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Playlist for 06 April 2017 Favoriting | For the birds

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Artist Song Album Label Images Approx. start time
The Shadows  Thunderbirds Theme   Favoriting Shadows Are Go!  Scamp    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gelbart  Melody for the Birds   Favoriting Submarine  Gelbart    0:02:05 (Pop-up)
Hasil Adkins  Chicken Walk   Favoriting Poultry in Motion  Norton    0:03:55 (Pop-up)
Louis Jordan  Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens   Favoriting Best of  MCA 
Favoriting
0:05:55 (Pop-up)
Spanky & Our Gang  And Your Bird Can Sing   Favoriting 7-inch single  Mercury    0:09:02 (Pop-up)
Marshall P. Lufsky  Birdies Favorite   Favoriting 78 (originally)  Columbia    0:10:48 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Alan Hawkshaw  		Bluebird   Favoriting Sounds of the 60s and 70s vol 2  KPM    0:13:35 (Pop-up)
Maggie Hammond  High Flying Bird   Favoriting Dream Babes, vol. 5: Folk Rock and Faithfull (various artists)  RPM    0:15:47 (Pop-up)
DJ Frane  If I Had Wings   Favoriting Journey to the Planet of Birds  DJ Frane 
Favoriting
0:18:45 (Pop-up)
DJ Frane  Birdwatchers   Favoriting Journey to the Planet of Birds  DJ Frane    0:21:20 (Pop-up)
Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra  Hello Bluebird   Favoriting 78 (originally)  Regal    0:23:17 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott  The Penguin   Favoriting Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights  Columbia/Legacy    0:26:30 (Pop-up)
James Copp  The Birdie   Favoriting James Copp 3  Liberty Music Shops    0:29:06 (Pop-up)
Merv and Merla  The Time of the Singing of the Birds   Favoriting Sounds of Fresh Waters  Word    0:31:47 (Pop-up)
Lynn Anderson  Snowbird   Favoriting Rose Garden  Columbia 
Favoriting
0:33:06 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Tony Hatch  		Pretty Flamingo   Favoriting A Latin Happening  Warner Bros.    0:35:11 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown  Lullaby of Birdland   Favoriting Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown  EmArcy    0:38:03 (Pop-up)
Bacalao  Blackbird   Favoriting Wanna Hld Yr Handheld, vol. 1 (various artists)  8-Bit Operators    0:41:56 (Pop-up)
Alan Price  Look Over Your Shoulder   Favoriting O Lucky Man! (soundtrack)  Waner Bros.    0:44:34 (Pop-up)
Clara Rockmore  The Swan (Saint-Saens)   Favoriting The Art of the Theremin  Delos 
Favoriting
0:46:39 (Pop-up)
Alasdair Roberts  The Bird   Favoriting Migrating Bird: The Songs Of Lal Waterson (various artists)  Honest Jons    0:49:31 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys  Little Bird   Favoriting Friends  Capitol    0:52:13 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Sven Libaek  		Birds in Flight, from Nature Walkabout   Favoriting Inner Space (The Lost Film Music Of Sven Libaek)  Trunk    0:54:10 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker  Ornithology   Favoriting Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection  Rhino    0:59:22 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  Bird of Beauty   Favoriting Fulfillingsness' First Finale  Tamla 
Favoriting
1:02:15 (Pop-up)
Dengue Fever  Hummingbird   Favoriting Escape From Dragon House  Birdman    1:06:26 (Pop-up)
Charles Bukowski  Bluebird, read by Harry Dean Stanton   Favoriting found on the internets  Charles Bukowski    1:11:32 (Pop-up)
Lui Man-Sing  Birds Returning to the Forest   Favoriting Chinese Masterpieces for the Erh-Hu  Lyrichord    1:12:33 (Pop-up)
Emmett Williams  Cellar Song for Five Voices   Favoriting Tellus #24: Fluxtellus  Tellus    1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Tom Wilson  Lesbian Seagull   Favoriting Gay Name Game  Aboveground Records 
Favoriting
1:19:37 (Pop-up)
a canary and a parakeet  excerpt   Favoriting The Fun and Care of Birds  Pet Productions, Inc.    1:23:50 (Pop-up)
Paul McCartney & Wings  Bluebird   Favoriting Band on the Run  Capitol    1:25:44 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
John Saunders  		Free as a Bird   Favoriting Slipstream: Up-to-date group sounds featuring the synthesizer played by Astral Sounds  DeWolfe Music    1:29:05 (Pop-up)
Roy Acuff and His Smokey Mountain Boys  The Songbirds Are Singing in Heaven   Favoriting 78 (originally)  Columbia    1:33:44 (Pop-up)
Holy Modal Rounders  Bird Song   Favoriting The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders  Elektra 
Favoriting
1:36:05 (Pop-up)
The Blue Birds  Hussani Lal Qalander   Favoriting Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (various artists)  Sublime Frequencies    1:38:33 (Pop-up)
Richard & Mimi Fariña  A Swallow Song   Favoriting Reflections in a Crystal Wind  Vanguard    1:42:10 (Pop-up)
Igor Stravinsky  The Owl and the Pussy-cat (Adrienne Albert, soprano)   Favoriting Recent Stravinsky  Columbia    1:44:57 (Pop-up)
Neil Young  Birds   Favoriting After the Gold Rush  Reprise    1:47:30 (Pop-up)
Will to Power  Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley   Favoriting Will to Power  Epic 
Favoriting
1:50:02 (Pop-up)
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan  Big Black Bird (Spirit of My Love)   Favoriting Life and Death (And Almost Everything Else)  Omni    1:53:57 (Pop-up)
Mitch Miller & The Gang  Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends   Favoriting Sing Along With Mitch  Columbia    1:56:27 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Johnny Beecher  		Sax Fifth Avenue   Favoriting 45 played at 33  Warner Bros.    1:56:54 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Avatar 11:21am Michael:

Early greetings to Charlie! Only 4 to go - say it ain't so! Hope you're well and you've got all your books and notebooks and backpacks ready.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am Charlie:

Hi Michael! I might need a few new #2 pencils...
Avatar 11:31am Michael:

We may chip in and send some juice boxes and snax.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35am Charlie:

What I could really use is some new neurons and synapses;)
Avatar 11:51am Michael:

I've heard a nice Scotch helps with that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am Charlie:

I've got some of that: www.jukn55.com...
Avatar 11:54am Michael:

Heheh. I bet you do.
  11:56am Katya Oddio:

Is this show really for the birds? (wink)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm Charlie:

By the birds, of the birds, for the birds!
Hi Katya!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Thunderbirds are go!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Parq:

jokes4laugh.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Wendy del Formaggio:

I saw The Birds for the first time a few weeks ago. There is something incredibly unsatisfying about that movie. Scary, yes, but it makes no sense. It's like Hitch is *trying* to say something, but won't.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Charlie:

Wendy is go!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm Charlie:

Parq - tweet!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Charlie and all!
Can't see that scene from "The Birds" w/o thinking of the corresponding scene in "High Anxiety."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm listener james from westwood:

@Wendy: It's still better than that "Birdemic" film from a few years back.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm doctorjazz:

HI, 4 to go, really SAD!
Avatar 12:05pm thatpatsmith:

(birdwhistle)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Listener James, I didn't see "Birdemic," but I loooove "High Anxiety," especially the song, which I sing at any opportunity. KEY CHANGE!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm Wendy del Formaggio:

AHHH! That bird sound from the film is so creepy/genius.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm Parq:

Wendy:
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Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm listener james from westwood:

Not sure which Adkins album title I like more: "Poultry in Motion" or "White Light/White Meat."
  12:08pm Doug Schulkind:

My synapses take napses, Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm listener james from westwood:

"Ya-da—ZI-ety!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Webhamster Henry:

And your Bird can sing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Parq, I recognize Mad Magazine when I see it! haha, that's great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm Wendy del Formaggio:

I think my favorite film scene about birds is in "The Producers" when Bialystock and Bloom go to the Nazi's apartment building and the "concierge" complains to them about the "boids." She's so great.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:10pm doctorjazz:

Off to a great start!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm listener james from westwood:

I just finished rereading "L.A. Confidential," so tunes from the late 40s–mid 50s like this Jordan one (I assume) are On Point with my headspace.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm Webhamster Henry:

And in the best Gaylord tradition, playing a Beatle cover.
Avatar 12:11pm Mayuko:

Good afternoon, Charlie and all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm listener james from westwood:

Wendy, most of my Bronx relatives had that same accent, so it's like triply funny to me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm Parq:

"I'm the con-si-urge. My husband used to be the con-si-urge, but he's dead."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm listener james from westwood:

"Ya get my drift?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm Webhamster Henry:

I'm going to have to start playing my own records after Charlie goes off to school.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm listener james from westwood:

The exterior shots in both "The Producers" and "The Odd Couple" capture bits of 1968-ish NYC that I wish I'd been old enough to experience live.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm listener james from westwood:

I sometimes whistle this Hawkshaw track to myself, 100% bc of this show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm Wendy del Formaggio:

Listener James, I'm totally with you on the 1968-ish NYC thing. I love those shots and that era. But, I wasn't born til 1974 so I missed it all!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:15pm doctorjazz:

What a cool Beatles cover, Spanky & Our Gang.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm Parq:

James and Wendy, my whole childhood, I wanted to live in that New York, By the time I got here, it was all but gone. Now, it's as gone as a California gold-rush town.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm listener james from westwood:

1969. me, and spirited to Bergen County in 1975. Mostly a Bronx resident as a todder, w/ rare treks to Manhattan for my dad's office Xmas party. Huge affair at JP Morgan. One year they had a chimp on skates!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm Wendy del Formaggio:

A chimp on skates?!? Did you tell Dave the Spazz?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm Charlie:

Hello, James! doctorjazz! thatpat! Doug! Henry! Mayuko!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm listener james from westwood:

@Wendy: Def. something for the Spazz to be informed of!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm Dominick:

Birdy num num
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm Charlie:

hey there Dominick!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm Charlie:

I think the key to the Birds movie is the aerial shot from the birds' POV during the scene at the gas station/restaurant, where there's chaos down below but from above it seems peaceful.
  12:30pm Katya:

I heart Jim Copp so
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Charlie:

I know you do:) Me too...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Webhamster Henry:

Yes - this is the rare "adult song" Jim Copp.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm drr:

second birdy num num
  12:34pm Alex In Illinois:

Okay, he had that Peacock call wrong. I recall the free-roaming peacocks at the St. Louis zoo from my childhood, and they always went: "eeeYAAAA"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Webhamster Henry:

You can poison the Pigeons, BTW with Tom Lehrer or the contested plagiaristic tune from Georg Kreisler (in German). home.broadpark.no...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Charlie:

hey drr! and Alex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm Webhamster Henry:

OK off to Grand Jury , catch ya on the archives
Spring haz sprung, de grass haz riz
I wonda where dem boidies iz?
De little boids is on de wing -
Ain't dat obsoid? The little wing is on de boid!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm Charlie:

hahaha, thanks for that, Henry!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:41pm doctorjazz:

Sassy. Had a birthday not long ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm Parq:

This version of "Birdland" just kills me.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:44pm doctorjazz:

Speaking of interesting versions, this Blackbird is quite a different take.
Avatar 12:45pm ndbob:

Heya Charlie and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm Charlie:

Hi there Bob! Nice to see you:)
Avatar 12:50pm ndbob:

I'm pretty much recovered from World Rat Day Charlie
  12:50pm Katya:

RE: Peacocks. Here's an mp3 from the amazing One-Minute Vacations project, day: march 24, 2003 http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation_2.html
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm Charlie:

Bob -- World Rat Day was pretty exciting; we're all coming down from it gradually:)
  12:58pm that Mike:

Yes, The Producers: Boids! Doity, disgustin, filthy, lice-ridden boids!
Avatar 12:58pm Carmichael:

Heya Charlie and friends.
Avatar 1:00pm ndbob:

Heya Carmichael!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:00pm doctorjazz:

Of course Bird is a must! Ornithology.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Charlie:

Hey there, Carmichael!
  1:01pm Katya:

Yes! Jazz classic from Bird himself!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Charlie:

Welcome to a show suitable for lining birdcages.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:03pm doctorjazz:

Bye Bye Birdie, perhaps?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm Charlie:

There was a peacock living near our last residence for a while -- blood-curdling screams! very human sounding, unnerving.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Parq:

He speaks very, very fluent Spanish.
  1:09pm Katya:

Some more bird songs for your download directories. Enjoy!
http://freemusicarchive.org/member/katya-oddio/Birdsong
  1:11pm Katya:

The LP version for this Dengue Fever album has been on my wishlist for years. Still hunting. It is good to want and not to just jump on Discogs.
  1:15pm Katya:

Know this Bukowski, but thought he read it. Thanks for the heads-up about Stanton! (And I meant to say that only the CD of Escape From Dragon House is for sale at Discogs.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello Charlie & Still( till 4/27) Doing Nothingers. Having a hummingbird of a time listening. Sad that these birds will be flying away!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm Parq:

This set is the best one yet on this show, and that's saying something.
  1:23pm frenchee:

Hiya Chazz Birdlings!
this is a truly soaring set CAW CAW!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm Charlie:

hiya, KevinfromBayRidge!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie.

Hey ndbob, how're you doing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm Charlie:

hi frenchee!
and Brian in UK halloo to you too!
  1:29pm frenchee:

MORE COWBELL~hiya Charlie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm Dominick:

There's a new sound!
Avatar 1:34pm Roberto:

Gerbils. My first in a long line of furry (and occasionally scaly) companions.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm Charlie:

hi Roberto and your many companions:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm melinda:

hi folks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm Charlie:

MORE BARN!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm melinda:

nice theme
Avatar 1:38pm still b/p:

Just joining you crazy flockers now.

Jumping back to talk of vintage New York: Among the changes, for me, in visits and images seen, something about the New York street-feel changed and not for the better when the bright yellow, red and green shallow awnings and cowls started proliferating on so many storefronts a few decades ago. Love the older storefronts/signage/windows -- 50 to 100 years old -- and even pictures of them individually or longer stretches of them where they still exist and in nice period photos and movies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:38pm Brian in UK:

Charlie, I played Pledge Song off this album recently. It was funny given the present incumbent.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm Brian in UK:

Jack Nicholson on the back of a Harley in Easy Rider making bird wings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm Charlie:

welcome, melinda, and still b/p -- birds of a feather flock together (frolic together?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm melinda:

digging the Blue Birds.
Avatar 1:45pm northguineahills:

Richard & Mimi!

I remember when a friend of mine found that Tom Wilson album at a thrift store back in '97, that was a fun night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm Charlie:

That Richard and Mimi album is an old fave of mine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm Charlie:

Brian in UK -- yes...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm listener james from westwood:

Otto: "Now I'd like to slow things down a little..."
Avatar 1:52pm ndbob:

Heya Melinda! NGH!
Avatar 1:53pm ndbob:

James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm Charlie:

We need some party games to get everyone talking...
Avatar 1:54pm Wilson K:

Oh man. C-bones, you're killing it!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:55pm doctorjazz:

Fun show, Charlie, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm Charlie:

Hey, Wilson, thanks!
Avatar 1:57pm Wilson K:

This has got that Lee Hazelwood jauntyness
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm Charlie:

Thanks, everyone, for flying with me today:)
Avatar 1:58pm northguineahills:

Howdeez, ndbob!
Avatar 1:58pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
Avatar 1:59pm Wilson K:

Guess "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" is inevitable at this point...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm listener james from westwood:

Heya, ndbob! See ya on the Fiveash side, I hope!

Thanks a ton, Charlie!
Avatar 2:00pm Michael:

Lotsa fun Charlie - thanks as always!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm listener james from westwood:

I am in error; that's the Krinsky side today!
Avatar 2:01pm still b/p:

We ain't no fair-weather friends but wear-feather friends.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm Charlie:

Oh, yeh, sorry, forgot, Steve Krinsky's filling in!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm Charlie:

lol still b/p!
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