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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.
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Artist | Track | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time | ||||
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Adriano Celentano | Prisencolinensinainciusol | Columbia | 1973 | 45 | CHEL-entano. Sorry for the mispronuncationing. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
Giorgio | Full Stop | London | 1966 | 45 | Easier for an American to say in Italian. | 0:04:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Roman Rebellion | Every Groovy Day | RCA-Victor | 1968 | 45 | Thursday is the groovy day. | 0:07:20 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Mekons | Work All Week | Virgin | 1979 | 45 | Only a couple more days to go. | 0:10:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Earthquake | Hit the Floor | Beserkley | 1976 | 45 | As in dancing. | 0:13:11 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Menagerie | Good Morning 6.5 | RCA | 1971 | 45 | As in earthquakes. | 0:16:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
Charlotte Austin and Bill Cunningham | Nobody Taught Me | Mattel | 1961 | 45 | with the Daniel Darby Orchestra | 0:18:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
Freddie May | Let's All Get Naked and Jump in a Pile | RCA | 1971 | 45 | Naturally. | 0:21:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
Big Al Jano and Secret Lover | The Condom Man | Hottrax | 1987 | 45 | PSA. | 0:24:50 (Pop-up) | ||||
Wayne King and HIs Orchestra | Our Dream Waltz | RCA-Victor | 1955 | 45 | Featuring Galen Drake | 0:27:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
Alice Cooper | Teenage Lament '74 | Warner Bros. | 1974 | 45 | Lipstick stains, blond hair.... | 0:36:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
Laurie and the Sighs | Touch Me | Atlantic | 1980 | 45 | Original version by Fancy. Don't know if it was ever touched. | 0:39:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Diesel | Sausolito Summernight | Regency | 1981 | 45 | Obligatory car song. | 0:42:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Vernon Burch | Sammy Jo Anne - One Half Woman, One Half Man | Chocolate City | 1979 | 45 | Obligatory song about sexual identity and/or gender confusion. | 0:45:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
Witch Queen | Bang a Gong | Roadshow | 1979 | 45 | Disco gong. | 0:48:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gloria Jones | Get It On | EMI | 1976 | 45 | Married a tyrannosaurus. | 0:52:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kellee Patterson | If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It | Shady Brook | 1977 | 45 | In any kind of weather | 0:55:17 (Pop-up) | ||||
Shuggie Otis | Ice Cold Daydream | Epic | 1972 | 45 | B-side of "Strawberry Letter #23," the most played song on WFMU during Singles Going Steady week | 0:59:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ike Turner | Right On | United Artists | 1972 | 45 | Things go better with it. | 1:01:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Electric Junkyard | Oliver | RCA | 1969 | 45 | I don't think I want any more, sir. | 1:05:03 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Crystal Junkyard | Fire on My Street | TRX | 1969 | 45 | And a tiger in his tank. | 1:07:47 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Neighborhoods | No Place Like Home | Ace of Hearts | 1980 | 45 | It's just a phase he's going through. | 1:09:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Sloopy Joes | The Girl with the LIght in Her Eyes | Diesel Only | 1991 | 45 | featuring Michael Shelley, of course! | 1:12:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sound of My Own Voice | Where's Tommy? | Noiseville | 1990 | 7" | Sue P on bass! | 1:13:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
Inner Circle | Colt 45 | Top Ranking | 1978 | 45 | Where's Billy D.? | 1:22:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ernie Smith | Pitta Patta | Steady | 1972 | 45 | Don't forget to roll up your car windows. | 1:25:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
Porter Wagoner | Sorrow Overtakes the Wine | RCA-Victor | 1969 | 45 | And the wine overtakes the porter. | 1:29:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Harry Nilsson | Judy | Beatlefest '82 | 1982 | 45 | She's tall. She has glasses. She had $500. | 1:36:41 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bristol Boxkite | Colors of Love | World Pacific | 1968 | 45 | Blue, green, red...uh, what rhymes with orange? | 1:39:33 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Giant Jellybean Copout | Awake in a Dream | Poppy | 1968 | 45 | Asleep in reality. | 1:42:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Family Tree | She Had to Fly | RCA | 1968 | 45 | Somebody had to. | 1:44:49 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Eclectic Mouse | Where Do the Hounds Go | Capitol | 1969 | 45 | I don't know, and this song isn't going to tell you. | 1:46:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Savage Rose | Long Before I Was Born | Polydor | 1968 | 45 | I rode a mountain back then. | 1:49:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Aphrodite's Child | Don't Try to Catch a River | Mercury | 1968 | 45 | How about a trout? | 1:52:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
Golding Institute | Kimpo International Airport, Seoul, Korea | Planet Pimp | 1998 | 7" | Timely selection. | 1:56:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Green on Red | Time Ain't Nothing | Mercury | 1985 | 45 | When you're young at heart. | 2:06:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Boxtops | Sugar Creek Woman | Hi | 1972 | 45 | Don't go to the sour creek, whatever you do. | 2:10:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
John Phillips | Mississippi | Dunhill-abc | 1970 | 45 | Two Ls, 4 Ss, a shitload of Is. | 2:12:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jeannie C. Riley | Oh, Singer | Plantation | 1971 | 45 | Oh, Jeannie C. | 2:15:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jesse, Wolff, and Whings | Don't Cry Your Life Away | Shelter | 1972 | 45 | How about just a little bit of it? | 2:19:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sly Boots | Missionary Ridge | Faithful Virtue | 1971 | 45 | Has nothing to do with sexual identity and/or gender confusion. | 2:21:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Fancy | All My Best (Sweet Mary) | Poison Ring | 1971 | 45 | Dedicated to Butch. | 2:24:51 (Pop-up) | ||||
Tindersticks | My Autumn's Done Come | Beggars Banquet | 2003 | 45 | Lee Hazlewood cover about death. | 2:28:54 (Pop-up) | ||||
Weekend | A View from Her Room | Rough Trade | 1982 | 45 | Falling leaves, people in scarves, a wistful squirrel. | 2:32:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
The In-Keepers | The Cobweb Threads of Autumn | RCA | 1969 | 45 | Meet the Spider of Doom. | 2:36:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
Roxy Music | Oh Yeah (On the Radio) | Polydor | 1980 | 45 | smooth cue, too! oh yeah | 2:43:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mike Oldfield | On Horseback | Virgin | 1975 | 45 | great big beastie | 2:47:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
Robert Wyatt | Yesterday Man | Virgin | 1977 | 45 | That's me. | 2:50:26 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jona Lewie | God Bless Whoever Made You | Stiff-Epic | 1979 | 45 | I don't know who it was, but thanks, friend. | 2:53:33 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Monochrome Set | Goodbye Joe | Dindisc | 1980 | 45 | That's my cue! | 2:56:32 (Pop-up) |
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Andrew:
i was about to go but then heard this wonderful song ^_^
how do you pronounce it? hehe
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"All is quiet on the Eastern Front!"
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well a good song to leave on, bed time for me
bye all ^_^
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One of my favorite Coop songs.
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I usually go by price ($2 or less) and ridiculousness/awesomeness of the cover artwork, band name and/or song titles.
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@tim price.
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Here's my favorite Rodney joke: "My sex life is so bad that I went to an orgy and ate grapes."
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Different page in my misunderstanding. Similar, maybe, in the literal to literary.
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