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Neal Hefti And Sammy Cahn  The Odd Couple (vocal demo)   Favoriting
Sallie Ford And The Sound Outside  Cage   Favoriting
Ronnie Dawson  I Make The Love   Favoriting
Izaak Opatz  Say What You Want To   Favoriting
Jimmy Hicks  I'm Mr. Big Stuff   Favoriting
Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra  The Grape Vine   Favoriting
Kurt Baker  Everybody Knows   Favoriting
Gene Clark  So You Say You Lost Your Baby   Favoriting
Ferlin Husky  My Reason For Living   Favoriting
Walter Jackson  It's All Over   Favoriting
Elvis Costello And The Imposters  Magnificent Hurt (live at Radio Two)   Favoriting
Charles Callelo  The Name Game   Favoriting
Beach Boys, The  Wendy   Favoriting
Brad Paisley  All You Really Need Is Love   Favoriting
Chris Kenner  Anybody Seen My Baby?   Favoriting
Ernest Ranglin  Everybody's Talking   Favoriting
Grand Funk  Bad Time   Favoriting
Unsung Genius  Quincy Theme   Favoriting
NRBQ  The Moon And Other Things   Favoriting
Honeybus  (Do I Figure) In Your Life?   Favoriting
Elvis Presley  Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Live from the Louisiana Hayride)   Favoriting
Al Green  I Want To Hold Your Hand   Favoriting
Willie Mitchell  Take Five   Favoriting
Split Enz  I Got You   Favoriting
Steve Ellis And The Starfires  On MY Mind   Favoriting
Eddie Noack  Psycho   Favoriting
Ted Hawkins  Revenge Of Scorpio   Favoriting
Joe Carroll  Get Your Kicks On Route 66   Favoriting
Laughing Dogs, The  Reason For Love   Favoriting
Buggs, The  Mercy Mersey   Favoriting
Jeannie C. Riley  Things Go Better With Love   Favoriting
Chuck Jackson  Big New York   Favoriting
Jay Gonzalez  Need You Round   Favoriting
Cheap Trick  Lookout (studio version!)   Favoriting
Cheap Trick  I Want You To Want Me   Favoriting
Nancy Sinatra  Tonight You Belong To Me   Favoriting
Neal Hefti  Odd Couple   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HEREfor "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener comments!

  10:58am
Robbie White:

Good morning from Silver Spring, MD
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Michael Shelley:

Hey ROBBIE!
  11:00am
Robbie White:

Looking forward to all the #1 hits Michael
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Listener Baby:

A groggy. dehydrated, good morning Hey Now?
  11:01am
clarke:

hey
now
my eyes don't see so good!!!
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Frank In Queens:

HEY NOW!! He's back!
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Squints:

ok then.

hey HEY hey now.
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Handy Haversack:

Hey hey now now! Morning, MS and all the Shellegamers! Hey, Baby, clarke!
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Will the Sound Guy:

Hello Michael and all the #1's!!!!
  11:02am
clarke:

Crunch Granola Sah-weeeeet!!!!!!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, Michael & all!
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Webhamster Henry:

I know the lyrics for the Odd Couple, but this demo is great!
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

Now I see why this is best known as an instrumental.
  11:03am
F. Unger:

Never forget… “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence…”
  11:03am
Joe R.:

:: mind blown :: never knew there were lyrics (but good call to drop ‘em?)
  11:03am
phat in Lincoln:

Damn
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Frank In Queens:

Haha, Todd. Was just thinking the same thing!
  11:03am
clarke:

handy - bet there is frost on the ol'pumpkin up thar, this mawnin'!!!
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, close but not quite yet.
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DJ Guin:

"Listen, Mister Unger..Get Out!"
  11:04am
N. Hefti:

I asked those vocals to be removed from their place of residence…
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Handy Haversack:

It's weirdly warm, clarke! Window's open wide for the kittens to take in the world!
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Frank In Queens:

Hell, I'm STILL pulling tomatoes off my plants.
  11:04am
clarke:

wow, well, it is a bit chilly in TX
  11:05am
rich the greeb:

It’s dropping to like 40 in nyc later
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Happy Garry Marshall birthday! (b 1934, d 2016)
  11:05am
Paul:

Jack and Tony "singing" You're So Vain" is beyond bizarre.
  11:05am
clarke:

wow, Frank!! them 'maters will not be thrown at the Islanders!! (hopefully)
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

This is great! Looks like they haven't recorded since 2013 though.
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Frank In Queens:

Too early for pitchforks just yet, clarke. They have the same exact record as last year at this point in the season, and they haven't even played a home game yet.
  11:07am
clarke:

i will remain calm, Frank!
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Will the Sound Guy:

The low is dropping to 32f in Chester tonight... Warm now tho
  11:08am
clarke:

hey todd - this week is where the packers get back on TRACK!! (hopefully)
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DJ Guin:

Tragically...Daughtry will not be at the Wellmont on the 16th. Just lost his daughter at age 25.
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Ciggy:

Christmas Lights!!!
C'mon let's hear that rant.
  11:08am
clarke:

he makes the love in the strangest kinda way
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Handy Haversack:

You had every opportunity to turn this around, Turntable 1. Seemed like you were just spinning your wheels. Now tighten your belt and get out of here!
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Kotzwinkled:

Gotta say once again that this Opatz record was produced by Malachi DeLorenzo, son of the Violent Femmes drummer!
  11:11am
clarke:

dawson aint likin' TT#1
speaking of #1's - i don't hear ANY on the new Freedy album, sadly.
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JohnEBGood:

Good Day Michael and WFMU family. You help make Saturday special 🎸🙂
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Listener Baby:

Falsely accused was turntable #1 For it was the CD Player #1 that did it. In the den, with a laser.
  11:12am
clarke:

BABY!!! TT#1 has been scape-goated one too many times.
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Handy Haversack:

History will vindicate CD Player 1! Let's see the disc, Shelley!
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steveo:

Great picks, good to hear you MS!

Going hiking in North Jersey tomorrow.. perfect weather, high of 46 Chance of snow there tomorrow night...
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Listener Baby:

This has to change. Tt1 is misunderstood at best.
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Will the Sound Guy:

Or could just be a dirty, dirty CD... Naughty, Naughty... Now go buff yourself up with plain white toothpaste and wipe with a clean cloth... 💿
  11:14am
clarke:

TT#! will be in shape by the time you reach the east coast, Baby!!
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Frank In Queens:

That Ronnie Dawson CD would obviously benefit from the green marker treatment.
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Listener Baby:

That’s what I’m hoping.
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SecretSquirrel:

Here's a game: make up answer songs to hits that don't seem to call for them. Like 'Stairway to Heaven' from the lady's point of view.
  11:14am
clarke:

home remedy court!!
  11:15am
Bob:

Hey! That’s my first granola attempt. I should have taken a better photo. It tastes fantastic. I added about a quarter cup of good peanut butter as it was cooling.
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steveo:

Enjoyable live remix on that CD...
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Frank In Queens:

What about too much beer two nights ago? Does that count?
  11:16am
clarke:

it counts!! let the juice drip thru!!
  11:16am
clarke:

Baby - the GRAPE vine!! just what you need to hear!!
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steveo:

I'm not convinced
Other things don't glitter, too
And my stairway
Is not for sale
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SecretSquirrel:

Now you're talkin', @steveo
  11:18am
phat in Lincoln:

Gonna see Lemonheads tonight.
  11:19am
clarke:

not you Will!!
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Frank In Queens:

Ugh, probably won't make that show :(
  11:19am
phat in Lincoln:

Wait. Tom Petersson isn't touring with them now, too? That's a bummer.
  11:20am
clarke:

unfortunate split on that frown, frank
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myron feld:

Cheap Trick was at the Wellmont? Not being a NJ resident, I've only been there twice, and both times the sound was horrendous.
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Frank In Queens:

Yeah, I hope Tom can make it back into the fold. But I do think it's kind of charming that it's become a family band.
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Listener John from NJ:

Hell0 all! S0rry I'm late.
  11:21am
Tim from LH:

I was at Cheap Trick last night also. What a set list! A lot off the first 3 albums. Loved it!
  11:21am
clarke:

i certainly was wrong about dax - he is fantastic
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Handy Haversack:

Cold front coming through this afternoon, I guess. Get the records inside by 2!
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Frank In Queens:

Rain as well.
  11:22am
clarke:

keep them away from Turntable #1
  11:23am
Bob:

I expected to hear you say it was a CT “butt-rock metal” setlist night. Those are the ones I don’t dig. I saw Elvis Costello in Ann Arbor a few weeks ago and it was REALLY bad. In every way. Strange choices. Bad new songs. Terrible arrangements. Elvis’ voice was pretty rough, which is forgivable, but everything else was a bummer.
  11:23am
clarke:

this is from a PERFECT album!!!
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Will the Sound Guy:

I wish I could make it down there... I have yet to make one...
  11:24am
Bob:

Perfect album indeed, Clarke.
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Handy Haversack:

Second Saturday is also when the exterminator comes to our bldg. So it hasn't worked out since we're stuck here till 1 usually.
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steveo:

my command center sez chance of thunder, HH
  11:27am
clarke:

that's no way to kill roaches!! (from a local new orleans tv commercial that featured a flamenco dancer)
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Michael Shelley:

Last time I saw EC live was not good- but they clearly can play...
  11:35am
clarke:

my EC curve has been at its nadir, lately. but, this might cause a slight, er, Spike!!
  11:36am
clarke:

do we get a college report, MS-baby??
  11:37am
Glistener MW:

Gawd I love the hallway-ish trebleyness of the vocal track! Unsure if that’s an Elvis decision or live studio’s decision, but the vibe of it still comes off as so-very-Costello
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Handy Haversack:

Summon Rachel Bo Bachel!
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Frank In Queens:

Hello, Sweet Love...
  11:38am
phat in Lincoln:

Lincoln!
  11:38am
P-90:

“You must NEVER do Chuck!”
  11:38am
phat in Lincoln:

Don't do Chuck!
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steveo:

what's up, chuck?
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Listener Baby:

@Clarke. All good so far. Crazy trip to nyc might not have been all to good for her grades. But she is hanging tough. I’ll see her not soon enough.
  11:39am
Glistener MW:

I’m just listening to the studio version of that EC track now in comparison, Michael, and you’re right, it sounds flat and less-exciting in every way
  11:40am
Bob:

EC was doing that thing live where he had a regular vocal mic plus a dirty one a few feet away. It was pretty irritating to see. He also had a megaphone for some weird reason. Really bad. Charlie Sexton added nothing and cluttered the songs mostly.
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JimB:

My 8th grade class inevitably did Chuck.
  11:40am
clarke:

hey, noho is scarily close to nyc. i'm sure there's time to get that paper done!!
  11:40am
andrew fuchs:

AND Vincent Bell on guitar !!! All the Shirley Ellis and many Caellello records do ya-know... ;)
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Moammar:

Where's the recap of the college trip?
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steveo:

they are going to build the bike path from JC to Montclair, but I'm not sure it will be ready in time for the film festival
  11:42am
clarke:

never assume!!!
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Frank In Queens:

Same for sporting events. Signs at Prudential Center about having to wear masks at all times, but most people didn't even walk in with them.
  11:42am
Glistener MW:

Ah, that’s a shame about the recent tour / Ann Arbor show, Bob!
  11:43am
clarke:

the shame is that the vaxed people are the ones that are forced to wear masks.
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Listener Baby:

@Clarke. She missed her bus home. Blew off 3classes. Not stoked, am I.
  11:44am
clarke:

it's COLLEGE, Baby!! that shit happens!!
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, at this stage of the game, it's no big deal for me. I'm plenty used to it. And there's certain situations where I can imagine ever being maskless again (like on public transit).
  11:45am
Paul:

Hot Mic!
  11:46am
clarke:

wow, that's sad.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

Oh, man, I love me some Brad Paisley.
  11:49am
Jim:

Michael, for New Years Day , maybe play side 1 , track 1 of 22 of your favorite vinyls.
  11:49am
Paul:

Brad Paisley's wife is beautiful.
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steveo:

sure love is great, but sometimes I also need donuts
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, it is what it is. To me, it's just practical.
  11:51am
Paul:

@Jim, or second song on side two.
  11:51am
jooves:

How about an all “song and answer song” show? that occurred to me a couple weeks ago when I heard the great answer song “hurry, mr peters” a couple weeks ago on one of the shows here, could be a fun couple of hours….
  11:51am
clarke:

while i might agree - it is begrudgingly.
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DJ Guin:

40F forecast by 7pm. so long 2nd summer. 🥶
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steveo:

Charles Calello (born August 24, 1938) is an American arranger, composer, conductor, record producer, and singer born in Newark, New Jersey. Calello attended Newark Arts High School
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Handy Haversack:

So did you blow the college fund on codfish? You wouldn't be the first parent to fall for the old Philly Cod Switch.
  11:55am
clarke:

Jayhawks do this and very good, too
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

It'd be hard to improve on this, though.
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Listener Baby:

Cool clavi on this. Never noticed it before.
  11:56am
Bob:

Fantastic song. The Jayhawks really nailed it too.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

That said, I'd love to hear someone try.
  11:56am
Tracy and Don:

Jayhawks!
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JohnEBGood:

GFR What a great band!!!!
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Frank In Queens:

Hmmmm, premonitions of my 2nd Drop In....
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myron feld:

Bad Time is the Number Onest of Number Ones.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

Oh, yeah, I have the Jayhawks version in my head without even knowing it. Yes, they did do a great cover.
  11:57am
phat in Lincoln:

This is the best, best, best Grand Funk song.
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myron feld:

Liquor Giants used to cover it, too.
  11:57am
clarke:

when is that 2nd Drop-In, F??
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Hughie Considine:

Grand Funk were known for a time as the world's loudest band -- according to the Guinness Book of World Records. I wonder if this distinction figured in the minds of the Spinal Tap creators.
  11:57am
clarke:

good point, myron!!!
  11:58am
P-90:

Someone SHOULD cover that
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Greg from ZONE 5:

YES!!!
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DJ Guin:

YES! Quincy!!!
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McGroovey:

I don't think I've heard that Grave Funk song since I was about 12. Great song.
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Handy Haversack:

When is that happening, Frank?

Hey, McGroovey!
  12:00pm
Omg:

Quincy theme greatest song ever!!
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Frank In Queens:

@Handy, 12/11 unless extraneous circumstance say otherwise.
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SecretSquirrel:

ROTFL
  12:00pm
clarke:

i'll be there, man!!!
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Frank Zaatar:

We did the college tour thing about 10 years ago. You could guarantee that the tour guide would tell you that the dining hall is just like Hogwarts. Even if it actually looked like Horn and Hardart circa 1955.
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Handy Haversack:

Gah, K8 has a gig that night. Hopefully load-in isn't till 8, then I can listen to the show.
  12:02pm
clarke:

how does one find out who the drop-in is, etc??
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Frank In Queens:

@handy, thank goodness for the archives! I missed Crypt Digger's slot last week, but caught it the next day.
  12:02pm
Omg:

Just realizing it’s Felix Unger Xilef Regnu Day
  12:03pm
clarke:

no, i won!!! (the rocktober).
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Michael Shelley:

JIM - good idea!
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, they're usually announced the week leading into the next slot. So the earliest you'll hear about it is the day after the last one. Unless you're a jerk like me and start talking about it too far in advance!
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Hughie Considine:

"It took me two days to figure out that F.U. was Felix Unger!"
  12:04pm
clarke:

what site to go to to see??
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Handy Haversack:

I think I had to catch your first one in the Archives, too, Frank -- it's rare that I delve into the Archives since it requires turning off WFMU. But for you? Of course!
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Michael Shelley:

BRACE YOURSELF - the best live performance of any song ever:
www.youtube.com...
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, social media aside, usually here: wfmu.org...
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Frank In Queens:

Love that Honeybus
  12:06pm
clarke:

thanks, FiQ!!!
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SecretSquirrel:

Joe Cocker's version of this is hard to top
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DJ Guin:

I played Live once with my shirt off once until the Librarian quietly asked me to leave.
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Listener Baby:

@Baby. They are burning up the stage. Man, some folks sure could rock.
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Mike Sin:

In the early 90s, I basically bought a Honeybus comp mainly for the the three tracks that I knew. What an incredible surprise! It’s now hard to find a track that I don’t like by them.
  12:08pm
clarke:

THIS HEAR is the only social media i do!!
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SecretSquirrel:

@FrankZataar unless it's "Japanese Gothic with Toltec Overtones"
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, and it's definitely more SOCIAL than a lot of the other platforms.
  12:09pm
clarke:

pre-DJ!!!
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Hughie Considine:

Remarkable how ubiquitous is was for front men to go topless. It persisted well into the '80s, as recent footage of a shirtless, quite buff Scott Miller leading Game Theory attests. And you would have thought Scott would know better.
  12:09pm
gf2002:

I dig Grand Funk but one of the best comments I've ever heard was someone hearing their cover of The Locomotion and saying it sounded like Farner's guitar cable started crapping out when he was recording that solo
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Michael Shelley:

Frank Zaatar: yes @haverford
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Frank In Queens:

I love Al's take on this one.
  12:10pm
clarke:

the solo is the BEST thing about that version!!
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Moammar:

The Beatles should have slunk away in shame after hearing this record.
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Mailman Tom:

I saw Al Green perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1969
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SecretSquirrel:

@FrankZataar that's the official/unofficial description of Swarthmore's dining hall
  12:12pm
phat in Lincoln:

I should break out my Odd Couple Sings record, if I can find it.
  12:12pm
clarke:

a Royal Suite, here!
  12:13pm
gf2002:

@clarke I dig Farner's solo too, but that comment cracked me up! I also heard similar said about the guitar solo on Crazy Elephant's Gimme Gimme Good Lovin...
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Dominick:

That Al Green is brilliant !!
  12:13pm
clarke:

always beats a Royal Flush!!
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McGroovey:

I wonder if anyone ever wrote a piece of music called Cod Piece?
  12:14pm
clarke:

jethro tull!!
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DJ Guin:

Friend of the Enz here!! YAY!
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Frank In Queens:

AH, this one is a total #1!
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DJ Guin:

Neil and Tim say thanks!
  12:15pm
clarke:

drum sound just jumps off that (crazy pressed) record!!
  12:15pm
gf2002:

If no one has recorded a song called "Cod Piece", I nominate Sting and his lute for the gig
  12:16pm
P-90:

Didn’t Spinal Tap release a B-side called “Codpiece Part 1” during their Renaissance rock period?
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Listener Baby:

There is zero low end on this track. That’s one of the reason it pops so much.
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Motobro:

Split Endz, such a great classic
Check out the track shark attack...
  12:17pm
James G:

Excellent choice!!
  12:17pm
phat in Lincoln:

Might need more synth solos in my life.
  12:17pm
DG:

Not only is that G. Funk song a classic (it's one of maybe 3 great songs they ever did), it was covered by the Jayhawks covered in the '90s. Saw GF, who once sold out Shea Stadium, in a little park on Long Island 8-10 years ago (the 2 original guys w/out Farner, plus a former KISS guitarist & new vocalist). They weren't that bad, but sadly didn't do that song...
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Mike W:

I have that etched Enz record too! I bought it when picture discs and so on were proliferating, and I always wanted it to be worth money. I think it goes for $8, maybe less.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

I used to have that Split Enz etched record. Need to grab another copy soon.
  12:20pm
clarke:

that would've paid for college freshman year!!
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Hughie Considine:

Is the point of buying an 8-track of a great album just to keep it as a fetish object? It's not because it sounds good, right?
  12:21pm
clarke:

no MovieTime, today??????
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Listener Baby:

This is really weird.
  12:22pm
gf2002:

I don't get the value of 8 tracks, but people collect anything I guess. Around 1986 I scored a 2-tape 8-track set of the White Album in this slipcase black box, when I took it home to play it, tape #1 snapped immediately because the foam under the tape rotted out.
  12:22pm
Frank Zaatar:

@Secret Squirrel: Don't I know.
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, let's see if we get any movie talk from our host in the next break.
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Frank In Queens:

Slow week for me anyway as I had a friend in town from NC.
  12:24pm
clarke:

i'm rarin' at the bit - for once!!
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Moammar:

I don't see why the guy in "Psycho" has to kill the dog. It's always the dogs who suffer in these situations.
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Pedro in Arlington:

Speaking of Elvis Costello, his version of Psycho, used as a bonus track on the Rykodisk and Rhino versions of Almost Blue, is the BEST version of this song written by the great Leon Payne.
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Listener Baby:

He’s Psycho.
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Moammar:

I have to cover my dog's ears every time this song comes up on shuffle.
  12:27pm
clarke:

not too hard!!!
  12:27pm
gf2002:

Otto Preminger's "Fallen Angel" is running on Movies TV this month, and it's free on YouTube as well. One of my favorite noirs ever, I'll watch it whenever it's on. Highly recommended!
  12:27pm
DG:

Is this the first version for "Psycho"? Heard Costello's version on a b-side (during his country period, it was live) & thought it was the scariest song I'd ever heard (he sings it much creepier than this guy does). And yes, it's a bonus track on both versions of the reissue of "Almost Blue."
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Hughie Considine:

@gf2002, true -- to me 8-tracks just 'collectibles" without the crucial audio component. But I'm sure an 8-track of Fun House would look great in a hipster shrine.
  12:27pm
Micheal:

Poor Mama!
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happymaan:

I'm one for laserdiscs personally
  12:28pm
clarke:

Bosch is very good!! they killed off sarah clarke tho. spoiler!!
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Frank In Queens:

Thanks for the tip @gf2002. Never saw that one.
  12:29pm
clarke:

MovieTime full of ups and downs for me, this week

i LOVE the new wes anderson The French Dispatch (unlike the rest of the world)!! have already been to the theater twice to see it, and could do another.
the low is a piece of crap made by Stanley Kubrick called Fear & Desire (1952) - one of the worst of all time.
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Michael Shelley:

In the book she dies in Hong Kong!
  12:30pm
clarke:

she was a gambler in the books??
  12:30pm
clarke:

i gotta read that series!!
  12:30pm
gf2002:

@Hughie Considine - I think 8 tracks are now valuable just for completist collectors and hipster bookshelf shrines as you said. They were portable but awful, to be honest. Especially when a song would fade halfway through so the cart could click into the next channel, then fade up again. Ridiculous!
  12:31pm
phat in Lincoln:

My birthday is Monday. And I love this Scorpio song
  12:31pm
clarke:

that kubrick piece-of-crap - i thought of Frank In Queens the whole time, because this film WANTS to be a sam fuller flick - but, NO way!!
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Frank In Queens:

Haven't seen French Dispatch yet, but I'll check it out eventually. I've found Anderson to be pretty hit or miss recently, but this one does look promising. My sole entry for this week was Deep Cover (1992) with Larry Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. Really enjoyed it!
  12:31pm
egould310:

Wait; there are flying scorpions?
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happymaan:

Ummm, you can't just say a spoiler and then announce that afterward. @clarke
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happymaan:

Ah, well Michaels on it as well...a battle I lost.
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Listener Baby:

Watching the new Steve Martin, Martin Short show. So unbelievably bad, that we can’t stop watching it. Selena Gomez is a revelation. I’ve never seen a worst actress.
  12:33pm
Glistener MW:

My brain first heard that as “after we’ve done crime”
  12:33pm
clarke:

French Dispatch is getting KILLED in reviews - i can say that it is the MOST-wes wes anderson movie - it's "fault" is that it is TOO full of stuff - it's nearly too much.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello All. Well... No Bosch for me now!
  12:33pm
Glistener MW:

I’m now picturing the Shelleys criming-it-up across America
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Pedro in Arlington:

A fine doc on the first wave of post-commercial 8-track collecting before it got ruined by eBay. youtu.be...
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Moammar:

Rewatched "Last Picture Show." Perfect film, every shot, every second.
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Hughie Considine:

Have you all seen this -- Steely Dan's letter to Wes Anderson? Or..perhaps fiction? sdarchive.com...
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Mailman Tom:

We drove cross country in 1971, taking Route 66!
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clarke:

great one, that!
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Frank In Queens:

@Moammar, it is indeed a fantastic movie.
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Michael Shelley:

AGREE 100% - selena gomez ???? A robot would be better.
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clarke:

timothy bottoms didn't ever do much after that great film. so odd.
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morphe':

If ye are not at the 2nd Saturday Rec dingy nor on Rte 66 - meander down to Green Oasis Community Garden =

Today Sat 13.Nov.2021
Lantern Festival Today
- Latern Making Festival for kids of all ages:(nordic -pagan/pre christian/pre xmas lights festival of light)
Lantern Festival

Saturday, November 13, 2021
1:00 PM 4:00 PM
Green Oasis Community Garden
376 E 8th St (Aves C/D) 10009
FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES !!!!
There is usually a parade and a fire and smooorrrreees(sp???)
  12:35pm
gf2002:

I scored the deluxe Criterion Collection version of Two Lane Blacktop for a buck at a yard sale over the summer, but haven't had the time to enjoy it yet. Dennis Wilson barely speaks but he's fantastic in that film. I want to make it a double feature with Electra Glide In Blue one of these nights
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Kevin! How've you been?

We watched two horror-ish movies: Ready or Not, which is revenge tale against the rich and gets into the idea that, ultimately, any family money is deeply evil; and Nina Forever, which was excellent, really about loss and trauma and who ends up carrying those burdens -- but also funny and even sexy.
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Hughie Considine:

Moammar - yes, a true masterwork is Last Picture Show.
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Michael Shelley:

search for timothy bottoms quote in this:

pleasekillme.com...
  12:38pm
clarke:

yeah - not so good for timothy, there, ha ha. he was a very good actor, tho.
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phat in Lincoln:

Fake Beatles!
  12:38pm
?:

The Slope is still thriving. Remembering your very good humored bartending at the Alehouse and continuing to enjoy your "one hit" program. ( You are really in prime form today.) The painful college process is quite wonderful, in retrospect, me now with 11 grand kids beginning their college cycles. Hoping your daughter thrives!
Thanks for another delightful Saturday.
Long time listener Ken
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gene sculatti:

Apparently Gary 'Dreamweaver' Wright was a Bugg.
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Frank In Queens:

@clarke, but he did star in "That's My Bush!"
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Listener Baby:

@Baby. Did you watch the Sam Cooke doc?
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clarke:

what's THAT????
  12:40pm
clarke:

(afraid to ask)
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morphe':

Lantern Fest
PS:

Unlike most gardens we have good regs =
No Hard Alcohol
No Heavy drugs
=
read between the lines
= hotdogs, hamburgers on the grill
and
beer, wine, weed in the corners...
Like FMU = no toilet so bring a juice container or
a paint bucket ... dump on the corner
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Michael Shelley:

BABY - what channel?
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Frank In Queens:

en.wikipedia.org...
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Listener Baby:

Netflix?..
  12:42pm
gf2002:

Hot Take Warning: Someone should ask Gary Wright why he took credit for Bobby Whitlock's keyboard parts on All Things Must Pass.
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DG:

I vaguely remember seeing "Two Lane Blacktop" on PBS decades ago & finding it pretty boring, but maybe I should see it again. Film Forum (great rep. theater here in NYC) is now having a road movie mini-fest, & I think they're showing it. Funny how no one knows that James Taylor once starred in indie movie.
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Pedro in Arlington:

The internet says Peter Bogdanovich directed Episode 6, Season 5 of the Sopranos. Got to rewatch. Last Picture Show is perfection, like the book, and Bogdanovich is a fine actor too. The guy's lived several lives.
  12:46pm
clarke:

Two-Lane Blacktop = view-worthy!!

That's My Bush = uhhhh???
  12:46pm
gf2002:

@DG Definitely worth seeing Two Lane Blacktop again, the cinematography is stellar and it is both James Taylor's and Dennis Wilson's only prominent acting roles, which is a curiosity in itself. The box set includes a book with the original script in full, and much was cut for the final release. And a fascinating backstory is how the studio head at the time literally sank the film, out of various grudges and other issues. The studio literally sabotaged the film for decades after the release. Unreal!
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drr:

Recently saw Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" with Ryan O'Neal, Barbra Streisand, and Madeline Kahn. Very funny.
  12:47pm
DG:

I think Baby may be referring to "Sam Cooke: Legend" which was recently on 13/PBS...except that in true PBS fashion, it's actually a more than 15-year-old doc. that ABKCO made, I guess for home video which they presented like it was new....still worth seeing though.
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Frank In Queens:

@drr, I can't stomach Babs, but I enjoyed "What's Up Doc?"
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yerfriendpaul:

Love What’s Up Doc and Paper Moon
  12:48pm
clarke:

What's Up Doc - frequently discussed Here - and stands up VERY well!!! mornin' Dave
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Hughie Considine:

Pedro, Peter B played the shrink of Tony's shrink in Sopranos.
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Frank In Queens:

My go to Bogdanovich recommendation is "Saint Jack" with Ben Gazarra. Fantastic movie!
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Frank In Queens:

Or rather, Ben Gazzara.
  12:49pm
clarke:

St. Jack = very good!!
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gf2002:

Paper Moon is brilliant. And so is Mask
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Frank In Queens:

I hope Jay makes his way back up to the NE sometime next year.
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Listener Baby:

I just checked it’s called the two killings of Sam Cooke. Netflix. Very good.
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Pedro in Arlington:

@Hughie Yup, he and Melfi both seriously flouted professional ethics guidelines for shrinks. But their scenes wouldn't have worked otherwise.
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Hughie Considine:

I agree -- but what flouting!
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drr:

Hadn't heard of Saint Jack, will look it up. hey clarke.
Anybody seen Monte Hellman's film "Cockfighter", with Warren Oates?
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Hughie Considine:

The other day I flashed on the scene where Patsy scares Gloria Trillo into leaving Tony alone. So many great moments.
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Michael Shelley:

What's Up Doc - fantastic
  12:51pm
clarke:

read the book - great!!
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Frank In Queens:

Why this studio version of Lookout took about 20 years to get a proper release is baffling!
  12:52pm
clarke:

drr - Big Daddy Weirdo said to give you his warm regards, from memphis!!!
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Michael Shelley:

AGREE Frank - also, wonder if they tried another version for In Color??
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P-90:

Also “They All Laughed”(1981). Sort of the unofficial “sister” movie to “Saint Jack”. Well worth a look.
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Michael! Great stuff as ever.

Take it easy, everyone. Stay Number One!
  12:54pm
clarke:

HH - l8r!
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Frank In Queens:

@Michael, good question. To my knowledge, another version has yet to surface on any the reissues that have come out since the first big campaign in the late 90s.
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Michael Shelley:

They All Laughed = train wreck
  12:55pm
clarke:

that clock on the wall says... does anybody really know what time it is??
  12:56pm
clarke:

anyone ever get the feelin' they been Trick'd!!!
goo'nite
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Frank In Queens:

Some may disagree, but for me IWYTWM is the poster-child of tracks where the live version is the definitive version.
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Handy Haversack:

Put the old Pizza in a Cup guy right out of business.
  12:57pm
clarke:

i love the studio version - but, i'm not like everybody else..
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phat in Lincoln:

Oh, Nancy
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Listener Baby:

@Frank. Also Rock and Roll All Night
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morphe':

Thanks Mikey -
ya never tell the folks yer Ma shone on the silver screen???
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DG:

gf2002: OK, will try to see it, and yeah, it seemed like another movie that got buried or sabotaged by its studio. Also saw "What's Up Doc" again for the firs time since its release & liked it, although didn't find it as hysterical as I did as a tween/teen. Barbara was funny & sexy (at least then) but O'Neal was kinda blah.
  12:57pm
clarke:

THIS IS LIKE A RIDE!!!!
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Frank In Queens:

@Baby, and Maybe I'm Amazed?
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yerfriendpaul:

I like Steve and Bernadette’s version of that tune
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Montmaster J:

Just finished the John Lurie memoir "History of Bones." Very enjoyable and funny. I'd recommend.
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Frank In Queens:

Fun show, Michael! Glad you're back.
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Listener Baby:

Baby’s dad was on one of the best ever odd couple episodes
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yerfriendpaul:

Up there in all time greatest TV show themes
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drr:

Clarke: return the greeting for me!
  12:59pm
morphe':

"Don't clean up yet... I'm not finished making a mess.."
  12:59pm
TomTom:

11 ALIVE!
  12:59pm
clarke:

will do!!
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Frank In Queens:

See you all later on!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks Michael!
  1:02pm
Vistavision:

On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remind himself from his place of residence!!!!!
  1:02pm
gene sculatti:

Stomp it dry, Rex!
  1:48pm
egould310:

Of course. Thanks for this Rex.
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