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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Jefferson Airplane Today Surrealistic Pillow 1967 A really belated RIP to Marty Balin 0:02:37 Pop-up) Norma Tanega Walkin' My Cat Named Dog Walkin' My Cat Named Dog 1966 RIP 0:05:33 Pop-up) Astroturf Noise w/Sarah Bernstein Black Berry Astroturf Noise * 2020 0:07:46 Pop-up) Eric Dolphy Mandrake (alternate take) Musical Prophet 1963 / 2018 0:09:56 Pop-up) NRBQ Places Far Away Brass Tacks 2014 0:16:24 Pop-up) Marty Manning Far Away Places Twilight Zone - A Sound Adventure In Space 1961 0:20:58 Pop-up) Manfred Mann Black Betty The Mighty Quinn 1968 0:23:08 Pop-up) Slim Gaillard Dr. Free Searching For You: The Lost Singles of McVouty 1958-1974 1962 / 2016 0:26:10 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"0:28:47 Pop-up) Keith Tippet Group Thank You for the Smile (For Wendy and Roger) You Are Here... I Am There 1970 A belated RIP to Keith Tippett 0:35:53 Pop-up) Kinks A Long Way From Home Lola Vs. The Powerman & The Money-Go-Round 1970 0:37:56 Pop-up) Impressions You Must Believe Me Definitive Impressions 1964 / 1989 0:40:20 Pop-up) Nolan Strong & The Diablos You're The Only Girl, Delores Fortune Of Hits 1956 0:42:50 Pop-up) Sonny Rollins Afternoon In Paris Now's The Time 1964 0:46:08 Pop-up) David Greenberger & Prime Lens Rockwell It Happened To Me 2018 0:48:49 Pop-up) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies Fishing For Fishies 2019 0:50:36 Pop-up) Innocence Mission Hello I Feel The Same Hello I Feel The Same 2016 0:55:39 Pop-up) Fairport Convention Portfolio Fairport Convention 1968 debut album w/ Judy Dyble [RIP] 0:57:47 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"children playing"0:59:53 Pop-up) Otis Redding Look At The Girl Love Man 1969 posthumous album 1:06:31 Pop-up) Ray Charles Mary Ann The Genius Of Soul 1955 / 1991 1:09:14 Pop-up) Beach Boys The Little Girl I Once Knew [backing track] 1964 1:11:57 Pop-up) Steely Dan The Second Arrangement The Lost Gaucho Sessions 1980 1:14:42 Pop-up) Chilly Gonzales Evolving Doors Solo Piano II 2012 1:20:11 Pop-up) Spooky Tooth Down River The Last Puff 1970 1:22:32 Pop-up) Mamas & Papas Got A Feelin' If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears 1966 1:27:15 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's" Ranch"1:30:00 Pop-up) P.J. O'Connell w/ NRBQ Application Happy-Go-Lucky 2002 A belated RIP to Pat O'Connell 1:36:05 Pop-up) Hollies When Your Lights Turned On Evolution 1967 /1999 non-lp 45 -> CD bonus track 1:39:43 Pop-up) xTC The Meeting Place [backing track] Skylarking 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 1986 / 2016 1:42:10 Pop-up) Don Crawford Sally Get Your Mojo Don Crawford 1966 debut album 1:45:22 Pop-up) Threadbare Funny Thing Is Silver Dollar * 2020 1:47:22 Pop-up) Free Design I LIke The Sunrise You Can Be Born Again 1968 1:51:14 Pop-up) Impossible Shapes Bombs Horus 2005 1:54:35 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"1:56:44 Pop-up)
(* = new)
Listener comments!
9:00am : Good morning, Bob and all. Looking forward as always to hearing your Saturday morning mixtape melange.9:03am : Greetings bb & crew! Let's git it! Jefferson Airplane Loves You! 8-)9:04am : Good morning, Bob. Wonderful opening to the show.9:04am : Good Morning Bob + fellow listeners.
Marty Balin will always have my respect for confronting the Hell’s Angels at Altamont.9:04am : Good Morning! I used to play "Today" so often on my WFMU show, Changes. That connection...9:04am : Such nice memories this song
JA days !9:04am : Good morning 1whoknewcthulhu and everyone joining!
Hey J!9:05am : LSD9:06am : This song also! So cool.🥁 9:06am : Morning Bob and all. Off to a fine start (as always).9:07am : Good morning, Bob. Good morning, brainerians. Good morning dogs named cat and cats named dog.9:07am : Cool tune & so AWESOME to hear Bob back on the air...THANK GOD!!!9:08am : Good morning, Mr. B.9:08am : Woof Mehow9:11am : Good morning Bob and listeners! This Dolphy hitting just right on this colorful fall morning.9:13am : Hey Jeff, deborah & Earth Walker. Morning Wm. from D. adamdoesit. Hey Cat. Glad to be here DonJuanTijuana, thanks! Hey Corey.9:18am : Good morning Both & listeners.
@Jeff Good morning r u ok?9:19am : good morning9:19am : Hey Doc, I’m running on empty9:22am : Good morning Bob, and all other Brainiacs.9:23am : Bob!9:25am : Hey Jeff me to.9:26am : Morning Doc Rock & Uncle Michael & Jeff. And to you
Andrew in Toronto and northguineahills.9:27am : Bob, for all the decades you were on the air, I didn't tune in until a few months before your hiatus. Your return ends one small devastation in a time of great devastations. I'm so glad you can spin again without dodging potholes on the way.9:27am : Give it up for the mighty Slim Gaillard!9:30am : You can never have too much roonie.9:32am : Morning Bob and friends!9:33am : Tou said it, Adam.
I am proud to say, that I shook that great man``s hand on three seperate occassions.9:35am : Good morning BB and chirpers.9:37am : Hey Melinda and Cooh John.
Andrew, you met Slim?! Wow. What were the circumstances?9:38am : Is off this message board cool with you?9:38am : Fantastic deep Kinks cut.9:39am : cool program9:39am : You got it Hughie.9:41am : Gmorning all🥁 9:41am : There's a great Airplane gig from the Fillmore in Nov. '66. Right in the middle of the Pillow sessions. The band never sounded tighter.9:44am : Diablos! Yeah! good morning Bob & all!9:45am : Sure whatever works for you. You can e-mail me-link on bottom of playlist.
Hello to Hughie Considine & Mikielives. Thanks.
Hey DjLorraine.
Hey Dennis!9:50am : Morning, Bob & all!9:52am : King Gizzard! Good morning from rainy cold Season. Great show, Bob.10:00am : Morning to Greg from ZONE 5 & egould31010:02am : agree re that 1st Fairport LP, fabulous10:03am : Good morning Bob, skeleton, Dennis, Frank, Greg, everybody!10:07am : None better than the 'Big O'! 8-)10:08am : its time to take the window fans out, clean them and put them away, so great show happening for that chore — gracias senor bob.10:10am : Hey Hoboken Jack.
Dennis-Martin Lamble very under-rated drummer, very versatile, great with mallets and provided just whatever a song needed.10:13am : Big Thanks to those pledging during the show and everyone who has done so already. If you haven't....please consider it and help WFMU's Free Form Radio keep going!10:14am : So good to hear you today, Bob!10:17am : Love to hear the Steely Dan outtakes, Bob.
Thanks for sharing.10:18am : G'morning, Bob! Really digging the show this morning. And hello to the ALL STAR lineup of commenters!10:21am : Hi Bob, glad you're back, and thanks for championing Nolan Strong & the Diablos for all these years. Have you seen that massive Fortune Records book that just came out? Mine just showed up in the mail...10:24am : down river — david eckles! loved when elton john and elvis costello sang this together on costello’s spectacle interview show.10:26am : yes Bob, re Martin, love his feel. and he had a lovely sense of sloppy while holding things together - that's something that I dig in drummers!10:26am : Hey David from ATL, and hey to some of our great DJs: Irene, Therese, Matt, Uncle Michael and Dennis!
Matt, the book finally came out!! Gotta get a copy.
Meesalikeu-I saw that show. Good stuff.10:27am : NO click track back then!10:27am : That was an awesome show, Meesalikeu.10:28am : Morning Bob - be ready for some venn diagram crossover.10:29am : click schmick!10:29am : i could listen to elton john talk about music all day long, he basically knows damn near all there is to know. the underated side of elton!10:31am : He sure does.
Elton`s recent book is really quite good.10:32am : man, the Mama's and the Papa's (why did they use apostrophes on that first LP cover??) had it going on for that short sweet time that they existed10:32am : Hey Mike! "See you" at 11.10:33am : good morning Bob, skeleton crew, and awesome listners! i never knew how much i didn't know about music until i found tihs station, and i love it. thank you.10:35am : Thanks for the Q, Bob.10:39am : Always great to hear and hear about PJ. What a good guy. Getting a surprise package and note in the mail from Pat was always a good day. Missed.10:39am : Yeah Den, very brief time. Just listened to 1st 4 lps and singles. Blew me away. Apostrophes? No clue, It was a most unusual name.
Hey Ike_p.10:39am : Another thanks, Bob. Love the PJ O'Connell.10:40am : My pleasure Andrew and David!🥁 10:41am : Great Hollies tune from a great Hollies album.10:42am : Great Hollies track, never heard that one!10:42am : Beautiful tune by XTC.10:43am : Hey Therese, Micheal, Matt, Irene!!10:44am : The Meeting Place! Great XTC track, great instrumental. Did they ever officially release backing tracks like this anywhere?10:45am : Or did you extract this one yourself?10:45am : Hey everyone. "Skylarking" was such a popular album my freshman year of college ('87). Take me right back.10:45am : The Hollies' "Evolution" LP is quite a different listening experience depending if ya have a US or UK copy!10:47am : Great show Bob love those instrumental tracks and I get what you got from the Dan!10:47am : you can hear the todd rundgren all over those skylarking tracks, not to take anything away from the band. fraught sessions that worked out terrifically in the end.10:48am : good morning, watching old WFMU pledge drive videos on the WFMU app on my roku. great stuff. WFMU gives meaning to life. please pledge and thanks DJ Bob and skeleton I heart you10:52am : GListener MW-yes on the box set. Hey Mariano, & Mike Sin-another super FMU DJ! Mike-the Sundazed CD-has ALL the songs!!
Morning nothingfollows(Bob) & thank you theia!10:53am : Holy crap your killing it! free design one of my new favorite bands yes just learning about them now I can’t even see a kite without singing
Bob🥁 10:54am : Man, I wanna live in a Free Design kinda world.10:54am : I like Free Design (despite their unhipness)!10:54am : It's always Free Design time.10:55am : Wonderful show for a rainy Saturday, so nice to have you back Bob.10:55am : funny thing is by threadbare reminded me of miles davis elevator to the gallows soundtrack, which i love.10:56am : yeahfree design is a smoov groove10:57am : Thanks again for a great show, Bob.10:59am : Thanks Bob for kicking off Saturday in style! Take care all.10:59am : Thank you, Bob!10:59am : Thank you Bob and Crew, bye all.11:00am : Jeff, maybe they were alt-hip!
UM, yes & kites are always fun!!
Hey Santos.
Thanks all, stay tuned and please keep pledging!7:35pm : Bob, Thanks for such a great playlist! Love hearing David Greenberger's "Rockwell" is such great company!