WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 16, 2023

Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 16, 2023

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December 16, 2023: I Want You Back, You Know It

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Margo Guryan	I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
Paul Collins Beat	Let Me Into Your Life
Robert Gordon	Red Hot "Red Hot" by "Robert Gordon"
King Curtis	Instant Groove "Instant Groove" by "King Curtis"
Peggy Lee	This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Lyres	She Pays The Rent "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres"
Spooner And The Spoons	Hey, Do You Wanna Marry?
Blue Shadows, The	Cominig On Strong
Irma Thomas	Don't Mess With My Man
Uni Boys, The	Hiding In My Home "Hiding In My Home" by "Uni Boys, The"
Gene Pitney	The Lips Are Reder On You
Wire Troop	I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You
Marshall Jones	Somebody's Got You Baby
Bob Marley and The Wailers	And I Love Her
Sallie Ford And The Sound Outside	Cage
Kinks, The	Set Me Free "Set Me Free" by "Kinks, The"
Gosdin Brothers, The	Had A Lot Of Friends
Isley Brothers, The	Why When Love Is Gone
Cheap Trick	Southern Girls "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick"
Denny Laine	Ask The People "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine"
Ronny and the Daytonas	Little GTO
Rick Nelson	If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)
Brook Benton	Do It Right "Do It Right" by "Brook Benton"
Pearl Bailey and Moms Mabley	Saturday Night Fish Fry
Kiss	Comin' Home (unplugged) "Comin' Home (unplugged)" by "Kiss"
Randy and the Rainbows	Denise "Denise" by "Randy and the Rainbows"
Carlene Carter	I Fell In Love "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter"
Solomon Burke	It's Been A Change "It's Been A Change" by "Solomon Burke"
NRBQ	I Got A Little Secret "I Got A Little Secret" by "NRBQ"
Wildweeds, The	No Go To Cry "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The"
Spade Cooley	Spadella "Spadella" by "Spade Cooley"
Barbara Lynn	Nice And Easy "Nice And Easy" by "Barbara Lynn"
Jimmy Caravan	Up, Up And Away "Up, Up And Away" by "Jimmy Caravan"
Roves, The	Everybody's High "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The"
Happy Confusion	The Singer Sings His Song (And The Gambler Gambles On)
Lonnie Mack	I've Had It "I've Had It" by "Lonnie Mack"
Vernon Garrett	Love Junkie "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett"
Blondie	Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)
Cyrkle, The	Straighten Up My Messed Up Life
Amy's Mom	Bacteria & Robe "Bacteria & Robe" by "Amy's Mom"

CLICK HERE for The Beatles' 167 page FBI file

CLICK HERE for a documentary about L.A.'s Chinatown Punk Wars

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

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

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 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 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 HERE for 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 HERE for "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 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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	11:04am Christina Ginger: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:02 They’re just looking to be warm, too 🫤. Is there work going on on your street?
	11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Let Me Into Your Life" by "Paul Collins Beat" Let Michael Shelley into your life. You'll benefit oh so much.
	11:05am nycmusicnerd: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:04 Not that I'm aware of. But after the Great Flood of 2021 my baseboards separated from the floor a bit. I think that's how the critters are getting in.
	11:06am nycmusicnerd: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:05 I'm spending this weekend cleaning the hell out of my kitchen. And I have a live trap set for the mouse. Hopefully the bleach and the rustling will put all the critters on notice.
	11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Boo
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Red Hot" by "Robert Gordon" Not kidding, this is one of my favorite songs.
	11:08am Christina Ginger: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:05 Ah, yeah…. That’ll do it. I had a few furry creatures in my first apartment for a bit, largely due to being on the first floor and having an exposed brick wall that was exposed after they knocked down the drywall covering it, which left gaps between the floorboards and the brick. We put steel wool in the gaps and it worked like a charm for the furry friends.
	11:08am tonyb: …w/ Link Wray?
	11:08am P-90: Those sticky traps seem to work pretty well for rodents
	11:08am myron feld: ↳ tonyb @11:08 Yes sir.
	11:09am common: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:06 same situation here in philly
	11:09am nycmusicnerd: ↳ P-90 @11:08 I might do that as well. Those things trap roaches too. Double duty!
	11:09am drr: Our little group tried covering Red Hot and it was terrible. Turned out I was copying Sam the Sham and the other guy was copying this version (which I had never heard). I just thought he was messing it up all over the place.
	11:10am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:10am Listener Baby: Shout out Jerry J!
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Please don't use glue traps. They're really awful.
	11:11am Squints: G G Y
	11:11am common: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:10 never!
	11:12am paul: Steve-a-rino!
	11:13am Listener Baby: Miss Peggy has been #1 in our unsigned in house for the last couple of weeks. . Peggy gets spins over this way.
	11:14am Christina Ginger: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" The best kind of crazy.
	11:14am P-90: You end up with this thing in your house with a live rodent stuck to it. So you have to consider a disposal strategy.
	11:14am nycmusicnerd: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:10 I currently have a live trap set for the mouse. Once he takes the bait (literally and figuratively), I might use glue traps for the roaches.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - mouse struggling alive stuck in glue. Very Awful. Got an electric trap from K-Mart back in the day. Black box - valve passage - they go in don't go out - couple batteries enuff to zap 'em apparently. Seemed to work fine. Light goes on - you got one - just empty it. Rule is : You got one mouse - you got three. Keep using til no catch. You can release them Live - super bonus points. ...Roaches ? Get a Gecko ??...
	11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Michael & all!
	11:15am Squints: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" Would that we could double clicky star some songs.
	11:15am johnk77: rip eddie money who had a co-writing credit on let me into your life nice set selecter
	11:15am Christina Ginger: ↳ P-90 @11:14 Yeah, I have seen that first hand, and the mouse was running and freaking out with the glue trap stuck to it. I don’t want them in my house, but man, I felt sorry for the little guy.
	11:15am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" That perfect snare drum sound
	11:15am Ciggy: Lyres @ Brownies. Summer of late 90s?
	11:15am Mister Dobalina: So, that King Curtis track triggered something in me. I know I've heard that horn part some where. Well, it was sampled on a Pete Rock & CL smooth track I really like. Love when music gives you goosebumps.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @11:15 - yes.
	11:16am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @11:09 Lol
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:15 - yes.
	11:16am Squints: "Slow" being a very relative term.
	11:16am listener phat in Lincoln: The cruelty free traps work just fine in my experience.
	11:16am Listener Baby: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:14 Look up the tipping lid bucket type trap, and you can turn them loose at your favorite friends place.
	11:17am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:16 Let the hilarity ensue.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Baby @11:16 Glad to hear it.
	11:17am Mister Dobalina: & it seems that the King Curtis was also a cover of Ray Sharp's, 'Help Me! (Get The Feeling)
	11:17am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Hey, Do You Wanna Marry?" by "Spooner And The Spo... Now this is a freaking great side.
	11:18am Listener Baby: A reasonable compromise. Dan and the Spoon. Do I have to think of everything?
	11:18am Squints: ↳ Moammar @11:17 I may just run out of GGYs today.
	11:20am rx "rexy" scabin: @nycmusicnerd you have to take the mouse far from your home and spin around with mouse, or they find their way back. They have excellent geolocation.
	11:20am listener phat in Lincoln: What did he have against laundromats?
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Cominig On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" They were the house band at a club 5 minutes from my house, and never went to see them
	11:21am P-90: “The Cowsill/Laundromst Affair” episode of Man From UNCLE was inspired by that incident
	11:21am Geoffrey in Ottawa: ↳ Song: "Cominig On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" Love this band and can still remember seeing them performing at lunch outside a record store on Sparks Street one summer day long ago.
	11:21am Squints: This whole record is just nutso great. I didn't catch up to it until 2010 or so. "A Paper And A Promise" is my favorite. But a great record top to bottom, front to back.
	11:21am nycmusicnerd: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:20 I was thinking of bringing it to work and letting it loose in the office of one of my enemies. >:)
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' spin around with mouse '
	11:23am P-90: another ethical conundrum: should you offer the mouse a Dramamine before you spin it?
	11:23am Squints: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:20 Wouldn't spinning the mouse the crueliest thing we've heard so far? Take it down to the tilt-a-whirl in Asbury Park?
	11:23am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Don't Mess With My Man" by "Irma Thomas" MICHAEL! What do you mean, "late?" Did she die today?
	11:24am Lizardner Dave !: WHAT???? When did that happen?
	11:24am P-90: more like the Astronaut Training Centrifuge at NASA
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lacking the simple Batman aerosol that makes you forget...
	11:25am Listener Baby: She’s pregnant
	11:25am myron feld: ↳ Listener Baby @11:25 Uffa!
	11:25am DJ Johnny Cool: Irma is still with us. I saw her in San Francisco a few months ago.
	11:26am Lizardner Dave !: ↳ myron feld @11:23 I'm not finding any confirmation. Perhaps Irma is to Michael as Bob Dylan is to Ken.
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: @Squints you spin the mouse by holding it and spinning yourself around.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hiding In My Home" by "Uni Boys, The" Someone was saying they saw UniBoys Live & was very enthused.
	11:27am P-90: orobably one of the all-time most prematurely-assumed-dead artists ever
	11:27am T281: sounding like the The Kooks www.youtube.com...
	11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 I count myself as one those people. Tough opening for The Lemon Twigs. Uni Boys held their own
	11:29am Squints: ↳ P-90 @11:27 I hope uses often the John Wayne retort from "Big Jake": "Not hardly."
	11:29am DJ Johnny Cool: Golden State by Logan Ledger is my favorite of 2023
	11:29am myron feld: ↳ Song: "The Lips Are Reder On You" by "Gene Pitney" He's from Rockville CT. No, it's not a town on "The Flintsones."
	11:29am Frank In Queens: I think The Whiffs "Scratch 'N' Sniff" has to be my top pick from this year.
	11:30am myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:29 Frank, just typing the same. So good.
	11:31am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:29 Vernon (of which Rockville was a part) is one town east from where I was raised.
	11:31am Glistener MW: H.B.D., J.S.G.! 🥳
	11:32am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You" by... Happy birthday to Jay!
	11:32am Frank In Queens: ↳ myron feld @11:30 And utterly fantastic live, although I sadly missed them last time around.
	11:32am Listener Baby: Everything Harmony. Album of the year. Hate to state the obvious.
	11:33am tonyb: Susannah teaches piano, & the Farfisa drives her up a wall.
	11:33am Listener Baby: Expert in a Dying Field, and strong contender
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:33 I love that one too, but that was 2022.
	11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:35 I stand corrected, Hughie. Time and me don’t get along
	11:36am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Somebody's Got You Baby" by "Marshall Jones" Hoping against hope my wife picked on my fervent hints that this box set would make a terrific holiday gift.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:33 It's that good - its multi year good!
	11:37am Listener Baby: That’s the spirit, Baby.
	11:38am Michael Shelley: ↳ tonyb @11:33 Have one in my basement = secret weapon!
	11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Well, this is something.
	11:39am Crei6hton: Morning WFMU
	11:39am Andres: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Top shelf version!!
	11:39am Listener Baby: Tony? That Tony?
	11:39am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you for the good time, Michael and Everyone. I must go and grade final projects. I fear that if I listen while grading, my comments will ne snatches of lyrics. It is not a good idea to call a student "baby."
	11:39am tonyb: …how ‘bout a Rhodes with Leslie? Got one of those?
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 I have the same issue, and when I think back on the last year or so on records I loved, both the Beths (regardless of release date) and the Twigs soar to the top. One other that has given me much pleasure this year is Panda Bear's Reset. I saw them at Knockdown and was charmed, and the LP is a sunny delight.
	11:40am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" WOW.
	11:41am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:40 Will check out!
	11:41am paul: ↳ myron feld @11:23 MS, You thinking of Carla Thomas?
	11:41am Geoffrey in Ottawa: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:29 That reminds me, I still need to buy this.
	11:42am tonyb: probably not. the other tony. a couple tony’s in nj. : )
	11:42am paul: ↳ paul @11:41 Looks like Carla is still alive, too.
	11:43am Listener Baby: ↳ tonyb @11:42 Noted.
	11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ paul @11:42 Will some female with the last name, Thomas just die already?
	11:44am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:44 YEAH!
	11:44am Frank In Queens: ↳ Geoffrey in Ottawa @11:41 You won't be disappointed.
	11:44am Michael Shelley: ↳ paul @11:41 I think she's still around
	11:46am listener phat in Lincoln: "Gene what's his name."
	11:46am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:46 exactly
	11:47am listener phat in Lincoln: Lol
	11:47am Listener Baby: Gene Somebody
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another Kinks Reunite notice... : www.dailymail.co.uk...
	11:47am listener phat in Lincoln: I couldn't remember Humphrey Bogart last night.
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:47 ...but still ...you'll always have Paris...
	11:48am Listener Baby: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:47 A song just waiting to be written, Phat.
	11:50am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:48 Noted!
	11:50am Cooh John: The Isleys. O-H....
	11:50am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Super. Love to Ron
	11:50am Squints: This is number one. I saw a Brooklyn band open for James Hunter that played this and mixed that stinging guitar up high. It was absolutely blistering.
	11:51am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Good lord, this is good
	11:51am Squints: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:51 Ain't it, though?
	11:51am Doug in MP: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Huh, always thought this was an Inmates original
	11:52am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Bringing out the big guns
	11:52am Corey: The #1's are especially on fire this morning. Clicking stars left and right!
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & the Isleys were one of Hendrix's better early employers. Which I'll always appreciate.
	11:52am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Speaking of great choruses (which I do a lot).
	11:52am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Surely Robin Zander has one of the great rock voices.
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:52 Maybe more than one.
	11:53am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" That open hi-hat!
	11:53am GR60: 46+ years later and this song still sounds fresh and is exciting.
	11:54am listener phat in Lincoln: I just realized how much this all hinges on the kick.
	11:57am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine" If they only had a mellotron
	11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine" Joe Belock did a great tribute to Denny Laine last week - worth seeking out!
	11:57am Squints: ↳ Doug in MP @11:51 The Inmates covered that? The same fellas that covered Dirty Water? Must. Go. Find.
	11:59am common: the best 70s film! pelham
	12:00pm estebangrande: o that's a good movie, pelham 123
	12:00pm pgalub: Pelham 123 has my favorite ending ever.
	12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: Hell of a cast in that movie
	12:00pm Bob: Pelham is great. Even better is Don Siegels Charley Varrick. Walter Matthau is a total bad ass. I just paid $2.65 for gas at Costco. Thanks Biden!
	12:00pm PatrickMC: Watched Pelham 123 with my teenage kids a couple of years ago. Totally holds up and kids loved.
	12:00pm Bucci: best Pelham 123 line “What do they want for their thirty-five cents? To live forever?”
	12:00pm egould: Greg from Zone 5 is much preferable to Count Mikula.
	12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Some of my 2023 faves: Most ethereal: Resavoir / Resavoir Best single: Home Front / “Faded State” Best weird DIY bands I discovered on bandcamp: The Visor Guy, Immersion Scriber & Brian Damage Most consistently reliable (indie rock) Yo La Tengo / This Stupid World Most consistently reliable (hip-hop) Skyzoo / The Mind of a Saint Most popular: Arlo Parks / My Soft Machine Most listened to: Motorbike / Motorbike
	12:01pm HyperDose: Very fine programming this morning, Mr. Shelley 🎩☕
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: I'm starting a surf band with a friend soon, apparently.
	12:01pm common: ↳ Bucci @12:00 exactly
	12:01pm Hughie Considine: Pellham 1,2,3 turns the trick of making you weirdly nostalgic for the sleazy, crime-addled New York of the '70s. Amazing cast, Matthau, Martin Balsam, Reni Santoni ... not a lot of juicy parts for female actors.
	12:02pm Mailman Tom: Pelham 1,2,3 looks awfully dated now.
	12:02pm McGroovey: 35¢ in 1974 request $2.18 now.
	12:02pm Ciggy: I think the train is on the local track, which in reality ends and turns around at the city hall station. They mixed the green line with the red line
	12:03pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Little GTO" by "Ronny and the Daytonas" "She beats the gassers and the rail jobs." Absolute poetry.
	12:03pm Listener Baby: The 70’s. The decade of the character actor.
	12:03pm Andres: K-Tel collections are solid value! Super Bad is my fave.
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mailman Tom @12:02 It's looks like 1974
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ myron feld @12:03 That is good.
	12:04pm common: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:03 again, exactly
	12:05pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ myron feld @12:03 Looking up what a rail job is.
	12:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Bucci @12:00 My favorite P123 quote: "Give them two hours and they take two - three and they take three."
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Bob @12:00 love that film!
	12:06pm Bob: Hey, Michael. Thanks for the Rami single. Looks great. The label threw in a couple of pretty cool CDs as well. Much appreciated
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)" by "Rick Nelson" Yeah. How this should be done.
	12:07pm Steve from Dunwoody: That Bill from Billville, everything he writes is great!
	12:07pm estebangrande: ↳ Song: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)" by "Rick Nelson" wow
	12:08pm jg: Really great Ricky nelson!
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Bucci @12:00 Its so full of great moments!
	12:10pm Greg from ZONE 5: That made me LOL, Bucci.
	12:12pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think I need one of these jackets.
	12:15pm Andres: Denim jacket with tan corduroy collar is the look. Also a fully thrifted closet here. But yeah, $24 no tax is hard to beat.
	12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by "Pearl Bailey and Mom... Pearl Bailey's "Five Pound Box of Money" is the good kind of Xmas song.
	12:15pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by "Pearl Bailey and Mom... this is the best version i've ever heard.
	12:16pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Another thrifter here but I might need that jacket too. Twinsies!
	12:16pm wind: This is load of fun!
	12:17pm P-90: sounds just a little plugged to me
	12:17pm jg: Gotta correct you on Kiss Michael. Saw them twice in the last 5 years, one time being two weeks ago. They sing and play for real
	12:18pm Hughie Considine: Trying to figure out if it's a No. 1 or No. 2...
	12:18pm listener phat in Lincoln: I wish Gene Simmons wasn't such a jerk. Also, I still regret missing my opportunity to party with Kiss
	12:18pm HyperDose: ↳ P-90 @12:17 haha right
	12:18pm Ciggy: Kiss, Pearl & Moms
	12:18pm jg: But agree about the holograms. Stupid even for them
	12:19pm listener phat in Lincoln: It was the girlfriend's fault
	12:19pm Christina Ginger: Hey, represented!
	12:19pm Frank In Queens: Oh man Randy and The Rainbows. Local legends!
	12:20pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Denise" by "Randy and the Rainbows" Queens, #1 borough!
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: CHECK out this video of the 20 BEST lps of '23 (spoiler - Juniper is #1): shorturl.at...
	12:20pm MarciB: yay Queens! I wonder if Randy Rainbow is from Queens ..
	12:20pm drr: Paul Stanley is a fun follow on Twitter; he mostly posts pictures of food he made. It looks good.
	12:21pm Peter: Covered by Blondie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahGxiSV_LH0
	12:22pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" Albert Lee (80!) coming to Iridium in Jan
	12:23pm Squints: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" If you've got a big June Carter voice (naturally), this is exactly how to deploy it. Dang.
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: ↳ jg @12:17 There are recent YouTube clips you can find where the pre-recorded tracks go out of sync, and it's obvious they're using track at least some of the time... they can still be great though
	12:24pm Corey: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" Somehow stumbled on this one earlier this week. So good!
	12:25pm Steve from Dunwoody: Where is Brook Benton on the playlist? That was a #1!
	12:25pm Bob: I saw an old man, classic rock cover band last night at the Hell Saloon in Hell Michigan. Surreal all around. They were actually fine musicians if okay singers. The one revelation of the otherwise forgettable experience was that they played Poison’s Talk Dirty to Me as a very tight, rocking Cheap Trick arrangement and it was pretty great
	12:27pm Baby: This very optimistic fellow is sadly incorrect
	12:27pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:25 Thanks Steve - added!
	12:27pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:25 Danke.
	12:29pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "I Got A Little Secret" by "NRBQ" Xmas with NRBQ
	12:31pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The" Ah yes, the fabled Connecticut sound ...
	12:31pm Squints: ↳ Song: "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The" Yuge, yuge local hit in Kinetic-cut when I was but a lad. Big Al and the Wildweeds were from Williimantic, I think. Maybe Windsor.
	12:31pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ Bob @12:25 "Old man band"...it hurts 'cause its true.
	12:33pm myron feld: Gene Simmons graduated from Newtown HS in Elmhurst. He's in my sister's yearbook.
	12:34pm myron feld: ↳ myron feld @12:33 As Eugene Klein.
	12:34pm scott: Weed?
	12:34pm drr: I saw a Wildweeds LP at Euclid, looked pretty vintage. Pretty beat up, too, and didn't have "No Good To Cry" on it. Under $20 IIRC.
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Caught myself outloud ...how can this band make such good Rawk'n'Roll ...they're just - kids... Wait. Whut ? No one heard me say that ...right ??...
	12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ myron feld @12:34 I wonder if he was already showing off his oversized tongue when he was in high school.
	12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Spadella" by "Spade Cooley" That such a person could produce such music...
	12:35pm kAT: Gimmee dat cookie recipe
	12:36pm Mister Dobalina: Funk Dat! Get a new DJ!
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 Oh lordy. To go with Drums & Demons coming up...
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:34 boot
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Nice And Easy" by "Barbara Lynn" That's some stereo separation!
	12:38pm Moammar: Bongo feet in the house!
	12:38pm scott: In England, they call a trunk a boot.
	12:40pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up, Up And Away" by "Jimmy Caravan" Hot damn
	12:40pm Listener Baby: Baby. You have evolved into the Steve Cropper of Bongo Feet. Congrats!
	12:40pm listener phat in Lincoln: #1 hits!
	12:41pm scott: Jimmy Webb, I still love you.
	12:41pm Michael Shelley: ↳ kAT @12:35 email me!
	12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The" Who the hell is this? Holy hell.
	12:42pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The" Who says there are no more guitar riffs left in the world?
	12:45pm Andres: 2024 releases only on New Year’s Day.
	12:46pm Ciggy: Michael, what calendar are you using
	12:46pm egould: I was stuck in traffic on the 405, and Kenny Rogers was in the car next to mine. This was before he died.
	12:47pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Ciggy @12:46 Irma Thomas'
	12:47pm morphe': Thanks Mikey and all !!!
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: I just bought everything The Roves have available on Bandcamp. Lol.
	12:48pm Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:48 NICE!
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "The Singer Sings His Song (And The Gambler Gamble... My kind of garbage.
	12:49pm egould: Happy Holidays, Michael. Thank you for a great show today. And for a year full of great shows.
	12:49pm Moammar: ↳ Song: "I've Had It" by "Lonnie Mack" The wham! Of that Memphis man!
	12:50pm Moammar: ↳ Moammar @12:49 This is the wham of which I speak.
	12:50pm Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael, all. Been listening while driving around Brooklyn on errands. Thank you for the miracle of a parking spot on the block. Also for Cookie Talk.
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett" Good GOD, y'all.
	12:52pm listener phat in Lincoln: Great show Michael. Wish me luck bathing the linebacker cat.
	12:52pm Listener Baby: Happy Holidays, Baby. And to to one and all. See you all in 24. I’ll be older, shorter, and balder. But here as always. Peace!
	12:52pm Michael Shelley: The cookies are from this book - and VERY similar to this recipe www.wbur.org...
	12:53pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett" This is almost too much
	12:53pm Greg g: So funkee
	12:53pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:52 "Linebacker cat" is a seriously frightening description.
	12:54pm Ciggy: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:47 😃
	12:54pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Love this version
	12:55pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:53 He's ridiculously thick.
	12:55pm Listener Baby: Squidword sings!
	12:55pm johnk77: commander chapman on the hype mic? in the control room?
	12:55pm Steve from Dunwoody: Why can't we be drunk again...
	12:55pm morphe': ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 LB - was a news story about a Barber Shop getting busted in Italy = fronting as a street level drug spot [so 90s NYC??] because a cop who lived across the street noticed all the BaldHead/ShavedHead dudes going in and out ... Go Figua!!!!???!!!
	12:55pm Hughie Considine: Someone should do a DJ set of songs where the producer sings. If there are enoiugh. Joe Belock would know.
	12:55pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Clem
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... A cover anyhow of course but I guess still needed a guide vocal...
	12:56pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Chan Marshall does a nice 41 second cover of this
	12:56pm johnk77: drummer on the uptempo did they record w/click?
	12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Chapman scuttled his planned solo career shortly after recording this.
	12:57pm Biba McLurex: This made my day.
	12:57pm Andres: It was no karaoke. Too good.
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straighten Up My Messed Up Life" by "Cyrkle, The" It was feeling like a turn-down day until this popped up.
	12:59pm Handy Haversack: Have a good break, MS!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm Andres: Amy’s mom dropping knowledge. Thanks, Michael.
	1:00pm P-90: gotta watch it with the gang colors
	1:00pm Greg g: Thank you Michael & Happy Holidays!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Margo Guryan	I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
Paul Collins Beat	Let Me Into Your Life
Robert Gordon	Red Hot "Red Hot" by "Robert Gordon"
King Curtis	Instant Groove "Instant Groove" by "King Curtis"
Peggy Lee	This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Lyres	She Pays The Rent "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres"
Spooner And The Spoons	Hey, Do You Wanna Marry?
Blue Shadows, The	Cominig On Strong
Irma Thomas	Don't Mess With My Man
Uni Boys, The	Hiding In My Home "Hiding In My Home" by "Uni Boys, The"
Gene Pitney	The Lips Are Reder On You
Wire Troop	I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You
Marshall Jones	Somebody's Got You Baby
Bob Marley and The Wailers	And I Love Her
Sallie Ford And The Sound Outside	Cage
Kinks, The	Set Me Free "Set Me Free" by "Kinks, The"
Gosdin Brothers, The	Had A Lot Of Friends
Isley Brothers, The	Why When Love Is Gone
Cheap Trick	Southern Girls "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick"
Denny Laine	Ask The People "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine"
Ronny and the Daytonas	Little GTO
Rick Nelson	If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)
Brook Benton	Do It Right "Do It Right" by "Brook Benton"
Pearl Bailey and Moms Mabley	Saturday Night Fish Fry
Kiss	Comin' Home (unplugged) "Comin' Home (unplugged)" by "Kiss"
Randy and the Rainbows	Denise "Denise" by "Randy and the Rainbows"
Carlene Carter	I Fell In Love "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter"
Solomon Burke	It's Been A Change "It's Been A Change" by "Solomon Burke"
NRBQ	I Got A Little Secret "I Got A Little Secret" by "NRBQ"
Wildweeds, The	No Go To Cry "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The"
Spade Cooley	Spadella "Spadella" by "Spade Cooley"
Barbara Lynn	Nice And Easy "Nice And Easy" by "Barbara Lynn"
Jimmy Caravan	Up, Up And Away "Up, Up And Away" by "Jimmy Caravan"
Roves, The	Everybody's High "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The"
Happy Confusion	The Singer Sings His Song (And The Gambler Gambles On)
Lonnie Mack	I've Had It "I've Had It" by "Lonnie Mack"
Vernon Garrett	Love Junkie "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett"
Blondie	Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)
Cyrkle, The	Straighten Up My Messed Up Life
Amy's Mom	Bacteria & Robe "Bacteria & Robe" by "Amy's Mom"

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Listener comments!
	10:39am Listener Baby: An unable to sign in, good morning, Baby. Hello to all my signed in friends. I bet you feel very proud of yourselves. All signed in, and comfortable. I see you. 👀 I won’t forget this.
	10:59am Michael Shelley: I feel your pain!
	11:00am Mister Dobalina: Good morning, Michael.
	11:01am Listener Baby: Oh, you can’t imagine.
	11:01am Frank In Queens: HEYYYYYYYYYYY NOW!
	11:01am Greg g: Morning Michael , Baby & Everybody!
	11:01am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:01am Andres: Good morning, Michael, Mike, and the rest of yous.
	11:01am Joey!: morning mike!!!
	11:02am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I never feel comfortable and never have.
	11:02am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds... Currently battling roaches AND a mouse in my apartment. Stressed AF :(
	11:02am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I am happy to be here with everyone though.
	11:02am Listener Baby: Baby Rex. Thanks for the support. You are loved.
	11:02am Bob: Good morning and happy holidays to everyone
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:03am Christina Ginger: Good morming!
	11:03am P-90: Some of us prefer comfortable. Even not signed in.
	11:04am Christina Ginger: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:02 They’re just looking to be warm, too 🫤. Is there work going on on your street?
	11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Let Me Into Your Life" by "Paul Collins Beat" Let Michael Shelley into your life. You'll benefit oh so much.
	11:05am nycmusicnerd: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:04 Not that I'm aware of. But after the Great Flood of 2021 my baseboards separated from the floor a bit. I think that's how the critters are getting in.
	11:06am nycmusicnerd: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:05 I'm spending this weekend cleaning the hell out of my kitchen. And I have a live trap set for the mouse. Hopefully the bleach and the rustling will put all the critters on notice.
	11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Boo
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Red Hot" by "Robert Gordon" Not kidding, this is one of my favorite songs.
	11:08am Christina Ginger: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:05 Ah, yeah…. That’ll do it. I had a few furry creatures in my first apartment for a bit, largely due to being on the first floor and having an exposed brick wall that was exposed after they knocked down the drywall covering it, which left gaps between the floorboards and the brick. We put steel wool in the gaps and it worked like a charm for the furry friends.
	11:08am tonyb: …w/ Link Wray?
	11:08am P-90: Those sticky traps seem to work pretty well for rodents
	11:08am myron feld: ↳ tonyb @11:08 Yes sir.
	11:09am common: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:06 same situation here in philly
	11:09am nycmusicnerd: ↳ P-90 @11:08 I might do that as well. Those things trap roaches too. Double duty!
	11:09am drr: Our little group tried covering Red Hot and it was terrible. Turned out I was copying Sam the Sham and the other guy was copying this version (which I had never heard). I just thought he was messing it up all over the place.
	11:10am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:10am Listener Baby: Shout out Jerry J!
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Please don't use glue traps. They're really awful.
	11:11am Squints: G G Y
	11:11am common: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:10 never!
	11:12am paul: Steve-a-rino!
	11:13am Listener Baby: Miss Peggy has been #1 in our unsigned in house for the last couple of weeks. . Peggy gets spins over this way.
	11:14am Christina Ginger: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" The best kind of crazy.
	11:14am P-90: You end up with this thing in your house with a live rodent stuck to it. So you have to consider a disposal strategy.
	11:14am nycmusicnerd: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:10 I currently have a live trap set for the mouse. Once he takes the bait (literally and figuratively), I might use glue traps for the roaches.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - mouse struggling alive stuck in glue. Very Awful. Got an electric trap from K-Mart back in the day. Black box - valve passage - they go in don't go out - couple batteries enuff to zap 'em apparently. Seemed to work fine. Light goes on - you got one - just empty it. Rule is : You got one mouse - you got three. Keep using til no catch. You can release them Live - super bonus points. ...Roaches ? Get a Gecko ??...
	11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Michael & all!
	11:15am Squints: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" Would that we could double clicky star some songs.
	11:15am johnk77: rip eddie money who had a co-writing credit on let me into your life nice set selecter
	11:15am Christina Ginger: ↳ P-90 @11:14 Yeah, I have seen that first hand, and the mouse was running and freaking out with the glue trap stuck to it. I don’t want them in my house, but man, I felt sorry for the little guy.
	11:15am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "She Pays The Rent" by "Lyres" That perfect snare drum sound
	11:15am Ciggy: Lyres @ Brownies. Summer of late 90s?
	11:15am Mister Dobalina: So, that King Curtis track triggered something in me. I know I've heard that horn part some where. Well, it was sampled on a Pete Rock & CL smooth track I really like. Love when music gives you goosebumps.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Squints @11:15 - yes.
	11:16am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @11:09 Lol
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:15 - yes.
	11:16am Squints: "Slow" being a very relative term.
	11:16am listener phat in Lincoln: The cruelty free traps work just fine in my experience.
	11:16am Listener Baby: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:14 Look up the tipping lid bucket type trap, and you can turn them loose at your favorite friends place.
	11:17am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:16 Let the hilarity ensue.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Baby @11:16 Glad to hear it.
	11:17am Mister Dobalina: & it seems that the King Curtis was also a cover of Ray Sharp's, 'Help Me! (Get The Feeling)
	11:17am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Hey, Do You Wanna Marry?" by "Spooner And The Spo... Now this is a freaking great side.
	11:18am Listener Baby: A reasonable compromise. Dan and the Spoon. Do I have to think of everything?
	11:18am Squints: ↳ Moammar @11:17 I may just run out of GGYs today.
	11:20am rx "rexy" scabin: @nycmusicnerd you have to take the mouse far from your home and spin around with mouse, or they find their way back. They have excellent geolocation.
	11:20am listener phat in Lincoln: What did he have against laundromats?
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Cominig On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" They were the house band at a club 5 minutes from my house, and never went to see them
	11:21am P-90: “The Cowsill/Laundromst Affair” episode of Man From UNCLE was inspired by that incident
	11:21am Geoffrey in Ottawa: ↳ Song: "Cominig On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" Love this band and can still remember seeing them performing at lunch outside a record store on Sparks Street one summer day long ago.
	11:21am Squints: This whole record is just nutso great. I didn't catch up to it until 2010 or so. "A Paper And A Promise" is my favorite. But a great record top to bottom, front to back.
	11:21am nycmusicnerd: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:20 I was thinking of bringing it to work and letting it loose in the office of one of my enemies. >:)
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' spin around with mouse '
	11:23am P-90: another ethical conundrum: should you offer the mouse a Dramamine before you spin it?
	11:23am Squints: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:20 Wouldn't spinning the mouse the crueliest thing we've heard so far? Take it down to the tilt-a-whirl in Asbury Park?
	11:23am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Don't Mess With My Man" by "Irma Thomas" MICHAEL! What do you mean, "late?" Did she die today?
	11:24am Lizardner Dave !: WHAT???? When did that happen?
	11:24am P-90: more like the Astronaut Training Centrifuge at NASA
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lacking the simple Batman aerosol that makes you forget...
	11:25am Listener Baby: She’s pregnant
	11:25am myron feld: ↳ Listener Baby @11:25 Uffa!
	11:25am DJ Johnny Cool: Irma is still with us. I saw her in San Francisco a few months ago.
	11:26am Lizardner Dave !: ↳ myron feld @11:23 I'm not finding any confirmation. Perhaps Irma is to Michael as Bob Dylan is to Ken.
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: @Squints you spin the mouse by holding it and spinning yourself around.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hiding In My Home" by "Uni Boys, The" Someone was saying they saw UniBoys Live & was very enthused.
	11:27am P-90: orobably one of the all-time most prematurely-assumed-dead artists ever
	11:27am T281: sounding like the The Kooks www.youtube.com...
	11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 I count myself as one those people. Tough opening for The Lemon Twigs. Uni Boys held their own
	11:29am Squints: ↳ P-90 @11:27 I hope uses often the John Wayne retort from "Big Jake": "Not hardly."
	11:29am DJ Johnny Cool: Golden State by Logan Ledger is my favorite of 2023
	11:29am myron feld: ↳ Song: "The Lips Are Reder On You" by "Gene Pitney" He's from Rockville CT. No, it's not a town on "The Flintsones."
	11:29am Frank In Queens: I think The Whiffs "Scratch 'N' Sniff" has to be my top pick from this year.
	11:30am myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:29 Frank, just typing the same. So good.
	11:31am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:29 Vernon (of which Rockville was a part) is one town east from where I was raised.
	11:31am Glistener MW: H.B.D., J.S.G.! 🥳
	11:32am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You" by... Happy birthday to Jay!
	11:32am Frank In Queens: ↳ myron feld @11:30 And utterly fantastic live, although I sadly missed them last time around.
	11:32am Listener Baby: Everything Harmony. Album of the year. Hate to state the obvious.
	11:33am tonyb: Susannah teaches piano, & the Farfisa drives her up a wall.
	11:33am Listener Baby: Expert in a Dying Field, and strong contender
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:33 I love that one too, but that was 2022.
	11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:35 I stand corrected, Hughie. Time and me don’t get along
	11:36am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Somebody's Got You Baby" by "Marshall Jones" Hoping against hope my wife picked on my fervent hints that this box set would make a terrific holiday gift.
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:33 It's that good - its multi year good!
	11:37am Listener Baby: That’s the spirit, Baby.
	11:38am Michael Shelley: ↳ tonyb @11:33 Have one in my basement = secret weapon!
	11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Well, this is something.
	11:39am Crei6hton: Morning WFMU
	11:39am Andres: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Top shelf version!!
	11:39am Listener Baby: Tony? That Tony?
	11:39am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you for the good time, Michael and Everyone. I must go and grade final projects. I fear that if I listen while grading, my comments will ne snatches of lyrics. It is not a good idea to call a student "baby."
	11:39am tonyb: …how ‘bout a Rhodes with Leslie? Got one of those?
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 I have the same issue, and when I think back on the last year or so on records I loved, both the Beths (regardless of release date) and the Twigs soar to the top. One other that has given me much pleasure this year is Panda Bear's Reset. I saw them at Knockdown and was charmed, and the LP is a sunny delight.
	11:40am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "And I Love Her" by "Bob Marley and The Wailers" WOW.
	11:41am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:40 Will check out!
	11:41am paul: ↳ myron feld @11:23 MS, You thinking of Carla Thomas?
	11:41am Geoffrey in Ottawa: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:29 That reminds me, I still need to buy this.
	11:42am tonyb: probably not. the other tony. a couple tony’s in nj. : )
	11:42am paul: ↳ paul @11:41 Looks like Carla is still alive, too.
	11:43am Listener Baby: ↳ tonyb @11:42 Noted.
	11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ paul @11:42 Will some female with the last name, Thomas just die already?
	11:44am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:44 YEAH!
	11:44am Frank In Queens: ↳ Geoffrey in Ottawa @11:41 You won't be disappointed.
	11:44am Michael Shelley: ↳ paul @11:41 I think she's still around
	11:46am listener phat in Lincoln: "Gene what's his name."
	11:46am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:46 exactly
	11:47am listener phat in Lincoln: Lol
	11:47am Listener Baby: Gene Somebody
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another Kinks Reunite notice... : www.dailymail.co.uk...
	11:47am listener phat in Lincoln: I couldn't remember Humphrey Bogart last night.
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:47 ...but still ...you'll always have Paris...
	11:48am Listener Baby: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:47 A song just waiting to be written, Phat.
	11:50am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:48 Noted!
	11:50am Cooh John: The Isleys. O-H....
	11:50am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Super. Love to Ron
	11:50am Squints: This is number one. I saw a Brooklyn band open for James Hunter that played this and mixed that stinging guitar up high. It was absolutely blistering.
	11:51am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Good lord, this is good
	11:51am Squints: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:51 Ain't it, though?
	11:51am Doug in MP: ↳ Song: "Why When Love Is Gone" by "Isley Brothers, The" Huh, always thought this was an Inmates original
	11:52am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Bringing out the big guns
	11:52am Corey: The #1's are especially on fire this morning. Clicking stars left and right!
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & the Isleys were one of Hendrix's better early employers. Which I'll always appreciate.
	11:52am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Speaking of great choruses (which I do a lot).
	11:52am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" Surely Robin Zander has one of the great rock voices.
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:52 Maybe more than one.
	11:53am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Southern Girls" by "Cheap Trick" That open hi-hat!
	11:53am GR60: 46+ years later and this song still sounds fresh and is exciting.
	11:54am listener phat in Lincoln: I just realized how much this all hinges on the kick.
	11:57am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine" If they only had a mellotron
	11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Ask The People" by "Denny Laine" Joe Belock did a great tribute to Denny Laine last week - worth seeking out!
	11:57am Squints: ↳ Doug in MP @11:51 The Inmates covered that? The same fellas that covered Dirty Water? Must. Go. Find.
	11:59am common: the best 70s film! pelham
	12:00pm estebangrande: o that's a good movie, pelham 123
	12:00pm pgalub: Pelham 123 has my favorite ending ever.
	12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: Hell of a cast in that movie
	12:00pm Bob: Pelham is great. Even better is Don Siegels Charley Varrick. Walter Matthau is a total bad ass. I just paid $2.65 for gas at Costco. Thanks Biden!
	12:00pm PatrickMC: Watched Pelham 123 with my teenage kids a couple of years ago. Totally holds up and kids loved.
	12:00pm Bucci: best Pelham 123 line “What do they want for their thirty-five cents? To live forever?”
	12:00pm egould: Greg from Zone 5 is much preferable to Count Mikula.
	12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: Some of my 2023 faves: Most ethereal: Resavoir / Resavoir Best single: Home Front / “Faded State” Best weird DIY bands I discovered on bandcamp: The Visor Guy, Immersion Scriber & Brian Damage Most consistently reliable (indie rock) Yo La Tengo / This Stupid World Most consistently reliable (hip-hop) Skyzoo / The Mind of a Saint Most popular: Arlo Parks / My Soft Machine Most listened to: Motorbike / Motorbike
	12:01pm HyperDose: Very fine programming this morning, Mr. Shelley 🎩☕
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: I'm starting a surf band with a friend soon, apparently.
	12:01pm common: ↳ Bucci @12:00 exactly
	12:01pm Hughie Considine: Pellham 1,2,3 turns the trick of making you weirdly nostalgic for the sleazy, crime-addled New York of the '70s. Amazing cast, Matthau, Martin Balsam, Reni Santoni ... not a lot of juicy parts for female actors.
	12:02pm Mailman Tom: Pelham 1,2,3 looks awfully dated now.
	12:02pm McGroovey: 35¢ in 1974 request $2.18 now.
	12:02pm Ciggy: I think the train is on the local track, which in reality ends and turns around at the city hall station. They mixed the green line with the red line
	12:03pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Little GTO" by "Ronny and the Daytonas" "She beats the gassers and the rail jobs." Absolute poetry.
	12:03pm Listener Baby: The 70’s. The decade of the character actor.
	12:03pm Andres: K-Tel collections are solid value! Super Bad is my fave.
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mailman Tom @12:02 It's looks like 1974
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ myron feld @12:03 That is good.
	12:04pm common: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:03 again, exactly
	12:05pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ myron feld @12:03 Looking up what a rail job is.
	12:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Bucci @12:00 My favorite P123 quote: "Give them two hours and they take two - three and they take three."
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Bob @12:00 love that film!
	12:06pm Bob: Hey, Michael. Thanks for the Rami single. Looks great. The label threw in a couple of pretty cool CDs as well. Much appreciated
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)" by "Rick Nelson" Yeah. How this should be done.
	12:07pm Steve from Dunwoody: That Bill from Billville, everything he writes is great!
	12:07pm estebangrande: ↳ Song: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (live)" by "Rick Nelson" wow
	12:08pm jg: Really great Ricky nelson!
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Bucci @12:00 Its so full of great moments!
	12:10pm Greg from ZONE 5: That made me LOL, Bucci.
	12:12pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think I need one of these jackets.
	12:15pm Andres: Denim jacket with tan corduroy collar is the look. Also a fully thrifted closet here. But yeah, $24 no tax is hard to beat.
	12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by "Pearl Bailey and Mom... Pearl Bailey's "Five Pound Box of Money" is the good kind of Xmas song.
	12:15pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by "Pearl Bailey and Mom... this is the best version i've ever heard.
	12:16pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Another thrifter here but I might need that jacket too. Twinsies!
	12:16pm wind: This is load of fun!
	12:17pm P-90: sounds just a little plugged to me
	12:17pm jg: Gotta correct you on Kiss Michael. Saw them twice in the last 5 years, one time being two weeks ago. They sing and play for real
	12:18pm Hughie Considine: Trying to figure out if it's a No. 1 or No. 2...
	12:18pm listener phat in Lincoln: I wish Gene Simmons wasn't such a jerk. Also, I still regret missing my opportunity to party with Kiss
	12:18pm HyperDose: ↳ P-90 @12:17 haha right
	12:18pm Ciggy: Kiss, Pearl & Moms
	12:18pm jg: But agree about the holograms. Stupid even for them
	12:19pm listener phat in Lincoln: It was the girlfriend's fault
	12:19pm Christina Ginger: Hey, represented!
	12:19pm Frank In Queens: Oh man Randy and The Rainbows. Local legends!
	12:20pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Denise" by "Randy and the Rainbows" Queens, #1 borough!
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: CHECK out this video of the 20 BEST lps of '23 (spoiler - Juniper is #1): shorturl.at...
	12:20pm MarciB: yay Queens! I wonder if Randy Rainbow is from Queens ..
	12:20pm drr: Paul Stanley is a fun follow on Twitter; he mostly posts pictures of food he made. It looks good.
	12:21pm Peter: Covered by Blondie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahGxiSV_LH0
	12:22pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" Albert Lee (80!) coming to Iridium in Jan
	12:23pm Squints: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" If you've got a big June Carter voice (naturally), this is exactly how to deploy it. Dang.
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: ↳ jg @12:17 There are recent YouTube clips you can find where the pre-recorded tracks go out of sync, and it's obvious they're using track at least some of the time... they can still be great though
	12:24pm Corey: ↳ Song: "I Fell In Love" by "Carlene Carter" Somehow stumbled on this one earlier this week. So good!
	12:25pm Steve from Dunwoody: Where is Brook Benton on the playlist? That was a #1!
	12:25pm Bob: I saw an old man, classic rock cover band last night at the Hell Saloon in Hell Michigan. Surreal all around. They were actually fine musicians if okay singers. The one revelation of the otherwise forgettable experience was that they played Poison’s Talk Dirty to Me as a very tight, rocking Cheap Trick arrangement and it was pretty great
	12:27pm Baby: This very optimistic fellow is sadly incorrect
	12:27pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:25 Thanks Steve - added!
	12:27pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:25 Danke.
	12:29pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "I Got A Little Secret" by "NRBQ" Xmas with NRBQ
	12:31pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The" Ah yes, the fabled Connecticut sound ...
	12:31pm Squints: ↳ Song: "No Go To Cry" by "Wildweeds, The" Yuge, yuge local hit in Kinetic-cut when I was but a lad. Big Al and the Wildweeds were from Williimantic, I think. Maybe Windsor.
	12:31pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ Bob @12:25 "Old man band"...it hurts 'cause its true.
	12:33pm myron feld: Gene Simmons graduated from Newtown HS in Elmhurst. He's in my sister's yearbook.
	12:34pm myron feld: ↳ myron feld @12:33 As Eugene Klein.
	12:34pm scott: Weed?
	12:34pm drr: I saw a Wildweeds LP at Euclid, looked pretty vintage. Pretty beat up, too, and didn't have "No Good To Cry" on it. Under $20 IIRC.
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Caught myself outloud ...how can this band make such good Rawk'n'Roll ...they're just - kids... Wait. Whut ? No one heard me say that ...right ??...
	12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ myron feld @12:34 I wonder if he was already showing off his oversized tongue when he was in high school.
	12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Spadella" by "Spade Cooley" That such a person could produce such music...
	12:35pm kAT: Gimmee dat cookie recipe
	12:36pm Mister Dobalina: Funk Dat! Get a new DJ!
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 Oh lordy. To go with Drums & Demons coming up...
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ drr @12:34 boot
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Nice And Easy" by "Barbara Lynn" That's some stereo separation!
	12:38pm Moammar: Bongo feet in the house!
	12:38pm scott: In England, they call a trunk a boot.
	12:40pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up, Up And Away" by "Jimmy Caravan" Hot damn
	12:40pm Listener Baby: Baby. You have evolved into the Steve Cropper of Bongo Feet. Congrats!
	12:40pm listener phat in Lincoln: #1 hits!
	12:41pm scott: Jimmy Webb, I still love you.
	12:41pm Michael Shelley: ↳ kAT @12:35 email me!
	12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The" Who the hell is this? Holy hell.
	12:42pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Everybody's High" by "Roves, The" Who says there are no more guitar riffs left in the world?
	12:45pm Andres: 2024 releases only on New Year’s Day.
	12:46pm Ciggy: Michael, what calendar are you using
	12:46pm egould: I was stuck in traffic on the 405, and Kenny Rogers was in the car next to mine. This was before he died.
	12:47pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Ciggy @12:46 Irma Thomas'
	12:47pm morphe': Thanks Mikey and all !!!
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: I just bought everything The Roves have available on Bandcamp. Lol.
	12:48pm Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:48 NICE!
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "The Singer Sings His Song (And The Gambler Gamble... My kind of garbage.
	12:49pm egould: Happy Holidays, Michael. Thank you for a great show today. And for a year full of great shows.
	12:49pm Moammar: ↳ Song: "I've Had It" by "Lonnie Mack" The wham! Of that Memphis man!
	12:50pm Moammar: ↳ Moammar @12:49 This is the wham of which I speak.
	12:50pm Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael, all. Been listening while driving around Brooklyn on errands. Thank you for the miracle of a parking spot on the block. Also for Cookie Talk.
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett" Good GOD, y'all.
	12:52pm listener phat in Lincoln: Great show Michael. Wish me luck bathing the linebacker cat.
	12:52pm Listener Baby: Happy Holidays, Baby. And to to one and all. See you all in 24. I’ll be older, shorter, and balder. But here as always. Peace!
	12:52pm Michael Shelley: The cookies are from this book - and VERY similar to this recipe www.wbur.org...
	12:53pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Love Junkie" by "Vernon Garrett" This is almost too much
	12:53pm Greg g: So funkee
	12:53pm Steve from Dunwoody: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:52 "Linebacker cat" is a seriously frightening description.
	12:54pm Ciggy: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:47 😃
	12:54pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Love this version
	12:55pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Steve from Dunwoody @12:53 He's ridiculously thick.
	12:55pm Listener Baby: Squidword sings!
	12:55pm johnk77: commander chapman on the hype mic? in the control room?
	12:55pm Steve from Dunwoody: Why can't we be drunk again...
	12:55pm morphe': ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 LB - was a news story about a Barber Shop getting busted in Italy = fronting as a street level drug spot [so 90s NYC??] because a cop who lived across the street noticed all the BaldHead/ShavedHead dudes going in and out ... Go Figua!!!!???!!!
	12:55pm Hughie Considine: Someone should do a DJ set of songs where the producer sings. If there are enoiugh. Joe Belock would know.
	12:55pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Clem
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... A cover anyhow of course but I guess still needed a guide vocal...
	12:56pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Chan Marshall does a nice 41 second cover of this
	12:56pm johnk77: drummer on the uptempo did they record w/click?
	12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman vocals)" b... Chapman scuttled his planned solo career shortly after recording this.
	12:57pm Biba McLurex: This made my day.
	12:57pm Andres: It was no karaoke. Too good.
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straighten Up My Messed Up Life" by "Cyrkle, The" It was feeling like a turn-down day until this popped up.
	12:59pm Handy Haversack: Have a good break, MS!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm Andres: Amy’s mom dropping knowledge. Thanks, Michael.
	1:00pm P-90: gotta watch it with the gang colors
	1:00pm Greg g: Thank you Michael & Happy Holidays!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 16, 2023

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