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Artist Track Album / Format Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience ![]()
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1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Paul Winter Consort Icarus ![]()
Icarus (CD) ![]()
1972 album produced by George Martin 0:01:49 Pop-up) Fairport Convention Bring 'em Down ![]()
Nine (LP) ![]()
1973 0:04:47 Pop-up) Cheap Trick Taxman, Mr. Thief ![]()
Cheap Trick (LP) 1977 0:10:46 Pop-up) Taj Mahal w/ The Pointer Sisters Texas Woman BLues ![]()
The Collection (CD) ![]()
1972 / 1987 0:14:57 Pop-up) West Virginia Night Owls Sweet Bird ![]()
Blind Alfred Reed-Appalachian Visionary (CD box set) * 1927 / 2016 0:18:07 Pop-up) Ray Mason Not Everyone Can Live In California ![]()
The Shy Requester (CD) * ![]()
2016 0:20:43 Pop-up) Clifford Brown Max Roach Quintet Junior's Arrival ![]()
The Quintet Vol. 2 (2LP) ![]()
1956 / 1977 0:24:19 Pop-up) NRBQ South ![]()
Froggy's Favorites Volume One: Live 1979-1999 (CD box set) ![]()
1990 / 2006 0:27:52 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"0:29:33 Pop-up) Jerry Goldsmith Theme(s) from The Man From Uncle, #1-4 ![]()
Uncle! (CD-R) ![]()
1963-1967 0:40:21 Pop-up) Xtc The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul ![]()
Skylarking (CD) ![]()
1987 0:48:04 Pop-up) Bebop Boys feat. Bud Powell Bebop in Pastel ![]()
The Bebop Boys (2LP) ![]()
1946 / 1978 VAR 0:51:28 Pop-up) Lemonade Charade Cecil ![]()
Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox 0:54:25 Pop-up) Marcos Valle Ele E Ela ![]()
Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox 0:58:30 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"0:58:39 Pop-up) Jim Helms The Search ![]()
Kung Fu (LP) ![]()
1973 OST
Thanks to Duane Miller1:06:11 Pop-up) Spanky & Our Gang Like To Get To Know You ![]()
Spanky's Greatest Hits (CD) ![]()
1969 / 1988 1:08:58 Pop-up) Cocek! Brass Band Flutter ![]()
Round Two (CD) * 2016 1:12:13 Pop-up) Kenneth Patchen w/ The Chamber Jazz Sextet State of The Nation ![]()
Rebel Poets Of America (CD) ![]()
1957 / 2008 split cd w/Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1:15:36 Pop-up) Theron Hale & Daughters Hale's Rag ![]()
Ragtime 2: The Country - Mandolins, Fiddles, and Guitars (LP) ![]()
19? / 1971 1:18:27 Pop-up) Giles, Giles Fripp, & McDonald Scrivens ![]()
The Brondesbury Tapes 1968 (CD) ![]()
1968 / 2002 1:22:32 Pop-up) Johan Soderqvist Brothers ![]()
Brothers (CD) ![]()
2007 OST 1:23:33 Pop-up) Peter Holsapple I Am A Tree ![]()
Out Of My Way (CD) ![]()
1992 1:26:05 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"1:26:19 Pop-up) Lynn Blessing Child Of The Universe ![]()
Cosmic Cowboy (LP) ![]()
1969 1:38:01 Pop-up) Boyd Bennett & His Rockets Seventeen ![]()
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1955 1:39:32 Pop-up) Leroy Anderson Horse & Buggy ![]()
His Own Compositions, Vol. 2 (10") ![]()
1951 1:41:20 Pop-up) Todd Rundgren Say No More ![]()
Runt* / The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (CD box set) ![]()
1970 / 2011 cd bonus track; song on 1st pressing of LP only 1:44:40 Pop-up) The City All My Time ![]()
Now That Everything's Been Said (LP) ![]()
1968 1:47:53 Pop-up) Leiber-Stoller Big Band Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots ![]()
Yakety Yak (LP) ![]()
1961 1:51:44 Pop-up) Mamas & Papas Twelve Thirty (Young Girls are coming to the Canyon) ![]()
All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection (CD box set) ![]()
1968 / 2001 1:56:26 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"1:56:35 Pop-up)
(* = new,The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)
Listener comments!
9:06am : Good morning, Bob. Thanks for a nice, mellow Saturday start with PWC's "Icarus."![]()
9:10am : Guten Morgen bb!![]()
9:13am : God Bless Cheap Trick!9:24am :
Good morning, Bob and fellow listeners!![]()
9:25am : Nice shit from Mr. Ray Mason!9:30am :
Wouldn't a Froggy's Favorites Volume Two be nice?![]()
9:38am : Nouin9:40am :
Irwin Chusid's opening theme music sounds an awful lot like the Man from Uncle intro to me.9:41am :
Also, for reasons I don't remember, Cheap Trick's been on my mind a lot the past week or so too.![]()
9:42am : They were just inducted into the R&R HOF9:44am :
I've been commenting that for years about Irwin's opening, but I'm the only one who seems to see the resemblance.
I think maybe Cheap Trick was inducted because I had them on my mind. I have that psychic influence.![]()
9:45am : It was on tv last weekend as well![]()
9:47am : Your psychic radar must pick up HBO.![]()
9:48am : Been seeing little people and dragons in your dreams?9:48am :
I haven't watched TV in a few yrs., and it was about 10 days ago I started obsessing about Dream Police. Maybe it had to do with my own dreams.
Anyway, try listening to Irwin's opening theme now, & see if it doesn't sound like the Man from UNCLE music. You have to unpack the melody & rhythm.![]()
9:51am : I'm never near a radio during Irwins show.have to check it out9:51am :
So did "Yes, I Can, No, You Can't" copy off "Man from UNCLE" or vice versa? Irwin doesn't hear any such resemblance, BTW.![]()
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9:53am :
I have a distinct memory of hearing a track by track review with band commentary when Skylarking came out. I'm sure it was on FMU.9:53am :
wfmu.org... , BEAVO.![]()
9:53am : Budo![]()
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9:54am :
Bud Powell - like a Charlie Parker w/ a keyboard left hand - head beaten into mental illness by a Cop.![]()
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9:57am :
...better details : en.wikipedia.org...9:59am :
I'm always hearing resemblances between pieces of music. For another instance, www.youtube.com... and www.youtube.com... . I was at a performance of that trio a few yrs. ago, heard that piece, noticed the resemblance & asked about it. They said theirs was their own composition, they'd never heard that TV show I'd remembered from 50 yrs. previous. Plus it might've been before their time.![]()
10:00am : He could Have been a great classical pianist but they wouldn't accept a black artist in those days.10:01am :
You're saying they wouldn't dabble in the black arts? ;-)![]()
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10:02am :
Signing in from the office on a Saturday -- BAH! Keep the good tunes rolling Bob. You're making my morning at work a lot more enjoyable.10:02am :
Wow, I'd no idea Bob B. wasn't pre-programming his whole show until he just said he makes most choices at the last minute. Interesting, Bob.![]()
10:02am : You said that I didn't!![]()
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10:03am :
Marcos Valle was a Brazilian songwriter/singer. He cut a few good Lps on Warner Bros. in the late sixties.10:06am :
I lay it all to JFK. He said he read Ian Fleming novels, and it's like the next day everyone was reading James Bond.10:07am :
Mostly John Kennedy made women swoon, but promoting Ian Fleming was his big influence on men.10:08am : A decent Man from Uncle film seems like an obvious hit but so far we've only seen Uk cheapie that came out last year. That show was huge![]()
10:10am : Spanky Rules!10:10am :
I couldn't see a Man from UNCLE movie made now as being interesting, because the TV show was a complete creature of its time, making fun of all the super-spy stuff.![]()
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10:10am :
Agree with Smokin'J!!![]()
10:12am : thx bro' 8-)10:15am : Beautiful Spanky and our Gang song.
The song, the harmony vocals, and those atmospheric strings. And the lyrics- full of such week longing.10:16am : Yikes, wayward fingers. I mean, such sweet longing.10:30am : Yo Bob![]()
10:34am : The Saga of Rodney Toady, Rodney was a very sad young man.![]()
10:35am : Rodney did not want to marry fat and ugly girls.![]()
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10:39am :
What a wild song to cover. Child of the Universe?![]()
10:40am : Byrds cover, what movie was that in?![]()
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10:40am :
Candy10:41am : Boyd Bennett! Yowsa!!!![]()
10:43am : Yes! With Ringo as Manuel the gardener "Dis no good"![]()
10:44am : A great movie to watch stoned10:47am : No Nyro, no Runt![]()
10:48am : They just released a "Box 'o Todd" with unreleased radio shows from this early period with the Hello People. 71-73.10:49am : Very pretty, Todd![]()
10:50am : Todd hates his voice on that early stuff, says "I sound like a little boy."![]()
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Great show Bob!![]()
11:00am : Correct9:41pm : Open channel D
(Shelley got today's memo, played Avengers theme)