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Artist Track Album / Format Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience (CD-R) 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Edwin Astley Theme and Bongos from "Womaneater" Monster Movie Music, Vol. 1 (CD-R) 1958 VAR 0:02:48 Pop-up) Who Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hands (45) 1967 thee single version 0:05:35 Pop-up) Beach Boys Wake The World* Friends* / 20/20 (CD) 1968 / 1990 0:07:37 Pop-up) Virginia Astley Hiding in the Ha Ha From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (CD) 1983 0:11:03 Pop-up) Marian McPartland w/ Alice Coltrane conversing / Miles Mode Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (CD-R) 1981 RIP Marian McPartland 0:16:01 Pop-up) Claude Debussy La Plus que Lente Debussy Plays Debussy (CD) 1913 piano rolls 0:20:35 Pop-up) Shortwave Set Harmonia Replica Sun Machine (CD) 2008 0:23:12 Pop-up) George Tipton One Nilsson By Tipton (CD) 1970 / 2010 Thanks to Robbie White 0:26:16 Pop-up) Shorty Long Here Come The Judge (45) 1967 0:28:51 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
Hollyridge StringsPlay The Hits Of The Four Seasons 0:31:18 Pop-up) Ornette Coleman Good Girl Blues The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (CD box set) 1972 / 2000 Cedar Walton-piano R.I.P. 0:42:55 Pop-up) NRBQ The Simpson's Theme (CD-R) 1999 Thanks to Terry Adams 0:45:54 Pop-up) NRBQ Queen Talk All Hopped Up (CD) 1977 / 2005 0:47:22 Pop-up) Six Boys in Trouble Bop Diddlie Street and Gangland Rhythms, Beats, and Improvisations (LP) 0:49:33 Pop-up) Four Seasons Little Boy (In Grown Up Clothes) (45) 1965 45 version - no fake intro or applause 0:51:45 Pop-up) Four Seasons Little Boy (In Grown Up Clothes) LIve On Stage (LP) 1965 fake live album
Thanks to Gene Sculatti0:55:10 Pop-up) Ray Bryant Trio Woody Swing Dance Special (CD) 1950 / 1999 VAR 0:56:42 Pop-up) Bastards Yphlod / Shadow's Chromatic Howl The Many Moodswings Of The Bastards (CD-R) 1981 0:58:49 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
Larry Page OrchestraWith Love From Larry 1:00:53 Pop-up) Rosemary Clooney This Ole House (45) 1954 1:12:41 Pop-up) Steppenwolf Sookie Sookie Steppenwolf (CD) 1968 1:15:01 Pop-up) Russell Garcia "Prologue & Main Title" The Time machine The Fantasy Film Music Of George Pal (CD) 1960 / 2004 VAR 1:18:16 Pop-up) Darius Milhaud "Divertissement. Anime" from Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano Jean Cocteau & Les Six 1936 / 2008 VAR 1:20:15 Pop-up) The Descendents of Mike and Phoebe Attica A Spirit Speaks (LP) 1974 1:23:31 Pop-up) Cannonball Adderley Tengo Tango Mod Jazz Vol. One (CD) 1963 / 1996 VAR 1:27:49 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:28:42 Pop-up) Shirley Ellis Shy One The Name Game (LP) 1965 written by Lincoln Chase 1:40:15 Pop-up) Funk Brothers Can I get a Witness [backing track] (WAV) 1963 1:43:21 Pop-up) Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman Five Ostinato Pieces / Fabian, Sebastian Music For Children (CD) 1958 / 2013 1:45:50 Pop-up) Abbey Lincoln Laugh Clown Laugh Abbey Is Blue (CD) 1959 / 1987 Cedar Walton-piano 1:49:10 Pop-up) P.J. O'Connell Lucky Guy Dream Life (CD) 2000 1:50:42 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's
( The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)
Listener comments!
9:04am : Voice or theremin?9:04am : Oh, good morning Bob and listeners!9:06am : Wh♂Wh♂Wh♂
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Good morning, Bob!9:14am : BeastWiki :
en.wikipedia.org...
- that's a year & 1/2 before Godzilla was released.
- As someone said in FamousMonsters of Filmland (or suchlike) in days of yore - Harryhausen gave us Surrealism in a world of Schlock.
...Nothing against Schlock, of course...9:17am : ...of course9:17am : - it hurts to lose Marian MacPartland - it is a real loss
- but she was active & relevant ~20 years longer than most of us will probably live !
- w/ Alice - what a treat.9:22am : ...it *really is* Debussy...9:23am : night people did a great "debussy explained" episode last thursday9:25am : ...? - maybe I've misjudged that Program...9:26am : How about spinning.... the Doors... summers almost gone...9:29am : you have to be patient with shows that are all talk...give them a chance. Those guys are hilarious, in my opinion.9:30am : Saw Elysium last night... Best movie of the summer9:31am : Ah - Interwebz...
- Are these the right lines to that Doors? :
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burned gold into our hair
At night, we swam the Laughing sea9:31am : ...though I'll readily admit, they're not for everyone.
@Moe, I'm jealous. I really wanna see that one.9:32am : SciFi ?9:35am : @RevRabbit - worth noting to you that they've also done a few episodes on astrology.9:37am : Indeed.
Think! We're the 1st in all History to have Recordings 100 years old - & ongoing...9:41am : to have your dream come true every 7 days is a wonderful thing, Bob.9:42am : - there's the BeachBoys box Good Vibrations :
...I picked up Disc3 of it @ a CD store I worked @ - just left there a bit beat up w/ no jewelcase
- I love how that stuff happens - & suchlike becomes 'essential' Music for one...9:43am : I found a box of CD's in an apartment I moved into once. Some of the finds defined an era for me9:48am : Noirce!
...a Promo @ another store - 'Moonlight Towers' by Coffee Sergeants from Austin. Have had to go Searching them to hear anything about them anywhere whatsoever - but I
love it.
...Stuff like that...
- btw: I usually work Sat. - so if I'm taking up too much oxygen on the Board here - it won't happen much!...9:50am : Yeah, sci fi, from director of District 9... Well done...9:54am : oxygen sucker upper.9:54am : Thx. Good to hear:
- Sorry to say I expect very little from current SciFi cinema
- partly I theorize because Future Shock has become Present Shock
- & partly because people are dumbed-down & want ActionAdventure cop crap thinly veiled as SciFi
- &/or such shoot'emup violence is reality now...9:55am : Please Post also glenn ! ...I'll open another window...10:01am : hmmm. notwithstanding monsters, sci fi is basically just westerns with ray guns and space ships.10:02am : Good morning Bob and listeners.
I really liked that Six Boys in Trouble track. Any idea where I could find that LP? A label maybe?🥁 10:03am : Good morning all10:04am : Sure, lots of hardware, action and violence... But also social commentary and current events... Cloaked in an adventure that takes place in the future...10:04am : ...don't knock the o.s.u. !: It's how they killed Godzila the 1st time - altho' - consequences later...
- well - yeah - schlock - ActionAdventure has it's place. I just miss *Ideas* - yerknow ?
- As for Monsters - I found 'The Monster Show' by David J. Skal a great one as far as what *that's* all about...
- Marty McSorley - others?- has/ve played SixBoys too - real street recordings from - late 50s/early60s?? I wonder what became of those kids - not too much good probably...10:06am : then again, jules verne wrote the first sci fi (i think) back when cowboys roamed the earth so.....10:07am : SF movies, low budget indie: "Primer" and "Monsters" Start there for some real science fiction.
My personal faves are SF comedies, ie. "Fifth Element" "Galaxy Quest" "Tremors"...etc10:08am : 1st SciFi: 'Frankenstein' by wife of greatest Poet in History.10:08am : @Jack - have you seen "Paul"? That's a good scifi comedy.10:09am : galaxy quest put me on the floor, i was laughing so hard.10:09am : I was watching "Escape From LA" this morning. I forgot Steve Buscemi was in that10:10am : mike, yes, I think. pegg & frost? They are funny. I also like apocolyptic horror comedy.10:11am : Humor & Horror & Awe...10:12am : they have another one of those coming out soon, I believe..."the worlds end"10:12am : Smithsonian Folkways. This looks like a costly site to visit. I need a new job10:13am : - deffo worth exploring the supposed 'Void' between Elvis & Beatles. It's true & it's not true.
- Also - the truism(/not truism): 'No Poetry in Rock'n'Roll before Dylan'...10:15am : What a career RosemaryC. had - starting as an inexplicably precocious childsinger...10:15am : you don't need a new job, you just need a higher credit limit. :)10:15am : As much as Mitch Miller is infamous for his hatred of rock 'n' roll, which kept Columbia out of the rock biz until the mid-'60s, he was definitely ahead of his time as a producer. All of his productions feature interesting, innovative, attention-getting sonic frills that nobody else was doing at the time.10:17am : I loved this Steppenwolf album.10:17am : - a bit like LesPaul ? - @ once futuristic & pre-Rock. Back to the Future (RetroFuturism)...10:17am : And thank you Bob for playing Rosemary Clooney and Steppenwolf back-to-back. I love both equally, and that's the essence of FMU right there.10:17am : - gawrsh - Steppenwolf, it's true...10:18am : following up Rosemary Clooney with Steppenwolf. Quintessential Brainen.10:18am : steppenwolf - the best canadian band that nobody thinks of as being canadian.10:19am : Thanks for. Mary Ann and her shakey hands... The who were a 45 hit machine for many years... Fast, punchy tunes blasting from am radio...10:20am : Pete Townshend coined the term 'Power Pop' it is said.10:24am : truism/not-truism: No Electricity in Folk before Bob
- Donovan disputes ; )
- Dylan makes point HankWilliams had electricity...10:28am : Glenn, Steppenwolf was only semi-Canadian. They formed in L.A. after the Sparrow broke up, and of the original members, only the three ex-Sparrow guys—John Kay, Jerry Edmonton and Goldy McJohn—were from Canada. And Kay's originally German, so...10:29am : - similar to Buffalo Springfield ?10:29am : Mornin y'all10:32am : Animals, house of the rising sun... Pre electric bob... And where bob lifted the Hammond organ sound...10:33am : Mornin P'aul10:34am : - & the Searchers before the bYRdS...10:34am : its was the folkies who were pissed about electricity. But none of them would have been able to play to more than 50 people without it.10:34am : - you see Bob hanging w/ Alan Price in 'Don't Look Back'. Gotta love Animals.10:36am : george barnes played electric guitar on a dylan track (mixed up confusion) in 1962.10:39am : - Judy Henske on Elektra worked w/ Bob (harmonica on her record??) & gets ProtoFolkRock cred...
- right glenn - & they didn't put it out...
- Mitch M an oboist (sp.??) w/ Classical background - just like George Martin!10:40am : as a single, they did.10:41am : Mike E.: - said the soundman! (No?) Bob credits primitive P.A.s & everyone's technical ignorance then for part of the reaction to him Going Electric (makes sense).
glenn: - Oh! They did.10:42am : "Mixed-Up Confusion"
Single by Bob Dylan
B-side Corrina, Corrina
Released December 14, 1962
Format 7"
Recorded November 14, 1962, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:28
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer John H. Hammond
Bob Dylan chronology
"Mixed-Up Confusion"
1962 "Blowin' in the Wind"
1963
Mixed-Up Confusion is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It was recorded with an electric band on November 14, 1962 during the sessions for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, but was not used on that album, which, aside from "Corrina, Corrina", was entirely acoustic. Instead the song, backed with "Corrina, Corrina" (a different take than the Freewheelin' one), a traditional blues song, appeared as Dylan's first single, released in the U.S. on 14 December 1962 as Columbia 4-42656.[1] According to legend, Dylan wrote the song in a cab on the way to the Columbia Studios for the recording session.[2] This version was released in the Biograph box set in 1985. A different, previously unreleased, take from the same session appeared on the compilation album Masterpieces in 1978.[1] Both sides of the single are now available, in mono, as bonus tracks on the 2-CD Jasmine release Carolyn Hester Introduces Bob Dylan.10:45am : Nice ! His 1st single!
- I may be conflating Carolyn Hester w/ Judy Henske a bit in fact...10:45am : I'm more the guy who tells the soundman where to be at what time and who to see when they get there.10:45am : I profit off the PA.10:47am : What pisses me off is all these people who want to dictate what artists should or shouldn't do. You can dislike it at first then like it (happens often to me), or dislike it for good. It didn't stop with folk vs. electric. I had this conversation with Taraka Larson last year10:56am : - like - seeing a Beatles Tribute - & thinking: They certainly have better P.A. than the Beatles came close to! - been playing it a lot longer then they did too..
...Arlo Guthrie explained it as the Folkies didn't understand yet that Rock could be meaningful & valid that way. (The 'Authenticity' police.) Awfully strange to us now on the other side when so much is based on Bob's innovations.
- Bob says: Was Woody Guthrie having Chart Hits? Leadbelly? What do I care?!
...I think Dylan should get more cred as ProtoPunk for facing audiences he knew would boo him & directly challenging them! (He doesn't because being Wordy & Serious is considered specifically AntiPunk - another Genre Authenticity Police thing)...11:00am : Thx BobB ! Rich & Delicious Mix !