Bob Brainen's playlist February 3, 2018 E-mail Bob Brainen
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Artist Track Album / Format Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience (CD-R) 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Temptations Cloud Nine Cloud Nine / Puzzle People (CD) 1969 / 1986 R.I.P. Dennis Edwards 0:01:55 Pop-up) Irma Thomas Live Again (MP3) 1965 Bacharach/David song unreleased for many years 0:05:25 Pop-up) B.J. Thomas I Don't Have a Mind of My Own Tomorrow Never Comes (LP) 1966 0:07:40 Pop-up) Laura Nyro Lu A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (CD box set) * 1968 / 2017 0:09:39 Pop-up) Dave Brubeck It's a Raggy Waltz Time Further Out (CD) 1961 0:12:54 Pop-up) Leroy Anderson Forgotten Dreams (MP3) 1954 0:17:38 Pop-up) NRBQ Happy Talk Happy Talk (EP) * 2017 0:20:04 Pop-up) Erik Satie Pieces Froides #2 & #3 Pieces Pour Piano (CD) 1897 / 1985 0:23:42 Pop-up) Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane Annie Rough Mix (CD) 1977 / 1983 0:27:29 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's0:28:26 Pop-up) Gary Burton Tennessee Firebird Tennessee Firebird (LP) 1967 0:42:39 Pop-up) Hank Garland Move Move! The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland (CD box set) 1960 / 2001 0:45:31 Pop-up) P.J. O'Connell World Of Love Join The Crowd (CD) 2011 0:53:26 Pop-up) Joni Mitchell For The Roses For The Roses (LP) 1972 0:54:16 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"0:56:13 Pop-up) Rolling Stones Walkin' The Dog The Mono Box (CD box set) 1964 / 2016 Brian Jones-backing vocals, whistling 1:12:48 Pop-up) Jimmy James & The Vagabonds It's Growing Vagabond King: The Sixties Sides (CD) 1967 / 1997 1:14:10 Pop-up) Little Richard Whole Lotta Shakin Early Studio Outtakes (LP) 1956 / 1985 1:17:04 Pop-up) Hugh Masekela and Hedzoleh Soundz Languta Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (CD) 1973 1:20:15 Pop-up) XTC Love On A Farmboy's Wages Mummer (CD) 1983 1:25:07 Pop-up) Ranny Sinclair A Wonderful Guy Another Autumn (CD) * 1964 / 2017 1:30:31 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:31:44 Pop-up) Spirit Girl In Your Eye Spirit (CD) 1968 1:39:02 Pop-up) Bobbie Gentry Marigolds and Tangerines Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox 1:41:18 Pop-up) Moishe Oysher & Sholom Secunda Dona Dona Music From The Yiddish Radio Project (CD) 1941 / 2002 VAR 1:45:40 Pop-up) Jewish People Of Uganda Psalm 136 Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda (CD) 2003 1:47:59 Pop-up) Ramsey Lewis Bear Mash Up Pops Ramsey Lewis (LP) 1967 1:50:15 Pop-up) David Greenberger and Prime Lens Dynamo My Thoughts Approximately (CD) * 2017 1:52:17 Pop-up) Mary Hopkin Sparrow (MP3) 1969 RILTO (=record I'd love to own) 1:53:11 Pop-up) Gelati Chant School Da Vitarsa Zedashe - Intangible Pearls [Ancient Polyphony from The Republic of Georgia] (CD) 2013 VAR 1:56:23 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:57:58 Pop-up)
(* = new, The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)
Listener comments!
🥁 9:01am : Good morning fellow Brainiacs9:02am : Good morning, Bob and all!9:03am : morning friends!9:05am : Cloud Nine.....sweet sad beginning Bob. Cheers.9:05am : Oh! I hope we'll hear more of the Dennis Edwards era of The Temptations today. Fondly remember the era when social consciousness began creeping into Motown hits.9:05am : R.I.P. Dennis Edwards9:08am : Mornin' bb & friends! 8-)9:11am : Laura Nyro = automatic gold star9:12am : Hello Bob, fellow listeners!9:14am : It’s just a ball of confusion! May Alabama-born, Detroit-raised Dennis Edwards Rest In Peace.9:20am : I saw the Temptations in 1972(?) in Nanuet NY a tiny venue w/ rotating stage sat front row they were maybe 20 feet in front of us! Also saw Ray Charles & Gladys Knight and the Pips at the same place about the same time.9:20am : Morning Bob and all!9:21am : Enjoying the weekly Laura Nyro.9:40am : Schitt's Creek, haha🥁 9:44am : Isn't Roy Haynes the drummer on this Gary Burton LP?9:48am : iirc, Hank Garland was big time Nashville guitarist during Patsy Cline era9:48am : Well THAT blew my mind. Gary Burton bluegrass.9:56am : Beautiful Joni for a Saturday morning. Thanks, BB.9:58am : For The Roses is such a good album.🥁 10:03am : Aguilar taught Astronomy at C.U. in Boulder CO.10:04am : Hah! I'm on page 75 with Joni Bob : )
Enjoying it too, as with this show. That PJ is so consistently good too10:09am : Bela Flek10:09am : Fleck10:10am : Béla Anton Leoš Fleck10:10am : It is good to go mono a mono.10:14am : There's an album by Slim Richey called "Jazz Grass," consists of classic jazz played on an ensemble of dobro, banjo, fiddle, upright bass and guitar. All the players are of the Jerry Douglas (who plays dobro on the album) caliber.
Great show today Bob!10:17am : orange cold scorching sunset and saturday tunes from brainen. Sauna is warming up and its all perfect.10:24am : Damn--that is smokin' Hugh MasakelA!🥁 10:24am : Love Hedzoleh Soundz. Also Home Is Where the Music Is. Great stuff.10:26am : YES!!10:27am : cool to mingle XTC track in with set including Brian Jones10:33am : happy talk10:34am : HAPPY TALK also from South Pacific.10:35am : i'm going to wash that man out of my life ... i think it was from that film bob🥁 10:36am : They did the same thing with The Big Express, Bob. Confounding.10:41am : Morning, Bob & all!10:42am : The lyrics to Walkin' The Dog were adopted from an old children's jump rope rhyme, "Miss Mary Mack"10:45am : Great to hear L.A.'s fantastic Spirit, one of the most under-appreciated '60s bands; I'm always turning others onto their albums.10:49am : Thank you for turning me onto that Spirit song! I just downloaded the whole album from iTunes! What a beautiful piece of SoCal music. I had no idea Lou Adler produced that album. Another beautiful musical Saturday morning.10:53am : I saw Spirit on Mar. 22 ‘69 at Fillmore East, on a bill that included Creedence Clearwater Revival
Headlining . They were great.🥁 10:57am : Bob, I have to check, but I may have a spare copy of the Mary Hopkin LP. The Apple LP, right?10:58am : I saw them again on Oct. 18 ‘69 again At Fillmore East. This time they topped the bill with support from The Kinks & The Bonzo Dog Band!!10:59am : #Doc Rock....would have loved to have seen the Bonzos! Or the Kinks for that matter. Cheers.10:59am : My dad's name was Bela. Love you, Bob, and don't know how Mr. Fleck pronounces it but Hungarians say Bayla.11:00am : great frog noises... keeps making me think you're about to play les clapool and frog brigade11:19am : good book on Joni just came out