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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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Artist Track Album Year Comments New Approx. start time
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!
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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:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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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!
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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!
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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
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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!
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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?
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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."
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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.
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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
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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!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:54pm
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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