WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 7, 2018

Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning everyone!!
	9:02am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	👻 9:03am N.A.R.D.: Good morning friends!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: That first "Nope" is such a riot.
	9:03am duke: Hello Joe
	9:03am pantz: Look at that fancy shmancy new media player on the site! I like to see where my barely earned $$$ is going.
	9:04am crateslinger: Funny, Carpenters are everywhere in my life these days. Something's going on.
	9:05am BronwynB: hello joe and everyone :)
	9:05am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:05am Fashion Tashjian: Good morning Joseph. It will rain soon in Yerevan. Eat your spinach.
	👻 9:05am N.A.R.D.: @crateslinger have you ever seen the movie "1408"?
	9:07am queems: good morning!!
	👻 9:07am karlward: This is so confusing, I love it.
	9:07am Linda Lee: beautiful openers Joe! good morning!! i like the new player!
	9:08am Linda Lee: synchronicity = inklings of the real universe! :-)
	9:09am Rich in NC: Hello Joe !!!
	9:11am Krys O.: Nice set, Joe!
	👻 9:11am N.A.R.D.: The opener of this song reminds me of Mario getting a star in the original Super Mario Bros.
	👻 9:12am tadpoles: Nice Joe..very nice. Barock'n'Roll!
	9:12am The Oscar: Mornin'! Was just listening to Free Design on the way to work-- I guess it's a sunshine pop kinda day!
	9:12am Krys O.: There's Gonna Be a Storm CD is hard to find.
	9:16am pantz: There needs to be a harpsichord revival. The Decembrists might be the only mainstream band that would feature one.
	9:16am Linda Lee: actually prefer Marianne's earlier voice ~ though i loved Broken English much as anyone.
	9:17am Linda Lee: she's always been flat though.
	9:17am The Oscar: My girlfriend and I have agreed that, if we ever become extravagantly wealthy, a harpsichord will be among our first purchases.
	👻 9:19am N.A.R.D.: Spring is Free Piano season on Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace, when is Free Harpsichord season?
	9:19am Joe McG: Hi, everybody! Thanks for joining me this morning!
	9:20am Brendan: I love how you shoot me Claudine.
	👻 9:20am Brian in UK: Hey Joe from sweltering UK. Lincoln Mayorga played piano on Phil Och's A&M albums. I nearly bought one of his solo albums on import in the early Seventies but it was too pricey for a gamble on the content.
	9:21am Linda Lee: sweltering UK! gosh!
	👻 9:21am Brian in UK: Marianne Faithful was never "flat".
	9:21am Linda Lee: i was waitin for that one. :-D
	9:22am The Oscar: Am I the only one who refers to the Rod Stewart lineup as "The Regular-Sized Faces?"
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: Oh yes, Da Capo just the perfect summer album.
	9:22am Cheri Pi: Good morning Joe!
	9:23am Linda Lee: i think she's always been given a pass for looks, she knew it & she was ticked off about it.
	9:23am Chi Bill: LOVE LOVE!!!!
	👻 9:23am Brian in UK: ...but I am an artiste, dahling.
	9:23am The Oscar: Arthur Lee has one of my all-time favorite rock screams.
	9:24am Linda Lee: beyond all that now, i hope.
	9:24am Joe McG: Cheri Pi! :)
	9:25am JFR: words they come so nat true lee I say them all to Steph a Nee YEAH
	9:27am crateslinger: @N.A.R.D. - no I have not seen "1408", but I just scanned the wikipedia page and something about, "We've only just begun". Is it a movie worth checking out? I usually hate most movies where anything happens.
	9:27am Linda Lee: i'm with you on those, crateslinger :-D
	👻 9:28am N.A.R.D.: It's mostly forgettable, crateslinger, but the whole thing was that the guy keeps waking up to the Carpenters on the radio and finding out he hasn't left the hotel room, even though he thinks he has.
	👻 9:28am Brian in UK: @crateslinger funny, my daughter always comments that I like films where nothing happens.
	9:29am Linda Lee: they're heavenly. ;-)
	9:30am The Oscar: One of my favorite Addams Family episodes is the one where they break and need to replace Lurch's harpsichord. In a great moment of bonkers plotting, the second act of the episode has them BUILD A HARPSICHORD, then continue with the episode.
	👻 9:30am N.A.R.D.: His hearing that song was what triggered the reset in his time/location, so your comment that your life has been filled with the Carpenters lately made me think of it
	9:30am Linda Lee: actually like music where nothing happens either, me. or it explodes.
	👻 9:32am N.A.R.D.: @The Oscar, here's instructions on how to build one if you have a great deal of woodworking experience and 300 hours to spare for it: www.johnsankey.ca...
	9:32am Linda Lee: none of this verse-chorus-verse-chorus-reprise stuff for me. no sir.
	9:32am V Priceless: hiya Joe!
	9:32am crateslinger: @N.A.R.D. - sounds pretty creepy - kind of how I'm feeling about this, but the main song I keep running into is actually "Yesterday Once More."
	9:33am Rob (Jerzcity): Speaking of synchronicity - 1408 came up a bunch of times yesterday. Tho we were playing a horror movie trivia game....
	9:33am crateslinger: Seems like "Yesterday Once More" would have been a better pick for the movie.
	9:33am Linda Lee: that you, Matt?
	9:34am themutante: Who else is twisting their nipples right now?
	9:34am Walt: I think the Bill Snyder song features a tack piano (possibly sped up) rather than a harpsichord), though.
	9:34am steveo: Sneaky way to get rickrolled. (Good morning!)
	9:34am Brendan: Quittin just aint my schtick
	👻 9:34am N.A.R.D.: I think that would've worked well too, but I can see why they would have "It's Only Just Begun" to be the line to take him back to the beginning as well
	9:34am Linda Lee: put down that mic, Matty!
	9:35am annie: barry white.... sigh
	9:35am themutante: Chubby Checka those nips!
	9:35am The Oscar: @crateslinger That's actually funny-- a couple of years ago I was in a Chinese restaurant where they were playing a muzak version of "Yesterday Once More," but I couldn't place the tune. It came to me a couple months later, when I heard the original playing at a different Chinese restaurant.
	9:35am Joe McG: @Walt: You got me, Walt. Couldn't resist the title, though.
	9:35am pantz: Baby-making music...
	9:37am Linda Lee: lick the lips, touch the nips.
	9:38am themutante: Hehehe @LL.
	9:38am crateslinger: I think the first time I heard it recently it was a cover on WFMU like maybe on Friday or Thursday - anybody remember? Then I heard it over the weekend, and was humming it this morning. Now we've got another cover of another song. I guess it's just WFMU is playing Carpenter's covers. Probably something to do with the record fair.
	9:38am crateslinger: Either that or I'm going to start seeing dead people.
	9:39am crateslinger: PBS sometimes plays a nice Carpenters doc during fund raising.
	9:40am themutante: The irony of my actions to this song are out there. I'm pushing my freezing beers against my nipples, twisting them, and just noticed I'm wearing a Doug Stanhope t-shirt that says 'Abortion is Green.'
	9:41am themutante: Maybe not irony.
	9:41am Linda Lee: a fine way to start the day, mutante.
	9:41am Linda Lee: makes sense to me!
	9:42am themutante: 14.41 here, @LL. But, aye... not too shabby!
	9:42am Linda Lee: a fine way to start my day, then. :-D
	9:42am themutante: Ha!
	9:42am pantz: Your bed music starts out kinda like Supergrass' Coffee In The Pot, @Joe
	9:44am Roberto: I actually took harpsichord lessons in college. Super useful when job searching!
	9:45am themutante: Hahahaha @Roberto! Hilarious. I just guffawed!
	👻 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: Lurch played a mean harpsichord.
	9:46am Linda Lee: they're on the moon, Joe! they're stone gon'.
	9:49am themutante: Love the Fonal stuff.
	9:49am steveo: good thing you didn't start with the Finnish
	👻 9:50am Brian in UK: To Claudia on Thursday Michael Fennelly co-write is a track on California 99. Jimmie Haskell album. Amazing fold out sleeve.
	9:50am Itzall Ablurr: steveo, SNAP!
	👻 9:51am tadpoles: The Finns..Tim & Neil...national treasure.
	9:52am MD: GOOD MORNING TRIBE!
	9:52am Joe McG: @tadpoles: Ha! @Brian: I want to hear that!
	9:53am themutante: Yeah, this is not Fonal. Fonal do great freak-folk stuff.
	9:53am Dominick: A good kick in the butt this is!
	9:54am steveo: Itzall, thanks but those are actually hand claps
	👻 9:55am karlward: Oh man, this Finnish disco is blowing my Texan mind. Hearing this as a child would have resulted in an entirely different life outcome. But what will happen now that I've heard it as an adult?
	👻 9:59am N.A.R.D.: @The Oscar and @pantz have sent me down a harpsichord shopping rabbit hole...
	👻 9:59am N.A.R.D.: I've just spent the last 30 minutes shopping for harpsichords instead of doing actual work
	10:00am themutante: That last track sounded a little like 'Waiting For the Axe to Fall' by Gil Scott-heron
	10:00am themutante: Some bits, at least.
	10:02am themutante: Feeling this Finnish stuff.
	10:02am βrian: Blue skies over the isthmus today, and here I am without my cyanometer.
	10:03am Brendan: His voice sounds kinda like Greg Lake the guy in Opeth
	10:03am Brendan: Or the guy in Opeth
	10:04am Avid listener: Hi Joe, super show, as always. Just wanted to ask if the Sachiko Kanenobu thing you mentioned during the marathon is still happening.
	10:05am Joe McG: @karl: I think you might implode! @Brendan: Ha ha. @Avid: Yes, next week! I'll talk about that a bit later.
	10:06am Avid listener: Oh fantastic! Thanks!
	10:08am Brendan: I missed the word ‘or’ in that comment. I had a malfunction with my conjunction
	10:09am pantz: Oh, this is an immediate clicky star!
	10:10am steveo: same
	10:10am mb: Hello Joe and fellow listeners
	👻 10:11am karlward: I could listen to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, forever. This is a stellar version.
	10:12am themutante: Did you just play a set of Finnish bands and chose not to play Es, Paavoharju, Islaja, Kemialliset Ystävät et al. Sake, man.
	10:12am Krys O.: I love Ewan MacColl's and Roberta Flack's different intentions virtually the same.
	10:13am Joe McG: @themutante: I wasn't really doing a whole set, just a taste. I could do a whole show of Finnish music. In fact, I'll bet you Gary Sullivan already has!
	10:13am Avid listener: That Offa Rex had a distinct Annie Briggs feel to it. Which, of course, is a good thing.
	👻 10:14am karlward: We are currently inside the credits of a David Lynch piece. Send help. Preferably in the form of some large molded bright blue or red box.
	10:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning JMC Gasko and all!
	10:14am themutante: Understood @Joe.
	10:16am βrian: Speaking of finns, where's fleep?
	10:17am Joe McG: @Avid: Indeed! @Greg: Morning, sir!
	👻 10:18am Brian in UK: Airways reminds me a bit of East River Pipe.
	10:28am Avid listener: Free Spirit - The best track George Harrison never made!
	10:31am Davee: Good morning Joe - Bring on the singles!
	10:32am sinner: Joe: do you know a record by Catapult "No Time To Turn Me On" on Scepter c.1972? It's all you.
	10:33am steveo: i'm sure some disco leaked over from sweden
	10:33am Irene Trudel: Hey Joe, that Offa Rex album came out nearly a year ago and I did play my own copy quite a bit at the time. Great album!
	10:34am Davee: Hi Sinner!
	10:35am sinner: close the pod doors, davee.
	10:36am Joe McG: @sinner: No, I'll need to hear it! @Irene: It is! I'm coming late to it.
	10:37am MD: BUT DAD...IT'S CHARITY!
	10:39am Walt: The music for Aki Kaurismäki's movie "The Match Factory Girl" is all Finnish 60s style surf, rock, and rockabilly. The movie is so dryly humourless that it's actually hilarious (the desired effect, I think).
	10:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: holy crap!
	10:41am Joe McG: @Walt: I think he did a documentary about those crazy Finnish rock stars, too. I can't recall their name at the moment.
	10:42am queems: apron strings
	10:42am Greg from ZONE 5: GAH! That was just the keyboard loop from "How I Could Just Kill A Man"!
	10:42am Guido from Cologne: Bonniwell!
	10:43am Walt: @Joe McG: "Lenningrad Cowboys"
	10:44am Joe McG: @Walt: That's it. I love Kaurismaki's movies. So deadpan.
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Did Kaurismaki make a film with Joe Strummer and Screamin' Jay Hawkins?
	10:46am Itzall Ablurr: That was Jim Jarmusch.
	10:47am Walt: @Brian in UK: I believe you're thinking of "Mystery Train" by director Jim Jarmusch which did feature those two.
	10:47am frozen_peas: this song is so good!!
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: @Walt thanks. Guessing the Charlie Louvin was one of his first solo singles after Ira passed.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: ...and IA!
	10:50am Joe McG: There's a Finnish episode in "Night on Earth."
	👻 10:52am Brian in UK: Top Rank was a UK label? This sounds a bit sub Shadows.
	👻 10:52am Ken From Hyde Park: I trust that Stashu is busy right now searching for Finnish polka to play.
	10:52am Joe McG: Whoops!
	10:52am βrian: Two great movies, those.
	10:54am Listener Alexandra: Righteous grooves this AM, Joe!
	10:54am Walt: @Brian in UK: Top Rank released records in the US (not imports). Jack Scott had several albums on the label.
	10:54am βrian: (“Screamin’ Jay Hawkins is a wild man. So bug off.”)
	10:55am Joe McG: @Alex: I love this Temptations imitation that Vision are doing. So good!
	👻 10:55am karlward: Snares sounded better in the early 1970s.
	10:56am βrian: Back then, snares were made of metal, not just electrons.
	10:56am Brian C.: Love this original version of 52 girls!
	10:57am Listener Alexandra: And now you're playing my favorite B-52s song :-)
	10:57am northguineahills: There should be a Louvin Brothers/Loving Spoonfull crossover/cover band (laptop died for a hot minute).
	10:57am βrian: Makes me think of Boogie Records in Flint, Michigan.
	10:58am dfb: i forgot the b52 were good once. morning everyone
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: They were soldiers once, and young.
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: Whoa, for real? Thought fer sure this was some Kiwi band I'd never heard of…
	👻 11:02am Hughie Considine: The Brewer & Shipley version of Witchi Tai To is really quite heavenly (sweet Jesus!)www.youtube.com...
	11:03am Joe McG: @Hughie: Agree! I've played it on the show. Love the Harper's Bizarre version also.
	11:03am melinda: @ ngh haha, Louvin Spoonful would be great
	11:04am Greg from ZONE 5: Fun fact: This was in the movie Sleepers in a scene that was shot in the bar where Scott had his birthday this year.
	11:04am katharsis: Hellos, My morning takes a turn for the better
	👻 11:05am Hughie Considine: Things go better with Joe.
	11:05am Stanley: Hi Joe. Listening live for a change. Loved that Witchi Tai To. Never heard any version before. Nice.
	👻 11:06am N.A.R.D.: Man, that song always improves my mood. I have a specific memory of listening to the Harper's Bizarre version on the way home from school, when I took a wrong turn because I was too busy singing along with the volume all the way up.
	👻 11:06am karlward: MINUTEMEN!
	11:09am frozen_peas: Just when you think you couldn't love the B-52s any more than you already do.
	11:11am The Oscar: Is Trikont still around? I have a handful of really excellent comps they put out in the 2000s.
	👻 11:11am karlward: Chuck Berry said that when people were surprised that he was a huge country music fan, he would respond with "who did you think that country boy in 'Johnny B. Goode' was?"
	11:12am Itzall Ablurr: DB Recs (B52s)=produced by Danny Beard, owner of Wax 'n Fax records, Atlanta GA. He's also responsible for discovering/producing Pylon, Love Tractor, Guadalcanal Diary and others. And a heckuva guy!
	11:16am queems: oh man that sounds amazing
	11:17am herb.nyc: hi. writer NHornby reviewed that recent LOUVIN brothers bio (?) and he writes how they'd listen to music at night, but didn't wanna wake daddy (bec he'd beat them). this is how: "take a couple of broom straws, put them between your teeth, and use them as styli, and the music goes straight into your skull". huh?
	11:17am Krys O.: Hey, Joe! Thanks for the shout out. Randy Scruggs was an amazing musician and producer.
	11:18am D. Lightfoot: Charlie Louvin's memoir is one of the best life-in-the-music biz memoirs Ive ever read
	11:19am D. Lightfoot: The thing about the broom straws I did myself as a kid in my room with a record player
	11:23am paul: D. Lightfoot, did you play basketball at Butler University?
	11:25am D. Lightfoot: No
	11:25am pantz: Who's singing this, Joe? Sounds like Danko.
	11:25am paul: There was a Duane Lightfoot that played there about 10 years ago.
	11:26am Krys O.: Gary Scruggs was the lead singer.
	11:26am Joe McG: @pantz: Gary did all the sangin'.
	11:27am b k: Warner Brothers put out a great three CD box set in the mid '90's called "From Where I Stand- The Black Experience In Country Music". Also worth checking out is a mash up of "Sweet Jane- Wichi Tai To" on an album called "The Farrago Sessions" by Michael Stanley.
	11:28am herb.nyc: @DLightfoot - you did that broom styli thing? what happened? (did you sweep all the dust from your mouth? oh i'm so funny.)
	11:30am melinda: I love Apartment 21, nice cover
	11:32am Dennis Diken: diggin' the noise Joe!
	11:33am Joe McG: Great to see you, Dennis!
	11:35am βrian: Mac Davis and Chicken Pot Pies. What more could one ask for?
	11:36am melinda: I love this set
	11:36am pantz: Mac is eating Mac & Cheese over the sink
	11:37am pantz: ...right out of the sauce pan.
	👻 11:39am N.A.R.D.: @pantz, I've done the same thing. Sounds like my college days.
	👻 11:39am N.A.R.D.: Saves on washing dishes
	11:41am pantz: It's the bachelor's way, NARD.
	11:43am D. Lightfoot: Herb: You put a broom straw or splinter a few inches long in your teeth, hold it in the groove on the record and you can hear the vibrations in your head with the volume turned all the way down. My dirty mouth I got from my granny.
	👻 11:43am N.A.R.D.: Truly!
	11:50am herb.nyc: @DLightfoot, will do so during next blackout, thx
	👻 11:52am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:53am Joe McG: It's been real nice keeping you company this morning. Have a great week, everybody, and don't forget to tune in next week for the first live radio appearance in decades from Sachiko Kanenobu!
	11:54am Mister Dobalina: Awesome track, Joe!
	11:54am Krys O.: Thanks again, Joe!
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Shock news, Joe plays a Bobbie Gentry track. Great show again, thanks.
	11:56am ?: Thanks Joe. Great show. Maybe you can ask Sachiko where in the world Nobue Kawana is.
	11:57am Brendan: ? = me
	11:57am northguineahills: Thanks joe! You beat w/ that one (Louvin Spoonful)(been busy at work).
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joey!
	11:59am rbx: later Joe! Thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 7, 2018

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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May 7, 2018: Once You Get Used to It

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
The Millenium	Prelude "Prelude" by "The Millenium"	Begin	Sony Japan	1999	CD	From 1968		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues	We've Only Just Begun	The Missing Linc (Volume II)	Sheffiled	1974	LP			0:03:17 (Pop-up)
Baroque Jazz Trio	Largo "Largo" by "Baroque Jazz Trio"	Baroque Jazz Trio	L'Ardme Productions	2004	CD	From 1970		0:06:42 (Pop-up)
The Left Banke	I Haven't Got the Nerve	There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings, 1966–1969	Mercury	1992	CD	From 1966		0:10:37 (Pop-up)
Timothy Clover	One Day You're a Rich Man	The Cambridge Concept of Timothy Clover: A Harvard Square Affair	Tower	1968	LP			0:12:41 (Pop-up)
Marianne Faithfull	Come and Stay with Me	Greatest Hits	London	1969	LP	From 1965		0:15:11 (Pop-up)
Claudine Longet	I Love How You Love Me	Hello Hello: The Best of Claudine Longet	Rev-Ola	2005	CD	From 1967		0:17:29 (Pop-up)
Small Faces	Show Me the Way "Show Me the Way" by "Small Faces"	There Are But Four Small Faces	Immediate	1967	LP			0:19:31 (Pop-up)
Love	Stephanie Knows Who "Stephanie Knows Who" by "Love"	Da Capo	Elektra	1988	LP	From 1966		0:21:34 (Pop-up)
Michel Polnareff	Mes Regrets "Mes Regrets" by "Michel Polnareff"	Les Premières Années	Universal	1997	CD	From 1967		0:23:59 (Pop-up)
Bill Snyder	Harpsi-Boogie "Harpsi-Boogie" by "Bill Snyder"	single	Decca	1952	45			0:27:28 (Pop-up)
Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five	Special Delivery Stomp	The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions	Bluebird/BMG/RCA	1989	LP	From 1940		0:29:37 (Pop-up)
Barry White	Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up	Stone Gon'	20th Century	1973	LP			0:32:21 (Pop-up)

Rattus	Täältä Tullaan Kuolema "Täältä Tullaan Kuolema" by "Rattus"	Veritahroja: Rare Finnish Punk, 1979-1983	Svart	2018	CD	From 1981; "Here Comes Death"	*	0:50:25 (Pop-up)
Peak Funktion	Freakin' at the Disco	Dance For Your Life - Rare Finnish Disco & Funk 1976-1986	Svart	2018	CD	From 1980	*	0:53:23 (Pop-up)
Hector	Meiran Iaulu "Meiran Iaulu" by "Hector"	Psychedelic Phinland:Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974	Love	2006	CD	From 1973; "Meira's Song"		0:59:08 (Pop-up)
Tuomas Palonen	Avoimin Silmin "Avoimin Silmin" by "Tuomas Palonen"	Tuomas Palonen	Palatsi	2018	CD	"With Eyes Open"	*	1:04:06 (Pop-up)
Offa Rex	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	The Queen of Hearts	Nonesuch	2017	CD			1:08:39 (Pop-up)
Grouper	Blouse "Blouse" by "Grouper"	Grid of Points	Kranky	2018	CD		*	1:12:10 (Pop-up)
Airwaves	Home "Home" by "Airwaves"	Warrior	Western Vinyl	2018	CD		*	1:14:48 (Pop-up)
Zuider Zee	Night Light "Night Light" by "Zuider Zee"	Zeenith	Light in the Attic	2018	CD	previously unreleased 1973 recordings	*	1:18:04 (Pop-up)
Thomas Edisun's Red Light Electric Band	Breathe	The Red Day Album	Gear Fab	2014	CD	From 1967		1:22:40 (Pop-up)
Hudson Ford	Free Spirit "Free Spirit" by "Hudson Ford"	Free Spirit	A&M	1974	LP			1:24:45 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s all in an orderly (?) row
Charity Brown	Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)	single	A&M	1975	45			1:35:12 (Pop-up)
Charles Bevel	Making a Decision (Bring On Sunshine)	single	A&M	1973	45			1:37:23 (Pop-up)
The Music Machine	Come On In "Come On In" by "The Music Machine"	single	Original Sound	1966	45			1:40:53 (Pop-up)
Charlie Louvin	Something to Think About	single	Capitol	1965	45			1:43:48 (Pop-up)
The Pointer Sisters	Fairytale "Fairytale" by "The Pointer Sisters"	single	Blue Thumb	1974	45			1:46:35 (Pop-up)
The Fireballs	Nearly Sunrise "Nearly Sunrise" by "The Fireballs"	single	Top Rank International	1959	45			1:49:43 (Pop-up)
Vision	Play the Game "Play the Game" by "Vision"	single	MGM	1973	45			1:52:10 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	52-Girls "52-Girls" by "The B-52's"	single	DB Recs	1978	45			1:55:53 (Pop-up)
Cub	Someday "Someday" by "Cub"	single	Mint	1993	45			1:59:18 (Pop-up)
Everything Is Everything	Witchi Tai To	single	Vanguard	1969	45			2:01:08 (Pop-up)

Gary and Randy Scruggs	Black Mountain Rag	All the Way Home	Vanguard	1970	LP			2:17:24 (Pop-up)
Gary and Randy Scruggs	Oh Faith "Oh Faith" by "Gary and Randy Scruggs"	The Scruggs Brothers	Vanguard	1972	LP			2:19:37 (Pop-up)
The Earl Scruggs Revue	I Shall Be Released	Live! From Austin City Limits	Columbia	1977	LP			2:22:47 (Pop-up)
The Earl Scruggs Revue	All My Trials	Where the Lillies Bloom - The Original Soundtrack Recording	Columbia	1974	LP			2:25:39 (Pop-up)
John Buck Wilkin	Apartment Twenty-One	In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter & Sex	Liberty	1970	LP			2:28:42 (Pop-up)
Bobbie Gentry	Courtyard "Courtyard" by "Bobbie Gentry"	The Delta Sweete	Capitol	1968	LP			2:31:28 (Pop-up)
Mac Davis	Once You Get Used to It	Song Painter	Columbia	1970	LP			2:34:26 (Pop-up)
Joe South	Imitation of Livin' "Imitation of Livin'" by "Joe South"	A Look Inside	Capitol	1972	LP			2:37:06 (Pop-up)
Troy Seals	World's Most Broken Heart	Now Presenting Troy Seals	Atlantic	1973	LP			2:39:58 (Pop-up)
Jim Ford	I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind	Point of No Return: Previously Unreleased Masters, a Lost 45 & Rare Demos	Bear Family	2008	CD	ca. 1969		2:43:01 (Pop-up)
Vernon Wray	Lonely Son "Lonely Son" by "Vernon Wray"	Wasted	Sebastian Speaks	2011	LP	From 1972		2:45:47 (Pop-up)
Tony Joe White	I Just Walked Away	Tony Joe White.	Warner Bros.	1971	LP			2:50:51 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning everyone!!
	9:02am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	👻 9:03am N.A.R.D.: Good morning friends!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: That first "Nope" is such a riot.
	9:03am duke: Hello Joe
	9:03am pantz: Look at that fancy shmancy new media player on the site! I like to see where my barely earned $$$ is going.
	9:04am crateslinger: Funny, Carpenters are everywhere in my life these days. Something's going on.
	9:05am BronwynB: hello joe and everyone :)
	9:05am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:05am Fashion Tashjian: Good morning Joseph. It will rain soon in Yerevan. Eat your spinach.
	👻 9:05am N.A.R.D.: @crateslinger have you ever seen the movie "1408"?
	9:07am queems: good morning!!
	👻 9:07am karlward: This is so confusing, I love it.
	9:07am Linda Lee: beautiful openers Joe! good morning!! i like the new player!
	9:08am Linda Lee: synchronicity = inklings of the real universe! :-)
	9:09am Rich in NC: Hello Joe !!!
	9:11am Krys O.: Nice set, Joe!
	👻 9:11am N.A.R.D.: The opener of this song reminds me of Mario getting a star in the original Super Mario Bros.
	👻 9:12am tadpoles: Nice Joe..very nice. Barock'n'Roll!
	9:12am The Oscar: Mornin'! Was just listening to Free Design on the way to work-- I guess it's a sunshine pop kinda day!
	9:12am Krys O.: There's Gonna Be a Storm CD is hard to find.
	9:16am pantz: There needs to be a harpsichord revival. The Decembrists might be the only mainstream band that would feature one.
	9:16am Linda Lee: actually prefer Marianne's earlier voice ~ though i loved Broken English much as anyone.
	9:17am Linda Lee: she's always been flat though.
	9:17am The Oscar: My girlfriend and I have agreed that, if we ever become extravagantly wealthy, a harpsichord will be among our first purchases.
	👻 9:19am N.A.R.D.: Spring is Free Piano season on Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace, when is Free Harpsichord season?
	9:19am Joe McG: Hi, everybody! Thanks for joining me this morning!
	9:20am Brendan: I love how you shoot me Claudine.
	👻 9:20am Brian in UK: Hey Joe from sweltering UK. Lincoln Mayorga played piano on Phil Och's A&M albums. I nearly bought one of his solo albums on import in the early Seventies but it was too pricey for a gamble on the content.
	9:21am Linda Lee: sweltering UK! gosh!
	👻 9:21am Brian in UK: Marianne Faithful was never "flat".
	9:21am Linda Lee: i was waitin for that one. :-D
	9:22am The Oscar: Am I the only one who refers to the Rod Stewart lineup as "The Regular-Sized Faces?"
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: Oh yes, Da Capo just the perfect summer album.
	9:22am Cheri Pi: Good morning Joe!
	9:23am Linda Lee: i think she's always been given a pass for looks, she knew it & she was ticked off about it.
	9:23am Chi Bill: LOVE LOVE!!!!
	👻 9:23am Brian in UK: ...but I am an artiste, dahling.
	9:23am The Oscar: Arthur Lee has one of my all-time favorite rock screams.
	9:24am Linda Lee: beyond all that now, i hope.
	9:24am Joe McG: Cheri Pi! :)
	9:25am JFR: words they come so nat true lee I say them all to Steph a Nee YEAH
	9:27am crateslinger: @N.A.R.D. - no I have not seen "1408", but I just scanned the wikipedia page and something about, "We've only just begun". Is it a movie worth checking out? I usually hate most movies where anything happens.
	9:27am Linda Lee: i'm with you on those, crateslinger :-D
	👻 9:28am N.A.R.D.: It's mostly forgettable, crateslinger, but the whole thing was that the guy keeps waking up to the Carpenters on the radio and finding out he hasn't left the hotel room, even though he thinks he has.
	👻 9:28am Brian in UK: @crateslinger funny, my daughter always comments that I like films where nothing happens.
	9:29am Linda Lee: they're heavenly. ;-)
	9:30am The Oscar: One of my favorite Addams Family episodes is the one where they break and need to replace Lurch's harpsichord. In a great moment of bonkers plotting, the second act of the episode has them BUILD A HARPSICHORD, then continue with the episode.
	👻 9:30am N.A.R.D.: His hearing that song was what triggered the reset in his time/location, so your comment that your life has been filled with the Carpenters lately made me think of it
	9:30am Linda Lee: actually like music where nothing happens either, me. or it explodes.
	👻 9:32am N.A.R.D.: @The Oscar, here's instructions on how to build one if you have a great deal of woodworking experience and 300 hours to spare for it: www.johnsankey.ca...
	9:32am Linda Lee: none of this verse-chorus-verse-chorus-reprise stuff for me. no sir.
	9:32am V Priceless: hiya Joe!
	9:32am crateslinger: @N.A.R.D. - sounds pretty creepy - kind of how I'm feeling about this, but the main song I keep running into is actually "Yesterday Once More."
	9:33am Rob (Jerzcity): Speaking of synchronicity - 1408 came up a bunch of times yesterday. Tho we were playing a horror movie trivia game....
	9:33am crateslinger: Seems like "Yesterday Once More" would have been a better pick for the movie.
	9:33am Linda Lee: that you, Matt?
	9:34am themutante: Who else is twisting their nipples right now?
	9:34am Walt: I think the Bill Snyder song features a tack piano (possibly sped up) rather than a harpsichord), though.
	9:34am steveo: Sneaky way to get rickrolled. (Good morning!)
	9:34am Brendan: Quittin just aint my schtick
	👻 9:34am N.A.R.D.: I think that would've worked well too, but I can see why they would have "It's Only Just Begun" to be the line to take him back to the beginning as well
	9:34am Linda Lee: put down that mic, Matty!
	9:35am annie: barry white.... sigh
	9:35am themutante: Chubby Checka those nips!
	9:35am The Oscar: @crateslinger That's actually funny-- a couple of years ago I was in a Chinese restaurant where they were playing a muzak version of "Yesterday Once More," but I couldn't place the tune. It came to me a couple months later, when I heard the original playing at a different Chinese restaurant.
	9:35am Joe McG: @Walt: You got me, Walt. Couldn't resist the title, though.
	9:35am pantz: Baby-making music...
	9:37am Linda Lee: lick the lips, touch the nips.
	9:38am themutante: Hehehe @LL.
	9:38am crateslinger: I think the first time I heard it recently it was a cover on WFMU like maybe on Friday or Thursday - anybody remember? Then I heard it over the weekend, and was humming it this morning. Now we've got another cover of another song. I guess it's just WFMU is playing Carpenter's covers. Probably something to do with the record fair.
	9:38am crateslinger: Either that or I'm going to start seeing dead people.
	9:39am crateslinger: PBS sometimes plays a nice Carpenters doc during fund raising.
	9:40am themutante: The irony of my actions to this song are out there. I'm pushing my freezing beers against my nipples, twisting them, and just noticed I'm wearing a Doug Stanhope t-shirt that says 'Abortion is Green.'
	9:41am themutante: Maybe not irony.
	9:41am Linda Lee: a fine way to start the day, mutante.
	9:41am Linda Lee: makes sense to me!
	9:42am themutante: 14.41 here, @LL. But, aye... not too shabby!
	9:42am Linda Lee: a fine way to start my day, then. :-D
	9:42am themutante: Ha!
	9:42am pantz: Your bed music starts out kinda like Supergrass' Coffee In The Pot, @Joe
	9:44am Roberto: I actually took harpsichord lessons in college. Super useful when job searching!
	9:45am themutante: Hahahaha @Roberto! Hilarious. I just guffawed!
	👻 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: Lurch played a mean harpsichord.
	9:46am Linda Lee: they're on the moon, Joe! they're stone gon'.
	9:49am themutante: Love the Fonal stuff.
	9:49am steveo: good thing you didn't start with the Finnish
	👻 9:50am Brian in UK: To Claudia on Thursday Michael Fennelly co-write is a track on California 99. Jimmie Haskell album. Amazing fold out sleeve.
	9:50am Itzall Ablurr: steveo, SNAP!
	👻 9:51am tadpoles: The Finns..Tim & Neil...national treasure.
	9:52am MD: GOOD MORNING TRIBE!
	9:52am Joe McG: @tadpoles: Ha! @Brian: I want to hear that!
	9:53am themutante: Yeah, this is not Fonal. Fonal do great freak-folk stuff.
	9:53am Dominick: A good kick in the butt this is!
	9:54am steveo: Itzall, thanks but those are actually hand claps
	👻 9:55am karlward: Oh man, this Finnish disco is blowing my Texan mind. Hearing this as a child would have resulted in an entirely different life outcome. But what will happen now that I've heard it as an adult?
	👻 9:59am N.A.R.D.: @The Oscar and @pantz have sent me down a harpsichord shopping rabbit hole...
	👻 9:59am N.A.R.D.: I've just spent the last 30 minutes shopping for harpsichords instead of doing actual work
	10:00am themutante: That last track sounded a little like 'Waiting For the Axe to Fall' by Gil Scott-heron
	10:00am themutante: Some bits, at least.
	10:02am themutante: Feeling this Finnish stuff.
	10:02am βrian: Blue skies over the isthmus today, and here I am without my cyanometer.
	10:03am Brendan: His voice sounds kinda like Greg Lake the guy in Opeth
	10:03am Brendan: Or the guy in Opeth
	10:04am Avid listener: Hi Joe, super show, as always. Just wanted to ask if the Sachiko Kanenobu thing you mentioned during the marathon is still happening.
	10:05am Joe McG: @karl: I think you might implode! @Brendan: Ha ha. @Avid: Yes, next week! I'll talk about that a bit later.
	10:06am Avid listener: Oh fantastic! Thanks!
	10:08am Brendan: I missed the word ‘or’ in that comment. I had a malfunction with my conjunction
	10:09am pantz: Oh, this is an immediate clicky star!
	10:10am steveo: same
	10:10am mb: Hello Joe and fellow listeners
	👻 10:11am karlward: I could listen to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, forever. This is a stellar version.
	10:12am themutante: Did you just play a set of Finnish bands and chose not to play Es, Paavoharju, Islaja, Kemialliset Ystävät et al. Sake, man.
	10:12am Krys O.: I love Ewan MacColl's and Roberta Flack's different intentions virtually the same.
	10:13am Joe McG: @themutante: I wasn't really doing a whole set, just a taste. I could do a whole show of Finnish music. In fact, I'll bet you Gary Sullivan already has!
	10:13am Avid listener: That Offa Rex had a distinct Annie Briggs feel to it. Which, of course, is a good thing.
	👻 10:14am karlward: We are currently inside the credits of a David Lynch piece. Send help. Preferably in the form of some large molded bright blue or red box.
	10:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning JMC Gasko and all!
	10:14am themutante: Understood @Joe.
	10:16am βrian: Speaking of finns, where's fleep?
	10:17am Joe McG: @Avid: Indeed! @Greg: Morning, sir!
	👻 10:18am Brian in UK: Airways reminds me a bit of East River Pipe.
	10:28am Avid listener: Free Spirit - The best track George Harrison never made!
	10:31am Davee: Good morning Joe - Bring on the singles!
	10:32am sinner: Joe: do you know a record by Catapult "No Time To Turn Me On" on Scepter c.1972? It's all you.
	10:33am steveo: i'm sure some disco leaked over from sweden
	10:33am Irene Trudel: Hey Joe, that Offa Rex album came out nearly a year ago and I did play my own copy quite a bit at the time. Great album!
	10:34am Davee: Hi Sinner!
	10:35am sinner: close the pod doors, davee.
	10:36am Joe McG: @sinner: No, I'll need to hear it! @Irene: It is! I'm coming late to it.
	10:37am MD: BUT DAD...IT'S CHARITY!
	10:39am Walt: The music for Aki Kaurismäki's movie "The Match Factory Girl" is all Finnish 60s style surf, rock, and rockabilly. The movie is so dryly humourless that it's actually hilarious (the desired effect, I think).
	10:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: holy crap!
	10:41am Joe McG: @Walt: I think he did a documentary about those crazy Finnish rock stars, too. I can't recall their name at the moment.
	10:42am queems: apron strings
	10:42am Greg from ZONE 5: GAH! That was just the keyboard loop from "How I Could Just Kill A Man"!
	10:42am Guido from Cologne: Bonniwell!
	10:43am Walt: @Joe McG: "Lenningrad Cowboys"
	10:44am Joe McG: @Walt: That's it. I love Kaurismaki's movies. So deadpan.
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Did Kaurismaki make a film with Joe Strummer and Screamin' Jay Hawkins?
	10:46am Itzall Ablurr: That was Jim Jarmusch.
	10:47am Walt: @Brian in UK: I believe you're thinking of "Mystery Train" by director Jim Jarmusch which did feature those two.
	10:47am frozen_peas: this song is so good!!
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: @Walt thanks. Guessing the Charlie Louvin was one of his first solo singles after Ira passed.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: ...and IA!
	10:50am Joe McG: There's a Finnish episode in "Night on Earth."
	👻 10:52am Brian in UK: Top Rank was a UK label? This sounds a bit sub Shadows.
	👻 10:52am Ken From Hyde Park: I trust that Stashu is busy right now searching for Finnish polka to play.
	10:52am Joe McG: Whoops!
	10:52am βrian: Two great movies, those.
	10:54am Listener Alexandra: Righteous grooves this AM, Joe!
	10:54am Walt: @Brian in UK: Top Rank released records in the US (not imports). Jack Scott had several albums on the label.
	10:54am βrian: (“Screamin’ Jay Hawkins is a wild man. So bug off.”)
	10:55am Joe McG: @Alex: I love this Temptations imitation that Vision are doing. So good!
	👻 10:55am karlward: Snares sounded better in the early 1970s.
	10:56am βrian: Back then, snares were made of metal, not just electrons.
	10:56am Brian C.: Love this original version of 52 girls!
	10:57am Listener Alexandra: And now you're playing my favorite B-52s song :-)
	10:57am northguineahills: There should be a Louvin Brothers/Loving Spoonfull crossover/cover band (laptop died for a hot minute).
	10:57am βrian: Makes me think of Boogie Records in Flint, Michigan.
	10:58am dfb: i forgot the b52 were good once. morning everyone
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: They were soldiers once, and young.
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: Whoa, for real? Thought fer sure this was some Kiwi band I'd never heard of…
	👻 11:02am Hughie Considine: The Brewer & Shipley version of Witchi Tai To is really quite heavenly (sweet Jesus!)www.youtube.com...
	11:03am Joe McG: @Hughie: Agree! I've played it on the show. Love the Harper's Bizarre version also.
	11:03am melinda: @ ngh haha, Louvin Spoonful would be great
	11:04am Greg from ZONE 5: Fun fact: This was in the movie Sleepers in a scene that was shot in the bar where Scott had his birthday this year.
	11:04am katharsis: Hellos, My morning takes a turn for the better
	👻 11:05am Hughie Considine: Things go better with Joe.
	11:05am Stanley: Hi Joe. Listening live for a change. Loved that Witchi Tai To. Never heard any version before. Nice.
	👻 11:06am N.A.R.D.: Man, that song always improves my mood. I have a specific memory of listening to the Harper's Bizarre version on the way home from school, when I took a wrong turn because I was too busy singing along with the volume all the way up.
	👻 11:06am karlward: MINUTEMEN!
	11:09am frozen_peas: Just when you think you couldn't love the B-52s any more than you already do.
	11:11am The Oscar: Is Trikont still around? I have a handful of really excellent comps they put out in the 2000s.
	👻 11:11am karlward: Chuck Berry said that when people were surprised that he was a huge country music fan, he would respond with "who did you think that country boy in 'Johnny B. Goode' was?"
	11:12am Itzall Ablurr: DB Recs (B52s)=produced by Danny Beard, owner of Wax 'n Fax records, Atlanta GA. He's also responsible for discovering/producing Pylon, Love Tractor, Guadalcanal Diary and others. And a heckuva guy!
	11:16am queems: oh man that sounds amazing
	11:17am herb.nyc: hi. writer NHornby reviewed that recent LOUVIN brothers bio (?) and he writes how they'd listen to music at night, but didn't wanna wake daddy (bec he'd beat them). this is how: "take a couple of broom straws, put them between your teeth, and use them as styli, and the music goes straight into your skull". huh?
	11:17am Krys O.: Hey, Joe! Thanks for the shout out. Randy Scruggs was an amazing musician and producer.
	11:18am D. Lightfoot: Charlie Louvin's memoir is one of the best life-in-the-music biz memoirs Ive ever read
	11:19am D. Lightfoot: The thing about the broom straws I did myself as a kid in my room with a record player
	11:23am paul: D. Lightfoot, did you play basketball at Butler University?
	11:25am D. Lightfoot: No
	11:25am pantz: Who's singing this, Joe? Sounds like Danko.
	11:25am paul: There was a Duane Lightfoot that played there about 10 years ago.
	11:26am Krys O.: Gary Scruggs was the lead singer.
	11:26am Joe McG: @pantz: Gary did all the sangin'.
	11:27am b k: Warner Brothers put out a great three CD box set in the mid '90's called "From Where I Stand- The Black Experience In Country Music". Also worth checking out is a mash up of "Sweet Jane- Wichi Tai To" on an album called "The Farrago Sessions" by Michael Stanley.
	11:28am herb.nyc: @DLightfoot - you did that broom styli thing? what happened? (did you sweep all the dust from your mouth? oh i'm so funny.)
	11:30am melinda: I love Apartment 21, nice cover
	11:32am Dennis Diken: diggin' the noise Joe!
	11:33am Joe McG: Great to see you, Dennis!
	11:35am βrian: Mac Davis and Chicken Pot Pies. What more could one ask for?
	11:36am melinda: I love this set
	11:36am pantz: Mac is eating Mac & Cheese over the sink
	11:37am pantz: ...right out of the sauce pan.
	👻 11:39am N.A.R.D.: @pantz, I've done the same thing. Sounds like my college days.
	👻 11:39am N.A.R.D.: Saves on washing dishes
	11:41am pantz: It's the bachelor's way, NARD.
	11:43am D. Lightfoot: Herb: You put a broom straw or splinter a few inches long in your teeth, hold it in the groove on the record and you can hear the vibrations in your head with the volume turned all the way down. My dirty mouth I got from my granny.
	👻 11:43am N.A.R.D.: Truly!
	11:50am herb.nyc: @DLightfoot, will do so during next blackout, thx
	👻 11:52am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:53am Joe McG: It's been real nice keeping you company this morning. Have a great week, everybody, and don't forget to tune in next week for the first live radio appearance in decades from Sachiko Kanenobu!
	11:54am Mister Dobalina: Awesome track, Joe!
	11:54am Krys O.: Thanks again, Joe!
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Shock news, Joe plays a Bobbie Gentry track. Great show again, thanks.
	11:56am ?: Thanks Joe. Great show. Maybe you can ask Sachiko where in the world Nobue Kawana is.
	11:57am Brendan: ? = me
	11:57am northguineahills: Thanks joe! You beat w/ that one (Louvin Spoonful)(been busy at work).
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joey!
	11:59am rbx: later Joe! Thanks!

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