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Favoriting August 3, 2013: Special Guest: Sonny Curtis!

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Joan Jett  Love Is All Around   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Bobby Fuller Four  I Fought The Law   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  I Wanna' Go Bummin' Around   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Johnny Duncan  Day Drinker   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Everly Brothers, The  Man With Money   Favoriting Sonny Curtis on guitar 
Buddy Knox  Gypsy Man   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Buddy Holly  Rock Around With Ollie Vee   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis & Sonny on guitar 
Andy Williams  A Fool Never Learns   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  Destiny's Child   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Harry Nilsson  Walk Right Back   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Crickets, The  Just This Once   Favoriting Written by Sonny Curtis, Joe Maudlin & Earl Sinks 
Sonny Curtis  A Beatle I Wanna Be   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Gary Lewis & The Playboys  Where Will The Words Come From?   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis & Glen Hardin 
Camps, The (aka The Crickets)  Batmobile   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  Day Gig   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis & Jerry Alison 
Nat Stuckey  Soul Fever   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  I Hate To See Me Go   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Crickets, The  Baby My Heart   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  Atlanta Georgia Stray   Favoriting From the lp "The Sonny Curtis Style" 
Sonny Curtis  Interview   Favoriting  
Sonny Curtis  The Straight Life   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  My Little Girl   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Campers, The  The Ballad of Batman and Robin   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Sonny Curtis  How Little Men Care   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
Buddy Holly  Blue Days, Black Nights   Favoriting Sonny Curtis on guitar 
Sonny Curtis  Bo Diddley Bach   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis 
In-Sect  More Than I Can Say   Favoriting Written By Sonny Curtis & Jerry Alison 
Buddy Holly  Midnight Shift   Favoriting Sonny Curtis on guitar 
Sonny Curtis  Don't Think Twice It's Alright   Favoriting From the lp "Mike Berry & The Crickets" 

CLICK HERE for Michael's February 24, 2007 interview with Sonny Curtis!

CLICK HERE for Michael's September 1, 2007 interview with Jerry Alison!

CLICK HERE to watch The Beach Boys pretend to record "Good Vibrations"

CLICK HERE for The Mighty Hannibal "Midnight Hour" onThe !!!! Beat

CLICK HERE for The Monkees: Complete un-aired TV pilot from 1965

CLICK HERE for We Don't Like Unfamiliar Music, Even Though We Claim We Do

CLICK HERE for Rock Aficionados Try to Spin Old Vinyl Into Gold in New Investing Track

CLICK HERE for Ted Nugent

CLICK HERE for "Iconic NYC Music Venues, Then And Now" slideshow

CLICK HERE for "Ex”-Cheap Trick Drummer Bun E. Carlos in Lawsuit With “Former” Band Mates"

CLICK HERE for Sinatra doing his thing

CLICK HERE for 45 minutes of Elvis Costello & The Attractions at their peak

CLICK HERE to see the results of THE LES PAUL AUCTION

When you have 70 minutes to kill CLICK HERE to watch "Only The Young"

CLICK HERE to watch the full "Beach Boys Live in Concert 50th Anniversary"

CLICK HERE to see listener Bjarne from Norway who tattooed the Woof Moo Logo on his hip area

CLICK HERE for info on "Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows."

CLICK HERE for big news

CLICK HERE for some live Magic and CLICK HERE for the proper chords.

CLICK HERE for Celebrity Make Unders – What Would Celebrities Look Like If They Were Everyday People?!

CLICK HERE to listen to almost every top 10 of the top 40 era.

I love THIS!

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on Donnie And Joe Emerson!

CLICK HERE for David Lowrey's "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89"

CLICK HERE for a reply to David Lowrey

CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps!

CLICK HERE foe Q&A with Al Jardine

CLICK HERE to hear Gene Simmons say that Ace Frehley is a drugged racist with low self esteem who did nothing

CLICK HERE to see Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins sixth-grade metalheads from Flatbush, Brooklyn

CLICK HERE to hear David Letterman ask: "Are Those Your Drums?"

CLICK HERE for "Ottawa band’s new release spins only on Fisher-Price record player"

CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings.

CLICK HERE for How we made "You Really Got Me"!

CLICK HERE for another of the worst people in the world!

CLICK HERE for Left of the dial: Independent radio in the digital age which includes some video interviews with WFMU staff members!

CLICK HERE for another clip of The Rolling Stones being less then The Greatest Rock & Roll Band

CLICK HERE for a not quite right piece called "The Rising Cost of New Vinyl"

CLICK HERE for 10 of the all-time greatest disc jockeys - with audio clips of their chatter

CLICK HERE this train wreck is a great microcosm of what is wrong with the world.

CLICK HERE for Nina Simone: nutty but good.

CLICK HERE for a few actual kind hearted people who would like to give $1 million to each and every person in America but are unfortunately not all that good at math

CLICK HERE for a series of Beatles vocal harmony tutorials

CLICK HERE to read: KISS' Paul Stanley: 'I Don't Need The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame'

CLICK HERE to read: An Open Letter From a Bar Owner to Musicians!

CLICK HERE to read "Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' ".

CLICK HERE to watch a video that proves: Andy Kaufman Lives!

CLICK HERE to see why Bob Lefsetz thinks the Stones' tour is a greedy failure, and how the band is clueless.

CLICK HERE to watch the entire Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo"

CLICK HERE for "22 geniously defaced textbooks & exam papers"

CLICK HERE to see Elvis & Elmo sing "The Monster Went And Ate My Red 2"

CLICK HERE to see Robin Zander's "son"

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for Kim Shattuck.

CLICK HERE for info in Eric Kayser - now in NYC on 3rd Ave.

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on The Cowsills!

I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

CLICK HERE for Jerry Lewis Telethon Bloopers - Part 1 !

CLICK HERE for Jerry Lewis Telethon Bloopers - Part 2 !

CLICK HERE for more Jerry. the whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for The Worst Work Stations Ever

CLICK HERE to see Google interview Nick Lowe after his Live@Google performance in Mountain View. To get the two tracks for free from this performance CLICK HERE

There's some controversy about the coin toss that decided who would get seats in the plane that crashed on February 3, 1959 and killed Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens & Big Bopper. CLICK HERE for "An open Letter & Challenge to Dion from Tommy Allsup" then CLICK HERE for Dion's version from "The Wanderer Talks Truth"

CLICK HERE to explore & watch a short film on The Cosimo Code, an attempt to catalog every Cosimo Matassa 45!

I'm a huge Sonny Curtis fan. CLICK HERE for a recent interview.

CLICK HERE for a video about Wealth Inequality in America

CLICK HERE for "I Was a Teenage Fake Zombie"

CLICK HERE and enjoy the part that starts 2:25 in.

CLICK HERE for Los Shakers - Siempre tú

CLICK HERE for Albums that never were (but should have been!)

CLICK HERE for info on an amazing new drug: Unpretentiousil!

CLICK HERE for info session guitarist Vincent Bell.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE for some minor key songs reworked into major keys.

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

CLICK HERE to see Beastie Boy Mike D's lovely $9 a square foot wallpaper!

CLICK HERE to read "The Beatles and the Art of the Tambourine"

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret"

CLICK HERE for a great Beach Boys Interview from 1964 (starts @ 1:30).

CLICK HERE for seven minutes of David Bowie getting pissed off during interviews.

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.

CLICK HERE for Chuck Berry's 1980 thoughts about The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads and Clash records.

CLICK HERE for Famous Album Covers Revisited Using Google Street View .

CLICK HERE to go to a useless website like THIS ONE.

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン! (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE for a similar 156 page "Book On Demand" titled "Nick Lowe" that boasts being made from "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" What is the world coming to? Only $19.95.

CLICK HERE for the FREE download of "No Good To Cry" by The Explorers Club!


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:04am
glenn:

bobby fuller made some great music, no foolin'.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:07am
Jimmy Wipper:

We've been looking forward to this show--all the way from here to Willoughby!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am
Chris in TX via RI:

Morning Michael. I got your premium and the rest of my stuff in the mail this week. Good stuff!
Avatar 11:11am
Michael Shelley:

Chris - thanks for your donation!
  11:12am
Keith in OH:

Any flamenco guitar style Beatles songs coming up?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am
pacific standard simon:

All Sonny Curtis, all the time! Just another kind of #1 Hit Radio!
Avatar 11:15am
Michael Shelley:

K- I WISH I had that LP!
Avatar 11:16am
ChooChoo - ATL:

I love any Rockin' Roll song that mentions Memphis!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17am
Chris in TX via RI:

My pleasure! Buddy Holly+Sonny Curtis = perfection
Avatar 11:19am
glenn:

if i click on the ted nugent link, will somebody shoot him dead with a crossbow?
Avatar 11:22am
ChooChoo - ATL:

@glenn: only if he is in season.
Avatar 11:23am
glenn:

well, i'm a huge george barnes fan, and i know he did studio work with buddy holly, so i wonder if sonny met him and has any stories he could share.
Avatar 11:25am
Michael Shelley:

G- From the session info in the Holly box it looks like they did not cross paths
  11:34am
Red:

this is a great show
Avatar 11:36am
glenn:

EVERY m. shelley show is a great show.
  11:48am
Keith in OH:

Keith Whitley as well!
Avatar 11:57am
ChooChoo - ATL:

"Ray's Record Rack": sounds like Ray would fit in to WFMU's lineup!
Avatar 12:24pm
ChooChoo - ATL:

An aside: Why was The Beatles's "Love Me Do" so popular? What made it so distinct, so attractive to England's teenagers at the time? It was the first record I ever bought and did not like it. What did they hear back then?
  #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:34pm
David in ATL from NJ:

BRAVO!
  12:34pm
Keith in OH:

Made my morning!!! Great show. Sonny is a R&R&Country hero!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:35pm
Jimmy Wipper:

Great interview, Michael! The Straight Life is one of my favorite songs of all time--I think I listened to it every day for a month once!
Avatar 12:38pm
Gordon FM:

Thanks for a great show and interview, Michael. Just so happens I'm smoking up some Texas BBQ at the moment.
Avatar 12:39pm
SmokinJ:

Beautiful job ms..
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Stevel:

Wow! A thousand times Wow! Thanks for putting a voice to songs that are indelible parts of my life.

Thank YOU, Sonny Collins.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Paul Dee:

when did Sonny Curtis' first two albums come out? Discogs has his 1979 release as first
  12:55pm
Red:

thanks for another classic MSS episode
  12:31pm
Joe R.:

Fantastic show. Also, I'm fairly sure that "Day Drinker" is the cheeriest song about alcoholism I've ever heard.
  8:07pm
Gareth Hedges:

Any chance you'd be willing to share those chords to I Wanna' Go Bummin' Around? LOVE Sonny Curtis, thanks for this show!
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