Bob Brainen's playlist January 9, 2021 E-mail Bob Brainen
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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine Orch. w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Archie Shepp Back Back Kwanza 1969 / 1974 0:02:25 Pop-up) Tin Huey Hump Day Contents Dislodged During Shipment 1979 0:08:27 Pop-up) Insect Trust Ducks Hoboken Saturday Night 1970 0:11:21 Pop-up) Steve Miller Band Your Old Lady Revolution 1968 OST 0:14:41 Pop-up) Small Faces I Feel Much Better There Are But Four Small Faces 1968 0:20:22 Pop-up) Walter Brennan Old Rivers 1962 0:24:20 Pop-up) Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag 1936 0:27:01 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"0:29:34 Pop-up) Gerry & The Pacemakers Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying 1964 Gerry Marsden R.I.P. 0:36:49 Pop-up) Louis Jordan Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' 1946 0:39:20 Pop-up) Ray Charles Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' The Genius Of... 1959 0:42:21 Pop-up) Eric Dolphy Softly As In A Morning Sunrise [edit] The Illinois Concert 1963 0:46:02 Pop-up) Spirit Gramophone Man Spirit 1968 0:53:51 Pop-up) Rod Stewart Handbags & Gladrags The Rod Stewart Album 1969 Thanks to TDK60 for correction: Mike D'Abo, who wrote this song, also arranged it and played piano. 0:57:40 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"birds @ 302 Chestnut"1:02:09 Pop-up) Juju Soledad Brothers A Message from Mozambique 1973 Strata East label 1:07:31 Pop-up) Roland Kirk Volunteered Slavery Volunteered Slavery 1969 1:12:46 Pop-up) Thomas Newman Fate / Inflecting Points The Adjustment Bureau 2011 OST 1:18:18 Pop-up) Perez Prado Patricia 1958 1:20:55 Pop-up) Tommy Roe Everybody 1963 1:23:12 Pop-up) Saint Dirt Elementary School Perfect Ponies Abandoned Ballroom 2011 1:24:57 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"birds @ 302 Chestnut"1:27:35 Pop-up) Herbie Nichols Portrait Of Ucha Love, Gloom, Cash, Love 1957 1:31:24 Pop-up) Rod Argent & Chris White Telescope (Mr Galileo) Zombies, Etc. - Into The Afterlife 1968 / 2007 VAR 1:35:01 Pop-up) Shorty Rogers The Fix The Man With The Golden Arm 1955 OST - Music by Elmer Bernstein 1:37:29 Pop-up) Steve Lawrence Go Away Little Girl 1962 1:40:56 Pop-up) Ranny Sinclair [with Dave Brubeck] Something To Sing About Another Autumn 1966 / 2017 1:43:08 Pop-up) Wayne Horvitz Money Or A Story Some Places Are Forever Afternoon 2015 1:45:09 Pop-up) The Crows w/Melino & His Orchestra Mambo Shevitz It's A Scream How Levine Does The Rhumba 1953 / 2013 VAR 1:48:51 Pop-up) Hushdrops The Sweetest Plum (from upcoming release) 2021 Sending out healing vibes to Joe Camarillo 1:50:49 Pop-up) NRBQ Tonight You Belong To Me Grooves In Orbit 1983 / 1990 CD bonus track 1:53:24 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"1:55:32 Pop-up) Thanks to David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young, Wm. Yale, libraries everywhere & Pete Tomlinson
Listener comments!
9:00am : Good morning, Bob and all!🥁 9:00am : Hello Bob and fellow Brainiacs9:01am : Good morning Bob and all the listeners.
Good morning Jeff.9:01am : Good Morning Bob, Doc Rock and fellow listeners.
Music is the weapon of the future9:01am : Good morning Bob and all other Brainiacs!9:01am : 1whoknewcthulhu, good morning to you!
And you Duke.9:02am : Good saturday Bob and all!🥁 9:02am : Morning Bob and everyone9:03am : Hey mauri, Wm.9:03am : Good Morning Bob and All! My first Saturday back in the fold after Bob's long absence. I have missed this weekly luxury more than I can say. Happy New Year!9:04am : Good Morning, all!9:04am : Hey Now! Good morning, Bob and friends. Funky Shepp!9:04am : good morning bob having a katz"s pastrami while enjoying the tunes9:05am : Good morning BB and fellow Braineniacs!9:06am : We are to a great start here.9:06am : We are off to a great start here.9:06am : Hi Bob & the Brainiacs - this Archie Shepp is a good start for the day (like Andrew just said)9:07am : Morning MikeyfromNC, welcome back.
Hey Joe M., Todd E., burpage, oh man, I'll take corned beef.
Hey CalZone!
Thanks Andrew!
Hey YETI BOB,9:07am : Good morning.🥁 9:07am : Kwanza was my first Shepp purchase.9:10am : This Tin Huey lp is a kinda lost classic! I played it to death when it came out. A gem!9:11am : Hey TDK60,
WM. that's a good start!9:15am : CalZone! me too!🥁 9:16am : Silly movie, great soundtrack.9:16am : Tin Huey, been ages since I heard them! Saw them open for Television at The Bottom Line in 1978.9:17am : I think my radio is about to melt. Good morning Bob B and everyone.9:18am : Agree Wm.
Great show Todd E.,
Peter from Dover NJ, hope yr radio still plays!9:23am : the only faces that matter9:24am : ol shep!9:24am : my grampa's dog was named sheppie. wrong song i know...9:25am : I heart country piano9:25am : I wonder what old Bircher Walter would have thought about Wednesday's romp at the Capital?9:26am : I went to that Television / Tin Huey show at the Bottom Line. Excellent show.9:27am : Tear in my tea9:27am : Morning dale, good song tho.
CalZone! is that true? Jeez, I'm better off not knowin!
Mornin' Zoot,9:30am : Somebody played Bob Wills version of "Blue Skies" on WFMU this week and it's been stuck in my head for days. That guitar sounds so good! I need to learn more about Bob Wills.9:31am : As DJ Michael Shelley would say: that Bob Wills is a No. 1.9:32am : Sorry BB, but it's true. I still love those cornball WB records, so please don't stop playing em!
https://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com/walter-brennan-king-of-the-hollywood-racists-spokesperson-of-the-john-birch-society-and-made-album-of-hate-of-negroes-and-civil-rights/9:34am : Can't tell you how great it is to have you back! Thanks Bob.9:37am : YETI, Bob Wills, a rich rich vein! Mike is right.
CalZone! its a deal! Oh man, that's bad news.
Thanks James Douglas!9:38am : Bob B, thank goodness the radio is still playing. Thanks for spinning all these fab platters.9:39am : I should have mentioned George Martin produced Gerry & co. Love those shimmering strings & oboe (or English horn?) Muted brass, etc.
Thanks Peter From Dover NJ!9:40am : I think I drank too much last night. Good hangover morning from Seattle. Just the sounds needed to wake up too. Hi, Bob!9:41am : I always thought Gerry and the Pacemakers wrote this! Loving this Louis Jordan version.9:42am : Bob, I wonder if it was G. Martin's idea to add the big orchestra sound for Gerry's hit.9:42am : Good morning, Bob and bobolinks. Loving the repetition of this song.9:43am : Sorry, internet sucks here...9:43am : Are they different songs, Yeti?9:43am : TDK: yeah it's related but not the same song.9:44am : Hey egould310,
YETI they did! 2 different songs.
Someone named Joe Greene wrote the Jordan / Charles original.9:45am : Like the way Lou Reed and Duke Ellington both wrote "Beginning to See the Light"9:46am : northguineahills-you mean your internet in general or the stream?9:48am : If you wrote songs would you knowingly use a song title that was out there?9:49am : These sounds will unpack my mind....9:50am : no, the internet in general, I gave up used my phone hotspot...9:50am : Here's my new song "Take the A Train". No, not *that* A train. The one in Japan: en.wikipedia.org...9:51am : Eric Dolphy rocks.9:52am : @Bob: To be serious for a second, no, I would probably avoid it. I usually prefer originality to lots of references. Although I did find it delightfully cheeky when the Replacements titled their album "Let It Be".9:52am : Trivia You Need Dept. : Did you know the Replacements named one of their albums "Let It Be" simply because their manager liked the Beatles? Yep.9:53am : YETI, agree on both!9:54am : (And they didn't actually make a song called "Let It Be", which was probably a good decision)🥁 9:55am : The Beatles' Love Me Do / Badfinger's Love Me Do. Always thought that was a bit odd.9:55am : Hey remember when the Replacements named an album “Let It Be”?9:56am : Good morning, Bob.9:57am : Spirit needs more "props."9:58am : Bravo, Bob.9:58am : The Pretenders' "Louie Louie" is not THAT "Louie Louie".9:59am : Wn, yes!
Hey Wendy,
Thanks Andrew,
Joe M, that is a fun fact.10:00am : who wrote this? i was familiar with chris farlowe's version first10:03am : Thanks to the power of Bob Brainen’s musical selections, I was able to get out of bed. Have a nice stretch, and it’s time for a run.10:03am : Bob, just checked; Wikip. trivia says Mike D'Abo played piano on this; his song.10:06am : I didn't recognize that as "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," so fully did Dolphy transform it. This is, admittedly, something of a relief. I had a downstairs neighbor would would practice that tune and that tune only, for months. In my mind, it's been "Karl is Playing the Piano" ever since.10:08am : TDK60, if so he's not credited on the album itself.
Coulda been a contractual thing? Not sure.
adamdoes it, that's funny.10:10am : Whoever played - D'Abo or McLaglan - sounded like they'd been listening to Nashville C&W piano, maybe.10:10am : Good morning, good morning!!!10:11am : Mike d’Abo wrote “Build Me Up Buttercup”!10:12am : bigplanetnoise-hey!
Jeff, I hope he's collecting the royalties!10:13am : Happy New Year Bob and FMU family. Love Rod. Seen him about 5 times and every show was tremendous!. One at the garden with Carmen Appice on drums stands out, Hey I even seen him At Roosevelt Stadium in JC with the Faces. Ten Tears After was on the bill and Alvin Lee and the boys blew us away!10:14am : this is a good one!10:15am : in on roland. strong cuts I missed Bob.archiveville10:15am : Hello BPN!10:16am : Good morning, Wendy!!!10:19am : Everyone Heard The Obvious Trivia Dept? "Hey Jude" quote in that R.K.?10:19am : Thanks, BOB, for playing Tin Huey. They, along with Pere Ubu, were the most overlooked bands during the "Akron Age." Devo, the Pretenders, the Waitresses, and even the Rubber City Rebels got more exposure and promotion. But I have a special slot on my record shelf for Tin Huey and Pere Ubu, two "shoulda-beens."10:19am : You too JohnEBGood!10:21am : Gerry from Miami-was big into Pere Ubu at the same time, had no clue they and Huey were from same neck 'o the woods!10:22am : Interesting - I was thinking about the two Television gigs I saw at the Bottom Line. One was the Tin Huey double bill. The other one had Lisa Burns as the opener. On keyboards in Lisa Burns band - none other than Michael Brown (Left Banke)10:22am : Patrizia was the music for a popular commercial for Guinness in the 1990s in the British Isles!10:23am : Well, bloody feck, I actually have this record! Perez Prado10:25am : Jeff-wow, and we know he didn't do a lot of gigs!
(another) Patrick in Hoboken - interesting.
northguineahills-good record to have.10:25am : My sister's name is Patricia and Perez Prado's record was a big hit on our Top 40 affiliate here in Miami---WQAM 560---in the early 60s. She would get up and dance around the room whenever it came on the air.10:29am : I have never heard of Saint Dirt Elementary School, and I really liked that. I looked them up. They also have an album called "Hangin' Out With the Kid Who'd Eat Anything For a Dollar." Must continue investigating...10:34am : Gerry from Miami, nice memory!
Wendy del Formaggio-interesting band. I only know them from FMU's new bin!
I knew a kid who would eat almost anything on a dare! We probably all did, or some kid who would do something crazy and, what seemed, fearless.10:35am : Speaking of jazz pianists, Bobby Few passed away a few days ago
R.I.P.10:35am : Sitting in a tree spying on girls with a telescope? Sure, why not?!?10:37am : Damn, Jeff, that sucks. I dug his talent!10:38am : Aw, that's a shame, Jeff.
egould310, just like Arnold Layne?10:38am : Great show Bob10:40am : Thanks Doug In Michigan!10:42am : Love this.10:43am : Hello Bob. 1st time responding to your show.
I really liked the Bernie Nichols tune.10:44am : bigplanetnoise-glad to hear! (we still gotta catch up!)10:45am : We sure do!!10:45am : Welcome Ciggy!🥁 10:46am : Morning, Bob & all!10:46am : Steve and Eydie on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. A strong memory of my youth. They were a great and very talented couple. One of my "hidden" favorite albums of all time is Eydie Gorme with the Trio Los Panchos10:47am : Hey Gina B!10:47am : Hello Gina!🥁 10:47am : I just saw that amazing photo of you in the Upsala Vault!🥁 10:47am : Morning, Wendy!10:48am : Gerry from Miami, agree. I have to check that out.10:48am : what a wine!10:48am : Thanks for the tunes, Bob! I’m off to seven miles of thrills and hills in a cool, grey, damp Seattle morning. Hear ya’ next week!10:50am : the first time I've heard sacroiliac in a song. my chiro would love that10:50am : I second @Gerry one that one Bob.10:50am : Yeah Dominick, see ya Egoukld310. Balancing out the hangover w/exercise!10:50am : Good morning Bob + all!10:51am : Good morning Bob, thanks for another great show.10:51am : Never heard Ranny Sinclair before. She sounds great!🥁 10:53am : I love this song so much!10:53am : Good morning Bob and listeners! Thanks for the great show. Flew by.10:54am : Morning to you Matt,
Barry P. -hey.
Ranny is wonderful-check out her album.
Glad to hear Gina.
Thanks Corey,10:54am : Thanks Bob, and skeleton.10:54am : Thanks for another spectacular show!10:54am : Hey Bob and all. Slept in today, just tuning in now, alas. See you next week!10:54am : @Joe Mulligan: You gotta go listen to "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash. A classic sacroiliac mention!10:55am : Jewish mambo?? Who'da thought? To mention Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme again, I recall on one of their appearances on the Tonight Show, they duetted on a tune titled "The Nicest Thing Two People Can Do." I'll leave you to your imagination as to the subject matter of that song. Johnny and the couple had a few laughs over it in their post-performance chat. HO HO!10:56am : morning Bob Brainen - thanks for the tunes inc. Tin Huey who I had forgotten all about ---- hello fellow listeners inc Wendy and TDK60 - hope all have a great weekend!10:57am : Hey Billy Jam!10:57am : Always wonderful - thank you, Bob!!🥁 10:58am : Calvacade of goodness today Bob!10:58am : Thanks Bob!10:58am : Gerry from Miami. Mambo was really big in the borscht belt during the 50s. - early 60s10:58am : thanks Bob. See y'all next week10:59am : Next week, Bob and listeners!10:59am : Thanks Bob !10:59am : Thanks all, have a great weekend!