Favoriting Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from August 31, 2024 Favoriting

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Favoriting August 31, 2024: The Jean Rogers Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Approx. start time
Sandy Nelson  Casbah   Favoriting Imperial  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Sparklers Four  Stanleyville Stomp   Favoriting Rubu  0:05:10 (Pop-up)
The Fabulous Cyclones  Cyclone   Favoriting BandBox  0:08:01 (Pop-up)
Link Wray  Ace Of Spades   Favoriting Swan  0:09:52 (Pop-up)
Ben Hewitt  Whirlwind Blues   Favoriting Mercury  0:17:21 (Pop-up)
Commonwealrh Jones  Do Do Do   Favoriting Columbia  0:19:16 (Pop-up)
Lou Josie  Breezin Out   Favoriting Argo  0:22:12 (Pop-up)
Barbara Tennant  Rock, Baby, Rock   Favoriting Kudo  0:24:34 (Pop-up)
Red Smith  Whoa Boy   Favoriting Coral  0:26:33 (Pop-up)
Homer and Jethro  King Size Baby   Favoriting RCA Victor  0:28:54 (Pop-up)
George Kent  Bad Juice   Favoriting Rice  0:32:28 (Pop-up)
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys  I Cast A Lonesome Shadow   Favoriting Capitol  0:34:50 (Pop-up)
Chuck Berry  Our Little Rendevous   Favoriting Chess  0:43:37 (Pop-up)
Jimmy McCracklin  Doomed Lover   Favoriting Mercury  0:45:29 (Pop-up)
Al Garris  That's All   Favoriting Glodis  0:47:51 (Pop-up)
Benny Spellman  No Don't Stop   Favoriting Alon  0:51:04 (Pop-up)
Reginald Hall  The Joke   Favoriting Rip  0:53:36 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Anderson  Naggin'   Favoriting Excello  0:55:57 (Pop-up)
Preston Love  Country Boogie   Favoriting Dig  0:59:03 (Pop-up)
The Mohawks  Shopliftin' Molly   Favoriting Mutual  1:04:43 (Pop-up)
The Sharps  Shufflin'   Favoriting Aladdin  1:06:11 (Pop-up)
The Dukes  Groceries, Sir   Favoriting Flip  1:08:54 (Pop-up)
Smitty and The Viscounts  Midnight Hop   Favoriting Lynn  1:11:20 (Pop-up)
The Thrillers  The Drunkard   Favoriting Big Town  1:14:54 (Pop-up)
Chuck Rhubarb and his Sergeants  Wild baby   Favoriting Rose  1:22:00 (Pop-up)
The Gadabouts  Too Much Monkey Business   Favoriting Mercury  1:23:20 (Pop-up)
The Spark Plugs  Chicken   Favoriting Sutton  1:24:54 (Pop-up)
Eddie con los Shades  No Esta Aqui   Favoriting Ideal  1:27:27 (Pop-up)
Sir Douglas Quintet  Nuevo Laredo (Spanish version)   Favoriting Smash  1:30:40 (Pop-up)
Los Solitarios  Ko Ko Joe   Favoriting RCA Victor (Mexico)  1:33:17 (Pop-up)
The Hi-Tones  Do What You Did   Favoriting A Montaigne's Limited Edition  1:42:49 (Pop-up)
The Notations  Louie Louie   Favoriting Clarity  1:43:29 (Pop-up)
The Fashions  King Size Guitar   Favoriting I.P.G.  1:46:55 (Pop-up)
The Echo Men  Long Green   Favoriting Fox  1:49:01 (Pop-up)
The Terrible Teens  Don't Stop Now   Favoriting Pic 1  1:54:08 (Pop-up)
Gary Usher  Driven Insane   Favoriting Titan  1:54:37 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
steveo:

Hello. I am easily upset, but throwing caution to the wind
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
David The Splatter:

GORDON'S ALIVE?!?
Avatar 🌮 1:02pm
Motobro:

Lets go, get on with it Taco Joe !!
Avatar 1:02pm
David Shortell:

I confess I’ve seen neither the Flash Gordon chapter plays nor the 1980 feature film. Which is more faithful to Alex Raymond’s work?
  1:03pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good afternoon, Rex And Everyone.
  1:03pm
davefromtoronto:

whoa check the cutie on the memorial playlist!
  1:04pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ David Shortell @1:02
you're better off skipping to "Flesh Gordon"
  1:04pm
Clarke F. Armaminal, Esq.:

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!! Ahoy!
Avatar 🌮 1:05pm
Mailman Tom:

Jean Rogers was always easy on the eyes! Besides her Flash Gordon serials, she was also in the Frank Merriwell and the Tailspin Tommy serials.
  1:06pm
davefromtoronto:

she's a doll!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
David The Splatter:

It's no wonder Ming the Merciless always lusted after her.
  1:06pm
davefromtoronto:

she's no pirate's dream either!
  1:07pm
florida:

i'd eat a mile of her snot to see where it came from
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
The Butterman:

Ahhhhhhhh, a soothing Saturday afternoon tradition! What would we do without Rex?
Avatar 1:09pm
David Shortell:

↳ davefromtoronto @1:04
I did read Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's "Flesh Garden" in Mad #11 (May 1954).
  🌮 1:11pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ The Butterman @1:09
Hi, Butterman! The Fall schedule is up! Rex is staying put!
  1:12pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ David Shortell @1:09
the golden age of MAD - there was a soft core movie of the same name in the 70's
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
luka:

wingding
Avatar 🌮 1:12pm
William Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Ace Of Spades" by "Link Wray"
This is nutz!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
luka:

↳ David The Splatter @1:01
so is gina delgado!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
David The Splatter:

Does Flash Gordon know Captain Biffco and the Raisin People?
  🌮 1:13pm
Erin Hellfire:

REXXXXXXXXXX!!!!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
The Butterman:

↳ Erin Hellfire @1:11
Hi Erin, good to see you! I’ll storm the station the second they pull Rex off the schedule. I’ll do it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
David The Splatter:

mmmmmmmmMAMA!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
luka:

↳ luka @1:13
er, tina
Avatar 🌮 1:14pm
Mailman Tom:

Surprising, huh? Taken from an episode of Kolchak the Night Stalker!
  🌮 1:15pm
Erin Hellfire:

I don't go outside.
  1:16pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

Sounds like Donald Trump and the guy singing sounds like Elon Musk.
  1:18pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Mailman Tom @1:14
i always wondered where that was from!
  1:18pm
bobobob plasticland 🥁:

Rex...it is the birthday of the great cricket drummer Jerry Allison ...Today!!🥁🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Avatar 1:20pm
David Shortell:

↳ davefromtoronto @1:12
Shortly before doing that spoof, Kurtzman wrote some of the Flash Gordon strip for real!
  1:24pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ David Shortell @1:20
i remember loving his little annie fanny comic in my dad's playboys!
  1:31pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "King Size Baby" by "Homer and Jethro"
i wonder if she knows "fatty patty?"
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
The Butterman:

↳ Song: "King Size Baby" by "Homer and Jethro"
I’d consider this low-brow.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
The Butterman:

I mean it’s more fat-shaming than “celebrating every body-type”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:38pm
Dano59:

↳ Song: "I Cast A Lonesome Shadow" by "Hank Thompson and H...
think i have Little Danny to thank for this song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
PigeonsAndRust:

I certainly appreciate the illusion that I belong to some community, at least for the next 90 minutes or so
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
David The Splatter:

Stupid question, but does anyone know where the "in her house, the radio was always on" soundbite comes from?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
Dano59:

↳ PigeonsAndRust @1:40
welcome! "...it don't mean nothin'..."
  1:43pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ David The Splatter @1:40
not stupid - i've asked the same about a bunch of the drops..unless we're both stupid...
Avatar 1:44pm
Matt_E:

Tippin my soda water to Jean
Avatar 1:44pm
Frank Verplanck:

merged with the internet?
  1:45pm
florida:

yep heard that to
  1:45pm
bobobob plasticland:

a big ol' Boy Howdy to Mailman Tom!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Frank Verplanck @1:44
Merged with the intransient?
Avatar 🌮 1:48pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ Frank Verplanck @1:44
When you die, your body lives on as a gif.
  🌮 1:48pm
Erin Hellfire:

Well, technically she did. She's on Fool's Paradise on wfmu.orgie!
Avatar 1:49pm
Frank Verplanck:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @1:47
better than the intransigent I suppose
Avatar 🌮 1:49pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ bobobob plasticland @1:45
How de do, Bobobob!
  1:52pm
davefromtoronto:

"it's a pleasure for you to listen to me?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Frank Verplanck @1:49
Unless you get hit by a bus, then you've merged with the In-Transit.
Avatar 1:54pm
Frank Verplanck:

↳ David The Splatter @1:52
oof! DOA via the MTA.
Avatar 🌮 1:56pm
Mailman Tom:

Clint Walker, who played Cheyenne on TV, once had a ski pole stuck thru his heart and survived!
  1:57pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

@PigeonsAndRust indeed.
  2:02pm
Jeech the Jooch:

Yes, Eve Arden, that's what we're here for.
Avatar 🌮 2:05pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Shopliftin' Molly" by "The Mohawks"
The "Five fingered discount"!
  🌮 2:06pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Shopliftin' Molly" by "The Mohawks"
I got busted for shoplifting, but it was my friend's fault.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Song: "Shopliftin' Molly" by "The Mohawks"
Today I learned there is a genre of songs about shoplifting. (I figured "Been Caught Stealing" was just a one-off.)
Avatar 2:09pm
Frank Verplanck:

↳ David The Splatter @2:06
Oh yeah, that's a little sub-genre! Freedy Johnston has one.
  2:09pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Shufflin'" by "The Sharps"
super cool tune!
  2:11pm
Amira:

Fools Paradise is the official radio show for Saturday morning at the Sunset Marquis Hotel pool
Avatar 🌮 2:15pm
Mailman Tom:

The hangover special!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
David The Splatter:

What kind of hot dog pairs well with Pink Pussycat Wine?
  2:15pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Catawba or Niagara or ?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
The Butterman:

There we go! pink Pussycat Wine. Been a while!
  2:15pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Dinner is prepped. I am drinking Martini.
Avatar 🌮 2:17pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ David The Splatter @2:15
Best served with fried neck bones and home fries.
Avatar 2:17pm
Rex:

Amira! Say "Hey" to the gang at the Marquis for me!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:18pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:17
Yummy!
Avatar 🌮 2:21pm
Mailman Tom:

Checkered jacket and jackass slacks!
  2:23pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Wild baby" by "Chuck Rhubarb and his Sergeants"
the show's hit a new low - impressive!
  🌮 2:23pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Wild baby" by "Chuck Rhubarb and his Sergeants"
I think my blood pressure is rising.
  2:23pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

This is genius.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
SoCar Ken:

That last guy sounded like a cross between Glenn Quagmire and Jello Biafra
  2:25pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Too Much Monkey Business" by "The Gadabouts"
i guess they couldn't afford a real monkey...
  🌮 2:27pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Chicken" by "The Spark Plugs"
There's a great KFC sponsored pajama in "Gruesome Twosome". Girls eating fried chicken and dancing on the bed.
  🌮 2:28pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ Erin Hellfire @2:27
Pajama party!
  2:28pm
bobobob 👍🥁:

Cotton Picken finger lickin good by The Cramps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:31pm
Steve Del Sol:

Psychedelic Wolf Mann!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:32pm
David The Splatter:

ALL the sleeping and drinking days?!? Where's my wallet?
Avatar 🌮 2:32pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ Song: "Nuevo Laredo (Spanish version)" by "Sir Douglas Q...
I went to see Doug Sahm twice in the summer of 1973!
Avatar 2:33pm
I'm with the banned:

↳ Song: "Nuevo Laredo (Spanish version)" by "Sir Douglas Q...
Que lindo!
  2:34pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Nuevo Laredo (Spanish version)" by "Sir Douglas Q...
wow that was...uh...
  2:37pm
bizco bey:

Call me the locksmith, cuz I got llaves de venta
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

The "No Brow Goes Back To School" movie premieres this Tuesday!
  2:38pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "Nuevo Laredo (Spanish version)" by "Sir Douglas Q...
that was like the joke about how does a dog with no nose smell...
Avatar 2:38pm
I'm with the banned:

↳ Song: "Ko Ko Joe" by "Los Solitarios"
¡Olé! chicos!
  2:42pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

This program is an oasis (sorry) in the desert of stupid.
Avatar 2:43pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @1:02
I’m currently reading “The Strange Death of Alex Raymond”, Dave Sim’s speculative book about the fatal 1956 crash in Stan Drake’s Corvette.
  2:44pm
Daybreak!:

How much can a man stand?
What is the limit?
  2:45pm
Space Cowboy:

I'll admit it I'm fruging to this a bit
  2:46pm
Space Cowboy:

Sounds great on my am transtior radio
  2:47pm
Space Cowboy:

Tina Delgado is alive!
Avatar 🌮 2:49pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @2:43
No seatbelts in those days!
  2:50pm
Space Cowboy:

↳ Amira @2:11
Yeah !
  2:51pm
Jeech the Jooch:

". . . and Conrad Hilton"
I love that bit.
  2:51pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Thank you, Rex and Everyone for the respite. Please have a happy Labor Day. Workers of the World, you know what to do.
  2:53pm
Space Cowboy:

God dam this show is fantastic
  2:54pm
Space Cowboy:

And they broadcast it I n color
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
David The Splatter:

Perfect music for a Saturday afternoon. Thanks, Rex! And Happy Labor Day to all of you celebrating.
Avatar 2:55pm
David Shortell:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:49
Between acting in the Flash Gordon serials, Jean Rogers acted in a Secret Agent X-9 serial---also based on an Alex Raymond strip!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ Song: "Driven Insane" by "Gary Usher"
Oh yes oh yes
Avatar 🌮 2:56pm
Mailman Tom:

↳ David Shortell @2:55
I need to see that one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
radioronan:

Thanks Rex..until next time..Do Do Do...
  2:57pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Secret Agent X-9, a comic strip written by Dashiell Hammett
  🌮 2:57pm
Erin Hellfire:

↳ Song: "Driven Insane" by "Gary Usher"
Poor Gary. :(
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
The Butterman:

↳ PaulRobeson1924 @2:56
There you are! I’ve been plotting ways to shame you because I don’t see you here on Rex’s board. I’ll cancel my revenge plot against you.
Thanks Rex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
PaulRobeson1924:

↳ The Butterman @2:57
THANK GOODNESS!!!
Avatar 2:58pm
I'm with the banned:

Thanks Rex! 👍
  2:59pm
Daybreak!:

Thanks Rex
and
Goodbye Galaxy Man!
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