‘It’s nothing like the movies’ ...: More Than A Few Exciting Moments with Frank O'Toole

Track	Artist	Album / Format	Approx. start time
Remember The Zoo / Mr. Lucky	Beach Boys / Henry Mancini

God Only Knows mashup	Beach Boys remix		0:05:16 Pop-up)
The Little Girl I Once Knew	Brian Wilson & The Wrecking Crew	backing track (MP3)	0:08:16 Pop-up)
Country Air	Beach Boys	outtake (CD-R)	0:11:12 Pop-up)
Kenny	TC & I	Great Aspirations (EP)	0:13:36 Pop-up)
The Best Spot On Your Dial	WFMU / fxo ID	(CD-R)	0:18:35 Pop-up)
Window In Space	Sally Starr	(Vinyl)	0:19:55 Pop-up)
The Voice of Cheese	WFMU ID	(MP3)	0:23:28 Pop-up)
The Breakup Song	Macy Gray Vs, David T Walker	Mashup (CD)	0:24:47 Pop-up)
Song About	Wendy & Lisa	(LP)	0:33:45 Pop-up)
Out Of The Woods	Foals	Mojo Filter remix (CD-R)	0:38:19 Pop-up)
Strange Magic	Electric Light Orchestra	remix / mashup (CD-R)	0:44:04 Pop-up)
A Beautiful Song	Nazz	Nazz Nazz (CD)	0:48:36 Pop-up)
Take It To The Bridge	Adele Bertei	(12")	1:02:15 Pop-up)

Small's Minor	Jimmy Smith Combo	Cool Blues (CD)	1:07:58 Pop-up)
The Wonder	The Golden Palominos	This Is How It Feels (CD)	1:11:35 Pop-up)
Intermission Riff	Stan Kenton Vs. Jazzaffair Collective	Jazzaffair Rework (MP3)	1:16:21 Pop-up)
Take The Space Trane	Mark de Clive-Lowe & The Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra	(MP3)	1:23:21 Pop-up)
FMU ID	FMU ID (featuring Bryce)	(MP3)	1:30:17 Pop-up)
The Speech For Life	Charlie Chaplin Vs. Lou Reed	remix / mashup (CD-R)	1:31:42 Pop-up)
Again & Again (featuring Rhianna)	The Bird & The Bee	remix / mashup	1:36:05 Pop-up)
A Street That Rhymes At 6AM	Norma Tanega	Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (CD-R)	1:39:16 Pop-up)
Reflections	Weevie	Nighty-Night - Deep Soul In Dub (CD-R)	1:41:37 Pop-up)
Rainy Day, Dream Away	Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland (CD)	1:46:11 Pop-up)
1983.. (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)	Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland (CD)	1:49:45 Pop-up)
Moon, Turn The Tides...Gently, Gently Away	Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland (CD)	1:55:37 Pop-up)
Just Like The Water	Lauryn Hill	Brian McKee remix (MP3)	2:05:38 Pop-up)
King For A Day (I Dub Thee Sir Mix)	XTC	12" (Vinyl)	2:14:02 Pop-up)

Beck'sBolero (Mono Single Version)	Jeff Beck	Truth (CD)	2:15:43 Pop-up)
Beck's Bolero	Jeff Beck	Beckology (CD)	2:16:46 Pop-up)
Vital Transformation	The Mahavishnu Orchestra	Live-Quebec, 1/24/73 (MP3)	2:19:04 Pop-up)
June The 15th, 1967	Michael Gibbs & The NBR Bigband	Back In The Day (CD-R)	2:29:12 Pop-up)
Big Band House	Aqua Regia	12" (Vinyl)	2:34:55 Pop-up)

The Golden Road	The Bobs	Stolen Roses compil. (CD)	2:35:42 Pop-up)
Ripple	Jane's Addiction	Deadicated compil.	2:37:04 Pop-up)
Mason's Children	Henry Kaiser & Group	Eternity Blue (CD)	2:41:45 Pop-up)
Wigwam	Bob Dylan	Ravi Re-edit (MP3)	2:46:31 Pop-up)
Bumpin' On Sunset	Brian Auger & The Trinity	Live-TV Studio, Paris, April 1, 1968 (MP3)	2:51:27 Pop-up)
Flying (many different takes)	The Beatles	(MP3)	2:58:46 Pop-up)

Listener comments!

12:01pm BronwynB:

hey frank and everyone!

12:02pm Hipster Dufus:

hewwo bwonwyn and fwank and evweybuddy

12:02pm mb:

Hello. Great start

♥ 12:04pm Uncle Michael:

Howdy, Frank.

♥ 12:05pm duke:

Yay FXO

12:05pm melinda:

Hi all

12:07pm chris echo:

Brilliant start track to the show! Sweet sounds like this helping to cut through the snow here in the U.K. Keep it up man!!

12:10pm BronwynB:

hey there hipster dufus

♥ 12:11pm maestroso:

Got my ears on Frank!

12:11pm BronwynB:

lovin the BBs stuff- hey, frank, you have very similar musical tastes to both myself and my boyfriend and we should all go out for a drink sometime and discuss this

12:14pm BronwynB:

im mostly kidding

12:15pm fxo:

having a good day, and you?

12:17pm fxo:

glad we're here, together

♥ 12:17pm ifeelfatnsassy:

Something's wrong with my foot. It keeps tapping...

12:18pm judy from croton:

Making a sunny day even sunnier

12:24pm melinda:

Great set.

12:24pm queems:

this is great

12:26pm fxo:

Hey, Jude, et al.

12:31pm carter:

what was that God Only Knows version?? anyone got more info?

♥ 1:17pm Michael 98145:

enjoying this, thx

♥ 1:19pm doctorjazz:

Hi Frank, great to catch you!

1:21pm V Priceless:

digging the show, Frank!

1:22pm Jack:

Frank!

1:27pm fxo:

thaks for the cool comments. Keep 'em goin'...

1:32pm Zetti:

luv this Chaplin speech

♥ 1:33pm duke:

Love the mashups

1:35pm Bill in W.O.:

Funny, had just seen that "The Great Dictator" is on TCM Friday afternoon at 12:45PM.

1:36pm V Priceless:

love this B & The B

♥ 1:38pm Michael 98145:

guess the billboard -was- correct

1:38pm Bobby Whirlwind:

This is inspired

1:47pm dennis:

An excellent surprise when I turned on the radio hearing Nazz and.....Frank !

1:47pm Brian Battles:

Great show!

1:50pm Zetti:

nice

1:50pm heyitschris:

1983 is my all-time favorite Hendrix song. So great to hear this.

1:50pm Parq:

Another Frank fill-in -- cool!

1:51pm Gregg:

I'm stoned, smoking an Export A, in my dorm room at UC Santa Cruz, looking out a rain drenched window on the 3rd floor. Hendrix playing. What a brilliant time it was.

♥ 1:53pm rsj:

love the jimi, great show as usual!

1:53pm exile-on-hicks-street:

Hard to even imagine, let alone name a better side 3.

♥ 1:54pm Tome:

...agrees with the above wholeheartedly ..

1:59pm Keith from Oregon:

Frank, I can't tell you how many rainy afternoons I've spent listening to this while under the influence of some chemical or other. With Hendrix I always felt safe, no matter how effed-up I was. Thank you for the memories!

♥ 2:04pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Frank. Thanks for the fill-in today.

2:07pm kev:

@hicks st I agree

2:11pm judy from croton:

Hendrix smells like fringed leather, cigs, and unwashed hair (that of my best friend’s boyfriend that I had a crush on).

2:14pm kev:

I'm back in Ridgewood Park 1969

2:17pm KH:

Beck doesn't get near enough airplay on FMU. #BringIt

2:18pm Davee:

@KH: I second that!

2:19pm Keith from Oregon:

Beck doesn't get enough airplay ANYWHERE.

2:20pm Brian Battles:

Yay, Mahavishnu....I'm guitargasming with Hendrix, Beck, McLaughlin...whew!

2:21pm Marshall Stacks:

I think I saw Mahavishnu on that tour - in Hackensack, of all places.

2:21pm Brian Battles:

Throw in some Coryell....or Steve Morse! :)

2:21pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Howdy Mr. O'Toole. Damnnnn! Jimi, Beck's Bolero, and Mahavishnu. You'se got my vote, Frank.

2:22pm Brian Battles:

I saw Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Frank Zappa...amazing show, Waterbury CT Palace Theater, 1970s

2:23pm Brian Battles:

And tickets were like $5.50!

2:23pm Ted:

Only on the mighty WFMU can I hear Lauryn Hill, XTC and MAHAVISHNU freaking Orchestra in the same set! ha ha

2:23pm Brian Battles:

I'm olllldddddd.....

2:24pm KH:

Quite the line up Brian. Never had the pleasure of seeing MO. And the price could not be beat!

2:24pm Parq:

Ma. Ha. Fucking. Vishnu!

2:25pm KH:

First time I caught JB was at Palladium in lower Manhattan. Live with Jan Hammer supporting Wired.

With Heart as an opening act!

2:25pm KevinfromBayRidge:

One of my first concerts was Mahavishnu, Blue Oyster Cult, and the Byrds- StonyBrook- early '70s...Not a bad start!

2:26pm billyrizin:

What the hell is wrong with my radio, it's playing good music for a change.
Then I hear who it is. Yay, MUSIC.
Frank, come back, do a regular show where, like in the olden days, the DJ weaves an ambiance by simply playing some of the terrific things that have been recorded over the last hundred or so years. So many great sounds, so little time. So refreshing to hear the disc jockey whipping that musical horse. Thank you Frank O'Toole!

2:26pm Parq:

I saw the MVO over and over again, up to an including the first tour they did without the original line-up. On that tour, they were double-headlining with -- ta da! -- the Jeff Beck Group.

2:26pm Brian Battles:

I interview Hammer on WHUS and then years later on WCCC, way cool guy...first saw him with MO and later solo at the Shaboo Inn in Willimantic CT late 1970s. Amazing times! Now I DDJ on WWUH in Hartford and play lotsa this stuff...and I've been a huge fan of WFMU...if I lived in NJ I'd voilunteer!

2:26pm saintMichael:

jazz fusion on wfmu - awesome

2:27pm Brian Battles:

Frank is kicking asse! Streaming this at work in Ellington, CT

2:31pm Parq:

Been sitting here thinking about why the MVO holds up so well when a lot of jazz fusion from the 70s, uh, doesn't. Got to be the sheer intensity of it.

2:35pm Brian Battles:

I met and interviewed all of the original MO guys at one time or another for WHUS, WCCC, and WBAB, and the thing that struck me was that they were all happy, friendly, peaceful and serene type cats...and not druggies like too many other intense musicians

2:37pm John Pierard:

WOW! I hope yer back for good! Miss hearing you all these years!

♥ 2:38pm doctorjazz:

Dead Set!

2:39pm SueAdynamo:

oooh this brings me back

♥ 2:40pm rsj:

have not heard jane's addiction in too long

♥ 2:41pm doctorjazz:

a bit of "The Other One" quote...

2:41pm Officer Dick Downey:

excellent tunes. very unique dead cover

2:43pm melinda:

I liked that Ripple.

2:43pm Gregg:

That is why I loved the 90's. I have the whole decade on cassette.

2:43pm Officer Dick Downey:

The Bobs Golden Road, that is.

♥ 2:47pm maestroso:

What a great show! Thanks Frank!

2:48pm kev:

thanks Frank you must be as old as me

♥ 2:49pm officina:

Seriously diggin' today's show....thanks Frank.

2:50pm Santos L Halper:

Great set (and show), thanks Frank!
I miss Henry Kaiser, is he still active?

2:51pm fxo:

thanks y'all. got to hear from you, I'll Be Back, one of these days.

2:51pm KevinfromBayRidge:

FXO we miss ya! Gotta do this wayyyy more often. Marvelous shew.

2:54pm Parq:

Bye, Frank. Sorry I only caught the last hour, but it was a great hour. Hope to see you during 'thon.

♥ 2:55pm duke:

what KevinfromBayRidge said

2:55pm Parq:

Kevn, just saw yours at 2:25. Funny thing; my friends who hated fusion and loved hard rock always held up BUC as everything the Mahavishnu wasn't.

2:58pm SeanG:

THANKS FRANK

♥ 2:58pm Mick:

Thanks Frank - super show!

♥ 2:58pm James in ATL:

Really enjoyed the show!

2:59pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Nod to Nightbird?

3:00pm KevinfromBayRidge:

@Parq, I was, even at that tender age, more into MVO than BOC.

♥ 3:02pm Michael 98145:

thank you!

5:52pm evan500:

Wow. Love the God Only Knows mashup.

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