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Favoriting May 7, 2022: The Loss Of An Old Friend Is The Loss Of A Thousand References

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Hank Levine Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary  Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience   Favoriting   1961 / 1966      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus Quartet [w/Eric Dolphy]  Original Faubus Fables   Favoriting The Complete Candid Recordings  1960 / 1989      0:02:21 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  Grazin' in the Grass   Favoriting All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972  1968 / 2022  VAR  *   0:11:36 (Pop-up)
Juana Molina  El Perro   Favoriting Segundo (21st Anniversary)   2000 / 2021      0:14:28 (Pop-up)
Free Design  Springtime   Favoriting Cosmic Peekaboo  2001      0:21:05 (Pop-up)
Yardbirds  I'm Not Talking   Favoriting For Your Love  1965      0:25:01 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker's Reboppers  Ko-Ko   Favoriting Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection  1945 / 1997      0:27:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 
 
 
 
 
 
0:30:20 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols Trio  Mine [alt. take]   Favoriting The Complete Blue Note Recordings  1955 / 1997      0:36:46 (Pop-up)
Gladhands  Breath Of Angels   Favoriting Wow & Flutter  1999      0:40:43 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard  Red Smoke   Favoriting Omnium Gatherum  2022    *   0:45:07 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale  Ghetto Summertime   Favoriting Black Rhythm Happening  1969      0:49:29 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope  Lie To Me   Favoriting Incredible! Kaleidoscope  1968      0:52:33 (Pop-up)
Max Roach  Absolutions   Favoriting Members Don't Git Weary  1968      0:55:17 (Pop-up)
Fairport Convention  Mason's Apron   Favoriting Live In Finland 1971  1971 / 2016      1:00:00 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 
 
 
 
 
 
1:06:17 (Pop-up)
Jocque & LeScott  The Empty Foxhole   Favoriting The Ornette Coleman Songbook  1978      1:14:31 (Pop-up)
Bob Wilson & The San Remo Quartet  All Turned On   Favoriting All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972  1965 / 2022  VAR  *   1:20:22 (Pop-up)
David Greenberger & Ralph Carney  Gertrude At My Door   Favoriting OH,PA  2011      1:23:20 (Pop-up)
dBs  Picture Sleeve   Favoriting   2011  non-lp 45    1:25:47 (Pop-up)
Maxine Brown  Now That You've Gone   Favoriting Killer Bs - US RnB Hits  19621/ 2021  VAR    1:29:25 (Pop-up)
Spirit  Love Has Found A Way [orig. backing track before edits]   Favoriting The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - Deluxe  1970 / 2021      1:31:46 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 
 
 
 
 
 
1:37:35 (Pop-up)
Norma Tanega  Elephants Angels and Roses   Favoriting I'm the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964-71  1971 / 2022    *   1:45:09 (Pop-up)
Max Indian  Now I Know   Favoriting You Can Go Anywhere, Do Anything  2008      1:48:54 (Pop-up)
Igor Stravinsky  Eight Instrumental Miniatures   Favoriting Pulcinella/Dumbarton Oaks/8 Instrumental Miniatures  1921 / 1962 / 1987      1:52:24 (Pop-up)
Karen Black  If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind   Favoriting Dreaming of You (1971-1976)  71-76 / 21      2:00:33 (Pop-up)
Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks  My Jeanine   Favoriting Orange Crate Art-25th Anniversary Edition  1995 / 2020      2:03:04 (Pop-up)
Tommy Duncan  Nancy Jane   Favoriting Western Swing: The Absolutely Essential Anthology  1952 / 2011  VAR    2:06:16 (Pop-up)
NRBQ  Miss Goody Two Shoes   Favoriting Dragnet  2021      2:08:43 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus [w/Roland Kirk]  Ecclusiastics   Favoriting Mingus Oh Yeah  1961      2:12:04 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 
 
 
 
 
 
2:19:02 (Pop-up)
P.J. O'Connell w/NRBQ  My Direction   Favoriting Happy Go Lucky  2002      2:24:17 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwick  Walk On By   Favoriting Her All-Time Greatest Hits  1964 / 1989      2:27:37 (Pop-up)
John Benson Brooks [w/ Cannonball Adderley]  Little John Shoes   Favoriting Alabama Concerto  1958      2:30:26 (Pop-up)
Jimmy 'Guitar' Smith  The Last Of April   Favoriting   2021      2:33:41 (Pop-up)
Jelly Roll Morton  The Story Of King Porter   Favoriting The Complete Library of Congress Recordings  1938 / 2005      2:36:55 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young  The Man I Love   Favoriting A Musical Romance  1940 / 2002      2:40:53 (Pop-up)
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers  See Aunt Dinah   Favoriting Get In Union  1959 / 2014  VAR    2:43:52 (Pop-up)
Charles Albertine  The Long Ships   Favoriting Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals II  1964 / 2003  VAR    2:46:56 (Pop-up)
Mott the Hoople  It Must Be Love   Favoriting Wildlife  1971      2:49:07 (Pop-up)
Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers  Corrine, Corrina   Favoriting Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing  1937 / 1999  VAR    2:51:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 
 
 
 
 
 
2:54:31 (Pop-up)
  Thanks to David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young, Rachael Noel Fox, Billy Giordano, Terry Tally, Peter Becan & Pete Tomlinson


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Listener comments!

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Andrew in Toronto:

Good morning Bob and all other listeners!
  10:48am
Robbie White:

good morning
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Bob Brainen:

Morning Andrew in Toronto!
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Bob Brainen:

Morning Robbie White of WOWD!
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(Mr) Bill:

Happy Derby Day to all.
  11:01am
Jeff:

Good Morning Bob and all the rest of you out there in virtual radio land
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duke:

Good morning eveyone
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Bob Brainen:

Same to you (Mr) Bill!
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listener james from westwood:

Morning, Bob and all. Can't believe it's a year-and-change we lost Frank.
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spodiodi:

good morning, Bob and everyone!
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Bob Brainen:

Morning Jeff!
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wmfromD:

Good morning Bob and all.
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Bob Brainen:

Hey duke!
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Bob Brainen:

Morning listener james from westwood!
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Will the Sound Guy:

Hello Bob and all!!!
  11:03am
dan:

Good morning all
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Bob Brainen:

Morning spodiodi!
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Bob Brainen:

Morning wmfromD!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03am
doctorjazz:

Mingus Among Us!!! (Love this piece!)
Hi Brainiacs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Irene Trudel:

Frank!!! I really miss him. And "hi" Bob! Finally have a free day to listen in real time.
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Bob Brainen:

Morning Will the Sound Guy!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey dan!
  11:05am
adamdoesit:

Good morning Bob and friends. Mingus’ words remain true.
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Bob Brainen:

Morning doctorjazz!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Irene, yeah, I miss him bad...
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Bob Brainen:

Morning adamdoesit!
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SmokinJ:

Hey bb & crew! 8-)
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Bob Brainen:

Hey hey SmokinJ!
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Irene Trudel:

Hey james! We lost Frank in 2019, but it seems like it wasn't that long ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Pauly from Clifton:

Hey Bob, folks!
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Bob Brainen:

Morning Pauly from Clifton!
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listener 126464:

Good morning Bob, everyone.
  11:19am
Listener Robert:

So what's it going to be about FXO? He was one of the first 2 or 3 WFMU DJs I listened to over 40 years ago. Rather different content then, but he was always more varied in his selections than Pat Duncan.
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Bob Brainen:

Morning listener 126464!
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SmokinJ:

Lovin' Juana bb...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am
Irene Trudel:

The Free Design had such beautiful, intricate harmonies.
  11:25am
gene sculatti:

Hey, Bob.
  11:25am
PATRICK:

Thanks for the tribute Bob.I still listen to his archive programs.
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Gene!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Patrick, my pleasure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30am
doctorjazz:

Bird-alternate take?
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Will the Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34am
watchpocket:

Good morning Bob, Irene & all. This is a scary-wonderful 3D-like pic of Frank. He is so still here in our memories of him.
  11:34am
Gerry from Miami:

Play all the Mingus you want!!
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zzz:

was listening a bit to phil schaap rerun yesterday morning, played a rough live recording from an informal sunday afternoon jam session in springtime in someone’s basement that Bird dropped in on, can you imagine??

morning all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am
doctorjazz:

Hard for me to listen to Schapp reruns now, too sad...
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Bob Brainen:

Picture of Frank by Peter Becan, our mutual friend, & sometime FMU DJ.
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Gerry from Miami!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey zzz!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am
doctorjazz:

(still recommend The Herbie Nichols Project-found 1 cd in the piles, have more somewhere)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41am
PaulRobeson1922:

Good morning WFMU Land!

Raining heavily in NYC
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am
doctorjazz:

Chords remind a bit of Squeeze...
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Bob Brainen:

"Life's a blink a tiny taste of moments spread too quick to pass." -Jeff Carlson, Breath Of Angels.
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Bob Brainen:

Morning PaulRobeson1922!
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PT:

Good morning BB and everyone on this delightfully inclement NJ morning. I'm following wherever you're taking us today, Bob!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey PT!
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wmfromD:

Good Ol' Kaleidoscope.
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chresti:

Morning Bob and braineniacs!
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Franco Twinkie:

Lie to me! I hear Kaleidoscope and I come running. BOB!!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Franco Twinkie! Gene Sculatti recently sent me a cool youtube of this song so I had to grab the album.
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Bob Brainen:

Morning chresti!
  11:56am
CalZone!:

GM BB and Braineniacs!
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Franco Twinkie:

They were a local band Bob. L.A. - but more specifically, the SGV where we live.
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Bob Brainen:

I think this was it:
www.youtube.com...
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Bob Brainen:

CalZone! (!) Que pasa?
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Bob Brainen:

Franco, you was lucky!
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doctorjazz:

This Roach is being reissued on vinyl in June (being sold as pre-order multiple sites).
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Franco Twinkie:

I saw John Vidican whacking a drum!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Franco Twinkie:

I also heard strains of Seven Ate Sweet.
  12:01pm
dan:

Fairport at their best
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doctorjazz:

the Fairport drummer is having fun!
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zzz:

ooohhh had to step away from radio for a bit and missed that wonderful Max Roach, that’s cool it will be reissued, Effi from that record is a big fav
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Doug Schulkind:

I played a bevy of Dog Faced Hermans tracks on my show yesterday and someone commented that FXO was a big fan. It was lovely to see Frank come up in the conversation.
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wmfromD:

Give Dave Mattacks some!
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Will the Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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zzz:

@Doug i was not familiar with Dog Faced Hermans until earlier wednesday earlier this week, i was reading an article about this cool group Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, who cited DFHs as a major influence, “changed his life” says the leader of that orchestre
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Franco Twinkie:

Mine fell apart. I hated those stupid jackets.
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Doug Schulkind:

@zzz I think more than a few people were forever changed by DFH.
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Bob Brainen:

Hey Doug! I will have to check out that band.
  12:20pm
dan:

How much drugs were consumed in the making of this record?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
doctorjazz:

Bandcamp link to Dog Faced Hermans (full discography not too expensive)...
dogfacedhermans.bandcamp.com
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(Mr) Bill:

"When you're sitting back
In your rose-pink Cadillac
Making bets on KENtucky Derby Day
I'll be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Franco Twinkie:

Spirit always feels so right on an overcast day in L.A. Off to the farmers market! Thanks Bob.
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watchpocket:

Thanks for that, doctorjazz. I too am looking forward to checking out Dog Faced Hermans.
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watchpocket:

The first stop for that will be Doug's show from yesterday! ;-)
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coelacanth∅:

ha -nice Jimi reference
hey Bob!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey watchpocket!
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Bob Brainen:

Hey coelacanth∅!
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watchpocket:

Morning Bob. A thousand thanks to you for the pic of Frank, which I'd never seen.
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Bob Brainen:

Yr. welcome Watchpocket. I just saw it for the first time a day or 2 ago! From Peter Becan. The Upsala years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
doctorjazz:

Lovely Stravinsky (those words don't always go together, always think of his exploratory work).
  12:54pm
dan:

A Stravinsky piece I’ve never heard before
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
watchpocket:

And on the shelves behind him, all cassettes!
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pgalub:

Hey Bob and everyone. Great show!
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(Mr) Bill:

Beautiful set, Bob.
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wmfromD:

Someone needs to bring the electric harpsichord back.
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Bob Brainen:

Hey pgalub!
  1:19pm
Gerry from Miami:

Mingus and Kirk! What a combo!!
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doctorjazz:

I know Mingus said he preferred some of his later, Columbia albums, but the Atlantic albums do it for me (not that the Columbia and later stuff isn't great, but...)
  1:28pm
dan:

Lovely Dionne
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doctorjazz:

Purty!
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Will the Sound Guy:

I've been outside with my bluetooth headphones 🎧 doing yardwork between raindrops... Enjoying the show Bob!!
  1:36pm
Gerry from Miami:

BOB, you didn't give us the orchestras and musicians on the Stravinsky miniatures. Who goes there?
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doctorjazz:

My Jelly Roll soul!
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Bob Brainen:

Gerry: Stravinsky - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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doctorjazz:

Country Mott, haven't heard this, nice!
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doctorjazz:

Pedal steel in there? Sounds it...
  1:51pm
Gerry from Miami:

Thanks, BOB! I think the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra was conductorless!!
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doctorjazz:

Pretty good player, too!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks for a great show!
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doctorjazz:

Love these early Western Swing recordings!
Great show, Bob, thanks much!
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wmfromD:

The long road this song has traveled. Wild.
  1:55pm
Gerry from Miami:

Excellent program as always, BOB! See ya next week!
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doctorjazz:

Love all versions of Corrine, Corrina I've heard as well, have a particular soft spot for Taj Mahal's version.
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spodiodi:

thanks, Bob!
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wmfromD:

Great show Bob!
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(Mr) Bill:

Thank you for yet another immensely pleasurable and edifying show, Bob.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Bob!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

MaxIndian into Stravinsky an especially sublime one !...
Truly appreciate this Program every Sat. A.M. when I listen to the previous week's in Archive (so I can join the mainstream @ 11...)
- & good too to be reminded of Frank O'Toole.
~ TY Always DJ BB ~
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