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Playlist for 21 March 2013 Favoriting | Keeping the fire burning (note: due to technical problems, this show started late, and is shorter than usual!)

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Artist Song Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Yaz  Bad Connection   Favoriting Upstairs at Eric's  Sire    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Tom Jones with The Cardigans  Burning Down the House   Favoriting Reload  Gut/V2    0:04:04 (Pop-up)
Arthur Brown  Fanfare and Fire Poem   Favoriting The Crazy World of Arthur Brown  Track Records  That's him presiding over today's playlist.  0:07:23 (Pop-up)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux  Fire   Favoriting Press Color  Ze    0:09:10 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Archers of Loaf  		Smokin Pot in the Hot City   Favoriting The Speed of Cattle  Alias    0:14:15 (Pop-up)
Buffalo Daughter  Volcanic Girl   Favoriting I  Emperor Norton    0:17:19 (Pop-up)
Big Star  Mod Lang   Favoriting Radio City  Stax/Ardent    0:21:09 (Pop-up)
BS & Nyle  Set the Roof on Fire   Favoriting AM:Racket Vol 1    free download here!  0:24:17 (Pop-up)
Esquivel  That Old Black Magic   Favoriting Other Worlds, Other Sounds/Four Corners Of The World  Bar None    0:27:27 (Pop-up)
Sima Bina  Naz Kardanet Vaveyla   Favoriting Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych of The 60s and 70s (various artists)  Finders Keepers    0:30:00 (Pop-up)
Barbara & Ernie  Play With Fire   Favoriting Prelude to...  Cotillion; Fallout (reissue)    0:33:01 (Pop-up)
Ray Charles  Ring of Fire   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  Tangerine/ABC  great live performance on the Johnny Cash Show, from 1970 here!  0:36:31 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Glenn Branca  		Bad Smells   Favoriting Who You Staring At?  Giorno Poetry Systems    0:39:38 (Pop-up)
Korean Black Eyes  Burning Love   Favoriting EP  Vitoria    0:43:39 (Pop-up)
Louis Prima and Keely Smith  Heap Big Smoke, No Fire   Favoriting Say It with a Slap  Buddha/BMG    0:46:20 (Pop-up)
C-Mon & Kypski  Wildfire   Favoriting Where the Wild Things Are  Penoze    0:50:07 (Pop-up)
Johnny Mathis  An Open Fire   Favoriting Open Fire, Two Guitars  Columbia  written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, 1959. Also on 3-CD Leiber & Stoller retrospective.  0:54:39 (Pop-up)
Free Design  Light My Fire   Favoriting One by One  Project 3    0:58:04 (Pop-up)
Steve Fisk  Where's the Fire?   Favoriting 999 Levels of Undo  Sub Pop    1:02:55 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Las Comadrejas  		Oaxacatelas   Favoriting We are Ugly, But We Have the Music  Comad    1:08:07 (Pop-up)
Dinah Washington  Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Rae and Christian Remix)   Favoriting Verve Remixed (various artists)  Verve    1:12:36 (Pop-up)
Husikesque  Just Like Candy   Favoriting Green Blue Fire  Astralwerks    1:17:26 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno  Baby's on Fire   Favoriting Here Come the Warm Jets  EG    1:21:48 (Pop-up)
June Carter Cash  Ring of Fire   Favoriting Press On  Risk    1:26:02 (Pop-up)
George Barnes  September in the Rain   Favoriting       1:28:49 (Pop-up)
Blondie  (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence Dear   Favoriting Plastic Letters  Chrysalis    1:31:13 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Lionel Hampton  		Hamp's Boogie Woogie   Favoriting Hamp's Boogie Woogie (78 album)  Decca    1:34:00 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:25am listener james from westwood:

charlie's on fi-yah, you'd better throw him in the wat-er!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:27am Charlie:

Well, I did plan to take a shower after the show!
Avatar 11:38am glenn:

jeez, i hope that menacing headgear has an asbestos lining.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:39am listener james from westwood:

indeed; look what arthur brown had to endure!
good thursday all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:55am Michael:

Fearless leader Chazz-Loo! How do you do? And hey to James and Glenn.
Kinda chilly in me office today...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:58am listener james from westwood:

digging this swingy thingy on the stream (vamp). and more of the old stuff right after. sweet! bury my heart in 1946.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:01pm listener james from westwood:

got a bit of catching up to do; gotta hit the archive for tuesday and wednesday's drummer wonders. but belated congrats to doug and amanda, and timely congrats to charlie, for the successful marathon!
Avatar ♥ 12:02pm Carmichael:

Good ol' Arthur Brown. Hiya Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:02pm Charlie:

hi folks -- PROGRAMMING ALERT! --
Having a bit of last-minute computer trouble. Am re-starting studio computer. It will take a couple of minutes to get everything up and running again! Sorry for the delay!!!
Avatar 12:02pm ndbob:

morning Charlie, James. Glenn. Michael
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:03pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Generoso "Tojo" Jimenez "La Vieja Rosa"
Avatar ♥ 12:03pm Carmichael:

AOK, Charlie. I'm not doing anything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:05pm listener james from westwood:

just happy to be here. do what ya gotta do, charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:05pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: La Lupe "Se Acabo" ("Once We Loved")
Avatar 12:07pm ndbob:

morning Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:09pm Doug Schulkind:

Greetings ndbob!

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Billy Wright "Every Evening"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:11pm Charlie:

Hi again -- I don't know what's wrong. My studio computer is saying it's getting signal from the router. But I can't connect. I was online until a little before showtime. I've restarted my main computer, restarted the router and the internet modem. Restarted the studio computer. But except for our main computer, our other computers are off-line. Any thoughts?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:11pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Johnnie Ray "How Long Blues"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:14pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Billy Gayles "Take Your Fine Frame Home"
Avatar ♥ 12:14pm Carmichael:

Hardwire connection to the router?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:15pm Doug Schulkind:

Charlie, wish I could help. I am shockingly ignorant about computers. Carmichael raises a good point. Is the computer that is not online connected to the router by cable or wifi? If wifi, are there other machines that are connecting via wifi?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:16pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Mike Tingley "Begin the Sun"
Avatar ♥ 12:16pm Carmichael:

If your other computers are wi-fi, you may have a software or password glitch. Try re-setting the router password and re-scan the available connections.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:18pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Nguessan "Mammy Nia"
Avatar ♥ 12:19pm Carmichael:

At any rate, it sounds like the router is the problem. Hardwire the GTDS stream computer into the connection that is working for the one computer. That should do the trick.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:21pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Rick Rickels "I'm Gone"
  12:23pm trish:

Before changing settings that worked, try the standard modem/router recyle unplug modem and router and plug back in again in that order- waiting for internet light on the modem before firing up the router. Add a computer reboot after that if that doesn't work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:23pm Charlie:

I'm back. Shall I do a short show now?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:24pm Doug Schulkind:

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Paul Davis "I Don't Need a Backseat Driver"
Avatar 12:24pm ndbob:

indeed charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:25pm listener james from westwood:

if everything's up and running, sure! any busy doing nothing would be great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:25pm Michael:

absotuely. As long as you can.
Avatar 12:25pm Dervish:

Yes Charlie yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:25pm listener james from westwood:

plus jim price has trained us to dig bite-sized radio.
Avatar ♥ 12:25pm northguineahills:

Now we're nothinging!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:26pm listener james from westwood:

thanks, carmichael and trish, for the tech advice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:27pm Charlie:

got a little re-setting up catch-up to do here....
  12:28pm trish:

Sure. That paragraph solved some 50% of all tech support calls the year I worked for a giant ISP's call centre in NS.

'recycle:'
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:28pm Doug Schulkind:

Nothinging is now my new favorite present progressive verb!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:31pm Charlie:

funny thing, @trish -- that's what i did -- didn't work! then i did it again. it worked, but it took a few minutes to kick in. maybe my main computer is shot, or the router... anyway, here we are now!
  12:31pm Tower:

Really diggin' the Tom Jones. And yes, he had 3 45's on the Tower label.
Avatar 12:35pm ndbob:

heya Tower Todd!
  12:36pm Tower:

Hello Bob, and everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:37pm Uncle Michael:

I have been nothinging in my motor vehicle.
  12:37pm trish:

All's well that ends.. and glad to show up late to the show.
Avatar ♥ 12:38pm Carmichael:

Saw Tom a few years ago at a now-defunct "resort" in Northern California. He sang Burnin' Down the House, along with Tower of Power's What is Hip? He's still got the chops.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:38pm Uncle Michael:

LJFW quoting Eno...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:38pm Artie:

Got burned with too much nothinging in my lifestyle.
Avatar ♥ 12:40pm northguineahills:

not noting knotting nothinging...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:40pm Uncle Michael:

Beautiful day in the drummerhood.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:54pm Charlie:

a proper busy doing nothing hello now to:
James, Glenn, Michael, James, Carmichael, Bob, Doug, Trish, Dervish, Tower, Uncle Michael, Artie, NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:59pm Uncle Michael:

Charlie's got his ears on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Parq:

I saw CWAB doing the number in that outfit on a show hosted by Tom Jones, whom I see you have also played.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:08pm Uncle Michael:

Why is the penguin on his head all aflame?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:09pm Uncle Michael:

The Crazy World of Arthur Alexander.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm Parq:

Waiting for this to be reset to 33.
Avatar 1:10pm don:

into this!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:11pm Michael:

Korean Black Eyes sounds like an Asian Gang name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:11pm Uncle Michael:

Is this Melanie Safka?
Avatar ♥ 1:11pm Carmichael:

Parq, what show was that? I may have seen it. Before Old Grey Whistle Test Days, I recall. Ready Steady Go?
Avatar 1:11pm Dervish:

This is EXACTLY the right speed. Please god let it be so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm Parq:

Carm, don't know if it ran in the Old Sod, but Tom Jones had a variety show in 1969 or so, ran on Friday nights in the US. Great production numbers, genuinely funny comedy, musical guests from way outside the Vegas crowd -- in all, pretty out there for 60s variety television.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm Parq:

@ Carm:
www.imdb.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:17pm Charlie:

Hi Parq -- Yes, Dervish -- correct speed it was!
Avatar ♥ 1:21pm pacific standard simon:

Oh, man... My moms used to listen to this record constantly when I was a kid.
Avatar ♥ 1:23pm Carmichael:

I have this Johnny Mathis album. I was just admiring the cheesiness of the cover the other night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:24pm Doug Schulkind:

Best line in today's NYT obituary for ex-porn king Harry Reems:

"Mr. Reems played Dr. Young, a physician whose diagnostic brilliance — he locates the rare anatomical quirk that makes Ms. Lovelace’s character vastly prefer oral sex to intercourse — is matched by his capacity for tireless ministration."

You gotta love the NYT.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:24pm Charlie:

Now y'all can admire the (beautiful) cheesiness of the music!
Avatar ♥ 1:24pm pacific standard simon:

I have no idea who the guitar players are, though. Charlie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:25pm Charlie:

Al Caiola & Tony Mottola
Avatar ♥ 1:26pm pacific standard simon:

Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm Parq:

Got a date with an angel. Before I go, Charlie, I just want to mention remembering you doing "Fire" to open the Hoof n Mouth finale in, what was it, 2006? Super cool.
Avatar 1:26pm ndbob:

@Doug read that obit earlier - quite well done:)
Avatar ♥ 1:27pm northguineahills:

Ahhh, Free Design.... like a nice sip of absinthe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:29pm Uncle Michael:

Free Design is heavy rotation at Chez Oncle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:30pm Charlie:

Thanks, Parq! That was (Light My) Fire! Forget what year it was, though...
Avatar ♥ 1:30pm pacific standard simon:

Where's the fire? In your eyes!
Avatar ♥ 1:31pm northguineahills:

I have a Steve Fisk cassette on SST recs, I thought was curious when I picked it up at a thrift store.
Avatar ♥ 1:32pm Carmichael:

Parq, I do remember that show, but not Arthur Brown being on it. I moved to California by 1966, so I grew up on Yank TV. What a list of 60s luminaries too!

I have a black & white Brown video with the fire head thing, that looks like it was from a British show. Carl Palmer is on the drums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:36pm listener james from westwood:

my guess was that obit was a margalit fox work, and bingo! she has a distinctive obit style.
  1:39pm gary mitchell:

bravo on the Dinah remix
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:41pm Charlie:

Hiya Gary!
@Doug -- yes, the NYT can dignify anything!
Avatar 1:42pm ndbob:

Heya Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:44pm Charlie:

I believe the remixers excised the line "seems my flame in your heart's done gone out" from "Is You Is..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:48pm Uncle Michael:

LJFW totally called this
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:48pm listener james from westwood:

aha, there's the eno track! love it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:48pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Mighty Matt Fiveash is up next here on the Drummer Stream. Matt's show will feature a birthday celebration for blues pianist Otis Spann and an in-studio visit from the program director of kindred-spirit radio station WCBN (Ann Arbor, MI)

Matt's playlist page is here: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:49pm Uncle Michael:

I'm more hip to the 801 Live version.
Avatar ♥ 1:50pm pacific standard simon:

@UM - Me likes the Eno + The Winkies version.
Avatar ♥ 1:52pm Carmichael:

Otis! My man!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:53pm Uncle Michael:

Matt Fiveash, live from the Dexter Lake Club...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:53pm Michael:

Mind if we dance with your dates?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:55pm Doug Schulkind:

Listener Glenn turned me onto George Barnes. Like!
Avatar ♥ 1:56pm Carmichael:

7 Carlings and a Rock & Rye.
Avatar ♥ 1:56pm northguineahills:

Hot set, thank Charlie!
Avatar ♥ 1:57pm pacific standard simon:

Perfect capper, Charlie!
Avatar 1:57pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:57pm listener james from westwood:

truncated BDN is still fine BDN. TYVM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:58pm Charlie:

Thanks everyone for hangin' in there today! You're all smokin! See you next week. Stay tuned for Matt Fiveash -- he's set to blow! Here's his playlist: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:58pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the show, Charlie.
Avatar 1:58pm glenn:

aggggh. i missed geoge barnes. i suck.
Avatar ♥ 1:58pm pacific standard simon:

Carmichael is on my wavelength...
Avatar 1:59pm glenn:

i mean geoge banes.
  2:02pm trish:

what NGH said.. 'hot'
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:02pm Michael:

Thanks Charlie - see ya next time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:23am SeanG:

great show dude!
  12:00pm charlie:

Thanks, Sean!
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