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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Adam Faith  Cowman Milk Your Cow   Favoriting single (b/w Daddy What'll Happen To Me) (B,R) (Parlophone - 1967)
(From: Parlophone Records Vol. 15 [1967-1968])
 
0:02:20 (Pop-up)
The Cyrkle  Turn Of The Century   Favoriting single (b/w Don't Cry, No Fears, No Tears Comin' Your Way) (B,R) (Columbia - 1967)
(From: Red Rubber Ball (A Collection))
 
0:05:29 (Pop-up)
Billy J. Kramer  Town Of Tuxley Toymaker Pt. 1   Favoriting single (b-side to Chinese Girl) (B,R,M) (Reaction - 1967)
(From: Burton Freebies - Vol.03)
 
0:07:46 (Pop-up)
Esther & Abi Ofarim  Morning Of My Life   Favoriting single (b/w Garden Of My Home) (B) (Philips - 1967)   0:10:29 (Pop-up)
Lord Sitar  Like Nobody Else   Favoriting Lord Sitar (B) (Capitol - 1968)   0:13:57 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Please Read Me   Favoriting Nuff Said! (B,R) (RCA Victor - 1968)   0:18:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra 

In The Morning (Reprise)   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Barry Gibb)
 

0:21:04 (Pop-up)
The Status Quo  Spicks and Specks   Favoriting single (b-side to Technicolor Dreams) (B) (Cadet Concept - 1968)
(From: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages)
 
0:27:41 (Pop-up)
PJ Proby  And The Sun Will Shine   Favoriting What's Wrong With My World (B,R,M) (Liberty - 1968)
(From: The Best Of The EMI Years (1961-1972))
 
0:30:17 (Pop-up)
Billy Fury  One Minute Woman   Favoriting single (b-side to Silly Boy Blue) (B,R,M) (Parlophone - 1968)
(From: The Complete Parlophone Singles)
 
0:34:08 (Pop-up)
The Peppermint Circus  All The Kings Horses   Favoriting single (b/w It Didn't Take Long) (Bee Gees) (Olga - 1968)   0:36:26 (Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano  Marley Purt Drive   Favoriting single (b/w Old Turkey Buzzard) (B,R,M) (RCA Victor - 1969)
(From: The Definite Best...Jose Feliciano)
 
0:38:44 (Pop-up)
Etta James  The Sound Of Love   Favoriting single (b-side to When I Stop Dreaming) (B,M) (Cadet - 1969)   0:42:27 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra 

Melody Fair (Reprise)   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb/Robin Gibb)
 

0:45:10 (Pop-up)
The Nomads  The Singer Sang His Song   Favoriting unk. (B,R,M) (unk. - 1970)
(From: From The Remarkable Beat & Psych Vaults - Vol.04)
 
0:48:52 (Pop-up)
Tom Jones  Let There Be Love   Favoriting Tom (B,R,M) (Decca - 1970)   0:51:35 (Pop-up)
The Staple Singers  Give A Hand, Take A Hand   Favoriting The Staple Swingers (B,M) (Stax - 1971)
(From: Soul of The Bee Gees)
 
0:55:10 (Pop-up)
Joe Simon  I Can't See Nobody   Favoriting The Sounds Of Simon (B,R) (Spring - 1971)
(From: The Sounds Of Joe Simon / Simon Country)
 
1:00:02 (Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg  Got To Get A Message To You   Favoriting Rat On (B,R,M) (Elektra - 1971)   1:04:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra/Corona School Children 

Spicks and Specks   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Barry Gibb)
 

1:08:29 (Pop-up)
Jennifer  In The Morning   Favoriting single (b/w P.F. Sloan) (B) (Reprise - 1972)
(From: Middle Of The Road)
 
1:11:52 (Pop-up)
Jack Wild  The Lord   Favoriting A Beautiful World (Buddah - 1972)   1:14:49 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison  Words   Favoriting Milestones (B,R,M) (MGM - 1973)   1:17:30 (Pop-up)
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan  Jive Talkin'   Favoriting Rufus (B,R,M) (ABC - 1975)   1:20:38 (Pop-up)
Samantha Sang  Emotions   Favoriting single (b/w When Love Is Gone) (B,R) (Private Stock - 1977)
(From: Soul of The Bee Gees)
 
1:24:10 (Pop-up)
Tavares  More Than A Woman   Favoriting single (b/w Keep In Touch) (B,R,M) (Capitol - 1977)
(From: Saturday Night Fever (1977))
 
1:27:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra 

Romance Theme in F   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Richard Hewson)
 

1:31:08 (Pop-up)
Candi Station  Nights On Broadway   Favoriting single (b/w You Are) (B,R,M) (Warner Bros - 1977)
(From: Soul of The Bee Gees)
 
1:35:54 (Pop-up)
Rare Earth  Warm Ride   Favoriting single (b/w Would You Like To Come Along) (B,M,R) (Prodigal - 1978)
(From: Greatest Hits And Rare Classics)
 
1:39:16 (Pop-up)
Osmonds  Rest Your Love On Me   Favoriting Steppin' Out (B) (Mercury - 1979)   1:42:11 (Pop-up)
Tommy Roe  Massachusetts   Favoriting single (promo mono/stereo) (B,R,M) (Warner Bros. - 1979)   1:46:17 (Pop-up)
The Brotherhood of Man  Tragedy   Favoriting 20 Love Songs (B,R,M) (Warwick - 1981)
(From: Hits & Kisses)
 
1:48:33 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield  Save Me, Save Me   Favoriting single (b-side to I'm Coming Home Again) (Gibb, Galuten) (Mercury - 1979)   1:51:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra/Barry Hewson 

Working on It Night and Day   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Richard Hewson/Gordon Gray)
 

1:54:49 (Pop-up)
The Three O'Clock  In My Own Time   Favoriting Sixteen Tambourines (B,R) (Frontier - 1983)   1:59:24 (Pop-up)
The Shadows  Chain Reaction   Favoriting Simply Shadows (B,R,M) (Polydor - 1987)   2:01:25 (Pop-up)
Happy Mondays  Stayin' Alive   Favoriting Judge Fudge (CD SINGLE) (B,R,M) (Factory - 1991)
(From: The Platinum Collection)
 
2:06:10 (Pop-up)
David Essex  New York Mining Disaster 1941   Favoriting Cover Shot (B,R) (Polygram TV - 1993)   2:11:35 (Pop-up)
Waylon Jennings & Jesse Colter  Sweetheart   Favoriting prev. unr. (B,M) (Bear Family - unk.)
(From: The Journey: Six Strings Away)
 
2:15:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra 

Seaside Banjo   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Richard Hewson)
 

2:18:15 (Pop-up)
The Idle Wilds  Kilburn Towers   Favoriting Melody Fair: Bee Gees Tribute (B,R,M) (Eggbert - 1994)   2:22:25 (Pop-up)
Dramarama  Indian Gin and Whiskey Dry   Favoriting Melody Fair: Bee Gees Tribute (B,R,M) (Eggbert - 1994)   2:25:07 (Pop-up)
Sneetches  Mrs. Gillespie's Refrigerator   Favoriting Melody Fair: Bee Gees Tribute (B,R,M) (Eggbert - 1994)   2:27:39 (Pop-up)
Baby Lemonade  How Deep is Your Love   Favoriting Melody Fair: Bee Gees Tribute (B,R,M) (Eggbert - 1994)   2:31:18 (Pop-up)
Phil Seymour  The First Mistake I Made   Favoriting Melody Fair: Bee Gees Tribute (B) (Eggbert - 1994)   2:35:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Richard Hewson Orchestra 

Teachers Chase   Favoriting

Melody (Polydor - 1971)
(written by: Richard Hewson)
 

2:40:22 (Pop-up)
The Dirtbombs  I Started A Joke   Favoriting ) Australian Sing A Long With The Dirtbomb Singers (B,R,M (Xerox - 2002)   2:43:31 (Pop-up)
Billy Corgan (w. Robert Smith)  ToLoveSomebody   Favoriting TheFutureEmbrace (B,R) (Martha's Music/reprise - 2005)   2:46:39 (Pop-up)
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs  Run To Me   Favoriting Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (B,R,M) (Shout Factory - 2006)   2:50:32 (Pop-up)
Dwight Twilley  Holiday   Favoriting Out Of The Box (B,R) (Gigatone - 2009)   2:53:34 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 

Albatross   Favoriting

single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)  

2:58:20 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Doug Schulkind:

1969
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
Bartman's Goat:

Greetings, 1969.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am
Parq:

*Another* gif I could stare at all afternoon.
  11:59am
P-90:

1969. I was but a wee tot, but I knew that was a special year.
Avatar 12:00pm
hyde:

another year with nuthin' to do
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

Jimmy Qualls can still go to hell.
Avatar 12:04pm
still b/p:

Want to start with expression of disappointment and scorn that Amazon Prime has grabbed Wandrin' Star as its ad music.

Paint Your Wagon movie released innnnnnnn.....1969.
  12:06pm
Dean:

"You are getting sleepy, s-l-e-e-p-y. Your eyelids are growing h-e-a-v-y. There, good. Now, when I throw this chair, you will click that pledge button up there."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Uncle Michael:

Doug, Parq, hyde, still b/p, P-90...WELCOME!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:

The chair upside the head keeps waking me up.
Avatar 12:10pm
still b/p:

Disco brawl > disco ball?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Uncle Michael:

Pledge widgets are not a competition...please, no wagering.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Good morning. That Cyrkle song was kind of charming. I didn't know they did anything but Red Rubber Ball, which I love.
  12:13pm
Clay:

Great Cyrkle song. I have that on an old Zenith comp. Red Rubber Ball was a Paul Simon song. Not sure about this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Uncle Michael:

They actually have a deep catalog that includes songs Paul Simon didn't write.

Morning Lizzie!
Morning Clay!
  12:15pm
Dean:

And yet when I hear "Red Rubber Ball," I think of Canada's Diodes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Jeff GEE:

Morning, afternoon, evening, to Uncle Michael and all ears out there.
  12:16pm
Dean:

There you go: http://thediodestoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/first_lp_8_track_tape.jpeg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

Good morning Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
Gary:

Came for the hinky; stayed for the dinky time.
Avatar 12:17pm
ndbob:

afternoon UM and everyone!
Avatar 12:17pm
still b/p:

You linked us to the Zhangjiakou page mainly so we could encounter the term "conurbated," dintcha?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Artie Haywire:

King Imperator Sitar is gonna be pissed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Uncle Michael:

Gary! Bob!

Lord Sitar is in sooth Big Jim Sullivan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Uncle Michael:

Artie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Gary:

Jim Sullivan is the name of a long-ago estranged uncle of mine. (This is definitely not him.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
Lane Gray:

I dig the sitar. Can you imagine how cool Indian music would be if they'd only embraced harmony and chords and stuff?
Avatar 12:20pm
hyde:

ok, the bread is done. now i need music to make muffins by.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Uncle Michael:

Welcome to the party, Lane.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Lord Sitar! Who gave him that title, exactly?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Uncle Michael:

The label, I imagine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Artie Haywire:

Mrs. Sitar, of course.
Avatar 12:23pm
chromaphone:

God, that Simone documentary on Netflix shocked me. I had no idea of what she was like in her personal life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Lane Gray:

Will we hear the Bluegrass 45?
Avatar 12:25pm
hyde:

this is a *great* idea for a theme show, btw
  12:26pm
Dean:

Hope, hope, hope we hear "Fanny."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:27pm
Charlie:

This show is right up there with that great Allen Toussaint tribute someoene did last week. Oh, wait, that was you too!
  12:28pm
Dean:

Wait, did you use a feminine pronoun in reference to Abi?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
Gary:

Great, now I need to see that Nina Simone doc
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Doug Schulkind:

I'm holding out for a Marla Gibbs special.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Mike East:

yeah, the Nina Simone doc is heavy. Can't believe it took so long for someone to make one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Uncle Michael:

I meant Esther! Oy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Mike East:

speaking of which, when is someone gonna make a badfinger documentary?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wait! Whut? When did Noon happen ?!?
...I knew it - yer supposed to be FreeForm - but you just support the Status Quo...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Lane Gray:

Doug, great last half hour
  12:32pm
Dean:

I'm recycling a joke, but we really should be grateful that the brothers were not named Barry, Robin, and Maurice Mibb.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Jeff Golick:

Can the Gibby Haynes show be far behind?
Avatar 12:33pm
chromaphone:

there is a very depressing Badfinger doc that I watched on Youtube.
  12:33pm
Dean:

Not sure there could ever be an uplifting Badfinger doc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Uncle Michael:

No Lane, sorry.

Charlie!
Mike!
Rev!
chromaphone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Jeff Golick:

It would be called "On the Good Foot with Badfinger."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Mike East:

the nina simone was definitely not uplifting

uncle!
Avatar 12:36pm
chromaphone:

I wanna see more video of Nina performing live. Such an amazing performer and the band was like telepathic at times in the late 60s early 70s.
  12:36pm
Dean:

Also, that joke that I recycled I started.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm
Charlie:

I started a joke that started the whole world "oy"-ing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm
Lane Gray:

But they did an excerrent version of Massachusetts. (in the 70s, there was a Japanese bluegrass band that covered many pop songs. Michael, you can borrow my two slabs of their vinyl)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean, there's no way you can guess what version of ISAJ will be heard today.
  12:38pm
Dean:

Frank Gorshin's?
Avatar 12:38pm
hyde:

fun fact: Badfinger is playing near here (in Woonsocket, RI) this very night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Who is "they" Lane?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Doug Schulkind:

Glad you dug it, Lane Grey!

True story: About 30 years ago, I played on a company softball team with a guy whose real name was Grey Zane.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Lane Gray:

Bluegrass 45.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Artie Haywire:

Did he live on Mersey lane?
  12:40pm
Dean:

A punk version of ISAJ, maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Uncle Michael:

He lived on Marley Purt Drive
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Loves 60s BGs - they was on the radio in my toddlerhood, kinda thing. Isn't this interesting - these great songs in voices other than those most distinctive BG voices...
Avatar 12:41pm
still b/p:

Recently reminded of Frank Gorshin trivia: What did he have in common with Davy Jones?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Uncle Michael:

An exceptionally small penis?
Avatar 12:42pm
hyde:

they both had webbed feet
  12:43pm
Dean:

I'll keep mum, but the world's search engine reveals the connection pretty quickly. And no, UM, it is SFW.
Avatar 12:43pm
still b/p:

I didn't check either feature when the three of us took gym together.

Both on the Sullivan show on first Beatles night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Charlie:

Jose!
  12:45pm
Stanley:

that fella must be a catholic
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Greetings, Stanley!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
Mike East:

just listened to this american life about the comedy duo who was on Sullivan that night also...they had a great story - I found them hilarious - they have a great chemistry together...been married 30+ years, I think
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Mike East:

frank gorshin kindly took them out to dinner after they bombed on their Sullivan debut.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Lane Gray:

Chroma, my new toy is in and sounds AMAZING
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Uncle Michael:

It's Gorshin's fault that the Beatles bombed on Sullivan? Wow.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Brian in UK:

Has there ever been a BeeGees tribute album?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Uncle Michael:

Yes Brian. We will hear a set taken from one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Jeff Golick:

Holy WoonSOCKET, @hyde!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Brian in UK:

It's the same time anywhere in China.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
Uncle Michael:

Don't tell Brian!
Avatar 12:56pm
still b/p:

It's always the right time to conurbate.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
Brian in UK:

The time is 1963
  12:59pm
Stanley:

@Brian: that's communism for you
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
Lane Gray:

I forget: wasn't "in the morning, when we rise" a BeeGees tune?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
Uncle Michael:

could beeeeeeee...
  1:04pm
johnk77:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/arts/music/billy-joe-royal-pop-and-country-singer-dies-at-73.html
  1:05pm
Dean:

There's a theme for a future show: songs with double negatives in the title.
  1:06pm
johnk77:

on a happier subject
@mikeeast
i got to shake hands with
smokey robinson last night
he dug his rehearsal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
Lane Gray:

I remember that the Bluegrass 45 did two of theirs. Can't recall what the. Other waa
  1:06pm
Dean:

"No, No, Nanette"
Avatar 1:07pm
Roberto:

SWAMP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Uncle Michael:

Tomorrow night there will be another Nina Simone song and it's a double negative song...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Charlie:

Rat on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Uncle Michael:

Roberto!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@Lane: 'Colours' by Donovan? (...or is my irony detector on low power again...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Jeff Golick:

When you're stuck in traffic in China, time actually stops: twitter.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Uncle Michael:

hey johnk77!
Avatar 1:08pm
Roberto:

Love me some Swamp.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
Jeff Golick:

Still marveling at a 50-LANE HIGHWAY: www.usatoday.com...
  1:09pm
johnk77:

great work again
selecter@um
i am a sucker
for brilliant oldies;>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Uncle Michael:

thanks john
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
doctorjazz:

Hey all, work busy but enjoying the show!
  1:15pm
Dean:

We gonna hear Andy cover one of his brothers' tunes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Hi Doctor J!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Lane Gray:

Revolution Rabbit, that WAS the song. the funny thing is, I have a sheltered upbringing. Almost all pop song I learned through their bluegrass covers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Uncle Michael:

I wound up leaving Andy out, Dean.
  1:18pm
Dean:

A Pufnstuf connection!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
Uncle Michael:

I think Jack phoned this in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Uncle Michael:

VERY astute, Dean!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
Brian in UK:

This is a good insight into John Lennon expecially as it is his birthday today.
Also celebrating our twin daughters bd today.
www.bbc.co.uk...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
Mike East:

@johnk - I'm jealous. Wish I coulda hung out last night to check out Smokey. Hope he was happy with the space.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@Lane: I love people like that! - Gary who does 'Bodega Pop' on the Drummer stream is like that - an International Pop Music maven, but stumbles over Sabbath & such - I *think* unironically...& there's always Classical music heads who when you say 'Prog Rawk' think you mean - Prague ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
Uncle Michael:

The Prog is fine in Prague.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@BrianUK: Thx for Johnny link.
Avatar 1:26pm
still b/p:

More Hinky Linky: Jack Wild and Davy Jones both played the Artful Dodger, Jones onstage, Wild on film. That's why Jones was on the Sullivan show, doing a number from Oliver.
  1:27pm
Dean:

Who else played the Artful Dodger and went on to rock stardom?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Brothers of course wrote, produced and sang backup on Emotions...that would become a common recipe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Steve Marriot
  1:27pm
Dean:

No shit?!
  1:28pm
Dean:

I had in mind Phil Collins.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Uncle Michael:

no shit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
Uncle Michael:

Phil too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
Uncle Michael:

Steve: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 1:31pm
still b/p:

Tony and Stephanie spinning and spinning in the dance studio with the hokey camera POV...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
Uncle Michael:

hokey?! brilliant!
  1:34pm
Dean:

I prefer to think of it as the Giorgio Moroder era.
Avatar 1:34pm
still b/p:

Or refined, like drinking tea.
  1:36pm
Dean:

Marriott's AD is marvelous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
Rich in Washington:

UM, your recent-ish 70s show compelled me to track down that entire Have A Nice Day series and install it on my house audio system and truth told, it's the only music my wife and I can listen to together in agreement.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
Lane Gray:

I stopped hating disco when I learned to appreciate well produced pop. You don't have to like it to respect solid arrangements.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Agreed Lane...I also love the music now.

Rich, did you find that down a wormhole?
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listener jeff:

I remember liking the Bee-Gees a lot when I was a kid - had several of their 45's. Then for some reason I kind of left them for a harder rock sound. Then, I think the disco era even further distanced me. Really not until, ironically, did I see the disco bus that was outside of some Dead shows that I kind of reconnected. The disco bus played Stayin' Alive a lot with big speakers on top of the bus, really loud. Everybody was Dancing!
Thanks UM, this show provides insight that I may not have gotten otherwise. There is so much music and knowledge out there that I can only get from WFMU!
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Rich in Washington:

^whut Lane sed.
I was actually a bit young to have experienced disco in its full splendor but clearly remember all the jokes and put-downs of it from TV, also the meme that discotheques were a modern 'Sodom and Gomorrah' from Xtian kooks.
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johnk77:

staton?
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Brian in UK:

Remember folks, IT'S FREEFORM.
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Rich in Washington:

and - I find I am very sentimental about some music now that 20 years ago I would never think to listen to.
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Uncle Michael:

Jeff...I *know* that disco bus.
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Parq:

Rare Earth went disco? The wonder of it all.
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Uncle Michael:

srsly
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Brian in UK:

P F Sloan played the Poderosa Stomp. Used to have Raised on Records album by him. Good songwriter as Jimmy Webb acknowledges.
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Parq:

I still hate the stuff, for the record. Too many bad associations for me to start "appreciating" it. Still, every now and again, I hear a track that makes me say, "Okay, that wasn't so bad."
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Uncle Michael:

Brian, for very complicated reasons..Jimmy Webb has denied that "P.F. Sloan" is about P.F. Sloan.
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Lane Gray:

Thank you for not. Choosing Twitty's version
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Uncle Michael:

Experts, is this Alan?
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Lane Gray:

Any idea who's on the Redneck Table Harp?
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Uncle Michael:

no clue
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Dean:

I'm with Parq. Disco evokes bad memories working in a record store where one of the managers was an avid and addicted fan. Avid, as in playing in-store every frigging record that had the slightest whiff of disco; addicted, as in cocaine.
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Rich in Washington:

Didn't one of the Osmonds buy a Moog and attempt to play it on an album? Back when buying a Moog was akin to a small country achieving nuclear capabilities?
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Uncle Michael:

Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees owned the second or third Moog.
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Uncle Michael:

The remainder of the month will also be songwriter tributes (other than tomorrow).
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Rich in Washington:

Yeah, I recall reading that. And he used it.
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Lane Gray:

What time tomorrow? I'll be there
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Uncle Michael:

10:00 PM ET
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Marriott AD ! !...
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still b/p:

That familiar flavor was ABBAsolutely uncanny.
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, I see, said the blind man.
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Alex In Illinois:

Well, there was disco that I enjoyed, and disco that would I get bored with before reaching the end of the song on first listen. Then punk happened for me.
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Brian in UK:

Always admired their songwriting but never warmed to the Bee Gees.
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Lane Gray:

There is one disco performer I still don't like. Barbara Mandrell. Crackers and Sleeping Single in a Double Bed. Ick. Ãœbercheesy
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Jeff Golick:

I think Paul Bley and Annette Peacock got one of those first Moogs, from the man himself.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The roots of being Disco-averse go deep...I understand for Urban folk it was one hell of a party - w/ gays & minorities ascendant
...but in smalltown NH where I was - it was the jocks into Disco (...& yer Dad was all into it trying to be Travolta - all the worst things)
...& the freaks - us - into R&R (including Punk). All the Rockumentaries show Punk as reaction to Prog excess - but where & when I was - it was a long-overdue reaction to Disco dominating the airwaves & *all* Live venues for what seemed then to be *years* & *years* ! - woosh... Even then, tho' - I would concede the BGs & Donna Summer & what was just good Funk or Pop that happened to have an especially dancey beat...George Clinton said about Disco - it was like trying to make love w/ the same stroke *all the time*...
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Dean:

Thought this sounded familiar. The Three O'Clock, so named, IIRC, because the Salvation Army threatened a lawsuit when they originally assumed that name.
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Guido from Cologne:

wasn't it that obscure psych-pop band from Australia?
Pee-Jees or something?
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doctorjazz:

Anyone listen to current radio? Disco won big, you know, some version is all over pop airwaves.
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Guido from Cologne:

Hello Michael and everyone!
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Dean:

Three O'Clock came out of LA, I thought.

FYI, UM, Tommy Roe's "Massachusetts" appears on Billboard's mid-'79 country single charts. June 2 it appears at 77 after having been on the charts for three weeks.
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northguineahills:

I forgot to say hello, UM, and now it's time for me to say adieu! thanks!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- about Rave: Disco on acid is still Disco...
60s BeeGees distinct to me - deep roots in the best way.
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Uncle Michael:

Interesting, Dean.

Hi Guido! Hi/bye NGH!
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Dean:

At number 1 on the charts that week, The Bellamy Brothers' "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me."
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Guido from Cologne:

just my speculation if BeeGees vol1 was their only album, it would stand on par with Oddessey and Oracle, Idle Race's Birthday Party and similar stand-out albums.
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Uncle Michael:

I think Idea and Odessa are as good as 1st. But I hear you.
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Brian in UK:

Guido you got my attention with The Idle Race. How sad is the title track.
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Guido from Cologne:

really sad , indeed
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ndbob:

While I think the first BeeGee's Lp was the best, I like the first four
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Guido from Cologne:

and stayin' alive is a serious song about tough live ...- i've learned after decades of ignorance ... we never stop learning
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Lane Gray:

I'm digging this version. Or I was until the synth took the hard left turn
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Brian in UK:

Nice one Uncle. To the kitchen.
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Uncle Michael:

Have fun in the lab, Brian.
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Guido from Cologne:

Gallon Drunk made a great version of "To Love Somebody" somewhen in the 90ies
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doctorjazz:

Punk meets disco-cool "How Deep Is Your Love"
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Uncle Michael:

I have an interesting version of that in the last set.
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flash:

lovin this Bee Gees double set
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Uncle Michael:

the whole show, flash
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flash:

shit this whole show has been bee gees! i just now managed to tune in, can't believe what i've missed
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I had *no idea* about 'Sing Slowly Sisters' by Robin G. until recently: www.mixcloud.com...
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flash:

ha, yeah i just realized that
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Uncle Michael:

I'm not fond of thje production of this Phil Seymour but he sings it great and I love this song.
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flash:

man, what a great idea for a show. can't wait to catch up on the archives. I've actually been working on a Bee Gees show myself
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Uncle Michael:

You'll destroy me!
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Dean:

Seymour had died by the time this record was issued.
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flash:

i mean, i was just going to do a basic primer of the prime years, with an emphasis on their fetish for historical subject matter. This show is fucking wide-ranging and far-reaching and I'm super jazzed about it
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flash:

his vocal really was dynamite, spot-on
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flash:

thought this was Urge Overkill at first
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chromaphone:

What a gorgeous vibrato.
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Uncle Michael:

Dean, Phil probably recorded the song before he died.
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Uncle Michael:

Sorry. I started a joke.
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Guido from Cologne:

ALSO AN INTERESTING VERSION; YES ... oops capitals
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Uncle Michael:

Evan, if your Bee Gees show is as good as you Beach Boys shows...then I'm all over that shit.
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Dean:

Corgan here sounds a bit like one of those '80s tech pop bands. Pet Shop Boys, maybe? But then there's that distinctive voice of a person who doesn't get enough fiber in his diet.
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ndbob:

excellent show UM!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- fairly often, the hook, for me - is the highest note or harmony those incredible Gibbs voices hit - & the covers sometimes don't do that. Much to appreciate tho'. I am fond of this Hoffs person - can't help it...
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Uncle Michael:

I think they did a pretty nice Run To Me.

Twilley kills this one...good enough to bump Claudine Longet from the show.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks Bob.
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Guido from Cologne:

Thank you Michael!
CU soon!
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Mike East:

got a bit busy there so I couldn't comment, but I really enjoyed the beegees show while I was working
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doctorjazz:

There is an Under the Covers V2, FYI
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doctorjazz:

Had fun, fine show.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx UM.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone!
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