WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 24, 2025

Listener comments!
	9:53am Listener Baby: A warm Biktarvy to you, Baby. And a hardy, Skyrzi to all my friends out there. Let’s do this!
	10:35am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @9:53 "Biktarvy combines bictegravir, an integrase inhibitor, with emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide, both nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). " ????
	10:36am Michael Shelley: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:35 Skyrizi selectively blocks IL-23 by binding to its p19 subunit, which is a cytokine involved in inflammatory processes
	10:40am Listener Baby: And discontinue use if death occurs.
	♥ 11:00am luca: gm ichibans
	♥ 11:00am luca: i was more of a Metal Edge Magazine person
	11:00am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:01am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then, hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	11:01am clarke: now: HEY now
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all.
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @10:40 Remain alive. No matter what occurs.
	11:01am greg g: Morning Michael and All !
	11:01am clarke: HAWKS
	11:02am Listener Baby: That time Levon used drum sticks.
	11:02am misterdavid: Firmly established Saturday component = this show
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:02 and roughly!
	11:02am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers. All this scientific chatter has me in a quandary.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:02 might be richard on drums on this?
	♥ 11:03am JG: ↳ Song: "Leave Me Alone" by "Canadian Squires, The" Vocal here actually hard to tell if its Levon or Richard
	11:03am larry: Drop the Donald Trump in the intro, it's gross
	11:03am Bob: Good morning!
	11:03am clarke: ↳ larry @11:03 when you get your own show...
	11:04am Listener Baby: ↳ larry @11:03 That’s why it’s in there. If I may speak for my friend?
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:03 hello bob.
	11:05am Bob: He’s the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HE DESERVES RESPECT! Just kidding. Hi, Clarke
	11:07am clarke: heyu!
	11:08am Cooh John: Did you use a time machine to get Todd to do that promo before his voice changed?
	11:08am clarke: the local diner here FrosTop makes its own Birch Root Beer - it is fantastic!!
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:04 <drinks>
	11:08am Scott in Denver: Hey from Denver. Root beer for breakfast!
	11:08am Michael Shelley: ↳ misterdavid @11:02 smart move
	11:08am Bob: A Root beer float is great but the Boston cooler with ginger is underrated. Vernor’s from Detroit for extra bite
	11:08am Hughie: Greetings from Kildare, Ireland. At the racetrack — can’t listen but thinking of the gang over at the Michael Shelley show! I’ve bet No. 3 (not No. 1) every race. And gotten creamed!
	11:09am Michael Shelley: ↳ JG @11:03 both
	♥ 11:09am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie @11:08 C'mon, Bad Boy! Have fun, Hughie!
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Hughie @11:08 on fire out of the starting gates!
	♥ 11:10am egould: I had a root beer back in February. I bought it at a truck stop, along with a pack of landjaeger.
	11:10am Listener Baby: I love George never repeated himself
	11:10am greg g: God I don’t think it helps my blood pressure but I’m with ya Michael , I am a big fan of root beer floats , usually average about 1 month. I’ve ventured into using other sodas like creamy red birch beer or even cherry soda!
	♥ 11:11am Handy Haversack: Closest I come to root beer is a weekly Underberg. We're saving bottle caps for stemware!
	11:11am Mr. Jones: ↳ Listener Baby @11:10 That is an accomplishment. Everytime I've had a root beer float, I've repeated myself!
	11:11am Michael Shelley: ↳ larry @11:03 Nah, people need to be reminded what a huge idiot he is.
	♥ 11:12am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:11 calmer'n you are.
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:12 howdy zone 5!! comin' in clear. comin' in strong.
	11:14am Florida: Cream soda and vanilla ice cream, coma time
	11:14am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" This is GOLD! Had to google the performer.
	11:14am Listener Baby: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:12 Greg. Really enjoyed your performance filling in for Spazz. Top notch!
	11:15am Cooh John: Oooooo! This song was in my head 30 minutes ago.
	♥ 11:15am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ larry @11:03 My trick to get by is to mentally point and laugh at the idiot, or add the words "in prison" after hearing his name. Dude will be gone one day and we can look forward to that.
	♥ 11:15am Squints: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" G G Y
	11:16am clarke: GGSq!!
	♥ 11:16am Squints: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" Zazu's sister? I kid. I think.
	11:16am Listener Baby: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:15 Ken. He will indeed be gone one day. But not the idiots that voted him in. Sadly.
	11:16am clarke: i keeed!!
	♥ 11:17am drr: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:15 If I'm thinking of the same guy you are, I feel like if he should expire in the night we'll just immediately know. There will be fireworks.
	♥ 11:17am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Listener Baby @11:14 Thanks, Baby! It was an honour and a privilege.
	11:17am ?: What's with the biktarvy jokes. Clay pigeon makes them too. Is it ok now to make jokes about life saving medications? Are people living with hiv now punchlines? I expect that from FOX News, not from WFMU.
	11:18am Mr. Jones: I was cuffed, arrested and taken away by the Police in the parking lot of my high school in midday. Eventually got off with no lockup. Did you relate a similar story some months ago, Michael?
	11:18am Bob: ↳ drr @11:17 Orange smoke. Extra toxic.
	11:18am clarke: ↳ @11:17 quite possibly because television is barraged with the same ads over and over and over?? that might have something to do widdit.
	11:19am clarke: 8/10
	♥ 11:20am egould: Gonna’ go squeeze some oranges. Mimosas don’t just magically happen.
	11:20am Listener Baby: Almost arrested at age 7 or so. Definitely in the back of a cop car. Story long and stupid. But involves my older brother. So that should explain most of it.
	♥ 11:20am drr: ↳ clarke @11:18 I've noticed Skyrizi seems to be prescribable for anything and everything. Plaque psoriasis, IBS, hallucinations...
	♥ 11:20am egould: ↳ Song: "Jimmy's Party" by "Jack Herbst" Well all right. Buddy Holly should sue this guy.
	♥ 11:21am Montmaster J: This sounds vaguely Marshall Crenshawish.
	11:21am clarke: ↳ drr @11:20 well goddam!
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Song: "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" by "Conway Twitty" faron young's version - notch above.
	11:22am Scott in Denver: I was thrown down and dragged away at a keg party by the Lincoln NE Police Dept. I deserved it for being lippy when they were telling people to disperse. Lesson learned.
	11:22am Marie in Chicago: Good morning, Michael and All! I was arrested twice, once for marijuana possession.... @) I remember very clearly both times when the cell door closed behind me....
	11:23am clarke: ↳ drr @11:20 hey, how did that gig go??
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Song: "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" by "Conway Twitty" i'm guessing the drums were set-up in the small room at Stax (they were usually in the big room)
	♥ 11:25am Handy Haversack: I fell asleep in a van in a NOLA parking lot and woke up to eight cops aiming their guns at me and shouting.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 when was that??
	♥ 11:26am Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 Sleeping. And somehow, creating a nuisance.
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Listener Baby @9:53 lol
	11:27am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 wow! Glad you survived.
	11:28am kevino: Got busted for less than two joints in Phoenix AZ on my first drive across country when I was 20. It was a felony then. I had to strip and be sprayed with de-licer and was in a cell with 7 other felons, slept on a metal bunk with no mattress and bare feet. Got bailed out after two and a half days, other wise I would have had to wait for my hearing in ten days. It was reduced to a misdemeanor. Fu(k Phoenix!
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Song: "She's Not You (demo)" by "Marshall Crenshaw" what a guitar Player!!
	♥ 11:29am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:28 100%
	♥ 11:29am drr: ↳ clarke @11:23 oh man, it was a lot of fun. The host built a stage for us but it was so wobbly and flimsy feeling I was kind of afraid to move. It looked petty good though. An adorable little girl kept coming to the front of the stage an announcing it was her birthday, so Andrew, being a nice person starts singing the damn song so of course I have to do it too or look like a real sourpuss. Also there were a lot of giant teens there, one of whom said we were"dope" or something and did we do any Red Hot Chili Peppers covers. The fish fry was excellent. We got swarmed by Formosan termites but it was just for about three songs. So, better-than-average gig.
	11:29am Bob: I used to see Robert play occasionally around Detroit. He sometimes had a candelabra on his piano.
	♥ 11:30am drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 Not a problem; if you get put in jail down here you can just leave. Everybody's doing it.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ drr @11:29 wow! very cool!!
	11:30am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Scott in Denver @11:22 Keg parties... what a thing. I'm sure the cops loved those. Prolly so many funny and dumb stories out there about stuff happening at them. I get the vibe people aren't having as many of them these days..
	11:31am clarke: ↳ drr @11:30 with NOOOO problem!!
	11:32am clarke: wow, RIP Roger - Small Circle Of Friends i just listened to in entirety a few weeks ago. eerie.
	♥ 11:33am Squints: He will eat "your" hat. He's counting on you not having a hat. Heh.
	11:33am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:28 great choices on that one!
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Song: "Love So Fine" by "Roger Nichols And The Small Cir... this is a great album.
	11:34am Dr. Jeff (from Sheena’s): Love So Fine - what a great song! Can I play that on my show sometime?
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:33 roger really found the best voice possible!! i don't even know who it was.
	11:35am morphe': Beer for breakfast after the coffee = Snakebite actually [Bitburger and EastCoast Dry Cider[no additives ... say they] Ya Gotta Eat ...
	♥ 11:36am common: ↳ Song: "We've Only Just Begun" by "Roger Nichols And Paul... that bass sound!
	11:37am gf2002: Be sure to check out the song "Someday Man", written by Roger and Paul Williams, and one of their early entries into pop songwriting success. Paul himself re-recorded it about a year after The Monkees release and Someday Man was the title of his own solo album. Great tune...I'm kind of partial to Paul's version but The Monkees' has the Wrecking Crew with Bones Howe producing. Great b-side for The Monkees
	♥ 11:38am drr: I don't want to say bad stuff about Paul, but boy I did not like one of the movies he was in: The Loved One. He's not what's bad about it. His voice is dubbed in it, like most of the voices.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:37 someday man = genius.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ drr @11:38 ha ha, yeah, The Loved One is a letdown.
	11:39am Marie in Chicago: Andy's always making fun of the hippies
	11:39am Florida: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:18 Clearwater is beautiful today lookin at the gulf of Mexico, lots of boats, nuthin like gettin away
	11:39am Bob: The new Paul Reubens doc on HBO is really heartbreaking and spectacular. Two, long parts but I found it riveting. His difficult personality was a bit of a surprise but makes perfect sense in context. Really moving.
	♥ 11:40am Jack McGuire: Always slag hippies.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Florida @11:39 got the AAC baseball tourney in clearwater, right now! go tulane!
	11:40am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" by "Buck Owens" Pretty risque for Nashville in those days. Nice fuzz though
	11:40am Scott in Denver: I recall that story of Buck Owens last night of performing. He wasn't feeling well and wanted to cancel but some fan was there and begged for him to play. He died later that night. I always wondered how that fan feels today?
	♥ 11:40am drr: ↳ clarke @11:39 I loved Bugsy Malone though! That's some good Paul Wiliams content. And of course Rainbow Connection is the pinnacle of American Cinema.
	11:41am clarke: ↳ drr @11:40 what do you think of Idolmaker??
	11:42am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:38 I love both versions, but after hearing Paul's solo cut of the song, I was partial to that over Davy Jones'. What a great single release from The Monkees though: Listen To The Band b/w Someday Man. Both great tracks.
	♥ 11:42am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" by "Buck Owens" Stealin' the hippies' fuzz tone and stealin' a little bit of the Lady Madonna melody.
	♥ 11:42am drr: ↳ clarke @11:41 Is it a plastic injection molding toy? (IDK what Idolmaker is.)
	♥ 11:42am common: ↳ Bob @11:39 watched it last eve. very well done
	11:43am Cooh John: Sax solo!
	11:43am Listener Baby: Baby check ur phone
	11:44am clarke: ↳ drr @11:42 ha ha, i meant Phantom Of The Paradise - which i don't like, but many do in a cult way.
	11:45am Florida: If they have any games tonite they'll be on the big screen outside on rooftop at Edge Hotel
	11:45am Mr. Jones: Michael, did Marshall mention if he is still making the Tom Wilson documentary?
	11:46am Michael Shelley: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:45 He did! he is as far as I know!
	♥ 11:46am drr: ↳ clarke @11:44 Not as good as KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park. Or maybe it is; I've seen parts of both without ever doing a sit-down watch.
	11:46am gf2002: Jimmy Smith literally wrote the book on how to play jazz on the Hammond B3 organ, and with pedals fully active too. LOVE jazz organ music, I had a trio for a very brief time - guitar, drums, organ - and loved every minute playing with those cats.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ drr @11:42 Idolmaker is kind of a lame flick with ray sharkey - not recommended.
	11:47am gf2002: Personal jazz organ favorite: "Misty" by Richard 'Groove' Holmes. What a jam...
	♥ 11:48am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:47 you're damn right.
	♥ 11:48am Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Bad Bad Boy" by "Coolies, The" Fantastic.
	11:48am Mr. Jones: re: Organ Jazz I'm a Jimmy McGriff guy.
	♥ 11:48am common: ↳ drr @11:46 i think both are great! especially if you're high
	11:48am clarke: a bad bot, apparently.
	11:49am Michael Shelley: ↳ gf2002 @11:47 very #1
	11:49am clarke: i hates a bad bot.
	♥ 11:49am Stevie Jay: Skeezix the monkey checking in.
	11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ Dr. Jeff (from Sheena’s) @11:34 I HOPE SO!
	♥ 11:50am Pedro in Arlington: Learned tons from Richard Thompson's book and he reads the audio version like a master. The Buck anecdote really stuck with me. I wondered if their paths ever crossed when they were both on Capitol in the 80s. Saw Buck perform at his Bakersfield club in 1996. I still remember him telling this "joke": "Bill Clinton is walking in front of the White House with two big dogs. A guy stops him and Bill says 'Yeah, I got these two dogs for Hillary.' And the other guy says 'Sounds like a good trade.'" Guessing Buck was an early fan of Fox.
	♥ 11:50am drr: Hearing Kim Shattuck reminds me she's mentioned in this new Neko Case memoir that I just devoured in two nights (very fast for me).
	♥ 11:50am Stevie Jay: He likes listener Becky's postcard!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ drr @11:50 you loan to me!!
	♥ 11:53am Mister Dobalina: I love me a root beer float, once a year. But Mr Softee is charging close to $10 for one. Yikes!
	♥ 11:54am Mister Dobalina: & I haven't seen Mr. Fluffy, Mr. Softee's competitor, around lately. A bit cheaper and just as good a root beer float one can get.
	11:54am Bob: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:50 That story about Fairport being harassed by the Buckaroos is a giant bummer
	♥ 11:54am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:45 Talked to Marshall before a show in Alexandria VA two years ago and asked about the Wilson doc. He said he was making progress but seemed bothered by the usual money and legal stuff.
	11:54am SecretSquirrel: Pete’s Candy Store is totally worth a visit! It’s truly charming, like the little theater in “Higglety Pigglety Pop”
	11:54am P-90: One might try an ounce and a half of vodka or white rum and a half ounce of Jagermeister, filled with root beer in a tall glass packed with ice.
	♥ 11:55am John L: ↳ drr @11:50 I also like Neko's substack. This morning she recommended this Everly Brothers clip:www.youtube.com...
	11:55am judy from croton: I was an art teacher in New Rochelle for 25 years!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ John L @11:55 i will subscribe!!
	11:57am clarke: ↳ John L @11:55 done! THNX!
	11:58am gf2002: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:53 10 bucks for a root beer float? Crazy. I buy a 2-liter of store-brand root beer for a buck, and a container of vanilla ice cream when it's on sale for 3 bucks (with my bonus card), and I can make at least 100 bucks worth of RB floats using that Mr. Softee price scale!
	11:58am Scott in Denver: Rochelle Rochelle. A young women's erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
	♥ 11:58am Montmaster J: I think the Planet of the Apes marathon was at one of those New Rochelle theaters back in the day....50 cents and we were in there all day. A parents dream.
	♥ 11:58am drr: ↳ clarke @11:56 Go on now go, walk out the door Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore
	11:59am morphe': ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:54 The Rival ice cream truck in NYC Boroughs is/was Freezer Fresh, but a lot of independents on the scene ... some...many?? were selling drugs too ... phased out like the fake bodegas of the '80s ....
	11:59am clarke: ↳ drr @11:58 never was.
	11:59am gf2002: Off-color joke of the day: Why did Mrs. Softee file for divorce?
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:59 an implied punch-line - i like it!
	♥ 12:00pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:59 You see what I did there?
	12:01pm Listener Baby: This is a brassy voice, just like Amy Winehouse. Just an observation.
	12:02pm morphe': Re: Ice cream trucks selling drugs too ... www.nbcnewyork.com...
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:00 i see!
	♥ 12:02pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ morphe' @11:59 Cool, I didn't know that ice cream trucks sold drugs as well. Bud & a cone for the munchies.
	12:02pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Goin Native" by "Mark Eric" Hmm...drums sound a little too loose to be Jim Gordon, but who knows! Jim's fills were usually much tighter than this.
	12:03pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Goin Native" by "Mark Eric" This is like a Pere Ubu folk record
	♥ 12:03pm Mister Dobalina: White with your white. No, not the devil's dandruff. Bad!
	12:03pm morphe': ↳ gf2002 @11:59 Where is the punch line???
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:02 maybe his mom was around.
	12:04pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Scott in Denver @11:58 LOL
	12:07pm morphe': ↳ clarke @12:03 Like art ... one should not have to explain a joke, but Whaaa???
	12:07pm clarke: ha ha ha ha
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ morphe' @12:07 the key is the name.
	12:08pm Listener Baby: Peggy Lee version is stellar
	12:08pm DG: While Jo Stafford is an accomplished singer, she also recorded w/her husband as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards, a horrible, off-key, inept lounge duo. They made a few albums under that name (without revealing who they actually were) & won a comedy Grammy. Apparently the Bee Gees were not amused by their "Stayin' Alive" cover (guess Barry & co. don't have a sense of humor).
	12:09pm DG: "Mohair Sam"? Isn't this the song the Beatles played with Elvis (for hours) when they visited him in Bel Air?
	♥ 12:09pm suzyhotrod: Pearl Harbor!! So COOL!!! (clap!)
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:09 dunno about that, but Charlie Rich wrote it.
	♥ 12:10pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Release It" by "Pearl Harbor And The Explosions" I have it on good authority that Everybody's Boring But Pearl's Baby.
	12:11pm DG: (ooh, sorry, Elvis was probably playing along with the Charlie Rich version)
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:11 most likely.
	12:12pm DG: (also it was written by Dallas Frazier, not Rich...he wrote a lot of hits, inc. "Alley Oop" & "Elvira")
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:12 ah.
	♥ 12:13pm Squints: ↳ clarke @11:56 Is that a Gloria Gaynor remix?
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:13 don't give 'em ideas.
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Kept On Loving You" by "Roger Nichols And Paul ... so good.
	12:15pm DG: That "ice cream truck" story has been around for decades. My friend got a summer job driving/working a truck & kids used to ask him where the flag was...I think the story was if there was a red(?) flag on the truck that meant they sold, um, other items as well. (This was on Longuyland in '77 or so). Probably an urban legend but might be based on some real incidents.
	12:18pm clarke: the right thing to do.
	♥ 12:19pm drr: ↳ Song: "The World Is Full of Pretty Girls And Pretty Girl... Son!
	12:20pm clarke: son!
	12:21pm clarke: neko case name-drop
	12:21pm Florida: You could get more than hoagies at the sandwich shop in the town where I used to live
	12:22pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DG @12:08 Yeah... I could get into them... at all
	♥ 12:22pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:21 thought I heard that!
	12:23pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:22 odd sync goin' on, today
	♥ 12:23pm egould: ↳ Florida @12:21 There’s a pho shop in Long Beach, CA that is definitely a front for an illegal bookmaking operation.
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:53 Ive lived too long
	♥ 12:24pm DJ Johnny Cool: The Funk 16 Corners!
	12:24pm clarke: i don't know where handy went to, but he left us hanging with him surrounded by nola cops.
	♥ 12:24pm Matt Fiveash: Got our MS & FS's tix! This will mark the 3rd time seeing them at that same theater. Best working band on earth. See you there, MS, yrs etc, MF
	♥ 12:24pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:26 College. 1994? 1995?
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:24 there you are. i never heard this story!!! how come?? ha ha.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Please Be Somewhere Tonight" by "Pezband" YES!! SOMEWHERE!
	♥ 12:25pm Hubig Pie: The auto repair shop across Poland Ave. from our house did more than repair autos.
	12:27pm Scott in Denver: Now THIS is a #1! Thanks Pezband and Michael.
	12:27pm gf2002: ↳ morphe' @12:03 Had to take a call...I was hoping someone would take a guess! Drum roll... ...because Mister Softee never gets hard.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 they sold fried pies?
	♥ 12:29pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:27 Our friend on the West Bank helped the cops bust an "ice cream truck" that was doing business in her neighborhood.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:29 the best bank!
	♥ 12:30pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:27 Of course. Every shop had a metal Hubig pie stand.
	12:30pm Mr. Jones: Mmmm, Caravel root beef floats!
	12:30pm Florida: Ain't got nuthin to say about that it's true
	♥ 12:32pm Squints: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:30 <tom carvel voice> Everything floats down here.
	♥ 12:32pm egould: ↳ egould @12:23 Egould’s first time going in there was on a Saturday morning at 10AM. Twenty or so Vietnamese guys intently watching the Nebraska versus Iowa college football game. Not eating pho. The restaurant is cash only. If you want to leave a tip, there’s a garbage can by the register, and you throw your tip in the garbage can. Good pho. And there’s a waiter we called “The Business Man” because he wears a suit and slings pho.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Please Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley" all aboard.
	♥ 12:35pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Please Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley" 🐐
	12:37pm gf2002: Never had the ice cream truck rackets, but we DID have a scene in the late 70's and early 80's where there were more than usual numbers of pop-up pizza parlors in the surrounding small towns around me, Philly suburbs. Seemed like most rarely had a full house of customers. After the feds busted "Little Nicky" Scarfo in the mid-80's, all of those pizza parlors were gone. The next decade saw some pizza places in Philly selling pies with baggies full of certain substances tucked under the pies if you knew what to ask for on the menu.
	12:38pm clarke: who taught you how to drive a train?!?
	12:39pm clarke: i think that train is full of rope!
	12:40pm Scott in Denver: There are several Mexican restaurants around Denver that NEVER have any business.
	♥ 12:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials, The" Yeeeeeeeeeeah!
	♥ 12:41pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials, The" Jammy jam JAMMER !!!
	12:41pm jim from wood ridge NJ: Jerry Dammers sways left and right on the keys!
	♥ 12:41pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:27 The place had a payphone outside that all the local hoodlums conducted bidness on. I went over one night with bolt cutters and severed the line to the receiver. Who knew there was an electrical current running in that line? Got quite a shock.
	12:41pm ?: aaahhrrriiee
	12:42pm Joe R.: Weare living in gangster times, aren’t we?
	♥ 12:42pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Florida @12:21 You mean extra 'toppings'?
	12:43pm Mr. Jones: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 In my old neighborhood there was a hobby shop where apparently you could ask for the "Sherman Tank" model and leave with a baggy.
	♥ 12:43pm Jimmy Wipper: There is an ice cream truck here in Norfolk, VA that has a huge sign, ICE CREAM AND BAIL BONDS! A one stop shop.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:41 the last pay phone.
	♥ 12:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 Better than a tube of airplane glue.
	♥ 12:43pm Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Ain't That Enough" by "Teenage Fanclub" Aces.
	♥ 12:44pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 You mean the house special oil change?
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @12:43 do they do floats?? heh heh
	♥ 12:44pm egould: ↳ StringOFperils @12:43 Not if you’re Joey Ramone.
	12:45pm PC77: Don't call me Scarface!
	♥ 12:45pm StringOFperils: ↳ egould @12:44 Or Brian Spaeth
	♥ 12:45pm Jack McGuire: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 Skinny Joey just opened a cheesesteak jernt.
	♥ 12:45pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @12:43 In Atlanta there was Hong's OK Carry-Out and Auto Body Repair. Brooklyn is losing all the mob fronts and is poorer for it. We are almost ziti-less up here. And there are no bar pies!
	♥ 12:45pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Ain't That Enough" by "Teenage Fanclub" Squints like.
	♥ 12:46pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:30 Carvel root beef floats, tempting. Might have to try it.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Jack McGuire @12:43 AMEN
	12:46pm clarke: please, mister engineer - play again!!!
	12:46pm gf2002: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 Haha, I wonder how many unsuspecting parents went in there to buy their kid a legit "Sherman Tank" model and got that look from the person at the register. Yeah, Sherman Tank, that'll be 200 bucks...
	♥ 12:47pm Jack McGuire: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:46 Almost meets the glory that is Sparky's Dream, but not quite.
	12:47pm clarke: that's quite enough!!
	12:47pm Scott in Denver: The was a metal shop close to downtown Denver and their banner said "WELDING/FAX" The welding sucked but they made up for the loss of revenue from sending faxes for customers.
	12:47pm Mr. Jones: You mean the Italian restaurants in Carrol Gardens are actually opening up for business now. Not just for show anymore?
	12:47pm PC77: Teenage Fanclub sounds like The Byrds.
	♥ 12:48pm egould: ↳ PC77 @12:47 Always have.
	12:48pm gf2002: ↳ Jack McGuire @12:45 I saw that on the news! Joey tried entering the sandwich business some time before and there were "suspicious" fires at the location.
	12:48pm P-90: Carvel DID used to be better, like so many things
	12:49pm clarke: pretty sure Joe Osborn played on that demo, too.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:49 oops: Osborne
	♥ 12:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "We've Only Just Begun (vocal, bass & drums)" by "... Did you say Karen C. on drums as well?
	12:50pm misterdavid: Sublime!
	♥ 12:50pm drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 That wasn't Boerum Hill in Brooklyn? There used to be a WEIRD little "shop" with a guy sitting at a desk and a shelf with like four Revell car models, and nothing else. The fellow at the desk had an unwelcoming mien. On Bond or Hoyt Street, maybe?
	12:50pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:50 HAL BLAINE
	12:50pm Scott in Denver: I wonder what Karen is doing today? Oh wait...
	12:51pm clarke: too soon.
	♥ 12:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:50 Thanks!
	♥ 12:51pm egould: ↳ Scott in Denver @12:50 “I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation…”
	12:52pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:50 Joe Osborne is the one who gave The Carpenters their shot, I believe he had them cut demos at his own studio and then word spread how good they were, so they owed ol' Joe some thanks for helping them break in with those early recordings. I think that's the story anyway...
	♥ 12:53pm dave wuz here: connolly!
	♥ 12:53pm Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:45 No shahtage of bah pies on tha South Shoah, heah.
	♥ 12:53pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:50 I thought he was a no-e Osborn(e).
	♥ 12:53pm egould: Thanks Michael. Time for another mimosa. Have a fun holiday weekend everyone!
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:52 this could be true, but i was referring to the paul williams demo - i think joe is on that, too.
	12:54pm Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Michael! Have a great weekend everybody!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:53 i confuse.
	12:54pm Scott in Denver: ↳ egould @12:51 Well played!
	♥ 12:54pm RB: Carvel Fuddgie the Whale icecream cakes have remainded delicious in our recent experience .
	12:54pm gf2002: It's Fudgie The Whale! And the underappreciated Cookie Puss
	♥ 12:54pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:54 you sure do.
	12:55pm Scott in Denver: 5 STAR YELP reviewed show. Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm gf2002: I wonder if all of these vape shops popping up - and there are wayyy too many - are the new versions of the pizza parlors, ice cream trucks, and model shops selling Sherman Tanks.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:54 only my hairdresser knows.
	12:56pm gf2002: Joe Osborne is genius on bass, one of my favorite players. Never changed his strings on his original Jazz Bass and cut all those hits with perfect intonation. Amazing.
	♥ 12:57pm Mister Dobalina: Y sus labios son de miel...
	♥ 12:57pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Eso Beso" by "Nancy Ames" Lips of honey? Oh, baby!
	♥ 12:57pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ McGroovey @12:57 jinx !
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 actually DRR is right - no 'e'
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	♥ 12:58pm Squints: Rope duly moved. Thanks, Michael.
	12:58pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been Jim'd?? good nite. plonk.
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @12:53 Sigh.
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:57 I always get that wrong!
	12:59pm clarke: fasset-nating!
	12:59pm Marie in Chicago: the world needs more backwards instrumentation

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 24, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album
Canadian Squires, The	Leave Me Alone
Mellows, The	For You "For You" by "Mellows, The"
George Jones	Root Beer "Root Beer" by "George Jones"
Lazy Lester	The Same Thing Could Happen To You
Trudy Pitts	What The World Needs Now
Hi-Risers, The	A Girl On Either Arm	lost weekend
Jack Herbst	Jimmy's Party "Jimmy's Party" by "Jack Herbst"
Conway Twitty	Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Carla Thomas	Sweet Sensation "Sweet Sensation" by "Carla Thomas"	Hidden Gems
Marshall Crenshaw	She's Not You (demo)	45
Roger Nichols And The Small Circle of Friends	Love So Fine
Roger Nichols And Paul Williams	We've Only Just Begun
Buck Owens	Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Jimmy Hughes	A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
O'Donel Levy	I Want To Make It With You	Dawn Of A New Day
Coolies, The	Bad Bad Boy "Bad Bad Boy" by "Coolies, The"
Rami And The Reliables	New Rochelle
Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends	The Drifter
Mark Eric	Goin Native "Goin Native" by "Mark Eric"
Jo Stafford	Cindy "Cindy" by "Jo Stafford"
Slim Harpo	Mohair Sam "Mohair Sam" by "Slim Harpo"
Pearl Harbor And The Explosions	Release It
Roger Nichols And Paul Williams	I Kept On Loving You
Roger Nichols And The Small Circle of Friends	Can I Go
Robbie Fulks	The World Is Full of Pretty Girls And Pretty Girls Are Full of Themselves Too
Gordon Jackson, Anthony Green & Denise Jackson & The CO-Real Artists	What About You (In the World Today)?
Pezband	Please Be Somewhere Tonight
Caravelles, the	I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine	45
Joel Paterson	Mable's Rock "Mable's Rock" by "Joel Paterson"
Bo Diddley	Please Mr. Engineer "Please Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley"
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66	I Say A Little Prayer
Specials, The	Gangsters "Gangsters" by "Specials, The"
Teenage Fanclub	Ain't That Enough
Carpenters, The	We've Only Just Begun (vocal, bass & drums)
Lyres, The	I Really Want You RIght Now
Nancy Ames	Eso Beso "Eso Beso" by "Nancy Ames"	Latin Pulse!
Jim Fassett	Strange to Your Ears The Fabulous World Of

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CLICK HERE A 1967 TV segment on John Rydgren's aimed-at-teens Silhouette radio program of The American Lutheran Church

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CLICK HERE The Archive Of Chicago music taper Aadam Jacobs

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

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

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CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

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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

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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"

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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"

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CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

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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"

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CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

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Listener comments!
	9:53am Listener Baby: A warm Biktarvy to you, Baby. And a hardy, Skyrzi to all my friends out there. Let’s do this!
	10:35am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @9:53 "Biktarvy combines bictegravir, an integrase inhibitor, with emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide, both nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). " ????
	10:36am Michael Shelley: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:35 Skyrizi selectively blocks IL-23 by binding to its p19 subunit, which is a cytokine involved in inflammatory processes
	10:40am Listener Baby: And discontinue use if death occurs.
	♥ 11:00am luca: gm ichibans
	♥ 11:00am luca: i was more of a Metal Edge Magazine person
	11:00am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:01am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then, hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	11:01am clarke: now: HEY now
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all.
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @10:40 Remain alive. No matter what occurs.
	11:01am greg g: Morning Michael and All !
	11:01am clarke: HAWKS
	11:02am Listener Baby: That time Levon used drum sticks.
	11:02am misterdavid: Firmly established Saturday component = this show
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:02 and roughly!
	11:02am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers. All this scientific chatter has me in a quandary.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:02 might be richard on drums on this?
	♥ 11:03am JG: ↳ Song: "Leave Me Alone" by "Canadian Squires, The" Vocal here actually hard to tell if its Levon or Richard
	11:03am larry: Drop the Donald Trump in the intro, it's gross
	11:03am Bob: Good morning!
	11:03am clarke: ↳ larry @11:03 when you get your own show...
	11:04am Listener Baby: ↳ larry @11:03 That’s why it’s in there. If I may speak for my friend?
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:03 hello bob.
	11:05am Bob: He’s the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HE DESERVES RESPECT! Just kidding. Hi, Clarke
	11:07am clarke: heyu!
	11:08am Cooh John: Did you use a time machine to get Todd to do that promo before his voice changed?
	11:08am clarke: the local diner here FrosTop makes its own Birch Root Beer - it is fantastic!!
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:04 <drinks>
	11:08am Scott in Denver: Hey from Denver. Root beer for breakfast!
	11:08am Michael Shelley: ↳ misterdavid @11:02 smart move
	11:08am Bob: A Root beer float is great but the Boston cooler with ginger is underrated. Vernor’s from Detroit for extra bite
	11:08am Hughie: Greetings from Kildare, Ireland. At the racetrack — can’t listen but thinking of the gang over at the Michael Shelley show! I’ve bet No. 3 (not No. 1) every race. And gotten creamed!
	11:09am Michael Shelley: ↳ JG @11:03 both
	♥ 11:09am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie @11:08 C'mon, Bad Boy! Have fun, Hughie!
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Hughie @11:08 on fire out of the starting gates!
	♥ 11:10am egould: I had a root beer back in February. I bought it at a truck stop, along with a pack of landjaeger.
	11:10am Listener Baby: I love George never repeated himself
	11:10am greg g: God I don’t think it helps my blood pressure but I’m with ya Michael , I am a big fan of root beer floats , usually average about 1 month. I’ve ventured into using other sodas like creamy red birch beer or even cherry soda!
	♥ 11:11am Handy Haversack: Closest I come to root beer is a weekly Underberg. We're saving bottle caps for stemware!
	11:11am Mr. Jones: ↳ Listener Baby @11:10 That is an accomplishment. Everytime I've had a root beer float, I've repeated myself!
	11:11am Michael Shelley: ↳ larry @11:03 Nah, people need to be reminded what a huge idiot he is.
	♥ 11:12am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:11 calmer'n you are.
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:12 howdy zone 5!! comin' in clear. comin' in strong.
	11:14am Florida: Cream soda and vanilla ice cream, coma time
	11:14am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" This is GOLD! Had to google the performer.
	11:14am Listener Baby: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:12 Greg. Really enjoyed your performance filling in for Spazz. Top notch!
	11:15am Cooh John: Oooooo! This song was in my head 30 minutes ago.
	♥ 11:15am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ larry @11:03 My trick to get by is to mentally point and laugh at the idiot, or add the words "in prison" after hearing his name. Dude will be gone one day and we can look forward to that.
	♥ 11:15am Squints: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" G G Y
	11:16am clarke: GGSq!!
	♥ 11:16am Squints: ↳ Song: "What The World Needs Now" by "Trudy Pitts" Zazu's sister? I kid. I think.
	11:16am Listener Baby: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:15 Ken. He will indeed be gone one day. But not the idiots that voted him in. Sadly.
	11:16am clarke: i keeed!!
	♥ 11:17am drr: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:15 If I'm thinking of the same guy you are, I feel like if he should expire in the night we'll just immediately know. There will be fireworks.
	♥ 11:17am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Listener Baby @11:14 Thanks, Baby! It was an honour and a privilege.
	11:17am ?: What's with the biktarvy jokes. Clay pigeon makes them too. Is it ok now to make jokes about life saving medications? Are people living with hiv now punchlines? I expect that from FOX News, not from WFMU.
	11:18am Mr. Jones: I was cuffed, arrested and taken away by the Police in the parking lot of my high school in midday. Eventually got off with no lockup. Did you relate a similar story some months ago, Michael?
	11:18am Bob: ↳ drr @11:17 Orange smoke. Extra toxic.
	11:18am clarke: ↳ @11:17 quite possibly because television is barraged with the same ads over and over and over?? that might have something to do widdit.
	11:19am clarke: 8/10
	♥ 11:20am egould: Gonna’ go squeeze some oranges. Mimosas don’t just magically happen.
	11:20am Listener Baby: Almost arrested at age 7 or so. Definitely in the back of a cop car. Story long and stupid. But involves my older brother. So that should explain most of it.
	♥ 11:20am drr: ↳ clarke @11:18 I've noticed Skyrizi seems to be prescribable for anything and everything. Plaque psoriasis, IBS, hallucinations...
	♥ 11:20am egould: ↳ Song: "Jimmy's Party" by "Jack Herbst" Well all right. Buddy Holly should sue this guy.
	♥ 11:21am Montmaster J: This sounds vaguely Marshall Crenshawish.
	11:21am clarke: ↳ drr @11:20 well goddam!
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Song: "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" by "Conway Twitty" faron young's version - notch above.
	11:22am Scott in Denver: I was thrown down and dragged away at a keg party by the Lincoln NE Police Dept. I deserved it for being lippy when they were telling people to disperse. Lesson learned.
	11:22am Marie in Chicago: Good morning, Michael and All! I was arrested twice, once for marijuana possession.... @) I remember very clearly both times when the cell door closed behind me....
	11:23am clarke: ↳ drr @11:20 hey, how did that gig go??
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Song: "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" by "Conway Twitty" i'm guessing the drums were set-up in the small room at Stax (they were usually in the big room)
	♥ 11:25am Handy Haversack: I fell asleep in a van in a NOLA parking lot and woke up to eight cops aiming their guns at me and shouting.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 when was that??
	♥ 11:26am Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 Sleeping. And somehow, creating a nuisance.
	11:26am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Listener Baby @9:53 lol
	11:27am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 wow! Glad you survived.
	11:28am kevino: Got busted for less than two joints in Phoenix AZ on my first drive across country when I was 20. It was a felony then. I had to strip and be sprayed with de-licer and was in a cell with 7 other felons, slept on a metal bunk with no mattress and bare feet. Got bailed out after two and a half days, other wise I would have had to wait for my hearing in ten days. It was reduced to a misdemeanor. Fu(k Phoenix!
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Song: "She's Not You (demo)" by "Marshall Crenshaw" what a guitar Player!!
	♥ 11:29am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:28 100%
	♥ 11:29am drr: ↳ clarke @11:23 oh man, it was a lot of fun. The host built a stage for us but it was so wobbly and flimsy feeling I was kind of afraid to move. It looked petty good though. An adorable little girl kept coming to the front of the stage an announcing it was her birthday, so Andrew, being a nice person starts singing the damn song so of course I have to do it too or look like a real sourpuss. Also there were a lot of giant teens there, one of whom said we were"dope" or something and did we do any Red Hot Chili Peppers covers. The fish fry was excellent. We got swarmed by Formosan termites but it was just for about three songs. So, better-than-average gig.
	11:29am Bob: I used to see Robert play occasionally around Detroit. He sometimes had a candelabra on his piano.
	♥ 11:30am drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:25 Not a problem; if you get put in jail down here you can just leave. Everybody's doing it.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ drr @11:29 wow! very cool!!
	11:30am Marie in Chicago: ↳ Scott in Denver @11:22 Keg parties... what a thing. I'm sure the cops loved those. Prolly so many funny and dumb stories out there about stuff happening at them. I get the vibe people aren't having as many of them these days..
	11:31am clarke: ↳ drr @11:30 with NOOOO problem!!
	11:32am clarke: wow, RIP Roger - Small Circle Of Friends i just listened to in entirety a few weeks ago. eerie.
	♥ 11:33am Squints: He will eat "your" hat. He's counting on you not having a hat. Heh.
	11:33am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:28 great choices on that one!
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Song: "Love So Fine" by "Roger Nichols And The Small Cir... this is a great album.
	11:34am Dr. Jeff (from Sheena’s): Love So Fine - what a great song! Can I play that on my show sometime?
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:33 roger really found the best voice possible!! i don't even know who it was.
	11:35am morphe': Beer for breakfast after the coffee = Snakebite actually [Bitburger and EastCoast Dry Cider[no additives ... say they] Ya Gotta Eat ...
	♥ 11:36am common: ↳ Song: "We've Only Just Begun" by "Roger Nichols And Paul... that bass sound!
	11:37am gf2002: Be sure to check out the song "Someday Man", written by Roger and Paul Williams, and one of their early entries into pop songwriting success. Paul himself re-recorded it about a year after The Monkees release and Someday Man was the title of his own solo album. Great tune...I'm kind of partial to Paul's version but The Monkees' has the Wrecking Crew with Bones Howe producing. Great b-side for The Monkees
	♥ 11:38am drr: I don't want to say bad stuff about Paul, but boy I did not like one of the movies he was in: The Loved One. He's not what's bad about it. His voice is dubbed in it, like most of the voices.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:37 someday man = genius.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ drr @11:38 ha ha, yeah, The Loved One is a letdown.
	11:39am Marie in Chicago: Andy's always making fun of the hippies
	11:39am Florida: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:18 Clearwater is beautiful today lookin at the gulf of Mexico, lots of boats, nuthin like gettin away
	11:39am Bob: The new Paul Reubens doc on HBO is really heartbreaking and spectacular. Two, long parts but I found it riveting. His difficult personality was a bit of a surprise but makes perfect sense in context. Really moving.
	♥ 11:40am Jack McGuire: Always slag hippies.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Florida @11:39 got the AAC baseball tourney in clearwater, right now! go tulane!
	11:40am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" by "Buck Owens" Pretty risque for Nashville in those days. Nice fuzz though
	11:40am Scott in Denver: I recall that story of Buck Owens last night of performing. He wasn't feeling well and wanted to cancel but some fan was there and begged for him to play. He died later that night. I always wondered how that fan feels today?
	♥ 11:40am drr: ↳ clarke @11:39 I loved Bugsy Malone though! That's some good Paul Wiliams content. And of course Rainbow Connection is the pinnacle of American Cinema.
	11:41am clarke: ↳ drr @11:40 what do you think of Idolmaker??
	11:42am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:38 I love both versions, but after hearing Paul's solo cut of the song, I was partial to that over Davy Jones'. What a great single release from The Monkees though: Listen To The Band b/w Someday Man. Both great tracks.
	♥ 11:42am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" by "Buck Owens" Stealin' the hippies' fuzz tone and stealin' a little bit of the Lady Madonna melody.
	♥ 11:42am drr: ↳ clarke @11:41 Is it a plastic injection molding toy? (IDK what Idolmaker is.)
	♥ 11:42am common: ↳ Bob @11:39 watched it last eve. very well done
	11:43am Cooh John: Sax solo!
	11:43am Listener Baby: Baby check ur phone
	11:44am clarke: ↳ drr @11:42 ha ha, i meant Phantom Of The Paradise - which i don't like, but many do in a cult way.
	11:45am Florida: If they have any games tonite they'll be on the big screen outside on rooftop at Edge Hotel
	11:45am Mr. Jones: Michael, did Marshall mention if he is still making the Tom Wilson documentary?
	11:46am Michael Shelley: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:45 He did! he is as far as I know!
	♥ 11:46am drr: ↳ clarke @11:44 Not as good as KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park. Or maybe it is; I've seen parts of both without ever doing a sit-down watch.
	11:46am gf2002: Jimmy Smith literally wrote the book on how to play jazz on the Hammond B3 organ, and with pedals fully active too. LOVE jazz organ music, I had a trio for a very brief time - guitar, drums, organ - and loved every minute playing with those cats.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ drr @11:42 Idolmaker is kind of a lame flick with ray sharkey - not recommended.
	11:47am gf2002: Personal jazz organ favorite: "Misty" by Richard 'Groove' Holmes. What a jam...
	♥ 11:48am drr: ↳ gf2002 @11:47 you're damn right.
	♥ 11:48am Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Bad Bad Boy" by "Coolies, The" Fantastic.
	11:48am Mr. Jones: re: Organ Jazz I'm a Jimmy McGriff guy.
	♥ 11:48am common: ↳ drr @11:46 i think both are great! especially if you're high
	11:48am clarke: a bad bot, apparently.
	11:49am Michael Shelley: ↳ gf2002 @11:47 very #1
	11:49am clarke: i hates a bad bot.
	♥ 11:49am Stevie Jay: Skeezix the monkey checking in.
	11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ Dr. Jeff (from Sheena’s) @11:34 I HOPE SO!
	♥ 11:50am Pedro in Arlington: Learned tons from Richard Thompson's book and he reads the audio version like a master. The Buck anecdote really stuck with me. I wondered if their paths ever crossed when they were both on Capitol in the 80s. Saw Buck perform at his Bakersfield club in 1996. I still remember him telling this "joke": "Bill Clinton is walking in front of the White House with two big dogs. A guy stops him and Bill says 'Yeah, I got these two dogs for Hillary.' And the other guy says 'Sounds like a good trade.'" Guessing Buck was an early fan of Fox.
	♥ 11:50am drr: Hearing Kim Shattuck reminds me she's mentioned in this new Neko Case memoir that I just devoured in two nights (very fast for me).
	♥ 11:50am Stevie Jay: He likes listener Becky's postcard!
	11:51am clarke: ↳ drr @11:50 you loan to me!!
	♥ 11:53am Mister Dobalina: I love me a root beer float, once a year. But Mr Softee is charging close to $10 for one. Yikes!
	♥ 11:54am Mister Dobalina: & I haven't seen Mr. Fluffy, Mr. Softee's competitor, around lately. A bit cheaper and just as good a root beer float one can get.
	11:54am Bob: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:50 That story about Fairport being harassed by the Buckaroos is a giant bummer
	♥ 11:54am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:45 Talked to Marshall before a show in Alexandria VA two years ago and asked about the Wilson doc. He said he was making progress but seemed bothered by the usual money and legal stuff.
	11:54am SecretSquirrel: Pete’s Candy Store is totally worth a visit! It’s truly charming, like the little theater in “Higglety Pigglety Pop”
	11:54am P-90: One might try an ounce and a half of vodka or white rum and a half ounce of Jagermeister, filled with root beer in a tall glass packed with ice.
	♥ 11:55am John L: ↳ drr @11:50 I also like Neko's substack. This morning she recommended this Everly Brothers clip:www.youtube.com...
	11:55am judy from croton: I was an art teacher in New Rochelle for 25 years!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ John L @11:55 i will subscribe!!
	11:57am clarke: ↳ John L @11:55 done! THNX!
	11:58am gf2002: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:53 10 bucks for a root beer float? Crazy. I buy a 2-liter of store-brand root beer for a buck, and a container of vanilla ice cream when it's on sale for 3 bucks (with my bonus card), and I can make at least 100 bucks worth of RB floats using that Mr. Softee price scale!
	11:58am Scott in Denver: Rochelle Rochelle. A young women's erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
	♥ 11:58am Montmaster J: I think the Planet of the Apes marathon was at one of those New Rochelle theaters back in the day....50 cents and we were in there all day. A parents dream.
	♥ 11:58am drr: ↳ clarke @11:56 Go on now go, walk out the door Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore
	11:59am morphe': ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:54 The Rival ice cream truck in NYC Boroughs is/was Freezer Fresh, but a lot of independents on the scene ... some...many?? were selling drugs too ... phased out like the fake bodegas of the '80s ....
	11:59am clarke: ↳ drr @11:58 never was.
	11:59am gf2002: Off-color joke of the day: Why did Mrs. Softee file for divorce?
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:59 an implied punch-line - i like it!
	♥ 12:00pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:59 You see what I did there?
	12:01pm Listener Baby: This is a brassy voice, just like Amy Winehouse. Just an observation.
	12:02pm morphe': Re: Ice cream trucks selling drugs too ... www.nbcnewyork.com...
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:00 i see!
	♥ 12:02pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ morphe' @11:59 Cool, I didn't know that ice cream trucks sold drugs as well. Bud & a cone for the munchies.
	12:02pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Goin Native" by "Mark Eric" Hmm...drums sound a little too loose to be Jim Gordon, but who knows! Jim's fills were usually much tighter than this.
	12:03pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Goin Native" by "Mark Eric" This is like a Pere Ubu folk record
	♥ 12:03pm Mister Dobalina: White with your white. No, not the devil's dandruff. Bad!
	12:03pm morphe': ↳ gf2002 @11:59 Where is the punch line???
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:02 maybe his mom was around.
	12:04pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Scott in Denver @11:58 LOL
	12:07pm morphe': ↳ clarke @12:03 Like art ... one should not have to explain a joke, but Whaaa???
	12:07pm clarke: ha ha ha ha
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ morphe' @12:07 the key is the name.
	12:08pm Listener Baby: Peggy Lee version is stellar
	12:08pm DG: While Jo Stafford is an accomplished singer, she also recorded w/her husband as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards, a horrible, off-key, inept lounge duo. They made a few albums under that name (without revealing who they actually were) & won a comedy Grammy. Apparently the Bee Gees were not amused by their "Stayin' Alive" cover (guess Barry & co. don't have a sense of humor).
	12:09pm DG: "Mohair Sam"? Isn't this the song the Beatles played with Elvis (for hours) when they visited him in Bel Air?
	♥ 12:09pm suzyhotrod: Pearl Harbor!! So COOL!!! (clap!)
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:09 dunno about that, but Charlie Rich wrote it.
	♥ 12:10pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Release It" by "Pearl Harbor And The Explosions" I have it on good authority that Everybody's Boring But Pearl's Baby.
	12:11pm DG: (ooh, sorry, Elvis was probably playing along with the Charlie Rich version)
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:11 most likely.
	12:12pm DG: (also it was written by Dallas Frazier, not Rich...he wrote a lot of hits, inc. "Alley Oop" & "Elvira")
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:12 ah.
	♥ 12:13pm Squints: ↳ clarke @11:56 Is that a Gloria Gaynor remix?
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:13 don't give 'em ideas.
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Kept On Loving You" by "Roger Nichols And Paul ... so good.
	12:15pm DG: That "ice cream truck" story has been around for decades. My friend got a summer job driving/working a truck & kids used to ask him where the flag was...I think the story was if there was a red(?) flag on the truck that meant they sold, um, other items as well. (This was on Longuyland in '77 or so). Probably an urban legend but might be based on some real incidents.
	12:18pm clarke: the right thing to do.
	♥ 12:19pm drr: ↳ Song: "The World Is Full of Pretty Girls And Pretty Girl... Son!
	12:20pm clarke: son!
	12:21pm clarke: neko case name-drop
	12:21pm Florida: You could get more than hoagies at the sandwich shop in the town where I used to live
	12:22pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DG @12:08 Yeah... I could get into them... at all
	♥ 12:22pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:21 thought I heard that!
	12:23pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:22 odd sync goin' on, today
	♥ 12:23pm egould: ↳ Florida @12:21 There’s a pho shop in Long Beach, CA that is definitely a front for an illegal bookmaking operation.
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:53 Ive lived too long
	♥ 12:24pm DJ Johnny Cool: The Funk 16 Corners!
	12:24pm clarke: i don't know where handy went to, but he left us hanging with him surrounded by nola cops.
	♥ 12:24pm Matt Fiveash: Got our MS & FS's tix! This will mark the 3rd time seeing them at that same theater. Best working band on earth. See you there, MS, yrs etc, MF
	♥ 12:24pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:26 College. 1994? 1995?
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:24 there you are. i never heard this story!!! how come?? ha ha.
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Please Be Somewhere Tonight" by "Pezband" YES!! SOMEWHERE!
	♥ 12:25pm Hubig Pie: The auto repair shop across Poland Ave. from our house did more than repair autos.
	12:27pm Scott in Denver: Now THIS is a #1! Thanks Pezband and Michael.
	12:27pm gf2002: ↳ morphe' @12:03 Had to take a call...I was hoping someone would take a guess! Drum roll... ...because Mister Softee never gets hard.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 they sold fried pies?
	♥ 12:29pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:27 Our friend on the West Bank helped the cops bust an "ice cream truck" that was doing business in her neighborhood.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:29 the best bank!
	♥ 12:30pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:27 Of course. Every shop had a metal Hubig pie stand.
	12:30pm Mr. Jones: Mmmm, Caravel root beef floats!
	12:30pm Florida: Ain't got nuthin to say about that it's true
	♥ 12:32pm Squints: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:30 <tom carvel voice> Everything floats down here.
	♥ 12:32pm egould: ↳ egould @12:23 Egould’s first time going in there was on a Saturday morning at 10AM. Twenty or so Vietnamese guys intently watching the Nebraska versus Iowa college football game. Not eating pho. The restaurant is cash only. If you want to leave a tip, there’s a garbage can by the register, and you throw your tip in the garbage can. Good pho. And there’s a waiter we called “The Business Man” because he wears a suit and slings pho.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Please Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley" all aboard.
	♥ 12:35pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Please Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley" 🐐
	12:37pm gf2002: Never had the ice cream truck rackets, but we DID have a scene in the late 70's and early 80's where there were more than usual numbers of pop-up pizza parlors in the surrounding small towns around me, Philly suburbs. Seemed like most rarely had a full house of customers. After the feds busted "Little Nicky" Scarfo in the mid-80's, all of those pizza parlors were gone. The next decade saw some pizza places in Philly selling pies with baggies full of certain substances tucked under the pies if you knew what to ask for on the menu.
	12:38pm clarke: who taught you how to drive a train?!?
	12:39pm clarke: i think that train is full of rope!
	12:40pm Scott in Denver: There are several Mexican restaurants around Denver that NEVER have any business.
	♥ 12:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials, The" Yeeeeeeeeeeah!
	♥ 12:41pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials, The" Jammy jam JAMMER !!!
	12:41pm jim from wood ridge NJ: Jerry Dammers sways left and right on the keys!
	♥ 12:41pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:27 The place had a payphone outside that all the local hoodlums conducted bidness on. I went over one night with bolt cutters and severed the line to the receiver. Who knew there was an electrical current running in that line? Got quite a shock.
	12:41pm ?: aaahhrrriiee
	12:42pm Joe R.: Weare living in gangster times, aren’t we?
	♥ 12:42pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Florida @12:21 You mean extra 'toppings'?
	12:43pm Mr. Jones: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 In my old neighborhood there was a hobby shop where apparently you could ask for the "Sherman Tank" model and leave with a baggy.
	♥ 12:43pm Jimmy Wipper: There is an ice cream truck here in Norfolk, VA that has a huge sign, ICE CREAM AND BAIL BONDS! A one stop shop.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:41 the last pay phone.
	♥ 12:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 Better than a tube of airplane glue.
	♥ 12:43pm Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Ain't That Enough" by "Teenage Fanclub" Aces.
	♥ 12:44pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 You mean the house special oil change?
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @12:43 do they do floats?? heh heh
	♥ 12:44pm egould: ↳ StringOFperils @12:43 Not if you’re Joey Ramone.
	12:45pm PC77: Don't call me Scarface!
	♥ 12:45pm StringOFperils: ↳ egould @12:44 Or Brian Spaeth
	♥ 12:45pm Jack McGuire: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 Skinny Joey just opened a cheesesteak jernt.
	♥ 12:45pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @12:43 In Atlanta there was Hong's OK Carry-Out and Auto Body Repair. Brooklyn is losing all the mob fronts and is poorer for it. We are almost ziti-less up here. And there are no bar pies!
	♥ 12:45pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Ain't That Enough" by "Teenage Fanclub" Squints like.
	♥ 12:46pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:30 Carvel root beef floats, tempting. Might have to try it.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Jack McGuire @12:43 AMEN
	12:46pm clarke: please, mister engineer - play again!!!
	12:46pm gf2002: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 Haha, I wonder how many unsuspecting parents went in there to buy their kid a legit "Sherman Tank" model and got that look from the person at the register. Yeah, Sherman Tank, that'll be 200 bucks...
	♥ 12:47pm Jack McGuire: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:46 Almost meets the glory that is Sparky's Dream, but not quite.
	12:47pm clarke: that's quite enough!!
	12:47pm Scott in Denver: The was a metal shop close to downtown Denver and their banner said "WELDING/FAX" The welding sucked but they made up for the loss of revenue from sending faxes for customers.
	12:47pm Mr. Jones: You mean the Italian restaurants in Carrol Gardens are actually opening up for business now. Not just for show anymore?
	12:47pm PC77: Teenage Fanclub sounds like The Byrds.
	♥ 12:48pm egould: ↳ PC77 @12:47 Always have.
	12:48pm gf2002: ↳ Jack McGuire @12:45 I saw that on the news! Joey tried entering the sandwich business some time before and there were "suspicious" fires at the location.
	12:48pm P-90: Carvel DID used to be better, like so many things
	12:49pm clarke: pretty sure Joe Osborn played on that demo, too.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:49 oops: Osborne
	♥ 12:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "We've Only Just Begun (vocal, bass & drums)" by "... Did you say Karen C. on drums as well?
	12:50pm misterdavid: Sublime!
	♥ 12:50pm drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:43 That wasn't Boerum Hill in Brooklyn? There used to be a WEIRD little "shop" with a guy sitting at a desk and a shelf with like four Revell car models, and nothing else. The fellow at the desk had an unwelcoming mien. On Bond or Hoyt Street, maybe?
	12:50pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:50 HAL BLAINE
	12:50pm Scott in Denver: I wonder what Karen is doing today? Oh wait...
	12:51pm clarke: too soon.
	♥ 12:51pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:50 Thanks!
	♥ 12:51pm egould: ↳ Scott in Denver @12:50 “I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation…”
	12:52pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:50 Joe Osborne is the one who gave The Carpenters their shot, I believe he had them cut demos at his own studio and then word spread how good they were, so they owed ol' Joe some thanks for helping them break in with those early recordings. I think that's the story anyway...
	♥ 12:53pm dave wuz here: connolly!
	♥ 12:53pm Squints: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:45 No shahtage of bah pies on tha South Shoah, heah.
	♥ 12:53pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:50 I thought he was a no-e Osborn(e).
	♥ 12:53pm egould: Thanks Michael. Time for another mimosa. Have a fun holiday weekend everyone!
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:52 this could be true, but i was referring to the paul williams demo - i think joe is on that, too.
	12:54pm Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Michael! Have a great weekend everybody!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:53 i confuse.
	12:54pm Scott in Denver: ↳ egould @12:51 Well played!
	♥ 12:54pm RB: Carvel Fuddgie the Whale icecream cakes have remainded delicious in our recent experience .
	12:54pm gf2002: It's Fudgie The Whale! And the underappreciated Cookie Puss
	♥ 12:54pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:54 you sure do.
	12:55pm Scott in Denver: 5 STAR YELP reviewed show. Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm gf2002: I wonder if all of these vape shops popping up - and there are wayyy too many - are the new versions of the pizza parlors, ice cream trucks, and model shops selling Sherman Tanks.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:54 only my hairdresser knows.
	12:56pm gf2002: Joe Osborne is genius on bass, one of my favorite players. Never changed his strings on his original Jazz Bass and cut all those hits with perfect intonation. Amazing.
	♥ 12:57pm Mister Dobalina: Y sus labios son de miel...
	♥ 12:57pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Eso Beso" by "Nancy Ames" Lips of honey? Oh, baby!
	♥ 12:57pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ McGroovey @12:57 jinx !
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:56 actually DRR is right - no 'e'
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	♥ 12:58pm Squints: Rope duly moved. Thanks, Michael.
	12:58pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been Jim'd?? good nite. plonk.
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Squints @12:53 Sigh.
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:57 I always get that wrong!
	12:59pm clarke: fasset-nating!
	12:59pm Marie in Chicago: the world needs more backwards instrumentation

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 24, 2025

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