Doug Schulkind:

Nice, Van! My wife and daughter gave me an iPod for my birthday almost 10 years ago. Dirty little secret: I never touched it. I'm just not an iPod kind of guy. I don't have a single MP3 on my iPhone either. I'm a weirdo.

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9:12am duke:

@Van finding any particular song may be a problem.

9:13am doca:

I like having music on the phone for when I'm not at home or exercising or stuff like that. But I don't know if music was really made to be listened when you're hurrying on the street.

9:14am Gary:

Morning!

9:14am Evan in NC:

@duke I had a hard enough time ff'ing and rw'ing to find a track on my 90 min cassettes. Wore most of them out that way

9:15am Doug Schulkind:

Don't sneak up on me like that, Gary!

Howdy, Evan in NC!

9:15am V Priceless:

Mornin' Doug and Streamers!

9:16am Frank from VT:

Morning all...
So Doug, when you are planning for a show, do you listen to tape or vinyl mostly?

9:17am Evan in NC:

Hi there! They made the kiddos come back a day early from Spring Break because of the blizzards of '15 and my first period is doing a silent (and invisible) protest. I've got two hours to listen to your show! Thanks, truants!

9:18am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome V Priceless and Frank from VT!

@Frank
I don't even have a working cassette player right now. So that answers that question. #embarrassed

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9:18am Brian in UK:

Howdy Doug 'n sound hounds. I was playing a mixtape only last night. Idris Mohammed aka Bill Evans, Stacy Lattishaw & Johnny Gill.
@ausmanx, yes hometaping is killing music. I still love that phrase.

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9:19am Brian in UK:

Doug that last station check sounded pre-recorded.

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

@Evan
I hope you are making them listen to these not-too-Taylor-Swiftian selections!

It's Brian in UK in the (virtual) flesh!

9:19am Van in DC:

I actually still do have a combo radio / cassette / CD player I use daily at home

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

I hope you don't think I'm a joik for playing these next three tracks...

9:20am Van in DC:

It's probably older than some FMU listeners :)

9:20am ausmanx:

i don't have ipod or phone either, Doug. but did buy one of those USB cassette players to play old tapes. Chris Forsyth's PEEESSEYE had a six-tape monster which was just too essential... as for killing music, of course downloading is supposedly killing music now, and it's the same corporations complaining about it!

9:21am Parq:

Hey, all. Miss cassettes too, although I still have a player, yet don't use them any more. Tried making mix CDs a couple of times, but it's just not the same.

9:21am Parq:

Uncle M @ 9:02: Rat own.

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9:22am listener james from westwood:

When I worked in an office that couldn't get WFMU in any format, my iPod was vital to filling in the gap. I downloaded FMU archives and threw them onto the iPod, then listened whenever. So much better than listening to other commuters or coworkers.

9:22am chromaphone:

Love the sound of cassettes. So warm and inviting. Been digitizing a slew of recordings of another fav radio show from a while back and the warmth seems to translate decently to CD.

9:23am Hugo:

Tapes are still big in Africa. I have a small collection from Kenya and Malawi. Back when I was living in Thailand, cassettes were the medium. CDs were quite expensive, but things have changed since then. I do have an Ipod, too. Anyone remembering the minidisc recorder? I have two of those.

9:24am Van in DC:

This music is poifect for the blooming cherry blossoms and magnolias and dogwoods here

9:24am Doug Schulkind:

Yo yo yo, Parq! And hey-O, chromaphone!

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9:24am Brian in UK:

Never owned an eight track. Phew.

Anyone remember the bootleg Thomson Tapes around the Middle East.

9:25am Van in DC:

8 tracks were awesome. Right in the middle of a song - kaTHUNK

9:25am Doug Schulkind:

Must be gorgeous, Van.

Top o' the afternoon to you, Hugo!

9:25am ausmanx:

hey brian, i made the mistake of watching the UK leaders debate for the election this week. when Australian politics sinks to a low point, we console ourselves that the level of discourse in other places is more sophisticated. i fear i was wrong...

9:25am Hugo:

joik = the traditional chanting style of the Sami people in the far north.

9:25am chromaphone:

Hey ho DS! This song is doing me right, right now.

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

Back in its old house in East Orange, New Jersey, WFMU used to have a bumper sticker on the wall that said...

Home Fucking is Killing Prostitution

Glad you were here to hear your homefolk, Hugo!

9:26am Andrew Waterloo:

Hell-o

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9:27am Brian in UK:

It is a well known fact that Norwiegens speak better Ingerlish than well the English and you lot.
ausmanx, sad to hear of Richie Benaud's demise.

9:27am ausmanx:

don't prostitutes do out calls in New Jersey, Doug?

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Yo-hoo, Waterloo!

Nice hearing that dog barking at the end of that marimba piece! I love those "real life" sounds underlying field recordings.

@ausmanx
I, well, I really wouldn't, um, know about that.

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9:29am Brian in UK:

Did you hear about the Hundred year old man who killed his Eighty Eight year old wife in NJ?

9:29am AndrewC.:

Am I doing something wrong? I hear some country music on the stream...

9:29am glenn:

terraplane is a very good rekkid.

9:30am Doug Schulkind:

Killer her with an ax, then knifed himself to death. Welcome to New Jersey!

@AndrewC
Remain calm. Everything is gonna be okay.

9:30am AndrewC.:

I mean not steve earle I'm pretty sure.

9:30am SeanG:

same here AndrewC!

9:31am SeanG:

there we go!

9:31am Doug Schulkind:

@AndrewC
Ha! You were right. The stream bucked me off. But I'm back baby!

9:31am AndrewC.:

yep - loud and clear! Lovely

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9:31am Brian in UK:

The tunes are somewhat fractured. Thirty seconds of Steve Earle.

9:32am Andrew Waterloo:

I was hoping that story ended with a math related punchline.

9:32am ausmanx:

i suspect if i lived to 100 i'd want to kill people too. as for Richie, Brian, it was a good innings but of course it's all quite ludicrous the way they're carrying on about it over here, like he was the most important person who ever lived. i mean, even Bradman was just a guy who hit a ball with a stick

9:32am Van in DC:

I thought you were playing country on purpose...

9:33am d¢ pät:

Hello! And hi!

9:33am Uncle Michael:

Steve Earle is coming to my area. I have never seen him live.

9:34am Erella:

Love steve earle! Thank you.

9:34am Erella:

He's great live, uncle Michael.

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9:34am Brian in UK:

Uncle, go see.

Lapps love a good dance.

9:35am glenn:

i'm not crazy about steve solo, but with the dukes, it's a great show.

9:35am Webhamster Henry:

Good morning Doug - I still have a lot of cassettes - mostly airchecks of old , pre archive WFMU shows. I also used to record a lot, and have a pair of binaural mics-in-the headphones that I could walk around town with and capture an eerie, "you are there" quality with.

9:36am Webhamster Henry:

Mr. Tony Coulter has a regular "played off cassette" Tape Hiss feature of his GTDS show.

9:36am still b/p:

Listening to an old bargain cassette of Tony Bennett's 50s - 60s hits on my Easter ride outa town...when it suddenly occurred to me,"Oh, there's probably a Dolby button on this (very infrequently used) player." Made a remarkable difference, but ya know, for that tape, I could go either way, hiss-wise.

9:37am Uncle Michael:

I'll probably miss Steve and the Dukes again. The timing isn't optimal.

9:37am doca:

@Henry: You should pass some of those recorded shows to WFMU to extend its archives

9:38am Parq:

James @ 9:22. My iPod -- an old school 180G rotating disc one -- is still essential to car trips. Haven't listened to the radio in a car in years, except once in a while when I'm passing through WFMU's signal area.

9:38am Hugo:

@Doug: joik correctly pronounced. As for Hætta, it is pronounced as Hatta - hat-ta.

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9:39am Brian in UK:

Doug, I think some of the first set got lost in a Wormhole.

9:41am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for the tip, Hugo!

Being in the wormhole with all of you is a nice place to be.

9:41am Mark Williams:

I think Brian in UK might be right, Doug. I think what was playing wasn't at all what you had listed. Mind you, it all sounded fine. Fancy that.

9:43am ndbob:

nice first set there Doug!

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

@Mark Williams
Yah, the stream booted me off during the Steve Earle track and started playing John D. Foster's "Taylor's Quicks." Then AndrewC saved the day.

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9:44am Brian in UK:

See my comment at 9:19 it sounded like the 24 hour stream. As Mark wrote it was all good, just confusing.

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9:45am Brian in UK:

FURTHER

9:45am Mark Williams:

this is a Foster takeover. Pure bandulu action.

9:46am Doug Schulkind:

There have been thunderstorms in the area here for the past 12 hours. The lights have flickered a few times. I'm guessing that a teensy power outage was the culprit.

9:47am Van in DC:

We had a teensy power outage in DC the other day ago

9:47am ndbob:

Hopefully the three days of storms are over now

9:47am glenn:

oh sure, the old "some other electrical failure did it" excuse.

9:48am Mark Williams:

that's worse than a pre-teens(y) outage, yes? More of a sulking one.

I don't know what's gotten into me this morning.

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

Hey everyone, if/when listener Artie Haywire shows up, wish him a Happy Birthday tomorrow!

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

Hey still b/p, there is a nice obit for Tony Bennett's longtime pianist in the NYT today.

Good morning, Webhamster Henry!

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

Oof, sorry about the flashing gif, ndbob!

9:52am Uncle Michael:

Bob, if you put Adblock Plus on your browser, you can right-click any image and block it.

9:53am Doug Schulkind:

Hey there, erella!!

9:53am ndbob:

@Doug It's all over now:)

9:53am ndbob:

@UM ty

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9:54am βrian:

Cornflower blue skies over the isthmus today. At last!

(There's also an extension for Safari called Deanimator. It's my salvation.)

9:55am Van in DC:

And by teensy power outage, I mean most of DC including the White House, Capitol, the frigging Dept. of ENERGY, and it extended all the way past U of Maryland.

9:55am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, d¢ pät! We've got d¢ pät and Van in DC. Practically the entire nation's capital is tuned in!

9:55am Doug Schulkind:

I saw news accounts of the DC power outage. I'm pretty sure my folks in Bethesda lost power.

9:57am Doug Schulkind:

Hi βrian! Paraphrasing the great blues belter Joe Turner, isth you isth or isth you ain't my baby?

9:57am ndbob:

@Van yep - all the way into St. Mary's county @Doug not sure if it went into Montgomery County - knocked out power in College Park, but don't know about west of there

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9:57am Brian in UK:

This is how to make the electric guitar sound pleasing but still urgent.

9:57am Flash Strap:

good morning glories

9:58am Van in DC:

Well it got me out of work early ha ha.

9:59am Uncle Michael:

This is only the second Joey Gregorash song in the FMU archives. The other one, I played twice...but I'm not alone.

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

Nice, Van. The power failure didn't turn off the Cherry Blossoms!

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10:01am listener james from westwood:

UM, had I walked in the door when Gregorash was playing, I'd have wondered whether you were pulling 6 hours today.

10:01am ndbob:

I flipped on WTOP to see what was going on - amazed me that Bob Marbourg is still doing traffic reports - he's been there forever

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10:01am listener james from westwood:

(Mmmmm ... 6-hour Hinky Dinky Time ....)

10:01am Uncle Michael:

I haven't played him since 2013.

10:02am glenn:

sugar ride. just in time for the annual flooding of the red river.

10:02am Uncle Michael:

James, talk Doug into going on vacation this summer.

10:05am Jeff Golick:

I played Joey, too! Though I'm a late arrival to the NC Funk.

Sorry I missed Badenhorst, Doug. Serves me right.

10:06am ndbob:

true Glenn - every year in Fargo

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
I used to listen to WTOP non-stop as a kid. Back when it was on AM, of course. At 11pm (or was it midnight), CBS Radio Mystery Theater came on, followed by Larry King's brilliant call-in show. (Yes, Larry King was brilliant back then.)

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10:09am βrian:

"Luther," he said, disambiguatingly.

10:09am glenn:

honestly, you have to wonder why people would insist on establishing a major city, by which i mean winnipeg, on a big ass flood plain, especially when they're told [admittedly by the natives, who they always ignored] that it flooded every year.

10:09am Uncle Michael:

Larry's heading to Duke Zeibert's for crab cakes after the show.

10:11am ndbob:

@Glenn or even a smaller one like Fargo - Grand Forks now has really good flood protection after the 1996 massive flood - Fargo is totally flat too

10:13am Uncle Michael:

Not building a city on a flood plain would mean not building a city along the greatest natural commercial trade route in North America.

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10:13am βrian:

I need more canticles in my life.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

New favorite word: disambiguatingly

10:14am glenn:

all it takes is one very severe rainstorm, not that that's ever gonna happen, because global warning is a total hoax, to wipe out the flood protection.

10:16am Doug Schulkind:

The wonderful artist and good friend of the show Tom Brosseau often sings of his home town, Grand Forks, and of the awesome presence, good and bad, of the Red River.

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10:17am listener james from westwood:

Amazing stuff, this.

10:17am ndbob:

and of some small ND towns

10:18am ndbob:

the Red River Valley is one of the most fertile agricultural areas anywhere

10:19am still b/p:

"Disambiguatingly," in an off-dictionary type of way, sounds like the adverb for a big and loose but assertively rhythmic brand of personal locomotion.

10:21am glenn:

which explains the delicious and nutritious red river cereal.

10:21am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
Kind of like that big-footed dude in the Keep On Truckin' iconography!

10:22am Gary:

Speaking of feet and cellos ... Faking skills on the cello? Cello feign. Foot injury caused by cello smashing foot while pretending to play? Cello feign pain.

10:23am still b/p:

Exactly. Everyone please to be moving like this today.

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10:23am βrian:

Are you just disambiguating, or are you glad to see me?

10:23am Van in DC:

Glad to see you uniregardlessly

10:27am Flash Strap:

wow this is awesome!

10:28am Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of awesome: Flash Strap!

10:30am still b/p:

I'm 2nd gen Irish...I might be disambrogueuating.

10:31am Flash Strap:

you're dead right about that guitar-star

10:31am Evan in NC:

Pauline Filby doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Cool that that's still possible.

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10:31am listener james from westwood:

I think I learned the term "disambiguation" from Wikipedia, and the pages of that type therein.

10:32am ndbob:

same here James

10:34am Flash Strap:

Oh man, I adore Patrick McGoohan

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

Has anyone seen this film?!?

10:37am Uncle Michael:

I'm sad I never came across this when I learned of then Jerry Lee Lewis Iago.

10:37am Van in DC:

In essence, Wikipedia kind of disambiguated disambiguation.

10:39am ndbob:

nope Doug

10:39am Uncle Michael:

Ah, this is the film adaptation of the stage play that featured the Killer...sorta.

10:40am Flash Strap:

No, but now i need to! I've had a fixation with mcgoohan ever since I saw him on Columbo, both as the CIA aget and as the military school headmaster. he's such an interesting director, too, having done some of the best episodes of Columbo, as well as the worst

10:40am annie:

just wanted to pop in and say hi.. been listening; wrapped up in work.. and i'm pleased to announce i've committed to a mouse pledge for this year and subsequent years.. yay!!

10:40am ndbob:

hi Annie!

10:41am annie:

hi bob and all you woof-mooers!!

10:41am Uncle Michael:

bad columbo episodes?

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

Hello annie!

10:42am annie:

hey doug!! i finally heard matt fiveash's show... very good stuff

10:42am Uncle Michael:

The Killer
blog.wfmu.org...

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10:42am duke:

Listening to this makes me think of devil songs. Jeff on the Magic Hour did a show of rain songs. I think a show of devil songs would be cool.

10:43am Flash Strap:

there is one, and McGoohan directed it: "Last Salute to the Commodore"

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
I was just gonna post that link!

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
I dunno. You think there's enough to fill an hour?

10:45am Uncle Michael:

Is that the Eddy Albert/Suzanne Pleshette episode?

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

@annie
Matt's show is a weekly revelation. Does anyone DJ with more heart than him? Answer: nope.

10:46am Flash Strap:

No, it's a Robert Vaughn, I think his second one after "Troubled Waters"

10:49am Uncle Michael:

Weirdly, from the IMDB description: " the seeming absent-mindedness and dim-wittedness of the Columbo character has been replaced with an unsatisfying and pronounced arrogance"

That kind of describes per-dishevelment, season one Columbo.

10:50am Uncle Michael:

*pre

10:52am Doug Schulkind:

I think there's some dishevelment disambiguation being displayed here.

10:53am Flash Strap:

yeah that whole episode is just wrong. it's even worse than the description. I don't remember him being arrogant so much as the whole thing having a garish slapstick vibe, with Columbo being tailed by bumbling assistants and everyone running into each other constantly. And of course, there's a twist halfway through, in total violation of the formula, which is fine as an idea, but doesn't work at all in practice.

10:54am Flash Strap:

but then, the same guy gives us "Identity Crisis", on my shortest list of best Columbo eps, ever.

10:55am Uncle Michael:

While I'm down with Columbo, I'm really more of a Rockford guy.

10:55am Doug Schulkind:

I wonder if re-runs of Columbo ever aired in Colombia?

10:55am chromaphone:

Great theme song. Rockford that is.

10:56am Uncle Michael:

I can safely sat that Rockford Files aired in Rockford.

10:57am Flash Strap:

Respect, but I'll take Falk over Garner till the heat death of the universe takes hold

10:57am Jeff Golick:

It's like I had ESP or something. Hiya.

10:57am Doug Schulkind:

Best TV show theme song: Mannix. Second besst TV show theme song: Barney Miller

BOTH COP SHOWS!

10:58am Dean:

I met Peter Falk during the Olympic Arts Festival in LA, 1984, at Royce Hall. It was a performance by Piccolo Teatro di Milano of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," a glorious production (and in Italian!). A theater professor who attended with me had purchased a painting by Falk decades earlier, and he wanted to mention it to Falk. True story.

10:58am Mark Williams:

aren't Cheap Trick from Rockford?

10:58am annie:

peter falk was in "wings of desire"

10:58am Doug Schulkind:

Way to make an entrance, Dean!

Did I say Hello Jeff Golick, before? Hello Jeff Golick!

10:59am Uncle Michael:

I opened the show with the Mannix theme not long ago.

10:59am Jeff Golick:

Police Woman had a pretty good theme song.

11:00am Alex In Illinois:

The Mannix theme was better than the one for The Prisoner? You know, that 1960's BBC show that weather balloon that chased people.

11:00am Dean:

And Wim Wenders made "Wings of Desire," and Wim Wenders was married once to Ronnie Blakley, and Ronnie Blakley played Al's Bar, LA's punk venue.

11:00am Mark Williams:

i'm still partial to the Starsky & Hutch theme. Like some Herbie Hancock b-side.

11:00am annie:

small damn world!

11:02am Flash Strap:

the prisoner....starring PATRICK MCGOOHAN

11:02am Dean:

Surely the "Mission: Impossible" theme song from the TV show ranks among the top three.

11:03am Flash Strap:

I'd love to throw in the Peter Gunn theme

11:03am Webhamster Henry:

Best TV themes: Mission Impossible (and its frequent background track "The Plan"), Chico and the Man (go find the extended version, it's pure Feliciano), and for Anime Fans, Attack On Titan.

11:04am Dean:

Monty Python's Flying Circus?

11:04am Webhamster Henry:

MPFC is just the Liberty Bell March (except for the fart at the end).

11:05am Evan in NC:

The theme from SWAT was the first record I ever owned.

11:05am Dean:

That parenthetical makes all the difference in the world.

11:06am Doug Schulkind:

The opening music/credit sequence to The Sopranos was pretty incredible.

11:06am Mark Williams:

that's called a remix, Webmaster Henry.

11:07am glenn:

network t.v. or h.b.o / showcase stuff? cause i gotta say, the deadwood theme is pretty fucking cocksucking good.

11:08am the Canterbury wood-elf:

Well, someone's got to mention Dr. Who - I mean the original weird electronic version produced by Delia Derbyshire (she of White Noise) and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1963. Very cool, regardless of what you think of Dr. Who.

11:08am Alex In Illinois:

In the Prisoner theme, thunder and rain and conga drums were the first sounds, and a crescendo of brass sounds is synchronized with his car passing on the highway. Later on in the intro sequence, whenever he is slams his fist on a desk, the thunder is intertwined with the guitar. Puckkc! Doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Puckck! Puckkc! Doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Puckck!.

11:08am Dean:

If you know the "between the sheets" game, then I propose replacing that phrase with "except for the fart at the end." Endless fun.

11:08am Flash Strap:

yes. the og who theme is AMAZING

11:08am Mike East:

Monkees theme?
Good morning all!

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

Nice one, Canterbury wood-elf! Delia "the real deal" Derbyshire!

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Monkey East!

11:10am Jeff Golick:

The new Kimmy Schmidt opening theme (new Tina Fey Netflix show) is pretty creative.

Sanford & Son also works.

This is reminding me that one of my very first fave LPs was simply an assortment of TV show theme songs, c. 1978. To the Google!

11:10am Webhamster Henry:

Maybe there could be a TV theme special show .. after an hour you'd be in a kind of TV sugar shock.

11:10am Mike East:

How I used to wish I was a Monkee livin' in that cool Monkee house.

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

@Alex in Illinois
I want to play on the air your version of the Prisoner theme!

11:12am Alex In Illinois:

I am a Dr. Who fan, and I like its theme enough that I will play it on an accordion some time, but The Prisoner still is still more dramatic. And the Monkees theme? I can't be the only one here who with friends would re-enact that intro sequence singing that tune. We were never able to do that Monkees walk for a whole block. How far was anyone else here able to do that Monkees walk?

11:12am Doug Schulkind:

That would be a great marathon premium: WFMU gets "famous" bands to cover famous TV show themes.

11:14am Jeff Golick:

Doug, whose version of this do I know better?

11:14am ndbob:

and "Hannah Montana" had a great theme song

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11:15am listener james from westwood:

Even as a kid I had an affinity for the "Barney Miller" theme.

Why were my parents letting their 10-year-old watch "Barney Miller"? The oracle is silent.

11:17am annie:

LJFW, it's simply that they were way ahead of their time..

11:18am Jeff Golick:

Man, that is some good google fodder. I really like the design on this one: www.vinyl45s.com...

11:19am chromaphone:

Best tv theme song is Rockford Files because of its use of harmonica with synthesizer. #2 = The Price is Right and #3 = Andy Griffith show (I never watched Barney Miller as a kid but that theme is amazing)

11:19am Dean:

Sheriff John? Hobo Kelly? "H-O-B-O K-E-double L-Y. Hobo Kelly, sure and begorrah 'tis I!"

11:19am ndbob:

i think i had that lp Jeff

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11:19am listener james from westwood:

Those afternoon/early evening Channel 11 (in the NYC area) sitcom reruns made for cheap childcare, I'll give 'em that.

11:19am Doug Schulkind:

My high school jazz band had the Barney Miller theme in our book. I got to play a drum solo on that sucker. And what a bass line opening!!

11:19am annie:

i shudder to think, yet happy that i did, what i let my young boy see at age ten... he says it's why he's a film maker now..

11:19am the Canterbury wood-elf:

There was a British football (i.e. soccer) programme a while back which used The Fall's "Theme From Sparta FC" as its theme. They even got Mark E. Smith on to read out the results one week (www.youtube.com... - weirdly compelling listening!)

11:20am chromaphone:

Wait Match Game may be #1... and #2 may be $10,000 Pyramid... now I'm confused.

11:21am Jeff Golick:

Bingo: here's the LP I had as a kid: www.discogs.com... Vol. 2! And not even the original versions, from the look of it.

11:21am Dean:

That Mark E Smith moment is priceless. Gosh bless The Fall.

Frankly, I worry more about kids seeing the commercials that punctuate the shows. They're filthy.

11:21am Doug Schulkind:

Greatest comment thread ever? Greatest comment thread ever!

11:22am Jeff Golick:

This IN ORBIT LP just got the re-ish treatment: soundcolourvibration.com...

11:22am ndbob:

hmm I gt a 404 error there Jeff

11:22am Dean:

A long, long time ago the Kronos Quartet used to encore with a medley of TV show theme songs. This was in the days when Bartok and Beethoven comprised the program.

11:22am Mike East:

anyone mention the GREAT Rockford Files theme cover on Michael Shelley's SHOTS premium?

11:23am annie:

has jeopardy ever had a category for tv theme shows? he could put together a hundred shows just of theme songs!

11:23am Jeff Golick:

Ok, sure: BOB CRANE, HIS DRUMS & ORCHESTRA PLAY THE FUNNY SIDE OF TV: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com...

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

This Terry/Monk record was produced by the late, great Orrin Keepnews, father of WFMU DJ Irene Trudel's husband, Peter Keepnews.

11:24am Dean:

Probably not, annie, because if the Jeopardy theme show were itself the answer for which a question must be provided it would all fall into an endless vortex loop and we'd never see Trebek or the contestants again.

11:25am glenn:

andy griffith theme by earle hagen, the composer of harlem nocturne.

11:25am Mike East:

the seventies had such great theme songs...by contrast, the 90's were vomit inducing. Full House? Family Matters? blech.
Perfect Strangers and Cheers in the 80's weren't bad either

11:25am annie:

the paradox!

11:25am Jeff Golick:

On the nostalgia tip, this morning I revisited Grace Slick w/ Danny Zeitlin doing their Sesame Street thing, via this Open Culture post: www.openculture.com...

11:25am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
Try Jeff's link again. I fixed it.

11:26am ndbob:

My friend always has guess the TV theme contests on his radio show - lots of really tough ones

11:26am annie:

that open culture website is a gem!

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11:26am listener james from westwood:

annie: I would have OBLITERATED such a J! category.

11:27am Dean:

I totally forgot that Denny Zeitlin was involved with Sesame Street! I've heard him solo at a piano store in Oakland a couple times. He's amazing, and he has the coolest sweaters.

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11:27am listener james from westwood:

Mike: Science fiction had the good theme songs in the 90s. X-Files, Babylon 5...

11:27am Uncle Michael:

How we got from Tony Joe White to Sesame Street, only Doug only knows...

11:27am chromaphone:

Cool glenn. Had no idea. Did any aspect of culture not get worse in the 90s? I mean music production got rid of that horrible 80s snare sound but it still sucked.

11:27am ndbob:

TY Doug - I've never seen that LP

11:27am John Reith:

This Ladies and Gentlemen is surely the medium to settle the nerves and spread maximum joy. The television has sadly failed to imparted sufficient knowledge and entertainment that I anticipated.

11:28am Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Doug. Lastly: www.youtube.com... = TOO MANY COOKS, the final word in god-awful 80s/90s tv theme songs.

11:28am Dean:

You're saying you don't know how to get to Sesame Street, UM?

11:28am annie:

on a side note, i've been watching 3rd rock reruns... does anyone know if there's a source for all the movie quotes they use in the show? they are fast and furious, especially the schitcks vetween sally and officer don.

11:29am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael will unlock whatever mysteries of the universe we don't get to here on his show Hinky Dinky Time, coming up on the Drummer Stream in 30 minutes. His playlist page is over... here: wfmu.org...

11:30am chromaphone:

Ok, good to know listener James.

11:30am glenn:

oh boy. third rock is so brilliant.

11:30am annie:

JL had undying energy

11:31am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, TV Rejecter John Reith!

11:31am Alex In Illinois:

Mark E. Smith did that more professionally than I thought he would. I thought he would declare each one with indignation.

11:31am annie:

(sp)

11:32am Doug Schulkind:

On his upcoming program, Uncle Michael will re-create Wagner's Ring Cycle using nothing but cover versions by The Muppets, Percy Faith, Queensrÿche, and the Afghan Whigs!

11:33am annie:

last week's JCSS was classic!

11:33am Uncle Michael:

I can't use Warner Brothers cartoons??

11:33am Mike East:

John Lithgow came into my apartment many years ago because he was looking for a place in the same building for his son who was going to college or something. I was lying on my bed stoned reading silvia plath and it was surreal to see my roommate talking to JL and his son's friend about the neighborhood. It was Bushwick.

That's my John Lithgow story.

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11:34am Brian in UK:

Doug, I fear that Mr Reith did not reject the television. It has been undermined in the same way as what might be called natural progression. Currently this process is on hiatus is some areas of this swinging sphere.

11:34am annie:

i love him... he killed it in "love is strange"

11:35am ndbob:

There was a great performance of a Wagner opera a couple years ago with much of the cast wearing rodent costumes

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11:36am Brian in UK:

@ndbob are you sure it was not The Wind in the Willows?

11:38am Doug Schulkind:

Steinski describes making this mix: "I made this while recovering at home from major surgery, whacked on painkillers."

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11:38am Brian in UK:

Anyone seen the Brian Wilson biography. Could be called How Did All These People Get in My Sandpit?

11:38am Uncle Michael:

brain salad surgery?

11:39am still b/p:

Stayed up unexpectedly late last night watching part of a pretty full-scale Frank bio doc...only 'cuz HBO is on a free-preview thing.

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

@Mike East
Steve Busecmi once came into my apartment. Came to a party a my apartment, actually. Except that I slept through the whole thing. It was during the WFMU marathon and I came home exhausted and missed the party.

11:40am Uncle Michael:

I had that dream once, Doug.

11:41am Jeff Golick:

This is really good, painkillers or no.

11:42am Dean:

Miya Masaoka once came into my apartment. That's the best I can come up with.

11:43am Uncle Michael:

So far I've managed to keep celebrities the hell out of my house.

11:44am Mike East:

lol, UM.

11:44am ndbob:

@Brian looking for a link

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11:44am Brian in UK:

Uncle, I am with you. Never clear up, got no readies, cadging a smoke. Trouble.

11:44am Uncle Michael:

I lie. When I was a kid, Dominic Chianese came to Seder. I was powerless to prevent it.

11:45am annie:

i was wished happy mother's day on the phone by charlie sheen...he was talking with my kid and it was mother's day. but i loved talking to mr rogers on diane rehm's show..my contact with celebrity is always second hand..

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11:45am listener james from westwood:

Ooh! Steinski! Just came back in. Multiple cops arrived as I was down getting my mail. Resident in distress. Ambo likely next.

11:45am Dean:

Well, Miya and Oz Fox of Stryper.

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11:45am listener james from westwood:

UM, I didn't know it at the time, but I once took my lunch to school in the Unknown Comic's head.

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

Never go outside again, Listener James.

11:46am Dean:

I keep waiting for somebody to write a 27-note samba.

11:46am Uncle Michael:

I'm telling the truth about the Seder.

This is amazing.

11:46am Gary:

Loving the Steinski

11:47am Webhamster Henry:

I was waiting for that "Frankie" -- from Tex Avery's "Li'l Tinker"

11:47am Parq:

Why do I suddenly feel like a guy from Bay Ridge on acid?

11:47am Uncle Michael:

I have to tell you that my show has two points of synchronicity with Doug's today...so far.

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11:47am Brian in UK:

If Steinski does this when he is recovering.........

Great show, Boss.

11:48am ndbob:

www.nytimes.com...

11:48am Uncle Michael:

I have a meeting with my garden club.

11:48am Dean:

Are we in for a Police tune? I sure hope not.

11:48am Doug Schulkind:

Steinski's latest mix is PHENOMENAL. I can't wait to air it!!

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Fear not, Dean-o.

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11:50am Brian in UK:

@ndbob not surprised it was booed in Bayreuth.

Uncle is that the start and finish?

11:50am ndbob:

We had Lou Jacobi over once for Rosh Hashana dinner - my parents had met him at the train station in Baltimore

11:50am still b/p:

That was great..Steinski: perfect partner/froster for the documentary...except the doc lets Frank say "fuck" here and there, which makes me tremble and scream like a teenager at the Paramount .

11:50am Doug Schulkind:

@Parq
You've got the Friday Morning Fever.

11:52am chromaphone:

This is excellent Doug. When is this from?

11:52am Uncle Michael:

Yes, the start and the finish.

11:53am Uncle Michael:

I can't wait to see you all in the next room.

www.wfmu.org...

11:53am Dean:

Re: Frank and "fuck," my brother and I took my parents to a Frank concert at Universal Studios around the time of "New York, New York." Opening act was a comedian well known from appearances on daytime and nighttime TV talk shows. He was frigging filthy! At that point the hypocrisy of adult rules about polite language was never clearer to me.

11:54am Evan in NC:

Eugene Chadbourne's daughter used to babysit mine. He cooked us Tagine chicken once.

11:54am Doug Schulkind:

Which one, chromaphone?

11:55am chromaphone:

Bliss

11:55am Doug Schulkind:

That Bliss track is from 1969. Found on this comp: www.discogs.com...

11:55am annie:

UM- i may or may not be on the comments...at best, watching... but will be listening

11:55am Uncle Michael:

Great show today, Doug.

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Jim Henson used to be our paper boy. He delivered the Washington Star in the early 1960s to our house.

11:56am Alex In Illinois:

I once briefly lived in a Brooklyn loft on the same floor as Lydia Lunch and Jim Thirlwell

11:56am Evan in NC:

Did you used to live in Hyattsville, Doug?!

11:57am Uncle Michael:

Glad to have your ears, annie.

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

Goshdangitt but I do adore the horns on this track. So melancholy.

@Evan in NC
I grew up in Bethesda.

11:58am chromaphone:

Thanks for the info Doug and for a great show.

11:58am ndbob:

wow Doug - I remember the very early commercials Henson did for Wilkens Coffee - with Kermit in them

11:59am Gary:

Thanks for the greatness, Doug

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

It is my ridiculously sublime pleasure, chromaphone and everyone!

11:59am ndbob:

excellent show Doug - and a super lively bunch of comments today

12:00pm Evan in NC:

We always claimed JH as a Hyattsvillain, but maybe he moved there as an adult.

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12:00pm listener james from westwood:

Indeed, ndbob: glad to see the discussion! And thanks most kindly for the superb show, Doug!

12:00pm Mike East:

that last track especially wonderful. Afternoon, drummer. thanks for the tunes.

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

@Evan in NC
Henson lived in Bethesda while he was still going the Univ. of Maryland. Lived up the street from us.

12:03pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Doug!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

The Fringe	Peace for L.A.	It's Time for the Fringe (Soul Note 1992)
Joachim Badenhorst	Wormhole	Forest//mori (Klein 2014)
Nils N. Haetta	Josef Mikkel Sara	Lappish Joik Songs from Northern Norway (Folkways 1956)
Nils N. Haetta	Johan Goup	Lappish Joik Songs from Northern Norway (Folkways 1956)
Nils N. Haetta	Leorik Keskadelo	Lappish Joik Songs from Northern Norway (Folkways 1956)
Tierra Caliente	Andarele Vamanos	Ecuador and Colombia: Marimba Masters and Sacred Songs (Multicultural Media 1995)
Steve Earle & the Dukes	Better Off Alone	Terraplane (New West 2015)

Raoul Guillaume et Son Groupe	Mal Élevé	Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978 (Strut )
Trío Reynoso	Las Mujeres Ajenas	Con Tatico (Zuni ca. 1966)
Glen Brown	Why People Mumbling?	The Way to Mt. Zion (ROIR mid-1970s)
Empire Bakuba & Papy Tex	Livre d'Or	Livre d'Or (Disco Les Vedettes Shaba 1986)
Joey Gregorash	Sugar Ride	North Country Funk (Polydor 1971)

Northwestern University Cello Ensemble	Canticles of the Sky: Sky With Four Suns	John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music 2013)
Northwestern University Cello Ensemble	Canticles of the Sky: Sky With Four Moons	John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music 2013)
Northwestern University Cello Ensemble	Canticles of the Sky: Sky With Nameless Colors	John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music 2013)
Northwestern University Cello Ensemble	Canticles of the Sky: Sky With Endless Stars	John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music 2013)
T. Odueso's Akesan Highlifers	Eyo Mano Mi	Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway )
Pauline Filby	Jigsaw	Show Me a Rainbow (Herald 1969)

Tony Joe White	Othello (pts. 1-5)	Catch My Soul (OST) (Metromedia 1974)
Free Music Quintet	Free Music No. 2	Free Music One and Two (ESP 1968)

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Ernest Ashworth	Talk Back Trembling Lips	b/w That's How Much I Care (Hickory 1963)
Sonny Rhodes	Sitting & Thinking	I Don't Want My Blues Colored Bright (Amigo 1976)
Mina	Nem Vem Que Não Tem	Mina Canta o Brasil (PDU 1970)
Clark Terry with Thelonious Monk	One Foot in the Gutter	In Orbit (Riverside 1958)
The Fully Celebrated Orchestra	The Kelpi	Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Innova 2001)

Steinski	What Was Raymond Doing With His Hands? (A Soundtrack for a Real Swinger of a Nightmare)	Village Voice mix (n/a 2008)
Bliss	Fears of Fears	Return to Bliss (Void 1969)
The Stench Band	Street Walking Lady	Pray for the Fred (Stench Productions )
Charlene & the Soul Serenaders	Love Changes	b/w Can You Win (Volt 1970)

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