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Playlist for 12 May 2016 Favoriting | Sunshine radio service

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Artist Song Album Label Approx. start time
  What light through yonder radio breaks?, or: What radio through yonder window breaks?
Ars Nova  Sunshine and Shadows   Favoriting Sunshine and Shadows  Atlantic; Collectables   
Esther Phillips w/ (Joe) Beck  What a Difference a Day Makes   Favoriting What a Difference a Day Makes  Kudu  0:02:50 (Pop-up)
Maurice Chevalier  Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight   Favoriting Toujours Maurice  RCA Camden  0:07:11 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark  The Sun Shines Out of Your Shoes   Favoriting Don't Give Up / Kiss Me Goodbye  Warner Bros.  0:09:54 (Pop-up)
Faust  It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl   Favoriting So Far  Polydor  0:12:42 (Pop-up)
Jackie Shane  You Are My Sunshine   Favoriting Los Angeles Soul: Kent-Modern's Black Music Legacy  Kent Soul  0:19:52 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Claude Perraudin, featuring Monday's Singers 
Synthetic Sunshine   Favoriting Voices  Patchwork Library  0:22:45 (Pop-up)
Koop  Summer Sun (featuring Yukimi Nagano)   Favoriting Waltz for Koop  Sony Sweden; Quango  0:25:56 (Pop-up)
John Renbourn  I Know My Babe   Favoriting Sampler  Transatlantic  0:29:33 (Pop-up)
Petra Haden & Lenny Pickett  Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)   Favoriting Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys  Anti-  0:32:57 (Pop-up)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti  Bright Lit Blue Skies   Favoriting Before Today  4AD  0:36:36 (Pop-up)
Lighthouse  Sunny Days   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  Evolution  0:38:55 (Pop-up)
Supremes  Automatically Sunshine   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  Motown  0:43:07 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Shudder to Think 
pH Balanced   Favoriting High Art (soundtrack)  Velvel  0:45:43 (Pop-up)
DTCV  Soleil 2666   Favoriting Confusion moderne  La Souterraine  0:50:28 (Pop-up)
Best Coast  Sun Was High (So Was I)   Favoriting 7-inch single  Art Fag  0:54:51 (Pop-up)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux  Sun Is Shining   Favoriting Mambo Nassau  Ze  0:57:19 (Pop-up)
Gaelynn Lea  Someday We'll Linger In The Sun   Favoriting Tiny Desk Concert  NPR  0:59:31 (Pop-up)
Mason Williams  Sunflower   Favoriting The Mason Williams Phonograph Record  Warner Bros.  1:04:19 (Pop-up)
Eviyan (Iva Bittová, Gyan Riley, Evan Ziporyn)  Sun Shower   Favoriting Nayive  Animal Music  1:08:03 (Pop-up)
Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge  Looking at the Sun   Favoriting Gonwards  Ape House  1:13:45 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight & the Pips  I Can See Clearly Now   Favoriting Imagination  Buddah  1:15:42 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Las Comadrejas 
Oaxacatelas   Favoriting We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music  Comad  1:20:04 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu  On the Surface   Favoriting Dub Housing  Chrysalis  1:27:13 (Pop-up)
June Christy  Midnight Sun   Favoriting Something Cool  Capitol  1:29:40 (Pop-up)
Walker Brothers  The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  Smash  1:32:57 (Pop-up)
Marzipan Marzipan  My Bloody Sunshine   Favoriting EP 2    1:35:55 (Pop-up)
Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters  Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)   Favoriting 78  Decca  1:38:37 (Pop-up)
John Hartford  Don't Leave Your Records in the Sun   Favoriting     1:40:47 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Alessandro Alessandroni 
Sunny Coast   Favoriting Spontaneous  RCA  1:42:56 (Pop-up)
Kinks  Waterloo Sunset   Favoriting Something Else by the Kinks  Castle  1:47:02 (Pop-up)
Lal & Mike Waterson  Bright Phoebus   Favoriting Bright Phoebus  Trailer  1:50:11 (Pop-up)
George Harrison  All Things Must Pass   Favoriting All Things Must Pass  Apple  1:53:02 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Earl Bostic 
Blue Skies   Favoriting 78  King  1:56:54 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Avatar 11:53am People Like Us:

herro
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54am Charlie:

heddo
Avatar 11:56am Michael:

Howdy. Very sunny today if I do say so myself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Charlie:

Do say, Michael!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:58am doctorjazz:

Hey folks, beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Webhamster Henry:

Time to Get Busy and Do Nothing!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm doctorjazz:

Nothin' but blue skies!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Charlie:

Helloo doctorjazz and Webmaster Henry!
Avatar 12:06pm thatpatsmith:

so happy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm JP from KC:

Hullo, Chaahlie! Ready to get busy here in the heartland!
Avatar 12:07pm Mayuko:

Good afternoon, Charlie and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Charlie:

howdy thatpat, JP, and Mayuko! Nice to see you all. I've got sunblock if you need it :)
Avatar 12:10pm geezerette:

Having a wonderful time here too!
(:D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm Webhamster Henry:

Maurice - what a jaunty guy! Here's a article on the Nazi collaboration issue:
holocaustmusic.ort.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm Charlie:

hi there geezerette
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm Webhamster Henry:

We want Petula, Cilla, Dusty, Lulu, and Melanie on this show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm Charlie:

Petula -- check.
Faust -- check.
Avatar 12:15pm Mayuko:

I love love love this song of Faust. Feels so good to listen to on a rainy day, and sunny day like today too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Charlie:

Always a happy-mood-making song :)
And it gives me a chance to read the story about Chevalier that Henry posted!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm Charlie:

Interesting and complicated story about Maurice. I did not know any of that about him....
Avatar 12:20pm bobdoesthings:

good afternoon doin nothin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm JP from KC:

A great read, Henry! Thanks for sharing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm Charlie:

hey there bobdoingthings!
  12:22pm testingwithfire:

Happy sunny afternoon Charlie and my fellow loafers!
Avatar 12:25pm Carmichael:

Heya Chaz and listeners.
Avatar 12:26pm geezerette:

Sunshine and Shadow is also the name of Mary Pickford's autobiography.
Avatar 12:28pm ndbob:

heya Charlie and everyone!
Avatar 12:30pm Mayuko:

Is Yukimi Japanese???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Charlie:

hey there testingwithfire, Carmichael, and ndbob!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:32pm doctorjazz:

I Know You Rider, lovely version!
Avatar 12:32pm geezerette:

ahhhh...John Renbourn. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm Charlie:

Mayuko -- she has one Japanese parent, one Swedish. She sings with the band Little Dragon. Koop are a Swedish electronic duo.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:33pm doctorjazz:

(not quite, but most of the lyrics overlap...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm Charlie:

same source I guess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm Artie Haywire:

Hello, Sunny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm Charlie:

Hello, Artie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm Webhamster Henry:

That part of Maurice's life would make a good paranoia show (stage or movie). It could intersperse French music hall songs with blackmailers, Nazis, and misled reporters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm Charlie:

Good idea Henry -- it would make a good contemporary opera or musical -- get started on a libretto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm Webhamster Henry:

Premiere at Monte Hall, 2018.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm Charlie:

:)
Avatar 12:44pm Mayuko:

I see, thank you Charlie! Yukimi Nagano is a very pretty Japanese name although it sounds more related to snow-scape rather than Summer Sun, haha.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:45pm Charlie:

snow-scape name is good for living in Sweden :)
  12:51pm jan:

Busy doing something with busy doing nothing since the show started today.
Avatar 12:51pm mauri:

heya heyb heyc heyd...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm Charlie:

Hey, Jan -- thanks for dropping by and saying hi!
howdy mauri -- heywire
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm Charlie:

making "hey" while the sun shines
  12:56pm rf:

SOUNDS GREAT THANKS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59pm Charlie:

rf rf !
Avatar 1:00pm mauri:

to the rescue. rescuerangers!
Avatar 1:00pm annie:

hey all!! just lined up a 2-week 3-cat pet-sit gig.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:02pm Charlie:

hi annie -- nice work if you can get it!
Avatar 1:03pm annie:

i love living in other people's houses... for a short time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm Charlie:

Yes, that can be fun.
Avatar 1:04pm ndbob:

Great Annie!
Avatar 1:04pm annie:

and it's close to downtown! a double-win!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm Webhamster Henry:

Gaelynn's video is something to see.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm Charlie:

Yes, I agree, Henry -- it's amazing. Really worth watching.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm Uncle Michael:

We are stardust. We are golden.
Avatar 1:28pm ndbob:

@UM I was just typing that but you beat me to it:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm Charlie:

Yes, Uncle Michael, and hi,
and, Yes, ndbob :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm Charlie:

we are stardust, we are moondust, we are sunlight...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm Uncle Michael:

And we've got to get ourselves back to Olive Garden.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm Jeff Golick:

I am sawdust, I am sunburned.

Hello, Chaz and all sunshine-staters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm Charlie:

Hey there, Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm Charlie:

Uncle Michael -- I liked the version of Midnight Sun you played a while back by Bob Dorough.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie and playmates.

Did Spooky Tooth record a song called 'Sunshine Help Me'? What the heck if they did.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm Webhamster Henry:

I've got sunshine on my shoulder, a rainbow round my shoulder and my head in the clouds.
Avatar 1:35pm ndbob:

Great song - so much better than the Frankie Valli version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm Brian in UK:

One of Phil Spector's great non productions.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm Charlie:

Hi Brian in UK -- don't know offhand
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm Charlie:

Henry -- and your feet on the ground?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Charlie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm Charlie:

yknow ndBob -- I've never heard the Frankie Valli version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm Brian in UK:

This was on Philips over here, I think.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm Uncle Michael:

My blue marzipan!
Avatar 1:37pm ndbob:

@Charlie It's the original I think
Avatar 1:40pm ndbob:

there ya go Charlie www.youtube.com...
Avatar 1:40pm geezerette:

Sunshine will turn your face to powder.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:41pm Charlie:

I'll check it out later thanks Bob!
Avatar 1:42pm Carmichael:

Any song with whistling is a great song! Especially Hocus Pocus by Focus.
Avatar 1:42pm Carmichael:

I have always loved this Hartford song!
Avatar 1:44pm Carmichael:

He also did a song about his good ol' washing machine that was fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm Jeff Golick:

@Carmichael: your avi is making me thirsty.
Avatar 1:45pm Carmichael:

Wait'll you see next week's, Jeff!
Avatar 1:51pm Carmichael:

The Kinks sing so many songs about sunny days or sunsets.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:52pm doctorjazz:

Shine on, Nothing-doers!
Avatar 1:53pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
Avatar 1:53pm Erehwonite:

Blaze away, Charlie
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:54pm doctorjazz:

Aw, nice ending, fine show, thanks Charlie.
Avatar 1:55pm Michael:

Yes, a perfect show for today Charlie! Much thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm Charlie:

Hi Erewhonite:)
Thanks everyone for getting a little radio tan with me today. See you next week...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm Charlie:

And a real Phil Spector production...
Avatar 1:56pm geezerette:

Love this song,thanks for all the sunshine Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Charlie!
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