WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 2, 2021

Listener comments!
	11:01am Listener Baby: Baby. Thank you for making 2020 a lot more bearable. It's easy to forget you folks volunteer to provide such a special service to the world. You and your fellow WFMU gang are the best in the world. I consider myself lucky to listen, as well as calling you a friend. Happy new year to The Shelley's, and to everyone reading this note.
	11:01am clarke: hoy new!!!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: Michael and all the Shelle Gamers! Happy January!
	11:02am luka: Michael
	11:02am clarke: a frothy brew~~
	11:02am Squints: OK, then.
	11:02am MFlynn: Hooray, we made it to 2021. Happy new Year Michael and everyone!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: hi
	11:03am Dennis Diken: go Mikey!
	11:03am egould310: Robbery?! Oh no, what has Michael gotten himself into?
	11:03am clarke: hey NOOwwwww
	11:03am Listener Baby: Hi, Frank? Are you okay?
	11:03am Michael Shelley: happy 2021 all!
	11:04am HyperDose: Man, that axe was squealing like a pig!
	11:04am Uncle Michael: GREAT Pilot track!
	11:05am bigplanetnoise: Morning, Michael and all!
	11:06am Eli: Ho ho ho it's January
	11:06am Doc Rock: Good morning Michael and all the listeners. Happy New Year to all of you.
	11:07am clarke: bettah daze!
	11:07am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! Happy new year. Hopefully on to better things!
	11:08am Woo: Since those Pilot guys wrote It's Magic they must be getting some nice checks from the makers of Ozempic
	11:08am Roberto: '21 has a theme song!
	11:09am Listener John from NJ: Hello all, and happy new year!
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Here's wishing you the bluest skies Michael, Ruth, Baby, Handy, Dennis, Frank, ev'ryone!
	11:09am Greg from ZONE 5: Happy New Year, Shelleys & Ruth & all!
	11:09am Richard: Happy New Year, all. Great way to start the year!
	11:10am Listener Baby: Hugs, Jack!
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Wishing happy days for you, too, Jack, and all here assembled!
	11:11am Uncle Michael: Michael, do you know the original version of "Magic" that wasn't the hit single?
	11:11am Squints: Thing about Magic is that there is NO parallel universe in which it's not a Number One Hit.
	11:11am Ruth Booth: Best to you Jack, Greg and All!
	11:11am Hoboken Jack: Yo Greg!
	11:12am Joe B: hey Michael and everyone
	11:13am Pedro in Arlington: What Listener Baby said. Two weeks from Wednesday. Better things.
	11:13am clarke: u get moved JB??
	11:14am Matt Clarke: Happy New Year, Michael! Hey all!
	11:14am Hoboken Jack: Hey there Joe!!
	11:15am Hoboken Jack: MVP Matt in the house!
	11:15am Corey: This ZZ Hill track...sooo good.
	11:17am Squints: This could SO be a Gary Lewis number. Or maybe the Critters.
	11:17am Gordon FM: Now you’re speaking my language! Obrigado, Michael. And Happy New Year to All!
	11:17am Matt Clarke: Happy New Year, Jack!
	11:18am clarke: 'allo golden!!
	11:19am McGroovey: Why do I never listen to Camera Obscura? I need to.
	11:19am Hoboken Jack: I liked the Tracyanne and Danny album but I really wish Camera Obscura would reform.
	11:20am egould310: Camera Obscura yeah. This is a number one hit.
	11:20am Gordon FM: Clarkles, yer standin mah circle!
	11:20am Hoboken Jack: Aye McGroove
	11:21am clarke: stan' on up.
	11:22am Handy Haversack: There is a camera obscura in Edinburgh, yup.
	11:22am paul: There was a tv doc about Walter Scott, the murders, etc.
	11:23am KWilde: Morning Michael Happy New Year all!
	11:25am Joe B: Kurt Baker has played on 3 different FMU shows (at least, maybe a fourth?). sounds like a future theme topic!
	11:25am clarke: u think the gosdin bros were 'connected'? if they were they might've been peeved they didn't get pictures on the cover of gene clark album.
	11:26am Squints: I should probably know this, but the VERN Gosdin Gosdin Brothers? Dang. This thing is great.
	11:27am clarke: vern-o was integral. yes. and potentially connected.
	11:30am paul: Melanie Griffith!
	11:30am dale: stardust was decent. end kind of expected.
	11:31am DJ Johnny Cool: Johnny Cool. I dig it.
	11:31am clarke: ok, Frank! doors open....
	11:33am dale: saw smile on tv in the 70s. i just remember the semi naked parts,
	11:33am Frank In Queens: Watched one movie this week; Mike Leigh's "Naked".
	11:33am johnk77: nice set johnny cool is included w/ amazon prime
	11:33am Matt Clarke: Howdy Frankie
	11:33am clarke: wassat??
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Haven't seen it in a while Frank, but I remember that it was excellent. Should anyone need me, I'll be under the DU-vet.
	11:35am Frank In Queens: www.rogerebert.com...
	11:35am clarke: yeah, i saw one full movie (but did a lot of watching scenes of films i have seen a lot).
	11:35am Montmaster J: @Frank in Queens....I recall Naked is a tough one. David Thewlis right? It made me uncomfortable .
	11:36am Frank In Queens: Yeah, Thewlis is tremendous in it. It's definitely not a move that will give you the warm and fuzzies.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: Last 1/1 we broke tradition and did not watch Alien and Aliens -- and look what happened in 2020! So worry not, we made up for it yesterday.
	11:37am pp: excellent Popeye, I learned mine from Steve Dahl
	11:37am clarke: i never saw The Way We Were back in the day, bcuz i am not a streisand fan; however, i finally viewed it, this past week. verdict: it is good. got me in the gut.
	11:38am Gordon FM: Memories.....
	11:38am OJ: Frank Drebin in Queens, Naked Gun
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: My resolutions: saltinwound.com...
	11:39am Frank In Queens: I would love to....
	11:39am clarke: marvin hamlisch - totally wrong era type of stuff but still better than i used to think
	11:40am dale: sounds like a ham operator when you don't have sideband.
	11:41am watchpocket: Pretty sure that was single-sidebad shortwave radio distortion.
	11:42am McGroovey: Robert
	11:42am Emile: Love this song but the other version (I'm Your Man)
	11:42am luka: i realized richard hell sounds like kevin mcdonald from kids in the hall and that’s all i hear now.
	11:43am Montmaster J: Quine so good on Mathew Sweet's girlfriend....also Richard Hell?
	11:43am Christina Low: I feel like The Voidoids don’t get enough love in the punk gushing that goes on these days.
	11:44am clarke: surprised, MS! you like a solo with CHORUS pedal intrinsically involved!! processing!!
	11:44am Corey: Hook after hook.
	11:45am clarke: i think the song Girlfriend is mostly Lloyd - but quine is all over that album
	11:46am watchpocket: @Jack Those resolutions resonate. You had 25 in 2012, I see you've boiled 'em down to the ten most important.
	11:47am dale: good ol' rockytop here.
	11:47am DJ Johnny Cool: I love me some Nikki.
	11:49am Handy Haversack: Resolutions resolved, Jack!
	11:51am clarke: sax!!!! i remember sax
	11:51am P-90: “...in Full Sprain Your Ankle Mode”
	11:55am clarke: wearin' my Shelley Show patched hoodie, this morn.
	11:56am Handy Haversack: I have to cut hair and beard down to reasonable levels, but I'll be listening on the ol' bathroom boombox!
	11:57am Aric: Haha, bring the punk!!
	11:57am egould310: I want my band to sound like the Buzzcocks.
	11:57am clarke: haircuts take me HOURS - hope there is a flowbie handy, Handy
	11:57am Listener Baby: Baby. Bubbles?
	11:59am Montmaster J: Remember we were at the Ritz and Human Sexual Response was opening for them and folks started booing-impatient for the main act- and the singer said "don't worry...you'll get your cock's buzzed?"
	12:00pm Fuzzy: Booing the Humans? Wow, unbelievable!
	12:00pm clarke: doh!!
	12:01pm P-90: Not at all like Michael to mix up Chad & Jeremy with Peter & Gordon, a real rookie error...
	12:01pm prudy: Andrew Sandoval did a great tribute to Chad and Jeremy on Come to the Sunshine recently...
	12:02pm jake6573: Don't forget the Chad and Jeremy appearance on Batman !
	12:02pm clarke: andrew does EVERYthing great!!
	12:02pm Fuzzy: Can't wait to finally see the Zulus reunion gig Sep. 21 -- I bought the tickets a year and a half ago!
	12:02pm jake6573: Lowell George also appeared on F troop, Just saying.
	12:03pm prudy: remind me about the Zulus Fuzzy...
	12:03pm Jett: @Michael Shelley I find that a lot of people tend to confuse Peter and Gordon and Chad and Jeremy. That's never happened to me, but I guess I understand it happening.
	12:03pm Corey: That was probably a wise move with the bubbles. My wife and I popped open a bottle with Spazz at midnight. 1230-2 is a blur and was worse for it the day after. Which as a parent is punishment indeed. Fun from what I remember of it though.
	12:04pm clarke: that would be a great interview: Andrew Sandoval, but focus on the few (great) albums he made.
	12:04pm Listener Baby: Peter and Jeremy should have been a thing. Solves at least one problem.
	12:04pm YETI BOB: we had a nice bottle of champagne in the fridge - it survived the night because we got too far into the cocktails.
	12:05pm clarke: that could still happen, Baby!! BABY!!!
	12:05pm Frank Zaatar: You can find them under LP divider labeled "British singing duos of the mid-sixties one of whom wears glasses."
	12:06pm Montmaster J: We had champagne....and That's Entertainment! on in the background. But early to bed. Until the Coyote woke us up.
	12:06pm Dennis Diken: there was a Chad & Jeremy budget label LP in the 60s that actually put a pic of Peter & Gordon on the (back) cover! for real! hey, they were both duos with "Beatle haircuts" where one guy wore glasses. "ah, the kids won't notice"
	12:06pm McGroovey: I had a band that sounded like the Buzzcocks once, but I lost it. I had a dream that I left it in a safe deposit box that I forgot about.
	12:06pm brooklynbanzai: Chad and Jeremy appeared on the TV Batman Show. In the show the Commissioner of Gotham's name is Gordon. His father was Peter Gordon.
	12:07pm P-90: Adjective of the Week: “Dave Edmunds-y”
	12:07pm spodiodi: good day, Michael Shelley and friends
	12:08pm P-90: @Dennis Diken: priceless!
	12:08pm Fuzzy: @prudy: The Zulus were 4/7ths of Human Sexual Response -- here's a good basic blurb about them: www.allmusic.com...
	12:08pm McGroovey: I was switching around looking for the Twilight Zone marathon last night, and came across the Batman TV show instead and decided to watch it, but then the TV decided to switch the channel without asking me, and I couldn't find it again. This sounds like a dream, but it wasn't.
	12:09pm clarke: @Dennis: you just can't leave us hanging about the Stymie & Spanky Show...!!!
	12:09pm paul: Strangers had a slightly Steely Dan-vocals vibe.
	12:10pm Joe B: he died in 2013
	12:10pm Jett: @Michael Shelley how about a cross between Little River Band and Brinsley Schwarz as a description for Australia's The Strangers
	12:11pm paul: @McGroovey, sounds like a TZ episode.
	12:11pm P-90: Nazi Moron Oxymoron: “not appropriate for free form radio”
	12:11pm Joe B: apparently he wrote one bad apple for the jackson 5 but wouldn't give up his publishing
	12:11pm Linda Lee: hello & happy new year Jan! isn't this stuff fabulous! happy new year Sheena's!
	12:12pm paul: Thought the Osmonds did One Bad Apple
	12:12pm prudy: thanks Fuzzy...not sure I was thinking about the same group...back in the 70's 80 in Boston there was a band in Boston i followed...fronted by a guy named Larry from Bangor ME who was a terrific performer...
	12:12pm clarke: tape flutter!!
	12:13pm Linda Lee: whoa. sorry. wrong page! happy new year Michael! :-)
	12:13pm Montmaster J: Great record. What a sound!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: This sure sounds divine.
	12:13pm clarke: i agree about Girlfriend being pretty dang landmark.
	12:13pm Fuzzy: Larry Bangor was the Zulus vocalist and one of the vocalists for HSR.
	12:13pm Joe B: yes Osmonds cut it after the J5 passed
	12:14pm Listener Baby: His great song. But Smog Moon is coming up fast on the outside these days.
	12:14pm clarke: u get moved, Joe???
	12:14pm Therese: Oh, I love this record so much! Happy New Year, Michael and Michael's listeners!
	12:14pm paul: Didn't know that, Joe B.
	12:14pm prudy: Fuzzy: I wonder where Larry is now...
	12:15pm Jett: The Osmonds did do "One Bad Apple" they recorded it at Fame studios and George Jackson wrote it.
	12:15pm Ross T.: Matthew Sweet surrounded himself with some pretty wonderful guitar players.
	12:16pm Dennis Diken: @clarke - the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ brought Stymie and Spanky to NJ to do a midnight appearance in November '74. not much to report except that they came on stage, introduced some Little Rascals films, did a Q&A and later met everyone and signed autographs. AND I DIDN'T BRING A CAMERA!! it was sparsely attended. Jimmy Babjak and I and some other pals went. we saw a matinee performance of George Harrison at MSG that afternoon! someday I'll post a scan of the newspaper clips and the autographs. I was thrilled beyond words to meet them both, especially Stymie.
	12:17pm Jett: I like these Matthew Sweet tracks, he always surrounded himself with great musicians.
	12:17pm clarke: Stymie - the thinking man's rascal!! TY!
	12:18pm phat: Looks like my earlier Preston Love post disappeared. Preston Love Jr. is a colleague of mine. I'll let him know that the record is on the wall at WFMU, the hippest station in the nation. He'll get a kick out of that.
	12:18pm Listener Baby: @Ross Ric Menck on drums is pretty unbeatable.
	12:18pm Fuzzy: @prudy: I don't know -- I know guitarist Rich Gilbert is in Nashville now. Awesome guitar player! Nay -- Legendary!
	12:18pm Jett: Sam Drucker knows the truth!
	12:18pm paul: Sam Drucker carries all the top hits.
	12:18pm Ross T.: More of a Bed Bugs than Lady Bugs guy.
	12:18pm Montmaster J: @Dennis Diken....Wow! George played a matinee-for the kids at MSG?!!!! THOSE were the days!
	12:19pm Ross T.: @Listener Baby - and love me some Velvet Crush all day!
	12:19pm clarke: what a day, DD!!
	12:20pm nardo: I had to climb the telephone pole to say "I liked that one Michael".
	12:20pm paul: What kind of deal is that?
	12:20pm paul: a deal
	12:20pm Listener Baby: @Ross Saw Ric play with Shoes, he completely blew my mind.
	12:20pm Jett: Reminds me of "Detour" by Spade Cooley
	12:21pm Joe B: the lady-bugs didn't sing live on ed sullivan so ... guessing it is not the actors on the record either
	12:22pm Dennis Diken: @Montmaster J - yeah - actually saw John Ono Lennon do the same thing - an afternoon One To One show in '72 at MSG. "Day Trippers," those lads...
	12:22pm Jett: Hello @Therese Hope you're having a great New Year's❤️
	12:22pm DG: Saw Chad & Jeremy about 7 years ago at a library out on L.I. (just them, with guitars and a piano). They could still sing, told stories, were very entertaining. And Batman was just one of the shows they were on back then....they also did the Patty Duke & Dick Van Dyke shows, as differently-named Brit duos.
	12:23pm Ross T.: @Listener Baby -- w/ the Shoes! Lucky you : ) Would have loved to see Velvet Crush backing up Tommy Keene. The Golden Age of Power Pop.
	12:23pm morphe': 7 Drunken Nights - Dubliners [got them banned] "........And as I went home on Tuesday night as drunk as drunk could be I saw a coat behind the door where my old coat should be Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me Who owns that coat behind the door where my old coat should be Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk you silly old fool, still you can not see That's a woollen blanket that me mother sent to me Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more But buttons in a blanket sure I never saw before.. And as I went home on Wednesday night as drunk as drunk could be I saw a pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me Who owns that pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be ....etc....
	12:24pm DJ Johnny Cool: I got Mind Over Matter for Christmas.
	12:25pm Listener Baby: @Ross. Shoes show was about 35 years ago. Which I must say, depresses me a little.
	12:25pm Jett: ...and yes I know Tex Williams was the singer on Spade Cooley's "Detour."
	12:25pm Hughie Considine: Shoes, along with Pixies and Talking Heads, pointedly eschew the "the" that people naturally attach to their names. As for me, I'm fond of the Yes and the Pink Floyd.
	12:25pm dano59: Ross - Velvet Crush has backed up Matthew Sweet ...
	12:25pm Dennis Diken: @clarke - right?! @DG - C&J as "Nigel and Patrick" on Patty Duke! loved that show!
	12:25pm Montmaster J: @Dennis Diken....who was in the Lennon Band? Voorman and Ringo and....?
	12:25pm clarke: oh, hey Dennis!! should i read Clem Cattini's auto-bio?? (i think i know the answer, here)
	12:25pm DG: Not to debate Mr. D., but I saw that George Harrison tour too, at the Nassau Coliseum, where he also did both an afternoon & an evening show (we went to the afternoon one, my first time seeing a Beatle live). But....that & the NYC shows were in December, not November...in fact, the tour ended at MSG right before Xmas. So maybe the Spanky & Stymie show was in December?
	12:27pm Joe B: love Purdie's work on all those Beatles songs
	12:27pm Greg from ZONE 5: Excellent point, Michael! People get a bum rap. I mean…Bernard Purdie is a people.
	12:28pm Jett: Bernard Purdie ranks way up there with me along with Earl Palmer, Art Blakey, and Sandy Nelson.
	12:28pm Squints: Love Me Do, Man
	12:28pm Ross T.: Shoes not the Shoes got it! and yes Dano they did -- love the Power Pop Cross Pollenization!
	12:29pm Joe B: Lennon band was elephant's memory, not klaus and ringo
	12:29pm Handy Haversack: The Saturday I step away from the comments board is the one where Michael talks about the witty and urbane conversating going on. Hmmmm ... !
	12:29pm Joe B: ha ha Handy!
	12:29pm Hughie Considine: Like Ringo, Purdie left the1968 pilgrimage to India prematurely because he didn't like the food. True story.
	12:29pm clarke: you seem lighter, HH!!
	12:30pm Hughie Considine: I was joshin' @Ross!
	12:30pm Jett: Should've also mentioned Gene Krupa, Louis Bellson, and Buddy Rich.
	12:31pm Montmaster J: @Joe B.....ah, yes thanks.
	12:32pm Hoboken Jack: Happy new year, Therese! Hello Spodes!
	12:32pm Dennis Diken: @DG - could very well be, I'll double check one of these days. can't find info online right now. @clarke - haven't read Clem's book. @Joe B - correct, re elephant's memory & JL
	12:32pm spodiodi: hi Jack!
	12:32pm Ross T.: We goo0d Hughie! I am teachable btw : )
	12:33pm clarke: hmm... sounds like the vocal track was kept and they just cut music around that??
	12:33pm Ross T.: Yeah they cut the bongos out of the released version.
	12:34pm morphe': Handy - watched American Pickle film last night (ehhh!!!! some funny bits) but thought of ye in the few Bklyn rooftop and waterfront scenes ...
	12:34pm Jett: "It's Not Unusual" was first offered to Sandie Shaw, she turned it down and said, why don't you let Tom Jones do it. Tom felt he owed his success to her.
	12:34pm Jett: I forgot to mention Blainey also.
	12:34pm Dennis Diken: first live Beatle for me (& Jimmy Babjak) was seeing Wings Over America, again at MSG...then taking the train downtown to check out this place CBGB that we were hearing alot about. Television were onstage. quite a nite!
	12:35pm Jett: Blaine was one of the greatest
	12:35pm Dennis Diken: there's a Dells version of "It's Not Unusual" on Bee Jay too. not sure if it predated Tom's version?
	12:36pm Handy Haversack: clarke, I was starting to feel like a hippie! Natural order has been restored. I have it down to a brutally efficient science. Face gets the "3-day" guard on the beard trimmer. Entire dome gets the clippers with no guard but the blade at its longest. Then shave the neck and upper cheeks, and move on! Yo, spodi! Nice, morph. I think we're going to walk over into western Queens with the dog and see what things look like in this new day.
	12:37pm spodiodi: yo, Handy! very efficient! :)
	12:38pm Jett: Tom Jones' version predates The Dells version by a few months.
	12:38pm Paul Herb: Jimmy Page on lead guitar on It's Not Unusual.
	12:39pm clarke: good method, Handy! i use the scissors and snip little bits until it seems 'right'. takes a long time.
	12:39pm DG: DD: The Wings tour was 2 years after the Harrison tour though (1976). So GH was your first Beatle, no?
	12:40pm clarke: while jimmy page might be on the released version - i didn't hear ANY guitar on the demo
	12:41pm Dennis Diken: Roger Hawkins! ONE OF THE BEST EVER! visited the Jackson Highway Studio a few years ago. it's open for tours and I think for recording also. @Jett - new we can use. @DG, shucks, can I hire you as my fact checker? more coffee!
	12:41pm Jett: I also remember a very entertaining version of "It's Not Unusual" by Willie Bobo.
	12:41pm Dennis Diken: @DG - actually, John in '72
	12:41pm clarke: "lay back and burn" - Roger Hawkins
	12:41pm Kevino: Your a number one hit Michael!
	12:42pm Jett: @Dennis Diken Anytime you need to reach out to me, I'm there for you my friend.
	12:43pm gene sculatti: Michael, you turned me onto "Valarie" by playing it last year. It killed me: bought it and have spun it on my show. Thank ye.
	12:44pm Dennis Diken: right on Jett! I think the great Peter Gilstrap is on this Neighbors track?
	12:44pm Jett: Roger Hawkins also great!
	12:45pm morphe': Michael !!!!! A text version of my usual tel lament/compliment (STOP PLAYING THOSE SONGS [V-Effect]) I need to leave the house and get things done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#$%^&*()
	12:45pm HyperDose: Michael, thank you! Dennis, good to see you pal!
	12:45pm clarke: just exchanged happy xmas with Mr. Gilstrap last week - he is L.A. but about to move to tucson
	12:46pm Hughie Considine: Out of the mouths of babes ...
	12:47pm Handy Haversack: Thanks for the tunes, MS! Great to be here! Be well, Shelle Gamers. See youse soon.
	12:48pm Jett: Peter Gilstrap the radio show producer from out west?
	12:48pm GeoSinPhilly: I just read a story that during the early Aretha Atlantic sessions Jerry Wexler came up to Roger in the drum booth mid-session and said "Roger, you are a great drummer." Gave him the confidence that he was.
	12:48pm Benoni: Thought this was Arthur Lee singing solo.
	12:49pm clarke: or bob seger.
	12:49pm DG: DD: Haha, I still have the programs (& stubs) so I knew when they were (also checked Wiki., & the tour dates for GH are online)...also, I was almost out of high school when Wings played so I just remembered it was later than GH). But seeing TV at CB's (right after Wings!) must've been something (their album didn't come out till the next year).
	12:49pm Jett: How about the great Dennis Diken, not so bad either.
	12:49pm kpx: aw, more baby story's. play that station ID where she tells everyone - see you later suckers. and with that happy New year suckers!
	12:50pm Hoboken Jack: Gotta love the Buble!
	12:50pm Jett: Not a big Bubble fan, this track is nice though.
	12:50pm clarke: SHUCKERS!!!!
	12:50pm chris_in_space: Yes! Bublé gets his due! Bold move, Michael!
	12:51pm Nordstrom: Oh, how funny- I'm sipping a Ham & Bubbly right now!
	12:51pm Greg from ZONE 5: I prefer the Michael Shelley version.
	12:51pm clarke: apparently juniper had it in for the oyster openers!
	12:52pm Listener Baby: Baby. If you could only slow down those bongo feet for this one.
	12:52pm CalZone!: I cant find the piece now, but I remember reading a while back that 'The Ladybugs' aka 'The Girls from Petticoat Junction' made an appearance in Rochester NY, and were mobbed by fans diwntown causing a near riot!
	12:52pm Ross T.: Lady Bugmania....
	12:53pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been buble'd? good nite.
	12:53pm Dennis Diken: @HyperDose - hey! @clarke - Peter's moving to Tucson? huh, he used to live in AZ. saw him in LA last Feb just before all heck broke loose. @DG - yeh, I still got all my stubs, etc. the contrast between Macca at MSG & Television at CBGB (when the stage was still to the left) was stupefying! @Jett - pshaw!
	12:53pm egould310: Michael Bublé’s voice is just too perfect. It’s too sweet. Not a fan.
	12:53pm Andres: yes! can con!
	12:53pm DG: DD: Aah, John---yes, that was the "One to One" show (also an afternoon & evening show, Aug. '72). I think my dad had some connection with that group & asked if I wanted to see JL, but I heard there were going to be a lot of acts on the bill (I think there were a few) & Lennon was only going to do a short set, so I said, no, I'll wait for the tour (which probably would've happened if JL still wasn't having immigration problems). So I didn't go...one of my biggest musical regrets.
	12:53pm kpx: actually it might have been, THUCKERS.
	12:54pm clarke: peter is visiting his folks in NoVa, presently - escaping the lcckdowned L.A. - when he gets back he plans to move to tucson.
	12:54pm DJ Johnny Cool: Boob Lay. huhhuhuh..
	12:55pm Sonny Rickles: what the heck is going on? this is terrible!
	12:55pm Ross T.: Boob Laymania.
	12:55pm morphe': Thanks Mike and all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS V-EFFECT = Friends.. not me.... https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/21/arts/the-pop-life-eastern-europe-hears-v-effect-s-rock.html
	12:56pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Helluva build up for the Buble grand finale! Lots of star clicks today. Take care all.
	12:56pm Vpfavale: I'm here to back Michael (Shelley)...these are two excellent power pop songs...forget it's buble...a great song is a great song..hello 202 and happy new year Michael! Vinnie Favale
	12:56pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley! thanks, Ruth & Skeletons! Happy New Year! take care everyone
	12:57pm Squints: Yep. Ponder this Hollywood number punched and sung by Kurt Baker. That earlier number was alright its own self.
	12:57pm Ross T.: Thanks for that thing you do Michael. Blessing to all youse all days.
	12:57pm spodiodi: haha nice... suckers
	12:57pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Happy New Year Michael. I'd like to start this year off with a clean slate and apologize for what I said last week.
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: swell show Mikey, here's to many more in '21. all good wished to you and everyone!!
	12:58pm clarke: POW POW POW - WOW.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Vinnie, we benefit from your input oh so much.
	12:58pm Jett: I like the Steve and Eydie version
	12:59pm Vpfavale: lol frank in queens
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael... Thanks skeleton crew!
	12:59pm Kpx: OH MAN, that's just too darn adorable. Thanks.
	12:59pm Frank Zaatar: Hendrix, Lambert and Bevan rule. Ella too, of course.
	1:00pm clarke: NOBODY beats...
	1:00pm Nordstrom: That's the voice of Jim Hendricks, aka Commander USA!
	1:00pm Frank Zaatar: Happy New Year, Mike and everybody. Looking forward to a tuneful year!
	1:01pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Michael! See ya next week.
	1:01pm Frank Zaatar: Actually, Jimi did not work with Annie Ross to my knowledge. My bad.
	1:01pm Frank Zaatar: Or Yolande Bavan. My other bad.
	2:58pm Mark in Toronto: I isn't (or can't be) Kippington Lodge in Stardust. It is of course Brinsley Schwartz, credited as Dave Edmunds and the Electricians.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Pilot	January "January" by "Pilot"
Kinks, The	Better Things "Better Things" by "Kinks, The"
Laura Cantrell	What You Said "What You Said" by "Laura Cantrell"
Z.Z. Hill	Touch 'Em With Love "Touch 'Em With Love" by "Z.Z. Hill"
Golden Boys, The	Mágoa "Mágoa" by "Golden Boys, The"
Camera Obscura	French Navy "French Navy" by "Camera Obscura"
Walter Scott	Watch Out "Watch Out" by "Walter Scott"
Gosdin Brothers, The	Love At First Sight
Percy Mayfield	Give Me Time To Explain
Billy May	Johnny Cool Theme "Johnny Cool Theme" by "Billy May"
Sammy Davis Jr.	Bee Boom "Bee Boom" by "Sammy Davis Jr."
Richard Hell & The Voidoids	I'm Your Man
Los Mockers	You Got It "You Got It" by "Los Mockers"
Nikki Lane w/ Dan Auerbach	Love's On Fire
Preston Love	Chicken Gumbo "Chicken Gumbo" by "Preston Love"
Jubilaries, The	Pray "Pray" by "Jubilaries, The"
Grace Denton	Girls In Green "Girls In Green" by "Grace Denton"
Buzzcocks, The	Ever Fallen In Love?
Peter and Gordon	Two Little Love Birds
Mercia Love	Little By Little "Little By Little" by "Mercia Love"
Strangers, The	Sweet Water "Sweet Water" by "Strangers, The"
George Jackson	Soul Lovin' "Soul Lovin'" by "George Jackson"
Matthew Sweet	I've Been Waiting "I've Been Waiting" by "Matthew Sweet"
Lady-Bugs, The	How Do You Do It? "How Do You Do It?" by "Lady-Bugs, The"
Tex Williams	Suspicion "Suspicion" by "Tex Williams"
Smokey Johnson	I Can't Help It "I Can't Help It" by "Smokey Johnson"
Galt McDermott	Waiting For The Coin To Drop
Flat Five, The	Drip A Drop "Drip A Drop" by "Flat Five, The"
Tom Jones	It's Not Unusual (demo)
Ian And The Zodiacs	The Crying Game
Buddy Holly	That's What They Say "That's What They Say" by "Buddy Holly"
Odetta	Mama Told Me Not To Come "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta"
Neighbors, The	Valarie "Valarie" by "Neighbors, The"
Mort Shuman	She Ain't Nothing but a Little Child, Oh My
Michael Bublé	Just Haven't Met You Yet
Michael Bublé	Hollywood "Hollywood" by "Michael Bublé"
Ella Fitzgerald	This Could Be The Start Of Something
Actual Wiz Warehouse Worker	January Clearance Time!
Weird Beard	WAKY Money Phone "WAKY Money Phone" by "Weird Beard"
Your Average Teen	Sanford & Son Theme

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Listener comments!
	11:01am Listener Baby: Baby. Thank you for making 2020 a lot more bearable. It's easy to forget you folks volunteer to provide such a special service to the world. You and your fellow WFMU gang are the best in the world. I consider myself lucky to listen, as well as calling you a friend. Happy new year to The Shelley's, and to everyone reading this note.
	11:01am clarke: hoy new!!!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: Michael and all the Shelle Gamers! Happy January!
	11:02am luka: Michael
	11:02am clarke: a frothy brew~~
	11:02am Squints: OK, then.
	11:02am MFlynn: Hooray, we made it to 2021. Happy new Year Michael and everyone!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: hi
	11:03am Dennis Diken: go Mikey!
	11:03am egould310: Robbery?! Oh no, what has Michael gotten himself into?
	11:03am clarke: hey NOOwwwww
	11:03am Listener Baby: Hi, Frank? Are you okay?
	11:03am Michael Shelley: happy 2021 all!
	11:04am HyperDose: Man, that axe was squealing like a pig!
	11:04am Uncle Michael: GREAT Pilot track!
	11:05am bigplanetnoise: Morning, Michael and all!
	11:06am Eli: Ho ho ho it's January
	11:06am Doc Rock: Good morning Michael and all the listeners. Happy New Year to all of you.
	11:07am clarke: bettah daze!
	11:07am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! Happy new year. Hopefully on to better things!
	11:08am Woo: Since those Pilot guys wrote It's Magic they must be getting some nice checks from the makers of Ozempic
	11:08am Roberto: '21 has a theme song!
	11:09am Listener John from NJ: Hello all, and happy new year!
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Here's wishing you the bluest skies Michael, Ruth, Baby, Handy, Dennis, Frank, ev'ryone!
	11:09am Greg from ZONE 5: Happy New Year, Shelleys & Ruth & all!
	11:09am Richard: Happy New Year, all. Great way to start the year!
	11:10am Listener Baby: Hugs, Jack!
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Wishing happy days for you, too, Jack, and all here assembled!
	11:11am Uncle Michael: Michael, do you know the original version of "Magic" that wasn't the hit single?
	11:11am Squints: Thing about Magic is that there is NO parallel universe in which it's not a Number One Hit.
	11:11am Ruth Booth: Best to you Jack, Greg and All!
	11:11am Hoboken Jack: Yo Greg!
	11:12am Joe B: hey Michael and everyone
	11:13am Pedro in Arlington: What Listener Baby said. Two weeks from Wednesday. Better things.
	11:13am clarke: u get moved JB??
	11:14am Matt Clarke: Happy New Year, Michael! Hey all!
	11:14am Hoboken Jack: Hey there Joe!!
	11:15am Hoboken Jack: MVP Matt in the house!
	11:15am Corey: This ZZ Hill track...sooo good.
	11:17am Squints: This could SO be a Gary Lewis number. Or maybe the Critters.
	11:17am Gordon FM: Now you’re speaking my language! Obrigado, Michael. And Happy New Year to All!
	11:17am Matt Clarke: Happy New Year, Jack!
	11:18am clarke: 'allo golden!!
	11:19am McGroovey: Why do I never listen to Camera Obscura? I need to.
	11:19am Hoboken Jack: I liked the Tracyanne and Danny album but I really wish Camera Obscura would reform.
	11:20am egould310: Camera Obscura yeah. This is a number one hit.
	11:20am Gordon FM: Clarkles, yer standin mah circle!
	11:20am Hoboken Jack: Aye McGroove
	11:21am clarke: stan' on up.
	11:22am Handy Haversack: There is a camera obscura in Edinburgh, yup.
	11:22am paul: There was a tv doc about Walter Scott, the murders, etc.
	11:23am KWilde: Morning Michael Happy New Year all!
	11:25am Joe B: Kurt Baker has played on 3 different FMU shows (at least, maybe a fourth?). sounds like a future theme topic!
	11:25am clarke: u think the gosdin bros were 'connected'? if they were they might've been peeved they didn't get pictures on the cover of gene clark album.
	11:26am Squints: I should probably know this, but the VERN Gosdin Gosdin Brothers? Dang. This thing is great.
	11:27am clarke: vern-o was integral. yes. and potentially connected.
	11:30am paul: Melanie Griffith!
	11:30am dale: stardust was decent. end kind of expected.
	11:31am DJ Johnny Cool: Johnny Cool. I dig it.
	11:31am clarke: ok, Frank! doors open....
	11:33am dale: saw smile on tv in the 70s. i just remember the semi naked parts,
	11:33am Frank In Queens: Watched one movie this week; Mike Leigh's "Naked".
	11:33am johnk77: nice set johnny cool is included w/ amazon prime
	11:33am Matt Clarke: Howdy Frankie
	11:33am clarke: wassat??
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Haven't seen it in a while Frank, but I remember that it was excellent. Should anyone need me, I'll be under the DU-vet.
	11:35am Frank In Queens: www.rogerebert.com...
	11:35am clarke: yeah, i saw one full movie (but did a lot of watching scenes of films i have seen a lot).
	11:35am Montmaster J: @Frank in Queens....I recall Naked is a tough one. David Thewlis right? It made me uncomfortable .
	11:36am Frank In Queens: Yeah, Thewlis is tremendous in it. It's definitely not a move that will give you the warm and fuzzies.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: Last 1/1 we broke tradition and did not watch Alien and Aliens -- and look what happened in 2020! So worry not, we made up for it yesterday.
	11:37am pp: excellent Popeye, I learned mine from Steve Dahl
	11:37am clarke: i never saw The Way We Were back in the day, bcuz i am not a streisand fan; however, i finally viewed it, this past week. verdict: it is good. got me in the gut.
	11:38am Gordon FM: Memories.....
	11:38am OJ: Frank Drebin in Queens, Naked Gun
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: My resolutions: saltinwound.com...
	11:39am Frank In Queens: I would love to....
	11:39am clarke: marvin hamlisch - totally wrong era type of stuff but still better than i used to think
	11:40am dale: sounds like a ham operator when you don't have sideband.
	11:41am watchpocket: Pretty sure that was single-sidebad shortwave radio distortion.
	11:42am McGroovey: Robert
	11:42am Emile: Love this song but the other version (I'm Your Man)
	11:42am luka: i realized richard hell sounds like kevin mcdonald from kids in the hall and that’s all i hear now.
	11:43am Montmaster J: Quine so good on Mathew Sweet's girlfriend....also Richard Hell?
	11:43am Christina Low: I feel like The Voidoids don’t get enough love in the punk gushing that goes on these days.
	11:44am clarke: surprised, MS! you like a solo with CHORUS pedal intrinsically involved!! processing!!
	11:44am Corey: Hook after hook.
	11:45am clarke: i think the song Girlfriend is mostly Lloyd - but quine is all over that album
	11:46am watchpocket: @Jack Those resolutions resonate. You had 25 in 2012, I see you've boiled 'em down to the ten most important.
	11:47am dale: good ol' rockytop here.
	11:47am DJ Johnny Cool: I love me some Nikki.
	11:49am Handy Haversack: Resolutions resolved, Jack!
	11:51am clarke: sax!!!! i remember sax
	11:51am P-90: “...in Full Sprain Your Ankle Mode”
	11:55am clarke: wearin' my Shelley Show patched hoodie, this morn.
	11:56am Handy Haversack: I have to cut hair and beard down to reasonable levels, but I'll be listening on the ol' bathroom boombox!
	11:57am Aric: Haha, bring the punk!!
	11:57am egould310: I want my band to sound like the Buzzcocks.
	11:57am clarke: haircuts take me HOURS - hope there is a flowbie handy, Handy
	11:57am Listener Baby: Baby. Bubbles?
	11:59am Montmaster J: Remember we were at the Ritz and Human Sexual Response was opening for them and folks started booing-impatient for the main act- and the singer said "don't worry...you'll get your cock's buzzed?"
	12:00pm Fuzzy: Booing the Humans? Wow, unbelievable!
	12:00pm clarke: doh!!
	12:01pm P-90: Not at all like Michael to mix up Chad & Jeremy with Peter & Gordon, a real rookie error...
	12:01pm prudy: Andrew Sandoval did a great tribute to Chad and Jeremy on Come to the Sunshine recently...
	12:02pm jake6573: Don't forget the Chad and Jeremy appearance on Batman !
	12:02pm clarke: andrew does EVERYthing great!!
	12:02pm Fuzzy: Can't wait to finally see the Zulus reunion gig Sep. 21 -- I bought the tickets a year and a half ago!
	12:02pm jake6573: Lowell George also appeared on F troop, Just saying.
	12:03pm prudy: remind me about the Zulus Fuzzy...
	12:03pm Jett: @Michael Shelley I find that a lot of people tend to confuse Peter and Gordon and Chad and Jeremy. That's never happened to me, but I guess I understand it happening.
	12:03pm Corey: That was probably a wise move with the bubbles. My wife and I popped open a bottle with Spazz at midnight. 1230-2 is a blur and was worse for it the day after. Which as a parent is punishment indeed. Fun from what I remember of it though.
	12:04pm clarke: that would be a great interview: Andrew Sandoval, but focus on the few (great) albums he made.
	12:04pm Listener Baby: Peter and Jeremy should have been a thing. Solves at least one problem.
	12:04pm YETI BOB: we had a nice bottle of champagne in the fridge - it survived the night because we got too far into the cocktails.
	12:05pm clarke: that could still happen, Baby!! BABY!!!
	12:05pm Frank Zaatar: You can find them under LP divider labeled "British singing duos of the mid-sixties one of whom wears glasses."
	12:06pm Montmaster J: We had champagne....and That's Entertainment! on in the background. But early to bed. Until the Coyote woke us up.
	12:06pm Dennis Diken: there was a Chad & Jeremy budget label LP in the 60s that actually put a pic of Peter & Gordon on the (back) cover! for real! hey, they were both duos with "Beatle haircuts" where one guy wore glasses. "ah, the kids won't notice"
	12:06pm McGroovey: I had a band that sounded like the Buzzcocks once, but I lost it. I had a dream that I left it in a safe deposit box that I forgot about.
	12:06pm brooklynbanzai: Chad and Jeremy appeared on the TV Batman Show. In the show the Commissioner of Gotham's name is Gordon. His father was Peter Gordon.
	12:07pm P-90: Adjective of the Week: “Dave Edmunds-y”
	12:07pm spodiodi: good day, Michael Shelley and friends
	12:08pm P-90: @Dennis Diken: priceless!
	12:08pm Fuzzy: @prudy: The Zulus were 4/7ths of Human Sexual Response -- here's a good basic blurb about them: www.allmusic.com...
	12:08pm McGroovey: I was switching around looking for the Twilight Zone marathon last night, and came across the Batman TV show instead and decided to watch it, but then the TV decided to switch the channel without asking me, and I couldn't find it again. This sounds like a dream, but it wasn't.
	12:09pm clarke: @Dennis: you just can't leave us hanging about the Stymie & Spanky Show...!!!
	12:09pm paul: Strangers had a slightly Steely Dan-vocals vibe.
	12:10pm Joe B: he died in 2013
	12:10pm Jett: @Michael Shelley how about a cross between Little River Band and Brinsley Schwarz as a description for Australia's The Strangers
	12:11pm paul: @McGroovey, sounds like a TZ episode.
	12:11pm P-90: Nazi Moron Oxymoron: “not appropriate for free form radio”
	12:11pm Joe B: apparently he wrote one bad apple for the jackson 5 but wouldn't give up his publishing
	12:11pm Linda Lee: hello & happy new year Jan! isn't this stuff fabulous! happy new year Sheena's!
	12:12pm paul: Thought the Osmonds did One Bad Apple
	12:12pm prudy: thanks Fuzzy...not sure I was thinking about the same group...back in the 70's 80 in Boston there was a band in Boston i followed...fronted by a guy named Larry from Bangor ME who was a terrific performer...
	12:12pm clarke: tape flutter!!
	12:13pm Linda Lee: whoa. sorry. wrong page! happy new year Michael! :-)
	12:13pm Montmaster J: Great record. What a sound!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: This sure sounds divine.
	12:13pm clarke: i agree about Girlfriend being pretty dang landmark.
	12:13pm Fuzzy: Larry Bangor was the Zulus vocalist and one of the vocalists for HSR.
	12:13pm Joe B: yes Osmonds cut it after the J5 passed
	12:14pm Listener Baby: His great song. But Smog Moon is coming up fast on the outside these days.
	12:14pm clarke: u get moved, Joe???
	12:14pm Therese: Oh, I love this record so much! Happy New Year, Michael and Michael's listeners!
	12:14pm paul: Didn't know that, Joe B.
	12:14pm prudy: Fuzzy: I wonder where Larry is now...
	12:15pm Jett: The Osmonds did do "One Bad Apple" they recorded it at Fame studios and George Jackson wrote it.
	12:15pm Ross T.: Matthew Sweet surrounded himself with some pretty wonderful guitar players.
	12:16pm Dennis Diken: @clarke - the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ brought Stymie and Spanky to NJ to do a midnight appearance in November '74. not much to report except that they came on stage, introduced some Little Rascals films, did a Q&A and later met everyone and signed autographs. AND I DIDN'T BRING A CAMERA!! it was sparsely attended. Jimmy Babjak and I and some other pals went. we saw a matinee performance of George Harrison at MSG that afternoon! someday I'll post a scan of the newspaper clips and the autographs. I was thrilled beyond words to meet them both, especially Stymie.
	12:17pm Jett: I like these Matthew Sweet tracks, he always surrounded himself with great musicians.
	12:17pm clarke: Stymie - the thinking man's rascal!! TY!
	12:18pm phat: Looks like my earlier Preston Love post disappeared. Preston Love Jr. is a colleague of mine. I'll let him know that the record is on the wall at WFMU, the hippest station in the nation. He'll get a kick out of that.
	12:18pm Listener Baby: @Ross Ric Menck on drums is pretty unbeatable.
	12:18pm Fuzzy: @prudy: I don't know -- I know guitarist Rich Gilbert is in Nashville now. Awesome guitar player! Nay -- Legendary!
	12:18pm Jett: Sam Drucker knows the truth!
	12:18pm paul: Sam Drucker carries all the top hits.
	12:18pm Ross T.: More of a Bed Bugs than Lady Bugs guy.
	12:18pm Montmaster J: @Dennis Diken....Wow! George played a matinee-for the kids at MSG?!!!! THOSE were the days!
	12:19pm Ross T.: @Listener Baby - and love me some Velvet Crush all day!
	12:19pm clarke: what a day, DD!!
	12:20pm nardo: I had to climb the telephone pole to say "I liked that one Michael".
	12:20pm paul: What kind of deal is that?
	12:20pm paul: a deal
	12:20pm Listener Baby: @Ross Saw Ric play with Shoes, he completely blew my mind.
	12:20pm Jett: Reminds me of "Detour" by Spade Cooley
	12:21pm Joe B: the lady-bugs didn't sing live on ed sullivan so ... guessing it is not the actors on the record either
	12:22pm Dennis Diken: @Montmaster J - yeah - actually saw John Ono Lennon do the same thing - an afternoon One To One show in '72 at MSG. "Day Trippers," those lads...
	12:22pm Jett: Hello @Therese Hope you're having a great New Year's❤️
	12:22pm DG: Saw Chad & Jeremy about 7 years ago at a library out on L.I. (just them, with guitars and a piano). They could still sing, told stories, were very entertaining. And Batman was just one of the shows they were on back then....they also did the Patty Duke & Dick Van Dyke shows, as differently-named Brit duos.
	12:23pm Ross T.: @Listener Baby -- w/ the Shoes! Lucky you : ) Would have loved to see Velvet Crush backing up Tommy Keene. The Golden Age of Power Pop.
	12:23pm morphe': 7 Drunken Nights - Dubliners [got them banned] "........And as I went home on Tuesday night as drunk as drunk could be I saw a coat behind the door where my old coat should be Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me Who owns that coat behind the door where my old coat should be Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk you silly old fool, still you can not see That's a woollen blanket that me mother sent to me Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more But buttons in a blanket sure I never saw before.. And as I went home on Wednesday night as drunk as drunk could be I saw a pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me Who owns that pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be ....etc....
	12:24pm DJ Johnny Cool: I got Mind Over Matter for Christmas.
	12:25pm Listener Baby: @Ross. Shoes show was about 35 years ago. Which I must say, depresses me a little.
	12:25pm Jett: ...and yes I know Tex Williams was the singer on Spade Cooley's "Detour."
	12:25pm Hughie Considine: Shoes, along with Pixies and Talking Heads, pointedly eschew the "the" that people naturally attach to their names. As for me, I'm fond of the Yes and the Pink Floyd.
	12:25pm dano59: Ross - Velvet Crush has backed up Matthew Sweet ...
	12:25pm Dennis Diken: @clarke - right?! @DG - C&J as "Nigel and Patrick" on Patty Duke! loved that show!
	12:25pm Montmaster J: @Dennis Diken....who was in the Lennon Band? Voorman and Ringo and....?
	12:25pm clarke: oh, hey Dennis!! should i read Clem Cattini's auto-bio?? (i think i know the answer, here)
	12:25pm DG: Not to debate Mr. D., but I saw that George Harrison tour too, at the Nassau Coliseum, where he also did both an afternoon & an evening show (we went to the afternoon one, my first time seeing a Beatle live). But....that & the NYC shows were in December, not November...in fact, the tour ended at MSG right before Xmas. So maybe the Spanky & Stymie show was in December?
	12:27pm Joe B: love Purdie's work on all those Beatles songs
	12:27pm Greg from ZONE 5: Excellent point, Michael! People get a bum rap. I mean…Bernard Purdie is a people.
	12:28pm Jett: Bernard Purdie ranks way up there with me along with Earl Palmer, Art Blakey, and Sandy Nelson.
	12:28pm Squints: Love Me Do, Man
	12:28pm Ross T.: Shoes not the Shoes got it! and yes Dano they did -- love the Power Pop Cross Pollenization!
	12:29pm Joe B: Lennon band was elephant's memory, not klaus and ringo
	12:29pm Handy Haversack: The Saturday I step away from the comments board is the one where Michael talks about the witty and urbane conversating going on. Hmmmm ... !
	12:29pm Joe B: ha ha Handy!
	12:29pm Hughie Considine: Like Ringo, Purdie left the1968 pilgrimage to India prematurely because he didn't like the food. True story.
	12:29pm clarke: you seem lighter, HH!!
	12:30pm Hughie Considine: I was joshin' @Ross!
	12:30pm Jett: Should've also mentioned Gene Krupa, Louis Bellson, and Buddy Rich.
	12:31pm Montmaster J: @Joe B.....ah, yes thanks.
	12:32pm Hoboken Jack: Happy new year, Therese! Hello Spodes!
	12:32pm Dennis Diken: @DG - could very well be, I'll double check one of these days. can't find info online right now. @clarke - haven't read Clem's book. @Joe B - correct, re elephant's memory & JL
	12:32pm spodiodi: hi Jack!
	12:32pm Ross T.: We goo0d Hughie! I am teachable btw : )
	12:33pm clarke: hmm... sounds like the vocal track was kept and they just cut music around that??
	12:33pm Ross T.: Yeah they cut the bongos out of the released version.
	12:34pm morphe': Handy - watched American Pickle film last night (ehhh!!!! some funny bits) but thought of ye in the few Bklyn rooftop and waterfront scenes ...
	12:34pm Jett: "It's Not Unusual" was first offered to Sandie Shaw, she turned it down and said, why don't you let Tom Jones do it. Tom felt he owed his success to her.
	12:34pm Jett: I forgot to mention Blainey also.
	12:34pm Dennis Diken: first live Beatle for me (& Jimmy Babjak) was seeing Wings Over America, again at MSG...then taking the train downtown to check out this place CBGB that we were hearing alot about. Television were onstage. quite a nite!
	12:35pm Jett: Blaine was one of the greatest
	12:35pm Dennis Diken: there's a Dells version of "It's Not Unusual" on Bee Jay too. not sure if it predated Tom's version?
	12:36pm Handy Haversack: clarke, I was starting to feel like a hippie! Natural order has been restored. I have it down to a brutally efficient science. Face gets the "3-day" guard on the beard trimmer. Entire dome gets the clippers with no guard but the blade at its longest. Then shave the neck and upper cheeks, and move on! Yo, spodi! Nice, morph. I think we're going to walk over into western Queens with the dog and see what things look like in this new day.
	12:37pm spodiodi: yo, Handy! very efficient! :)
	12:38pm Jett: Tom Jones' version predates The Dells version by a few months.
	12:38pm Paul Herb: Jimmy Page on lead guitar on It's Not Unusual.
	12:39pm clarke: good method, Handy! i use the scissors and snip little bits until it seems 'right'. takes a long time.
	12:39pm DG: DD: The Wings tour was 2 years after the Harrison tour though (1976). So GH was your first Beatle, no?
	12:40pm clarke: while jimmy page might be on the released version - i didn't hear ANY guitar on the demo
	12:41pm Dennis Diken: Roger Hawkins! ONE OF THE BEST EVER! visited the Jackson Highway Studio a few years ago. it's open for tours and I think for recording also. @Jett - new we can use. @DG, shucks, can I hire you as my fact checker? more coffee!
	12:41pm Jett: I also remember a very entertaining version of "It's Not Unusual" by Willie Bobo.
	12:41pm Dennis Diken: @DG - actually, John in '72
	12:41pm clarke: "lay back and burn" - Roger Hawkins
	12:41pm Kevino: Your a number one hit Michael!
	12:42pm Jett: @Dennis Diken Anytime you need to reach out to me, I'm there for you my friend.
	12:43pm gene sculatti: Michael, you turned me onto "Valarie" by playing it last year. It killed me: bought it and have spun it on my show. Thank ye.
	12:44pm Dennis Diken: right on Jett! I think the great Peter Gilstrap is on this Neighbors track?
	12:44pm Jett: Roger Hawkins also great!
	12:45pm morphe': Michael !!!!! A text version of my usual tel lament/compliment (STOP PLAYING THOSE SONGS [V-Effect]) I need to leave the house and get things done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#$%^&*()
	12:45pm HyperDose: Michael, thank you! Dennis, good to see you pal!
	12:45pm clarke: just exchanged happy xmas with Mr. Gilstrap last week - he is L.A. but about to move to tucson
	12:46pm Hughie Considine: Out of the mouths of babes ...
	12:47pm Handy Haversack: Thanks for the tunes, MS! Great to be here! Be well, Shelle Gamers. See youse soon.
	12:48pm Jett: Peter Gilstrap the radio show producer from out west?
	12:48pm GeoSinPhilly: I just read a story that during the early Aretha Atlantic sessions Jerry Wexler came up to Roger in the drum booth mid-session and said "Roger, you are a great drummer." Gave him the confidence that he was.
	12:48pm Benoni: Thought this was Arthur Lee singing solo.
	12:49pm clarke: or bob seger.
	12:49pm DG: DD: Haha, I still have the programs (& stubs) so I knew when they were (also checked Wiki., & the tour dates for GH are online)...also, I was almost out of high school when Wings played so I just remembered it was later than GH). But seeing TV at CB's (right after Wings!) must've been something (their album didn't come out till the next year).
	12:49pm Jett: How about the great Dennis Diken, not so bad either.
	12:49pm kpx: aw, more baby story's. play that station ID where she tells everyone - see you later suckers. and with that happy New year suckers!
	12:50pm Hoboken Jack: Gotta love the Buble!
	12:50pm Jett: Not a big Bubble fan, this track is nice though.
	12:50pm clarke: SHUCKERS!!!!
	12:50pm chris_in_space: Yes! Bublé gets his due! Bold move, Michael!
	12:51pm Nordstrom: Oh, how funny- I'm sipping a Ham & Bubbly right now!
	12:51pm Greg from ZONE 5: I prefer the Michael Shelley version.
	12:51pm clarke: apparently juniper had it in for the oyster openers!
	12:52pm Listener Baby: Baby. If you could only slow down those bongo feet for this one.
	12:52pm CalZone!: I cant find the piece now, but I remember reading a while back that 'The Ladybugs' aka 'The Girls from Petticoat Junction' made an appearance in Rochester NY, and were mobbed by fans diwntown causing a near riot!
	12:52pm Ross T.: Lady Bugmania....
	12:53pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been buble'd? good nite.
	12:53pm Dennis Diken: @HyperDose - hey! @clarke - Peter's moving to Tucson? huh, he used to live in AZ. saw him in LA last Feb just before all heck broke loose. @DG - yeh, I still got all my stubs, etc. the contrast between Macca at MSG & Television at CBGB (when the stage was still to the left) was stupefying! @Jett - pshaw!
	12:53pm egould310: Michael Bublé’s voice is just too perfect. It’s too sweet. Not a fan.
	12:53pm Andres: yes! can con!
	12:53pm DG: DD: Aah, John---yes, that was the "One to One" show (also an afternoon & evening show, Aug. '72). I think my dad had some connection with that group & asked if I wanted to see JL, but I heard there were going to be a lot of acts on the bill (I think there were a few) & Lennon was only going to do a short set, so I said, no, I'll wait for the tour (which probably would've happened if JL still wasn't having immigration problems). So I didn't go...one of my biggest musical regrets.
	12:53pm kpx: actually it might have been, THUCKERS.
	12:54pm clarke: peter is visiting his folks in NoVa, presently - escaping the lcckdowned L.A. - when he gets back he plans to move to tucson.
	12:54pm DJ Johnny Cool: Boob Lay. huhhuhuh..
	12:55pm Sonny Rickles: what the heck is going on? this is terrible!
	12:55pm Ross T.: Boob Laymania.
	12:55pm morphe': Thanks Mike and all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS V-EFFECT = Friends.. not me.... https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/21/arts/the-pop-life-eastern-europe-hears-v-effect-s-rock.html
	12:56pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Helluva build up for the Buble grand finale! Lots of star clicks today. Take care all.
	12:56pm Vpfavale: I'm here to back Michael (Shelley)...these are two excellent power pop songs...forget it's buble...a great song is a great song..hello 202 and happy new year Michael! Vinnie Favale
	12:56pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley! thanks, Ruth & Skeletons! Happy New Year! take care everyone
	12:57pm Squints: Yep. Ponder this Hollywood number punched and sung by Kurt Baker. That earlier number was alright its own self.
	12:57pm Ross T.: Thanks for that thing you do Michael. Blessing to all youse all days.
	12:57pm spodiodi: haha nice... suckers
	12:57pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Happy New Year Michael. I'd like to start this year off with a clean slate and apologize for what I said last week.
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: swell show Mikey, here's to many more in '21. all good wished to you and everyone!!
	12:58pm clarke: POW POW POW - WOW.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Vinnie, we benefit from your input oh so much.
	12:58pm Jett: I like the Steve and Eydie version
	12:59pm Vpfavale: lol frank in queens
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael... Thanks skeleton crew!
	12:59pm Kpx: OH MAN, that's just too darn adorable. Thanks.
	12:59pm Frank Zaatar: Hendrix, Lambert and Bevan rule. Ella too, of course.
	1:00pm clarke: NOBODY beats...
	1:00pm Nordstrom: That's the voice of Jim Hendricks, aka Commander USA!
	1:00pm Frank Zaatar: Happy New Year, Mike and everybody. Looking forward to a tuneful year!
	1:01pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Michael! See ya next week.
	1:01pm Frank Zaatar: Actually, Jimi did not work with Annie Ross to my knowledge. My bad.
	1:01pm Frank Zaatar: Or Yolande Bavan. My other bad.
	2:58pm Mark in Toronto: I isn't (or can't be) Kippington Lodge in Stardust. It is of course Brinsley Schwartz, credited as Dave Edmunds and the Electricians.

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