WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2019

Listener comments!
	9:03am Strandlund: The Great Joe McGasko!!
	9:03am Snoochienucci: boing boing boing
	9:04am pantz: Did someone step on a duck?
	9:04am The Oscar: Hullo-- always happy to hear some Perrey-Kingsley in the morning!
	9:06am melinda: good morning, I am off to a very slow start
	9:07am TDK60: Futuristic, Joe!
	9:08am Lixiviated Life: Yo Joey McGeeee How YOU doin'
	9:09am Snoochienucci: Got me moving over here!
	9:10am Snoochienucci: Are you really at work if Joe McGasko is DJing? I like to think not
	9:10am The Oscar: I'm glad I'm working from home today, because my coworkers would definitely be asking me why I'm grinning like an idiot and bobbing my head uncontrollable.
	9:10am Andrew_in_WI: I am unfamiliar with this Popcorn
	👻 9:11am Webhamster Henry: Beware of the blog directs you to dozens and dozens of Popcorn covers:blog.wfmu.org...
	9:12am The Oscar: Aw, just pieced together the reason why-- RIP Mr. Kingsley. (Still boppin', though)
	9:13am Andrew_in_WI: I think by Hit Butter is the one I'm thinking of... what was the first?
	👻 9:14am Ken From Hyde Park: Get to know more about Gershon Kingsley - www.gershonkingsley.com...
	👻 9:14am LastWhiteRhino: Hi Ya, Joe.
	9:14am Colleen: Sooooo gooood Joe!!!!
	9:15am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:15am Snoochienucci: @the Oscar theres a little bit of bobbing going on at my end
	9:16am Krys O.: Gershon and Jean-Jacques are making awesome tunes in the great beyond.
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: my fave GK is 'the elephant never forgets', the theme to 'el chavo del ocho'!
	9:18am Joe McG: Good morning, folks! Starting with a tribute to the departed Gershon Kingsley, who led a very long and productive life! No mourning, just celebration!
	9:18am Strandlund: You Moog me, Joe!!
	9:21am Colleen: This is pissing my visiting Mom off....Thank you Joe!...Thank you!!!
	9:22am ParUbi: Good morning guys. Is the universe expanding, or is everything in it shrinking?
	👻 9:22am Webhamster Henry: @Krys O Just a few of the original Moogers are left - primarily Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman .
	9:22am Joe McG: @Colleen: Ha ha ha. Tell her to hang in there, Gershwin is on the way.
	9:22am The Oscar: WOW, love this one!
	👻 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Definitely a different arrangement of "Miracles" than the one I've heard on John Allen's show.
	9:24am Colleen: Hahaha...ok....she has no choice though....this is blasting in the house!!
	9:25am Hi from Holland: Aloha! Enjoying this Gershon Kingsley set I must say.
	9:26am Joe McG: Aloha, Holland! And welcome to everyone joining me on this late December Monday.
	9:27am Handy Haversack: Sounds great!
	9:27am ParUbi: This music is definitely setting the right tone.
	9:27am Dominick: oh yeah!
	9:28am ParUbi: Can we just end 2019 early? January -8th, 2020?
	9:29am Listener Bop Monroe: now this is gonna be blasting in my house!!!
	9:29am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning Joe!
	9:32am Joe McG: Hey Aaron! @Ken: Ha ha ha
	9:32am GListener MW: happy Xmas Eve Eve, Joe!
	9:32am GListener MW: loving the Gershon Gershwin
	9:32am yippie: a perfect mash of the orchestral version and the solo piano version
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: This Gershwin is pretty magnificent!
	👻 9:34am Webhamster Henry: Playing this kind of set is what makes WFMU great!
	9:36am Joe McG: Glad you guys are enjoying the Gershon/in.
	9:38am Listener Bop Monroe: its a gersh win win situation!
	9:39am Handy Haversack: Zing! Well said, Bop Monroe.
	9:41am emily: Dear Joe, Thanks for being you on Monday mornings. I'm now scheduling myself around you so I can hear (at least) some live. You are the Christmas gift, the 3 Kings, and new year's eve all wrapped in foil paper.
	9:43am Brendan: Woof moog Good morning
	9:44am Joe McG: Gee, emily, that's SO nice! Thanks much to all the WFMU listeners who gave me the gift of playing music on Monday mornings all through 2019!
	9:44am GListener MW: What Emily said! Thanks for being the soundtrack to my Monday workmornings, Joe
	9:45am GListener MW: any chance of some Residents Gershwin too? (from their "George & James" album!)
	9:46am steveo: wunnerful wunnerful (hello!)
	9:54am melinda: I'm ok with xmas music, I need some help getting into the spirit.
	9:54am Rev. Turnip Druid: Who has carrot cake?
	9:54am Colleen: My mother claims that "Popcorn" was called "Perky" Back in her day.....she didn't have the gumption to Google it to back it up though!!!
	9:57am Mick: SO glad you did the Gershon Kingsley tribute - thanks Joe! Will find a way to go back and catch the part i missed in that abundance of free time that's out there somewhere...
	9:57am raszzyy (Sweden): Wooh! Dry Cleaning! Bumped into them a few times when I was back in SE London. So glad to hear them getting airtime, reminds me of home in the long dark winter :D
	9:57am Joe McG: @Colleen: Clay Pigeon tells me that the follow-up was called "Percolator"!
	9:58am steveo: sorry Rev., all I've got is fruitcake today
	10:00am Rev. Turnip Druid: Fruitcake is the root of all evil, sorry to reveal.
	10:02am pantz: Love this new B&S album. I'm surprised they never did a movie soundtrack before this one.
	10:02am Rev. Turnip Druid: Heading to Denmark for the holiday break, so the part of carrot-cake will be played by a dense kløbenbolle. It could be much, much worse.
	👻 10:02am Webhamster Henry: @Colleen she may be confusing it with the excellent Maxwell House Percolator tune, I'm pretty sure predating "Popcorn" en.wikipedia.org...
	10:03am Handy Haversack: This is real nice. Didn't know there was a new album.
	10:04am steveo: of course, Rev., of course; but it's XMAS
	10:05am Rev. Turnip Druid: Suddenly craving a Kingsbury Manx track in this mix. Seems ideal.
	👻 10:09am karlward: And while were at it with this So Cow stuff, drop some "So Cowboy" by Golden Boys into the mix. Sara Houser from Lowin on harmony, great stuff.
	10:09am Joe McG: @Handy: It's my favorite B&S in a good long while.
	10:11am Handy Haversack: This set is kick-ass!
	10:14am briania: Gift-wrappin to the soundzz, verry nice. Liked that Haskels track!
	10:15am Joe McG: @briania: The gift-wrappin' music gets serious at 10:30!
	10:15am Handy Haversack: "Motorway madness" sounds a lot more depthful than "road rage."
	10:18am Greg from ZONE 5: GBV! GBV! GBV!
	10:19am GListener MW: GBVeeeeee <3
	10:21am pantz: Speaking of Motorway Madness, there's an LED highway warning sign outside of Nashville that reads "Cousin Eddie says Twitter's full. Pay attention to the road!" Someone has a good sense of humor at the Dept of Transportation in TN.
	10:22am The Oscar: This has to be a song-poem, yes? If not, I DEFINITELY need to know more...
	👻 10:22am karlward: This is maybe the weirdest thing I've ever heard on this station.
	10:23am Handy Haversack: That was out there. Also: not the Jim Ward who wrote _Deities and Demigods_ and _Metamorphosis Alpha_. I am pretty sure.
	10:24am Joe McG: @Oscar: Yes, it is. I'll discuss.
	10:24am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning all
	👻 10:24am karlward: Joe McGasko in a beat up F150, camo hat, blasting Leon Russell, looking for a fight in the backwoods.
	👻 10:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hmmm....now where have I heard "splunge" before? Here we go ... the 3:38 mark. vimeo.com...
	10:26am Joe McG: @Karl: ha!
	10:37am coelacanth∅: looks like my timing sucks today; but i enjoyed the mic break anyway!
	👻 10:37am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. It is a peach of a day here. Happy Christmas to everyone. Holding out for the Four Kings. Ha hs.
	10:37am pantz: Snoopy and the Red Baron?
	10:38am Officer Pupp: Here in the UK, there is no more famous song in all of popular music than this Wizzard song.
	10:38am Joe McG: @pantz: I have it, but I didn't bring it this time!
	10:38am pantz: Good grief @Joe!
	10:38am Joe McG: @Pupp: Yes, please put up with me on this one, UK listeners. This song is obscure here, if you can believe it.
	10:39am steveo: this is good song, but I'm pretty glad it's not christmas every day
	10:40am SmokinJ: Thanks for the Haskels Joe! Home town heroes back in the day! 8-)
	10:40am Officer Pupp: @Joe Yeah, it occurred to me a few years ago that this and Slade and a few others are probably not that well known over in the US!
	10:42am Joe McG: You bet, SmokinJ.
	👻 10:42am Brian in UK: Is this a foxtrot as opposed to a turkey trot.
	10:44am medson: Happy Holidays Joe and everyone.
	10:46am Hubig Pie: All the cajun girls luv a hot boudin
	10:46am Joe McG: Happy holidays, medson!
	10:50am Handy Haversack: I heard a, I think, Shropshire version of "Twas the Night" when I was younger. I wonder how many dialect versions exist.
	10:52am Phillippe Bastille: This guy doesn't say it right! It's Bawl-a-more
	10:52am steveo: lol we are going to new hampshire for xmas and i am told that haddock is on the menu
	10:52am Mike Sin: Gentleman Joe McG is the king of the Christmas comp!
	10:52am Handy Haversack: "Ballimur."
	10:52am Hubig Pie: I always look forward to the Christmas Scrod
	10:53am Cmurtha: I see I missed getting crabs for Christmas, leavin me with nuttin
	10:53am Planet Tyler: Is there one of these for Philly? It's the hardest accent to imitate, according to me.
	10:53am juli: happy birthday to the great Chet Baker...one of my favorite vocalists...let's get lost...
	10:54am Joe D.: mid Atlantic accents are funny because this dude has powerful young Joe Jack Talcum energy
	👻 10:54am LW Rhino: @Joe: May Santa leave a shiny new stylus in your stocking which I'm sure was hung with care.
	10:55am PAUL: Do you have the Jona Lewie version of this?
	10:55am Listener Alexandra: Merry New Year, Joe :) Greetings from soggy California!
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and everybody! Enjoying the deep cut Christmas 45s - especially this hepcat beatnik 45.
	10:58am G: amazon lists a book by Hasa (Hazy) Ortego also called _Christmas Eve on the Big Bayou_, copyright 1973. Gonna guess that's your "?" date...
	10:58am pantz: The Free Design manages to make something shouted across the table by my family sound so much better.
	11:00am Joe McG: @PAUL: I do, Paul, but I didn't bring it today since I brought the cover version. @Alex: Happy NY, Alex!
	11:01am steveo: yep deep cut christmas is awesome
	11:02am Handy Haversack: These Christmas cuts get any deeper, and we're gonna be all the way back to the first one!
	11:02am PAUL: @Joe, I see. Merry Christmas!
	👻 11:02am tim from champaign (now washington): Here's a 2019 highlight for me: discovering that Rotary Connection are a wicked psychedelic band. I always assumed that they were a vocal pop band like Free Design.
	11:03am Joe McG: @tim: A wonderful discovery! So much to enjoy there.
	11:04am PAUL: tim, Did you know that Minnie Ripperton was Maya Rudolph's mom?
	👻 11:04am Webhamster Henry: I have this Shonen Knife recording...
	11:05am ?: wow, it's the beatles xmas record as read by yoko...!
	👻 11:06am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - I did but I didn't know Minnie was in the Rotary Connection until this year.
	11:06am ?: ...even down to the jelly babies! yay!
	11:07am The Oscar: This SK is beyond adorable. Also, Maya Rudolph is married to Paul Thomas Anderson, whose father was horror host Ghoulardi!
	11:07am Officer Pupp: Love this Shonen Knife!
	11:08am PAUL: @Tim, you must be young. :)
	11:09am Yes: happy to be here, together
	11:10am steveo: guess they had discos in memphis eh?
	11:10am P-90: You’re (practically) outdoing yourself with this Xmas Single File, @Joe McG
	👻 11:11am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - I'm turning 47 in a few weeks. I'll let you decide ;) haha
	11:12am Joe McG: @P-90: Having fun! I'm going to keep playin' 'em!
	11:13am PAUL: You're young. Enjoy it.
	👻 11:13am tim from champaign (now washington): Hold up - was Father Malcolm Boyd and Charlie Byrd cut pre United States of America?
	11:14am Hubig Pie: Discotheque's are numerous in Memphis, sleigh rides, not so much
	👻 11:14am tim from champaign (now washington): Never mind. I got it confused with Joseph Byrd.
	11:15am ?: thank you jesus, love JonBenet
	11:17am Mark in Toronto: Joe, do you have any Little Marcy?
	11:17am Handy Haversack: The horror ... the horror ...
	11:17am Mick: And thus was born little Cindy Lou Who
	11:18am Joe McG: @Mark: I do, but not with me. I figured Little Cindy was enough for one show.
	11:18am Listener Bop Monroe: did Sly & The Family Stone do a xmas single?
	11:19am Mark in Toronto: Don't tell me Daddy's in prison?
	👻 11:19am Brian in UK: @Mark in Toronto, no he is a WFMU DJ.
	11:20am PAUL: Barry, we get it. Enough.
	11:20am Mark in Toronto: Joe, I saw Little Marcy Christmas album at the Salvation Army, wanted to buy it (to go with my others), but saner heads prevailed
	11:21am pantz: He likes Christmas even though he got nuttin'
	11:21am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha ha. @Mark: You'll wake up at night wishing you had snagged it. :)
	11:21am Dean: I like contrabassoons.
	11:22am Bill W: Barry Gordon made a big splash (after this) on Broadway and film in A THOUSAND CLOWNS, and I believe he was later the president of the Screen Actors Guild. (And a regular on Abe Vigoda's sitcom FISH.)
	11:23am Joe McG: This is the "children torture" part of the program.
	11:24am Listener Bop Monroe: gf ORDERED me to turn this ff!!! has large knife in hand...
	11:24am The Oscar: These last two are A++++
	👻 11:24am Webhamster Henry: Barry Gordon from "A Thousand Clowns"? Later: President of SAG!
	👻 11:24am tim from champaign (now washington): Actually, I think getting a pet chimp is on about half of the FMU DJs xmas lists.
	11:24am Mark in Toronto: Does Dave the Spazz have this record?
	11:24am Listener Bop Monroe: off she said!!! NOW!!!
	11:25am Listener Bop Monroe: oh good mister magoo, you are redeemed
	11:25am Bill W: the power of BACKUS
	👻 11:25am tim from champaign (now washington): Dammit Joe! This set is keeping from getting work done!
	11:27am Mark in Toronto: "...if you had any class, you'd have gone by bus!" Indeed.
	11:27am steveo: jim backus has the same birthday as sandy bull!
	👻 11:28am Ken From Hyde Park: I like Jim's Uncle Croc's Block show.
	👻 11:28am Ken From Hyde Park: Derp ... wait, that was Charles Nelson Reilly. Nev-R-Mind
	11:29am Layet J: Loving your show as always, Joe!
	11:31am Handy Haversack: This is not going to go anywhere good ...
	11:32am Snoochienucci: Every week Joe lets a tiny bit of his country boy show through!
	11:33am Yes: and i am thankful for that every time
	11:33am Joe McG: Thanks for joining me, Layet J! @Snoochie: Can't quite help it!
	👻 11:34am tim from champaign (now washington): It's good to hear that Hilly kept his original vision alive (County Blue Grass) rather than pander with a punk song - hee hee.
	11:34am Joe McG: @Yes: Aw shucks, thanks!
	11:34am Snoochienucci: @Joe i for one do not mind! Let it out!!!!
	11:42am pantz: Oh! I think I have this 45. What was the A-Side, @Joe?
	11:43am The Oscar: Most underappreciated Prince song ever?
	11:43am Snoochienucci: HARD HITTING
	11:43am Listener Alexandra: This has aways been one of the best forgotten Christmas songs ever. Thanks for playing it, Joe :)
	11:43am Joe McG: @pantz: This is the B of "I Would Die 4 U." Ironic, a bit, since the girlfriend is the one who actually dies in this song.
	👻 11:44am karlward: Banana?
	11:44am The Oscar: I love that this song is pretty much standard ridiculous Prince, then suddenly gets REALLY sad, then swings back with the banana daquiris. It's perfect.
	👻 11:46am karlward: Do you think he was like "Strawberry dai- no. Pineapple dai- no. Damn it. Berry dai- no! Maybe I should just go back to banana daiquiris. OK let's do it." ? 'Cause I do.
	11:47am Krys O.: Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to you and yours, Joe & everyone!
	11:48am Joe McG: Thanks, Krys O., you too!
	11:48am Phillippe Bastille: Follow this up with Johnny Cash's Hard Liquor Christmas
	11:48am ChrisB.: I heard Molly Burch do this one on the SheilaB. show last week. Blew me away.
	11:50am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Christmas, Joe!
	11:50am Emily: Dolly is such a good songwriter. Love her
	👻 11:51am Brian in UK: Joe, thanks for all your hard work as ever. Keep it coming. You do make a difference.
	11:52am Mick: Such a good show - thanks Joe, and Happy Merry everyone!
	11:52am Snoochienucci: Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays, Joe and All, whatever it is ENJOY! See yall next time
	11:54am Cmurtha: Happy Holiday, thanks for the show!
	11:54am Phillippe Bastille: Thank you Joe! Enjoy the holidays!
	11:54am steveo: you sure have some wonderful records, joe; thanks for playing them for us and merry christmas to you
	11:55am Handy Haversack: Shoot -- over already? Thanks, Joe! Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a big hit around the Haversackery.
	👻 11:56am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Joe! Happity holidays!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Hope you enjoyed the extended Xmas Single File today. See you again next Monday to close out the year!
	11:56am Brendan: Thanks Joe for all you do. Merry Christmas and I hope an even better 2020 for you and everyone.
	12:00pm Hubig Pie: Yeah, Mr Young messed up that Crosby,Stills and Nash triumvirate too

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2019

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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December 23, 2019: Like Tippy-Toein' Angels

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Gershon Kingsley, R.I.P. "Gershon Kingsley, R.I.P."
Perrey-Kingsley	Swan's Splashdown	The In Sound from Way Out!	Vanguard	2005	CD	From 1966		0:09:30 (Pop-up)
Perrey & Kingsley	One Note Samba-Spanish Flea	The Essential Perrey & Kingsley	Vanguard	1988	CD	From 1967		0:12:02 (Pop-up)
Perrey-Kingsley	Barnyard in Orbit	The In Sound from Way Out!	Vanguard	2005	CD	From 1966		0:13:55 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley and the Moog	Popcorn	Music to Moog By	Audio Fidelity	1969	LP			0:16:13 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet	A.M.-New York	Popcorn	Audio Fidelity	1972	MP3			0:19:07 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley	Sunset Sound "Sunset Sound" by "Gershon Kingsley"	Music to Moog By	Audio Fidelity	1969	LP			0:21:22 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet	Miracles	Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet	Audio Fidelity	1970	MP3			0:24:09 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley	Pixillation "Pixillation" by "Gershon Kingsley"	Musique Concrète Soundtracks To Experimental Short Films 1956-1978	New England Electric Music Company	2001	CD	Bell Labs film, 1971		0:30:35 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kingsley & Leonid Hambro	Rhapsody in Blue / I Got Rhythm	Gershwin: Alive & Well & Underground	Avco Embassy	1970	LP			0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Gershon Kinsgley	Kohoutek "Kohoutek" by "Gershon Kinsgley"	single	Epic	1974	45	one more!		0:49:16 (Pop-up)

Dry Cleaning	Dog Proposal "Dog Proposal" by "Dry Cleaning"	Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP	Dry Cleaning	2019	MP3		*	1:02:22 (Pop-up)
So Cow	Notes "Notes" by "So Cow"	Do Re Mi Fa So Cow	So Cow	2019	CD		*	1:04:59 (Pop-up)
Belle and Sebastian	Safety Valve "Safety Valve" by "Belle and Sebastian"	Days of the Bagnold Summer	Matador	2019	CD		*	1:07:26 (Pop-up)
Plates of Cake	Gallery Girl "Gallery Girl" by "Plates of Cake"	Decline and Fall	Western Revisions	2019	EP		*	1:11:05 (Pop-up)
The Haskels	Baby Let's French "Baby Let's French" by "The Haskels"	The Haskels	Splunge Communications	2019	LP	From 1979	*	1:13:42 (Pop-up)
The Routes	The Ricochet "The Ricochet" by "The Routes"	Tune Out Switch Off Turn On	Groovie	2019	CD		*	1:15:48 (Pop-up)
Horslips	Motorway Madness "Motorway Madness" by "Horslips"	Tracks from the Vaults	Horslips	1977	LP	From 1971; careful out there!		1:20:43 (Pop-up)
Guided By Voices	Motor Away "Motor Away" by "Guided By Voices"	single	Matador	1995	45	why not		1:23:53 (Pop-up)
Jim Ward	To Elvis with Love "To Elvis with Love" by "Jim Ward"	Elvis We Still Love You	Royal Master	1978	LP	written by Mozelle Zuelzke		1:26:37 (Pop-up)
Leon Russell	Out in the Woods "Out in the Woods" by "Leon Russell"	Carney	Shelter	1972	LP			1:29:48 (Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker	It's Never Too Late	Her Latest and Greatest Spicy Songs	Mercury	1955	LP			1:33:16 (Pop-up)

Single File: Extended Christmas Edition
Wizzard	I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday	single	Harvest	1973	45			1:42:48 (Pop-up)
Hernando Hopkins and the Orchestra	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Cha Cha	single	ABC-Paramount	1958	45			1:47:04 (Pop-up)
The Harvey Averne Band	Let's Get It Together This Christmas	single	Fania	1970	45			1:49:35 (Pop-up)
Hasa (Hazy) Ortego	Christmas Eve on the Big Bayou	single	Swallow	?	45			1:51:57 (Pop-up)
David DeBoy	Crabs for Christmas "Crabs for Christmas" by "David DeBoy"	single	Outrageous	1981	45			1:55:46 (Pop-up)
The Cory Band with the Gwalia Singers	Stop the Calvary	single	Sound of the Valley	1981	45			1:59:16 (Pop-up)
Father Malcolm Boyd and Charlie Byrd	It's Morning, Jesus, It's Morning and Here's That Light and Sound All Over Again	single	Columbia	1965	45			2:02:12 (Pop-up)
The Free Design	Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)	single	Project 3	1968	45			2:03:43 (Pop-up)
Rotary Connection	Silent NIght Chant	single	Cadet Concept	1968	45			2:06:25 (Pop-up)
63 Monroe	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "63 Monroe"	single	Savvy	1984	45			2:08:31 (Pop-up)
Shonen Knife	Christmas Message '91	single	Rockville/Gastanka	1991	45			2:10:55 (Pop-up)
Memphis Sounds Orchestra	Sleigh Ride	single	RSO	1976	45			2:15:30 (Pop-up)
The Chambers Brothers	Merry Christmas, Happy New Year	single	Columbia	1969	45			2:18:29 (Pop-up)
Little Cindy	Happy Birthday Jesus	single	Salem	1959	45			2:21:18 (Pop-up)
Don and Jerry (The Joyner Brothers)	Santa, Bring My Daddy Back to Me	single	Mockingbird	?	45			2:23:33 (Pop-up)
Barry Gordon	I Like Christmas (I Like It, I Like It)	single	MGM	1956	45			2:26:07 (Pop-up)
Alice Martin	Charlie, The Christmas Chimpanzee	single	Kontention	1970	45			2:28:33 (Pop-up)
Jim Backus	Why Don't You Go Home for Xmas	single	Jubilee	1958	45			2:30:57 (Pop-up)

Hilly Kristal	Mud "Mud" by "Hilly Kristal"	single	CBGB OMFUG	1976	45			2:38:09 (Pop-up)
Mud	Lonely This Christmas "Lonely This Christmas" by "Mud"	single	RAK	1974	45			2:40:47 (Pop-up)
The Emotions	What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas	single	Volt	1973	45			2:44:20 (Pop-up)
Prince and the Revolution	Another Lonely Christmas	single	Warner Bros.	1984	45			2:47:40 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Hard Candy Christmas	single	RCA	1982	45			2:52:30 (Pop-up)
Emmylou Harris	Light of the Stable	single	Reprise	1975	45			2:56:03 (Pop-up)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Rosette Gospel Singers	Silent Night	single	Decca	1949	45			2:58:44 (Pop-up)
Bill Withers	The Gift of Giving "The Gift of Giving" by "Bill Withers"	single	Sussex	1972	45			3:01:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am Strandlund: The Great Joe McGasko!!
	9:03am Snoochienucci: boing boing boing
	9:04am pantz: Did someone step on a duck?
	9:04am The Oscar: Hullo-- always happy to hear some Perrey-Kingsley in the morning!
	9:06am melinda: good morning, I am off to a very slow start
	9:07am TDK60: Futuristic, Joe!
	9:08am Lixiviated Life: Yo Joey McGeeee How YOU doin'
	9:09am Snoochienucci: Got me moving over here!
	9:10am Snoochienucci: Are you really at work if Joe McGasko is DJing? I like to think not
	9:10am The Oscar: I'm glad I'm working from home today, because my coworkers would definitely be asking me why I'm grinning like an idiot and bobbing my head uncontrollable.
	9:10am Andrew_in_WI: I am unfamiliar with this Popcorn
	👻 9:11am Webhamster Henry: Beware of the blog directs you to dozens and dozens of Popcorn covers:blog.wfmu.org...
	9:12am The Oscar: Aw, just pieced together the reason why-- RIP Mr. Kingsley. (Still boppin', though)
	9:13am Andrew_in_WI: I think by Hit Butter is the one I'm thinking of... what was the first?
	👻 9:14am Ken From Hyde Park: Get to know more about Gershon Kingsley - www.gershonkingsley.com...
	👻 9:14am LastWhiteRhino: Hi Ya, Joe.
	9:14am Colleen: Sooooo gooood Joe!!!!
	9:15am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:15am Snoochienucci: @the Oscar theres a little bit of bobbing going on at my end
	9:16am Krys O.: Gershon and Jean-Jacques are making awesome tunes in the great beyond.
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: my fave GK is 'the elephant never forgets', the theme to 'el chavo del ocho'!
	9:18am Joe McG: Good morning, folks! Starting with a tribute to the departed Gershon Kingsley, who led a very long and productive life! No mourning, just celebration!
	9:18am Strandlund: You Moog me, Joe!!
	9:21am Colleen: This is pissing my visiting Mom off....Thank you Joe!...Thank you!!!
	9:22am ParUbi: Good morning guys. Is the universe expanding, or is everything in it shrinking?
	👻 9:22am Webhamster Henry: @Krys O Just a few of the original Moogers are left - primarily Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman .
	9:22am Joe McG: @Colleen: Ha ha ha. Tell her to hang in there, Gershwin is on the way.
	9:22am The Oscar: WOW, love this one!
	👻 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Definitely a different arrangement of "Miracles" than the one I've heard on John Allen's show.
	9:24am Colleen: Hahaha...ok....she has no choice though....this is blasting in the house!!
	9:25am Hi from Holland: Aloha! Enjoying this Gershon Kingsley set I must say.
	9:26am Joe McG: Aloha, Holland! And welcome to everyone joining me on this late December Monday.
	9:27am Handy Haversack: Sounds great!
	9:27am ParUbi: This music is definitely setting the right tone.
	9:27am Dominick: oh yeah!
	9:28am ParUbi: Can we just end 2019 early? January -8th, 2020?
	9:29am Listener Bop Monroe: now this is gonna be blasting in my house!!!
	9:29am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning Joe!
	9:32am Joe McG: Hey Aaron! @Ken: Ha ha ha
	9:32am GListener MW: happy Xmas Eve Eve, Joe!
	9:32am GListener MW: loving the Gershon Gershwin
	9:32am yippie: a perfect mash of the orchestral version and the solo piano version
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: This Gershwin is pretty magnificent!
	👻 9:34am Webhamster Henry: Playing this kind of set is what makes WFMU great!
	9:36am Joe McG: Glad you guys are enjoying the Gershon/in.
	9:38am Listener Bop Monroe: its a gersh win win situation!
	9:39am Handy Haversack: Zing! Well said, Bop Monroe.
	9:41am emily: Dear Joe, Thanks for being you on Monday mornings. I'm now scheduling myself around you so I can hear (at least) some live. You are the Christmas gift, the 3 Kings, and new year's eve all wrapped in foil paper.
	9:43am Brendan: Woof moog Good morning
	9:44am Joe McG: Gee, emily, that's SO nice! Thanks much to all the WFMU listeners who gave me the gift of playing music on Monday mornings all through 2019!
	9:44am GListener MW: What Emily said! Thanks for being the soundtrack to my Monday workmornings, Joe
	9:45am GListener MW: any chance of some Residents Gershwin too? (from their "George & James" album!)
	9:46am steveo: wunnerful wunnerful (hello!)
	9:54am melinda: I'm ok with xmas music, I need some help getting into the spirit.
	9:54am Rev. Turnip Druid: Who has carrot cake?
	9:54am Colleen: My mother claims that "Popcorn" was called "Perky" Back in her day.....she didn't have the gumption to Google it to back it up though!!!
	9:57am Mick: SO glad you did the Gershon Kingsley tribute - thanks Joe! Will find a way to go back and catch the part i missed in that abundance of free time that's out there somewhere...
	9:57am raszzyy (Sweden): Wooh! Dry Cleaning! Bumped into them a few times when I was back in SE London. So glad to hear them getting airtime, reminds me of home in the long dark winter :D
	9:57am Joe McG: @Colleen: Clay Pigeon tells me that the follow-up was called "Percolator"!
	9:58am steveo: sorry Rev., all I've got is fruitcake today
	10:00am Rev. Turnip Druid: Fruitcake is the root of all evil, sorry to reveal.
	10:02am pantz: Love this new B&S album. I'm surprised they never did a movie soundtrack before this one.
	10:02am Rev. Turnip Druid: Heading to Denmark for the holiday break, so the part of carrot-cake will be played by a dense kløbenbolle. It could be much, much worse.
	👻 10:02am Webhamster Henry: @Colleen she may be confusing it with the excellent Maxwell House Percolator tune, I'm pretty sure predating "Popcorn" en.wikipedia.org...
	10:03am Handy Haversack: This is real nice. Didn't know there was a new album.
	10:04am steveo: of course, Rev., of course; but it's XMAS
	10:05am Rev. Turnip Druid: Suddenly craving a Kingsbury Manx track in this mix. Seems ideal.
	👻 10:09am karlward: And while were at it with this So Cow stuff, drop some "So Cowboy" by Golden Boys into the mix. Sara Houser from Lowin on harmony, great stuff.
	10:09am Joe McG: @Handy: It's my favorite B&S in a good long while.
	10:11am Handy Haversack: This set is kick-ass!
	10:14am briania: Gift-wrappin to the soundzz, verry nice. Liked that Haskels track!
	10:15am Joe McG: @briania: The gift-wrappin' music gets serious at 10:30!
	10:15am Handy Haversack: "Motorway madness" sounds a lot more depthful than "road rage."
	10:18am Greg from ZONE 5: GBV! GBV! GBV!
	10:19am GListener MW: GBVeeeeee <3
	10:21am pantz: Speaking of Motorway Madness, there's an LED highway warning sign outside of Nashville that reads "Cousin Eddie says Twitter's full. Pay attention to the road!" Someone has a good sense of humor at the Dept of Transportation in TN.
	10:22am The Oscar: This has to be a song-poem, yes? If not, I DEFINITELY need to know more...
	👻 10:22am karlward: This is maybe the weirdest thing I've ever heard on this station.
	10:23am Handy Haversack: That was out there. Also: not the Jim Ward who wrote _Deities and Demigods_ and _Metamorphosis Alpha_. I am pretty sure.
	10:24am Joe McG: @Oscar: Yes, it is. I'll discuss.
	10:24am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning all
	👻 10:24am karlward: Joe McGasko in a beat up F150, camo hat, blasting Leon Russell, looking for a fight in the backwoods.
	👻 10:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hmmm....now where have I heard "splunge" before? Here we go ... the 3:38 mark. vimeo.com...
	10:26am Joe McG: @Karl: ha!
	10:37am coelacanth∅: looks like my timing sucks today; but i enjoyed the mic break anyway!
	👻 10:37am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. It is a peach of a day here. Happy Christmas to everyone. Holding out for the Four Kings. Ha hs.
	10:37am pantz: Snoopy and the Red Baron?
	10:38am Officer Pupp: Here in the UK, there is no more famous song in all of popular music than this Wizzard song.
	10:38am Joe McG: @pantz: I have it, but I didn't bring it this time!
	10:38am pantz: Good grief @Joe!
	10:38am Joe McG: @Pupp: Yes, please put up with me on this one, UK listeners. This song is obscure here, if you can believe it.
	10:39am steveo: this is good song, but I'm pretty glad it's not christmas every day
	10:40am SmokinJ: Thanks for the Haskels Joe! Home town heroes back in the day! 8-)
	10:40am Officer Pupp: @Joe Yeah, it occurred to me a few years ago that this and Slade and a few others are probably not that well known over in the US!
	10:42am Joe McG: You bet, SmokinJ.
	👻 10:42am Brian in UK: Is this a foxtrot as opposed to a turkey trot.
	10:44am medson: Happy Holidays Joe and everyone.
	10:46am Hubig Pie: All the cajun girls luv a hot boudin
	10:46am Joe McG: Happy holidays, medson!
	10:50am Handy Haversack: I heard a, I think, Shropshire version of "Twas the Night" when I was younger. I wonder how many dialect versions exist.
	10:52am Phillippe Bastille: This guy doesn't say it right! It's Bawl-a-more
	10:52am steveo: lol we are going to new hampshire for xmas and i am told that haddock is on the menu
	10:52am Mike Sin: Gentleman Joe McG is the king of the Christmas comp!
	10:52am Handy Haversack: "Ballimur."
	10:52am Hubig Pie: I always look forward to the Christmas Scrod
	10:53am Cmurtha: I see I missed getting crabs for Christmas, leavin me with nuttin
	10:53am Planet Tyler: Is there one of these for Philly? It's the hardest accent to imitate, according to me.
	10:53am juli: happy birthday to the great Chet Baker...one of my favorite vocalists...let's get lost...
	10:54am Joe D.: mid Atlantic accents are funny because this dude has powerful young Joe Jack Talcum energy
	👻 10:54am LW Rhino: @Joe: May Santa leave a shiny new stylus in your stocking which I'm sure was hung with care.
	10:55am PAUL: Do you have the Jona Lewie version of this?
	10:55am Listener Alexandra: Merry New Year, Joe :) Greetings from soggy California!
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and everybody! Enjoying the deep cut Christmas 45s - especially this hepcat beatnik 45.
	10:58am G: amazon lists a book by Hasa (Hazy) Ortego also called _Christmas Eve on the Big Bayou_, copyright 1973. Gonna guess that's your "?" date...
	10:58am pantz: The Free Design manages to make something shouted across the table by my family sound so much better.
	11:00am Joe McG: @PAUL: I do, Paul, but I didn't bring it today since I brought the cover version. @Alex: Happy NY, Alex!
	11:01am steveo: yep deep cut christmas is awesome
	11:02am Handy Haversack: These Christmas cuts get any deeper, and we're gonna be all the way back to the first one!
	11:02am PAUL: @Joe, I see. Merry Christmas!
	👻 11:02am tim from champaign (now washington): Here's a 2019 highlight for me: discovering that Rotary Connection are a wicked psychedelic band. I always assumed that they were a vocal pop band like Free Design.
	11:03am Joe McG: @tim: A wonderful discovery! So much to enjoy there.
	11:04am PAUL: tim, Did you know that Minnie Ripperton was Maya Rudolph's mom?
	👻 11:04am Webhamster Henry: I have this Shonen Knife recording...
	11:05am ?: wow, it's the beatles xmas record as read by yoko...!
	👻 11:06am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - I did but I didn't know Minnie was in the Rotary Connection until this year.
	11:06am ?: ...even down to the jelly babies! yay!
	11:07am The Oscar: This SK is beyond adorable. Also, Maya Rudolph is married to Paul Thomas Anderson, whose father was horror host Ghoulardi!
	11:07am Officer Pupp: Love this Shonen Knife!
	11:08am PAUL: @Tim, you must be young. :)
	11:09am Yes: happy to be here, together
	11:10am steveo: guess they had discos in memphis eh?
	11:10am P-90: You’re (practically) outdoing yourself with this Xmas Single File, @Joe McG
	👻 11:11am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - I'm turning 47 in a few weeks. I'll let you decide ;) haha
	11:12am Joe McG: @P-90: Having fun! I'm going to keep playin' 'em!
	11:13am PAUL: You're young. Enjoy it.
	👻 11:13am tim from champaign (now washington): Hold up - was Father Malcolm Boyd and Charlie Byrd cut pre United States of America?
	11:14am Hubig Pie: Discotheque's are numerous in Memphis, sleigh rides, not so much
	👻 11:14am tim from champaign (now washington): Never mind. I got it confused with Joseph Byrd.
	11:15am ?: thank you jesus, love JonBenet
	11:17am Mark in Toronto: Joe, do you have any Little Marcy?
	11:17am Handy Haversack: The horror ... the horror ...
	11:17am Mick: And thus was born little Cindy Lou Who
	11:18am Joe McG: @Mark: I do, but not with me. I figured Little Cindy was enough for one show.
	11:18am Listener Bop Monroe: did Sly & The Family Stone do a xmas single?
	11:19am Mark in Toronto: Don't tell me Daddy's in prison?
	👻 11:19am Brian in UK: @Mark in Toronto, no he is a WFMU DJ.
	11:20am PAUL: Barry, we get it. Enough.
	11:20am Mark in Toronto: Joe, I saw Little Marcy Christmas album at the Salvation Army, wanted to buy it (to go with my others), but saner heads prevailed
	11:21am pantz: He likes Christmas even though he got nuttin'
	11:21am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha ha. @Mark: You'll wake up at night wishing you had snagged it. :)
	11:21am Dean: I like contrabassoons.
	11:22am Bill W: Barry Gordon made a big splash (after this) on Broadway and film in A THOUSAND CLOWNS, and I believe he was later the president of the Screen Actors Guild. (And a regular on Abe Vigoda's sitcom FISH.)
	11:23am Joe McG: This is the "children torture" part of the program.
	11:24am Listener Bop Monroe: gf ORDERED me to turn this ff!!! has large knife in hand...
	11:24am The Oscar: These last two are A++++
	👻 11:24am Webhamster Henry: Barry Gordon from "A Thousand Clowns"? Later: President of SAG!
	👻 11:24am tim from champaign (now washington): Actually, I think getting a pet chimp is on about half of the FMU DJs xmas lists.
	11:24am Mark in Toronto: Does Dave the Spazz have this record?
	11:24am Listener Bop Monroe: off she said!!! NOW!!!
	11:25am Listener Bop Monroe: oh good mister magoo, you are redeemed
	11:25am Bill W: the power of BACKUS
	👻 11:25am tim from champaign (now washington): Dammit Joe! This set is keeping from getting work done!
	11:27am Mark in Toronto: "...if you had any class, you'd have gone by bus!" Indeed.
	11:27am steveo: jim backus has the same birthday as sandy bull!
	👻 11:28am Ken From Hyde Park: I like Jim's Uncle Croc's Block show.
	👻 11:28am Ken From Hyde Park: Derp ... wait, that was Charles Nelson Reilly. Nev-R-Mind
	11:29am Layet J: Loving your show as always, Joe!
	11:31am Handy Haversack: This is not going to go anywhere good ...
	11:32am Snoochienucci: Every week Joe lets a tiny bit of his country boy show through!
	11:33am Yes: and i am thankful for that every time
	11:33am Joe McG: Thanks for joining me, Layet J! @Snoochie: Can't quite help it!
	👻 11:34am tim from champaign (now washington): It's good to hear that Hilly kept his original vision alive (County Blue Grass) rather than pander with a punk song - hee hee.
	11:34am Joe McG: @Yes: Aw shucks, thanks!
	11:34am Snoochienucci: @Joe i for one do not mind! Let it out!!!!
	11:42am pantz: Oh! I think I have this 45. What was the A-Side, @Joe?
	11:43am The Oscar: Most underappreciated Prince song ever?
	11:43am Snoochienucci: HARD HITTING
	11:43am Listener Alexandra: This has aways been one of the best forgotten Christmas songs ever. Thanks for playing it, Joe :)
	11:43am Joe McG: @pantz: This is the B of "I Would Die 4 U." Ironic, a bit, since the girlfriend is the one who actually dies in this song.
	👻 11:44am karlward: Banana?
	11:44am The Oscar: I love that this song is pretty much standard ridiculous Prince, then suddenly gets REALLY sad, then swings back with the banana daquiris. It's perfect.
	👻 11:46am karlward: Do you think he was like "Strawberry dai- no. Pineapple dai- no. Damn it. Berry dai- no! Maybe I should just go back to banana daiquiris. OK let's do it." ? 'Cause I do.
	11:47am Krys O.: Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to you and yours, Joe & everyone!
	11:48am Joe McG: Thanks, Krys O., you too!
	11:48am Phillippe Bastille: Follow this up with Johnny Cash's Hard Liquor Christmas
	11:48am ChrisB.: I heard Molly Burch do this one on the SheilaB. show last week. Blew me away.
	11:50am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Christmas, Joe!
	11:50am Emily: Dolly is such a good songwriter. Love her
	👻 11:51am Brian in UK: Joe, thanks for all your hard work as ever. Keep it coming. You do make a difference.
	11:52am Mick: Such a good show - thanks Joe, and Happy Merry everyone!
	11:52am Snoochienucci: Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays, Joe and All, whatever it is ENJOY! See yall next time
	11:54am Cmurtha: Happy Holiday, thanks for the show!
	11:54am Phillippe Bastille: Thank you Joe! Enjoy the holidays!
	11:54am steveo: you sure have some wonderful records, joe; thanks for playing them for us and merry christmas to you
	11:55am Handy Haversack: Shoot -- over already? Thanks, Joe! Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a big hit around the Haversackery.
	👻 11:56am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Joe! Happity holidays!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Hope you enjoyed the extended Xmas Single File today. See you again next Monday to close out the year!
	11:56am Brendan: Thanks Joe for all you do. Merry Christmas and I hope an even better 2020 for you and everyone.
	12:00pm Hubig Pie: Yeah, Mr Young messed up that Crosby,Stills and Nash triumvirate too

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2019

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