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Playlist for 23 April 2015 Favoriting | Folk is just a four-letter word

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Artist Song Album Label Images Approx. start time
Stan Freberg  The Yellow Rose of Texas   Favoriting A Child's Garden of Freberg  Capitol    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Danny Cox  Train Song   Favoriting Danny Cox  ABC Dunhill    0:03:45 (Pop-up)
Frida Sonko with Equator Sound  Gwenasobya   Favoriting The Kampala Sound: 1960s Ugandan Dance Music (various artists)  Original Music    0:07:05 (Pop-up)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle  Kiss And Say Goodbye   Favoriting Kate & Anna McGarrigle  Warner Bros.    0:09:29 (Pop-up)
Jake McKelvie & the Countertops  Mini Monster   Favoriting Solid Chunks of Energy  Jake McKelvie & the Countertops    0:12:25 (Pop-up)
Joan Baez  Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word   Favoriting I Shall Be Unreleased: The Songs of Bob Dylan (various artists)  Rhino    0:16:42 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
The Artie Schroeck Implosion  		Didn't Want to Have to Do It   Favoriting A Spoonful of Lovin'  Verve    0:21:10 (Pop-up)
unknown artist  track A-4   Favoriting 69 Folk Best 14 (various artists)  CBS/Sony Japan    0:24:08 (Pop-up)
Kaada  Broken Horse Restaurant   Favoriting Junkyard Nostalgias  Kaada Recordings    0:27:06 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Nobody Knows You Wnen You're Down and Out   Favoriting Bittersweet: The Very Best of (orig. 1960 Colpix single)  7N/BMG    0:31:10 (Pop-up)
Jeffrey & Jack Lewis  Don't Be Upset   Favoriting City and Eastern Songs  Rough Trade 
Favoriting
0:33:56 (Pop-up)
Tin Hat Trio  Esperanto   Favoriting Helium  Angel    0:36:40 (Pop-up)
Fugs  I Want to Know   Favoriting Second Album  ESP; Fantasy    0:41:37 (Pop-up)
Bruno Rudzinski  Przyszedl Chlop Do Karczmy   Favoriting Folk Music in America, Vol. 11 - Songs of Humor & Hilarity  Library of Congress    0:43:44 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
World Standard  		The Lonely Driver 1952   Favoriting Country Gazette  Asphodel    0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Richard & Mimi Farina  Sell-Out Agitation Waltz   Favoriting Reflections in a Crystal Wind  Vanguard    0:52:42 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins  Hard Lovin' Loser   Favoriting In My Life  Elektra    0:55:23 (Pop-up)
Allan Sherman  The Rebel   Favoriting Live! (Hoping You Are the Same)  Warner Bros.    0:57:56 (Pop-up)
Jens Lekman  Do You Remember the Riots?   Favoriting When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog  Secretly Canadian    1:01:32 (Pop-up)
Ben Colder (aka Sheb Wooley!)  The Love-In   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  MGM    1:04:05 (Pop-up)
The Beatles  Revolution   Favoriting 45 played at 33  Apple    1:06:05 (Pop-up)
Len Chandler  The Lovin' People   Favoriting The Lovin' People  Columbia    1:10:44 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Obeng Ungu & Julan Buntu with Group  		Menyelam Pakai Pipa Udara   Favoriting 1951: Sumatran Ladies Wearing Hats Outlawed by Government  Hot Air    1:13:27 (Pop-up)
Idir  A Vava Inouva   Favoriting 1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (various artists)  Sublime Frequencies    1:19:11 (Pop-up)
Mountain Man  Animal Tracks   Favoriting recorded at SXSW, 2010      1:23:24 (Pop-up)
Just Julia  Virginia   Favoriting Just Julia  Just Julia    1:25:38 (Pop-up)
Dim Dim  Swirl   Favoriting Kiwi  Audio Dregs    1:27:47 (Pop-up)
The Association  Time for Livin'   Favoriting Birthday  Warner Bros.    1:30:55 (Pop-up)
Anais Mitchell  You Are Forgiven   Favoriting Young Man in America  Wilderland    1:33:43 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
The Artie Schroeck Implosion  		Amy's Theme   Favoriting A Spoonful of Lovin'  Verve    1:37:50 (Pop-up)
Angel Olsen  Stars   Favoriting Burn Your Fire for No Witness  Jagjaguwar    1:41:43 (Pop-up)
Mountain Goats  The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life   Favoriting Ghana  3 Beads of Sweat    1:46:41 (Pop-up)
Kate McGarrigle  Go Leave   Favoriting Kate & Anna McGarrigle  Warner Bros.    1:49:09 (Pop-up)
Susanna & the Magical Orchestra  It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)   Favoriting Melody Mountain  Rune Grammofon    1:52:33 (Pop-up)
Rasputina  Rock and Roll   Favoriting The Lost and Found  Instinct    1:55:53 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
World Standard  		Billy Strange Country   Favoriting Country Gazette  Asphodel     
    "Pogo" is also a four-letter word   
Favoriting
 

Listener comments!

Avatar 11:59am ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!
Avatar 12:01pm Michael:

Happy Thursday@noon! Hiya Charlie and everybody else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Charlie:

Hi Bob, Michael! Happy Thursday to you both.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm doctorjazz:

Hey all, nice start to the show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Charlie:

Let us not assume that this song will completely rule out sincerity later in the program...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm listener james from westwood:

How do, Charlie and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Parq:

Ray Stevens and Jim Stafford trod previously explored ground, I note.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Charlie:

Hay, Doc Jazz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Charlie:

James, Parq, welcome.
  12:05pm Listening Out There:

R.I.P. Stan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Charlie:

Yes, Listening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Charlie! Hello, folks!
Avatar 12:06pm Carmichael:

Good mornin' Chaz and busy people. Sadly, I
m actually doing *something* ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Charlie:

Big BDN welcome to Doug and Carmichael!
Avatar 12:11pm thatpatsmith:

hey all
Avatar 12:12pm thatpatsmith:

folks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm Charlie:

Hi thatpat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm Charlie:

Local band here, based in Keene NH. They're great live!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm doctorjazz:

another band I don't know (not that that's so rare, but I try...), like this Mini Monster, time to check Amazon again.
Avatar 12:18pm βrian:

Slavery is a four syllable word, apparently, too.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:18pm doctorjazz:

Kate/Anna/Joan, lots of feminine attitude
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm Charlie:

DrJ -- look for them on Bandcamp: jacobcmckelvie.bandcamp.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm Webhamster Henry:

I Shall Be Re-Released.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm Webhamster Henry:

Anything from the Fast Folk people today? I used to go to their shows and had a lot of their LPs, now carried by the Smithsonian/Folkways.
  12:24pm jan:

enjoying the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm Doug Schulkind:

It always puzzled me why so many people used to stand up and yell FREBERG at Lynyrd Skynyrd concerts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm Charlie:

Hi Jan!
Henry -- good idea; I'll see if I have any handy.
Haha Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm Doug Schulkind:

I've got to dash off to work. Happy folking, Cholly!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:30pm Charlie:

Thanks to WFMU's Scott Williams for loaning me that 69 Folk Best album many years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Charlie! Excellent show so far!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Artie Haywire:

Stan knows why ;|
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:33pm doctorjazz:

Brought up the Bandcamp site, take a listen when the Drummer Stream Duo is done for the day, thanks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm listener james from westwood:

I initially read Scott's contribution as "69 Folk Songs," which if it were an actual Magnetic Fields set I could fully get behind.
  12:42pm rf:

great today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm Webhamster Henry:

Lots of stars today!
  12:45pm Listening Out There:

Do it, Bruno!
Avatar 12:45pm ndbob:

the folk music in America lps are great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Salutoj al ĉiuj esperantistoj kaj WFMU aŭskultantoj!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Faru pli granda la etulojn!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm Charlie:

Hey, Artie, rf, wood-elf.
Wood-elf -- translation?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm Mike East:

what was that line about not being able to grow a beard?
Avatar 12:59pm glenn:

i hope judy didn't write that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:00pm Webhamster Henry:

This sounds like the bass, harpsichord and drums were overdubbed ... and maybe the laughs! A clean Alan Sherman track would be interesting to work with!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Mike East:

in reference to someone else. - "he's like an artist who gets a cabin in the forest then discovers that he can't grow a beard..." or something like that. I like that.
I'm sure Judy Collins could grow a beard if she really wanted.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Charlie:

Mike East:
Society is never geared
To people who grow a beard
Or little girls with holes in their ears
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm drr:

wow, I don't think I've ever heard Jens Lekman on WFMU.
Avatar 1:06pm glenn:

if this ben colder isn't a plantation recording, i'll eat my incense.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Parq:

This Beatles slow-down is kind of what morning feels like before coffee.
Avatar 1:10pm still b/p:

I like this. Sounds like something recorded deliberately by someone else and at normal speed.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:10pm doctorjazz:

There is a switch to change to 33 or 45 RPM, you know...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm Charlie:

Hey still b/p
I'll look for that switch, dr-j, lol
Avatar 1:14pm still b/p:

Boy in The Matrix: "There is no spoon."
Charlie: "There is no switch."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm Charlie:

"Ol' Charlie stole the handle..."
  1:29pm jan:

Swirl- Charming tune!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm Parq:

Oh by the way, gang, I saw "Don't Think I've Forgotten" last night. Must-see stuff. Mass. residents are reminded that some of the principal musicians featured in the movie are performing Sunday night in Lowell, prior to their appearance at Monty Hall next Tuesday. And, the movie is running at Film Forum through the week, with several screenings featuring in-person guests.
  1:30pm gary mitchell:

yeah.. Satie-ish
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm Charlie:

Hi Gary!
Jan -- one of my favorite albums!
Parq -- looking forward to seeing that film! Gary Sullivan devoted a show to it the other night and wrote an article about it too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm Mike East:

@Parq - I believe they are currently rehearsing here in our studios.
Avatar 1:36pm Carmichael:

I love the Association, probably even more than Scott Wlliams. Or is it Kurt Gottschalk?
  1:37pm johnk77:

@mikeeast
trey told me he liked the
cambodian rock
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm Charlie:

Here's Gary Sullivan's article:
opencitymag.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:38pm Mike East:

@johnk - nice!
A woman just came up to me, "umm, I'm looking for the Cambodians"
  1:39pm jan:

@Charlie- so the rest of Dim Dim is a great album?
  1:39pm johnk77:

@charlie thanx
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm Charlie:

Jan - Yes!
Hi Johnk77 - yw!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:51pm Charlie:

and here's Amanda Nazario's latest article:
www.theweeklings.com...
Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan? I don't care if you're full, just -- read it!
Avatar 1:54pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
  1:55pm gary mitchell:

magical is the word
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:55pm doctorjazz:

Great show!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm doctorjazz:

What a cool cover!
Avatar 1:57pm glenn:

who is rasputina, and why isn't this a huge hit?
  1:57pm gary mitchell:

yeah! two in a row
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm Parq:

Doc, you mean the Rasputina? Yeah, isn't it?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm doctorjazz:

The Rasputina ROCKS, another name to check out somewhere or other.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Charlie:

Glad you folks could all make it today -- see you next time -- stay tuned for Matt!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:59pm doctorjazz:

Lots of homework today, 2 articles, Bandcamp, who says we're "busy doing nothing?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Stanley:

Been along time?
Hasn't been long enough for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Charlie:

Matt's playlist: wfmu.org...
Avatar 2:00pm Michael:

Thanks Charlie - been fun!
  2:00pm Listening Out There:

thx again!
  2:00pm johnk77:

@dj
i know
great show
dim dim is on bandcamp
and single tracks on itunes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm listener james from westwood:

Always a pleasure to listen, Charlie!!
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