WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from May 26, 2017

Listener comments!
	🛒 11:51am Brian in UK: Hey Uncle, left home on the last day of '72 so in many ways '73 was a big year for me. Biggest thing to leave home was the stereogram.
	12:01pm frenchee: 1973...a very good year. Can't wait to hear your choices, Unka M~
	12:01pm βrian: Little Radio on the Prairie. Can't wait.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: Loving these 70s singles surveys and looking forward to this one!
	12:03pm V Priceless: hey Mr. Uncle Michael!
	12:04pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:05pm Lewis: present...
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Apologies for running long, Uncle Michael. That's what you get for choosing to follow an amateur.
	12:08pm βrian: It feels like it's MCMLXXlll again.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: Brian! Brian! Jame! VP! Bob! Lewis! Doug! No worries!
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: FRENCHEE!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Hey UM and Hinkskateers!
	12:09pm doctorjazz: AL!!!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Doc!
	12:10pm Jeff Golick: Do the jerk! Hi.
	12:11pm DEZ: Hey, Michael!!!
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Oh, you like Hi? Here's another!
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: DJ DEZ!
	12:13pm still b/p: Gonna kill me to not hear this whole thing! I'll be dead DEAD! Speaking of (show opening) inka dinka doo, I missed a "nostalgia" trivia question out of a book at a bar the other day. I thought it was Durante who used to say, "What a revoltin' development this is!" Wrongo. Any of youse trivia whizzes know who?
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Yes but I won'tgive it away
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Stay for the whole thing, SBP!
	12:19pm still b/p: I couldn't have got the answer if you held a radio tube to my head. The show title's really well-known but I don't know the characters and details. I just got a half-hour reprieve for another hunk of Hinky enjoyment. Miracolo!
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Yay! Here's a little proto-disco!
	12:24pm Doug S.: All hail, 1973. What a motherfucking great year for music.
	12:26pm Little Danny: This Willie Hutch is so massive. Motown turning towards Philadelphia in 1973.
	12:26pm Dean: I was always a little disappointed that Dick Clark never described it as such on American Bandstand.
	12:31pm Jeff Golick: Primo earworm material rightchere.
	12:31pm Lane Gray: Cool first set. If it means jettisoning house/techno, I'd bring back disco. Dance music has always been less interesting than "listen" music, but the current crop? Ick. (off my lawn)
	12:31pm still b/p: The sometimes bemoaned change in soul pop/funk from early 70s socially conscious to disco glitz...is there a term for that shift? Coin one.
	12:32pm coelacanth∅: hello Uncle M and hdinklings i clicked to toggle my imagination -and it worked!
	12:32pm Dean: Whew. "Dixie Chicken" was 1973.
	12:32pm Mark the Sardine: Yeah Uncle Michael!
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Dean! Lane! Coela!
	12:33pm Lane Gray: I'd not noticed the twangy Tele in this before. Pete would be happy. Do it is of no relation.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Mark!
	12:34pm Mark the Sardine: Friday afternoon is better with HDTime.
	12:34pm frenchee: @still b/p: was it Eddie Cantor?
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: There's a charted 1973 C&W cover of Drift Away. Not inclueded today...
	12:35pm melinda: hi all!
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Melinda!
	12:36pm still b/p: No. (Tangent trivia: I was reading something recently in which his peers completely trashed Eddie Cantor as difficult and nearly talentless.)
	12:36pm Jeff Golick: Never heard the H&O flip. Is good?
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: the carbon and monoxide...
	12:37pm Lane Gray: Stupid autocorrect. Dobie is of no relation
	12:37pm ndbob: Hi Melinda!
	🛒 12:38pm Brian in UK: Abandoned Luncheonette is one great album.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: My Maria gives me physical chills. Such production.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: No idea, Jeff!
	12:39pm johnk77: motown moved all operations to california in june 1972
	🛒 12:40pm Brian in UK: @Jeff, great track, last track side one, memories of a relationship so I remember it.
	12:41pm Lane Gray: One more proof that Brooks and Dunn should leave other people's records alone
	12:41pm listener james from westwood: Long time since I've heard a straight read on "Eres Tu" on FMU; usually there's a goofy latter-day cover. Glad to hear this one!
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: John! This is the 1973 Eurovision runner-up.
	🛒 12:41pm Brian in UK: Hey Lane, on the road?
	12:42pm Jeff Golick: Yeah, @ljfw, these UM shows have a very strong "back to the source" vibe about them.
	12:42pm Jeff Golick: @Brian: thanks; will try to remedy.
	12:44pm Uncle Michael: I'm bad at irony.
	12:44pm coelacanth∅: so, who are the people in the image over there?
	🛒 12:45pm Brian in UK: I find ironing very relaxing and a great way to listen to music.
	12:45pm Lane Gray: Yes, Brian
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Coel, those are kids in a UK television studio in 1973 trying to dance to Slade's COFTN. Seriously.
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: I'm good at ironing.
	12:46pm Dean: Irony is replete with wrinkles.
	🛒 12:47pm Brian in UK: Uncle would guess that it is Top of the Pops as they are dancing to six different songs at the same time.
	12:47pm still b/p: So I heard the fresh Eurovision winner this year delivered a "My music's right and pure, the music of many others is not" kind of message. We might agree in conversation,but that's some chutzpah, or ego, and not the most...gracious?...choice for remarks in the winner's spotlight.
	12:48pm coelacanth∅: the wailers released TWO AMAZING ALBUMS in 1973!
	12:50pm ndbob: I missed most of Eurovision this year
	12:50pm Dean: Shoot, forgot about the (aborted) procedure. Your emphasis on "minor" is encouraging.
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Yes, Holland is up there. Sorry turning singles into LPs.
	12:52pm doctorjazz: Love this Beach Boys album! (sorry about having to do it yet again, UM). (OK, Dean, you pushed me into getting the Brain Box! Had an Amazon discount, went for it, probably get it in a week. See if either of us ever gets to hear the whole thing...)
	12:52pm Jeff Golick: I took the dancers for Europeans...wonder why? Not slack-jawed enough to be Americans?
	12:52pm Webhamster Henry: Party like it's 1973! That was the summer I was on exchange in Switzerland.I came back with a tenor recorder that I play to this day! But I wasn't listening to the radio that much.
	12:53pm Lane Gray: Still, that attitude is what caused me to temporarily quit listening to Dale Watson. Once he gave up on Nashville he got better again
	12:53pm Mark the Sardine: Such a different sound for the Beach Boys
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Henry!
	12:55pm βrian: @Mark: Yes, listenable even.
	12:55pm Dean: Brain Boxers, unite!
	12:56pm frenchee: @still b/p: I'm not a big fan of Eddie C.
	12:56pm Dean: According to the 'pedia, another recording of this 3DN tune was almost simultaneously released by B.W. Stevenson. It, too, charted.
	12:57pm ndbob: right - always thought the BW Stevenson was the originsl - top 100 but not top 40
	12:57pm melinda: Enjoying the sounds of 1973.
	12:57pm frenchee: btw, I lovelovelove the determined dancers gif. Good one UM.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Dean, you're stealing my program notes.
	12:58pm Dean: Leaked.
	12:58pm melinda: This is the theme for Louis CK's show, didn't know it came from 1973.
	12:59pm ndbob: originally done by Hot Chocolate I think?
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: This is a cover of a Hot Chocolate original.
	1:00pm chromaphone: I was only 3 when these songs came out but I must've been listening a lot because these hits have been permanently etched in my mind.
	1:00pm Dean: I won't mention that Ian Lloyd went on to work and chart with Ric Ocasek later in the decade.
	1:00pm Jeff Golick: Which version did Louie CK use for his show...?
	1:01pm Jeff Golick: This is my jam.
	1:01pm still b/p: Have to bail soon. The catchphrase "What a revoltin' development this is," was from Chester Riley, played by William Bendix, in Life of Riley. In my head and ear, I swear I still have a stubborn Durante playback.
	1:01pm Lane Gray: Dueling banjos, between Strat and string section
	1:01pm chromaphone: As I recall it was this one JG. That scat singing at the end is pretty silly.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: Gotta do something about those DAMN LEAKS! We'd have a great, no, the BEST show without them!
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: Chroma!
	1:02pm Jeff Golick: Sounds right, @chromaphone.
	1:02pm Stanley: UM - you're killing it today. Yeah
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: Take care, SBP!
	1:03pm βrian: I always heard "stuck in the middle with glue."
	1:03pm Dean: Never before occurred to me how much this song consciously or otherwise inspired Sheryl Crow's first hit, the one about Santa Monica Blvd.
	1:03pm hyde: hello!
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Stanley! Thanks!
	1:03pm frenchee: LOVE Wm Bendix, perennial player of goofballs from Brooklyn..bye bye, @still b/p
	1:04pm chromaphone: I remember when that crappy Crow song was all over the radio and I immediately heard what she was stealing it's vibe from.
	1:04pm Jeff Golick: I hear that, @Dean. @UM: how were the "charts" managed/compiled, if you know?
	1:04pm βrian: I guess I conflated with the Velvet Underground song.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: No one knows, Jeff...no one.
	1:06pm Jeff Golick: That sounds about right. Any idea if it was sales-based, or airplay-based?
	1:06pm hyde: i like William Bendix in Macao, that gauzy noir by von Sternberg with Mitchum and Jane Russell and Gloria Grahame
	1:08pm Dean: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/25/arts/are-pop-charts-manipulated.html
	1:08pm still b/p: Mmmmm, Gloria Grahame.
	1:08pm chromaphone: Who says you need to have verses to have a hit? Not Redbone.
	1:09pm hyde: are pop charts manipulated seems to me like a question along the lines of is water wet
	1:09pm frenchee: 1973: giggling young teen Frenchee and frens subbed in "shove it up your ass" for the lyrics to this Redbone classic. WE WERE HILARIOUS.
	1:09pm mike: This Redbone track never gets old.
	1:11pm Dean: Butt humor, frenchee, transcends all differences. My 6YO daughter chuckles at it, as does her 57YO dad.
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: that redbone track gets a lot of play at the bar i hang in. (as does "brother louie", but that's usually me putting it on)
	1:12pm Jeff Golick: Yes, @hyde. That headline is a rare exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines (en.wikipedia.org...).
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: I'd rather have heard "Stuck in the Middle" a zillion times in the mid-1990s than the Crow song.
	1:13pm Jeff Golick: And thanks for the link, @Dean. "Because a single is not eligible for the charts until it goes on sale, this insures that it enters the singles charts, calculated by a combination of sales and radio play, at a high spot." Clear as mud.
	1:14pm hyde: fun Gloria Grahame story: when she was married to Nicholas Ray, he caught her in bed with his son (her stepson). The marriage did not last.
	1:14pm coelacanth∅: i like the hot chocolate version better, for sure - but the stories guy does have a great voice.
	1:15pm ndbob: Tandyn Almer?
	1:15pm Lane Gray: Apparently Interstate 64 is The Road to Shambala
	1:15pm Webhamster Henry: I thought it was a Van Dyke Parks song.
	1:16pm βrian: The scholar's lament.
	1:16pm Marc Francis: EVERYTHING IS PERFECT MON ONCLE!
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: That's the guy, Bob. Thanks.
	1:18pm Dean: Looks like a go-to article about charts is Peter Hesbacher, Robert Downing & David G. Berger, "Sound recording popularity charts: A useful tool for music research," Popular Music and Society, 4:1, 3-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007767508591066 (probably paywalled).
	1:18pm coelacanth∅: i guess i'll miss whatever you play from "larks' tongues in aspic" and "goats head soup" -i have to get to work. Thanks Uncle Michael! -ciao
	1:19pm Uncle Michael: Marc!
	1:19pm melinda: @Jeff G: this from wiki: The song, with slightly different wording, is used as the theme song to the television series Louie, a sitcom loosely based on the life of American comedian Louis C.K. The word "cry" was changed to "die" in the second repetition of the chorus. This version was produced by Reggie Watts, with the intro emulating the Hot Chocolate version, and with Stories singer Ian Lloyd reprising his vocals.
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: Hey, thanks, @melinda!
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: Question: What was the first power ballad, as we know them? This?
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: Stairway?
	1:21pm Jeff Golick: It's a tough slow dance, that's for sure.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Probably so.
	1:21pm frenchee: I'm standing next to my desk at work, shakin' my 70s mane and scarf-draped mic stand, DREAM ON~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	1:22pm βrian: Mom always insisted we were talking about a Sinclair Lewis novel.
	1:23pm Lane Gray: That 1994 Comedy Central show Limboland had a bit with a rock band speak into the mic "are you ready to rock?!?" and the unseen audience responds in unison; "Not yet. Give us 5 minutes."
	1:23pm paul b: In High School in my little town (Holliston) in eastern Massachusetts Dream on was the biggest song in the entire world
	1:23pm V Priceless: Woo! B$B, baby!
	1:24pm Rich in Washington: Ha! I've been on an Alice Cooper kick lately. Great show, UM!
	1:24pm Jeff Golick: @paul b: same up on the North Shore
	1:24pm V Priceless: DD on bass - nuts!!
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: Paul! Rich!
	1:26pm V Priceless: Dunaway's right-hand picking speed on this is insane!
	1:26pm hyde: paul b ha, you're from Hollyrock? i grew up in Sherborn. Aerosmith played the Dover-Sherborn prom at one point before 1973 (before my time)
	1:28pm Lewis: sounds like the radio I listened to while I worked on my motorcycle...
	1:28pm Uncle Michael: hyde!
	1:29pm βrian: I was working on my hunter green Raleigh Grand Prix.
	1:30pm Lewis: I had a 125cc Penton...
	1:30pm doctorjazz: Rasberries, great track!
	1:31pm Jeff Golick: The Joe Perry Project played my (Marblehead) high school.
	1:31pm Uncle Michael: I had a hunter green raleigh grand prix.
	1:32pm Lewis: HST had a 250cc Penton goo.gl...
	1:33pm βrian: My head is rotating again.
	1:34pm V Priceless: nice with the T Bells, Uncle M! Great record!
	1:35pm johnk77: i wish i had seen joe perry project in my hazy memories of seventies beach boys holland acheived unusual critical/collegiate/stoner crossover success back in 2017 riding trek hybrid urban in seventies yamaha 250 enduro only fun off-roadi riding keep on rockin;>
	1:37pm hyde: i used to love Let the Music Do the Talkin' by Joe Perry
	1:37pm paul b: Hyde: Dover Sherborn! We played you guys in football Tri-valley league. You guys had stadium lights, Friday night lights
	1:38pm johnk77: hst huge commandercody/moonliters fan he was at a show i worked in colorado maybe 1979
	1:39pm ndbob: Tanya's best record!
	1:40pm mike s.: That's actually Donovan singing with Alice on BDB.
	1:40pm hyde: @paul b i don't remember ever ging to games, really. what were you guys, the panthers?
	1:40pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Mike!
	1:40pm Lewis: this song goes so wrong...
	1:41pm βrian: This kind of music was said to be from the other side of the tracks where I grew up.
	1:42pm Uncle Michael: I sure would like to know who's picking guitar on Jolene.
	1:43pm ndbob: My friend is named after this song - but for some reason her parents spelled it Joleen
	1:44pm V Priceless: though to this day, there are still moments when Alice and Michael Bruce's voices are almost indistinguishable, especially on the early records, IMHO
	1:44pm chromaphone: Doesn't Dolly do some finger picking'?
	1:44pm Lewis: @chromaphone - I was thinking the same thing...
	1:45pm johnk77: mike chapman worked w/ sweet+tanyatucker
	1:46pm Lane Gray: When did Candy's version come out, and did it chart? I think I like her version a bit better. Love this Merle
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: Good to hear from Jerry!
	1:48pm Lewis: Jerry is so much fun and clever to boot...
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: I think Candi really killed it. I think i was never a single...might have been unreleased until compiled.
	1:49pm johnk77: is there a great book about the history of country music in california maybe 40s->80s?
	1:51pm Rich in Washington: Why me, Lord... I always wanted to know where that oft-used by Negativland sample came from.
	1:51pm Lewis: Damn UM, this is excellent!
	1:52pm hyde: @johnk i have't read it, but have often eyeballed The Birth of the Bakersfield Sound: A Honky Tonk Attitude by Lawton Jiles
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Lewis.
	1:53pm hyde: i've been listening to my Kristofferson box set a lot lately, i really love the early 70's records.
	1:53pm Lane Gray: Some of the least suitable guitar fills in recorded history in this cut. Lots of what Lester Flatt would say "that song didn't need what he done"
	🛒 1:54pm Brian in UK: Chip Taylor was making some great Country around this time with the Jordanaires on backing vocals.
	1:55pm Lewis: @Lane - I had an interesting question regarding slide players for you the other day, but now I have forgotten it...
	1:56pm johnk77: thanx @hyde $$$ on amazon have u seen it as a pdf or ebook?
	1:56pm Lane Gray: If it comes to you, my email is Kcsteelplayer@aol.com
	1:56pm frenchee: LOL, @Lane Gray, good quote from Mr. Flatt. anybody else kinda creeped out by Conway here? bumpbumpbum....
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: I'm always a little creeped out by Conway. I thank that's his gimmick.
	1:58pm johnk77: i like the idea of bakersfield as an attitude
	1:58pm Lewis: Thanks!
	1:58pm hyde: @johnk77 whoa, i don't remember it being that expensive when i looked at it! don't know of any other source, unfortunately.
	2:00pm johnk77: added to my wish list commander cody often talks about the influence of bakersfield on him
	2:00pm hyde: jeez, and barnes and noble had it for $16.99 awhile ago and now they have it for 111$! i guess i should have bought it when i was eyeballing it
	2:01pm mauri: Evening.
	2:02pm Dean: Guitarist on "Jolene": Jimmy Colvard? https://www.discogs.com/Dolly-Parton-Jolene/release/2095317
	2:02pm Lewis: check out abehbooks.com - good used and some new / remainders... www.abebooks.com
	2:03pm johnk77: many generations of roots moves bothrock+country
	2:03pm ndbob: I disagree with you there UM - I thought Johnny Rodriguez was great - though I haven't listened to his records fora while
	2:04pm Lane Gray: Frenchee,, the Mrs Johnson crowd (remember "the Lord Knows I'm Drinking") asked Conway about that song. He insisted that the" forbidden places " was just the hand of a woman married to someone else.
	2:04pm Webhamster Henry: When you get to 1974, you get this: (from the WFMU Worst Song Contest). We had to break out 1974 from the rest of the 70s so it wouldn't bum out the whole decade. www.wfmu.org...
	2:06pm Lewis: @Webhamster Henry - big break between the "top" 4 and the rest of the pack...
	2:06pm melinda: That's a funny list, Henry.
	2:07pm johnk77: thank for the link @lewis i will save any book link but their $ almost 2Xamazon
	2:07pm Uncle Michael: Lane, great songs, great vocals...shit record. Nashville was emasculated.
	🛒 2:07pm Brian in UK: Uncle, not sure exactly what you want but this has some juice in it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com... ...and a review www.publishersweekly.com...
	2:07pm johnk77: are used paperbacks new hot investmest?
	2:08pm melinda: Sunshine on My Shoulders is a classic.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Brian.
	2:09pm johnk77: soul makossa top historic dance+world+++ played hundreds of times at sobs nyc
	2:09pm johnk77: investment?
	2:10pm Jeff Golick: Not Cali Country, but a decent book nonetheless: a.co...
	2:11pm johnk77: yes to dawidoff
	2:12pm annie: i thought it would be a dull show, but it's been great.. i just could not stand 70's radio... it's a reason i switched to country-western. albany had a few good stations..
	2:13pm hyde: @johnk77 i notice it a lot with low print run academic press books on movies, music or art. as soon as they go out of print, the prices skyrocket.
	2:13pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, annie! I saved 1973!
	2:13pm Lane Gray: I just listened to Johnny's Pass Me By. The steel would need to add energy and soul to get to tepid. . And I'd have moved to a shuffle beat for the chorus.
	2:16pm frenchee: I was wondering when Brother Curtis would stop by. Oh my.
	2:16pm hyde: @JG that's a classic. the best general country music history book i've read is Country Music USA, by Bill C Malone. though i read the first edition, which covers up to 1960. i think he's revised it since.
	2:16pm Lane Gray: I had to double check when Michael said that. Unca Michael was right again
	2:18pm Uncle Michael: Surely someone ha written well about what the hell happened to C&W in the '70s.
	2:19pm Lane Gray: Malaise
	2:19pm johnk77: i have to view uncle michael show live as crucial but never before from investment angle thanks @golick @hyde did skinny music exist in 1973? raspberries probably? country pays worse than rock
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Nashville started building K-Cars?
	2:20pm Lane Gray: I miss the days when Presidents actually used words of subtlety.
	2:23pm hyde: @UM it's funny, there are plenty o' books on the country-rock and outlaw country aspects of the seventies, but i don't know of anyone who has written about how the country mainstream fell apart at the same time
	2:24pm annie: just read an article about the planned gentification of the "Harlem" name, hoping to change it to something with "less history"
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: Haarlem, perhaps.
	2:25pm annie: hehe
	2:26pm Jeff Golick: Wishful thinking that "quitting just ain't his shtick?"
	2:29pm frenchee: @annie, I heard something about that too. Some developers wanna call it SoHA. to which I say bushWHA
	🛒 2:29pm Brian in UK: There were probably articles at the time relevant to the change from C&W to Country and the 'fallout'. Our library must have a mountain of Country & Western stickers for their CDs as they still on new ones. Makes me smile.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, he pronounce Yiddishisms about as well as ZZ Top did.
	2:32pm johnk77: just east of east haarlem walking distance
	2:33pm chromaphone: Just watched the Stones doc from 2012 on Netflix. Pretty great
	2:33pm melinda: I had a brief C&W radio phase around 80-81.
	2:33pm Jeff Golick: Is that the Scorsese movie, @chroma?
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: I need to watch music documentaries on days the Cubs don't play.
	2:34pm βrian: Now this one I thought was about a sweet Hungarian wine.
	2:35pm annie: wonder if billy boy still has offices in harlem.. oops, bushwah!
	2:36pm Uncle Michael: I'm going as long as I need to finish...forewarned. One more R&B set...
	2:36pm chromaphone: No Jeff, it was something else. All about early 70s years.
	2:37pm frenchee: THE DRUMS THE DRUMS. they are the awesomeist.
	2:38pm V Priceless: of course!
	2:39pm chromaphone: Love this tune
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Oh so sadly, this is the single edit. Breaks my heart...but it's the law.
	2:39pm ndbob: scrolling back - @Henry I remember those lists - 1974 was awful - though I do like Time In a Bottle
	2:40pm hyde: i confess that i sold my Focus records
	2:41pm Dean: Proud to Be an Okie: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248892
	2:42pm Dean: The part where Edgar Winter sounds like Gentle Giant...
	2:43pm chromaphone: Who needs from solos anyway ;)
	2:43pm chromaphone: Drum not from
	2:43pm V Priceless: Gentle Edgar, Winter Giant
	2:43pm hyde: i saw Edgar Winter warm up for someone in the late 70's, but i don't remember who.
	2:44pm V Priceless: wow - forgot how much of a bastardization the edit is
	2:44pm hyde: it was at the Boston Gahden, i remember that. so it prob was either the Allman Bros or Yes.
	2:47pm Dean: J. Geils Band?
	2:48pm Dean: So you will play Tales from Topographic Oceans!
	2:49pm Uncle Michael: Someday?
	2:49pm Dean: [BTW, see the comment above about guitarist on "Jolene"?]
	2:50pm hyde: that last dj mistake was just like the flaw that Islamic mosaicists put into their work, because only the Music Gods are perfect
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: I saw. I will re-see, later. Thanks.
	2:53pm Lane Gray: Michael, a lot of the Hot 100 then was kinda laid back and mellow, and mainstream country is often pop in cowboy boots. That's, I suspect, part of the tepidity of the country.
	2:53pm Dean: I'm struck by the absence of hits on Apple.
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: I could have played a few. Didn't.
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: Ringo's "Photograph" almost made it in.
	2:55pm Dean: Nice.
	2:55pm V Priceless: switching to the app = thanx, Uncle M! Have a fun, safe holiday, US peeps!
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: See you later, VP! Have a good weekend.
	2:56pm Lane Gray: In bluegrass, 1973 saw both Act 2 and Act 3. Not hits, but some of the best modern bluegrass (the J. D. Crowe Rounder record was cool too, but later)
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: umm...uhh...
	2:57pm Jeff Golick: This sounds...advanced...for 1973...
	2:58pm chromaphone: Was just thinking same thing
	2:58pm doctorjazz: Getting to that time, too busy to post much but enjoyed the tunes, thanks UM! Fun weekend all!
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: I made it go away.
	2:58pm Lane Gray: I may be biased, but they're still damn good.
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone. See you next week for Freeform Friday
	3:00pm Lane Gray: Excellent show, Michael
	3:01pm listener james from westwood: You did 1973 proud, UM! Thanks!
	3:02pm hyde: great stuff! thanks.
	3:03pm Jeff Golick: Thank ye for '73!
	3:03pm johnk77: extended hinkymix
	3:03pm βrian: All this on your Chevy Vega's 8-track, Uncle? Impressive.
	3:04pm Webhamster Henry: Yes, a lot of Guilty Pleasures (Not) here today!
	3:04pm doctorjazz: (Great track to end on!)
	3:04pm johnk77: this gets remixed w/soulmakossa
	3:05pm Dean: Another absence I was noting, Mr. Wonder. Good to hear.
	3:06pm johnk77: riddim possible clavinet?
	3:09pm Artie Haywire: Thanks, Michael!
	3:10pm Uncle Michael: See yas!
	8:55am Stanley: Just caught up. Great show and 1973 very nostalgic for me, too. Interesting to note what was going down then in America compared to England. Some crossover stuff, though. I still remember each note of Edgar Winter's Frankenstein and in the right order, too. Thanks UM

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May 26, 2017: SPECIAL (chart singles from 1973): Celebrating Uncle Michael’s favorite charting singles from 1973!

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Intruders	I'll Always Love My Mama	single (b/w I'll Always Love My Mama (Part II)) (Gamble - 7 Mar 1973)	0:02:20 (Pop-up)
Al Green	Call Me (Come Back Home)	single (b/w What A Wonderful Thing Love Is) (Hi - Feb 1973)	0:04:52 (Pop-up)
Ann Peebles	I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down	single (b/w One Way Street) (Hi - Jan 1973)	0:07:49 (Pop-up)
Sylvia	Pillow Talk "Pillow Talk" by "Sylvia"	single (b/w My Thing) (Vibration - Feb 1973)	0:10:28 (Pop-up)
Three Degrees	Dirty Ol' Man "Dirty Ol' Man" by "Three Degrees"	single (b/w Can't You See What You're Doing To Me) (Philadelphia International - Sep 1973)	0:14:42 (Pop-up)
Willie Hutch	Brother's Gonna Work It Out	single (b/w I Choose You) (Motown - 14 Feb 1973)	0:17:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Crown Heights Affair	Super Rod (Instrumental)	single (b/w Super Rod (Vocal)) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)	0:22:20 (Pop-up)
Dobie Gray	Drift Away "Drift Away" by "Dobie Gray"	single (b/w City Stars) (Decca - Jan 1973)	0:26:20 (Pop-up)
Hall & Oates	She's Gone "She's Gone" by "Hall & Oates"	single (b/w I'm Just A Kid (Don't Make Me Feel Like A Man)) (Atlantic - Nov 1973)	0:30:06 (Pop-up)
B.W. Stevenson	My Maria "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson"	single (b/w August Evening Lady) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)	0:33:28 (Pop-up)
Mocedades	Eres Tu "Eres Tu" by "Mocedades"	single (b-side to Touch The Wind) (Bell - 13 Apr 1973)	0:35:51 (Pop-up)
El Chicano	Tell Her She's Lovely "Tell Her She's Lovely" by "El Chicano"	single (b/w (Se Fue Mi) Chachita) (MCA - Jul 1973)	0:39:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Wailers	Stop That Train (Instrumental)	single (b-side to Rock It Baby) (Island - Jan 1973)	0:42:24 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys	Sail On Sailor "Sail On Sailor" by "Beach Boys"	single (b/w Only With You) (Brother / Reprise - 24 Feb 1973)	0:46:24 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night	Shambala "Shambala" by "Three Dog Night"	single (b/w Our "B" Side) (Dunhill - May 1973)	0:49:34 (Pop-up)
Stories	Brother Louie "Brother Louie" by "Stories"	single (b/w What Comes After) (Kama Sutra - May 1973)	0:52:49 (Pop-up)
Stealers Wheel	Stuck In The Middle With You	single (b/w José) (A&M - Feb 1973)	0:56:39 (Pop-up)
Dr. John	Right Place Wrong Time "Right Place Wrong Time" by "Dr. John"	single (b/w I Been Hoodood) (Atco - Mar 1973)	0:59:58 (Pop-up)
Redbone	Come And Get Your Love "Come And Get Your Love" by "Redbone"	single (b/w Day To Day Life) (Epic - 29 Aug 1973)	1:02:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chairmen Of The Board	Finders Keepers (Instrumenta)	single (b-side to Finder's Keepers (Vocal)) (Invictus - Apr 1973)	1:06:11 (Pop-up)
Brownsville Station	Smokin' In The Boys' Room	single (b/w Barefootin') (Big Tree - Sep 1973)	1:11:45 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith	Dream On "Dream On" by "Aerosmith"	single (b/w Somebody) (Columbia - 27 Jun 1973)	1:14:36 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Billion Dollar Babies	single (b/w Mary Ann) (Warner Bros. - 11 Jul 1973)	1:18:55 (Pop-up)
Sweet	Blockbuster! "Blockbuster!" by "Sweet"	single (b/w Need A Lot Of Lovin') (Bell - May 1973)	1:22:27 (Pop-up)
The Raspberries	Tonight "Tonight" by "The Raspberries"	single (b/w Hard To Get Over A Heartbreak) (Capitol - 6 Aug 1973)	1:25:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells (Instrumental - Short Version)	single (b-side to Tubular Bells (Instrumental - Long Version)) (Virgin - 1973)	1:29:01 (Pop-up)
Tanya Tucker	Blood Red And Goin' Down	single (b/w The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle) (Columbia - 29 Jun 1973)	1:34:36 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Jolene "Jolene" by "Dolly Parton"	single (b/w Love, You're So Beautiful Tonight) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)	1:37:32 (Pop-up)
Merle Haggard	If We Make It Through December	single (b/w Bobby Wants A Puppy Dog For Christmas) (Capitol - Oct 1973)	1:40:06 (Pop-up)
Jerry Reed	Lord, Mr. Ford "Lord, Mr. Ford" by "Jerry Reed"	single (b/w Two-Timin') (RCA Victor - May 1973)	1:42:44 (Pop-up)
Kris Kristofferson	Why Me "Why Me" by "Kris Kristofferson"	single (b/w Help Me) (Monument - Feb 1973)	1:45:58 (Pop-up)
Conway Twitty	You've Never Been This Far Before	single (b/w You Make It Hard (To Take The Easy Way Out)) (MCA - Jul 1973)	1:49:19 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich	Behind Closed Doors "Behind Closed Doors" by "Charlie Rich"	single (b/w A Sunday Kind Of Woman) (Epic - 17 Jan 1973)	1:52:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gladys Knight & The Pips	Midnight Train To Georgia (Instrumental)	single (b-side to Midnight Train To Georgia) (Buddah - Aug 1973)	1:55:08 (Pop-up)
Manu Dibango	Soul Makossa (Original Version)	single (b/w Lily) (Atlantic - May 1973)	2:01:10 (Pop-up)
Billy Paul	Am I Black Enough For You	single (b/w I'm Gonna Make It This Time) (Philadelphia International - Mar 1973)	2:05:31 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield	Future Shock "Future Shock" by "Curtis Mayfield"	single (b/w The Other Side Of Town) (Curtom - Jul 1973)	2:10:43 (Pop-up)
Eddie Kendricks	Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)	single (b/w Keep On Truckin' (Part 2)) (Tamla - 26 Jul 1973)	2:14:13 (Pop-up)
Barry White	Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (short version)	single (b/w Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (long version)) (20th Century - Oct 1973)	2:17:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Barry White	Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up (Instrumental)	single (b-side to Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up) (20th Century - Oct 1973)	2:21:33 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones	Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)	single (b/w Dancing With Mr. D.) (Rolling Stones - 19 Dec 1973)	2:24:52 (Pop-up)
Deep Purple	Woman From Tokyo "Woman From Tokyo" by "Deep Purple"	single (b/w Super Trouper) (Warner Bros. - Jan 1973)	2:28:12 (Pop-up)
Focus	Hocus Pocus "Hocus Pocus" by "Focus"	single (b/w Hocus Pocus II) (Sire - Feb 1973)	2:33:51 (Pop-up)
Edgar Winter	Frankenstein "Frankenstein" by "Edgar Winter"	single (b/w Undercover Man) (Epic - 21 Feb 1973)	2:37:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Screaming Jay Hawkins	Africa Gone Funky (Instrumental) (DJ Lean Rock)	single (b/w Africa Gone Funky (Vocal)) (London - 1973)	2:40:24 (Pop-up)
Fred Wesley And The J.B.'s	Doing It To Death	single (b/w Everybody Got Soul) (People - Apr 1973)	2:44:00 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight & The Pips	I've Got To Use My Imagination	single (b/w I Can See Clearly Now) (Buddah - Nov 1973)	2:48:57 (Pop-up)
Tina Turner	Nutbush City Limits "Nutbush City Limits" by "Tina Turner"	single (b/w Help Him) (United Artists - Aug 1973)	2:52:17 (Pop-up)
O.V. Wright	I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy	single (b/w Please Forgive Me) (Back Beat - Nov 1973)	2:53:30 (Pop-up)
Four Tops	Are You Man Enough "Are You Man Enough" by "Four Tops"	single (b/w Peace Of Mind) (Dunhill - 24 May 1973)	2:56:07 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder	Higher Ground "Higher Ground" by "Stevie Wonder"	single (b/w Too High) (Tamla - Jul 1973)	2:59:29 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)	3:02:31 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🛒 11:51am Brian in UK: Hey Uncle, left home on the last day of '72 so in many ways '73 was a big year for me. Biggest thing to leave home was the stereogram.
	12:01pm frenchee: 1973...a very good year. Can't wait to hear your choices, Unka M~
	12:01pm βrian: Little Radio on the Prairie. Can't wait.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: Loving these 70s singles surveys and looking forward to this one!
	12:03pm V Priceless: hey Mr. Uncle Michael!
	12:04pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:05pm Lewis: present...
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Apologies for running long, Uncle Michael. That's what you get for choosing to follow an amateur.
	12:08pm βrian: It feels like it's MCMLXXlll again.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: Brian! Brian! Jame! VP! Bob! Lewis! Doug! No worries!
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: FRENCHEE!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Hey UM and Hinkskateers!
	12:09pm doctorjazz: AL!!!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Doc!
	12:10pm Jeff Golick: Do the jerk! Hi.
	12:11pm DEZ: Hey, Michael!!!
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Oh, you like Hi? Here's another!
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: DJ DEZ!
	12:13pm still b/p: Gonna kill me to not hear this whole thing! I'll be dead DEAD! Speaking of (show opening) inka dinka doo, I missed a "nostalgia" trivia question out of a book at a bar the other day. I thought it was Durante who used to say, "What a revoltin' development this is!" Wrongo. Any of youse trivia whizzes know who?
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Yes but I won'tgive it away
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Stay for the whole thing, SBP!
	12:19pm still b/p: I couldn't have got the answer if you held a radio tube to my head. The show title's really well-known but I don't know the characters and details. I just got a half-hour reprieve for another hunk of Hinky enjoyment. Miracolo!
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Yay! Here's a little proto-disco!
	12:24pm Doug S.: All hail, 1973. What a motherfucking great year for music.
	12:26pm Little Danny: This Willie Hutch is so massive. Motown turning towards Philadelphia in 1973.
	12:26pm Dean: I was always a little disappointed that Dick Clark never described it as such on American Bandstand.
	12:31pm Jeff Golick: Primo earworm material rightchere.
	12:31pm Lane Gray: Cool first set. If it means jettisoning house/techno, I'd bring back disco. Dance music has always been less interesting than "listen" music, but the current crop? Ick. (off my lawn)
	12:31pm still b/p: The sometimes bemoaned change in soul pop/funk from early 70s socially conscious to disco glitz...is there a term for that shift? Coin one.
	12:32pm coelacanth∅: hello Uncle M and hdinklings i clicked to toggle my imagination -and it worked!
	12:32pm Dean: Whew. "Dixie Chicken" was 1973.
	12:32pm Mark the Sardine: Yeah Uncle Michael!
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Dean! Lane! Coela!
	12:33pm Lane Gray: I'd not noticed the twangy Tele in this before. Pete would be happy. Do it is of no relation.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Mark!
	12:34pm Mark the Sardine: Friday afternoon is better with HDTime.
	12:34pm frenchee: @still b/p: was it Eddie Cantor?
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: There's a charted 1973 C&W cover of Drift Away. Not inclueded today...
	12:35pm melinda: hi all!
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Melinda!
	12:36pm still b/p: No. (Tangent trivia: I was reading something recently in which his peers completely trashed Eddie Cantor as difficult and nearly talentless.)
	12:36pm Jeff Golick: Never heard the H&O flip. Is good?
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: the carbon and monoxide...
	12:37pm Lane Gray: Stupid autocorrect. Dobie is of no relation
	12:37pm ndbob: Hi Melinda!
	🛒 12:38pm Brian in UK: Abandoned Luncheonette is one great album.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: My Maria gives me physical chills. Such production.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: No idea, Jeff!
	12:39pm johnk77: motown moved all operations to california in june 1972
	🛒 12:40pm Brian in UK: @Jeff, great track, last track side one, memories of a relationship so I remember it.
	12:41pm Lane Gray: One more proof that Brooks and Dunn should leave other people's records alone
	12:41pm listener james from westwood: Long time since I've heard a straight read on "Eres Tu" on FMU; usually there's a goofy latter-day cover. Glad to hear this one!
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: John! This is the 1973 Eurovision runner-up.
	🛒 12:41pm Brian in UK: Hey Lane, on the road?
	12:42pm Jeff Golick: Yeah, @ljfw, these UM shows have a very strong "back to the source" vibe about them.
	12:42pm Jeff Golick: @Brian: thanks; will try to remedy.
	12:44pm Uncle Michael: I'm bad at irony.
	12:44pm coelacanth∅: so, who are the people in the image over there?
	🛒 12:45pm Brian in UK: I find ironing very relaxing and a great way to listen to music.
	12:45pm Lane Gray: Yes, Brian
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Coel, those are kids in a UK television studio in 1973 trying to dance to Slade's COFTN. Seriously.
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: I'm good at ironing.
	12:46pm Dean: Irony is replete with wrinkles.
	🛒 12:47pm Brian in UK: Uncle would guess that it is Top of the Pops as they are dancing to six different songs at the same time.
	12:47pm still b/p: So I heard the fresh Eurovision winner this year delivered a "My music's right and pure, the music of many others is not" kind of message. We might agree in conversation,but that's some chutzpah, or ego, and not the most...gracious?...choice for remarks in the winner's spotlight.
	12:48pm coelacanth∅: the wailers released TWO AMAZING ALBUMS in 1973!
	12:50pm ndbob: I missed most of Eurovision this year
	12:50pm Dean: Shoot, forgot about the (aborted) procedure. Your emphasis on "minor" is encouraging.
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Yes, Holland is up there. Sorry turning singles into LPs.
	12:52pm doctorjazz: Love this Beach Boys album! (sorry about having to do it yet again, UM). (OK, Dean, you pushed me into getting the Brain Box! Had an Amazon discount, went for it, probably get it in a week. See if either of us ever gets to hear the whole thing...)
	12:52pm Jeff Golick: I took the dancers for Europeans...wonder why? Not slack-jawed enough to be Americans?
	12:52pm Webhamster Henry: Party like it's 1973! That was the summer I was on exchange in Switzerland.I came back with a tenor recorder that I play to this day! But I wasn't listening to the radio that much.
	12:53pm Lane Gray: Still, that attitude is what caused me to temporarily quit listening to Dale Watson. Once he gave up on Nashville he got better again
	12:53pm Mark the Sardine: Such a different sound for the Beach Boys
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Henry!
	12:55pm βrian: @Mark: Yes, listenable even.
	12:55pm Dean: Brain Boxers, unite!
	12:56pm frenchee: @still b/p: I'm not a big fan of Eddie C.
	12:56pm Dean: According to the 'pedia, another recording of this 3DN tune was almost simultaneously released by B.W. Stevenson. It, too, charted.
	12:57pm ndbob: right - always thought the BW Stevenson was the originsl - top 100 but not top 40
	12:57pm melinda: Enjoying the sounds of 1973.
	12:57pm frenchee: btw, I lovelovelove the determined dancers gif. Good one UM.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Dean, you're stealing my program notes.
	12:58pm Dean: Leaked.
	12:58pm melinda: This is the theme for Louis CK's show, didn't know it came from 1973.
	12:59pm ndbob: originally done by Hot Chocolate I think?
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: This is a cover of a Hot Chocolate original.
	1:00pm chromaphone: I was only 3 when these songs came out but I must've been listening a lot because these hits have been permanently etched in my mind.
	1:00pm Dean: I won't mention that Ian Lloyd went on to work and chart with Ric Ocasek later in the decade.
	1:00pm Jeff Golick: Which version did Louie CK use for his show...?
	1:01pm Jeff Golick: This is my jam.
	1:01pm still b/p: Have to bail soon. The catchphrase "What a revoltin' development this is," was from Chester Riley, played by William Bendix, in Life of Riley. In my head and ear, I swear I still have a stubborn Durante playback.
	1:01pm Lane Gray: Dueling banjos, between Strat and string section
	1:01pm chromaphone: As I recall it was this one JG. That scat singing at the end is pretty silly.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: Gotta do something about those DAMN LEAKS! We'd have a great, no, the BEST show without them!
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: Chroma!
	1:02pm Jeff Golick: Sounds right, @chromaphone.
	1:02pm Stanley: UM - you're killing it today. Yeah
	1:02pm Uncle Michael: Take care, SBP!
	1:03pm βrian: I always heard "stuck in the middle with glue."
	1:03pm Dean: Never before occurred to me how much this song consciously or otherwise inspired Sheryl Crow's first hit, the one about Santa Monica Blvd.
	1:03pm hyde: hello!
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Stanley! Thanks!
	1:03pm frenchee: LOVE Wm Bendix, perennial player of goofballs from Brooklyn..bye bye, @still b/p
	1:04pm chromaphone: I remember when that crappy Crow song was all over the radio and I immediately heard what she was stealing it's vibe from.
	1:04pm Jeff Golick: I hear that, @Dean. @UM: how were the "charts" managed/compiled, if you know?
	1:04pm βrian: I guess I conflated with the Velvet Underground song.
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: No one knows, Jeff...no one.
	1:06pm Jeff Golick: That sounds about right. Any idea if it was sales-based, or airplay-based?
	1:06pm hyde: i like William Bendix in Macao, that gauzy noir by von Sternberg with Mitchum and Jane Russell and Gloria Grahame
	1:08pm Dean: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/25/arts/are-pop-charts-manipulated.html
	1:08pm still b/p: Mmmmm, Gloria Grahame.
	1:08pm chromaphone: Who says you need to have verses to have a hit? Not Redbone.
	1:09pm hyde: are pop charts manipulated seems to me like a question along the lines of is water wet
	1:09pm frenchee: 1973: giggling young teen Frenchee and frens subbed in "shove it up your ass" for the lyrics to this Redbone classic. WE WERE HILARIOUS.
	1:09pm mike: This Redbone track never gets old.
	1:11pm Dean: Butt humor, frenchee, transcends all differences. My 6YO daughter chuckles at it, as does her 57YO dad.
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: that redbone track gets a lot of play at the bar i hang in. (as does "brother louie", but that's usually me putting it on)
	1:12pm Jeff Golick: Yes, @hyde. That headline is a rare exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines (en.wikipedia.org...).
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: I'd rather have heard "Stuck in the Middle" a zillion times in the mid-1990s than the Crow song.
	1:13pm Jeff Golick: And thanks for the link, @Dean. "Because a single is not eligible for the charts until it goes on sale, this insures that it enters the singles charts, calculated by a combination of sales and radio play, at a high spot." Clear as mud.
	1:14pm hyde: fun Gloria Grahame story: when she was married to Nicholas Ray, he caught her in bed with his son (her stepson). The marriage did not last.
	1:14pm coelacanth∅: i like the hot chocolate version better, for sure - but the stories guy does have a great voice.
	1:15pm ndbob: Tandyn Almer?
	1:15pm Lane Gray: Apparently Interstate 64 is The Road to Shambala
	1:15pm Webhamster Henry: I thought it was a Van Dyke Parks song.
	1:16pm βrian: The scholar's lament.
	1:16pm Marc Francis: EVERYTHING IS PERFECT MON ONCLE!
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: That's the guy, Bob. Thanks.
	1:18pm Dean: Looks like a go-to article about charts is Peter Hesbacher, Robert Downing & David G. Berger, "Sound recording popularity charts: A useful tool for music research," Popular Music and Society, 4:1, 3-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007767508591066 (probably paywalled).
	1:18pm coelacanth∅: i guess i'll miss whatever you play from "larks' tongues in aspic" and "goats head soup" -i have to get to work. Thanks Uncle Michael! -ciao
	1:19pm Uncle Michael: Marc!
	1:19pm melinda: @Jeff G: this from wiki: The song, with slightly different wording, is used as the theme song to the television series Louie, a sitcom loosely based on the life of American comedian Louis C.K. The word "cry" was changed to "die" in the second repetition of the chorus. This version was produced by Reggie Watts, with the intro emulating the Hot Chocolate version, and with Stories singer Ian Lloyd reprising his vocals.
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: Hey, thanks, @melinda!
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: Question: What was the first power ballad, as we know them? This?
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: Stairway?
	1:21pm Jeff Golick: It's a tough slow dance, that's for sure.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Probably so.
	1:21pm frenchee: I'm standing next to my desk at work, shakin' my 70s mane and scarf-draped mic stand, DREAM ON~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	1:22pm βrian: Mom always insisted we were talking about a Sinclair Lewis novel.
	1:23pm Lane Gray: That 1994 Comedy Central show Limboland had a bit with a rock band speak into the mic "are you ready to rock?!?" and the unseen audience responds in unison; "Not yet. Give us 5 minutes."
	1:23pm paul b: In High School in my little town (Holliston) in eastern Massachusetts Dream on was the biggest song in the entire world
	1:23pm V Priceless: Woo! B$B, baby!
	1:24pm Rich in Washington: Ha! I've been on an Alice Cooper kick lately. Great show, UM!
	1:24pm Jeff Golick: @paul b: same up on the North Shore
	1:24pm V Priceless: DD on bass - nuts!!
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: Paul! Rich!
	1:26pm V Priceless: Dunaway's right-hand picking speed on this is insane!
	1:26pm hyde: paul b ha, you're from Hollyrock? i grew up in Sherborn. Aerosmith played the Dover-Sherborn prom at one point before 1973 (before my time)
	1:28pm Lewis: sounds like the radio I listened to while I worked on my motorcycle...
	1:28pm Uncle Michael: hyde!
	1:29pm βrian: I was working on my hunter green Raleigh Grand Prix.
	1:30pm Lewis: I had a 125cc Penton...
	1:30pm doctorjazz: Rasberries, great track!
	1:31pm Jeff Golick: The Joe Perry Project played my (Marblehead) high school.
	1:31pm Uncle Michael: I had a hunter green raleigh grand prix.
	1:32pm Lewis: HST had a 250cc Penton goo.gl...
	1:33pm βrian: My head is rotating again.
	1:34pm V Priceless: nice with the T Bells, Uncle M! Great record!
	1:35pm johnk77: i wish i had seen joe perry project in my hazy memories of seventies beach boys holland acheived unusual critical/collegiate/stoner crossover success back in 2017 riding trek hybrid urban in seventies yamaha 250 enduro only fun off-roadi riding keep on rockin;>
	1:37pm hyde: i used to love Let the Music Do the Talkin' by Joe Perry
	1:37pm paul b: Hyde: Dover Sherborn! We played you guys in football Tri-valley league. You guys had stadium lights, Friday night lights
	1:38pm johnk77: hst huge commandercody/moonliters fan he was at a show i worked in colorado maybe 1979
	1:39pm ndbob: Tanya's best record!
	1:40pm mike s.: That's actually Donovan singing with Alice on BDB.
	1:40pm hyde: @paul b i don't remember ever ging to games, really. what were you guys, the panthers?
	1:40pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Mike!
	1:40pm Lewis: this song goes so wrong...
	1:41pm βrian: This kind of music was said to be from the other side of the tracks where I grew up.
	1:42pm Uncle Michael: I sure would like to know who's picking guitar on Jolene.
	1:43pm ndbob: My friend is named after this song - but for some reason her parents spelled it Joleen
	1:44pm V Priceless: though to this day, there are still moments when Alice and Michael Bruce's voices are almost indistinguishable, especially on the early records, IMHO
	1:44pm chromaphone: Doesn't Dolly do some finger picking'?
	1:44pm Lewis: @chromaphone - I was thinking the same thing...
	1:45pm johnk77: mike chapman worked w/ sweet+tanyatucker
	1:46pm Lane Gray: When did Candy's version come out, and did it chart? I think I like her version a bit better. Love this Merle
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: Good to hear from Jerry!
	1:48pm Lewis: Jerry is so much fun and clever to boot...
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: I think Candi really killed it. I think i was never a single...might have been unreleased until compiled.
	1:49pm johnk77: is there a great book about the history of country music in california maybe 40s->80s?
	1:51pm Rich in Washington: Why me, Lord... I always wanted to know where that oft-used by Negativland sample came from.
	1:51pm Lewis: Damn UM, this is excellent!
	1:52pm hyde: @johnk i have't read it, but have often eyeballed The Birth of the Bakersfield Sound: A Honky Tonk Attitude by Lawton Jiles
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Lewis.
	1:53pm hyde: i've been listening to my Kristofferson box set a lot lately, i really love the early 70's records.
	1:53pm Lane Gray: Some of the least suitable guitar fills in recorded history in this cut. Lots of what Lester Flatt would say "that song didn't need what he done"
	🛒 1:54pm Brian in UK: Chip Taylor was making some great Country around this time with the Jordanaires on backing vocals.
	1:55pm Lewis: @Lane - I had an interesting question regarding slide players for you the other day, but now I have forgotten it...
	1:56pm johnk77: thanx @hyde $$$ on amazon have u seen it as a pdf or ebook?
	1:56pm Lane Gray: If it comes to you, my email is Kcsteelplayer@aol.com
	1:56pm frenchee: LOL, @Lane Gray, good quote from Mr. Flatt. anybody else kinda creeped out by Conway here? bumpbumpbum....
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: I'm always a little creeped out by Conway. I thank that's his gimmick.
	1:58pm johnk77: i like the idea of bakersfield as an attitude
	1:58pm Lewis: Thanks!
	1:58pm hyde: @johnk77 whoa, i don't remember it being that expensive when i looked at it! don't know of any other source, unfortunately.
	2:00pm johnk77: added to my wish list commander cody often talks about the influence of bakersfield on him
	2:00pm hyde: jeez, and barnes and noble had it for $16.99 awhile ago and now they have it for 111$! i guess i should have bought it when i was eyeballing it
	2:01pm mauri: Evening.
	2:02pm Dean: Guitarist on "Jolene": Jimmy Colvard? https://www.discogs.com/Dolly-Parton-Jolene/release/2095317
	2:02pm Lewis: check out abehbooks.com - good used and some new / remainders... www.abebooks.com
	2:03pm johnk77: many generations of roots moves bothrock+country
	2:03pm ndbob: I disagree with you there UM - I thought Johnny Rodriguez was great - though I haven't listened to his records fora while
	2:04pm Lane Gray: Frenchee,, the Mrs Johnson crowd (remember "the Lord Knows I'm Drinking") asked Conway about that song. He insisted that the" forbidden places " was just the hand of a woman married to someone else.
	2:04pm Webhamster Henry: When you get to 1974, you get this: (from the WFMU Worst Song Contest). We had to break out 1974 from the rest of the 70s so it wouldn't bum out the whole decade. www.wfmu.org...
	2:06pm Lewis: @Webhamster Henry - big break between the "top" 4 and the rest of the pack...
	2:06pm melinda: That's a funny list, Henry.
	2:07pm johnk77: thank for the link @lewis i will save any book link but their $ almost 2Xamazon
	2:07pm Uncle Michael: Lane, great songs, great vocals...shit record. Nashville was emasculated.
	🛒 2:07pm Brian in UK: Uncle, not sure exactly what you want but this has some juice in it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com... ...and a review www.publishersweekly.com...
	2:07pm johnk77: are used paperbacks new hot investmest?
	2:08pm melinda: Sunshine on My Shoulders is a classic.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Brian.
	2:09pm johnk77: soul makossa top historic dance+world+++ played hundreds of times at sobs nyc
	2:09pm johnk77: investment?
	2:10pm Jeff Golick: Not Cali Country, but a decent book nonetheless: a.co...
	2:11pm johnk77: yes to dawidoff
	2:12pm annie: i thought it would be a dull show, but it's been great.. i just could not stand 70's radio... it's a reason i switched to country-western. albany had a few good stations..
	2:13pm hyde: @johnk77 i notice it a lot with low print run academic press books on movies, music or art. as soon as they go out of print, the prices skyrocket.
	2:13pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, annie! I saved 1973!
	2:13pm Lane Gray: I just listened to Johnny's Pass Me By. The steel would need to add energy and soul to get to tepid. . And I'd have moved to a shuffle beat for the chorus.
	2:16pm frenchee: I was wondering when Brother Curtis would stop by. Oh my.
	2:16pm hyde: @JG that's a classic. the best general country music history book i've read is Country Music USA, by Bill C Malone. though i read the first edition, which covers up to 1960. i think he's revised it since.
	2:16pm Lane Gray: I had to double check when Michael said that. Unca Michael was right again
	2:18pm Uncle Michael: Surely someone ha written well about what the hell happened to C&W in the '70s.
	2:19pm Lane Gray: Malaise
	2:19pm johnk77: i have to view uncle michael show live as crucial but never before from investment angle thanks @golick @hyde did skinny music exist in 1973? raspberries probably? country pays worse than rock
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Nashville started building K-Cars?
	2:20pm Lane Gray: I miss the days when Presidents actually used words of subtlety.
	2:23pm hyde: @UM it's funny, there are plenty o' books on the country-rock and outlaw country aspects of the seventies, but i don't know of anyone who has written about how the country mainstream fell apart at the same time
	2:24pm annie: just read an article about the planned gentification of the "Harlem" name, hoping to change it to something with "less history"
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: Haarlem, perhaps.
	2:25pm annie: hehe
	2:26pm Jeff Golick: Wishful thinking that "quitting just ain't his shtick?"
	2:29pm frenchee: @annie, I heard something about that too. Some developers wanna call it SoHA. to which I say bushWHA
	🛒 2:29pm Brian in UK: There were probably articles at the time relevant to the change from C&W to Country and the 'fallout'. Our library must have a mountain of Country & Western stickers for their CDs as they still on new ones. Makes me smile.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, he pronounce Yiddishisms about as well as ZZ Top did.
	2:32pm johnk77: just east of east haarlem walking distance
	2:33pm chromaphone: Just watched the Stones doc from 2012 on Netflix. Pretty great
	2:33pm melinda: I had a brief C&W radio phase around 80-81.
	2:33pm Jeff Golick: Is that the Scorsese movie, @chroma?
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: I need to watch music documentaries on days the Cubs don't play.
	2:34pm βrian: Now this one I thought was about a sweet Hungarian wine.
	2:35pm annie: wonder if billy boy still has offices in harlem.. oops, bushwah!
	2:36pm Uncle Michael: I'm going as long as I need to finish...forewarned. One more R&B set...
	2:36pm chromaphone: No Jeff, it was something else. All about early 70s years.
	2:37pm frenchee: THE DRUMS THE DRUMS. they are the awesomeist.
	2:38pm V Priceless: of course!
	2:39pm chromaphone: Love this tune
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Oh so sadly, this is the single edit. Breaks my heart...but it's the law.
	2:39pm ndbob: scrolling back - @Henry I remember those lists - 1974 was awful - though I do like Time In a Bottle
	2:40pm hyde: i confess that i sold my Focus records
	2:41pm Dean: Proud to Be an Okie: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248892
	2:42pm Dean: The part where Edgar Winter sounds like Gentle Giant...
	2:43pm chromaphone: Who needs from solos anyway ;)
	2:43pm chromaphone: Drum not from
	2:43pm V Priceless: Gentle Edgar, Winter Giant
	2:43pm hyde: i saw Edgar Winter warm up for someone in the late 70's, but i don't remember who.
	2:44pm V Priceless: wow - forgot how much of a bastardization the edit is
	2:44pm hyde: it was at the Boston Gahden, i remember that. so it prob was either the Allman Bros or Yes.
	2:47pm Dean: J. Geils Band?
	2:48pm Dean: So you will play Tales from Topographic Oceans!
	2:49pm Uncle Michael: Someday?
	2:49pm Dean: [BTW, see the comment above about guitarist on "Jolene"?]
	2:50pm hyde: that last dj mistake was just like the flaw that Islamic mosaicists put into their work, because only the Music Gods are perfect
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: I saw. I will re-see, later. Thanks.
	2:53pm Lane Gray: Michael, a lot of the Hot 100 then was kinda laid back and mellow, and mainstream country is often pop in cowboy boots. That's, I suspect, part of the tepidity of the country.
	2:53pm Dean: I'm struck by the absence of hits on Apple.
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: I could have played a few. Didn't.
	2:54pm Uncle Michael: Ringo's "Photograph" almost made it in.
	2:55pm Dean: Nice.
	2:55pm V Priceless: switching to the app = thanx, Uncle M! Have a fun, safe holiday, US peeps!
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: See you later, VP! Have a good weekend.
	2:56pm Lane Gray: In bluegrass, 1973 saw both Act 2 and Act 3. Not hits, but some of the best modern bluegrass (the J. D. Crowe Rounder record was cool too, but later)
	2:56pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: umm...uhh...
	2:57pm Jeff Golick: This sounds...advanced...for 1973...
	2:58pm chromaphone: Was just thinking same thing
	2:58pm doctorjazz: Getting to that time, too busy to post much but enjoyed the tunes, thanks UM! Fun weekend all!
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: I made it go away.
	2:58pm Lane Gray: I may be biased, but they're still damn good.
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone. See you next week for Freeform Friday
	3:00pm Lane Gray: Excellent show, Michael
	3:01pm listener james from westwood: You did 1973 proud, UM! Thanks!
	3:02pm hyde: great stuff! thanks.
	3:03pm Jeff Golick: Thank ye for '73!
	3:03pm johnk77: extended hinkymix
	3:03pm βrian: All this on your Chevy Vega's 8-track, Uncle? Impressive.
	3:04pm Webhamster Henry: Yes, a lot of Guilty Pleasures (Not) here today!
	3:04pm doctorjazz: (Great track to end on!)
	3:04pm johnk77: this gets remixed w/soulmakossa
	3:05pm Dean: Another absence I was noting, Mr. Wonder. Good to hear.
	3:06pm johnk77: riddim possible clavinet?
	3:09pm Artie Haywire: Thanks, Michael!
	3:10pm Uncle Michael: See yas!
	8:55am Stanley: Just caught up. Great show and 1973 very nostalgic for me, too. Interesting to note what was going down then in America compared to England. Some crossover stuff, though. I still remember each note of Edgar Winter's Frankenstein and in the right order, too. Thanks UM

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from May 26, 2017

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