WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from August 24, 2016

Listener comments!
	3:06pm MONEYBAG$: I've heard this song a million times but have no idea what got beeped
	3:06pm laughingacademy: Apparently you can't say "fuck" on WFMU
	3:09pm MONEYBAG$: Seriously it's mangled by her fake accent
	3:09pm Dunst: No way, laughingacademy, it's a $25 fine!
	3:10pm Brendan: Two dump buttons two mins is bodes well.
	3:11pm Hugh: Ahoy Irwin and fan legion! I haven't checked in anywhere in a while.
	3:11pm Michael 98145: ( reminding me of those Independent Project days ... )
	3:15pm Lyle: Lee Morgan? We drank with him in Tipton, GA one evening back in, maybe 1968. I was touring with Trini Lopez. Well, after a few Harvey Wallbangers, Lee and Trini decided to climb the giant peach-shaped water tower they have down there. The damn thing must be 300-feet tall. About halfway up, Trini got scared and climbed back down, but ol' Lee just kept climbing, all the while throwing down articles of clothing until he was pantless. Nothing but a dickie and his little ballcap. Tipton's finest showed up about that time and started yelling at him through their bullhorn to "get the hell down off of there!" Lee did climb back down, doing a little bow at the bottom before they cuffed him and took him away. Loved that man. They don't make 'em like Lee Morgan anymore!
	3:17pm Irwin: Welcome back to the boards, Lyle!
	3:17pm berbo: "Just take a pebble...."
	3:19pm Michael 98145: power to the people
	3:19pm steve: Lyle! i've missed you.
	3:20pm Greg from ZONE 5: UGH we used to go through that same exchange every week at band practice…
	3:20pm laughingacademy: Have you heard my new band, the White Power Thingy?
	3:20pm berbo: Maybe he was looking for the white powder?
	3:20pm Dice Clay: Opening monologue only mildly offensive. Try harder!
	3:23pm Tom chiu of FLUX: So fkkkkn Gud !!!!
	3:24pm Tom chiu of FLUX: HULLO IRWIN !!!!!
	3:25pm Irwin: Oh em gee! First Lyle, then Tom Chiu!!!! My day = complete.
	3:26pm Irwin: If Kenny G returns to our airwaves, I'll suggest he call his show The White Power Thingie.
	3:32pm Greg from ZONE 5: In my Top 3 Magnetic Fields songs, fer sure.
	👻 3:34pm Alison Porchnik: Anyone see the last film directed by BB? Crazee.
	👻 3:36pm Alison Porchnik: Correction: it's the second to last film he directed. The Gang's All Here.
	3:36pm steve: wish i had some BB choreographed dreams...
	3:43pm Jeff: They don't make 'em like Lyle, either. Welcome back, Lyle, your presence makes a playlist special.
	3:44pm Mudge: That was so nice of Alice Cooper. It makes sense that he would like The Zombies.
	3:44pm Irwin: Al Kooper - a quite different person.
	3:46pm Lyle: Thanks, Jeff. I never miss Irwin's show. I remember when we were both in Pat Suzuki's band for a few months. Irwin's a great drummer. I think it was Irwin? Might have been Bob Crane.
	👻 3:47pm Alison Porchnik: I wish Lyle would write his memoirs (as posted on WFMU comments boards).
	3:52pm laughingacademy: Khaleesi/Charmander 2016!
	3:52pm Jeff: Lyle - the way to tell is to look with your mind's eye and see if you remember chafing on the drummer's wrists. One of them (I won't say who) is renowned for liking to get tied up.
	3:59pm melinda: Thanks for the stories, Lyle. Bob Crane, haha.
	4:01pm Parq: Been looking forward to this segment for days.
	4:01pm geezerette: Howdy Irwin! & fellow Irwinists!
	4:03pm Joe McG: Hey Irwin--Was Music Factory (the label) supposed to be a Tom Wilson label? Was it named after the radio show or vice versa?
	4:04pm geezerette: haha, already great!
	4:04pm Irwin: The Music Factory was a show, then it was a recording studio (which he helped establish). The label might have been associated with the studio. If anyone wants to check around, post here.
	4:07pm Irwin: Yes, there are vintage commercials in this program.
	4:07pm holland oats: !!! great show !!!
	4:08pm V Priceless: this is a real treat - thanks, Irwin!
	4:09pm Nate K: This is insanely cool. Tom Wilson was insanely cool.
	4:21pm Corbo: Tom Wilson (and Jimmy Smith) steady killing it!
	4:21pm Irwin: Sorry, my faulty mem -- Wilson helped establish THE RECORD PLANT, not the Music Factory. Understandable mistake: Music/Record, Factory/Plant.
	4:22pm Joe McG: I looked at all the 45s and LPs on the Music Factory label (which has the same logo as the radio show) and Tom Wilson doesn't seem to have produced any of them, so maybe MGM just thought it was a cool logo and reused it.
	4:29pm Freedom Williams: Things that make you go hmmmm.
	4:31pm Roberto: Preach, Brother Frank.
	4:34pm joeray: Trouble Coming Everyday was the track that made Wilson want to sign the Mothers of Invention to Verve but, according to Zappa, Wilson hadn't heard any of their weirder tracks such as "Who Are the Brain Police" until they were already in the studio recording them.
	4:35pm Irwin: Greatest Richie Havens song ever.
	4:35pm jan: what a great program!
	4:36pm geezerette: Love Richie Havens!
	4:40pm holland oats: Missed the artist's name from the last intro, little help?
	4:41pm jan: Hey- is that opening riff and refrain on music factory ep.1 the same as used on a Blues Project song?
	4:41pm Corbo: Every Mother's Son: Pony with the Golden Mane
	4:42pm holland oats: thx corbo
	4:43pm Nate K: I'm familiar with Donovan's version of "Hey Gyp."
	4:43pm Irwin: Jan: You mean the intro theme? It's the Mothers of Invention, "Help, I'm a Rock," from FREAK OUT, which TW produced.
	4:43pm melinda: Really digging this. I love this Animals song, but lost the album the last time I moved.
	4:45pm common: crazy.
	4:46pm Brendan: Thanks for playing this Irwin and chronicling Tom.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: This is great - maybe this series needs its own WFMU stream!
	4:47pm jan: no, I think it was the Pony with the Golden Mane song that I heard the same opening riff from the blues project lp with flute thing.
	4:51pm geezerette: Irwin thanks so much for sharing this with us! Was not aware of Tom Wilson and am grateful he existed!
	4:55pm Irwin: Marshall Crenshaw is producing a documentary. Has done lots of interviews with folks who knew and worked with Wilson.
	4:55pm geezerette: Great!!!
	4:56pm common: this is very cool irwin. thanks
	4:56pm Michael 98145: Oh, my. When NO ONE would play The Doors on the air. Except the chosen few ... This is great.
	4:56pm MenfussMike: in the early 90's i came across a tape of Tom Wilson having a conversation with Lou Reed. Lou was telling Tom about how he was gonna put coloring books into V.U. records. It was pretty funny. Of course, Lou was full of shit.
	4:57pm Irwin: "In mute nostril agony." - Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, Lord of the Reptiles, Prince of Toads
	4:57pm Michael 98145: " night sweats "
	4:58pm jan: Irwin, I grabbed the Blues Project/Projections LP, the back cover states: produced by Tom Wilson. I dropped the needle on Steve's Song and it's the same riff I asked about!
	4:59pm Michael 98145: ( proving once again this is the best station in the known world )
	5:00pm MenfussMike: that was cool.
	5:01pm Matt: very cool
	5:01pm Santos L Halper: Fantastic Irwin, thanks! Encore!
	👻 5:03pm chris: great stuff, DJ IC! cheers!
	5:03pm Webhamster Henry: Mike Kellin was a cool guy. I think he was in the original Duck Variations (by David Mamet)
	5:04pm Parq: Simulcasting.
	5:05pm Webhamster Henry: The non-duplication rule, I think.
	👻 5:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: WFMU ==> The Music Factory Everyone Else ==> Factory Music
	5:06pm Corbo: I will tune in for every single one of these Tom Wilson Music Factory broadcasts.
	5:08pm Irwin: Thanks, Parq. Early onset senility.
	5:09pm jan: Irwin, BTW, This past week was marked by several obituaries of music industry people- do any of these deserve commentary or musical observance- Lou Pearlman, the music executive who built a pop empire on boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and ’NSync;Toots Thielemans, and Irving Fields? Made for interesting obit reading anyway.
	5:13pm Linda Lee: love the Jeremy Pelt side. delicious!
	5:14pm Michael 98145: It is indeed odd to recall the birth of FM. Few if any cars had FM-band radios. It was a baby miracle invention. Now AM has devolved to a few sports, ethnic and evangelical channels.
	5:15pm melinda: I'm looking forward to more Tom Wilson broadcasts, too.
	5:15pm Linda Lee: do remember AM only radio ~ seems like i dreamed it.
	5:16pm Michael 98145: @LL, that was not a dream
	5:18pm Webhamster Henry: This is the way to play Raymond Scott!
	5:18pm Linda Lee: no, i'm just elderly! :-)
	5:18pm jan: @Linda Lee and @Michael 98145, it does seem like the same dream as 1960s FM radio- the dream lives on with WFMU
	5:18pm geezerette: Hilarious. :D
	5:19pm Michael 98145: "simulcasting" : www.historylink.org... @jan, you are so very correct
	5:19pm Linda Lee: right jan! ~ what carries over is a sense that absolutely anything can happen. that was delicious about FM even into the 70s ~ as i recall it.
	👻 5:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: @LL - You're certain it wasn't a TV show you watched (WKRP)?
	5:20pm Linda Lee: naw ~ think i was off of tv by then :-)
	5:21pm Linda Lee: love this Lee Morgan!
	5:21pm Lyle: Jerry Pelt? No. it can't be the same man I toured with in Connie Chung's band. Before she was a newswoman, Connie fronted a smart little jazz octet and Jerry was first flautist. I, of course, played trombone. Jerry was an early proponent of fuzz boxes, and he irritated Connie many times by engaging it at the most inopportune moments, such as when Connie was introducing Vice-President Nixon during the Eisenhower administration. It was the first and last time we ever played in Whittier. Nixon couldn't stand Jerry's distorted flute version of Hail to the Chief and he walked off stage with the sourest of looks on his face. Another thing. Jerry never performed without putting an aspirin in his Coke. He said it helped him get "out there," and he certainly was. Loved him!
	5:22pm Michael 98145: WFMU is the closest of all to our dearly-departed KRAB-fm : www.historylink.org...
	5:24pm Mark R: Also the great vibraphonist Bobby Hutchinson, Jan. He's been getting a fair amount of FMU play over the last 10 days or so if you check the archives. John Allen played a track this morning.
	5:25pm Linda Lee: this horn is saving my ass today! thanks Irwin!
	5:26pm Irwin: Unfortunately Lee Morgan's horn couldn't save his own ass.
	5:26pm Parq: I'm way behind the curve here, but that was a neat use of Raymond Scott in that Prof. Elemental track.
	5:27pm Linda Lee: no. we're the lucky ones.
	5:27pm Irwin: Yep, Scott's "Twilight in Turkey" at half-speed.
	5:27pm geezerette: God I love Arthur Alexander. :)
	5:28pm Parq: Ah, that was it. I couldn't remember the name of the song, only that it was the opening track on that Raymond Scott Orchestrette album that had Clem Waldman on drums.
	5:29pm Irwin: Tom Wilson did NOT produce that Orchestrette album. But a guy who admires him did.
	5:30pm Parq: < winks >
	5:30pm dale: ola! quite fancy this shifting sands arrangement.
	5:31pm dale: ....and i'm not even wearing my fancying trousers
	5:33pm jan: @Mark R. Irwin observed the Passing of Hutchinson...a few terrific tracks. I'd love to hear more of that. Boy bands, not at all...
	5:36pm Fredericks: I thought someone was remixing Abdullah Ibrahim, but it's Eddie Harris!
	5:37pm geezerette: Sweet show Irwin!
	5:37pm Linda Lee: is that the kind of speedball i think it is?
	5:37pm Listening Out There: Monica as fill-in = Yayski...
	5:37pm Irwin: Thank you, Geezetrix.
	5:38pm geezerette: :)
	5:38pm Michael 98145: @LL, probably not the pen ...
	5:38pm Linda Lee: no ..
	5:40pm Irwin: Lee Morgan? Drugs? How could such a thought even ... ah, never mind.
	5:40pm Linda Lee: just thought it was a newer term! :-)
	5:41pm phillip in the bronx: another repeat of SSD:-( and ken wasnt on this morning. what a lousy Wednesday.
	5:41pm el BO-bO: All these fill ins are discouraging. Andy Brechman is probably in the left coast at Wally World or something. I dont take off for the Summer like some people do. LRP - Lucky Radio People.
	5:43pm jan: The Byrds, If you are gone- Holds up to these ears... one of the few jems heard first in Jr High school on Long Island.
	5:44pm phillip in the bronx: seriously can not station manager ken send out one tweet saying he wont be on or that seven second delay is a rebroadcast. im glad @irwin thinks of his audience.
	5:44pm common: love the backing vocals on that byrds tune.
	5:44pm Irwin: Gene Clark was the soul of that band. The rest were just major talents.
	5:45pm Fredericks: Re: MenfussMike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Cyw9yhkMs
	5:46pm Listening Out There: I've read that the Byrds didn't play their instruments on most well-known tracks (Wrecking Crew played 'em). Don't know if that extends to their earliest recordings...
	5:46pm flashbazbo: It's Bobby hutcherson not Hutchinson or butchers son either
	5:46pm Michael 98145: ( i think i heard station manager ken is doing good for the folks down in Louisiana )
	5:47pm flashbazbo: I heard it was only on the very first byrds records like maybe one
	5:48pm Linda Lee: i'm just happy to work indoors today & hear fmu!
	5:51pm MenfussMike: mute
	5:51pm Irwin: I hope Clay Pigeon is listening and loves this Corrs track.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: pretty sweet. i think he'd dig it.
	5:53pm jan: Best of the Corrs, huh? I'm not in love with it...
	5:54pm Parq: From what I remember from the doc, the Wrecking Crew did a lot of filling in for bands whose members were too busy on the road or whatever to get into the studio.
	5:56pm Michael 98145: "Breathless" was nominated for a Grammy in 2001.
	5:58pm jan: Irwin- no SSD? stay on and extra hour and entertain us!
	5:59pm Linda Lee: seconded!
	5:59pm Michael 98145: DJ Irwin has earned his week away
	6:20pm Clay: We used to drive across Nebraska to Julesberg, Colorado just to get Coors Beer, before it was widely distributed. Let's start a band.
	8:40am Michael: Irwin - loved the Tom Wilson show. Looking forward to the rest.
	3:48pm Irwin: Special thanks to RRG for helping compile the Music Factory playlist.
	8:02pm Jeff Kreines: Are there more episodes of The Music Factory? Please, more Tom Wilson!

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August 24, 2016: TOM WILSON's Music Factory, ep. 1

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lily Allen	The Fear "The Fear" by "Lily Allen"	It's Not Me, It's You	0:03:46 (Pop-up)
For Against	Shadow "Shadow" by "For Against"	Shelf Life	0:07:15 (Pop-up)
Jaki Byard	Spanish Tinge #2 "Spanish Tinge #2" by "Jaki Byard"	Solo/Strings	0:10:49 (Pop-up)

Jessica Jalbert	Swinging Party "Swinging Party" by "Jessica Jalbert"	Jessica Jalbert Doin' the Replacements	0:20:22 (Pop-up)
Vincent Herring	Simple Pleasure "Simple Pleasure" by "Vincent Herring"	Simple Pleasure	0:23:37 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Busby Berkeley Dreams	69 Love Songs	0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Bird & the Bee	Ray Gun "Ray Gun" by "Bird & the Bee"	Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future	0:33:10 (Pop-up)
Zombies	Maybe After He's Gone "Maybe After He's Gone" by "Zombies"	Odessey & Oracle	0:37:41 (Pop-up)

Magic Potion	Jelly "Jelly" by "Magic Potion"	Pink Gum	0:42:55 (Pop-up)
Bad-Lip Reading the DNC	Bad-Lip Reading the DNC	youtube	0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Die Kreuzen	Pink Flag "Pink Flag" by "Die Kreuzen"	Touch & Go 7" (1990)	0:51:30 (Pop-up)

TOM WILSON	The Music Factory (ep. 1: Tom Wilson)	THE MUSIC FACTORY (MGM-Verve series, 1967-68)	1:01:46 (Pop-up)
Tom Wilson	opening monolog (theme music: Help, I'm a Rock)
The Paupers	Magic People "Magic People" by "The Paupers"	Magic People
Tom Wilson	monolog "monolog" by "Tom Wilson"
commercial	The James Cotton Blues Band (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	monolog - Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery	Goin' Out of My Head	The Best of Wes Montgomery
Tom Wilson	monolog - The Mothers of Invention in Europe
The Lovin’ Spoonful	She’s Still a Mystery	Everything Playing
Tom Wilson	monolog - The Lovin' Spoonful
commercial	Gone with the Wind (soundtrack album)
Tom Wilson	monolog - Jimmy Smith, Clarence Avant
Jimmy Smith	Funky Broadway "Funky Broadway" by "Jimmy Smith"	Respect
Tom Wilson	monolog - The Mothers, Frank Zappa, Watts riots
The Mothers of Invention	Trouble Every Day	Freak Out!
Tom Wilson	monolog - European hippies
commercial	Alan Lorber’s The Lotus Palace (album)
commercial	Nico (Chelsea Girl album)
Tom Wilson	monolog - Richie Havens
Richie Havens	No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed	Something Else Again
Tom Wilson	monolog - Wes Farrell's apparel, Every Mother’s Son
Every Mother’s Son	Pony with the Golden Mane	Every Mothers' Son's Back
Tom Wilson	monolog - Eric Burdon & the Animals 1
Eric Burdon and The Animals	Hey Gyp	The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals Vol. 2
Tom Wilson	monolog "monolog" by "Tom Wilson"
commercial	Tim Hardin 1 (album) "Tim Hardin 1 (album)" by "commercial"
Tom Wilson	monolog - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Maurice André (trumpet)	Telemann: Oboe Concerto in E Minor: IV. Allegro	unknown
Tom Wilson	monolog - Eric Burdon & the Animals 2
Eric Burdon and The Animals	Hotel Hell	Winds of Change
Tom Wilson	monolog - Recording trumpets, Nightmare Pick of the Week
The Doors	Horse Latitudes/Moonlight Drive (excerpt)	Strange Days
Tom Wilson	monolog "monolog" by "Tom Wilson"
commercial	Mike Kellin - And The Testimony's Still Coming (album)
Tom Wilson	outro (theme music: Help, I'm a Rock)

Public Service Broadcasting	Spitfire	Inform - Educate - Entertain	2:05:26 (Pop-up)
Jeremy Pelt	Danny Mack "Danny Mack" by "Jeremy Pelt"	Men of Honor	2:09:21 (Pop-up)
Professor Elemental	Fighting Trousers	The Indifference Engine	2:15:49 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan	Speedball "Speedball" by "Lee Morgan"	The Gigolo	2:18:40 (Pop-up)
Arthur Alexander	Whole Lot of Trouble	The Ultimate Arthur Alexander	2:24:15 (Pop-up)
The Shifting Sands	Lady (Dennis Wilson cover)	Lady (demo)	2:26:30 (Pop-up)
Eddie Harris	The Children's Song "The Children's Song" by "Eddie Harris"	High Voltage	2:29:45 (Pop-up)

Eric Matthews	The Imagination Stage	The Imagination Stage	2:36:18 (Pop-up)
The Byrds (Gene Clark)	If You're Gone	Turn, Turn, Turn!	2:39:38 (Pop-up)
The Guild Light Gauge	Cloudy (Paul Simon)	We Make Rock 'N Roll Records single P-1600	2:42:07 (Pop-up)
Deerhunter	Cryptograms "Cryptograms" by "Deerhunter"	Cryptograms	2:44:36 (Pop-up)
The Corrs	Breathless "Breathless" by "The Corrs"	Best of the Corrs	2:48:53 (Pop-up)
Lindisfarne	Meet Me on the Corner	Fog on the Tyne	2:52:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:06pm MONEYBAG$: I've heard this song a million times but have no idea what got beeped
	3:06pm laughingacademy: Apparently you can't say "fuck" on WFMU
	3:09pm MONEYBAG$: Seriously it's mangled by her fake accent
	3:09pm Dunst: No way, laughingacademy, it's a $25 fine!
	3:10pm Brendan: Two dump buttons two mins is bodes well.
	3:11pm Hugh: Ahoy Irwin and fan legion! I haven't checked in anywhere in a while.
	3:11pm Michael 98145: ( reminding me of those Independent Project days ... )
	3:15pm Lyle: Lee Morgan? We drank with him in Tipton, GA one evening back in, maybe 1968. I was touring with Trini Lopez. Well, after a few Harvey Wallbangers, Lee and Trini decided to climb the giant peach-shaped water tower they have down there. The damn thing must be 300-feet tall. About halfway up, Trini got scared and climbed back down, but ol' Lee just kept climbing, all the while throwing down articles of clothing until he was pantless. Nothing but a dickie and his little ballcap. Tipton's finest showed up about that time and started yelling at him through their bullhorn to "get the hell down off of there!" Lee did climb back down, doing a little bow at the bottom before they cuffed him and took him away. Loved that man. They don't make 'em like Lee Morgan anymore!
	3:17pm Irwin: Welcome back to the boards, Lyle!
	3:17pm berbo: "Just take a pebble...."
	3:19pm Michael 98145: power to the people
	3:19pm steve: Lyle! i've missed you.
	3:20pm Greg from ZONE 5: UGH we used to go through that same exchange every week at band practice…
	3:20pm laughingacademy: Have you heard my new band, the White Power Thingy?
	3:20pm berbo: Maybe he was looking for the white powder?
	3:20pm Dice Clay: Opening monologue only mildly offensive. Try harder!
	3:23pm Tom chiu of FLUX: So fkkkkn Gud !!!!
	3:24pm Tom chiu of FLUX: HULLO IRWIN !!!!!
	3:25pm Irwin: Oh em gee! First Lyle, then Tom Chiu!!!! My day = complete.
	3:26pm Irwin: If Kenny G returns to our airwaves, I'll suggest he call his show The White Power Thingie.
	3:32pm Greg from ZONE 5: In my Top 3 Magnetic Fields songs, fer sure.
	👻 3:34pm Alison Porchnik: Anyone see the last film directed by BB? Crazee.
	👻 3:36pm Alison Porchnik: Correction: it's the second to last film he directed. The Gang's All Here.
	3:36pm steve: wish i had some BB choreographed dreams...
	3:43pm Jeff: They don't make 'em like Lyle, either. Welcome back, Lyle, your presence makes a playlist special.
	3:44pm Mudge: That was so nice of Alice Cooper. It makes sense that he would like The Zombies.
	3:44pm Irwin: Al Kooper - a quite different person.
	3:46pm Lyle: Thanks, Jeff. I never miss Irwin's show. I remember when we were both in Pat Suzuki's band for a few months. Irwin's a great drummer. I think it was Irwin? Might have been Bob Crane.
	👻 3:47pm Alison Porchnik: I wish Lyle would write his memoirs (as posted on WFMU comments boards).
	3:52pm laughingacademy: Khaleesi/Charmander 2016!
	3:52pm Jeff: Lyle - the way to tell is to look with your mind's eye and see if you remember chafing on the drummer's wrists. One of them (I won't say who) is renowned for liking to get tied up.
	3:59pm melinda: Thanks for the stories, Lyle. Bob Crane, haha.
	4:01pm Parq: Been looking forward to this segment for days.
	4:01pm geezerette: Howdy Irwin! & fellow Irwinists!
	4:03pm Joe McG: Hey Irwin--Was Music Factory (the label) supposed to be a Tom Wilson label? Was it named after the radio show or vice versa?
	4:04pm geezerette: haha, already great!
	4:04pm Irwin: The Music Factory was a show, then it was a recording studio (which he helped establish). The label might have been associated with the studio. If anyone wants to check around, post here.
	4:07pm Irwin: Yes, there are vintage commercials in this program.
	4:07pm holland oats: !!! great show !!!
	4:08pm V Priceless: this is a real treat - thanks, Irwin!
	4:09pm Nate K: This is insanely cool. Tom Wilson was insanely cool.
	4:21pm Corbo: Tom Wilson (and Jimmy Smith) steady killing it!
	4:21pm Irwin: Sorry, my faulty mem -- Wilson helped establish THE RECORD PLANT, not the Music Factory. Understandable mistake: Music/Record, Factory/Plant.
	4:22pm Joe McG: I looked at all the 45s and LPs on the Music Factory label (which has the same logo as the radio show) and Tom Wilson doesn't seem to have produced any of them, so maybe MGM just thought it was a cool logo and reused it.
	4:29pm Freedom Williams: Things that make you go hmmmm.
	4:31pm Roberto: Preach, Brother Frank.
	4:34pm joeray: Trouble Coming Everyday was the track that made Wilson want to sign the Mothers of Invention to Verve but, according to Zappa, Wilson hadn't heard any of their weirder tracks such as "Who Are the Brain Police" until they were already in the studio recording them.
	4:35pm Irwin: Greatest Richie Havens song ever.
	4:35pm jan: what a great program!
	4:36pm geezerette: Love Richie Havens!
	4:40pm holland oats: Missed the artist's name from the last intro, little help?
	4:41pm jan: Hey- is that opening riff and refrain on music factory ep.1 the same as used on a Blues Project song?
	4:41pm Corbo: Every Mother's Son: Pony with the Golden Mane
	4:42pm holland oats: thx corbo
	4:43pm Nate K: I'm familiar with Donovan's version of "Hey Gyp."
	4:43pm Irwin: Jan: You mean the intro theme? It's the Mothers of Invention, "Help, I'm a Rock," from FREAK OUT, which TW produced.
	4:43pm melinda: Really digging this. I love this Animals song, but lost the album the last time I moved.
	4:45pm common: crazy.
	4:46pm Brendan: Thanks for playing this Irwin and chronicling Tom.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: This is great - maybe this series needs its own WFMU stream!
	4:47pm jan: no, I think it was the Pony with the Golden Mane song that I heard the same opening riff from the blues project lp with flute thing.
	4:51pm geezerette: Irwin thanks so much for sharing this with us! Was not aware of Tom Wilson and am grateful he existed!
	4:55pm Irwin: Marshall Crenshaw is producing a documentary. Has done lots of interviews with folks who knew and worked with Wilson.
	4:55pm geezerette: Great!!!
	4:56pm common: this is very cool irwin. thanks
	4:56pm Michael 98145: Oh, my. When NO ONE would play The Doors on the air. Except the chosen few ... This is great.
	4:56pm MenfussMike: in the early 90's i came across a tape of Tom Wilson having a conversation with Lou Reed. Lou was telling Tom about how he was gonna put coloring books into V.U. records. It was pretty funny. Of course, Lou was full of shit.
	4:57pm Irwin: "In mute nostril agony." - Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, Lord of the Reptiles, Prince of Toads
	4:57pm Michael 98145: " night sweats "
	4:58pm jan: Irwin, I grabbed the Blues Project/Projections LP, the back cover states: produced by Tom Wilson. I dropped the needle on Steve's Song and it's the same riff I asked about!
	4:59pm Michael 98145: ( proving once again this is the best station in the known world )
	5:00pm MenfussMike: that was cool.
	5:01pm Matt: very cool
	5:01pm Santos L Halper: Fantastic Irwin, thanks! Encore!
	👻 5:03pm chris: great stuff, DJ IC! cheers!
	5:03pm Webhamster Henry: Mike Kellin was a cool guy. I think he was in the original Duck Variations (by David Mamet)
	5:04pm Parq: Simulcasting.
	5:05pm Webhamster Henry: The non-duplication rule, I think.
	👻 5:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: WFMU ==> The Music Factory Everyone Else ==> Factory Music
	5:06pm Corbo: I will tune in for every single one of these Tom Wilson Music Factory broadcasts.
	5:08pm Irwin: Thanks, Parq. Early onset senility.
	5:09pm jan: Irwin, BTW, This past week was marked by several obituaries of music industry people- do any of these deserve commentary or musical observance- Lou Pearlman, the music executive who built a pop empire on boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and ’NSync;Toots Thielemans, and Irving Fields? Made for interesting obit reading anyway.
	5:13pm Linda Lee: love the Jeremy Pelt side. delicious!
	5:14pm Michael 98145: It is indeed odd to recall the birth of FM. Few if any cars had FM-band radios. It was a baby miracle invention. Now AM has devolved to a few sports, ethnic and evangelical channels.
	5:15pm melinda: I'm looking forward to more Tom Wilson broadcasts, too.
	5:15pm Linda Lee: do remember AM only radio ~ seems like i dreamed it.
	5:16pm Michael 98145: @LL, that was not a dream
	5:18pm Webhamster Henry: This is the way to play Raymond Scott!
	5:18pm Linda Lee: no, i'm just elderly! :-)
	5:18pm jan: @Linda Lee and @Michael 98145, it does seem like the same dream as 1960s FM radio- the dream lives on with WFMU
	5:18pm geezerette: Hilarious. :D
	5:19pm Michael 98145: "simulcasting" : www.historylink.org... @jan, you are so very correct
	5:19pm Linda Lee: right jan! ~ what carries over is a sense that absolutely anything can happen. that was delicious about FM even into the 70s ~ as i recall it.
	👻 5:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: @LL - You're certain it wasn't a TV show you watched (WKRP)?
	5:20pm Linda Lee: naw ~ think i was off of tv by then :-)
	5:21pm Linda Lee: love this Lee Morgan!
	5:21pm Lyle: Jerry Pelt? No. it can't be the same man I toured with in Connie Chung's band. Before she was a newswoman, Connie fronted a smart little jazz octet and Jerry was first flautist. I, of course, played trombone. Jerry was an early proponent of fuzz boxes, and he irritated Connie many times by engaging it at the most inopportune moments, such as when Connie was introducing Vice-President Nixon during the Eisenhower administration. It was the first and last time we ever played in Whittier. Nixon couldn't stand Jerry's distorted flute version of Hail to the Chief and he walked off stage with the sourest of looks on his face. Another thing. Jerry never performed without putting an aspirin in his Coke. He said it helped him get "out there," and he certainly was. Loved him!
	5:22pm Michael 98145: WFMU is the closest of all to our dearly-departed KRAB-fm : www.historylink.org...
	5:24pm Mark R: Also the great vibraphonist Bobby Hutchinson, Jan. He's been getting a fair amount of FMU play over the last 10 days or so if you check the archives. John Allen played a track this morning.
	5:25pm Linda Lee: this horn is saving my ass today! thanks Irwin!
	5:26pm Irwin: Unfortunately Lee Morgan's horn couldn't save his own ass.
	5:26pm Parq: I'm way behind the curve here, but that was a neat use of Raymond Scott in that Prof. Elemental track.
	5:27pm Linda Lee: no. we're the lucky ones.
	5:27pm Irwin: Yep, Scott's "Twilight in Turkey" at half-speed.
	5:27pm geezerette: God I love Arthur Alexander. :)
	5:28pm Parq: Ah, that was it. I couldn't remember the name of the song, only that it was the opening track on that Raymond Scott Orchestrette album that had Clem Waldman on drums.
	5:29pm Irwin: Tom Wilson did NOT produce that Orchestrette album. But a guy who admires him did.
	5:30pm Parq: < winks >
	5:30pm dale: ola! quite fancy this shifting sands arrangement.
	5:31pm dale: ....and i'm not even wearing my fancying trousers
	5:33pm jan: @Mark R. Irwin observed the Passing of Hutchinson...a few terrific tracks. I'd love to hear more of that. Boy bands, not at all...
	5:36pm Fredericks: I thought someone was remixing Abdullah Ibrahim, but it's Eddie Harris!
	5:37pm geezerette: Sweet show Irwin!
	5:37pm Linda Lee: is that the kind of speedball i think it is?
	5:37pm Listening Out There: Monica as fill-in = Yayski...
	5:37pm Irwin: Thank you, Geezetrix.
	5:38pm geezerette: :)
	5:38pm Michael 98145: @LL, probably not the pen ...
	5:38pm Linda Lee: no ..
	5:40pm Irwin: Lee Morgan? Drugs? How could such a thought even ... ah, never mind.
	5:40pm Linda Lee: just thought it was a newer term! :-)
	5:41pm phillip in the bronx: another repeat of SSD:-( and ken wasnt on this morning. what a lousy Wednesday.
	5:41pm el BO-bO: All these fill ins are discouraging. Andy Brechman is probably in the left coast at Wally World or something. I dont take off for the Summer like some people do. LRP - Lucky Radio People.
	5:43pm jan: The Byrds, If you are gone- Holds up to these ears... one of the few jems heard first in Jr High school on Long Island.
	5:44pm phillip in the bronx: seriously can not station manager ken send out one tweet saying he wont be on or that seven second delay is a rebroadcast. im glad @irwin thinks of his audience.
	5:44pm common: love the backing vocals on that byrds tune.
	5:44pm Irwin: Gene Clark was the soul of that band. The rest were just major talents.
	5:45pm Fredericks: Re: MenfussMike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Cyw9yhkMs
	5:46pm Listening Out There: I've read that the Byrds didn't play their instruments on most well-known tracks (Wrecking Crew played 'em). Don't know if that extends to their earliest recordings...
	5:46pm flashbazbo: It's Bobby hutcherson not Hutchinson or butchers son either
	5:46pm Michael 98145: ( i think i heard station manager ken is doing good for the folks down in Louisiana )
	5:47pm flashbazbo: I heard it was only on the very first byrds records like maybe one
	5:48pm Linda Lee: i'm just happy to work indoors today & hear fmu!
	5:51pm MenfussMike: mute
	5:51pm Irwin: I hope Clay Pigeon is listening and loves this Corrs track.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: pretty sweet. i think he'd dig it.
	5:53pm jan: Best of the Corrs, huh? I'm not in love with it...
	5:54pm Parq: From what I remember from the doc, the Wrecking Crew did a lot of filling in for bands whose members were too busy on the road or whatever to get into the studio.
	5:56pm Michael 98145: "Breathless" was nominated for a Grammy in 2001.
	5:58pm jan: Irwin- no SSD? stay on and extra hour and entertain us!
	5:59pm Linda Lee: seconded!
	5:59pm Michael 98145: DJ Irwin has earned his week away
	6:20pm Clay: We used to drive across Nebraska to Julesberg, Colorado just to get Coors Beer, before it was widely distributed. Let's start a band.
	8:40am Michael: Irwin - loved the Tom Wilson show. Looking forward to the rest.
	3:48pm Irwin: Special thanks to RRG for helping compile the Music Factory playlist.
	8:02pm Jeff Kreines: Are there more episodes of The Music Factory? Please, more Tom Wilson!

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from August 24, 2016

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