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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting January 2, 2015: Pretty good year...so far.

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan  King of the World   Favoriting Countdown to Ecstasy (ABC - 1973)   0:02:17 (Pop-up)
Brute Force  King of Fuh   Favoriting I, Brute Force: Confections of Love (Columbia - 1967)   0:07:05 (Pop-up)
Bonzo Dog Band  King of Scurf   Favoriting Let's Make Up And Be Friendly (United Artists - 1972)   0:09:53 (Pop-up)
Badfinger  King of the Load   Favoriting Wish You Were Here (Warner Bros. - 1974)   0:14:23 (Pop-up)
Seals & Crofts  King Of Nothing   Favoriting Unborn Child (Warner Bros. - 1974)
(From: Greatest Hits)
 
0:17:47 (Pop-up)
 
Doll by Doll  Butcher Boy   Favoriting Remember (Automatic Record Co. - 1979)   0:24:36 (Pop-up)
Mills Blue Rhythm Band  Harlem Heat   Favoriting single (b/w There's Rhythm in Harlem) (Columbia - 1935)
(From: 1934-1936)
 
0:31:42 (Pop-up)
Steeleye Span  Rave on   Favoriting single (b/w Reels) (B&C - 1971)
(From: 100 Buddy Holly Covers)
 
0:34:40 (Pop-up)
Cliff Richard  Leave My Woman Alone   Favoriting single (b-side to Joy Of Living (Hank & Cliff)) (Columbia - 1970)   0:36:32 (Pop-up)
Joe Cocker  I'll Cry Instead   Favoriting single (b/w Precious Words) (Decca - 1964)
(From: The Long Voyage Home)
 
0:39:19 (Pop-up)
5th Dimension  Paper Cup   Favoriting single (b/w Poor Side Of Town) (Soul City - 1967)
(From: Up Up and Away: The Definitive Collection)
 
0:40:57 (Pop-up)
 
Barrence Whitfield Eta Petti & The Bloodyhotsak  Bat Ez Bada Bertze   Favoriting Barrence Whitfield Eta Petti & The Bloodyhotsak (Bloody Hotsak - 2009)   0:49:37 (Pop-up)
Grupo Maravilla del Perú  Palomitas De Papel   Favoriting Al Compas Del Halley (unk. - 1986)   0:52:11 (Pop-up)
Los Mirlos  Chinito En Onda   Favoriting single (b/w El Poder Verde) (Infopesa - unk.)
(From: Beginner's Guide to Cumbia)
 
0:55:33 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson  You Can't Do That (Italian version, 1967)   Favoriting Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (2000 Buddha reissue) (RCA Victor - 1967)   0:58:33 (Pop-up)
Stuart Hamblen  What Can I Do For My Country   Favoriting single (b-side to The Good Old Days) (Columbia - 1961)   1:00:44 (Pop-up)
 
Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard  Slowly But Surely   Favoriting Just Between The Two Of Us (Capitol - 1966)
(From: Untamed Hawk: The Early Recordings of Merle Haggard)
 
1:07:53 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner  Better Move It on Home   Favoriting single (b-side to Two Of A Kind) (RCA Victor - 1971)   1:10:11 (Pop-up)
Loretta Lynn And Conway Twitty  As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone   Favoriting single (b/w A Lifetime Before) (MCA - 1974)  1:12:13 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Tammy Wynette  Golden Ring   Favoriting Golden Ring (Epic - 1976)
(From: The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country)
 
1:14:49 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood  Lady Bird   Favoriting Nancy & Lee (Reprise - 1968)  1:17:44 (Pop-up)
Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn  Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out   Favoriting single (b/w Somewhere Between) (Decca - 1969)  1:20:40 (Pop-up)
Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry  All I Have To Do Is Dream   Favoriting single (b/w Less Of Me) (Capitol - 1970)
(From: Bobbie Gentry - Greatest Hits)
 
1:22:53 (Pop-up)
 
Spanky and Our Gang  Distance   Favoriting Spanky and Our Gang (Mercury - 1967)
(From: The Complete Mercury Recordings)
 
1:32:08 (Pop-up)
Chad & Jeremy  Paxton Quigley's Had the Course   Favoriting single (b/w You Need Feet (You Need Hands)) (Columbia - 1968)   1:34:39 (Pop-up)
Barry Ryan  Eloise   Favoriting single (b/w Love I Almost Found You) (MGM - 1968)
(From: The Very Best Of Barry Ryan)
 
1:37:56 (Pop-up)
Electric Banana (The Pretty Things)  Alexander   Favoriting Electric Banana (De Wolfe - 1967)   1:43:23 (Pop-up)
Harpers Bizarre  When I Was A Cowboy   Favoriting The Secret Life Of Harpers Bizarre (Warner Bros. - 1968)   1:46:26 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac  World In Harmony   Favoriting single (b-side to The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)) (Reprise - 1970)
(From: Lost Jukebox Volume 003)
 
1:48:44 (Pop-up)
 
James Brown  Talking Loud And Saying Nothing   Favoriting single (b/w Talking Loud And Saying Nothing - Pt.II) (Polydor - 1972)   1:58:57 (Pop-up)
The Skull Snaps  I'm Your Pimp   Favoriting single (b-side to My Hang Up Is You) (GSF - 1973)
(From: The Northern Soul Top 500)
 
2:02:01 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  Kung Fu   Favoriting single (b/w Right On For The Darkness ) (Curtom - 1974)   2:04:25 (Pop-up)
Chicago Gangsters  Music For The People - Pt. 1   Favoriting Gangster Love (Gold Plate - 1976)   2:08:06 (Pop-up)
T-Connection  Let Yourself Go   Favoriting single (b/w Groove To Get Down) (T.K. - 1978)   2:11:27 (Pop-up)
Dark Tan  Kings Of Soul (Superseded Rock & Roll)   Favoriting single (b/w Don't Stop It Now, Keep On Doing It) (Living Sound - 1976)   2:16:17 (Pop-up)
 
The Bee Gees  You Should Be Dancing   Favoriting single (b/w Subway) (RSO - 1976)
(From: Sounds Of The Seventies - 1976)
 
2:21:52 (Pop-up)
Charlie Calello  Dance, Dance, Dance   Favoriting single (b/w Dance, Dance, Dance) (Ariola - 1976)   2:26:00 (Pop-up)
The Choice Four  Hey, What's That Dance You're Doing   Favoriting single (b/w Beside Me) (RCA Victor - 1976)   2:29:25 (Pop-up)
Disco Tex And The Sex-O-Lettes Featuring Sir Monti Rock III  Get Dancin'   Favoriting single (b/w Get Dancin', Part II) (Chelsea - 1974)   2:35:10 (Pop-up)
Richard Temple  That Beatin' Rhythm   Favoriting single (b-side to Could It Be) (Mirwood - 1966)
(From: 101 Northern Soul Anthems)
 
2:39:00 (Pop-up)
 
The Tokens  Some People Sleep   Favoriting single (b-side to Don't Worry Baby) (Buddah - 1970)
(From: Lost Jukebox Volume 034)
 
2:43:44 (Pop-up)
Speed, Glue & Shinki  Run And Hide   Favoriting Speed, Glue & Shinki (Atlantic - 1972)
(From: Love, Peace & Poetry: Japanese Psychedelic Music)
 
2:45:31 (Pop-up)
The Glass Bottle  I Ain't Got Time Anymore   Favoriting single (b/w The First Time) (Avco - 1971)
(From: Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 4)
 
2:50:08 (Pop-up)
Mary Hopkin  Goodbye   Favoriting single (b/w Goodbye) (Apple - 1969)
(From: The Complete Apple Singles Collection Vol 1 1968-1969)
 
2:52:22 (Pop-up)
Bojoura  The Last Thing On My Mind   Favoriting The Beauty Of Bojoura (CBS - 1970)
(From: The Best of Bojoura)
 
2:54:41 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
Guido from Cologne:

Happy new year Michael!
Love the GIF-art!
Avatar 11:59am
duke:

OK, now I'm going to spend the next hour following the little balls on the gif.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Hypnotic ... if I buy 20 cases of Amway at the end of the show I know UM's hidden a message in that GIF.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Guido from Cologne:

Better than TeeVee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Doug Schulkind:

The Iceman DJeth!
Avatar 12:02pm
still b/p:

That diagrams just how my brain approaches every task of any size or purpose.
Avatar 12:03pm
ndbob:

afternoon UM and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
Uncle Michael:

Good mornternoon everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Uncle Michael:

The gif is a metaphor for how HDT works.
Avatar 12:07pm
still b/p:

Always got a kick out of King of the World. The mix sounds a degree different though.
Avatar 12:07pm
V Priceless:

Happy New Year, Uncle Michael, Doug and all!
Avatar 12:07pm
kat330:

Greetings, Michael, Doug, Duke James, Bob, Guido and Still!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:

Hey, Kat.
Avatar 12:07pm
kat330:

And Priceless, bocoors!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
listener james from westwood:

How do, UM and all!! Happy New Year, and may a safe 2015 be ahead!
Avatar 12:08pm
kat330:

Click on the baby at the top of this page: soundcloud.com... for a 33-second soundclip sentiment to you all in this brand new year. ☼♥
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks, James.
Avatar 12:10pm
ndbob:

heya kat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Doug Schulkind:

This song is for the FuCC.
Avatar 12:10pm
duke:

@kat330 that's great!
Avatar 12:10pm
kat330:

What a way to use homophones in lyrics!
Avatar 12:11pm
V Priceless:

thanx for that, kat330 - cheers!

Bonzos!!
Avatar 12:12pm
kat330:

We're enjoying King Cake for New Year's as an early Mardi Gras?
Avatar 12:12pm
ndbob:

@kat very nice!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Brian in UK:

Wrestle poodles AND WIN.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Uncle Michael:

I'll go with that explanation, Kat.
Avatar 12:12pm
duke:

Was that Brute Force cut sponsored by Sofa King? Remember their prices are Sofa King low.

I'll show myself out
Avatar 12:12pm
kat330:

@Duke: Thanks! Just my infamous birthday ditty altered for a different celebration.
Avatar 12:13pm
V Priceless:

Ha @ Brian in UK!

@ duke - was wondering about that
Avatar 12:13pm
kat330:

Thanks, Bob! Hope you had a blooming great holiday in So IN!
Avatar 12:14pm
kat330:

@UM: Did you ever roast that turkey breast?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Uncle Michael:

Not yet, Kat.

Bob Hope?
Avatar 12:15pm
ndbob:

@key Yep! slow but nice - and you?
Avatar 12:15pm
kat330:

Heh, yeah, I saw that -- and I believe I've done that before when writing to ndbob.
Avatar 12:16pm
V Priceless:

just deep-fried a whole turkey with an indoor deep fryer - came out juicy and fabulous - 13lbs in 47 minutes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

I might sous vide mine for about 47 hours.
Avatar 12:17pm
kat330:

Philo and I had a quiet stay-at-home holiday this year. His job forces him to take vacation days for those not already paid holidays during the final week+ at year's end. Sometimes we go away -- like to New Orleans -- but if he can work instead to save the days, we do that.
Avatar 🛒 12:18pm
Parq:

Happy New Year, Uncle M. That's a nifty gif of my mind you've put up. (I suspect that a lot of us would say the same.) Sorry I missed that sensational Dan track, but wha'ya'gonna do?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Guido from Cologne:

Nice song Kat!
Avatar 12:18pm
ndbob:

@kat i meant as I typed badly lol
Avatar 12:18pm
kat330:

@priceless: I hear tell those deep fryers can be dangerous.
Avatar 12:19pm
V Priceless:

XTC make the "King" cut, Uncle M?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Uncle Michael:

Sorry, V.
Avatar 12:19pm
kat330:

Grazie und danke, Guido!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
Uncle Michael:

Thank you, Parq.
  12:20pm
Dean:

Roger Miller
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
listener james from westwood:

This set is shaping up royally.
Avatar 12:20pm
V Priceless:

NP - it's all good! Not one of their better efforts, IMO.
Avatar 12:20pm
kat330:

You could work down the rung of office holders and play XTC's delightful "Mayor of Simpleton."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Doug Schulkind:

Wait. Is today Six Kings Day?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
listener james from westwood:

Six kings beat a straight flush.
Avatar 🛒 12:23pm
Parq:

Today's my first day back after an extended break too. I can relate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Rich in Washington:

I too am in the home stretch of a lengthy holiday. Back to work on Monday :(
Avatar 12:30pm
kat330:

Best use of "abattoir" in a song?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Brian in UK:

@kat you read my mind.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
listener james from westwood:

That is a lovely break, UM. I've only had one job in house for the past week, plus my clients seem to have bosses who believe in four-day weekends, so I've been on comparative vacation of late.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Uncle Michael:

I think so, Kat.
Avatar 12:32pm
kat330:

@Brian: I've been accused of that. Happy 2015 from across the pond!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Brian in UK:

The Butchers Boy always has a rough time in Murder Ballads.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Brian in UK:

Thanks and straight back to you. Good health is the best we can wish each other.
Avatar 12:34pm
kat330:

IIRC, also a pointedly rough time in "Game of Thrones" -- yes, we finally succumbed and got the first 2 seasons out on library loan.
Avatar 12:34pm
kat330:

@BUK: Most certainly at my age it is! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Uncle Michael:

I've had no luck finding lyrics for the Doll By Doll album. I'd like a clear reading.
Avatar 12:36pm
kat330:

Raving a cappella, cool!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Brian in UK:

A threat from Cliff is like being tickled by the monster in John Carpenter's Dark Star.
Avatar 12:40pm
kat330:

At least found lyrics for DxD's "Main Travelled Roads" here: tabs.ultimate-guitar.com...
Avatar 12:46pm
kat330:

Do you have facial hair, UM?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
listener james from westwood:

Hang in there, UM. I irrationally disliked my mom's dad for the first 4 years of my life. Zero idea why, as the man was a prince and everything you'd want in a granddad.
Avatar 12:50pm
kat330:

3-2-1 pie dough is easy and rather surefire.
Avatar 12:52pm
kat330:

Which is three parts flour, two parts fat, and one part liquid. Here for variations and tips: allrecipes.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Uncle Michael:

Yes to facial hair...but so does her father.

3-2-1?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Mike East:

I think I should stop being afraid of baking and just go for it. I love pie crust. and bread. and cookies.
Avatar 12:53pm
kat330:

@UM: Well, she sees him every day and is used to his countenance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Uncle Michael:

true
Avatar 12:56pm
kat330:

@Mike: I don't really do baking either, mainly because I don't want to routinely keep flour and sugar around the house. Once upon a time I'd make little pecan pies (using muffin pan), and that crust was something as simple as flour + cream cheese. Probably some salt and sugar, too, don't recall.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
Uncle Michael:

I found 43-2-1. Thanks for the tip.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
Uncle Michael:

not 43!
Avatar 12:59pm
still b/p:

Musicians at a holiday house party a couple of weeks ago were playing dixieland and standards. When a couple of new players sat in and launched into a cumbia, I was full of cheer.
Avatar 1:00pm
kat330:

43 cups of flour would be a tad too much, yes.
  1:01pm
holland oats:

El Nillsono!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
Mike East:

@kat - I usually have flour and sugar around, but my fears are more that when I cook, I tend to be more artistic than scientific, which doesn't really fly when you're baking.
Avatar 1:03pm
kat330:

@Mike: Exactly, thus the formula of 3-2-1. Trust that your sweet toddler, Lucy, had a grand holiday? ☼
Avatar 1:05pm
still b/p:

He sang the "worship" part with a kind of going-into-town-to-gamble-and-drink gusto.
Avatar 1:07pm
hyde:

we're talking baking? well, flour was on sale at the market so me I just came back with ten pounds...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Mike East:

I'm gonna give it a shot, Kat (321). Yes, it was essentially her first Xmas and she was beside herself at the sight of her presents. Her big gift was a toy kitchen play set so she can cook like her poppa....took me three days to put the damn thing together, but now she tells people "poppa make it for me"
Avatar 1:10pm
kat330:

@hyde: You just might have 43 cups then.

@Mike: Awww! I fondly remember my easy-bake oven with a light bulb as an energy source. The link I first posted up top here has a pic of me a bit older than Lucy (and probably already using my easy-bake ;).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Uncle Michael:

awwwww
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Mike East:

very nice kat. Merry new year to and Philo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
Stevel:

The Twitty/Lynn song is like any great car crash. Just can't look away.
Avatar 🛒 1:15pm
Parq:

Stevel, that's the perfect way to put it. Exactly.
Avatar 1:17pm
hyde:

this set is aces
Avatar 1:19pm
ndbob:

great one here
Avatar 1:19pm
kat330:

Melody of Golden Ring is very close to "Long Black Veil."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks, hyde.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
listener james from westwood:

Holy hot damn, this set. All this and Lee & Nancy, too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Stanley:

Good question
Avatar 1:23pm
still b/p:

My weekly trash day is Thursday so the holidays preempted two of 'em. Who's gonna take my 3 weeks of garbage out?
Avatar 1:24pm
kat330:

Hey, still, we're on the same schedule, but they just move it up to Fridays in Knob Knee. Not my worry anyway since Philo takes that on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Stanley:

This set is fab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Uncle Michael:

I did a duets set about 13 months ago and this morning I realized I was about to use two of the same songs...and scrambled. Oh, dread.
Avatar 1:26pm
kat330:

Another good question: What's creating methane on Mars? apod.nasa.gov...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Stanley:

still b/p's uncollected garbage?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Brian in UK:

I got the 'It Takes Two' three CD comp for Christmas. Great duets.

Stanley, it has Football Crazy on it.
Avatar 1:30pm
kat330:

@Stanley: Ha! Nah, I believe Beefheart knew the answer. It's gotta be those "Big Eyed Beans from Venus."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
Stanley:

Oh my-o-my!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
Brian in UK:

Uncle. DO NOT GO THERE.
  1:32pm
Dean:

You drive a Leaf, right?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
listener james from westwood:

Oh, man, I know the gas/trunk feeling, and I've had this car for ages, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Stanley:

Brian - you mean he kicked his wife out of bed and thought it was a goal?
Avatar 1:34pm
kat330:

@UM: Keep your mind and memory nimble with crossword puzzles, my unsolicited advice for the New Year. As for me, I'm determined to learn Morse Code after seeing "Interstellar" on Christmas Day.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Brian in UK:

The problem is when you remember what you went to get but cannot remember what to do with it.

Ah Laddie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
Uncle Michael:

It's scary...so I joke about it.
Avatar 1:39pm
kat330:

This is quite different from "A Summer Song."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
Uncle Michael:

Yeah...very under-appreciated guys are C&J.
Avatar 1:41pm
still b/p:

Oh, I hate the name lost suddenly, maddeningly, inexplicably, and more frequently now, when you're in situation where you should introduce someone to someone else. So you dodge it or just don't try and hope for the best. Name returns to brain 1 to 24 hours later.
Avatar 1:42pm
kat330:

As so many young teenaged girls of the time, I had the 45 of Summer Song and swooned as I listened. Saw Peter & Gordon live, along with Sonny & Cher and Herman's Hermits -- what a bill!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Guido from Cologne:

Cooll! Electric Banana!
Knew about this incarnation but never heard it.
Avatar 1:48pm
kat330:

@still: Doesn't happen with names for me, but I do stumble on the occasional precise word, like when I referred to "compound" in a recipe to UM as "emulsion." At least I knew it didn't sound right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
Uncle Michael:

Interesting that your brain was able to find aother word that mapped to the concept.
Avatar 1:51pm
still b/p:

As long as you don't say "kerosene" for "condensed milk" or "vulcanize" for "lightly brown."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
Guido from Cologne:

I'm out of words and out of names so often.
I hate it!
Avatar 1:52pm
kat330:

Compound in cooking terms is something I only learned of in the last decade and a half or so. If I have a name-cross problem, it's usually about a more recent addition to my vocabulary. I've never been a cookbook reader.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
Uncle Michael:

I just call everyone Max.
Avatar 1:53pm
kat330:

@Guido: How many languages are you fluent in? Bilingualism is another great hedge against normal senility.
Avatar 1:58pm
PKNY:

@Michael - Thin Lizzy recorded a Deep Purple covers record as 'Funky Junction' in the early 70s --> www.willardswormholes.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
Guido from Cologne:

Some Electric banana footage:
www.youtube.com...
even showing the Pretties themselves
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks for those links, you two!
Avatar 2:04pm
PKNY:

Wow, the Skull Snaps! And not "It's a New Day", either!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
Uncle Michael:

Not a lot of Skull Snaps to choose from!
  2:09pm
Dean:

Hey, Curtis Mayfield covered King of Fuh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Uncle Michael:

hah!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:11pm
efd:

And the Dirtbombs covered that Curtis Mayfield song (apropos of almost nothing to almost everyone).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
Uncle Michael:

Funny you should mention that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:13pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm having an EFD NYE hangover dance party on HDT!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:14pm
efd:

I feel like I've still got a NYE hangover, and I didn't even drink!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
Uncle Michael:

We're really getting on the dance floor next set...I'm sure you played some of them but I haven't read through the whole playlist,
Avatar 2:17pm
kat330:

Anyone on the board familiar with blues clubs c. 1992 in Chicago? [yes, a memory gap-lapse I'm trying to bridge]
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:18pm
Guido from Cologne:

A term "Electric Banana" appears in the lyrics of Donovan's "Yellow Mellow".

In his autobiography Donovan explained that the phrase "electrical banana" was a reference to a yellow-coloured vibrator." (from Wikipedia)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
Uncle Michael:

Maybe...what's the question?
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kat330:

Well, I already did the online searching and came up with bupkis, at least I don't *think* the club I went to on the north side was called B.L.U.E.S.

In Spring '92 I went to some small club and saw Albert Collins -- I THINK, that's right and not Albert King (I know, for shame on me, but I have a good excuse for back at that dark time). Wanted to remember for sure so I could tell the local Kentuckiana Blues Society prez about it without some obvious inaccuracy.
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still b/p:

A naming game/direction, of course, that Steely Dan played their own version of, Guido.
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listener james from westwood:

w00t! Saturday Night Fever soundtrack!
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Uncle Michael:

kat, there absolutely was a club by that name.
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Guido from Cologne:

would that make a dj-premium theme:
bands named after vibrators?
  2:26pm
Crazy Dancin' Fool:

With all due respect to the Bee Gee's flawless production, the ultimate version of this song is by a pre-CHIC "The Big Apple Band": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJhyd4fJtas
Thrillingly intense.
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kat330:

@Guido: The local mythology around that lyric was it was some psychedelic drug ref and that "smoking banana peel" would make you hallucinate. My ex-boyfriend at the time fashioned a shoebox +bulb to make a plastic banana that lit up. Ah, innocence!
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still b/p:

A collection called "Everybody Hum Along."
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Uncle Michael:

Will check it out, CDF
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kat330:

@UM: I know for sure there is one *now*, but couldn't confirm if it was in operation in 1992. You know that for sure? And whether it's at all possible Albert King (who died in December that same year) would have performed there?
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Uncle Michael:

It was there in the mid-'80s and it's quite possible that he played there.
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listener james from westwood:

My guess on this Hava'ed up track was the Salsoul Orchestra.
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kat330:

@UM: Ah, OK then and thanks! Don't want to look too foolish before the dude who said he's playing one of my own blues tracks on his show this evening. He mentioned his fave concert was Willie Dixon at the Wise Fools Pub in Chicago before and around that time.
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Uncle Michael:

I hope my broken brain remembers this right!
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kat330:

Well, I'm pretty certain the word "Blues" something or other was the club's name, but didn't quite remember it as JUST that and like it was an acronym.
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Uncle Michael:

It opened in 1985.
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Stanley:

Was this ever a studio version? I've only heard live versions recently but my memory tells me...
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Uncle Michael:

It's not *really* live.
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Stanley:

Then this must be the version we heard back in the day
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Brian in UK:

Cookin' show Uncle, now I gotta get cooking.
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Uncle Michael:

I believe so.
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kat330:

@UM: OK, then. It's location is as I recall and the name's close enough, so the date was all I needed to be more sure. Again, thanks!
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Guido from Cologne:

Love this!
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Dean:

B.L.U.E.S. celebrated ten years in mid-1989: http://screencast.com/t/IG7abxDI30l
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kat330:

Thanks, Dean. I also tried like the devil searching for performance dates of both Albert's from '92, but had no luck in that either. My first memory was it was Albert King, so I'm going to stick with that.
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Dean:

Albert King performed there in March '92: http://screencast.com/t/3P2OH5dfgN
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Uncle Michael:

Albert King is my main man.
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kat330:

AHHH, excellent! I can always count on the listeners of FMU/GTDR to answer any puzzle! :)
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Dean:

That same weekend "Kansas City's Psychowelders" played the Avalon. Know them, UM?
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kat330:

Aha, and the "etc." DOES make it clear it's the club in question. I knew it had more than one syllable.
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Uncle Michael:

well done, Dean!

Name rings a bell.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks for hanging out today, everyone.
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kat330:

Speaking of "ask and ye shall receive" through Internet info: I was concerned about how long "Interstellar" is, and so I put in search terms for "best time for bathroom break" and, sure enough, there was a discussion forum about it. And the info was solid, too, as I found out firsthand.
  2:53pm
Dean:

For an abbreviation, "etc." sure has a lot of syllables.

Speaking of Chicago in March, I'll be there this year at the end of the month (23 years to the day, in fact, that King played). Any recommendations for good clubs along the lines of Empty Bottle?
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kat330:

Thank *you* for hosting such a fine hang-out, UM!
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Rich in Washington:

that whole Love, Peace & Poetry series is amazing. Why don't I own it all?
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Uncle Michael:

Yes, WHY???
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V Priceless:

great 7" this
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ndbob:

Excellent show UM!
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Stanley:

There's Mary
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still b/p:

A couple of years ago I heard about an app that tells you the best moments during current films, timing and content-wise, to step out for a bathroom break.
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kat330:

@still: I still don't own a Smartphone, so I'm h-ap-less.
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listener james from westwood:

I know the ones for the Lord of the Rings films, b/p! The Extended Editions are bladder busters.
Thanks a million, UM, and have a fine weekend, all!!
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Uncle Michael:

Have a great 2015, everyone.
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kat330:

@Dean: Sorry I can't return the favor. Haven't lived in Chicago since the end of '92.
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kat330:

S'long, all!
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still b/p:

No smartsyphone here, neither -- gots no appsetite.

Everybody have a happy, good, safe, safe, safe -- I'm compelled to say -- new year.
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Stanley:

Great show UM.
Thanks and Happy New Year to you, too.
Bye everyone - catch y'all later.
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Guido from Cologne:

I'm with you Michael!
Thanks and CU!
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Uncle Michael:

see you all soon!
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CZECHANO:

listening through the archive, great set.
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