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Favoriting June 1, 2016: MOONDOG Centennial Celebration! Guest: Robert Scotto, author of The Viking of Sixth Avenue

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Pentangle  Moondog   Favoriting Sweet Child  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Caribea   Favoriting Moondog (Prestige 1)  0:02:17 (Pop-up)
Rashomon  Caribea   Favoriting Making Moonshine Vol. 4  0:04:03 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Bumbo   Favoriting Moondog and His Honking Geese Playing Moondog's Music  0:05:21 (Pop-up)
Nomo  Bumbo   Favoriting Invisible Cities  0:06:50 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO & LORI CHEATLE  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 1   Favoriting   0:09:54 (Pop-up)
Moondog & daughter June  All is Loneliness   Favoriting Moondog 2  0:21:11 (Pop-up)
Moondog with Steve Reich and Philip Glass  All is Loneliness   Favoriting unreleased recording  0:22:24 (Pop-up)
Big Brother & the Holding Company  All is Loneliness   Favoriting The Lost Tapes, Vol. 1  0:23:41 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Oasis   Favoriting Moondog (Prestige 3)  0:27:11 (Pop-up)
Stefan Lakatos & ensemble  Oasis   Favoriting Moodog & His Friends  0:30:03 (Pop-up)
Moondog & orchestra  Bird's Lament   Favoriting Moondog 1 (Columbia)  0:32:54 (Pop-up)
Hobocombo  Bird's Lament   Favoriting Now That It's the Opposite, It's Twice Upon a Time  0:34:44 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO & LORI CHEATLE  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 2   Favoriting   0:38:14 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Viking I   Favoriting Moondog in Europe  0:50:23 (Pop-up)
R. Stevie Moore  Viking I   Favoriting RSM Does Moondog  0:53:02 (Pop-up)
Moondog  I'm Just a Hop Head   Favoriting H'Art Songs  0:57:51 (Pop-up)
Michael Hopper  I'm Just a Hop Head   Favoriting Hopper (demos)  1:00:18 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO & LORI CHEATLE  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 3   Favoriting   1:03:48 (Pop-up)
Gavin Black (organ)  untitled organ work (Moondog)   Favoriting unreleased  1:13:42 (Pop-up)
Fritz Storfinger (organ)  Logrundr XIX (Portrait of My Mother)   Favoriting Moondog in Europe  1:15:11 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 4   Favoriting   1:23:39 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Theme   Favoriting Moondog 1 (Columbia)  1:36:35 (Pop-up)
Hobocombo  Theme   Favoriting Now That It's the Opposite, It's Twice Upon a Time  1:39:06 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Enough About Human Rights   Favoriting H'Art Songs  1:44:49 (Pop-up)
Found  Enough About Human Rights   Favoriting Making Moonshine  1:48:05 (Pop-up)
Cabaret Contemporain (ft. Linda Olah & Isabel Sorling)  Enough About Human Rights   Favoriting Plays Moondog  1:51:12 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Trimbas in Quarters   Favoriting Viking of Sixth Avenue (CD with book)  1:54:55 (Pop-up)
Stefan Lakatos (trimba)  Trimbas in Woodblock in Five Seconds   Favoriting Viking of Sixth Avenue (CD with book)  1:56:42 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 5   Favoriting   2:00:20 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Pastoral   Favoriting Moondog 2: Madrigals, Rounds & Canons  2:08:31 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Oboe Rounds   Favoriting Moondog (Prestige 2)  2:12:10 (Pop-up)
Clinic  Oboe Rounds   Favoriting Making Moonshine  2:12:28 (Pop-up)
Hobocombo  Stamping Ground   Favoriting Now That It's the Opposite, It's Twice Upon a Time  2:14:19 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Stamping Ground   Favoriting Moondog 1 (Columbia)  2:18:00 (Pop-up)
Ensemble Bracelli with Stefan Lakatos  Dark Eyes   Favoriting Bracelli und Moondog  2:20:40 (Pop-up)
FlÀskkvartetten - Bracelli  Logrundr in G Sharp Minor   Favoriting Moondog conducts FlÀskkvartetten - Bracelli  2:22:38 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Chaconne in G   Favoriting Moondog in Europe  2:26:44 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 6   Favoriting   2:31:22 (Pop-up)
Moondog with the London Brass and London Saxophonic  Black Hole   Favoriting Big Band  2:38:39 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Heimdall Fanfare   Favoriting Viking of Sixth Avenue (CD with book)  2:41:56 (Pop-up)
Moondog with the London Saxophonic  Paris   Favoriting Sax Pax for a Sax  2:44:51 (Pop-up)
Sakamoto Hiromichi  Elf Dance   Favoriting Tribute to Moondog: Trees Against the Sky  2:48:09 (Pop-up)
Moondog with the London Brass and London Saxophonic  Blast Off   Favoriting Big Band  2:50:23 (Pop-up)
ROBERT SCOTTO  MOONDOG INTERVIEW seg 7   Favoriting   2:52:51 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Parq:

Been looking forward to this show all week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Michael 98145:

Been looking forward to this program.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, Irwin! Super psyched for today's show. May as well just go over to Amazon and order the book

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
JP from KC:

Hiya Irwin! Excited to hear lots of Moondog and Moondog-related tunes today!
Avatar 3:03pm
rbxbx:

:wave: stoked for this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
JtotheK:

also looking forward to this program...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Parq:

Greg, you won't regret it. It's engrossing, and it comes with a cool CD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

@Parq: Sweet! Just punched it in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
JtotheK:

@greg - I was thinking the same thing...I really need to read the book...
  3:24pm
Cliff:

The world is goin' to hell on 4/4 time - ain't that the truth!
  3:26pm
Cliff:

(I wonder what Moondog thought of Eno's original experiments with ambient music.....)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
Parq:

That BB&HC was stunning.
  3:30pm
wild neil:

peace. Cliff you ok?
  3:30pm
Cliff:

I'm great, wild neil. How you doin'?
  3:31pm
Cliff:

Don't worry about me, I'm staying plenty hydrated 'n stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Michael 98145:

Love this
Avatar 👻 3:35pm
βrian:

Ah, my favorite ...
  3:35pm
Cliff:

And I just took my daily dose of probiotics
  3:36pm
Marie:

Great show! Thanks Irwin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
JP from KC:

Still peaking, Cliff?
  3:38pm
Marie:

Who could blame him for staying in Germany!? He probably got a lot more respect there and better care.
  3:39pm
Cliff:

Peaked a few hours ago, on the smoooooth plateau now.
Avatar 3:40pm
Michael:

Mr. Scruff does a take on Bird's Lament on "Get a Move On".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
JtotheK:

@Michael - I heard that Mr Scruff track long before I knew about Moondog... and that (Mr Scruff) song was also used in a Lincoln car company commercial at one point...
Avatar 👻 3:42pm
βrian:

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
JtotheK:

Pannonica de Koenigswarter ?
  3:44pm
Fredericks:

Nico, wasn't it Irwin?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
JP from KC:

@Cliff: Glad to hear things are groovy for you, my friend. @JtotheK: I heard that track a long time ago, too. and You're right! I couldn't remember the car company, but I knew it had been on a car commercial somewhat recently.
  3:44pm
Cliff:

This interview is amazing to listen to, and this man amazing to hear about.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Parq:

Marie, @ 2:38 -- that's explored at some length in the book. In Europe, he found all of the adulation and respect as a serious musician and composer that he was denied in the States. Small wonder that there are no memorial concerts planned for the centennial here, but there are several planned in Europe.
  3:50pm
Courtney of Morris:

I'm always confused is this joe frank week?
  3:50pm
Cliff:

Nope, that was last week!
  3:52pm
Listening Out There:

I like it. Scotto will learn who R. Stevie Moore is...
  3:53pm
Listening Out There:

This is Joe Moondog week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
JP from KC:

Thanks for reminding me, Cliff! I still haven't listened to last week's show. Looks like I'll be tuning in to the archives this evening.
  3:54pm
Fredericks:

*Nica*
Avatar 3:56pm
geezerette:

...& Marilyn Monroe's birthday. This lovely music makes a great present.
  3:57pm
Cliff:

Hey geeeeeezerette!
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geezerette:

Hey Cliffffffffff!!!:D
Avatar 3:59pm
geezerette:

( & Olga)
Avatar 4:01pm
geezerette:

Hippy-Hop Head, like a bunny or a musical genre.
Avatar 4:03pm
geezerette:

Steel Drums! :)
  4:03pm
Cliff:

Hey, how you doin'? I'm great, now! Though it was a little touch-and-go during Ken's show (man, that guy, I wanna strangle him sometimes....)
  4:05pm
Fredericks:

This Hopper piece, sounds like They Might Be Giants gone Caribbean.
  4:05pm
Marie:

@ Parq--hey, thanks for the info. I definitely want to read the book! I'm glad he at least got all that good stuff over in Europe. I have pondered moving over there (Marseille), myself (I have an Irish passport).
  4:15pm
Cliff:

Btw, my Tarot reading this morning was King of Pentacles / XVIII. The Moon / 2 of Pentacles. Look up their images, all seem highly relevant!
Avatar 4:16pm
geezerette:

@Cliff: I'm good,(if you mean me ). Haven't listened today until now,missed Ken's show. Check out my profile page if you want,no Madonnas alas but other things.
  4:19pm
jan:

Great birthday party for Moon Dog. Irwin, you mentioned how many NYC tourists photographed Moon Dog: I did, too, on trips from Long Island!( Photos lost long ago.) But it was only after moving to NYC and hearing Moon Dog played by David Garland and Irwin, that I learned about the man and his incredible music,
Avatar 4:19pm
geezerette:

Ready for your adventure? I'm checking out Tarot. :)
  4:20pm
Mark R:

Digging this organ music
  4:20pm
Cliff:

Yes, YOU! Glad to hear you're doing well, geezerette. Ken had a great interview this morning, but those animgifs, man.....I don't ever wanna see Richard Nixon blinkin' his eyes at me like that ever again
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
JP from KC:

With you on that one, Cliff. I don't even need to be under the influence to find those Nixon gifs unnerving.
  4:22pm
Mark R:

Speaking of Nixon, if you think HE had an enemy's list, what do you think THIS guy's gonna have?
  4:23pm
Cliff:

JP, ever watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? There's a wonderful scene where Raoul Duke is succumbing to the effects of adrenochrome while 5 televisions all tuned to Richard Nixon are saying things only Richard Nixon would say.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Parq:

Mark R, a Losers/Haters List.
Avatar 4:25pm
geezerette:

HAHA! He was a character! I'll check out the archive for that.
His eyes were actually beady.
  4:25pm
Cliff:

That guy, man. Jeeez.

But this organ music, great!
  4:25pm
rf:

Spectacular
  4:25pm
Marie:

I could see some of this being really good in a soundtrack, like that Logrundr XIX...
Avatar 4:28pm
geezerette:

Regarding Nixon quotes, my favorite is,"We are NOT invading Cambodia".
  4:28pm
Marie:

poor guy--blind and motherless--but so strong and sensitive
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
JP from KC:

Ha! I totally remember that scene. Classic. I love that Benicio Del Toro's character is slowly turning into the hairy monster with tits on his back that he himself is talking about in the same scene. Been a while since I've seen that film.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
JtotheK:

wait, Moondog relatives in Wisconsin? Interesting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Parq:

I'm glad the movies finally gave The Gonz the treatment he deserved. "Where The Buffalo Roam" was one of the worst pictures I've ever seen.
  4:31pm
Cliff:

Where in Germany did Moondog end up? I may be able to check it out later this summer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
JP from KC:

@Parq: Agreed. It had some redeeming comedic value, but overall, it was terrible. one of Peter Boyle's worst performances as well.
  4:35pm
Cliff:

Chicago, and Blood, Sweat & Tears! Whoa
Avatar 4:37pm
geezerette:

Cliff,Tarot looking good!
  4:38pm
Cliff:

I know, right?!
Avatar 4:39pm
Carmichael:

If it hasn't been said yet, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit! Heya Irwin and compatriots.
  4:40pm
Cliff:

I didn't even look up the traditional readings or nuthin', I was just going by the imagery and what they've been saying about Moondog during this interview. But yeah, smack dab in the middle of my Tarot spread is a dog howlin' at the moon!
Avatar 4:41pm
geezerette:

...with enthusiasm! Full speed ahead!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
Michael 98145:

@Cliff, i believe he died in MÃŒnster, germany
  4:46pm
Cliff:

Thanks, Michael 98145. Looks like it'll be about a 3-hour train ride from Prague.
Avatar 4:47pm
geezerette:

Moondog+cheese, gromit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
Michael 98145:

what about sharks' rights, what about punks' rights
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Parq:

Moondog photographed by Weegee! Yow!
fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com...
Avatar 4:49pm
Henry:

what about shipwrights
Avatar 4:51pm
geezerette:

Can't believe Moondog never scored a film.
  4:52pm
Cliff:

"Did he wish sometimes that he had been born in ancient or medieval times where he could find romance?

"No," he said earnestly. "You can be yourself in any age. You don’t have to follow the herd."

(from Parq's link)
  4:54pm
maxwelltart:

What about Cartwrights?
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geezerette:

Parq,great link!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
JP from KC:

What about Wainwrights?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

What about Shop-Rites?
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geezerette:

what about copy rights>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
JP from KC:

What about Maid-Rites?
  4:59pm
JakeGould:

“Yeah, I just got a call. I yell ‘Cartwright! Cartwright!,’ just like that. Nobody came up, I hang up.”
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geezerette:

What about playwrights?
  5:01pm
Cliff:

I gotta say, two awesome interviews in one day, you're really knockin' it outta the park today WFMU!!
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TDK60:

I've loved Moondog's music for many years. Sadly, apparently, politically he was monarchist, regressive.
Avatar 5:08pm
geezerette:

Well I see what you all mean about the Nixon Gif ,but those are some scary eggs!
  5:09pm
Cliff:

Yeah, imagine looking at all of those while peaking on acid. THANKS KEN!
  5:10pm
Cliff:

(But don't worry, nothing a little Ativan couldn't take care of)
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Evan From Seattle:

Absolutely love this track
  5:11pm
Cliff:

This is beautiful.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's interesting - saw a rather long (& very good) program about Philip Glass on PBS - & in that his two major musical mentors are made out to be his Classical teacher - & Ravi Shankar, from whom they say Glass got the insight that in Indian Classical all notes are emphasized equally. No mention of Moondog in that that I recall. Yet - here on Irwin's he's played Moondog pieces that make the connection immediately apparent...
Oh! I loves 'Forbidden Planet' - Bebe and Louis Barron :
en.wikipedia.org...
  5:14pm
Cliff:

I'm thinking about the influences of Minimalism into pop music - The Necks and Godspeed You Black Emperor! are two bands that come to mind.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I think of the figures that were of the Beat era in the 1950s that were 'weirder' than the Jack Kerouacs ? - like eden ahbez & Lord Buckley...a touch more proto-Hippie - but these guys were still quite singular...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...people like Zappa, & various others in his periphery retained some of that (ahbez was West Coast)...
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drewo:

Thanks Irwin. My dad would tell me stories about seeing Moondog on the streets - I'm reminded to ask him about that.
  5:21pm
Cliff:

I was always partial to Gary Snyder. Still alive and kickin' too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Harrys Partch & Smith, 'cetera...
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geezerette:

& Michael McClure
  5:24pm
Cliff:

John Giorno? He was pretty interesting in the documentary Flicker, about Brion Gysin (and one of the few people making an appearance who didn't seem completely strung-out and brain-fried....so was Kenneth Anger)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...even Mingus & Sun Ra...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:26pm
Michael 98145:

Speaking of Harry Partch: music.washington.edu...
  5:26pm
Cliff:

Actually Iggy Pop was in Flicker too, and he seemed relatively on top of things in his own weird way.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:30pm
chris:

gah! just tuning in... so happy there are archives. i would be crying otherwise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30pm
Sem Chumbo:

Pretty great show, Irwin.Thanks so much.
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geezerette:

There's something Elizabethan about Moondog.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Great performance of this piece.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...self-mythologizing - Collective Unconscious...
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geezerette:

Michael98145: great link!
  5:33pm
Cliff:

The one question I keep asking myself these past 2-1/2 hours is, why the heck haven't I ever heard of this guy before?! Moondog is such a genius.
  5:34pm
Zak:

So much great Moondog!

How about the album he did with Julie Andrews of old English children's songs. It's pretty magical.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Right - all my life I knew Moondog was 'that weird-dressing guy on the street'...like before Irwin's program, I knew Harry Partch made weird instruments - I didn't know him as Composer yet...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
Stevel:

Most of the Moondog info is new to me as well, although much of the music is familiar. Great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44pm
JtotheK:

Great show - thanks Irwin!
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Lewis:

This is such an amazing composition! One of my all time favorites and a spectacular ear worm...
  5:52pm
Cliff:

Thank you so much Irwin & Robert Scotto! Fantastic show today.
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geezerette:

Thanks Irwin! :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Thanks, Irwin and Robert, for this wonderful drill-down into the Great Viking!
  5:56pm
K Wilde:

great show!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
Michael 98145:

Thank you so much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...maybe the proper comparison is Tolkien !...
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geezerette:

Thanks Robert Scotto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Indeed Thx.
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