WFMU: Teenage Wasteland Playlist

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3:23pm moe:

enjoyed the top topham tune... sounded like early fleetwood mac...

3:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'All Night Stand' written by Ray Davies.

3:36pm Linda Lee:

rock n roll is my god today. thank you, Mr. Bill Kelly!

3:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

(...one of the derivatives of 'Hard Day's Night' - but more pointedly about Management & ShowBiz...)

3:43pm geezerette:

Good afternoon Bill and Rrrrrrrrrrrockers.

3:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nuggets II :
...'In addition to his production...Shel Talmy was also involved...in the book-publishing business. One of his proteges was Thom Keyes...whose 1st novel, 'All Night Stand', documented the world of a fictitious beat group. To help promote the book & grease the wheels for a...movie deal...commissioned Ray Davies to compose a title song'...

3:51pm Linda Lee:

who's this with the female vocal? like it a lot.

4:02pm Linda Lee:

hola geezerette!

4:03pm Al:

On. vacation in Bath England - Got the real rock & roll with me!

4:03pm geezerette:

Tubeular!

4:04pm geezerette:

Howdy Linda Lee!

4:07pm Linda Lee:

real nice set, no?

4:08pm geezerette:

Yep! Like this quasi Seeds sound too,

4:15pm geezerette:

Love how everyone sounds like everyone else.

4:17pm geezerette:

Formula blur works like seamless sonic wallpaper.

4:22pm melinda:

I liked the alligator

4:24pm geezerette:

missed it!

4:40pm geezerette:

"It's Over Now", so good.

4:49pm Mailman Tom:

Nice to hear a pop song now and then

5:00pm BADBRAIN:

the show is over now, so good is right

7:28pm The Potentate:

May the pungent minions of evil get lost in Newark at 2 AM on their way to your place.

6:19am Matt Dawson:

Kornelius Flowers is brilliant! He should be famous he is so good.

4:33pm harold fridkis:

that wailers record peaked at #150 on record world back in '63? thanks for that chart info,bill!

3:20pm inthepocket:

great show, tommy tedesco hated playing that awfull rock n roll, but it paid the bills, i guess

10:02am Perfidia / let them eat Tastykake / the Orlons:

Only knowing PERFIDIA as a VENTURES tune, it comes as a surprise it has lyrics and enough artists recorded it to fill an FMU show: Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller, Xavier Cougat, Desi Arnaz 40 minutes into a movie, Linda Ronstadt, disco Perfidia hustle, reggae Perfidia - JULIE LONDON's is best.

Bastille Day on E. 60th St., and Smith St. (sans Les Sans Culottes), and also the NJ FIREFLY FESTIVAL were celebrated Sunday. But I pilgrimaged to the ORLON'S annual free outdoor worth-the-trip show in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Lost FMU's signal after Princeton, where Trenton's College of New Jersey station WTSR continued the garage rock. When returning I realized, hey the rental has satellite! But I couldn't figure out navigating “One,” “Two,” and “Three” to access more than 3 undesirable channels.

You should intro ALVIN MADISON with this YT clip of the busker: “The thing about New York is you can see the crazies coming. In New Jersey you can be crazy for a whole month and you don't know they're crazy till they're already, like, something's wrong. But in New York they're coming toward you, you look at them, that person's crazy” . . . . ALLIGATOR is growing on me . . . . unknown BOBBY FULLER tune!

1:10am John from CDA:

"The Alligator" was originally performed by a short-lived Louisville band called the Us Four.

9:22am bk:

I own that one, John from CDA. The cover version I played is a little bit better, methinks.

11:52am Perfidia, continued:

Xavier Cugat's 1939 recording introduced "Perfidia" to the the West, which is likely how his 1937 guitarist and continuing associate Desi Arnaz came to sing it after splitting off to Miami to lead his own band. It's 1940 or 1941: "The president of RKO had been present when I sang 'Perfidia' at a San Francisco benefit. He liked the song and the way I sang it, just with my guitar. So he instructed his people to buy the film rights and have me sing it in this picture ["Father Takes a Wife"]. 'Perfidia was a lovely Latin ballad in slow tempo, a son [italics]. The part I was playing in the picture was that of an operatic tenor. So the producer of the picture decided I should sing it as an operatic aria with a big orchestra which, one, my voice was not equipped to do, and two, it was not the way it should be done. So 'Perfidia' wound up being sung in the picture by an Italian tenor, dubbing my voice [RIP Marni Nixon] in the style of an operatic aria, accompanied by a symphony orchestra. I received letters from Latin America, Spain, and especially Cuba, asking me, 'What the hell were you trying to do to "Perfidia," and where did you pick up the Italian accent?'"

Desi Arnaz started performing "Babalu" in 1946 according to his 1976 autobiography, "A Book," likely again because Xavier Cugat, from whom he continued enlisting band members, had recorded it in 1941 (as did others). It's a surprising read: Desi introduced the conga to America (congaed over to the club Joe E. Lewis was playing), meets Bob Hope, President Truman, the mob watches Desilu's "Untouchables," . . .

July 10, 2016

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