WFMU: Bob Brainen: Playlist from February 12, 2022

Listener comments!
	10:58am duke: Good morning Bob and listeners everywhere
	10:58am Robbie White: Good morning Bob
	10:59am 1whoknewcthulhu: Good morning, Bob and all. This is always a great place to be on a Saturday morning.
	♥ 11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	♥ 11:00am listener james from westwood: Happy Saturday, Bob and all!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: duke!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Robbie White of WOWD!
	11:00am Jeff: Good Morning Bob + the rest R.I.P. Ian McDonald
	♥ 11:01am luka: happy saturday, crew
	♥ 11:01am listener james from westwood: By coincidence, a commuter train arrives in my town at 11 each Sat, so all I have to do is listen for the whistle and then hit the stream!
	♥ 11:01am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, folks!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: 1whoknewcthulhu!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: listener james from westwood!
	♥ 11:02am wmfromD: Morning Bob and everyone.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Jeff!
	11:02am dan: Good morning
	♥ 11:02am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	♥ 11:02am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & all!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: luka!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Pauly from Clifton!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: dan!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Gina Bacon!
	11:04am Lake Hiawatha Doug: Hi Bob! A taste of spring out there.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: wmfromD!
	11:04am CalZone!: GM BB and Braineniacs!
	11:04am Jay S: Hey!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Uncle Michael!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Lake Hiawatha Doug!
	11:05am SmokinJ: Howdy bb & group! 8-)
	11:05am Bob Brainen: CalZone!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Jay S!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: SmokinJ!
	♥ 11:06am chresti: Hi Bob and braineniacs!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: chresti!
	♥ 11:06am Gina Bacon: Gearing up for a walk, and this is excellent!
	11:08am Robbie White: Bob when you get together with Pete in March, please consider a Yardbirds special for my birthday.
	11:09am TDK60: Good morning, DJ Bob B.
	11:09am Robbie White: Gina, if I could walk, I'd LOVE to walk with YOU.
	11:09am Bob Brainen: TDK60!
	11:09am dan: Any tribute to Ian McDonald on today's show?
	11:10am Robbie White: Dan I just played two of his songs on my show last Sunday
	11:11am Bob Brainen: dan, workin' on something...
	♥ 11:11am Uncle Michael: I've never heard this "Stop" before. I closed my show with the James Gang 12-minute album cut yesterday.
	11:13am PT: Good Morning, BB and everyone. Off to a high-energy start, befitting today's weather! Never knew Masekela also covered this Howard Tate/Jerry Ragavoy jam.
	11:13am Bob Brainen: PT!
	♥ 11:16am Franco Twinkie: Good morning Bob.
	11:17am Bob Brainen: Franco Twinkie!
	♥ 11:17am Uncle Michael: Mort Schuman/Jerry Ragavoy jam, PT, though Howard recorded it first. Jerry plays piano on the James Gang version!
	♥ 11:21am Franco Twinkie: Wow! A song from so long ago. I can still hear/see this wafting thru the house while my mom was vacuuming.
	♥ 11:21am WR: Hello Bob and drummer streamers. First Saturday I am able to listen in several weeks. One of my favorite Family songs.
	11:21am dan: GENTLE GIANT!!!!!!
	11:22am Bob Brainen: WR!
	♥ 11:22am StringOFperils: Good morning, Bob. Madrigal goodness.
	11:23am Bob Brainen: StringOFperils!
	♥ 11:24am Franco Twinkie: The cover of Octopus by Charles White the Third was mesmerizing to me back then.
	11:25am TDK60: Gentle Giant, Scots. They practiced too much.
	11:26am dan: Kidnapping Kissinger, some title
	♥ 11:27am StringOFperils: That WAS a really nice painting, Franco.
	11:27am TDK60: Hi Franco, which Octopus cover, the UK cover or US one?
	♥ 11:28am Uncle Michael: Eight Arms To Hold You
	♥ 11:29am Franco Twinkie: American. The one in the mason jar. Creepy and fascinating.
	11:31am Elvin: Bob, thanks for playing Gentle Giant. Brought back great memories. And I highly recommend the lp “In A Glass House”.
	11:33am TDK60: Franco: Ah yes, and great music too.
	♥ 11:34am Franco Twinkie: TDK, I didn't see the UK import until WAY later. Roger Dean's painting is equally spooky, but by the time I saw it, he was already forever corrupted in my mind by his association with Yes.
	11:34am Bob Brainen: Elvin!
	11:35am dan: Play more Gentle Giant on future shows Bob
	11:38am maec mendelson: good morning Bob hello New Jersey
	♥ 11:39am Doug Schulkind: What a genius Herbie Nichols!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Marc!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Doug Schulkind!
	♥ 11:42am wmfromD: Nice! The original version.
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: This! talk about spooky.
	11:44am TDK60: Never heard those CJ & F EPs.
	♥ 11:45am Franco Twinkie: Those EP's are a four leaf clover.
	11:45am Robbie White: That was the 1st Country Joe & the Fish CD I Ever purchased!!!
	11:45am gene sculatti: Psyche music for mind and body!
	♥ 11:46am wmfromD: The first CJ & the Fish LP is tops.
	11:46am Bob Brainen: gene sculatti!
	🥁 ♥ 11:47am listener 126464: Good day, Bob and listeners!
	♥ 11:47am listener james from westwood: No mistaking Wills and the Playboys!
	11:47am Bob Brainen: listener 126464!
	11:48am TDK60: wmfromD. Oh yeah, a real trip. Got to see them on an early East Coast tour, doing the "Electric" album. Still trying to recall what life was like before...
	♥ 11:49am listener james from westwood: Was very much looking forward to cueing up their "San Antonio Rose" while actually IN San Antone early this spring, but those travel plans had to be kiboshed.
	♥ 11:49am Franco Twinkie: Gene, do you have any funny stories about CJ and The Fish from back in the day?
	11:50am Gerry from Miami: Mornin', Bob!' Always happy to hear some Gentle Giant, but even more gratified for your choice of Family, a vastly underrated British band from the "prog" era. They got a lot of attention from their first album(produced by Dave Mason), but they didn't seem to click much with American radio DJs after that. Didn't stop me. I gobbled up anything they put out.
	11:50am gene sculatti: Not really. Saw them lots. I do remember them playing an impromptu game of pitch-and-catch once onstage (F'more or Avalon). Love that first LP.
	11:51am Bob Brainen: Gerry from Miami!
	♥ 11:51am Franco Twinkie: Good enough!
	♥ 11:51am doctorjazz: Hi Bob and all you out there!
	11:52am Gina Bacon: Ironic to hear 2 guys singing something with this title…but I love it!
	11:52am Bob Brainen: doctorjazz!
	♥ 11:53am wmfromD: Bix Lives! Bird Lives! Phil Lives!
	♥ 11:54am Franco Twinkie: Hi Gina! I really got to ask, did your last name cause mirth in the cafeteria when you were little?
	11:56am gene sculatti: Wow, J&D (and Jill Gibson). Reading Mark Moore's Jan Berry bio.
	🥁 ♥ 11:56am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Bob and folx!
	11:57am Bob Brainen: Mx. Baba Bee (e/they)!
	♥ 11:57am WR: Mx. Baba Beekins!
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): WRkins! hello!
	11:58am PT: When I hear Diz 'n Bird, the next name I think of is invariably Jill Gibson's.
	♥ 11:58am Franco Twinkie: Hey Baba! Ready for a coddled egg?
	11:58am gene sculatti: Crikey, hard to believe Roddy was once this strong.
	♥ 11:59am doctorjazz: Haven't heard this Rod Stewart in quite a while, nice (great set, btw!).
	11:59am Gina Bacon: Always, Franco! I still get the bacon jokes. 🥓
	11:59am Gerry from Miami: Bob, be sure to mention the composer of this Rod Stewart classic, Mike D'Abo!
	12:01pm Gina Bacon: My friend does wardrobe for Rod Stewart. He’s been known to get a hotel room for his train set, and the folks who work for him will occasionally help find supplies, so he can work on it on the road.
	♥ 12:01pm Franco Twinkie: Aww! In my mind I can see some smart-aleck pulling a slice of bacon out of his sandwich and wagging it back and forth saying "Gina Gina?" in a sing-song voice.
	12:02pm Gina Bacon: Of all the many reasons to think he’s cool, that’s tops in my book.
	12:02pm gene sculatti: That makes him sound pretty cool.
	12:03pm TDK60: Franco, that wouldn't have been you back then, no? Hi Gina, Baba. Gerry: D'Abo was a Manfred Mann, yes?
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: Harry Lookofsky?
	12:04pm Gina Bacon: Hey TDK60!
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Pranko: Ready or not, let's go!
	12:05pm Gina Bacon: Hahaha Franco! Much better!
	🥁 ♥ 12:05pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): train set! fun!!!
	12:05pm dan: I thought that Move song was from Asleep At The Wheel
	♥ 12:06pm Franco Twinkie: My estimation of some of Rod's later stuff is not that enthusiastic, but thinking of him obsessing on model train accessories forgives a lot.
	12:08pm gene sculatti: Bob: From the Jan Berry book we learn that Jill Gibson (with Don Altfeld) were set to produce the first Spirit album, but then Lou Adler took them off the gig and did it himself.
	♥ 12:09pm StringOFperils: Rod's 'train set' looks like old Manhattan.
	♥ 12:09pm wmfromD: Gibson and Adler were a pair back then. No?
	♥ 12:09pm Franco Twinkie: Sounds like Lou Adler was quite a snake.
	🥁 ♥ 12:10pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60kins! The name I grew up with didn't have much for the smart-alecks to work with
	12:10pm gene sculatti: Per the book, Jill and Adler became an item after she broke up with Jan.
	12:10pm Gina Bacon: It’s been featured in train magazines. Pretty spectacular, and worth a Google.
	🥁 ♥ 12:13pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): there's a super cool free museum in SF that has a magnificent model train railroad—one of the biggest in the whole state. It's so neato!
	♥ 12:15pm Franco Twinkie: Before I start cooking breakfast I just want to say that Rod Stewarts version of Morning Dew on the album Truth by Jeff Beck is fantastic.
	♥ 12:15pm wmfromD: Isn't Neil Young a model railroad enthusiast?
	12:17pm TDK60: Franco, that first Jeff Beck solo LP - "Truth" was Rod's debut, as far as I know.
	♥ 12:18pm Franco Twinkie: Yes he is! Neil has some great train songs - Jesuses Chariot and Southern Pacific. He really captures the majesty of train locomotives with the throttles wide open.
	12:18pm Gerry from Miami: @wmfromD. Yes. Mr. Young is a big model railroad nut. Bought controlling interest in Lionel at some point, if I recall.
	🥁 ♥ 12:19pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): oooh, this Oregon track is lovely!
	12:20pm TDK60: ..and I agree, that Beck Morning Dew version was great. (I like the Gratefuls' version too.)
	12:21pm Gerry from Miami: @TDK60. Yes, Mr. D'Abo was a member of the Manfred Mann band. Bob snuck in the mention in his back-announce.
	12:21pm dan: Recently put Grave New World on my turntable for a long overdue listen. Strawbs were at their best then.
	♥ 12:21pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the Stewart/D`Abo cut!
	♥ 12:23pm Franco Twinkie: TDK, I love that Bonnie Dobson, the writer of Morning Dew gets much respect on WFMU.
	12:24pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, that Stanley Cowell piece is one of my all-time faves. It reminds me a bit of some of the funkier numbers that Keith Jarrett recorded in his earlier years.
	♥ 12:25pm doctorjazz: Odd stereo mix-guitar is center, Shelagh's voice way of to the right. Odd for 1970... No matter, sounds great!
	12:31pm bigplanetnoise: Hey, Bob B - sounding great!!
	12:33pm Eugene Bentley: hey Bob! Looking forward to some good tunes.
	12:34pm dan: Colin Blunstone has the perfect singing voice, especially on this song.
	12:34pm Eugene Bentley: Great Colin Blunstone song.!
	12:35pm Gerry from Miami: Colin Blunstone is one of the great iconic pop voices in pop/rock.
	12:36pm Eugene Bentley: Colin wrote this one and ran into trouble because he used the actual name of the girl he was dating.
	12:38pm Gerry from Miami: Nice to hear Del Amitri. Glad you are a fan, BOB! I thought I was the only one!
	♥ 12:38pm Andrew in Toronto: Del Amitri are awesome!!
	12:39pm dan: @Gerry I never heard of Del Amitri until Bob's show and it made me want to discover their early material which is amazing.
	12:46pm TDK60: The last act needs a name. Why do I have to say four people's names?
	♥ 12:46pm listener james from westwood: The universe is better for having David Greenberger in it.
	12:46pm Gerry from Miami: Was Rick Wakeman on that first Strawbs album?
	12:48pm Bob Brainen: Hey bigplanetnoise!
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, maybe I'm confused, but didn't you do the Youngbloods special a couple of weeks ago?
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, maybe I'm confused, but didn't you do the Youngbloods special a couple of weeks ago?
	🥁 ♥ 12:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60: I think that gaggle of oddballs was more of an event than a group!
	12:52pm Bob Brainen: Wakeman - guested on 2nd Strawbs album, joined for 3rd. / YOUNGBLOODS - next week! 2-19
	🥁 ♥ 12:53pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): ^^ and what listener james from westwood said.
	12:54pm TDK60: Baba, thanks for the clarification, but they coulda called it Gaggle of Oddballs and saved us the time. There are far too many acts just listing their names these days. It burns me up. Today I threw my socks across the room.
	🥁 ♥ 12:55pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60, yeah, do they think we got all day for this???
	12:56pm TDK60: Hoo!
	🥁 ♥ 12:58pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): my legal signature includes my middle initial, though it's absolutely unnecessary and doesn't sound as good spoken—I started a brief craze for using middle initials among my adolescent peers
	♥ 1:05pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Bob and all!!! better late than never, here for the last hour!
	1:05pm Bob Brainen: Will the Sound Guy!
	♥ 1:08pm Will the Sound Guy: how is everyone doing today?
	♥ 1:08pm doctorjazz: Henry, the Human Fly, very underplayed album of his (I especially like his all guitar Rockin' In Rhythm on it). Brownie!!! Helen!!!, great combo!
	♥ 1:11pm wmfromD: Bob you're more wonderfully eclectic today than usual.
	1:12pm dan: Killer set Bob
	1:12pm Gerry from Miami: Anyone out there know what vintage analog keyboards Kevin Ayers is using on this song?
	1:12pm ?: Thanks wm!
	♥ 1:14pm wmfromD: That's Mike Ratledge on the keys @Gerry from Miami
	♥ 1:15pm Uncle Michael: This Jo Stafford always kills me.
	♥ 1:18pm Will the Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	♥ 1:21pm Uncle Michael: Jim also produced Luther and Cody.
	♥ 1:27pm Will the Sound Guy: about dan time...
	1:28pm Gerry from Miami: @doctorjazz. I remember the reviews of Richard Thompson's first solo album away from Fairport. Not good, they said. But most of the complaints centered around his singing. Give me a break! He's a monster guitarist! Not too many in his class.
	1:29pm Gerry from Miami: One of the best debut albums ever, that first Steely Dan!
	♥ 1:35pm doctorjazz: @Gerry from Miami-I think they were reacting to not hearing Linda (which was indeed some loss). I've seen Thompson recently (in November, just before the current Omicron outbreak sidelined me again), and he's actually become quite a terrific singer, imo! Not so much the tonality of his voice (which is what those critics likely react to),but his control, pitch, choices are just great!
	1:39pm Gerry from Miami: Thanks, doctorjazz! I have a friend who has seen Thompson play live several times and says the same thing you did.
	1:42pm Gerry from Miami: wmfromD. Yes, Mike Ratledge, his bandmate in Soft Machine. But I was wondering if any keyboard freaks knew exactly what instruments he was using back in the "pre-digital" age.
	1:45pm TDK60: Gerry, I think Ratledge used a fuzz box and high volume for a Hammond organ. A guess.
	1:46pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, Earth Opera were oneof my "secret" guilty pleasures back in the late 60s, early 70s. None of my friends had ever heard of them. Same for the Incredible String Band.
	1:49pm Gerry from Miami: @TDK60. Yes, I think you are right. Not all that sophisticated or fancy. His main axe in Soft Machine was definitely the Hammond.
	♥ 1:51pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the great vibes!!
	1:52pm TDK60: Gerry, that first Earth Opera album is unique.
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Doctor Father is utterly new to me. I love it.
	1:52pm Gerry from Miami: It has always been a mystery to me why the Easybeats never hit it big in the US after the smashing success of "Friday on My Mind."
	🥁 ♥ 1:53pm listener 126464: I only knew Pretty Girl from The Sneetches. Thanks for the sweet show Bob!
	♥ 1:53pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Bob.
	♥ 1:54pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Bob!
	1:55pm Gerry from Miami: Great show, BOB, as always. Got your Youngbloods show marked in red on my calendar for next week.
	1:55pm maec mendelson: fun show today all over the map thank you Bob.
	♥ 1:57pm wmfromD: Great one today Bob. Thanks!
	1:57pm TDK60: Gracias, Bob. See you all round the radio...
	1:57pm dan: Great show Bob
	♥ 1:57pm Doug Schulkind: I've been puttering around and digging the proceedings. Thanks, as ever Bob!
	♥ 1:57pm listener james from westwood: Delightful program, Bob—thanks!

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Hank Levine & His Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience		1961 / 1966			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band	One More Heartache	The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw	1968			0:02:22 (Pop-up)
Chambers Brothers	All Strung Out Over You	Time Has Come Today	1967			0:05:54 (Pop-up)
Chiffons	The Real Thing "The Real Thing" by "Chiffons"	Greatest Hits	1965 / 1990			0:08:16 (Pop-up)
Hugh Masekela	Stop "Stop" by "Hugh Masekela"	The Promise of a Future	1968			0:10:26 (Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins-Don Cherry Quartet	There Will Never Be Another You	Gary Burton/Sonny Rollins/Clark Terry-Three In Jazz	1963	VAR		0:12:57 (Pop-up)
Family	Larf And Sing "Larf And Sing" by "Family"	Fearless	1971			0:18:38 (Pop-up)
Gentle Giant	Knots "Knots" by "Gentle Giant"	Octopus	1972			0:21:20 (Pop-up)
Dave Douglas	Kidnapping Kissinger	Witness	2000			0:25:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						0:28:29 (Pop-up)
Herbie Nichols	It Didn't Happen [alt. take]	The Complete Blue Note Recordings	1955 / 1997			0:34:19 (Pop-up)
Bela Bartok	Hungarian Sketches: An Evening In The Village	Hungarian Sketches & Other Works	1931 / 1993			0:39:34 (Pop-up)
Country Joe and the Fish	Bass Strings (original version)	Collector's Item: The First Three EPs	1966 / 1994			0:42:16 (Pop-up)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	New Spanish Two Step	Western Swing: The Absolutely Essential Anthology	1936 / 2011	VAR		0:46:15 (Pop-up)
Bix Beiderbecke & Bing Crosby	There Ain't No Sweet Man Worth The Salt Of My Tears		1928			0:49:02 (Pop-up)
Dizzy Gillespie & His All-Stars	Hot House	Charlie Parker-Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection	1945 / 1997			0:52:25 (Pop-up)
Jill Gibson	It's As Easy As 1-2-3	Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox	1964	Imperial single		0:55:29 (Pop-up)
Rod Stewart	Handbags And Gladrags	The Rod Stewart Album	1970			0:57:54 (Pop-up)
Harry Lookofsky	Move "Move" by "Harry Lookofsky"	Stringsville!	1959			1:02:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						1:05:00 (Pop-up)
Stanley Cowell	Abscretions "Abscretions" by "Stanley Cowell"	Musa: Ancestral Streams	1974	Strata East label		1:12:12 (Pop-up)
Oregon	Person to Person "Person to Person" by "Oregon"	Moon & Mind	1979			1:17:15 (Pop-up)
Strawbs	Pieces Of 79 & 15 "Pieces Of 79 & 15" by "Strawbs"	Strawbs	1969			1:20:30 (Pop-up)
Shelagh McDonald	Silk & Leather "Silk & Leather" by "Shelagh McDonald"	Album	1970			1:23:22 (Pop-up)
Wayne Horvitz	You Must Have Stayed Hours (Driving Montana)	Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (11 Places For Richard Hugo)	2015			1:26:30 (Pop-up)
Del Amitri	Second Staircase "Second Staircase" by "Del Amitri"	Fatal Mistakes - Deluxe Edition	2021		*	1:30:44 (Pop-up)
Colin Blunstone	Caroline Goodbye "Caroline Goodbye" by "Colin Blunstone"	One Year - 50th Anniversary Edition	1971 / 2021		*	1:42:52 (Pop-up)
The Watersons	Twanky-Dillo "Twanky-Dillo" by "The Watersons"	Mighty River of Song	2004			1:43:27 (Pop-up)
David Greenberger, Keith Spring & Dinty Child w/Keiichi Hashimoto	This Weather	Take Me Where I Don't Know I Am	2016			1:43:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						1:43:41 (Pop-up)
Count Basie And His Orchestra	Open The Door, Richard!		1947			1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Jack McVea & His Door Openers	Crow's Being Evicted		1947	B&W label		1:51:15 (Pop-up)
Beatles	You're Going To Lose That Girl	Help!	1965			1:54:03 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams	Rootie Tootie "Rootie Tootie" by "Hank Williams"		1948			1:56:19 (Pop-up)
Palookaville!	Loose Ends "Loose Ends" by "Palookaville!"	Palookaville!	2004			1:59:08 (Pop-up)
Richard Thompson	Shaky Nancy "Shaky Nancy" by "Richard Thompson"	Henry the Human Fly	1972			2:01:41 (Pop-up)
Helen Merrill [w/Clifford Brown]	You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To	Helen Merrill	1955			2:05:04 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers	Girl On A Swing "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers"	Joy Of A Toy	1969			2:09:31 (Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren	Lucky Guy "Lucky Guy" by "Todd Rundgren"	The Hermit of Mink Hollow	1978			2:12:12 (Pop-up)
Jo Stafford	Shenandoah "Shenandoah" by "Jo Stafford"	Sings American Folk Songs	1949 / 1962			2:14:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						2:17:52 (Pop-up)
Jim Dickinson	Girl Singer "Girl Singer" by "Jim Dickinson"	Fishing with Charlie and Other Selected Readings	2006			2:21:17 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan	Turn That Heartbeat Over Again	Can't Buy a Thrill	1972			2:26:45 (Pop-up)
John Benson Brooks [w/ Cannonball Adderley]	Themes: The John Henry Story, Green Green Rocky Road, Job's Red Wagon	Alabama Concerto	1958			2:31:40 (Pop-up)
TC&I	Scatter Me "Scatter Me" by "TC&I"	Great Aspirations EP	2017	Colin Moulding & Terry Chambers, (ex-xTC)		2:36:33 (Pop-up)
Earth Opera	When You And I Were Full Of Wonder	Earth Opera	1968			2:41:01 (Pop-up)
Babacar	Tree "Tree" by "Babacar"	Babacar	1997	Caroline Crawley-voice		2:44:43 (Pop-up)
Easybeats	Pretty Girl "Pretty Girl" by "Easybeats"	The Absolute Anthology	1967 / 1986			2:49:17 (Pop-up)
Doctor Father	Umbopo "Umbopo" by "Doctor Father"	Before During After: The Story Of 10cc	1970 / 2017			2:51:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						2:56:52 (Pop-up)
Thanks To David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young & Pete Tomlinson

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Listener comments!
	10:58am duke: Good morning Bob and listeners everywhere
	10:58am Robbie White: Good morning Bob
	10:59am 1whoknewcthulhu: Good morning, Bob and all. This is always a great place to be on a Saturday morning.
	♥ 11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	♥ 11:00am listener james from westwood: Happy Saturday, Bob and all!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: duke!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Robbie White of WOWD!
	11:00am Jeff: Good Morning Bob + the rest R.I.P. Ian McDonald
	♥ 11:01am luka: happy saturday, crew
	♥ 11:01am listener james from westwood: By coincidence, a commuter train arrives in my town at 11 each Sat, so all I have to do is listen for the whistle and then hit the stream!
	♥ 11:01am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, folks!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: 1whoknewcthulhu!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: listener james from westwood!
	♥ 11:02am wmfromD: Morning Bob and everyone.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Jeff!
	11:02am dan: Good morning
	♥ 11:02am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	♥ 11:02am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & all!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: luka!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Pauly from Clifton!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: dan!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Gina Bacon!
	11:04am Lake Hiawatha Doug: Hi Bob! A taste of spring out there.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: wmfromD!
	11:04am CalZone!: GM BB and Braineniacs!
	11:04am Jay S: Hey!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Uncle Michael!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Lake Hiawatha Doug!
	11:05am SmokinJ: Howdy bb & group! 8-)
	11:05am Bob Brainen: CalZone!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Jay S!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: SmokinJ!
	♥ 11:06am chresti: Hi Bob and braineniacs!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: chresti!
	♥ 11:06am Gina Bacon: Gearing up for a walk, and this is excellent!
	11:08am Robbie White: Bob when you get together with Pete in March, please consider a Yardbirds special for my birthday.
	11:09am TDK60: Good morning, DJ Bob B.
	11:09am Robbie White: Gina, if I could walk, I'd LOVE to walk with YOU.
	11:09am Bob Brainen: TDK60!
	11:09am dan: Any tribute to Ian McDonald on today's show?
	11:10am Robbie White: Dan I just played two of his songs on my show last Sunday
	11:11am Bob Brainen: dan, workin' on something...
	♥ 11:11am Uncle Michael: I've never heard this "Stop" before. I closed my show with the James Gang 12-minute album cut yesterday.
	11:13am PT: Good Morning, BB and everyone. Off to a high-energy start, befitting today's weather! Never knew Masekela also covered this Howard Tate/Jerry Ragavoy jam.
	11:13am Bob Brainen: PT!
	♥ 11:16am Franco Twinkie: Good morning Bob.
	11:17am Bob Brainen: Franco Twinkie!
	♥ 11:17am Uncle Michael: Mort Schuman/Jerry Ragavoy jam, PT, though Howard recorded it first. Jerry plays piano on the James Gang version!
	♥ 11:21am Franco Twinkie: Wow! A song from so long ago. I can still hear/see this wafting thru the house while my mom was vacuuming.
	♥ 11:21am WR: Hello Bob and drummer streamers. First Saturday I am able to listen in several weeks. One of my favorite Family songs.
	11:21am dan: GENTLE GIANT!!!!!!
	11:22am Bob Brainen: WR!
	♥ 11:22am StringOFperils: Good morning, Bob. Madrigal goodness.
	11:23am Bob Brainen: StringOFperils!
	♥ 11:24am Franco Twinkie: The cover of Octopus by Charles White the Third was mesmerizing to me back then.
	11:25am TDK60: Gentle Giant, Scots. They practiced too much.
	11:26am dan: Kidnapping Kissinger, some title
	♥ 11:27am StringOFperils: That WAS a really nice painting, Franco.
	11:27am TDK60: Hi Franco, which Octopus cover, the UK cover or US one?
	♥ 11:28am Uncle Michael: Eight Arms To Hold You
	♥ 11:29am Franco Twinkie: American. The one in the mason jar. Creepy and fascinating.
	11:31am Elvin: Bob, thanks for playing Gentle Giant. Brought back great memories. And I highly recommend the lp “In A Glass House”.
	11:33am TDK60: Franco: Ah yes, and great music too.
	♥ 11:34am Franco Twinkie: TDK, I didn't see the UK import until WAY later. Roger Dean's painting is equally spooky, but by the time I saw it, he was already forever corrupted in my mind by his association with Yes.
	11:34am Bob Brainen: Elvin!
	11:35am dan: Play more Gentle Giant on future shows Bob
	11:38am maec mendelson: good morning Bob hello New Jersey
	♥ 11:39am Doug Schulkind: What a genius Herbie Nichols!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Marc!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Doug Schulkind!
	♥ 11:42am wmfromD: Nice! The original version.
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: This! talk about spooky.
	11:44am TDK60: Never heard those CJ & F EPs.
	♥ 11:45am Franco Twinkie: Those EP's are a four leaf clover.
	11:45am Robbie White: That was the 1st Country Joe & the Fish CD I Ever purchased!!!
	11:45am gene sculatti: Psyche music for mind and body!
	♥ 11:46am wmfromD: The first CJ & the Fish LP is tops.
	11:46am Bob Brainen: gene sculatti!
	🥁 ♥ 11:47am listener 126464: Good day, Bob and listeners!
	♥ 11:47am listener james from westwood: No mistaking Wills and the Playboys!
	11:47am Bob Brainen: listener 126464!
	11:48am TDK60: wmfromD. Oh yeah, a real trip. Got to see them on an early East Coast tour, doing the "Electric" album. Still trying to recall what life was like before...
	♥ 11:49am listener james from westwood: Was very much looking forward to cueing up their "San Antonio Rose" while actually IN San Antone early this spring, but those travel plans had to be kiboshed.
	♥ 11:49am Franco Twinkie: Gene, do you have any funny stories about CJ and The Fish from back in the day?
	11:50am Gerry from Miami: Mornin', Bob!' Always happy to hear some Gentle Giant, but even more gratified for your choice of Family, a vastly underrated British band from the "prog" era. They got a lot of attention from their first album(produced by Dave Mason), but they didn't seem to click much with American radio DJs after that. Didn't stop me. I gobbled up anything they put out.
	11:50am gene sculatti: Not really. Saw them lots. I do remember them playing an impromptu game of pitch-and-catch once onstage (F'more or Avalon). Love that first LP.
	11:51am Bob Brainen: Gerry from Miami!
	♥ 11:51am Franco Twinkie: Good enough!
	♥ 11:51am doctorjazz: Hi Bob and all you out there!
	11:52am Gina Bacon: Ironic to hear 2 guys singing something with this title…but I love it!
	11:52am Bob Brainen: doctorjazz!
	♥ 11:53am wmfromD: Bix Lives! Bird Lives! Phil Lives!
	♥ 11:54am Franco Twinkie: Hi Gina! I really got to ask, did your last name cause mirth in the cafeteria when you were little?
	11:56am gene sculatti: Wow, J&D (and Jill Gibson). Reading Mark Moore's Jan Berry bio.
	🥁 ♥ 11:56am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Bob and folx!
	11:57am Bob Brainen: Mx. Baba Bee (e/they)!
	♥ 11:57am WR: Mx. Baba Beekins!
	🥁 ♥ 11:57am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): WRkins! hello!
	11:58am PT: When I hear Diz 'n Bird, the next name I think of is invariably Jill Gibson's.
	♥ 11:58am Franco Twinkie: Hey Baba! Ready for a coddled egg?
	11:58am gene sculatti: Crikey, hard to believe Roddy was once this strong.
	♥ 11:59am doctorjazz: Haven't heard this Rod Stewart in quite a while, nice (great set, btw!).
	11:59am Gina Bacon: Always, Franco! I still get the bacon jokes. 🥓
	11:59am Gerry from Miami: Bob, be sure to mention the composer of this Rod Stewart classic, Mike D'Abo!
	12:01pm Gina Bacon: My friend does wardrobe for Rod Stewart. He’s been known to get a hotel room for his train set, and the folks who work for him will occasionally help find supplies, so he can work on it on the road.
	♥ 12:01pm Franco Twinkie: Aww! In my mind I can see some smart-aleck pulling a slice of bacon out of his sandwich and wagging it back and forth saying "Gina Gina?" in a sing-song voice.
	12:02pm Gina Bacon: Of all the many reasons to think he’s cool, that’s tops in my book.
	12:02pm gene sculatti: That makes him sound pretty cool.
	12:03pm TDK60: Franco, that wouldn't have been you back then, no? Hi Gina, Baba. Gerry: D'Abo was a Manfred Mann, yes?
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: Harry Lookofsky?
	12:04pm Gina Bacon: Hey TDK60!
	🥁 ♥ 12:04pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Pranko: Ready or not, let's go!
	12:05pm Gina Bacon: Hahaha Franco! Much better!
	🥁 ♥ 12:05pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): train set! fun!!!
	12:05pm dan: I thought that Move song was from Asleep At The Wheel
	♥ 12:06pm Franco Twinkie: My estimation of some of Rod's later stuff is not that enthusiastic, but thinking of him obsessing on model train accessories forgives a lot.
	12:08pm gene sculatti: Bob: From the Jan Berry book we learn that Jill Gibson (with Don Altfeld) were set to produce the first Spirit album, but then Lou Adler took them off the gig and did it himself.
	♥ 12:09pm StringOFperils: Rod's 'train set' looks like old Manhattan.
	♥ 12:09pm wmfromD: Gibson and Adler were a pair back then. No?
	♥ 12:09pm Franco Twinkie: Sounds like Lou Adler was quite a snake.
	🥁 ♥ 12:10pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60kins! The name I grew up with didn't have much for the smart-alecks to work with
	12:10pm gene sculatti: Per the book, Jill and Adler became an item after she broke up with Jan.
	12:10pm Gina Bacon: It’s been featured in train magazines. Pretty spectacular, and worth a Google.
	🥁 ♥ 12:13pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): there's a super cool free museum in SF that has a magnificent model train railroad—one of the biggest in the whole state. It's so neato!
	♥ 12:15pm Franco Twinkie: Before I start cooking breakfast I just want to say that Rod Stewarts version of Morning Dew on the album Truth by Jeff Beck is fantastic.
	♥ 12:15pm wmfromD: Isn't Neil Young a model railroad enthusiast?
	12:17pm TDK60: Franco, that first Jeff Beck solo LP - "Truth" was Rod's debut, as far as I know.
	♥ 12:18pm Franco Twinkie: Yes he is! Neil has some great train songs - Jesuses Chariot and Southern Pacific. He really captures the majesty of train locomotives with the throttles wide open.
	12:18pm Gerry from Miami: @wmfromD. Yes. Mr. Young is a big model railroad nut. Bought controlling interest in Lionel at some point, if I recall.
	🥁 ♥ 12:19pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): oooh, this Oregon track is lovely!
	12:20pm TDK60: ..and I agree, that Beck Morning Dew version was great. (I like the Gratefuls' version too.)
	12:21pm Gerry from Miami: @TDK60. Yes, Mr. D'Abo was a member of the Manfred Mann band. Bob snuck in the mention in his back-announce.
	12:21pm dan: Recently put Grave New World on my turntable for a long overdue listen. Strawbs were at their best then.
	♥ 12:21pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the Stewart/D`Abo cut!
	♥ 12:23pm Franco Twinkie: TDK, I love that Bonnie Dobson, the writer of Morning Dew gets much respect on WFMU.
	12:24pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, that Stanley Cowell piece is one of my all-time faves. It reminds me a bit of some of the funkier numbers that Keith Jarrett recorded in his earlier years.
	♥ 12:25pm doctorjazz: Odd stereo mix-guitar is center, Shelagh's voice way of to the right. Odd for 1970... No matter, sounds great!
	12:31pm bigplanetnoise: Hey, Bob B - sounding great!!
	12:33pm Eugene Bentley: hey Bob! Looking forward to some good tunes.
	12:34pm dan: Colin Blunstone has the perfect singing voice, especially on this song.
	12:34pm Eugene Bentley: Great Colin Blunstone song.!
	12:35pm Gerry from Miami: Colin Blunstone is one of the great iconic pop voices in pop/rock.
	12:36pm Eugene Bentley: Colin wrote this one and ran into trouble because he used the actual name of the girl he was dating.
	12:38pm Gerry from Miami: Nice to hear Del Amitri. Glad you are a fan, BOB! I thought I was the only one!
	♥ 12:38pm Andrew in Toronto: Del Amitri are awesome!!
	12:39pm dan: @Gerry I never heard of Del Amitri until Bob's show and it made me want to discover their early material which is amazing.
	12:46pm TDK60: The last act needs a name. Why do I have to say four people's names?
	♥ 12:46pm listener james from westwood: The universe is better for having David Greenberger in it.
	12:46pm Gerry from Miami: Was Rick Wakeman on that first Strawbs album?
	12:48pm Bob Brainen: Hey bigplanetnoise!
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, maybe I'm confused, but didn't you do the Youngbloods special a couple of weeks ago?
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, maybe I'm confused, but didn't you do the Youngbloods special a couple of weeks ago?
	🥁 ♥ 12:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60: I think that gaggle of oddballs was more of an event than a group!
	12:52pm Bob Brainen: Wakeman - guested on 2nd Strawbs album, joined for 3rd. / YOUNGBLOODS - next week! 2-19
	🥁 ♥ 12:53pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): ^^ and what listener james from westwood said.
	12:54pm TDK60: Baba, thanks for the clarification, but they coulda called it Gaggle of Oddballs and saved us the time. There are far too many acts just listing their names these days. It burns me up. Today I threw my socks across the room.
	🥁 ♥ 12:55pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60, yeah, do they think we got all day for this???
	12:56pm TDK60: Hoo!
	🥁 ♥ 12:58pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): my legal signature includes my middle initial, though it's absolutely unnecessary and doesn't sound as good spoken—I started a brief craze for using middle initials among my adolescent peers
	♥ 1:05pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Bob and all!!! better late than never, here for the last hour!
	1:05pm Bob Brainen: Will the Sound Guy!
	♥ 1:08pm Will the Sound Guy: how is everyone doing today?
	♥ 1:08pm doctorjazz: Henry, the Human Fly, very underplayed album of his (I especially like his all guitar Rockin' In Rhythm on it). Brownie!!! Helen!!!, great combo!
	♥ 1:11pm wmfromD: Bob you're more wonderfully eclectic today than usual.
	1:12pm dan: Killer set Bob
	1:12pm Gerry from Miami: Anyone out there know what vintage analog keyboards Kevin Ayers is using on this song?
	1:12pm ?: Thanks wm!
	♥ 1:14pm wmfromD: That's Mike Ratledge on the keys @Gerry from Miami
	♥ 1:15pm Uncle Michael: This Jo Stafford always kills me.
	♥ 1:18pm Will the Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	♥ 1:21pm Uncle Michael: Jim also produced Luther and Cody.
	♥ 1:27pm Will the Sound Guy: about dan time...
	1:28pm Gerry from Miami: @doctorjazz. I remember the reviews of Richard Thompson's first solo album away from Fairport. Not good, they said. But most of the complaints centered around his singing. Give me a break! He's a monster guitarist! Not too many in his class.
	1:29pm Gerry from Miami: One of the best debut albums ever, that first Steely Dan!
	♥ 1:35pm doctorjazz: @Gerry from Miami-I think they were reacting to not hearing Linda (which was indeed some loss). I've seen Thompson recently (in November, just before the current Omicron outbreak sidelined me again), and he's actually become quite a terrific singer, imo! Not so much the tonality of his voice (which is what those critics likely react to),but his control, pitch, choices are just great!
	1:39pm Gerry from Miami: Thanks, doctorjazz! I have a friend who has seen Thompson play live several times and says the same thing you did.
	1:42pm Gerry from Miami: wmfromD. Yes, Mike Ratledge, his bandmate in Soft Machine. But I was wondering if any keyboard freaks knew exactly what instruments he was using back in the "pre-digital" age.
	1:45pm TDK60: Gerry, I think Ratledge used a fuzz box and high volume for a Hammond organ. A guess.
	1:46pm Gerry from Miami: BOB, Earth Opera were oneof my "secret" guilty pleasures back in the late 60s, early 70s. None of my friends had ever heard of them. Same for the Incredible String Band.
	1:49pm Gerry from Miami: @TDK60. Yes, I think you are right. Not all that sophisticated or fancy. His main axe in Soft Machine was definitely the Hammond.
	♥ 1:51pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the great vibes!!
	1:52pm TDK60: Gerry, that first Earth Opera album is unique.
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Doctor Father is utterly new to me. I love it.
	1:52pm Gerry from Miami: It has always been a mystery to me why the Easybeats never hit it big in the US after the smashing success of "Friday on My Mind."
	🥁 ♥ 1:53pm listener 126464: I only knew Pretty Girl from The Sneetches. Thanks for the sweet show Bob!
	♥ 1:53pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Bob.
	♥ 1:54pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Bob!
	1:55pm Gerry from Miami: Great show, BOB, as always. Got your Youngbloods show marked in red on my calendar for next week.
	1:55pm maec mendelson: fun show today all over the map thank you Bob.
	♥ 1:57pm wmfromD: Great one today Bob. Thanks!
	1:57pm TDK60: Gracias, Bob. See you all round the radio...
	1:57pm dan: Great show Bob
	♥ 1:57pm Doug Schulkind: I've been puttering around and digging the proceedings. Thanks, as ever Bob!
	♥ 1:57pm listener james from westwood: Delightful program, Bob—thanks!

Bob Brainen: Playlist from February 12, 2022

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