WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 2, 2016

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	3:06pm Hoboken Jack: Somewhere, David Steinberg is smiling.
	3:08pm Irwin: Today is October 33, as our monthlong Silent Marathon proceeds apace. Please pledge by nudging the pledge widget atop the playlist. Any amount appreciated. Thank youze.
	3:08pm Irwin: If you're really Hoboken Jack, prove it!
	3:09pm Irwin: What was my cat's name?
	3:09pm northguineahills: Do we get Stereolab's "Jenny Ondioline"?
	3:10pm Irwin: There is no Ondioline in "Jenny Ondioline." It's just a title.
	3:11pm Hoboken Jack: Beans, of course!
	3:12pm Irwin: JACK IS BACK!!!!!
	3:13pm Hoboken Jack: Well, still Rochelle Park Jack, but hanging tough.
	3:15pm Irwin: Been intending to visit, but work commitments have kept me desk-bound. Everybody on the board today WELCOME JACK BACK from the brink of non-Jackhood!
	3:17pm jmd: Perfect Scrambled Eggs!
	3:20pm Polyus: wait, when do you add the milk?
	👻 3:20pm rrg: My Old Dutch!
	3:21pm Sem Chumbo: Jack! In person!! A three exclamation point welcome.
	3:22pm Listening Out There: My Old Dutch was new to me. I have missed so much in life...
	3:26pm melinda: howdy folks!
	3:29pm Dean: Was once on a cross-country flight with Jack. Said "Hi" to him. Got arrested.
	3:29pm Dean: Feeble, I know.
	3:31pm Hoboken Jack: Have been eager for some new Jenny O. Sounding good!
	3:32pm Irwin: What are you listening on? Radio? Web?
	3:35pm Webhamster Henry: My Old Dutch AND 'Enery the 8th are on an old Stanley Holloway record I grew up with , 'Ere's 'Olloway. Yes, Hermans' Hermits' rendition of 'Enery was chanted at me for a few years. There were fewer Henries back then.
	3:42pm Hoboken Jack: The app.
	3:48pm Irwin: That sucky app. Better than nuffin.
	3:49pm Lizardner Dave: The first time I heard Schmilco I picked this song to be "Most likely to get WFMU airplay".
	3:56pm Irwin: Lizard: It's a strange little number. The whole album's kinda strange, and I don't like much of it.
	👻 4:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: Confound it! Now I've got the Old Dutch potato chips jingle for an earworm. youtu.be...
	4:21pm jan: Hard to believe that Janice Ian and the Cowsills would be on the same program back then. Bought the Janice Ian album then, thought the Cowsills to be laughable then.
	4:21pm miles: like wow, I'm half gassed on this whole scene man.
	4:22pm Irwin: Miles: It's groovy, right? DIG IT.
	4:23pm miles: it's a non stop groove machine
	4:27pm Sem Chumbo: This one always just kills me. Richie, man.
	4:31pm miles: any episode? OH HERE IT IS....Wweird man
	4:34pm miles: my last comment was truncated. I was in the middle of asking if Tom gets into the Animals subject when suddenly he was introducing them! weird
	4:34pm Charlie Brown: F U 2, loser.
	4:34pm Snoopy: F'n woof!
	4:35pm Lucy: <sigh>
	4:42pm Lyle: Richie Havens. Wow. There's a story. Last time I saw Richie I was playing trombone for John Gary on his Goodbye Yellow Bird Tour (circa '79) at the Showboat Dinner Theater in Largo, Florida. I was pulling on my pants (banana yellow polyester flairs, as I recall) when Richie walked in the dressing room. I said hello, but he didn't respond. He had a faraway look in his eye. Suddenly, he pulls his guitar from its case and he says, "Play along with me. Norwegian Wood in A." Quietly we ran through the famous Beatles number a couple of times, then Richie said thanks and he was gone. During the second show, Mr. Gary introduced a special guest ... Richie Havens. Applause was weak as Richie took the stage. The crowd was mostly older folks and retirees. Not the type of people who would have been familiar with Richie's performance at Woodstock and his rousing version of "Freedom." Someone threw a napkin at him and Richie just laughed. Another person launched a fistful of plastic forks at Richie from the balcony and, again, Richie just chuckled. Then Richie sang Norwegian Wood and the mood in the room shifted dramatically. People were smiling, some were crying, some held menus towards Richie from the stage apron, hoping for an autograph. Mr. Gary was backstage at this point, finishing his chicken sandwich. I walked back there told him how wonderful Richie had been and how the crowd loved him. Mr. Gary just shrugged. "C'mon, he said, "let's do Yellow Bird and get out of here."
	👻 4:44pm AnAnonymousParty: This is like an old Steve Garvey celebrity Bill-fishing tournament TV show, only with and about music. I just know they are going to throw it to Artie Johnson for comic relief that'll fall flat. Where's the 'psychedelic' commercial break bumper?
	4:45pm Irwin: Lyle, are you planning on publishing your memoirs? Your recollection of details - esp. conversations - is astounding.
	4:45pm miles: love is closer than it seems
	4:48pm miles: don't cop out, man!
	4:52pm Lyle: I may do that one day, Irwin. Still miles to go. Hoping to jam with Phil Bodner, Jr. tomorrow night at the Midland Brew House if he shows. There's talk of his getting Trombones Unlimited back together!
	4:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I wanna hear the Mothers do 'The Rain The Park & Other Things' - but it's gotta be w/ Flo&Eddie...
	4:55pm Irwin: Lyle, as Andy Breckman would say, you're Living the Dream.
	4:56pm miles: did Tom Wilson produce this? sounds like it
	4:57pm Irwin: Wilson didn't produce Tim Hardin.
	4:58pm miles: I meant the David Jennings version
	4:59pm miles: *hemmings
	5:00pm Michael 98145: our regards to the trustees
	5:01pm Brendan: That was a particularly beautiful version of reason to believe, the way his voice cracked it really convey the emotion
	5:02pm Michael 98145: * looking forward to this segment !
	5:02pm Dominick: honk!
	5:03pm Linda Lee: love the show today Irwin! thank you.
	5:04pm lanceromance: Was The musuc factory a syndicated radio show?
	5:09pm laughingacademy: "Forgotten Futures" is a great name
	5:09pm Carmichael: Changed my avatar for today's show! Heya Irwin and tonal freaks.
	👻 5:09pm chris: here's the event at NS - nationalsawdust.org...
	5:13pm Michael 98145: @lanceromance, re Tom Wilson: "In 1968 he hosted a radio show called “The Music Factory” that was syndicated to college radio stations." www.texasmonthly.com...
	5:17pm Webhamster Henry: Dick Hyman is also still alive, right? He'd be another good interview!
	5:17pm coelacanth: greetings Irwin & Wally & others
	5:18pm melinda: Nice avatar, Carm!
	👻 5:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hmm, where is listener Bronwyn B. today? I noticed she has her first WFMU show this weekend, filling in for Stashu early Saturday morning. I was going to wish her luck.
	5:20pm melinda: That was a great Lyle story.
	5:21pm coelacanth: Mr. Ondioline, to you... www.pampig.org...
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: The Ondioline Orchestra also features Loser's Lounger Joe McGinty, as if you didn't have incentive enough.
	5:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oboes...banjos...muted trumpets...celestes...harpsichords...played by - ducks! ...Did Brian Wilson know about these?...
	5:29pm Gaylord Fields: Wow! I never suspected that may be an Ondioline on "Suspicion" — but now I can't un-hear it. Thanks, Wally & Irwin, for the education!
	5:29pm Keith from Oregon: Good question, RRN63!
	👻 5:30pm Alison Porchnik: Hey if Jack's still listening, hi there Jack! And hi there Irwin. And hi there, Wally. I have nothing witty to say, but then again, isn't "hello" enough?
	5:31pm Irwin: Gaylord: I dare someone to prove it's NOT an Ondioline on Suspicion.
	5:31pm Listening Out There: Enjoying the ondioline segment. The instrument had to be used on a variety of 60's commercials, right?
	5:32pm jan: Yahhh- "More" one of my favorites around age 12yrs! Always loved "instrumentals!"
	5:34pm Laura L: Extra busy day here... but what I'll say what AP said too--HELLO! Nuf said!
	5:34pm mr.mikestandsir: "More" makes me now want to ask: "Telstar"?? Maybe?
	👻 5:34pm Alison Porchnik: Whoa - Trenet and Ondioline? It's very hard to contain my excitement. I guess you can't tell though.
	5:36pm Carmichael: @RevRab, yes he did. I just finished his new autobiography, and he listed every instrument he used on Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, God Only Knows and Wouldn't It Be Nice. He used harpsichords, foot-pump organs, and a clavioline on all of the above, along with DOZENS of traditional instruments, often doubled up.
	5:37pm PGB: Listening via the Web. No distortion or noise here.
	5:37pm Webhamster Henry: "More" is a lot better than Mondo Cane.
	5:38pm Tony Iommi: More Distortion!!! Please!!
	5:39pm coelacanth: i guess i have to go back and hear the whole interview, but it seems to me that an instrument that was just a variation on the ondes martenet is actually less versatile than the original. maybe i need more examples but it makes me wonder why the less interesting ondioline was created. ...easier to play maybe?
	5:40pm Kleigh: This show made me think of Valjean's version of Bonanza and of Friedrich Trautwein's Trautonium, which I heard on an Oscar Sala - Balanchine Opera record called Electronic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium
	👻 5:44pm Alison Porchnik: Odd idea, that you'd need a visa to go to outer space. What consulate would you go to?
	5:44pm Carmichael: @coel, straight from Wikipedia: "However, the Ondioline's sounds possibilities were much more varied, compared to the Ondes Martenot, which could only produce a few variations of sounds. This was due to the Ondioline's filter bank, which featured an array of 15 slider switches for various tones. Selected combinations of these switches could create sounds ranging from near-accurate recreations of symphonic instruments (oboe, French horn, etc.) to totally unique sounds of its own."
	5:45pm Carmichael: Whatever consulate that would be, it would be in San Francisco.
	5:45pm dale: who did the green acres music, vic mizzy? a lot of that sound in there.
	5:46pm Whosondephone: I swear that was an actual reed instrument.
	👻 5:46pm Alison Porchnik: Why SF?
	5:46pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: For Mars, visas are issued by ? and the Mysterians; for Saturn, apply with Sun Ra's Arkestra.
	5:46pm Carmichael: Because they're weird out here ...
	5:47pm ARMANDO MORENO: From Tijuana Mexico. listening to very nice music. When will Gotye be back to Los Angeles.
	5:47pm Godfrey "Daniels" Chambers: You are right about LaRosa.
	👻 5:48pm Alison Porchnik: Where would I go to get to Uranus?
	5:48pm Michael 98145: Why SF? because on the left coast most consulates seem to be located there ...
	5:48pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Buy me a drink first.
	👻 5:48pm Alison Porchnik: But I'm on the right coast.
	5:48pm coelacanth: hmm, i could've looked that up, huh... -Thanks Carmichael! i didn't know that part of it. that almost gives it a mellotron-ness doesn't it. all i knew is that the theramin-like sounds were no longer possible. (or at least to the same degree).
	5:49pm Listening Out There: Alison...this is a family show...
	👻 5:49pm Alison Porchnik: @ Gaylord !
	5:49pm dale: a tandy or heathkit would be nice.
	5:51pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Lob a softball at me, and I will swing and connect.
	👻 5:51pm Alison Porchnik: I'll keep that in mind FFR, Gaylord.
	5:53pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Also, thanks for that thing you did re: my show and the silent fundraiser.
	👻 5:54pm Alison Porchnik: my pleasure!
	5:56pm coelacanth: haha! one of my oldest cassettes recorded off wfmu has this on it. (probably Irwin's show)
	5:59pm Godfrey "Daniels" Chambers: GREAT SHOW, IR !!!
	6:00pm coelacanth: interesting. Thank you.
	9:08am Irwin: Sadly, JJP passed away two days after this program. His friend Dana Countryman offers a tribute: The Passing of an Electronic Music Legend bit.ly...
	11:37pm Mark from Toronto: Listened to your show on Thursday, enjoyed it greatly. Just now, played it again for my girlfriend. Then I google him, and shockingly find out the sad news. Weird.
	11:25am geegee vindaloo: Thanks for the link Irwin, same thing, I wanted to listen again and read your update.
	5:04pm Otis: Fantastic Ondioline segment. Thanks Wally and Irwin!
	9:12am Irwin: Music Factory playlist compiled by Ron Gomes.
	9:40pm Where have all the factories gone?: Wow, hearing Cowsills Bill, Bob, Barry and John back in the day . . . . Hearing Tom Wilson, who remixed Sound of Silence and recorded Rolling Stone same day, ya better understand why, despite inspired genius, he was fired
	8:17am Milk is what the Cowsills drink: @Carmichael Thanks for your youtube tip in Music Factory episode 4, Bob Cowsill at Vicki Abelson's house. Other vids to watch are her guests Micky Dolenz and Howard Kaylan

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November 2, 2016: Wally De Backer Explains the Ondioline and Spins Jean-Jacques Perrey

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Gotye & Jean-Jacques Perrey, 2016 (photo: Cybele Malinowski)

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ooga Boogas	Sex in the Chillzone "Sex in the Chillzone" by "Ooga Boogas"	Ooga Boogas	0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Benevento-Russo Duo	Becky "Becky" by "Benevento-Russo Duo"	Best Reason to Buy the Sun	0:11:27 (Pop-up)
Negativland	Perfect Scrambled Eggs	Potatoes: A Collection of Folk Songs	0:15:56 (Pop-up)
Herman's Hermits	My Old Dutch "My Old Dutch" by "Herman's Hermits"	Both Sides of Herman's Hermits	0:18:43 (Pop-up)
Mick Rossi	Dmitri "Dmitri" by "Mick Rossi"	160	0:20:46 (Pop-up)

Jenny O.	Holiday "Holiday" by "Jenny O."	Work EP	0:28:28 (Pop-up)
Yuka Honda & Ganda	Im Tirtzi "Im Tirtzi" by "Yuka Honda & Ganda"	Great Jewish Music: Sasha Argov	0:30:23 (Pop-up)
Microdisney	Loftholdingswood "Loftholdingswood" by "Microdisney"	In the World	0:34:09 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre	Careful "Careful" by "Jimmy Giuffre"	The Easy Way	0:39:23 (Pop-up)
Wilco	Common Sense "Common Sense" by "Wilco"	Schmilco	0:46:06 (Pop-up)

Arling & Cameron	Voulez-Vouz? "Voulez-Vouz?" by "Arling & Cameron"	All-In	0:54:20 (Pop-up)

TOM WILSON	The Music Factory (ep. 5: The Cowsills)	THE MUSIC FACTORY (MGM-Verve series, 1967-68)	1:00:41 (Pop-up)
Tom Wilson	Program intro (theme: "Help, I’m a Rock") and welcoming The Cowsills
The Cowsills	The Rain, the Park, and Other Things	The Cowsills
Tom Wilson	Introduces the Cowsills: John, Barry, Bob, and Bill
Tim Hardin	If I Were a Carpenter "If I Were a Carpenter" by "Tim Hardin"	Tim Hardin 1
commercial	Alan Lorber's The Lotus Palace (album)
Tom Wilson	interview: The Cowsills recall when they met Tim Hardin
Richie Havens	Eleanor Rigby "Eleanor Rigby" by "Richie Havens"	Mixed Bag
Tom Wilson	interview: How old are The Cowsills; touring with The Mothers of Invention; Janis Ian
Janis Ian	Janey's Blues "Janey's Blues" by "Janis Ian"	Society's Child
commercial	“Gone with the Wind" (soundtrack album)
Tom Wilson	interview: What do The Cowsills think about Bob Dylan; Newport Folk Festival 1965
Richie Havens	Just Like a Woman "Just Like a Woman" by "Richie Havens"	Mixed Bag
Tom Wilson	segue into Eric Burdon and the Animals
Eric Burdon and the Animals	See See Rider	Animalization
commercial	“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (original cast album)
Tom Wilson	"I raise hogs out back." (mid-point break)
commercial	The James Cotton Blues Band (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	intros his "Nightmare Pick of the Week"
Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic	Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat - “Eroica” (excerpt)
Tom Wilson	interview: The Cowsills explain that their house has slate roof tiles, 26 rooms, and is haunted.
The Cowsills	Thinkin’ About the Other Side	The Cowsills
Tom Wilson	interview: The Cowsills’ mom is singing with them now.
The Cowsills	(Stop, Look) Is Anyone There?	The Cowsills
Tom Wilson	interview: Tom Wilson - Praise for Cowsills’ producer Artie Kornfeld; producing modern artists.
The Cowsills	How Can I Make You See	The Cowsills
commercial	The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa)
Tom Wilson	Introduces “some new action in the record world."
Calvin Arnold	Funky Way "Funky Way" by "Calvin Arnold"	MGM single 1378
Tom Wilson	Segues into David Hemmings
David Hemmings	Reason to Believe "Reason to Believe" by "David Hemmings"	Happens
Tim Hardin	Reason to Believe "Reason to Believe" by "Tim Hardin"	Tim Hardin 1
commercial	Nico: Chelsea Girl "Nico: Chelsea Girl" by "commercial"
Tom Wilson	Outro (theme: "Help I’m a Rock") and thanks to the Cowsills

WALLY DE BACKER presents	The ONDIOLINE and JEAN-JACQUES PERREY		2:01:46 (Pop-up)
Perrey & Kingsley	Swan's Splashdown	The In Sound from Way Out	2:02:06 (Pop-up)
	a song
Wally De Backer	interview seg 1 - Jean-Jacques Perrey and the history of the Ondioline	live in the studio	2:03:34 (Pop-up)
Ondioline Orchestra ft. Dick Hyman & Jean-Jacques Perrey	Cigale (Cicadas)	Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline (Forgotten Futures Records, 2017)	2:10:42 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey	Chicken on the Rocks	Musique Electronique du Cosmos	2:13:12 (Pop-up)
	a song
Wally De Backer	interview seg 2 - how Jean-Jacques Perrey became Mr. Ondioline	live in the studio	2:15:11 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey (as Mr. Ondioline)	Lover	Ondiolinorama	2:20:38 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Angelo Badalamenti	Danielle of Amsterdam	Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline	2:22:21 (Pop-up)
	a song
Wally De Backer	interview seg 3 - The Ondioline in hit recordings	live in the studio	2:25:22 (Pop-up)
Terry Stafford	Suspicion "Suspicion" by "Terry Stafford"	Terry Stafford's Greatest Hit	2:27:28 (Pop-up)
Kai Winding ft. Jean-Jacques Perrey	More (Theme from Mondo Cane)	Mondo Cane (Soundtrack)	2:29:42 (Pop-up)
Charles Trenet	L'ame des poetes "L'ame des poetes" by "Charles Trenet"	45 single	2:32:00 (Pop-up)
	a song
Wally De Backer	interview seg 4 - The Ondioline & Jean-Jacques Perrey	live in the studio	2:34:42 (Pop-up)
The Orchestra of Paul Durand ft. Jean-Jacques Perrey	La Vache et le Prisonnier	La Vache et le Prisonnier (unreleased soundtrack)	2:40:20 (Pop-up)
Monty Kelly & His Orchestra	Ondoline [sic]	Summer Set	2:40:02 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey	Visa to the Stars (commercial arrangement)	Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline	2:42:25 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman & Jean-Jacques Perrey	Live on the Arthur Godfrey radio show	October 19, 1960	2:43:40 (Pop-up)
	a song
Wally De Backer	interview seg 5 - How to play the Ondioline and how they were built	live in the studio	2:45:36 (Pop-up)
Perrey & Kingsley	Spooks in Space	The In Sound from Way Out	2:51:40 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey (intro: Carroll Bratman)	Cartoon Music (demo)	unreleased demo	2:53:18 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey	final message from Jean-Jacques	Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline	2:55:52 (Pop-up)
Wally De Backer	interview seg 6 - closing remarks	live in the studio	2:57:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:06pm Hoboken Jack: Somewhere, David Steinberg is smiling.
	3:08pm Irwin: Today is October 33, as our monthlong Silent Marathon proceeds apace. Please pledge by nudging the pledge widget atop the playlist. Any amount appreciated. Thank youze.
	3:08pm Irwin: If you're really Hoboken Jack, prove it!
	3:09pm Irwin: What was my cat's name?
	3:09pm northguineahills: Do we get Stereolab's "Jenny Ondioline"?
	3:10pm Irwin: There is no Ondioline in "Jenny Ondioline." It's just a title.
	3:11pm Hoboken Jack: Beans, of course!
	3:12pm Irwin: JACK IS BACK!!!!!
	3:13pm Hoboken Jack: Well, still Rochelle Park Jack, but hanging tough.
	3:15pm Irwin: Been intending to visit, but work commitments have kept me desk-bound. Everybody on the board today WELCOME JACK BACK from the brink of non-Jackhood!
	3:17pm jmd: Perfect Scrambled Eggs!
	3:20pm Polyus: wait, when do you add the milk?
	👻 3:20pm rrg: My Old Dutch!
	3:21pm Sem Chumbo: Jack! In person!! A three exclamation point welcome.
	3:22pm Listening Out There: My Old Dutch was new to me. I have missed so much in life...
	3:26pm melinda: howdy folks!
	3:29pm Dean: Was once on a cross-country flight with Jack. Said "Hi" to him. Got arrested.
	3:29pm Dean: Feeble, I know.
	3:31pm Hoboken Jack: Have been eager for some new Jenny O. Sounding good!
	3:32pm Irwin: What are you listening on? Radio? Web?
	3:35pm Webhamster Henry: My Old Dutch AND 'Enery the 8th are on an old Stanley Holloway record I grew up with , 'Ere's 'Olloway. Yes, Hermans' Hermits' rendition of 'Enery was chanted at me for a few years. There were fewer Henries back then.
	3:42pm Hoboken Jack: The app.
	3:48pm Irwin: That sucky app. Better than nuffin.
	3:49pm Lizardner Dave: The first time I heard Schmilco I picked this song to be "Most likely to get WFMU airplay".
	3:56pm Irwin: Lizard: It's a strange little number. The whole album's kinda strange, and I don't like much of it.
	👻 4:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: Confound it! Now I've got the Old Dutch potato chips jingle for an earworm. youtu.be...
	4:21pm jan: Hard to believe that Janice Ian and the Cowsills would be on the same program back then. Bought the Janice Ian album then, thought the Cowsills to be laughable then.
	4:21pm miles: like wow, I'm half gassed on this whole scene man.
	4:22pm Irwin: Miles: It's groovy, right? DIG IT.
	4:23pm miles: it's a non stop groove machine
	4:27pm Sem Chumbo: This one always just kills me. Richie, man.
	4:31pm miles: any episode? OH HERE IT IS....Wweird man
	4:34pm miles: my last comment was truncated. I was in the middle of asking if Tom gets into the Animals subject when suddenly he was introducing them! weird
	4:34pm Charlie Brown: F U 2, loser.
	4:34pm Snoopy: F'n woof!
	4:35pm Lucy: <sigh>
	4:42pm Lyle: Richie Havens. Wow. There's a story. Last time I saw Richie I was playing trombone for John Gary on his Goodbye Yellow Bird Tour (circa '79) at the Showboat Dinner Theater in Largo, Florida. I was pulling on my pants (banana yellow polyester flairs, as I recall) when Richie walked in the dressing room. I said hello, but he didn't respond. He had a faraway look in his eye. Suddenly, he pulls his guitar from its case and he says, "Play along with me. Norwegian Wood in A." Quietly we ran through the famous Beatles number a couple of times, then Richie said thanks and he was gone. During the second show, Mr. Gary introduced a special guest ... Richie Havens. Applause was weak as Richie took the stage. The crowd was mostly older folks and retirees. Not the type of people who would have been familiar with Richie's performance at Woodstock and his rousing version of "Freedom." Someone threw a napkin at him and Richie just laughed. Another person launched a fistful of plastic forks at Richie from the balcony and, again, Richie just chuckled. Then Richie sang Norwegian Wood and the mood in the room shifted dramatically. People were smiling, some were crying, some held menus towards Richie from the stage apron, hoping for an autograph. Mr. Gary was backstage at this point, finishing his chicken sandwich. I walked back there told him how wonderful Richie had been and how the crowd loved him. Mr. Gary just shrugged. "C'mon, he said, "let's do Yellow Bird and get out of here."
	👻 4:44pm AnAnonymousParty: This is like an old Steve Garvey celebrity Bill-fishing tournament TV show, only with and about music. I just know they are going to throw it to Artie Johnson for comic relief that'll fall flat. Where's the 'psychedelic' commercial break bumper?
	4:45pm Irwin: Lyle, are you planning on publishing your memoirs? Your recollection of details - esp. conversations - is astounding.
	4:45pm miles: love is closer than it seems
	4:48pm miles: don't cop out, man!
	4:52pm Lyle: I may do that one day, Irwin. Still miles to go. Hoping to jam with Phil Bodner, Jr. tomorrow night at the Midland Brew House if he shows. There's talk of his getting Trombones Unlimited back together!
	4:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I wanna hear the Mothers do 'The Rain The Park & Other Things' - but it's gotta be w/ Flo&Eddie...
	4:55pm Irwin: Lyle, as Andy Breckman would say, you're Living the Dream.
	4:56pm miles: did Tom Wilson produce this? sounds like it
	4:57pm Irwin: Wilson didn't produce Tim Hardin.
	4:58pm miles: I meant the David Jennings version
	4:59pm miles: *hemmings
	5:00pm Michael 98145: our regards to the trustees
	5:01pm Brendan: That was a particularly beautiful version of reason to believe, the way his voice cracked it really convey the emotion
	5:02pm Michael 98145: * looking forward to this segment !
	5:02pm Dominick: honk!
	5:03pm Linda Lee: love the show today Irwin! thank you.
	5:04pm lanceromance: Was The musuc factory a syndicated radio show?
	5:09pm laughingacademy: "Forgotten Futures" is a great name
	5:09pm Carmichael: Changed my avatar for today's show! Heya Irwin and tonal freaks.
	👻 5:09pm chris: here's the event at NS - nationalsawdust.org...
	5:13pm Michael 98145: @lanceromance, re Tom Wilson: "In 1968 he hosted a radio show called “The Music Factory” that was syndicated to college radio stations." www.texasmonthly.com...
	5:17pm Webhamster Henry: Dick Hyman is also still alive, right? He'd be another good interview!
	5:17pm coelacanth: greetings Irwin & Wally & others
	5:18pm melinda: Nice avatar, Carm!
	👻 5:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hmm, where is listener Bronwyn B. today? I noticed she has her first WFMU show this weekend, filling in for Stashu early Saturday morning. I was going to wish her luck.
	5:20pm melinda: That was a great Lyle story.
	5:21pm coelacanth: Mr. Ondioline, to you... www.pampig.org...
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: The Ondioline Orchestra also features Loser's Lounger Joe McGinty, as if you didn't have incentive enough.
	5:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oboes...banjos...muted trumpets...celestes...harpsichords...played by - ducks! ...Did Brian Wilson know about these?...
	5:29pm Gaylord Fields: Wow! I never suspected that may be an Ondioline on "Suspicion" — but now I can't un-hear it. Thanks, Wally & Irwin, for the education!
	5:29pm Keith from Oregon: Good question, RRN63!
	👻 5:30pm Alison Porchnik: Hey if Jack's still listening, hi there Jack! And hi there Irwin. And hi there, Wally. I have nothing witty to say, but then again, isn't "hello" enough?
	5:31pm Irwin: Gaylord: I dare someone to prove it's NOT an Ondioline on Suspicion.
	5:31pm Listening Out There: Enjoying the ondioline segment. The instrument had to be used on a variety of 60's commercials, right?
	5:32pm jan: Yahhh- "More" one of my favorites around age 12yrs! Always loved "instrumentals!"
	5:34pm Laura L: Extra busy day here... but what I'll say what AP said too--HELLO! Nuf said!
	5:34pm mr.mikestandsir: "More" makes me now want to ask: "Telstar"?? Maybe?
	👻 5:34pm Alison Porchnik: Whoa - Trenet and Ondioline? It's very hard to contain my excitement. I guess you can't tell though.
	5:36pm Carmichael: @RevRab, yes he did. I just finished his new autobiography, and he listed every instrument he used on Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, God Only Knows and Wouldn't It Be Nice. He used harpsichords, foot-pump organs, and a clavioline on all of the above, along with DOZENS of traditional instruments, often doubled up.
	5:37pm PGB: Listening via the Web. No distortion or noise here.
	5:37pm Webhamster Henry: "More" is a lot better than Mondo Cane.
	5:38pm Tony Iommi: More Distortion!!! Please!!
	5:39pm coelacanth: i guess i have to go back and hear the whole interview, but it seems to me that an instrument that was just a variation on the ondes martenet is actually less versatile than the original. maybe i need more examples but it makes me wonder why the less interesting ondioline was created. ...easier to play maybe?
	5:40pm Kleigh: This show made me think of Valjean's version of Bonanza and of Friedrich Trautwein's Trautonium, which I heard on an Oscar Sala - Balanchine Opera record called Electronic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium
	👻 5:44pm Alison Porchnik: Odd idea, that you'd need a visa to go to outer space. What consulate would you go to?
	5:44pm Carmichael: @coel, straight from Wikipedia: "However, the Ondioline's sounds possibilities were much more varied, compared to the Ondes Martenot, which could only produce a few variations of sounds. This was due to the Ondioline's filter bank, which featured an array of 15 slider switches for various tones. Selected combinations of these switches could create sounds ranging from near-accurate recreations of symphonic instruments (oboe, French horn, etc.) to totally unique sounds of its own."
	5:45pm Carmichael: Whatever consulate that would be, it would be in San Francisco.
	5:45pm dale: who did the green acres music, vic mizzy? a lot of that sound in there.
	5:46pm Whosondephone: I swear that was an actual reed instrument.
	👻 5:46pm Alison Porchnik: Why SF?
	5:46pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: For Mars, visas are issued by ? and the Mysterians; for Saturn, apply with Sun Ra's Arkestra.
	5:46pm Carmichael: Because they're weird out here ...
	5:47pm ARMANDO MORENO: From Tijuana Mexico. listening to very nice music. When will Gotye be back to Los Angeles.
	5:47pm Godfrey "Daniels" Chambers: You are right about LaRosa.
	👻 5:48pm Alison Porchnik: Where would I go to get to Uranus?
	5:48pm Michael 98145: Why SF? because on the left coast most consulates seem to be located there ...
	5:48pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Buy me a drink first.
	👻 5:48pm Alison Porchnik: But I'm on the right coast.
	5:48pm coelacanth: hmm, i could've looked that up, huh... -Thanks Carmichael! i didn't know that part of it. that almost gives it a mellotron-ness doesn't it. all i knew is that the theramin-like sounds were no longer possible. (or at least to the same degree).
	5:49pm Listening Out There: Alison...this is a family show...
	👻 5:49pm Alison Porchnik: @ Gaylord !
	5:49pm dale: a tandy or heathkit would be nice.
	5:51pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Lob a softball at me, and I will swing and connect.
	👻 5:51pm Alison Porchnik: I'll keep that in mind FFR, Gaylord.
	5:53pm Gaylord Fields: @Alison Porchnik: Also, thanks for that thing you did re: my show and the silent fundraiser.
	👻 5:54pm Alison Porchnik: my pleasure!
	5:56pm coelacanth: haha! one of my oldest cassettes recorded off wfmu has this on it. (probably Irwin's show)
	5:59pm Godfrey "Daniels" Chambers: GREAT SHOW, IR !!!
	6:00pm coelacanth: interesting. Thank you.
	9:08am Irwin: Sadly, JJP passed away two days after this program. His friend Dana Countryman offers a tribute: The Passing of an Electronic Music Legend bit.ly...
	11:37pm Mark from Toronto: Listened to your show on Thursday, enjoyed it greatly. Just now, played it again for my girlfriend. Then I google him, and shockingly find out the sad news. Weird.
	11:25am geegee vindaloo: Thanks for the link Irwin, same thing, I wanted to listen again and read your update.
	5:04pm Otis: Fantastic Ondioline segment. Thanks Wally and Irwin!
	9:12am Irwin: Music Factory playlist compiled by Ron Gomes.
	9:40pm Where have all the factories gone?: Wow, hearing Cowsills Bill, Bob, Barry and John back in the day . . . . Hearing Tom Wilson, who remixed Sound of Silence and recorded Rolling Stone same day, ya better understand why, despite inspired genius, he was fired
	8:17am Milk is what the Cowsills drink: @Carmichael Thanks for your youtube tip in Music Factory episode 4, Bob Cowsill at Vicki Abelson's house. Other vids to watch are her guests Micky Dolenz and Howard Kaylan

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 2, 2016

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