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March 21, 2015: 2015 WFMU Fundraisier with co-host Evan "Funk" Davies
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Here's an alphabetical list of the amazing artists and songs - click on the band names for more info!:
1) amandla "Fly Like An Eagle"
2) Nikki Corvette with Prima Donna "It Don’t Come Easy"
3) Marshall Crenshaw "I Just Want To Celebrate”
4) Grace Denton "Ring The Living Bell”
5) Billy Dolan "Instant Karma"
6) Pete Donnelly and Shelby Lynne "O-o-h Child"
7) Mitch Easter "Fox On The Run”
8) Sam Elwitt "Baby Blue”
9) The Explorers Club "I Wanna Be With You”
10) Green "Superstar”
11) The Kanaloas “Saturday Night”
12) Nick Martellaro "Stayin' Alive”
13) The Mommyheads “What A Fool Believes”
14) David Myhr “Oh Susie”
15) The Philistines Jr. “The Logical Song”
16) Sam Phillips “(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All”
17) They Might Be Giants “Starry Eyes”
18) The Woggles “Treat Her Like A Lady”
CLICK HERE for information on the first volume in this series "SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES"
CLICK HERE for information on the second volume in this series " MORE SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES"
CLICK HERE to see the cover of the 1975 K-Tel LP that provided inspiration compared to the Mike-Shell version!
CLICK HERE to see the 1975 K-Tel commercial that provided inspiration!
CLICK HERE to see the video for The Philistines Jr. "The Logical Song"
Thanks to:
-Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound for mastering the project (& doing some mixing too!)
-Steve McFarland for the package design & amazing Photoshop work on the front cover!
-Aaron Dunkel for the video editing!
-Jay Sherman-Godfrey who helped me sequence both volumes of this series!
-WFMU's Rex Doan for his voice over work!
-WFMU's Gaylord Fields for proofreading!
-All the bands and technicians who donated their time & creative genius to make this project happen!
-You for your pledge to the 2015 WFMU Fundraiser!
-Michael Shelley 2015
2) Nikki Corvette with Prima Donna "It Don’t Come Easy"
3) Marshall Crenshaw "I Just Want To Celebrate”
4) Grace Denton "Ring The Living Bell”
5) Billy Dolan "Instant Karma"
6) Pete Donnelly and Shelby Lynne "O-o-h Child"
7) Mitch Easter "Fox On The Run”
8) Sam Elwitt "Baby Blue”
9) The Explorers Club "I Wanna Be With You”
10) Green "Superstar”
11) The Kanaloas “Saturday Night”
12) Nick Martellaro "Stayin' Alive”
13) The Mommyheads “What A Fool Believes”
14) David Myhr “Oh Susie”
15) The Philistines Jr. “The Logical Song”
16) Sam Phillips “(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All”
17) They Might Be Giants “Starry Eyes”
18) The Woggles “Treat Her Like A Lady”
-Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound for mastering the project (& doing some mixing too!)
-Steve McFarland for the package design & amazing Photoshop work on the front cover!
-Aaron Dunkel for the video editing!
-Jay Sherman-Godfrey who helped me sequence both volumes of this series!
-WFMU's Rex Doan for his voice over work!
-WFMU's Gaylord Fields for proofreading!
-All the bands and technicians who donated their time & creative genius to make this project happen!
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-Michael Shelley 2015
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| Green |
Superstar (from Even More Superhits of the Seventies)
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| Explorers Club, The |
I Wanna Be with You (also from Even More Superhits of the Seventies)
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| Laura Cantrell |
All the Girls Are Complicated (we'll be giving this away in the next few minutes)
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| Dale Hawkins |
Who
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| Laura Cantrell |
Driving Down Your Street
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| Nick Martellaro |
Stayin Alive (also from Even More Superhits of the Seventies)
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| Nick Martellaro |
Always You
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| Midnight Stars |
poppy's Disco
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| Box Tops, The |
Happy Song
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| Lyres, The |
Help You Anne (we'll be giving this away in the next few minutes)
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| Kanaloas, The |
Saturday Night (also from Even More Superhits of the Seventies)
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| Yolks, The |
You Don't Live Here No More (we'll be giving this away in the next few minutes)
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| Woggles, The |
Treat Her Like A Lady (from Even More Super Hits Of The 70s)
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| Ronee Blakley as Barbara Jean |
Tapedeck in His Tractor
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| Sam Elwitt |
Baby Blue (from Even More Super Hits Of The 70s)
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| Jonathan Richman |
You Can Have A Cell Phone That's OK But Not Me
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CLICK HERE for Video Premiere: The Philistines Jr. - The "Logical Song" (from Even More Super Hits of the Seventies) CLICK HERE for Grace Denton's cover of Melanie's "Ring the Living Bell" (from Even More Super Hits of the Seventies) CLICK HERE to subscribe to my Twitter account, which sends out radio show related tweets CLICK HERE to watch 12 parts of "Strong Enough to Break" a documentary film completed in 2004 about the making of Hanson's third studio album "Underneath" that chronicles the bands struggle to complete the album in an increasingly corporate music business. CLICK HERE to read "Squelching Creativity - What the “Blurred Lines” team copied is either not original or not relevant 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 "Neil Young's PonoPlayer: The Emperor Has No Clothes" CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit" CLICK HERE for a cool archive of old magazines CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl" CLICK HERE for a Muppets/Biz Markie laugh CLICK HERE to see some interesting uncut footage of Paul McCartney shot by Albert Maysles CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload CLICK HERE for Francis Macdonald's excellent blog post about Kim Fowley 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 "Metal Album Covers Redesigned" 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 my new year wished to you CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?" CLICK HERE to watch Big Al Anderson get interviewed on TV 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 to watch Mad Magazine's never aired 1974 tv special CLICK HERE for a tricky but worth it recipe for Flaky Buttery Crescent Rolls, which were my favorite thing I made for Thanksgiving CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years CLICK HERE for a behind the scenes piece about Linda Ronstadt's "You’re No Good" CLICK HERE for a behind the scenes piece about T. Rex’s ‘Get It On CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman CLICK HERE 23 Telltale Signs You Live In A Hipster Neighbourhood (sic) CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting" CLICK HERE for info on the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park CLICK HERE for another piece about how the streaming music business model is doomed for eternity to be a disaster for musicians CLICK HERE for forty photos of The Brown Sisters CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse CLICK HERE to watch a great piece on The Ramones! CLICK HERE for Phil Baugh's "Country Guitar" CLICK HERE to watch Lou Reed act like a total a-hole CLICK HERE to watch the BBC Documentary "Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours" CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story CLICK HERE to hear The Odd Couple sing CLICK HERE for the N.Y. Times story about the Brazilian bus magnate who’s buying up all the world’s vinyl records CLICK HERE for a piece from a guy who played in a prison band with drummer Jim Gordon CLICK HERE for a piece on the dynamic between Lennon & McCartney CLICK HERE for a documentary about record collectors CLICK HERE for a piece on The Angelettes CLICK HERE for Ock TV CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1" CLICK HERE for a a piece by bass player Ernie Brooks remembering his days in Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers 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 "The Jarmels" "A Little Bit of Soap" - don't think this is the original lead singer - but he does a great job CLICK HERE for the Abbey Road crossing cam CLICK HERE to find out if we need to be touching CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions 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 watch the famously hard to find MC5 documentary 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 Paul Lukas' excellent piece about cultural criticism CLICK HERE to read "A Portrait of the Worst Guy Ever" 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 film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis" CLICK HERE for a laugh CLICK HERE for Roz Chast's piece “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” CLICK HERE for a brief history of the baritone guitar" CLICK HERE for "The Making of 96 Tears" CLICK HERE for a Rolling Stone piece about The Jerky Boys CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Dues" from "Nashville" 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 if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is. CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?" CLICK HERE for my July 2007 interview with Mighty Hannibal CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot 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 a weird Tonight Show episode where Jerry Lewis fills in for Johnny, with guest Bob Hope
CLICK HERE for the Jim Keltner Discography 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 Rolling Stone's 500 Worst Reviews of All Time, according to Schmidtt CLICK HERE for the 1966 Esquire Magazine piece "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" CLICK HERE for a dumbly titled, but interesting piece on Tom Wilson CLICK HERE to find out about folks buying old lps in the USA to sell in Europe CLICK HERE for a grammar test CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee CLICK HERE to see Jerry Lewis and Al Goldstein show of gadgets in 1976 on "A.M. New York" CLICK HERE for Nick Lowe's odd appearance
on the Adam Carolla show. CLICK HERE for a $400+ out of print
book about Pub Rock that Nick Lowe recommends - OR - buy it HERE for for £20 (about $30), including postage, on Will Birch's website CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン
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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 gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."
CLICK HERE for a new interactive video from Bob Dylan 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 STAX at The White House CLICK HERE to read the list of the best selling vinyl records of the last 20 years CLICK HERE for photos of Nashville session cello player Byron Bach's ledger from Paul Lukas' excellent Permanent Record web site CLICK HERE if you're a BEATLE fan! CLICK HERE for ROCKPILE live CLICK HERE for The Turtles "Happy Together" (vocals only) CLICK HERE to read the story behind Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” bass line CLICK HERE I think this hurts ants, but it looks cool - I want one CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers CLICK HERE for some videos from the BUCKY
album 'Women, Ladies and Girls (Sing the Bucky Songbook).' (I especially like
THIS ONE! {due to the great acting}) CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back" CLICK HERE for a 1958 film "The Capitol Tower" CLICK HERE to find out Popular Science is shutting off their comments CLICK HERE for "
The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find " CLICK HERE for some Steve Allen bashing CLICK HERE for Liverpool Scene's "Batpoem Live! CLICK HERE for a "Step Inside Legendary New Jersey Radio Station WFMU! CLICK HERE to watch The Beach Boys pretend to record "Good Vibrations" CLICK HERE to watch the full "Beach Boys Live in Concert 50th Anniversary" CLICK HERE for some live Magic and CLICK HERE for the proper chords. CLICK HERE for Nick Martellaro version of Los Shakers' Always You CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps! CLICK HERE to hear Gene Simmons say that Ace Frehley is a drugged racist with low self esteem who did nothing CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings. CLICK HERE for How we made "You Really Got Me"! CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound. I love THESE Beach Boy videos! CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts. CLICK HERE for info on an amazing new drug: Unpretentiousil! 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 CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" 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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