WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 28, 2020

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	11:00am Listener Baby: Hey Currently!
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Hey now.
	11:01am Squints: ok then
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Shelleys & Ruth & all!
	11:01am Michael Shelley: Duh hey now
	11:01am Gordon FM: Glad to see y’all are still smokin’
	11:01am clarke: HEY NOWWWW!! Studio B-Minus is a'rockin'!!!
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Morning out there, Michael and all the Shelle Gamers!
	11:04am Joe B: hey Michael, Ruth and everyone
	11:05am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from rainy Tannersville all!
	11:05am Corey: Morning Michael, Ruth, and listeners! Nice to join you all.
	11:05am SeanG: howdy folks
	11:08am Ruth Booth: Morning, all!
	11:08am Peta Waddington: Listening live for first time... never timed it properly before. X
	11:09am Gordon FM: Clarkles - best sit down nahw mr.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: I can dig the sentiment of this song.
	11:09am clarke: i'm'a stan'on'up~
	11:10am Be Now B: The hits keep on coming :)
	11:11am Vt Knit Girl: Sharon Jones died in 2016
	11:11am MFlynn: Good morning all! Beautiful Saturday here in Reading, Pa.
	11:11am YETI BOB: @VtKG: Has it really been 4 years already? Time has been so strange lately
	11:12am YETI BOB: She was incredible
	11:14am Be Now B: looking at links to left.. I see "Andrew Bird live feat Jonathan Richman" wow That is a must Liesten/Watch!
	11:14am egould310: Chico Marx; the best!
	11:15am egould310: No wait; Groucho is the best!
	11:16am clarke: yes. PEZBAND!!
	11:16am YETI BOB: egould: No, Karl is the best! :)
	11:17am Handy Haversack: Heh, good socialist zing, YB!
	11:18am phat: That Pezband riff is so tasty. It's kind of ubiquitous, but I love it.
	11:18am Squints: Wouldn't Karl insist they're all the best?
	11:19am YETI BOB: Honestly I love all the Marxes, except for Richard.
	11:19am Squints: Yeah, YB, that's a carve out.
	11:19am Vt Knit Girl: Yes she had a stroke a few days after Trump was elected. She was very ill with pancreatic cancer. So sad she was amazing. There is a great Doc about her.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: Richard's Twitter feed is worth checking out. Good morning all & welcome Peta!
	11:21am Joe B: I recommend following Richard Marx on twitter, very funny
	11:23am Vt Knit Girl: @yetibob the movie is called Miss Sharon Jones
	11:25am Mailman Tom: Groucho. He had the best quiz show on television. It was called You Bet Your Life.
	11:25am Hubig Pie: Junior Parker does a lovely downbeat version of Tomorrow Never Knows
	11:26am Frank In Queens: A rather extensive collection of "You Bet Your Life" episodes: www.youtube.com...
	11:26am SecretSquirrel: Anyone ever see that Smothers Brothers skit about Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey,' in which they give a tour of the Honey House? Hilarious
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: #1 ConCatenation Station of the Nation !
	11:27am Dean: Uncle Michael played a series of tracks titled, "Run, Run, Run" (some without commas) yesterday. This was not among them.
	11:27am Squints: RMarx does seem like Shatner to get the joke.
	11:27am Hughie Considine: I guess the phrase just ... sings well? Amazing that the title unites the VU and the Who...
	11:28am egould310: Fresh faced youth, singing about positivity. V-neck sweaters and five part harmonies. Now this is the sound of the future!
	11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, Rev Rab. I finally got to a horizon yesterday and was able to see the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. Extremely cool. We spent the day riding ferries around NYC with some friends (and the dog). A full day's fun for $5.50.
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh Harpo.
	11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & Mars in the East. Quite a show.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: Yeah! Very clear last night, with a black wall coming in from the west to add drama.
	11:30am Mister Dobalina: Matt W's coffee cup, seems like he likes dark roasts. More of a medium roast guy, myself.
	11:30am Dennis Diken: go Mikey! diggin'!
	11:31am Squints: Black wall coming in from the west? From the direction of, um, the monolith?
	11:32am Be Now B: risking life and limb to go play tennis outside.. singles tennis so hopefully safe. weird times. Got my ears on while I ride my bmx bike to tennis.. TY Michael Shelley... I look forward to checking out this podcast you speak of.. Rappers delight.. cool Good day all.
	11:32am clarke: i am NOT the target audience for Speed Of Sound. i won't say the info is not interesting - but, i just have little connection with the host's ouvre.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gotta get better binoculars or even a telescope for Jupiter-Saturn by the Conjunction on 21st Dec. Winter Solstice : having them in one view can't be passed up.
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have yet to figure out how to insert podcasts into my deliciously decadent urban lifestyle choices. They just feel foreign to me still. I stick with radio. Good call, Rev Rab.
	11:34am chresti: Morning from the west!
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Podcasts for me were for walking around & commutes with headphones. But I ain't goin' nowhere just now... It's just like Radio that you choose & program yerself. If the WiFis I steal are on - FMU fills +75% of timeslots...
	11:38am clarke: i think i just figured that someone who borrowed his show-name from one of my favorite songs would be "cooler"?? high expectations is perhaps MY problem.
	11:38am egould310: Conway Twitty died on June 5, 1993 (aged 59) in Springfield, Missouri.
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: Hellooooo weather! Wait, no, I mean, hello Michael, Ruth, Joe, Frank, Greg, Dennis, MFlynn, Baby, Handy, all. Handy, I listen to podcasts while I'm walking, and over the course of a week can often fit in several good ones (insert plug for The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn).
	11:39am Squints: With a groove like dat, why CAN'T we live together?
	11:41am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack! I guess part of it for me is that I don't have a cell phone, so my commutes (formerly) and bridge walking (currently) are reading time for me.
	11:42am clarke: HH - gotta respect a person that does NOT have a phone! kudos!
	11:44am clarke: speaking of austrailia what's happened to Eddy? still in the dunny??
	11:45am Michael Shelley: When I'm cooking dinner, after hours spent putting the show together, somtimes I just need non-music - and for the past 4 years the news has been a tough listen... and podcast really have been a pleasure for me.
	11:45am Bootsie: YESSSS I love this song! I don't hear enough Flash and the Pan.
	11:45am Michael Shelley: Eddy said a time change made it much harder to listen live.
	11:45am muddybrookrambler: Those Flash and the Pan records are criminally forgotten but for those in the know. Great stuff!
	11:46am clarke: ah. crikey!!
	11:48am Rich from Bay Ridge: Wow... haven't heard that one in decades.
	11:49am chresti: If I'm not listening to WFMU, it's dublab or Radio Garden.
	11:49am Listener Baby: Baby.. Bongo feet run away? You’ve been on fire with those of late. Not feeling it?
	11:50am Handy Haversack: Hey, chresti! Happy Saturday!
	11:50am clarke: there have been feet in the show, BABY!! (explorer's club)
	11:51am clarke: w/gain structure!!
	11:51am Listener Baby: Oh shoot. I have to listen so quietly in the house, I must have missed them. And there was another. I’m all better now.
	11:51am chresti: Hi Handy!
	11:53am clarke: sometimes the subtle feet are the best. the ones that sound like they are part of the tune. sometimes not.
	11:53am Listener Baby: I call those times “A bongo feat”
	11:54am clarke: feats don't fail us now
	11:54am egould310: If I’m not listening to wfmu, it’s dkfm, or the Petros and Money Show streaming on the iHeart radio app. Mostly just wfmu in the mornings, albums on Spotify in the afternoons/evenings.
	11:55am GeoSinPhilly: Jingle Bell rock
	11:56am Michael Shelley: THANK YOU!
	11:56am clarke: seems like much of the 'regulars' on the chat are not a target audience, ha ha.
	11:59am clarke: i have actually listened to the podcast featured today, and don't happen to believe that hanson belongs in the same sentence with otis redding. that's just me.
	11:59am Mister Dobalina: Did someone say....DRUGGGggggggssss?!?!?!
	11:59am listener 126464: get the version with the Live at Hollywood High 45 tucked inside
	12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Jesus CHRIST.
	12:01pm Hoboken Jack: Handy, I use an mp3 player that I load podcasts and music onto -- the only things I listen to on my phone are baseball and wfmu.
	12:01pm egould310: Speedy little rendition.
	12:01pm Hubig Pie: It's in the drugs
	12:02pm herb.nyc: I’ve seen EC lots. Have never heard him do “goon squad”. Amazing!!
	12:03pm Frank Zaatar: I was never quite satisfied with the production values on Armed Forces, so these live sets are great.
	12:04pm Hoboken Jack: Hey 126464!
	12:04pm listener 126464: Hello Jack, everybody!
	12:04pm Listener Baby: This song is Lit Up!
	12:05pm clarke: Jack: do you still have working ipods? (i have two that still work!)
	12:05pm Gerry from Miami: Wasn't actor Joe Pesci a one-time member of Joey Dee and the Starlighters?
	12:06pm SecretSquirrel: Michael, I'm impressed with the way you beat-match those Flintstones bongos to the track. Do you adjust the tempo and then pre-cue them in your cans? Youth wants to know!
	12:06pm clarke: those are joe pesci's hand claps, there!
	12:07pm SecretSquirrel: Nice to see you on this thread @FrankZaatar!
	12:07pm clarke: (out of time)
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: SS- no beat matching... just feeling it
	12:09pm Frank In Queens: If I'm not listening to WFMU, I'm listening to record collection and/or the Stern Show.
	12:10pm Frank In Queens: no, not and/or! WTF did I just type?
	12:10pm clarke: you are watching MOVIES!!!
	12:11pm SecretSquirrel: @Michael Shelley nice!
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: That's at night when I don't want to piss off my neighbors. But after their super-spreader Thanksgiving, I'm not sure I give a damn what they think anymore.
	12:12pm clarke: yikes!!
	12:13pm Ciggy: You mean, Like: "Wowie Zowie, baby You're so fine Wowie Zowie, baby Please be mine Wowie Zowie Up and down my spine I don't even care If you brush your teeth."
	12:13pm Frank In Queens: These are also the folks who smoke like chimneys. I might have mentioned them in the past.
	12:14pm Frank Zaatar: Back at you, squirrel.
	12:15pm clarke: The Smokers --- yes. have you ever read the steve martin short story with that title: The Smokers. ?? great.
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Getting the impression of a Pop version of Cocaine & Rhinestones (which was exceptional)...
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but maybe not really...
	12:18pm Frank In Queens: I'll check it out clarke.
	12:18pm Layet Johnson: What’s Steve’s podcast called again?
	12:19pm clarke: the entire collection entitled Cruel Shoes is a great read!! and can be found at thrift stores, occasionally.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: "Speed Of Sound"
	12:19pm happymaan: shorefire.com...
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apple podcasts : podcasts.apple.com...
	12:22pm Layet Johnson: Thanks!!
	12:23pm chresti: My ex loved the Jack Paar show.
	12:23pm johnk77: even well on into the 70s capitol known as 1 of the majors weakest at breaking anything new and/or different:<
	12:25pm clarke: my uncle happened to bring back some beatles records from england in '63
	12:25pm Frank Zaatar: I saw that show! You could hardly hear them and they seemed way too wild for my 10-year-old sensibilities. Come January I totally flipped for them.
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & EMI England owned U.S. Capitol ! Incredible they were forestalled. An English band - who knew right?
	12:26pm Franco Twinkie: It's hard to convey the feeling of been overwhelmed by a tidal wave to younger people, but it was real and totally disorienting.
	12:29pm clarke: while i agree this stuff is fascinating - i guess what i don't like is equating stuff i hate with stuff i love. i have definite borders.
	12:29pm Jett: Anyone know which version of "Mornin' Mornin'" came first, Bobby Goldsboro or The Guise?
	12:30pm clarke: guessing here, but goldsboro was no ground-breaker
	12:33pm Frank Zaatar: I really like Steve Greenberg's methodology.
	12:33pm clarke: the charts NEVER ever played into my beliefs.
	12:34pm Dean: Interesting article about The Beatles in the NYT, Feb. 17, 1964, McCandlish Phillips, "Publicitywise: How They Grew, Publicity Wise," mentions the Paar appearance: "Jack Paar was also in England when the Beatles made it big there, and he brought back a video tape that he played on his television show on Jan. 3 -- well ahead of the live appearance on the Sullivan show five weeks later." $10,500 for two performances at Carnegie Hall...offered $20,000 for MSG...
	12:34pm listener 126464: all kinds of time
	12:35pm herb.nyc: Real Intetesting interview. Funny to hear Transistor Radio mentioned. Yeah! And Boy Bands. By coincidence, I know Maria Sherman. She just wrote a book about these men, Larger Than Life. I have it. (Wanna interview her, Michael?)
	12:36pm Dean: Also on the Paar show the night of their appearance: Peggy Cass, Paul Lynde, and Jack Douglas.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right. FMU is specifically non-commercial & marginal... Yet also about any challenging boundaries. Interesting isn't it. The Industry has completely changed - yet it's always been about wanting Hits.
	12:37pm clarke: jack douglas the record producer??
	12:38pm Pedro in Arlington: But what about Cronkite airing a story on the Beatles Dec. 1o, 1963?
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I remember Dick Clark remarking how important the Twist was & nobody remembered.
	12:40pm Sean: I never thought that disco sucked. Not for one minute.
	12:40pm Joe B: Steve Greenberg did produce that first 9 cd Stax box, so I'm sure he knows his stuff on that topic
	12:40pm MFlynn: That was cool Michael!! Thank you!!!
	12:41pm mariano: 'Morning MS, everyone. Haven't heard this in a while.
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: From where I was - Disco felt like my generation's version of the Depression or Nam - just went on for years & years dominating everything it seemed. Completely the opposite of the Urban liberation of people of color or LGBTQ or hat drug users. The Conservatives were all up in it - & we were the Rawk Stoners.
	12:42pm clarke: great interview! i just figured the guy who used a chris bell title for his show would 'get it' more.
	12:42pm clarke: mariano!! new pic, huh?
	12:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *hard druggers...
	12:43pm Frank Zaatar: That Stax box is a university course in itself.
	12:44pm Cooh John: Playing air violin
	12:45pm Greg from ZONE 5: Def gonna check out that podcast.
	12:45pm muddybrookrambler: The 80s had some amazing music—it just didn’t get played on commercial radio.
	12:45pm mariano: Hey clarke! Yes, trying out my new "Mulholland Dr" winter line of avatars.
	12:45pm clarke: that air-wahwah would be tricky - because there is delay and echo on it, requiring only half the movement.
	12:45pm Sean: @Revolution Oh, I understand hat drug use. I watched an entire episode of "Lidsville" yesterday. #true
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Word muddy ...& then MTV...
	12:47pm vertual: just brought up memories of playing loves theme in middle school orchestra! that along with sweet caroline neil diamond..wow our director was so hip 1978
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We'll skip the early 90s Cat in the Hat aesthetic tho'...
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: Bette Davis Eyes is f'in terrible. Everything about it. The song structure, the lyrics, and especially the singing! I have memories of a girl in my nursery school playing it over and over again. I did not like that girl.
	12:49pm egould310: I was a kid (5 to 10 yo) for the disco era. Didn’t mind it much. It seemed sexy, if slightly shallow and kind of flaky. Young adults partying, no Vietnam, no hippies, no baggage. Don’t listen to it at all today. But I got no beef with disco.
	12:50pm clarke: movies, frank??? i was only going to watch the BEGINNING of Rear Window in your honor, the other night - but was of course drawn in... could be the best of all time.
	12:50pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: That’s the most magnificent Bevis Frond song of all time. Fitting to have TFC cover it 😆
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: when the change came & I held my breath with my eyes closed
	12:50pm Dean: ...and/or Helen O'Connell. @clarke: The question occurred to me, too. In 1964 record producer Douglas worked for RFK (per wikipedia), so probably not? More likely the British actor.
	12:50pm vertual: oops more like 1976
	12:50pm gf2002: I haven't heard the podcast about "grunge" getting bumped by boy bands and teen acts yet, but I remember vividly the period around 1996-1999 because I was playing in a band...and listening to the radio (and MTV) seemed to switch from bands and artists who played guitars and wrote their own songs to the pop princesses like Britney, Christina, etc and boy bands. These acts had songwriting "teams" of sometimes 6 people and hot dance moves instead of a legit band playing, writing, and singing with real drummers and loud guitars. I knew it was over for guitar bands actually making the charts. Grunge was and still is such an overblown and misleading term, it's meaningless.
	12:50pm YETI BOB: @Frank in Queens: For me it's the snare drum
	12:51pm Frank In Queens: YETI BOB, yeah that too!
	12:51pm egould310: Thanks for playing he tunes and interview, Michael.
	12:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bevis - great songs.
	12:52pm Frank In Queens: Clarke, this week was Gimme Shelter, Flash Gordon/Life After Flash doc, Badlands, and Do The Right Thing.
	12:53pm Frank In Queens: gf2002, don't forget the true nadir of the 90s; Nu-Metal.
	12:53pm clarke: i like Badlands!! the rest a bit 'eh' about - gimme shelter was edited poorly - not enough gram parsons, etc
	12:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Gimme Shelter woulda been better if the actors stuck to their cues... the pool cues...
	12:55pm gf2002: Nu-metal was indeed one of the worst scourges to ever hit the music world. And the nadir of that genre for all to see was that Woodstock fiasco
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: Hey now!
	12:55pm Squints: This FAs number from the turn of the 80s Mod revivial? I could mentally hear these fellas on a bill with Squire.
	12:55pm Joe B: songwriting teams isn't always a bad thing. the Monkees and Motown had songwriting teams. And some of the commercial rock bands I heard from 1996-99 could have used a songwriting team or two.
	12:55pm Dean: Having second thoughts. Yeah, it could have been Jack Douglas the producer.
	12:56pm Frank In Queens: gf2002, the Woodstock "fiasco" was completely appropriate for that ill-conceived festival.
	12:56pm mariano: gf2002: Yeah, grunge always seemed like some term imposed by the music industry a little after the fact. I don't remember a single person ever saying "I'm into grunge" or "I'm in a grunge band" till after Nirvana became mega stars.
	12:57pm gf2002: No those teams aren't necessarily a bad thing, but it got ridiculous when it took more than 2 pro writers (as The Monkees usually had on these teams) to make a pop hit.
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How to turn Woodstock into Altamont - the 1st festival with ATMs & $4 water.
	12:58pm Joe B: "These acts had songwriting "teams" of sometimes 6 people" If people like phil spector and motown were properly crediting people, they would have had 6 people as well. for example, neither goffin nor king wrote the guitar riff for pleasant valley sunday, and that makes the song
	12:58pm gf2002: That Woodstock fiasco was a fitting end for sure. I think people woke up after seeing that play out on TV
	12:58pm Sean: THIS RADIO BROADCAST IS GREAT!!! Stupidity, the American national pastime.
	12:59pm Squints: Joe B, Chip Douglas, right? Or was it Chip Taylor?
	12:59pm egould310: That disco demolition was dumb as fuck. Sad.
	12:59pm clarke: anyone ever get the feeling they been....
	12:59pm Joe B: wrecking crew contributions from people like louie shleton (vallerie) should have gotten songwriting credits
	12:59pm listener 126464: Thanks Michael, thanks Ruth.
	12:59pm Joe B: Nez came up with the pleasant valley sunday riff, I believe
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Cheers folks. See some of you at 3.
	12:59pm Ciggy: Loved Disco Tex And His Sexolettes
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the opposite of Wavy Gravy handing out oatmeal to gatecrashers...
	1:00pm Dean: Neither producer nor actor: a writer, e.g., My Brother Was an Only Child.
	1:01pm egould310: I should be drinking. Think I’ll pour a vodka oj.
	1:28pm Handy Haversack: Great show, Michael. Really interesting talk. I was blasting it out back while getting the leaves dealt with so couldn't thank you before the end of the show -- I was elbow deep in oak debris when you signed off! But many thanks!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 28, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Jackson do Pandeiro	Vamos Chegar Pra Lá
First Base	If I See You With That Girl Again
Pokey LaFarge	End Of My Rope "End Of My Rope" by "Pokey LaFarge"
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings	Little By Little
Chico Marx	Everyone Says I Love You
Pezband	Please Be Somewhere Tonight
Bobby Goldsboro	Mornin' Mornin' "Mornin' Mornin'" by "Bobby Goldsboro"
Wade Ray	Cattin' Around "Cattin' Around" by "Wade Ray"
Little Junior Parker	Seven Days "Seven Days" by "Little Junior Parker"
Explorers Club, The	Run, Run, Run
Visions, The	Tell Her Now "Tell Her Now" by "Visions, The"
Conway Twitty	Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Timmy Thomas	Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Famous Ward Singers, The	I'm Getting RIcher
Flash And The Pan	Hey, Saint Peter
Brinsley Schwarz	Give Me Back My Love
Joel Paterson	Fender Freeze "Fender Freeze" by "Joel Paterson"
Lee Dorsey	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Elvis Costello	Goon Squad (Live At Pinkpop, 1979)
Joey Dee & the Starlighters	Peppermint Twist (parts 1 & 2)
Steve Greenberg	Interview "Interview" by "Steve Greenberg"
Barry White	Love's Theme "Love's Theme" by "Barry White"
Todd Bradley	Mr. Happy "Mr. Happy" by "Todd Bradley"
Toni And Terri	Everybody Can't Play Shortstop
Teenage Fanclub	He's Be A Diamond
Kurt Baker	She Don't Really Love You, Dude
Eddy Delbridge And The Free Agents	The Kids Are Dancing
Brad Palmer	Disco Demolition Night, July 12, 1979, Comiskey Park in Chicago

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CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

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Listener comments!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Hey Currently!
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Hey now.
	11:01am Squints: ok then
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Shelleys & Ruth & all!
	11:01am Michael Shelley: Duh hey now
	11:01am Gordon FM: Glad to see y’all are still smokin’
	11:01am clarke: HEY NOWWWW!! Studio B-Minus is a'rockin'!!!
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Morning out there, Michael and all the Shelle Gamers!
	11:04am Joe B: hey Michael, Ruth and everyone
	11:05am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from rainy Tannersville all!
	11:05am Corey: Morning Michael, Ruth, and listeners! Nice to join you all.
	11:05am SeanG: howdy folks
	11:08am Ruth Booth: Morning, all!
	11:08am Peta Waddington: Listening live for first time... never timed it properly before. X
	11:09am Gordon FM: Clarkles - best sit down nahw mr.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: I can dig the sentiment of this song.
	11:09am clarke: i'm'a stan'on'up~
	11:10am Be Now B: The hits keep on coming :)
	11:11am Vt Knit Girl: Sharon Jones died in 2016
	11:11am MFlynn: Good morning all! Beautiful Saturday here in Reading, Pa.
	11:11am YETI BOB: @VtKG: Has it really been 4 years already? Time has been so strange lately
	11:12am YETI BOB: She was incredible
	11:14am Be Now B: looking at links to left.. I see "Andrew Bird live feat Jonathan Richman" wow That is a must Liesten/Watch!
	11:14am egould310: Chico Marx; the best!
	11:15am egould310: No wait; Groucho is the best!
	11:16am clarke: yes. PEZBAND!!
	11:16am YETI BOB: egould: No, Karl is the best! :)
	11:17am Handy Haversack: Heh, good socialist zing, YB!
	11:18am phat: That Pezband riff is so tasty. It's kind of ubiquitous, but I love it.
	11:18am Squints: Wouldn't Karl insist they're all the best?
	11:19am YETI BOB: Honestly I love all the Marxes, except for Richard.
	11:19am Squints: Yeah, YB, that's a carve out.
	11:19am Vt Knit Girl: Yes she had a stroke a few days after Trump was elected. She was very ill with pancreatic cancer. So sad she was amazing. There is a great Doc about her.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: Richard's Twitter feed is worth checking out. Good morning all & welcome Peta!
	11:21am Joe B: I recommend following Richard Marx on twitter, very funny
	11:23am Vt Knit Girl: @yetibob the movie is called Miss Sharon Jones
	11:25am Mailman Tom: Groucho. He had the best quiz show on television. It was called You Bet Your Life.
	11:25am Hubig Pie: Junior Parker does a lovely downbeat version of Tomorrow Never Knows
	11:26am Frank In Queens: A rather extensive collection of "You Bet Your Life" episodes: www.youtube.com...
	11:26am SecretSquirrel: Anyone ever see that Smothers Brothers skit about Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey,' in which they give a tour of the Honey House? Hilarious
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: #1 ConCatenation Station of the Nation !
	11:27am Dean: Uncle Michael played a series of tracks titled, "Run, Run, Run" (some without commas) yesterday. This was not among them.
	11:27am Squints: RMarx does seem like Shatner to get the joke.
	11:27am Hughie Considine: I guess the phrase just ... sings well? Amazing that the title unites the VU and the Who...
	11:28am egould310: Fresh faced youth, singing about positivity. V-neck sweaters and five part harmonies. Now this is the sound of the future!
	11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, Rev Rab. I finally got to a horizon yesterday and was able to see the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. Extremely cool. We spent the day riding ferries around NYC with some friends (and the dog). A full day's fun for $5.50.
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh Harpo.
	11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & Mars in the East. Quite a show.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: Yeah! Very clear last night, with a black wall coming in from the west to add drama.
	11:30am Mister Dobalina: Matt W's coffee cup, seems like he likes dark roasts. More of a medium roast guy, myself.
	11:30am Dennis Diken: go Mikey! diggin'!
	11:31am Squints: Black wall coming in from the west? From the direction of, um, the monolith?
	11:32am Be Now B: risking life and limb to go play tennis outside.. singles tennis so hopefully safe. weird times. Got my ears on while I ride my bmx bike to tennis.. TY Michael Shelley... I look forward to checking out this podcast you speak of.. Rappers delight.. cool Good day all.
	11:32am clarke: i am NOT the target audience for Speed Of Sound. i won't say the info is not interesting - but, i just have little connection with the host's ouvre.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gotta get better binoculars or even a telescope for Jupiter-Saturn by the Conjunction on 21st Dec. Winter Solstice : having them in one view can't be passed up.
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have yet to figure out how to insert podcasts into my deliciously decadent urban lifestyle choices. They just feel foreign to me still. I stick with radio. Good call, Rev Rab.
	11:34am chresti: Morning from the west!
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Podcasts for me were for walking around & commutes with headphones. But I ain't goin' nowhere just now... It's just like Radio that you choose & program yerself. If the WiFis I steal are on - FMU fills +75% of timeslots...
	11:38am clarke: i think i just figured that someone who borrowed his show-name from one of my favorite songs would be "cooler"?? high expectations is perhaps MY problem.
	11:38am egould310: Conway Twitty died on June 5, 1993 (aged 59) in Springfield, Missouri.
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: Hellooooo weather! Wait, no, I mean, hello Michael, Ruth, Joe, Frank, Greg, Dennis, MFlynn, Baby, Handy, all. Handy, I listen to podcasts while I'm walking, and over the course of a week can often fit in several good ones (insert plug for The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn).
	11:39am Squints: With a groove like dat, why CAN'T we live together?
	11:41am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack! I guess part of it for me is that I don't have a cell phone, so my commutes (formerly) and bridge walking (currently) are reading time for me.
	11:42am clarke: HH - gotta respect a person that does NOT have a phone! kudos!
	11:44am clarke: speaking of austrailia what's happened to Eddy? still in the dunny??
	11:45am Michael Shelley: When I'm cooking dinner, after hours spent putting the show together, somtimes I just need non-music - and for the past 4 years the news has been a tough listen... and podcast really have been a pleasure for me.
	11:45am Bootsie: YESSSS I love this song! I don't hear enough Flash and the Pan.
	11:45am Michael Shelley: Eddy said a time change made it much harder to listen live.
	11:45am muddybrookrambler: Those Flash and the Pan records are criminally forgotten but for those in the know. Great stuff!
	11:46am clarke: ah. crikey!!
	11:48am Rich from Bay Ridge: Wow... haven't heard that one in decades.
	11:49am chresti: If I'm not listening to WFMU, it's dublab or Radio Garden.
	11:49am Listener Baby: Baby.. Bongo feet run away? You’ve been on fire with those of late. Not feeling it?
	11:50am Handy Haversack: Hey, chresti! Happy Saturday!
	11:50am clarke: there have been feet in the show, BABY!! (explorer's club)
	11:51am clarke: w/gain structure!!
	11:51am Listener Baby: Oh shoot. I have to listen so quietly in the house, I must have missed them. And there was another. I’m all better now.
	11:51am chresti: Hi Handy!
	11:53am clarke: sometimes the subtle feet are the best. the ones that sound like they are part of the tune. sometimes not.
	11:53am Listener Baby: I call those times “A bongo feat”
	11:54am clarke: feats don't fail us now
	11:54am egould310: If I’m not listening to wfmu, it’s dkfm, or the Petros and Money Show streaming on the iHeart radio app. Mostly just wfmu in the mornings, albums on Spotify in the afternoons/evenings.
	11:55am GeoSinPhilly: Jingle Bell rock
	11:56am Michael Shelley: THANK YOU!
	11:56am clarke: seems like much of the 'regulars' on the chat are not a target audience, ha ha.
	11:59am clarke: i have actually listened to the podcast featured today, and don't happen to believe that hanson belongs in the same sentence with otis redding. that's just me.
	11:59am Mister Dobalina: Did someone say....DRUGGGggggggssss?!?!?!
	11:59am listener 126464: get the version with the Live at Hollywood High 45 tucked inside
	12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Jesus CHRIST.
	12:01pm Hoboken Jack: Handy, I use an mp3 player that I load podcasts and music onto -- the only things I listen to on my phone are baseball and wfmu.
	12:01pm egould310: Speedy little rendition.
	12:01pm Hubig Pie: It's in the drugs
	12:02pm herb.nyc: I’ve seen EC lots. Have never heard him do “goon squad”. Amazing!!
	12:03pm Frank Zaatar: I was never quite satisfied with the production values on Armed Forces, so these live sets are great.
	12:04pm Hoboken Jack: Hey 126464!
	12:04pm listener 126464: Hello Jack, everybody!
	12:04pm Listener Baby: This song is Lit Up!
	12:05pm clarke: Jack: do you still have working ipods? (i have two that still work!)
	12:05pm Gerry from Miami: Wasn't actor Joe Pesci a one-time member of Joey Dee and the Starlighters?
	12:06pm SecretSquirrel: Michael, I'm impressed with the way you beat-match those Flintstones bongos to the track. Do you adjust the tempo and then pre-cue them in your cans? Youth wants to know!
	12:06pm clarke: those are joe pesci's hand claps, there!
	12:07pm SecretSquirrel: Nice to see you on this thread @FrankZaatar!
	12:07pm clarke: (out of time)
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: SS- no beat matching... just feeling it
	12:09pm Frank In Queens: If I'm not listening to WFMU, I'm listening to record collection and/or the Stern Show.
	12:10pm Frank In Queens: no, not and/or! WTF did I just type?
	12:10pm clarke: you are watching MOVIES!!!
	12:11pm SecretSquirrel: @Michael Shelley nice!
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: That's at night when I don't want to piss off my neighbors. But after their super-spreader Thanksgiving, I'm not sure I give a damn what they think anymore.
	12:12pm clarke: yikes!!
	12:13pm Ciggy: You mean, Like: "Wowie Zowie, baby You're so fine Wowie Zowie, baby Please be mine Wowie Zowie Up and down my spine I don't even care If you brush your teeth."
	12:13pm Frank In Queens: These are also the folks who smoke like chimneys. I might have mentioned them in the past.
	12:14pm Frank Zaatar: Back at you, squirrel.
	12:15pm clarke: The Smokers --- yes. have you ever read the steve martin short story with that title: The Smokers. ?? great.
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Getting the impression of a Pop version of Cocaine & Rhinestones (which was exceptional)...
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but maybe not really...
	12:18pm Frank In Queens: I'll check it out clarke.
	12:18pm Layet Johnson: What’s Steve’s podcast called again?
	12:19pm clarke: the entire collection entitled Cruel Shoes is a great read!! and can be found at thrift stores, occasionally.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: "Speed Of Sound"
	12:19pm happymaan: shorefire.com...
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apple podcasts : podcasts.apple.com...
	12:22pm Layet Johnson: Thanks!!
	12:23pm chresti: My ex loved the Jack Paar show.
	12:23pm johnk77: even well on into the 70s capitol known as 1 of the majors weakest at breaking anything new and/or different:<
	12:25pm clarke: my uncle happened to bring back some beatles records from england in '63
	12:25pm Frank Zaatar: I saw that show! You could hardly hear them and they seemed way too wild for my 10-year-old sensibilities. Come January I totally flipped for them.
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & EMI England owned U.S. Capitol ! Incredible they were forestalled. An English band - who knew right?
	12:26pm Franco Twinkie: It's hard to convey the feeling of been overwhelmed by a tidal wave to younger people, but it was real and totally disorienting.
	12:29pm clarke: while i agree this stuff is fascinating - i guess what i don't like is equating stuff i hate with stuff i love. i have definite borders.
	12:29pm Jett: Anyone know which version of "Mornin' Mornin'" came first, Bobby Goldsboro or The Guise?
	12:30pm clarke: guessing here, but goldsboro was no ground-breaker
	12:33pm Frank Zaatar: I really like Steve Greenberg's methodology.
	12:33pm clarke: the charts NEVER ever played into my beliefs.
	12:34pm Dean: Interesting article about The Beatles in the NYT, Feb. 17, 1964, McCandlish Phillips, "Publicitywise: How They Grew, Publicity Wise," mentions the Paar appearance: "Jack Paar was also in England when the Beatles made it big there, and he brought back a video tape that he played on his television show on Jan. 3 -- well ahead of the live appearance on the Sullivan show five weeks later." $10,500 for two performances at Carnegie Hall...offered $20,000 for MSG...
	12:34pm listener 126464: all kinds of time
	12:35pm herb.nyc: Real Intetesting interview. Funny to hear Transistor Radio mentioned. Yeah! And Boy Bands. By coincidence, I know Maria Sherman. She just wrote a book about these men, Larger Than Life. I have it. (Wanna interview her, Michael?)
	12:36pm Dean: Also on the Paar show the night of their appearance: Peggy Cass, Paul Lynde, and Jack Douglas.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right. FMU is specifically non-commercial & marginal... Yet also about any challenging boundaries. Interesting isn't it. The Industry has completely changed - yet it's always been about wanting Hits.
	12:37pm clarke: jack douglas the record producer??
	12:38pm Pedro in Arlington: But what about Cronkite airing a story on the Beatles Dec. 1o, 1963?
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I remember Dick Clark remarking how important the Twist was & nobody remembered.
	12:40pm Sean: I never thought that disco sucked. Not for one minute.
	12:40pm Joe B: Steve Greenberg did produce that first 9 cd Stax box, so I'm sure he knows his stuff on that topic
	12:40pm MFlynn: That was cool Michael!! Thank you!!!
	12:41pm mariano: 'Morning MS, everyone. Haven't heard this in a while.
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: From where I was - Disco felt like my generation's version of the Depression or Nam - just went on for years & years dominating everything it seemed. Completely the opposite of the Urban liberation of people of color or LGBTQ or hat drug users. The Conservatives were all up in it - & we were the Rawk Stoners.
	12:42pm clarke: great interview! i just figured the guy who used a chris bell title for his show would 'get it' more.
	12:42pm clarke: mariano!! new pic, huh?
	12:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *hard druggers...
	12:43pm Frank Zaatar: That Stax box is a university course in itself.
	12:44pm Cooh John: Playing air violin
	12:45pm Greg from ZONE 5: Def gonna check out that podcast.
	12:45pm muddybrookrambler: The 80s had some amazing music—it just didn’t get played on commercial radio.
	12:45pm mariano: Hey clarke! Yes, trying out my new "Mulholland Dr" winter line of avatars.
	12:45pm clarke: that air-wahwah would be tricky - because there is delay and echo on it, requiring only half the movement.
	12:45pm Sean: @Revolution Oh, I understand hat drug use. I watched an entire episode of "Lidsville" yesterday. #true
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Word muddy ...& then MTV...
	12:47pm vertual: just brought up memories of playing loves theme in middle school orchestra! that along with sweet caroline neil diamond..wow our director was so hip 1978
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We'll skip the early 90s Cat in the Hat aesthetic tho'...
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: Bette Davis Eyes is f'in terrible. Everything about it. The song structure, the lyrics, and especially the singing! I have memories of a girl in my nursery school playing it over and over again. I did not like that girl.
	12:49pm egould310: I was a kid (5 to 10 yo) for the disco era. Didn’t mind it much. It seemed sexy, if slightly shallow and kind of flaky. Young adults partying, no Vietnam, no hippies, no baggage. Don’t listen to it at all today. But I got no beef with disco.
	12:50pm clarke: movies, frank??? i was only going to watch the BEGINNING of Rear Window in your honor, the other night - but was of course drawn in... could be the best of all time.
	12:50pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: That’s the most magnificent Bevis Frond song of all time. Fitting to have TFC cover it 😆
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: when the change came & I held my breath with my eyes closed
	12:50pm Dean: ...and/or Helen O'Connell. @clarke: The question occurred to me, too. In 1964 record producer Douglas worked for RFK (per wikipedia), so probably not? More likely the British actor.
	12:50pm vertual: oops more like 1976
	12:50pm gf2002: I haven't heard the podcast about "grunge" getting bumped by boy bands and teen acts yet, but I remember vividly the period around 1996-1999 because I was playing in a band...and listening to the radio (and MTV) seemed to switch from bands and artists who played guitars and wrote their own songs to the pop princesses like Britney, Christina, etc and boy bands. These acts had songwriting "teams" of sometimes 6 people and hot dance moves instead of a legit band playing, writing, and singing with real drummers and loud guitars. I knew it was over for guitar bands actually making the charts. Grunge was and still is such an overblown and misleading term, it's meaningless.
	12:50pm YETI BOB: @Frank in Queens: For me it's the snare drum
	12:51pm Frank In Queens: YETI BOB, yeah that too!
	12:51pm egould310: Thanks for playing he tunes and interview, Michael.
	12:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bevis - great songs.
	12:52pm Frank In Queens: Clarke, this week was Gimme Shelter, Flash Gordon/Life After Flash doc, Badlands, and Do The Right Thing.
	12:53pm Frank In Queens: gf2002, don't forget the true nadir of the 90s; Nu-Metal.
	12:53pm clarke: i like Badlands!! the rest a bit 'eh' about - gimme shelter was edited poorly - not enough gram parsons, etc
	12:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Gimme Shelter woulda been better if the actors stuck to their cues... the pool cues...
	12:55pm gf2002: Nu-metal was indeed one of the worst scourges to ever hit the music world. And the nadir of that genre for all to see was that Woodstock fiasco
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: Hey now!
	12:55pm Squints: This FAs number from the turn of the 80s Mod revivial? I could mentally hear these fellas on a bill with Squire.
	12:55pm Joe B: songwriting teams isn't always a bad thing. the Monkees and Motown had songwriting teams. And some of the commercial rock bands I heard from 1996-99 could have used a songwriting team or two.
	12:55pm Dean: Having second thoughts. Yeah, it could have been Jack Douglas the producer.
	12:56pm Frank In Queens: gf2002, the Woodstock "fiasco" was completely appropriate for that ill-conceived festival.
	12:56pm mariano: gf2002: Yeah, grunge always seemed like some term imposed by the music industry a little after the fact. I don't remember a single person ever saying "I'm into grunge" or "I'm in a grunge band" till after Nirvana became mega stars.
	12:57pm gf2002: No those teams aren't necessarily a bad thing, but it got ridiculous when it took more than 2 pro writers (as The Monkees usually had on these teams) to make a pop hit.
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How to turn Woodstock into Altamont - the 1st festival with ATMs & $4 water.
	12:58pm Joe B: "These acts had songwriting "teams" of sometimes 6 people" If people like phil spector and motown were properly crediting people, they would have had 6 people as well. for example, neither goffin nor king wrote the guitar riff for pleasant valley sunday, and that makes the song
	12:58pm gf2002: That Woodstock fiasco was a fitting end for sure. I think people woke up after seeing that play out on TV
	12:58pm Sean: THIS RADIO BROADCAST IS GREAT!!! Stupidity, the American national pastime.
	12:59pm Squints: Joe B, Chip Douglas, right? Or was it Chip Taylor?
	12:59pm egould310: That disco demolition was dumb as fuck. Sad.
	12:59pm clarke: anyone ever get the feeling they been....
	12:59pm Joe B: wrecking crew contributions from people like louie shleton (vallerie) should have gotten songwriting credits
	12:59pm listener 126464: Thanks Michael, thanks Ruth.
	12:59pm Joe B: Nez came up with the pleasant valley sunday riff, I believe
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Cheers folks. See some of you at 3.
	12:59pm Ciggy: Loved Disco Tex And His Sexolettes
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the opposite of Wavy Gravy handing out oatmeal to gatecrashers...
	1:00pm Dean: Neither producer nor actor: a writer, e.g., My Brother Was an Only Child.
	1:01pm egould310: I should be drinking. Think I’ll pour a vodka oj.
	1:28pm Handy Haversack: Great show, Michael. Really interesting talk. I was blasting it out back while getting the leaves dealt with so couldn't thank you before the end of the show -- I was elbow deep in oak debris when you signed off! But many thanks!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 28, 2020

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