WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 03/17/17

Listener comments!

I know the clocks have moved but I think that I have overshot.
Grant Wood's American Gothic is on view over here for the first time. Hope to see it soon. The 20s/30s was such a prolific time for artistic works in America. Whether they be music, painting or writing. America has never recovered!

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7:20am Brian in UK:

PS loving Will Rogers book, his comments circa 1924/5 are contemporary. Albeit given soft targets like politicians.

7:47am Doug Schulkind:

Thank you, Brian in UK, for bringing some culture to this low-class joint.

8:15am annie:

goom morgen guys... it's a magritte sky out there...

8:16am annie:

goom..... haha

8:17am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome welcome, annie!

8:22am David:

Happy St Patrick's Day!

8:23am David:

(From someone who
hates St. Patrick's Day)

8:23am Doug Schulkind:

Let it rain GREEN on today's Give the Drummer Some. Good day, David!

8:26am David D:

Early tailgating today at the Marathon pre-game show!

8:28am David D:

Annie: "Goom morgen" is actually how Guten Morgen often sounds in rapid/natural speech.

8:28am Doug Schulkind:

If you need to throw up, David D, please just face away from my Porsche convertible.

8:30am David:

A green Porsche.. cool

8:33am David D:

I'd offer everyone some good German beer for the party but I'm not sure how it would react to the green coloring.

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8:34am doctorjazz:

Good morning all! Home stretch...

8:35am David:

Loving this South
African vibe

8:35am Doug Schulkind:

Yes, be sure to home stretch, everyone. You don't want to pull any pledging muscles! Howdy, doc!

8:35am annie:

aahh, saved by the language expert.. thanks DD!!

8:37am annie:

i have a small hunk of my SFL left.. and 3 days to deal it out.

8:37am Doug Schulkind:

@David
That was West Nkosi performing "Platform 17."

8:38am Doug Schulkind:

@annie
Just be sure to deal from the top of the deck.

8:39am David D:

And I've got green tea for anyone who'd rather...

8:39am annie:

okay dokey, i'll leave the deck on the table..

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8:42am Brian in UK:

@David D Our daughter went to the Azores and brought some green tea back. Said it was from the only tea plantation in Europe. Half way to America. Go figure.

8:48am David D:

@Brian: I've heard it's quite beautiful there but didn't know about the tea. Was it especially good? Another place to go someday...

8:49am Doug Schulkind:

The Azores always sounds to me like something the requires medical attention.

8:55am glenn:

azores can be assuaged with ardent applications of aloe and arnica.

8:55am Doug Schulkind:

Aloe, glenn!

8:56am David D:

Aloe? Ha!

8:59am David:

My friend's grandmother served me tea
in rural mountainous Saitama prefecture,
Japan twenty years ago.
I could not handle it.. too strong. Poured
some of it while she wasn't looking

8:59am Doug Schulkind:

Is everybody ready? I said, IS EVERYBODY READY?!

9:00am Gary:

WAKE UP YOU! And pledge to one of the greatest radio shows of all time: pledge.wfmu.org...

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9:01am Brian in UK:

David the tea was OK but not as good as some Chinese varieties. They did some diving there, many wrecks, of the sailing ship category. Very verdant.

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

One of the 18 greatest radio shows on Give the Drummer Radio! (Wow, 18. Really? That many? Wow!)

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9:02am Brian in UK:

Doug, NO hold your horses. Need to batten down the hatches.

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Shit, Brian, I battened down the horses by accident.

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9:03am Brian in UK:

This show is run on the hoof anyway.

9:04am David D:

Pledge for great radio - and great playlists: guaranteed 50% more cryptic crossword content than your workaday playlist!

9:04am Doug Schulkind:

So is the fiddler.

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9:05am Brian in UK:

2 Across To egg on.

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9:05am Brian in UK:

Answer. Toast.

9:06am David D:

I was about to ask if it started with a T - too fast!

9:06am David D:

The Me Nobody Knows!

9:06am Doug Schulkind:

Fiddler on the hoof.

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9:07am Brian in UK:

I'll save the jokes for glenn he is the master.

9:07am David:

WRUW Cleveland doing their
marathon this week too..

9:08am David:

Telethon I mean

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9:08am Brian in UK:

Love the description of Hank Williams as "thin as a rail"

9:09am David D:

Is this the original recording? Sounds different - or maybe it's my memory.

9:09am David D:

Okay, the playlist just answered my question.

9:09am Doug Schulkind:

We'll be hearing from Cleveland's WMMR later, David.

9:09am glenn:

ummmm. thanks. i think.

9:09am Doug Schulkind:

The one and only Original, David D.

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!

9:11am David D:

If all musicals were like this...

9:11am glenn:

you know, if you guys could collect a grand every time trump or sean spicer opened his fool yap, you would never need to have another marathon

9:12am fred:

If I had a million dollars I would probably give most of it away to WFMU, WMRC and other like-minded organization. Which is why I will never have a million dollars

9:13am Gary:

Oh, wow -- I keep seeing this Homemade Records project, but just the book, everywhere

9:13am Doug Schulkind:

We know you would if you could, fred. And we love you for it.

9:13am David D:

Salut Fred!

9:13am fred:

Oops, by WMRC I mean the Willie Mae Rock Camp for girls

9:14am David D:

That is one of the more worthy rock camps.

9:15am David D:

Oh wait, it's a real thing, sorry! Looks very worthy indeed.

9:15am listener james from westwood:

How do, Drummersomers! Reporting in from the phone room @ the Magic Factory! Show Doug some love and pledge what you can to keep this wonderful stream singing clear and bright in a dark time.

9:16am Doug Schulkind:

Big love back atcha, Phone Room James!

9:18am dc khlam:

Hey Drummer Some. Been MIA for a while but here today.

9:19am fred:

@David D: You're in Germany, right? There are a few camps there: girlsrockcampalliance.org

9:22am annie:

so, who of you has not yet donated? i would love to chip in for you....

9:22am David D:

Fred, thanks! There seems to be one in Berlin, which isn't too far - I will pass on the info...

9:24am David D:

@Annie - That is so generous of you!

9:24am David D:

And good morning, dc khlam!

9:26am annie:

i have 30 bucks left to chip in, who wants thier name on it?

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

dc khlam, always great to see you Sir. How is life in Trumpburgh?

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9:27am Brian in UK:

Barranquilla has never been the same since reading Snow Blind.

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Who has been the same, Brian in UK?

9:29am Gary:

I have thrilled every time Doug has played this album! You should not hesitate to pledge $20 or more to get in the running to win it! pledge.wfmu.org...

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9:29am Brian in UK:

Come viz me to ze kazbah and I vill show you ze vunders of ze Drummer Sum. (no idea what accent that is)

9:30am Scraps:

hey h'lo h'lo h'lo h'lo!

9:30am Doug Schulkind:

Awright, Scraps is here!

9:32am dc khlam:

Oh, man...Trumburgh is full of lunatics right now.

9:33am dc khlam:

Don't quite know how to spell "Trumpburgh"

9:34am Doug Schulkind:

That's OK, dck, spelling has been dropped from the budget.

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9:35am Brian in UK:

no capital letters in the capitol either.

9:35am Scraps:

I been waiting all night anticipating, and then OF COURSE I been asleep for half an hour. BUT: -only- half an hour. Hah!

9:37am fred:

@DC Khlam: The orange one shares your confusion, which is why the renaming is on hold. Trumpville sounds small, Trumpton sounds weird. I hear he likes TrumpTrump as grand enough

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9:38am Brian in UK:

Why does no one sing Nellie the Elephant these days.

9:39am Matt F:

This bed music is really making me feel upful.

9:40am annie:

yay erella!!

9:40am Alex In Illinois:

Barranquilla Columbia? My mom once taught in a school there, years before I was born.

9:41am Mike East:

Dang...wish I had speakers at work so I could hear my name called out. New work situation makes listening difficult, but I still support what you do, Doug!

9:41am Scraps:

Not really competition, to me. Lots of shows I don't listen to at all, and without Drummer I would not listen to FMU much less. Ken is canny, I think

9:42am Gary:

Super love this album! Pledge for it for a mere $20! pledge.wfmu.org...

9:43am Alex In Illinois:

@Brian in UK: When I had a free form show, on my college's radio station, back in the 1980's, I liked the Toy Dolls, but often whenever I played their music, I would get angry calls from listeners.

9:43am David D:

Alex, angry calls can be a very good sign.

9:44am Mr C:

Yo, La Drummer!

9:44am Cecile:

Doug!

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

Calling out MIKE EAST! Thank you, Mike East!

9:44am Scraps:

In fact, there are really only one or two competing directly for my ears.

And, of course, there's archives.

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

Up yours, Matt F!

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

Greets, Mr C! (Where the hell is Mr D?)

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, Alex in Ill!

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9:47am Brian in UK:

@Alex shows they are listening. The original was another first for George Martin.
Used to remind me of Circus Boy. I think a young Mickey Dolenz was in it.

9:47am Jeff g.:

New corporate policy has made it impossible for me to access certain web sites during work hours, including wfmu.org. Thanks goodness for the phone app! And thank goodness for Doug -ness!

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9:48am duke:

I really like this bed music

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

Was it get out of bed music or stay in bed music, duke?

Hallo, Jeff G!

9:50am Scraps:

The bed music makes me happy, too

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9:52am βrian:

Being aware of the Doug. Good morning.

9:52am annie:

my offer still stands, y'all

9:52am Gary:

Last opportunity to get in the running for one of the three great prizes being offered in Hour One! pledge.wfmu.org...

9:53am Doug Schulkind:

Merry Isthmus, βrian!

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9:54am βrian:

My wife has done a series of solo American Gothic-esque poses in front of our house over the years — a leaf rake in hand.

9:56am Stanley:

I'm here and I've got some cash

10:00am Uncle Michael:

HELLO! PLEDGE!

10:00am Stanley:

Nice to see Great Missenden coming through

10:01am annie:

i'm going to go for broke and pour that last cup of coffee...the hell with saving it for the morning, it's chilly here.... so all of you reading this comments section has pledged?? if you haven't i can chip in 30 bucks!!

10:02am Cecile:

I have pledged and pledged.

10:02am dc khlam:

DANGIT. pledging again..

10:03am Cecile:

hey dc k

10:04am Cecile:

yes, I have to agree. Also the amount of money the organizers get, but as I understand it, none of the artists are paid anything?!??! not even an honorarium. That seems bogus.

10:04am dc khlam:

CECILE!

10:06am Cecile:

preach, brother Doug.

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10:08am doctorjazz:

Doctor appointments going to keep me busy this morning,. Check in again later, GO DOUG!

10:09am Official Announcement:

Pledge $20 or more to be in the running for great prizes - $75 to automatically get the premium CD - more for more - and all to keep this greatness flowing!

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10:10am βrian:

Is there such a thing as DJ karaoke? Trying to imagine various WFMU DJs covering this.

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10:11am βrian:

(The announcer's part, only, I mean.)

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10:12am Brian in UK:

Saving my pledge for cleaning the furniture. Ta Da.

10:12am Gary:

Get in on this incredible document for $20 and support this most amazing of radio shows: pledge.wfmu.org...

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10:12am Artie Haywire:

Glad to be getting Drummerated!

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

Thank you, Cecile!

10:12am dc khlam:

God I love Lovesick Blues.

10:12am Jesse K:

Morning drummersomes!

10:12am Cecile:

you are welcome!

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

Gettin' noisy in New Joisy, it's Uncle Michael!

10:13am dc khlam:

If I could sing like this, I'd be fine with the world..

10:13am Webhamster Henry:

It's like the Laura Cantrell aircheck segment!

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10:15am Brian in UK:

I was holding it together until Laura C's name was mentioned.

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10:16am βrian:

Wow, was that a dump on Hank??

10:16am Doug Schulkind:

Webhamster Henry is here! He is the Tim Berners-Lee of WFMU's early Internet existence. I bow low to you, Webhamster Henry!

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10:16am βrian:

Oh, the stream just flipped.

10:17am Stanley:

Sounds like the stream has just kicked in.

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10:17am Brian in UK:

It's freeform.

10:18am Jesse K:

It switched over right at the moment when prerecorded Doug came in to say "You're listening to Give the Drummer Radio...24 hour web stream"

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10:18am βrian:

Freeform lifts and separates.

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10:19am Brian in UK:

...and fully underwired when 100% arrives.

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10:20am βrian:

Just before that, I think. I was trying to imagine what kind of salty language Hank might be using.

10:22am Webhamster Henry:

Stream trouble?
Elyse Weinberg - If death don't over take me

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, Henry. You are still saving WFMU's ass on the Internet.

10:24am Stanley:

Smooth, Henry.

10:25am dc khlam:

Any James Cotton on you today?

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10:25am Brian in UK:

To get you get you courtable, I'd bring my portable.
Brilliant.

10:26am Webhamster Henry:

Doug's giving credit where none is due - others also picked it up. But the GTDS shuffle mode stream is so enjoyable... it's hard to report!

10:28am Doug Schulkind:

Sorry, dc khlam. But I did play Little Milton. At least.

10:28am Wendy del Formaggio:

Good morning, Doug, and comments page pals!

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10:29am Brian in UK:

Hello Wendy, I was just thinking of having some Reggiano and honey. Hmmm.

10:30am Wendy del Formaggio:

Brian in UK: Hello there! Yes, you should totally have some Parm-Regg and honey. Mmm...

10:30am Gary:

Wake Up You! is one of the most incredible music comps it has ever been my pleasure to listen to and read (all 100 pages!). Get in the running for it for a mere $20 (it goes for more than that new!): pledge.wfmu.org...

10:30am Doug Schulkind:

Say cheese, everyone, Wendy del F is in the house!

10:31am Stanley:

Can I have some?

10:31am Webhamster Henry:

Which brings up another point - it's always been the case that there are more WFMU DJs ready to go than hours in a week - so the "alternate" Streams provide a great and growing place for them. The main problem for me is conflicting simultaneous programs - so I rely on archives.
I can't imagine anyone on the chat board hasn't already put in their pledge, but if you could step out to social media for a bit and plug the station, that would be great!

10:31am Wendy del Formaggio:

Cheeeeese!

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10:32am Brian in UK:

The honey comes locally from one of my wife's work colleagues' Dad.

Stanley, ofcourse. you need to pick up you Dub album.

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10:32am βrian:

I just had some Reggiano on a shredded kale salad. Very nice, that.

10:33am Stanley:

I'm a stepping your way, Brian.

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10:34am βrian:

Silver isn't the best material to make springs. Purty, though.

10:35am dc khlam:

Los Parañas rule. My nephew heard their song Marco Polo and said "this just sounds like a bunch of guys that don't know what they're doing.."

10:36am Alex In Illinois:

@dc khlam: You need to treat your nephew to the music of the Shaggs

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

Knowing what you're doing is overrated, dc khlam.

10:37am Wendy del Formaggio:

I don't know what I'm doing every single day! That's why I'm a reporter.

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10:37am βrian:

And before that: a well tempered Comté with a glass of Bugey.

10:38am melinda:

hi people!

10:38am dc khlam:

CHEESE LADY!

10:38am David D:

Hey Melinda!

10:38am Jeff g.:

I just had a hot crossed bun. The food situation in my office is ridiculous. Someone else baked green cupcakes.

10:39am Wendy del Formaggio:

DC Khlam! I think I know you by a different name, don't I?

10:39am dc khlam:

It's funny, I'm surrounded by kids all the time. I thought it would be easy to educate them all on good music and send them down the proper path. But MAN, kids are dumb. They just are not having any of my music. They listen to the shittiest crap imaginable. Oh well, I tried.

10:40am dc khlam:

Yeah, I changed my name on Wednesday in honor of SMKen.

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10:40am Brian in UK:

@dc khlam when young you have to discover or at least think you have discovered the music yourself.

10:40am David D:

dck: Never give up - the learning effect often kicks in after a long delay.

10:42am dc khlam:

For sure @Brian, my mistake. To be fair, mixed in with all my daughter's crap is some choice punk rock I turned her on to. And she's branching out now to some pretty interesting stuff now.

10:44am dc khlam:

crap, crap, Buzzcocks, crap, crap, Ramones, crap, crap, crap, Sleater Kinney, crap, crap, crap...

10:44am Jeff g.:

Re kids, they ARE dumb.

10:46am David D:

@Brian: True, and the sense of discovery is practically the goal itself.

10:46am Gary:

LIstening to this, how can you not: pledge.wfmu.org...

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10:48am Sam Segal:

Peace and blessings, Doug and Doug-heads! Happy marathon, all.

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10:49am βrian:

www.newyorker.com...

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10:50am Sam Segal:

Minnetonka is merely the address on my credit card. Still representing and emitting from Minneapolis, Doug.

10:50am melinda:

@Brian: good one.

10:50am dc khlam:

Petition to take healthcare subsidies away from members of Congress: www.change.org... --yeah, I know, stupid petitions but good idea.

10:51am fred:

@dc khlam: At least these are actual kids, who will grow up. I work in academia, where the maturity level seems stuck between first and sixth grade

10:51am dc khlam:

@Brian: I was thinking about phone booths yesterday and how effective they were at preventing us from hearing people loudly knowing things.

10:51am Doug Schulkind:

That's a relief, Sam. Though Minnetonka is a pretty cool sounding place.

10:52am annie:

love that cafe cartoon brian

10:53am dc khlam:

Man, I wish these dudes would visit our dumb country.

10:54am melinda:

There's plenty of time for kids to discover better music, all you can do is offer some exposure and let things happen in their own time. This thread sort of reminds me of this Onion article: www.theonion.com...

10:54am fred:

At times Los Pirañas sound to me like a noise/cumbia Eläkeläiset, which is as good as it gets. Gotta talk to the Sonic Protest people about them later

10:55am Gary:

Pledge $75 or more for Doug's premium, which includes the incomparable Mina and tracks from our many esteemed stream mates ("estreemates"?) pledge.wfmu.org...

10:55am Little Danny:

Go Doug go! Go WFMU go!

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10:56am Brian in UK:

We have a thing over here about how many MPs (Members of Parliament) employ family members. Unhealthy, but so is politics.

10:57am Doug Schulkind:

Little Danny, the tiny DJ with the humongous heart!

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10:58am Brian in UK:

Just a thought; but do you think that the Statue of Liberty should be made double sided or turned round because Liberty has got its back to America right now.

10:58am Alex In Illinois:

To me Los Pirañas sound like experienced musical virtuosos who are making this music as a relief from all of the commercial music that they had previously been commissioned to play, and just decided to have fun.

10:58am Jesse K:

These last couple of songs have me glued to my seat, which is bad because I need to go grab something from the printer 10 minutes ago!

10:58am fred:

@melinda: I loved this, but maybe it cuts a little to close to truth to be really funny

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10:58am JtotheK:

good morning everyone.

11:00am Doug Schulkind:

Hey hey, JtotheK!

11:00am kimgland:

wwwWWWwww

11:00am Stanley:

@melinda - read that onion article with interest:
"I'd even be okay with Peter Frampton if she were really adamant about it, especially his early stuff with Humble Pie."
Great stuff. So good, I realised it must be a skitt!

11:01am fred:

@Brian: Maybe they should just go the whole DFW way and auction which product the statue will hawk that year

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

Like a wounded swan...

11:01am melinda:

@fred: I think it's true for many. Though in real life kids still find whatever pop culture they need to connect with their peers if it's important to them.

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, Jesse K! melinda! kimgland!

11:02am Doug Schulkind:

We're $25 away from the 50% threshold. Let's push past it!

11:02am Maggie B.:

You got this Doug!

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11:02am Brian in UK:

Thought Mina sounded a bit Petula Clarkish.

11:03am Doug Schulkind:

Momma Maggie! My adoptive mother!

11:03am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Clarkish!

11:04am fred:

@melinda: Trading metal tapes in Sunday school was important at that time for me. I won't discount that part of music. Even though they were mostly commercial crap

11:04am annie:

such love for this man's talent.. i love watching him in his movies. "well, ya know darn well i can do without broadway, but can broadway do without me!!"

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11:04am Brian in UK:

Wadda you want Clarkesque.

11:05am annie:

what was this movie doug?

11:06am Doug Schulkind:

If forget just now, annie.

11:06am melinda:

@fred: I loved Casey Kasem's top 40 countdown, I'm sure my dad did not.

11:07am annie:

not sure how many of you knew Roop Verma's talented performances; i found out this week he passed over.

11:07am Stanley:

Hooray!
Thanks, Doug

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11:08am Brian in UK:

Stanley, you are the man.

11:08am Webhamster Henry:

"It Happened In Brooklyn" (1947)

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11:09am Brian in UK:

Stanley as the clocks have gone forward I think an pint is in order.

11:09am dc khlam:

..and still hasn't won anything, DAMMIT.

11:09am Dean:

It Happened in Brooklyn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJJwJEGxh8

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

All pledge names go into my top hat of mystery. dc khlam. You, Sir, are a Hufflepuff.

Thanks, GTDS historian Dean!

11:10am annie:

thanks guys! got it

11:11am Dean:

Oops. Scooped above by WH.

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

Karl Blau channeling Waylon Jennings.

11:11am Stanley:

I'll have to have an American Pale Ale, as it's the US clocks you refer too.
Actually the plan is to have a couple lined up for the next show, whatever that is.

11:11am fred:

@dc khlam: that means you have to pledge more (tip: pledging to shows at 3-4am greatly increases your odds, in my experience)

11:11am annie:

we all found it at the same time

11:11am Webhamster Henry:

I am speedy on The IMDB!

11:11am KevinfromBayRidge:

A pints good Forward or Backward! Howdy all.

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11:11am Brian in UK:

@dc it is the taking part (yeah I know, bollocks)

11:12am annie:

my expertise is the youtubes

11:12am Mr C:

Go Karl go!

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11:13am Brian in UK:

Them meets Fairport Convention.

11:13am Stanley:

Thanks to Doug hipping me to Karl Blau, I saw him do a great show in a tiny basement club in Glasgow. Great stuff.

11:14am dc khlam:

saaaaaayyyyy, you have a point there @fred. Actually I have so many damn WFMU shirts, I go swagless these days.

11:14am fred:

@annie: I think Einstein said something to the effect that what you remember matters less than what you can look up

11:15am Little Danny:

I love this Trader Horne LP too, Doug!

11:15am Carmichael:

Slainte, Doug and listeners.

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11:15am Brian in UK:

@fred where did you read that?

11:15am dc khlam:

This kind of sounds like the Kinks mixed with the Who. I like it.

11:16am Scraps:

Judy Dyble as in original Fairport singer? Cool!

11:16am fred:

@dc khlam: I don't even know how many I have, something north of 50

11:16am Stanley:

I've outsourced my memory to the Internet. Frees up the rest of the grey matter for...er, other stuff.

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11:16am Brian in UK:

Stormy Petrel on a stick anyone?

11:17am Stanley:

Oh, no. Time to do the washing up.

11:17am Stanley:

Do you get wafers with it, Brian?

11:17am Jeff g.:

Lots of messing with my Pavlovian responses to musical stimuli this show.

11:18am fred:

@Brian: I don't remember.
"How do I know anything you've told me is..."
- You don't.

11:18am Alex In Illinois:

For a minute there, I thought I had lost a few hours!

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11:18am Brian in UK:

Wafffer thin ones.

11:20am Gary:

Pledge for awesome radio! pledge.wfmu.org...

11:21am Doug Schulkind:

I played this last week, but I am saying AMEN and playing it again.

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11:21am Brian in UK:

I like to think I have a broad musical mind BUT musicals leave me cold. Generally no plot and any excuse to burst into song of debatable quality.
Yes, I know exceptions eg West Side Story but Willie the Shake had a hand in that one.

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11:23am βrian:

"Musical Theater — it's neither."

11:23am Doug Schulkind:

Stick with me, Brian in UK. I will help you see the light regarding musicals. It will be my pleasure to lead you into the light.

11:23am Scraps:

God, I keep going to sleep. Frustrating! I expect I'm going to go to sleep on Hinky Dinky Time, too...

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11:24am βrian:

I'm posting a triple espresso to the list right now ...

11:24am annie:

doug, did you forget to add the jimmy durante to the playlist?

11:25am Doug Schulkind:

Wake sleep wake. We'll always be here for you, Scraps.

@annie
Yep, I did. Having a hard time keeping up with the bookkeeping. Sorry!

11:26am Gary:

So much love for this album! Luck you, who get a chance to support WFMU, the GTDR stream, Doug's incredible sweep and breadth, AND have a chance to win this incredible CD: pledge.wfmu.org...

11:26am David D:

Play it again, Doug!

11:26am annie:

no biggie, just wanted to be sure i was not overlooking it.

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11:27am βrian:

I think Carole Burnett did a great spoof of musicals. The characters would begin to tell a story, then stop abruptly, saying "Wait, I'll sing it ..."

11:27am Mr C:

Go Karl Go!

11:28am Scraps:

Brian, so many exceptions for that cliche! Signed, of course, Lovers of Musicals

11:28am Doug Schulkind:

This really hits the spot, eh Mr C!

11:29am Mr C:

I love the album cover, as well. Perfect.

11:30am Stanley:

This is beautiful.

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11:30am Brian in UK:

Go annie keep the DJ on his toes, I think he missed off the guy talking about Friday last week but heck it was no place to make a note but we see these things and never could do what Doug does.

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11:30am βrian:

I have to say, I've liked many people who do like musicals. I deeply admire their tolerance and generosity of spirit.

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11:31am Brian in UK:

Sounds like Karl Blau is his own man.
Any relation to Radio Blau.

11:31am merv:

True amazing story: I got married at a Karl Blau (and Little Wings) house show about 12 years ago in Walla Walla, WA... Since divorced but that doesn't stain the memory... Really glad to see he's doing so well now! Has deserved it for a long time...

11:31am Scraps:

And ESPECIALLY musicals are very complicated songs, especially compared to rock, etc. signed, Sondheim Is God

11:31am Mr C:

Go Andy in Brooklyn!

11:32am Scraps:

;-)

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11:33am βrian:

"Marry me a little" is a gem, I admit.

11:33am annie:

hell, praise jah we even HAVE this playlist, yo!! my favorite music-man is frank loesser.. man thay guy could write!

11:33am David D:

@Brian: Karl is a distant cousin, but dear to our hearts.

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11:34am Brian in UK:

@David there is a limited supply.

11:34am Doug Schulkind:

"Playing the piano with fingers like bananas..."

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11:35am Brian in UK:

Doug, who is this band?

11:35am annie:

and robert preston being no slouch doing much justice to loesser's tunes in music man.

11:36am Scraps:

Brian, I'm awake now. ;-)

So many people in my musical community hate musicals. I guess there must be something to it..... wait, no!

Well, I like piano bars, too....

11:37am Stanley:

Two more fellas been added to the dead pyramid

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11:38am Brian in UK:

Scraps I did qualify with exceptions. The man who writes for the Simpsons is canny.

11:38am sinner:

Hail, hail St. Doug! Or I should say Heaven, Heaven St. Doug!

11:38am Scraps:

Music Man is by Meredith Willson

11:38am Dean:

I have a hard time with musicals. Face it, they're corny. I do admire, even love, some of Sondheim's work. And this series of early recording transcriptions is killer: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Music-From-The-New-York-Stage-1890-1920-Vol-4-1917-1920/release/9177037

11:39am annie:

loesser wrote the lyrics... then was removed from the labor pool for that..he got no credit

11:40am Stanley:

No shame in admitting I love Singing in the Rain
(Wait, I should be admitting this on UM's show)

11:40am northguineahills:

I'm w/ you Dean. However, in my older age, I'm learned to appreciate some of the numbers, but I still can't see myself purposely sitting through a whole musical.

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11:40am βrian:

R2-D2 and Carrie Fischer, I recognize. Who's the guy with the top hat? And the person on the far left?

11:41am Gary:

$75 or more for Doug's generous, ears-wide-open premium! pledge.wfmu.org...

11:41am Scraps:

I will Face It when it's corny when rock fans will face it when rock is childish.

;-)

11:41am Doug Schulkind:

I'm just a short distance from a theatre here in Pittsburgh named for Gene Kelly, Stanley.

11:42am Stanley:

I have more problem with 'Rock' musicals.
Tommy anyone?

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11:42am Brian in UK:

Stanley saw some the other Christmas. It was the dancing that really does it for me there and the title song.

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11:42am βrian:

According to the secret dossier, Drumpf was singing "Singing in the rain."

11:42am Scraps:

Really, annie?? I did not know that. It's one of my three or four favorite musicals! Gee.

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11:43am Brian in UK:

Godspell Ahhh.

11:43am northguineahills:

Alan Vega is on the bottom left, Gene Wilder is w/ the top hat.

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11:44am Brian in UK:

Doug, typo Trade.

11:44am Stanley:

Hair, with extra hair.

11:44am fred:

Just had a surreal phone call about blood test results. Doctor said "we should do fewer tests because your results vary so wildly". Me: "OK". Doctor: "So instead of doing one every ten days, you'll do the next in five days"

11:44am Scraps:

Townsend's musicals are all awful, to me

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11:45am Brian in UK:

Fred does he mean less tests or less frequently?

11:46am Dean:

Perhaps the difference between musicals and rock is that the former is a genre defined largely in terms of form and venue, the latter of ethos. It is naive devotion to that ethos that renders some rock childish, I suppose. The execution of the musical form and all the production trappings render it, sometimes, corny. Not sure these are comparable factors.

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11:46am βrian:

Our parents dragged us to the movie theater to see The Sound of Mucous. Early trauma.

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11:46am Brian in UK:

Scraps come to that I am not a rock fan either.

11:47am Gary:

Just 12 more minutes to pledge in support of Doug and the ridiculous amount of great music he brings you on this show and via the ever-multiplying tentacles of the GTDR stream! pledge.wfmu.org...

11:48am Stanley:

Metamorphosis - the musical.

11:48am annie:

yeah, scraps, i did once check to see how much of loesser's stuff stayed, but he wrote that amazing "rap" tune at the beginning..

11:49am fred:

re: musicals. I once unwittingly signed for an almost 4 hour musical and loved it. Very weird one too: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times episodes 1-2. I wish I could see the newest episodes, but that looks unlikely

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11:49am Brian in UK:

Stanley title song Ch-ch changes.

11:49am melinda:

I love Singing in the Rain too.

11:49am northguineahills:

I got my wife to pledge in my stead early this week. All I had to tell her was that Brian's grand prize included the words "distortion pedal" and "Lee Renaldo". Sadly (for my own selfish reasons), she didn't win.

11:51am Flash Strap:

Hi Doug! All Drummers! I made it with 12 minutes to go!

A sleepy man who slept too late has this to say: This show is the one. The One. Pledge to it!

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11:51am βrian:

@NGH: Say, didn't you have to go the Green Card hell for a while? Hope that worked out ok.

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11:51am Brian in UK:

Wondered when this beauty would surface.

11:51am Doug Schulkind:

Flash Strap, my beautiful brother!

11:51am annie:

scraps, there's a lovely medley at the beginning of "most Happy Fella" and i had a tape of loesser and his staff performing it, i've never heard better. you can find it on spotify, the loesser sings loesser album.
first selection i think.

11:52am dc khlam:

ok, one more pledge and then I gotta go buy some soccer boots. It's getting serious around here.

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11:53am Brian in UK:

I'm singing too. Dogs barking at the high notes.

11:53am Scraps:

Annie, so far the only thing I'm finnding is rumors, not sourced. Even Loesser's bio just says rumors.... I will look more!

11:53am northguineahills:

@βrian: We should find out next week, I think.

11:53am Luna:

Woof.

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11:54am βrian:

@NGH: fingers crossed ...

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11:55am Brian in UK:

Doug, got to walk Spencer. Thanks for everything.

11:55am fred:

@dc khlam: I just got my cowboy boots back from the shop. Right in time to kick banker ass about why my pledge transfer still hasn't come through. Finding a trusty cobbler is hard. Finding another station like WFMU is impossible

11:56am Flash Strap:

Love this track

11:56am Gary:

What Flash Strap said! pledge.wfmu.org...

11:56am annie:

omg scraps, don't tell me i've been repeating this without confimation? i'm sure i heard it somewhere... wow, i have homwwork to do, huh?

11:56am Scraps:

Has anybody seen Passing Strange? A good rock recent rock musical, I think

11:56am Mr C:

Doug, I'll match what I pledged last week. Diamond in the back..

11:57am Stanley:

Later, Brian.
Hope to see you at Hinky's dream team tag act

11:57am northguineahills:

Thanks Doug!

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11:57am βrian:

Rooty Poot's Retreat:
wfmu.org...

11:58am Kris Holmes:

Diamond In The Back is my favourite Curtis Mayfield song

11:58am Scraps:

Annie, I'm just cursorily reading! Might be true

11:59am Kris Holmes:

haven't heard this Razzy in ages

11:59am Kris Holmes:

Tighten Up vibes

12:00pm Official Greeter:

Thanks everyone for listening, pledging, and commenting! Stay tuned for Hinky Dinky Time: wfmu.org...

12:00pm Scraps:

Yay Drummer!

12:00pm Stanley:

Great pledge drive
Great music, as usual.
Thanks Doug.

12:01pm Gary:

Thank you everyone!

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Love love love you all. Thanks for a great three hours!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Original Cast	If I Had a Million Dollars	The Me Nobody Knows (Atlantic 1970)
Vinny Roman	Ah, Music	Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992
Yo La Tengo	Friday I'm in Love	Stuff Like That There (Matador )

Abelardo Carbonó	La Negra Kulengue	El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbonó: Psychedelia, Afroroots & Champeta in 1980s Barranquilla (Vampisoul )
Ahmad Zahir	Laily Laily	Hip '70s Afghan Beats! (Guerssen )
Little Milton	The Cost of Living

Yishak Banjaw	Segno Sra Allebign	Love Songs, Volume 2 (Teranga Beat )
Cooper Moore	Live at the Sump	The Best of Give the Drummer Radio (WFMU )
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Ahmad Zahir	Az Tangna E Mahbas Tarrikey	Hip '70s Afghan Beats! (Guerssen )
Keith Richard	Crying, Waiting, Hoping

Hank Williams	The Garden Spot Jingle Mind Your Own Business Lovesick Blues Fiddle Tune At the First Fall of Snow Closing/Oh! Susanna
Martha Davis	Get Out Those Old Records
Clifton Chenier	I'm Coming Home
The Apostles	Never Too Late	Wave Up You!
Los Pirañas	Hueles a Espiritu Joven	Toma Tu Jabon Kapax
Charlie Romans	Twenty Four Hour Service

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Los Pirañas	Champeta de la Corrupción y la Desgana	Toma Tu Jabón Kapax
Mina	Se Telefonando
Wendy Rene	Give You What I Got

Karl Blau	Six White Horses
Trader Horne	Here Comes the Rain
Steinski	The Benediction (With Apologies to Rev. Lowery)
The Peace	Black Power	Black Power
Karl Blau	That's How I Got Memphis	Introducing Karl Blau (Bella Union )
Trade Horne	Sheena	Morning Way
Junior Wells	Help Me
Lightning Hopkins	Big Mama Jump
Earwig	Cinema East
Karl Blau	To Love Somebody	Introducing Karl Blau (Bella Union )
The Bozier Boys	All I Need You
William DeVaughan	Be Thankful For What You Got
The Peace	I Have Got No Money

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