Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from November 2, 2021 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting November 2, 2021: MarkTime - Larry Lujack and other 1960s radio tapes

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Artist Track Comments Approx. start time
MarkTime  Intro   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Wally Phillips  WGN Chicago 3/19/1965   Favoriting Top morning show in Chicago for years C4  0:01:16 (Pop-up)
Larry Lujack  WLS Chicago 12/30/1967   Favoriting Some top tunes of 1967  0:24:02 (Pop-up)
Ron Britain  WCFL Chicago 6/20/1967   Favoriting   0:37:00 (Pop-up)
MarkTime  Outro   Favoriting   0:57:34 (Pop-up)
Howard Cosell  WLS Chicago 9/23/1971   Favoriting Speakng of Sports on the ABC Contemporary Network from New York  0:57:55 (Pop-up)


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MarkTime:

Whew, I made it with a few minutes to spare
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Krys O.:

Hallooooo!
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MarkTime:

Hello!
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Otis:

Radio magic me MarkTime!
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Scott67:

G'day Mark.T & Wigglers!
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Avatar 👻 8:01pm
MarkTime:

And away we go
  8:02pm
Kat in Chicago:

Hello radio lovers! Chicago, you say?
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Pauly from Clifton:

Hey Mark, folks!
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Mr Fab:

Hey Mark! Mrs Fab has told me about Larry Lujack. She grew up in Chicago, so looking forward to this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Kat in Chicago:

Oh boy, a stain chart!
Avatar 👻 8:03pm
MarkTime:

Yes, Chicago ... eek I was just 6 when this would have played on my mom's radio
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Otis:

WGN... home of Frankyn MacCormack!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Kat in Chicago:

I was 5 and I was in North Carolina
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MarkTime:

Otis - Yes, Franklyn would have still been the all-nighter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Otis:

I love the couple of WGN shows of Franklyn I have here. Big fan/admirer of his show direction of late night music for the parents up with the baby or the cop on the beat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Otis:

I don't know of Larry Lujack so ready to be entertained and educated.
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MarkTime:

Also wake-up tunes for milk delivery people
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Otis:

...and folks baking that bread at 5am. Ha, yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Kat in Chicago:

Known as the snake plant these days
Avatar 👻 8:09pm
MarkTime:

Polka around the breakfast table
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Sonderangebot:

I love how some plants have their nickname changed... like tradescantia
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Otis:

I'll have 2 waffles please.
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Kat in Chicago:

Me too, Sondy
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Krys O.:

Ah, snake plants. Thanks, Kat.
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Sonderangebot:

How about some pumpernickel bread with that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Krys O.:

I'm dancin'!
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Otis:

Extra butter with a side of cheese curds, yes.
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Krys O.:

I have some horseradish. Wish I had some kapusta.
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Kat in Chicago:

I can't imagine polka blasting from the speakers first thing in the morning. I'm about ready for it by the time Stashu starts on Fridays.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Scott67:

G'day Sondy! I like your Pumpkins! Can I say that?
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Avatar 👻 8:12pm
MarkTime:

y grandma would have gone for pumpernickel with butter and sliced kielbasa. Grandpa was more the horseradish person
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Otis:

Ha, yes Scott!
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Krys O.:

Zabawas were for the evenings in our house. We listened to the Two Edwards on WBLI. They had a Polish language show in the 50s and 60s.
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MarkTime:

WBLI ... Long Island?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Krys O.:

My mom's 95. Her dad was born in the 1870s.
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Kat in Chicago:

Wow, Krys!
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Otis:

Wow Krys, 95... go Mom!
Avatar 👻 8:18pm
MarkTime:

You can win a Major Award!
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Kat in Chicago:

Mary Poppins - first movie I ever saw and first LP I ever owned, if memory serves. That was an awful version of Chim Chim Cheree though!
Avatar 8:19pm
Sonderangebot:

Hahah there's one of Mama Dia's favorite songs! Hey Scott, I whispered the pumpkin carving idea to Otis, and he made it happen!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Krys O.:

Goulet?
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MarkTime:

yes Robert Goulet
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Kat in Chicago:

My mom had Robert Goulet records. I did not like them.
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Scott67:

Sondy, made me feel the Torch was burning again, briefly.
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Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Krys O.:

My oldest sister was a Jerry Vale fan. I preferred Andy Williams over Vale.
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Kat in Chicago:

I loved the Andy Williams TV show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Kat in Chicago:

Sanseveria!
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Mr Fab:

Was he talking to himself?
Avatar 👻 8:23pm
MarkTime:

Andy Williams Show was fun, and played back to back with the Muppet Show my year in Miami
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Krys O.:

Alexander Scourby
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Otis:

Book me a table at The Pump Room.
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Kat in Chicago:

I believe the Pump Room is no more.
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MarkTime:

Weird WGN hadn't figured out phones on the air yet. Once they did it was obvious when they switched from live to 7-second delay
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Sonderangebot:

Time for zeppole. The good thing about St Joseph's feast.
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Krys O.:

This is wunnerful! We watched Lawrence Welk too.
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MarkTime:

My only time at the Pump Room was thanks to the WGN Roy Leonard Show in 1980
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MarkTime:

I'll have to run some Lujack when he moved to mornings ... wacky and cynical
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Krys O.:

Oh, man...my very first favorite song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Krys O.:

I loved it because my favorite sister's name was Judy.
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Kat in Chicago:

It's a rather adult song in some respects! references the Living Bra which I remember commercials for.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Krys O.:

Yes, Kat. At four years old, the lyrics flew right over my head.
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Kat in Chicago:

That's one of those songs I'm not sure I actually liked, but was definitely fascinated by.
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MarkTime:

Sonderangebot - Weird I never had zeppole until I moved to Orange County, California ... a little pizza stand made them, yummy
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Mr Fab:

What song is this?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Krys O.:

Up until the pandemic started, there was a fair in my neighborhood. Always got a bag of zeppole. Yum!
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Mr Fab:

Dang, he didn't back announce it.
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Kat in Chicago:

I was wondering that myself, Mr. Fab. Wasn't familiar.
Avatar 👻 8:32pm
Mr Fab:

Shazam, and Mrs Fab, didn't know either
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MarkTime:

Could Be We're in Love by the Cryin Shames ... WLS loved playing local groups back then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Krys O.:

I think it was the Cryan' Shames, It Could Be We're in Love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Kat in Chicago:

That sounds very likely, Krys. They were from the area.
Avatar 👻 8:33pm
Mr Fab:

Wow, ok, thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Kat in Chicago:

I think this duet even creeped me out when I was a kid!
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
MarkTime:

State & Randolph, with the smoking Winston billboard
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Kat in Chicago:

I used to be able to just barely bring in WCFL in the early seventies on my bedroom radio. Still lived in the Southeast and I was horrified by the weather reports. How could people live somewhere that cold?
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Krys O.:

Even the straights were psychedelicized in the Summer of Love.
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MarkTime:

It was easier to dress for winters than for summers most years
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Mr Fab:

Mrs Fab told me once when she lived in Chi-town that she walked thru the snow to get to school, only to be told by an angry nun that school was closed that day. After all that, she turned around and walked home.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Kat in Chicago:

Poor kid!
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Mr Fab:

i wouid def hire Ron Britain to do a show here at Sheena's, esp if he plays more songs on random kitchen implements and bells.
Avatar 👻 8:43pm
MarkTime:

Ah yes snow days at school ... the little 23-inch blizzard we had in January 1967 kept us home for a week
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Krys O.:

Wow! Had that happen to me as a kid in Westchester County, NY, but they showed us The Three Worlds of Gulliver in the auditorium until our parents came to pick us up.
Avatar 👻 8:44pm
MarkTime:

I forgot how much I liked Ron Britain. I'll have to play his odd little album-rock show he did for awhile overnights on WCFL
Avatar 👻 8:46pm
MarkTime:

Opera House and the Auditorium Theater had great acoustics
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Krys O.:

Hmm, interesting cover.
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
MarkTime:

"modern sized" ... aka tabloid
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Kat in Chicago:

I used to like the Sun-Times because it was easier to read on the bus/el than the Trib.
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Krys O.:

Could have been Michael and the Messengers covering (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet.
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MarkTime:

Took extra work to read the Trib on the Howard L
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Mr Fab:

What a fantastic jingle. What were they saying, "size up"?
Avatar 👻 8:51pm
MarkTime:

Mr Fab - yes, "Size up"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Scott67:

Thanks MarkTime, great fun Show!
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Avatar 👻 8:57pm
MarkTime:

You're welcome!
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Mr Fab:

Ron Britain was brilliant! I would listen even if he didn't play any records.
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Krys O.:

A smashing good time! Thanks, MarkTime!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Otis:

Thanks for the show fun MarkTime. Until next time!
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Kat in Chicago:

Thanks, Mark!
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Sonderangebot:

Thank you, Mark!
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Mr Fab:

Wonderful stuff, Mark. Really appreciate it, and thanks to YOU TOO, Sondy!
Avatar 👻 9:00pm
MarkTime:

You're welcome, all! And a big thank you to Sonderangebot. Until next month
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WR:

Interesting air checks, the music was the weakest link, but that is to be expected. Have been working so haven't had time to comment much, the old folks birthday calls were particularly interesting. Near time to make dinner. Maybe waffles...
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