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October 22, 2008: Where a "split seven-inch" isn't as painful as it sounds

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Rosie Smith  Why Do You Keep Hanging Around Me After You Said So Long   0:00:00 (Real | )
Jiminy Cricket  I'm No Fool   0:06:45 (Real | )
Eddie Murray  Tonight the Stars Are Out   0:08:15 (Real | )
Thomas Merlo  Our Flag   0:11:18 (Real | )
Ernie Banks  cereal box single   0:18:19 (Real | )
Gary Strivant  Young Girl   0:20:52 (Real | )
Peter Pan Singers  Puff 'n Toot   0:23:28 (Real | )
Ginny Kennedy  Miss Irene   0:27:07 (Real | )
The Milt Herth Trio  Egyptian Ella   0:29:13 (Real | )
Roy Smeck  Limehouse Blues   0:32:07 (Real | )
The Pismo Beach Elementary School Band  To You I'm Not Home Anymore   0:34:53 (Real | )
Julian Street Dance Band  Too Fat Polka   0:41:14 (Real | )
Mickey Mouse Club Singers  Anything Can Happen Day   0:42:57 (Real | )
The Duke Spirit  The Step and the Walk   0:45:58 (Real | )
The Amway Singers  What Is Amway?   0:48:52 (Real | )
Fountains of Wayne  Red Dragon Tattoo   0:51:30 (Real | )
Absolute Albert  Noises   0:54:45 (Real | )
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy  I Ride a Tractor   0:57:20 (Real | )
Lucas and Friends  I Love Rock and Roll   0:59:49 (Real | )
DeBarge  Rhythm of the Night   1:05:45 (Real | )
Mark Savage  D'Ya Think I'm Sexy?   1:09:31 (Real | )
Ben Light (piano), Herb Kern (Hammond organ), Lloyd Sloop (Novachord)  Mama Inez   1:12:28 (Real | )
Cal Andrews with Trio  Sundown at Sea   1:15:22 (Real | )
Kid Baltan  Song of the Second Moon   1:17:19 (Real | )
Tom Dissevelt  Electronic Movements: Syncopation   1:19:57 (Real | )
Tom Dissevelt  Electronic Movements: VIbration   1:22:57 (Real | )
The Humbards with The Four Year Old Twins Drusilla and Susanna  I Found a Hiding Place   1:32:34 (Real | )
Children's Record Guild  Eensie Beensie Spider   1:35:17 (Real | )
Gary Strivant  Something   1:39:40 (Real | )
Audio Artists  May I Come In?   1:44:19 (Real | )
cast of 'Rainbow Brite'  The First Part of Friendship is "Friends"   1:46:28 (Real | )
Frazier Chorus  Sloppy Heart   1:48:37 (Real | )
Game  It's Shocking What They Call Me   1:54:24 (Real | )
Lawrence Wood  The Day the Gipper Waved Goodbye   2:01:03 (Real | )
Think  Once You Understand    
Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray & Jack Buchanan  Triplets   2:11:02 (Real | )
Frank Perry and the Big Action Sound  I Can Fly   2:13:19 (Real | )
The Peter Pan Orchestra & Chorus  I'm A Little Teapot   2:15:28 (Real | )
Denise James  Come On Home To Me   2:17:17 (Real | )
The R. Stevie Moore Big Band  Meadowbrook   2:27:21 (Real | )
Getatchew Mekuria  Almaz Yeharerwa   2:29:54 (Real | )
Mike Pedicin Quintet  I'm Hip   2:34:14 (Real | )
Run-D.M.C.  Walk This Way   2:36:48 (Real | )
The Hold Steady  Joke About Jamaica   2:41:57 (Real | )
Hugh Sorrell and the Sorrell Singers  The Man   2:46:37 (Real | )
27th District Optimist International 11th Annual Convention  I'm An Optimist   2:48:47 (Real | )
Jimmy Sapienza  I Love Pittsburgh   2:50:05 (Real | )
Prince  Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)   2:53:37 (Real | )
Judy James & Bobby Colt  The Doobee Song   2:57:26 (Real | )

Listener comments!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:04pm From: Bad Ronald

Woo hoo

Wed. 10/22/08 3:04pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Bring on the crap!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:05pm From: Parq

So glad you decided to go along with the gag. Ken played "Montreal Canada Blues" this morning, but as far as this listener is concerned, feel free to play it again.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:06pm From: Bad Ronald

"boring" as in trepenation or ennui?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:06pm From: AnAnonymousParty

WFMU - Home of the seven inch turds.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:07pm From: otis

from someone in montreal - i'd love to hear it if it's sitting about. and i'm no FOOL!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:08pm From: Sean Daily

Seventh comment! Woo hoo!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:08pm From: otis

the needle drops and pick ups - keep em coming. hell, freestyle and do a needle pickup/dropdown solo on a cut. ha ha.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:09pm From: otis

"Home of the seven inch turds."

dear lord i hope that refers to records.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:09pm From: Sean Daily

Perhaps trepenation, Bad Ronald... skull trepenation, with the attendant pagan voodoo rituals. That would be SO metal.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:10pm From: Parq

Oh yes, Eddie Murray, pour it all over me!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:10pm From: Bad Ronald

\m/ '_' \m/

Wed. 10/22/08 3:14pm From: Sean Daily

You know, it's not the words to this Thomas Merlo song that annoy me. It's the baboon that he has on the piano PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP.

Or maybe this is what it sounds like when a beat poet tries to get patriotic...

Wed. 10/22/08 3:16pm From: ?

save it for your art parties

Wed. 10/22/08 3:18pm From: Cecile

"now divide the following stats by 464"

I like this record - reminds me of those ESPN Home Run Derby re-runs...

Wed. 10/22/08 3:21pm From: Sean Daily

(In Peter Lorre's voice) Ya wanna know how to work on your wrist, young boy... heh... heh... Do you want me to... SHOW you how to work on your wrist, you pretty little boy... heh... heh... hehhhhh...

Wed. 10/22/08 3:21pm From: Cecile

ah, the craddle robber's national anthem

Wed. 10/22/08 3:23pm From: Joe

That's my kinda choo-choo.

Seriously, I rode that train for a while.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:24pm From: another old man

turn the page!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:24pm From: zedprophfer

DING

Wed. 10/22/08 3:24pm From: Cecile

wow, that's a lot of words to memorize for a little kid.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:24pm From: Trish

Hi Irwin, glad to find you in this time slot.

Any Bozo the Clown in that collection of kidscarp ?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:25pm From: Bad Ronald

Yeah me too Joe Puff -n- toot -n- chug!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:26pm From: Bad Ronald

wottabout some MAD flexi-discs?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:26pm From: Sean Daily

Luckily, Casey Jones is at Puff'n Toot's controls, so this is gonna end REAL well.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:28pm From: bzul

Pros-T-Toot!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:29pm From: Pete Townsend

Subs-T-Toot!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:36pm From: bzul

Speaking of Pete music, I thought when red-suited Sarah was on SNL the other night, she should've sung, "You betcha, you betcha, you bet...(wink, wink)..ooh-ooo.."

Wed. 10/22/08 3:38pm From: Bad Ronald

"Your dog keeps licking my nose and chewing up all those letters that say 'you better'".

Wed. 10/22/08 3:40pm From: Cecile

yes it is working for me.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:40pm From: Sean Daily

POLKA CHICKENS! Can it get ANY BETTER!

Wed. 10/22/08 3:40pm From: otis

best version of too fat polka EVER.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:45pm From: disappointed

no calypso 45s?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:46pm From: Ike

It was working for me at that exact moment of polka! Polka, hooray!

I was skeptical about the idea, but it has worked out well on most shows so far. (Well, one unnamed DJ was playing some horrible vile drivel earlier, but then he's *always* playing crappy vinyl from landfills anyway.) Maybe not this one. Hmmm. I'm going back and forth. I hope for reams of new sounds next week to counter all the oldies.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:48pm From: Parq

Ike, you say "horrible vile drivel" like it's a bad thing.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:49pm From: Cecile

WOW. In that soap there is hope....

not cult-like at all...

Wed. 10/22/08 3:49pm From: Sean Daily

Yes, Amway. It's not just a job. It's a Ponzi scheme cult.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:51pm From: Cecile

WIth Amway, Fountains of Wayne dude could get his Red Dragon Tattoo.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:51pm From: stuartlt

what happens when Kings of Leon bathe in Fountains of Wayne?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:53pm From: Bad Ronald

with a box of frogs?

Wed. 10/22/08 3:53pm From: Ike

Sorry Parq, I wasn't being clear enough. I mean the kind of horrible vile drivel that isn't funny or amusing. I mean the kind of horrible vile drivel that makes your soul bleed. Like bathing in excrement-flavored acid. Not the kind of hilarious drivel that Irwin plays. That's different.

Wed. 10/22/08 3:54pm From: Sean Daily

This Absolute Albert song is the soundtrack of my life...

Wed. 10/22/08 3:59pm From: Parq

It says here in Wikipedia that the LSC now calls himself "The Ledge". Well, why the heck not? Say, was that a John Deere letter?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:02pm From: Wes

What's up internet playlist people? Great show Irwin.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:04pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

Nothing much.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:05pm From: bzul

John Deere letter...?
Just another furrow from Irwin's Small Track Tour.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:05pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

Irwin you've gone too far with this DeBarge. See you next week.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:05pm From: otis

i saw debarge live in 1984 at a fair in san diego. the jets were playing with the debarge family. talk about flashback.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:06pm From: ?

ouch

Wed. 10/22/08 4:06pm From: horrified

WOW! you have actually hit the bottom of the barrel. I DARE you to find something worse than this, other than a field recording of babies crying or people retching....

Wed. 10/22/08 4:07pm From: Cecile

WOW. that is a flashback.
Can you play some more parrot training records?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:07pm From: Wes

Ouch is right...my ears can't handle this mess

Wed. 10/22/08 4:07pm From: otis

yea, but irwin's adding the cool factor to debarge - now the price for the 12" single at the record fair will go up from .25 cents to .50 cents

Wed. 10/22/08 4:08pm From: jan

deBarge certainly lives up to the expectations we were given for this show. fortunately I have to leave and will not be able to listen for about an hour. maybe it won't be worthwhile listening to the archive later. I hope while I am gone you play dirty dancing

Wed. 10/22/08 4:10pm From: still horrified

Irwin, where did you find this marvelous atrocity?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:10pm From: Parq

Actually laughing out loud at this Mark Savage.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:10pm From: ?

debarge was awful. this is awful, but also hilarious.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:10pm From: rolf

why? mark savage is working hard

Wed. 10/22/08 4:11pm From: Cecile

Best version of this song EVER...

thanks, Irwin!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:12pm From: AnAnonymousPary

Mark Savage is sexy in a Borat kind of way, eh?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:15pm From: Cecile

I was thinking more of Chris Tucker channeling Will Ferrell, but six of one, half dozen of another

Wed. 10/22/08 4:20pm From: AnAnonymousPary

Why it's ... music of the .... FUTURE!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:23pm From: Cecile

If this is the future, I want to have a jet car with a robot that makes me martinis.

WHERE IS MY JET CAR!?!?!?!?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:25pm From: rod hurling

submitted for your approval -- a show on the radio dial -- transmitting over tubes known as the internet -- an ordinary show featuring an ordinary style of music -- music that is of the past and the future -- hosted by a man who in a few minutes will transmit directly into -- the twilight zone

Wed. 10/22/08 4:26pm From: Laura L

It's actually the music of the past--we seem to have skipped the future and moved right on to the present.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:26pm From: Parq

'Cile, shazam, you're martinis.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:27pm From: north guinea hills

kid baltan was dick raaijimakers pop electronic project from 1957

Wed. 10/22/08 4:28pm From: north guinea hills

and raaijimakers also worked for philips....

Wed. 10/22/08 4:28pm From: Sean Daily

"Rolled in balls"? Well, I guess if you're into that, Irwin... but I didn't know you swung that way.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:29pm From: Cecile

the pork chop on a stick at the MN State Fair used to be amazing.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:30pm From: otis

yer making me hungry

Wed. 10/22/08 4:30pm From: Laura L

He ain't kiddin. Here you go--
http://www.bigtex.com/foodlocator/
Fried cake on a stick. It's served on a stick!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:30pm From: Parq

Oh please stop! My arteries are closing up just from listening to this

Wed. 10/22/08 4:31pm From: hazmania

The Chicken Fried Bacon is everything you imagine. Your man in Dallas, Brian

Wed. 10/22/08 4:31pm From: otis

fried cake on a stick. good lord, someone start making out my tombstone

Wed. 10/22/08 4:32pm From: Sean Daily

Cheesecake (made with lard, of course), dipped in cornbread batter, basted with fudge and Snickers bars, fried in more lard and injected with bacon fat... Oh God YES...

Wed. 10/22/08 4:32pm From: Laura L

Otis, your tombstone:
Errrrrp!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:33pm From: Cecile

Jesus is keeping the twins in his basement?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:34pm From: otis

that song makes you want to find a hiding place

Wed. 10/22/08 4:35pm From: Cecile

I heard it as "weensie"
I do not accept this song as authentic

Wed. 10/22/08 4:35pm From: bzul

Hmm. Wyatt Errrrp was the marshal in Tombstone.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:36pm From: Cecile

man, these kids on your records, Irwin, sound very mature and break into choral harmonies at the drop of a hat...

Wed. 10/22/08 4:36pm From: Parq

Wasn't that the same dogs-and-cats cue that Judson Fountain used on "Old Woman of Haunted House"?

Wed. 10/22/08 4:36pm From: felix

the inimitable Tony Randall narrates!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:38pm From: Negator

I will attending the NC State Fair on Sat where I'm looking forward to such delicacies as: Fried redneck fat infused with Snickers and caramel, whipped with a yellowcake, fried again (deeper), then quickly coated in more redneck fat, then quickly fried again, then dusted with powdered sugar on a stick. Mmmmmm...... I hear they're smoking endangered species as well. Can't get Panda paw anywhere you know!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:40pm From: C

better beatle

Wed. 10/22/08 4:41pm From: bzul

If I had to choose between a session of this and waterboarding...I don't know, no , I don't knowwwww..

Wed. 10/22/08 4:42pm From: Negator

Gary Strivant is real hip with those hip finger snaps, claps and missed key changes. I don't think even he knew....

Wed. 10/22/08 4:46pm From: Mike Nelson

"You know, at this point I think I'd rather be watching David Crosby eating a McRib sandwich."

Wed. 10/22/08 4:47pm From: Turnstone

I love this chuffing Friends song

Wed. 10/22/08 4:47pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Gary Strivant...strivING for tone deaf excellence!!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:47pm From: Sean Daily

Great! I've got diabetes now! Thanks a lot, Irwin!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:48pm From: Lizardner Dave

Miley has to be coming up soon. Or Star Country.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:48pm From: Cecile

Now I want a McRib.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:50pm From: AnAnonymousParty

"Eensie Beensie" spider? I always thought it was the "Eensie Weensie" spider. I wonder what else mom lied about.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:52pm From: AnAnonymousParty

This doesn't sound anything like Kelsey Grammar.

Wed. 10/22/08 4:53pm From: Cecile

I know! I know! It's "weensie"!

Wed. 10/22/08 4:58pm From: JCityJensen

billionth comment woo hoo!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:01pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Speed and size don't matter? What if someone said:

"I want seven inches, and I want it now!"

Wed. 10/22/08 5:01pm From: bzul

Itsy Bitsy round here. Always has been. The different camps of spider characterization should fight it out with crude homemade hide-rippin' weapons like Gangs of New York.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:02pm From: Negator

This Gipper song is choking me up, Irwin. Is this Elvis?

Wed. 10/22/08 5:02pm From: ?

this gipper? :
http://www.baxtercountyrepublicans.com/reagan.html

Wed. 10/22/08 5:04pm From: Bad Ronald

I'm with Itsy... *grabs a chain*

Wed. 10/22/08 5:05pm From: AnAnonymousParty

From now on, I'm going with "diminutive insignificant arachnid".

Wed. 10/22/08 5:08pm From: Parq

On the edge of my seat waiting for the payoff on this "things get a little easier" . . .

Wed. 10/22/08 5:09pm From: Negator

Shoulda listened to his fuckin mutha!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:10pm From: Turnstone

i'm in bits now. Who saw that coming !!!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:10pm From: HotRod

Holy shit. That was intense.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:10pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Read a book ... or DIE!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:10pm From: spiderman

turns out itsy and eensie are both right, tho wikidedia seems to be leaning toward itsy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Bitsy_Spider

Wed. 10/22/08 5:11pm From: HotRod

Great show title, by the way.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:11pm From: Cecile

I love this Triplets song.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:13pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Well, if that's what Wikipedia says, then I suppose there's really no need for further discussion. The matter is settled.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:15pm From: Cecile

"tea" and "pot"
I get it now.
a drug song.... shocking.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:15pm From: Parq

Gee, I never knew that "Little Teapot" had a bridge. And a nifty one at that.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:17pm From: Wes

I'll take that "tea" over the drug coffee or the drug alcohol, both of which make me feel anxious, worried, and basically like crap

Wed. 10/22/08 5:17pm From: volunteer

more rainbow brite please - we'll take strawberry shortcake too!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:18pm From: AnAnonymousParty

The Peter Pan Orchestra? Wow, who knew? ... and how many metaphors are colliding in that song?

Wed. 10/22/08 5:23pm From: spiderman

yeah, I'm well aware of Wikipedia's lameness, I've seen no shortage of errors and misinfo there. The spider entry is kind of an amusing read tho, especially the bit about the spider as Sisyphian absurdist metaphor. Oh, and other variations are footnoted:

Or "Incey Wincey" or "Teensy Weensy" or "Inky Pinky".

Inky Pinky!?!?! Seriously? On what planet?

Wed. 10/22/08 5:28pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Hey, somebody bump New Jersey, it's stuck.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:33pm From: Parq

Spidey, "Inky Pinky" is French -- as in "Inky Pinky parlez vous".

Wed. 10/22/08 5:34pm From: Sean Daily

This is kind of like Frank Sinatra in his Rat Pack days saying that he was a real hep cat...

Wed. 10/22/08 5:35pm From: Cecile

it's like your grandma saying "da bomb"

Wed. 10/22/08 5:39pm From: listening john

Irwin Chusid

Wed. 10/22/08 5:51pm From: Cecile

you can also get a salad with fries on it in Pittsburgh, too.

Later, Irwin, this was fun!

Wed. 10/22/08 5:55pm From: Sean Daily

A SALAD WITH FRIES? It's healthy AND fried! My God, I think I've glimpsed the Promised Land.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:59pm From: Parq

Outstanding show, Irwin. Bravo.

Wed. 10/22/08 5:59pm From: AnAnonymousParty

That's it. from now on I'm a shoe cleanin', ear washin', pet lovin' sonofabitch!

Wed. 10/22/08 6:00pm From: Bad Ronald

Ciao! - nice show!

Wed. 10/22/08 6:00pm From: Lady Rachael

Bye, Beautiful!

Wed. 10/22/08 6:00pm From: otis

great show!

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