Favoriting Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from August 17, 2024 Favoriting

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Favoriting August 17, 2024: The Luce Potter Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Approx. start time
The Del Saints  Tarzan   Favoriting Whirl  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Crew  Hot Wire   Favoriting Brass  0:04:53 (Pop-up)
The Progressives  Hot Cinders   Favoriting Dot  0:07:49 (Pop-up)
Boots Brown and his Blockbusters  Trollin'   Favoriting RCA Victor  0:10:14 (Pop-up)
Curley Griffin  Got Rockin' On My Mind   Favoriting Atomic  0:15:45 (Pop-up)
Bobby Wayne and The Warriors  Sally Ann   Favoriting LJV  0:17:53 (Pop-up)
Darrel Rhodes  Four O'Clock Baby   Favoriting Winston  0:20:43 (Pop-up)
Roy Hall's Alley Cats  Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie   Favoriting Hi-Q  0:22:58 (Pop-up)
Billy Hogan and the Twilighters  Move It Over Sputniick   Favoriting Vena  0:25:30 (Pop-up)
Jack Hart and the Hired Hands  Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married   Favoriting MGM  0:27:39 (Pop-up)
Neil Parker  Tennessee Cat   Favoriting Paula  0:30:11 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Dickens  They're Gonna Have Me Committed   Favoriting Decca  0:33:04 (Pop-up)
Curley Money  White Lightening   Favoriting Money  0:43:26 (Pop-up)
Johnny Collier  Mama Wears a Miniskirt   Favoriting Nugget  0:45:25 (Pop-up)
Leona Williams  Country Girl With Hot Pants On   Favoriting Hickory  0:46:23 (Pop-up)
Archie Poe  Juke Box Julie   Favoriting Nashville  0:49:40 (Pop-up)
Lefty Pritchett  Vietnam Rotation Blues   Favoriting Dee Lark  0:52:50 (Pop-up)
Big Will Stephens  Saturday Night   Favoriting Corvet  0:59:00 (Pop-up)
The Nite Riders  Women and Cadillacs   Favoriting Apollo  1:00:34 (Pop-up)
Casanova Jr  Sally Mae   Favoriting Port  1:04:22 (Pop-up)
Huey & Curley  Second Line   Favoriting Ace  1:05:22 (Pop-up)
Freddie Hall and his Aces  She's A Upsetter   Favoriting C.J.  1:08:45 (Pop-up)
Jack Dupree  Mail Order Woman   Favoriting King  1:11:32 (Pop-up)
Hen Gates and His Gaters  Flash   Favoriting Treat  1:14:39 (Pop-up)
The Twilighters  (Everybody's Goin To) Rollerland   Favoriting Empire  1:22:38 (Pop-up)
The Deacons  The Baldie Beat   Favoriting Re-Car  1:24:03 (Pop-up)
Larry Bright  One Ugly Child   Favoriting Tide  1:26:37 (Pop-up)
The In Crowd  Speed Queen   Favoriting Hickory  1:30:14 (Pop-up)
The Singing Dogs  Hot Dog Rock 'N' Roll   Favoriting RCA Victor  1:33:08 (Pop-up)
Marveluss Mickey and The Rock-A-Sonics  Do The Robot   Favoriting Marlo  1:42:45 (Pop-up)
The Pros and Cons  Whirleybird- Part 1   Favoriting Decca  1:43:29 (Pop-up)
Russ Garner  Topless Bathing Suit   Favoriting Merit  1:44:14 (Pop-up)
The Dittos  Mustard   Favoriting Warner Bros.  1:46:37 (Pop-up)
The Warlocks  Temper Tantrum   Favoriting Decca  1:50:27 (Pop-up)
Eddie L Davis  Teen Age Brain Surgeon   Favoriting Fable  1:54:12 (Pop-up)
Nancy DuPont  Weather Report Love   Favoriting Trans-Continental  1:55:04 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Deano de los Muertos:

MAMA!
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Mailman Tom:

"Colonel Fielding, Colonel Fielding!"
  1:02pm
Nathan L. Boobooron V:

Howdy, partners!!!!!!!!
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Johnny Walsh:

"Rock & roll is here to stay." --Danny Junior
  1:03pm
Andres:

Oh yeah.
  1:03pm
Stuart Rose:

It’s always a Radio Thing with our Rex.
  1:03pm
davefromtoronto:

check your brow at the door FOOLS!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
JG:

What year did Fool's Paradise start on FMU? Have I spent 30 years of Saturdays as a Fool? I feel like its been about 30 , actually a bit more than 30
  1:04pm
Stuart Rose:

Great name, Deano.
And what great taste in los muertos Rex has.
  1:05pm
greg g:

Stellar soundtrack for editing at PDX . Cheers Rex and good morning fellow fools!
  1:06pm
greg g:

Actually waiting around PDX
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, Fools!
  1:08pm
Stuart Rose:

Who’s this troublemaker on the guitar? I mean, the tune playing now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
steveo:

↳ JG @1:04
the playlist archive goes back to may 1999
Avatar 1:09pm
Rex:

JG - Yes! We launched this excursion to nowhere in the mid-90s!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
JG:

↳ steveo @1:09
Good to know Steveo, thanks!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
JG:

↳ Rex @1:09
Our afternoon tradition!
Avatar 🌮 1:12pm
Mailman Tom:

Richard Deacon played a small part as a M.P. in this movie!
  1:13pm
Chad From Philly:

When I joined the excursion back in 1998 I think the show aired on Monday nights but that was many beers ago...
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
The Butterman:

Damn! Hi Rex and folkl
  1:14pm
davefromtoronto:

the atomic space dog has spoken!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Is “the earth’s crust” supposed to make me hungry?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
David The Splatter:

Afternoon, all! Tuning in late, had to go to the grocery store. I ran out of schlock.
  1:18pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Got Rockin' On My Mind" by "Curley Griffin"
that solo was a turkey!
  1:18pm
Stuart Rose:

Who’s the playlist dedicated to this week?
  1:20pm
?:

I just discovered this show. It's awesome!
Avatar 🌮 1:22pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ Stuart Rose @1:18
Our Martian overlord in the glass bubble.
  1:23pm
davefromtoronto:

great lobby card!
  1:24pm
Stuart Rose:

Hubig
We should be so lucky to have a Martian overlord. Put him on the ballot
Avatar 1:25pm
HeyJimbo66:

Best version
  1:26pm
bobob Plasticland:

nervous morbus dig
  1:27pm
bobobobob:

norvus
  1:28pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ bobobobob @1:27
i miss that guy!
Avatar 🌮 1:30pm
William Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married" by "Jack Hart and...
Watership Down
  1:30pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married" by "Jack Hart and...
wtf...
  1:30pm
bobob:

Lola rabbit and Bugs put on MakeUp
Avatar 🌮 1:30pm
William Hellfire:

↳ bobob @1:30
Bugs was funny that way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Song: "Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married" by "Jack Hart and...
But they do opera.
  1:32pm
Andres:

Those wacky polygynandrous wabbits.
Avatar 🌮 1:33pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ David The Splatter @1:31
Kill the wabbit
Kill the wabbit!
Avatar 🌮 1:34pm
William Hellfire:

↳ Hubig Pie @1:33
Some devil eat shipping teenage DID kill my rabbit. Stuffed it's bloody body in the Smith's mailbox.
Avatar 🌮 1:35pm
William Hellfire:

↳ William Hellfire @1:34
Devil worshiping I meant.
  1:41pm
P-90!:

Now I want to go to a “Munchkin Wedding”
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
Deano de los Muertos:

🫡🧄
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Stuart Rose @1:04
Thanks! Just saw this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
PaulRobeson1924:

What do you Turn on when you turn on
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
The Butterman:

↳ Song: "Mama Wears a Miniskirt" by "Johnny Collier"
Good thing Johnny ain’t around for 2024.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Deano de los Muertos:

“Underage, but caught on fast.”
YIKES
  1:49pm
The Haze:

now this is my kinda thang!
  1:49pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Country Girl With Hot Pants On" by "Leona Williams"
he'll like her even better with hot pants off!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Waht du yer yern in wheb yer yern in
  1:51pm
Richard Whig:

well that escalated quickly
  1:51pm
davefromtoronto:

never knew what the title of that movie meant until i watched it recently.
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Mister Dobalina:

M Omm A
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
David The Splatter:

Goodlettsville, TN, incorporated 1958
  1:59pm
Nathan L. Boobooron V:

Hay, I snoozed off durin that rabbit song. I used to be called a rabbit when I was a young man. They used to call me Rabbit McGhee Magillicuddy cuz I was like a rabbit
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
The Butterman:

Second Sally song today. Dang,there are so many Sally songs. What gives?
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David The Splatter:

↳ The Butterman @2:05
Sally was... quite popular.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Now I want chili mac
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
The Butterman:

Nell’sgrail. No ribtip today?
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dave miss:

↳ The Butterman @2:10
Just Herba Stimuland
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:14pm
The Butterman:

↳ dave miss @2:12
I’ll take two orders!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
The Butterman:

One note sax! Oh, wait, there’s a second one.
  2:18pm
davefromtoronto:

slightly???
  2:19pm
jeech:

Yes, Eve Arden, that's what we're here for.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Lotta good hiking near Plattsburgh and not much else to do up there but light a candle & curse the glare
  2:23pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

"Rollerland" -- nicely revived by Untamed Youth...
Avatar 🌮 2:23pm
Johnny Walsh:

↳ Song: "Flash" by "Hen Gates and His Gaters"
Hey, I'm from Plattsburgh!. Going to Punk Rock Night tonite at Peabody's.
  2:23pm
The Ghoul in Studio Z:

Isn't it called a posse of turkeys?
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suzyhotrod:

Taking the mention of Roller Land as a sign my team will win at the roller derby game tonight!
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Artie:

Drum roll mating calls, Folkways
  2:23pm
not deke:

only a fool would try to cover this!
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Greg in The Record Library:

↳ Song: "(Everybody's Goin To) Rollerland" by "The Twiligh...
This song SHREDS SO HARD
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Johnny Walsh:

↳ Song: "(Everybody's Goin To) Rollerland" by "The Twiligh...
Hey, I'm from Plattsburgh!. Going to Punk Rock Night tonite at Peabody's.
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Johnny Walsh:

↳ Johnny Walsh @2:23
Sorry, wrong song! haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:27pm
dave miss:

↳ suzyhotrod @2:23
Good luck tonight. See ya from the cheap seats!
  2:28pm
jeech:

↳ The Ghoul in Studio Z @2:23
I've seen a roomfull of turkeys (if ya kno wat I mean).
  2:32pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Great easher.
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Gaylord Fields:

↳ suzyhotrod @2:23
You can also take Speed Queen as a positive sign.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ not deke @2:23
Tamed Youth, indeed!
  2:35pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

"Speed Queen" also nicely revived by Untamed Youth...
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Gaylord Fields:

↳ Gaylord Fields @2:34
Forgot the :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:35pm
David The Splatter:

↳ suzyhotrod @2:23
Suzy! Good luck tonight!
  2:35pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

@rx "rexy" scabin washer duh.
  2:36pm
6Flush:

Barking-dogs song - the classyest song genre
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Greg in The Record Library:

↳ Song: "Hot Dog Rock 'N' Roll" by "The Singing Dogs"
Don't go gettin' hi-brow on us, Rex.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn @2:35
Those li'l pishers had great taste in which songs to plunder.
  2:36pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Hot Dog Rock 'N' Roll" by "The Singing Dogs"
Rex! bad boy!
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Mailman Tom:

I met Will Eisner at the 2001 SDCC!
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Mister Dobalina:

Clicky star material, foooo shure !
  2:40pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Late again today. The semester is coming.
  2:41pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Is it true Isaac Asimov was considering releasing "I, Do The Robot"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn @2:41
Bwahahahaha!!! Good one, PJ!
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ suzyhotrod @2:23
Good luck Suzy!
  2:44pm
6Flush:

Woo! love tha washboard bass solo!
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Mister Dobalina:

↳ Song: "Hot Dog Rock 'N' Roll" by "The Singing Dogs"
For this track, I meant.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:44pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn @2:41
sung by Ace Android and His Electric Sheep
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Rex and robotic dancers. 🤖
  2:48pm
6Flush:

Novelty songs are dead. Long live the novelty song!
  2:50pm
davefromtoronto:

NNNOOOO!!!
  2:50pm
davefromtoronto:

hang the DJ!
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Hubig Pie:

Has anyone seen the movie Targets? This manic DJ was blasting from the killer's car radio early in the movie.
  2:52pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Hey! It's Gaylord!
  2:52pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:50
no but all i can think of when i hear of that movie is that it blew brian wilsons mind when he saw it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:50
No, I just had to look it up a minute ago.
  2:54pm
davefromtoronto:

i think rock hudson was in it?
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Hubig Pie:

I just saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. It's powerful stuff.
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William Hellfire:

Great show Rex, thanks!!!
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Hubig Pie:

↳ davefromtoronto @2:54
No. Boris Karloff and Peter Bogdanovich among others.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
David The Splatter:

Thank you, Rex, for another incredibly greasy excursion. Always a pleasure, and now my freezer is stocked with bop, slop and schlock for the coming week.
  2:58pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:55
oh i'm thinking of the wrong movie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
radioronan:

Thanks Rex...until next time..
  2:58pm
P-90!:

Thanks, man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
James in ATL:

A great show as always! Thank you, Rex!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Thanks Rex! 🥸
  10:40pm
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I think "Temper Tantrum" may have just changed my life.
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