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Playlist for 03 March 2016 Favoriting | From out of my head to out of this world

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from the cover of the album Soundproof, by Ferrante & Teicher

Artist Song Album Label Approx. start time
Ferrante & Teicher  Holiday for Strings   Favoriting Dynamic Twin Pianos  United Artists   
Eddie Bush  Holiday for Strings   Favoriting Legends of Ukulele (various artsits)  Rhino  0:02:18 (Pop-up)
Felix Kubin & Coolhaven  There Is a Garden   Favoriting Suppe fur die Nacht  Korm Plastics  0:03:57 (Pop-up)
Boys Age  Cult Pop   Favoriting A Home  Dig That Treasure  0:07:26 (Pop-up)
Polycarp  Whisky Lime   Favoriting The Magnetic Moment  Wifflefist  0:10:29 (Pop-up)
Sophie Tucker w Harry Sosnik & His Orchestra  The Lady Is a Tramp   Favoriting 78 (originally)  Decca  0:14:15 (Pop-up)
Lederhosen Lucil  Candidi Albicani   Favoriting Hosemusik  Lederhosen Lucil  0:17:18 (Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin  Freeway of Love   Favoriting 7-inch single  Arista  0:19:30 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Tipsy 
Bunny Kick   Favoriting Uh-oh!  Asphodel  0:23:53 (Pop-up)
Shonen Knife  Top of the World   Favoriting If I Were a Carpenter (various artists)  A&M  0:27:53 (Pop-up)
People Like Us  Happy Lost Songs   Favoriting Welcome Abroad  Illegal Art  0:31:37 (Pop-up)
Muriel Smith  Happy Talk   Favoriting South Pacific  RCA  0:34:43 (Pop-up)
Claudine Longet  Nothing to Lose   Favoriting The Party (soundtrack)  The Mirisch Corporation/United Artists  0:38:56 (Pop-up)
Cal Tjader  O Barquinho (The Little Boat)   Favoriting Sona Libre  Verve  0:41:16 (Pop-up)
Furniture Huschle  Feeder Cable   Favoriting Waiting for Parts  Spare Me Records  0:45:24 (Pop-up)
The Supremes  All I Want   Favoriting The Supremes  Motown  0:47:27 (Pop-up)
The Waitresses  Square Pegs   Favoriting I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts  Polydor  0:50:55 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Shudder to Think 
pH Balanced   Favoriting High Art (soundtrack)  Velvel  0:54:05 (Pop-up)
Pipas  Rock And/Or Roll   Favoriting A Cat Escaped  Matinee  0:58:52 (Pop-up)
April March  Nothing New   Favoriting Chrominance Decoder  Edel/Tricatel  1:01:18 (Pop-up)
Carmen Miranda  Moleque Indigesto   Favoriting South American Way  Saludos Amigos  1:05:29 (Pop-up)
Bobbie Gentry  Niki Hoeky   Favoriting Ode to Billie Joe  Capitol  1:07:51 (Pop-up)
DJ Ming & FS  Madhattan Bound   Favoriting Deeper Concentration (various artists)  Om  1:10:32 (Pop-up)
Siw Malmkvist & Umberto Mercato  Sole Sole Sole   Favoriting 7-inch single  Jubilee  1:14:00 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison  Blue Angel   Favoriting All-Time Greatest Hits  Sony  1:16:43 (Pop-up)
Chuck Wagon  Rock and Roll Won't Go Away   Favoriting Weird Punk L.A. (various artists)    1:19:43 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Las Comadrejas 
Oaxacatelas   Favoriting We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music  Comad  1:22:46 (Pop-up)
Piero Piccioni  Abigaille from Fumo di Londra   Favoriting The Seduction of Piero Piccioni  Cherry Red  1:28:20 (Pop-up)
Young Marble Giants  N.I.T.A.   Favoriting Colossal Youth  Rough Trade  1:31:05 (Pop-up)
Sir Henry and Kathrin Angerer  Was Ist das Ziel, from Ums Nackte Leben   Favoriting Das Leben Ist Kein Wunschkonzert    1:34:42 (Pop-up)
TV Girl  Loving Machine   Favoriting Who Really Cares  TV Girl  1:38:17 (Pop-up)
Of Montreal  Everything Disappears When You Come Around   Favoriting Cherry Peel  Bar None  1:42:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson  Rainmaker   Favoriting Harry  RCA  1:44:40 (Pop-up)
Trio  Anna - Letmeinletmeout   Favoriting Trio and Error  Mercury  1:47:19 (Pop-up)
O-N-T-J (Olivia New Ton John)  Jasmine   Favoriting Jose  Benten  1:50:55 (Pop-up)
The Brunettes  Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth   Favoriting Structure & Cosmetics  Sub Pop  1:54:29 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Johnny Beecher 
Sax Fifth Avenue   Favoriting 45 played at 33  Warner Bros.   

Listener comments!

Avatar 11:56am Michael:

First?
Avatar 11:56am Mayuko:

Hallos!
Avatar 11:57am βrian:

First among sequels.
Good afternoon, folks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Charlie:

First among sequins.
Halloo, Michael, Mayuko, ßrian!
Avatar 11:59am mauri:

saucerful of sweetbun
Avatar 11:59am Carmichael:

First among seagulls. Heya Charlie and everyone else everywhere.
Avatar 12:00pm βrian:

Sequins! Ooh, shiny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Charlie and all!! Happy to see what comes out of your head. I've spread a dropcloth just in case.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Brian in UK:

......and a fist amidst treacle to you Charlie.
  12:04pm Listening Out There:

I'm just in a festive, holiday mood for some reason. Dunno why...
Avatar 12:04pm Mayuko:

This show has already made me super happy. Also, a bit slower than usual day at work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Brian in UK:

Is this George's cousin that no one mentions?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Charlie:

Interplanetary greetings to Mauri, Carmichael, and James; Brian in UK and Listening Out There too :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Charlie:

The only Bush not running for public office.
Avatar 12:05pm mauri:

Brian in uk, are you all aurora borealis experienced now?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm listener james from westwood:

Lighting up a fine Kubin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm Charlie:

Hooray for slow work days!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm coelacanth:

wow, this is much different than the Felix Kubin i know!
...and Hi Charlie and Nothlings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm Parq:

Hi, Charlie. I can't look at that pic without mentally hearing a theremin.
Avatar 12:07pm Carmichael:

Different than Felix Cavaliere too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm Brian in UK:

Used to love the sherbet in those flying saucers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm coelacanth:

...and not your dad's Pappalardi neither.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Brian in UK:

Oh mauri you bet. Saw the Lights on Saturday, immediately after dog sledding. An amazing site.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Brian in UK:

or sight!!
Avatar 12:11pm sphere:

hello folks. been a long time since i tuned in to Charlie's show. thanks to the Brian who mentioned it recently!
Avatar 12:12pm mauri:

sounds great! dog sledding too. I did that once. flew off the sledge cause I was taking a turn too fast.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm Charlie:

howdy, coelacanth, Parq, sphere too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm listener james from westwood:

sphere, Charlie's archives are well worth a dig if you've missed some. Evergreen goodness!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm Uncle Michael:

Blue moon...you saw me standing alone...
Avatar 12:14pm sphere:

good idea, Westwood Person. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm Doug Schulkind:

Sophie was a real mother Tucker.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Charlie:

Hi Uncle Michael!
Mother Tucker!, I mean Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Brian in UK:

mauri one of our team did hit a tree and broke the sled handle Luckily the musher in charge cut off a branch and lashed it up and carried on. He had just flown back from Alaska where he took part in a 1000 mile sled race in ten days. Tough guy.
  12:16pm Listening Out There:

"That's why the GOP is a Trump..." Everybody sing...
  12:16pm jan:

here ear.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm Charlie:

Happy to see you, Jan!
  12:19pm Ike:

Watch out folks, I've discovered that the flu is still going around. Guess I shouldn't have licked those subway poles.
Avatar 12:21pm sphere:

what if you get a flat on the Freeway of Love?
Avatar 12:22pm mauri:

an action packed holiday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm Pseu Braun:

Chizzzzy!
  12:23pm Listening Out There:

I was hijacked on the Freeway of Love. It can now be revealed...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm Charlie:

Pseubie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm doctorjazz:

Hi all, Aretha's entry into the age of disco, great track. (it's always amused me that disco had the last lack, current pop music comes out of it so much).
Avatar 12:23pm βrian:

Wheremin?
  12:23pm jan:

@sphere:Call the LOVE.A.A.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm Charlie:

I found love on a two-way street....
  12:24pm Ike:

Also don't lick anything on the Freeway of Love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm listener james from westwood:

Argh, sorry to hear it, Ike.
  12:24pm Listening Out There:

...caught in the radar trap of passion...
Avatar 12:24pm βrian:

That Bunny Kick brings to mind a dreamy conga line.
  12:27pm Ike:

Thx @LJfW. How's the proofreading biz?
Avatar 12:28pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!
Avatar 12:29pm βrian:

A blue pencil is a lethal weapon in the right person's hands.
Avatar 12:29pm Cocakoala:

Delightful cover!
  12:30pm rf:

super delightful!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Charlie:

Hiya, Ike, ndBob, and Cocakoala!
Always bring protection on the freeway of love...?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Charlie:

rf rf!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm doctorjazz:

Just caught up with the comments, late start,:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm Dominick:

Hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm listener james from westwood:

It's a sad universe, the one in which I was never a WFMU listener and learned about PLU much much later than I did, or never.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm listener james from westwood:

βrian: This copy editor agrees re: the blue pencil. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Charlie:

doctorjazz, Dominick, welcome.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm doctorjazz:

Love this People Like Us mishmosh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Charlie:

James -- you know much of PLU is available for free download, if you need to catch up?
  12:35pm Listening Out There:

There's also a nifty documentary on PLU out there. You can see Vicki's nice garden too.
Avatar 12:36pm βrian:

I guess that's not Price LookUp, after all.
  12:37pm Listening Out There:

This PLU is not Pacific Lutheran University either, as they say here in the Seattle area...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm listener james from westwood:

@Charlie: Excellent to know; will no doubt spare me a playlist search or three on WFMU.org!
Avatar 12:37pm βrian:

I remember watching South Pacific with my parents, and then going out to dine at Trader Vic's. It was a natural segue.
Avatar 12:38pm Mayuko:

This woman is frightening to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm Mike East:

I told my daughter on our walk to school yesterday "If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm Charlie:

Yes, frightening on many levels...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm Goyim in the AM:

It's tough to sing the hell out of a number with a ridiculous accent. Captain Sensible only got the ridiculous accent part on his version.
Avatar 12:39pm mauri:

I felt its happiness.
Avatar 12:40pm Cocakoala:

Talking about ridiculous accents....Peter Sellers in this film....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm listener james from westwood:

"Birdie num-num."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm Charlie:

from wikipedia: "Happy Talk" is occasionally cut from productions of South Pacific on the grounds that the song is racist, citing the fake pidgin in which it is written.
Avatar 12:46pm Michael:

When I see Claudine Longet I think of the "Claudine Longet Invitational" Downhill competition.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm Goyim in the AM:

As opposed to the other, non-problematic parts of that piece? Good thinking, Bowdlerists!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm doctorjazz:

Never heard the Supremes/Joni Mitchell cover, cool.
Avatar 12:49pm Roberto:

Dammit Charlie, you already played this in 2007.
  12:49pm santos l halper:

@doctorjazz: ditto, and thanks Charlie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:50pm doctorjazz:

Up Up and Away...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm Charlie:

Hi Goyim in theAM, Roberto, Santos Halper
@Roberto -- I never play a song I've never played before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm Charlie:

...except this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm Goyim in the AM:

Totally different head. Totally.
Avatar 12:53pm Roberto:

I happen to like that song, so it's all good. Like this one too! Waitresses 4 life
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm listener james from westwood:

@Michael, you're not the only one.
Avatar 12:56pm βrian:

My favorite cartoon was The Jetsams.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:02pm Charlie:

Planetary Flotsam
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm listener james from westwood:

It's the flotsam what gets'am (quoted from somewhere or other)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:09pm Dominick:

OH yeah!
Avatar 1:13pm βrian:

I hear a car going *boom*.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm Brian in UK:

Thinking Kid Koala
Avatar 1:17pm still b/p:

I starred Sole Sole Sole and then it came to a dole-dole-doleful end there.
  1:18pm jan:

aww, Charlie... I was happlily grooving on Siw Malmkvist & Umberto Mercato and that segue harshed my mellow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm Charlie:

oh, sorry, still b/p, jan dunno what came over me!
Avatar 1:19pm Mayuko:

haha, I loved that segue!
  1:19pm andy the painter:

i was thinking how much the vocals on that Sole Sole Sole sounded like classic bollywood duet vocals. same era, maybe?
  1:20pm jan:

b/p? what dat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm Charlie:

that was from 1964
Avatar 1:21pm βrian:

Chuck Wagon is ringing the dinner triangle. Gotta get some grub.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm Charlie:

hello andy the painter.
yes it does have that bollywood duet feel at that
  1:24pm andy the painter:

now i may rest easy....
thanks, charlie
Avatar 1:24pm still b/p:

breathing/puzzled.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm Charlie:

me: busy/plodding
Avatar 1:31pm Michael:

Starring Marcello and Virna Lisi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm Goyim in the AM:

We are clearly in the sonic presence of a graduate of German Actress School.
Avatar 1:36pm Roberto:

Something about vegan schmutz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:38pm Goyim in the AM:

...and having googled her, I see that I am correct.
  1:40pm jan:

Diggin TV Girl!
Avatar 1:40pm Mayuko:

collected the rocks spilled out of your head. 56.media.tumblr.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:41pm Parq:

TV Girl link is not safe for work. Well, not my work, anyway. Great sounds, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm Charlie:

Mayuko -- ooh, that's a great picture! Maybe I will substitute it for the one I have at the top of the page :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm Brian in UK:

Great show, Charlie, got to go.
Avatar 1:45pm Mayuko:

ah! there's big size too. i.imgur.com... I think that rocky spacy landscape looks good too though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm Charlie:

seeya, Brian,
ty, Mayuko
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm Uncle Michael:

We need rain in Kansas.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm Brian in UK:

@Mayuko it is enticing.
Avatar 1:48pm Mayuko:

@Brian in UK I think that's what filled Charlie's brain today and responsible for that crazy segue etc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm Parq:

"Anna - Letmeinletmeout" was a frequent play on FMU when I first moved to New York. The sound of this record will always remind me of those good, bad first few months.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm listener james from westwood:

Through the intro, I thought this "Jasmine" was a Gary Wilson cut!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm Goyim in the AM:

It was an actual hit in Germany and Austria.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm Charlie:

Mayuko -- the picture is a cropped version of the cover of the album "Soundproof" by Ferrante and Teicher, back when they were playing pop songs on twin prepared pianos.
Avatar 1:55pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
Avatar 1:55pm Mayuko:

Great, thanks for letting me know! I actually wrote their name down right away when I heard you played at the beginning, I loved it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm Charlie:

Thanks for being here, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm listener james from westwood:

Thanks for the fine spins, Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Goyim in the AM:

Thank you for jaying the dees!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm coelacanth:

Thanks Charlie!
ciao.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm Matt F:

Get yer rocks off!
Avatar 2:00pm Roberto:

Ciao Ciarlie.
  2:02pm Listening Out There:

Thanks, Charlie BDN!
Avatar 2:02pm Michael:

Thanks Charlie. Go grab some hard rolls.
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