WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 27, 2017

Listener comments!
	7:44am ausmanx: the German guys knew how to ROCK. good evening from the antipodes. it's just before 10 p.m. in Coober Pedy
	8:03am listener james from westwood: How do, UM and all earlybirds!
	8:06am Uncle Michael: Good morning!
	8:06am Uncle Michael: Heading for the shower...save my seat...
	8:07am doctorjazz: Hey all, pre game show started, Happy Friday!
	8:08am doctorjazz: (Interesting to hear the news from Vietnam...)
	8:08am dan: The depressing news of 1967
	8:16am dan: I've seen The Rascals three times. Twice as The New Rascals and once with their recent Broadway show. Such an amazing band to see live.
	8:16am doctorjazz: Have to catch the Rascals one of these days, one of the bands (many out there) I missed.
	8:25am dan: $350 for a TV. Where's that time machine.
	8:28am dan: Was this Four Seasons song a hit worldwide. I've never heard it before.
	8:30am dan: RIP Brian Epstein.
	8:30am doctorjazz: Brian Epstein died that day, wow.
	8:33am ausmanx: that was one hell of a news bulletin. and barely a mention of vietnam...
	8:34am dan: August 27 1967 was my dad's 15th birthday.
	8:35am doctorjazz: Jackie Wilson made me smile...
	8:37am Uncle Michael: We;re all going to memorize this phone number.
	8:39am doctorjazz: Went to Google to figure out what that $400 TV would cost in todays dollars, it would be about $4000, pretty hefty lay out (interesting how electronics are so cheap, while other things, like college, went through the roof...)
	8:43am Uncle Michael: I recycled a 20 year old tv. It was a 36" color set. If I could have sold it in 1967 I could have gotten thousands for it. In 2015 it cost me $20 to have it taken for scrap.
	8:43am Uncle Michael: I hope this static patch is brief.
	8:44am Uncle Michael: We're going to animate those widget critters today. I can feel it.
	8:46am dan: Now you would win a tablet or Hamilton tickets
	8:57am dan: Bill Cosby wouldn't fill a hole in the wall club today.
	9:00am Funky16Corners: Morning!
	9:02am listener james from westwood: dan: Sadly, he might.
	9:03am melinda: Was digging the last half hour, but on the app it appeared that I was listening to the stream. Early a.m. confusion!
	9:03am dan: listener james from westwood: maybe in his dementia filled mind.
	9:04am ausmanx: newtown? newtown? that's where i live. but i'm at work just now over the bridge. here's the harbour bridge webcam webcamsydney.com you;ll se me drive over there in about 40 minutes
	9:04am Uncle Michael: Larry! James! Dan! Doc! Aus!
	9:05am Uncle Michael: You're Tasmanian, you devil?
	9:05am Funky16Corners: I am currently Sir Nose Devoidofcoffee
	9:07am Uncle Michael: $129 to meet the goal!
	9:07am dan: We go from water to oxygen
	9:09am Roberto: Buongiorno a tutti!
	9:10am listener james from westwood: As a kid I thought this Sweet treat was a Heart tune! I was an occasionally dense kid.
	9:10am Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	9:11am Uncle Michael: James,I think it sounds like 10cc meets Roxy Music.
	9:12am Funky16Corners: It is decidedly un-Sweet-like
	9:13am dan: The sax player on Miss You is current King Crimson, former Camel, Dire Straits, Alan Parsons etc... member Mel Collins.
	9:14am Uncle Michael: fun facts!
	9:14am Funky16Corners: Man, this is all hitting me right in the 16-year-old radio sweet spot
	9:15am Uncle Michael: pffft...why, yer just a kid.
	9:16am doctorjazz: I'm not going to bother clicky starring track by track, just star the show...(see it already)
	9:16am Funky16Corners: Once and future teenager
	9:16am dan: Another fun fact: The two guest stars on Who Are You are Zombies keyboard wiz Rod Argent and Amen Corner guitarist and Clapton collaborator Andy Fairweather Low.
	9:17am doctorjazz: Recently have gotten into the Andy Fairweather Low albums, he's really great!
	9:18am listener james from westwood: I am 1000% here for 70s disco-era orchestral arrangements.
	9:18am Uncle Michael: I wish he'd written another song ass good as Wide-Eyed & Legless.
	9:19am dan: UM: He did. Same Old Story is another great song.
	9:21am doctorjazz: Low's Sweet Soulful Music is a fine album I recently discovered.
	9:22am Rich in NC: morning all,,,,hey uncle michael
	9:22am dan: You should do an all Billboard top 100 instrumentals show.
	9:25am Uncle Michael: Rich!
	9:25am Uncle Michael: Interesting idea, Dan.
	9:27am davefromtoronto: hey uncle m - re that who track - if you haven't yet check out this version with just the guitar - it's really cool.
	9:27am Funky16Corners: Listen for young Luther Vandross in the background
	9:28am davefromtoronto: oops here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlI70b8C3U
	9:28am Uncle Michael: Dave! (thanks)
	9:29am dan: Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah: so famously uttered by Gig Young in his Oscar winning performance in They Shoot Horses Don't They. Strangely enough he murdered his wife and then himself in 1978
	9:31am Uncle Michael: Almost impossible to do it any other way.
	9:32am Roberto: '78 was a transitional year for Roberto. From grade school to middle/high.
	9:34am Stanley: Yowsah!
	9:34am Uncle Michael: Stevie Nicks on the Walter Egan track.
	9:36am glenn: you never really hear about the suicide-murder thingy.
	9:36am Webhamster Henry: If I heard any singles in '78-9, they were all British New Wave.
	9:36am Uncle Michael: Stanley! Glenn!
	9:37am glenn: so, who's gonna be the next yankees manager?
	9:37am Stanley: One of my favourite tracks of all time (swings around the room in joyous rapture)
	9:37am Uncle Michael: Henry!
	9:37am listener james from westwood: Wlliam Gibson knew from good music. He named two street gangs in a passing reference in Neuromancer after musical sources: the Deacon Blues and, checking Laurie Anderson, the Big Scientists. (Couple other Steely Dan refs in his short stories, too.) And there's your science fiction/music trivia for the day.
	9:38am glenn: maybe they'll stick with the joe theme and pry maddon away from the cubs.
	9:38am Uncle Michael: not happening
	9:39am Uncle Michael: Girardi to the Nats, maybe?
	9:40am glenn: i could see that.
	9:41am glenn: george is the best.
	9:44am Rich in NC: What glenn said about george ,oh yeah
	9:44am dan: Turkish prison music.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: In '78 New York actually had a country station: WHN 1050. WKHK, 106.7, arose in the early 80s as a challenger, but fell and became a schmaltz station. 1050 is now our local ESPN station.
	9:45am Funky16Corners: Didn't WYNY go country at some point?
	9:46am Roberto: At the time I thought it was "call me teeth and booze"
	9:48am listener james from westwood: Yes, from like the late 80s until it became WKTU in the mid-90s.
	9:49am doctorjazz: I thought WRVR, the jazz station at one time in NY, became country for a short while when RVR went off, but that didn't last either (could be remembering this wrong, of course)
	9:49am listener james from westwood: (WKTU, for those outside NYC, is an all-dance/disco/hot adult contemporary channel. Ru Paul was one of their morning DJs in the first couple of years!)
	9:50am queems: oh man i need magnets
	9:50am doctorjazz: Never gotten a Tchotchkee (not that I need any more of that stuff...)
	9:51am doctorjazz: Jack in Westfield, THAT'S ME (I think, unless another Jack in Westfield did as well...)
	9:53am Uncle Michael: Queems!
	9:53am dan: I just donated $10. Free Form radio will hopefully never die.
	9:53am Uncle Michael: How cool is this cover?
	9:54am queems: hello!
	9:54am Uncle Michael: Thanks, Dan!
	9:56am dan: No problem UM.
	9:56am Mr C: Pretty cool..
	9:57am Uncle Michael: Mr. C!
	9:57am annie: GM UM... et alia...
	9:58am queems: the cars are always good
	9:59am Uncle Michael: Annie!
	10:01am doctorjazz: The Cars came along pretty late in the 70's (had that New Wave attitude). My 19 year old loves their stuff.
	10:01am Funky16corners: Those first two albums are amazing
	10:03am Uncle Michael: My Best Friend's Girl is basically a Buddy Holly song in new wave drag. That's not a criticism.
	10:03am Uncle Michael: $19 to go!
	10:03am Mr C: Junie Morrison's first record with George and the band. He left shortly after "Knee Deep." A funk genius
	10:04am Uncle Michael: fun facts!
	10:04am Uncle Michael: Junie passed this year.
	10:05am Mr C: Yes he did. Just out of high school, he wrote and arranged all the Ohio Players Westbound records.
	10:06am Scraps deSelby: h’lo hey oh man, i swear you were buying pretty much the same singles in the 70s that i was. like about 70% so far! make me happy
	10:07am glenn: it's the "nice" eagle.
	10:07am Uncle Michael: Scraps!
	10:07am doctorjazz: One Nation Under a Groove was my first exposure to Funkadelic, great album! Walsh is the Eagle for those who hate Eagles.
	10:08am Roberto: Steely and Joe Walsh were all over rock radio in L.A. that year. The Cars didn't make themselves known to me until a few years later for some reason.
	10:09am Roberto: Oh wait though, I do remember my brother going to two shows in 1978/9 or so -- the Cars and the Kinks. I remember one of my father's friends saying to him, the Kinks rule, but who the f are the Cars?
	10:10am dan: Are The Kinks coming up in today's program?
	10:10am glenn: i still feel the same way, roberto.
	10:10am davefromtoronto: that joe walsh guy can rip up a guitar
	10:11am glenn: i love the joe walsh era james gang.
	10:12am still b/p: I've said it here before, but as long as we're talking about their fresh-faced days: the Cars demo tape was played for a while on FM Boston radio before the first album came out, and when that fully produced work replaced the tape in airplays, I thought, "Whoa, whoa, whoa...too much, boys! Overcooked and gussied/slickified!" It felt more of an unfortunate arm's length away from the ear and brain, if that makes sense. Got used to it, though. Not an uncommon story, I'm sure. And in Cars case, their studio technique was to be like a branding or signature.
	10:12am dan: Thanks for the shout out UM
	10:13am Roberto: To be specific, the guy who said that about the Kinks/Cars: www.imdb.com...
	10:15am Pedro G.: I gave last night as Spazz and Rex were having their Halloween party. Glad you got your taste of the money/credit. Sorry about the Cubs but the Nats crapped out in their even-worse tradition.
	10:15am Stanley: It's a pleasure to be able to give something back to this wonderful station.
	10:16am dan: Tulsa Time, later covered by Slowhand himself Eric Clapton
	10:17am Uncle Michael: Pedro! Thanks!
	10:18am glenn: one of the great two chord songs.
	10:20am Stanley: Young man!
	10:21am dan: YMCA: one of those cringe worthy songs that never goes away. It's the 6th inning song at every Yankee Stadium home game.
	10:22am Uncle Michael: DANCE, MOTHERFUCKER...DANCE!
	10:23am dan: I had to do the stupid dance for my elementary school's annual end of the year dance festival. I was in kindergarten or 1st grade. I haven't done it since.
	10:23am queems: what a bizarre song concept
	10:24am Funky16Corners: Awww yeah! Big fave!
	10:24am Uncle Michael: The dance appears nowhere in the official video for Y..C.A. I'm guessing it was a product of the clubs.
	10:24am Funky16Corners: WOOOT! WOOOT!
	10:25am still b/p: Before it became so waaaaay common, it was a funny kick seeing hundreds of people doing the spelling dance on the floor of a very large facility at Iowa State University in 1979 .
	10:25am Brian C.: Great show, it brings me back to when I first started listening to music. 8th grade. Magnet and Steel, Deacon Blues, Life's Been Good were all in the personal top 10 lists I used to keep. I wonder what I would've thought of the Ramones?
	10:26am Uncle Michael: still B/P! Brian C.!
	10:27am glenn: i feel the same way about the y.m.c.a. dance as i do about the wave.
	10:27am ndbob: morning UM and everyone!
	10:28am Uncle Michael: Bob!
	10:28am Funky16Corners: I didn't know this charted as a cover.
	10:29am Uncle Michael: "charted" is a very, very low bar.
	10:30am northguineahills: I knew this was Boney M and I've barely ever heard them before.
	10:32am glenn: what does one call a disco version of a reggae tune?
	10:32am Uncle Michael: The gif comes home to roost.
	10:32am listener james from westwood: Picked a cassette of "Man Machine" out of a bargain bin at the Boston Tower in like 1988. Blew my little mind.
	10:33am Uncle Michael: rosco
	10:33am Funky16Corners: Deggae
	10:33am Stanley: An abomination.
	10:33am Uncle Michael: heh
	10:33am glenn: disgaestusing. [even though it wasn't.
	10:34am glenn: oops. disgaesting.
	10:35am Jeff Golick: Just joining now, hello, but going back and fave-starring earlier songs anyway, just for the halibut.
	10:35am Uncle Michael: Jeff!
	10:37am Funky16Corners: Awwww, thank you (though you may have overstated my greatness ever so slightly).
	10:38am Rich in NC: all this dance music reminds me of why my high school girlfriend broke up with me---tall white guys can't dance
	10:38am annie: tell us how you really feel, UM... ;P
	10:39am Alex in Illinois: The YMCA dance might have originated with the Solid Gold Dancers
	10:39am Pedro G.: THANK YOU Uncle Mike. I can't stand the Eric Clapton of the last 45 years.
	10:39am ndbob: i agree UM - and hello Annie!
	10:40am Funky16Corners: Oooh, Heart. Gotta go dig out a bong (be right back)...
	10:40am Stevel: I am. Ready. To rock, in fact.
	10:40am listener james from westwood: Now THIS is Heart!
	10:41am Uncle Michael: Steve! (disco Heart, if we're being honest0
	10:41am Funky16Corners: ((bubble bubble bubble...))
	10:42am Uncle Michael: Larry, I think it's cashed.
	10:44am Funky16Corners: What is?
	10:44am Funky16Corners: ((bubble bubble bubble...cough))
	10:44am Uncle Michael: That bowl.
	10:45am Roberto: For some reason I thought this Patti Smith was '76.
	10:45am Funky16Corners: Resin, seeds...NEVER SAY DIE!
	10:45am Roberto: So educational this program is!
	10:45am Dean: Record store days, these sets.
	10:46am dan: My local radio station thinks that Because The Night is the only song Patti Smith ever recorded. That's why I stopped listening to it years ago.
	10:47am Uncle Michael: Larry, check in the crease of Something, Anything.
	10:47am still b/p: There was a Doonesbury strip in the day that noted the oddity of mainstream America, in embracing and approving particular Donna Summer and Village People hits of the day, giving its seal of popular taste/approval to prostitution and gay hook-ups.
	10:47am Stanley: ....old socks and things (cough, splutter!!) Mmmm not bad.
	10:47am ndbob: the best 45 of 1978
	10:48am Funky16Corners: I may be the only record collector not to have discovered discarded weed in a used record sleeve.
	10:48am Uncle Michael: if this intro doesn't give you chills, you might be dead.
	10:48am Stanley: Saw Patti live back in '78. I wanted to be her slave.
	10:49am Dano59: This was a great year for music in my life. Top 40 and AOR radio was amazing.
	10:49am annie: just love this song..
	10:49am Uncle Michael: Dano!
	10:49am listener james from westwood: @Funky: With both the vinyl renaissance and the rise of legal cannabis, you may yet score that win.
	10:50am Asheville Jon: holy he11, thank you for teh ABBA! I've been super sick all week, today's the first day i'm feeling remotely better, and this has kickstarted me!
	10:50am Uncle Michael: Jon!
	10:50am Stanley: I agree. This year was fantastic me, too. Second year at college and nothing to do except smoke and go to gigs.
	10:50am northguineahills: I don't believe I've found any goodies in my records. I had a friend find a giant bag of blow the size of a bean bag in a leisure suit he got at a thrift store. (he said it still worked).
	10:50am Dano59: hey UM. had the ipod hooked up for a while but had to crack a laptop for the playlist. their English is superlative here ...
	10:50am Asheville Jon: hey UM!
	10:50am Uncle Michael: I'm glad you're on the mend.
	10:50am Funky16Corners: @James - I should go visit my sister in Colorado, increasing the likelihood exponentially.
	10:51am Asheville Jon: thanks. today is much better now!
	10:52am Mark Hurst: Hi UM! So nice to listen to Hinky Dinky Time this morning.
	10:52am Roberto: Smells like Nick Gilder?
	10:52am Dano59: my first into second year of college too Stanley. Rocking out and getting laid.
	10:52am Stanley: @ngh - did you get the giant skins in that Cheech and Chong LP Big Bamboo?
	10:52am Funky16Corners: I remember seeing Nick Gilder on Rock Concert or somesuch and not quite knowing what to make of him. He was like an androgynous stick insect.
	10:53am Uncle Michael: Mark!
	10:53am Dano59: my buddy Steve would make fun of this one but thanks to the Coal Porters I realize how great the Gilder is.
	10:53am dan: Nick Gilder sounds like he had his daily dose of estrogen before laying down the vocal track.
	10:53am Funky16Corners: @Stanley - I still have my copy of Big Bamboo, giant paper intact!
	10:53am Roberto: It took some convincing for me to accept that this was a male vocalist. Great song in any case.
	10:54am Roberto: Heh I see several of us are in agreement :)
	10:54am Uncle Michael: Check out Nick's earlier band, Sweeney Todd...which included Bryan Adams but not at the same time as Nick.
	10:54am Dean: Saw Gilder at the Whisky. Dug it.
	10:54am Stanley: Funky16Corners: that's so cool. We, of course, had to put the papers to use. What a blast that LP was.
	10:55am Dano59: hey Shaun Cassidy and the reverb on Da Doo Ron Ron sounded like he was on whippets
	10:55am Funky16Corners: I found my copy AFTER cessation of weed use, so it remains pristine.
	10:56am Stanley: Funky16Corners: makes my eyes red just thinking about it.
	10:57am Funky16Corners: Yeah, it's been many, many years, but so many misty watercolor memories...(and spilled bongwater).
	10:57am Dano59: I think I gave someone the paper from Big Bambu. iI don't remember EVER having that much weed on hand
	10:58am northguineahills: @Stanley: Never picked up that record. Although I have plenty others that came w/ rolling papers.
	10:58am Funky16Corners: Seriously. Though I had a friend after high school who took up horticulture and at one point had grocery bags of glorified shake.
	10:59am Dano59: So I've def played Tulsa Time (RIP Don), the cover of Hot Child, and Straight On on recent shows. My youth often seems to inform the aesthetic very directly.
	10:59am Roberto: If you listen to EFD's show, you also know him for Got to Get Out.
	11:00am Dano59: I recall Nick def had a followup single .. and I remember a lip synch appearance on some 'concert' show
	11:00am Dano59: alas Nick Lowe had a lot more going on at the time ... just not on the charts
	11:01am Scraps: Hope to hear Take Me to the River...
	11:02am Stanley: Woooo oooo oooo
	11:02am northguineahills: Did only kids buy records back in the day? Seems weird adults wouldn't buy records.
	11:02am Scraps: Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: I missed the mark by a few degrees, Scraps...but next up...
	11:03am ndbob: a fave here - i remember buying this
	11:03am Sue P.: Ca Plane Pour Moi having charted surprises me less than the Ramones. Don't remember hearing Ramones on commerical radio at all in the late 70s.
	11:05am doctorjazz: Talking Heads, saw them back in the day...
	11:05am Uncle Michael: Sue!
	11:06am doctorjazz: (NGH, my mom bought records when I was a kid, remember having The Barry Sisers and Tony Orlando and Dawn, she LOVED Knock 3 Times).
	11:06am Dano59: I'll pull an LD and said it's hard to find a bad versoin of Ca Plane Pour Moi. As for Psycho Killer, yes!! Used to see a local new wave band ca. 79-81 that always closed with this. I have been playing it out at open mics.
	11:06am Scraps: Psycho Killer charted in 78?? I didn’t know that
	11:06am Little Danny: Good mornin' UM and various timers
	11:07am dan: IF there is one band I can't stand, it's The Talking Heads. David Byrne purports himself as some musical genius when he's really subpar. He's pretty much Bryan Ferry sans the heart and soul.
	11:08am Uncle Michael: Danny!
	11:08am Scraps: Bryan Ferry is Bryan Ferry with no heart and soul
	11:08am Rich in NC: lyrics are unreal -talking heads
	11:08am glenn: i've never found any illicit substances. i've found all kinds of stuff, including large amounts of cash, buried in walls and ceilings of jobs. i did find 20$ in a copy of even cowgirls get the blues that i bought at a yard sale for 75 cents.
	11:09am Funky16Corners: I wonder how much big city airplay (specifically NY and LA) had to do with some of the weirder new wave/punk charting at all?
	11:09am Funky16Corners: Love this version!
	11:09am Dano59: Bryan Ferry is louche ... Byrne is hyperactive. No comparison.
	11:09am Scraps: And it’s Talking Heads, no The
	11:10am Scraps: This is the first version I knew. I loved it.
	11:11am Dano59: I found a card with an image of Buddha, inside one of a box of early 70s LPs ... with a birthday message describing 'a little something to enjoy while you stare at the cover'
	11:11am northguineahills: The last record I remember my father buying was Lionel Richie (ok, it was a laserdisc) back in '84 (I was 8). Me also bought Thriller the year before. When I went through his record collection later, those were the only records he bought after I was born.
	11:12am Little Danny: @Dano: Which LP do you think the card was referring to?
	11:12am Webhamster Henry: Todd '78
	11:13am Dano59: oh my. Todd loves Carole King.
	11:13am dan: I saw Todd Rundgren at BB Kings in Manhattan a few years ago. He was amazing. Can We Still Be Friends was played that night.
	11:14am Dano59: Danny -- I tried hard to remember. There was a lot of Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young in that $5 box...
	11:15am Dean: It so happens that Talking Heads opened for Bryan Ferry's solo act at Bottom Line in July 1977. The Billboard reviewer wrote, "as good as the [Ferry backing] band was, it was not Roxy Music," and of Talking Heads, "a New York new wave band, with a good critical reputation, though judging from the band's 45 minutes onstage, it is difficult to see what the fuss is all about."
	11:16am Funky16Corners: I used to work with a guy for whom this WAS reggae. I was always seconds away from murder when it came on.
	11:16am dan: 10cc's original name could have been "3 Yids and a Yob". That was their nickname because 3 of the 4 members were Jewish.
	11:17am Dano59: Bloody Tourists.
	11:17am Uncle Michael: They still are Jewish.
	11:17am Dano59: a little better than most cod-reggae though.
	11:18am Uncle Michael: Well, it's about being an interloper.
	11:18am Dano59: haha true!
	11:19am Dean: Yeah, this ain't the real thing, like Musical Youth four years later.
	11:19am Dano59: they were just lookin' for a hit. Godley and Creme were IT among the hipsters of the day
	11:19am Dano59: the ones I knew, I mean
	11:19am northguineahills: Never heard that 10cc before.
	11:20am Little Danny: Man that 10cc was weird
	11:20am Funky16Corners: I don't have much against the 10CC tune. It was the guy, and his utter ignorance of actual reggae.
	11:21am Little Danny: timeless Chaka Khan track, didn't realize this charted
	🛒 11:21am Brian in UK: Hello Uncle. You seem to be scratching some itches today.
	11:21am Dano59: they WERE weird. Good Morning Judge ... Art for Art's Sake ... I actually liked them better than Floyd
	11:21am Uncle Michael: Brian!
	🛒 11:22am Brian in UK: @Dano59 lesser of two weevils.
	11:22am glenn: i thought she was singing climb every mountain for the longest time. imagine my disappointment.
	11:23am Dean: 10cc were sui generis. What I'm saying is even if 3/4 of the guys are Jewish, the entire group is (Caesar's) Latin.
	🛒 11:23am Brian in UK: @glenn a euphemism perhaps.
	11:24am Doug Schulkind: Congrats on making the goal, Uncle Michael!!!
	11:26am Funky16Corners: Awww yeah! I remember buying this 45 at Two Guys department store!
	11:27am doctorjazz: I think I wore out my copy of the 12 inch single of "Everyone's a Winner" (and drove everyone around me crazy)
	11:27am Funky16Corners: That fuzz guitar in the chorus is the shit!
	11:27am Scraps: Do you have “Bloat On”? (Not that I’m requesting it!)
	11:27am Dano59: i have this single! A go-to every time i DJ.
	11:28am Scraps: I love every Hot Chocolate single!
	11:29am Dean: Wanna guess ticket prices for Marshall Tucker Band/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Heart/Outlaws/Atlanta Rhythm Section/Dickie Betts & Great Southern/Foreigner at Mile High Stadium, Denver, June 26, 1977?
	11:29am Dano59: $14?
	11:29am Funky16Corners: $10.00??
	11:29am Uncle Michael: Thanks Doug! Me too,Scraps!
	🛒 11:29am Brian in UK: $5
	11:29am Scraps: $17?
	11:29am Dean: $8.80-$9.90
	11:30am Dano59: and maybe a $1 fee
	11:30am Dean: Gross receipts for the show: $436,667.
	11:31am Uncle Michael: Foreigner? WTF
	11:31am Roberto: I could never make out who or what was sweet talkin' in the second part of the chorus.
	11:31am dan: Dean: That show would cost $200 today because of the corporate bigwigs at Live Nation price gouging.
	11:31am Dean: Before I had any ELO LPs, not counting a bootleg, I had this 45. Still do. Purple vinyl. Bought it for the flipside.
	11:31am Roberto: Lola?
	🛒 11:32am Brian in UK: You can see why we needed something like punk to rattle the cage.
	11:32am Scraps: UM, ARS is weird too
	11:33am Dean: In a way, the outliers on that show were Heart (Canadian) and Foreigner (featuring a guy who'd played with King Crimson). At least ARS are Southern.
	11:33am Sue P.: @ Roberto: Luvah (lover) ?
	11:33am Roberto: BROOOOOOSSSSS
	11:34am dan: Why is it that every time Bruce Springsteen sings, he sounds drunk?
	11:35am Uncle Michael: because he's a fucking wino.
	11:35am Uncle Michael: hit the floor tom harder, Max!
	11:35am Dean: Shoot, $6.50-$7.00 woulda got you into the ZZ Top/Elvin Bishop "featuring Mickey Thomas" show in San Bernadino.
	11:35am dan: He's a terrible singer and his songs were done better by other artists.
	11:36am Uncle Michael: OK!
	11:36am glenn: bruce does bombast pretty good, i gotta say.
	11:36am Dean: Highest priced tickets in the Billboard issue I'm skimming here was $15 for a show in Cincinnati. Guess the artist.
	11:36am Roberto: My wife has been having an affair with Bruce for decades...in her head.
	11:37am glenn: heart's not canadian. they're from seattle.
	11:37am dan: Shame that such talented musicians like Clarence Clemons, Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg were in the E Street Band.
	11:38am Dean: Oops, right. Close enough or, rather, far enough from the South.
	11:38am northguineahills: I always preferred Live at the Budokan.
	11:38am Dean: Anyway, the fifteen dollar ticket was for Elvis.
	11:38am Roberto: Oh no she didn't! I'm telling my wife on you, dan. :)
	11:39am Scraps: SurrenDER!
	11:40am doctorjazz: Great track, Surrender (great set!)
	11:40am Dano59: wow, he died in Aug. and the denver concert receipts are from June. the king til the end.
	11:40am Dean: This particular Cheap Trick tune to my ear is ageless. I adore the first album, enjoy the second...and then there's Heaven Tonight, almost transcendent.
	11:40am Funky16Corners: It's amazing how ticket prices have become inflated. I went to the last night of the MUSE/No Nukes shows at MSG in 1979 and the top ticket was 17.50 (which was kind of a big deal at the time).
	11:41am Dano59: would be a good mashup with Green Shirt. Speaking of which ... what's the charter from This Year's Model UM?
	11:41am Uncle Michael: Jazz!
	11:41am Funky16Corners: Ahhhh..."Fire safety feels so good!"
	11:42am Dano59: well, THIS was inevitable. Rochester's finest.
	11:42am dan: Funky16Corners: You have The Eagles and Barbra Streisand to thank for inflated prices. Once they were charging 3 figure prices and selling out, everyone else followed suit.
	11:42am Dean: Yes! It is a lot of fun.
	11:42am Doug Schulkind: There's a significant Gap in my record collection when it comes to Mangione.
	11:43am Dano59: I recommend Cheap Trick live! One of my favorite bands over many times in the late 90s...
	11:43am Funky16Corners: What a card!
	11:43am Funky16Corners: @Doug- Diana In the Autumn Wind?
	11:44am Alex in Illinois: Chuck Mangione camping in the Megalo Mart!
	11:44am queems: JUSTIN HAYWARD
	11:44am queems: holy SHIT
	11:45am queems: this song is my whole childhood
	11:45am dan: Saw The Moody Blues live. I swear Justin Hayward's voice has not changed.
	11:46am Uncle Michael: It truly hasn't.
	11:46am queems: justin hayward and i have the same birthday. my mom always told me that was "the best gift she could give me"
	11:47am Doug Schulkind: @Funky16Corners More like "Pond With Swans."
	11:48am queems: that was amazing, thank you.
	11:49am Dano59: this Emmy was a jukebox fave when I moved to Texas in 79.
	11:49am Dean: Played this Emmylou record not two weeks ago.
	🛒 11:50am Brian in UK: Doug, your goalposts have moved? This is not fake news.
	11:50am doctorjazz: Thanks for the fine, fun show, UM!
	11:50am Scraps: Dano59, no Costello single charted in America until “Every Day I Write the Book”
	11:50am Dano59: thank you SO much for the memories, UM. I should take more Fridays off since I usually am suffering thru a staff meeting when you're live.
	11:51am Dano59: But Boney M was from a British chart .. right?
	11:52am Uncle Michael: All these shows are based on U.S. charts.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: Thanks for listening...and for all your support, everyone!
	11:53am Funky16Corners: A pleasure, as always!
	11:53am Alex in Illinois: Remember being told to stop stomping foot in the car while singing along with this Wings song.
	11:53am Asheville Jon: thanks again UM for a 99.9% great show (i can't stand paul mccartney)
	11:53am Uncle Michael: Alex!
	11:54am Dano59: I pity the fools who bought Boney M then ...
	11:54am Stanley: Thanks, until next time Sweet Talkin' Uncle.
	11:54am Doug Schulkind: This show was 1978% better than the last one.
	11:54am listener james from westwood: Must jet off to the bank so will say thanks a ton now; will see Doug when I get back from the bank in a few minutes!
	11:54am Dano59: If I understand this correctly, Paul's had enough, and he can't put up with anymore.
	11:54am ndbob: excellent show UM!
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Thanks friends.
	11:56am Scraps: Dano59, yes, and no no no no no no.
	11:57am northguineahills: Someone this put out the Gottchalk signal out!
	11:57am Little Danny: Thanks UM
	11:57am Roberto: Bai y'all!
	11:57am dan: You left out two of my all time favorites, Billy Joel and The Kinks. Hope they make an appearance in 1979.
	11:58am dan: Still a great show nonetheless UM
	12:00pm Uncle Michael: See you all next time.

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October 27, 2017: SPECIAL (chart singles from 1978): Celebrating charted singles released in 1978
(the penultimate installment in this series of broadcasts)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Parliament	Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)	single (b/w (You're A Fish And I'm A) Water Sign)	Casablanca	November, 1978	0:02:25 (Pop-up)
Sweet	Love Is Like Oxygen "Love Is Like Oxygen" by "Sweet"	single (b/w Cover Girl)	Capitol	February, 1978	0:06:42 (Pop-up)
The Rolling Stones	Miss You "Miss You" by "The Rolling Stones"	single (b/w Far Away Eyes)	Rollong Stone	May 10, 1978	0:10:21 (Pop-up)
The Who	Who Are You "Who Are You" by "The Who"	single (b/w Had Enough)	MCA	August 5, 1978	0:13:49 (Pop-up)
Love And Kisses	Thank God It's Friday	single (b/w You're The Most Precious Thing In My Life)	Casablanca	March, 1978	0:17:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dejan's Olympia Brass Band	Mardi Gras In New Orleans	single (b/w Mardi Gras In New Orleans)	n/a	1978	0:20:09 (Pop-up)
City Boy	5.7.0.5. "5.7.0.5." by "City Boy"	single (b/w Bad For Business)	Mercury	July, 1978	0:24:09 (Pop-up)
Chic	Dance Dance Dance Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah	single (b/w Sao Paulo)	Atlantic	September 30, 1978	0:27:15 (Pop-up)
Walter Egan	Magnet And Steel "Magnet And Steel" by "Walter Egan"	single (b/w Tunnel O' Love)	Columbia	March, 1978	0:30:46 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan	Deacon Blues "Deacon Blues" by "Steely Dan"	single (b/w Home At Last)	ABC	March, 1978	0:34:01 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Bartender's Blues "Bartender's Blues" by "George Jones"	single (b/w Rest In Peace)	Epic	January, 1978	0:40:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Giorgio Moroder	(Theme From) Midnight Express (Instrumental)	single (b/w Love's Theme)	Casablanca	October, 1978	0:44:11 (Pop-up)
Don Gibson	Starting All Over Again	single (b/w I'd Rather Die Young)	ABC Hickory	February, 1978	0:52:10 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Heartbreaker "Heartbreaker" by "Dolly Parton"	single (b/w Sure Thing)	RCA	July, 1978	0:54:55 (Pop-up)
The Cars	My Best Friend's Girl "My Best Friend's Girl" by "The Cars"	single (b/w Don't Cha Stop)	Elektra	October 10, 1978	0:58:17 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	One Nation Under A Groove - Part I	single (b/w One Nation Under A Groove - Part II)	Warner Bros.	July, 1978	1:01:56 (Pop-up)
Joe Walsh	Life's Been Good "Life's Been Good" by "Joe Walsh"	single (b/w Theme From Boat Weirdos)	Asylum	May, 1978	1:06:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: El Coco	Cocomotion "Cocomotion" by "El Coco"	single (b/w Love To The World)	Pye International	january, 1978	1:10:38 (Pop-up)
Don Williams	Tulsa Time "Tulsa Time" by "Don Williams"	single (b/w When I'm With You)	ABC	November, 1978	1:16:04 (Pop-up)
Ramones	Do You Wanna Dance "Do You Wanna Dance" by "Ramones"	single (b/w Babysitter)	Sire	April, 1978	1:18:36 (Pop-up)
Village People	Y.M.C.A. "Y.M.C.A." by "Village People"	single (b/w The Women)	Casablanca	October, 1978	1:20:15 (Pop-up)
Heatwave	The Groove Line "The Groove Line" by "Heatwave"	single (b/w Happiness Togetherness)	Epic	March, 1978	1:23:47 (Pop-up)
Boney M	Rivers Of Babylon "Rivers Of Babylon" by "Boney M"	single (b/w Brown Girl In The Ring)	Sire	may, 1978	1:27:51 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	The Robots "The Robots" by "Kraftwerk"	single (b/w Neon Lights)	Capitol	August, 1978	1:31:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ray Barretto	Stargazer "Stargazer" by "Ray Barretto"	single (b/w I Think About You)	Atlantic	December, 1978	1:35:04 (Pop-up)
Heart	Straight On "Straight On" by "Heart"	single (b/w Lighter Touch	Portrait	August, 1978	1:40:00 (Pop-up)
Patti Smith Group	Because The Night	single (b/w God Speed)	Arista	March, 1978	1:44:51 (Pop-up)
ABBA	Take A Chance On Me "Take A Chance On Me" by "ABBA"	single (b/w I'm A Marionette)	Atlantic	April, 1978	1:48:03 (Pop-up)
Nick Gilder	Hot Child In The City	single (b/w Backstreet Noise)	Chrysalis	June, 1978	1:51:53 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich (With Janie Fricke)	On My Knees	single (b/w A Mellow Melody)	Epic	September, 197	1:54:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Roy Clark	Lazy River (Instr.) "Lazy River (Instr.)" by "Roy Clark"	single (b-side to Must You Throw Dirt In My Face)	AMC	January, 1978	1:57:55 (Pop-up)
Plastic Bertrand	Ca Plane Pour Moi (This Life's For Me)	single (b/w Pogo Pogo)	Sire	April, 1978	2:01:56 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads	Psycho Killer "Psycho Killer" by "Talking Heads"	single (b/w Psycho Killer (Acoustic))	Sire	January, 1978	2:04:48 (Pop-up)
Eruption	I Can't Stand The Rain "I Can't Stand The Rain" by "Eruption"	single (b/w Be Yourself)	Ariola American	February 1978	2:09:01 (Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren	Can We Still Be Friends	single (b/w Out Of Control)	Bearsville	May, 1978	2:12:02 (Pop-up)
10cc	Dreadlock Holiday "Dreadlock Holiday" by "10cc"	single (b/w Nothing Can Move Me)	Polydor	September, 1978	2:15:03 (Pop-up)
Chaka Khan	I'm Every Woman "I'm Every Woman" by "Chaka Khan"	single (b/w A Woman In A Man's World)	Warner Bros./Tattoo	September, 1978	2:19:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: John Williams	Theme From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"	single (b/w Nocturnal Pursuit)	A&M	February 10, 1978	2:22:50 (Pop-up)
The Floaters	Float On "Float On" by "The Floaters"			1978	2:25:36 (Pop-up)
Hot Chocolate	Every 1's A Winner "Every 1's A Winner" by "Hot Chocolate"	single (b/w Power Of Love)	Infinity	November, 1978	2:26:28 (Pop-up)
Electric Light Orchestra	Sweet Talkin' Woman	single (b/w Fire On High)	Jet/United Artists	February, 1978	2:29:50 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen	Badlands "Badlands" by "Bruce Springsteen"	single (b/w Streets Of Fire)	Columbia	July, 1978	2:33:31 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	Surrender "Surrender" by "Cheap Trick"	single (b/w Auf Wiedersehen)	Epic	June, 1978	2:37:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chuck Mangione	Feels So Good "Feels So Good" by "Chuck Mangione"	single (b/w Maui-Waui)	A&M	January, 1978	2:41:03 (Pop-up)
Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds Featuring Justin Hayward	Forever Autumn	single (b/w Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds-The Fighting Machine)	Columbia	July, 1978	2:44:22 (Pop-up)
Emmylou Harris	Two More Bottles Of Wine	single (b/w I Ain't Living Long Like This)	Warner Bros.	March 7, 1978	2:48:19 (Pop-up)
Wings	I've Had Enough "I've Had Enough" by "Wings"	single (b/w Deliver Your Children)	Capitol	June 12, 1978	2:51:15 (Pop-up)
Prince	I Wanna Be Your Lover "I Wanna Be Your Lover" by "Prince"	single (b/w In Love)	Warner Bros.	November 12, 1978	2:54:13 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"		Blue Horizon		2:57:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:44am ausmanx: the German guys knew how to ROCK. good evening from the antipodes. it's just before 10 p.m. in Coober Pedy
	8:03am listener james from westwood: How do, UM and all earlybirds!
	8:06am Uncle Michael: Good morning!
	8:06am Uncle Michael: Heading for the shower...save my seat...
	8:07am doctorjazz: Hey all, pre game show started, Happy Friday!
	8:08am doctorjazz: (Interesting to hear the news from Vietnam...)
	8:08am dan: The depressing news of 1967
	8:16am dan: I've seen The Rascals three times. Twice as The New Rascals and once with their recent Broadway show. Such an amazing band to see live.
	8:16am doctorjazz: Have to catch the Rascals one of these days, one of the bands (many out there) I missed.
	8:25am dan: $350 for a TV. Where's that time machine.
	8:28am dan: Was this Four Seasons song a hit worldwide. I've never heard it before.
	8:30am dan: RIP Brian Epstein.
	8:30am doctorjazz: Brian Epstein died that day, wow.
	8:33am ausmanx: that was one hell of a news bulletin. and barely a mention of vietnam...
	8:34am dan: August 27 1967 was my dad's 15th birthday.
	8:35am doctorjazz: Jackie Wilson made me smile...
	8:37am Uncle Michael: We;re all going to memorize this phone number.
	8:39am doctorjazz: Went to Google to figure out what that $400 TV would cost in todays dollars, it would be about $4000, pretty hefty lay out (interesting how electronics are so cheap, while other things, like college, went through the roof...)
	8:43am Uncle Michael: I recycled a 20 year old tv. It was a 36" color set. If I could have sold it in 1967 I could have gotten thousands for it. In 2015 it cost me $20 to have it taken for scrap.
	8:43am Uncle Michael: I hope this static patch is brief.
	8:44am Uncle Michael: We're going to animate those widget critters today. I can feel it.
	8:46am dan: Now you would win a tablet or Hamilton tickets
	8:57am dan: Bill Cosby wouldn't fill a hole in the wall club today.
	9:00am Funky16Corners: Morning!
	9:02am listener james from westwood: dan: Sadly, he might.
	9:03am melinda: Was digging the last half hour, but on the app it appeared that I was listening to the stream. Early a.m. confusion!
	9:03am dan: listener james from westwood: maybe in his dementia filled mind.
	9:04am ausmanx: newtown? newtown? that's where i live. but i'm at work just now over the bridge. here's the harbour bridge webcam webcamsydney.com you;ll se me drive over there in about 40 minutes
	9:04am Uncle Michael: Larry! James! Dan! Doc! Aus!
	9:05am Uncle Michael: You're Tasmanian, you devil?
	9:05am Funky16Corners: I am currently Sir Nose Devoidofcoffee
	9:07am Uncle Michael: $129 to meet the goal!
	9:07am dan: We go from water to oxygen
	9:09am Roberto: Buongiorno a tutti!
	9:10am listener james from westwood: As a kid I thought this Sweet treat was a Heart tune! I was an occasionally dense kid.
	9:10am Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	9:11am Uncle Michael: James,I think it sounds like 10cc meets Roxy Music.
	9:12am Funky16Corners: It is decidedly un-Sweet-like
	9:13am dan: The sax player on Miss You is current King Crimson, former Camel, Dire Straits, Alan Parsons etc... member Mel Collins.
	9:14am Uncle Michael: fun facts!
	9:14am Funky16Corners: Man, this is all hitting me right in the 16-year-old radio sweet spot
	9:15am Uncle Michael: pffft...why, yer just a kid.
	9:16am doctorjazz: I'm not going to bother clicky starring track by track, just star the show...(see it already)
	9:16am Funky16Corners: Once and future teenager
	9:16am dan: Another fun fact: The two guest stars on Who Are You are Zombies keyboard wiz Rod Argent and Amen Corner guitarist and Clapton collaborator Andy Fairweather Low.
	9:17am doctorjazz: Recently have gotten into the Andy Fairweather Low albums, he's really great!
	9:18am listener james from westwood: I am 1000% here for 70s disco-era orchestral arrangements.
	9:18am Uncle Michael: I wish he'd written another song ass good as Wide-Eyed & Legless.
	9:19am dan: UM: He did. Same Old Story is another great song.
	9:21am doctorjazz: Low's Sweet Soulful Music is a fine album I recently discovered.
	9:22am Rich in NC: morning all,,,,hey uncle michael
	9:22am dan: You should do an all Billboard top 100 instrumentals show.
	9:25am Uncle Michael: Rich!
	9:25am Uncle Michael: Interesting idea, Dan.
	9:27am davefromtoronto: hey uncle m - re that who track - if you haven't yet check out this version with just the guitar - it's really cool.
	9:27am Funky16Corners: Listen for young Luther Vandross in the background
	9:28am davefromtoronto: oops here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlI70b8C3U
	9:28am Uncle Michael: Dave! (thanks)
	9:29am dan: Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah: so famously uttered by Gig Young in his Oscar winning performance in They Shoot Horses Don't They. Strangely enough he murdered his wife and then himself in 1978
	9:31am Uncle Michael: Almost impossible to do it any other way.
	9:32am Roberto: '78 was a transitional year for Roberto. From grade school to middle/high.
	9:34am Stanley: Yowsah!
	9:34am Uncle Michael: Stevie Nicks on the Walter Egan track.
	9:36am glenn: you never really hear about the suicide-murder thingy.
	9:36am Webhamster Henry: If I heard any singles in '78-9, they were all British New Wave.
	9:36am Uncle Michael: Stanley! Glenn!
	9:37am glenn: so, who's gonna be the next yankees manager?
	9:37am Stanley: One of my favourite tracks of all time (swings around the room in joyous rapture)
	9:37am Uncle Michael: Henry!
	9:37am listener james from westwood: Wlliam Gibson knew from good music. He named two street gangs in a passing reference in Neuromancer after musical sources: the Deacon Blues and, checking Laurie Anderson, the Big Scientists. (Couple other Steely Dan refs in his short stories, too.) And there's your science fiction/music trivia for the day.
	9:38am glenn: maybe they'll stick with the joe theme and pry maddon away from the cubs.
	9:38am Uncle Michael: not happening
	9:39am Uncle Michael: Girardi to the Nats, maybe?
	9:40am glenn: i could see that.
	9:41am glenn: george is the best.
	9:44am Rich in NC: What glenn said about george ,oh yeah
	9:44am dan: Turkish prison music.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: In '78 New York actually had a country station: WHN 1050. WKHK, 106.7, arose in the early 80s as a challenger, but fell and became a schmaltz station. 1050 is now our local ESPN station.
	9:45am Funky16Corners: Didn't WYNY go country at some point?
	9:46am Roberto: At the time I thought it was "call me teeth and booze"
	9:48am listener james from westwood: Yes, from like the late 80s until it became WKTU in the mid-90s.
	9:49am doctorjazz: I thought WRVR, the jazz station at one time in NY, became country for a short while when RVR went off, but that didn't last either (could be remembering this wrong, of course)
	9:49am listener james from westwood: (WKTU, for those outside NYC, is an all-dance/disco/hot adult contemporary channel. Ru Paul was one of their morning DJs in the first couple of years!)
	9:50am queems: oh man i need magnets
	9:50am doctorjazz: Never gotten a Tchotchkee (not that I need any more of that stuff...)
	9:51am doctorjazz: Jack in Westfield, THAT'S ME (I think, unless another Jack in Westfield did as well...)
	9:53am Uncle Michael: Queems!
	9:53am dan: I just donated $10. Free Form radio will hopefully never die.
	9:53am Uncle Michael: How cool is this cover?
	9:54am queems: hello!
	9:54am Uncle Michael: Thanks, Dan!
	9:56am dan: No problem UM.
	9:56am Mr C: Pretty cool..
	9:57am Uncle Michael: Mr. C!
	9:57am annie: GM UM... et alia...
	9:58am queems: the cars are always good
	9:59am Uncle Michael: Annie!
	10:01am doctorjazz: The Cars came along pretty late in the 70's (had that New Wave attitude). My 19 year old loves their stuff.
	10:01am Funky16corners: Those first two albums are amazing
	10:03am Uncle Michael: My Best Friend's Girl is basically a Buddy Holly song in new wave drag. That's not a criticism.
	10:03am Uncle Michael: $19 to go!
	10:03am Mr C: Junie Morrison's first record with George and the band. He left shortly after "Knee Deep." A funk genius
	10:04am Uncle Michael: fun facts!
	10:04am Uncle Michael: Junie passed this year.
	10:05am Mr C: Yes he did. Just out of high school, he wrote and arranged all the Ohio Players Westbound records.
	10:06am Scraps deSelby: h’lo hey oh man, i swear you were buying pretty much the same singles in the 70s that i was. like about 70% so far! make me happy
	10:07am glenn: it's the "nice" eagle.
	10:07am Uncle Michael: Scraps!
	10:07am doctorjazz: One Nation Under a Groove was my first exposure to Funkadelic, great album! Walsh is the Eagle for those who hate Eagles.
	10:08am Roberto: Steely and Joe Walsh were all over rock radio in L.A. that year. The Cars didn't make themselves known to me until a few years later for some reason.
	10:09am Roberto: Oh wait though, I do remember my brother going to two shows in 1978/9 or so -- the Cars and the Kinks. I remember one of my father's friends saying to him, the Kinks rule, but who the f are the Cars?
	10:10am dan: Are The Kinks coming up in today's program?
	10:10am glenn: i still feel the same way, roberto.
	10:10am davefromtoronto: that joe walsh guy can rip up a guitar
	10:11am glenn: i love the joe walsh era james gang.
	10:12am still b/p: I've said it here before, but as long as we're talking about their fresh-faced days: the Cars demo tape was played for a while on FM Boston radio before the first album came out, and when that fully produced work replaced the tape in airplays, I thought, "Whoa, whoa, whoa...too much, boys! Overcooked and gussied/slickified!" It felt more of an unfortunate arm's length away from the ear and brain, if that makes sense. Got used to it, though. Not an uncommon story, I'm sure. And in Cars case, their studio technique was to be like a branding or signature.
	10:12am dan: Thanks for the shout out UM
	10:13am Roberto: To be specific, the guy who said that about the Kinks/Cars: www.imdb.com...
	10:15am Pedro G.: I gave last night as Spazz and Rex were having their Halloween party. Glad you got your taste of the money/credit. Sorry about the Cubs but the Nats crapped out in their even-worse tradition.
	10:15am Stanley: It's a pleasure to be able to give something back to this wonderful station.
	10:16am dan: Tulsa Time, later covered by Slowhand himself Eric Clapton
	10:17am Uncle Michael: Pedro! Thanks!
	10:18am glenn: one of the great two chord songs.
	10:20am Stanley: Young man!
	10:21am dan: YMCA: one of those cringe worthy songs that never goes away. It's the 6th inning song at every Yankee Stadium home game.
	10:22am Uncle Michael: DANCE, MOTHERFUCKER...DANCE!
	10:23am dan: I had to do the stupid dance for my elementary school's annual end of the year dance festival. I was in kindergarten or 1st grade. I haven't done it since.
	10:23am queems: what a bizarre song concept
	10:24am Funky16Corners: Awww yeah! Big fave!
	10:24am Uncle Michael: The dance appears nowhere in the official video for Y..C.A. I'm guessing it was a product of the clubs.
	10:24am Funky16Corners: WOOOT! WOOOT!
	10:25am still b/p: Before it became so waaaaay common, it was a funny kick seeing hundreds of people doing the spelling dance on the floor of a very large facility at Iowa State University in 1979 .
	10:25am Brian C.: Great show, it brings me back to when I first started listening to music. 8th grade. Magnet and Steel, Deacon Blues, Life's Been Good were all in the personal top 10 lists I used to keep. I wonder what I would've thought of the Ramones?
	10:26am Uncle Michael: still B/P! Brian C.!
	10:27am glenn: i feel the same way about the y.m.c.a. dance as i do about the wave.
	10:27am ndbob: morning UM and everyone!
	10:28am Uncle Michael: Bob!
	10:28am Funky16Corners: I didn't know this charted as a cover.
	10:29am Uncle Michael: "charted" is a very, very low bar.
	10:30am northguineahills: I knew this was Boney M and I've barely ever heard them before.
	10:32am glenn: what does one call a disco version of a reggae tune?
	10:32am Uncle Michael: The gif comes home to roost.
	10:32am listener james from westwood: Picked a cassette of "Man Machine" out of a bargain bin at the Boston Tower in like 1988. Blew my little mind.
	10:33am Uncle Michael: rosco
	10:33am Funky16Corners: Deggae
	10:33am Stanley: An abomination.
	10:33am Uncle Michael: heh
	10:33am glenn: disgaestusing. [even though it wasn't.
	10:34am glenn: oops. disgaesting.
	10:35am Jeff Golick: Just joining now, hello, but going back and fave-starring earlier songs anyway, just for the halibut.
	10:35am Uncle Michael: Jeff!
	10:37am Funky16Corners: Awwww, thank you (though you may have overstated my greatness ever so slightly).
	10:38am Rich in NC: all this dance music reminds me of why my high school girlfriend broke up with me---tall white guys can't dance
	10:38am annie: tell us how you really feel, UM... ;P
	10:39am Alex in Illinois: The YMCA dance might have originated with the Solid Gold Dancers
	10:39am Pedro G.: THANK YOU Uncle Mike. I can't stand the Eric Clapton of the last 45 years.
	10:39am ndbob: i agree UM - and hello Annie!
	10:40am Funky16Corners: Oooh, Heart. Gotta go dig out a bong (be right back)...
	10:40am Stevel: I am. Ready. To rock, in fact.
	10:40am listener james from westwood: Now THIS is Heart!
	10:41am Uncle Michael: Steve! (disco Heart, if we're being honest0
	10:41am Funky16Corners: ((bubble bubble bubble...))
	10:42am Uncle Michael: Larry, I think it's cashed.
	10:44am Funky16Corners: What is?
	10:44am Funky16Corners: ((bubble bubble bubble...cough))
	10:44am Uncle Michael: That bowl.
	10:45am Roberto: For some reason I thought this Patti Smith was '76.
	10:45am Funky16Corners: Resin, seeds...NEVER SAY DIE!
	10:45am Roberto: So educational this program is!
	10:45am Dean: Record store days, these sets.
	10:46am dan: My local radio station thinks that Because The Night is the only song Patti Smith ever recorded. That's why I stopped listening to it years ago.
	10:47am Uncle Michael: Larry, check in the crease of Something, Anything.
	10:47am still b/p: There was a Doonesbury strip in the day that noted the oddity of mainstream America, in embracing and approving particular Donna Summer and Village People hits of the day, giving its seal of popular taste/approval to prostitution and gay hook-ups.
	10:47am Stanley: ....old socks and things (cough, splutter!!) Mmmm not bad.
	10:47am ndbob: the best 45 of 1978
	10:48am Funky16Corners: I may be the only record collector not to have discovered discarded weed in a used record sleeve.
	10:48am Uncle Michael: if this intro doesn't give you chills, you might be dead.
	10:48am Stanley: Saw Patti live back in '78. I wanted to be her slave.
	10:49am Dano59: This was a great year for music in my life. Top 40 and AOR radio was amazing.
	10:49am annie: just love this song..
	10:49am Uncle Michael: Dano!
	10:49am listener james from westwood: @Funky: With both the vinyl renaissance and the rise of legal cannabis, you may yet score that win.
	10:50am Asheville Jon: holy he11, thank you for teh ABBA! I've been super sick all week, today's the first day i'm feeling remotely better, and this has kickstarted me!
	10:50am Uncle Michael: Jon!
	10:50am Stanley: I agree. This year was fantastic me, too. Second year at college and nothing to do except smoke and go to gigs.
	10:50am northguineahills: I don't believe I've found any goodies in my records. I had a friend find a giant bag of blow the size of a bean bag in a leisure suit he got at a thrift store. (he said it still worked).
	10:50am Dano59: hey UM. had the ipod hooked up for a while but had to crack a laptop for the playlist. their English is superlative here ...
	10:50am Asheville Jon: hey UM!
	10:50am Uncle Michael: I'm glad you're on the mend.
	10:50am Funky16Corners: @James - I should go visit my sister in Colorado, increasing the likelihood exponentially.
	10:51am Asheville Jon: thanks. today is much better now!
	10:52am Mark Hurst: Hi UM! So nice to listen to Hinky Dinky Time this morning.
	10:52am Roberto: Smells like Nick Gilder?
	10:52am Dano59: my first into second year of college too Stanley. Rocking out and getting laid.
	10:52am Stanley: @ngh - did you get the giant skins in that Cheech and Chong LP Big Bamboo?
	10:52am Funky16Corners: I remember seeing Nick Gilder on Rock Concert or somesuch and not quite knowing what to make of him. He was like an androgynous stick insect.
	10:53am Uncle Michael: Mark!
	10:53am Dano59: my buddy Steve would make fun of this one but thanks to the Coal Porters I realize how great the Gilder is.
	10:53am dan: Nick Gilder sounds like he had his daily dose of estrogen before laying down the vocal track.
	10:53am Funky16Corners: @Stanley - I still have my copy of Big Bamboo, giant paper intact!
	10:53am Roberto: It took some convincing for me to accept that this was a male vocalist. Great song in any case.
	10:54am Roberto: Heh I see several of us are in agreement :)
	10:54am Uncle Michael: Check out Nick's earlier band, Sweeney Todd...which included Bryan Adams but not at the same time as Nick.
	10:54am Dean: Saw Gilder at the Whisky. Dug it.
	10:54am Stanley: Funky16Corners: that's so cool. We, of course, had to put the papers to use. What a blast that LP was.
	10:55am Dano59: hey Shaun Cassidy and the reverb on Da Doo Ron Ron sounded like he was on whippets
	10:55am Funky16Corners: I found my copy AFTER cessation of weed use, so it remains pristine.
	10:56am Stanley: Funky16Corners: makes my eyes red just thinking about it.
	10:57am Funky16Corners: Yeah, it's been many, many years, but so many misty watercolor memories...(and spilled bongwater).
	10:57am Dano59: I think I gave someone the paper from Big Bambu. iI don't remember EVER having that much weed on hand
	10:58am northguineahills: @Stanley: Never picked up that record. Although I have plenty others that came w/ rolling papers.
	10:58am Funky16Corners: Seriously. Though I had a friend after high school who took up horticulture and at one point had grocery bags of glorified shake.
	10:59am Dano59: So I've def played Tulsa Time (RIP Don), the cover of Hot Child, and Straight On on recent shows. My youth often seems to inform the aesthetic very directly.
	10:59am Roberto: If you listen to EFD's show, you also know him for Got to Get Out.
	11:00am Dano59: I recall Nick def had a followup single .. and I remember a lip synch appearance on some 'concert' show
	11:00am Dano59: alas Nick Lowe had a lot more going on at the time ... just not on the charts
	11:01am Scraps: Hope to hear Take Me to the River...
	11:02am Stanley: Woooo oooo oooo
	11:02am northguineahills: Did only kids buy records back in the day? Seems weird adults wouldn't buy records.
	11:02am Scraps: Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: I missed the mark by a few degrees, Scraps...but next up...
	11:03am ndbob: a fave here - i remember buying this
	11:03am Sue P.: Ca Plane Pour Moi having charted surprises me less than the Ramones. Don't remember hearing Ramones on commerical radio at all in the late 70s.
	11:05am doctorjazz: Talking Heads, saw them back in the day...
	11:05am Uncle Michael: Sue!
	11:06am doctorjazz: (NGH, my mom bought records when I was a kid, remember having The Barry Sisers and Tony Orlando and Dawn, she LOVED Knock 3 Times).
	11:06am Dano59: I'll pull an LD and said it's hard to find a bad versoin of Ca Plane Pour Moi. As for Psycho Killer, yes!! Used to see a local new wave band ca. 79-81 that always closed with this. I have been playing it out at open mics.
	11:06am Scraps: Psycho Killer charted in 78?? I didn’t know that
	11:06am Little Danny: Good mornin' UM and various timers
	11:07am dan: IF there is one band I can't stand, it's The Talking Heads. David Byrne purports himself as some musical genius when he's really subpar. He's pretty much Bryan Ferry sans the heart and soul.
	11:08am Uncle Michael: Danny!
	11:08am Scraps: Bryan Ferry is Bryan Ferry with no heart and soul
	11:08am Rich in NC: lyrics are unreal -talking heads
	11:08am glenn: i've never found any illicit substances. i've found all kinds of stuff, including large amounts of cash, buried in walls and ceilings of jobs. i did find 20$ in a copy of even cowgirls get the blues that i bought at a yard sale for 75 cents.
	11:09am Funky16Corners: I wonder how much big city airplay (specifically NY and LA) had to do with some of the weirder new wave/punk charting at all?
	11:09am Funky16Corners: Love this version!
	11:09am Dano59: Bryan Ferry is louche ... Byrne is hyperactive. No comparison.
	11:09am Scraps: And it’s Talking Heads, no The
	11:10am Scraps: This is the first version I knew. I loved it.
	11:11am Dano59: I found a card with an image of Buddha, inside one of a box of early 70s LPs ... with a birthday message describing 'a little something to enjoy while you stare at the cover'
	11:11am northguineahills: The last record I remember my father buying was Lionel Richie (ok, it was a laserdisc) back in '84 (I was 8). Me also bought Thriller the year before. When I went through his record collection later, those were the only records he bought after I was born.
	11:12am Little Danny: @Dano: Which LP do you think the card was referring to?
	11:12am Webhamster Henry: Todd '78
	11:13am Dano59: oh my. Todd loves Carole King.
	11:13am dan: I saw Todd Rundgren at BB Kings in Manhattan a few years ago. He was amazing. Can We Still Be Friends was played that night.
	11:14am Dano59: Danny -- I tried hard to remember. There was a lot of Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young in that $5 box...
	11:15am Dean: It so happens that Talking Heads opened for Bryan Ferry's solo act at Bottom Line in July 1977. The Billboard reviewer wrote, "as good as the [Ferry backing] band was, it was not Roxy Music," and of Talking Heads, "a New York new wave band, with a good critical reputation, though judging from the band's 45 minutes onstage, it is difficult to see what the fuss is all about."
	11:16am Funky16Corners: I used to work with a guy for whom this WAS reggae. I was always seconds away from murder when it came on.
	11:16am dan: 10cc's original name could have been "3 Yids and a Yob". That was their nickname because 3 of the 4 members were Jewish.
	11:17am Dano59: Bloody Tourists.
	11:17am Uncle Michael: They still are Jewish.
	11:17am Dano59: a little better than most cod-reggae though.
	11:18am Uncle Michael: Well, it's about being an interloper.
	11:18am Dano59: haha true!
	11:19am Dean: Yeah, this ain't the real thing, like Musical Youth four years later.
	11:19am Dano59: they were just lookin' for a hit. Godley and Creme were IT among the hipsters of the day
	11:19am Dano59: the ones I knew, I mean
	11:19am northguineahills: Never heard that 10cc before.
	11:20am Little Danny: Man that 10cc was weird
	11:20am Funky16Corners: I don't have much against the 10CC tune. It was the guy, and his utter ignorance of actual reggae.
	11:21am Little Danny: timeless Chaka Khan track, didn't realize this charted
	🛒 11:21am Brian in UK: Hello Uncle. You seem to be scratching some itches today.
	11:21am Dano59: they WERE weird. Good Morning Judge ... Art for Art's Sake ... I actually liked them better than Floyd
	11:21am Uncle Michael: Brian!
	🛒 11:22am Brian in UK: @Dano59 lesser of two weevils.
	11:22am glenn: i thought she was singing climb every mountain for the longest time. imagine my disappointment.
	11:23am Dean: 10cc were sui generis. What I'm saying is even if 3/4 of the guys are Jewish, the entire group is (Caesar's) Latin.
	🛒 11:23am Brian in UK: @glenn a euphemism perhaps.
	11:24am Doug Schulkind: Congrats on making the goal, Uncle Michael!!!
	11:26am Funky16Corners: Awww yeah! I remember buying this 45 at Two Guys department store!
	11:27am doctorjazz: I think I wore out my copy of the 12 inch single of "Everyone's a Winner" (and drove everyone around me crazy)
	11:27am Funky16Corners: That fuzz guitar in the chorus is the shit!
	11:27am Scraps: Do you have “Bloat On”? (Not that I’m requesting it!)
	11:27am Dano59: i have this single! A go-to every time i DJ.
	11:28am Scraps: I love every Hot Chocolate single!
	11:29am Dean: Wanna guess ticket prices for Marshall Tucker Band/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Heart/Outlaws/Atlanta Rhythm Section/Dickie Betts & Great Southern/Foreigner at Mile High Stadium, Denver, June 26, 1977?
	11:29am Dano59: $14?
	11:29am Funky16Corners: $10.00??
	11:29am Uncle Michael: Thanks Doug! Me too,Scraps!
	🛒 11:29am Brian in UK: $5
	11:29am Scraps: $17?
	11:29am Dean: $8.80-$9.90
	11:30am Dano59: and maybe a $1 fee
	11:30am Dean: Gross receipts for the show: $436,667.
	11:31am Uncle Michael: Foreigner? WTF
	11:31am Roberto: I could never make out who or what was sweet talkin' in the second part of the chorus.
	11:31am dan: Dean: That show would cost $200 today because of the corporate bigwigs at Live Nation price gouging.
	11:31am Dean: Before I had any ELO LPs, not counting a bootleg, I had this 45. Still do. Purple vinyl. Bought it for the flipside.
	11:31am Roberto: Lola?
	🛒 11:32am Brian in UK: You can see why we needed something like punk to rattle the cage.
	11:32am Scraps: UM, ARS is weird too
	11:33am Dean: In a way, the outliers on that show were Heart (Canadian) and Foreigner (featuring a guy who'd played with King Crimson). At least ARS are Southern.
	11:33am Sue P.: @ Roberto: Luvah (lover) ?
	11:33am Roberto: BROOOOOOSSSSS
	11:34am dan: Why is it that every time Bruce Springsteen sings, he sounds drunk?
	11:35am Uncle Michael: because he's a fucking wino.
	11:35am Uncle Michael: hit the floor tom harder, Max!
	11:35am Dean: Shoot, $6.50-$7.00 woulda got you into the ZZ Top/Elvin Bishop "featuring Mickey Thomas" show in San Bernadino.
	11:35am dan: He's a terrible singer and his songs were done better by other artists.
	11:36am Uncle Michael: OK!
	11:36am glenn: bruce does bombast pretty good, i gotta say.
	11:36am Dean: Highest priced tickets in the Billboard issue I'm skimming here was $15 for a show in Cincinnati. Guess the artist.
	11:36am Roberto: My wife has been having an affair with Bruce for decades...in her head.
	11:37am glenn: heart's not canadian. they're from seattle.
	11:37am dan: Shame that such talented musicians like Clarence Clemons, Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg were in the E Street Band.
	11:38am Dean: Oops, right. Close enough or, rather, far enough from the South.
	11:38am northguineahills: I always preferred Live at the Budokan.
	11:38am Dean: Anyway, the fifteen dollar ticket was for Elvis.
	11:38am Roberto: Oh no she didn't! I'm telling my wife on you, dan. :)
	11:39am Scraps: SurrenDER!
	11:40am doctorjazz: Great track, Surrender (great set!)
	11:40am Dano59: wow, he died in Aug. and the denver concert receipts are from June. the king til the end.
	11:40am Dean: This particular Cheap Trick tune to my ear is ageless. I adore the first album, enjoy the second...and then there's Heaven Tonight, almost transcendent.
	11:40am Funky16Corners: It's amazing how ticket prices have become inflated. I went to the last night of the MUSE/No Nukes shows at MSG in 1979 and the top ticket was 17.50 (which was kind of a big deal at the time).
	11:41am Dano59: would be a good mashup with Green Shirt. Speaking of which ... what's the charter from This Year's Model UM?
	11:41am Uncle Michael: Jazz!
	11:41am Funky16Corners: Ahhhh..."Fire safety feels so good!"
	11:42am Dano59: well, THIS was inevitable. Rochester's finest.
	11:42am dan: Funky16Corners: You have The Eagles and Barbra Streisand to thank for inflated prices. Once they were charging 3 figure prices and selling out, everyone else followed suit.
	11:42am Dean: Yes! It is a lot of fun.
	11:42am Doug Schulkind: There's a significant Gap in my record collection when it comes to Mangione.
	11:43am Dano59: I recommend Cheap Trick live! One of my favorite bands over many times in the late 90s...
	11:43am Funky16Corners: What a card!
	11:43am Funky16Corners: @Doug- Diana In the Autumn Wind?
	11:44am Alex in Illinois: Chuck Mangione camping in the Megalo Mart!
	11:44am queems: JUSTIN HAYWARD
	11:44am queems: holy SHIT
	11:45am queems: this song is my whole childhood
	11:45am dan: Saw The Moody Blues live. I swear Justin Hayward's voice has not changed.
	11:46am Uncle Michael: It truly hasn't.
	11:46am queems: justin hayward and i have the same birthday. my mom always told me that was "the best gift she could give me"
	11:47am Doug Schulkind: @Funky16Corners More like "Pond With Swans."
	11:48am queems: that was amazing, thank you.
	11:49am Dano59: this Emmy was a jukebox fave when I moved to Texas in 79.
	11:49am Dean: Played this Emmylou record not two weeks ago.
	🛒 11:50am Brian in UK: Doug, your goalposts have moved? This is not fake news.
	11:50am doctorjazz: Thanks for the fine, fun show, UM!
	11:50am Scraps: Dano59, no Costello single charted in America until “Every Day I Write the Book”
	11:50am Dano59: thank you SO much for the memories, UM. I should take more Fridays off since I usually am suffering thru a staff meeting when you're live.
	11:51am Dano59: But Boney M was from a British chart .. right?
	11:52am Uncle Michael: All these shows are based on U.S. charts.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: Thanks for listening...and for all your support, everyone!
	11:53am Funky16Corners: A pleasure, as always!
	11:53am Alex in Illinois: Remember being told to stop stomping foot in the car while singing along with this Wings song.
	11:53am Asheville Jon: thanks again UM for a 99.9% great show (i can't stand paul mccartney)
	11:53am Uncle Michael: Alex!
	11:54am Dano59: I pity the fools who bought Boney M then ...
	11:54am Stanley: Thanks, until next time Sweet Talkin' Uncle.
	11:54am Doug Schulkind: This show was 1978% better than the last one.
	11:54am listener james from westwood: Must jet off to the bank so will say thanks a ton now; will see Doug when I get back from the bank in a few minutes!
	11:54am Dano59: If I understand this correctly, Paul's had enough, and he can't put up with anymore.
	11:54am ndbob: excellent show UM!
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Thanks friends.
	11:56am Scraps: Dano59, yes, and no no no no no no.
	11:57am northguineahills: Someone this put out the Gottchalk signal out!
	11:57am Little Danny: Thanks UM
	11:57am Roberto: Bai y'all!
	11:57am dan: You left out two of my all time favorites, Billy Joel and The Kinks. Hope they make an appearance in 1979.
	11:58am dan: Still a great show nonetheless UM
	12:00pm Uncle Michael: See you all next time.

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 27, 2017

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