Favoriting Stop Hitting Yourself with DJ Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop: Playlist from August 1, 2022 Favoriting

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Weird and wonderful sounds from outsider to weird covers and occasionally painful stuff from the Golden Age Of Stupidity.

Monday 4 - 5pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting August 1, 2022: SHY #175- Shitty Elvis and Questionable Surf Music

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Me  Stop Hitting Yourself Intro   Favoriting Sheena's Jungle Room  Sheena's Jungle Room Records  NOW  EP   
Elvis Presley  Old MacDomald   Favoriting         0:02:01 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Song of the Shrimp   Favoriting         0:04:30 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  There’s No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car   Favoriting         0:06:20 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Ito Eats   Favoriting         0:07:57 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Queen Wahine’s Papaya   Favoriting         0:09:21 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  U.S. Male   Favoriting         0:10:52 (Pop-up)
Freddie Blassie  U.S. Male   Favoriting         0:13:24 (Pop-up)
Isami Takeuchi  Love Me Tender (theremin)   Favoriting         0:16:03 (Pop-up)
3 Sachetti  Elvis blblblblblb   Favoriting         0:17:18 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  A Little Less Conversation   Favoriting         0:19:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Elvis Band 
Jailhouse Rock (instrumental)   Favoriting
 
 
 
 
0:21:28 (Pop-up)
Royal Jelly Orchestra  You Oughta Know   Favoriting         0:23:58 (Pop-up)
Mercy  Fireball   Favoriting         0:27:53 (Pop-up)
Rose Maddox and the Maddox Brothers  Love Is Strange   Favoriting         0:30:22 (Pop-up)
Maryanne Mail (Probably Misty Morgan)  Let's Have A Hayride   Favoriting Nashville Sputnik: The Deep South/Outer Space Productions of Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan 1956-2004  Omnii Recording Corp  2008  CD  0:32:44 (Pop-up)
Mel Tormé  Sunshine Superman   Favoriting         0:34:02 (Pop-up)
Plastics  Dance in the Metal   Favoriting Origato Plastico        0:36:51 (Pop-up)
Polysics  Electric Surfin' Go Go   Favoriting         0:40:19 (Pop-up)
The Surfaris  Surfer’s Christmas List   Favoriting         0:44:02 (Pop-up)
The Abominable Surfmen  Monster Surfer   Favoriting         0:46:03 (Pop-up)
D.I.  Surfin' Anarchy   Favoriting         0:48:13 (Pop-up)
Surfin’ USSR  Toru and Kojima   Favoriting         0:50:21 (Pop-up)
Marty Cooper Clan  Walk, Don't Run   Favoriting         0:53:08 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Junior Brown 
Surf Medley   Favoriting
Semi Crazy 
 
 
 
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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Questionable Surf? You mean I can't hang ten so I can get my woody to the lunar surfer girls?

Oh No!
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Austin Rich:

Yes! Didn't even miss the intro this week.
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spacebrother:

Hey Austin. You can probably surf fine to these songs!
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Mike Rogers:

Hey Spacebrother san!
Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun!
I finally get to hear your show.
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Mr Fab:

Howdy hi, Spacebrother!

I wonder if this episode will feature the stuff I have on the "Elvis' Greatest Shit" bootleg.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:02pm
Austin Rich:

That's relieving. I tried to write a surf song once, with mixed results. That stuff ain't easy!
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Mike Rogers:

I hear you are half-Japanese. Well that's great brother. me too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:04pm
Austin Rich:

There's a fair amount of "shitty" Elvis to draw from. This could be a regular feature on your show, spacebrother! We tune in for this week's Elvis Dump?
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spacebrother:

Hey Mike! Hello! Nice to see you here in the chat.
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spacebrother:

@ Fab - Yes - that's most of it!
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Mike Rogers:

My mom is from Kokura in Kyushu. How about yours?
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Nagoya.
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Mike Rogers:

Oh! I go to Nagoya every December. They have a huge Children's Hospital there. I go give the kids Santa Claus and presents.... Been doing that for 20 years!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:06pm
Aitch:

Settled down to an occasional slap
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Mike Rogers:

It is pay back for my sins in life. The kids are so cute...
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - That's a very giving thing to do. Kudos to you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:07pm
Austin Rich:

I was trying to find a link to it, but I feel like Conan O'Brien had a bit on his show, in the '90's, where one of his regular guests was a "connoisseur of terrible Elvis songs," and would do an Elvis impersonation and sing an awful Elvis song. I wonder if I'm imagining this, or if it was a real bit?
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Aitch:

Nike work indeed Mike-san!
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Scott67:

G'day Greg & Spacious!
☕😎🤙🎶📻🌻🌏
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spacebrother:

Hey Aitch and Scott!
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Mr Fab:

So Japanese kids are familiar with Santa now? More or less?
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Mike Rogers:

Of course I do it to give the kids even a minute of happiness, but I am not so magnaimous... I do it for me mostly. Really, some pay back for the bads things I've done.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:09pm
Aitch:

They saw the Santa Klaus Conquers the Martians movie too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:09pm
Austin Rich:

They are familiar with Annual Gift Man.

pbs.twimg.com...
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Everything should be done to make you happy.
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Mike Rogers:

The kids who are over 4 or5 are happy. The smaller kids freak out. The kids over 14 or so, don't wanna see anyone. I get it. One day, they are fine, and hanging with their friends, next day they are very ill and stuck in a hospital. poor kids.
  5:10pm
John R:

Greetings Space Brother Greg, Austin, the fellow listeners!
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spacebrother:

@ Fab - Yeah, most things associated with American Holdays have been syncretized in Japan. There is a tradition of going to KFC
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Mike Rogers:

Don't want to be a downer, but lots of the kids in the hospital have incurable diseases.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:11pm
Aitch:

Anyone who hasn't heard The Resident's King and Eye Elvis covers album should have a listen.
Elvis is pretty twisted when you hear what's he's actually saying, especially by them.
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spacebrother:

John in da hou.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:11pm
Austin Rich:

www.bbc.com...
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Then it's even better you show up. It's a diversion of the best kind.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:12pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, John R!
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Mike Rogers:

Oh yeah, Spacebrother. KFC is huge in Japan at Christmas. I had a friend who tried to roast a turkey in a toaster oven... It didn't turn out too well...
Most Japanese don't have a western style oven.
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spacebrother:

Aitch - Thanks. Gotta check that out!
  5:13pm
chillroom:

Picked a great day to listen in.
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Mr Fab:

That is a pretty cool one, Aitch. it came out after The Residents had kind of gone out of fashion by the '90s so I didn't hear it til years later, but pretty sure I dropped a bunch of tracks from it into the Sheena stream.
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Austin Rich:

The Residents often have pretty impressive covers. Their Hank Williams / Suza record come to mind.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Have they taken up deep frying turkeys yet?
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Mike Rogers:

There is an Elvis movie out in Japan soon... (I don't have a TV so) I don't know what channel it is on... But am seeing lots of ads of SMS.
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spacebrother:

Hey Chill!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:14pm
Austin Rich:

This sort of fits with the only other Blassie song I've heard.
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Mike Rogers:

Jerry Lee Lewis once bragged, "Elvis died and there's no biography movies about Elvis. I'm still alive and there is one about me!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:15pm
Aitch:

Elvis more than a bit rapey.
I first listened to it on an flight and couldn't stop laughing, lady next to me was quite alarmed
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Mike Rogers:

@Aitch... "Rapey" what does that mean?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:16pm
Aitch:

to molest
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Mike Rogers:

Oh? I suspected so.
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Mike Rogers:

OK. This is twisted. I have never heard this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:17pm
Aitch:

Little Sister for example, nasty
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Mike Rogers:

Oh, Hi Aitch and Mr. Fab!
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spacebrother:

This one was just because I like it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:20pm
Austin Rich:

You certainly delivered on the promise of this episode, spacebrother.
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Mike Rogers:

Spacebrother san... A question how many total songs did Elvis release? (I'm serious. I don't know!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:21pm
Aitch:

Shut up and get ya gear off basically. Great track
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Has to be in the thousands. He was probably proud that he outlasted the Beatles.
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Mike Rogers:

I figured it had to be an enormous amount! I had no idea. When I was a kid, Elvis was no longer cool. It was British Invasion stuff.
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Austin Rich:

I think the movie songs were dumber because they were written by movie folks, and not music folks. That's my theory, anyway.
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Mr Fab:

Aren't many songs dumber than those, tho "Do The Clam" and "Yoga is As Yoga Does'"come close.
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Mike Rogers:

But! I DO remember when Elvis was still skinny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
Scott67:

Whew! Elvis has left the building!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
Austin Rich:

"Plantation Rock" is pretty awful.
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spacebrother:

Austin - Yeah, I think so too.
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Mike Rogers:

This song is simply awful! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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spacebrother:

@ Fab - Yeah, I considered those for this show too.
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Mike Rogers:

When I saw the title, I thought, "Is that ???" It is!!!
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - It was awful when it came out. This makes it a double negative, which makes it great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:26pm
Aitch:

Elvis had stopped being cool, but the movies were kinda funny.
Made Elvis about as important as Frankie Avalon for a whole generation
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Mike Rogers:

Ha! Ha! Ha!
If I was at a dinner show,and they started playing this, I'd get up and go to the lavatory.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:27pm
Scott67:

I like it more than the original.
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spacebrother:

@ Aitch - His life had such a strange arc. He was eaten up by American culture, which commodifies the cool until its not anymore.
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Mike Rogers:

Though, if I were in the band, this would be grounds for leaving the band.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - :D
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Mike Rogers:

This is cool. Great selection after that, er, "Big Hit" cover.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I figured we needed a palate cleanser.
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Mike Rogers:

We think alike... Sort of.... Ha! Ha! Ha!!!
  5:30pm
John R:

SBG:👍
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Cheers!
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spacebrother:

I was recently on a Mickey and Sylvia kick, so...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:32pm
Austin Rich:

I've never heard this version! How great!
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Mr Fab:

Yeah, what Austin sez!
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spacebrother:

America's Greatest Hilbilly Band covering "Love is Strange!"
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Mike Rogers:

I'd never heard that Mickey & Silvia version either!
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Mike Rogers:

Never heard of Rose Maddox before!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:34pm
Austin Rich:

Yikes.
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spacebrother:

Look up "Maddox Brothers and Rose."
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Mike Rogers:

Wait. Let me get my dinner jacket on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
Austin Rich:

This must be the Mel Tormé they were mocking on Night Court.
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spacebrother:

They arguably had one of the first Rock and Roll songs with "George's Playhouse Boogie."
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Feldy:

LOL @Austin
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spacebrother:

@ Austin - LOL!
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Mike Rogers:

Ever heard of Mel Tourettes?
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spacebrother:

Hey Feldy! Long time.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - NFW
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spacebrother:

I sort of know Mel's son Tracy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:36pm
Austin Rich:

I'll need to look that up, Mike. That sound pretty great.
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spacebrother:

Here's one, Mike.
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Mike Rogers:

I saw a TV show in 77 or was it 78 and Donovan was playing at some club and doing all new songs. But the audeince wouldn't have it and wanted to hear to¥he old songs. Donovan got mad and walked out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:37pm
Feldy:

Hey Greg! The meeting that usually keeps me during this lovely hour got cut short, thankfully!
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I love when that happens.
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spacebrother:

@ Feldy - Lucky for us both!
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Mike Rogers:

I saw the Plastics at Santa Barbara in 77 (I think it was). They even let me take their photos! Then the photo developing center at the local shopping mall destroyed all the photos. i was so pissed off.
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Mike Rogers:

Chika, the lead singer of the Plastics was cool.... But not my type! Ha! ha! ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:40pm
Scott67:

G'day Feldy! I didn't reply in Julie's yesterday cos I fell asleep on the couch.☕😎🤙
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Feldy:

I got excited when I read "Questionable Surf Music"
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Mike Rogers:

Hi Scott67 san & Feldy san!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:41pm
Feldy:

Scott, naps happen to the best of us, mate
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Scott67:

G'day Mike!☕😎🤙💨☕
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:41pm
Feldy:

Hello Mike san!
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Austin Rich:

Nothing Questionable about the Polysics!
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Mike Rogers:

The Polysics appeared on a TV show I was the producer of a few times, many years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:42pm
Austin Rich:

That's rad, Mike! I only saw them once, but they were great!
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I always thought that Chica would be a little strange. Great stage presence, though.

Plastics are my all-time favorites, followed by Polysics and P-Model.
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Mike Rogers:

Cool. This is my all time fave Polysics video: www.youtube.com...
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spacebrother:

Amongst Japanese pop bands.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:43pm
Aitch:

Must have a look at all 3, this is great
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I'll watch when I'm not streaming.
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Feldy:

Mike, what kind of TV show? Was it a variety show with bands and skits where people try to eat furniture made of candy?
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spacebrother:

Which song is it? I probably know the video.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:44pm
Austin Rich:

Christmas in... August?
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spacebrother:

@ Austin - I told you they were "questionable"
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Mike Rogers:

Nah, Feldy san, it was just a music show on a Sony owned station. It was kind of boring because on Sony bands were ever guests.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:46pm
Austin Rich:

Are you sure this isn't shitty elvis? Their impression of his vocals is TERRIBLE.
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Mike Rogers:

only Sony bands were guests
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Mike Rogers:

OK. I'll brag. My wife and I got married in Las Vegas and, of course, an Elvis impersonator married us.
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Mike Rogers:

@Austin is "Shitty Elvis" the name of an artist? Kind of like "The Shitty Beatles?"
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spacebrother:

I love how he messed up and they left it in.
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Aitch:

Wish I could have done my divorce like that
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - JEALOUS!
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Mike Rogers:

Of course, we had a proper marriage in japan, but Elvis was much more fun!
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Mike Rogers:

This song is GREAT! "Surgin' Anarchy!" Bwa! ha! Ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:49pm
Austin Rich:

If I'm not mistaken, Mike, they got rid of the Elvis impersonator marriage places. Which is a major bummer.
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Mike Rogers:

Arrrghhh! "Surfin' Anarchy"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:49pm
Feldy:

LOL @Aitch that's a GREAT idea!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:49pm
Austin Rich:

Every so often, DI really delivers.
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Mike Rogers:

Really? Back in those days, the Elvis guy told me that to do "Elvis Impersonation marriages, you had to be in some sort of Union."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:51pm
Feldy:

It could be a little role-play ceremony where you get your divorce papers signed then Elvis steals your (now ex) wife. Then you're in Vegas, suddenly single
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Mike Rogers:

This sound slike the Tokyo Beatles, sideways sort of...
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Austin Rich:

www.voanews.com...
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Mike Rogers:

And Elvis and the wife drive off singing "Viva Las Vegas"
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spacebrother:

blog.wfmu.org...
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Mike Rogers:

@Austin that article is outrageous. Maybe of they really want to protect Elvis' reputation, then all the impersonators have to be at least 400 pounds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:53pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! Vocalizing the guitar solo!
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Mike Rogers:

@Spacebrother... That is so weird.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:55pm
Austin Rich:

I thought it was ridiculous, too, Mike. But a lot of laws are.
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Mike Rogers:

I never go to record stores anymore.... No money! Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I need to play more from that album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:56pm
Scott67:

Thanks Greg!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
  5:56pm
John R:

Thank you Space Brother Greg for another great episode!
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spacebrother:

Thank YOU!
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Mike Rogers:

@Spacebrother OK. But play it at the end of the show, so that you won't care when people turn off their radio! ha! ha! ha!
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - I WANT people to turn off their radios! LOL!!
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Mike Rogers:

@Spacebrother san! Yes. People should either love you or hate you. That is the best!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm
Feldy:

Thanks Spacebrother! Glad I could jump in today. Fun show.
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spacebrother:

@ Mike - Yes! You know exactly what I mean.
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Mike Rogers:

It has been a mark of fine cultured entretainment for years!
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Mike Rogers:

Thanks. Spacebrother!
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spacebrother:

@ Feldy - Thanks for stopping by!
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Aitch:

Thanks Spacebro
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spacebrother:

Thanks Mike!
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spacebrother:

Thank you Aitch!
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Mr Fab:

Spacebrother has left the building!
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spacebrother:

I'm cleaning up! OK NOW I've left the building.
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