WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from July 20, 2024

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	11:01am Mister Dobalina: Michael, Michael, Michael !!!
	11:01am clarke: hey now -- sanjay's piece
	11:02am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Expert In A Dying Field" by "Beths, The" Perfect opener ⭐
	11:02am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:02am clarke: that is one swell photo!!
	11:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...GarageRawk History ! ...accordion to the people who lived it...
	11:03am prof.fuzz: ↳ Song: "Expert In A Dying Field" by "Beths, The" this tune neatly encapsulates my professional life...
	11:03am clarke: vintage slingerlands!
	11:04am clarke: riveted cymbals!!
	11:04am clarke: Prof FuSS!!!
	11:06am clarke: that song is about easter (eggs spurt in a dye-ing field).
	11:06am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:04 clerkEEEEEEEEEEE!!
	11:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:03 ...yeah well ...touched a nerve amongst FMUvianz generally just maybe...
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Fifteen Children" by "Shandels, The" Took the tools @ hand - got an Arrangement - & Produced it. Absolute Heroes.
	11:08am PaulRobeson1924: A +
	11:08am clarke: no goofing off!!
	11:10am clarke: what's that sign say? - no bare feet. what's THAT sign say?
	11:10am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds... NICK LOWE ALERT! New tour dates announced this week. Scheduled stops include NYC, DC, & Boston. Tix already available. Also: NL dropped a new single this week. Maybe we'll hear it today?? :)
	11:11am ?: president trump is going to make a wonderful president
	11:12am clarke: there's a mole amongst us.
	11:14am rx "rexy" scabin: @clarke it rhymes with mole.
	11:14am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:12 You say mole, I say troll. PoTAYto, poTAHto.
	11:14am Hughie Considine: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:14 That was gonna be my joke, smart guy
	11:15am Karl: ↳ Song: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" by "Ella Fitzgerald" This is beyond a number one hit!
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:14 i'm only hugh man!!
	11:15am Hughie Considine: I still think I'm sticking with Dionne on this one.
	11:15am clarke: oh wait, YOU are!
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:15 dionne - so underrrated as a singer.
	11:17am Baby: Baby
	11:17am Dano59: ↳ Song: "What Can I Say" by "Yo La Tengo" ona-a my favorite Q covers
	11:17am clarke: baby... Baby... BABY!!!!!!
	11:17am Yechezkel Yehudah: The Boss Martians and Nebulas were top at Darrell's Tavern last night. More surf bands start today about 1PM PDT. - https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/432892792_10161565044602938_7309751592558375722_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=CsC_4I2m5ewQ7kNvgHTnRuG&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AYA7fMx1xNMXbeNhm7PWJgKIIGEj2Jr03-7DevUit7iOrw&oe=66A1BB9E
	11:17am drr: ↳ clarke @11:16 The Warwick for me is Dee Dee. (If you want to do a head-to-head compaison they both do "Alfie".)
	11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "What Can I Say" by "Yo La Tengo" I sometimes think of comparing and contrasting pop songs with the same title, like this one and the Boz Scaggs song of the same name. But that's as far as I ever get.
	11:19am clarke: ↳ drr @11:17 i like Dee Dee, but uhh, there's too much proof the other sib's way
	11:22am Dano59: ↳ drr @11:17 Dee Dee did the original recording of 'You're No Good' (like Erma Franklin w/ 'Piece of My Heart') -- Sisters are doing it for themselves.
	11:22am gf2002: Was just discussing the best songs of the 60's/70's rock era with accordion this past week. My two favorites: Wouldn't It Be Nice, How Can I Be Sure. And not rock, but a really cool record: Calcutta, Lawrence Welk. I drew a blank beyond that.
	11:23am tonyb: Ella’s swell-a, but Dionne could navigate Burt’s tricky melodies so well.
	11:23am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ tonyb @11:23 egg-zackly!
	11:25am clarke: wow, that's the first Mercury Lounge show i have heard announced in a LONG while.
	11:26am Dano59: ↳ clarke @11:25 I loved that place
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Song: "There She Goes" by "Cactus Blossoms, The" they work blue, baby! (BABY!!)
	11:27am Dano59: ... wellll, 'loved' too strong a word. Some happy memories though, hanging with the Mekons et al.
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Dano59 @11:27 i mean, i guess they probably have shows every night - just none announced on shows i listen to - which ain't great booking.
	11:28am Dano59: ↳ clarke @11:28 Even before the pandemic a lot of our cultural history has been memory-holed.
	11:29am clarke: quite in-joyed that one that was played. i blame TT#1
	11:29am tonyb: Think I recall the Mekons sharing the stage with a case of beer at the Merc one night?
	11:31am clarke: ain't no free!
	11:35am myron feld: ↳ Song: "For Your Love" by "Larry Williams" Johnny Guitar Watson also involved with this one. Larry's lyric changes are pretty great.
	11:36am clarke: wow Jim Thorpe is AWEsome!! nearby is Jayne Mansfield's gravesite: in Pen Argyl.
	11:37am dale: marty stuart and band are pretty damn exceptional.
	11:37am Cooh John: Saw Tommy James at Penn's Peak. Worth the 9 hour drive.
	11:38am clarke: shonells - shandels. see what you did there.
	11:39am dale: dwight yoakam's band is really up there, same vibe.
	11:40am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "A Different Kind Of Blue" by "Nick Lowe" WOO HOO!!!
	11:40am Michael Shelley: ↳ Cooh John @11:37 Great view of the Pocono Mountains (2 hr drive for me)
	11:40am clarke: john went the long way
	11:43am John L: ↳ tonyb @11:29 I saw them there with Fred Armisen opening; I had no idea who he was or that he was married to Sally at the time.
	11:44am Hughie Considine: It made the medicine go down...
	11:45am clarke: Le Smoke!!! with cello bow on geetar.
	11:45am David Watts: Sugar cubes are an absorbent medium to transport liquid LSD. Altoids work too, and pass right thru airport security!
	11:45am taryninstereo: Is Jack listening today?
	11:45am clarke: that must be 'where' hoboken jack is.
	11:46am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ taryninstereo @11:45 He might be on the pirate cruise today.
	11:46am tonyb: Good liquid absorbent medium; along with blotting paper.
	11:47am David Watts: Michael, did you find a comfortable pair of sneakers?
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:46 guess it is pretty nice up thar??
	11:48am tranewreck: The oral Polio vaccines came in sugar cubes
	11:48am myron feld: Paul Rutner, another bargain.
	11:49am clarke: backslider. me.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Song: "People, I Wish You Could See" by "Lee Dorsey" mistah lee!
	11:50am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:47 I wouldn't know. That's WAY out of my budget. :)
	11:50am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ ? @11:11 berkshires matty - why post anonymously if you believe this - that's troll behavior!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:50 he shoots. he scores!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:50 jah - i just was asking about the weather, tho
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "My Friend Jack" by "Smoke, The" Yeah I think you got a crystalline form - measured in micrograms (dosage is very hard to be sure of !) - generally dissolved in water. Never talked to anyone actually got it in sugarcubes before blotters & tabs became ubiquitous. I did have it in a visine bottle dissolved in water - pure, potent, controllable dosage ! So that happens too... There's a story a guy was repairing a synth - was it in SF from the 1970s ? & he opens it up - & there's been LSD crystals dried there all this time - & he got hella high contacting it... Tho otherwise sunlight & fluoridated water will denature acid rapidly...
	11:53am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:51 Oh yeah--weather is MUCH better now than it's been the past few weeks. Still warm, but I no longer feel like I'm stepping into an oven whenever I go out.
	11:53am Michael Shelley: ↳ David Watts @11:47 still investigating...
	11:53am clarke: we get oven until, say, november.
	11:53am jg: Couple of weeks ago saw the Robert plant Allison Krause show w JD. As the musical director/ guitarist. They sounded great
	11:53am Baby: Bellfuries
	12:00pm clarke: whoah, transfer portal for JS!!
	12:00pm Paul: DePaul? UIC?
	12:00pm drr: ↳ Dano59 @11:22 Yeah, the guitar solo on that "You're No Good" is incredible. Far superior to the big Ronstadt hit (and I like that version just fine). Dionne didn't also do that one, did she?
	12:01pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Where the Rio de Rosa Flows" by "Modern Sounds, The" No bad versions of this one (this makes the third one I've heard).
	12:01pm Paul: U of C? Columbia College?
	12:02pm David Watts: @Michael Shelley I was gonna suggest Adidas court style shoes. I got a new pair recently and they're pretty comfortable (need new insoles of course). Durable canvas material and fairly cool looking...I think. More of a going out shoe than a work or running shoe though. I think mine is adidas court v 3.0
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gotta Get Away" by "Major Lance" YES.
	12:04pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gotta Get Away" by "Major Lance" pat - who used to run the fabled Mermaid Lounge recently passed away. one of the biggest Major Lance fans i ever knew.
	12:05pm Hughie Considine: He was a major Major Lance fan (fan)
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:05 MAJOR!!
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:05 which was quite enjoyable for the patrons!
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:05 Not to be confused with the No. 1 fan of the man from Tennessee.
	12:06pm gf2002: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:51 Did you ever hear the wild story about the efforts to locate John Lennon's satchel of LSD which he buried in his backyard in the late 60's after he decided to swear off? I think it was a stash of pure liquid LSD which he had procured from Owsley and transported through film lenses that were part of the gear at Monterey Pop festival. I could be wrong on the details but I think they actually found and dug up Lennon's bag. It was online years ago, I have to check if it's still available. I wonder if there are still any original capsules of Orange Sunshine stashed away in various houses across the US which the grandkids would have no idea what it is or was.
	12:06pm Baby: So #1
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:06 I imagine so! I'm sure he brought much joy in his life.
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Baby @12:06 100% for you Baby!
	12:07pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:03 I didn't know that. I never thought about the Mermaid Lounge people liking stuff outside of the stuff they booked.
	12:08pm Scott from Boston: Enjoyed going to see Elvis and Daryl Hall the other night. 77 years old and trying to carve his way out as a solo artist…
	12:08pm drr: ↳ Song: "Never Never Let Me Down" by "Formulars Dance Band... Not just "Don't Let Me Down"....
	12:08pm Baby: Thanks Baby
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:07 well, pat left (most of) the booking to others. but, if you ever just went drinking there, you'd get a dsse of the Major!
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" don't crash!
	12:10pm common: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" hell yea, wire
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" First Wire I ever encountered and made me an instant fan. Taped it off WPIX including Meg Griffin's intro.
	12:10pm clarke: please come to boston, hughie.
	12:10pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:08 I think the first time I ever went it was raining way harder than it is today. The floors were so slippery I was mostly concerned with remaining upright. Still hasn't been improved on.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:10 that place was so fucking cool!
	12:11pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:10 haha... But I'm a ramblin' boy ...
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:11 (once they got a/c, ha ha)
	12:12pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I Must Be In Love" by "Rutles, The" What an amazing thing these Rutles pulled off.
	12:13pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "I Must Be In Love" by "Rutles, The" real songs by fake bands are the besst!
	12:13pm clarke: fataar style!!
	12:13pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:11 I think they had a/c, but it couldn't do anything about the humidity, so it was like going to a gig in a rain forest.
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:13 they didn't have a/c when i played thru there, early days
	12:14pm yascha: OMG I love this f*#king song! I have the 7 inch single of Dot Dash but can't find it, thnx for playing
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ yascha @12:14 they's a guy on youtube who examines that song to the most minute point. check it!
	12:16pm clarke: you've got me bugged bugged bugged bugged!
	12:16pm Mailman Tom: I bought the Buggs record album in 1964. I was a kid, and I was fooled into thinking it was a Beatles record!
	12:16pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The" omg Zee Beetle Beat by Zee Bugs. 'that's not what I asked for, Grandma.'
	12:18pm clarke: no mersey!!
	12:18pm Dano59: ↳ Dano59 @12:16 my ex and my sister-in-law's records were still in the family home in the '80s and I'm sure that was the scenario. OK, what's next, Michael ... Klaatu?
	12:19pm Dano59: Gaylord of course is the acknowledged expoit on 'fake Beatle' records
	12:20pm clarke: summoning fields??
	12:20pm ?: Same Buggs that did Sassy Sue & You Got Me Bugged? On a Coronet comp of Felix & The Escorts (listed incorrectly as The Young Rascals); Johnny Rivers; The 4 Seasons. I'm not that above ?
	12:20pm Tommy in Neversink: ↳ Song: "Don't Bother Me" by "Merseyboys, The" I think the Smithereens covered that . It's a song worthy of more coverage
	12:22pm clarke: used to run down to the Harvard Boat House on the charles - they had a water fountain, there.
	12:22pm Tommy in Neversink: ↳ Song: "Don't Bother Me" by "Merseyboys, The" But I'm not gonna say it's underrated cause I don't do the overrated / underrated thing
	12:22pm drr: ↳ Song: "Little Boat" by "Gabor Szabo" Author of the two-chord hit "Breezin'"! (Right? I think so, anyway.)
	12:23pm gf2002: Technically George's first writing credit was "Cry For A Shadow" co-write with Lennon from Hamburg, but I guess Don't Bother Me was his first complete song released or published with lyrics. I'm sure he tried writing others before, it would be interesting to check. Cry For A Shadow is a GREAT instrumental, I've been playing that a lot recently.
	12:23pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:22 i'm pretty sure, jes.
	12:23pm Meadows: The Rutles weren’t a real band it was a Monkumentary Movie that came out in 1978 Nation Lampoon 🤣
	12:24pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:22 You are correct, sir. He did a LOT of Beatles covers, and many covers in general, sort of a la Wes Montgomery. Like Wes, Gabor died in his 40s.
	12:24pm gf2002: ↳ drr @12:22 Gabor also did Gypsy Queen which of course Santana grafted onto Black Magic Woman. The Szabo original is a pretty great guitar excursion.
	12:24pm drr: ↳ Meadows @12:23 Meadows, where are you getting this information? Big if true.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:23 there was a 'failed' george tune called You Know What To Do - but, i am not sure where it comes in
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Meadows @12:23 that's just what "they" want you to believe.
	12:26pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:24 Indeed. And he played something like an acoustic with a pickup added. Did anyone else do that?
	12:27pm drr: ↳ gf2002 @12:24 And played with Chico Hamilton, who's famous to me for being the leader of Steve Dallas' band in The Sweet Smell Of Success (it's a movie, but don't worry about it, it's not packed fully of snappy quotes or anything).
	12:27pm Frank In Queens: Looking forward to hearing the story of The Shandels
	12:27pm myron feld: ↳ drr @12:27 Match me, drr.
	12:28pm clarke: it's a real heartthrob.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Song: "No Way Out" by "Shandels, The" them fellers is genius!!
	12:29pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:26 Yes, there was a pickup made by DeArmond that was pretty popular for jazz players to put on acoustic archtop guitars to "electrify" them. There was a music shop in Boston that had a bunch of them, some I think in the original boxes from the 50's. But it wasn't as common for jazz players as just buying a Gibson or a D'Angelico electric guitar. Gabor had a great guitar tone
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:27 they hail from yer hometown, right?
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Meadows @12:23 I don’t think so
	12:30pm gf2002: ↳ drr @12:27 I've seen that film!
	12:30pm drr: ↳ myron feld @12:27 Not right this minute, myron feld.
	12:31pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mailman Tom @12:16 “Recorded in England”
	12:31pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:29 Yeah, from Levittown, where I mostly grew up
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:30 anyone's fair game for you tonight.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:31 let's not go overboard, here.
	12:32pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:29 Thanks - very interesting, and yes, his tone was just exquisite.
	12:32pm dday: ↳ Song: "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The" Same Buggs that did Sassy Sue & You Got Me Bugged? On a Coronet comp of Felix & The Escorts (listed incorrectly as The Young Rascals); Johnny Rivers; The 4 Seasons.
	12:32pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:31 well, you're like....you're like....you're like....I wanna say a cookie, but not a regular cookie....
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:32 the very same.
	12:33pm drr: The radio station may be Jersey City, but the clothes are Traynor Norell.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:32 ha ha ha
	12:34pm PaulRobeson1924: Today lotta empty commercial buildings
	12:34pm clarke: this station is totin' this artist around for this station.
	12:35pm PaulRobeson1924: No basements in Levittown homes
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:32 Whatcha mean?
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:35 ha ha, just a movie line.
	12:36pm Christina Ginger: I heard Lawrence Welk, and just had to comment. I grew up watching it in PBS repeats every Saturday nite when my grandmother lived with us.
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:35 can you attest to the pool/little leauge levittown?
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: "Door-to-door accordion salesman" always looks good on a resume.
	12:37pm Frank In Queens: RE: the accordion. I never thought about that. For Italian kids of that age, it was rite of passage.
	12:38pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:36 Yes. Used to go to the town pools when I was younger and I played ball fro 5-7, but not in Levittown Little League. I didn't go to Levittown schools.
	12:39pm clarke: would they play at the pools??
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:36 I had the same experience when my Grandmom lived with us! Every Saturday night, she watched Welk on PBS and I usually watched it with her. After she passed I would still try to watch when I could to see Neal LeVang and Buddy Merrill play guitar. Good memories.
	12:39pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:39 No, no there were no bands playing at the pools when I was a kid in the 80s.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:39 i mean, would bands play at pools, there? (some towns hired bands to play at pools).
	12:40pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:39 gotcha, but in the sixties, maybe..
	12:40pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:40 Probably. It wouldn't surprise me.
	12:40pm clarke: there was a teen club in nola, back in the sixties that had a bandstand next to the pool
	12:40pm morphe': FYI - let us not forget the Negro Ban in the LI housing developments..... Not blaming him ... my parents moved us from Sunset Part to Bay Ridge when "THE PUERTO RICANS" moved in.. Even in Queens in Trumps projects'.. Trumps father was sued and lost a Red Lining Racist case.. [A RAISIN IN THE SUN"]
	12:41pm Christina Ginger: ↳ gf2002 @12:39 There’s a great Mobituaries episode about Welk. It gave me a newfound respect for him. He was one of the original independent hustler musicians.
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: My father's first band played at the NYS Pavilion as well. In '63, I think?
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:41 On the accordion, no less!
	12:41pm clarke: nifty!
	12:42pm myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:41 FIQ: woulda been '64 at the earliest, as that's when the Fair opened.
	12:43pm morphe': Lawerence Welk Bklyn 1960's Sunday nights ... UGGHHH We wanted Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Disney on the one BW TV and had to struggle with the folks ..
	12:43pm Frank In Queens: ↳ myron feld @12:42 Then it was '64. He said he was 13, and wouldn't have been 14 in until Nov. '64.
	12:44pm clarke: funny how stuff happens sometimes, and the band has NO idea of how it happened.
	12:52pm Frank In Queens: Now THAT'S the funniest part of these things!
	12:53pm clarke: totally! kids would gather where the bands were practicing - openly!
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:53 No, that there's more interest in these bands NOW then there was then.
	12:56pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:55 i don't know about that - probably a toss=up
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "John Melnick" rope moved!!! excellencio!!
	12:57pm tonyb: Band practices & gig soundchecks can have a certain charm for me…
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:41 Thank you, I will check that out! I always enjoyed watching Welk's guitarists LeVang and Merrill play and I also think Welk's pop hit Calcutta is a terrific record. Thanks again for the tip!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ tonyb @12:57 fer shure!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:58 not to mention Alvino Ray!!
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael. Great show!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ gf2002 @12:06 I haven't seen these tales circulating - which is a little surprising.
	12:59pm clarke: ah ha ha.
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~ Thanks John Melnick !
	1:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks, Michael. Great show!
	3:37pm Scott from Boston: Doesn’t get much better than this! Rubber bullets

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Beths, The	Expert In A Dying Field
Shandels, The	Fifteen Children "Fifteen Children" by "Shandels, The"
Rusty and Doug	Sweet Sweet Girl To Me
Spencer Wiggins	Lonely Man "Lonely Man" by "Spencer Wiggins"
Ella Fitzgerald	I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Yo La Tengo	What Can I Say "What Can I Say" by "Yo La Tengo"
Johnny Rivers	It's Too Late "It's Too Late" by "Johnny Rivers"
Cactus Blossoms, The	There She Goes
Cactus Blossoms, The	Something's Got a Hold on Me
Larry Williams	For Your Love "For Your Love" by "Larry Williams"
Nick Lowe	A Different Kind Of Blue
Smoke, The	My Friend Jack "My Friend Jack" by "Smoke, The"
Bill Carter	Full Time Religion "Full Time Religion" by "Bill Carter"
Lee Dorsey	People, I Wish You Could See
JD McPherson	Your Love (All That I'm Missing)
Keith Allison	Birds Of A Feather "Birds Of A Feather" by "Keith Allison"
Modern Sounds, The	Where the Rio de Rosa Flows
Major Lance	Gotta Get Away "Gotta Get Away" by "Major Lance"
Formulars Dance Band, The	Never Never Let Me Down
Wire	Dot Dash "Dot Dash" by "Wire"
Rutles, The	I Must Be In Love "I Must Be In Love" by "Rutles, The"
Buggs, The	Liverpool Drag "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The"
Merseyboys, The	Don't Bother Me "Don't Bother Me" by "Merseyboys, The"
Gabor Szabo	Little Boat "Little Boat" by "Gabor Szabo"
Shandels, The	No Way Out "No Way Out" by "Shandels, The"
Shandels, The	Think About You "Think About You" by "Shandels, The"
Shandels, The	Shades Of Blue "Shades Of Blue" by "Shandels, The"
John Melnick	Interview "Interview" by "John Melnick"
Shandels, The	Treat Me Like A Man

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CLICK HERE to hear Michael's guesting on Mark Hurst's WFMU show Techtonic, discussing AI music making.

CLICK HERE for video clips of Kay Adams on the Buck Owens Ranch Show

CLICK HERE and HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for The Beatles' 167 page FBI file

CLICK HERE for a documentary about L.A.'s Chinatown Punk Wars

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf"

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

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

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

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

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

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

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

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

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

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

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

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

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

CLICK HERE for a laugh

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

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

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

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

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

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

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

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

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

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Listener comments!
	11:01am Mister Dobalina: Michael, Michael, Michael !!!
	11:01am clarke: hey now -- sanjay's piece
	11:02am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Expert In A Dying Field" by "Beths, The" Perfect opener ⭐
	11:02am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:02am clarke: that is one swell photo!!
	11:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...GarageRawk History ! ...accordion to the people who lived it...
	11:03am prof.fuzz: ↳ Song: "Expert In A Dying Field" by "Beths, The" this tune neatly encapsulates my professional life...
	11:03am clarke: vintage slingerlands!
	11:04am clarke: riveted cymbals!!
	11:04am clarke: Prof FuSS!!!
	11:06am clarke: that song is about easter (eggs spurt in a dye-ing field).
	11:06am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:04 clerkEEEEEEEEEEE!!
	11:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:03 ...yeah well ...touched a nerve amongst FMUvianz generally just maybe...
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Fifteen Children" by "Shandels, The" Took the tools @ hand - got an Arrangement - & Produced it. Absolute Heroes.
	11:08am PaulRobeson1924: A +
	11:08am clarke: no goofing off!!
	11:10am clarke: what's that sign say? - no bare feet. what's THAT sign say?
	11:10am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds... NICK LOWE ALERT! New tour dates announced this week. Scheduled stops include NYC, DC, & Boston. Tix already available. Also: NL dropped a new single this week. Maybe we'll hear it today?? :)
	11:11am ?: president trump is going to make a wonderful president
	11:12am clarke: there's a mole amongst us.
	11:14am rx "rexy" scabin: @clarke it rhymes with mole.
	11:14am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:12 You say mole, I say troll. PoTAYto, poTAHto.
	11:14am Hughie Considine: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:14 That was gonna be my joke, smart guy
	11:15am Karl: ↳ Song: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" by "Ella Fitzgerald" This is beyond a number one hit!
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:14 i'm only hugh man!!
	11:15am Hughie Considine: I still think I'm sticking with Dionne on this one.
	11:15am clarke: oh wait, YOU are!
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:15 dionne - so underrrated as a singer.
	11:17am Baby: Baby
	11:17am Dano59: ↳ Song: "What Can I Say" by "Yo La Tengo" ona-a my favorite Q covers
	11:17am clarke: baby... Baby... BABY!!!!!!
	11:17am Yechezkel Yehudah: The Boss Martians and Nebulas were top at Darrell's Tavern last night. More surf bands start today about 1PM PDT. - https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/432892792_10161565044602938_7309751592558375722_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=CsC_4I2m5ewQ7kNvgHTnRuG&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AYA7fMx1xNMXbeNhm7PWJgKIIGEj2Jr03-7DevUit7iOrw&oe=66A1BB9E
	11:17am drr: ↳ clarke @11:16 The Warwick for me is Dee Dee. (If you want to do a head-to-head compaison they both do "Alfie".)
	11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "What Can I Say" by "Yo La Tengo" I sometimes think of comparing and contrasting pop songs with the same title, like this one and the Boz Scaggs song of the same name. But that's as far as I ever get.
	11:19am clarke: ↳ drr @11:17 i like Dee Dee, but uhh, there's too much proof the other sib's way
	11:22am Dano59: ↳ drr @11:17 Dee Dee did the original recording of 'You're No Good' (like Erma Franklin w/ 'Piece of My Heart') -- Sisters are doing it for themselves.
	11:22am gf2002: Was just discussing the best songs of the 60's/70's rock era with accordion this past week. My two favorites: Wouldn't It Be Nice, How Can I Be Sure. And not rock, but a really cool record: Calcutta, Lawrence Welk. I drew a blank beyond that.
	11:23am tonyb: Ella’s swell-a, but Dionne could navigate Burt’s tricky melodies so well.
	11:23am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ tonyb @11:23 egg-zackly!
	11:25am clarke: wow, that's the first Mercury Lounge show i have heard announced in a LONG while.
	11:26am Dano59: ↳ clarke @11:25 I loved that place
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Song: "There She Goes" by "Cactus Blossoms, The" they work blue, baby! (BABY!!)
	11:27am Dano59: ... wellll, 'loved' too strong a word. Some happy memories though, hanging with the Mekons et al.
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Dano59 @11:27 i mean, i guess they probably have shows every night - just none announced on shows i listen to - which ain't great booking.
	11:28am Dano59: ↳ clarke @11:28 Even before the pandemic a lot of our cultural history has been memory-holed.
	11:29am clarke: quite in-joyed that one that was played. i blame TT#1
	11:29am tonyb: Think I recall the Mekons sharing the stage with a case of beer at the Merc one night?
	11:31am clarke: ain't no free!
	11:35am myron feld: ↳ Song: "For Your Love" by "Larry Williams" Johnny Guitar Watson also involved with this one. Larry's lyric changes are pretty great.
	11:36am clarke: wow Jim Thorpe is AWEsome!! nearby is Jayne Mansfield's gravesite: in Pen Argyl.
	11:37am dale: marty stuart and band are pretty damn exceptional.
	11:37am Cooh John: Saw Tommy James at Penn's Peak. Worth the 9 hour drive.
	11:38am clarke: shonells - shandels. see what you did there.
	11:39am dale: dwight yoakam's band is really up there, same vibe.
	11:40am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "A Different Kind Of Blue" by "Nick Lowe" WOO HOO!!!
	11:40am Michael Shelley: ↳ Cooh John @11:37 Great view of the Pocono Mountains (2 hr drive for me)
	11:40am clarke: john went the long way
	11:43am John L: ↳ tonyb @11:29 I saw them there with Fred Armisen opening; I had no idea who he was or that he was married to Sally at the time.
	11:44am Hughie Considine: It made the medicine go down...
	11:45am clarke: Le Smoke!!! with cello bow on geetar.
	11:45am David Watts: Sugar cubes are an absorbent medium to transport liquid LSD. Altoids work too, and pass right thru airport security!
	11:45am taryninstereo: Is Jack listening today?
	11:45am clarke: that must be 'where' hoboken jack is.
	11:46am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ taryninstereo @11:45 He might be on the pirate cruise today.
	11:46am tonyb: Good liquid absorbent medium; along with blotting paper.
	11:47am David Watts: Michael, did you find a comfortable pair of sneakers?
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:46 guess it is pretty nice up thar??
	11:48am tranewreck: The oral Polio vaccines came in sugar cubes
	11:48am myron feld: Paul Rutner, another bargain.
	11:49am clarke: backslider. me.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Song: "People, I Wish You Could See" by "Lee Dorsey" mistah lee!
	11:50am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:47 I wouldn't know. That's WAY out of my budget. :)
	11:50am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ ? @11:11 berkshires matty - why post anonymously if you believe this - that's troll behavior!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:50 he shoots. he scores!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:50 jah - i just was asking about the weather, tho
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "My Friend Jack" by "Smoke, The" Yeah I think you got a crystalline form - measured in micrograms (dosage is very hard to be sure of !) - generally dissolved in water. Never talked to anyone actually got it in sugarcubes before blotters & tabs became ubiquitous. I did have it in a visine bottle dissolved in water - pure, potent, controllable dosage ! So that happens too... There's a story a guy was repairing a synth - was it in SF from the 1970s ? & he opens it up - & there's been LSD crystals dried there all this time - & he got hella high contacting it... Tho otherwise sunlight & fluoridated water will denature acid rapidly...
	11:53am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @11:51 Oh yeah--weather is MUCH better now than it's been the past few weeks. Still warm, but I no longer feel like I'm stepping into an oven whenever I go out.
	11:53am Michael Shelley: ↳ David Watts @11:47 still investigating...
	11:53am clarke: we get oven until, say, november.
	11:53am jg: Couple of weeks ago saw the Robert plant Allison Krause show w JD. As the musical director/ guitarist. They sounded great
	11:53am Baby: Bellfuries
	12:00pm clarke: whoah, transfer portal for JS!!
	12:00pm Paul: DePaul? UIC?
	12:00pm drr: ↳ Dano59 @11:22 Yeah, the guitar solo on that "You're No Good" is incredible. Far superior to the big Ronstadt hit (and I like that version just fine). Dionne didn't also do that one, did she?
	12:01pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Where the Rio de Rosa Flows" by "Modern Sounds, The" No bad versions of this one (this makes the third one I've heard).
	12:01pm Paul: U of C? Columbia College?
	12:02pm David Watts: @Michael Shelley I was gonna suggest Adidas court style shoes. I got a new pair recently and they're pretty comfortable (need new insoles of course). Durable canvas material and fairly cool looking...I think. More of a going out shoe than a work or running shoe though. I think mine is adidas court v 3.0
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gotta Get Away" by "Major Lance" YES.
	12:04pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gotta Get Away" by "Major Lance" pat - who used to run the fabled Mermaid Lounge recently passed away. one of the biggest Major Lance fans i ever knew.
	12:05pm Hughie Considine: He was a major Major Lance fan (fan)
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:05 MAJOR!!
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:05 which was quite enjoyable for the patrons!
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:05 Not to be confused with the No. 1 fan of the man from Tennessee.
	12:06pm gf2002: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:51 Did you ever hear the wild story about the efforts to locate John Lennon's satchel of LSD which he buried in his backyard in the late 60's after he decided to swear off? I think it was a stash of pure liquid LSD which he had procured from Owsley and transported through film lenses that were part of the gear at Monterey Pop festival. I could be wrong on the details but I think they actually found and dug up Lennon's bag. It was online years ago, I have to check if it's still available. I wonder if there are still any original capsules of Orange Sunshine stashed away in various houses across the US which the grandkids would have no idea what it is or was.
	12:06pm Baby: So #1
	12:06pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:06 I imagine so! I'm sure he brought much joy in his life.
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Baby @12:06 100% for you Baby!
	12:07pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:03 I didn't know that. I never thought about the Mermaid Lounge people liking stuff outside of the stuff they booked.
	12:08pm Scott from Boston: Enjoyed going to see Elvis and Daryl Hall the other night. 77 years old and trying to carve his way out as a solo artist…
	12:08pm drr: ↳ Song: "Never Never Let Me Down" by "Formulars Dance Band... Not just "Don't Let Me Down"....
	12:08pm Baby: Thanks Baby
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:07 well, pat left (most of) the booking to others. but, if you ever just went drinking there, you'd get a dsse of the Major!
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" don't crash!
	12:10pm common: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" hell yea, wire
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Dot Dash" by "Wire" First Wire I ever encountered and made me an instant fan. Taped it off WPIX including Meg Griffin's intro.
	12:10pm clarke: please come to boston, hughie.
	12:10pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:08 I think the first time I ever went it was raining way harder than it is today. The floors were so slippery I was mostly concerned with remaining upright. Still hasn't been improved on.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:10 that place was so fucking cool!
	12:11pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:10 haha... But I'm a ramblin' boy ...
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:11 (once they got a/c, ha ha)
	12:12pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I Must Be In Love" by "Rutles, The" What an amazing thing these Rutles pulled off.
	12:13pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "I Must Be In Love" by "Rutles, The" real songs by fake bands are the besst!
	12:13pm clarke: fataar style!!
	12:13pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:11 I think they had a/c, but it couldn't do anything about the humidity, so it was like going to a gig in a rain forest.
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:13 they didn't have a/c when i played thru there, early days
	12:14pm yascha: OMG I love this f*#king song! I have the 7 inch single of Dot Dash but can't find it, thnx for playing
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ yascha @12:14 they's a guy on youtube who examines that song to the most minute point. check it!
	12:16pm clarke: you've got me bugged bugged bugged bugged!
	12:16pm Mailman Tom: I bought the Buggs record album in 1964. I was a kid, and I was fooled into thinking it was a Beatles record!
	12:16pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The" omg Zee Beetle Beat by Zee Bugs. 'that's not what I asked for, Grandma.'
	12:18pm clarke: no mersey!!
	12:18pm Dano59: ↳ Dano59 @12:16 my ex and my sister-in-law's records were still in the family home in the '80s and I'm sure that was the scenario. OK, what's next, Michael ... Klaatu?
	12:19pm Dano59: Gaylord of course is the acknowledged expoit on 'fake Beatle' records
	12:20pm clarke: summoning fields??
	12:20pm ?: Same Buggs that did Sassy Sue & You Got Me Bugged? On a Coronet comp of Felix & The Escorts (listed incorrectly as The Young Rascals); Johnny Rivers; The 4 Seasons. I'm not that above ?
	12:20pm Tommy in Neversink: ↳ Song: "Don't Bother Me" by "Merseyboys, The" I think the Smithereens covered that . It's a song worthy of more coverage
	12:22pm clarke: used to run down to the Harvard Boat House on the charles - they had a water fountain, there.
	12:22pm Tommy in Neversink: ↳ Song: "Don't Bother Me" by "Merseyboys, The" But I'm not gonna say it's underrated cause I don't do the overrated / underrated thing
	12:22pm drr: ↳ Song: "Little Boat" by "Gabor Szabo" Author of the two-chord hit "Breezin'"! (Right? I think so, anyway.)
	12:23pm gf2002: Technically George's first writing credit was "Cry For A Shadow" co-write with Lennon from Hamburg, but I guess Don't Bother Me was his first complete song released or published with lyrics. I'm sure he tried writing others before, it would be interesting to check. Cry For A Shadow is a GREAT instrumental, I've been playing that a lot recently.
	12:23pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:22 i'm pretty sure, jes.
	12:23pm Meadows: The Rutles weren’t a real band it was a Monkumentary Movie that came out in 1978 Nation Lampoon 🤣
	12:24pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:22 You are correct, sir. He did a LOT of Beatles covers, and many covers in general, sort of a la Wes Montgomery. Like Wes, Gabor died in his 40s.
	12:24pm gf2002: ↳ drr @12:22 Gabor also did Gypsy Queen which of course Santana grafted onto Black Magic Woman. The Szabo original is a pretty great guitar excursion.
	12:24pm drr: ↳ Meadows @12:23 Meadows, where are you getting this information? Big if true.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:23 there was a 'failed' george tune called You Know What To Do - but, i am not sure where it comes in
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Meadows @12:23 that's just what "they" want you to believe.
	12:26pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:24 Indeed. And he played something like an acoustic with a pickup added. Did anyone else do that?
	12:27pm drr: ↳ gf2002 @12:24 And played with Chico Hamilton, who's famous to me for being the leader of Steve Dallas' band in The Sweet Smell Of Success (it's a movie, but don't worry about it, it's not packed fully of snappy quotes or anything).
	12:27pm Frank In Queens: Looking forward to hearing the story of The Shandels
	12:27pm myron feld: ↳ drr @12:27 Match me, drr.
	12:28pm clarke: it's a real heartthrob.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Song: "No Way Out" by "Shandels, The" them fellers is genius!!
	12:29pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:26 Yes, there was a pickup made by DeArmond that was pretty popular for jazz players to put on acoustic archtop guitars to "electrify" them. There was a music shop in Boston that had a bunch of them, some I think in the original boxes from the 50's. But it wasn't as common for jazz players as just buying a Gibson or a D'Angelico electric guitar. Gabor had a great guitar tone
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:27 they hail from yer hometown, right?
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Meadows @12:23 I don’t think so
	12:30pm gf2002: ↳ drr @12:27 I've seen that film!
	12:30pm drr: ↳ myron feld @12:27 Not right this minute, myron feld.
	12:31pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mailman Tom @12:16 “Recorded in England”
	12:31pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:29 Yeah, from Levittown, where I mostly grew up
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:30 anyone's fair game for you tonight.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:31 let's not go overboard, here.
	12:32pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:29 Thanks - very interesting, and yes, his tone was just exquisite.
	12:32pm dday: ↳ Song: "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The" Same Buggs that did Sassy Sue & You Got Me Bugged? On a Coronet comp of Felix & The Escorts (listed incorrectly as The Young Rascals); Johnny Rivers; The 4 Seasons.
	12:32pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:31 well, you're like....you're like....you're like....I wanna say a cookie, but not a regular cookie....
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:32 the very same.
	12:33pm drr: The radio station may be Jersey City, but the clothes are Traynor Norell.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:32 ha ha ha
	12:34pm PaulRobeson1924: Today lotta empty commercial buildings
	12:34pm clarke: this station is totin' this artist around for this station.
	12:35pm PaulRobeson1924: No basements in Levittown homes
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:32 Whatcha mean?
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:35 ha ha, just a movie line.
	12:36pm Christina Ginger: I heard Lawrence Welk, and just had to comment. I grew up watching it in PBS repeats every Saturday nite when my grandmother lived with us.
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:35 can you attest to the pool/little leauge levittown?
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: "Door-to-door accordion salesman" always looks good on a resume.
	12:37pm Frank In Queens: RE: the accordion. I never thought about that. For Italian kids of that age, it was rite of passage.
	12:38pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:36 Yes. Used to go to the town pools when I was younger and I played ball fro 5-7, but not in Levittown Little League. I didn't go to Levittown schools.
	12:39pm clarke: would they play at the pools??
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:36 I had the same experience when my Grandmom lived with us! Every Saturday night, she watched Welk on PBS and I usually watched it with her. After she passed I would still try to watch when I could to see Neal LeVang and Buddy Merrill play guitar. Good memories.
	12:39pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:39 No, no there were no bands playing at the pools when I was a kid in the 80s.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:39 i mean, would bands play at pools, there? (some towns hired bands to play at pools).
	12:40pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:39 gotcha, but in the sixties, maybe..
	12:40pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:40 Probably. It wouldn't surprise me.
	12:40pm clarke: there was a teen club in nola, back in the sixties that had a bandstand next to the pool
	12:40pm morphe': FYI - let us not forget the Negro Ban in the LI housing developments..... Not blaming him ... my parents moved us from Sunset Part to Bay Ridge when "THE PUERTO RICANS" moved in.. Even in Queens in Trumps projects'.. Trumps father was sued and lost a Red Lining Racist case.. [A RAISIN IN THE SUN"]
	12:41pm Christina Ginger: ↳ gf2002 @12:39 There’s a great Mobituaries episode about Welk. It gave me a newfound respect for him. He was one of the original independent hustler musicians.
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: My father's first band played at the NYS Pavilion as well. In '63, I think?
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:41 On the accordion, no less!
	12:41pm clarke: nifty!
	12:42pm myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:41 FIQ: woulda been '64 at the earliest, as that's when the Fair opened.
	12:43pm morphe': Lawerence Welk Bklyn 1960's Sunday nights ... UGGHHH We wanted Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Disney on the one BW TV and had to struggle with the folks ..
	12:43pm Frank In Queens: ↳ myron feld @12:42 Then it was '64. He said he was 13, and wouldn't have been 14 in until Nov. '64.
	12:44pm clarke: funny how stuff happens sometimes, and the band has NO idea of how it happened.
	12:52pm Frank In Queens: Now THAT'S the funniest part of these things!
	12:53pm clarke: totally! kids would gather where the bands were practicing - openly!
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:53 No, that there's more interest in these bands NOW then there was then.
	12:56pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:55 i don't know about that - probably a toss=up
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "John Melnick" rope moved!!! excellencio!!
	12:57pm tonyb: Band practices & gig soundchecks can have a certain charm for me…
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:41 Thank you, I will check that out! I always enjoyed watching Welk's guitarists LeVang and Merrill play and I also think Welk's pop hit Calcutta is a terrific record. Thanks again for the tip!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ tonyb @12:57 fer shure!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:58 not to mention Alvino Ray!!
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael. Great show!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ gf2002 @12:06 I haven't seen these tales circulating - which is a little surprising.
	12:59pm clarke: ah ha ha.
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~ Thanks John Melnick !
	1:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks, Michael. Great show!
	3:37pm Scott from Boston: Doesn’t get much better than this! Rubber bullets

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