WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from October 17, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: good mrning joe, i get a whole hour with you this morning!
	9:04am Marcel M: Joe! Excited for this.
	👻 9:04am doctorjazz: Hi-is this in memoriam for JM in the AM?
	9:04am Brendan: Hey Joe and people. What it do?
	9:04am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	👻 9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Theodore Beagle, our dog's favourite.. Looking forward to todays show.
	👻 9:07am Brian in UK: Jac Holzman for President and I do not mean WEA Records.
	9:07am mariano: 'Morning, Joe! Hi everyone -- what is this, the second or third show in a row for us, Guido and Brian?
	👻 9:08am Brian in UK: mariano, I have been to work too.
	9:09am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Joe and clan McGasko.
	👻 9:13am Brian in UK: Hope I am not pre-empting Joe's comments. Follow the Music is the name of the excellent Elektra story. www.followthemusic.com ...and Mick Houghton's excellent story, Becoming Elektra. recordcollectormag.com...
	9:15am Joe McG: A happy Elektra morning to you all. @drjazz: JM wasn't on today, so I had to do my part. @Brian: Thanks for the links!
	9:15am Brendan: Monday morning is about right for ballads.
	9:15am mariano: Oh wow, been to work and back? How time flies! Hey Joe, if you have an album called The Music of Scotland, and National Geographic album from 1974, lots of good stuff on there. Digging this version of St James Infirmary too!
	9:16am MD: Good Morning Freeform Fans....All Over Da world!!!
	9:16am mariano: *a Nat Geo album, that is.
	9:21am Joe McG: @mariano: Today we're doing only music that came out on Elektra Records. This first set is the 50s, the first decade of the label.
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: Arguably the first 'World music' (whatever that is) label.
	9:23am JakeGould: Hey!
	👻 9:23am Brian in UK: Joe, hoping for some sound effects album. That series was one of their biggest sellers.
	👻 9:24am doctorjazz: Great stuff!
	9:24am Joe McG: @Brian: Oh, I'll play some, sure!
	9:29am annie: Mariano!!! do you have a copy of that NG album? i can't find it anywhere
	9:29am Sem Chumbo: So, this morning becomes completely Electra. The play's the thing. Had to be said.
	9:30am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:30am Roberto: Theodore Bickle? Is that Travis's uncle?
	9:31am mariano: Wow Sem, you win the Internet for the day!
	9:32am JakeGould: Theodore Bikel. Jews in NYC cannot escape that guy.
	9:34am mariano: @annie: not any more, sadly, though there are copies floating around on GEM. I have some mp3s I ripped from it though, a really heart-wrenching version of Mickey's Warnin' though I don't have my favorite, Jean Redpath singing Ae Fond Kiss. There's a really cool tweed wauking song, with women pounding out tweed with their fists, keeping a rhythm and singing in Gaelic. Happy to share with you if there's an option in the private message area, or I can put them on Dropbox and share the link.
	9:34am Jeff Golick: Aw yeah this is gonna be great.
	👻 9:37am Brian in UK: He could have called it Agamemnon.
	9:38am JakeGould: Or maybe "AAA Awesome Records."
	9:39am Brendan: I thought the name sounded familiar. His son is keyboardist Adam Holzman. Small world.
	9:40am Parq: "I know! Let's call it 'Atlantic'! What?"
	9:40am annie: that album is one of my favorites, lost it in a move.. :( yes, i'll message you
	9:40am Guido from Cologne: tose super-sonic banjo-pickers ....
	👻 9:42am doctorjazz: Love this Spence stuff.
	9:42am annie: ok, gotta book!
	9:42am Cecile: Then we'll hear Metallica at some point? And the Stooges?
	9:42am Marcel M: Ah! Joseph Spence! I have a Mississippi records reissue of his. Cool dude.
	9:43am Joe McG: @Cecile: We're doing Jac Holzmann era today, 1950-1973. Stooges likely, Metallica no.
	9:45am Sem Chumbo: So I have the perception you will be not walking us thru any Doors. Joe?
	9:45am Cecile: Dang. Television weren't Jac Holtzmann era, but they were great.
	9:45am JakeGould: It's nice to know that a label had a persona before it became just another catalog division.
	9:46am Jeff Golick: It kinda looks like Jac took the k from his name and used it for the company name, Germanic explanation notwithstanding.
	9:46am Cecile: these guys are local gods. This is a big folk town.
	9:47am melinda: Folksong '65 is a great album! Unfortunately my turntable is in a box in a closet, so I haven't played it in years.
	👻 9:47am Brian in UK: Ofcourse The Stooges were Danny Field's baby, A WFMU hero. Sem, The Doors were the label's first No.1 so very important, like 'em or not.
	9:48am Joe McG: @Jeff: I forgot to tell that part of the story, thanks! Oh, and I'll be playing the Doors, yes.
	9:49am mariano: @annie: that's awesome! It's been a favorite of mine since I was 12, when my grandfather made a tape of it for me when he heard I was interested in Scottish folk music. It was really my introduction to the genre.
	9:50am Cecile: Love were on Elektra.
	9:50am Cooh John: Good morning JM and and WFMUers. Elektric sounds.
	👻 9:52am Brian in UK: Cecile those four Love Elektra albums are each priceless in their own way.
	9:52am Sem Chumbo: @BiUK: had no idea, thanks for that.
	9:52am Marcel M: JM in the AM... Joe McGasko in the AM... Joe, just take over! You could use his swag !! Wouldn't have to change a thing!
	9:53am Cecile: Exactly!
	9:53am melinda: I love the Last Thing on My Mind. One of the earliest songs I remember hearing.
	9:53am Cecile: Meanwhile, I had to go listen to Master of Puppets. I will be back.
	9:54am Parq: I told this story once before, on Uncle Michael's playlist. I saw Paxton in a bar in Cambridge in the late 70s. Introducing "Last Thing", he said that he knew he had made it as a folkie when he was in an audience himself and heard the singer introduce "Last Thing" as "an old Scottish folk song."
	👻 9:55am Brian in UK: My first Elektra album was Phil Ochs' All the News That's Fit to Sing. Christmas '68.
	9:56am Dennis Diken: Joe, wow, this is a fascinating voyage thru the history of Elektra! thanks!
	👻 9:58am Brian in UK: American sleeves, especially Elektra were so heavy and protective compared to British sleeves.
	9:58am Joe McG: @Marcel M: Great idea! @Parq: Great story! @Brian: This one's for you. @Dennis: Thanks for tuning in!
	9:59am Miss Mailas: Phil Ochs is exactly the man I needed to hear on this Monday morning. Thank you, Joe!
	10:00am SmokinJ: Great set Joe!
	👻 10:00am Brian in UK: Thanks Joe. Still get so sad hearing him.
	10:03am Cecile: he got it from both jaded music fans and the government in the end. Pretty sad.
	10:06am Cecile: OK. My first Elektra record was Queen's Night at the Opera. Hey, you can put the first Queen record on there - it came out in '83.
	10:07am KP: Phil Ochs was not related to the NY Times Ochs family but he was intrigued by the idea, his brother Michael said. The title of Phil's album "All the Songs Fit to Sing" is play on the paper's motto.
	10:08am JakeGould: Queen's first was in 1983?
	10:08am Cecile: sorry, '73
	10:09am Cecile: sausage fingers this morning.
	10:10am Cecile: well, even thought one of them is not in the right era, thank you Elektra for making three records I can listen to every day - Funhouse, Forever Changes, and Master of Puppets.
	👻 10:11am doctorjazz: Saw Ochs in a Village club when he was already quite famous, but had started his decline. Really sad set.
	10:12am βrian: As I understand it, the term "whirled music" originally referred to the Sufi Dervish tradition ...
	10:13am mariano: @Joe: just seeing your post about it being Elektra music -- I know, was just recommending the album in general if you like British Isles folk!
	👻 10:15am Brian in UK: doctorjazz, think he only came over here with the Yippies. Never performed to my knowledge. I was surprised how good this sounds in the twilight of his Autumn. www.allmusic.com...
	10:17am JakeGould: This is Greek, right? I like it.
	10:18am lloyd michigan: Any monkey chant?
	👻 10:18am Brian in UK: No mentions of Monty Python's cheese shop sketch.
	10:19am Greg from ZONE 5: PLAY SOME HULA BLUES!
	10:19am Jeff Golick: @Brian: that is ALL I can think of when faced with the word "bouzoukee."
	10:20am Guido from Cologne: Ha! I own this record! As a French Vogue pressing.
	10:20am davefromtoronto: great show today joe. thanks!
	10:21am Cecile: yes! The Nonesuch Gamelan records were like top 40 in parts of Ann Arbor.
	10:23am ChrisB.: Such an educational show this morning. I feel I should get course credit for listening.
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Cecile. Queen was Holzman's final legacy before selling up.
	10:25am melinda: Great theme today. I know some of the early folky stuff and the Elektra name but until today didn't appreciate the connection.
	10:26am Cecile: this actually sounds a little bit like African thumb piano.
	10:26am Joe McG: @ChrisB: You have to go see the registrar.
	10:27am lloyd michigan: Could it be? Monkey chant?
	10:27am bobdoesthings: monkey chant!
	10:27am Marcel M: See the registrar and pay for your class by hitting the PLEDGE NOW link in the widget above! Show WFMU and Joe some love and appreciation.
	10:28am lloyd michigan: Thank you! Great way to start the week.
	10:28am bobdoesthings: the youtube videos of the monkey chant are pretty fun.... also featured in the movie Baraka.
	10:28am Brendan: This sounds like a chant we sang at the bbq this weekend.
	10:29am Joe McG: Listen to Marcel, he's a wise man! :)
	10:29am lloyd michigan: First heard this "under the influence" in college many years ago.
	10:30am bobdoesthings: there was a Mr Bungle song that sampled the monkey chant.. IIRC
	10:30am βrian: This would be good "closing time" music for a restaurant.
	10:31am steve: nice
	10:32am Mike East: @bobdoesthings - I don't think they sampled...I think Mike Patton performed it...so they were ripping it off, or referencing it. Goodbye Sober Day, I think.
	10:32am bobdoesthings: wikipedia the monkey chant - en.wikipedia.org...
	10:33am this guy: @bobdoesthings, It was "Goodbye Sober Day" off of California. nice attempt to incorp something already so powerful with some metal riffs
	10:34am Mike East: this guy knows.
	👻 10:34am Brian in UK: LOVE
	10:35am Cheri Pi: Heya Joe!
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Fifty years old and still can not be beat.
	👻 10:37am tadpoles: Great show thanks Joe. I vote for some Love and Doors. Arthur Lee was the one who told JH about the Doors whom he didn't like at first. I still prefer the brown big E label design of that period. Much better than that silly butterfly. Didn't Phil Och's sister have a show on FMU if my memory from the '80's serves? Great Love! Cheers.
	10:37am coelacanth: crap. i just missed a nonesuch tribute? ..."music from the morning of the world" was, i'm pretty sure, the first thing i heard on wfmu that made me stay tuned to it, in 1977.
	👻 10:37am Brian in UK: ....and the explosion from one of the sound effect albums.
	10:37am Cecile: I loved the butterfly. It looked so cool.
	10:38am Joe McG: @tadpoles: You are correct on all counts, although I kind of like the caterpillar and butterfly.
	10:39am Joe McG: @Brian: I love that! Use what's in-house.
	10:39am steve: Joe et al - last week i was teaching and the substitute who came in to teach the class after mine said he was a WFMU dj in the 80s! i believe his dj name was Matty O? nice guy.
	10:41am Joe McG: @steve: Wow, I remember listening to his show! (I've been listening since about 1986.)
	👻 10:44am Brian in UK: @steve check the comment at 11:46. wfmu.org...
	10:45am steve: nice! i found him on the schedule in a 1988 LCD.
	10:45am davefromtoronto: LOVE that joni tune!
	10:45am lloyd michigan: Whatever happened to Jannie Brittan?
	10:45am βrian: I was going to suggest this very song earlier.
	10:46am the Master: Joni.
	10:46am steve: dam. im amazed by your memory Brian! if i see him again i'll ask about the vacuum cleaner!
	👻 10:48am Brian in UK: There were quite a few one-off albums and singles. Steve lord knows how the comments got onto vacuum cleaners. It was late on a Friday.
	10:48am coelacanth: Judy Henske was on elektra too.
	10:48am Guido from Cologne: By the way: the astrology-album (first use of Moog-Synth in pop ever), that came out around the same time as the Doors' debut is pretty good.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: Sailcat was a popular one-off.
	10:49am Greg from ZONE 5: Killer.
	10:49am lloyd michigan: Ian "Shake It" Matthews?
	10:50am Joe McG: @Guido: Stay tuned! @coelacanth: I pulled Judy and forgot to play her. Sorry!
	10:50am cee: godamn joe you're destroying me with these selections today
	10:50am bobdoesthings: who wrote "these days" originally? I'm most familiar with Nico's version.
	10:51am coelacanth: 'sokay... Great program!
	👻 10:51am Brian in UK: @bob The Pretender?
	10:51am Sem Chumbo: Jackson Brown.
	10:52am Greg from ZONE 5: Heron!
	10:52am statoj: @bobdoes things, Tom Rush!
	10:52am coelacanth: i always thought it was Jackson Brown.
	10:52am Sem Chumbo: with an "e". He was sixteen.
	10:52am bobdoesthings: ah, looks like it was a Jackson Browne song originally. figures...
	10:53am slowbear: First rainy day in LA in months. Great set!!!
	10:53am Joe McG: @cee: Those two back-to-back are murder! @Sem: Apparently, Jackson recorded a big pack of demos for the label that never got released.
	10:53am Sem Chumbo: americansongwriter.com...
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Signing ISB was a bold move.
	10:54am statoj: I stand corrected...thanks!
	10:55am lloyd michigan: In '65 he was 17. :)
	👻 10:55am doctorjazz: It was Jackson Brown, was recorded by many artists, though, I liked a version by Greg Allman.
	10:55am melinda: The Nico version is my favorite, I think the arrangement transforms it. Although other versions are nice too.
	👻 10:55am Brian in UK: Terence Boylan (Appletree Theatre) wrote Shake It.
	10:56am briania: Yay for the Dennis Linde - what a sound!
	👻 10:56am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi there, Joe and Electramorn. <scans playlist> Oh, good, I haven't missed The Cars yet.
	10:56am Sem Chumbo: Wonderful idea, BiUK. And Joe giving it legs. Show starred.
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: @melinda Nico, like Johnny Cash makes most songs her own.
	10:58am coelacanth: i've got to hear that Gregg Allman version of these days. he had such a great voice. (maybe still has?
	10:58am Joe McG: @briana: Dennis Linde is very underrated!
	10:59am bobdoesthings: @melinda- yup, im with you. the Nico version can sometimes get me to tear up its so gooood.
	11:00am Brendan: Cake's guitar player must have lifted that Rhinoceros lick.
	👻 11:01am doctorjazz: Crabby Appleton! Man, haven't heard or thought of this in ages, great track!
	👻 11:02am Brian in UK: Michael Fennelly sounding a bit English to me.
	11:03am Ben in Toronto: Bet three hours of radio ever! My old folkie heart is racing (and pumped by 7 and 7 Is). Was on a long dog walk in dismal fall weather hoping you'd play Urge for Going. So thrilled you did, and an alternate single version at that. And ISB had singles? I'm sure they never scathed the airwaves. Thank you so much!
	👻 11:04am Brian in UK: This must be the best time keeping single file ever.
	11:04am sinner: ....woke up this morning thinking man I need me some crabby appleton (a single I bought when it first came out when I was in third grade....yikes)
	👻 11:05am doctorjazz: I love the Nico version as well, she also has a great voice (well, not really, but really knows how to use it and sing).
	👻 11:05am Brian in UK: @Ben I should be dog walking but...later.
	👻 11:05am doctorjazz: Aw, missed Urge For Going (in and out of radio range), love that song.
	11:06am djsheilab: Hey @Joe McG! I was listening in my car this morning and loved the Nonesuch set. There was one record in particular that was absolutely bonkers!
	11:06am melinda: I also like Nico's version of I'll Keep it With Mine.
	11:07am djsheilab: Will Motley Crue be coming up in the last hour? : )
	11:09am Cecile: no wonder you like southern rock so much...
	11:09am Guido from Cologne: ! yay!
	11:10am Joe McG: @Sheila: No, we're just going to hold off at 1973. Motley Crue will have to wait until the 1973-current day Part Two! ;)
	11:11am mariano: Wow, I'm Jan. 18, late Capricorn. This is definitely going in my collection!
	11:11am V Priceless: somebody summon the Goat? Hey!
	11:11am sinner: ....dude sounds just like scott williams...
	11:12am Dominick: Love this record. Jim Lockhart engineered it. The usual gang of idiots playing.
	11:12am Guido from Cologne: @mariana worthwhile!
	👻 11:12am Brian in UK: Capricious, one of those hard to describe words.
	11:12am djsheilab: @Joe McG I shall look forward to it. And this Zodiac record....so very good!
	11:14am bobdoesthings: I think they just used the word 'capricious' because of the alliteration with 'capricorn'
	11:14am Guido from Cologne: as I said: first Moog in pop! a few catalog digits before or after The Doors' debut. :-)
	11:14am Joe McG: I don't really feel like I'm an uncapricious climber!
	11:16am Cecile: who else did Earth Anthem?
	11:17am coelacanth: melinda, if i'd never heard Sandy Denny singing "i'll keep it with mine", i'd love Nico's version! (as it is i still like it)
	11:17am Joe McG: @Cecile: The Turtles.
	11:17am Sem Chumbo: @bob: I thought it might have something to do with the antics of goats. So wrong, was I. "The noun caprice, which first appeared in English in the mid-17th century, is a synonym of whim. Evidence shows that the adjective capricious debuted about sixty years before caprice; it's likely, however, that both words derived via French from the Italian capriccio, which originally referred not to a sudden desire but to a sudden shudder of fear. Capriccio in turn derives from the Italian capo, meaning "head," and riccio, the word for "hedgehog." Someone who shuddered in fear, therefore, was said to have a "hedgehog head"-meaning that his or her hair stood on end like the spines of a hedgehog" Merriam Webster
	11:17am βrian: I would have gone for "capering capricorn.'
	11:18am Cecile: Dan Fogelberg did, but I think someone else did too.
	👻 11:19am Brian in UK: Battle of the Bands?
	11:19am a doors fan: thanks for playing the doors
	11:20am Mister Dobalina: Nicely played with this one. Thanks for the rotation!
	11:20am Cecile: Yes! Turtles Battle of the Bands! They do a gorgeous versoin.
	11:21am Joe McG: For fans of station history, this record I'm playing now was Vin Scelsa's copy.
	11:21am Dean: OED on capriccio: < Italian capriccio sudden start, motion, or freak, apparently < capro goat, as if ‘the skip or frisk of a goat’ (in Spanish capricho ) < Latin type *capriceus . (For the sense compare capriole n.)
	11:21am Cecile: www.youtube.com...
	11:22am melinda: @coel: that's my other favorite version
	👻 11:23am Brian in UK: Oh I love Elektra Surface Noise with Joe McGasko..
	11:23am pantz: What a pretty song. Great show, Joe.
	👻 11:23am tadpoles: Wow Joe... how can you go higher in my estimation... I didn't think anyone else knew of Audience ... I thought they were great and Howard Werth's voice quite incredible. Cheers
	11:24am βrian: @Dean: Yes, a capering goat.
	👻 11:24am Ken From Hyde Park: What about people driving a Ford/Mercury Capri or wearing capri pants? They sound like capricious types to me.
	11:24am Cecile: DUH. Joe. I didn't see your response. Oh, well, it triggered some of my brain cells.
	11:25am βrian: Capri pants are appropriate only when drinking Limoncello.
	👻 11:26am Brian in UK: Another one-off. Percy Sledge's engineer.
	11:26am Cecile: Turtles did it before Cyrus did it!
	👻 11:27am Brian in UK: Marlin is now taking beautiful photographs. www.oneearthimages.com
	11:28am Brendan: Joe you have been the consummate Elektrician this morning.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Brendan: I'm feeling desperate, I'm running out of time and have so much music to play!!
	11:30am Cecile: Bread. The dark heart of soft rock.
	11:30am pantz: @Joe McG That's a good problem to have.
	11:30am Brendan: @Joe I can only imagine. Still its been a nice slice.
	11:31am Joe McG: I hope I'm the only WFMU DJ ever to do a Bread/Stooges segueway.
	11:31am Cecile: YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
	11:32am Cecile: I'm sure someone has. I'm sure! Maybe Clay?
	11:32am V Priceless: yeah babee
	11:33am Cecile: when you do a seg like this, you really get the flavor of what the era was like.
	👻 11:34am Ken From Hyde Park: (Idea) There should be a segue search button on the web page somewhere.
	11:35am Stevel: Good lord. The Stooges. [bang clang bang clang bang clang] A groove approaching the likes of John Lee Hooker. Cecile: Very true.
	11:35am coelacanth: - and a link to "Famous Segues".
	11:35am Cecile: YEAH
	11:35am Cecile: YEAH
	11:35am Dean: Bread Stooges works as a band name, too.
	11:35am V Priceless: I'm trying to convince a good friend of mine to 'come out of retirement' and re-form our Iggy/Stooges cover band. I swear the guy channels Iggy like no one else - and plays guitar like Buck Dharma at Ritchie Blackmore's house, too!
	11:35am KP: Kick out the jams!
	11:36am Cecile: damn. VP that talent must come out.
	11:37am KP: oops, that was an unintentional correction
	11:37am Cecile: one thing though that sucks. MC5 never had the production the Stooges did.
	11:37am Doug C.: It's a beautiful Eleanor Rigby free day thus far. Kudos to you for playing Crabby Appleton's Go Back, a song I had lodged in my brain hard drive but was unable to locate, till now!
	11:38am coelacanth: (John Lee Hooker:) "it's in'im, and it's got to come out."
	11:38am V Priceless: that's exactly how I feel, Cecile...I'm working on it!
	11:38am Cecile: YAH. Sound like Roger Taylor singing.
	11:38am JakeGould: Rock!!!
	11:38am Brendan: I loved the album covers of the late 60's early 70's (a lot of Elektra's) that were often simple soft portraits of the artists in contemplation with natural light.
	11:39am V Priceless: whoa with the Roger Taylor Queen tune, Joe! Woo!
	11:39am Cecile: OK. this song invented thrash metal.
	👻 11:39am Brian in UK: Who plays keyboards?
	11:40am coelacanth: Freddie.
	11:41am Cecile: Freddie used to IIRC.
	11:41am KP: somehow i made it to this point without ever hearing that queen track
	11:41am mariano: Same here KP.
	11:42am Cecile: me too, KP.
	11:42am V Priceless: first Queen rekkid...one of their best, IMHO, next to "Sheer Heart Attack".
	11:42am Cecile: And it's weird because "Nosebleed" records in Sweden just recommended it as the best opening song of the best debut record. hahha
	11:42am Dean: Atomic Rooster sounds much like Dortmund's Epitaph, who released their first album the same year as this one.
	👻 11:43am Brian in UK: Drachen Theaker plays drums here and on Four Sail is that an El;ektra connection?
	11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: Haha! This could be a lost Spinal Tap track…
	👻 11:46am Brian in UK: @Cecile how about Fresh Garbage by Spirit or Do It Again by Steely Dan for the same award. Different category.
	11:46am coelacanth: VP - totally agree. sheer heart attack rules!
	11:48am KP: the wikipedia entry on Atomic Rooster is unintentionally hilarious in a Spinal Tap way,
	11:48am Cecile: MOVE COVER?
	👻 11:48am Brian in UK: Bluddy hell, New Seekers covering the Move?
	11:49am Cecile: B in UK, sure!
	11:49am V Priceless: haha...a Move cover! Hey fish!
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Strictly a Roy Wood cover.
	11:50am coelacanth: a little "his latest flame" in there.
	11:50am V Priceless: yeah, a Roy tune for sure!
	11:50am Cecile: coel, of course! It's Roy!
	11:50am Sem Chumbo: Many thanks for the all the Elektra spins and the fine company. See you, and all, later, Joe.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: This show has kicked complete ass, Joe.
	11:52am βrian: Today's show earns a four-beer rating:
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: See you Sem. Joe, only one man for this job. First of ...... This is not Elektras finest moment.
	11:52am Mike East: Jobriath!
	11:52am KP: the byrds - as the beefeaters - were on Elektra
	11:52am coelacanth: later on, Sem
	11:53am V Priceless: Roy was hanging out at one of the recent NYC ELO gigs, apparently...and a Cheap Trick show in NJ, of course.
	11:53am βrian: ( 🍺 🍺 🍺 🍺 )
	👻 11:53am Brian in UK: @KP but Colombia could give them the worldwide coverage.
	11:54am Dennis Diken: New Seekers "Tonight" blew my mind, never heard it!
	11:54am Cecile: VP, I saw. He looked pretty good. I had heard he was in really frail health.
	11:54am Joe McG: @KP: Had that one lined up, KP, but didn't get to it.
	11:54am KP: Earth Opera, wow!
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Best Elektra track ever. 'Alone Again Or' Does not age. There I've said it.
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Hope you had fun. See you next week!
	11:56am KP: It came to mind b/c they were associated with Love.
	11:56am KP: brian, yeah
	11:56am whattawino: This song was also redone on the debut Seatrain album. Great stuff!
	11:56am JakeGould: Excellent show, JM!
	11:57am βrian: Autumnal love — nothing like it.
	👻 11:57am tadpoles: BinUK.. agree. Thank you Joe
	11:57am Jeff: Don't stop!
	11:58am drr: "It's tired, and I'm getting late..."
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe! Awesome tunes today.
	11:58am Guido from Cologne: awesome show thanks Joe!
	11:59am Parq: Classic show, Joe. Thanks.
	11:59am coelacanth: Thanks Joe. Most Excellent!
	11:59am V Priceless: Thanx, Joe!
	👻 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Three out of five listeners say it's awesome.
	12:01pm Brendan: Ah The Wackers. Thanks for the reminder Joe. That porn is not gonna watch itself. Great show, man.
	2:58pm Mark in Toronto: It's Bob Segarini, not Michael, of Roxy and The Wackers. Search out Bob's solo album, Gotta Have Pop. Great idea and show. As an aside, I am the 3rd "from Toronto" commenter, probably a new record.
	10:00am Joe McG: Thanks for the clarification, Mark. I was trying to remember his name and failing. I actually have the "Gotta Have Pop" LP, on pretty marbled pink vinyl! I wonder if I have ever played it on the show? Thanks for listening!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from October 17, 2016

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Mon. Feb 10th, 9am - Noon: Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies (More info...)
Cowboy Junkies are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with a tour that comes to the tri-state area in mid-February. On today's show, Joe talks to Michael Timmins, the band's guitarist and main songwriter, about the band's beginnings in Toronto, their continuously creative career, the glory and stigma of the great cover tune, and their most recent album, Such Ferocious Beauty.

October 17, 2016: Morning Becomes Elektra

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Elektra's First Decade "Elektra's First Decade"
Theodore Bikel	Dodi Li (My Beloved)	Follow the Music	First Media	1998	CD	From "Sings Songs of Israel," 1956	0:02:51 (Pop-up)
Ed McCurdy	The Jolly Boatman "The Jolly Boatman" by "Ed McCurdy"	Sin Songs (Pro and Con)	Elektra	1954	10"		0:05:22 (Pop-up)
Susan Reed	The Foggy Dew "The Foggy Dew" by "Susan Reed"	Follow the Music	First Media	1998	CD	From "Old Airs from Ireland, Scotland, and England," 1954	0:06:55 (Pop-up)
Jean Ritchie	Old Virginny "Old Virginny" by "Jean Ritchie"	Jean Ritchie	Elektra	1954	LP		0:09:04 (Pop-up)
Hally Wood	House of the Rising Sun	Outside Llewyn: Folk Music Before the "Revival" - Shrunken Planet 2016 Marathon Premium)	WFMU	2016	CD-R	From "O Lovely Appearance of Death," 1953	0:11:36 (Pop-up)
Josh White	St. James Infirmary "St. James Infirmary" by "Josh White"	The Best of Josh White	Elektra	1970	LP	From "Josh at Midnight," 1956	0:14:07 (Pop-up)
Shel Silverstein and the Red Onion Jazz Band	I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Hairy Jazz	Water	2008	CD	From 1959	0:17:46 (Pop-up)
Sabicas and Los Traineros	Fandangos de Huelva	Festival Gitana	Elektra	1958	LP		0:20:20 (Pop-up)
The Original Trinidad Steel Band	Cheek to Cheek	The Original Trinidad Steel Band	Elektra	1957	LP		0:23:03 (Pop-up)

Folk Revival and Into the 60s "Folk Revival and Into the 60s"
The Dillards	Dooley "Dooley" by "The Dillards"	single	Elektra	1963	45		0:37:02 (Pop-up)
Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman	Old Joe Clark	New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass	Elektra	1963	LP		0:38:49 (Pop-up)
Joseph Spence	The Crow "The Crow" by "Joseph Spence"	Happy All the Time	Carthage	1985	LP	From 1964	0:40:03 (Pop-up)
Dick Rosmini	900 Miles "900 Miles" by "Dick Rosmini"	Folksong '65	Elektra	1965	LP		0:42:27 (Pop-up)
"Spider" John Koerner, Dave "Snaker" Ray, and Tony "Little Sun" Glover	Linin' Track	Blues, Rags & Hollers	Red House	1995	CD	From 1963	0:44:57 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins	Wild Mountain Thyme "Wild Mountain Thyme" by "Judy Collins"	A Maid of Constant Sorrow	Elektra	1962	LP		0:47:16 (Pop-up)
Tom Paxton	The Last Thing on My Mind	Ramblin' Boy	Elektra	1964	LP		0:49:45 (Pop-up)
Fred Neil	A Little Bit of Rain "A Little Bit of Rain" by "Fred Neil"	Bleecker & MacDougal	Collector's Choice Music	2002	CD	From 1965	0:52:47 (Pop-up)
Kathy & Carol	Green Rocky Road "Green Rocky Road" by "Kathy & Carol"	Kathy & Carol	Collector's Choice Music	2004	CD	From 1965	0:55:08 (Pop-up)
Phil Ochs	There But for Fortune "There But for Fortune" by "Phil Ochs"	Phil Ochs in Concert	Elektra	1966	LP		0:57:35 (Pop-up)

Nonesuch Explorer Early Highlights "Nonesuch Explorer Early Highlights"
Cuadro Flamenco	La Isla "La Isla" by "Cuadro Flamenco"	The Soul of Flamenco	Nonesuch	1965	LP	first Nonesuch Explorer release (but originally released on Elektra in 1960)	1:10:17 (Pop-up)
S. Balachander & Sivaraman	Karpagame (excerpt)	The Music of India	Nonesuch	1965	LP		1:12:56 (Pop-up)
Iordanis Tsomidis, et al.	Nisiotikos Choros (Island Dance)	Bouzoukee: The Music of Greece	Nonesuch	1966	LP		1:14:52 (Pop-up)
Hatta	Echigojishi (Folk Song) "Echigojishi (Folk Song)" by "Hatta"	The Koto Music of Japan	Nonesuch	1966	LP		1:18:02 (Pop-up)
Sinclair Little	Green Hills of Tyrol	Caledonia: The Macpherson Singers and Dancers of Scotland	Nonesuch	1966	LP	Originally released in 1960 on the mother label	1:20:02 (Pop-up)
The Pennywhistlers	Shto Mi e Milo	Folksongs of Eastern Europe	Nonesuch	1966	LP	Macedonia	1:21:59 (Pop-up)
Teodulo Naranjo	El Toro Antejuelo	The Real Mexico in Music and Song	Nonesuch	1966	LP		1:23:52 (Pop-up)
Various Artists	Ketjak Dance (excerpt)	Music from the Morning of the World	Nonesuch	1967	LP		1:26:09 (Pop-up)

Single File: Elektra singles snapshot "Single File: Elektra singles snapshot"
Love	7 and 7 Is "7 and 7 Is" by "Love"	single	Elektra	1966	45		1:34:38 (Pop-up)
Eclection	Mark Time "Mark Time" by "Eclection"	single	Elektra	1968	45		1:36:38 (Pop-up)
Jeannie Brittan	Busy Dreamin' "Busy Dreamin'" by "Jeannie Brittan"	single	Elektra	1967	45		1:39:20 (Pop-up)
Tim Buckley	Wings "Wings" by "Tim Buckley"	single	Elektra	1966	45		1:41:32 (Pop-up)
Tom Rush	Urge for Going "Urge for Going" by "Tom Rush"	single	Elektra	1968	45		1:44:00 (Pop-up)
Ian Matthews	These Days "These Days" by "Ian Matthews"	single	Elektra	1973	45		1:47:31 (Pop-up)
The Incredible String Band	This Moment	single	Elektra	1970	45		1:51:01 (Pop-up)
Dennis Linde	Hello I Am Your Heart	single	Elektra	1973	45		1:54:11 (Pop-up)
Rhinoceros	Apricot Brandy "Apricot Brandy" by "Rhinoceros"	single	Elektra	1968	45		1:57:03 (Pop-up)
Crabby Appleton	Go Back "Go Back" by "Crabby Appleton"	single	Elektra	1970	45		1:59:02 (Pop-up)

Into the 70s and the End of the Golden Era
The Zodiac	Capricorn: The Uncapricious Climber	Cosmic Sounds	Elektra	1967	LP	This one's all about me	2:09:09 (Pop-up)
Cyrus	Evergreen (Earth Anthem) "Evergreen (Earth Anthem)" by "Cyrus"	Cyrus	Elektra	1971	LP		2:12:34 (Pop-up)
Pat Kilroy	Light of Day "Light of Day" by "Pat Kilroy"	Light of Day	Collector's Choice Music	2007	CD	From 1966	2:15:02 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Indian Summer "Indian Summer" by "The Doors"	Morrison Hotel	Elektra	1970	LP	BTW, Audience put out a song on Elektra by the same title a year or so later	2:17:56 (Pop-up)
David Stoughton	Evening Song "Evening Song" by "David Stoughton"	Transformer	Elektra	1968	LP	vocal: Devi Klate	2:20:31 (Pop-up)
Marlin Greene	Jonathan's Dream "Jonathan's Dream" by "Marlin Greene"	Tiptoe Past the Dragon	Elektra	1972	LP		2:24:51 (Pop-up)
Jeanie Greene	Pre-cognition "Pre-cognition" by "Jeanie Greene"	Mary Called Jeanie Greene	Elektra	1971	LP		2:27:12 (Pop-up)
Bread	Move Over "Move Over" by "Bread"	Bread	Elektra	1969	LP		2:28:32 (Pop-up)
The Stooges	Down on the Street "Down on the Street" by "The Stooges"	Fun House	Elektra	1970	LP		2:30:53 (Pop-up)
The MC5	Borderline "Borderline" by "The MC5"	Kick Out the Jams	Elektra	1991	CD	From 1969	2:34:32 (Pop-up)
Queen	Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll "Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll" by "Queen"	Queen	Elektra	1973	LP		2:37:18 (Pop-up)
Atomic Rooster	I Can't Take No More	Death Walks Behind You	Elektra	1971	LP		2:39:09 (Pop-up)
Painter	West Coast Woman "West Coast Woman" by "Painter"	single	Elektra	1973	45		2:42:30 (Pop-up)
Roxy	Love Love Love "Love Love Love" by "Roxy"	Roxy	Elektra	1969	LP		2:45:16 (Pop-up)
The New Seekers	Tonight "Tonight" by "The New Seekers"	New Colours	Elektra	1971	LP		2:47:21 (Pop-up)
Jobriath	Liten Up "Liten Up" by "Jobriath"	single	Elektra	1974	45	last gasp of the era	2:50:06 (Pop-up)
Earth Opera	Home to You "Home to You" by "Earth Opera"	The Great American Eagle Tragedy	Elektra	1969	LP		2:53:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: good mrning joe, i get a whole hour with you this morning!
	9:04am Marcel M: Joe! Excited for this.
	👻 9:04am doctorjazz: Hi-is this in memoriam for JM in the AM?
	9:04am Brendan: Hey Joe and people. What it do?
	9:04am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	👻 9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Theodore Beagle, our dog's favourite.. Looking forward to todays show.
	👻 9:07am Brian in UK: Jac Holzman for President and I do not mean WEA Records.
	9:07am mariano: 'Morning, Joe! Hi everyone -- what is this, the second or third show in a row for us, Guido and Brian?
	👻 9:08am Brian in UK: mariano, I have been to work too.
	9:09am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Joe and clan McGasko.
	👻 9:13am Brian in UK: Hope I am not pre-empting Joe's comments. Follow the Music is the name of the excellent Elektra story. www.followthemusic.com ...and Mick Houghton's excellent story, Becoming Elektra. recordcollectormag.com...
	9:15am Joe McG: A happy Elektra morning to you all. @drjazz: JM wasn't on today, so I had to do my part. @Brian: Thanks for the links!
	9:15am Brendan: Monday morning is about right for ballads.
	9:15am mariano: Oh wow, been to work and back? How time flies! Hey Joe, if you have an album called The Music of Scotland, and National Geographic album from 1974, lots of good stuff on there. Digging this version of St James Infirmary too!
	9:16am MD: Good Morning Freeform Fans....All Over Da world!!!
	9:16am mariano: *a Nat Geo album, that is.
	9:21am Joe McG: @mariano: Today we're doing only music that came out on Elektra Records. This first set is the 50s, the first decade of the label.
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: Arguably the first 'World music' (whatever that is) label.
	9:23am JakeGould: Hey!
	👻 9:23am Brian in UK: Joe, hoping for some sound effects album. That series was one of their biggest sellers.
	👻 9:24am doctorjazz: Great stuff!
	9:24am Joe McG: @Brian: Oh, I'll play some, sure!
	9:29am annie: Mariano!!! do you have a copy of that NG album? i can't find it anywhere
	9:29am Sem Chumbo: So, this morning becomes completely Electra. The play's the thing. Had to be said.
	9:30am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:30am Roberto: Theodore Bickle? Is that Travis's uncle?
	9:31am mariano: Wow Sem, you win the Internet for the day!
	9:32am JakeGould: Theodore Bikel. Jews in NYC cannot escape that guy.
	9:34am mariano: @annie: not any more, sadly, though there are copies floating around on GEM. I have some mp3s I ripped from it though, a really heart-wrenching version of Mickey's Warnin' though I don't have my favorite, Jean Redpath singing Ae Fond Kiss. There's a really cool tweed wauking song, with women pounding out tweed with their fists, keeping a rhythm and singing in Gaelic. Happy to share with you if there's an option in the private message area, or I can put them on Dropbox and share the link.
	9:34am Jeff Golick: Aw yeah this is gonna be great.
	👻 9:37am Brian in UK: He could have called it Agamemnon.
	9:38am JakeGould: Or maybe "AAA Awesome Records."
	9:39am Brendan: I thought the name sounded familiar. His son is keyboardist Adam Holzman. Small world.
	9:40am Parq: "I know! Let's call it 'Atlantic'! What?"
	9:40am annie: that album is one of my favorites, lost it in a move.. :( yes, i'll message you
	9:40am Guido from Cologne: tose super-sonic banjo-pickers ....
	👻 9:42am doctorjazz: Love this Spence stuff.
	9:42am annie: ok, gotta book!
	9:42am Cecile: Then we'll hear Metallica at some point? And the Stooges?
	9:42am Marcel M: Ah! Joseph Spence! I have a Mississippi records reissue of his. Cool dude.
	9:43am Joe McG: @Cecile: We're doing Jac Holzmann era today, 1950-1973. Stooges likely, Metallica no.
	9:45am Sem Chumbo: So I have the perception you will be not walking us thru any Doors. Joe?
	9:45am Cecile: Dang. Television weren't Jac Holtzmann era, but they were great.
	9:45am JakeGould: It's nice to know that a label had a persona before it became just another catalog division.
	9:46am Jeff Golick: It kinda looks like Jac took the k from his name and used it for the company name, Germanic explanation notwithstanding.
	9:46am Cecile: these guys are local gods. This is a big folk town.
	9:47am melinda: Folksong '65 is a great album! Unfortunately my turntable is in a box in a closet, so I haven't played it in years.
	👻 9:47am Brian in UK: Ofcourse The Stooges were Danny Field's baby, A WFMU hero. Sem, The Doors were the label's first No.1 so very important, like 'em or not.
	9:48am Joe McG: @Jeff: I forgot to tell that part of the story, thanks! Oh, and I'll be playing the Doors, yes.
	9:49am mariano: @annie: that's awesome! It's been a favorite of mine since I was 12, when my grandfather made a tape of it for me when he heard I was interested in Scottish folk music. It was really my introduction to the genre.
	9:50am Cecile: Love were on Elektra.
	9:50am Cooh John: Good morning JM and and WFMUers. Elektric sounds.
	👻 9:52am Brian in UK: Cecile those four Love Elektra albums are each priceless in their own way.
	9:52am Sem Chumbo: @BiUK: had no idea, thanks for that.
	9:52am Marcel M: JM in the AM... Joe McGasko in the AM... Joe, just take over! You could use his swag !! Wouldn't have to change a thing!
	9:53am Cecile: Exactly!
	9:53am melinda: I love the Last Thing on My Mind. One of the earliest songs I remember hearing.
	9:53am Cecile: Meanwhile, I had to go listen to Master of Puppets. I will be back.
	9:54am Parq: I told this story once before, on Uncle Michael's playlist. I saw Paxton in a bar in Cambridge in the late 70s. Introducing "Last Thing", he said that he knew he had made it as a folkie when he was in an audience himself and heard the singer introduce "Last Thing" as "an old Scottish folk song."
	👻 9:55am Brian in UK: My first Elektra album was Phil Ochs' All the News That's Fit to Sing. Christmas '68.
	9:56am Dennis Diken: Joe, wow, this is a fascinating voyage thru the history of Elektra! thanks!
	👻 9:58am Brian in UK: American sleeves, especially Elektra were so heavy and protective compared to British sleeves.
	9:58am Joe McG: @Marcel M: Great idea! @Parq: Great story! @Brian: This one's for you. @Dennis: Thanks for tuning in!
	9:59am Miss Mailas: Phil Ochs is exactly the man I needed to hear on this Monday morning. Thank you, Joe!
	10:00am SmokinJ: Great set Joe!
	👻 10:00am Brian in UK: Thanks Joe. Still get so sad hearing him.
	10:03am Cecile: he got it from both jaded music fans and the government in the end. Pretty sad.
	10:06am Cecile: OK. My first Elektra record was Queen's Night at the Opera. Hey, you can put the first Queen record on there - it came out in '83.
	10:07am KP: Phil Ochs was not related to the NY Times Ochs family but he was intrigued by the idea, his brother Michael said. The title of Phil's album "All the Songs Fit to Sing" is play on the paper's motto.
	10:08am JakeGould: Queen's first was in 1983?
	10:08am Cecile: sorry, '73
	10:09am Cecile: sausage fingers this morning.
	10:10am Cecile: well, even thought one of them is not in the right era, thank you Elektra for making three records I can listen to every day - Funhouse, Forever Changes, and Master of Puppets.
	👻 10:11am doctorjazz: Saw Ochs in a Village club when he was already quite famous, but had started his decline. Really sad set.
	10:12am βrian: As I understand it, the term "whirled music" originally referred to the Sufi Dervish tradition ...
	10:13am mariano: @Joe: just seeing your post about it being Elektra music -- I know, was just recommending the album in general if you like British Isles folk!
	👻 10:15am Brian in UK: doctorjazz, think he only came over here with the Yippies. Never performed to my knowledge. I was surprised how good this sounds in the twilight of his Autumn. www.allmusic.com...
	10:17am JakeGould: This is Greek, right? I like it.
	10:18am lloyd michigan: Any monkey chant?
	👻 10:18am Brian in UK: No mentions of Monty Python's cheese shop sketch.
	10:19am Greg from ZONE 5: PLAY SOME HULA BLUES!
	10:19am Jeff Golick: @Brian: that is ALL I can think of when faced with the word "bouzoukee."
	10:20am Guido from Cologne: Ha! I own this record! As a French Vogue pressing.
	10:20am davefromtoronto: great show today joe. thanks!
	10:21am Cecile: yes! The Nonesuch Gamelan records were like top 40 in parts of Ann Arbor.
	10:23am ChrisB.: Such an educational show this morning. I feel I should get course credit for listening.
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Cecile. Queen was Holzman's final legacy before selling up.
	10:25am melinda: Great theme today. I know some of the early folky stuff and the Elektra name but until today didn't appreciate the connection.
	10:26am Cecile: this actually sounds a little bit like African thumb piano.
	10:26am Joe McG: @ChrisB: You have to go see the registrar.
	10:27am lloyd michigan: Could it be? Monkey chant?
	10:27am bobdoesthings: monkey chant!
	10:27am Marcel M: See the registrar and pay for your class by hitting the PLEDGE NOW link in the widget above! Show WFMU and Joe some love and appreciation.
	10:28am lloyd michigan: Thank you! Great way to start the week.
	10:28am bobdoesthings: the youtube videos of the monkey chant are pretty fun.... also featured in the movie Baraka.
	10:28am Brendan: This sounds like a chant we sang at the bbq this weekend.
	10:29am Joe McG: Listen to Marcel, he's a wise man! :)
	10:29am lloyd michigan: First heard this "under the influence" in college many years ago.
	10:30am bobdoesthings: there was a Mr Bungle song that sampled the monkey chant.. IIRC
	10:30am βrian: This would be good "closing time" music for a restaurant.
	10:31am steve: nice
	10:32am Mike East: @bobdoesthings - I don't think they sampled...I think Mike Patton performed it...so they were ripping it off, or referencing it. Goodbye Sober Day, I think.
	10:32am bobdoesthings: wikipedia the monkey chant - en.wikipedia.org...
	10:33am this guy: @bobdoesthings, It was "Goodbye Sober Day" off of California. nice attempt to incorp something already so powerful with some metal riffs
	10:34am Mike East: this guy knows.
	👻 10:34am Brian in UK: LOVE
	10:35am Cheri Pi: Heya Joe!
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Fifty years old and still can not be beat.
	👻 10:37am tadpoles: Great show thanks Joe. I vote for some Love and Doors. Arthur Lee was the one who told JH about the Doors whom he didn't like at first. I still prefer the brown big E label design of that period. Much better than that silly butterfly. Didn't Phil Och's sister have a show on FMU if my memory from the '80's serves? Great Love! Cheers.
	10:37am coelacanth: crap. i just missed a nonesuch tribute? ..."music from the morning of the world" was, i'm pretty sure, the first thing i heard on wfmu that made me stay tuned to it, in 1977.
	👻 10:37am Brian in UK: ....and the explosion from one of the sound effect albums.
	10:37am Cecile: I loved the butterfly. It looked so cool.
	10:38am Joe McG: @tadpoles: You are correct on all counts, although I kind of like the caterpillar and butterfly.
	10:39am Joe McG: @Brian: I love that! Use what's in-house.
	10:39am steve: Joe et al - last week i was teaching and the substitute who came in to teach the class after mine said he was a WFMU dj in the 80s! i believe his dj name was Matty O? nice guy.
	10:41am Joe McG: @steve: Wow, I remember listening to his show! (I've been listening since about 1986.)
	👻 10:44am Brian in UK: @steve check the comment at 11:46. wfmu.org...
	10:45am steve: nice! i found him on the schedule in a 1988 LCD.
	10:45am davefromtoronto: LOVE that joni tune!
	10:45am lloyd michigan: Whatever happened to Jannie Brittan?
	10:45am βrian: I was going to suggest this very song earlier.
	10:46am the Master: Joni.
	10:46am steve: dam. im amazed by your memory Brian! if i see him again i'll ask about the vacuum cleaner!
	👻 10:48am Brian in UK: There were quite a few one-off albums and singles. Steve lord knows how the comments got onto vacuum cleaners. It was late on a Friday.
	10:48am coelacanth: Judy Henske was on elektra too.
	10:48am Guido from Cologne: By the way: the astrology-album (first use of Moog-Synth in pop ever), that came out around the same time as the Doors' debut is pretty good.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: Sailcat was a popular one-off.
	10:49am Greg from ZONE 5: Killer.
	10:49am lloyd michigan: Ian "Shake It" Matthews?
	10:50am Joe McG: @Guido: Stay tuned! @coelacanth: I pulled Judy and forgot to play her. Sorry!
	10:50am cee: godamn joe you're destroying me with these selections today
	10:50am bobdoesthings: who wrote "these days" originally? I'm most familiar with Nico's version.
	10:51am coelacanth: 'sokay... Great program!
	👻 10:51am Brian in UK: @bob The Pretender?
	10:51am Sem Chumbo: Jackson Brown.
	10:52am Greg from ZONE 5: Heron!
	10:52am statoj: @bobdoes things, Tom Rush!
	10:52am coelacanth: i always thought it was Jackson Brown.
	10:52am Sem Chumbo: with an "e". He was sixteen.
	10:52am bobdoesthings: ah, looks like it was a Jackson Browne song originally. figures...
	10:53am slowbear: First rainy day in LA in months. Great set!!!
	10:53am Joe McG: @cee: Those two back-to-back are murder! @Sem: Apparently, Jackson recorded a big pack of demos for the label that never got released.
	10:53am Sem Chumbo: americansongwriter.com...
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Signing ISB was a bold move.
	10:54am statoj: I stand corrected...thanks!
	10:55am lloyd michigan: In '65 he was 17. :)
	👻 10:55am doctorjazz: It was Jackson Brown, was recorded by many artists, though, I liked a version by Greg Allman.
	10:55am melinda: The Nico version is my favorite, I think the arrangement transforms it. Although other versions are nice too.
	👻 10:55am Brian in UK: Terence Boylan (Appletree Theatre) wrote Shake It.
	10:56am briania: Yay for the Dennis Linde - what a sound!
	👻 10:56am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi there, Joe and Electramorn. <scans playlist> Oh, good, I haven't missed The Cars yet.
	10:56am Sem Chumbo: Wonderful idea, BiUK. And Joe giving it legs. Show starred.
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: @melinda Nico, like Johnny Cash makes most songs her own.
	10:58am coelacanth: i've got to hear that Gregg Allman version of these days. he had such a great voice. (maybe still has?
	10:58am Joe McG: @briana: Dennis Linde is very underrated!
	10:59am bobdoesthings: @melinda- yup, im with you. the Nico version can sometimes get me to tear up its so gooood.
	11:00am Brendan: Cake's guitar player must have lifted that Rhinoceros lick.
	👻 11:01am doctorjazz: Crabby Appleton! Man, haven't heard or thought of this in ages, great track!
	👻 11:02am Brian in UK: Michael Fennelly sounding a bit English to me.
	11:03am Ben in Toronto: Bet three hours of radio ever! My old folkie heart is racing (and pumped by 7 and 7 Is). Was on a long dog walk in dismal fall weather hoping you'd play Urge for Going. So thrilled you did, and an alternate single version at that. And ISB had singles? I'm sure they never scathed the airwaves. Thank you so much!
	👻 11:04am Brian in UK: This must be the best time keeping single file ever.
	11:04am sinner: ....woke up this morning thinking man I need me some crabby appleton (a single I bought when it first came out when I was in third grade....yikes)
	👻 11:05am doctorjazz: I love the Nico version as well, she also has a great voice (well, not really, but really knows how to use it and sing).
	👻 11:05am Brian in UK: @Ben I should be dog walking but...later.
	👻 11:05am doctorjazz: Aw, missed Urge For Going (in and out of radio range), love that song.
	11:06am djsheilab: Hey @Joe McG! I was listening in my car this morning and loved the Nonesuch set. There was one record in particular that was absolutely bonkers!
	11:06am melinda: I also like Nico's version of I'll Keep it With Mine.
	11:07am djsheilab: Will Motley Crue be coming up in the last hour? : )
	11:09am Cecile: no wonder you like southern rock so much...
	11:09am Guido from Cologne: ! yay!
	11:10am Joe McG: @Sheila: No, we're just going to hold off at 1973. Motley Crue will have to wait until the 1973-current day Part Two! ;)
	11:11am mariano: Wow, I'm Jan. 18, late Capricorn. This is definitely going in my collection!
	11:11am V Priceless: somebody summon the Goat? Hey!
	11:11am sinner: ....dude sounds just like scott williams...
	11:12am Dominick: Love this record. Jim Lockhart engineered it. The usual gang of idiots playing.
	11:12am Guido from Cologne: @mariana worthwhile!
	👻 11:12am Brian in UK: Capricious, one of those hard to describe words.
	11:12am djsheilab: @Joe McG I shall look forward to it. And this Zodiac record....so very good!
	11:14am bobdoesthings: I think they just used the word 'capricious' because of the alliteration with 'capricorn'
	11:14am Guido from Cologne: as I said: first Moog in pop! a few catalog digits before or after The Doors' debut. :-)
	11:14am Joe McG: I don't really feel like I'm an uncapricious climber!
	11:16am Cecile: who else did Earth Anthem?
	11:17am coelacanth: melinda, if i'd never heard Sandy Denny singing "i'll keep it with mine", i'd love Nico's version! (as it is i still like it)
	11:17am Joe McG: @Cecile: The Turtles.
	11:17am Sem Chumbo: @bob: I thought it might have something to do with the antics of goats. So wrong, was I. "The noun caprice, which first appeared in English in the mid-17th century, is a synonym of whim. Evidence shows that the adjective capricious debuted about sixty years before caprice; it's likely, however, that both words derived via French from the Italian capriccio, which originally referred not to a sudden desire but to a sudden shudder of fear. Capriccio in turn derives from the Italian capo, meaning "head," and riccio, the word for "hedgehog." Someone who shuddered in fear, therefore, was said to have a "hedgehog head"-meaning that his or her hair stood on end like the spines of a hedgehog" Merriam Webster
	11:17am βrian: I would have gone for "capering capricorn.'
	11:18am Cecile: Dan Fogelberg did, but I think someone else did too.
	👻 11:19am Brian in UK: Battle of the Bands?
	11:19am a doors fan: thanks for playing the doors
	11:20am Mister Dobalina: Nicely played with this one. Thanks for the rotation!
	11:20am Cecile: Yes! Turtles Battle of the Bands! They do a gorgeous versoin.
	11:21am Joe McG: For fans of station history, this record I'm playing now was Vin Scelsa's copy.
	11:21am Dean: OED on capriccio: < Italian capriccio sudden start, motion, or freak, apparently < capro goat, as if ‘the skip or frisk of a goat’ (in Spanish capricho ) < Latin type *capriceus . (For the sense compare capriole n.)
	11:21am Cecile: www.youtube.com...
	11:22am melinda: @coel: that's my other favorite version
	👻 11:23am Brian in UK: Oh I love Elektra Surface Noise with Joe McGasko..
	11:23am pantz: What a pretty song. Great show, Joe.
	👻 11:23am tadpoles: Wow Joe... how can you go higher in my estimation... I didn't think anyone else knew of Audience ... I thought they were great and Howard Werth's voice quite incredible. Cheers
	11:24am βrian: @Dean: Yes, a capering goat.
	👻 11:24am Ken From Hyde Park: What about people driving a Ford/Mercury Capri or wearing capri pants? They sound like capricious types to me.
	11:24am Cecile: DUH. Joe. I didn't see your response. Oh, well, it triggered some of my brain cells.
	11:25am βrian: Capri pants are appropriate only when drinking Limoncello.
	👻 11:26am Brian in UK: Another one-off. Percy Sledge's engineer.
	11:26am Cecile: Turtles did it before Cyrus did it!
	👻 11:27am Brian in UK: Marlin is now taking beautiful photographs. www.oneearthimages.com
	11:28am Brendan: Joe you have been the consummate Elektrician this morning.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Brendan: I'm feeling desperate, I'm running out of time and have so much music to play!!
	11:30am Cecile: Bread. The dark heart of soft rock.
	11:30am pantz: @Joe McG That's a good problem to have.
	11:30am Brendan: @Joe I can only imagine. Still its been a nice slice.
	11:31am Joe McG: I hope I'm the only WFMU DJ ever to do a Bread/Stooges segueway.
	11:31am Cecile: YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
	11:32am Cecile: I'm sure someone has. I'm sure! Maybe Clay?
	11:32am V Priceless: yeah babee
	11:33am Cecile: when you do a seg like this, you really get the flavor of what the era was like.
	👻 11:34am Ken From Hyde Park: (Idea) There should be a segue search button on the web page somewhere.
	11:35am Stevel: Good lord. The Stooges. [bang clang bang clang bang clang] A groove approaching the likes of John Lee Hooker. Cecile: Very true.
	11:35am coelacanth: - and a link to "Famous Segues".
	11:35am Cecile: YEAH
	11:35am Cecile: YEAH
	11:35am Dean: Bread Stooges works as a band name, too.
	11:35am V Priceless: I'm trying to convince a good friend of mine to 'come out of retirement' and re-form our Iggy/Stooges cover band. I swear the guy channels Iggy like no one else - and plays guitar like Buck Dharma at Ritchie Blackmore's house, too!
	11:35am KP: Kick out the jams!
	11:36am Cecile: damn. VP that talent must come out.
	11:37am KP: oops, that was an unintentional correction
	11:37am Cecile: one thing though that sucks. MC5 never had the production the Stooges did.
	11:37am Doug C.: It's a beautiful Eleanor Rigby free day thus far. Kudos to you for playing Crabby Appleton's Go Back, a song I had lodged in my brain hard drive but was unable to locate, till now!
	11:38am coelacanth: (John Lee Hooker:) "it's in'im, and it's got to come out."
	11:38am V Priceless: that's exactly how I feel, Cecile...I'm working on it!
	11:38am Cecile: YAH. Sound like Roger Taylor singing.
	11:38am JakeGould: Rock!!!
	11:38am Brendan: I loved the album covers of the late 60's early 70's (a lot of Elektra's) that were often simple soft portraits of the artists in contemplation with natural light.
	11:39am V Priceless: whoa with the Roger Taylor Queen tune, Joe! Woo!
	11:39am Cecile: OK. this song invented thrash metal.
	👻 11:39am Brian in UK: Who plays keyboards?
	11:40am coelacanth: Freddie.
	11:41am Cecile: Freddie used to IIRC.
	11:41am KP: somehow i made it to this point without ever hearing that queen track
	11:41am mariano: Same here KP.
	11:42am Cecile: me too, KP.
	11:42am V Priceless: first Queen rekkid...one of their best, IMHO, next to "Sheer Heart Attack".
	11:42am Cecile: And it's weird because "Nosebleed" records in Sweden just recommended it as the best opening song of the best debut record. hahha
	11:42am Dean: Atomic Rooster sounds much like Dortmund's Epitaph, who released their first album the same year as this one.
	👻 11:43am Brian in UK: Drachen Theaker plays drums here and on Four Sail is that an El;ektra connection?
	11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: Haha! This could be a lost Spinal Tap track…
	👻 11:46am Brian in UK: @Cecile how about Fresh Garbage by Spirit or Do It Again by Steely Dan for the same award. Different category.
	11:46am coelacanth: VP - totally agree. sheer heart attack rules!
	11:48am KP: the wikipedia entry on Atomic Rooster is unintentionally hilarious in a Spinal Tap way,
	11:48am Cecile: MOVE COVER?
	👻 11:48am Brian in UK: Bluddy hell, New Seekers covering the Move?
	11:49am Cecile: B in UK, sure!
	11:49am V Priceless: haha...a Move cover! Hey fish!
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Strictly a Roy Wood cover.
	11:50am coelacanth: a little "his latest flame" in there.
	11:50am V Priceless: yeah, a Roy tune for sure!
	11:50am Cecile: coel, of course! It's Roy!
	11:50am Sem Chumbo: Many thanks for the all the Elektra spins and the fine company. See you, and all, later, Joe.
	11:52am Uncle Michael: This show has kicked complete ass, Joe.
	11:52am βrian: Today's show earns a four-beer rating:
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: See you Sem. Joe, only one man for this job. First of ...... This is not Elektras finest moment.
	11:52am Mike East: Jobriath!
	11:52am KP: the byrds - as the beefeaters - were on Elektra
	11:52am coelacanth: later on, Sem
	11:53am V Priceless: Roy was hanging out at one of the recent NYC ELO gigs, apparently...and a Cheap Trick show in NJ, of course.
	11:53am βrian: ( 🍺 🍺 🍺 🍺 )
	👻 11:53am Brian in UK: @KP but Colombia could give them the worldwide coverage.
	11:54am Dennis Diken: New Seekers "Tonight" blew my mind, never heard it!
	11:54am Cecile: VP, I saw. He looked pretty good. I had heard he was in really frail health.
	11:54am Joe McG: @KP: Had that one lined up, KP, but didn't get to it.
	11:54am KP: Earth Opera, wow!
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Best Elektra track ever. 'Alone Again Or' Does not age. There I've said it.
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Hope you had fun. See you next week!
	11:56am KP: It came to mind b/c they were associated with Love.
	11:56am KP: brian, yeah
	11:56am whattawino: This song was also redone on the debut Seatrain album. Great stuff!
	11:56am JakeGould: Excellent show, JM!
	11:57am βrian: Autumnal love — nothing like it.
	👻 11:57am tadpoles: BinUK.. agree. Thank you Joe
	11:57am Jeff: Don't stop!
	11:58am drr: "It's tired, and I'm getting late..."
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe! Awesome tunes today.
	11:58am Guido from Cologne: awesome show thanks Joe!
	11:59am Parq: Classic show, Joe. Thanks.
	11:59am coelacanth: Thanks Joe. Most Excellent!
	11:59am V Priceless: Thanx, Joe!
	👻 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Three out of five listeners say it's awesome.
	12:01pm Brendan: Ah The Wackers. Thanks for the reminder Joe. That porn is not gonna watch itself. Great show, man.
	2:58pm Mark in Toronto: It's Bob Segarini, not Michael, of Roxy and The Wackers. Search out Bob's solo album, Gotta Have Pop. Great idea and show. As an aside, I am the 3rd "from Toronto" commenter, probably a new record.
	10:00am Joe McG: Thanks for the clarification, Mark. I was trying to remember his name and failing. I actually have the "Gotta Have Pop" LP, on pretty marbled pink vinyl! I wonder if I have ever played it on the show? Thanks for listening!

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