WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from July 13, 2024

Listener comments!
	9:43am Listener Baby: Another Saturday Morning, and I ain’t got nobody. Except Baby, #1 Hits, a gang of crazies, and whatever else might come way. Morning!
	11:01am luka: gm ichibans
	11:01am clarke: i wanna make some HITS!!
	11:02am Listener Baby: My fav of Mark’s.
	11:02am Peter Horvath: Yo, #1’ers
	11:02am clarke: i'm trying to find Markell Shooley??
	11:02am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: HEY NOW!!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!
	11:03am clarke: he shoots. he scores.
	11:04am Frank In Queens: LOOK OUT! CLIFF!!!!!
	11:05am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 Beat me to it
	11:05am listener phat in Lincoln: Morning all
	11:05am clarke: hey now nebrasky!!
	11:06am Cheryl The Nerd: It's so funny how we don't talk about Cliff anymore.
	11:06am clarke: not that funny!
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Lol
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Probably no bakery today, as I have newly installed braces...
	11:07am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Break My Mind" by "Linda Ronstadt" What do you want, Linda?
	11:07am clarke: blue skies in nola! (which means an oven)
	11:08am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:07 suspenders?
	11:08am Cheryl The Nerd: I just walked home from grocery shopping in this rain.
	11:08am clarke: baby. oh. baby.
	11:08am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:08 That'd be less weird and painful.
	11:09am gf2002: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 Very well played!
	11:09am clarke: dual-screenage with TdF
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Morning, MS and all! Glad to be back with youse!
	11:09am gf2002: How about a request for the "Doctor Martens Boots" song?
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:09 u got a folk show shoutout, terday!
	11:10am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:10am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Summer Holliday" by "Cliff Richard" The Bevis Frond did a great cover of this song on a 7"
	11:11am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:10 that is quite a find, actually!
	11:11am gf2002: Speaking of Linda...I watched the movie FM this past week. Linda was great in that concert footage. Same with Waddy Wachtel, her band was tight as hell.
	11:11am Listener Baby: Does anyone else think Bobby B and Nina Simone are interchangeable? They could sing each others songs
	11:11am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Summer Holliday" by "Cliff Richard" Hey all, trying to remember a different song that goes "we're all going on a summer holiday" -- it's driving me nuts!
	11:12am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:11 I was just thinking of the similarities
	11:12am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:11 i need to re-visit that flick - saw it when it came out in theater.
	11:12am greg g: Morning Michael & #1’ers!
	11:13am listener phat in Lincoln: Steve Allen's theme song
	11:14am Marie in Chicago: Howdy! Good morning. Soundiing grrrreat.
	11:14am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:11 "The Beat?"
	11:15am clarke: no baloney?
	11:15am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:14 Yes!! Thank you, Squints!
	11:15am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:15 Not unless fried.
	11:15am Listener Baby: Malarkey? Baby, any Malarkey?
	11:16am clarke: bbq'd baloney!
	11:17am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:12 I enjoyed it - some parts were a little too corny, but the music really kicked it up to another level. I know it's been debated for years, but I'm left wondering which concept came first, WKRP or FM. The guy who developed WKRP for TV swore he had the idea first. Eileen Brennan was great in FM, she played the Allison Steele "Nightbird" character very well.
	11:18am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 right now, the only thing i can remember is that tom petty is in it.
	11:19am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:18 Yes! A very very young looking Petty. He doesn't perform but he's in the studio for an interview at the station.
	11:19am clarke: reticent to ask, but what's the latest on brian?
	11:19am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 Haven't seen the movie but the theme song is the most phoned-in Steely Dan number I can think of. (Life has really changed since I started having opinions on Steely Dan, an their individual songs.)
	11:20am clarke: ↳ drr @11:19 i don't mind that dan tune, but it signaled what was to come.
	11:20am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I had a motorcycle as a kid as did a couple of my friends in Carp, Ontario, Canada and we ran those things as hard and as fast we could.
	11:20am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Little Honda" by "Hondells, The" How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fuzz
	11:21am clarke: where is The FuZZZ?
	11:21am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:20 Right about the time that Bob Seger became almost instantly Middle-Aged Man.
	11:21am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Years later, I had a girlfriend and she told me her dad always said to her, Do not get on the back of a motorcycle.
	11:22am P-90: Best Honda pop 45 ever. A real number one.
	11:23am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:21 "Little too gray, coulda lost a few pounds..."
	11:24am drr: Ya know, I look forward to the day there are some new links on this page so this thing about the toilet paper song fellow moves below the fold.
	11:24am George Kopp: I'm not a collector but still have all my 45s from when I was a kid. Definitely have a very worn copy of that Hondells single.
	11:25am ?: ↳ drr @11:24 I was just thinking that too
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by "Ray Charles" Best version of this song?
	11:26am clarke: bill monroe
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Marie in Chicago @11:26 To me, this or Elvis, well, Elvis first, this second...
	11:27am Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Song: "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by "Ray Charles" Before tuning in, I was listening to a playlist of original versions of rock n roll songs, pretty interesting!
	11:28am Marie in Chicago: ↳ clarke @11:26 hm, forgot about him--I am embarrassed to say--I hear ya' on that.
	11:28am drr: ↳ @11:25 It's out of view by the second hour of the show.
	11:28am onthetrain: Morning all
	11:29am gf2002: ↳ drr @11:19 It does feature Walter Becker doing all the guitar and bass work, and it was commissioned (I've heard by Irving Azoff) so maybe it was a rush job. But it was a hit record for them and actually won a Grammy too. Becker's guitar work is great, and Jeff Porcaro on drums is always a highlight.
	11:29am ?: buy stamps online today, better selection
	11:30am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:29 I guess I can't get past the sorta nauseated way Fagen sings "FM".
	11:30am Joey C: Hello Michael and everyone listening.
	11:30am Joey C: PF Flyers. Just saying.
	11:31am onthetrain: Wow I had forgotten about the big bin of shoes mike . Sketchers and New balance .
	11:31am evancuts: I will let Mike Royce know about your thumbs up for Men of a Certain Age. He created the show and was the showrunner. We've been friends since the first day of college at Ithaca. Great guy.
	11:31am Bri The Beatnik: I haven’t worn converse or seen a lot of people wearing them in over 10 years!
	11:32am clarke: i loved the old converse, but no support - fallen arches, all the time.
	11:32am drr: This (Converse replacement suggestions) has to be the most WFMU subject discussion ever.
	11:32am Squints: "Why, Number One Hits, of course."
	11:32am clarke: hey lady!!!!
	11:32am Frank In Queens: I switched, because I can't wear those type of sneakers anymore. They were killing my feet and back.
	11:32am David The Splatter: I've worn Skechers for years, even though the price of the shoes has gone up. They still last pretty long.
	11:32am gf2002: That was when the Beach Boys played on The Andy Williams Show, they had to sing "cycle" instead of Honda, and Andy sang the chorus with them. They sang "Andy Andy" instead of "Honda Honda" backing Williams. Bizarre clip. It's on youtube
	11:33am Bri The Beatnik: Hey! My mom’s friend said “Doowop” when she got her M.R.I
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:32 exactly!
	11:33am tonyb: If Ira gives up red Converse, well, then turn the page…
	11:33am myron feld: When I've had MRIs, I like to listen to the machine because it sounds like Suicide, whom I enjoy.
	11:33am clarke: A to B.
	11:33am donnie in Davenport: look for clearance Converse skate *skateboarding shoes vans, really any skate shoe...
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have the same Converse question. I can barely get a pair to last two summers. Mine right now are falling right the hell apart.
	11:34am Squints: Been wearing Sambas as my core walking-around shoes since my girls (and then I) started playing futbol.
	11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: I wear Feiyue sneakers these days (or Adidas). They're cheap and super comfortable.
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:34 me, as well. cheers!
	11:35am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:33 Cue S.A.M.'s voice laughing.
	11:35am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:34 Crucially, for me, Converse have no leather in them. I can't wear any shoes with leather.
	11:35am tonyb: Solid “DAD” shoes: 900 series New Balance. Pillows for the feet, but over $100!
	11:36am onthetrain: Sambas and kelm can be good but there are so many variations of their indoor soccer shoes it’s hard to find a decent “model”
	11:36am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:34 This comes as a relief because I was pondering maybe wearing something different to open mics in case the Sambas weren't rock and roll enough. But I will cheerfully carry on.
	11:36am Mr. Jones: Gigantic? I better go outside, low ceilings.
	11:36am clarke: Turntable One doth protest too much
	11:36am gf2002: ↳ drr @11:30 Yes it's odd that the song is critical of FM radio but the movie celebrates it. I'm sure the irony wasn't lost on Fagen and they didn't mind the royalties either!
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" This record was right about when Nick stopped writing this kind of song.
	11:37am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" Nick Lowe does Squeeze.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:32 I do supplement w/ inserts
	11:37am ?: new balance 480, look like dunks but have new balance type support
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:36 they are rock enough, but still lack a bit of support. good drumming shoes, tho.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ evancuts @11:31 VERY VERY GOOD
	11:37am drr: Sambas don't come in a width I can wear. Please help me, Mr. Adida.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:32 You're saying we should check Can lyrics for clues? Brilliant!
	11:38am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:36 I don't wear ;em to play indoors. I was wearing cleats on field turf for a while but now have a pair of Nike nubbys. (Nothing special about Nike. I buy what's cheap. I'm not good enough a player to merit really good shoes.)
	11:38am Squints: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Mickey, are you heightening?
	11:38am myron feld: ↳ Squints @11:35 Squints: what is S.A.M.?
	11:39am Moammar: Hey, for sale here in NJ: A little Honda! newjersey.craigslist.org...
	11:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ myron feld @11:38 The Wake and Bake Morning Music Computer. Clay's amanuensis.
	11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" Man, this is not my favorite Nick Lowe, and I love over the top 80s British pop production.
	11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:37 Yep, I discovered many cool brands are prohibitively narrow for me. Never could wear Pumas, much to my chagrin.
	11:39am Ed From Jersey City: Nick Lowe has a better understanding of Elvis Costello than vice versa.
	11:40am Squints: ↳ drr @11:37 I have to wear two pairs of socks for my narrow heels. But my wearing two pairs goes back to my hoops days for ankle support in high tops.
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:39 I have to admit I concur.
	11:40am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:38 Wake'n'Bake morning computer. Clay Pigeon does a bit with the mechanized voice very Thursday.
	11:41am clarke: VERY thursday!!
	11:41am onthetrain: Squints I like to remember I was good but i probably wasn’t. When I use to play indoor I liked the flats over the nubbies. Now i’de probably break something if I tried to play.
	11:42am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:41 Very Thursday, indeed.
	11:42am myron feld: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:39 Thank you. Sorry to hear of Clay's amanuensis -- a little penicillin and he'll be good as new.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:42 havent priced them recently, but the Mitre spikes used to be really great.
	11:43am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Baby, Believe Me" by "Los Bravos" Chorus hook is "Can't Buy Me Love."
	11:43am clarke: ↳ Song: "Barbara Joy" by "Eddie Noack" EDDIE!!!
	11:44am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:41 At nearly 65 I've learned to let the bindings go if I'm about to fall over. I have the turning radius these days of an aircraft carrier. Which is innaresting because I'm having to learn touch all over again after twenty-plus years as a goalkeeper. When the fellas pulled me back in I told them I was out of that business.
	11:44am Handy Haversack: So are there any vegetarian Converse-replacement suggestions? I feel like all the brands I've seen mentioned here use leather.
	11:44am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:42 It'll buff right out.
	11:44am bd: converse costed 10 bucks in 1965. Adjusted for inflation thats $99 today. But they cost about 65 bucks. cheaper in cost and in quality.
	11:45am ?: just ordered the stamps usps.com free shipping. they have bluegrass stamps and underground railroad stamps!
	11:46am clarke: COVAY!!
	11:46am Hughie Considine: I was amazed when I bought my last pair of Chuck Taylors that they had so little support. Used to wear them a lot, but after a while could not take it. They offered ankle support, but not the other kind.
	11:46am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:41 We get new blood every year but the core pickup group has all aged together. We play as fast as we can but we're not nuts about it. Can't make the pub later if on too many painkillers.
	11:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 Yeah, unwearable without insoles of some kind.
	11:47am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Daddy Loves Baby" by "Don Covay" I know, Don. No need to mention.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 tis a young man's game.
	11:47am Moammar: Bongo feet ahoy!
	11:47am Mr. Fine Wine: I've never heard this in stereo. Single is mono, of course.
	11:47am clarke: 9/10
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If you buy Insoles & put them in Shoes you already got - it's surprising how much that can do for it all.
	11:47am Mr. Fine Wine: Is it missing some backing vocals from the mono mix??
	11:47am Moammar: Can't do those bong feet without proper arch support, just to bring this back around to topic A.
	11:48am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:47 They used to shoot horses in that game. Now they send 'em over to play with us on Sunday mornings.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Mr. Fine Wine @11:47 think so.
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @11:46 Our softball team is about to end its 25th season. The problem is all the other teams in the league are corporate so all the players stay at twenty-six years old as the cohorts age out, get married, move to the burbs, etc. Whereas we continue to age ...
	11:49am clarke: Go Pigeons!!
	11:50am Listener Baby: Re: Sneakers. Knowing that things aren’t made as well as they used to be. How much more do we all weight now a days? Personally speaking, I’m a good 40 pounds up from my fighting days. To not think there is more pressure and stress on shoes at this stage in life would be unrealistic. Not sure why this matters, but I said it anyway.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 we need support!
	11:51am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:49 Final game of the spring/summer season this Tue. Unless the other team forfeits again, which has happened twice now on super hot days. Supposed to be 94F on Tue. ... frinkiac.com...
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Numero UNO!
	11:52am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" No bad versions
	11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 I'm still going to blame society, thank you very much!
	11:52am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:51 the forfeited season.
	11:52am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Keith would seem to be a one-hit wonder, but this song charted, so the term does not apply!
	11:53am Mr. Jones: Hey all you podiatrists on today's board. What kind of shoes for plantar fasciitis. My Kirkland slip-ins aren't cutting it anymore.
	11:53am donnie: billion dollar babies!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Not a shade on TheHollies. But okay.
	11:53am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:52 Dick Rude's immortal last line in Repo Man ages like fine wine.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:52 i don't think i have the same definition of One Hit Wonder as everyone else.
	11:54am drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 Kirkland makes a shoe? And I'm not wearing Kirklands??
	11:54am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:53 Where does the cover by Dan Fogelberg and Eric Weisberg fit in?
	11:55am ?: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 I had Planter Fascistitis for 11 months, had to wear old man new balance 990. Now NB 480
	11:56am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 Up 25-35 lbs from 25 years ago. It would be less if I dinna drink so much be-- But that's crazy talk.
	11:56am clarke: yes, i hear new balance is good for PF - not PF Flyers!!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:56 let's not go overboard, here.
	11:56am Mr. Jones: ↳ @11:55 So if i'm gonna try that I go for the 480 or the 990?
	11:57am Moammar: Plantar fasicitis: Birkenstocks are the cure. And never go barefoot in the house. Birks 24-7.
	11:57am ?: Vans are the worst for PF
	11:57am greg g: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 Speaking of podiatrists, my left ankle has been bugging me for about a week, just thinking I need to call one.
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Moammar @11:57 i'd rather die.
	11:57am Moammar: ↳ clarke @11:57 I am not saying they are cool, but they are cooler than hobbling.
	11:57am ?: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:56 990 to cure PF, 480 to maintain
	11:58am gf2002: Andy Kaufman was brilliant on The Dating Game
	11:58am Squints: ↳ greg g @11:57 I remember that Beach Boys number, "I'm bugged at my old ankle."
	11:59am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 Very true. Moe also knew. frinkiac.com...
	11:59am Mr. Jones: ↳ @11:57 Thanks mystery person. Imma try that. I do hope you are not just a figment of my imagination.
	11:59am Hughie Considine: I saw a respected podiatrist in New York whose office had photos of a famous ballet dancer whom he had helped. I was having major foot issues from yoga and jumping back into a pushup (not really a great practice) and the guy had no idea what I was talking about. I have had more bad experiences with well qualified doctors than with any other kind.
	11:59am Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @11:56 Hush yo' mouth!
	12:00pm greg g: ↳ Squints @11:58 Remember the song title? Im lying in bed as I type.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:59 Variations on a timeless theme!
	12:00pm gf2002: ↳ Squints @11:58 The Beach Boys also released "Take A Load Off Your Feet Pete" about Birkenstocks
	12:00pm newton: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:59 OK I logged in to validate my recommendation.
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 Yeah, but it still hurts
	12:01pm Squints: ↳ greg g @12:00 "I'm Bugged At My Old Man." Might have been on "The Beach Boys Party."
	12:02pm clarke: VERY thursday!!
	12:02pm Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:59 That's what tha beeh's fah, theah.
	12:02pm greg g: ↳ Squints @12:01 Thanks Squints! Sometimes not a lot fun getting older.
	12:03pm gf2002: ↳ Squints @12:01 It was a throwaway end track on "Summer Days and Summer Nights", just before Party and Pet Sounds.
	12:03pm Mr. Jones: ↳ newton @12:00 Thanks Newton, The situation does have some gravity, so I appreciate your expertise.
	12:03pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 Maybe he was helping her with a place to stay?
	12:04pm greg g: ↳ gf2002 @12:03 Thanks gf2002 too.
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:03 No, she genuinely raved about how much he had helped her continue dancing. But that didn't translate to me, the man on the street with the aching feet.
	12:07pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Mark Bacino" But we HAVE those records. Make what you want.
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Mark Bacino" splendid!!
	12:08pm clarke: hearing of wasted studio time does give me the willies, tho.
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: Yeah Mark!
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:08 I get that. Always have something in the back pocket. Just in case.
	12:11pm clarke: "that gum you like is coming back in style"
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:11 of COURSE!
	12:12pm clarke: don't waste a MINUTE!
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Used to be perplexed about PowerPop ...as in - how could something deriving so much from TheBeatles - the biggest Success ever - have such a shaky standing in the popular Charts ? ...But looking @ what has actually Charted - & of course depending on yer parameters of what qualifies ...PowerPop had done pretty good, really.
	12:13pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:12 I'm pretty ecumenical. "Near enough."
	12:13pm MarciB: Oh wow...I was unaware of Mark's work and as a 25yr resident of western Queens, I'm intrigued. Thanks for enlightening me!
	12:14pm clarke: Greg Calbi, right? a Master of Mastering!!
	12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& then - a Master is the One from which all the Many for the marketplace are pressed / copied from. Just like when you Photocopy stuff - is how I'd explain it to someone who is not into Audio yet...
	12:16pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:14 His name was on all my favorite CDs for awhile there. And Bob Ludwig.
	12:16pm clarke: him, too!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:13 I just say - the less uptight the definition of what is PowerPop - the more fun everybody seems to have...
	12:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ MarciB @12:13 LIC, MarciB? That's a skyline that has changed a LOT in the last twenty-five years. Heck, in the last five!
	12:17pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:17 "The search for The Great Lost Badfinger Song." But emphasize the search.
	12:19pm the Gidge: Love Mark from those power pop days. International Pop fest! What a lovely human. Really enjoyed this conversation. Tx michael!!
	12:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:17 Not bad @ all ...or - someone once posited to me - it's trying to find the perfect balance of Beatles & Who. You gotcher Power - & you botcher Pop ?... Speaking of Hollies - someone asked me why I listened to that stuff - !! I said - well - yerknow ...PowerPop & all. They said ...you call that Power ?? ...Well - alright. GittarPop maybe... Yerknow - get out yer Genre microscopes...
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:17 uh, have you been checking out Tom Evans' brother has been posting some demos, lately?
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:20 *Gotcher Pop... if not yer Mom...
	12:22pm clarke: great interview AGAIN!!! thanks guys!!
	12:22pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:20 Plenty of power behind "Bus Stop," "Look Through Any Window" and the louder parts (especially the galloping bass) of "On A Carousel."
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "We Can Take It" by "Smoke, The" also a bit of help from Jimmy Page
	12:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:22 Well Bobby Elliot right here in these FMU parts described their Hollies Vocals as like a frontline of Horns. Anyway - that person's problem not mine...
	12:30pm clarke: and you said there was no baloney!
	12:30pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "My Golden Years" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Every time I hear this song, I just want to shout it from the rooftops.
	12:32pm listener phat in Lincoln: I recall Steve Miller said a hit needs at least 6 hooks.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:32 he said it, then forgot it.
	12:33pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:32 Lol, yes. But he was on to something! He has a few hits!
	12:33pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:30 I'm amused that the lyric is about how he feels like he's wasting his days and the good times are about over, so he needs to work harder at enjoying life.
	12:34pm clarke: had
	12:34pm drr: "Abracadabra" has like two hundred hooks.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:34 and a chart position. but "hit"?? uuhhhhh
	12:35pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:34 And is maybe the least of those hits. I don't hate it, but...
	12:35pm Cheryl The Nerd: Congratulations John! See you there!
	12:35pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Where did you bartend?
	12:36pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:34 Yes, typo
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Barefoot Jimmy G @12:35 Park Slope Brewing Co.
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:34 indeed!
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:33 But meanwhile the music itself is completely life-affirming.
	12:37pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Ahhhh, I used to live on President Street. I think I went there a couple of times. I think... ; )
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 didn't you work at Bandito's for a bit, too??
	12:37pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:32 I'm gonna get laughed off the boards for this, but you know who kicks ass at writing hooks? Rick Springfield. There, I said it.
	12:38pm newton: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:37 not a lot of ennui in power pop
	12:39pm clarke: used to! all these people fell off the map after chart success, tho.
	12:39pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 "I've Done Everything For You" is pretty hooky all right.
	12:39pm Squints: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 No shame whatsoever. There is absolutely one large data point for that argument. And probably more going back to "Speak To The Sky."
	12:40pm drr: ↳ newton @12:38 idk, does "Boredom" by the Lovin' Spoonful count as power pop? It's brilliant whatever it is.
	12:40pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @12:39 I'm a big fan of "Isn't It Time" by the Babys, which I would call power pop.
	12:40pm Squints: ↳ Squints @12:39 That cartoon popped up on my FB feed a few days ago with a wistful middle-aged Rick Springfield looking at his neighbor's yard and lamenting, "I wish that I had Jessie's grill."
	12:40pm clarke: i agree that the folks being mentioned are hook-meisters. but, they sure didn't last long after a spell of chart success. when folks like nick lowe just have It.
	12:41pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:40 Yes. Yes, he does.
	12:41pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ drr @12:39 That's the one hit RS had that he didn't write. Sammy Hagar is responsible for that one.
	12:41pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:39 Juniper has covered this - coming soon!
	12:42pm Squints: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 I learn something every day. That was not a guess I would have made.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yeah probly what it is - what I think of as 'Power Pop' had a big fat blindspot of what's in the actual Charts in the first place ...just like it never occurred to me to call Styx & Kansas 'Prawg'...
	12:42pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 Please, did anyone else see Rick Springfield on the TV show Wonder Woman? He played a "famous popstar" whose hit was called "What's My Moniker, Veronica", and the cover was a copy of Magical Mystery Tour with different words pasted on the cover. This happened, but there is no evidence. It does sound like something I would dream up.
	12:43pm Mailman Tom: Groovies are go!
	12:43pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:40 Nick Lowe had only one top 40 hit. 2 if you count Peace Love and Understanding. RS had several. And he's still cranking out new music.
	12:43pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:40 Another big fan. Underrated group.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "I Can't Hide" by "Flamin' Groovies" Oh Lordy. The poor 'Shake Some Action' Album - I ritually slaughter it almost every time I turn my GittarAmp on. It's done nothing to deserve such violence...
	12:44pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ drr @12:42 No, can't say I've even heard of that one before!
	12:45pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 No kidding? Wow. OK. Hmm.
	12:45pm newton: ↳ drr @12:42 Imdb has him on it but the storyline is Olympics www.imdb.com...
	12:46pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 Completely agree
	12:46pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:43 And I'm not knocking Nick Lowe at ALL. I freaking LOVE Nick Lowe.
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 he may not have written it but he (and producers) threw in the right hooks.
	12:47pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 !!
	12:47pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:46 Ok, that's fair.
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ drr @12:42 Okay. MagicalMystery / 1970s WonderWoman mashup. Visually this absolutely works...
	12:47pm drr: ↳ newton @12:45 wow, and the episode is called "Screaming Javelins"? Weren't Screaming Javelins a guest on the T.O.P. Todd show?
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:43 the charts mean NOTHING to me.
	12:48pm Cheryl The Nerd: Fun fact: The chorus of I've Done Everything For You mashes with the hook to Love Somebody.
	12:49pm Handy Haversack: Bug Club!
	12:49pm drr: ↳ Song: "Lonsdale Slipons" by "Bug Club, The" Song about footwear? Are we a focus group?
	12:49pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:48 Does something happen if you play it alongside The Wizard of Oz?
	12:50pm Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @12:37 Too much swag
	12:50pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:49 I only realized Rubber Soul was a pun a few years ago.
	12:50pm the Gidge: Mark B interview sent me down a Parasol Records Sweet 16 compilation rabbit hole. Remember them?
	12:50pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:47 Oh absolutely! Charts might be one measure of success, but they're hardly the only one. Richard Thompson never had a top 40 hit. And he's a hell of a musician.
	12:51pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think getting on the charts is as much a matter of luck, as anything. But I think there certainly were a lot of great tunes in the charts up until I got old and out of touch. lol I think the British charts tend to be better, though.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:50 i do realize that some folks are interested in the charts - they just mean nothing to me. of course, when i was a kid...
	12:53pm drr: wonder-woman.fandom.com... OK, it was real, but I'm stilll confused....
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:53 Amazing
	12:53pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:52 :) It's just that some people think of RS as a one hit wonder. He's not.
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: 70s television was truly strange
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:53 ha ha ha, don't get me started on "one hit wonder"!!
	12:54pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 No wonder GenX is so warped. 70s tv is what we grew up on.
	12:55pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:52 I went the other way--I hated American Top 40 as a kid, and now I listen in utter fascination, marveling at stuff like "Spiders And Snakes" and "Telephone Man".
	12:56pm clarke: i actually hardly even watched tv in the (late) 70's. much less 80's.
	12:56pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Who Betrays Me?" by "Cucumbers, The" Such a sprightly, springy sound they had on this record. The "well-produced" LP wasn't this fun.
	12:56pm clarke: and the 80's tv is so much weirder!
	12:56pm drr: ↳ drr @12:55 The real lesson of AT40, though, is that Tony Orlando and Dawn were HUGE.
	12:57pm Cheryl The Nerd: Thanks Michael!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ⦿Sun in ♋︎Cancer, Year of Water 🐎Horse Roger (born James Joseph) McGuinn III b. July 13, 1942
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:56 and yet, you never hear them now
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Only You" by "NRBQ" The Voice!!
	12:57pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:57 Thank the stars for that.
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS! Good stuff!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:56 Yep. I actually spent some time listening to all the dance track hits from 1970 to 1980 a few years ago. That was also revelatory.
	12:58pm JohnEBGood: Thanks Michael. Keath can sing : )
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:41 Can't wait to hear that!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: Thanks Michael.
	12:58pm newton: ↳ drr @12:53 wow that's crazy!! and Judge Reinhold!
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: Well, I quite enjoyed that -- thank you, Michael!
	12:58pm clarke: THE VOICE!!! OMG.
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:57 So McGuinn was born in the year of the horse? Maybe that explains wanting to make a wife of that Chestnut Mare.
	1:00pm newton: Thank you Michael Shelley
	1:00pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been taco'd? good nite. bonk.
	1:00pm Squints: Thanks, Michael. This really moved some rope.
	1:01pm davefromtoronto: 5 thousand square foot mansion!
	1:01pm clarke: a moving story.
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~

Michael Shelley: Playlist from July 13, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Mark Bacino	Gone "Gone" by "Mark Bacino"
Cliff Richard	Summer Holliday "Summer Holliday" by "Cliff Richard"
Linda Ronstadt	Break My Mind "Break My Mind" by "Linda Ronstadt"
Bobby Bland	36-24-36 "36-24-36" by "Bobby Bland"
Ella Fitzgerald	This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
Redd Kross	I'll Take Your Word For It
Hondells, The	Little Honda "Little Honda" by "Hondells, The"
Mark Bacino	All I Want "All I Want" by "Mark Bacino"
Ray Charles	Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Nick Lowe	L.A.F.S. "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe"
Los Bravos	Baby, Believe Me "Baby, Believe Me" by "Los Bravos"
Eddie Noack	Barbara Joy "Barbara Joy" by "Eddie Noack"
Don Covay	Daddy Loves Baby "Daddy Loves Baby" by "Don Covay"
Mark Bacino	Why Does This Woman Love Me?
Keith	Tell Me To My Face "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith"
Stokes, The	Whipped Cream "Whipped Cream" by "Stokes, The"
Mark Bacino	Kay "Kay" by "Mark Bacino"
Mark Bacino	Kaylee Hughes "Kaylee Hughes" by "Mark Bacino"
Mark Bacino	Interview "Interview" by "Mark Bacino"
Mark Bacino	Not That Guy "Not That Guy" by "Mark Bacino"
Smoke, The	We Can Take It "We Can Take It" by "Smoke, The"
Mr. Lee And The Cherokees	Party Time
Lemon Twigs, The	My Golden Years "My Golden Years" by "Lemon Twigs, The"
Trizo 50	Take A Ride "Take A Ride" by "Trizo 50"
Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez	Sweet Tequlia Blues
TV Slim	I Can't Be Satisfied "I Can't Be Satisfied" by "TV Slim"
Flamin' Groovies	I Can't Hide "I Can't Hide" by "Flamin' Groovies"
Kurt Baker	New Direction "New Direction" by "Kurt Baker"
Bug Club, The	Lonsdale Slipons "Lonsdale Slipons" by "Bug Club, The"
Rolling Stones, The	Before They Make Me Run
Cucumbers, The	Who Betrays Me? "Who Betrays Me?" by "Cucumbers, The"
NRBQ	Only You "Only You" by "NRBQ"
Two Angry Ladies	Epistle To Taco Bell's CEO

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Listener comments!
	9:43am Listener Baby: Another Saturday Morning, and I ain’t got nobody. Except Baby, #1 Hits, a gang of crazies, and whatever else might come way. Morning!
	11:01am luka: gm ichibans
	11:01am clarke: i wanna make some HITS!!
	11:02am Listener Baby: My fav of Mark’s.
	11:02am Peter Horvath: Yo, #1’ers
	11:02am clarke: i'm trying to find Markell Shooley??
	11:02am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: HEY NOW!!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!
	11:03am clarke: he shoots. he scores.
	11:04am Frank In Queens: LOOK OUT! CLIFF!!!!!
	11:05am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 Beat me to it
	11:05am listener phat in Lincoln: Morning all
	11:05am clarke: hey now nebrasky!!
	11:06am Cheryl The Nerd: It's so funny how we don't talk about Cliff anymore.
	11:06am clarke: not that funny!
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Lol
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Probably no bakery today, as I have newly installed braces...
	11:07am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Break My Mind" by "Linda Ronstadt" What do you want, Linda?
	11:07am clarke: blue skies in nola! (which means an oven)
	11:08am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:07 suspenders?
	11:08am Cheryl The Nerd: I just walked home from grocery shopping in this rain.
	11:08am clarke: baby. oh. baby.
	11:08am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:08 That'd be less weird and painful.
	11:09am gf2002: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 Very well played!
	11:09am clarke: dual-screenage with TdF
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Morning, MS and all! Glad to be back with youse!
	11:09am gf2002: How about a request for the "Doctor Martens Boots" song?
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:09 u got a folk show shoutout, terday!
	11:10am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:10am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Summer Holliday" by "Cliff Richard" The Bevis Frond did a great cover of this song on a 7"
	11:11am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:10 that is quite a find, actually!
	11:11am gf2002: Speaking of Linda...I watched the movie FM this past week. Linda was great in that concert footage. Same with Waddy Wachtel, her band was tight as hell.
	11:11am Listener Baby: Does anyone else think Bobby B and Nina Simone are interchangeable? They could sing each others songs
	11:11am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Summer Holliday" by "Cliff Richard" Hey all, trying to remember a different song that goes "we're all going on a summer holiday" -- it's driving me nuts!
	11:12am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:11 I was just thinking of the similarities
	11:12am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:11 i need to re-visit that flick - saw it when it came out in theater.
	11:12am greg g: Morning Michael & #1’ers!
	11:13am listener phat in Lincoln: Steve Allen's theme song
	11:14am Marie in Chicago: Howdy! Good morning. Soundiing grrrreat.
	11:14am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:11 "The Beat?"
	11:15am clarke: no baloney?
	11:15am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:14 Yes!! Thank you, Squints!
	11:15am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:15 Not unless fried.
	11:15am Listener Baby: Malarkey? Baby, any Malarkey?
	11:16am clarke: bbq'd baloney!
	11:17am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:12 I enjoyed it - some parts were a little too corny, but the music really kicked it up to another level. I know it's been debated for years, but I'm left wondering which concept came first, WKRP or FM. The guy who developed WKRP for TV swore he had the idea first. Eileen Brennan was great in FM, she played the Allison Steele "Nightbird" character very well.
	11:18am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 right now, the only thing i can remember is that tom petty is in it.
	11:19am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:18 Yes! A very very young looking Petty. He doesn't perform but he's in the studio for an interview at the station.
	11:19am clarke: reticent to ask, but what's the latest on brian?
	11:19am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 Haven't seen the movie but the theme song is the most phoned-in Steely Dan number I can think of. (Life has really changed since I started having opinions on Steely Dan, an their individual songs.)
	11:20am clarke: ↳ drr @11:19 i don't mind that dan tune, but it signaled what was to come.
	11:20am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I had a motorcycle as a kid as did a couple of my friends in Carp, Ontario, Canada and we ran those things as hard and as fast we could.
	11:20am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Little Honda" by "Hondells, The" How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fuzz
	11:21am clarke: where is The FuZZZ?
	11:21am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:20 Right about the time that Bob Seger became almost instantly Middle-Aged Man.
	11:21am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Years later, I had a girlfriend and she told me her dad always said to her, Do not get on the back of a motorcycle.
	11:22am P-90: Best Honda pop 45 ever. A real number one.
	11:23am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:21 "Little too gray, coulda lost a few pounds..."
	11:24am drr: Ya know, I look forward to the day there are some new links on this page so this thing about the toilet paper song fellow moves below the fold.
	11:24am George Kopp: I'm not a collector but still have all my 45s from when I was a kid. Definitely have a very worn copy of that Hondells single.
	11:25am ?: ↳ drr @11:24 I was just thinking that too
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by "Ray Charles" Best version of this song?
	11:26am clarke: bill monroe
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Marie in Chicago @11:26 To me, this or Elvis, well, Elvis first, this second...
	11:27am Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Song: "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by "Ray Charles" Before tuning in, I was listening to a playlist of original versions of rock n roll songs, pretty interesting!
	11:28am Marie in Chicago: ↳ clarke @11:26 hm, forgot about him--I am embarrassed to say--I hear ya' on that.
	11:28am drr: ↳ @11:25 It's out of view by the second hour of the show.
	11:28am onthetrain: Morning all
	11:29am gf2002: ↳ drr @11:19 It does feature Walter Becker doing all the guitar and bass work, and it was commissioned (I've heard by Irving Azoff) so maybe it was a rush job. But it was a hit record for them and actually won a Grammy too. Becker's guitar work is great, and Jeff Porcaro on drums is always a highlight.
	11:29am ?: buy stamps online today, better selection
	11:30am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:29 I guess I can't get past the sorta nauseated way Fagen sings "FM".
	11:30am Joey C: Hello Michael and everyone listening.
	11:30am Joey C: PF Flyers. Just saying.
	11:31am onthetrain: Wow I had forgotten about the big bin of shoes mike . Sketchers and New balance .
	11:31am evancuts: I will let Mike Royce know about your thumbs up for Men of a Certain Age. He created the show and was the showrunner. We've been friends since the first day of college at Ithaca. Great guy.
	11:31am Bri The Beatnik: I haven’t worn converse or seen a lot of people wearing them in over 10 years!
	11:32am clarke: i loved the old converse, but no support - fallen arches, all the time.
	11:32am drr: This (Converse replacement suggestions) has to be the most WFMU subject discussion ever.
	11:32am Squints: "Why, Number One Hits, of course."
	11:32am clarke: hey lady!!!!
	11:32am Frank In Queens: I switched, because I can't wear those type of sneakers anymore. They were killing my feet and back.
	11:32am David The Splatter: I've worn Skechers for years, even though the price of the shoes has gone up. They still last pretty long.
	11:32am gf2002: That was when the Beach Boys played on The Andy Williams Show, they had to sing "cycle" instead of Honda, and Andy sang the chorus with them. They sang "Andy Andy" instead of "Honda Honda" backing Williams. Bizarre clip. It's on youtube
	11:33am Bri The Beatnik: Hey! My mom’s friend said “Doowop” when she got her M.R.I
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:32 exactly!
	11:33am tonyb: If Ira gives up red Converse, well, then turn the page…
	11:33am myron feld: When I've had MRIs, I like to listen to the machine because it sounds like Suicide, whom I enjoy.
	11:33am clarke: A to B.
	11:33am donnie in Davenport: look for clearance Converse skate *skateboarding shoes vans, really any skate shoe...
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have the same Converse question. I can barely get a pair to last two summers. Mine right now are falling right the hell apart.
	11:34am Squints: Been wearing Sambas as my core walking-around shoes since my girls (and then I) started playing futbol.
	11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: I wear Feiyue sneakers these days (or Adidas). They're cheap and super comfortable.
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:34 me, as well. cheers!
	11:35am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:33 Cue S.A.M.'s voice laughing.
	11:35am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:34 Crucially, for me, Converse have no leather in them. I can't wear any shoes with leather.
	11:35am tonyb: Solid “DAD” shoes: 900 series New Balance. Pillows for the feet, but over $100!
	11:36am onthetrain: Sambas and kelm can be good but there are so many variations of their indoor soccer shoes it’s hard to find a decent “model”
	11:36am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:34 This comes as a relief because I was pondering maybe wearing something different to open mics in case the Sambas weren't rock and roll enough. But I will cheerfully carry on.
	11:36am Mr. Jones: Gigantic? I better go outside, low ceilings.
	11:36am clarke: Turntable One doth protest too much
	11:36am gf2002: ↳ drr @11:30 Yes it's odd that the song is critical of FM radio but the movie celebrates it. I'm sure the irony wasn't lost on Fagen and they didn't mind the royalties either!
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" This record was right about when Nick stopped writing this kind of song.
	11:37am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" Nick Lowe does Squeeze.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:32 I do supplement w/ inserts
	11:37am ?: new balance 480, look like dunks but have new balance type support
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:36 they are rock enough, but still lack a bit of support. good drumming shoes, tho.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ evancuts @11:31 VERY VERY GOOD
	11:37am drr: Sambas don't come in a width I can wear. Please help me, Mr. Adida.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:32 You're saying we should check Can lyrics for clues? Brilliant!
	11:38am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:36 I don't wear ;em to play indoors. I was wearing cleats on field turf for a while but now have a pair of Nike nubbys. (Nothing special about Nike. I buy what's cheap. I'm not good enough a player to merit really good shoes.)
	11:38am Squints: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Mickey, are you heightening?
	11:38am myron feld: ↳ Squints @11:35 Squints: what is S.A.M.?
	11:39am Moammar: Hey, for sale here in NJ: A little Honda! newjersey.craigslist.org...
	11:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ myron feld @11:38 The Wake and Bake Morning Music Computer. Clay's amanuensis.
	11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "L.A.F.S." by "Nick Lowe" Man, this is not my favorite Nick Lowe, and I love over the top 80s British pop production.
	11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:37 Yep, I discovered many cool brands are prohibitively narrow for me. Never could wear Pumas, much to my chagrin.
	11:39am Ed From Jersey City: Nick Lowe has a better understanding of Elvis Costello than vice versa.
	11:40am Squints: ↳ drr @11:37 I have to wear two pairs of socks for my narrow heels. But my wearing two pairs goes back to my hoops days for ankle support in high tops.
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:39 I have to admit I concur.
	11:40am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:38 Wake'n'Bake morning computer. Clay Pigeon does a bit with the mechanized voice very Thursday.
	11:41am clarke: VERY thursday!!
	11:41am onthetrain: Squints I like to remember I was good but i probably wasn’t. When I use to play indoor I liked the flats over the nubbies. Now i’de probably break something if I tried to play.
	11:42am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:41 Very Thursday, indeed.
	11:42am myron feld: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:39 Thank you. Sorry to hear of Clay's amanuensis -- a little penicillin and he'll be good as new.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:42 havent priced them recently, but the Mitre spikes used to be really great.
	11:43am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Baby, Believe Me" by "Los Bravos" Chorus hook is "Can't Buy Me Love."
	11:43am clarke: ↳ Song: "Barbara Joy" by "Eddie Noack" EDDIE!!!
	11:44am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:41 At nearly 65 I've learned to let the bindings go if I'm about to fall over. I have the turning radius these days of an aircraft carrier. Which is innaresting because I'm having to learn touch all over again after twenty-plus years as a goalkeeper. When the fellas pulled me back in I told them I was out of that business.
	11:44am Handy Haversack: So are there any vegetarian Converse-replacement suggestions? I feel like all the brands I've seen mentioned here use leather.
	11:44am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:42 It'll buff right out.
	11:44am bd: converse costed 10 bucks in 1965. Adjusted for inflation thats $99 today. But they cost about 65 bucks. cheaper in cost and in quality.
	11:45am ?: just ordered the stamps usps.com free shipping. they have bluegrass stamps and underground railroad stamps!
	11:46am clarke: COVAY!!
	11:46am Hughie Considine: I was amazed when I bought my last pair of Chuck Taylors that they had so little support. Used to wear them a lot, but after a while could not take it. They offered ankle support, but not the other kind.
	11:46am Squints: ↳ onthetrain @11:41 We get new blood every year but the core pickup group has all aged together. We play as fast as we can but we're not nuts about it. Can't make the pub later if on too many painkillers.
	11:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 Yeah, unwearable without insoles of some kind.
	11:47am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Daddy Loves Baby" by "Don Covay" I know, Don. No need to mention.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 tis a young man's game.
	11:47am Moammar: Bongo feet ahoy!
	11:47am Mr. Fine Wine: I've never heard this in stereo. Single is mono, of course.
	11:47am clarke: 9/10
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If you buy Insoles & put them in Shoes you already got - it's surprising how much that can do for it all.
	11:47am Mr. Fine Wine: Is it missing some backing vocals from the mono mix??
	11:47am Moammar: Can't do those bong feet without proper arch support, just to bring this back around to topic A.
	11:48am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:47 They used to shoot horses in that game. Now they send 'em over to play with us on Sunday mornings.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Mr. Fine Wine @11:47 think so.
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @11:46 Our softball team is about to end its 25th season. The problem is all the other teams in the league are corporate so all the players stay at twenty-six years old as the cohorts age out, get married, move to the burbs, etc. Whereas we continue to age ...
	11:49am clarke: Go Pigeons!!
	11:50am Listener Baby: Re: Sneakers. Knowing that things aren’t made as well as they used to be. How much more do we all weight now a days? Personally speaking, I’m a good 40 pounds up from my fighting days. To not think there is more pressure and stress on shoes at this stage in life would be unrealistic. Not sure why this matters, but I said it anyway.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 we need support!
	11:51am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:49 Final game of the spring/summer season this Tue. Unless the other team forfeits again, which has happened twice now on super hot days. Supposed to be 94F on Tue. ... frinkiac.com...
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Numero UNO!
	11:52am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" No bad versions
	11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 I'm still going to blame society, thank you very much!
	11:52am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:51 the forfeited season.
	11:52am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Keith would seem to be a one-hit wonder, but this song charted, so the term does not apply!
	11:53am Mr. Jones: Hey all you podiatrists on today's board. What kind of shoes for plantar fasciitis. My Kirkland slip-ins aren't cutting it anymore.
	11:53am donnie: billion dollar babies!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Tell Me To My Face" by "Keith" Not a shade on TheHollies. But okay.
	11:53am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:52 Dick Rude's immortal last line in Repo Man ages like fine wine.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:52 i don't think i have the same definition of One Hit Wonder as everyone else.
	11:54am drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 Kirkland makes a shoe? And I'm not wearing Kirklands??
	11:54am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:53 Where does the cover by Dan Fogelberg and Eric Weisberg fit in?
	11:55am ?: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 I had Planter Fascistitis for 11 months, had to wear old man new balance 990. Now NB 480
	11:56am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:50 Up 25-35 lbs from 25 years ago. It would be less if I dinna drink so much be-- But that's crazy talk.
	11:56am clarke: yes, i hear new balance is good for PF - not PF Flyers!!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:56 let's not go overboard, here.
	11:56am Mr. Jones: ↳ @11:55 So if i'm gonna try that I go for the 480 or the 990?
	11:57am Moammar: Plantar fasicitis: Birkenstocks are the cure. And never go barefoot in the house. Birks 24-7.
	11:57am ?: Vans are the worst for PF
	11:57am greg g: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:53 Speaking of podiatrists, my left ankle has been bugging me for about a week, just thinking I need to call one.
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Moammar @11:57 i'd rather die.
	11:57am Moammar: ↳ clarke @11:57 I am not saying they are cool, but they are cooler than hobbling.
	11:57am ?: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:56 990 to cure PF, 480 to maintain
	11:58am gf2002: Andy Kaufman was brilliant on The Dating Game
	11:58am Squints: ↳ greg g @11:57 I remember that Beach Boys number, "I'm bugged at my old ankle."
	11:59am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 Very true. Moe also knew. frinkiac.com...
	11:59am Mr. Jones: ↳ @11:57 Thanks mystery person. Imma try that. I do hope you are not just a figment of my imagination.
	11:59am Hughie Considine: I saw a respected podiatrist in New York whose office had photos of a famous ballet dancer whom he had helped. I was having major foot issues from yoga and jumping back into a pushup (not really a great practice) and the guy had no idea what I was talking about. I have had more bad experiences with well qualified doctors than with any other kind.
	11:59am Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @11:56 Hush yo' mouth!
	12:00pm greg g: ↳ Squints @11:58 Remember the song title? Im lying in bed as I type.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:59 Variations on a timeless theme!
	12:00pm gf2002: ↳ Squints @11:58 The Beach Boys also released "Take A Load Off Your Feet Pete" about Birkenstocks
	12:00pm newton: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:59 OK I logged in to validate my recommendation.
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 Yeah, but it still hurts
	12:01pm Squints: ↳ greg g @12:00 "I'm Bugged At My Old Man." Might have been on "The Beach Boys Party."
	12:02pm clarke: VERY thursday!!
	12:02pm Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:59 That's what tha beeh's fah, theah.
	12:02pm greg g: ↳ Squints @12:01 Thanks Squints! Sometimes not a lot fun getting older.
	12:03pm gf2002: ↳ Squints @12:01 It was a throwaway end track on "Summer Days and Summer Nights", just before Party and Pet Sounds.
	12:03pm Mr. Jones: ↳ newton @12:00 Thanks Newton, The situation does have some gravity, so I appreciate your expertise.
	12:03pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 Maybe he was helping her with a place to stay?
	12:04pm greg g: ↳ gf2002 @12:03 Thanks gf2002 too.
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:03 No, she genuinely raved about how much he had helped her continue dancing. But that didn't translate to me, the man on the street with the aching feet.
	12:07pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Mark Bacino" But we HAVE those records. Make what you want.
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Mark Bacino" splendid!!
	12:08pm clarke: hearing of wasted studio time does give me the willies, tho.
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: Yeah Mark!
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:08 I get that. Always have something in the back pocket. Just in case.
	12:11pm clarke: "that gum you like is coming back in style"
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:11 of COURSE!
	12:12pm clarke: don't waste a MINUTE!
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Used to be perplexed about PowerPop ...as in - how could something deriving so much from TheBeatles - the biggest Success ever - have such a shaky standing in the popular Charts ? ...But looking @ what has actually Charted - & of course depending on yer parameters of what qualifies ...PowerPop had done pretty good, really.
	12:13pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:12 I'm pretty ecumenical. "Near enough."
	12:13pm MarciB: Oh wow...I was unaware of Mark's work and as a 25yr resident of western Queens, I'm intrigued. Thanks for enlightening me!
	12:14pm clarke: Greg Calbi, right? a Master of Mastering!!
	12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& then - a Master is the One from which all the Many for the marketplace are pressed / copied from. Just like when you Photocopy stuff - is how I'd explain it to someone who is not into Audio yet...
	12:16pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:14 His name was on all my favorite CDs for awhile there. And Bob Ludwig.
	12:16pm clarke: him, too!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:13 I just say - the less uptight the definition of what is PowerPop - the more fun everybody seems to have...
	12:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ MarciB @12:13 LIC, MarciB? That's a skyline that has changed a LOT in the last twenty-five years. Heck, in the last five!
	12:17pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:17 "The search for The Great Lost Badfinger Song." But emphasize the search.
	12:19pm the Gidge: Love Mark from those power pop days. International Pop fest! What a lovely human. Really enjoyed this conversation. Tx michael!!
	12:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:17 Not bad @ all ...or - someone once posited to me - it's trying to find the perfect balance of Beatles & Who. You gotcher Power - & you botcher Pop ?... Speaking of Hollies - someone asked me why I listened to that stuff - !! I said - well - yerknow ...PowerPop & all. They said ...you call that Power ?? ...Well - alright. GittarPop maybe... Yerknow - get out yer Genre microscopes...
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:17 uh, have you been checking out Tom Evans' brother has been posting some demos, lately?
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:20 *Gotcher Pop... if not yer Mom...
	12:22pm clarke: great interview AGAIN!!! thanks guys!!
	12:22pm Squints: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:20 Plenty of power behind "Bus Stop," "Look Through Any Window" and the louder parts (especially the galloping bass) of "On A Carousel."
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "We Can Take It" by "Smoke, The" also a bit of help from Jimmy Page
	12:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @12:22 Well Bobby Elliot right here in these FMU parts described their Hollies Vocals as like a frontline of Horns. Anyway - that person's problem not mine...
	12:30pm clarke: and you said there was no baloney!
	12:30pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "My Golden Years" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Every time I hear this song, I just want to shout it from the rooftops.
	12:32pm listener phat in Lincoln: I recall Steve Miller said a hit needs at least 6 hooks.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:32 he said it, then forgot it.
	12:33pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:32 Lol, yes. But he was on to something! He has a few hits!
	12:33pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:30 I'm amused that the lyric is about how he feels like he's wasting his days and the good times are about over, so he needs to work harder at enjoying life.
	12:34pm clarke: had
	12:34pm drr: "Abracadabra" has like two hundred hooks.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:34 and a chart position. but "hit"?? uuhhhhh
	12:35pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:34 And is maybe the least of those hits. I don't hate it, but...
	12:35pm Cheryl The Nerd: Congratulations John! See you there!
	12:35pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Where did you bartend?
	12:36pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:34 Yes, typo
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Barefoot Jimmy G @12:35 Park Slope Brewing Co.
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:34 indeed!
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:33 But meanwhile the music itself is completely life-affirming.
	12:37pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Ahhhh, I used to live on President Street. I think I went there a couple of times. I think... ; )
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 didn't you work at Bandito's for a bit, too??
	12:37pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:32 I'm gonna get laughed off the boards for this, but you know who kicks ass at writing hooks? Rick Springfield. There, I said it.
	12:38pm newton: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:37 not a lot of ennui in power pop
	12:39pm clarke: used to! all these people fell off the map after chart success, tho.
	12:39pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 "I've Done Everything For You" is pretty hooky all right.
	12:39pm Squints: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 No shame whatsoever. There is absolutely one large data point for that argument. And probably more going back to "Speak To The Sky."
	12:40pm drr: ↳ newton @12:38 idk, does "Boredom" by the Lovin' Spoonful count as power pop? It's brilliant whatever it is.
	12:40pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @12:39 I'm a big fan of "Isn't It Time" by the Babys, which I would call power pop.
	12:40pm Squints: ↳ Squints @12:39 That cartoon popped up on my FB feed a few days ago with a wistful middle-aged Rick Springfield looking at his neighbor's yard and lamenting, "I wish that I had Jessie's grill."
	12:40pm clarke: i agree that the folks being mentioned are hook-meisters. but, they sure didn't last long after a spell of chart success. when folks like nick lowe just have It.
	12:41pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:40 Yes. Yes, he does.
	12:41pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ drr @12:39 That's the one hit RS had that he didn't write. Sammy Hagar is responsible for that one.
	12:41pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:39 Juniper has covered this - coming soon!
	12:42pm Squints: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 I learn something every day. That was not a guess I would have made.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yeah probly what it is - what I think of as 'Power Pop' had a big fat blindspot of what's in the actual Charts in the first place ...just like it never occurred to me to call Styx & Kansas 'Prawg'...
	12:42pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 Please, did anyone else see Rick Springfield on the TV show Wonder Woman? He played a "famous popstar" whose hit was called "What's My Moniker, Veronica", and the cover was a copy of Magical Mystery Tour with different words pasted on the cover. This happened, but there is no evidence. It does sound like something I would dream up.
	12:43pm Mailman Tom: Groovies are go!
	12:43pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:40 Nick Lowe had only one top 40 hit. 2 if you count Peace Love and Understanding. RS had several. And he's still cranking out new music.
	12:43pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:40 Another big fan. Underrated group.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "I Can't Hide" by "Flamin' Groovies" Oh Lordy. The poor 'Shake Some Action' Album - I ritually slaughter it almost every time I turn my GittarAmp on. It's done nothing to deserve such violence...
	12:44pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ drr @12:42 No, can't say I've even heard of that one before!
	12:45pm drr: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 No kidding? Wow. OK. Hmm.
	12:45pm newton: ↳ drr @12:42 Imdb has him on it but the storyline is Olympics www.imdb.com...
	12:46pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:37 Completely agree
	12:46pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:43 And I'm not knocking Nick Lowe at ALL. I freaking LOVE Nick Lowe.
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 he may not have written it but he (and producers) threw in the right hooks.
	12:47pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:41 !!
	12:47pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:46 Ok, that's fair.
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ drr @12:42 Okay. MagicalMystery / 1970s WonderWoman mashup. Visually this absolutely works...
	12:47pm drr: ↳ newton @12:45 wow, and the episode is called "Screaming Javelins"? Weren't Screaming Javelins a guest on the T.O.P. Todd show?
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:43 the charts mean NOTHING to me.
	12:48pm Cheryl The Nerd: Fun fact: The chorus of I've Done Everything For You mashes with the hook to Love Somebody.
	12:49pm Handy Haversack: Bug Club!
	12:49pm drr: ↳ Song: "Lonsdale Slipons" by "Bug Club, The" Song about footwear? Are we a focus group?
	12:49pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:48 Does something happen if you play it alongside The Wizard of Oz?
	12:50pm Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @12:37 Too much swag
	12:50pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:49 I only realized Rubber Soul was a pun a few years ago.
	12:50pm the Gidge: Mark B interview sent me down a Parasol Records Sweet 16 compilation rabbit hole. Remember them?
	12:50pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:47 Oh absolutely! Charts might be one measure of success, but they're hardly the only one. Richard Thompson never had a top 40 hit. And he's a hell of a musician.
	12:51pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think getting on the charts is as much a matter of luck, as anything. But I think there certainly were a lot of great tunes in the charts up until I got old and out of touch. lol I think the British charts tend to be better, though.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:50 i do realize that some folks are interested in the charts - they just mean nothing to me. of course, when i was a kid...
	12:53pm drr: wonder-woman.fandom.com... OK, it was real, but I'm stilll confused....
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:53 Amazing
	12:53pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:52 :) It's just that some people think of RS as a one hit wonder. He's not.
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: 70s television was truly strange
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:53 ha ha ha, don't get me started on "one hit wonder"!!
	12:54pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 No wonder GenX is so warped. 70s tv is what we grew up on.
	12:55pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:52 I went the other way--I hated American Top 40 as a kid, and now I listen in utter fascination, marveling at stuff like "Spiders And Snakes" and "Telephone Man".
	12:56pm clarke: i actually hardly even watched tv in the (late) 70's. much less 80's.
	12:56pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Who Betrays Me?" by "Cucumbers, The" Such a sprightly, springy sound they had on this record. The "well-produced" LP wasn't this fun.
	12:56pm clarke: and the 80's tv is so much weirder!
	12:56pm drr: ↳ drr @12:55 The real lesson of AT40, though, is that Tony Orlando and Dawn were HUGE.
	12:57pm Cheryl The Nerd: Thanks Michael!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ⦿Sun in ♋︎Cancer, Year of Water 🐎Horse Roger (born James Joseph) McGuinn III b. July 13, 1942
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:56 and yet, you never hear them now
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Only You" by "NRBQ" The Voice!!
	12:57pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:57 Thank the stars for that.
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS! Good stuff!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:56 Yep. I actually spent some time listening to all the dance track hits from 1970 to 1980 a few years ago. That was also revelatory.
	12:58pm JohnEBGood: Thanks Michael. Keath can sing : )
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:41 Can't wait to hear that!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: Thanks Michael.
	12:58pm newton: ↳ drr @12:53 wow that's crazy!! and Judge Reinhold!
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: Well, I quite enjoyed that -- thank you, Michael!
	12:58pm clarke: THE VOICE!!! OMG.
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:57 So McGuinn was born in the year of the horse? Maybe that explains wanting to make a wife of that Chestnut Mare.
	1:00pm newton: Thank you Michael Shelley
	1:00pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been taco'd? good nite. bonk.
	1:00pm Squints: Thanks, Michael. This really moved some rope.
	1:01pm davefromtoronto: 5 thousand square foot mansion!
	1:01pm clarke: a moving story.
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~

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