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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
Sarah Webster Fabio 
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976)
ECD  In Tempo   Favoriting Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990)

Louise Vant  Save Your Sorrows (For Tomorrow)   Favoriting b/w Show Me the Way to Go Home
(Okeh 1925)
Frank Tannehill  Rolling Stone Blues   Favoriting b/w Lillie Mae
(Bluebird 1941)
Robert Petway  Boogie Woogie Woman   Favoriting b/w Hollow Log Blues
(Bluebird 1942)
Robert Pete Williams  Got Me Way Down Here   Favoriting Robert Pete Williams
(Ahura Mazda 1970)
Eddie "One String" Jones  Come Back Baby   Favoriting Rural Blues on Skid Row
(Portents 1960)
Hayes Ware  Ride High   Favoriting Blues Ghetto Woman:
From Mississippi to Chicago
(Bash 1979)

Talkover Music:
Jimi Hendrix 
Born Under a Bad Sign   Favoriting Blues
(MCA 1969)

Arus Georges  Hajnali: Fin de la Danse   Favoriting Music on the Gypsy Route: Romania
(Frémeaux & Associés 1965)
Dragoi Ion  Mélodie Tsigane Sue Tsambal   Favoriting Music on the Gypsy Route: Romania
(Frémeaux & Associés 1965)
Maria Tănase  Doina Din Maramures   Favoriting Ciuleandra
(Oriente 1956)
Romica Puceanu  Canta Cucul De Trei Zile   Favoriting Muzica De Colectie
(Jurnalul Național )
Fanfare Ciocarlia  Hora Cu Strigaturri   Favoriting Radio Pascani
(Piranha 1998)
Toni Iordache  Într-o Joi de Dimineata   Favoriting Sounds From a Bygone Age, Volume 4
(Asphalt Tango )

Talkover Music:
Nino Rota 
The Clowns (pt. 2)   Favoriting The Clowns
(CAM 1971)

Percy Babineaux & Bixy Guidry  Qu'est Que J'Ai Fait Pour Etre Puni Si Longtemps?   Favoriting Let Me Play This for You: Rare Cajun Recordings
(Tompkins Square 1929)
Joe Creduer & Albert Badineaux  La Fille Que J'aime   Favoriting b/w Ma Cherie
(Victor 1929)
Voylen Esthay  Church Point Breakdown   Favoriting b/w Veteran's Waltz
(Kajun )
Lawrence Walker & the Wandering Aces  Osson Two-Step   Favoriting b/w Les Bons Temps Rouler
(Swallow 1958)
Dudley Alexander and Washboard Band  Baby Please Don't Go   Favoriting Treasury of Field Recording, Volume 1
(Candid 1959)
LeRoy Broussard  Lemonade Song   Favoriting Bo Sparkle Waltz
(Goldband 1957)
Pine Leaf Boys  Homage a Poullard   Favoriting La Musique
(Arhoolie 2011)
Belton Richard  For the Last TIme   Favoriting Bon Temps Rouler
(Swallow 1981)
Abe Manuel & His Louisiana Hillbillies  Country Gentleman   Favoriting Acadian All Star Special:The Pioneering Cajun Recordings of J.D. Miller
(Bear Family )

Talkover Music:
00-Soul 
Taboo   Favoriting The Solid Sounds of the 8-Piece Brotherhood
(Manteca 1999)

Gene Krupa  I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music   Favoriting b/w Swing Is Here
(Victor 1936)
John Fischer & Perry Robinson  What If   Favoriting Duos for a New Decade
(Reentry 1980)
Duke Ellington & His Ochestra  Clarinet Lament (Barney's Concerto)   Favoriting b/w Echoes of Harlem
(Brunswick 1936)
John Carter  Woodman's Hall Blues   Favoriting Variations
(Moers 1979)
George Lewis & His New Orleans Musicians  Jerusalem Blues   Favoriting Memorial Album
(Delmark )
Joe Maneri  Unknown live wedding performance   Favoriting

Talkover Music:
Muslimgauze 
How Rustem, the Thief, Moves Through Fire   Favoriting Sufiq
(Soleilmoon 2000)

Thony Shorby Nwenyi  Love of Parent   Favoriting Sweet Funk Music
(Feathers )
Orchestre Laye Thiam  Sanga Té   Favoriting Star Band de Dakar, N°. 5
(Soumbouya Musique )
Kalum Star  Lalaba   Favoriting 9th Festival Natiobnal des Arts et de la Culture
(Syliphone 1973)
Cissé Abdouliaye & Les Vautours  Mamadou   Favoriting Les Vautours
(Tropiques Satel 1978)
Moussa Doumbia  Mokholou   Favoriting Keleya

Talkover Music:
Jimmy Takeuchi & His Exciters 
Soul Francisco   Favoriting

Teacher's Edition  I Wanna Be Loved   Favoriting b/w It Helps to Make You Strong
(Hi 1973)
The Attractions  New Girl in the Neighborhood   Favoriting b/w That Girl Is Mine
(Bell 1967)
Denise & Abe  Ain't That Lovin'   Favoriting Westbound Detroit Northern Soul
(Ace )
Willie James  Down on My Knees   Favoriting b/w Stand Up for Your Rights
(Unity 1968)
Mitch Mitchell / Gene King  Never Walk Out on You   Favoriting b/w Never Walk Out on You (Instr.)
(Prix 1973)
Louis King  I Remember (How You Made Me Love You)   Favoriting
Johnny Daye  Stay Baby Stay   Favoriting b/w I Love Love
(Stax 1968)

Closing Theme:
John Lee Hooker 
Stand By   Favoriting I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971)

Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 8:16am duke:

Good morning. Getting my seat early today.
Are those The Legendary Pink Dots?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18am Doug Schulkind:

The duke of listeners is already in fine form!
Avatar 8:27am ausmanx:

it's a cruel gif; my strobe has been dead for ages. i'm probably playing stuff at 36 rpm... good evening all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx, I'd be surprised if there isn't a teen punk band somewhere in the world called The Cruel Gifs.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:55am Gary:

#InsertDopeyHeyLookItsFridayHashtagHere
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Dopey. Such an un-dopey word!
Avatar 9:01am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am Guido from Cologne:

Hi Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am Doug Schulkind:

Hello ndbob and Guido!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:03am Uncle Michael:

Noice gif!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am Doug Schulkind:

It's pronounced gif, Uncle Michael, not gif. You silly!
  9:04am Jeff g.:

Wassup.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07am Doug Schulkind:

Wassup. Sounds like a town in Wisconsin. Howdy Jeff G!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:08am Brian in UK:

Hey Doug, good day yesterday, work notwithstanding?

Wassup twinning with Belching, Nebraska.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:09am Brian in UK:

Glad to hear you are keeping up to date with the modern sounds in hi-fidelity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Perfectly fine day, yesterday, Brian in UK!

You know the GTDR motto: Semper Fidelity Us!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am Doug Schulkind:

Anyone who pronounces "learn" as "loin" is OK in my book.
  9:16am Lore:

One of my favorite Petway sides! And Robert Pete Williams is the best, of course. Thanks Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17am Webhamster Henry:

The all natural reverb on this recording made me think my volume was up too loud (I'm in the office).
  9:17am trs:

Belated greetings on this front and that.
Good mornings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17am Webhamster Henry:

And - I see your turntable can run at 16rpm, in case you have some 1950s era recorded books.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19am Doug Schulkind:

Glad you're hearing this, Lore. I was thinking of you when I slipped it on into the playlist!

Welcome trs and Webhamster Henry! The volume is usually up too loud on GTDS. Especially with the chicken in the background.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am Doug Schulkind:

Someone please remind me to start collecting songs that have the sounds of live animals/insects in the background. Thanks!
  9:22am Mr C:

Doug S: a blues master with blues blasters...up where the air is rare..oh yeah
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23am Doug Schulkind:

@Lore
Playing some Dudley Alexander in an upcoming set that I have thanks to you.

MrC in the howwwwwwse!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am Doug Schulkind:

Hi-fi! Lo-Fi! No-fi! We welcome all fi's here on the Drummer Stream campus.
Avatar 9:26am ausmanx:

oh this is fine set to go with the chocolate-dipped strawberries and champagne
  9:27am Lore:

Ah cool, that Dudley Alexander track includes one of my current infatuations, Vincent Frank, on washboard.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
You provide the chocolate-dipped strawberries and champagne and I'll provide the desire.

@Lore
The washboard is so African!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31am dave:

Great sounding track (Ride High)!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:31am doctorjazz:

Hi all!
Avatar 9:32am ausmanx:

the marketing dept gets the luxuries on a friday evening. we workers just scoff the leftovers...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings dave and doctorjazz!
Avatar 9:40am George from Bristol UK:

George from Bristol UK is still in Brooklyn and gearing up for another evening shift (6 - midnight) at La Monte Young's Dream House in Tribeca. 68 people visited last Friday. Turn Up, Drone In and Droop Out. All welcome !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41am Doug Schulkind:

Droning and drooping with George and Lamont!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:44am Artie Haywire:

Phase lock looped, in the authentic Romanian style!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47am Doug Schulkind:

Fruit looped in the authentic Drummer Some style!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:50am Artie Haywire:

Oh, the hysteresis!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52am Hugo:

The kid and I were at the Dream House on our last trip to NY in conjunction with the WFMU recfair in 2011. It was really icy cold and windy on the streets so it was a relief to get inside to listen to the soothing sounds of La Monte Young performing ragas by Pandit Pran Nath. I think I dozed off at one point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52am dave:

Recognized these guys right away... (Fanfare)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53am Uncle Michael:

I love this song. Dance the Hora Cu Strigaturri!
Avatar 9:53am still b/p:

Give The Latcho Drom Some.
Good morning.
I wish I was a fly on the wall when they decided to give Toucan Sam a Ronald Colman voice to pitch the Fruit Loops.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am Doug Schulkind:

I would be proud if you dozed off during this show, Hugo.
  9:53am Mark Williams:

You know, I took a whole year of Romanian in my sophomore year at college. It was an odd whim of mine. If you play a song called "Mincam Ceva," I can probably translate the title into "Let's Eat Something." That's about all I remember.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54am Mike East:

This set is going to require another cup of coffee. Good morning all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55am Doug Schulkind:

Toni Iordache, not decaf by a mile.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55am dave:

Mark: Never apologize for learning unusual languages!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57am Doug Schulkind:

The accordionist on this track is named Buze Pane!
  9:57am Maricôt:

I made it! Morning!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57am Webhamster Henry:

This reminds me that my band Mamalama is playing a show tonight - we're not a gypsy band, but the orchestration is similar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58am Doug Schulkind:

For your further edification:

At the age of four Toni Iordache got to know the smaller portable version of the tzambal (cimbalom). Iordache's friend, the trumpeter Costel Vasilescu, remembers their first meeting well: "I met Toni in 1954 in a village on the outskirts of Bucharest. Toni was playing there and everyone was just standing around him and getting scared, because his playing was so insanely good."
Iordache was so gifted a musician he soon was sent on tour through many European countries, the USA and Asia as a representative of Socialist Romania. Returning home he often drove from Bucharest Airport straight to a wedding where his band were waiting for him. At the beginning of the 1970s he was arrested for the illegal possession of foreign currency. Apparently he wanted to buy his wife a fur coat with the money he had earned abroad. Even the prestigious orchestra leader Florian Economu couldn't help his soloist at the trial when he spoke up for him: "We have three giants in Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu (head of state), Ilie Nastase (Romanian tennis champion) and the tzambal player Toni Iordache! Do you really want to convict him for a few dollars?".
Toni Iordache was famous for his complex solos, a gifted ensemble player, who enriched many melodies with oriental elements and sophisticated rhythms. For him the technique of playing the tzambal was not solely one of speed; his sensitive touch, immense skill and imaginative verve marked him as a master amongst Lautari.
Seriously ill with diabetes, Toni Iordache died in February 1988. Dan Armeanca, the godfather of Romanian Gypsy pop, states: "Toni was a genius on the tzambal, ones like that are not born twice. He respected tradition, but even back then he allowed jazz influences to sound through. He gave us young musicians courage due to his musical audacity."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59am Hugo:

Doug, that won't happen, certainly not with the music that's on now.
Avatar 10:01am ausmanx:

gee, would anyone want to be praised in the same trio as Ceaucescu?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02am Gary:

Love that Sounds from a Bygone Age series
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02am Hugo:

And, I've already had my double espresso ...
Avatar 10:02am George from Bristol UK:

Thanks, Doug, I like to be edificated - from Loopy George . . . georgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgegeorge . . .
Avatar 10:04am Lewis:

nice gif.. gonna be in and out today… greetings to all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06am SeanG:

love me some Cajun--Howdy Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am Doug Schulkind:

In out on off up down good evil. Hello Lewis!

More and more coming up, SeanG!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am SeanG:

Doug, have you ever gone to the Festival Acadiens in Lafayette? the best!
Avatar 10:15am still b/p:

And don't forget the expression of antithesis tattooed on your knuckles, Doug.
  10:16am Lore:

Have you heard those Lawrence Walker live cuts, Doug? So killer.
http://npmusic.org/LawrenceWalker_AnotherNailinmyCoffin.mp3
http://npmusic.org/LawrenceWalker_LetsDotheCajunTwist.mp3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am Doug Schulkind:

@SeanG
I have been to Lafayette (my wife's half-sister lives there), but never tot he Festival. Would LOVE to go.

@Lore
Yes Sir I have. I am a stone cold Lawrence Walker adorer. I am also a Lore adorer. Thanks for sending me this Dudley Alexander gem!
Avatar 🥁 10:17am duke:

Nice washboard in this track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, still b/p!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:19am Brian in UK:

This washboard is from another time & place.
  10:19am Mr C:

Front page story in NY Times today on the mystery and legacy of Amede Ardoin! Like the search for Robert Johnson.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Our good friends at Tompkins Square Records put out a killer 2-disc set: Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings Of Amede Ardoin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am SeanG:

hot damn, I'm gonna turn this up
Avatar 10:26am ndbob:

excellent set Doug!
  10:26am Lore:

@Brian in UK, speaking of another time & place (or planet), check Vincent Frank's side under the Blues Boy Vincent moniker via Brian Turner's show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60577
  10:33am Mr C:

Hard copy!
Avatar 10:36am Erella:

Happy birthday, Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37am Brian in UK:

Doug, went to see Chip Taylor & John Platania on guitar this week. He told a story about catching a train at Grand Central. Seeing a couple arguing then moving on, he was earwigging the conversation, got on his train and wrote a song about it. There is a song in anything for a good writer.
Avatar 10:38am Erella:

Sometimes it feels as though ALL my friends have birthdays around now. (Mine is June 7)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38am Doug Schulkind:

Well thanks, Erella!

@Brian in UK
In Grand Central, the songs write themselves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39am Guido from Cologne:

This is a nice show to do a job along with.
End of job now.
Start of weekend.
Thank you Doug and see you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39am Doug Schulkind:

Geminis unite!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am Doug Schulkind:

Cheers, Guido! Happy no-more-work!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am dave:

You said it, Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41am dave:

Und schönes WE, Guido!
Avatar 10:41am doca:

Happy Birthday, Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:41am Brian in UK:

Chip is still tops at seventy five and John's licks are just right.
He finished the set with the audience, all thirty five or so (is that the best that London can do) singing the chorus to 'Fuck all the perfect people'.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, doca!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am Guido from Cologne:

Geminis unite? Ha!
Today is also my birthday!
Many happy returns Doug!
Beer is in the fridge already.
A toast to you virtually over the pond!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46am Doug Schulkind:

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Guido!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46am dave:

Hey, happy birthday, Guido! So we've got three in a row!
Avatar 10:46am Erella:

Thinking of you getting to play around in New Orleans again, getting reacquainted, finding new music, makes me happy.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46am doctorjazz:

Nice gear shift! Basking in that clarinet sound.
Avatar 10:46am doca:

Happy Birthday, Guido! I'm also a Gemini, next Friday is my birthday ;D
  10:46am lucyinbrooklyn:

Nice spending your post-birthday morning with you! loving this right now. happy birthday..!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47am Doug Schulkind:

Oh lucyinbrooklyn, so happy to see you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47am doctorjazz:

Happy Birthdays!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am dave:

You too, doca, happy in advance! I just had mine too, I guess this is where Geminis come to gather.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am Guido from Cologne:

Thank you fellow Geminis and people!
Avatar 10:49am doca:

Doug's show appeals to those born under Castor and Pollux stars
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49am doctorjazz:

On the cusp, mine was the 18th (whatever being on the cusp means).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:50am Brian in UK:

Hey Guido, happy birthday my friend. Same birthday as Noel Gallagher. Sorry to lower the tone.
Avatar 10:50am doca:

I don't know if astrologically that makes you a more Gemini Taurine person, @doctorjazz.
  10:51am Dean:

Whew. Made it just in time for some of the clarinet set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52am Doug Schulkind:

The Dean of listeners is here! Happy birthday, whenever it is, Dean!
  10:55am Dean:

And many happy returns to you, Doug, on your recent celebration. (Why do we say, "Many happy returns"? If you liked all the gifts, why would you return any of them? And why would returning them make you happy?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55am Doug Schulkind:

With apologies to George Lewis, I am advising a listeners to go have a quick pee, because the song after this one will make you lose all muscle control.
  10:56am Dean:

So you're transitioning from clarinet to oboe after this track by the *other* George Lewis?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am Hugo:

Steve Lehman and Marc Ribot will be playing here this coming Sunday. I'll be there!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:58am Jeff Golick:

All hail all George Lewises.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59am Doug Schulkind:

I should do an all George Lewis set, alerternating between the two!

Marc Ribot's kid went to an elementary school near my daughter's back in Brooklyn. Every year, Ribot did a fundraising concert for the school.

Jeff Golick is back folks! Textually, at least.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00am Doug Schulkind:

OK, everyone got their seat belts fastend and tray tables in the original and upright positions? 'Cause away we are going...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00am Gary:

Ready
Avatar 11:02am doca:

Yeah, even the sun came out now during the song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:02am Jeff Golick:

I was here the whole time!
  11:02am Dean:

Well, wow. Would not have guessed JM!
Avatar 11:02am doca:

Joe Maneri, really?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03am Doug Schulkind:

The man has (had) three lungs.
  11:04am trs:

Buckle and unbuckle; both.
  11:04am Dean:

Good odds the couple remains married, too.
  11:06am Dean:

Give Rich Corpolongo a listen, too. He tends to play saxophone, but his clarinet stuff is nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11am Doug Schulkind:

Will seek out Mr. Corpolongo . Thanks, Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Abdoulaye Thiam on trumpet here!
Avatar 11:18am doca:

@Doug: You took this from here? wrldsrv.blogspot.com.br...
  11:19am Dean:

Here's a good one from a new-ish YouTube channel he's populated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDeui_eXtE I so wanted to hear him live when I was in Chicago a few months ago. No luck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am Doug Schulkind:

@doca
Actually that is the NEXT track, which I did take from World Service. (I pressed the playlist entry button early by accident.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am Hugo:

That Joe Manieri in the last set was something else! Was it ever released? Very nice vibe to the present tune. West African!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am Doug Schulkind:

Okay... NOW is the track that came from World Service.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:23am Brian in UK:

This has just been released over here, not a bundle of laughs but vital viewing of a troubled country.
www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:23am Jeff Golick:

Just popping back in to say: Harry Smith, born on this day in 1923. Doug carrying on the same tradition.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31am Uncle Michael:

I'd be delighted if as many of you as care to would join me at the top of the hour for Hinky Dinky Time.

www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am Webhamster Henry:

I knew Joe Manieiri from the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Joe played hundreds of ethnic weddings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
That Joe Maneri was never released. It is from the collection of Abe Maneri

Speaking of Harry Smith, about 10 years ago maybe, a fan of my radio show began corresponding with me. He caught my attention by mentioning that his old friend Harry Smith would've loved my show. (A comment that still humbles me.) It turned out that the listener was a poet and fellow traveler of Harry Smith's. We began communicating prolifically via email and I was drawn into a universe of Harry Smith history and arcana. Very thrilling stuff for me. This listener sent me tapes of another friend and Smith chum whose grandfather Harry had recorded more than 100 hours worth chanting ancient Hebrew liturgy. Amazing stuff.

Well as our email backs and forths got heavier and deeper, I started to get a weird proselytizing feeling from the messages I was receiving.

It turned out that this listener was a molecular biologist who was one of the leading AIDS denialists. He was named to the panel formed by then South African president Thabo Mbeki to support his horrendous AIDS policy. The listener sent me one of his books and was clearly recruiting me to use my radio show as a platform for his theories. At least that what I sensed what was happening.

When I confronted him on this, the correspondence stopped cold.
Avatar 11:36am Lewis:

it is truly amazing how stable the turntable at the top of the set list is...
Avatar 11:37am ndbob:

@Doug what a story!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
I just hold onto the "Harry Smith would've loved your show" comment and imagine that it might be genuine.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40am Brian in UK:

Well I am a time denialist. Three hours. NEVER. Have a great weekend y'all.
Avatar 11:41am ndbob:

@Doug even if it wasn't I'm sure Harry would have loved your show anyway
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41am Jeff Golick:

Amazing amazing story, Doug.
Avatar 11:41am Lewis:

@Doug - I think that part was genuine!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42am Brian in UK:

How could that bit not be true.
  11:43am Mr C:

A song covered by Elvis Costello ...I Wanna Be Loved...yes sir.. you can look it up!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43am Brian in UK:

@Mr C and his backing band was The.....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45am Uncle Michael:

Mr. C, I don't doubt Costello covered it...but he also has a song of his own called I Wanna be Loved that's not the same song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45am Doug Schulkind:

June 18, 1984: Elvis Costello's re-working of obscure Hi Records single by the Teacher's Edition, "I Wanna Be Loved", reaches #25 in the U.K charts proves to be last Top 30 single until 1992.
  11:45am Mr C:

it wasn't the Hi Rhythm section. But the intent was pure. And I can tell first hand, Farnell Jenkins, who wrote I Wanna Be Loved, was highly appreciative
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46am Uncle Michael:

Hmm...Costello's song has different words...I'm purdie sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47am Uncle Michael:

I'm probably all wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am Doug Schulkind:

The Denise here is Denise LaSalle. The Abe is Abe Tilmon.
  11:47am Mr C:

Abe from the mighty Detroit Emeralds
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48am Doug Schulkind:

Yes of course!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48am Uncle Michael:

Yay...I'm wrong! Learning something is better than being right.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49am Brian in UK:

Anyone thought if you connect Reg Presley of the Troggs and Elvis Costello you have a famous star. Reg Costello. Time to go.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am Doug Schulkind:

I love that the flip side of "Down on My Knees" is "Stand Up for Your Rights"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am Hugo:

@Doug: Thanks for the info. More unreleased Joe Maneri is highly welcome (and released, too). Those Harry Smith recordings of Hebrew liturgy has been played on your show, at least parts of it? Forgot the actual name now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
You are invited and encouraged to keep the par-tay vibing over at Uncle Michael's pad. He's got some cupcakes and punch and stuff. I think there will be Pictionary. Just remember to take your shoes off: wfmu.org...
Avatar 11:53am PKNY:

Good call on "Never Walk Out on You", one of the many jams that Matthew Africa (RIP) and DJ B.Cause turned my onto via their essential "Soul Boulders" mix.
  11:53am Mr C:

Another master class radio programme
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
Rabbi Abulafia, grandfather of poet Lionel Ziprin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, PKNY!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Next and last, a great ballad from a young Pittsburgher discovered and championed by Otis Redding...
Avatar 11:56am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57am Uncle Michael:

Thanks Doug...see you all next door!
  11:58am trs:

See you in June. A bright light month.
  11:58am Dean:

Why are the names Abulafia and Ziprin familiar to me? (Google the latter and you'll find a YouTube clip of the poet reading, but it files after other results relating to "a natural male enhancement formula.") But wow, what a show today, melding the usual kaleidoscope of the playlist with comments ranging from Harry Smith to Hebrew chanting. Awesome.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am Doug Schulkind:

More about Johnny Daye:

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Avatar 🥁 12:00pm bobdc:

A soulful ending to a great show!
Avatar 12:00pm doca:

Thanks, Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Brian in UK:

Great double side I Love Love b/w I Hate Hate.
Avatar 12:01pm Spaniel:

thanks Doug, really great show!
Avatar 🥁 12:01pm duke:

Great soul set. Great show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

It's my pleasure, Spaniel! Thanks duke (first and last comment — sweet!)
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