WFMU: Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from September 9, 2023

Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from September 9, 2023

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September 9, 2023: The Venus de Mars Memorial Playlist

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Artist	Track	Label	Approx. start time
The Genteels	Take It Off "Take It Off" by "The Genteels"	Capitol	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Fabulous Playboys	Shortenin' Bread	Catalina	0:05:11 (Pop-up)
The Cruisers	Just Cruisin' Around	DJB	0:06:49 (Pop-up)
Bobby Vee and The Shadows	Flyin' High	Soma	0:08:59 (Pop-up)
Mickey Gilley	Oo Wee Baby "Oo Wee Baby" by "Mickey Gilley"	Minor	0:13:34 (Pop-up)
Al Hendrix with Jolly Jody and his Go-Daddies	Rhonda Lee	Tally	0:16:00 (Pop-up)
The Royal Knights	Long Long Ponytail	Fireball	0:17:56 (Pop-up)
Cecil McCullough with the Border Boys	Pick 'Em Up and Shake 'Em Up	Manco	0:20:12 (Pop-up)
Leon Smith	Little Forty Ford "Little Forty Ford" by "Leon Smith"	Epic	0:22:26 (Pop-up)
Tony Shepperd	Zach (Zack) "Zach (Zack)" by "Tony Shepperd"	RCA Victor	0:24:21 (Pop-up)
Bill Matt	Bye Bye Puppy Love "Bye Bye Puppy Love" by "Bill Matt"	Lanor	0:26:23 (Pop-up)
Jerry Irby and the Texas Ranchers	Clickety Clack	Daffan	0:28:14 (Pop-up)
Barbara Allen	Make Up Your Mind "Make Up Your Mind" by "Barbara Allen"	Decca	0:30:33 (Pop-up)
Mitchell Torok	The Haunting Waterfall	Abbott	0:33:13 (Pop-up)
Audrey Howell	He's Turned Me Away	SpazzCo Presents	0:45:04 (Pop-up)
Shelby R Smith	Jim Dandy Handyman	Silver Skip	0:47:11 (Pop-up)
Verlin Mayes	The Outlaw Driver "The Outlaw Driver" by "Verlin Mayes"	Shadow	0:49:14 (Pop-up)
Jack Barlow	All Night Country Radio	Antique	0:52:49 (Pop-up)
Leon Lynch	My Friend, Skidrow Joe	Sandalwood	0:56:05 (Pop-up)
Guitar Slim	I Got Sumpin' For You	Specialty	1:03:17 (Pop-up)
Little Mummy	Where You At Jack "Where You At Jack" by "Little Mummy"	Federal	1:04:56 (Pop-up)
Joe Hudson and His Rockin' Dukes	Hoo-Wee Pretty Baby	Excello	1:06:52 (Pop-up)
Sticks McGhee	Double Crossin' Liquor	King	1:09:15 (Pop-up)
Bob "Nighthawk" Terry on WOL Washington, DC			1:12:02 (Pop-up)
Little Walter	I Had My Fun "I Had My Fun" by "Little Walter"	Checker	1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Thomas "Little Jr." Cannaday & his Midnite Flyers	Sloppy Twist	Jack Pot	1:17:40 (Pop-up)
The Dartells	The Girl Can't Help It	Sande	1:25:10 (Pop-up)
Cannibal And The Headhunters	Nau Ninny Nau	Rampart	1:25:47 (Pop-up)
Little Sammy Swinger	Hot Pastrami w/ Mashed Potatoes	Essar	1:29:02 (Pop-up)
Travis Wammack	Night Train "Night Train" by "Travis Wammack"	Atlantic	1:31:35 (Pop-up)
The Morticians	Louie Louie "Louie Louie" by "The Morticians"	Mortician	1:33:59 (Pop-up)
Marveluss Mickey and The Rock-A-Sonics	Do The Robot	Marlo	1:37:10 (Pop-up)
The Fantastic Emanons	Duh "Duh" by "The Fantastic Emanons"	Hunch	1:39:29 (Pop-up)
Roy McCaslin and The Caravans	Money	Tokalon	1:46:41 (Pop-up)
Johnny and the Nite Ryders	I Had A Girl	Perfection Sound Studios	1:49:50 (Pop-up)
The Trashmen	Bad News "Bad News" by "The Trashmen"	Garrett	1:51:40 (Pop-up)
Felix And His Guitar	Chili Beans "Chili Beans" by "Felix And His Guitar"	AUJ	1:54:10 (Pop-up)
Chance Halladay	Deep Sleep "Deep Sleep" by "Chance Halladay"	Bulldog	1:57:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🌮 ♥ 12:59pm David Shortell: That is not the All The Pretty Horses singer, but rather the 3’ 1” burlesque performer whose sole acting credit is the 7th season Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode “Maria”. www.newspapers.com...
	🌮 ♥ 1:00pm David Shortell: barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	🌮 ♥ 1:00pm David Shortell: lpcoverlover.com...
	♥ 1:03pm DjLorraine: Hello Rex and radio listeners!
	🌮 ♥ 1:03pm Bruce S.: hey ho Rexo
	1:03pm Erin Hellfire: Hungover and happy to be here!
	🌮 ♥ 1:04pm Mailman Tom: Venus de Mars has only one television credit to her name. She appeared in a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents as "Maria".
	♥ 1:04pm WilliamHellfire: Take it off Erin!
	1:04pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ WilliamHellfire @1:04 😂
	🌮 ♥ 1:05pm David Shortell: ↳ Mailman Tom @1:04 No foolin'!
	🌮 ♥ 1:06pm Bruce S.: where would we be without shortnin bread
	🌮 ♥ 1:08pm The Butterman: Glad to be Rexin’ whilst sweatin’ my cojones off trim in’ bushes in the hot sun.
	1:11pm Don in Tampere: I'm a South Carolina native living in Finland and just yujing in in the middle of the forest at a cabin after a sauna, and this is the perfect music for right now!
	🌮 ♥ 1:11pm Bruce S.: Rexin and sweatin, isn't that really what it's all about?
	1:12pm Don in Tampere: yuh´jing? WTF did I try to write? Probably chilling, but I have no idea how yujing came out
	🌮 ♥ 1:13pm Mailman Tom: Yumping Yimminy!
	🌮 ♥ 1:13pm Little Danny: go rex!!!
	1:13pm Erin Hellfire: Definitely above average!!!!
	1:15pm I'm with the banned: Hi Rex!
	🌮 ♥ 1:15pm Bruce S.: yuh'jing sounds like some sort of game they play in the basements of Chinatown
	🌮 ♥ 1:19pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @1:05 Thanks for the link to the newspaper article. Fascinating!
	1:21pm phil.vas1: ***fooolzzz!!
	🌮 ♥ 1:24pm David Shortell: I could only find this cropped, low-def mirror-image video online: dailymotion.com...
	🌮 ♥ 1:25pm The Butterman: Mailman Tom is probably shitting bricks right now. Are ya, Tom?
	♥ 1:26pm WilliamHellfire: I was bit by a black dog. I hugged him.
	♥ 1:26pm DjLorraine: Lilly! 👄 or no Lilly, (Let it go at that)
	🌮 ♥ 1:28pm Mailman Tom: ↳ The Butterman @1:25 Actually, I'm sitting here with my green pants on with my bugaloo in my hand.
	🌮 ♥ 1:29pm joe mulligan: def want to hear more about Venus De Mars and Hitchcock's "Maria" today
	🌮 ♥ 1:29pm Bruce S.: How's your Bugaloo Baby
	🌮 ♥ 1:29pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @1:24 I have all ten seasons of Alfred Hitchcock on DVD. I'll have to dig this episode out of the box for a rewatch!
	1:30pm bobob plasticland: Click Clack.capnbeefheart
	🌮 ♥ 1:30pm The Butterman: I know what a boogaloo is thanks to Professor Wolfman
	1:31pm bobob plasticland: lil Danny Blue flame ...Mailman Tom..take that out your hand!!!!
	1:32pm dave: Howdy
	♥ 1:34pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ Song: "Oo Wee Baby" by "Mickey Gilley" I'm obsessed with peddle Steele guitar.
	🌮 ♥ 1:34pm Little Danny: loving this!
	🌮 ♥ 1:35pm Bruce S.: a co winky dink
	♥ 1:35pm WilliamHellfire: Canned wolf!
	♥ 1:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yu would jingk I would think of something clever to say this week ...but no...
	🌮 ♥ 1:37pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Song: "The Haunting Waterfall" by "Mitchell Torok" This one sounds a lot like a Sound-A-Like from way back when... www.youtube.com...
	🌮 ♥ 1:38pm The Butterman: Wasn’t Barbara Allen killed in an old timey murder ballad? No LSD involved.
	♥ 1:39pm DjLorraine: Skills! 🏆
	1:40pm P-90: Nobody cares enough to do good tassel work these days.
	♥ 1:40pm StringOFperils: True catharsis always involves a chimp
	1:43pm dave: Hell yea Spazz
	1:43pm Erin Hellfire: Permanently startled 😂
	🌮 ♥ 1:44pm egould: Oh dear god… I’m gonna need a drink for this one.
	🌮 ♥ 1:44pm Bruce S.: she was signed immediatly to Spazzco
	1:44pm P-90: plumbing the lucrative hillbilly market
	🌮 ♥ 1:44pm The Butterman: David the Spazz is actually getting plastic surgery to look MORE like Bingo. Some folks want to look like celebrities, some wanna look like cats, there’s the guy that’s turned himself into a lizard- but Dave is trying to go full chimp.
	1:44pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ egould @1:44 😂
	♥ 1:45pm WilliamHellfire: When I was doing corporate video I had to be present for a Lazer face lift and I smelled the lady's burning face for days.
	♥ 1:46pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "He's Turned Me Away" by "Audrey Howell" You know, I genuinely think this one could take off.
	🌮 ♥ 1:46pm AMYGDALA: ↳ StringOFperils @1:40 Good one Stringo! Requesting permission to use that as my channel's tagline.
	1:46pm davefromtoronto: ↳ Song: "He's Turned Me Away" by "Audrey Howell" ouch
	1:47pm davefromtoronto: slowly i turned and reached for the mute button...
	🌮 ♥ 1:47pm egould: ↳ Song: "He's Turned Me Away" by "Audrey Howell" Her use of melody and dynamic range is… stunning!
	🌮 ♥ 1:47pm The Butterman: ↳ WilliamHellfire @1:45 Oh c’mon, man! Too much! I’m laughing hysterically and horrified simultaneously! Good job, Willy.
	♥ 1:47pm StringOFperils: ↳ AMYGDALA @1:46 As top banana I don't see how anyone could refuse you.
	♥ 1:49pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ The Butterman @1:47 My boss offered to take me out to lunch afterwards. I declined and went home to take a shower. Worst $75 I ever made.
	1:49pm Gregory Lopez: Hi Rex. Great show.
	🌮 ♥ 1:50pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Jim Dandy Handyman" by "Shelby R Smith" is his name Shleby?I think there are guys in my neiborhood named Shleby
	🌮 ♥ 1:51pm The Butterman: ↳ WilliamHellfire @1:49 Good decision.
	1:52pm Little Danny: I want a muffler that makes mouth sounds instead
	1:52pm davefromtoronto: rex what's your CB handle? i know you got one.
	1:52pm Don F.: King of voiceovers, Peter ??.
	1:54pm Otto: 66 and “mostly sunny” with a light Bay breeze here in Alameda. Gonna hit a comfortable high of 73 today.
	1:56pm Rex: ↳ Otto @1:54 10-4, good buddy!
	🌮 ♥ 1:57pm egould: Ahhh. Much better. 2oz of Tito’s, 2oz of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, Perrier. Ok Rex, bring on the greasy stuff. I can handle it.
	🌮 ♥ 1:57pm joe mulligan: the gilroy garlic fest was just aug 5th & 6th. saw an old pickup truck in faifax CA this week with a decades old bumper sticker for it
	♥ 1:58pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "My Friend, Skidrow Joe" by "Leon Lynch" Makes me feel like I have sand fleas
	🌮 ♥ 1:58pm joe mulligan: ↳ Otto @1:54 hi from the other side of the bay!
	🌮 ♥ 1:58pm JG: Rex, you've launched me deep into a rabbit hole searching for Venus de Mars and Norman Lloyd and Maria and Alfred Hitchcock and men who marry monkeys
	2:00pm Richard Whig: does cousin have a discogs entry?
	♥ 2:03pm StringOFperils: SPECIALTY living up to its name, again
	🌮 ♥ 2:05pm AMYGDALA: ↳ StringOFperils @1:47 Done (w/ citation) String O'. I wish to express to you my profuse thanks and/or appreciation!
	2:10pm RevComX: ↳ Song: "Double Crossin' Liquor" by "Sticks McGhee" Hope he doesn't mix that liquor with LSD
	2:11pm Brez: Gittin J-U-N djrunc!
	♥ 2:11pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ RevComX @2:10 Too late!
	♥ 2:11pm DjLorraine: Reminder to keep all sump pumps in working order.
	2:11pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Double Crossin' Liquor" by "Sticks McGhee" I need a drink.
	🌮 ♥ 2:12pm egould: ↳ Song: "Double Crossin' Liquor" by "Sticks McGhee" Nice one.
	♥ 2:12pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ Erin Hellfire @2:11 No double crossin'
	♥ 2:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Bob "Nighthawk" Terry on WOL Washington, DC" ELMO
	2:13pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ WilliamHellfire @2:12 😂
	♥ 2:16pm StringOFperils: ↳ AMYGDALA @2:05 A small matter between upper primates. See you on Monkey Island!
	♥ 2:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I say if a man wants to marry a monkey it's his business ...a man's home is his tassel...
	🌮 ♥ 2:20pm egould: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:19 Truth!
	2:21pm Erin Hellfire: RW RW RW 🤣
	2:21pm Richard Whig: hey I did that so I wouldn't lose it at the party!! gimme back my record!
	2:22pm Sylvia's Mother: It's blank!
	2:22pm wenzo: You’ve played a song from Arlington, now Detroit… just play one song from Fargo and all the places I’ve lived longest will have been represented…
	2:22pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Richard Whig @2:21 😂
	2:22pm wenzo: That’d be a challenge I imagine
	2:23pm I'm with the banned: ↳ Song: "I Had My Fun" by "Little Walter" Little Walter 🖤
	🌮 ♥ 2:24pm egould: I’ve got a smoked shank simmering. Smells good. I’m gonna make a pork roast today. With andouille. Beans and rice. Coleslaw.
	2:24pm The Breadslice: I'm toast and you know it! ow! 🔥
	2:25pm Richard Whig: always thought these lyrics were the fkn best!
	🌮 ♥ 2:27pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "The Girl Can't Help It" by "The Dartells" Can't hep it. I got a 78rpm Specialty record of Little Richard singing this
	🌮 ♥ 2:27pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Nau Ninny Nau" by "Cannibal And The Headhunters" I think this is the first time I'm hearing a different record by these guys,they had a good sound
	♥ 2:29pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Hot Pastrami w/ Mashed Potatoes" by "Little Sammy... Wow!
	2:30pm davefromtoronto: ↳ Song: "Hot Pastrami w/ Mashed Potatoes" by "Little Sammy... i smell spazz...
	♥ 2:30pm WilliamHellfire: Who put the Benzedrine in little Sammy's Ovaltine!
	🌮 ♥ 2:30pm egould: ↳ WilliamHellfire @2:30 Hahaha!
	2:31pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Hot Pastrami w/ Mashed Potatoes" by "Little Sammy... Little Sammy is gonna need some of that deodorant spray after this.
	♥ 2:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hot Pastrami w/ Mashed Potatoes" by "Little Sammy... Who else is picturing some little video with a wild dancing 60s 'chick' & maybe cartoon bits...
	♥ 2:32pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ Song: "Night Train" by "Travis Wammack" !!!!!
	🌮 ♥ 2:33pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Night Train" by "Travis Wammack" rockin night train
	♥ 2:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Night Train" by "Travis Wammack" ...this night train get you there half the time sounds like...
	♥ 2:34pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:33 It puts the Thunderbird into the NightTrain
	♥ 2:35pm John L: Speaking of monkeys, there's a 2017 film called Sylvio; it's about a gorilla who gets his own cable show. An assistant on his show has a WFMU sticker on her computer. I posted the image on my WFMU profile page.
	2:38pm Richard Whig: maybe it was well organized but it still seemed slightly imbecilic to me.
	2:38pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Do The Robot" by "Marveluss Mickey and The Rock-A... I did a robot in a shitty movie called "Porkchop".
	2:39pm The Robot: Erin, you said you'd call. I'm still waiting.
	2:40pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ The Robot @2:39 🤣
	♥ 2:40pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ The Robot @2:39 Hahaha!!!!
	2:41pm davefromtoronto: duh is right!
	2:42pm Brez: FINALLY, a cogent explanation of what school feels like!!
	🌮 ♥ 2:42pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Duh" by "The Fantastic Emanons" my new favorite record
	2:42pm Richard Whig: now THIS is LUNKHEAD!
	2:42pm davefromtoronto: do the "duh"
	2:45pm davefromtoronto: btw any 60's star trek etc tv series check out this auction. time to break the piggy bank! https://entertainment.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=53+793+794+791+792+2088+4294934714&ic=hero-gregJeinCollection-viewLots-7278-090823
	2:45pm Adventure Man: How do you spell the Instagram group name Percy Hilton to join in this lunkhead online crap
	🌮 ♥ 2:46pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Adventure Man @2:45 Spelled: Percy Helton
	2:47pm davefromtoronto: oops meant "any fans of"
	🌮 ♥ 2:47pm egould: My wife selected ‘Gas Pump Girls’ for our viewing pleasure this week. It blew her mind when Joe E. Ross came on screen, and I told her that’s the “No Brow” guy. Shitty movie.
	♥ 2:50pm WilliamHellfire: ↳ egould @2:47 With a title like 'Gas Pump Girls' I:m sure you were going into it with high expectations!
	♥ 2:50pm DjLorraine: ↳ egould @2:47 Full service? Do they do windows? I have more questions than answers
	🌮 ♥ 2:51pm egould: ↳ DjLorraine @2:50 Yes. And yes. Streaming on Amazon.
	🌮 ♥ 2:51pm Little Danny: ↳ Song: "I Had A Girl" by "Johnny and the Nite Ryders" This is something!
	2:51pm dan in wisconsin: Swamp!
	2:52pm Gas Pump Girl #1: we are full service but Lube is extra.
	2:52pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Gas Pump Girl #1 @2:52 🤣
	2:52pm Richard Whig: I like the lyrics in this trashmen cut as well!
	🌮 ♥ 2:53pm David Shortell: ↳ egould @2:47 Huntz Hall is in it too. Sad.
	2:54pm Erin Hellfire: ↳ Richard Whig @2:52 🤣
	2:54pm Richard Whig: I've been meaning to see more Huntz Hall flicks. I'll have to catsup on my movie watching.
	🌮 ♥ 2:54pm egould: ↳ David Shortell @2:53 Yeah. I’m had to explain who Huntz Hall was. We’ll start getting some Bowery Boys movies going in casa de gould soon.
	2:54pm dave: Thanks Rex!!
	🌮 ♥ 2:55pm Bruce S.: ↳ David Shortell @2:53 joe e ross and huntz hall, I don't think we are talking academy awards here
	2:56pm I'm with the banned: Thanks Rex
	2:56pm Erin Hellfire: Thanks for the good time!
	2:56pm Richard Whig: thanks Rex! it's been weird and pointless and just what was needed today!
	♥ 2:56pm WilliamHellfire: Super show!
	🌮 ♥ 2:56pm Bruce S.: Thanks Rex, another Great one Go Giants, Destroy the Cowboys
	🌮 ♥ 2:57pm egould: Thank you Rex. Though I could have done something more productive with my time, I’m glad I wasted it with you. And the rest of you people. Have a good weekend everybody!
	🌮 ♥ 2:57pm radioronan: Thanks Rex! Until next time...
	♥ 2:58pm DjLorraine: I watched the trailer.
	🌮 ♥ 2:58pm The Butterman: I’m looking forward to 6 days and 22 hours fro now. Did I math right? Thanks a million, Rex. Couldn’t do it without yooz.
	2:59pm Brez: Grooooovy Saturday nonsense -- thank you. Arf
	♥ 3:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Rex ~