The bottommost of the toppermost of the poppermost: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:45am annie:

yes?? may i have a cookie?

11:54am annie:

it's the undermost one with sprinkles.

12:00pm listener james from westwood:

How do Charlie, annie, and all!

12:00pm annie:

12:02pm βrian:

Tis a gray day on the isthmus, made better by doing nothing, busily.

12:02pm Listening Out There:

The bottommost of the toppermost of the poppermost from the hostest with the mostest...

12:03pm Charlie:

Hey, everybody -- yes, cookies for all!

12:03pm Dominick:

been down so long it looks like up to me

12:03pm Charlie:

I don't mean to braggest, I don't mean to boastest...

12:04pm annie:

@Dominick: best book ever..

12:05pm Uncle Michael:

Hostest with the mostest.

12:08pm Michael:

Hey now Charlie, Charlie listeners, listeners to Charlie and anyone I missed. Good afternoon.

12:09pm gary mitchell:

you are rolling, brother

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12:10pm doctorjazz:

Hi, Thursday again, so soon...

12:10pm gary mitchell:

Gentile & Binge drop?

12:10pm Charlie:

Hey kiddos -- annie, ßrian, LOT, Dominick, Uncle Michael, Michael, Gary the M, doctorjazz -- great to see you all assembled here!

12:11pm Charlie:

GM -- lost in space!

12:13pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie, Gary, everyone!

12:15pm ndbob:

I remember seeing the Shangri_Las singing Right NOw and Not Later on Baltimore TV

12:16pm Charlie:

hey there, bob!

12:17pm annie:

hey ndbob!

12:18pm ndbob:

Hi Annie!

12:18pm gary mitchell:

did they lip synch or do it live, bob?

12:18pm Charlie:

I saw the Shangri-Las live when I was seven. My dad took me.

12:21pm gary mitchell:

did you see them open for the stones or beatles.. that would be the year

12:22pm gary mitchell:

BTW..lambert and potter could really write em

12:22pm Charlie:

I saw them at Sunnyside Gardens, a venue in Queens that I think had local boxing matches and concerts. They were the headliners, I think.

12:23pm gary mitchell:

how perfect

12:24pm ndbob:

@gary I think lip-synch - on the Kirby Scott Show

12:25pm Gaylord Fields:

Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las once gave me a kiss on the cheek to wish me a Happy New Year. (And yes, I never washed the left side of my face again.)

12:25pm Charlie:

Gary -- I must look up the Lambert-Potter discography. Not familiar w the team, but I like "Love Music"

12:26pm Uncle Michael:

If anyone needs MORE Poppy Family...tune in Friday!

12:26pm annie:

does it count if i got a kiss on the cheek from james gandolfini for my birthday?

12:26pm ndbob:

indeed UM!

12:26pm Gaylord Fields:

@Uncle Michael: I do! I do!

12:27pm Gaylord Fields:

@annie: You tell us — even though we all know the answer.

12:27pm Parq:

Great drop-in, the Rocky one.

12:27pm Uncle Michael:

I'm your man, Gaylord.

12:29pm still b/p:

I was thinking about Rocky and Bullwinkle this morning. Omens and portents, maybe? ..and eenie-meenie-chili-beanie currents.

12:30pm Charlie:

Hey there, Gaylord, Parq, still b/p.

12:31pm Charlie:

Rocky and Bullwinkle -- R&B!

12:32pm Webhamster Henry:

Forget those pies, Mama!

12:32pm βrian:

Add Natasha: RNB. Then there's Boris ...

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12:33pm doctorjazz:

Man, I remember this, the Association's attempt to be serious! (They had another, Enter the Young).

12:33pm Gaylord Fields:

How-do, Chazaloo!

12:33pm annie:

gaylord, this was long ago when he opened that great restaurant in oneonta, upstate. grand opening was memorable, open bar, and free food!

12:34pm gary mitchell:

Insight Out... lovely album,

12:35pm βrian:

Food? Oh no. The food carts are circling the building even now.

12:37pm Gaylord Fields:

@annie: Tony Soprano gave you free food, and he kissed you? I think you may now owe the Jersey Mob a really big favor.

12:37pm gary mitchell:

charlie, you are doing some mighty fine bottom feeding

12:38pm Parq:

Laura Nyro covering Carole King -- the wonder of it all.

12:39pm annie:

i keep waiting for them to call that marker gaylord. i think i've slipped out of sight, though.

12:41pm Webhamster Henry:

Ocarina break!

12:41pm Gaylord Fields:

What a relief! After hearing those "Rocky" drop-ins, I just checked to see if June Foray has shuffled off this mortal coil. Nope — still alive and kicking at age 99!

12:41pm Webhamster Henry:

Is this a Billy May orchestration?

12:44pm gary mitchell:

god bless june foray!

12:45pm Dominick:

Now yer talkin'!

12:46pm Charlie:

Hiya Henry! Which one?

12:48pm Webhamster Henry:

Peggy Lee.. it has that big, somewhat show-bizzy but with a few cartoony tweaky sound.
Somewhere I may have a recording of June Foray doing a WFMU station Id on Dorian's show.

12:48pm Charlie:

Jimmy Durante - One of Those Songs - made it to #135 for one week.

12:49pm Charlie:

This Herman's Hermits cover of Bobby Vee did not chart, but was the B-side of "Silhouettes."

12:49pm geezerette:

So glad to hear about June Foray! Norman Lear still sharp too.
So there's still hope!

12:50pm Parq:

Henry, if you can find the archive of that Dorian/Foray show, please post, coz I'd love to listen to it.

12:50pm Charlie:

And this Bobby Vee song actually was a top 40 hit -- I just wanted to pay tribute to the man!

12:51pm ndbob:

i had that Jimmy Durante 45

12:51pm Gaylord Fields:

@gezerette: And "Professor" Irwin Corey is still rabble-rousing at age 102!

12:51pm Dominick:

hats off to Snuff

12:53pm Michael:

I believe I heard Quincy Adams Wagstaff.

12:53pm Parq:

What that drop-in after Bobby Vee was doing in my pajamas, I'll never know.

12:53pm Webhamster Henry:

@Parq it's on cassette somewhere! Whenever she had a guest on, she'd try to get a station Id.

12:53pm gary mitchell:

man she nails frankie lymon's phrasing

12:53pm Charlie:

Hi also Geezerette!

12:55pm geezerette:

Gaylord,wow! Love Irwin Corey!

Howdy Charlie!

12:55pm ndbob:

yep good cover version there

12:56pm Charlie:

There's a Prof I.C. drop for ya.

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12:56pm doctorjazz:

Very close to Ray's version of "Night Time..."

12:56pm geezerette:

God I love this record. :)

12:58pm Webhamster Henry:

Betty White is a kid at 94. But Zha Zha Gabor (minus 1 leg) is 99.

12:58pm famous original nastywolf:

Hellllloooooo

12:59pm Webhamster Henry:

Olivia de Havilland is 100.

12:59pm Charlie:

Do the Nastywolf!

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1:00pm doctorjazz:

About to have a 100th birthday party for my mother in law, starting to slow up a bit past few years...
Some folks just have great genes (her sisters lived/are living into their 90's)

1:00pm still b/p:

Weirdest moment in "Jaws" -- June Foray's voice dubbed in for Chief Brody's kid.

1:01pm Dominick:

John Zacherle is 98

1:02pm gary mitchell:

so freakin glad you identify the bed music!

1:03pm geezerette:

Betty White's probably still working.
Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks also nonagenerians!

Webhamster, Yay Olivia!

docJazz, Happy Birthday ,Mother in Law!!!

1:03pm geezerette:

Bob Dylan's insides are 100.

1:04pm Gaylord Fields:

Kirk Douglas will reach the century mark on December 9th.

1:05pm Parq:

Geez, Keith Richards's' insides are older that Sequoia redwoods.

1:06pm Parq:

"than"

1:08pm still b/p:

Dylan's insides...in his Nobelly?

Production on Ray Price track...."Listen, it's STEREOOOO!"

1:09pm gary mitchell:

funkadelic into ray price ... just like old time Top 40 radio

1:09pm geezerette:

Gaylord, what a generation! And they all smoked & drank!

Parq,hahaha!!!

1:10pm gary mitchell:

speaking of drinking and smoking.....

1:11pm Charlie:

This song is probably funnier if you know that "Sam's Song" was originally done (straight) by Gary Crosby and his dad, Bing.

1:12pm northguineahills:

So, it has nothing to do w/ the Note 7?

1:13pm geezerette:

There's a new Alex Gibney documentary on James Brown, produced by Jagger. Could be great!

1:14pm annie:

boy am i gald i'm old enough to have heard these oldsters perform.

1:15pm geezerette:

Love Love! Ye-e-e-ah...

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1:16pm doctorjazz:

(@Parq, reminds me of the coroner's estimate of Charlie Parker's age when he died being 50-60 years old, when he was 34. Keith is made of sterner stuff, or maybe being economically better off and less racial stress made the difference).

1:17pm geezerette:

@docjazz: I pick theory b.

1:19pm Uncle Michael:

Pre-Drummer-days "Sweet Thursday" was my Thursday night closer, every week.

1:19pm gary mitchell:

wow great song

1:22pm geezerette:

Korla Pandit documentary on PBS soon. :)

1:23pm famous original nastywolf:

I remember seeing a picture of Keith Richards and his mom and kids and grandkids and he looked a million years older than his mom

1:24pm ndbob:

@geezerette should be great - I hav vague memories of seeing him on TV as a kid - and having no idea who he was

1:24pm Charlie:

Uncle Michael -- I did not know that!

1:24pm rf:

I LOVE MOULTY

1:24pm gary mitchell:

the one-armed drummer and his cwazy cape cod acccent

1:25pm annie:

things are shaping up pretty well for my clock-games; an hour ago it was 12:34, now it's 1:23; hope i can see 2:34 and so on.

1:25pm geezerette:

ndbob, haha, NO ONE knew who he was!

1:26pm northguineahills:

Thanks, Charlie, gotta skadoodle!

1:26pm still b/p:

I thought that was definitely a Mass. mouth and looked it up before I saw gary's confirmation.

1:26pm Charlie:

Thanks NGH (and hi!)

1:27pm ndbob:

I just remember this guy in a turban playing the organ and thinking wha?

1:27pm Little Danny:

Love this Bachrach-y plush Benton production

1:27pm geezerette:

:D !!!

1:27pm gary mitchell:

lovely arif mardin arrangement

1:27pm Little Danny:

Hi all!

1:28pm Charlie:

hey little danny -- written by leiber & stoller, iirc!

1:28pm Gaylord Fields:

@geezerette: I'm really excited to see the Korla Pandit doc! What a strange (but not uncommon) tale of musical creativity and racial ambiguity.

1:28pm geezerette:

Little Danny, totally agree. :)

1:29pm geezerette:

Gaylord, exactly!

1:29pm βrian:

Best espresso I ever had in my life was in Beloit, WI. No lie.

1:30pm gary mitchell:

oops.. I see mike stoller arranged that brook track

1:30pm geezerette:

It's airing Sunday in L.A.

1:30pm Gaylord Fields:

@Geezerette: I'm not seeing the documentary scheduled on any PBS stations outside SoCal — boo!

1:33pm Parq:

A Fool's Paradise Favorite Drop-in!

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1:33pm doctorjazz:

I want to be a Buckaroo (hard to do when you grew up a Brooklyn Jewish Boychick).

1:33pm geezerette:

Buck!!! Bakersfield!

Gaylord, bound to pop up eventually, maybe on netflix?
He was an L.A. personality though...

1:33pm Charlie:

doctorjazz -- you can always reinvent yourself

1:35pm gary mitchell:

Charles Raymond Offenberg - not to be confused with Ray Charles Robinson

1:35pm geezerette:

Ramblin' Jack was a nice Boychick too. :)
So, what Charlie said.

1:36pm ndbob:

a big Baltimore hit here

1:38pm Gaylord Fields:

I was so hoping "Walkin' back to Happiness" would be featured — one week on the chart, and that at No. 100!

1:38pm Charlie:

Gaylord -- her only charting top 100 hit in the US!

1:39pm Charlie:

Gary -- thanks for the full name! I didn't know his whole name.

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1:40pm doctorjazz:

Going out for Cowboy Boots and a 10 Gallon Hat after I take out the garbage, drive the kids to their activities, shop for groceries, and finish up at Temple Men's Club.

1:40pm gary mitchell:

Helen Shapiro was astounding in the Richard Lester flick "It's Trad Dad."

1:40pm geezerette:

Judy doing Cher kind of material!

Wonder if Korla Pandit knew Maila Nurmi?

1:41pm Gaylord Fields:

Charlie, I've always been fascinated by Helen Shapiro technically having a hit career in the U.S. by the most minimal standard.

1:42pm Gaylord Fields:

Geezerette, I'd be surprised if they weren't acquainted. They trod the same L.A. showbiz demimonde paths.

1:46pm geezerette:

@gary mitchell: Is that the one with Tommy Steele?

Gaylord, yes! Imagine Brando & James Dean on bongos at party with Wally Cox, Korla & Maila. :)

1:47pm Gaylord Fields:

I often do, geezerette. I often do.

1:48pm geezerette:

:D !!!

1:48pm ndbob:

"It's Trad Dad' is pretty good overall

1:50pm Charlie:

I've got to look for that one, friends.

1:50pm annie:

i love "i love my truck"

1:50pm Gaylord Fields:

@gary mitchell @ndbob: I may be the U.S.'s biggest Temperance Seven fan — and their scenes are pure catnip!

1:51pm gary mitchell:

geezerette, i don't recall tommy steele in the flick. John Leyton - yes. Del Shannon - yes..

1:51pm βrian:

Little baby ducks and rides in pickup trucks, don't you know.

1:52pm Gaylord Fields:

And the TEMPERANCE MOTHERFLUFFING SEVEN!!!

1:52pm gary mitchell:

right Gaylord, some of that trad stuff can be surprisingly hot...

1:53pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:53pm listener james from westwood:

That one person laughing their ass off in the background of that one is the best.

1:54pm Gaylord Fields:

They were beyond the Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball trad jazzzzz in that they had a sense of the absurd and that they sounded like they actually heard a Hot Five and Hot Seven record or two.

1:54pm Brian in UK:

Jazz, delicious hot, disgusting cold.

1:54pm annie:

thanks for the tunes charlie!

1:55pm geezerette:

If that's the movie I think it is it's surreal and effervescent, sort of the better prototype for "Absolute Beginners" minus pretentiousness.

Another GREAT show Charlie!!!

1:55pm βrian:

Now, what are we supposed to do, Charlie?

1:55pm Gaylord Fields:

@Brian in UK: Precisely! A straight line can be drawn from the Temperance Seven to the Bonzos.

1:55pm gary mitchell:

kenny ball could get pretty out there - esp when the booze was on

1:55pm Brian in UK:

Guess it got Dick Lester the Hard Days Rut gig.

1:56pm geezerette:

I've seen it! Really fun!!!

1:56pm βrian:

(Did he have a brother named Mo?)