WFMU: Bob Brainen: Playlist from March 1, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 10:49am RobbieWhite: good morning Bob
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Good morning, Robbie White of WOWD
	11:00am Bob Brainen: tinyurl.com...
	🥁 ♥ 11:01am duke: Good morning Bob and Bobbettes WFMU is my refuge.
	♥ 11:01am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning, Bob, and all other listeners!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning, Duke, glad to hear it. My refuge too!
	🥁 ♥ 11:02am Franco Twinkie: Hey Bob!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto, good morning
	♥ 11:02am adamdoesit: Good morning, Bob and Saturday friends.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Hey, Franco
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Morning, adamdoesit
	♥ 11:03am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ adamdoesit @11:02 Hi there, adam!
	♥ 11:03am Roberto: Good morning, all. It's been a particularly rough week, as we've lost our darling baby girl Trixie to lymphoma. She's pictured in my current avatar.
	♥ 11:03am chresti: Hi Bob and bobbers!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am (Mr) Bill: Slava Ukraini.
	11:04am ATLDondi: Good morning Bob, greetings from Atlanta. Been looking to today's Motown segment for weeks
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Aw, sorry for your loss, Roberto
	11:05am Jeff: Good Morning to all, and Roberto so sorry to hear that sad news.
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hi, chresti
	♥ 11:05am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:03 She was young and full of life right up until about a week ago. Gone much too soon and will never be forgotten.
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Ditto, (Mr) Bill
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Morning, ATLDondi, I am too!
	11:07am Bob Brainen: Morning, Jeff
	♥ 11:07am Roberto: Sorry for the downer. I've lost a lot of cats over the years but this one hurts more than usual.
	🥁 ♥ 11:07am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Shout, Part One" by "Look Park" Love this! Great album! (Fountains of Wayne lives! They are reuniting for some shows, I heard) Hi Bob and Braineniacs!
	11:08am SmokinJ: Mornin' folks! 8-)
	♥ 11:08am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:07 Morning, doc!
	11:08am Bob Brainen: ↳ Roberto @11:07 Not a downer, just sharing the news. It's been 3 dogs and 9 cats gone for me, so far...
	🥁 ♥ 11:08am Soule: Hi, Bob!! Hi, all Brainers!
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hey, SmokinJ
	♥ 11:09am Roberto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:08 Oh, my. Hugs.
	🥁 ♥ 11:09am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @11:07 RIP Adam Schlesinger.
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hiya, doctorjazz. That's good news!
	🥁 ♥ 11:09am doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:08 Hello Andrew!
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hi, Soule
	♥ 11:09am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @11:08 Hi there, Soule!
	♥ 11:10am Roberto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:09 Another passing that still hurts. The hardest covid loss for me (thankfully, I didn't lose any friends or family).
	♥ 11:10am adamdoesit: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:03 Morning, Andrew. Roberto, I'm glad you're posting about it, and I'm here for it.
	🥁 ♥ 11:10am Soule: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:09 Hey, Andrew!
	♥ 11:10am Roberto: ↳ adamdoesit @11:10 Many thanks, adam who does it.
	🥁 ♥ 11:13am doctorjazz: ↳ Roberto @11:03 I'm so sorry to hear that-deepest condolences...
	🥁 ♥ 11:14am hopewithfeathers: Good morning Bob and friends.
	11:15am Bob Brainen: Good morning, hopewithfeathers
	🥁 ♥ 11:15am (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Ol' Man River" by "Lou Raderman & His Pelham Heat... Made me smile. Wasn’t sure it would happen today.
	🥁 ♥ 11:18am hopewithfeathers: No need to apologize Roberto! It’s so hard to say goodbye to a fur baby. Sending healing thoughts your way.
	11:19am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob and SaturdayPeople!
	🥁 ♥ 11:19am PAULS: Morning Bob and gathered druminati! RIP David Johansen
	11:20am Bob Brainen: Morning, Gina Bacon
	🥁 ♥ 11:20am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Bix's Silver Chalice" by "Allen Lowe & The Consta... Big fan of Allen Lowe (his albums, and reissues he's assembled). He has an interesting email newsletter, has his own take on things (that's for sure!). allenlowe.substack.com
	11:21am Bob Brainen: PAULS, good morning
	♥ 11:21am Andrew in Toronto: Morning, pauls! David Johansen RIP: www.nytimes.com...
	🥁 ♥ 11:21am PAULS: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:21 hey Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 11:23am doctorjazz: ↳ PAULS @11:19 Sad-has been very ill for quite a while. Mr Fab on Sheena's stream did a fine tribute to him- wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:24am Doug Schulkind: Allen Lowe is a wild follow on Facebook. He can be an incendiary provocateur. Stirs up some interesting and occasionally very necessary conversations about jazz and its practitioners.
	🥁 ♥ 11:24am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @11:23 Got to see Johansen under his own name and as Buster Poindexter quite a few times, always a great show.
	11:25am Bob Brainen: Hey, Doug Schulkind. Lowe is not shy w/his take on things, for sure!
	🥁 ♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: ↳ Doug Schulkind @11:24 He's quite the angry old man (for good reason, having read his Substacks for a while now).
	11:27am SecretSquirrel: Howdy, Bob ‘n’ all!
	11:27am Bob Brainen: Howdy, SecretSquirrel
	11:29am Dave B: Greetings, Bob and other music lovers!
	11:32am Dave B: RIP, to David Johansen, truly sad
	♥ 11:34am chresti: ↳ Roberto @11:03 Aw man! Sorry Roberto. RIP Trixie.
	🥁 ♥ 11:34am listener 126464: 24 hrs. of Bix 3/10 on WKCR. Good morning, Bob & listeners.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36am doctorjazz: ↳ listener 126464 @11:34 Glad they still do the annual 24 hour tribute (used to listen to WKCR all the time, but WFMU doesn't leave me the time any more).
	11:37am Bob Brainen: Greetings, Dave B
	11:38am Bob Brainen: ↳ listener 126464 @11:34 Thanks for that news, listener 126464. WKCR: my second favorite radio station.
	🥁 ♥ 11:39am (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @11:24 The Bottom Line, November 1992, Buster Poindexter and a conga line. I’ll remember it after I’ve forgotten my middle name.
	🥁 ♥ 11:45am duke: ↳ Roberto @11:03 Really sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a sweet pet is always hard.
	🥁 ♥ 11:48am listener 126464: ↳ doctorjazz @11:36 Same here, I’ll most likely be tuned to the FMU family of shows.
	♥ 11:48am Roberto: ↳ duke @11:45 Thanks, duke.
	♥ 11:48am Roberto: ↳ chresti @11:34 Thanks, Chresti.
	♥ 11:49am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Roberto @11:48 I`m very sorry for your loss.
	🥁 ♥ 11:50am doctorjazz: ↳ (Mr) Bill @11:39 And the Guys and Dolls tunes he did as Buster Poindexter (didn't know my show music well at that point, but they knocked me out)!
	♥ 11:50am Roberto: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:49 Thanks, Andrew.
	🥁 ♥ 11:54am listener 126464: ↳ Roberto @11:05 Very sorry to hear.
	♥ 11:56am Roberto: ↳ listener 126464 @11:54 Thanks, listener.
	🥁 ♥ 11:56am PAULS: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 I caught his show at Tramps at least a half dozen times.
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am PAULS: ↳ PAULS @11:56 with the Banshees of Blue!
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am doctorjazz: ↳ PAULS @11:56 They were great shows, also saw a bunch of them!
	🥁 ♥ 11:58am listener 126464: David Jo band opened a lot of Ramones shows.
	12:00pm Dave B: More Mynah Birds!
	🥁 ♥ 12:02pm patrick321: Hey Bob and all
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: I remember seeing David Johansen (under that name) at Irving Plaza, NYC.
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 Very cool. Between my craving “Hot Hot Hot” and breaking up with the woman who accompanied me that night, the “Guys and Dolls” songs didn’t register with me (and I did know them at the time). Will seek on YouTube.
	12:05pm Bob Brainen: Hey, patrick321
	🥁 ♥ 12:06pm patrick321: Very sorry to hear about David Johansen. Such an original, through all his incarnations. I wore out my copy of his first solo LP, saw many of his shows at Tramps, the various Dolls revivals and later sporadic solo serfs. One of the champs. RIP
	🥁 ♥ 12:07pm wmfromd: Good afternoon Bob and all. Missed the first hour due to Kittycat emergency.
	🥁 ♥ 12:07pm listener 126464: ↳ patrick321 @12:06 Also wore out the first solo album.
	12:07pm Bob Brainen: Hey, wmfromd. I hope your cat is ok.
	🥁 ♥ 12:10pm wmfromd: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:07 Thanks Bob. She has issues with constipation and it's been a problem in the last week.
	🥁 ♥ 12:11pm listener 126464: Luckily, I was recently chosen by a kitty named Hazel to be her servant and caretaker forever.
	12:16pm Bob Brainen: ↳ listener 126464 @12:11 Hey, listener 126464, that's great!
	🥁 ♥ 12:24pm doctorjazz: Hits! Hits! Hits!
	🥁 ♥ 12:25pm patrick321: ↳ listener 126464 @12:07 SadlyI think the commercial tide had begun to turn against that guitar centric NY sound and it didn't become the huge hit that it should've been.
	🥁 ♥ 12:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You" by "Velvele... Don't recall this being a hit, but I can't understand why it wasn't...
	🥁 ♥ 12:29pm listener 126464: ↳ patrick321 @12:25 Wondered why it wasn’t a very big seller.
	🥁 ♥ 12:30pm listener 126464: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:16 Thanks, Bob, definitely is.
	🥁 ♥ 12:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Heaven Must Have Sent You" by "Elgins" Not sure I knew this (original) version-hit later by The Pointer Sisters
	♥ 12:35pm tom tom the pipers son: hi bob ...people....just struck me how this motown's "golden age" is so fully "in studio" and for all it gained it lost it's earlier connections to "the street" and girl groups, doo wop etc... a trade off of the raw against the cooked...
	12:36pm Bob Brainen: Hey, tom tom the pipers son. Interesting.
	🥁 ♥ 12:36pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Play It Cool, Stay In School" by "Brenda Holloway" Who needs the U.S. Department of Education?
	♥ 12:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:36 yes its being changed to 'dept. of edumication'
	12:37pm Gerry from Miami: Mornin', BOB! Really enjoying the MOTOWN tunes today. Also dug the CHARLES IVES "Country Band March." His eclectic mix of hymns, marches and assorted Americana is unique in the "classical" genre. And he made his fortune with innovations in the field of insurance!
	12:40pm Bob Brainen: Hi, Gerry from Miami, glad to hear it.
	🥁 ♥ 12:41pm (Mr) Bill: The motto of the new department could be George W. Bush’s eloquent question: “Is our children learning?"
	🥁 ♥ 12:42pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "I'm Ready For Love" by "Martha Reeves & The Vande... this one thumps!
	🥁 ♥ 12:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by "Supremes" Cool tune-I think I recall Vanilla Fudge putting out a version, which I also dug.
	12:45pm Eugene Bentley: Hey Bob! Checking in at real time after a few weeks.
	12:46pm Bob Brainen: Hey, Eugene Bentley, welcome aboard!
	♥ 12:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: ""About An Hour With....Sounds Of Motown, Part Six... Singing along with Flo and Mary
	12:49pm Eugene Bentley: Reach Out I'll Be There Four Tops is the bomb.
	🥁 ♥ 12:52pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @12:43 Nice and slow, innit?
	12:58pm Eugene Bentley: 'Come Round Here', was a rare collaboration with Smokey and Holland Dozier Holland
	♥ 12:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "A Place In the Sun" by "Stevie Wonder" very gospel inflected
	1:04pm Bob Brainen: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:59 And pretty mature stuff for a guy still only age 16!
	🥁 ♥ 1:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:52 Slowed yo sludge-but I liked it (remember a local band in my Brooklyn neighborhood playing it at a party in a park).
	♥ 1:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:04 omg... i did not calculate his age...possibly one of my favorite songs
	1:06pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Song: "I Know I'm Losing You" by "Temptations" didnt Rod Stewart cover this ?
	1:07pm kev: Hi
	1:07pm Bob Brainen: Hi Joe, I'm not sure.
	1:07pm Bob Brainen: Hi, kev
	1:12pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:06 Yes. It think it's on "Every Picture Tell a Story. Rare earth also assaulted it.
	1:16pm Eugene Bentley: Has anybody here seen the documentary about the Funk Brothers "Standing In the Shadows of Motown" ?
	1:18pm Bob Brainen: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:16 Quite awhile back
	1:21pm Eugene Bentley: It wasn't perfect but very intersting. The fact that in the beginning the studio was dirt basement floor with the piano sitting on piece of plywood.
	🥁 ♥ 1:24pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Good Night Irene" by "Originals" Ain’t no lead in their bellies!
	🥁 ♥ 1:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" by "Marvele... Jerry Garcia did a cover of this.
	1:28pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:24 Originals did wind up with a big hit in 'Baby I'm For Real."
	1:28pm kev: Grace Jones did a cover too
	🥁 ♥ 1:29pm doctorjazz: Christine Schumacher & The Supremes????
	🥁 ♥ 1:32pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:27 Ella Fitzgerald did one, too.
	1:38pm Eugene Bentley: Standing IN the Shadows, Reach Out I'll Be There and Bernadette were the Four Tops and Motown at their peak.
	1:40pm ATLDondi: What a magnificent 90 minutes that was--both the music and your commentary. Thanks Bob. Hope you'll consider presenting 1967 at some point, when H-D-H left the label.
	1:41pm Eugene Bentley: Great show Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 1:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "That's Alright" by "NRBQ" This is great (have't heard it before-NRBQ doing Power Pop, cool)!
	🥁 ♥ 1:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Soule @1:32 I have to find that (have lots of Ella, but not so much of her later stuff, when she indulged in Rock/Soul).
	1:45pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:38 Hall and Oates did Ill Be There!
	1:48pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:45 Was that on their live album? I rememberthat they had a minor hit with the Temps cover I think with the Temps on it..
	🥁 ♥ 1:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks Bob, dug the show! Great weekend all!
	🥁 ♥ 1:51pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:45 It's a nice one.
	🥁 ♥ 1:52pm (Mr) Bill: Whatta show, Bob. The first half hour calmed me down, and the remainder of the show juiced me up.
	1:54pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:18 shame about the title~ Mojo gave it a good review
	🥁 ♥ 1:54pm wmfromd: Great show Bob. Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 1:54pm PAULS: thanks, Bob!
	1:55pm JoeChrisMorris: Enjoyed the show today, hope all are well. Bless!
	1:55pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ doctorjazz @1:44 Bobs favorite band..recorded from Yankee Stadium!
	♥ 1:55pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:18 What an inspired show! Thanks, Bob!
	🥁 ♥ 1:55pm listener 126464: Thank you, Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 1:58pm Soule: Lovely show, Bob!
	♥ 2:10pm chresti: Thanks Bob!
	2:10pm Doug Young: Well done Bob!

Bob Brainen: Playlist from March 1, 2025

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March 1, 2025: A freeform show including "About An Hour With...Motown, Part Sixteen"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Hank Levine & His Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience			1961 / 1966			0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steve Miller Band	Seasons "Seasons" by "Steve Miller Band"	Brave New World		1969			0:02:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Look Park	Shout, Part One "Shout, Part One" by "Look Park"	Look Park		2016			0:06:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Victor Banana	House Of Forever "House Of Forever" by "Victor Banana"	Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox			VAR		0:10:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lou Raderman & His Pelham Heath Inn Orchestra	Ol' Man River	Bix Beiderbecke - At The Jazzman's Ball		1928 / 1990			0:12:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra	Bix's Silver Chalice	Louis Armstrong's America		2024		*	0:15:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tiny Parham & His Orchestra	Sud Buster's Dream			1929	His Master’s Voice 78		0:18:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tommy Duncan	Nancy Jane "Nancy Jane" by "Tommy Duncan"	Western Swing: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection		1952 / 2011	VAR		0:21:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Jordan And The Tympany 5	All For The Love Of Lil			1946			0:23:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Banana & The Bunch	Before The Sun Goes Down	Mid-Mountain Ranch		1972	Raccoon label # 13		0:26:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jean Ritchie	Goin' To Boston "Goin' To Boston" by "Jean Ritchie"	Mountain Hearth & Home		1957			0:28:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"	🐸 🐸 🐸						0:30:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Big Maybelle	Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho	The Gospel Soul Of Big Maybelle		1968	Brunswick label		0:37:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bessie Jones With The Georgia Sea Island Singers	Little David, Play on Your Harp	Get In Union		1962 / 2014			0:39:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steeleye Span	Skewball "Skewball" by "Steeleye Span"	Ten Man Mop Or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again		1971			0:42:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bookshop Band	Why I Travel This Way	Emerge, Return		2024		*	0:45:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pernice Brothers	Dimmest Star "Dimmest Star" by "Pernice Brothers"	Overcome By Happiness		1998			0:49:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mynah Birds	Go On And Cry "Go On And Cry" by "Mynah Birds"			1966	Rick (James) Matthews, Neil Young & Bruce Palmer b-side of unreleased Motown single		0:53:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Harry Guardino & Lee Remick	With So LIttle to Be Sure Of	Anyone Can Whistle		1964	OST		0:56:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charles Ives	Country Band March "Country Band March" by "Charles Ives"	Orchestral Music of Charles Ives		1903 / 1990			1:01:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leo Parker's All Stars	Mad Lad's Boogie			1947	Savoy label		1:05:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"		🐸 🐸 🐸					1:08:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
"About An Hour With....Sounds Of Motown, Part Sixteen"
Supremes	You Can't Hurry Love "You Can't Hurry Love" by "Supremes"			1966	Motown M-1097 - July 66		1:16:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye	Hey Diddle Diddle "Hey Diddle Diddle" by "Marvin Gaye"			1966	Tamla T-54138 - Aug. 66		1:19:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Temptations	Beauty Is Only Skin Deep			1966	Gordy G-7055 - Aug. 66		1:22:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Four Tops	Reach Out I'll Be There			1966	Motown M-1098 - Aug. 66		1:24:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Velvelettes	These Things Will Keep Me Loving You			1966	Soul S-35025 - Aug. 66		1:27:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brenda Holloway	Where Were You "Where Were You" by "Brenda Holloway"			1966	Tamla T-54137 - Aug. 66		1:29:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elgins	Heaven Must Have Sent You "Heaven Must Have Sent You" by "Elgins"			1966	V.I.P. 25037 - Aug. 66		1:32:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brenda Holloway	Play It Cool, Stay In School			1966	Z1IL-206312 - Aug. 66 Promo Only		1:34:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Barbara McNair	What A Day "What A Day" by "Barbara McNair"			1966	Motown M-1099 - Sep. 66		1:37:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas	I'm Ready For Love			1966	Gordy G-7056 - Oct. 66		1:40:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Supremes	You Keep Me Hangin' On "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by "Supremes"			1966	Motown M-1011 - Oct. 66		1:42:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye	Interview (by Lorraine Alterman)			1966	Tamla T-54138 - Oct. 66		1:45:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye	Teen Beat "Teen Beat" by "Marvin Gaye"			1966	Tamla T-54138 - Oct. 66		1:47:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"		🐸 🐸 🐸					1:50:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Miracles	Save Me "Save Me" by "Miracles"			1966	Tamla T-54140 - Oct. 66		1:56:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder	A Place In the Sun "A Place In the Sun" by "Stevie Wonder"			1966	Tamla T-54139 - Oct. 66		1:58:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jr. Walker & The All-Stars	Money (That’s What I Want)			1966	Soul S-3502 - Oct. 66		2:01:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Temptations	I Know I'm Losing You			1966	Gordy G-7057 - Oct. 66		2:04:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Ruffin	I've Passed This Way Before			1966	V.I.P.- 25039 - Nov. 66		2:06:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Monitors	Don't Put Off Til Tomorrow What You Can Do Today			1966	Tamla T-54142 - Dec. 66		2:09:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder	Some Day At Christmas - version 2			1966	Motown M-1102 - Nov. 66		2:12:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Four Tops	Standing In The Shadows of Love			1966	Motown M-1102 - Nov. 66		2:14:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston	It Takes Two			1966	Tamla T-54141 - Dec. 66		2:17:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Earl Van Dyke & the Motown Brass	6 By 6			1966	Soul S-35028 - Dec. 66		2:20:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Originals	Good Night Irene "Good Night Irene" by "Originals"			1966	Soul S-35029 - Dec. 66		2:22:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marvelettes	The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game			1966	Tamla T-54143 - Dec. 66		2:25:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Christine Schumacher & The Supremes	Mother You, Smother You			1966	L-294M05 - Dec. 66 Promo Only		2:28:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Var. Artists	Seasons Greetings "Seasons Greetings" by "Var. Artists"			1966	Motown 2482 / 2483 - Dec. 66 Special Edition 7"		2:31:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"			🐸 🐸 🐸	1966			2:33:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
NRBQ	That's Alright "That's Alright" by "NRBQ"	All Hopped Up		1977			2:42:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Driftwood	The Wilderness Road			1966			2:45:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tommy Butler	Right On Up To The Weekend			1965	Chattahoochee label		2:49:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Reed	Down In Virginia "Down In Virginia" by "Jimmy Reed"			1958	Vee Jay label		2:51:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"				🐸 🐸 🐸			2:54:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thanks to Doug Young & James Douglas "Thanks to Doug Young & James Douglas"

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Listener comments!
	♥ 10:49am RobbieWhite: good morning Bob
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Good morning, Robbie White of WOWD
	11:00am Bob Brainen: tinyurl.com...
	🥁 ♥ 11:01am duke: Good morning Bob and Bobbettes WFMU is my refuge.
	♥ 11:01am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning, Bob, and all other listeners!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning, Duke, glad to hear it. My refuge too!
	🥁 ♥ 11:02am Franco Twinkie: Hey Bob!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto, good morning
	♥ 11:02am adamdoesit: Good morning, Bob and Saturday friends.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Hey, Franco
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Morning, adamdoesit
	♥ 11:03am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ adamdoesit @11:02 Hi there, adam!
	♥ 11:03am Roberto: Good morning, all. It's been a particularly rough week, as we've lost our darling baby girl Trixie to lymphoma. She's pictured in my current avatar.
	♥ 11:03am chresti: Hi Bob and bobbers!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am (Mr) Bill: Slava Ukraini.
	11:04am ATLDondi: Good morning Bob, greetings from Atlanta. Been looking to today's Motown segment for weeks
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Aw, sorry for your loss, Roberto
	11:05am Jeff: Good Morning to all, and Roberto so sorry to hear that sad news.
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hi, chresti
	♥ 11:05am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:03 She was young and full of life right up until about a week ago. Gone much too soon and will never be forgotten.
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Ditto, (Mr) Bill
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Morning, ATLDondi, I am too!
	11:07am Bob Brainen: Morning, Jeff
	♥ 11:07am Roberto: Sorry for the downer. I've lost a lot of cats over the years but this one hurts more than usual.
	🥁 ♥ 11:07am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Shout, Part One" by "Look Park" Love this! Great album! (Fountains of Wayne lives! They are reuniting for some shows, I heard) Hi Bob and Braineniacs!
	11:08am SmokinJ: Mornin' folks! 8-)
	♥ 11:08am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:07 Morning, doc!
	11:08am Bob Brainen: ↳ Roberto @11:07 Not a downer, just sharing the news. It's been 3 dogs and 9 cats gone for me, so far...
	🥁 ♥ 11:08am Soule: Hi, Bob!! Hi, all Brainers!
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hey, SmokinJ
	♥ 11:09am Roberto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:08 Oh, my. Hugs.
	🥁 ♥ 11:09am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @11:07 RIP Adam Schlesinger.
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hiya, doctorjazz. That's good news!
	🥁 ♥ 11:09am doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:08 Hello Andrew!
	11:09am Bob Brainen: Hi, Soule
	♥ 11:09am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Soule @11:08 Hi there, Soule!
	♥ 11:10am Roberto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:09 Another passing that still hurts. The hardest covid loss for me (thankfully, I didn't lose any friends or family).
	♥ 11:10am adamdoesit: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:03 Morning, Andrew. Roberto, I'm glad you're posting about it, and I'm here for it.
	🥁 ♥ 11:10am Soule: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:09 Hey, Andrew!
	♥ 11:10am Roberto: ↳ adamdoesit @11:10 Many thanks, adam who does it.
	🥁 ♥ 11:13am doctorjazz: ↳ Roberto @11:03 I'm so sorry to hear that-deepest condolences...
	🥁 ♥ 11:14am hopewithfeathers: Good morning Bob and friends.
	11:15am Bob Brainen: Good morning, hopewithfeathers
	🥁 ♥ 11:15am (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Ol' Man River" by "Lou Raderman & His Pelham Heat... Made me smile. Wasn’t sure it would happen today.
	🥁 ♥ 11:18am hopewithfeathers: No need to apologize Roberto! It’s so hard to say goodbye to a fur baby. Sending healing thoughts your way.
	11:19am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob and SaturdayPeople!
	🥁 ♥ 11:19am PAULS: Morning Bob and gathered druminati! RIP David Johansen
	11:20am Bob Brainen: Morning, Gina Bacon
	🥁 ♥ 11:20am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Bix's Silver Chalice" by "Allen Lowe & The Consta... Big fan of Allen Lowe (his albums, and reissues he's assembled). He has an interesting email newsletter, has his own take on things (that's for sure!). allenlowe.substack.com
	11:21am Bob Brainen: PAULS, good morning
	♥ 11:21am Andrew in Toronto: Morning, pauls! David Johansen RIP: www.nytimes.com...
	🥁 ♥ 11:21am PAULS: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:21 hey Andrew!
	🥁 ♥ 11:23am doctorjazz: ↳ PAULS @11:19 Sad-has been very ill for quite a while. Mr Fab on Sheena's stream did a fine tribute to him- wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:24am Doug Schulkind: Allen Lowe is a wild follow on Facebook. He can be an incendiary provocateur. Stirs up some interesting and occasionally very necessary conversations about jazz and its practitioners.
	🥁 ♥ 11:24am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @11:23 Got to see Johansen under his own name and as Buster Poindexter quite a few times, always a great show.
	11:25am Bob Brainen: Hey, Doug Schulkind. Lowe is not shy w/his take on things, for sure!
	🥁 ♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: ↳ Doug Schulkind @11:24 He's quite the angry old man (for good reason, having read his Substacks for a while now).
	11:27am SecretSquirrel: Howdy, Bob ‘n’ all!
	11:27am Bob Brainen: Howdy, SecretSquirrel
	11:29am Dave B: Greetings, Bob and other music lovers!
	11:32am Dave B: RIP, to David Johansen, truly sad
	♥ 11:34am chresti: ↳ Roberto @11:03 Aw man! Sorry Roberto. RIP Trixie.
	🥁 ♥ 11:34am listener 126464: 24 hrs. of Bix 3/10 on WKCR. Good morning, Bob & listeners.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36am doctorjazz: ↳ listener 126464 @11:34 Glad they still do the annual 24 hour tribute (used to listen to WKCR all the time, but WFMU doesn't leave me the time any more).
	11:37am Bob Brainen: Greetings, Dave B
	11:38am Bob Brainen: ↳ listener 126464 @11:34 Thanks for that news, listener 126464. WKCR: my second favorite radio station.
	🥁 ♥ 11:39am (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @11:24 The Bottom Line, November 1992, Buster Poindexter and a conga line. I’ll remember it after I’ve forgotten my middle name.
	🥁 ♥ 11:45am duke: ↳ Roberto @11:03 Really sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a sweet pet is always hard.
	🥁 ♥ 11:48am listener 126464: ↳ doctorjazz @11:36 Same here, I’ll most likely be tuned to the FMU family of shows.
	♥ 11:48am Roberto: ↳ duke @11:45 Thanks, duke.
	♥ 11:48am Roberto: ↳ chresti @11:34 Thanks, Chresti.
	♥ 11:49am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Roberto @11:48 I`m very sorry for your loss.
	🥁 ♥ 11:50am doctorjazz: ↳ (Mr) Bill @11:39 And the Guys and Dolls tunes he did as Buster Poindexter (didn't know my show music well at that point, but they knocked me out)!
	♥ 11:50am Roberto: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:49 Thanks, Andrew.
	🥁 ♥ 11:54am listener 126464: ↳ Roberto @11:05 Very sorry to hear.
	♥ 11:56am Roberto: ↳ listener 126464 @11:54 Thanks, listener.
	🥁 ♥ 11:56am PAULS: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 I caught his show at Tramps at least a half dozen times.
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am PAULS: ↳ PAULS @11:56 with the Banshees of Blue!
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am doctorjazz: ↳ PAULS @11:56 They were great shows, also saw a bunch of them!
	🥁 ♥ 11:58am listener 126464: David Jo band opened a lot of Ramones shows.
	12:00pm Dave B: More Mynah Birds!
	🥁 ♥ 12:02pm patrick321: Hey Bob and all
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: I remember seeing David Johansen (under that name) at Irving Plaza, NYC.
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 Very cool. Between my craving “Hot Hot Hot” and breaking up with the woman who accompanied me that night, the “Guys and Dolls” songs didn’t register with me (and I did know them at the time). Will seek on YouTube.
	12:05pm Bob Brainen: Hey, patrick321
	🥁 ♥ 12:06pm patrick321: Very sorry to hear about David Johansen. Such an original, through all his incarnations. I wore out my copy of his first solo LP, saw many of his shows at Tramps, the various Dolls revivals and later sporadic solo serfs. One of the champs. RIP
	🥁 ♥ 12:07pm wmfromd: Good afternoon Bob and all. Missed the first hour due to Kittycat emergency.
	🥁 ♥ 12:07pm listener 126464: ↳ patrick321 @12:06 Also wore out the first solo album.
	12:07pm Bob Brainen: Hey, wmfromd. I hope your cat is ok.
	🥁 ♥ 12:10pm wmfromd: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:07 Thanks Bob. She has issues with constipation and it's been a problem in the last week.
	🥁 ♥ 12:11pm listener 126464: Luckily, I was recently chosen by a kitty named Hazel to be her servant and caretaker forever.
	12:16pm Bob Brainen: ↳ listener 126464 @12:11 Hey, listener 126464, that's great!
	🥁 ♥ 12:24pm doctorjazz: Hits! Hits! Hits!
	🥁 ♥ 12:25pm patrick321: ↳ listener 126464 @12:07 SadlyI think the commercial tide had begun to turn against that guitar centric NY sound and it didn't become the huge hit that it should've been.
	🥁 ♥ 12:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You" by "Velvele... Don't recall this being a hit, but I can't understand why it wasn't...
	🥁 ♥ 12:29pm listener 126464: ↳ patrick321 @12:25 Wondered why it wasn’t a very big seller.
	🥁 ♥ 12:30pm listener 126464: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:16 Thanks, Bob, definitely is.
	🥁 ♥ 12:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Heaven Must Have Sent You" by "Elgins" Not sure I knew this (original) version-hit later by The Pointer Sisters
	♥ 12:35pm tom tom the pipers son: hi bob ...people....just struck me how this motown's "golden age" is so fully "in studio" and for all it gained it lost it's earlier connections to "the street" and girl groups, doo wop etc... a trade off of the raw against the cooked...
	12:36pm Bob Brainen: Hey, tom tom the pipers son. Interesting.
	🥁 ♥ 12:36pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Play It Cool, Stay In School" by "Brenda Holloway" Who needs the U.S. Department of Education?
	♥ 12:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:36 yes its being changed to 'dept. of edumication'
	12:37pm Gerry from Miami: Mornin', BOB! Really enjoying the MOTOWN tunes today. Also dug the CHARLES IVES "Country Band March." His eclectic mix of hymns, marches and assorted Americana is unique in the "classical" genre. And he made his fortune with innovations in the field of insurance!
	12:40pm Bob Brainen: Hi, Gerry from Miami, glad to hear it.
	🥁 ♥ 12:41pm (Mr) Bill: The motto of the new department could be George W. Bush’s eloquent question: “Is our children learning?"
	🥁 ♥ 12:42pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "I'm Ready For Love" by "Martha Reeves & The Vande... this one thumps!
	🥁 ♥ 12:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by "Supremes" Cool tune-I think I recall Vanilla Fudge putting out a version, which I also dug.
	12:45pm Eugene Bentley: Hey Bob! Checking in at real time after a few weeks.
	12:46pm Bob Brainen: Hey, Eugene Bentley, welcome aboard!
	♥ 12:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: ""About An Hour With....Sounds Of Motown, Part Six... Singing along with Flo and Mary
	12:49pm Eugene Bentley: Reach Out I'll Be There Four Tops is the bomb.
	🥁 ♥ 12:52pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ doctorjazz @12:43 Nice and slow, innit?
	12:58pm Eugene Bentley: 'Come Round Here', was a rare collaboration with Smokey and Holland Dozier Holland
	♥ 12:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "A Place In the Sun" by "Stevie Wonder" very gospel inflected
	1:04pm Bob Brainen: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:59 And pretty mature stuff for a guy still only age 16!
	🥁 ♥ 1:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:52 Slowed yo sludge-but I liked it (remember a local band in my Brooklyn neighborhood playing it at a party in a park).
	♥ 1:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:04 omg... i did not calculate his age...possibly one of my favorite songs
	1:06pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Song: "I Know I'm Losing You" by "Temptations" didnt Rod Stewart cover this ?
	1:07pm kev: Hi
	1:07pm Bob Brainen: Hi Joe, I'm not sure.
	1:07pm Bob Brainen: Hi, kev
	1:12pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:06 Yes. It think it's on "Every Picture Tell a Story. Rare earth also assaulted it.
	1:16pm Eugene Bentley: Has anybody here seen the documentary about the Funk Brothers "Standing In the Shadows of Motown" ?
	1:18pm Bob Brainen: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:16 Quite awhile back
	1:21pm Eugene Bentley: It wasn't perfect but very intersting. The fact that in the beginning the studio was dirt basement floor with the piano sitting on piece of plywood.
	🥁 ♥ 1:24pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Good Night Irene" by "Originals" Ain’t no lead in their bellies!
	🥁 ♥ 1:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" by "Marvele... Jerry Garcia did a cover of this.
	1:28pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:24 Originals did wind up with a big hit in 'Baby I'm For Real."
	1:28pm kev: Grace Jones did a cover too
	🥁 ♥ 1:29pm doctorjazz: Christine Schumacher & The Supremes????
	🥁 ♥ 1:32pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:27 Ella Fitzgerald did one, too.
	1:38pm Eugene Bentley: Standing IN the Shadows, Reach Out I'll Be There and Bernadette were the Four Tops and Motown at their peak.
	1:40pm ATLDondi: What a magnificent 90 minutes that was--both the music and your commentary. Thanks Bob. Hope you'll consider presenting 1967 at some point, when H-D-H left the label.
	1:41pm Eugene Bentley: Great show Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 1:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "That's Alright" by "NRBQ" This is great (have't heard it before-NRBQ doing Power Pop, cool)!
	🥁 ♥ 1:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Soule @1:32 I have to find that (have lots of Ella, but not so much of her later stuff, when she indulged in Rock/Soul).
	1:45pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:38 Hall and Oates did Ill Be There!
	1:48pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:45 Was that on their live album? I rememberthat they had a minor hit with the Temps cover I think with the Temps on it..
	🥁 ♥ 1:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks Bob, dug the show! Great weekend all!
	🥁 ♥ 1:51pm Soule: ↳ doctorjazz @1:45 It's a nice one.
	🥁 ♥ 1:52pm (Mr) Bill: Whatta show, Bob. The first half hour calmed me down, and the remainder of the show juiced me up.
	1:54pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:18 shame about the title~ Mojo gave it a good review
	🥁 ♥ 1:54pm wmfromd: Great show Bob. Thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 1:54pm PAULS: thanks, Bob!
	1:55pm JoeChrisMorris: Enjoyed the show today, hope all are well. Bless!
	1:55pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ doctorjazz @1:44 Bobs favorite band..recorded from Yankee Stadium!
	♥ 1:55pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @1:18 What an inspired show! Thanks, Bob!
	🥁 ♥ 1:55pm listener 126464: Thank you, Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 1:58pm Soule: Lovely show, Bob!
	♥ 2:10pm chresti: Thanks Bob!
	2:10pm Doug Young: Well done Bob!

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