WFMU: Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from December 23, 2020

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Becky! Tonkies!
	♥ 8:00pm Handy Haversack: Becky! Tonka Trucks! Yes! Let's drive on down that winter road!
	♥ 8:01pm Pauly from Clifton: Hiya Becky, Crew, revelers!
	8:02pm Becky: Hey everybody!
	♥ 8:02pm loveless: How are ya, how are ya, how are ya?
	8:03pm Richard S: Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
	♥ 8:03pm Handy Haversack: Listening by treelight, Becky!
	♥ 8:05pm Mr. Fine Wine: Viva Mr. Mays!
	♥ 8:06pm Doug in JC: Absolutely fine with a break from the christmas stuff
	8:06pm Vince: Thank you for not playing Christmas music!
	8:07pm cabroncito: thank you! im so tired of the Christmas crap
	♥ 8:07pm Mr. Fine Wine: Actually Hazel Park sits on the northern edge of Detroit!
	8:07pm Becky: By the way, my punctuation in the title of this week's program is deliberate.
	8:08pm Becky: Sorryyyyyyy
	♥ 8:08pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Becky! Handy! Mr Fine Wine! Pauly! What a great tribute show. I think we've all got memories of a record seller or flea market vendor like that.
	♥ 8:09pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha it's an obscure weird hickish suburb and it's kind of amazing that it butts up against Detroit
	8:09pm P-90: Merry Christmas, Ms. Becky and Beckaroos!
	8:10pm Richard S: Love the percussion in this one!
	8:10pm P-90: Someday maybe I’ll find a nice obscure weird hickish suburb to settle down in...
	♥ 8:11pm Mr. Fine Wine: Quintessential Mays record, Gene Nitz. :(
	8:11pm Andres: Evening Becky and all! First glance at song title and I misread Chewbacca. Perhaps the origins of the character's name?
	8:12pm Becky: Chewtobacca, Chewie's country cousin
	♥ 8:12pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha! Here's a map of Detroit country music sites. carcitycountry.com...
	♥ 8:13pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Lizzie!
	♥ 8:14pm Mr. Fine Wine: Country Caravan is a division of Mutt.
	♥ 8:14pm Pauly from Clifton: Evening, SCL!!
	8:15pm BH: Looking at the Detroit area on JusticeMap.org and yep, the location of 8 Mile Rd is pretty obvious there. (Full disclosure: i'm from a different midwestern metro that also has obvious residential segregation)
	♥ 8:16pm Little Danny: Hey Becky, all
	8:18pm Becky: Hi Danny!
	♥ 8:18pm Little Danny: Awesome map, MFW. So many great Michigan country records. I swear they have their own fidelity.
	♥ 8:19pm Mr. Fine Wine: Did other northern urban centers have as big a country scene? I assume Chicago must have, but I don't really know the answer.
	8:22pm P-90: The Madalorian Season 3 rumored to introduce a new character: Chewbecka, the Honky Tonk Radio Wookiee.
	♥ 8:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi there. I'm ready for a honky-tonk Christmas.
	8:23pm Becky: P-90, I just squealed at how absolutely wonderful that idea is.
	♥ 8:25pm Handy Haversack: @Mr. FW, I met a guy in Muskegon a few years ago who was telling me that Grand Rapids has a pretty vibrant rockabilly scene.
	♥ 8:25pm Mr. Fine Wine: I wish I knew more about the Del Shannon demo.
	♥ 8:25pm listener 126464: More Songs About Hamtramck
	♥ 8:26pm Little Danny: Becky would know best but Chicago's didn't compare, at least in my experience. Detroit's greater auto industry seemed to draw all the Appalachian (and Ohio) cats, a cottage country "scene" develops, more country musicians are drawn to the city in turn, ad infinitum. It didn't hurt that Detroit (rather than, say, a Cleveland or a Pittsburgh) had a vibrant local recording infrastructure (studios, spaces, DJs, good economy, promoters, like-minded musicians, etc.) that existed already by World War II.
	♥ 8:26pm Handy Haversack: (Please have a song about the Boblo ferry! Please have a song about the Boblo ferry!)
	♥ 8:27pm Mr. Fine Wine: Excellent points, Danny. Handy, isn't "I met a guy in Muskegon" itself the first line of a country song??
	8:27pm Becky: One of my all-time favorite records - this live Chicago recording of the Sundowners, a local honky tonk act: www.bloodshotrecords.com...
	8:28pm Becky: And Toronto and Montreal had strong country scenes, for sure.
	♥ 8:28pm Handy Haversack: It's a whole subgenre, Mr. FW.
	♥ 8:28pm G: Tons of folks from Kentucky were in southeast Michigan in the car industry. I lived down the street from some as a kid, circa 1970. Locals even jokingly called Ypsilanti "Ypsitucky."
	♥ 8:28pm Mr. Fine Wine: Becky and I were on the recommissioned Boblo boat for Gino Washington's birthday party.
	♥ 8:29pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, US 41 and then I-75 were direct corridors from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
	♥ 8:29pm Mr. Fine Wine: Decommissioned? Repurposed? Whatever.
	8:30pm Becky: I remember we had to go around and around in a tight circle to avoid going under the bridge on one side and crossing into Canada on the other.
	8:30pm HopeWithFeathers: Channeling my own Honky Tonk self to bake some Peanut Blossom cookies. Enjoying the tunes — keep ‘em spinning Becky!
	🎸 ♥ 8:30pm ultradamno: Converted, maybe?
	♥ 8:31pm G: @Handy: Yep, a family down the street from me was in a bad car accident on I-75 around 1970, coming home from visiting relatives back in Kentucky.
	8:31pm Christo: Hey Becky! That was cool! This is country music
	♥ 8:31pm Handy Haversack: Sorry, US 23. (It and 41 sort of trade places by Atlanta.)
	♥ 8:32pm Little Danny: Funny, all that Detroit lacked in terms of being a real national country industry powerhouse were the labels. Which were all in still Nashville (and all the major Southern and Texan cities) and Los Angeles in the '50s and '60s.
	♥ 8:32pm Gaylord Fields: @Mr. Fine Wine: Did Gino actually show up?
	8:33pm Christo: Love your show Becky! Merry Christmas 🎄
	8:33pm Becky: Thanks Christo!
	♥ 8:34pm Little Danny: I'm blanking on the name of Motown's country subsidiary.
	8:34pm Andres: I was thinking Windsor, Ontario must have had a strong country music scene, with its proximity to the Detroit scene and the rural counties surrounding it. I guess Shania Twain's birth there is the proof.
	♥ 8:35pm Handy Haversack: Moedown? Hoetown? These can't be right, Little Danny.
	🎸 ♥ 8:35pm ultradamno: Mel-o-dy
	8:36pm BH: Although Windsor, Ontario is South Detroit, so.. it makes sense for country to be big there.
	♥ 8:36pm Little Danny: Mel-o-dy! Thanks UD. Some good hardcore honky-tonk 45s on that label, too.
	🎸 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: I think because it was run by Mel O. Dyson. I just made that up. Talking out of my ass again, I can't stop.
	♥ 8:37pm Handy Haversack: Still better than my made-up guesses, ultradamno.
	♥ 8:38pm Little Danny: I heard about the 78 burial, too! Heard that on different occasions from Bob Mays enthusiast Pete Wilgus.
	♥ 8:39pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Those lost 78s! I'm tearing up.
	8:39pm Becky: Gaylord: Gino showed, but refused to sing all night (despite it being HIS birthday and a whole band being assembled and ready to accompany him), until after midnight when the boat pulled back into the dock. Then he sang 2 songs and RAN off the boat.
	♥ 8:40pm Handy Haversack: Let's get shovels and meet in Detroit! (OK for a song opener, Mr. FW?)
	♥ 8:40pm Mr. Fine Wine: Gino was a big tease that night but it was still fun. A "white party"!
	♥ 8:42pm Gaylord Fields: @Becky @MFW: That is so bizarre, but that level of cowardice is certainly on brand for Gino.
	♥ 8:44pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha. Okay, here's what I know of the 78 burial: Bob had a green thumb and had some pots he wanted to plant seedlings in but needed potting soil. He decided he'd use the rich, black Hazel Park dirt in his backyard. But that would leave unsightly holes! He also had a few hundred copies of undesirable local 78, Briant Holland's "(Where't the Joy) In Nature Boy"/"Shock" on the Kudo label, taking up a lot of space. So he decided to fill the holes with 78s and top them off. Years went by, maybe decades. Grass grew over the 78s.
	♥ 8:45pm Gaylord Fields: It just occurred to me that between Emanuel Lasky and Nathaniel Mayer, Detroit certainly had its share of Black singers with Jewish-sounding names.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: This is like a customer feedback card set to music.
	♥ 8:46pm Mr. Fine Wine: Then inquiries started coming in. Wants lists. People were after the 78. He tried to dig them up and kept not finding them. Eventually he found (some of? most of? all of?) them, but the labels were all corroded completely off. A helpful customer made exact replica labels that he glued on to the unburied 78s.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: ...OK, a warmer than usual one, but still.
	♥ 8:47pm Mr. Fine Wine: Gaylord: Yes! Also, Detroit store-front soul food restaurants all feature corned beef!
	8:49pm Becky: My debut funk instrumental 45 is going to be Asian Corned Beef b/w Boogaloo Sandwich after iconic Detroit delicacies. (Asian Corned Beef is Black-owned and serves corned beef-stuffed egg rolls, of course).
	♥ 8:50pm Mr. Fine Wine: Sorry I made you run in
	🎸 ♥ 8:51pm ultradamno: Well, I never knew how much I wanted corned beef eggrolls before today
	♥ 8:51pm Gaylord Fields: That story just goes to show you that one more limitation of digital media is you can't do absolutely boneheaded things with an mp3 file that make for great anecdotes. RIP, Bob Mays, and heartfelt sympathies, Becky and MFW.
	♥ 8:52pm Handy Haversack: Math checks out, Becky. And thanks for a great show! So good to be in Michigan through the music for a night. This was the first year since I was in high school that I didn't get out there to visit my aunt and my uncle. I miss it and them super hard. This was great. Many, many thanks. Sending wishes for happy happy days!
	♥ 8:52pm Mr. Fine Wine: So true. Thanks, Gaylord.
	♥ 8:53pm Little Danny: Just checked out that Briant Holland thing. Great! Not what I was expecting.
	8:53pm Dean from Old Bridge: Great show as always, Becky!
	♥ 8:54pm Mr. Fine Wine: Danny: exists on 45 too. Yeah, love it!
	8:54pm Andres: Funny story about my dog eating a USB stick...
	♥ 8:54pm Little Danny: My Mays 45 sleeves have cryptic little 0's on them, I forget what that meant.
	♥ 8:54pm Mr. Fine Wine: I FORGET TOO! O's with X's through them.
	8:55pm Becky: I WAS WONDERING THAT
	8:55pm Becky: I pulled out a representative sample and could not find a through line at all.
	♥ 8:56pm Gaylord Fields: @Little Danny @MFW @Becky: Maybe it's shaped note transcription for singing along with the records.
	♥ 8:56pm radioronan: Thanks Becky & Mr. Mays! Thanks Scott & skeletons..
	8:57pm Andres: Through line was they are all gold! Excellent show tonight, Becky!!!
	♥ 8:58pm Little Danny: It believe it was the "good" side according to Bob
	♥ 8:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Becky, wonderful show!
	♥ 8:59pm Mr. Fine Wine: Danny: He was a vocal stickler about keeping the records facing the right way in his long homemade boxes!
	8:59pm P-90: EVERYTHING’s better with steel guitar on it...
	♥ 8:59pm Little Danny: Yes he was, MFW. I pissed him off a lot thusly.
	♥ 9:00pm listener 126464: Thank you Becky, and also message board for the stories.
	9:00pm Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from stove-top Tannersville. thnx Ms. B!
	9:00pm P-90: Thanks Becky, and Happy Honky Tonk Holidays to all!
	♥ 9:01pm Tommy in Neversink: thanks Becky
	9:13pm P-90: Terribly funkfestive mood achieved already!

Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from December 23, 2020

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December 23, 2020: Records I Got At Mays'

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Artist	Track	Label	Format	Approx. start time
G.L. Crockett	Look Out Mabel "Look Out Mabel" by "G.L. Crockett"	Checker	7"	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Arthur Smith and His Crackerjacks	Shhh	Choice	7"	0:07:26 (Pop-up)
Zeb Turner	Chew Tobacco Rag "Chew Tobacco Rag" by "Zeb Turner"	King	7"	0:07:37 (Pop-up)
Gene Nitz	Running From The Law "Running From The Law" by "Gene Nitz"	Country Caravan	7"	0:10:03 (Pop-up)
Eddie Marshall	Mine All Mine "Mine All Mine" by "Eddie Marshall"	RCA Victor	7"	0:12:41 (Pop-up)
(Mr.) Connie Dycus	Wrap It Up "Wrap It Up" by "(Mr.) Connie Dycus"	Cathay Records		0:14:56 (Pop-up)
Bill Emerson	Money Makes A Man Careless	Topic	7"	0:17:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chet Atkins	Boo Boo Stick Beat "Boo Boo Stick Beat" by "Chet Atkins"	RCA Victor	7"	0:20:09 (Pop-up)
Ray Taylor and Alabama Pals	My Hamtramck Baby	Clix	7"	0:23:34 (Pop-up)
Whitey and the Rhythm Four	I Feel Sorry For You	A-B-S	7"	0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Dan Folger	Inside My Heart "Inside My Heart" by "Dan Folger"	Hickory	7"	0:28:42 (Pop-up)
Ray Smith	Makes Me Feel Good "Makes Me Feel Good" by "Ray Smith"	Judd	7"	0:30:14 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Martin	I'm Trading Loneliness	Cinch	7"	0:33:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Trubert Brothers	Rockin' Miss Billett	Sashay	7"	0:34:42 (Pop-up)
The Moonglows with Red Holloway's Orch.	Ooh Rocking Daddy	Chance	7"	0:38:34 (Pop-up)
Emanuel Lasky	Welfare Cheese "Welfare Cheese" by "Emanuel Lasky"	Thelma	7"	0:41:08 (Pop-up)
Kuf-Linx feat. John Jennings	Service With A Smile	Challenge	7"	0:43:55 (Pop-up)
Andre Williams	Sweet Little Pussycat	WinGate	7"	0:46:11 (Pop-up)
Robert Ward	I Will Fear No Evil "I Will Fear No Evil" by "Robert Ward"	Groove City Records	7"	0:50:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Whitey and the Rhythm Four	Tinkerin'	A-B-S	7"	0:51:18 (Pop-up)
Ann Jones	A Big Fat Gal Like Me "A Big Fat Gal Like Me" by "Ann Jones"	King	7"	0:54:07 (Pop-up)
Christine Hall	Bill Bailey "Bill Bailey" by "Christine Hall"	Country Lovin' Records	7"	0:56:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Becky! Tonkies!
	♥ 8:00pm Handy Haversack: Becky! Tonka Trucks! Yes! Let's drive on down that winter road!
	♥ 8:01pm Pauly from Clifton: Hiya Becky, Crew, revelers!
	8:02pm Becky: Hey everybody!
	♥ 8:02pm loveless: How are ya, how are ya, how are ya?
	8:03pm Richard S: Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
	♥ 8:03pm Handy Haversack: Listening by treelight, Becky!
	♥ 8:05pm Mr. Fine Wine: Viva Mr. Mays!
	♥ 8:06pm Doug in JC: Absolutely fine with a break from the christmas stuff
	8:06pm Vince: Thank you for not playing Christmas music!
	8:07pm cabroncito: thank you! im so tired of the Christmas crap
	♥ 8:07pm Mr. Fine Wine: Actually Hazel Park sits on the northern edge of Detroit!
	8:07pm Becky: By the way, my punctuation in the title of this week's program is deliberate.
	8:08pm Becky: Sorryyyyyyy
	♥ 8:08pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Becky! Handy! Mr Fine Wine! Pauly! What a great tribute show. I think we've all got memories of a record seller or flea market vendor like that.
	♥ 8:09pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha it's an obscure weird hickish suburb and it's kind of amazing that it butts up against Detroit
	8:09pm P-90: Merry Christmas, Ms. Becky and Beckaroos!
	8:10pm Richard S: Love the percussion in this one!
	8:10pm P-90: Someday maybe I’ll find a nice obscure weird hickish suburb to settle down in...
	♥ 8:11pm Mr. Fine Wine: Quintessential Mays record, Gene Nitz. :(
	8:11pm Andres: Evening Becky and all! First glance at song title and I misread Chewbacca. Perhaps the origins of the character's name?
	8:12pm Becky: Chewtobacca, Chewie's country cousin
	♥ 8:12pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha! Here's a map of Detroit country music sites. carcitycountry.com...
	♥ 8:13pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Lizzie!
	♥ 8:14pm Mr. Fine Wine: Country Caravan is a division of Mutt.
	♥ 8:14pm Pauly from Clifton: Evening, SCL!!
	8:15pm BH: Looking at the Detroit area on JusticeMap.org and yep, the location of 8 Mile Rd is pretty obvious there. (Full disclosure: i'm from a different midwestern metro that also has obvious residential segregation)
	♥ 8:16pm Little Danny: Hey Becky, all
	8:18pm Becky: Hi Danny!
	♥ 8:18pm Little Danny: Awesome map, MFW. So many great Michigan country records. I swear they have their own fidelity.
	♥ 8:19pm Mr. Fine Wine: Did other northern urban centers have as big a country scene? I assume Chicago must have, but I don't really know the answer.
	8:22pm P-90: The Madalorian Season 3 rumored to introduce a new character: Chewbecka, the Honky Tonk Radio Wookiee.
	♥ 8:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi there. I'm ready for a honky-tonk Christmas.
	8:23pm Becky: P-90, I just squealed at how absolutely wonderful that idea is.
	♥ 8:25pm Handy Haversack: @Mr. FW, I met a guy in Muskegon a few years ago who was telling me that Grand Rapids has a pretty vibrant rockabilly scene.
	♥ 8:25pm Mr. Fine Wine: I wish I knew more about the Del Shannon demo.
	♥ 8:25pm listener 126464: More Songs About Hamtramck
	♥ 8:26pm Little Danny: Becky would know best but Chicago's didn't compare, at least in my experience. Detroit's greater auto industry seemed to draw all the Appalachian (and Ohio) cats, a cottage country "scene" develops, more country musicians are drawn to the city in turn, ad infinitum. It didn't hurt that Detroit (rather than, say, a Cleveland or a Pittsburgh) had a vibrant local recording infrastructure (studios, spaces, DJs, good economy, promoters, like-minded musicians, etc.) that existed already by World War II.
	♥ 8:26pm Handy Haversack: (Please have a song about the Boblo ferry! Please have a song about the Boblo ferry!)
	♥ 8:27pm Mr. Fine Wine: Excellent points, Danny. Handy, isn't "I met a guy in Muskegon" itself the first line of a country song??
	8:27pm Becky: One of my all-time favorite records - this live Chicago recording of the Sundowners, a local honky tonk act: www.bloodshotrecords.com...
	8:28pm Becky: And Toronto and Montreal had strong country scenes, for sure.
	♥ 8:28pm Handy Haversack: It's a whole subgenre, Mr. FW.
	♥ 8:28pm G: Tons of folks from Kentucky were in southeast Michigan in the car industry. I lived down the street from some as a kid, circa 1970. Locals even jokingly called Ypsilanti "Ypsitucky."
	♥ 8:28pm Mr. Fine Wine: Becky and I were on the recommissioned Boblo boat for Gino Washington's birthday party.
	♥ 8:29pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, US 41 and then I-75 were direct corridors from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
	♥ 8:29pm Mr. Fine Wine: Decommissioned? Repurposed? Whatever.
	8:30pm Becky: I remember we had to go around and around in a tight circle to avoid going under the bridge on one side and crossing into Canada on the other.
	8:30pm HopeWithFeathers: Channeling my own Honky Tonk self to bake some Peanut Blossom cookies. Enjoying the tunes — keep ‘em spinning Becky!
	🎸 ♥ 8:30pm ultradamno: Converted, maybe?
	♥ 8:31pm G: @Handy: Yep, a family down the street from me was in a bad car accident on I-75 around 1970, coming home from visiting relatives back in Kentucky.
	8:31pm Christo: Hey Becky! That was cool! This is country music
	♥ 8:31pm Handy Haversack: Sorry, US 23. (It and 41 sort of trade places by Atlanta.)
	♥ 8:32pm Little Danny: Funny, all that Detroit lacked in terms of being a real national country industry powerhouse were the labels. Which were all in still Nashville (and all the major Southern and Texan cities) and Los Angeles in the '50s and '60s.
	♥ 8:32pm Gaylord Fields: @Mr. Fine Wine: Did Gino actually show up?
	8:33pm Christo: Love your show Becky! Merry Christmas 🎄
	8:33pm Becky: Thanks Christo!
	♥ 8:34pm Little Danny: I'm blanking on the name of Motown's country subsidiary.
	8:34pm Andres: I was thinking Windsor, Ontario must have had a strong country music scene, with its proximity to the Detroit scene and the rural counties surrounding it. I guess Shania Twain's birth there is the proof.
	♥ 8:35pm Handy Haversack: Moedown? Hoetown? These can't be right, Little Danny.
	🎸 ♥ 8:35pm ultradamno: Mel-o-dy
	8:36pm BH: Although Windsor, Ontario is South Detroit, so.. it makes sense for country to be big there.
	♥ 8:36pm Little Danny: Mel-o-dy! Thanks UD. Some good hardcore honky-tonk 45s on that label, too.
	🎸 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: I think because it was run by Mel O. Dyson. I just made that up. Talking out of my ass again, I can't stop.
	♥ 8:37pm Handy Haversack: Still better than my made-up guesses, ultradamno.
	♥ 8:38pm Little Danny: I heard about the 78 burial, too! Heard that on different occasions from Bob Mays enthusiast Pete Wilgus.
	♥ 8:39pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Those lost 78s! I'm tearing up.
	8:39pm Becky: Gaylord: Gino showed, but refused to sing all night (despite it being HIS birthday and a whole band being assembled and ready to accompany him), until after midnight when the boat pulled back into the dock. Then he sang 2 songs and RAN off the boat.
	♥ 8:40pm Handy Haversack: Let's get shovels and meet in Detroit! (OK for a song opener, Mr. FW?)
	♥ 8:40pm Mr. Fine Wine: Gino was a big tease that night but it was still fun. A "white party"!
	♥ 8:42pm Gaylord Fields: @Becky @MFW: That is so bizarre, but that level of cowardice is certainly on brand for Gino.
	♥ 8:44pm Mr. Fine Wine: Ha. Okay, here's what I know of the 78 burial: Bob had a green thumb and had some pots he wanted to plant seedlings in but needed potting soil. He decided he'd use the rich, black Hazel Park dirt in his backyard. But that would leave unsightly holes! He also had a few hundred copies of undesirable local 78, Briant Holland's "(Where't the Joy) In Nature Boy"/"Shock" on the Kudo label, taking up a lot of space. So he decided to fill the holes with 78s and top them off. Years went by, maybe decades. Grass grew over the 78s.
	♥ 8:45pm Gaylord Fields: It just occurred to me that between Emanuel Lasky and Nathaniel Mayer, Detroit certainly had its share of Black singers with Jewish-sounding names.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: This is like a customer feedback card set to music.
	♥ 8:46pm Mr. Fine Wine: Then inquiries started coming in. Wants lists. People were after the 78. He tried to dig them up and kept not finding them. Eventually he found (some of? most of? all of?) them, but the labels were all corroded completely off. A helpful customer made exact replica labels that he glued on to the unburied 78s.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: ...OK, a warmer than usual one, but still.
	♥ 8:47pm Mr. Fine Wine: Gaylord: Yes! Also, Detroit store-front soul food restaurants all feature corned beef!
	8:49pm Becky: My debut funk instrumental 45 is going to be Asian Corned Beef b/w Boogaloo Sandwich after iconic Detroit delicacies. (Asian Corned Beef is Black-owned and serves corned beef-stuffed egg rolls, of course).
	♥ 8:50pm Mr. Fine Wine: Sorry I made you run in
	🎸 ♥ 8:51pm ultradamno: Well, I never knew how much I wanted corned beef eggrolls before today
	♥ 8:51pm Gaylord Fields: That story just goes to show you that one more limitation of digital media is you can't do absolutely boneheaded things with an mp3 file that make for great anecdotes. RIP, Bob Mays, and heartfelt sympathies, Becky and MFW.
	♥ 8:52pm Handy Haversack: Math checks out, Becky. And thanks for a great show! So good to be in Michigan through the music for a night. This was the first year since I was in high school that I didn't get out there to visit my aunt and my uncle. I miss it and them super hard. This was great. Many, many thanks. Sending wishes for happy happy days!
	♥ 8:52pm Mr. Fine Wine: So true. Thanks, Gaylord.
	♥ 8:53pm Little Danny: Just checked out that Briant Holland thing. Great! Not what I was expecting.
	8:53pm Dean from Old Bridge: Great show as always, Becky!
	♥ 8:54pm Mr. Fine Wine: Danny: exists on 45 too. Yeah, love it!
	8:54pm Andres: Funny story about my dog eating a USB stick...
	♥ 8:54pm Little Danny: My Mays 45 sleeves have cryptic little 0's on them, I forget what that meant.
	♥ 8:54pm Mr. Fine Wine: I FORGET TOO! O's with X's through them.
	8:55pm Becky: I WAS WONDERING THAT
	8:55pm Becky: I pulled out a representative sample and could not find a through line at all.
	♥ 8:56pm Gaylord Fields: @Little Danny @MFW @Becky: Maybe it's shaped note transcription for singing along with the records.
	♥ 8:56pm radioronan: Thanks Becky & Mr. Mays! Thanks Scott & skeletons..
	8:57pm Andres: Through line was they are all gold! Excellent show tonight, Becky!!!
	♥ 8:58pm Little Danny: It believe it was the "good" side according to Bob
	♥ 8:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Becky, wonderful show!
	♥ 8:59pm Mr. Fine Wine: Danny: He was a vocal stickler about keeping the records facing the right way in his long homemade boxes!
	8:59pm P-90: EVERYTHING’s better with steel guitar on it...
	♥ 8:59pm Little Danny: Yes he was, MFW. I pissed him off a lot thusly.
	♥ 9:00pm listener 126464: Thank you Becky, and also message board for the stories.
	9:00pm Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from stove-top Tannersville. thnx Ms. B!
	9:00pm P-90: Thanks Becky, and Happy Honky Tonk Holidays to all!
	♥ 9:01pm Tommy in Neversink: thanks Becky
	9:13pm P-90: Terribly funkfestive mood achieved already!

Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from December 23, 2020

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