WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 6, 2018

Listener comments!
	12:02pm duke: Wang dang doo
	12:02pm Doug Schulkind: Every day's a Hinky day!
	12:02pm Listening Out There: TGIF HDTO, UM!
	12:03pm Stevel: Good golly almighty!
	12:03pm still b/p: Gone With The Wang Dang Do was released in 1939.
	12:03pm joe: 'ello folks
	12:04pm Roberto: Hola tio mio!
	12:04pm Dominick: hey ho!
	12:04pm joe: Uncle Michael make sure your room is clean. No radio if your room is not clean.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Duke! Doug! LOT! Steve! SB/P! Joe! Roberto! Dominick!
	12:07pm northguineahills: There are worst places then Ft Walton Beach. Actually, outside of Tallahassee in the panhandle, is one of the few places that ain't bad.
	12:08pm Goyim in the AM: Got my iSi-charged mojito going and ready to listen.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: NGH!
	12:08pm annie: good timing just finished making the crab cakes..... one batch = 8 pats. and i settle in for the next stage of radio-ness.. hey UM and hinksters.
	12:09pm Parq: I must complete my bust, two novels, finish my blueprint, begin my beguine.
	12:10pm johnk77: spring break was fun in the panhandle redneck riviera;>
	12:10pm annie: omg, is it going to be a standards show? i miss the nyc-based station The Music of Your Life. the web-based station isn't the same.
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Goyim! Annie! Parq! Not all swing orchestras today, I promise.
	12:11pm Doug Schulkind: Not that there's anything wrong with that.
	12:12pm annie: i always miss that beat.. of course i don't really count them i try to "intuit" them..
	12:13pm ~§> scraps <§~: h’kk h’kk h’kkkkkk—— bbZOOOllll! ahhhhh. —h’lo.
	12:13pm joe: Nothing wrong with that at all
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Scraps!
	12:14pm Lane Gray: Cool stuff, UM!
	12:14pm Listening Out There: So, UM, for the Glenn Miller, does this mean that you're playing a 78? It does sound kinda scratchy...
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Nope...read my disclaimer!
	12:15pm Dominick: Some year. Lots of artistic corners turned. So much promise. Some got side tracked.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Lane! Dom, we'll turn some of those corners.
	12:18pm Lane Gray: Crossing fingers for some Alvino Rey. There was some good hillbilly music back then, too
	12:19pm annie: somewhere, in the glint of my future parents' eyes, i heard these tunes in real time, i know it. i guess i returned pretty fast from the previous life.... or had acces to radio while awaiting my '53 arrival.
	12:20pm Dean: That's the most metaphysically probing disclaimer I've ever read.
	12:20pm rw: Good morning! My mom would love this show. (Not that I'm not, just that it's exactly her moment, which is weird because unless my math is off she would have been 7 yrs old.)
	12:21pm Parq: Show of hands; who else, on hearing "I'm Forever", thinks of the oversized chicken sqeuaking out the song while Jack Bunny tries to drop her through an undersized trap door in the "Owl Joslen" cartoon?
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Dean! RW!
	12:22pm still b/p: There's a guy up this way, annie, who's bought a few radio stations, and plays what amounts to that Music Of Your Life format a good part of the time. It's a crazy mix....Kenny Rogers or Celine Dion and then back to Perry Como or Margaret Whiting or Mills Brothers and then over to Pet Clark, all from his own music collection on these stations he runs just with his own money and requested donations.
	12:25pm Dominick: @Parq Oh yes! I Love to Singa
	12:25pm annie: @still b/p, i'd love to find him if you are able to share that info.
	12:29pm annie: i already listen to "Marion's attic" and that guy on friday nights on the shortwave station out of wbcq, The Planet.
	12:30pm annie: Dominick, i loved that the little owl was finally able to sing on the radio, and his dad came 'round.. one of my favorite cartoons
	12:30pm northguineahills: 1939 was a good year unless you were in Czechoslavkia, Poland, or China, or unemployed.... actually it was a horrible year, probably why there was so much great art and music created....
	12:31pm annie: yeah, ngh, such a set of social contradictions ....
	12:33pm annie: hey, y'all have to see that doc on the Carters on netflix: "The Winding Stream". it's really very good..
	12:33pm Dean: Coverage of the Merry Macs in the entertainment press for the decades surrounding the '40s is massive. Lots of ads, too. Variety in Jan. '36 describes them as "Three men and a girl with neat vocal arrangements." Still hunting for personnel...
	12:34pm Uncle Michael: neat!
	12:34pm Lane Gray: Cool selection of stuff.
	12:34pm doctorjazz: Loving this stuff! Hi UM and all!
	🛒 12:35pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Good morning! Enjoying the show on a drive to LA.
	12:36pm Lane Gray: Just how long ago was Governor Jimmy Davis, that they were covering him in the 30s?
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Doc! Lizzie! If this sounds like Gene Autry...well....
	12:36pm still b/p: annie, I think he still doesn't stream, unfortunately, claiming the fees for online-play licensing would kill 'im. His stations are WJIB in Boston WJTO, WLAM, WLVP in Maine. Quick press profiles of the dude: www.bostonglobe.com... www.pressherald.com... He tosses interesting documentary recommendations and political philosophical lines into his IDs and irregular on-air appearances, "Don't be a slave to the corporate masters. Cut up your credit cards!"
	12:37pm annie: thanks b/p, i'll check it out..
	12:38pm Listening Out There: You Are My Sunshine - I saw Mose Allison more than once, and he did a sadder version of the song. He'd mention it was written by Jimmie Davis (Louisiana governor), but also related to mining. Miners were always happy to see the sun...
	12:38pm annie: oh crickey, the boston globe has a paywall....
	12:39pm joe: Discogs seems to have large holes in the Merry Macs discography
	12:39pm Dean: A review in June '37 refers to them as "a harmony act" with Lynn Martin "with support from a personable male trio." (Review of a Gene Autry show in Chicago on the same page. His show lasted sixteen minutes.)
	12:41pm annie: definitely one of those "smiling" shows UM.... clicky-starring it.
	12:41pm still b/p: Globe -- really?I thought they gave you a few free first. I was just there and they said I had one more free article. (And then if you clear your history, you typically can start over again, as I do with NYT occasionally.)
	12:43pm Dean: Oct. '39 issue of Variety reports that "Bea Wain replaced Helen Carroll as the femme part of the Merry Macs for this show."
	12:44pm annie: i can do that with other news sites, but the globe shut me out right away.. i'm okay with it; i have alternative options, so to speak.
	12:44pm Rich in NC: Hello all,. Hey Uncle Michael
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Rich!
	12:45pm annie: oh, crickey i have no tissues handy Um, this brings the waterfalls... thanks, i guess
	12:50pm northguineahills: I thought you were ribbing us about it being Gene Autry, UM!
	12:51pm Dean: They were sued in June '37 for back commissions, at which time Cheri McKay was "no longer with them." These reviews from the '30s are just fascinating. In '33 they released a record, reviewed in Variety. Reviewer writes, "Merry Macs (whoever they are, for they're new, although probably a nom-de-disk) do okay by their assignments."
	12:51pm joe: As of 1977 You are my Sunshine is the LA state song
	12:54pm joe: In looking that up I learned NJ has no state song of any sort. March, Anthem Polka etc.
	12:55pm The Oscar: Afternoon all! Checking out the playlist, and I am 100% on board.
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: Oscar!
	12:56pm still b/p: Accustomed only to later Louis. Nice to go a long stride earlier than wild days, lounge legend....and "I Wanna Be Like You" Louie.
	12:58pm annie: @still b/p: here's a review from the second article you posted: "brutal, just brutal. Bobby Sherman and Benny Goodman. huh ?"
	1:00pm Parq: Joe, at 12:54 -- you apparently don't remember the flap in the 70s (or was it the early 80s) when there was a move -- this is true, I promise -- to make Born to Run the NJ state song.
	1:01pm Parq: www.welcometoasburypark.com...
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: The 1939 plattanspeiler in the gif: www.youtube.com...
	1:01pm northguineahills: @Parq: I'd support that, and I've never lived in NJ. (spent a lot of time there, though, and love it!).
	1:02pm northguineahills: Fats!
	1:03pm Parq: I'm missing the whole show because I keep having to run away from my desk. Not my day to listen, I fear.
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Archives, Parq!
	1:04pm annie: oh, holy mother that piano!!!!
	1:12pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Michael!
	1:17pm Parq: Okay, maybe I can settle down for a while. UM, would that I had the time to listen to the archives of every cool hour I miss live.
	1:17pm northguineahills: @Parq: Tame your desk, treat it to respect you. Don't show fear!
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: Guido!
	1:20pm Marie: Fantastic show. Beautiful music. Thanks, UM. Have a great weekend everyone!
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Marie!
	1:21pm Listening Out There: RE the archives: Yes, and great to have. I've always liked the incongruity of ready, 24/7 access to very old music, like this and like Mac's Antique Phonograph Music Program. But then...there are the temptations of People Like Us...or any number of great audio pipelines... :)
	1:23pm northguineahills: Can't go wrong w/ Smorgasbord and Schnapps!
	1:25pm johnk77: @UM great show today like the Dual platter player @ListeningOT Mac also does great live shows!
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: John!
	1:35pm annie: bliss, pure bliss
	1:39pm Listening Out There: johnk77 - I follow Mac's projects on Ye Old Instagram and L'Book d'Faces. Great guy. Well, except for the bit of his singing I heard with the Hoof and Mouth Symphonia... :)
	1:41pm Listening Out There: Kansas was a hotspot for jazz, once upon a time. Jay McShann was from there, I think...
	1:46pm Parq: Listening Out, I accepted a long time ago that there is too much content on WFMU, never mind the Web as a whole, for me to have any hope of listening to everything that would interest me. Just can't do it, like hoping to travel and visit every location in the world that intrigues me.
	1:47pm Guido from Cologne: That was the title song of joe jackson's second album, right?
	1:48pm Uncle Michael: Yes. Joe's album of jump blues covers.
	1:59pm Listening Out There: Great rendition of "Bourgeois Blues." Had not heard that one. Uncle M knows how to pick 'em...
	2:03pm annie: i feel your pain, Parq
	2:08pm doctorjazz: Missed some nice set (gotta work, pay them bills), sounding great now though (is this Tuxedo Junction, Washboard Sam, I think...(actually my PC is way ahead, I'm up to Slim Gaillard, nowT ampa Red, glad I caught them).
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Take care, Doc!
	2:09pm Parq: Can you imagine what it must have been like to be in attendance at that Lincoln Memorial performance?
	2:10pm still b/p: annie -- just looked back now and saw your pass-along of the "brutal..." comment ...and laughed out loud. Its exactly right, but I'm still onboard, baby! Rose and thorns, medicine and sugar, etc. And often the entertaining oddity of the octopus approach to music curating is part of the fun, BECAUSE of the surprises and clinkers and whiplashy shifts.
	2:13pm annie: indubitably, b/p!!!
	2:22pm Dean: Spoiler alert: It was all a dream.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Dammit, Dean.
	2:23pm Parq: Dean, ah, but was it?
	2:23pm Listening Out There: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
	2:24pm Dean: Coulda been a hangover, I suppose.
	2:24pm still b/p: I was just quoting a line from If I Were King of the Forest in a message to someone a moment ago.
	2:24pm Listening Out There: ...aka Scott Pruitt
	2:24pm Parq: That's a different take than the one in the movie, yes?
	2:25pm northguineahills: Off to lunch, thanks UM!
	2:26pm still b/p: Fairly interesting musical analysis of Over the Rainbow...unless "analysis" and "rainbow" is like matter and anti-matter for ya. www.pbs.org...
	2:27pm Listening Out There: A journalist on Twitter: Nifty stuff Scott Pruitt wanted so he could run the EPA more effectively, per the NYT: -- A $100,000/month charter plane membership -- A bulletproof SUV -- A bulletproof security desk -- A motorcade with sirens for speedy urban travel
	2:28pm Parq: Dorothy LaMour in a Loony Tune reminds me of that scene in one of the Hollywood Restaurant shorts where she persuades Jimmy Stewart to dance the conga and then scares him so much with her sexy moves that he announces that Mr. Smith had gone to Washington.
	2:29pm The Oscar: So hard to hear this song without hearing the Firesign Theatre lyrics.
	2:29pm Uncle Michael: We're back from the shadows again...
	2:29pm Uncle Michael: See ya, NGH.
	2:30pm The Oscar: Also, the Looney Tunes reference I think of when I hear Dorothy LaMour is the one where Daffy gets knocked silly and each of the stars circling his head is a caricature of a different Hollywood actress.
	2:30pm The Oscar: @UM Yippie-tie-one-on!
	2:31pm Parq: Oscar and UM, me too.
	2:31pm Dean: Funny you mention Firesign Theatre, @The Oscar, because I thought of Peter Bergman while "It Ain't Necessarily So" was spinning. The intro music for his daily radio show during the '80s on LA's KPFK was a new rendition of the song, every day.
	2:35pm still b/p: Haven't had TCM for too long now. On Easter family visit, yeah, sister's got it. And late Sunday felt good to find Holiday Inn playing. Fun and comfort-foodish film satisfactions, shticky, some it of with requisite dreadfulness, but worst is blackface number...such yin and yang in the old movie zone.
	2:39pm Roberto: I think this was the closing music to John Sayles's Lone Star.
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Really?
	2:40pm Roberto: Yes although maybe not that version of it.
	2:40pm Roberto: (Western Cowgirl)
	2:47pm doctorjazz: So my song list is about 5 songs ahead of what's playing-is my internet connection so slow?
	2:49pm Uncle Michael: I have no explanation, Doc.
	2:49pm Dean: @doctorjazz: Sometimes I fail to stop the player I'm using, for whatever reason. Instead, if I pause it and return minutes later, the program picks up where I left it, while the playlist moves on.
	2:49pm The Oscar: Annnnnnd clickystarred.
	2:50pm abutthegreat: Someone sounds like Fozzie Bear. Is that Mr. Carney?
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: yep
	2:51pm abutthegreat: I see a theme on the playlist. I am a great noticer of patterns
	2:51pm still b/p: A kick to imagine everyone -- vocalists and musicians -- in the room to cut something like that.
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: A real golden throat coming up after Mr. Broonzy.
	2:52pm Roberto: Get out with your what?
	2:52pm The Oscar: An early pioneer in nut allergy awareness.
	2:52pm Uncle Michael: abtg!
	2:52pm Parq: Is there an eastern cowgirl?
	2:53pm Dean: Been buying up recordings of Lil Green, for whom Big Bill played. Just love her. She might have recorded this tune, too.
	2:57pm Roberto: Oh, peaNUTS. Got it.
	2:57pm The Oscar: Has there ever been a more calming musical act than the Ink Spots? Every time I hear them my blood pressure drops by the third bar.
	3:01pm doctorjazz: That sounded SO Django!
	3:02pm Guido from Cologne: So beautiful see you.
	3:04pm Listening Out There: Great program today. Many thanks!
	3:05pm annie: that may through december is one of the most beautiful renditions.... so nice to hear it!
	3:05pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone! till next week...

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 6, 2018

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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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April 6, 2018: Show #244 SPECIAL (1939): Storm clouds were brewing (we're time-traveling to 1939).

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Joe Loss & His Band (voc. Chick Henderson)	Begin The Beguine	shellac 10" (b/w My Prayer)	Royal Zonaphone	1939	0:04:23 (Pop-up)
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	In The Mood	shellac 10" (b/w I Want To Be Happy)	Bluebird	1939	0:07:46 (Pop-up)
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Little Brown Jug	shellac 10" (b-side to Pavanne)	Bluebird	1939	0:11:11 (Pop-up)
Bea Wain & Larry Clinton	Deep Purple	shellac 10" (b/w A Study In Red)	Victor	1939	0:13:55 (Pop-up)
The Merry Macs	I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles	shellac 10" (b-side to Igloo)	Decca	1939	0:17:31 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby And The Andrews Sisters	Yodelin' Jive	shellac 10" (b-side to Ciribiribin (They're So In Love))	Decca	1939	0:20:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Moonlight Serenade	shellac 10" (b-side to Sunrise Serenade)	Bluebird	1939	0:22:49 (Pop-up)
Cliff Bruner & his Texas Wanderers	Truck Driver's Blues	shellac 10" (b/w I'm Tired Of You)	Decca	1939	0:28:01 (Pop-up)
Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys	Beautiful Brown Eyes	shellac 10" (b/w Living On The Mountain, Baby Mine)	Vocalion	1939	0:30:50 (Pop-up)
The Pine Ridge Boys	You Are My Sunshine	shellac 10" (b/w Farther Along)	Bluebird	1939	0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Hoosier Hot Shots	Annabelle "Annabelle" by "Hoosier Hot Shots"	shellac 10" (b-side to It's A Lonely Trail (When You're Travelin' All Alone))	Vocalion	1939	0:36:07 (Pop-up)
Tennessee Ramblers	Four Or Five Times	shellac 10" (b/w Hootchie-Kootchie-Koo)	Bluebird	1939	0:38:37 (Pop-up)
Floyd Tillman	It Had To Be That Way	shellac 10" (b/w I'd Settle Down For You)	Decca	1939	0:41:14 (Pop-up)
Rex Griffin	Lovesick Blues "Lovesick Blues" by "Rex Griffin"	shellac 10" (b/w My Hill Billy Baby)	Decca	1939	0:44:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters	Mobile Blues	shellac 10" (b/w Gal-Avantin')	Vocalion	1939	0:46:35 (Pop-up)
Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang	A Good Man Is Hard To Find	shellac 10" (b/w If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight)	Decca	1939	0:51:06 (Pop-up)
Barney Bigard & His Orchestra	Honey Hush	shellac 10" (b-side to Just Another Dream)	Okeh	1939	0:54:03 (Pop-up)
Albert Ammons	Boogie Woogie Stomp	shellac 10" (b/w Boogie Woogie Blues)	Blue Note	1939	0:56:47 (Pop-up)
Fats Waller	Good for Nothin' But Love	shellac 10" (b/w You're The Cutest One)	Bluebird	1939	1:00:19 (Pop-up)
Earl Hines And His Orchestra	Ridin' And Jivin'	shellac 10" (b/w Grand Terrace Shuffle)	Bluebird	1939	1:03:42 (Pop-up)
The Three Peppers	Fuzzy Wuzzy "Fuzzy Wuzzy" by "The Three Peppers"	shellac 10" (b/w Down By The Old Mill Stream)	Decca	1939	1:06:16 (Pop-up)
Joe Turner And Pete Johnson	Roll 'em Pete	shellac 10" (b-side to Goin' Away Blues)	Vocalion	1939	1:08:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra	Wizzin' the Wizz	shellac 10" (b/w Denison Swing)	Victor	1939	1:11:39 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra	Smorgasbord And Schnapps	shellac 10" (b/w Solid Old Man)	Brunswick	1939	1:16:08 (Pop-up)
Woody Herman & His Orchestra	Woodchopper's Ball	shellac 10" (b/w Big-Wig In The Wigwam)	Decca	1939	1:18:42 (Pop-up)
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra	Cherokee	shellac 10" (b/w (Stay Up "Stan") The All Night Record Man)	Bluebird	1939	1:21:55 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman's Sextet	Rose Room "Rose Room" by "Benny Goodman's Sextet"	shellac 10" (b-side to Flying Home)	Columbia	1939	1:25:09 (Pop-up)
Art Tatum	Tea For Two "Tea For Two" by "Art Tatum"	shellac 10" (b-side to Deep Purple)	Decca	1939	1:27:55 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington, Piano - Jimmy Blanton, Bass	Plucked Again	shellac 10" (b-side to Blues)	Columbia	1939	1:30:59 (Pop-up)
Coleman Hawkins	Body And Soul "Body And Soul" by "Coleman Hawkins"	shellac 10" (b/w Fine Dinner)	Bluebird	1939	1:33:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Artie Shaw & His Orchestra	Traffic Jam	shellac 10" (b/w Serenade To A Savage)	Bluebird	1939	1:36:50 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway And His Orchestra	(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive	shellac 10" (b/w Trylon Swing)	Vocalion	1939	1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Slim Gaillard And His Flat-Foot-Floogee Boys	A-Well-A-Take-Em-Joe (Crapshooter's Jive)	shellac 10" (b/w Chicken Rhythm)	Vocalion	1939	1:46:07 (Pop-up)
Tampa Red	She Got The Best In Town	shellac 10" (b/w Hellish Old Feeling)	Bluebird	1939	1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Blind Boy Fuller	Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay	shellac 10" (b-side to I Want Some Of Your Pie)	Conqueror	1939	1:51:46 (Pop-up)
Leadbelly	The Bourgeois Blues "The Bourgeois Blues" by "Leadbelly"	shellac 10" (b-side to The Gallis Pole)	Musicraft	1939	1:54:23 (Pop-up)
Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band	Has My Gal Been Here	shellac 10" (b/w Somebody Changed That Lock On My Door)	Bluebird	1939	1:57:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra	Tuxedo Junction	shellac 10" (b-side to Gin Mill Special)	Bluebird	1939	2:00:12 (Pop-up)
Marian Anderson	Trampin' "Trampin'" by "Marian Anderson"	Live at the Lincoln Memorial	n/a	1939	2:05:14 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit "Strange Fruit" by "Billie Holiday"	shellac 10" (b/w Fine and Mellow)	Commodore	1939	2:08:30 (Pop-up)
Paul Robeson	It Ain't Necessarily So	shellac 10" (b/w A Woman Is A Sometime Thing)	Victor	1939	2:11:38 (Pop-up)
Zora Neal Hurston	Po' Gal "Po' Gal" by "Zora Neal Hurston"	shellac 10" (b-side to Tampa)	un.	1939	2:14:06 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Lamour	Strange Enchantment	shellac 10" (b/w That Sentimental Sandwich)	Bluebird	1939	2:17:16 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" by "Judy Garland"	shellac 10" (b/w The Jitterbug)	Decca	1939	2:20:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf Astoria Orquesta	Night Must Fall	shellac 10" (b/w Cui Cui / Catalino Rolón)	Victor	1939	2:23:03 (Pop-up)
Gene Autry	Back To The Saddle "Back To The Saddle" by "Gene Autry"	shellac 10" (b/w Little Old Band of Gold)	Vocalion	1939	2:26:38 (Pop-up)
Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm	South Of The Border	shellac 10" (b/w It's All Over Town)	Bluebird	1939	2:29:14 (Pop-up)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Convict And The Rose	shellac 10" (b-side to San Antonio Rose)	Vocalion	1939	2:31:58 (Pop-up)
Patsy Montana (Accompanied by Prairie Ramblers)	I Wanna Be A Western Cowgirl	shellac 10" (b/w My Song Of The West)	Vocalion	1939	2:34:38 (Pop-up)
Red Nichols & His Orchestra	Tears from My Inkwell	shellac 10" (b/w I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak)	Bluebird	1939	2:37:27 (Pop-up)
Wayne King & His Orchestra	My Man	shellac 10" (b/w Arrancame La Vida)	Victor	1939	2:40:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Rex Stewart & His Feetwarmers	Montmartre	shellac 10" (b/w Solid Old Man)	Swing	1939	2:43:05 (Pop-up)
Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights (vocal Chorus by Red Ferrington, Le Ahn Sisters, Art Carney, Bob McCoy)	Piggy Wiggy Woo	shellac 10" (b/w Two Hearts Are Better Than One)	Columbia	1939	2:46:54 (Pop-up)
Big Bill	You can't Sell 'Em in Here	shellac 10" (b/w Baby Don't You Remember)	Vocalion	1939	2:49:27 (Pop-up)
Walter Huston	September Song "September Song" by "Walter Huston"	shellac 10" (b/w The Scars)	Brunswick	1939	2:52:00 (Pop-up)
The Ink Spots	If I Didn't Care "If I Didn't Care" by "The Ink Spots"	shellac 10" (b-side to Knock Kneed Sal (On The Mourner's Bench))	Decca	1939	2:54:23 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Savoy Orchestra	My Last Goodbye	shellac 10" (b/w Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb And His Orchestra-Heart Of Mine)	Decca	1939	2:57:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968	3:00:30 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:02pm duke: Wang dang doo
	12:02pm Doug Schulkind: Every day's a Hinky day!
	12:02pm Listening Out There: TGIF HDTO, UM!
	12:03pm Stevel: Good golly almighty!
	12:03pm still b/p: Gone With The Wang Dang Do was released in 1939.
	12:03pm joe: 'ello folks
	12:04pm Roberto: Hola tio mio!
	12:04pm Dominick: hey ho!
	12:04pm joe: Uncle Michael make sure your room is clean. No radio if your room is not clean.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Duke! Doug! LOT! Steve! SB/P! Joe! Roberto! Dominick!
	12:07pm northguineahills: There are worst places then Ft Walton Beach. Actually, outside of Tallahassee in the panhandle, is one of the few places that ain't bad.
	12:08pm Goyim in the AM: Got my iSi-charged mojito going and ready to listen.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: NGH!
	12:08pm annie: good timing just finished making the crab cakes..... one batch = 8 pats. and i settle in for the next stage of radio-ness.. hey UM and hinksters.
	12:09pm Parq: I must complete my bust, two novels, finish my blueprint, begin my beguine.
	12:10pm johnk77: spring break was fun in the panhandle redneck riviera;>
	12:10pm annie: omg, is it going to be a standards show? i miss the nyc-based station The Music of Your Life. the web-based station isn't the same.
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Goyim! Annie! Parq! Not all swing orchestras today, I promise.
	12:11pm Doug Schulkind: Not that there's anything wrong with that.
	12:12pm annie: i always miss that beat.. of course i don't really count them i try to "intuit" them..
	12:13pm ~§> scraps <§~: h’kk h’kk h’kkkkkk—— bbZOOOllll! ahhhhh. —h’lo.
	12:13pm joe: Nothing wrong with that at all
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Scraps!
	12:14pm Lane Gray: Cool stuff, UM!
	12:14pm Listening Out There: So, UM, for the Glenn Miller, does this mean that you're playing a 78? It does sound kinda scratchy...
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Nope...read my disclaimer!
	12:15pm Dominick: Some year. Lots of artistic corners turned. So much promise. Some got side tracked.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Lane! Dom, we'll turn some of those corners.
	12:18pm Lane Gray: Crossing fingers for some Alvino Rey. There was some good hillbilly music back then, too
	12:19pm annie: somewhere, in the glint of my future parents' eyes, i heard these tunes in real time, i know it. i guess i returned pretty fast from the previous life.... or had acces to radio while awaiting my '53 arrival.
	12:20pm Dean: That's the most metaphysically probing disclaimer I've ever read.
	12:20pm rw: Good morning! My mom would love this show. (Not that I'm not, just that it's exactly her moment, which is weird because unless my math is off she would have been 7 yrs old.)
	12:21pm Parq: Show of hands; who else, on hearing "I'm Forever", thinks of the oversized chicken sqeuaking out the song while Jack Bunny tries to drop her through an undersized trap door in the "Owl Joslen" cartoon?
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Dean! RW!
	12:22pm still b/p: There's a guy up this way, annie, who's bought a few radio stations, and plays what amounts to that Music Of Your Life format a good part of the time. It's a crazy mix....Kenny Rogers or Celine Dion and then back to Perry Como or Margaret Whiting or Mills Brothers and then over to Pet Clark, all from his own music collection on these stations he runs just with his own money and requested donations.
	12:25pm Dominick: @Parq Oh yes! I Love to Singa
	12:25pm annie: @still b/p, i'd love to find him if you are able to share that info.
	12:29pm annie: i already listen to "Marion's attic" and that guy on friday nights on the shortwave station out of wbcq, The Planet.
	12:30pm annie: Dominick, i loved that the little owl was finally able to sing on the radio, and his dad came 'round.. one of my favorite cartoons
	12:30pm northguineahills: 1939 was a good year unless you were in Czechoslavkia, Poland, or China, or unemployed.... actually it was a horrible year, probably why there was so much great art and music created....
	12:31pm annie: yeah, ngh, such a set of social contradictions ....
	12:33pm annie: hey, y'all have to see that doc on the Carters on netflix: "The Winding Stream". it's really very good..
	12:33pm Dean: Coverage of the Merry Macs in the entertainment press for the decades surrounding the '40s is massive. Lots of ads, too. Variety in Jan. '36 describes them as "Three men and a girl with neat vocal arrangements." Still hunting for personnel...
	12:34pm Uncle Michael: neat!
	12:34pm Lane Gray: Cool selection of stuff.
	12:34pm doctorjazz: Loving this stuff! Hi UM and all!
	🛒 12:35pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Good morning! Enjoying the show on a drive to LA.
	12:36pm Lane Gray: Just how long ago was Governor Jimmy Davis, that they were covering him in the 30s?
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Doc! Lizzie! If this sounds like Gene Autry...well....
	12:36pm still b/p: annie, I think he still doesn't stream, unfortunately, claiming the fees for online-play licensing would kill 'im. His stations are WJIB in Boston WJTO, WLAM, WLVP in Maine. Quick press profiles of the dude: www.bostonglobe.com... www.pressherald.com... He tosses interesting documentary recommendations and political philosophical lines into his IDs and irregular on-air appearances, "Don't be a slave to the corporate masters. Cut up your credit cards!"
	12:37pm annie: thanks b/p, i'll check it out..
	12:38pm Listening Out There: You Are My Sunshine - I saw Mose Allison more than once, and he did a sadder version of the song. He'd mention it was written by Jimmie Davis (Louisiana governor), but also related to mining. Miners were always happy to see the sun...
	12:38pm annie: oh crickey, the boston globe has a paywall....
	12:39pm joe: Discogs seems to have large holes in the Merry Macs discography
	12:39pm Dean: A review in June '37 refers to them as "a harmony act" with Lynn Martin "with support from a personable male trio." (Review of a Gene Autry show in Chicago on the same page. His show lasted sixteen minutes.)
	12:41pm annie: definitely one of those "smiling" shows UM.... clicky-starring it.
	12:41pm still b/p: Globe -- really?I thought they gave you a few free first. I was just there and they said I had one more free article. (And then if you clear your history, you typically can start over again, as I do with NYT occasionally.)
	12:43pm Dean: Oct. '39 issue of Variety reports that "Bea Wain replaced Helen Carroll as the femme part of the Merry Macs for this show."
	12:44pm annie: i can do that with other news sites, but the globe shut me out right away.. i'm okay with it; i have alternative options, so to speak.
	12:44pm Rich in NC: Hello all,. Hey Uncle Michael
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Rich!
	12:45pm annie: oh, crickey i have no tissues handy Um, this brings the waterfalls... thanks, i guess
	12:50pm northguineahills: I thought you were ribbing us about it being Gene Autry, UM!
	12:51pm Dean: They were sued in June '37 for back commissions, at which time Cheri McKay was "no longer with them." These reviews from the '30s are just fascinating. In '33 they released a record, reviewed in Variety. Reviewer writes, "Merry Macs (whoever they are, for they're new, although probably a nom-de-disk) do okay by their assignments."
	12:51pm joe: As of 1977 You are my Sunshine is the LA state song
	12:54pm joe: In looking that up I learned NJ has no state song of any sort. March, Anthem Polka etc.
	12:55pm The Oscar: Afternoon all! Checking out the playlist, and I am 100% on board.
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: Oscar!
	12:56pm still b/p: Accustomed only to later Louis. Nice to go a long stride earlier than wild days, lounge legend....and "I Wanna Be Like You" Louie.
	12:58pm annie: @still b/p: here's a review from the second article you posted: "brutal, just brutal. Bobby Sherman and Benny Goodman. huh ?"
	1:00pm Parq: Joe, at 12:54 -- you apparently don't remember the flap in the 70s (or was it the early 80s) when there was a move -- this is true, I promise -- to make Born to Run the NJ state song.
	1:01pm Parq: www.welcometoasburypark.com...
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: The 1939 plattanspeiler in the gif: www.youtube.com...
	1:01pm northguineahills: @Parq: I'd support that, and I've never lived in NJ. (spent a lot of time there, though, and love it!).
	1:02pm northguineahills: Fats!
	1:03pm Parq: I'm missing the whole show because I keep having to run away from my desk. Not my day to listen, I fear.
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Archives, Parq!
	1:04pm annie: oh, holy mother that piano!!!!
	1:12pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Michael!
	1:17pm Parq: Okay, maybe I can settle down for a while. UM, would that I had the time to listen to the archives of every cool hour I miss live.
	1:17pm northguineahills: @Parq: Tame your desk, treat it to respect you. Don't show fear!
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: Guido!
	1:20pm Marie: Fantastic show. Beautiful music. Thanks, UM. Have a great weekend everyone!
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Marie!
	1:21pm Listening Out There: RE the archives: Yes, and great to have. I've always liked the incongruity of ready, 24/7 access to very old music, like this and like Mac's Antique Phonograph Music Program. But then...there are the temptations of People Like Us...or any number of great audio pipelines... :)
	1:23pm northguineahills: Can't go wrong w/ Smorgasbord and Schnapps!
	1:25pm johnk77: @UM great show today like the Dual platter player @ListeningOT Mac also does great live shows!
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: John!
	1:35pm annie: bliss, pure bliss
	1:39pm Listening Out There: johnk77 - I follow Mac's projects on Ye Old Instagram and L'Book d'Faces. Great guy. Well, except for the bit of his singing I heard with the Hoof and Mouth Symphonia... :)
	1:41pm Listening Out There: Kansas was a hotspot for jazz, once upon a time. Jay McShann was from there, I think...
	1:46pm Parq: Listening Out, I accepted a long time ago that there is too much content on WFMU, never mind the Web as a whole, for me to have any hope of listening to everything that would interest me. Just can't do it, like hoping to travel and visit every location in the world that intrigues me.
	1:47pm Guido from Cologne: That was the title song of joe jackson's second album, right?
	1:48pm Uncle Michael: Yes. Joe's album of jump blues covers.
	1:59pm Listening Out There: Great rendition of "Bourgeois Blues." Had not heard that one. Uncle M knows how to pick 'em...
	2:03pm annie: i feel your pain, Parq
	2:08pm doctorjazz: Missed some nice set (gotta work, pay them bills), sounding great now though (is this Tuxedo Junction, Washboard Sam, I think...(actually my PC is way ahead, I'm up to Slim Gaillard, nowT ampa Red, glad I caught them).
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Take care, Doc!
	2:09pm Parq: Can you imagine what it must have been like to be in attendance at that Lincoln Memorial performance?
	2:10pm still b/p: annie -- just looked back now and saw your pass-along of the "brutal..." comment ...and laughed out loud. Its exactly right, but I'm still onboard, baby! Rose and thorns, medicine and sugar, etc. And often the entertaining oddity of the octopus approach to music curating is part of the fun, BECAUSE of the surprises and clinkers and whiplashy shifts.
	2:13pm annie: indubitably, b/p!!!
	2:22pm Dean: Spoiler alert: It was all a dream.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Dammit, Dean.
	2:23pm Parq: Dean, ah, but was it?
	2:23pm Listening Out There: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
	2:24pm Dean: Coulda been a hangover, I suppose.
	2:24pm still b/p: I was just quoting a line from If I Were King of the Forest in a message to someone a moment ago.
	2:24pm Listening Out There: ...aka Scott Pruitt
	2:24pm Parq: That's a different take than the one in the movie, yes?
	2:25pm northguineahills: Off to lunch, thanks UM!
	2:26pm still b/p: Fairly interesting musical analysis of Over the Rainbow...unless "analysis" and "rainbow" is like matter and anti-matter for ya. www.pbs.org...
	2:27pm Listening Out There: A journalist on Twitter: Nifty stuff Scott Pruitt wanted so he could run the EPA more effectively, per the NYT: -- A $100,000/month charter plane membership -- A bulletproof SUV -- A bulletproof security desk -- A motorcade with sirens for speedy urban travel
	2:28pm Parq: Dorothy LaMour in a Loony Tune reminds me of that scene in one of the Hollywood Restaurant shorts where she persuades Jimmy Stewart to dance the conga and then scares him so much with her sexy moves that he announces that Mr. Smith had gone to Washington.
	2:29pm The Oscar: So hard to hear this song without hearing the Firesign Theatre lyrics.
	2:29pm Uncle Michael: We're back from the shadows again...
	2:29pm Uncle Michael: See ya, NGH.
	2:30pm The Oscar: Also, the Looney Tunes reference I think of when I hear Dorothy LaMour is the one where Daffy gets knocked silly and each of the stars circling his head is a caricature of a different Hollywood actress.
	2:30pm The Oscar: @UM Yippie-tie-one-on!
	2:31pm Parq: Oscar and UM, me too.
	2:31pm Dean: Funny you mention Firesign Theatre, @The Oscar, because I thought of Peter Bergman while "It Ain't Necessarily So" was spinning. The intro music for his daily radio show during the '80s on LA's KPFK was a new rendition of the song, every day.
	2:35pm still b/p: Haven't had TCM for too long now. On Easter family visit, yeah, sister's got it. And late Sunday felt good to find Holiday Inn playing. Fun and comfort-foodish film satisfactions, shticky, some it of with requisite dreadfulness, but worst is blackface number...such yin and yang in the old movie zone.
	2:39pm Roberto: I think this was the closing music to John Sayles's Lone Star.
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: Really?
	2:40pm Roberto: Yes although maybe not that version of it.
	2:40pm Roberto: (Western Cowgirl)
	2:47pm doctorjazz: So my song list is about 5 songs ahead of what's playing-is my internet connection so slow?
	2:49pm Uncle Michael: I have no explanation, Doc.
	2:49pm Dean: @doctorjazz: Sometimes I fail to stop the player I'm using, for whatever reason. Instead, if I pause it and return minutes later, the program picks up where I left it, while the playlist moves on.
	2:49pm The Oscar: Annnnnnd clickystarred.
	2:50pm abutthegreat: Someone sounds like Fozzie Bear. Is that Mr. Carney?
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: yep
	2:51pm abutthegreat: I see a theme on the playlist. I am a great noticer of patterns
	2:51pm still b/p: A kick to imagine everyone -- vocalists and musicians -- in the room to cut something like that.
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: A real golden throat coming up after Mr. Broonzy.
	2:52pm Roberto: Get out with your what?
	2:52pm The Oscar: An early pioneer in nut allergy awareness.
	2:52pm Uncle Michael: abtg!
	2:52pm Parq: Is there an eastern cowgirl?
	2:53pm Dean: Been buying up recordings of Lil Green, for whom Big Bill played. Just love her. She might have recorded this tune, too.
	2:57pm Roberto: Oh, peaNUTS. Got it.
	2:57pm The Oscar: Has there ever been a more calming musical act than the Ink Spots? Every time I hear them my blood pressure drops by the third bar.
	3:01pm doctorjazz: That sounded SO Django!
	3:02pm Guido from Cologne: So beautiful see you.
	3:04pm Listening Out There: Great program today. Many thanks!
	3:05pm annie: that may through december is one of the most beautiful renditions.... so nice to hear it!
	3:05pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone! till next week...

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 6, 2018

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