WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from March 11, 2017

Michael Shelley: Playlist from March 11, 2017

A showcase for the widest-possible definition of pop music, plus interviews with the world's finest music makers. (Visit homepage.)

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March 11, 2017: 2016 WFMU Fundraisier with co-host Mr. Finewine!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Zebera	Wind Up Toy "Wind Up Toy" by "Zebera"
Barreracudas, The	Smokin in the Boys Room (from Super Hits of the 70's: Pure Dyn-No-Mite!)
Monkees, The	Our Own World "Our Own World" by "Monkees, The"
Chris Collingwood	It Never Rains in Southern California (Super Hits Of The Seventies: Pure Dyn-O-Mite)
Milton Banana Trio	Banandas "Banandas" by "Milton Banana Trio"
Above, The	Go Back (from Super Hits of the 70s: Pure Dyn-O-Mite!)
Above, The	Holding Back "Holding Back" by "Above, The"
Kurt Baker	Everybody Knows "Everybody Knows" by "Kurt Baker"
Yo La Tengo	Build Me Up Buttercup
Pop4	Telephone Line (From: Super Hits of the 70s Pure Dyn-O-Mite)
Karl Blau	To Love Somebody "To Love Somebody" by "Karl Blau"
James Hand	The Parakeet "The Parakeet" by "James Hand"
Staple Singers, The	It's been A Change
Mack Rice	respect yourself (demo)
Staple Singers, The	Hammer And Nails
Tripwires, The	Motorcycle Mama (from Super Hits of the 70s Pure Dyn-O-Mite!}
John Doe featuring Kathleen Edwards	Golden State

Here's the art work:

Here's an alphabetical list of the amazing artists and songs - click on the band names for more info!:

1) The Above “Go Back”
2) Barreracudas “Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room”
3) The Bellfuries “Right Down The Line”
4) Bettie Serveert featuring Jesse Beuker on drums “Cos I Luv You”
5) Chris Collingwood “It Never Rains In Southern California”
6) Crystal Robots “Reflections Of My Life”
7) Gerald Dowd “Don’t Do It”
8) Mitch Easter “I’m Not In Love”
9) Jay Gonzalez “Bad Blood”
10) Freedy Johnston “Bennie And The Jets”
11) Francis Macdonald “Sunday Girl”
12) Mingus + Marr “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo”
13) The Philistines Jr. “Something In The Air”
14) Pop4 “Telephone Line”
15) The Tripwires “Motorcycle Mama”
16) Ben Vaughn “Yellow River”
17) The West Saugerties Ale & Quail Club “Poor Poor Pitiful Me”
18) Wire Troop “Hi, Hi, Hi”
19) Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby “Sister Golden Hair”

Here's the video - with clips of all 19 songs:

CLICK HERE for information on the first volume in this series "SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES"

CLICK HERE for information on the second volume in this series "MORE SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES"

CLICK HERE for information on the third volume in this series "EVEN MORE SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES"

CLICK HERE for information on the fourth volume in this series "SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES: HIT EXPLOSION!"

CLICK HERE to see the cover of the 1975 K-Tel LP that provided inspiration compared to the Mike-Shell version!

CLICK HERE to see the 1975 K-Tel commercial that provided inspiration!

Thanks to:
-Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound for mastering the project
-Steve McFarland for the package design & amazing Photoshop work!
-Aaron Dunkel for the video editing!
-WFMU's Rex Doan for his voice over work!
-WFMU's Gaylord Fields for proofreading!
-All the bands and technicians who donated their time & creative genius to make this project happen!
-You for your pledge to the 2017 WFMU Fundraiser!
-Michael Shelley 2017

CLICK HERE for info on Super Hits Of The Seventies: Pure Dyn-O-Mite!

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to vote for the best Power Pop song of all time

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE for a new song titled "People Are Disgusting" from Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE to listen to "Musicians fighting Spotify are ‘so f-cking dumb,’ music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz says"

CLICK HERE to read a Mike Love sympathetic piece titled "Beach Boys seek to overcome discord with new wave of Love"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new NPR interview with Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE for "Jerry Lewis at 90: His Mouth Runneth Over"

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for info about the tuning used on Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough"

CLICK HERE to see the March 25th Hot 100 chart - when Happy Together was number one!!

CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE to see a Thought Leader gives a talk on Thought Leadership

CLICK HERE to find out Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be

CLICK HERE to find out Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals … … and every other major event on the planet

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE to hear "How Music Taste Evolved" 

CLICK HERE to check the stats

CLICK HERE for Ringo's isolated drums from "Oh Darling"

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell in a BBC interview with some woman with a lot of plastic surgery

CLICK HERE to see some paintings by Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE for a free download of The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a grammar test

CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for STAX at The White House

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.

Listener comments!
	11:02am Frank Above: Where's Baby?
	11:02am Listener Baby: My listener friends out there. I know most you you reading this are not the the folks who should need to read this. I believe this fundraiser is one of the most important days of the year, and one of this nation's most important days to benefit art and community.. These men and women of WFMU do an astounding amount of good for all of us, 365 days a year. Genre-less, free-form, commercial-free radio of every manner conceivable, on a platter, any time you want some. This radio station has 5 or 6 paid employees! Everyone else involved is a dedicated volunteer. Some of these people have multiple decades of time and effort logged in as cornerstones of WFMU. If you don't admire Michael Shelley, Gaylord Fields, Dave the Spazz, Mr. Fine Wine, Bob Brainen, Becky, Glen Jones, Ken, and a host of others, I can't imagine who you do actually admire? These folks run this amazing place on a shoestring, and it should not be the case. They ask us once or twice a year for a little help. If everyone who actually listens and understands that WFMU makes their life better, gave a little a money, WFMU would be an even better place. Imagine WFMU as even better?? I'd like to see what that looks like. Please.. Everyone, give something today. Good morning Baby, good morning Matt, and good morning Frank. Peace.
	11:02am Uncle Michael: Do this thing!
	11:02am Listener Baby: I'll get you my pretty, and I mean you Frank!!!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Frank, it was my great pleasure to give away an Above prize pack yesterday!
	11:04am Frank Above: It's no easy feat to post the first comment ahead of you Baby. Everything else I do today will pale in comparison.
	11:05am Frank Above: Michael, it's our pleasure to give stuff to WFMU to give away! Thanks!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Remember this day, Frank.
	11:07am Uncle Michael: MFW!
	11:15am Mr. Fine Wine: 800-989-9368 is the number to call to pledge to Michael and WFMU!
	11:15am Listener Baby: Hola Matt. My best to you and yours. VA
	11:15am Uncle Michael: singing along...remember all the words...
	11:16am Marc15: This is an outstanding cover!
	11:16am AlexB: Pledged!
	11:16am Mr. Fine Wine: Uncle Michael! Do you ever do anything else??
	11:17am Uncle Michael: No...my mom taught me how to fake it with "la las" to the songs I don't know.
	11:20am Artie Haywire: A fine Saturday for a pledge!
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They're all outstanding covers by outstanding Artists! That tune works as both kiddiehood 70s resonance - but also having later lived in SoCal 16 years...Yes, it does.
	11:24am Mark in Toronto: Michael, my pledge is in the mail!
	11:26am Hoboken Jack: I don't know if TOPT should copyright "pow pow pow," he might get sued by the estate of Barney Fife.
	11:26am Uncle Michael: I'm in regular contact with Michael Fennelly who wrote and sang Go Back and I've been of two minds about cluing him to this cover. I've had that sort of thing go bad before.
	11:27am Uncle Michael: People are weird, you know.
	11:27am Mr. Fine Wine: Uncle Michael: I meant anything else besides being HERE!
	11:28am Uncle Michael: You're just showing up in all the shows I really do listen to regularly.
	11:29am Listener Baby: This amazing song saved your ass, Frank
	11:29am Uncle Michael: Do you know how much harder listening to WFMU makes DOING a show? Of course you do!
	11:29am bonneville73: Michael Fennelly is kind of a dickhead
	11:30am Uncle Michael: I'd say he's a curmudgeon with a certain edge. He's also smart and funny.
	11:31am Frank Above: Don't worry Baby. I'm bound to do something next week that will get your fur up again!
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: From the Artist's pov - I can see being particular about your baby: 'I wouldn't do it exactly like that'...Lennon said he'd do StrawberryFields again, fergawdsake...(then sometimes they love it)...
	11:34am Uncle Michael: I recently shared a contemporary track with another artist, who's work from 50 year ago was sampled for it. I thought he'd be interested. He was pissed about being ripped off.
	11:39am MD: Give 'till ur Eyes Bleed! You don't need good sight tp see Great Radio!!!
	11:40am Listener Robert: Good pitch, Baby. I thought some years ago about submitting my own pitch, but there's something about how I lay stuff out that tends to come out double-edged, so I don't know if a pitch like mine would help or hurt.
	11:41am Listener Robert: What it is is, I'm not a salesman. I try to put myself in the place of what I think might sell to ME, which is possibly a too-honest & dispassionate appraisal of things.
	11:46am Listener Robert: Even in science, I've been criticized for not being a strong enough advocate for what I'm presenting. I lay out my doubts about my own stuff. Sometimes my doubts turn out to be right, as after my boss had me submit to present at a conference when I'd've held off for more data. Sure enough, soon after my submission, I did a control experiment which showed that what was going into the conference book was sheer artifact -- which is why you don't go by conference book articles!
	11:47am Marc15: I unfriend Trump supporters on Facebook
	11:50am Listener Robert: I snicker because for all the anti-Trump sentiment here, the improvement in the economy is why people can afford to pledge more than last year. That's how it often is with non-profits & even for-profit businesses: trying to analyze why they do better some times than others. It's frequently economic factors completely beyond their control.
	11:53am Fuzzy: correlation <> causation
	11:54am Listener Robert: For instance, I've seen this in enrollment in children's football. People look at trends & try to tease out whether families are being scared off by ill-founded fears of brain damage, but a big factor is whether families can afford to spend on (or donate to) luxuries like that in a given year.
	11:54am Uncle Michael: Right on, Fuzzy.
	11:55am Fuzzy: I mouse-pledged this week because dude, it's a dollar a day -- my Snickers bar habit costs more per year than that. Trump had nothing to do with it, that's for sure.
	11:56am Listener Robert: That's true, Fuzzy, and investment is all about anticipation, which may be correct or incorrect. The same goes for the budgeting for what you do. You can only estimate many future expenses based on history.
	11:57am Frank Above: So anyway, back to the marathon. Pop4's track is one of my faves on Michael's premium.
	11:58am Brian C.: unrelated, but who are the folks on the homepage making the pyramid? I recognize Det. Fish and Fidel Castro, and I though Jack White (I guess it's Snape), but who are the other two?
	11:58am Jim: That ELO cover was mind-blowing - I actually thought it was an alternate recording by ELO.
	11:59am Uncle Michael: The Marathon has broken half a million!
	11:59am Frank Above: Yeah, they definitely got very very close to the Jeff Lynne production style on that track.
	11:59am pottybear: Hey lolly lolly Hey lolly lolly Hey lolly lolly Get it any way you can Right?
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That's right! Props to Gentleman Joe McGasko.
	12:00pm Lynnester Jeff: Hey listener Robert - so: CTE and quarterly growth don't exist.
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Please...with the politics. It'll drive people out of the comments during this important time.
	12:01pm Listener Robert: The political "friending" thing reminds me of something I found ridiculous: in the 1960s, a future friend of mine, gave an ultimatum to all his friends saying he'd no longer be friends with them if they supported RM Nixon. I could never see the political trumping the personal like that in my life; I could be personally friendly with Hitler, Stalin, Castro, etc. if we had stuff to share. But FACEBOOK is so trivial, I laugh at the whole concept of friending/unfriending there.
	12:04pm Listener Robert: Is neurology also un-pledger-friendly now, Michael? Do the discussions of other things distract newbies from the "pledge" button? If you think so, I'll get back to work.
	12:04pm Mr. Fine Wine: Vote for Michael Shelley! 800-989-9368!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Make WFMU Great, Again!
	12:05pm Frank Above: What do you mean "Again"?!
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: I mean just like last year. Commas matter.
	12:06pm Hackensack Slim: @Brian C, I believe it's an homage to the notables we lost last year. L-R Alan Vega, Abe Vigoda, Merle Haggard, Don't Know, Fidel Castro
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Don't Know = Alan Rickman
	12:07pm Frank Above: Got ya!
	12:08pm eye in the sky: Say " and" instead of " but" it works.
	12:09pm Frank Above: That's got to be Alan Rickman.
	12:10pm Hackensack Slim: Thanks UM. Mr Rickman looks a little latter day Michael Jacksonish. IMHO
	12:11pm Listener Robert: Oh. Except for Castro, I thought those were all stereotypes rather than caricatures of known individuals. Audience L-R, I thought they were Hispanic lady, grocer, Swiss mountaineer, monk, Castro.
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: It's Rickman in his Harry Potter guise.
	12:12pm Frank Above: The wand is the giveaway.
	12:13pm Hackensack Slim: My Harry Potter avoidance is showing.
	12:13pm Listener Robert: I took that as a stick the monk would use to beat students for wrong answers.
	12:14pm Mr. Fine Wine: I keep checking in here every ten minutes or so and am totally lost each time.
	12:17pm Fuzzy: Don't Know = Harambe the Gorilla
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: I thought it was the backing track for Billy May's version of "Am I The Same Girl".
	12:19pm Fuzzy: Not to be confused with Harambe the Bottle-nosed Dolphin.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Or Harambe the Swiss mountaineer.
	12:20pm Listener Robert: What was funny to me was Ken's characterizing those figures as crawling on hands & knees across a desert. I thought they were just short people with long arms, swaying to the music in the Swiss Alps. And when I hear of Alan Rickman, I think of the actor Allen Rickman, whom I knew originally from the Libertarian Party of NY; I'm just dimly aware there's an Alan. Alan wasn't in "I Was a Teenage Zombie", but Allen was.
	12:21pm Listener Robert: It was something of a coup for them to get the Fleshtones play the title song.
	12:24pm cory: is he a jew? or have a weird sex thing?
	12:24pm Mailman Tom: I've been listening to WFMU for 10 years. I never heard of JM in the AM until earlier this year!
	12:24pm Listener Robert: So others of you see the lady with big hair, house left, as a male figure?
	12:25pm Juke Joint Jonny: Re: podcast advertisers. In a thrift store yesterday, saw a shirt from Five Four Club, so apparently they exist beyond the parameters of Pod Save America.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: I think I woke up today with a post-marathon-show buzz. Way too productive for a Saturday morning. Tonight's supper will be out of the oven in about a half hour.
	12:31pm lloyd michigan: Surrender won the power pop poll. Congrats to Rockford's finest.
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: What poll is that, Lloyd?
	12:32pm Tom from North Caldwell: Your stream via TuneIng/Sonos Radio keeps dropping. Steam directly from WFMU is fine.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Interesting, Tom. I have it via TuneIn on Squeezebox and it's fine.
	12:33pm JakeGould: I love this demo of “Respect Yourself!” And people can respect themselves by pledging to WFMU at 800-989-9368 or via the Internet at pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:33pm lloyd michigan: UM, see the CLICK HERE list under the playlist.
	12:35pm Brian C.: @Hackysack & @UncaMike… thanks. Hadn't made the connection -- gives ideas about who will be on top. Hopefully fmu makes its goal so we can see who it is! Pledge now!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No worries noted here w/ iTunes. CheapTrick - over Beatles, Wh♂, Raspberries ?! Hm.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Surrender is an interesting winner. I think it's not exactly power pop, yet on the other hand I included it here: www.wfmu.org... because it's their most power pop song.
	12:37pm lloyd michigan: More than a few in the list weren't exactly power pop. The Who is a good example.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If it's not PowerPop (a term coined by Townshend, the father of BigAmps) - what is it?
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: It's power pop if you answer the question "what Beatles song defines power pop?" with "Birthday".
	12:39pm lloyd michigan: The Who? Rock and Roll.
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Arguably - Rawk. They helped loose the 'Roll' in 1965 - tho' they covered the Pirates what have you (not absolute).
	12:42pm Marc15: Hey, Mike Shell!
	12:46pm Bootsie: Michael & Mr. Fine Wine, y'all are both part of my SFL. Thanks for all the great tunes!
	12:47pm lloyd michigan: How 'bout the Sugarcubes Motorcycle Mama?
	12:54pm Marc15: When I am home from work, WFMU is on 24/7. I sleep with WFMU is on all night
	12:55pm lloyd michigan: I used to listen wfmu all the time at work. Maybe that's why I've been out of work for 5 months.
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I guess some bands do PowerPop - but not exclusively - while others are defined by it...Has always intrigued me that TheBeatles are the BiggestThingForever - while others aspiring to their stylee - &/or similar - struggle to Chart @ all - but maybe PowerPop is more successful that way than I think... Brothers & Sisters: Swag For Life. You pay only a little - minimum $10, or more - once a month - & - it's the Best thing for WFMU as it gives it a constant drip of finance. Especially those who listen but don't donate - give it a thot. If even every loyal Listener did only this - it would make all the difference. We don't just want this thing to survive - we want it to thrive. It's insane - a miracle what WFMU does, & how much better it is - @ a fraction of the budget of other more conventionally funded (read: CORPORATE & ridden w/ Commercials, &tc.) stations. Let me level w/ you: I forgot to get a career & I have a real hard time - but I need this - all the more for that. I'm all in. Do it for all of us.
	12:56pm Joe B: show sounding great Michael and Mr Finewine!
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Thank you for a real good time, Michael and MFW!
	12:59pm lloyd michigan: Talking over the Little Rascals Theme!
	1:00pm Kevlicki: Thanks to You M.Shelley and Fine Wine!
	1:01pm Michael Shelley: THANKS ALL!

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Michael chats with Andrew Reich, director of the new documentary "Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story," which chronicles the 45 year journey of the band's founders, brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald as they persevere through changing musical tastes, record business baloney, drugs, and a kidnapping!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Zebera	Wind Up Toy "Wind Up Toy" by "Zebera"
Barreracudas, The	Smokin in the Boys Room (from Super Hits of the 70's: Pure Dyn-No-Mite!)
Monkees, The	Our Own World "Our Own World" by "Monkees, The"
Chris Collingwood	It Never Rains in Southern California (Super Hits Of The Seventies: Pure Dyn-O-Mite)
Milton Banana Trio	Banandas "Banandas" by "Milton Banana Trio"
Above, The	Go Back (from Super Hits of the 70s: Pure Dyn-O-Mite!)
Above, The	Holding Back "Holding Back" by "Above, The"
Kurt Baker	Everybody Knows "Everybody Knows" by "Kurt Baker"
Yo La Tengo	Build Me Up Buttercup
Pop4	Telephone Line (From: Super Hits of the 70s Pure Dyn-O-Mite)
Karl Blau	To Love Somebody "To Love Somebody" by "Karl Blau"
James Hand	The Parakeet "The Parakeet" by "James Hand"
Staple Singers, The	It's been A Change
Mack Rice	respect yourself (demo)
Staple Singers, The	Hammer And Nails
Tripwires, The	Motorcycle Mama (from Super Hits of the 70s Pure Dyn-O-Mite!}
John Doe featuring Kathleen Edwards	Golden State

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Listener comments!
	11:02am Frank Above: Where's Baby?
	11:02am Listener Baby: My listener friends out there. I know most you you reading this are not the the folks who should need to read this. I believe this fundraiser is one of the most important days of the year, and one of this nation's most important days to benefit art and community.. These men and women of WFMU do an astounding amount of good for all of us, 365 days a year. Genre-less, free-form, commercial-free radio of every manner conceivable, on a platter, any time you want some. This radio station has 5 or 6 paid employees! Everyone else involved is a dedicated volunteer. Some of these people have multiple decades of time and effort logged in as cornerstones of WFMU. If you don't admire Michael Shelley, Gaylord Fields, Dave the Spazz, Mr. Fine Wine, Bob Brainen, Becky, Glen Jones, Ken, and a host of others, I can't imagine who you do actually admire? These folks run this amazing place on a shoestring, and it should not be the case. They ask us once or twice a year for a little help. If everyone who actually listens and understands that WFMU makes their life better, gave a little a money, WFMU would be an even better place. Imagine WFMU as even better?? I'd like to see what that looks like. Please.. Everyone, give something today. Good morning Baby, good morning Matt, and good morning Frank. Peace.
	11:02am Uncle Michael: Do this thing!
	11:02am Listener Baby: I'll get you my pretty, and I mean you Frank!!!
	11:03am Uncle Michael: Frank, it was my great pleasure to give away an Above prize pack yesterday!
	11:04am Frank Above: It's no easy feat to post the first comment ahead of you Baby. Everything else I do today will pale in comparison.
	11:05am Frank Above: Michael, it's our pleasure to give stuff to WFMU to give away! Thanks!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Remember this day, Frank.
	11:07am Uncle Michael: MFW!
	11:15am Mr. Fine Wine: 800-989-9368 is the number to call to pledge to Michael and WFMU!
	11:15am Listener Baby: Hola Matt. My best to you and yours. VA
	11:15am Uncle Michael: singing along...remember all the words...
	11:16am Marc15: This is an outstanding cover!
	11:16am AlexB: Pledged!
	11:16am Mr. Fine Wine: Uncle Michael! Do you ever do anything else??
	11:17am Uncle Michael: No...my mom taught me how to fake it with "la las" to the songs I don't know.
	11:20am Artie Haywire: A fine Saturday for a pledge!
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They're all outstanding covers by outstanding Artists! That tune works as both kiddiehood 70s resonance - but also having later lived in SoCal 16 years...Yes, it does.
	11:24am Mark in Toronto: Michael, my pledge is in the mail!
	11:26am Hoboken Jack: I don't know if TOPT should copyright "pow pow pow," he might get sued by the estate of Barney Fife.
	11:26am Uncle Michael: I'm in regular contact with Michael Fennelly who wrote and sang Go Back and I've been of two minds about cluing him to this cover. I've had that sort of thing go bad before.
	11:27am Uncle Michael: People are weird, you know.
	11:27am Mr. Fine Wine: Uncle Michael: I meant anything else besides being HERE!
	11:28am Uncle Michael: You're just showing up in all the shows I really do listen to regularly.
	11:29am Listener Baby: This amazing song saved your ass, Frank
	11:29am Uncle Michael: Do you know how much harder listening to WFMU makes DOING a show? Of course you do!
	11:29am bonneville73: Michael Fennelly is kind of a dickhead
	11:30am Uncle Michael: I'd say he's a curmudgeon with a certain edge. He's also smart and funny.
	11:31am Frank Above: Don't worry Baby. I'm bound to do something next week that will get your fur up again!
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: From the Artist's pov - I can see being particular about your baby: 'I wouldn't do it exactly like that'...Lennon said he'd do StrawberryFields again, fergawdsake...(then sometimes they love it)...
	11:34am Uncle Michael: I recently shared a contemporary track with another artist, who's work from 50 year ago was sampled for it. I thought he'd be interested. He was pissed about being ripped off.
	11:39am MD: Give 'till ur Eyes Bleed! You don't need good sight tp see Great Radio!!!
	11:40am Listener Robert: Good pitch, Baby. I thought some years ago about submitting my own pitch, but there's something about how I lay stuff out that tends to come out double-edged, so I don't know if a pitch like mine would help or hurt.
	11:41am Listener Robert: What it is is, I'm not a salesman. I try to put myself in the place of what I think might sell to ME, which is possibly a too-honest & dispassionate appraisal of things.
	11:46am Listener Robert: Even in science, I've been criticized for not being a strong enough advocate for what I'm presenting. I lay out my doubts about my own stuff. Sometimes my doubts turn out to be right, as after my boss had me submit to present at a conference when I'd've held off for more data. Sure enough, soon after my submission, I did a control experiment which showed that what was going into the conference book was sheer artifact -- which is why you don't go by conference book articles!
	11:47am Marc15: I unfriend Trump supporters on Facebook
	11:50am Listener Robert: I snicker because for all the anti-Trump sentiment here, the improvement in the economy is why people can afford to pledge more than last year. That's how it often is with non-profits & even for-profit businesses: trying to analyze why they do better some times than others. It's frequently economic factors completely beyond their control.
	11:53am Fuzzy: correlation <> causation
	11:54am Listener Robert: For instance, I've seen this in enrollment in children's football. People look at trends & try to tease out whether families are being scared off by ill-founded fears of brain damage, but a big factor is whether families can afford to spend on (or donate to) luxuries like that in a given year.
	11:54am Uncle Michael: Right on, Fuzzy.
	11:55am Fuzzy: I mouse-pledged this week because dude, it's a dollar a day -- my Snickers bar habit costs more per year than that. Trump had nothing to do with it, that's for sure.
	11:56am Listener Robert: That's true, Fuzzy, and investment is all about anticipation, which may be correct or incorrect. The same goes for the budgeting for what you do. You can only estimate many future expenses based on history.
	11:57am Frank Above: So anyway, back to the marathon. Pop4's track is one of my faves on Michael's premium.
	11:58am Brian C.: unrelated, but who are the folks on the homepage making the pyramid? I recognize Det. Fish and Fidel Castro, and I though Jack White (I guess it's Snape), but who are the other two?
	11:58am Jim: That ELO cover was mind-blowing - I actually thought it was an alternate recording by ELO.
	11:59am Uncle Michael: The Marathon has broken half a million!
	11:59am Frank Above: Yeah, they definitely got very very close to the Jeff Lynne production style on that track.
	11:59am pottybear: Hey lolly lolly Hey lolly lolly Hey lolly lolly Get it any way you can Right?
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That's right! Props to Gentleman Joe McGasko.
	12:00pm Lynnester Jeff: Hey listener Robert - so: CTE and quarterly growth don't exist.
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Please...with the politics. It'll drive people out of the comments during this important time.
	12:01pm Listener Robert: The political "friending" thing reminds me of something I found ridiculous: in the 1960s, a future friend of mine, gave an ultimatum to all his friends saying he'd no longer be friends with them if they supported RM Nixon. I could never see the political trumping the personal like that in my life; I could be personally friendly with Hitler, Stalin, Castro, etc. if we had stuff to share. But FACEBOOK is so trivial, I laugh at the whole concept of friending/unfriending there.
	12:04pm Listener Robert: Is neurology also un-pledger-friendly now, Michael? Do the discussions of other things distract newbies from the "pledge" button? If you think so, I'll get back to work.
	12:04pm Mr. Fine Wine: Vote for Michael Shelley! 800-989-9368!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Make WFMU Great, Again!
	12:05pm Frank Above: What do you mean "Again"?!
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: I mean just like last year. Commas matter.
	12:06pm Hackensack Slim: @Brian C, I believe it's an homage to the notables we lost last year. L-R Alan Vega, Abe Vigoda, Merle Haggard, Don't Know, Fidel Castro
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Don't Know = Alan Rickman
	12:07pm Frank Above: Got ya!
	12:08pm eye in the sky: Say " and" instead of " but" it works.
	12:09pm Frank Above: That's got to be Alan Rickman.
	12:10pm Hackensack Slim: Thanks UM. Mr Rickman looks a little latter day Michael Jacksonish. IMHO
	12:11pm Listener Robert: Oh. Except for Castro, I thought those were all stereotypes rather than caricatures of known individuals. Audience L-R, I thought they were Hispanic lady, grocer, Swiss mountaineer, monk, Castro.
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: It's Rickman in his Harry Potter guise.
	12:12pm Frank Above: The wand is the giveaway.
	12:13pm Hackensack Slim: My Harry Potter avoidance is showing.
	12:13pm Listener Robert: I took that as a stick the monk would use to beat students for wrong answers.
	12:14pm Mr. Fine Wine: I keep checking in here every ten minutes or so and am totally lost each time.
	12:17pm Fuzzy: Don't Know = Harambe the Gorilla
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: I thought it was the backing track for Billy May's version of "Am I The Same Girl".
	12:19pm Fuzzy: Not to be confused with Harambe the Bottle-nosed Dolphin.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Or Harambe the Swiss mountaineer.
	12:20pm Listener Robert: What was funny to me was Ken's characterizing those figures as crawling on hands & knees across a desert. I thought they were just short people with long arms, swaying to the music in the Swiss Alps. And when I hear of Alan Rickman, I think of the actor Allen Rickman, whom I knew originally from the Libertarian Party of NY; I'm just dimly aware there's an Alan. Alan wasn't in "I Was a Teenage Zombie", but Allen was.
	12:21pm Listener Robert: It was something of a coup for them to get the Fleshtones play the title song.
	12:24pm cory: is he a jew? or have a weird sex thing?
	12:24pm Mailman Tom: I've been listening to WFMU for 10 years. I never heard of JM in the AM until earlier this year!
	12:24pm Listener Robert: So others of you see the lady with big hair, house left, as a male figure?
	12:25pm Juke Joint Jonny: Re: podcast advertisers. In a thrift store yesterday, saw a shirt from Five Four Club, so apparently they exist beyond the parameters of Pod Save America.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: I think I woke up today with a post-marathon-show buzz. Way too productive for a Saturday morning. Tonight's supper will be out of the oven in about a half hour.
	12:31pm lloyd michigan: Surrender won the power pop poll. Congrats to Rockford's finest.
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: What poll is that, Lloyd?
	12:32pm Tom from North Caldwell: Your stream via TuneIng/Sonos Radio keeps dropping. Steam directly from WFMU is fine.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Interesting, Tom. I have it via TuneIn on Squeezebox and it's fine.
	12:33pm JakeGould: I love this demo of “Respect Yourself!” And people can respect themselves by pledging to WFMU at 800-989-9368 or via the Internet at pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:33pm lloyd michigan: UM, see the CLICK HERE list under the playlist.
	12:35pm Brian C.: @Hackysack & @UncaMike… thanks. Hadn't made the connection -- gives ideas about who will be on top. Hopefully fmu makes its goal so we can see who it is! Pledge now!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No worries noted here w/ iTunes. CheapTrick - over Beatles, Wh♂, Raspberries ?! Hm.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Surrender is an interesting winner. I think it's not exactly power pop, yet on the other hand I included it here: www.wfmu.org... because it's their most power pop song.
	12:37pm lloyd michigan: More than a few in the list weren't exactly power pop. The Who is a good example.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If it's not PowerPop (a term coined by Townshend, the father of BigAmps) - what is it?
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: It's power pop if you answer the question "what Beatles song defines power pop?" with "Birthday".
	12:39pm lloyd michigan: The Who? Rock and Roll.
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Arguably - Rawk. They helped loose the 'Roll' in 1965 - tho' they covered the Pirates what have you (not absolute).
	12:42pm Marc15: Hey, Mike Shell!
	12:46pm Bootsie: Michael & Mr. Fine Wine, y'all are both part of my SFL. Thanks for all the great tunes!
	12:47pm lloyd michigan: How 'bout the Sugarcubes Motorcycle Mama?
	12:54pm Marc15: When I am home from work, WFMU is on 24/7. I sleep with WFMU is on all night
	12:55pm lloyd michigan: I used to listen wfmu all the time at work. Maybe that's why I've been out of work for 5 months.
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I guess some bands do PowerPop - but not exclusively - while others are defined by it...Has always intrigued me that TheBeatles are the BiggestThingForever - while others aspiring to their stylee - &/or similar - struggle to Chart @ all - but maybe PowerPop is more successful that way than I think... Brothers & Sisters: Swag For Life. You pay only a little - minimum $10, or more - once a month - & - it's the Best thing for WFMU as it gives it a constant drip of finance. Especially those who listen but don't donate - give it a thot. If even every loyal Listener did only this - it would make all the difference. We don't just want this thing to survive - we want it to thrive. It's insane - a miracle what WFMU does, & how much better it is - @ a fraction of the budget of other more conventionally funded (read: CORPORATE & ridden w/ Commercials, &tc.) stations. Let me level w/ you: I forgot to get a career & I have a real hard time - but I need this - all the more for that. I'm all in. Do it for all of us.
	12:56pm Joe B: show sounding great Michael and Mr Finewine!
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: Thank you for a real good time, Michael and MFW!
	12:59pm lloyd michigan: Talking over the Little Rascals Theme!
	1:00pm Kevlicki: Thanks to You M.Shelley and Fine Wine!
	1:01pm Michael Shelley: THANKS ALL!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from March 11, 2017

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