WFMU: Summer Camp: Playlist from March 1, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am Arvo Zylo: hello!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Austin Rich: Nice to see you both in the Digital Salon this morning! Enjoy some delightful hits from yesteryear...
	♥ 11:01am Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! I'll be in and out of the campground.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am Austin Rich: Summer Camp already has four donors! And the Marathon hasn't even started yet. That's pretty cool. I guess this show is connecting with the Sheena regulars!
	♥ 11:03am Roger: So glad you are back for another!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street" by "Con... After I pulled this track for this show, this song has been stuck in my head ever since. It's a pretty great earworm, if you have to have one!
	♥ 11:04am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:01 Krys, I can't believe I missed the opportunity to plug your show. Sorry. Just thought of it now. I'm a little slow on the uptake
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:03 Happy to come back! I'll have to take some weeks off, but Saturday Mornings are a good time to make and listen to radio.
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Say, "Si Si."" by "The Andrews Sisters" I think I mentioned this last week, but The Andrews Sisters were probably the only group I was REALLY familiar with, before I started this "1940" series. I have a bunch of their songs from a two-disc set that I quite enjoy. I also knew Frank Sinatra, and a bit of Bing Crosby, but on the whole, 1940 is where I musical knowledge sort of dries up. So This was an excuse to immerse myself in a bunch of tunes that I don't really know, to see what clicks.
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:04 No worries!
	♥ 11:11am Roger: I just hepped my daughter to the Andrews Sisters. She knew the name and knew their songs, but didn't connect them. Played Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. She asked me what it mean when a girl "loves to pet" !
	🎸 ♥ 11:12am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:11 Funny how kids always manage to zero in on phrases like that.
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Austin Rich: I know I mentioned this last time: My criteria for this set of shows was to focus only on music released in 1940. Certainly, all of these acts were performing before 1940, and a lot of these songs were popular before 1940, too. But these particular recordings were released in 1940, at least, as far as I understand! (My research can only go so far.)
	♥ 11:13am Asheville Jon: lurking while working
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Austin Rich: ↳ Asheville Jon @11:13 "We (heart) our lurkers!"
	♥ 11:14am WR: Hello Austin and folks.
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:14 WR! Thanks for skipping the cartoons, and listening to Sheena instead!
	🎸 ♥ 11:16am Krys O.: My dad brought some 78s when they came to the States in 1955. They were mostly from the early 1930s before the German invasion. We used to listen to them as a family. Knowing about history 'before one's time' is very important.
	♥ 11:17am Webhamster Henry: I'm familiar with 30s-40s hits that made their ways into cartoons... and occasional film appearances by Hoagie Carmichael. And Musicals of course.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:16 This is the "inauthentic" part of doing a show like this: any radio that you might hear in 1940 would probably be playing a few songs recorded in 1940, and then a BUNCH of things recorded well before 1940. (Probably older stuff, as they could probably come by them a little cheaper for the station library.) So it's a bit of a "modern conceit" to play only 1940 songs. What you describe is so much more like how people listened: to a lot of old stuff, even though it was 1955.
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:17 Cartoons are my primary in for this stuff. I have those Carl Stalling releases, and I was a cartoon kid growing up. I never realized how old some of those songs in cartoons were, seeing them in the early 80's.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:11 That idiom is used liberally in the song "Pettin' in the Park" from the film The Gold Diggers of 1933. I watched that movie and other early musicals as a child, but it went right over my head.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Arvo Zylo: I might finish a screenplay based in the 1940s one day, and so I have spent weeks upon weeks listening to music from the '40s. It's not that a screenplay necessarily needs to have the soundtrack written into it, but it doesn't hurt to listen. I think "Rum & Coca Cola" is my favorite Andrews Sisters song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:21 I need to see that. I keep reading about it in different film essays, and it sounds great!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:21 When I'm writing, I ABSOLUTELY pick music for the era / mood / style I want. It really helps.
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @11:19 Oh, yes. Cartoon music was a big part of our musical discovery. It helped me develop an ear for hearing musical passages that are quoted in other songs or perhaps lovingly copied without credit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:23 A lot of people talk about it, because it was such a revelation to hear the music change on a dime, or incorporate three or four songs in one music piece. Its like collage, live!
	♥ 11:26am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:21 Remember the Heavy Petting doc? People talking about their first sexual experiences. David Byrne Abbie Hoffman Ann Magnuson Spalding Gray William Burroughs Laurie Anderson Sandra Bernhard Allen Ginsberg Josh Mostel John Oates
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:26 Damn. That's quite a line-up! I'll have to track that down.
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:24 Raymond Scott also did some interesting work in the 1940s. He went from big band orchestra to "near silent music". I was under the impression that he'd done some cartoon music too, but I don't feel like looking it up.
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:26 Something tells me the William S. Burroughs bit will somehow be hotter than the Spalding Gray bit. (PROVE ME WRONG.)
	♥ 11:28am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:19 Same here, as far as cartoon music goes. Introduced me to SO much great stuff. Most memorable being "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" song by Tom the cat in a zoot suit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:27 I LOVE those Raymond Scott compilations. He really did some incredible work in his life. There's a great documentary about his life, if you haven't seen it yet. It talks about his electronic music career, and it's just incredible.
	♥ 11:29am Roger: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:27 Lots of Raymond Scott songs were used in cartoons, particularly Power House
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Arvo Zylo: Tod Dockstader initially worked in a sound effects studio of some sort, I recall it being for cartoons, but I can't be sure. He did his musique concret compositions in the studio in his free time, although I never heard anything that sounded too much like sound effects per se.
	🎸 ♥ 11:31am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:26 I'm not aware of that. Thanks for the tip.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @11:29 I saw that doc at a screening hosted by Scott's son Stan Warnow back when it was released. IIRC I might have even contributed to the fundraising campaign for the film.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:27 The recent movie "Queer", based on William Burroughs' time in Mexico, is recommended, regardless of sexual orientation.
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Arvo Zylo: Cliff Edwards is one of my favorites, although he did most of his work in the '30s. One of my favorite banned tunes is "Paddlin' Madelin Home". This is of course, about a boat ride, silly goose.
	♥ 11:35am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:32 Is the doc Deconstructing Dad? Do you recommend?
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:33 Yeah, I've been meaning to see that. I read a ton of Burroughs as a 20 something (both Burroughs, actually), and I really liked the way he wrote, and the way he presented his ideas. He's got a natural humor to his writing that I really admire.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "The Gaucho Serenade" by "Dick Todd" There was a song that Sinatra sang about his "competition" called Dick Haymes, Dick Todd, and Como.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:35 Yes, I do! It's very interesting, well edited, and you get a nice look at the different phases of his career. It's very interesting. (I will admit: it's been about 15 years since I saw it, but I loved it then.)
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:35 Yes, that's it. It's very good. Stan Warnow has a long career as a filmmaker.
	11:39am Mr Fab: Hey, Austin! This is great music to (attempt) to wake up to. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Groucho serenade?
	🎸 ♥ 11:41am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:39 That would certainly help you wake up, trying to parse which puns are inferring what. That would bring your mind to focus pretty quickly.
	🎸 ♥ 11:41am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" I <3 The Ink Spots
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" The Ink Spots are a group I didn't really know, but knew of, before I did these shows. I realize that every one of their tunes is EXCELLENT. Probably my fave discovery of this project.
	11:42am Mr Fab: The best part of the “heavy petting“ film were the clips of all those sex-ed and old educational films for children, like “dating Do’s and don’ts.“ Very sample-able.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:42 Those public health / educational films of days of yore are an endless well for my show / songs. Every time I watch one, I find something I can / should use.
	11:44am Rez: Great playlist Krys. These ma jams!
	🎸 ♥ 11:45am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" Fred Sanford loved The Ink Spots.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: ↳ Rez @11:44 Hey, Rez, this is Austin's delightful show today.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:45 Damn. Haven't thought about that show in 20 years, at least. I bet it's streaming somewhere.
	♥ 11:46am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:36 First time I ever heard of William Burroughs was when he was on Saturday Night Live. Introduced by guest Lauren Hutton as the "Greatest Living Writer In America" he read from Naked Lunch and Nova Express and blew my mind! www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:46 I remember that.
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:46 Nova Express too? Damn. Will have to check that out!
	11:48am Rez: ↳ Krys O. @11:46 Oh true! Nevermind then, praise rescinded! Kudos Austin, great stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:46 The first time I heard about Burroughs was through a roommate, who had a CD of him and a few other folks reading stuff, and a few books. I ready Queer and Junky on my breaks at work when I was shleppin' for B. Dalton, back in the day. Working at that bookstore and reading on my breaks was very educational!
	🎸 ♥ 11:49am Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:48 Thanks for droppin' by, Rez! I'm glad you're enjoying the tunes. I'm trying to learn more about this era, and I figured this was the best way.
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "She Had to Go & Lose it at the Astor" by "Johnny ... On the subject of suggestive songs from 1940...
	11:50am Mr Fab: LOVE the Ink Spots! And The Mills Brothers who I often confuse them for! Albums I bought exploring thrifts/bargain bins in the ‘90s . When records were so cheap, I would buy them not having the foggiest idea what they would sound like, just for the hell of it. Definitely a great discovery. “The Java jive“ is a great finger-snapping’ jump-blues type a tune, if you wanna get hopping and boppin. “I don’t want to set the world on fire“ is an all-time classic ballad. I occasionally find myself crooning it at odd moments. Like, stuck at a traffic light, and I’ll just start singing “I… Don’t want to set the world… On ..fiiiiirrre..”
	♥ 11:50am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:47 that Clip seems to be edited and seems to show only half the performance
	♥ 11:51am Roger: Gotta bounce, Thanks Rich et al!
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:50 I knew the Mills Brothers better, only because of availability heuristics: they were around in all the thrift bins, and I didn't see so much Ink Spots. I do love that "Java Jive" tune!
	♥ 11:52am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "She Had to Go & Lose it at the Astor" by "Johnny ... A "Party Song", wink wink.
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:51 Thanks Roger! Have a great day!
	11:54am Rez: ↳ Mr Fab @11:50 Mills brothers = harmonies Ink Spots = that one high pitch voice followed by a verse by the low voice talking
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am Arvo Zylo: "If You Knew Suzy Like I Know Suzy" is another innuendo song that had some airplay before and after 1940.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:54 I love when one of them uses their voice to do the "horn" parts.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Rez @11:54 My first introduction to the Mill Bros was because their song "Glow Worm" was my maternal granparents' song, so they danced to it every year on their anniversary.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Austin Rich: I think my plan is to exhaust all the 1940 music I found when I started pulling for these shows, and then go backward and do the same thing with 1939.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:54 This was prior to scat, as I understand it, and was innovated by the aforementioned Cliff Edwards in the 1920s...
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am Austin Rich: I'll have to investigate! I don't know Cliff Edwards.
	11:58am Rez: Mills Bros are some of my OG favourites. I like to play all this pre-bop big-tent jazz/blues stuff on guitar but there's a dearth of material on it. Luckily it's usually not that hard to transcribe.
	🎸 ♥ 12:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:57 He was also known as "Ukelele Ike" and the voice of Jiminey Cricket. My very favorite song in the world is by him, "Night Owl". But I don't mean to hijack.
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks for the plug!
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:02 Oh! I think I have pulled a song by him for a future set, actually! So it is relevant!
	🎸 ♥ 12:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:58 Yeah, I recall a lot of those Mills Brothers songs having very nice, but simple, arrangements.
	🎸 ♥ 12:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Memories of You" by "Benny Goodman" Benny Goodman was born in Chicago, and so I used to have a great deal of his records from thrift stores. Also had plenty Glenn Miller, although Miller was not from Chicago. More of that in thrift stores than Bing Crosby, for some reason...
	🎸 ♥ 12:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Only Forever" by "Bing Crosby" Bing Crosby had a very long career, and was very popular for much of that time. He's been on a number of shows I've played over on Dimestore Radio Theater, so I'll be running a documentary about his life on that show, so I can learn more about his life.
	12:11pm Mr Fab: It’s all so dreamy. But not in a weird, psychedelic way. More like: romantic.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Polka Dots & Moonbeams" by "Tommy Dorsey & His Or... Tommy Dorsey survived a plane crash in 1949. Somehow, it crash-landed without killing anyone.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Austin Rich: As far as male crooners are concerned, the two that seem to have captured big audiences over long periods of time were Crosby & Sinatra. Their "rivalry" was certainly exaggerated for the hype (and the help it gave to both of their careers), but Bing was certainly more for the "older, more nostalgic" crowd, while Frank seemed to capture a modern kind of sadness that a lot of younger kids could relate to. Regardless, I like to play them back to back, when I can. They seem like opposite sides of the same coin.
	♥ 12:13pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @12:08 The very early Bing is a lot more appealing than the Hope & Crosby and orange juice hustling Bing.
	🎸 ♥ 12:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 You could do worse than trying to set the mood with tunes like this.
	🎸 ♥ 12:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 This is why I find sad music romantic, it's all lovely to me. I don't feel anything but romance when I hear sad songs, although "Polka Dots & Moonbeams" is not an especially sad song.
	🎸 ♥ 12:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:13 Yeah. I find Bing less interesting as he gets older. But I like those Road To movies... they are ridiculous in the best way!
	🎸 ♥ 12:18pm Arvo Zylo: If you ever come across Gene Krupa, I knew a relative of his. He was a member of Benny Goodman's band, but he also made his own compositions, and was considered an innovator. I'm not sure what exactly when on, but in the 40s he was arrested on a fake marijuana charge, and I'm not sure what happened after that. Something happened between him leaving Benny Goodman's band and maybe "going solo" in the 1940s.
	🎸 ♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: I think I have a Krupa tune pulled for a future show!
	12:31pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Been listening and lurking 📻 Thanks for the perfect soundtrack to ease into the day!
	♥ 12:32pm WR: Pausing my morning of ripping and downloading to write how much I am enjoying and appreciate you dive into 1940. I've got a general familiarity with the music of the 30s/40s but still a learner. Finding your selections both entertaining and thought stimulating. And I am enjoying the "less jaunty" selections when mixed in with the rest.
	🎸 ♥ 12:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @12:31 You're welcome! I still need to make the t-shirt, "We (heart) Our Lurkers!"
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Krys O.: There is a school of thought that there was no year zero, therefore, the decades would start with a year ending in the number one.
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:32 I feel like a lot of tunes - even the ones that are very different - all follow a similar formula. I might have been a little more selective in that regard, if I had listened a little more closely. But: it's all pretty great!
	🎸 ♥ 12:34pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:19 Krupa showed up in a bunch of movies. My favorite of which was Ball of Fire with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper.
	🎸 ♥ 12:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:33 Yeah, I'm fairly certain I've heard that before. 1980 looks and sounds so much like the late 70's. 1990 did NOT feel like the 90's yet.
	🎸 ♥ 12:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:34 I feel like Barbara Stanwyck is the hallmark of a good movie. She's been good every time I see her.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 You should definitely check out Lady of Burlesque from 1943. Stanwyck does a number with Pinky Lee. It was based on a novel called The G-String Murders.
	🎸 ♥ 12:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:37 I don't know that one! Okay, thanks for the tip. Old movie recs are always welcome!
	🎸 ♥ 12:39pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:38 It might even be in the public domain. The print that is shown is far from pristine.
	12:39pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @12:32 I'd wear it! 😶‍🌫️
	🎸 ♥ 12:39pm Austin Rich: I am a sucker for the guy with the deep voice that breaks everything down in the middle of the song. It's such a classy move for a song to make!
	♥ 12:39pm WR: ↳ Song: "Whispering Grass" by "The Ink Spots" Yes, you did, you told them, mmph, mmm, mmpth.
	🎸 ♥ 12:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... One of the many "not exactly appropriate" songs that I found during this project.
	🎸 ♥ 12:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:39 That's too often the case. I'll dig around.
	🎸 ♥ 12:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @12:39 I have never seen the movie, but I thought I had the soundtrack on vinyl, from a thrift store. I'm not finding it on discogs.
	🎸 ♥ 12:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... Contains a few too many uses of what many critics call, "The Oriental Riff." en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 12:42pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @12:32 I can see that. The dog / cow secret handshake woof moo logo and below it: We ❤ Our Lurkers
	🎸 ♥ 12:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:42 Yes! We should pitch that sometime.
	🎸 ♥ 12:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @12:42 I did a show about this once, including the song "Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting". On another note, I do enjoy that Exotica was essentially a bad rip off of Polynesian music, but ended up being embraced in Hawaii, with Martin Denny having residencies there. I'm not sure if any of it had ill will to it, but that is for another time.
	12:45pm Mr Fabio a: I recorded her vocal numbers from that film, a song that I think is called play it on the G string. But is that really her singing, I wonder. She might be lip syncing a “real” singer.
	🎸 ♥ 12:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fabio a @12:45 In the 90's, my old band had a song about "Fabio" called "Paperback Romance."
	12:47pm Mr Fabi: Ha! I did not mean to change my name to Fabio. WFMU already has a Fabio.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @12:45 wtbc.bandcamp.com...
	12:48pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... oh man that reminded me too much of my Grandpa, he was funny and always cracking jokes and teasing, but every so often he'd say something ignorant and everyone would groan or scold him 💀 he was usually hilarious and he meant well but Grandpa was from a different time...😅
	♥ 12:48pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:44 A rich subject. Worth exploring is how much its being embraced in Hawaii was due to its success as entertainment for the tourists.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Krys O.: My mom had to wear wooden shoes when she was in Germany doing forced labor.
	🎸 ♥ 12:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "After Hours" by "Erskine Hawkins" Dimestore Radio Theater listeners will know this song as the "Fitch Shampoo" theme music.
	🎸 ♥ 12:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:48 My fave bus driver when I was a kid was a woman who wore wooden shoes and also owned a donut shop. She was great! I didn't know anything about wooden shoes as a kid, though.
	🎸 ♥ 12:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @12:48 Yeah, grandpa often was. But we still loved him.
	🎸 ♥ 12:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @12:48 I only mean to say that although Exotica is technically "appropriation", I still enjoy it, and hope that there wasn't too much ill will in that context.
	🎸 ♥ 12:52pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:50 Wooden Dr. Scholl's sandals were a huge thing when I was a teenager in the 70s. Turns out they were terrible for your feet.
	♥ 12:52pm WR: ↳ Song: "After Hours" by "Erskine Hawkins" Avery Parrish on piano wrote that and first recorded it with Erskine Hawkins. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 12:54pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:52 Similar here, many creative musicians involved.
	12:54pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Thanks to you too! Been real fun 📻🎶 Catch y'all in the digital salon next time!
	🎸 ♥ 12:54pm Krys O.: The Supremes also used to do the talking section in their songs.
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Arvo Zylo: Good show! Cheerio!
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Krys O.: Erskine Sanford was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater players.
	🎸 ♥ 12:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Stick around for Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 12:58pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll end about 30 seconds early! Sorry!
	♥ 1:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

Summer Camp: Playlist from March 1, 2025

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March 1, 2025: Weekend Rewind 1940: Part 2

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Hour 1 "Hour 1"
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Our Love Affair	0:00:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby	Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street	0:02:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Andrews Sisters	Say, "Si Si."	0:06:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kay Kyser & His College of Musical Knowledge	The Little Red Fox	0:08:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Will Bradley & His Orchestra	Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat	0:11:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	Trade Winds	0:14:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dick Jurgens & His Orchestra	Careless	0:17:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Orrin Tucker and his Orchestra w/ Bonnie Baker	You'd Be Surprised	0:20:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Vaughn Monroe	There I Go "There I Go" by "Vaughn Monroe"	0:22:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mitchell Ayers and His Orchestra w/ Mary Ann Mercer	Two Dreams Met	0:25:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Casa Loma Orchestra & Glen Gray	A Lover's Lullaby	0:29:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
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Dick Todd	The Gaucho Serenade "The Gaucho Serenade" by "Dick Todd"	0:34:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jack Hilton & His Orchestra	Faithful Forever	0:36:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Ink Spots	Maybe "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots"	0:39:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erskine Hawkins	Dolimite "Dolimite" by "Erskine Hawkins"	0:43:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leo Reisman & His Orchestra	Down Argentine Way	0:46:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Johnny Messner and His Orchestra	She Had to Go & Lose it at the Astor	0:49:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra	Where Was I?	0:52:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chalfont Orchestra And Singers	Starlit Hour	0:55:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Benny Goodman	Memories of You "Memories of You" by "Benny Goodman"	0:59:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
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Hour 2 "Hour 2"
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano	1:04:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	Only Forever "Only Forever" by "Bing Crosby"	1:06:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	Polka Dots & Moonbeams	1:09:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kay Kyser & His College of Musical Knowledge	Friendship	1:13:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Will Bradley & His Orchestra	Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar	1:16:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Andrews Sisters	Rhumboogie "Rhumboogie" by "The Andrews Sisters"	1:21:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mitchell Ayers and His Orchestra	Make Believe Island	1:23:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Orrin Tucker and his Orchestra	At The Balalaika	1:31:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benny Goodman	I Can't Love You Any More	1:34:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Ink Spots	Whispering Grass "Whispering Grass" by "The Ink Spots"	1:36:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians	Confucius Say	1:39:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wayne King & His Orchestra	The Waltz You Saved For Me	1:42:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dick Jurgens & His Orchestra	In an Old Dutch Garden	1:45:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erskine Hawkins	After Hours "After Hours" by "Erskine Hawkins"	1:48:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra	Contrasts	1:56:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am Arvo Zylo: hello!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Austin Rich: Nice to see you both in the Digital Salon this morning! Enjoy some delightful hits from yesteryear...
	♥ 11:01am Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! I'll be in and out of the campground.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am Austin Rich: Summer Camp already has four donors! And the Marathon hasn't even started yet. That's pretty cool. I guess this show is connecting with the Sheena regulars!
	♥ 11:03am Roger: So glad you are back for another!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street" by "Con... After I pulled this track for this show, this song has been stuck in my head ever since. It's a pretty great earworm, if you have to have one!
	♥ 11:04am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:01 Krys, I can't believe I missed the opportunity to plug your show. Sorry. Just thought of it now. I'm a little slow on the uptake
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:03 Happy to come back! I'll have to take some weeks off, but Saturday Mornings are a good time to make and listen to radio.
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Say, "Si Si."" by "The Andrews Sisters" I think I mentioned this last week, but The Andrews Sisters were probably the only group I was REALLY familiar with, before I started this "1940" series. I have a bunch of their songs from a two-disc set that I quite enjoy. I also knew Frank Sinatra, and a bit of Bing Crosby, but on the whole, 1940 is where I musical knowledge sort of dries up. So This was an excuse to immerse myself in a bunch of tunes that I don't really know, to see what clicks.
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:04 No worries!
	♥ 11:11am Roger: I just hepped my daughter to the Andrews Sisters. She knew the name and knew their songs, but didn't connect them. Played Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. She asked me what it mean when a girl "loves to pet" !
	🎸 ♥ 11:12am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:11 Funny how kids always manage to zero in on phrases like that.
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Austin Rich: I know I mentioned this last time: My criteria for this set of shows was to focus only on music released in 1940. Certainly, all of these acts were performing before 1940, and a lot of these songs were popular before 1940, too. But these particular recordings were released in 1940, at least, as far as I understand! (My research can only go so far.)
	♥ 11:13am Asheville Jon: lurking while working
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Austin Rich: ↳ Asheville Jon @11:13 "We (heart) our lurkers!"
	♥ 11:14am WR: Hello Austin and folks.
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:14 WR! Thanks for skipping the cartoons, and listening to Sheena instead!
	🎸 ♥ 11:16am Krys O.: My dad brought some 78s when they came to the States in 1955. They were mostly from the early 1930s before the German invasion. We used to listen to them as a family. Knowing about history 'before one's time' is very important.
	♥ 11:17am Webhamster Henry: I'm familiar with 30s-40s hits that made their ways into cartoons... and occasional film appearances by Hoagie Carmichael. And Musicals of course.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:16 This is the "inauthentic" part of doing a show like this: any radio that you might hear in 1940 would probably be playing a few songs recorded in 1940, and then a BUNCH of things recorded well before 1940. (Probably older stuff, as they could probably come by them a little cheaper for the station library.) So it's a bit of a "modern conceit" to play only 1940 songs. What you describe is so much more like how people listened: to a lot of old stuff, even though it was 1955.
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:17 Cartoons are my primary in for this stuff. I have those Carl Stalling releases, and I was a cartoon kid growing up. I never realized how old some of those songs in cartoons were, seeing them in the early 80's.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:11 That idiom is used liberally in the song "Pettin' in the Park" from the film The Gold Diggers of 1933. I watched that movie and other early musicals as a child, but it went right over my head.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Arvo Zylo: I might finish a screenplay based in the 1940s one day, and so I have spent weeks upon weeks listening to music from the '40s. It's not that a screenplay necessarily needs to have the soundtrack written into it, but it doesn't hurt to listen. I think "Rum & Coca Cola" is my favorite Andrews Sisters song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:21 I need to see that. I keep reading about it in different film essays, and it sounds great!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:21 When I'm writing, I ABSOLUTELY pick music for the era / mood / style I want. It really helps.
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @11:19 Oh, yes. Cartoon music was a big part of our musical discovery. It helped me develop an ear for hearing musical passages that are quoted in other songs or perhaps lovingly copied without credit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:23 A lot of people talk about it, because it was such a revelation to hear the music change on a dime, or incorporate three or four songs in one music piece. Its like collage, live!
	♥ 11:26am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:21 Remember the Heavy Petting doc? People talking about their first sexual experiences. David Byrne Abbie Hoffman Ann Magnuson Spalding Gray William Burroughs Laurie Anderson Sandra Bernhard Allen Ginsberg Josh Mostel John Oates
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:26 Damn. That's quite a line-up! I'll have to track that down.
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:24 Raymond Scott also did some interesting work in the 1940s. He went from big band orchestra to "near silent music". I was under the impression that he'd done some cartoon music too, but I don't feel like looking it up.
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:26 Something tells me the William S. Burroughs bit will somehow be hotter than the Spalding Gray bit. (PROVE ME WRONG.)
	♥ 11:28am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:19 Same here, as far as cartoon music goes. Introduced me to SO much great stuff. Most memorable being "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" song by Tom the cat in a zoot suit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:27 I LOVE those Raymond Scott compilations. He really did some incredible work in his life. There's a great documentary about his life, if you haven't seen it yet. It talks about his electronic music career, and it's just incredible.
	♥ 11:29am Roger: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:27 Lots of Raymond Scott songs were used in cartoons, particularly Power House
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Arvo Zylo: Tod Dockstader initially worked in a sound effects studio of some sort, I recall it being for cartoons, but I can't be sure. He did his musique concret compositions in the studio in his free time, although I never heard anything that sounded too much like sound effects per se.
	🎸 ♥ 11:31am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:26 I'm not aware of that. Thanks for the tip.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @11:29 I saw that doc at a screening hosted by Scott's son Stan Warnow back when it was released. IIRC I might have even contributed to the fundraising campaign for the film.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:27 The recent movie "Queer", based on William Burroughs' time in Mexico, is recommended, regardless of sexual orientation.
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Arvo Zylo: Cliff Edwards is one of my favorites, although he did most of his work in the '30s. One of my favorite banned tunes is "Paddlin' Madelin Home". This is of course, about a boat ride, silly goose.
	♥ 11:35am Roger: ↳ Krys O. @11:32 Is the doc Deconstructing Dad? Do you recommend?
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:33 Yeah, I've been meaning to see that. I read a ton of Burroughs as a 20 something (both Burroughs, actually), and I really liked the way he wrote, and the way he presented his ideas. He's got a natural humor to his writing that I really admire.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "The Gaucho Serenade" by "Dick Todd" There was a song that Sinatra sang about his "competition" called Dick Haymes, Dick Todd, and Como.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:35 Yes, I do! It's very interesting, well edited, and you get a nice look at the different phases of his career. It's very interesting. (I will admit: it's been about 15 years since I saw it, but I loved it then.)
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:35 Yes, that's it. It's very good. Stan Warnow has a long career as a filmmaker.
	11:39am Mr Fab: Hey, Austin! This is great music to (attempt) to wake up to. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Groucho serenade?
	🎸 ♥ 11:41am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:39 That would certainly help you wake up, trying to parse which puns are inferring what. That would bring your mind to focus pretty quickly.
	🎸 ♥ 11:41am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" I <3 The Ink Spots
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" The Ink Spots are a group I didn't really know, but knew of, before I did these shows. I realize that every one of their tunes is EXCELLENT. Probably my fave discovery of this project.
	11:42am Mr Fab: The best part of the “heavy petting“ film were the clips of all those sex-ed and old educational films for children, like “dating Do’s and don’ts.“ Very sample-able.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:42 Those public health / educational films of days of yore are an endless well for my show / songs. Every time I watch one, I find something I can / should use.
	11:44am Rez: Great playlist Krys. These ma jams!
	🎸 ♥ 11:45am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Maybe" by "The Ink Spots" Fred Sanford loved The Ink Spots.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: ↳ Rez @11:44 Hey, Rez, this is Austin's delightful show today.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @11:45 Damn. Haven't thought about that show in 20 years, at least. I bet it's streaming somewhere.
	♥ 11:46am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:36 First time I ever heard of William Burroughs was when he was on Saturday Night Live. Introduced by guest Lauren Hutton as the "Greatest Living Writer In America" he read from Naked Lunch and Nova Express and blew my mind! www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: ↳ Roger @11:46 I remember that.
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:46 Nova Express too? Damn. Will have to check that out!
	11:48am Rez: ↳ Krys O. @11:46 Oh true! Nevermind then, praise rescinded! Kudos Austin, great stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:46 The first time I heard about Burroughs was through a roommate, who had a CD of him and a few other folks reading stuff, and a few books. I ready Queer and Junky on my breaks at work when I was shleppin' for B. Dalton, back in the day. Working at that bookstore and reading on my breaks was very educational!
	🎸 ♥ 11:49am Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:48 Thanks for droppin' by, Rez! I'm glad you're enjoying the tunes. I'm trying to learn more about this era, and I figured this was the best way.
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "She Had to Go & Lose it at the Astor" by "Johnny ... On the subject of suggestive songs from 1940...
	11:50am Mr Fab: LOVE the Ink Spots! And The Mills Brothers who I often confuse them for! Albums I bought exploring thrifts/bargain bins in the ‘90s . When records were so cheap, I would buy them not having the foggiest idea what they would sound like, just for the hell of it. Definitely a great discovery. “The Java jive“ is a great finger-snapping’ jump-blues type a tune, if you wanna get hopping and boppin. “I don’t want to set the world on fire“ is an all-time classic ballad. I occasionally find myself crooning it at odd moments. Like, stuck at a traffic light, and I’ll just start singing “I… Don’t want to set the world… On ..fiiiiirrre..”
	♥ 11:50am Roger: ↳ Austin Rich @11:47 that Clip seems to be edited and seems to show only half the performance
	♥ 11:51am Roger: Gotta bounce, Thanks Rich et al!
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:50 I knew the Mills Brothers better, only because of availability heuristics: they were around in all the thrift bins, and I didn't see so much Ink Spots. I do love that "Java Jive" tune!
	♥ 11:52am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "She Had to Go & Lose it at the Astor" by "Johnny ... A "Party Song", wink wink.
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am Austin Rich: ↳ Roger @11:51 Thanks Roger! Have a great day!
	11:54am Rez: ↳ Mr Fab @11:50 Mills brothers = harmonies Ink Spots = that one high pitch voice followed by a verse by the low voice talking
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am Arvo Zylo: "If You Knew Suzy Like I Know Suzy" is another innuendo song that had some airplay before and after 1940.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:54 I love when one of them uses their voice to do the "horn" parts.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Rez @11:54 My first introduction to the Mill Bros was because their song "Glow Worm" was my maternal granparents' song, so they danced to it every year on their anniversary.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Austin Rich: I think my plan is to exhaust all the 1940 music I found when I started pulling for these shows, and then go backward and do the same thing with 1939.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:54 This was prior to scat, as I understand it, and was innovated by the aforementioned Cliff Edwards in the 1920s...
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am Austin Rich: I'll have to investigate! I don't know Cliff Edwards.
	11:58am Rez: Mills Bros are some of my OG favourites. I like to play all this pre-bop big-tent jazz/blues stuff on guitar but there's a dearth of material on it. Luckily it's usually not that hard to transcribe.
	🎸 ♥ 12:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:57 He was also known as "Ukelele Ike" and the voice of Jiminey Cricket. My very favorite song in the world is by him, "Night Owl". But I don't mean to hijack.
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks for the plug!
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:02 Oh! I think I have pulled a song by him for a future set, actually! So it is relevant!
	🎸 ♥ 12:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rez @11:58 Yeah, I recall a lot of those Mills Brothers songs having very nice, but simple, arrangements.
	🎸 ♥ 12:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Memories of You" by "Benny Goodman" Benny Goodman was born in Chicago, and so I used to have a great deal of his records from thrift stores. Also had plenty Glenn Miller, although Miller was not from Chicago. More of that in thrift stores than Bing Crosby, for some reason...
	🎸 ♥ 12:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Only Forever" by "Bing Crosby" Bing Crosby had a very long career, and was very popular for much of that time. He's been on a number of shows I've played over on Dimestore Radio Theater, so I'll be running a documentary about his life on that show, so I can learn more about his life.
	12:11pm Mr Fab: It’s all so dreamy. But not in a weird, psychedelic way. More like: romantic.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Polka Dots & Moonbeams" by "Tommy Dorsey & His Or... Tommy Dorsey survived a plane crash in 1949. Somehow, it crash-landed without killing anyone.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Austin Rich: As far as male crooners are concerned, the two that seem to have captured big audiences over long periods of time were Crosby & Sinatra. Their "rivalry" was certainly exaggerated for the hype (and the help it gave to both of their careers), but Bing was certainly more for the "older, more nostalgic" crowd, while Frank seemed to capture a modern kind of sadness that a lot of younger kids could relate to. Regardless, I like to play them back to back, when I can. They seem like opposite sides of the same coin.
	♥ 12:13pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @12:08 The very early Bing is a lot more appealing than the Hope & Crosby and orange juice hustling Bing.
	🎸 ♥ 12:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 You could do worse than trying to set the mood with tunes like this.
	🎸 ♥ 12:13pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 This is why I find sad music romantic, it's all lovely to me. I don't feel anything but romance when I hear sad songs, although "Polka Dots & Moonbeams" is not an especially sad song.
	🎸 ♥ 12:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:13 Yeah. I find Bing less interesting as he gets older. But I like those Road To movies... they are ridiculous in the best way!
	🎸 ♥ 12:18pm Arvo Zylo: If you ever come across Gene Krupa, I knew a relative of his. He was a member of Benny Goodman's band, but he also made his own compositions, and was considered an innovator. I'm not sure what exactly when on, but in the 40s he was arrested on a fake marijuana charge, and I'm not sure what happened after that. Something happened between him leaving Benny Goodman's band and maybe "going solo" in the 1940s.
	🎸 ♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: I think I have a Krupa tune pulled for a future show!
	12:31pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Been listening and lurking 📻 Thanks for the perfect soundtrack to ease into the day!
	♥ 12:32pm WR: Pausing my morning of ripping and downloading to write how much I am enjoying and appreciate you dive into 1940. I've got a general familiarity with the music of the 30s/40s but still a learner. Finding your selections both entertaining and thought stimulating. And I am enjoying the "less jaunty" selections when mixed in with the rest.
	🎸 ♥ 12:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @12:31 You're welcome! I still need to make the t-shirt, "We (heart) Our Lurkers!"
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Krys O.: There is a school of thought that there was no year zero, therefore, the decades would start with a year ending in the number one.
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:32 I feel like a lot of tunes - even the ones that are very different - all follow a similar formula. I might have been a little more selective in that regard, if I had listened a little more closely. But: it's all pretty great!
	🎸 ♥ 12:34pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:19 Krupa showed up in a bunch of movies. My favorite of which was Ball of Fire with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper.
	🎸 ♥ 12:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:33 Yeah, I'm fairly certain I've heard that before. 1980 looks and sounds so much like the late 70's. 1990 did NOT feel like the 90's yet.
	🎸 ♥ 12:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:34 I feel like Barbara Stanwyck is the hallmark of a good movie. She's been good every time I see her.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 You should definitely check out Lady of Burlesque from 1943. Stanwyck does a number with Pinky Lee. It was based on a novel called The G-String Murders.
	🎸 ♥ 12:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:37 I don't know that one! Okay, thanks for the tip. Old movie recs are always welcome!
	🎸 ♥ 12:39pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:38 It might even be in the public domain. The print that is shown is far from pristine.
	12:39pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @12:32 I'd wear it! 😶‍🌫️
	🎸 ♥ 12:39pm Austin Rich: I am a sucker for the guy with the deep voice that breaks everything down in the middle of the song. It's such a classy move for a song to make!
	♥ 12:39pm WR: ↳ Song: "Whispering Grass" by "The Ink Spots" Yes, you did, you told them, mmph, mmm, mmpth.
	🎸 ♥ 12:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... One of the many "not exactly appropriate" songs that I found during this project.
	🎸 ♥ 12:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:39 That's too often the case. I'll dig around.
	🎸 ♥ 12:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @12:39 I have never seen the movie, but I thought I had the soundtrack on vinyl, from a thrift store. I'm not finding it on discogs.
	🎸 ♥ 12:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... Contains a few too many uses of what many critics call, "The Oriental Riff." en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 12:42pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @12:32 I can see that. The dog / cow secret handshake woof moo logo and below it: We ❤ Our Lurkers
	🎸 ♥ 12:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:42 Yes! We should pitch that sometime.
	🎸 ♥ 12:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @12:42 I did a show about this once, including the song "Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting". On another note, I do enjoy that Exotica was essentially a bad rip off of Polynesian music, but ended up being embraced in Hawaii, with Martin Denny having residencies there. I'm not sure if any of it had ill will to it, but that is for another time.
	12:45pm Mr Fabio a: I recorded her vocal numbers from that film, a song that I think is called play it on the G string. But is that really her singing, I wonder. She might be lip syncing a “real” singer.
	🎸 ♥ 12:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fabio a @12:45 In the 90's, my old band had a song about "Fabio" called "Paperback Romance."
	12:47pm Mr Fabi: Ha! I did not mean to change my name to Fabio. WFMU already has a Fabio.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @12:45 wtbc.bandcamp.com...
	12:48pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: "Confucius Say" by "Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canad... oh man that reminded me too much of my Grandpa, he was funny and always cracking jokes and teasing, but every so often he'd say something ignorant and everyone would groan or scold him 💀 he was usually hilarious and he meant well but Grandpa was from a different time...😅
	♥ 12:48pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:44 A rich subject. Worth exploring is how much its being embraced in Hawaii was due to its success as entertainment for the tourists.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Krys O.: My mom had to wear wooden shoes when she was in Germany doing forced labor.
	🎸 ♥ 12:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "After Hours" by "Erskine Hawkins" Dimestore Radio Theater listeners will know this song as the "Fitch Shampoo" theme music.
	🎸 ♥ 12:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @12:48 My fave bus driver when I was a kid was a woman who wore wooden shoes and also owned a donut shop. She was great! I didn't know anything about wooden shoes as a kid, though.
	🎸 ♥ 12:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @12:48 Yeah, grandpa often was. But we still loved him.
	🎸 ♥ 12:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @12:48 I only mean to say that although Exotica is technically "appropriation", I still enjoy it, and hope that there wasn't too much ill will in that context.
	🎸 ♥ 12:52pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @12:50 Wooden Dr. Scholl's sandals were a huge thing when I was a teenager in the 70s. Turns out they were terrible for your feet.
	♥ 12:52pm WR: ↳ Song: "After Hours" by "Erskine Hawkins" Avery Parrish on piano wrote that and first recorded it with Erskine Hawkins. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 12:54pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @12:52 Similar here, many creative musicians involved.
	12:54pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Thanks to you too! Been real fun 📻🎶 Catch y'all in the digital salon next time!
	🎸 ♥ 12:54pm Krys O.: The Supremes also used to do the talking section in their songs.
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Arvo Zylo: Good show! Cheerio!
	🎸 ♥ 12:55pm Krys O.: Erskine Sanford was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater players.
	🎸 ♥ 12:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Stick around for Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 12:58pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll end about 30 seconds early! Sorry!
	♥ 1:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

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