Fool's Paradise Playlists for August 6, 2011

Listener comments!

1:06pm Hugh:

Rex!
Way to ROCK, on a steamy Saturday!!

1:14pm Debbie From Ga.:

Radio sight gag http://tinyurl.com/3r5wz5r

1:33pm Ocean Ray:

On November 9, 1959, Secretary Flemming announced, seventeen days before the Thanksgiving holiday, that some of the 1959 crop of cranberries contained traces of aminotriazole, a weed killer, which had been shown to cause thyroid cancer in rats in laboratory testing. Although the sale of cranberries was not banned, Flemming cautioned that if a housewife didn't know where the berries in a product came from, "to be on the safe side, she doesn't buy".Flemming acknowledged the impact of his announcement prior to the holidays, but added "I don't have any right to sit on information of this kind."

After decreased sales of cranberries during the holiday season, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined, in January, 1960, that 99% of the crop had not been contaminated. However, the incident did cause cranberry growers to cease using amitrole as a herbicide, as demanded by the farmers' largest consumer, the Ocean Spray company. Prior to 1959, cranberries were seldom consumed except during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and cranberry juice was available, but not popular. After the disastrous holiday season, Ocean Spray promoted the popularity of the juice, and the production of the berries was increased in the long run.

1:34pm tony:

Really dug that Parker Family ... this one too!

1:39pm Ocean Ray:

Elkin introduced Williams to the Sinshimer brothers, owners of Richmond's Tip Top Records and Allen Record Distributors. During the previous decade, Tip Top had released numerous pop and country songs by regional talent. The Sinshimers agreed to release Williams' "Loud Mufflers," but there was a catch. "They said, 'What we really want is a song about cranberries,'" the singer recalls. "Archie Elkin told me that cranberries had been tainted by harmful fertilizer and there wouldn't be any for Thanksgiving or the Christmas season. ... It wasn't my idea."

Williams didn't even write "Cranberry Blues" until the group was in the car on the way to record in the makeshift studio in the back of Elkin's store. "I wrote the song out on a scratch pad. ... Never played it till we got to the studio."

1:40pm torsten bengtsson:

excellent music for a saturday night (as it is here in gothenburg, sweden), another beer, another toke, keep the music flowing!

2:02pm Greg from Bloomfield:

Rex looks like he won some kind of golf tournament...

2:03pm Realtor:

Dude stole my jacket!!!!!!!

2:05pm Breg from Gloomfield:

Realtor, golfer, used car salesman... what is with the jacket hanging up fresh from the dry cleaner ?

2:07pm Greg from Bloomfield:

Bloomfield rulz! Gloomfield drools! Go Bengals!

2:09pm Otis:

The Rays from Brooklyn !Thanks for that !

2:10pm Dr. Tormento:

Yeah , pretty sure i saw Curt Gowdy wearin that circa 72'

2:11pm Tom:

Look sharp-feel sharp-be sharp!

2:13pm Dr. Tormento:

Look sharp...like sharp cheese !

2:13pm Role of Thumb:

The gaudier the color, the cheaper the fabric and tailoring.

2:14pm On the scene:

Rex is pinching Stu Nahan's style with that jacket

2:14pm Dr. Tormento:

yeah but you can live a mustard stain worry free life !

2:16pm Mr. Blackwell:

Rex wrecks that salute to gold lamé or, I should say, gold lame.

2:16pm Don (trip dub):

Excellent coverage of Stomp last week. The Curt Gowdy jacket was hip - like Dick Clark on New Years eve.

2:17pm Joe R:

Everybody's so dazzled by his outfit, nobody's asked what record he's holding up.

2:17pm Dick Clark:

And Rex's delivery is better than mine.

2:18pm Doctor Duh:

I see the peanut gallery is LOVIN' THAT BLAZER

2:18pm Dr. Tormento:

'Mustard' by the Dittos...or the Redtops

2:18pm Tom:

The name of the record is " Get Wet It "

2:19pm Ken:

Peanut say, peanut do

2:20pm Doctor Duh:

Ken even monitors ISPs from home. The dedication!

2:22pm Dr. Tormento:

Lets give ol' Leon Errol a nod for once....nod

2:28pm Don (trip dub):

Dem bones, dem bones, dem A-bones.

2:34pm seang:

there's a tribute to Sun Records next week at Lincoln Center outdoors

2:36pm Don (trip dub):

J. Fred Muggs is uncredited in Rise of the PlApes. Time for lunkhead rock.

2:41pm Tom:

Next Saturday at Lincoln Center Bandshell see and hear Hayden Thompson and Sonny Burgess of Sun Records fame.

2:44pm Don (trip dub):

I coulda sworn I heard the rebel yell by La La Brooks last week.

2:44pm Chard E. Tuna:

Who funds these events at Lincoln Center? It's quite a scene going on there!

2:55pm Ken's Rabbi:

Kenneth is working on a Saturday afternoon. Oy, gevalt.

2:57pm Listener Jumpy from Brooklyn:

Another great installment of Fool's Paradise.