Favoriting Radio Free Culture: Playlist from March 25, 2013 Favoriting

Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Favoriting March 25, 2013: Radio Free Culture #11: Radio Passover: Baby Got Backlash + The New Birthday Song
For the next Radio Free Culture, join Andrea and her Grandma Phyllis for Radio Passover. While the two munch matza and bitter herbs, they'll present a selection of stories about the intersections between music, technology and copyright law. First up, a story about theft in plain sight. Hear nerd king Jonathan Coulton describe how his cover of "Baby Got Back" ended up an an episode of the Fox TV show Glee unbeknownst to him. Then an update on the FMA and WFMU's attempt to dethrone "Happy Birthday to You," including the radio debut of the winning song.

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
YACHT  Shangri-La (Instrumental)   Favoriting Shangri-La (Instrumentals)  Download it on the Free Music Archive here.   
Grandma Phyllis at WFMU         
Our Passover Seder Spread         
Yeah, that's bitter         
Potato Kugel         
Jonathan Coulton     


Baby Got Backlash: Musician Jonathan Coulton tells the story of what's become known as #backgate

Read all about it on Mashable

  		 
More Grandma Phyllis Vines        0:24:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
More Grandma Phyllis Vines        0:25:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The New Birthday Song     

Hear the WFMU debut of our winning Birthday song as told for The Organist podcast from Believer Magazine and KCRW.

  		 
The Seder Plate        0:27:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hidden Matza        0:32:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Grandma Phyllis is Your Grandma Now        0:47:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

If there are JM in the AM archives available, there was some presentation this morning about Passover. It aired just after 8AM, I believe.
  6:04pm
that spread:

OOO that spread
Avatar 6:05pm
Ike:

I'm SO chuffed the archives exist, as usual, because I leave work shortly and will miss most of this show.

Great GIF of "yeah that's bitter," BTW.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Mike East:

@Ken - I heard that. I commented to my wife about how much effort and attention to detail seems to be involved.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Mike East:

@Ken - most interesting fact I heard was the reason they "lean" when they drink the wine....cuz Screw you Romans! Where are you now?!
  6:08pm
Pops:

Speaking of copyright issues... ♫ "Little Boxes / On the hillside" ♫ and ♫ "It's your birthday / It's your birthday" ♫ = same tempo + notes. Copyright issues aside, there rightfully should be an attribution given to Malvina Reynolds by Blank Tapes.
  6:09pm
that spread:

what was the intro song 2 this program?
Avatar 6:10pm
Ike:

No JM tomorrow morning so we get to hear DJ Marty McSorley over the air instead. I will dig that.
Avatar 6:19pm
Dr. Goot:

Great Show! - www.youtube.com...
Avatar 6:21pm
Andrea:

Any questions for Grandma Phyllis? She's dancing to Baby Got Back now...
Avatar 6:24pm
Andrea:

The intro music was Yacht's "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" available for a free download on the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I saw a headline today on the NBC news web site "Shocking new research shows Holocaust even worse than thought"

www.nbcnews.com...

Has she heard that news story?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Andrew Waterloo:

This story is a bit jaw dropping.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Special Man:

Recontextualising a song by making a cover of it in a different style is such a commonplace idea that it seems a bit self-righteous to be whining about someone doing another pretty similar cover.
Avatar 6:36pm
Danne D:

Very entertaining RFC :)
And Andrea' grandma seems cool :)
Have a good Seder :)
Avatar 6:42pm
Dr. Goot:

Appropriation is the feast of life, violence has become the condiment.
Avatar 6:43pm
Snortley:

So Moses goes up on Mt. Sinai, and the Lord says, "You gotta take my commandments down to my people." Moses says, "OK, how much do they cost?" The lord says, "Nothing, they're free." So Moses says, "In that case, I'll take ten!"
Avatar 6:44pm
amEdeo:

GRANDMA PHYLLIS!!!!
Avatar 6:48pm
Andrea:

Any questions for everyone's new jewish Grandma, my cohost Grandma Phyllis?
Avatar 6:48pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

I wish RFC was every week.
Avatar 6:49pm
Dr. Goot:

Ha, love the Birthday medley!!! Thanks for a great show!
  6:51pm
FrankenNewYork:

I've been using the first verse of They Might Be Giants' "Time" as a birthday song for years now, it's easy to sing and short.
  6:53pm
jay inthe woods:

Now Kiss From a Rose is a great birthday song.
Avatar 6:56pm
Danne D:

I wonder if that story about the Martin Luther King movie was part of the inspiration for Stevie Wonder to do his Happy Birthday song in honor of Dr. King
  6:56pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Ha! The greeting-card business was an old Maxwell Smart cover.
Avatar 6:57pm
Jeff:

OMG! RMS!
  7:00pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Happy Passover from the Gentile side, grandma!
Avatar 7:00pm
Danne D:

Have a wonderful Seder, Andrea and Grandma Phyllis and all observing :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

"There's no ice here for my drink. Waahhh!" Modern problems, right? Most of us have it pretty good these days.
  7:46pm
Ann Salmon:

So happy to receive this.....but slow to download. A note to dear Grandma Phyllis...so glad I met you and had you stay with us here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You taught me to bake the Kugel. Going to share this with my Bible study group.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17pm
tomasz.:

this was such a charming show
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