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May 20, 2016 Favoriting
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
Sarah Webster Fabio 
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976)
ECD  In Tempo   Favoriting Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990)

Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln  Ku'u Milimili   Favoriting Legends of Falsetto:
Hawaii's Legendary Voices
Coral Islanders  Na Kuahiwi O Mokuokeawe   Favoriting Rhythm of the Islands:
Music of Hawaii 1913-1952
(Harlequin )
Jimmie Tarlton  My Little Blue Heaven   Favoriting b/w On the Banks of a Lonely River
(Columbia 1930)
Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Quartette  Kolo Pa   Favoriting b/w My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii
(Brunswick 1933)
Lena Machado  Ho'onanea   Favoriting Hawaiian Song Bird
(HanaOla 1962)
Johnny Pineapple & His Orchestra  Maui Chant   Favoriting Hawaiian Holiday
(Allegro 1965)
Los Holy's  Hawaii Five-O   Favoriting Sueño Sicodelico
(Electro Harmonix 1967)
Kanui & Lula  Pue Carnation   Favoriting On a Coconut Island: Music of Hawaii
(Harlequin )
Louis Armstrong w/The Polynesians  To You, Sweetheart, Aloha   Favoriting b/w On a Coconut Island
(Decca 1936)

Talkover Music:
Blue Mitchell 
Bantu Village   Favoriting Bantu Village
(Blue Note 1969)

Bessie Jones  Throw Me Overboard   Favoriting Get In Union
(Tompkins Square 1961)
Peanut Faircloth & His Log Cabin Boys  Little David   Favoriting b/w Shake His Hand
(Bibletone )
Elder Charles Beck  Shouting with Elder Beck   Favoriting b/w Jesus, I Love You
(King 1950)
Five Blind Boys of Alabama  Fix It Jesus   Favoriting Marching Up to Zion
(Specialty 1971)
Famous L. Renfroe as the Flying Sweet Angel of Joy  His Love   Favoriting Children
(Clip-So/Big Legal Mess 1968)
Frankie Owens & the Gospel Imperials  Inflation   Favoriting Inflation
(Champ ca. 1975)
Johnnie Taylor  Testify (I Wonna)   Favoriting b/w I Had a Fight With Love
(Stax 1969)

Talkover Music:
Milt Jackson 
Olinga   Favoriting Olinga
(CTI 1974)

Carl Smith  Who'll Buy My Heartaches   Favoriting b/w Satisfaction Guaranteed
(Columbia 1953)
Ferlin Husky  Irma   Favoriting b/w Cotton Pickin' Heart
(King 1960)
Adrian Roland  Same Old Fool   Favoriting b/w Sweetheart to Friend
(Toppa 1962)
Billy Brown  One of the Ten Most Wanted Women   Favoriting b/w Open Arms
(Challenge 1969)
Carmol Taylor  The Train Never Stops at Our Town   Favoriting b/w Another Man's Shoes
(Timmy 1968)
Dick Curless  Loser's Cocktail   Favoriting b/w Hot Springs
(Capitol 1971)
Jeffrey J. Jeffrey  A Sioux Named Boy   Favoriting b/w My Dream
(Metro Country 1971)
Ray Pillow  Volkswagen   Favoriting b/w And I Like That Sorta Thing
(Capitol 1966)
Jack Greene  Statue of a Fool   Favoriting b/w There's More to Love
(Decca 1969)

Talkover Music:
Blind Idiot God 
Death Hollow Canyon, Utah   Favoriting Cyclotron
(Avant 1992)

Return of the New Thing  Truth and Reconciliation (To Archie Shepp)   Favoriting Return of the New Thing
(Leo 1999)
William Parker  Green Mountains (for Bill Dixon)   Favoriting Solo Bass:
Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake
(AUM Fidelity 2010)
Joel Futterman Quartet  There Is a Smile (for Jimmy Lyons)   Favoriting Vision in Time
(Silkheart 1988)
Mankunku Quartet  Dedication (To Daddy Trane & Brother Shorter)   Favoriting Yakhal' Inkomo
(Atlantic City 1968)

Talkover Music:
Sabu Martínez 
High Tension   Favoriting In Orbit
(SMC 1960)

Honoré Avolonto et l'Orchestra Black Santiago  Je Donnerai Mon Coeur   Favoriting Avolonto Honoré
(Aux Ecoutes )
Bony Castro  Labazo   Favoriting 80
(Maikano 1980)
Afro 70 Band  Week End   Favoriting b/w Nambie Kweli
(Moto Moto 1972)
Lantei Lamptey  Fish & Funjee (Komi Ke Kenam)   Favoriting b/w Komi Ke Kenam (Fish & Funjee)
(African Music Explosion 1974)

Talkover Music:
Liquid Liquid 
Cavern   Favoriting Optimo
(99 1983)

James Govan  Bye Bye Blackbird   Favoriting Wanted: The Fame Recordings
(Ace )
Jimmy Hughes  You Might as Well Forget Him   Favoriting b/w Everybody Let's Dance
(Fame 1963)
The Soul Sensations  When I Had You, Baby   Favoriting b/w A Man That Is Not Free
(Music City 1973)
Joe Simon  Message From Maria   Favoriting b/w I Worry About You
(Sound Stage 7 1968)
Jimmy Braswell  Home for the Summer   Favoriting b/w Hand Shaking
(Quinvy 1970)
Jerry Butler  Strawberries   Favoriting b/w Just a Little Bit
(Vee Jay 1963)

Closing Theme:
John Lee Hooker 
Stand By   Favoriting I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971)

Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22am Uncle Michael:

We will, we will ROCK YOU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24am Doug Schulkind:

We shall indeed endeavor to rock everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28am Uncle Michael:

A friend once intoned from a bar stage, "When we rock Tonganoxie, Tongenoxie stays rocked."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:29am Uncle Michael:

I spelled it both ways because I'm not sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33am Doug Schulkind:

They've got moxie in Tonganoxie, UM.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:39am Uncle Michael:

They have Nehi in Lehigh.
Avatar 9:00am ndbob:

morning Doug. UM. everyone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:00am Gary:

Morning!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00am Everyone:

Good morning to you, ndbob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01am listener james from westwood:

Heya Doug and all! I am quite adequately prepared to rock to some rock and/or roll music!
Avatar 9:01am annie:

good morning! breakfast is made and my ears are on!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am Stanley:

Earwig-o!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome to the Big Vibrating Tent®, Listener James, annie and Stanley!
Avatar 9:04am ausmanx:

tuning in between more bouts of Maori pig sticking action, folks... good evening, Doug and listening himans
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06am Gary:

Happy birthday, UM!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! big noise!
  9:06am Mr C:

I just wanna testify/
what Give the Drummer Some has done for me...
Avatar 9:06am ndbob:

Happy bday UM!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06am listener james from westwood:

A happy Friday birthday to you, UM!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07am Doug Schulkind:

ausmanx! Gary!! holland oats!!! Mr C!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:08am listener james from westwood:

Does the Big Vibrating Tent® rely on some manner of Reichian technology? Because I'm fresh outta orgone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Johnnie Taylor will testify in the next set...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:08am doctorjazz:

Birthday Drumming! The best!
Avatar 9:08am annie:

UMickey has a birthday? well have a good'un!
Avatar 9:09am ausmanx:

the gif today is vaguely reminiscent of the bumper sticker for the new Filipino president i saw when recently in Manila... a fist with the word "DISCIPLINA" under it. he seems to be putting it into practice...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10am Doug Schulkind:

I'm hoping to make YOU say ahhhhh, doctorjazz.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:13am Uncle Michael:

Thanks friends.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am Webhamster Henry:

Hi Doug! I sometimes wonder about the vast popularity of Hawaiian music from around the time the US took it over in 1898. And what native music corresponded to sliding steel string guitars?
Avatar 9:19am annie:

god, i love this music... used to be a Hawaiian music show out of cape cod on sunday nights..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19am Doug Schulkind:

There was a huge influx of foreign workers into Hawaii to cut the sugarcane. They came back home brimming with that guitar sound around the time the mass production/distribution of recorded music was taking off.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:19am Uncle Michael:

Henry:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 9:19am chromaphone:

The Hawaiian tunes are really working for me this morning. thanks DS.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:21am doctorjazz:

Great opening set, I'm indeed saying ahhhh...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am coelacanth:

'morning Doug and Drummers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:21am Gary:

Lovely tracks so far. This one sounds kind of Okinawan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:21am Jeff Golick:

Waving this banner all over the place: Hi, Doug! Drumsums!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, chromaphone! Welcome, coelacanth! Hugs, Waving Jeff Golick!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24am Webhamster Henry:

I had to run over to B/art Plantenga's Yodel-Ay-EE-OO Book and look her up: 1903-1974. "she employed a vast arsenal of effects and embellishments to create a rich, variegated, and fascinating vocal style."
page 118
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:25am Uncle Michael:

The whole Pineapple family was so proud of Johnny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25am Stanley:

This sounds like a Hawaiian version of 'Nice One Cyril'
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:26am Uncle Michael:

I played that!
wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27am Doug Schulkind:

Cyril Knowles: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 9:27am ausmanx:

right up to independence the Philippines thought they were going to become the 50th state,, so you might have been playing Filipino music!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27am Stanley:

Nice one UM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28am Stanley:

@Doug - 'Let's have another one'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31am coelacanth:

now i see...Happy Birthday Uncle Michael!
Avatar 9:31am ndbob:

The Secret Museum of the Air once had a great show of Hawaiian music by non-Hawaiians
Avatar 9:33am mauri:

happy day doug! happy birthday uncle michael! drum on!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33am holland oats:

digging these soothing sounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33am Doug Schulkind:

Wish you were in Maui, mauri?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:36am Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38am holland oats:

oua oua?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:40am Uncle Michael:

Wouldn't that be pronounced OH-OO-AH OH-OO-AH?
Avatar 9:40am mauri:

I'll conquer moloka'i and name it mauri.
Avatar 9:41am annie:

@ndbob, that's a good thing to seek out, thanks
Avatar 9:44am ndbob:

@annie - welcome - all those secret museum shows are worth hearing - heard most of them when they were new - was just talking to someone about them last
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am Doug Schulkind:

Someday, I'll do a whole show of music by people named Peanut.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47am Doug Schulkind:

Any Peanut allergies out there? (I have to ask for legal reasons.)
Avatar 9:47am ndbob:

yep - peanut the kidnapper - the peanuts - peanuts wilson et al
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48am Jeff Golick:

"gwan" is just a great word
Avatar 9:48am ndbob:

and I'm always hoping for a three hour show of rodent songs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49am Doug Schulkind:

Every time I fail to do a 3-hour rodent special...

ndbob: "Rats!"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:50am Artie Haywire:

A glorious day! Good morning, Drummers!
Avatar 9:50am ndbob:

someday Doug someday:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52am Doug Schulkind:

Glo-ry glo-ry, Artie Haywire!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am Stanley:

Jesus, that was good.
Avatar 9:54am annie:

anyone else having connection cut-outs?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54am Jesus:

Tell me something I don't know.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:55am holland oats:

my god that bass is flat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55am Doug Schulkind:

And it's phat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:56am Jeff Golick:

Fix it, Jesus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56am Stanley:

The Flying Sweet Angel of Joy - now that's some moniker
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00am Doug Schulkind:

First name: Joy
Last name: The Flying Sweet Angel of
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02am Artie Haywire:

Famously Flying, Legendarily Sweet, Renfroestly Angelic. But friends just call him Joy.
  10:02am Mr C:

I told you so!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03am Doug Schulkind:

You are an expert witness, Mr C.
Avatar 10:05am Flash Strap:

can't BELIEVE i missed that hawaiian set!!!!

happy birthday morning, Uncle

Hi Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06am Webhamster Henry:

@ndbob yes, enjoy all the Secret Museums - I used to listen to it when it was on WBAI too. Kakfa even gave me a shout out in one of them!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:08am Brian in UK:

Hello Doug & playmates. Quick visit before racing down to the allotment for some digging. Wet weekend ahead say the forecasters. What do forecasters know that only know weather.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10am Brian in UK:

@ndbob I saw a cartoon the other day and thought of you.
A mole was on a mobile telephone and said 'I will be going into a tunnel in a minute'
Not strictly rodential.
Avatar 10:11am ndbob:

@Henry - that's great - I once had a long phone call with him - he was exactly like he was on the air
Avatar 10:12am ndbob:

@Brian close enough!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am Doug Schulkind:

Good afternoon, Brian in UK! Pour me a beer and some tea.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am northguineahills:

Well, I brain farted, I totally forgot it was a Dougie morning (although Marty McSorley is doing an awesome job as well.).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:14am Brian in UK:

Doug, will have to ask for a pass out next week; visiting daughter 1a in the North East. If I have too many beers instead I may just passout.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am Doug Schulkind:

The Flying Sweet Angel of Irma doesn't quite have the same impact.

@northguineahills
The only difference between my show and McSorley's is mine doesn't have a sawdust floor.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16am Brian in UK:

There was a group or magazine called Trailing Clouds of Glory. Maybe it was a cigarette packet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16am Uncle Michael:

I guess Ferlin and Irma going their separate ways on Judgement Day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am Stanley:

Hi Brian. I'm heading South next friday to see the Aged Ps at the sister's. I'll wave if I see you on the way up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
St. Peter loves a good warbler, so don't count ol' Ferlin out.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17am Brian in UK:

Stanley, aged p is Wemmick's old man, Jagger's clerk from Great Expectations?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Doug Schulkind:

It's nice to be wanted.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20am Stanley:

@Brian - that's right. I'll give them a nod from you.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20am Brian in UK:

Better than kneaded?
Avatar 10:21am Lewis:

I must say, reading back a few of the recent posts leaves me flummoxed...
Avatar 10:21am Lewis:

(well I suppose mostly I just wanted to say "flummoxed")...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am Stanley:

@Doug - nor a spitoon
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22am listener james from westwood:

Diggin' the ten o'clock twang block!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22am Brian in UK:

Lewis, you lummox.
Avatar 10:22am ausmanx:

flummoxed is a good state for doug's show... good evening, brian; i am hoping for wet weather for the EU referendum, then the UK will vote to Leave. if it's a sunny day, then Remain will win.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Lewmox!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am Doug Schulkind:

What comes after Cell Block #9? Twang Block #10!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23am Brian in UK:

@ausmanx. There are lies, damn lies and referendums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am Stanley:

@ausmanx - either way we're doomed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am Webhamster Henry:

I have to recommend this "Loser's" song to Joe McGinty!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am Dominick:

mighty fine
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26am Doug Schulkind:

I loved those Loser's Lounge shows at Time Café, Webhamster H! Joe McGinty must've heard this.

Well gorshdangedit, it's Dominick!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27am Brian in UK:

Doug, you making leavin' hard. (this could be a song title)
See you on the flip.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27am Webhamster Henry:

Yeah, I was a Loser's singer back in the day ... Meanwhile, I see you've gone from Slack Key to Pedal Steel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am Doug Schulkind:

Leave at your peril, Brian in UK.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am Stanley:

Bye Brian. you've alot to do.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28am Artie Haywire:

Novelty, in spades.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29am Mike East:

g'mornin' folks. I'm on a mission to find a lap steel for a prop on this lovely Friday. How y'all doin?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29am Uncle Michael:

Jeffrey J. Jeffrey, eh?

That might not have been good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am Doug Schulkind:

The problem with lap steels, Mike East: When you stand up, they crash to the floor and bust.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30am Brian in UK:

I'll still be digging Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31am Jeff Golick:

Yeah Jeffrey J. Jeffrey is sort of in a glass house on that tune.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am Doug Schulkind:

Here is the announcement for that Jeffrey J. Jeffrey record in Billboard, in 1971: bit.ly...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36am Jeff Golick:

"The middle J. stands for Jeffrey!"
  10:40am Mr C:

Doug
Have you done a Fund raiser CD premium of your bed music? Would love that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41am Doug Schulkind:

So Bed, It's Good!

Another host at WFMU did an all bed music marathon premium not too long ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Every once in a while, I dedication my Tuesday 1-hour show to playing nothing but my bed music selections.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43am Doug Schulkind:

Jeffrey J. Jolick?
  10:43am Mr C:

You've got some greatest hits in there, Olinga being one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45am doctorjazz:

Such a nice mix of soul piano and skronking horns on this "New Thing"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:45am Jeff Golick:

Well, my nom-du-blog for a time was Drew LeDrew. I guess I could update it to Drew D. LeDrew.
Avatar 10:47am redkayak:

Good morning folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
I keep meaning to select a different track from that Milt Jackson record to talk over, but Olinga is in charge.

Hey, redkayak, how's the rapids?!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49am Artie Haywire:

And a howdy drewdy to you toody!
Avatar 10:49am redkayak:

@Doug - No complaints, sir. Spring seems to have settled in here in the Imperial Midwest :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50am Doug Schulkind:

If by waking up in the mid-40s in mid-May is spring, I'll take it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50am Uncle Michael:

Mr. C...that was my premium, this year.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:52am Jeff Golick:

MY THEME-SENSING SENSES ARE TINGLING.
Avatar 10:54am redkayak:

@Doug - warmer days are coming, or so I'm told
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54am Doug Schulkind:

I'm gonna do an all–Jerry Garcia special and call it

Dead Icated
  10:54am Mr C:

Uncle Mike, not only is it your birthday, but you're the man!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57am Uncle Michael:

There was a tribute album called Deadicated in about '90 or '91

Thanks, Mr. C.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58am Jeff Golick:

Have I told my Dead joke here before?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58am Uncle Michael:

I'm in a virtual queue for concert tickets. ZZ Top w/ Gov't Mule.
  11:00am Dean:

Have I mentioned that I attended every Grateful Dead show ever? Not a joke!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00am doctorjazz:

Actually have that Deadicated CD somewhere in the piles, really nice comp.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Have I ever mentioned that I am the first person never to have had Chicken McNuggets? There have been others, but I was first.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02am Little Danny:

God I love this Mankunku Quartet. Hi Doug, hi all!
Avatar 11:03am mauri:

mankunku quartet fits the warm day perfectly.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04am doctorjazz:

Amen on the Mankunku Quartet, great track!
  11:04am Dean:

Which means, @Doug, you've never had quinoa, because quinoa's made out of Chickens McNugget [note proper plural form].
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04am Doug Schulkind:

Blarney, it's Danny Boy!

Here are the liner notes for this Mankunku LP:

"Ah... at last it's done. I mean the recording of South Africa's number one tenor sax player, Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi. This is the LP that every jazz fan has been waiting for. Listen to it from side one to the last note on side two then you'll agree with me that this is jazz, dished out by the son of the soil in a soul/jazz bowl.

About the man himself. He was born on 21st June 1943 in Retreat, Cape Province. He started playing the piano at the age of ten and two years later bought a tenor saxophone. "Mankunku," as he is called, started to take music seriously in the early sixties. His first professional engagement was with Alf Herbert's African Jazz and Variety and thereafter with South Africa's greatest bassist Midge Pike of Cape Town, about whom he said "Midge was really the man behind my success. He really helped me a lot, I take my hat off to him, dad — I will always remember him." I asked him who influenced his playing. "Daddy Trane and Brother Shorter," he said. "Is that why you composed a tune called "Dedication?" "Yes dad, I feel like crying every time I listen to the music of these two men." I first heard Mankunku play in 1967, during the La Vern Baker/George "Stardust" Green tour. I am sure that many a jazz fan will agree with me that he was the star of the show.

On the first side of this LP is "Yakhal Inkomo" (one of his original works), literally translated "Bellowing Bull." The sound of a bull bellowing mournfully at the loss of one of his kind, is one from deep down in the heart. It is with this sound captured musically, that Mankunku expresses his deep grief at the loss of one of the greatest tenor players in the world, Daddy Trane, as he calls the late John Coltrane. If you listen to the early recordings of John Coltrane — for example "Blue Train," "Moments Notice" and Wayne Snorter's "Johnny's Blues" and "Noise in the Attic," you will agree with him that he was influenced by them. The second tune is also his own composition — "Dedication" (to Daddy Trane and Brother Shorter). It is a 4/4, which is so well arranged that I could hardly believe that it is his original work — with this tune he really plays his part. He plays himself. I remember during the recording session he didn't want anyone to move about because such movements disturb his feelings and concentration. The other tunes are his choice. From Horrace Silver's works he chose "Doodlin"' and from Coltrane's "Bessie's Blues."

About the trio that provided the background, he said "they are fabulous dad, they are with me all the time. When I reach the climax, they are there with me — I love working with them." That, I myself believe, because while recording "Yakhal' Inkomo" I saw tears rolling down his cheeks after Lionel Pillay's piano solo. Everyone there was thrilled to hear Lionel play with such feeling, a real down-to-earth feeling. The Early Mabuza Trio played and played — they deserve full marks." — RAY NKWE President of the Jazz Appreciation Society of South Africa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06am Little Danny:

Technically I was the first to crave Chicken McNuggets.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06am Doug Schulkind:

It's a burden you have to bear, Little Danny.
Avatar 11:08am redkayak:

There's a whole raft of TV series I was the first never to see.... :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:09am Uncle Michael:

I was off McNuggets for several years...but they brought the Hot Mustard sauce back!
Avatar 11:10am redkayak:

Mustard is a key element in the structure of the cosmos...
  11:12am Dean:

An amazing hot mustard: http://www.philippes.com/store/hot-mustard-chile-peppers/philippe-s-hot-mustard.html Philippe's is near Union Station and downtown Los Angeles. They do a mean French dip sandwich and an even better dipped lamb sandwich with bleu cheese. The mustard is luscious.
  11:13am Kris Holmes:

ok, i'm awake. tuning in over coffee & english muffins.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Delighted upon your arrival, Brother Holmes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16am Stanley:

Jambo Jambo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16am Uncle Michael:

Got my tickets...row f, seats 11 & 12.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17am doctorjazz:

Happy Birthday UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am Doug Schulkind:

"A mean French dip." Sounds like a sex act.
Avatar 11:19am Carmichael:

Heya Doug and Drumsters.
  11:19am Dean:

It is, "hot mustard" is the safe word.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20am Uncle Michael:

hot mustard on nugget action
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am coelacanth:

the french dip is a dance; and yeah, sex is involved.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21am Doug Schulkind:

Bonjour, Carmichael.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21am coelacanth:

now i want coffee and english muffin, even though i just ate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22am Doug Schulkind:

I want to be in a '80s glam band called the French Dipz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22am coelacanth:

you CAN be!
  11:23am Mr C:

A little quote of Stormy Weather in Bony guitar solo
  11:24am Dean:

The French dip, the English muffin, spaghetti alla puttanesca...it's getting hot in here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24am Doug Schulkind:

That was a stunner, Mr C.
  11:29am lucyinbrooklyn:

made it to drummer time just in time! Very happily listening to Afro 70 in sunny Brooklyn...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30am Uncle Michael:

Don't forget to come to my party:

wfmu.org/playlists/hd/20160520
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30am Doug Schulkind:

And we'll get you to the Week End, dear lucyinbrooklyn!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30am Uncle Michael:

wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31am coelacanth:

i'd like there to be an ingredient list on that philippe's hot mustard page.
  11:31am Mr C:

This is quite a set!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am Doug Schulkind:

Next one will be slow-burning, Mr C.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32am Parq:

Coming into the house for the last reel. Digging this Ghanan groove.
Avatar 11:34am annie:

holy crap, i was just booted off the internet, way out to pluto!! i blame firefox. took 45 minutes to figure out how to fix it..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am Mike East:

There will be cake and ice cream at noon?! I'm there! (though I woulda been there anyway, but this is the icing in the cake, as it were)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am Little Danny:

Thanks for the shout out Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:38am Uncle Michael:

Let them eat cake.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am Doug Schulkind:

Hey there, Parq!!

You got it, Little Danny. So chuffed to have you in the family!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:39am Parq:

Annie, how *did* you fix it?
  11:42am lucyinbrooklyn:

beautiful send off -- blackbird bye bye -- oh man...! don't want it to end..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am Doug Schulkind:

It doesn't ever really end, lucyinbrooklyn. All the Fridays just run together.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44am Jeff Golick:

Ace, Fame...it's all good.

Btw, where can get a I get a "soul/jazz bowl" referenced above? Crate & Barrell doesn't have any.
Avatar 11:44am ndbob:

good one here Doug!
Avatar 11:45am annie:

well, i think it was the skype upgrade that shocked my external wifi and firefox. i have no idea. just switched to the airport... sad to have missed a good deal of the show. anyway... thanks parq.
  11:46am Kris Holmes:

James Govan so underrated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael presents a live session with The French Dipz, next on the superduper birthday party edition of HINKY DINKY TIME. Up next, here on your full-service 24-hour madly in love with the sound of sound Drummer Stream.

Playlist here: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am Doug Schulkind:

@Kris Holmes
Only by suckers and sneezers.
  11:49am Kris Holmes:

true
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am Doug Schulkind:

Great rhyme:

Maria/free her

Wow!
  11:49am Mr C:

Joe Simon deserves a serious appreciation! A minister in Chicago today..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50am Parq:

Annie, some might say "there's always the archive", but to be honest, I find that glib. The statement, which I see often in the FMU comment columns, presumes that the person has nothing better to do than sit around listening to hours and hours of the FMU programs that he or she doesn't get to hear live, usually because he or she, you know, has a life.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50am listener james from westwood:

Gonna take this show and UM mobile on the iPhone, but thanking you in advance for this superfine show before I get ensconced in the car and can't fiddle w/ the app chat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Ending our show today will be a man who is a County Commissioner in Chicago. Can you guess who?
  11:51am Mr C:

The Iceman of course
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am Doug Schulkind:

There is no topping, there is no stopping... Mr C.
  11:52am Mr C:

Named by DJ Georgie Woods on stage at Philly's Uptown Theater.
Avatar 11:52am annie:

yeah, parq, i use the archive now and then... but i figure one way or the other i'll STILL hear all of the music out there sooner or later.
  11:54am Mr C:

Today has been a truly wonderous listening experience. Thanks !
Avatar 11:55am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Stanley:

@Parq - fair doos, man but there are them shows that air when one's asleep precisely because one does have a life. For instance I don't think I've ever caught Explorers Room live and now Little Danny is a nocturnal creature too. but I always like to leave my mark to show 'em I was there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Doug Schulkind:

The Iceman is placing our hearts on a more stable ground. Bless the Iceman, and bless all of you for hanging out with me!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the music Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Doug Schulkind:

From Wikipedia:

Jerry Butler serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected in 1985. As a member of this 17-member county board, he chairs the Health and Hospitals Committee, and serves as Vice Chair of the Construction Committee.

Butler continues to perform while serving as a Cook County Board Commissioner since the 1980s. As Cook County Commissioner, Butler voted to uphold a historic 2008 Cook County sales tax increase, which remains the highest in the nation. As a result the Chicago Tribune encouraged people to vote against him in the 2010 elections. Butler, however, won reelection in March 2014 with over 80 percent of the vote.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57am Jeff Golick:

Hoo-whee, thank ye, Dougye.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am northguineahills:

Thanks Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59am Parq:

Never heard that Butler -- magnifico.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am Stanley:

Well rocked, shaken and not a little stirred.
Thanks again, Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59am doctorjazz:

Thanks for the great tunes, off to the party!
  11:59am Ramblin' Ray:

Viva Mankunku! Thanks Doug and fellow heads.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

@Stanley
Add some fresh mint to that tumbler!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Alex In Illinois:

In case you are counting listeners, I'm just letting you know that I've been here listening too today, but just have not posted anything.
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