WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 21, 2023

Listener comments!
	10:38am Mr. Oxford: Hello Michael! Hello everyone! Coincidentally, I was listening to "Indian Giver" by 1910 Fruitgum Company earlier today! Looking forward to the interview with Frank Jeckell and today's show.
	10:56am Listener Baby: Finished a perfect batch of olives. A perfect cup of coffee, and now dessert. Baby, what say you?
	10:59am Handy Haversack: Hey now! Michael and all the Shellegamers. Deep in the breakfast weeds but the radios are kicking!
	10:59am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @10:56 Olives for breakfast?
	11:00am Squints: ok then. heyHEYhey now.
	11:00am daphne: they oughtta name this show after ME!!!
	11:01am Squints: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:59 Olives any darned time we want.
	11:01am clarke: hey NOWWWWWW
	11:01am Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:59 Just working on them, Baby. Salt cured. To perfection. I’ll dose you one day soon.
	11:02am Squints: ↳ Song: "1,2,3 Red Light" by "1910 Fruitgum Company, The" Those hi-hat triplets followed by the snare triplets get me every single time.
	11:02am clarke: ay, Squints - there's the rub!
	11:03am clarke: baby... BABY!! this guy grows grapes AND olives?!? what a girl can't do!!
	11:03am Don Gorden: Yo Mike where's my shoes?? have a great show
	11:03am Squints: clarke! sorry to touch a nerve last week, about that band.
	11:04am dale: been waiting for this. saw fruitgum on a 4th of july in middletown ny. he walked by me and i asked him a kasenetz katz question. he sat down and talked with me for about a half hour.
	11:04am clarke: dude, NO worries!! i was so over it, long ago!
	11:05am phat in lincoln: Hey all.
	11:05am egould: I think some Redd Kross would fit nicely next to some 1910 Fruitgum Company. Lean into the bubblegum.
	11:05am clarke: phat phuzzz!!!
	11:05am Miss G: ↳ dale @11:04 dale, you SAW them?! wow!!!
	11:06am Frank In Queens: Hey Now!
	11:06am clarke: wow, dale - very cool!
	11:06am Don Gorden: tattoo me last week
	11:06am clarke: he shoots, he scores - FiQ!
	11:07am clarke: The Lupin Bros? give me all your lupins!!!
	11:07am Frank In Queens: On the way home from Troy. Drove up yesterday to see Televisionairies.
	11:07am phat in lincoln: It's good to be home. I've been traveling a lot.
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:07 awesome Frank!!! drive safe. radio hard!!
	11:08am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:07 So THAT's what Adam Ant meant.
	11:09am Moammar: The sound of Sand Mountain!
	11:09am quick: They had some amazing stuff last night. Weird soundtrack stuff, string sections mixed with cash register sounds.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: @clarke, I just along for the ride so I can radio extra hard!
	11:10am clarke: nice, frank! maybe we better do MovieTime early? up to you, as always.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:09 man, i did it again this week - missed The Hard Stuff... DOH!!
	11:11am Frank In Queens: @clarke nada this week. Too much hockey and rock and soul stream.
	11:12am gf2002: Jerry "The Geator With The Heater" Blavat passed away yesterday. He spun records from the heart, not a research chart. All number ones. RIP
	11:13am clarke: yah - there's a few gems i discovered, first time: The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry - george sand - ella raines. WOW!
	11:13am wenzo: RIP JB
	11:13am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 Too much hockey? You hush up right now.
	11:13am dale: ↳ Miss G @11:05 around 2008? i think it was three of the originals and one ringer. they had to get the rights back to use their name, you know how the music biz is.
	11:13am Marko: Hi Michael, as a fellow Montclair resident, did the 1910 Fruitgum Company include an early member who hailed from Montclair? I had known a Montclairite whose last name was Bentley who maintained her brother had been in the band.
	11:13am Frank In Queens: @clarke and rehearsals. Spent 10 hours in our cold-ass practice room on Monday.
	11:13am phat in lincoln: The Middleclassman doesn't even sound like a real band name.
	11:14am clarke: they'll one day be seniors.
	11:14am Squints: ↳ phat in lincoln @11:13 It's very Thamesman, in'nt it?
	11:14am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:10 I watched Better Off Dead for the first time since high school the other nite. I ‘get’ a lot more of the art aesthetic now.
	11:14am gf2002: I can picture The Middleclassmen cutting this record in the studio, standing around the mic wearing matching blue blazers and khakis.
	11:15am clarke: ↳ dale @11:13 the ringer must not appear empty, dude.
	11:15am phat in lincoln: @Squints exactly
	11:16am Miss G: ↳ dale @11:13 Ah, interesting! I look forward to the interview, I was reading about that yesterday. I'm so sad that my copy of "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" by Kim Cooper is in storage. . .
	11:16am phat in lincoln: @gf2002 perfectly trimmed flattops
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:14 i'm still better off, ha ha.
	11:16am herb.nyc: Hola. wfmu plays so much Nick Lowe that it should be called WLOW. (Not a complaint)
	11:17am dale: ↳ Marko @11:13 they were all from jersey.
	11:17am clarke: Johnny Allegro with george raft - VERY good.
	11:17am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" Perfectly distilled Basher
	11:17am Miss G: ↳ Miss G @11:16 and contributor Becky Ebenkamp of course
	11:18am clarke: also: jimmy stewart was in a series in the early 70's called Hawkins - it's pretty great (avail on YT).
	11:18am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:16 Yeah, the story does not hold up well.
	11:19am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Looking forward to some Union County bubblegum pop!
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" MS - did your Walkman also record? the mics in those early walkmen were pretty cool!
	11:19am happymaan: Hey Michael, be sure to let Juniper know we love her new album!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:18 how wuzzz Televisionaries show??!!??
	11:20am Miss G: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" Labour of Lust is also a fave for me. "Switchboard Susan" is a theme song (I worked at an answering service)
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Dry oatmeal
	11:20am clarke: manfred mann in the wings?
	11:21am clarke: it wuzz the man-freds!!
	11:21am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:19 no - very early model
	11:21am Lerch: I've always thought the Meat Puppets should cover this song
	11:21am Michael Shelley: ↳ happymaan @11:19 will do! THANKS!
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Red Rubber Ball (early take)" by "Cyrkle, The" They had a cup of coffee, and nailed it right after. A little lazy, this one.
	11:22am alan the painter: bAd animals will love this!
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:21 yeah, i didn't get the 'cool' walkman until much later. still have it - still works!
	11:22am alan the painter: bouncing me in2 the tub
	11:22am phat in lincoln: ↳ Song: "Red Rubber Ball (early take)" by "Cyrkle, The" Speaking of great choruses (as is my won't).
	11:22am andy fuchs: love early takes...to hear songs evolve...this is cool Cyrkle rocks it !
	11:23am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" I love Nick Lowe's bass playing. I've heard on say in interviews that he doesn't think he's a great bass player, but he's clearly wrong, or else he's trying to fish for compliments that the interviewer is too lame to toss back at him.
	11:23am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...Nothing like starting the morning off with a little Nick Lowe! Thank you!!
	11:23am phat in lincoln: wont
	11:23am Lerch: Red sky at morning, sailors take warning
	11:24am Scott: That Red Rubber Ball was mistakenly put on a collection and is actually what some call an underdub. It’s the same basic track without the added high harmonies and instrumentation.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 agree - but, then, when you get bruce thomas in the studio you MIGHT be intimidated a wee bit.
	11:25am bobsmart567: This version of All My Loving is a smorgasbord of genres!
	11:25am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:24 True
	11:25am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:20 Great! It was a fun crowd who really dug them, and the venue sounded great, too. Worth the trip.
	11:25am gf2002: ↳ Song: "All My Loving" by "Joel Paterson" I thought this was an unused take from "Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles"! Very cool
	11:25am clarke: cold and dreary in the Crescent City - and none of my local compadres seem to be up yet
	11:25am nycmusicnerd: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 I think NL's what the British might call "useful". Nothing flashy, nothing that would knock you over in his playing. But he gets the job done, and he does it well.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:25 what was the venue, etc??
	11:26am PatrickMC: Ron Isley always No. 1
	11:26am Michael Shelley: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 On this show he said he "plays bass like postman in the evenings" or something like that
	11:27am listener phat in Lincoln: My Uber to the airport yesterday had the DC "morning Zoo" show playing and I can't even describe how excruciating it was.
	11:27am Craig: So rare I get listen to the show live Michael! Sounding great and as always so many delights. I played an old Brinsleys track (Nick Lowe) and something from the new Juniper album on the radio in Oregon yesterday morning!
	11:28am clarke: btw, bruce thomas (greatly!) interviewed, as well, on this shew, a few years back, now.
	11:28am McGroovey: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:25 That's actually usually what's needed when playing pop songs.
	11:28am Daybreak, just Daybreak: Red Rubber Ball is def an occasional play on Wake.
	11:28am david_r: Speaking of bass players, I listened to The Isley Brothers' "Live It Up" album yesterday, and Nick Lowe is great but he's no Marvin Isley.
	11:29am clarke: RT knows how to work an audience as well.
	11:29am Daybreak, just Daybreak: Al Green And Chuck Berry Were also both big self-ripper-offers, True Story!
	11:30am Don Gorden: I never hit a claim,
	11:31am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:26 It was Hangar on the Hudson. A slightly cavernous, yet cozy, space just north of downtown Troy. Fits a fair amount of people, but also never feels empty if say… there are less than 150 people there. I know a lot of bands that have played there, but have never ventured up to see a show. I would do it again, and would totally play there if asked.
	11:31am nycmusicnerd: When I try to describe Richard Thompson I tell people "He's the best living guitar player you've never heard of".
	11:31am listener phat in Lincoln: Richard Thompson is one of the best shows I've ever seen. Good lord I'd see him again without hesitation.
	11:32am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:31 Yes
	11:32am Frank In Queens: @clarke the show was at this joint called The Hangar. Cool spot!
	11:32am ledzeppelinsucks: Put Linux on your old computer and it will run cleaner than the new one.
	11:32am Lerch: One of the biggest mistakes of my life - skipping RT when he came through Iowa a few years back. I think Ryley Walker was the opener. What was I thiiiinkking!
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:31 very heartening to hear a place like Troy has a great venue. things may be lookin' up!!
	11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Lerch @11:32 Holy crap. That's a bill.
	11:33am drr: New Orleans had a venue called The Hanger as well. Played there once. It was like playing in an airplane hangar. (It was a quonset hut.)
	11:34am clarke: i remember that Hangar - but never played in it!
	11:34am bobsmart567: Shades of "Lost Highway". Beautiful!
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: I should probably get moving.
	11:35am Michael Shelley: ↳ Craig @11:27 NICE!
	11:36am Handy Haversack: Agree 100 percent with the RT review. I am a convert. Will go see him every year if possible. clarke!
	11:36am clarke: hello handrew!!! i was waiting for breakie to be done
	11:37am clarke: and Bagpipe been fed..
	11:37am Handy Haversack: All over but the crying, clarke.
	11:37am PatrickMC: Saw RT Band in the 80s on Hand of Kindness tour at a high school auditorium in northern Westchester. Great gig but lost all power midway, so RT led crowd in a call-&-response rendition of Twist and Shout til restored. He's unflappable
	11:38am clarke: tears before breakfast, son
	11:38am nycmusicnerd: RT was an acquired taste for me. It took a while for him to grow on me, but he eventually did. :) On the other hand, I liked Teddy immediately.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:37 i have not been around much, the past week. borrowed some cool instruments and tried to make the most of that.
	11:39am nycmusicnerd: ↳ PatrickMC @11:37 Cool!
	11:39am Moammar: This song makes we want to seek out gentle hippies and mock them. Is that wrong?
	11:39am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:33 When I lived in Albany (for most of the eighties), there were very few reasons to go to Troy. There were two reasons I remember: Water Street Music Hall for concerts (saw Billy Bragg there), and a great bar that had every beer in the world (it was the only place that had Thomas Hardy). There are more reasons to go to Troy now, including a great record store. Like a lot of Hudson River towns, it's benefited from the exodus of young people from NY City, for one thing.
	11:40am drr: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:38 Me too. I think it was because I first heard "Daring Adventures", which didn't impress me much. I might like it now.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:39 McG - i think the rail line goes right thru there??
	11:41am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:35 Nah
	11:41am clarke: those looking for a Richard Thompson gateway album: Henry The Human Fly
	11:41am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:39 I think K8 and I are officially too old and poor to be part of the young people's exodus now. We missed our moment, I guess.
	11:42am Peter Horvath: Morning folks. Late to today’s party.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:35 nahhh!!
	11:43am nycmusicnerd: Teddy Thompson is playing City Vineyard in NYC on 2/22. If you're not familiar with him, he's got the sharp biting wit of his father (and the guitar chops), as well as the angelic voice of his mother.
	11:44am Meesalikeu: another guy that is great to see live along the richard thompson lines is robyn hitchcock. in fact i saw him at wfmu’s monty hall — when is that reopening ??
	11:44am Handy Haversack: We spent last weekend in Hudson, NY, with our exodized friends. That place. Like emergency back-up Park Slope.
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 your moment: Bagpipe's hour!
	11:44am drr: This is a lively Lee Dorsey performance.
	11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Candy Yam" by "Lee Dorsey" Not only who played the drums on this, who recoded them?
	11:46am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Getting Mighty Crowded" by "Elvis Costello & The ... Perfect segue with Lee Dorsey
	11:46am Meesalikeu: oh geez handy you nailed it lol. and dont get me started on cold spring. thats the backup brooklyn hts.
	11:46am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:36 Did you go to that Outpost show, Handy? I was thinking of going to that, or to the Turnpikers thing, but in the end, Mrs McGroovey wanted to stay home and watch a movie, and that seemed like the best option. Richard T is great. He's one of those people who make it seem easy. Like, you hear what he's playing, and it sounds weird and complicated, but you watch his fingers and the effort he's exerting, and he makes it look easy. And as Michael said, there's the lack of the little meaningless mistakes that any player makes, including the great ones.
	11:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:46 The worst is Beacon, though.
	11:48am wenzo: Always bringing’ it with the excellent interviews
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:46 We went to an all-request show at Symphony Space in Manhattan last month. Blew me away. It's also fun to be the youngest person at a show instead of the oldest.
	11:48am Greg from ZONE 5: Welp! I've had a big day. It's sweatpants time.
	11:48am Meesalikeu: handy that’s because beacon is the backup w’burg.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 i;m not sure about the song that MS played, but Dorsey often used the band Chocolate Milk (diff one) to record with
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:48 For REALS.
	11:48am Miss G: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:46 Oh! I was in Cold Spring last week. I had the best french onion soup I've ever had. Le Bouchon for lunch. I enjoyed looking at the architecture. I felt I was "so far north" but I just looked at a map and Hudson is very far North!
	11:49am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:48 and it IS Chocolate Milk - then the drummer was Dwight Richards
	11:49am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Not necessarily. A friend and contemporary of mine just moved to Newburgh.
	11:49am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:49 -IF
	11:50am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:49 We have fingers crossed -- K8's in the middle of the job-interview process for a full-time gig that would be majorly stabilizing for us if it happens -- and she is the absolute perfect person for the job. So we'll see.
	11:51am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 possibly The Meters
	11:52am Miss G: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:50 Oh! fingers and toes crossed!
	11:53am listener phat in Lincoln: Getting moving = breakfast
	11:53am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:53 nah!!
	11:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvinaz ~ GUNG HAY FAT CHOY ☆ All Blessing & Great Fortune in Year of the Water 🐇Hare ☆ wfmu.org... Always think Richard Thompson checks so many boxes : Folk expertise & repertoire ? Yup. Songwriting ? Uh-huh. Guitar Virtuoso ? For quite certain ...distinct voice in that in fact. Alternative Cred ? That too as it happens. & yeah - for all this he's a great performer & wonderful with audiences.
	11:54am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:40 Not anymore. Not since probably the fifties. All the towns in the Albany area had train service. Now the only ones that do are Rensselaer (right across the river from Albany) and Schenectady. Albany lost its train station when they took the tracks out to build I -787.
	11:54am listener phat in Lincoln: Eggs, mushrooms and WFMU
	11:55am clarke: that's sad!
	11:55am clarke: not the breakfast, ha ha
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:50 🤞
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" mui interessante!!
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:54 And RT can rock, too, when he wants to.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 An eminent Strat Player.
	11:58am Miss G: Great story about the origin of the name 1910 Fruitgum Company!
	11:58am PatrickMC: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 Shoot Out the Lights leaves no doubt about that
	11:58am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" Battle of the Bulge. Hell on earth.
	12:00pm clarke: what studio(s) did Buddah use??
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 Hell - Fairport Convention. The British BYrdS in terms of being the best for FolkRawk (the UK version of the genre is its own species somewhat).
	12:01pm dale: pretty sure the lt. garcia music box and 1989 marching zoo and all those other groups on the kasenetz katz orchestral circus were just the same studio band.
	12:01pm clarke: that helps - it may have been Sear Sound.
	12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That Buddha label on a 45 in early childhood had a strong valence.
	12:03pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ Listener Baby @11:58 Elvis Costello taped a few episodes of his show "Spectacle" at the Apollo back in 2009. I was lucky enough to win tix to his "Build Your Own Dream Band" show. The lineup was RT, Alan Toussaint, Nick Lowe, & Levon Helm. If you look on YouTube you can find the final song--all of them joining in together on "The Weight". Mind-blowing.
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:03 AMAZING
	12:05pm PatrickMC: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:03 Holy cow
	12:05pm clarke: wow!
	12:06pm Miss G: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:02 I really wish I had all my Buddha 45s from that period! I thought "this is MUSIC, not like those stupid Beatles my teenage aunt plays"
	12:07pm Miss G: ↳ Miss G @12:06 Oh, I hate my comment, now that FJ is saying that other bands of the period looked down their noses. .
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Miss G @12:06 The Late 1960s fascinate me for all the things that were developing @ once - HeavyMetal over here - Bubblegum over there... There's the whole Replacing TheBeatles as they Progress thing - like TheMonkees...
	12:08pm clarke: well, i have always been proud to say i am a bubblegum fan - even when other kids were making fun of it!!
	12:09pm bobsmart567: Terrific interview, Michael!
	12:09pm drr: ↳ Miss G @11:58 I googled "bell fruitgum company" and found pictures of a slot machine like he's talking about. The story seems to be these machines gave out gum to get around accustations that they were for gambling, and maybe that's why slot machines use pictures of fruit on the wheels. Interesting if true.
	12:10pm dale: they ran graham gouldman into the ground for a brief period. 'you wrote a good song in one day? great - write two tomorrow.'
	12:11pm drr: addendum: Also, bells.
	12:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:08 Certainly by TheRamones it was clear how relevant Bubblegum was. I don't remember ever feeling it was unworthy ...interesting that. Like it was understood what it was & was for naturally...
	12:11pm clarke: also bells.
	12:11pm Miss G: These many many stories of no royalties for million sellers makes me crazy, always. . .
	12:12pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:11 That's right, clarke.
	12:12pm clarke: also: BELLS!!!
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:11 ...who really remembers Teen Idols & 16 Magazine - Donny Osmond & Bobby Sherman. It was a Thing !... Cartoons like TheArchies obviously.
	12:13pm drr: @clarke: movies seen for the first time this week: Magnolia, The Last Waltz.
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Miss G @12:11 ZERO is a shockingly common answer
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:13 both: respect the cock!!
	12:14pm Miss G: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:13 L I have some copies of 16 Magazine (ed. the great Gloria Stavers!) and Tiger Beat in my files! My guy bought them for me!
	12:14pm morphe': https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2014/02/1910_fruitgum_company_simon_says.html
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" this is great!
	12:16pm Miss G: ↳ morphe' @12:14 I read that article yesterday morphe'. I thought to myself, "thank you bands like 1910 Fruitgum Company for touring and bringing PURE JOY to people!"
	12:16pm clarke: goddam.
	12:17pm bobsmart567: No royalties/publishing - $15 - messed up!
	12:19pm evancuts: Springfield, NJ! That's my hometown. Must be the Meisel Field fireworks.
	12:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just damn. What a story. Vampires & Artists. It's as bad as Politics practically.
	12:19pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Michael. I don't know if this is link worthy but this is a video of the Most Popular Song Each Month in the 60s
	12:20pm Aaron in Minneapolis: www.youtube.com...
	12:21pm clarke: wow - that's wild. audition vox.
	12:21pm Miss G: Great to hear your attitude to a lifetime of playing music Frank Jeckell and thank you for coming to WFMU and thank you Mike Shelley for good questions!
	12:21pm Handy Haversack: Fascinating talk, MS!
	12:21pm clarke: great, MS!!
	12:21pm Miss G: Leapt up to dance!
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another great Interview. 👏
	12:22pm dreamyandseedy: great interview! love all that nitty gritty detail
	12:22pm clarke: i'm getting over-powering bg vox in the left speaker - which is AWEsome!
	12:23pm drr: Yeah, this is a good stereo tester song.
	12:24pm clarke: the world is NOT fair! also: bells. also also: The Belz!
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Simon Says" by "1910 Fruitgum Company, The" They say Paul McCartney could virtually call where something would land in the Charts ...with this ...Bubblegum is a great name for it. It's what it has for melody, rhythm, chorus & catchiness ...but like a candy, also the limits on ingredients. What it doesn't have. No clutter - @ all.
	12:24pm ?: Fun interview!
	12:24pm Tim from LH: Great interview! Love hearing these stories! I’ve seen them listed for lots of outdoor shows in NJ in the past.
	12:25pm tadpoles: Thanks for another great interview Michael.
	12:25pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I made $3.35 in a bookstore and then washing dishes -- but dishes came with a meal at least.
	12:25pm phat in lincoln: ↳ @12:24 That was me.
	12:25pm wenzo: I made 10 an hour washing dishes a couple years ago. Still a terrible job, at least when we were busy. I mean it was ok. But tiring.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:25 in the ATL??
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:25 Perks matter. Food majorly.
	12:26pm Dominick: ↳ Song: "A Six Foot Two By Four" by "Willis Brothers, The" Great little number
	12:27pm phat in lincoln: The tipped minimum wage in Nebraska is $2.13 per hour. It's nuts.
	12:27pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:25 You know it.
	12:27pm clarke: in buckhead??
	12:27pm Listener Baby: As I’ve said before. I was paid $4.25/hr to engineer live performances by Shelley Mann, the Heath Brothers, Etta James, Charlie Haden, and too many others to mention. I had to quit because I could afford to keep doing it. Weird to think of it.
	12:28pm wenzo: The thing that annoyed me is the dishwasher also doubles as stocker and janitor. Busy businesses should have a designated cleaner imo, instead of expecting people to do multiple jobs. Also cause the place was kinda filthy. Not the surfaces food was prepared on of course.
	12:28pm McGroovey: ↳ Miss G @12:11 And then you hear about people who got good deals, and now live a prosperous life off of one or two songs. It's probably best not to be bitter, for sanity's sake, but it would be totally normal for someone like Frank to be bitter.
	12:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:27 No -- the bookstore and first Italian place were in Dekalb County on the way to Chamblee. Then the next Italian place was on Cheshire Bridge Road, I think. In the strip club district. Not too far from Buckhead.
	12:29pm nycmusicnerd: Wouldn't it be amazing if the things that made us happy and nourished our souls were also the things that enabled us to eat and keep a roof over our heads?
	12:29pm Mr C: Real Thing was a big Geator record
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:28 checking map... brb.
	12:30pm wenzo: RevRabbit. Taking leftover food was severely frowned on.. they had cameras in the kitchen. couldn’t eat the shift meals cause of an allergy
	12:30pm wenzo: I wish there was a way to tip the dishwasher haha
	12:31pm wenzo: That’s crazy listener baby!
	12:31pm Miss G: ↳ McGroovey @12:28 Also makes me think of an interview I saw with the great Lesley Gore (not the interview below) where she said that other teen idols, the men, got cushy jobs in the industry, but none offered to her. www.nytimes.com...
	12:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:29 www.booknookbookstoredecaturga.com Used to be on Clairmont at Buford Highway.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:28 wow, just checked maps - there is actually a TOWN called Buckhead about 40 miles east of ATL?? ha ha.
	12:32pm DG: I guess Frank wasn't involved in my favorite K&K tune, "Quick Joey Small"----I know the vocals are weird (who's singing?) & it sounds like it was recorded in an hour, but it's great in a kinda cheesy way.
	12:33pm drr: Joe Bataan and Charles Wright: my personal Hall Of Fame off-key singers.
	12:33pm gf2002: ↳ Mr C @12:29 Geator Gold!
	12:34pm clarke: book nook, decatur... cool!
	12:34pm nycmusicnerd: Oh yeah! RIP Geator
	12:34pm drr: horn line inspired by "If You Really Loved Me".
	12:35pm Joe B: ↳ drr @12:34 I think this was before if you really love me
	12:36pm drr: ↳ Song: "Latin Soul Square Dance" by "Joe Bataan" Number #1 Hit. Discovery of the show.
	12:37pm clarke: also: bells!
	12:37pm drr: ↳ Joe B @12:35 Hey Joe! I'm sitting at a computer. I will do the research.
	12:37pm greg from montreal: I love random.org!!! Hi everyone. Just wanted to say that. Have a great Saturday!
	12:38pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Joe B! Missed the show last Monday -- we were driving back from the Hudson Valley through the heart of the sun!
	12:38pm drr: ↳ drr @12:37 You're right! 1969, 1971.
	12:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ greg from montreal @12:37 Me, too, greg! I use it constantly!
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:38 that was a fun show!
	12:40pm clarke: @Handy - i guess Tim got swallered up by life?? hope he's good?? tell him: Pure Michigan!!
	12:41pm wenzo: Thanks for another great show MS, and a venue to rant about dishwashing
	12:41pm Listener Baby: Great show, Baby. You still got it!
	12:41pm KWilde: #1
	12:42pm Joe B: alright Jeff! see you there!
	12:42pm clarke: re: dish-washing - alex chilton washed dishes at Commander's Palace and said it was one of his favorite jobs, until they took away the radio in the kitchen.
	12:42pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Joe B @12:42 See YOU there, Champ!
	12:43pm TVP: Another satisfied user of random.org here as well. Love using it at work to help run statistical QC queries.
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: Well, losing that contest decides it -- we're gonna buy tickets! Gotta head out for pet food. Thanks, MS! Later on, everyone! Stay PURE MICHIGAN, clarke!
	12:43pm Joe B: alright Greg! pregame at Healy's!
	12:43pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:42 No radio in the kitchen is criminal
	12:43pm Squints: It's a slight little thing and Paul sings it like he's not quite gotten over a cold. But I love it for what it is.
	12:43pm TimG: Hold Me Tight… thumbs up
	12:43pm clarke: handy handy good bye!
	12:44pm Miss G: ↳ DG @12:32 “Quick Joey Small” is a great song. The singer is Joey Levene who sang a lot of the music from Kasenetz-Katz. Just recently bought the LP Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus! L
	12:44pm Listener Baby: Who doesn’t like this song? I want names.
	12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @12:44 It's one of my favorite Beatles.
	12:44pm clarke: yes, Joe Levene was vocalist on a LOT of records!
	12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:44 Shot out of a cannon (the real one)
	12:47pm DG: This is an OK Beatles song, & the answer to the trivia question: Paul McCartney wrote two songs with 2 bands, that had the same title. What's the title?
	12:48pm DG: Still better than "What You're Doing" or "Tell Me What You See," which always sounded like filler to me.
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hold Me Tight" by "Merseyboys, The" Re the original - I did wrotes : ...' It's not said much - but there's no Metal or Hard Rawk as we know it without The Beatles pushing the Amplification & the Volume with an amphetamine Drive - pointing the course for the engine of Rawk without the Roll - before The Who or even The Kinks - there is no expansion of the arsenal without the need to be heard by an audience of this size & its mass hormonal hysteria. [OK - hyperbole...] Listen to 'Hold Me Tight' - a song often derided as a lesser composition - & a track maybe never credited for its reductive sexual assertion & distorted electric guitars overdriven beyond engineered specifications (about two years before such a sound is usually thot to even begin being recorded by anyone as standard) & drum kit metal creaking under the always underrated Ringo's brute force. '...
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:48 wrong.
	12:49pm Listener Baby: ↳ DG @12:48 Agree
	12:50pm clarke: hard NO.
	12:50pm phat in lincoln: Wow
	12:51pm Squints: How many acts would have paid to be able to put out Tell Me What You See or (especially) What You're Doing as a single? I'm guessing a great, great many.
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, MS and Frank. Any Jeff Beck fans in the house can pick up later right over here --> www.wfmu.org...
	12:52pm phat in lincoln: Speaking of Richard Thompson
	12:52pm Dano59: Tambles - big ups!
	12:52pm Kotzwinkled: R.E.M. cover of this tune is so good.
	12:52pm Lerch: Hell yeah! RT with Linda! Chef's kiss
	12:52pm Joe B: beatles filler still beats most bands' best efforts
	12:53pm clarke: it has gone unremarked that Thompson is a MASTER of both electric and acoustic formats - which is unreal, really!
	12:53pm Listener Baby: Also agree, Joe B.
	12:53pm phat in lincoln: ↳ Joe B @12:52 I have trouble calling it filler.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ DG @12:48 Not every Beatle track is as brilliant as every other. However - there's none I don't find something to like - even be fascinated by ...even delight in. If not as Songs &/or Lyrics - then as Performances (Playing - or VOCALS) - or Arrangements (including often Instrumentation) - or, as Recordings. TheBeatles were great & innovative Recording Artists. TheBeatles are, in fact, All That.
	12:54pm Dano59: Saw NRBQ do Hold Me Tight once - led by Johnny - it was a rave-up! Then my muso friend Danny wracked his brain for 2 hours trying to figure out where he'd heard that chord progression -- it was Fastball's The Way. lol!
	12:54pm Miss G: ↳ Song: "Wall Of Death" by "Richard and Linda Thompson" sniff might be just me, but thinking of the life of a touring musician and this song. . .
	12:54pm Joe B: ↳ phat in lincoln @12:53 alleged filler!
	12:54pm Miss G: ↳ Miss G @12:54 it's all worth it.
	12:54pm clarke: EVERY beatle track is brilliant. period.
	12:54pm egould: Great show MS. Thanks for another splendid interview.
	12:55pm clarke: even my most disliked beatles song (Obladi) still has brilliance in it!!
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: This is the one!
	12:55pm nycmusicnerd: Good RT/LT choices to end the show! Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:54 you can have my Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da then, I can't finish it.
	12:56pm clarke: there it is.
	12:56pm gf2002: Thompson is great because he plays with such a great feel and appropriate for the song he's playing even with his unreal technique. Compare that to how many hundreds or thousands of YouTube guitar players who just shred technique. Where's the melody? Where's the feel? Thompson does it right.
	12:56pm Dennis Diken: Hey, Mikey & gang - couldn’t jump in to chat but I sure dug today’s show & the Frank J interview! LONG LIVE THE GEATOR!
	12:56pm phat in lincoln: I think I want to see the Bright Lights tonight too!
	12:56pm drr: Maxwell's Silver Hammer might be worse.
	12:56pm Lerch: Twofer. I love it :)
	12:56pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: Michael I was driving (thru Linden of all places) listening to your interview & it was thoroughly entertaining. Well done & thanks!
	12:56pm Dano59: I used to love opening my first band's shows with this.
	12:56pm bobsmart567: Thanks, Michael - lots of adds to the playlist today!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:54 Really - I mean - compared to what ?? All the dopey GarageRawk lyrics & things like that we exalt ? TheBeatles defined the Standard to live up to. Yeah they made Pop records to a schedule. Any of their output is only 'lesser' ...in comparison to themselves.
	12:57pm Miss G: Thank you for a great show Michael Shelley. What a treat to listen live.
	12:57pm McGroovey: I just bought tickets for Rock'N'Roll High School at White Eagle Hall Feb. 25. We're taking the teenage daughter, so she can get that taste of 1980 teen culture...
	12:57pm Mike Sin: Thought the interview was great today!
	12:57pm phat in lincoln: Band I don't like playing tonight at The Zoo Bar, but there might be someone there I want to run into.
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Song: "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" by "Rich... Love the horns on this and "When I Get to The Border".
	12:58pm phat in lincoln: Yes, great show again Michael.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Nice show, Michael!
	12:58pm Dano59: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 agreed - he's the master of just about every musical style (over 1000 years)
	12:58pm clarke: also: bells. anyone get the feeling they been... jerry'd - good nite
	12:58pm radioronan: Thanks Michael.. Cheers y'all!
	12:59pm luka: nice lady
	12:59pm SamTheRam: I'm with Mike, Great interview
	12:59pm Joe B: ↳ drr @12:56 scenes from an idiot's marriage
	12:59pm DG: I love the Beatles, they're my favorite band, to this day. didn't mean to start something....jeez.
	12:59pm Bruce S.: Micheal this jerryoke is classic
	12:59pm morphe': Do not forget the Punk Band = Jerry's Kids
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 RT absolutely his own Voice on Gittar - informed by UK Folk as much as Blues like everybody else. He's a living national treasure. I mean it !
	1:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Michael!
	1:00pm Joe B: was that martin short?
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ DG @12:59 Nobody here but us chickens bro. :)
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @1:00 www.youtube.com...
	1:06pm egould: Right into the lunkhead rock n roll. Nice.

Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 21, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
1910 Fruitgum Company, The	1,2,3 Red Light
Rolling Stones, The	Hang Fire "Hang Fire" by "Rolling Stones, The"
Louvin Brothers, The	Just Rehearsing
Poets, The	She Blew A Good Thing "She Blew A Good Thing" by "Poets, The"
Middleclassmen, The	Women (This Ole Place Is Getting You Down)
Nick Lowe	Dose Of You "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe"
Cyrkle, The	Red Rubber Ball (early take)
Joel Paterson	All My Loving "All My Loving" by "Joel Paterson"
Isley Brothers, The	I Turned You On
Roves, The	I Am The Flood "I Am The Flood" by "Roves, The"
Chris Britton	Will It Last "Will It Last" by "Chris Britton"
Wayne Cochran	Cindy Marie "Cindy Marie" by "Wayne Cochran"
Lee Dorsey	Candy Yam "Candy Yam" by "Lee Dorsey"
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Getting Mighty Crowded
1910 Fruitgum Company, The	May I Take A Giant Step (Into Your Heart)
Frank Jeckell	Interview "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell"
1910 Fruitgum Company, The	Simon Says
Willis Brothers, The	A Six Foot Two By Four
Tina Britt	The Real Thing "The Real Thing" by "Tina Britt"
Joe Bataan	Latin Soul Square Dance
Michael Rault	When I'm Back In Town Again
Merseyboys, The	Hold Me Tight "Hold Me Tight" by "Merseyboys, The"
Myron Elkins	Sugartooth "Sugartooth" by "Myron Elkins"
Tambles, The	Listen "Listen" by "Tambles, The"
Richard and Linda Thompson	Wall Of Death
Richard and Linda Thompson	I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Jerry Lewis	Jerryoke: Ladies Only

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

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

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

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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

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CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

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

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

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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 garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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

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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!
	10:38am Mr. Oxford: Hello Michael! Hello everyone! Coincidentally, I was listening to "Indian Giver" by 1910 Fruitgum Company earlier today! Looking forward to the interview with Frank Jeckell and today's show.
	10:56am Listener Baby: Finished a perfect batch of olives. A perfect cup of coffee, and now dessert. Baby, what say you?
	10:59am Handy Haversack: Hey now! Michael and all the Shellegamers. Deep in the breakfast weeds but the radios are kicking!
	10:59am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @10:56 Olives for breakfast?
	11:00am Squints: ok then. heyHEYhey now.
	11:00am daphne: they oughtta name this show after ME!!!
	11:01am Squints: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:59 Olives any darned time we want.
	11:01am clarke: hey NOWWWWWW
	11:01am Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:59 Just working on them, Baby. Salt cured. To perfection. I’ll dose you one day soon.
	11:02am Squints: ↳ Song: "1,2,3 Red Light" by "1910 Fruitgum Company, The" Those hi-hat triplets followed by the snare triplets get me every single time.
	11:02am clarke: ay, Squints - there's the rub!
	11:03am clarke: baby... BABY!! this guy grows grapes AND olives?!? what a girl can't do!!
	11:03am Don Gorden: Yo Mike where's my shoes?? have a great show
	11:03am Squints: clarke! sorry to touch a nerve last week, about that band.
	11:04am dale: been waiting for this. saw fruitgum on a 4th of july in middletown ny. he walked by me and i asked him a kasenetz katz question. he sat down and talked with me for about a half hour.
	11:04am clarke: dude, NO worries!! i was so over it, long ago!
	11:05am phat in lincoln: Hey all.
	11:05am egould: I think some Redd Kross would fit nicely next to some 1910 Fruitgum Company. Lean into the bubblegum.
	11:05am clarke: phat phuzzz!!!
	11:05am Miss G: ↳ dale @11:04 dale, you SAW them?! wow!!!
	11:06am Frank In Queens: Hey Now!
	11:06am clarke: wow, dale - very cool!
	11:06am Don Gorden: tattoo me last week
	11:06am clarke: he shoots, he scores - FiQ!
	11:07am clarke: The Lupin Bros? give me all your lupins!!!
	11:07am Frank In Queens: On the way home from Troy. Drove up yesterday to see Televisionairies.
	11:07am phat in lincoln: It's good to be home. I've been traveling a lot.
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:07 awesome Frank!!! drive safe. radio hard!!
	11:08am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:07 So THAT's what Adam Ant meant.
	11:09am Moammar: The sound of Sand Mountain!
	11:09am quick: They had some amazing stuff last night. Weird soundtrack stuff, string sections mixed with cash register sounds.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: @clarke, I just along for the ride so I can radio extra hard!
	11:10am clarke: nice, frank! maybe we better do MovieTime early? up to you, as always.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:09 man, i did it again this week - missed The Hard Stuff... DOH!!
	11:11am Frank In Queens: @clarke nada this week. Too much hockey and rock and soul stream.
	11:12am gf2002: Jerry "The Geator With The Heater" Blavat passed away yesterday. He spun records from the heart, not a research chart. All number ones. RIP
	11:13am clarke: yah - there's a few gems i discovered, first time: The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry - george sand - ella raines. WOW!
	11:13am wenzo: RIP JB
	11:13am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 Too much hockey? You hush up right now.
	11:13am dale: ↳ Miss G @11:05 around 2008? i think it was three of the originals and one ringer. they had to get the rights back to use their name, you know how the music biz is.
	11:13am Marko: Hi Michael, as a fellow Montclair resident, did the 1910 Fruitgum Company include an early member who hailed from Montclair? I had known a Montclairite whose last name was Bentley who maintained her brother had been in the band.
	11:13am Frank In Queens: @clarke and rehearsals. Spent 10 hours in our cold-ass practice room on Monday.
	11:13am phat in lincoln: The Middleclassman doesn't even sound like a real band name.
	11:14am clarke: they'll one day be seniors.
	11:14am Squints: ↳ phat in lincoln @11:13 It's very Thamesman, in'nt it?
	11:14am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:10 I watched Better Off Dead for the first time since high school the other nite. I ‘get’ a lot more of the art aesthetic now.
	11:14am gf2002: I can picture The Middleclassmen cutting this record in the studio, standing around the mic wearing matching blue blazers and khakis.
	11:15am clarke: ↳ dale @11:13 the ringer must not appear empty, dude.
	11:15am phat in lincoln: @Squints exactly
	11:16am Miss G: ↳ dale @11:13 Ah, interesting! I look forward to the interview, I was reading about that yesterday. I'm so sad that my copy of "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" by Kim Cooper is in storage. . .
	11:16am phat in lincoln: @gf2002 perfectly trimmed flattops
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:14 i'm still better off, ha ha.
	11:16am herb.nyc: Hola. wfmu plays so much Nick Lowe that it should be called WLOW. (Not a complaint)
	11:17am dale: ↳ Marko @11:13 they were all from jersey.
	11:17am clarke: Johnny Allegro with george raft - VERY good.
	11:17am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" Perfectly distilled Basher
	11:17am Miss G: ↳ Miss G @11:16 and contributor Becky Ebenkamp of course
	11:18am clarke: also: jimmy stewart was in a series in the early 70's called Hawkins - it's pretty great (avail on YT).
	11:18am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:16 Yeah, the story does not hold up well.
	11:19am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Looking forward to some Union County bubblegum pop!
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" MS - did your Walkman also record? the mics in those early walkmen were pretty cool!
	11:19am happymaan: Hey Michael, be sure to let Juniper know we love her new album!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:18 how wuzzz Televisionaries show??!!??
	11:20am Miss G: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" Labour of Lust is also a fave for me. "Switchboard Susan" is a theme song (I worked at an answering service)
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Dry oatmeal
	11:20am clarke: manfred mann in the wings?
	11:21am clarke: it wuzz the man-freds!!
	11:21am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:19 no - very early model
	11:21am Lerch: I've always thought the Meat Puppets should cover this song
	11:21am Michael Shelley: ↳ happymaan @11:19 will do! THANKS!
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Red Rubber Ball (early take)" by "Cyrkle, The" They had a cup of coffee, and nailed it right after. A little lazy, this one.
	11:22am alan the painter: bAd animals will love this!
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:21 yeah, i didn't get the 'cool' walkman until much later. still have it - still works!
	11:22am alan the painter: bouncing me in2 the tub
	11:22am phat in lincoln: ↳ Song: "Red Rubber Ball (early take)" by "Cyrkle, The" Speaking of great choruses (as is my won't).
	11:22am andy fuchs: love early takes...to hear songs evolve...this is cool Cyrkle rocks it !
	11:23am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Dose Of You" by "Nick Lowe" I love Nick Lowe's bass playing. I've heard on say in interviews that he doesn't think he's a great bass player, but he's clearly wrong, or else he's trying to fish for compliments that the interviewer is too lame to toss back at him.
	11:23am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...Nothing like starting the morning off with a little Nick Lowe! Thank you!!
	11:23am phat in lincoln: wont
	11:23am Lerch: Red sky at morning, sailors take warning
	11:24am Scott: That Red Rubber Ball was mistakenly put on a collection and is actually what some call an underdub. It’s the same basic track without the added high harmonies and instrumentation.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 agree - but, then, when you get bruce thomas in the studio you MIGHT be intimidated a wee bit.
	11:25am bobsmart567: This version of All My Loving is a smorgasbord of genres!
	11:25am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:24 True
	11:25am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:20 Great! It was a fun crowd who really dug them, and the venue sounded great, too. Worth the trip.
	11:25am gf2002: ↳ Song: "All My Loving" by "Joel Paterson" I thought this was an unused take from "Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles"! Very cool
	11:25am clarke: cold and dreary in the Crescent City - and none of my local compadres seem to be up yet
	11:25am nycmusicnerd: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 I think NL's what the British might call "useful". Nothing flashy, nothing that would knock you over in his playing. But he gets the job done, and he does it well.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:25 what was the venue, etc??
	11:26am PatrickMC: Ron Isley always No. 1
	11:26am Michael Shelley: ↳ McGroovey @11:23 On this show he said he "plays bass like postman in the evenings" or something like that
	11:27am listener phat in Lincoln: My Uber to the airport yesterday had the DC "morning Zoo" show playing and I can't even describe how excruciating it was.
	11:27am Craig: So rare I get listen to the show live Michael! Sounding great and as always so many delights. I played an old Brinsleys track (Nick Lowe) and something from the new Juniper album on the radio in Oregon yesterday morning!
	11:28am clarke: btw, bruce thomas (greatly!) interviewed, as well, on this shew, a few years back, now.
	11:28am McGroovey: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:25 That's actually usually what's needed when playing pop songs.
	11:28am Daybreak, just Daybreak: Red Rubber Ball is def an occasional play on Wake.
	11:28am david_r: Speaking of bass players, I listened to The Isley Brothers' "Live It Up" album yesterday, and Nick Lowe is great but he's no Marvin Isley.
	11:29am clarke: RT knows how to work an audience as well.
	11:29am Daybreak, just Daybreak: Al Green And Chuck Berry Were also both big self-ripper-offers, True Story!
	11:30am Don Gorden: I never hit a claim,
	11:31am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:26 It was Hangar on the Hudson. A slightly cavernous, yet cozy, space just north of downtown Troy. Fits a fair amount of people, but also never feels empty if say… there are less than 150 people there. I know a lot of bands that have played there, but have never ventured up to see a show. I would do it again, and would totally play there if asked.
	11:31am nycmusicnerd: When I try to describe Richard Thompson I tell people "He's the best living guitar player you've never heard of".
	11:31am listener phat in Lincoln: Richard Thompson is one of the best shows I've ever seen. Good lord I'd see him again without hesitation.
	11:32am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:31 Yes
	11:32am Frank In Queens: @clarke the show was at this joint called The Hangar. Cool spot!
	11:32am ledzeppelinsucks: Put Linux on your old computer and it will run cleaner than the new one.
	11:32am Lerch: One of the biggest mistakes of my life - skipping RT when he came through Iowa a few years back. I think Ryley Walker was the opener. What was I thiiiinkking!
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:31 very heartening to hear a place like Troy has a great venue. things may be lookin' up!!
	11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Lerch @11:32 Holy crap. That's a bill.
	11:33am drr: New Orleans had a venue called The Hanger as well. Played there once. It was like playing in an airplane hangar. (It was a quonset hut.)
	11:34am clarke: i remember that Hangar - but never played in it!
	11:34am bobsmart567: Shades of "Lost Highway". Beautiful!
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: I should probably get moving.
	11:35am Michael Shelley: ↳ Craig @11:27 NICE!
	11:36am Handy Haversack: Agree 100 percent with the RT review. I am a convert. Will go see him every year if possible. clarke!
	11:36am clarke: hello handrew!!! i was waiting for breakie to be done
	11:37am clarke: and Bagpipe been fed..
	11:37am Handy Haversack: All over but the crying, clarke.
	11:37am PatrickMC: Saw RT Band in the 80s on Hand of Kindness tour at a high school auditorium in northern Westchester. Great gig but lost all power midway, so RT led crowd in a call-&-response rendition of Twist and Shout til restored. He's unflappable
	11:38am clarke: tears before breakfast, son
	11:38am nycmusicnerd: RT was an acquired taste for me. It took a while for him to grow on me, but he eventually did. :) On the other hand, I liked Teddy immediately.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:37 i have not been around much, the past week. borrowed some cool instruments and tried to make the most of that.
	11:39am nycmusicnerd: ↳ PatrickMC @11:37 Cool!
	11:39am Moammar: This song makes we want to seek out gentle hippies and mock them. Is that wrong?
	11:39am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:33 When I lived in Albany (for most of the eighties), there were very few reasons to go to Troy. There were two reasons I remember: Water Street Music Hall for concerts (saw Billy Bragg there), and a great bar that had every beer in the world (it was the only place that had Thomas Hardy). There are more reasons to go to Troy now, including a great record store. Like a lot of Hudson River towns, it's benefited from the exodus of young people from NY City, for one thing.
	11:40am drr: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:38 Me too. I think it was because I first heard "Daring Adventures", which didn't impress me much. I might like it now.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:39 McG - i think the rail line goes right thru there??
	11:41am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:35 Nah
	11:41am clarke: those looking for a Richard Thompson gateway album: Henry The Human Fly
	11:41am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:39 I think K8 and I are officially too old and poor to be part of the young people's exodus now. We missed our moment, I guess.
	11:42am Peter Horvath: Morning folks. Late to today’s party.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:35 nahhh!!
	11:43am nycmusicnerd: Teddy Thompson is playing City Vineyard in NYC on 2/22. If you're not familiar with him, he's got the sharp biting wit of his father (and the guitar chops), as well as the angelic voice of his mother.
	11:44am Meesalikeu: another guy that is great to see live along the richard thompson lines is robyn hitchcock. in fact i saw him at wfmu’s monty hall — when is that reopening ??
	11:44am Handy Haversack: We spent last weekend in Hudson, NY, with our exodized friends. That place. Like emergency back-up Park Slope.
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 your moment: Bagpipe's hour!
	11:44am drr: This is a lively Lee Dorsey performance.
	11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Candy Yam" by "Lee Dorsey" Not only who played the drums on this, who recoded them?
	11:46am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Getting Mighty Crowded" by "Elvis Costello & The ... Perfect segue with Lee Dorsey
	11:46am Meesalikeu: oh geez handy you nailed it lol. and dont get me started on cold spring. thats the backup brooklyn hts.
	11:46am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:36 Did you go to that Outpost show, Handy? I was thinking of going to that, or to the Turnpikers thing, but in the end, Mrs McGroovey wanted to stay home and watch a movie, and that seemed like the best option. Richard T is great. He's one of those people who make it seem easy. Like, you hear what he's playing, and it sounds weird and complicated, but you watch his fingers and the effort he's exerting, and he makes it look easy. And as Michael said, there's the lack of the little meaningless mistakes that any player makes, including the great ones.
	11:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:46 The worst is Beacon, though.
	11:48am wenzo: Always bringing’ it with the excellent interviews
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:46 We went to an all-request show at Symphony Space in Manhattan last month. Blew me away. It's also fun to be the youngest person at a show instead of the oldest.
	11:48am Greg from ZONE 5: Welp! I've had a big day. It's sweatpants time.
	11:48am Meesalikeu: handy that’s because beacon is the backup w’burg.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 i;m not sure about the song that MS played, but Dorsey often used the band Chocolate Milk (diff one) to record with
	11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:48 For REALS.
	11:48am Miss G: ↳ Meesalikeu @11:46 Oh! I was in Cold Spring last week. I had the best french onion soup I've ever had. Le Bouchon for lunch. I enjoyed looking at the architecture. I felt I was "so far north" but I just looked at a map and Hudson is very far North!
	11:49am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:48 and it IS Chocolate Milk - then the drummer was Dwight Richards
	11:49am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Not necessarily. A friend and contemporary of mine just moved to Newburgh.
	11:49am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:49 -IF
	11:50am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:49 We have fingers crossed -- K8's in the middle of the job-interview process for a full-time gig that would be majorly stabilizing for us if it happens -- and she is the absolute perfect person for the job. So we'll see.
	11:51am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 possibly The Meters
	11:52am Miss G: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:50 Oh! fingers and toes crossed!
	11:53am listener phat in Lincoln: Getting moving = breakfast
	11:53am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:53 nah!!
	11:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvinaz ~ GUNG HAY FAT CHOY ☆ All Blessing & Great Fortune in Year of the Water 🐇Hare ☆ wfmu.org... Always think Richard Thompson checks so many boxes : Folk expertise & repertoire ? Yup. Songwriting ? Uh-huh. Guitar Virtuoso ? For quite certain ...distinct voice in that in fact. Alternative Cred ? That too as it happens. & yeah - for all this he's a great performer & wonderful with audiences.
	11:54am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:40 Not anymore. Not since probably the fifties. All the towns in the Albany area had train service. Now the only ones that do are Rensselaer (right across the river from Albany) and Schenectady. Albany lost its train station when they took the tracks out to build I -787.
	11:54am listener phat in Lincoln: Eggs, mushrooms and WFMU
	11:55am clarke: that's sad!
	11:55am clarke: not the breakfast, ha ha
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:50 🤞
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" mui interessante!!
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:54 And RT can rock, too, when he wants to.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 An eminent Strat Player.
	11:58am Miss G: Great story about the origin of the name 1910 Fruitgum Company!
	11:58am PatrickMC: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 Shoot Out the Lights leaves no doubt about that
	11:58am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" Battle of the Bulge. Hell on earth.
	12:00pm clarke: what studio(s) did Buddah use??
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:56 Hell - Fairport Convention. The British BYrdS in terms of being the best for FolkRawk (the UK version of the genre is its own species somewhat).
	12:01pm dale: pretty sure the lt. garcia music box and 1989 marching zoo and all those other groups on the kasenetz katz orchestral circus were just the same studio band.
	12:01pm clarke: that helps - it may have been Sear Sound.
	12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That Buddha label on a 45 in early childhood had a strong valence.
	12:03pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ Listener Baby @11:58 Elvis Costello taped a few episodes of his show "Spectacle" at the Apollo back in 2009. I was lucky enough to win tix to his "Build Your Own Dream Band" show. The lineup was RT, Alan Toussaint, Nick Lowe, & Levon Helm. If you look on YouTube you can find the final song--all of them joining in together on "The Weight". Mind-blowing.
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:03 AMAZING
	12:05pm PatrickMC: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:03 Holy cow
	12:05pm clarke: wow!
	12:06pm Miss G: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:02 I really wish I had all my Buddha 45s from that period! I thought "this is MUSIC, not like those stupid Beatles my teenage aunt plays"
	12:07pm Miss G: ↳ Miss G @12:06 Oh, I hate my comment, now that FJ is saying that other bands of the period looked down their noses. .
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Miss G @12:06 The Late 1960s fascinate me for all the things that were developing @ once - HeavyMetal over here - Bubblegum over there... There's the whole Replacing TheBeatles as they Progress thing - like TheMonkees...
	12:08pm clarke: well, i have always been proud to say i am a bubblegum fan - even when other kids were making fun of it!!
	12:09pm bobsmart567: Terrific interview, Michael!
	12:09pm drr: ↳ Miss G @11:58 I googled "bell fruitgum company" and found pictures of a slot machine like he's talking about. The story seems to be these machines gave out gum to get around accustations that they were for gambling, and maybe that's why slot machines use pictures of fruit on the wheels. Interesting if true.
	12:10pm dale: they ran graham gouldman into the ground for a brief period. 'you wrote a good song in one day? great - write two tomorrow.'
	12:11pm drr: addendum: Also, bells.
	12:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:08 Certainly by TheRamones it was clear how relevant Bubblegum was. I don't remember ever feeling it was unworthy ...interesting that. Like it was understood what it was & was for naturally...
	12:11pm clarke: also bells.
	12:11pm Miss G: These many many stories of no royalties for million sellers makes me crazy, always. . .
	12:12pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:11 That's right, clarke.
	12:12pm clarke: also: BELLS!!!
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:11 ...who really remembers Teen Idols & 16 Magazine - Donny Osmond & Bobby Sherman. It was a Thing !... Cartoons like TheArchies obviously.
	12:13pm drr: @clarke: movies seen for the first time this week: Magnolia, The Last Waltz.
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Miss G @12:11 ZERO is a shockingly common answer
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:13 both: respect the cock!!
	12:14pm Miss G: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:13 L I have some copies of 16 Magazine (ed. the great Gloria Stavers!) and Tiger Beat in my files! My guy bought them for me!
	12:14pm morphe': https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2014/02/1910_fruitgum_company_simon_says.html
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Frank Jeckell" this is great!
	12:16pm Miss G: ↳ morphe' @12:14 I read that article yesterday morphe'. I thought to myself, "thank you bands like 1910 Fruitgum Company for touring and bringing PURE JOY to people!"
	12:16pm clarke: goddam.
	12:17pm bobsmart567: No royalties/publishing - $15 - messed up!
	12:19pm evancuts: Springfield, NJ! That's my hometown. Must be the Meisel Field fireworks.
	12:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just damn. What a story. Vampires & Artists. It's as bad as Politics practically.
	12:19pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Michael. I don't know if this is link worthy but this is a video of the Most Popular Song Each Month in the 60s
	12:20pm Aaron in Minneapolis: www.youtube.com...
	12:21pm clarke: wow - that's wild. audition vox.
	12:21pm Miss G: Great to hear your attitude to a lifetime of playing music Frank Jeckell and thank you for coming to WFMU and thank you Mike Shelley for good questions!
	12:21pm Handy Haversack: Fascinating talk, MS!
	12:21pm clarke: great, MS!!
	12:21pm Miss G: Leapt up to dance!
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another great Interview. 👏
	12:22pm dreamyandseedy: great interview! love all that nitty gritty detail
	12:22pm clarke: i'm getting over-powering bg vox in the left speaker - which is AWEsome!
	12:23pm drr: Yeah, this is a good stereo tester song.
	12:24pm clarke: the world is NOT fair! also: bells. also also: The Belz!
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Simon Says" by "1910 Fruitgum Company, The" They say Paul McCartney could virtually call where something would land in the Charts ...with this ...Bubblegum is a great name for it. It's what it has for melody, rhythm, chorus & catchiness ...but like a candy, also the limits on ingredients. What it doesn't have. No clutter - @ all.
	12:24pm ?: Fun interview!
	12:24pm Tim from LH: Great interview! Love hearing these stories! I’ve seen them listed for lots of outdoor shows in NJ in the past.
	12:25pm tadpoles: Thanks for another great interview Michael.
	12:25pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I made $3.35 in a bookstore and then washing dishes -- but dishes came with a meal at least.
	12:25pm phat in lincoln: ↳ @12:24 That was me.
	12:25pm wenzo: I made 10 an hour washing dishes a couple years ago. Still a terrible job, at least when we were busy. I mean it was ok. But tiring.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:25 in the ATL??
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:25 Perks matter. Food majorly.
	12:26pm Dominick: ↳ Song: "A Six Foot Two By Four" by "Willis Brothers, The" Great little number
	12:27pm phat in lincoln: The tipped minimum wage in Nebraska is $2.13 per hour. It's nuts.
	12:27pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:25 You know it.
	12:27pm clarke: in buckhead??
	12:27pm Listener Baby: As I’ve said before. I was paid $4.25/hr to engineer live performances by Shelley Mann, the Heath Brothers, Etta James, Charlie Haden, and too many others to mention. I had to quit because I could afford to keep doing it. Weird to think of it.
	12:28pm wenzo: The thing that annoyed me is the dishwasher also doubles as stocker and janitor. Busy businesses should have a designated cleaner imo, instead of expecting people to do multiple jobs. Also cause the place was kinda filthy. Not the surfaces food was prepared on of course.
	12:28pm McGroovey: ↳ Miss G @12:11 And then you hear about people who got good deals, and now live a prosperous life off of one or two songs. It's probably best not to be bitter, for sanity's sake, but it would be totally normal for someone like Frank to be bitter.
	12:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:27 No -- the bookstore and first Italian place were in Dekalb County on the way to Chamblee. Then the next Italian place was on Cheshire Bridge Road, I think. In the strip club district. Not too far from Buckhead.
	12:29pm nycmusicnerd: Wouldn't it be amazing if the things that made us happy and nourished our souls were also the things that enabled us to eat and keep a roof over our heads?
	12:29pm Mr C: Real Thing was a big Geator record
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:28 checking map... brb.
	12:30pm wenzo: RevRabbit. Taking leftover food was severely frowned on.. they had cameras in the kitchen. couldn’t eat the shift meals cause of an allergy
	12:30pm wenzo: I wish there was a way to tip the dishwasher haha
	12:31pm wenzo: That’s crazy listener baby!
	12:31pm Miss G: ↳ McGroovey @12:28 Also makes me think of an interview I saw with the great Lesley Gore (not the interview below) where she said that other teen idols, the men, got cushy jobs in the industry, but none offered to her. www.nytimes.com...
	12:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:29 www.booknookbookstoredecaturga.com Used to be on Clairmont at Buford Highway.
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:28 wow, just checked maps - there is actually a TOWN called Buckhead about 40 miles east of ATL?? ha ha.
	12:32pm DG: I guess Frank wasn't involved in my favorite K&K tune, "Quick Joey Small"----I know the vocals are weird (who's singing?) & it sounds like it was recorded in an hour, but it's great in a kinda cheesy way.
	12:33pm drr: Joe Bataan and Charles Wright: my personal Hall Of Fame off-key singers.
	12:33pm gf2002: ↳ Mr C @12:29 Geator Gold!
	12:34pm clarke: book nook, decatur... cool!
	12:34pm nycmusicnerd: Oh yeah! RIP Geator
	12:34pm drr: horn line inspired by "If You Really Loved Me".
	12:35pm Joe B: ↳ drr @12:34 I think this was before if you really love me
	12:36pm drr: ↳ Song: "Latin Soul Square Dance" by "Joe Bataan" Number #1 Hit. Discovery of the show.
	12:37pm clarke: also: bells!
	12:37pm drr: ↳ Joe B @12:35 Hey Joe! I'm sitting at a computer. I will do the research.
	12:37pm greg from montreal: I love random.org!!! Hi everyone. Just wanted to say that. Have a great Saturday!
	12:38pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Joe B! Missed the show last Monday -- we were driving back from the Hudson Valley through the heart of the sun!
	12:38pm drr: ↳ drr @12:37 You're right! 1969, 1971.
	12:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ greg from montreal @12:37 Me, too, greg! I use it constantly!
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:38 that was a fun show!
	12:40pm clarke: @Handy - i guess Tim got swallered up by life?? hope he's good?? tell him: Pure Michigan!!
	12:41pm wenzo: Thanks for another great show MS, and a venue to rant about dishwashing
	12:41pm Listener Baby: Great show, Baby. You still got it!
	12:41pm KWilde: #1
	12:42pm Joe B: alright Jeff! see you there!
	12:42pm clarke: re: dish-washing - alex chilton washed dishes at Commander's Palace and said it was one of his favorite jobs, until they took away the radio in the kitchen.
	12:42pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Joe B @12:42 See YOU there, Champ!
	12:43pm TVP: Another satisfied user of random.org here as well. Love using it at work to help run statistical QC queries.
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: Well, losing that contest decides it -- we're gonna buy tickets! Gotta head out for pet food. Thanks, MS! Later on, everyone! Stay PURE MICHIGAN, clarke!
	12:43pm Joe B: alright Greg! pregame at Healy's!
	12:43pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:42 No radio in the kitchen is criminal
	12:43pm Squints: It's a slight little thing and Paul sings it like he's not quite gotten over a cold. But I love it for what it is.
	12:43pm TimG: Hold Me Tight… thumbs up
	12:43pm clarke: handy handy good bye!
	12:44pm Miss G: ↳ DG @12:32 “Quick Joey Small” is a great song. The singer is Joey Levene who sang a lot of the music from Kasenetz-Katz. Just recently bought the LP Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus! L
	12:44pm Listener Baby: Who doesn’t like this song? I want names.
	12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @12:44 It's one of my favorite Beatles.
	12:44pm clarke: yes, Joe Levene was vocalist on a LOT of records!
	12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:44 Shot out of a cannon (the real one)
	12:47pm DG: This is an OK Beatles song, & the answer to the trivia question: Paul McCartney wrote two songs with 2 bands, that had the same title. What's the title?
	12:48pm DG: Still better than "What You're Doing" or "Tell Me What You See," which always sounded like filler to me.
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hold Me Tight" by "Merseyboys, The" Re the original - I did wrotes : ...' It's not said much - but there's no Metal or Hard Rawk as we know it without The Beatles pushing the Amplification & the Volume with an amphetamine Drive - pointing the course for the engine of Rawk without the Roll - before The Who or even The Kinks - there is no expansion of the arsenal without the need to be heard by an audience of this size & its mass hormonal hysteria. [OK - hyperbole...] Listen to 'Hold Me Tight' - a song often derided as a lesser composition - & a track maybe never credited for its reductive sexual assertion & distorted electric guitars overdriven beyond engineered specifications (about two years before such a sound is usually thot to even begin being recorded by anyone as standard) & drum kit metal creaking under the always underrated Ringo's brute force. '...
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:48 wrong.
	12:49pm Listener Baby: ↳ DG @12:48 Agree
	12:50pm clarke: hard NO.
	12:50pm phat in lincoln: Wow
	12:51pm Squints: How many acts would have paid to be able to put out Tell Me What You See or (especially) What You're Doing as a single? I'm guessing a great, great many.
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, MS and Frank. Any Jeff Beck fans in the house can pick up later right over here --> www.wfmu.org...
	12:52pm phat in lincoln: Speaking of Richard Thompson
	12:52pm Dano59: Tambles - big ups!
	12:52pm Kotzwinkled: R.E.M. cover of this tune is so good.
	12:52pm Lerch: Hell yeah! RT with Linda! Chef's kiss
	12:52pm Joe B: beatles filler still beats most bands' best efforts
	12:53pm clarke: it has gone unremarked that Thompson is a MASTER of both electric and acoustic formats - which is unreal, really!
	12:53pm Listener Baby: Also agree, Joe B.
	12:53pm phat in lincoln: ↳ Joe B @12:52 I have trouble calling it filler.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ DG @12:48 Not every Beatle track is as brilliant as every other. However - there's none I don't find something to like - even be fascinated by ...even delight in. If not as Songs &/or Lyrics - then as Performances (Playing - or VOCALS) - or Arrangements (including often Instrumentation) - or, as Recordings. TheBeatles were great & innovative Recording Artists. TheBeatles are, in fact, All That.
	12:54pm Dano59: Saw NRBQ do Hold Me Tight once - led by Johnny - it was a rave-up! Then my muso friend Danny wracked his brain for 2 hours trying to figure out where he'd heard that chord progression -- it was Fastball's The Way. lol!
	12:54pm Miss G: ↳ Song: "Wall Of Death" by "Richard and Linda Thompson" sniff might be just me, but thinking of the life of a touring musician and this song. . .
	12:54pm Joe B: ↳ phat in lincoln @12:53 alleged filler!
	12:54pm Miss G: ↳ Miss G @12:54 it's all worth it.
	12:54pm clarke: EVERY beatle track is brilliant. period.
	12:54pm egould: Great show MS. Thanks for another splendid interview.
	12:55pm clarke: even my most disliked beatles song (Obladi) still has brilliance in it!!
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: This is the one!
	12:55pm nycmusicnerd: Good RT/LT choices to end the show! Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:54 you can have my Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da then, I can't finish it.
	12:56pm clarke: there it is.
	12:56pm gf2002: Thompson is great because he plays with such a great feel and appropriate for the song he's playing even with his unreal technique. Compare that to how many hundreds or thousands of YouTube guitar players who just shred technique. Where's the melody? Where's the feel? Thompson does it right.
	12:56pm Dennis Diken: Hey, Mikey & gang - couldn’t jump in to chat but I sure dug today’s show & the Frank J interview! LONG LIVE THE GEATOR!
	12:56pm phat in lincoln: I think I want to see the Bright Lights tonight too!
	12:56pm drr: Maxwell's Silver Hammer might be worse.
	12:56pm Lerch: Twofer. I love it :)
	12:56pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: Michael I was driving (thru Linden of all places) listening to your interview & it was thoroughly entertaining. Well done & thanks!
	12:56pm Dano59: I used to love opening my first band's shows with this.
	12:56pm bobsmart567: Thanks, Michael - lots of adds to the playlist today!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:54 Really - I mean - compared to what ?? All the dopey GarageRawk lyrics & things like that we exalt ? TheBeatles defined the Standard to live up to. Yeah they made Pop records to a schedule. Any of their output is only 'lesser' ...in comparison to themselves.
	12:57pm Miss G: Thank you for a great show Michael Shelley. What a treat to listen live.
	12:57pm McGroovey: I just bought tickets for Rock'N'Roll High School at White Eagle Hall Feb. 25. We're taking the teenage daughter, so she can get that taste of 1980 teen culture...
	12:57pm Mike Sin: Thought the interview was great today!
	12:57pm phat in lincoln: Band I don't like playing tonight at The Zoo Bar, but there might be someone there I want to run into.
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Song: "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" by "Rich... Love the horns on this and "When I Get to The Border".
	12:58pm phat in lincoln: Yes, great show again Michael.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Nice show, Michael!
	12:58pm Dano59: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 agreed - he's the master of just about every musical style (over 1000 years)
	12:58pm clarke: also: bells. anyone get the feeling they been... jerry'd - good nite
	12:58pm radioronan: Thanks Michael.. Cheers y'all!
	12:59pm luka: nice lady
	12:59pm SamTheRam: I'm with Mike, Great interview
	12:59pm Joe B: ↳ drr @12:56 scenes from an idiot's marriage
	12:59pm DG: I love the Beatles, they're my favorite band, to this day. didn't mean to start something....jeez.
	12:59pm Bruce S.: Micheal this jerryoke is classic
	12:59pm morphe': Do not forget the Punk Band = Jerry's Kids
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 RT absolutely his own Voice on Gittar - informed by UK Folk as much as Blues like everybody else. He's a living national treasure. I mean it !
	1:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Michael!
	1:00pm Joe B: was that martin short?
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ DG @12:59 Nobody here but us chickens bro. :)
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @1:00 www.youtube.com...
	1:06pm egould: Right into the lunkhead rock n roll. Nice.

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