WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 20, 2013

Listener comments!
	👻 3:03pm rrg: I'll be the judge of that.
	👻 3:05pm G: I suppose it's sheer coincidence that exactly at 3PM Weds. afternoon Ken tweeted: Radio Personalities are Number Three on the List of Most Psychopathic Professions
	3:07pm Sean D. Daily: Hello everyone. Strong start, Irwin.
	3:07pm common: we call our cat mavey gravy. yep.
	👻 3:08pm rrg: Ken exaggerates only a little. The list he refers to mentions "Media (TV/Radio") as No. 3. Also, in the case of WFMU, in only a few cases can it really be termed a "profession".
	👻 3:08pm rrg: I like that both "flying" and "colors" are misspelled.
	👻 3:09pm G: consistency, rrg.
	👻 3:10pm G: I'm planning on being done with work by 4. I can't work depressed :)
	3:10pm Sean D. Daily: @rrg: "Colours" is an English/Canadian spelling. But "flyying"? YouTube sez it's legit: www.youtube.com...
	3:11pm Droll: rrg, Two Y's and superfluous U's are British spelling. And E at the end, as in Yye Olde Towne Centre.
	3:11pm Irwin: Australian, mate.
	👻 3:12pm rrg: So, I see this is a crowd in which jokes have to be explained.
	3:12pm Sean D. Daily: I stand sort of corrected, Irwin. Loved that wall-of-guitars sound.
	3:13pm common: wow. this is great.
	3:13pm Droll: I stand corrected: ǝɹʇuǝɔ ǝuʍoʇ ǝplo ǝʎ⅄
	👻 3:15pm G: It's definitely Wednesday afternoon.
	👻 3:16pm G: That's better than standing autocorrected. I owe Droll an email. After I'm done working this afternoon/evening... Been soooooo busy lately...
	3:18pm Peer Goose: rrg: I don't understand, please elabourate
	3:19pm Droll: G, No worries, it's more fun to make fun of Irwin in real-time together right in front of him, anyhow. I found his Airwave Idols card and was going to use that for this week's fodder.
	👻 3:22pm G: what's a "rack on tour"?
	3:28pm Andrew Waterloo: G, it's one those french words that adults start using when the kids are around.
	👻 3:29pm rrg: I can't remember the last time I heard a cover song that had such a COMPLETELY different feel from the original.
	👻 3:31pm G: did he say "beware the pennies on your eyes"???
	👻 3:32pm rrg: I blinked and missed that. But it wouldn't surprise me.
	3:32pm Droll: From the back Irwin's card: Day Job: "Tedious ideologue with a hustle." First song played on radio: Lee Michaels, "Hello" Personal Heroes: Jean Shepherd, Lou D'Antonio, Joe Frank, The Dirty Duck. Record playing when virginity lost: Will advise, if and when.
	3:33pm Dr. Goot: I believe the correct lyric is "Declare the pennies on your eyes."
	👻 3:37pm G: Right, goot. I think he was working by ear off the record and mondegreened himself. Maybe he never declared anything on his taxes, got zinged by The Leviathan, and that's why he did that cover :)
	3:38pm Droll: Have mercy, R. ZZ...
	3:38pm Dr. Goot: Aha, got it G!
	3:39pm MenfussMike: this is annoying
	👻 3:45pm G: a downer? YOU JEST.
	👻 3:49pm rrg: I'm a little cranky about this one. I prefer the original Cole Porter recording, just him singing and playing the piano. This feels too revisionist to me. Though I like Vince Giordano in other contexts.
	3:49pm Listening Out There: hmm. this vince giordano is contemporary music, with vintage cole porter singing on top? is that it?
	👻 3:50pm rrg: That's right, LOT. The original Cole Porter recording is also available.
	3:50pm Irwin: RRG: No vintage recordings were harmed in the making of this contemporary mix.
	3:51pm as: what recent (?) movie had that song (anything goes) in it? reminds me if something
	👻 3:51pm rrg: Yes, it's true. The remake doesn't delete the original. "But still."
	3:52pm Webhamster Henry: It did sound like Cole Porter visits A Prairie Home Companion.
	3:52pm MenfussMike: this is not annoying
	👻 3:53pm G: @WH: And all the remixes are above average.
	3:54pm Listening Out There: ...and all the DJs are good looking. Yeah, right...
	3:56pm Droll: [pointing to my avatar, showing just how super-handsome hippie-wizard looking Irwin really is]
	3:58pm Irwin: Artwork on that card by guest SPORT MURPHY.
	3:58pm Listening Out There: @Droll: Worth noting that the avatar has a misspelling. Make it "Airwave Idle" instead.
	👻 3:59pm G: @Droll, On closer examination, I think the card is Irwin saying he is not a dirty hippy, he's a clean hippy, or maybe a terminally ironic hippy.
	4:00pm Droll: G, Exactly: He's a hippy.
	4:01pm Guido (Cologne): Just my ten cents to the Cole Porter CD: The cover of the CD claims something like "it's authentic as the compsoer wanted it to sound like". And the CD is anything but this. There are theese remixes (which is an intersting exeriment, nothing to say against) and all those jazz-versions which are nice. But the content of the CD is nothing what the cover claims for. It could be really annoying if it wasn't a cheapo anyway. I actually purchased it in order to get something authentic. Fortunately the were still copies from the Naxos Label circulating.
	👻 4:04pm G: [braces himself]
	4:04pm Carmichael: Hi Irwin & Joe. Sorry I'm late. Wait, no I'm not.
	4:04pm Droll: Joe Frank card back: Guilty Pleasure: Driving fast Record playing when virginity lost: Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" Personal Heroes: Jean Shepherd, Steven Post
	4:06pm Sean D. Daily: A CONDOM GONDOLA. Oh, come on, admit that you'd pay money to see that.
	👻 4:06pm G: JF was never kind of blue.
	4:07pm Irwin: Laura Lindgren is vacuuming the main studio. Bless her heart.
	4:08pm Pine: Awesome just in time for Joe Frank
	4:08pm Ike: "The windows, of course, looked out over an eight-lane highway." Genius.
	4:09pm Droll: Irwin is the station's Tom Sawyer of DJ duties.
	4:14pm Erich Zann: I remember when Irwin used to play music, back in the day. It was awesome.
	4:15pm dale: joe frank is awesome
	4:15pm Uncle Michael: I'll always love my mama.
	4:19pm Carmichael: Kurt Gottschalk started the whole "music is boring" trend. I blame him.
	👻 4:21pm G: JF has music. Listen to that :p
	👻 4:22pm G: Doctor Pornstein?
	👻 4:23pm G: little known fact that he's too ashamed of to include: Joe made her do the vacuuming
	4:23pm Peteski: I'm wondering where this is headed...
	4:25pm Sean D. Daily: Less Joe Frank! More bickering old married couple!
	👻 4:25pm G: that guy sounded like Archie Bunker reincarnated
	4:26pm Droll: Peteski, I know where they're headed, I wonder about how far it will get. A notable difference between happy and sad endings is a happy ending can't always be made happier, but you can always make a sad ending sadder. Proof: Joe Frank. Q.E.D.
	4:26pm jan: Anyone ready for some Mike Nichols and Elaine May?
	4:30pm Shana: Has that bit about the wetsuit ever been sampled? I swear I've heard that clip before.
	👻 4:35pm G: comprehensive, intensive promotions, to make you NUMBER ONE!!! i just had to type that out.
	👻 4:35pm rrg: I'm always ready for Nichols and May.
	4:36pm Carmichael: I'm looking for my go-go boots so I can join in.
	👻 4:37pm G: I assume the check cleared.
	4:41pm dale: i have a few dora hall records, the 'once upon a tour' album is a gem. her husband ran the solo drink cup company and her records were premiums.
	4:43pm Robert: I know I've brought this up before, but your curator guests might want to obtain at least the passages Jean Shepherd once played from a live industrial presntation on disposable surgical gowns.
	4:44pm crateslinger: That's Frank Sinatra!
	4:45pm Robert: Do 45 rpms given by pharmaceutical detail men to physicians count as industrials? I've got one of those for a cough syrup.
	👻 4:46pm G: Monsanto used to give my dad albums when he was an automotive engineer in Michigan in the 60s. They were anthologies, though, with ads just on the cover and liner notes. One of them was the first place I ever heard big band music.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: @G that's right, sometimes companies put out albums of anthologies as presents.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: Hey, is this Jack Fletcher singing?
	4:48pm efd: "Keep your parchment and papyrus / for just one thing am I desirous." Love it!
	4:48pm dale: firestone was the biggie for that, usually christmas music.
	4:49pm Carmichael: I have a cassette of music from the late 70s, put out by Ford as a gift for new car buyers. I believe it was meant to illustrate the superiority of their stereo systems.
	4:50pm Webhamster Henry: I have one from Traveller's Insurance that is an anthology of "rain" songs.
	4:50pm Uncle Michael: I have Stan Freberg's "Omaha" running through my head.
	4:50pm dale: maybe give laura a mike?
	4:50pm Listening Out There: I'd listened to/enjoyed the Fresh Air interview on this. I think there was news afterward that the singer and arranger for "My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place" had been contacted...? Would appreciate any word on that...
	4:54pm dale: these might have been performed or handed out at annual shareholder meetings, too. in my salad days i did some lavish (expensive) display work for colgate-palmolive's annual meetings. don't know if they do that sort of stuff anymore
	4:55pm Robert: Once in a while one of the funny ones escapes to a gen'l audience. 50 yrs. ago someone did an in-house parody of a Calgon Bubble Bath TV commercial (the original, not the parody, is now online) using the same sound track but substituting the adult male brand mgr. for the little girl. Somehow that got on TV, and reappeared due to popular demand on "Tonight".
	4:56pm efd: Will this program include a discussion of "We Built This Starbucks?"
	4:57pm Uncle Michael: "We Built It Shitty"
	4:58pm Mike East: Is that a real thing, efd? Thanks for sharing these with us, Steve, Sport, and Laura. Really enjoying.
	4:59pm Droll: These guys can make anything rhyme. What a lost art!
	4:59pm northguineahills: ^What Mike said! /Mike, feeling better?
	5:00pm Carmichael: That Plymouth announcer sounded a lot like the guy from National Lampoon's Catch It and You Keep It.
	5:00pm Uncle Michael: And it goes on and on!
	👻 5:00pm G: These Plymouths are made for drivin', And that's just what they'll do. One of these days these Plymouths are gonna drive all over you [descending bass line]
	5:01pm paula pc: i think efd is right re: Starbucks
	5:03pm efd: Oh I know I'm right - I've played it! More than once!
	5:04pm Droll: It'll pay off, drink after drink. The sure one: Old English 800. Oops, I mean Seagrams.
	5:04pm Mike East: @ngh - keeping food and water down, so that's a plus. Made it to work today. Very sore...from lack of food, water, and also the convulsive vomiting. Just ate some rice n beans, which is a step up from saltine crackers. so far, so good. Thanks for asking!
	5:04pm Uncle Michael: I'd like to collect more product-specific promotional records...a tangentially-related area. For instance, I need a cleaner copy of Trini Lopez' Fresca record.
	5:05pm Uncle Michael: The cast of Bonanza for Chevrolet is nice too.
	5:06pm Carmichael: I do have an mp3 of Sammy Davis' Alka Seltzer commercial. It's a hepcat Broadway version of the plop plop fizz fizz song.
	👻 5:07pm rrg: All you record collectors make my music collection seem puny and inconsequential. Because it is.
	5:07pm jan: Were the attendees at The Seagram Distillers Distributor Meeting, 1965 imbibing. That would have helped. I've given up doing any more work so that I can focus on the lyrics as well as the discussions between the tracks.
	5:08pm Uncle Michael: "Chico and the Man" for Banquet Frozen Dinners... OK, I made that one up.
	👻 5:10pm G: If only John Lydon had sung his UK butter commercial.
	5:12pm northguineahills: Stupid work, making me miss these gems!
	5:14pm dale: i remember your live performance of silicones. it was quite good
	5:15pm Pine: MY BATHROOM! Still stuck in my head :D
	5:15pm Webhamster Henry: Play "Proximatics" instead.
	5:17pm Irwin: Playing both, Henry!
	5:18pm northguineahills: I suddenly want some bourbon....
	5:19pm hamburger: oh. brother. !!
	5:20pm Carmichael: I'll belt this out the next time I'm droppin' a deuce.
	5:20pm dale: shouldn't it be 'where i wash and where i pee?'
	5:20pm Shana: I bet this lady spends a lot of Friday nights drinking with the "Calgon, take me away!" woman.
	5:21pm Sean D. Daily: I'm getting the sense that she's free.
	5:21pm Roberto: Dream and cream and cream and cream
	5:21pm dale: "..and cream and dream" - really?
	5:22pm Uncle Michael: I'll bet this was really something special in performance. I can see the baby-doll, the puffy frilled panties, the high-heeled slippers...
	5:22pm Webhamster Henry: Somewhere I have an air check of the show where Irwin first played this. It was a memorable show.
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks @Irwin!
	5:25pm dale: it's too bad that the who what where of most of these performers isn't known.
	5:25pm Dave in PA: my friend's father wrote a piece for Diesel Dazzle, FWIW...
	5:27pm dale: what people did for their day rate plus cab fare, if they were lucky.
	👻 5:28pm chris: I want a tractor.
	5:28pm Droll: I'm so jealous of these composers and performers... I wish SelectQuote would hire me for their next salesforce conference.
	5:29pm jan: This "Standard Equipment" sounds like yiddish theater, don't it?
	5:29pm dale: i'll sell you one chris - farmall cub anyone?
	5:29pm Sean D. Daily: So this is Ford's version of "Street Fighting Man"?
	5:30pm dale: oh man, ford golden jubilees were da' bomb!
	👻 5:31pm chris: only if all the radio plays is tractor driving man, dale, cuz that would be bomb
	5:31pm dale: very tex ritter high noon
	5:31pm Carmichael: Hey, I just found a bunch of KFC employee training tapes. They're awful.
	5:32pm Sean D. Daily: Ah, screw Ford tractors. (I say that mostly because my dad spent a summer working at International Harvester)
	5:32pm Webhamster Henry: I forgot how double-entendre-y that Proximatics was.
	5:32pm Kathy: Look At This Tub! another winner on the A.S. LP
	👻 5:35pm rrg: Hey, I don't think "My Bathroom" is absurd. Maybe a little dated (leading to all the jokes about "where I cream") but I love that.
	5:37pm dale: radio? on a tractor? uh, okay.
	👻 5:37pm G: @Droll -- I heard a brand new SelectQuote radio ad while on a road trip last week. Dan and Joel may have finally gone the way of all adflesh.
	5:38pm dale: i literally laughed out loud on the 'footwear line' line
	5:39pm Carmichael: This music just proves what a hack Mark Russell was.
	5:39pm Sean D. Daily: Old Don Hadley's doing lines, E-I-E-I-O, with a twitch twitch here and a bloody nose there...
	5:39pm Roberto: Clearly the typical Irwin listener has a higher-than-average musical tolerance. So far this sounds just dandy to me.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: Hey here's a contemporary article about "All About LIFE", one of my faves: news.google.com...
	5:39pm Carmichael: Key change!!
	5:40pm dale: oh god, i'm having client brief flashbacks. 30 or 40 page briefs for a 30 second commercial. but these guys are getting it ALLLLLL in!
	5:40pm crateslinger: it's not fair only the dj's know how long this is gonna go on.
	5:41pm Sean D. Daily: This song is from Keds' 1971 meeting. *1971.* It's like the Beatles and the Stones and Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan and James Brown never happened.
	5:41pm Uncle Michael: oy
	5:42pm Droll: G, I don't think so, someone recently left a comment on a YT video about how the ad is still running. Why didn't the songwriter leave space for breathing? And the serial gear shifting -- there is no bottom...
	👻 5:42pm G: penis boot?
	5:42pm Carmichael: Now I want to play my New Chrity Minstrel albums.
	5:42pm Webhamster Henry: Playlist readers can find "All About LIFE" in the WFMU Beware of the Blog. blog.wfmu.org...
	5:42pm Roberto: My kid, on the other hand, bailed out about 5 minutes ago.
	5:42pm dale: i wanna hear step right up by tom waits now.
	5:42pm Droll: Correction, this song is from the 1971-75 meeting. It's that long.
	5:43pm Dave in PA: lol@penis boot
	5:43pm Carmichael: I suppose this is fate. I made my kids sit through Jesus Christ Superstar on Saturday afternoon.
	5:44pm Sean D. Daily: @Droll: Ba-bing!
	5:44pm Roberto: So I guess I wasn't the only one who heard "penis boot."
	5:45pm dale: damn, i wanna see this coca cola show! right after i see the most happy fella
	5:46pm Uncle Michael: I wanna be a route man.
	5:46pm northguineahills: No, you weren't, Roberto.
	5:46pm Carmichael: I bet they're doing the Charleston while singing this.
	👻 5:46pm G: Speaking of cheesy, just saw a link to George Jones's just-finished cemetery monument: www.savingcountrymusic.com...
	5:47pm Cubicle Carl: I produced this type of stuff for big corporations in the 80's, but by then they wanted things to sound like Kenny Rogers and Bruce Springsteen.
	5:48pm dale: g - i'm horrified, yet i expect nothing less.
	5:49pm Robert: Damn, listening to that Coke show made me want to do what I kept threatening that we friends that gathered at Cedar Tavern do: put on a musical show. Partly it was because Nadine actually had such entertainment aspirations long ago. And we never did, and now half of us are dead.
	5:49pm Sean D. Daily: Round of applause for Steve Young and Sport Murphy for rounding this material up, everyone, and for letting us have our ironic fun at their expense.
	5:51pm Uncle Michael: Thanks all for a very entertaining show.
	5:51pm Robert: Yay for more free entertainment!
	5:51pm dale: silicone is pretty amazing, it can be as hard as a bowling ball....as squishy as some caulky stuff
	5:51pm spodiodi: Claps loudly
	5:52pm dale: oh man, my parents drank nothing but instant coffee. always gave me the scoots.
	5:55pm dale: what ever happened to michelle, irwin?
	5:55pm Droll: I hardly noticed the transition! You're like a PAMS chorus.
	5:55pm Fredericks: I believe, I heard the original version of "Stronger Than Dirt" (Mummies) on Nardwar's show. Laundry detergent love song.
	5:56pm Sean D. Daily: And silicone tastes nice and goes down smooth and the nice doctors who pump your stomach are always SO nice.
	👻 5:57pm rrg: I expect it will never happen, but it would be a very nice thing if "Incorrect Music" returned to the airwaves. At least for a while.
	5:58pm Barb E.: Incredible. Great show you guys - fantastic book, too!
	5:59pm Webhamster Henry: Nice show today folks! I don't think I can make it down on Saturday, though. Next book: lyrics to songs you didn't think had any.
	👻 5:59pm G: Silicone turns your gross green.
	👻 5:59pm rrg: Indeed, thanks. Unquestionably, the answer.
	5:59pm jan: Michelle Boule, Amy Kessler, Sport Murphy, Irwin Chusid perform faultlessly. Now to develop a new libretto to expand their repertoire.
	5:59pm Sean D. Daily: Surprisingly tight performance for a bunch of volunteer DJs.
	6:00pm northguineahills: I'm very impressed. Nice talent, folks!
	6:07pm Robert: Looks like this now becomes the comment line for tonight's 7SD. I thought that was Don McLean singing the theme song.
	6:08pm Robert: Are The Clams named that because they hit a lot of clams when they play? (That's slang for bad notes on wind instruments.)
	9:01am Michael: Great show - more please! Tractor Drivin' Man in My Bathroom!
	1:47pm Francis: Great stuff. Somehow I'd never heard of Raymond Scott's "A Man Called Brown" until today. Would love to see that album posted on the WFMU blog (fingers crossed)!

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November 20, 2013: Everything's Coming Up Profits: Sport Murphy, Steve Young, and Laura Lindgren discuss the Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Flyying Colours	Wavygravy "Wavygravy" by "Flyying Colours"	Flyying Colours	0:03:32 (Pop-up)
Pete Townshend	Overture (demo) "Overture (demo)" by "Pete Townshend"	Tommy (Super Deluxe)	0:06:56 (Pop-up)
Sport Murphy	It's Definitely Sunday	Willoughby	0:10:38 (Pop-up)

Lilith Lane	I Could Get Used to This	Pilgrim	0:21:48 (Pop-up)
Junior Parker	Taxman "Taxman" by "Junior Parker"	Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On	0:24:39 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Dancing in the Street/My Enemy is a Bad Man	Gravity	0:28:28 (Pop-up)
R. ZZ Moore	Waitin' for the Jesus Bus	Eloquence, Arrogance & Innocence	0:32:42 (Pop-up)
Joanna Gruesome	Wussy Void "Wussy Void" by "Joanna Gruesome"	Weird Sister	0:36:59 (Pop-up)

Cole Porter with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks	Anything Goes	It's De-Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection	0:44:31 (Pop-up)
Courtney Barnett	Anonymous Club "Anonymous Club" by "Courtney Barnett"	The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas	0:47:16 (Pop-up)
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica	Prelude for Piano No. 1	Where Here Meets There	0:53:05 (Pop-up)

STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	EVERYTHING'S COMING UP PROFITS: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals	Blast Books (blastbooks.com)	1:31:47 (Pop-up)
Ted Simons and John Allen	Hot Promotions	Sundown: Johnson & Johnson 1977	1:31:08 (Pop-up)
STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	Interview seg 1		1:36:05 (Pop-up)
unknown artists	Mainliner "Mainliner" by "unknown artists"	Westinghouse 45	1:40:59 (Pop-up)
Composer: Skip Redwine; artist unknown	The Paper Song	International Paper, 1969	1:43:49 (Pop-up)
STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	Interview seg 2		1:46:36 (Pop-up)
Composer: Walter Marks	Plymouth A-Go-Go	Plymouth Motors, 1965	1:53:36 (Pop-up)
Hank Beebe & Bill Heyer	The Sure One	The Seagram Distillers Distributor Meeting, 1965	1:57:18 (Pop-up)
STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	Interview seg 3		2:18:24 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott	Bourbon, Bourbon "Bourbon, Bourbon" by "Raymond Scott"	A Man Named Brown, Brown-Forman Distillers, 1970	2:15:52 (Pop-up)
Vocal: Patti Stanton; comp. Sid Siegel	My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place / Proximatics	Bathrooms Are Coming!!, American Standard, 1969	2:16:04 (Pop-up)
comp. and cast unknown	Standard Equipment	Follow the Road, Dominion Road Machinery, 1975	2:21:14 (Pop-up)
comp. Hank Beebe	Tractor Drivin' Man	The Wide New World With Ford, 1960	2:25:05 (Pop-up)
STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	Interview seg 4		2:27:41 (Pop-up)
unknown singer; comp. Fred Tobias & Stan Lebowski	Old Don Hadley	Keds' 1971 Sales Meeting	2:35:03 (Pop-up)
comp. Wilson Stone	Understanding "Understanding" by "comp. Wilson Stone"	Coca-Cola 1966	2:39:37 (Pop-up)
STEVE YOUNG, SPORT MURPHY, & LAURA LINDGREN	interview seg 5		2:43:37 (Pop-up)
GE Silicone Products Division	The Answer	Got to Investigate Silicones, 1973	2:50:33 (Pop-up)
Michelle Boule, Amy Kessler, Sport Murphy, Irwin Chusid (music performed by Wes Paich)	The Answer	Live on WFMU's Incorrect Music, 2001	2:51:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 3:03pm rrg: I'll be the judge of that.
	👻 3:05pm G: I suppose it's sheer coincidence that exactly at 3PM Weds. afternoon Ken tweeted: Radio Personalities are Number Three on the List of Most Psychopathic Professions
	3:07pm Sean D. Daily: Hello everyone. Strong start, Irwin.
	3:07pm common: we call our cat mavey gravy. yep.
	👻 3:08pm rrg: Ken exaggerates only a little. The list he refers to mentions "Media (TV/Radio") as No. 3. Also, in the case of WFMU, in only a few cases can it really be termed a "profession".
	👻 3:08pm rrg: I like that both "flying" and "colors" are misspelled.
	👻 3:09pm G: consistency, rrg.
	👻 3:10pm G: I'm planning on being done with work by 4. I can't work depressed :)
	3:10pm Sean D. Daily: @rrg: "Colours" is an English/Canadian spelling. But "flyying"? YouTube sez it's legit: www.youtube.com...
	3:11pm Droll: rrg, Two Y's and superfluous U's are British spelling. And E at the end, as in Yye Olde Towne Centre.
	3:11pm Irwin: Australian, mate.
	👻 3:12pm rrg: So, I see this is a crowd in which jokes have to be explained.
	3:12pm Sean D. Daily: I stand sort of corrected, Irwin. Loved that wall-of-guitars sound.
	3:13pm common: wow. this is great.
	3:13pm Droll: I stand corrected: ǝɹʇuǝɔ ǝuʍoʇ ǝplo ǝʎ⅄
	👻 3:15pm G: It's definitely Wednesday afternoon.
	👻 3:16pm G: That's better than standing autocorrected. I owe Droll an email. After I'm done working this afternoon/evening... Been soooooo busy lately...
	3:18pm Peer Goose: rrg: I don't understand, please elabourate
	3:19pm Droll: G, No worries, it's more fun to make fun of Irwin in real-time together right in front of him, anyhow. I found his Airwave Idols card and was going to use that for this week's fodder.
	👻 3:22pm G: what's a "rack on tour"?
	3:28pm Andrew Waterloo: G, it's one those french words that adults start using when the kids are around.
	👻 3:29pm rrg: I can't remember the last time I heard a cover song that had such a COMPLETELY different feel from the original.
	👻 3:31pm G: did he say "beware the pennies on your eyes"???
	👻 3:32pm rrg: I blinked and missed that. But it wouldn't surprise me.
	3:32pm Droll: From the back Irwin's card: Day Job: "Tedious ideologue with a hustle." First song played on radio: Lee Michaels, "Hello" Personal Heroes: Jean Shepherd, Lou D'Antonio, Joe Frank, The Dirty Duck. Record playing when virginity lost: Will advise, if and when.
	3:33pm Dr. Goot: I believe the correct lyric is "Declare the pennies on your eyes."
	👻 3:37pm G: Right, goot. I think he was working by ear off the record and mondegreened himself. Maybe he never declared anything on his taxes, got zinged by The Leviathan, and that's why he did that cover :)
	3:38pm Droll: Have mercy, R. ZZ...
	3:38pm Dr. Goot: Aha, got it G!
	3:39pm MenfussMike: this is annoying
	👻 3:45pm G: a downer? YOU JEST.
	👻 3:49pm rrg: I'm a little cranky about this one. I prefer the original Cole Porter recording, just him singing and playing the piano. This feels too revisionist to me. Though I like Vince Giordano in other contexts.
	3:49pm Listening Out There: hmm. this vince giordano is contemporary music, with vintage cole porter singing on top? is that it?
	👻 3:50pm rrg: That's right, LOT. The original Cole Porter recording is also available.
	3:50pm Irwin: RRG: No vintage recordings were harmed in the making of this contemporary mix.
	3:51pm as: what recent (?) movie had that song (anything goes) in it? reminds me if something
	👻 3:51pm rrg: Yes, it's true. The remake doesn't delete the original. "But still."
	3:52pm Webhamster Henry: It did sound like Cole Porter visits A Prairie Home Companion.
	3:52pm MenfussMike: this is not annoying
	👻 3:53pm G: @WH: And all the remixes are above average.
	3:54pm Listening Out There: ...and all the DJs are good looking. Yeah, right...
	3:56pm Droll: [pointing to my avatar, showing just how super-handsome hippie-wizard looking Irwin really is]
	3:58pm Irwin: Artwork on that card by guest SPORT MURPHY.
	3:58pm Listening Out There: @Droll: Worth noting that the avatar has a misspelling. Make it "Airwave Idle" instead.
	👻 3:59pm G: @Droll, On closer examination, I think the card is Irwin saying he is not a dirty hippy, he's a clean hippy, or maybe a terminally ironic hippy.
	4:00pm Droll: G, Exactly: He's a hippy.
	4:01pm Guido (Cologne): Just my ten cents to the Cole Porter CD: The cover of the CD claims something like "it's authentic as the compsoer wanted it to sound like". And the CD is anything but this. There are theese remixes (which is an intersting exeriment, nothing to say against) and all those jazz-versions which are nice. But the content of the CD is nothing what the cover claims for. It could be really annoying if it wasn't a cheapo anyway. I actually purchased it in order to get something authentic. Fortunately the were still copies from the Naxos Label circulating.
	👻 4:04pm G: [braces himself]
	4:04pm Carmichael: Hi Irwin & Joe. Sorry I'm late. Wait, no I'm not.
	4:04pm Droll: Joe Frank card back: Guilty Pleasure: Driving fast Record playing when virginity lost: Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" Personal Heroes: Jean Shepherd, Steven Post
	4:06pm Sean D. Daily: A CONDOM GONDOLA. Oh, come on, admit that you'd pay money to see that.
	👻 4:06pm G: JF was never kind of blue.
	4:07pm Irwin: Laura Lindgren is vacuuming the main studio. Bless her heart.
	4:08pm Pine: Awesome just in time for Joe Frank
	4:08pm Ike: "The windows, of course, looked out over an eight-lane highway." Genius.
	4:09pm Droll: Irwin is the station's Tom Sawyer of DJ duties.
	4:14pm Erich Zann: I remember when Irwin used to play music, back in the day. It was awesome.
	4:15pm dale: joe frank is awesome
	4:15pm Uncle Michael: I'll always love my mama.
	4:19pm Carmichael: Kurt Gottschalk started the whole "music is boring" trend. I blame him.
	👻 4:21pm G: JF has music. Listen to that :p
	👻 4:22pm G: Doctor Pornstein?
	👻 4:23pm G: little known fact that he's too ashamed of to include: Joe made her do the vacuuming
	4:23pm Peteski: I'm wondering where this is headed...
	4:25pm Sean D. Daily: Less Joe Frank! More bickering old married couple!
	👻 4:25pm G: that guy sounded like Archie Bunker reincarnated
	4:26pm Droll: Peteski, I know where they're headed, I wonder about how far it will get. A notable difference between happy and sad endings is a happy ending can't always be made happier, but you can always make a sad ending sadder. Proof: Joe Frank. Q.E.D.
	4:26pm jan: Anyone ready for some Mike Nichols and Elaine May?
	4:30pm Shana: Has that bit about the wetsuit ever been sampled? I swear I've heard that clip before.
	👻 4:35pm G: comprehensive, intensive promotions, to make you NUMBER ONE!!! i just had to type that out.
	👻 4:35pm rrg: I'm always ready for Nichols and May.
	4:36pm Carmichael: I'm looking for my go-go boots so I can join in.
	👻 4:37pm G: I assume the check cleared.
	4:41pm dale: i have a few dora hall records, the 'once upon a tour' album is a gem. her husband ran the solo drink cup company and her records were premiums.
	4:43pm Robert: I know I've brought this up before, but your curator guests might want to obtain at least the passages Jean Shepherd once played from a live industrial presntation on disposable surgical gowns.
	4:44pm crateslinger: That's Frank Sinatra!
	4:45pm Robert: Do 45 rpms given by pharmaceutical detail men to physicians count as industrials? I've got one of those for a cough syrup.
	👻 4:46pm G: Monsanto used to give my dad albums when he was an automotive engineer in Michigan in the 60s. They were anthologies, though, with ads just on the cover and liner notes. One of them was the first place I ever heard big band music.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: @G that's right, sometimes companies put out albums of anthologies as presents.
	4:47pm Webhamster Henry: Hey, is this Jack Fletcher singing?
	4:48pm efd: "Keep your parchment and papyrus / for just one thing am I desirous." Love it!
	4:48pm dale: firestone was the biggie for that, usually christmas music.
	4:49pm Carmichael: I have a cassette of music from the late 70s, put out by Ford as a gift for new car buyers. I believe it was meant to illustrate the superiority of their stereo systems.
	4:50pm Webhamster Henry: I have one from Traveller's Insurance that is an anthology of "rain" songs.
	4:50pm Uncle Michael: I have Stan Freberg's "Omaha" running through my head.
	4:50pm dale: maybe give laura a mike?
	4:50pm Listening Out There: I'd listened to/enjoyed the Fresh Air interview on this. I think there was news afterward that the singer and arranger for "My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place" had been contacted...? Would appreciate any word on that...
	4:54pm dale: these might have been performed or handed out at annual shareholder meetings, too. in my salad days i did some lavish (expensive) display work for colgate-palmolive's annual meetings. don't know if they do that sort of stuff anymore
	4:55pm Robert: Once in a while one of the funny ones escapes to a gen'l audience. 50 yrs. ago someone did an in-house parody of a Calgon Bubble Bath TV commercial (the original, not the parody, is now online) using the same sound track but substituting the adult male brand mgr. for the little girl. Somehow that got on TV, and reappeared due to popular demand on "Tonight".
	4:56pm efd: Will this program include a discussion of "We Built This Starbucks?"
	4:57pm Uncle Michael: "We Built It Shitty"
	4:58pm Mike East: Is that a real thing, efd? Thanks for sharing these with us, Steve, Sport, and Laura. Really enjoying.
	4:59pm Droll: These guys can make anything rhyme. What a lost art!
	4:59pm northguineahills: ^What Mike said! /Mike, feeling better?
	5:00pm Carmichael: That Plymouth announcer sounded a lot like the guy from National Lampoon's Catch It and You Keep It.
	5:00pm Uncle Michael: And it goes on and on!
	👻 5:00pm G: These Plymouths are made for drivin', And that's just what they'll do. One of these days these Plymouths are gonna drive all over you [descending bass line]
	5:01pm paula pc: i think efd is right re: Starbucks
	5:03pm efd: Oh I know I'm right - I've played it! More than once!
	5:04pm Droll: It'll pay off, drink after drink. The sure one: Old English 800. Oops, I mean Seagrams.
	5:04pm Mike East: @ngh - keeping food and water down, so that's a plus. Made it to work today. Very sore...from lack of food, water, and also the convulsive vomiting. Just ate some rice n beans, which is a step up from saltine crackers. so far, so good. Thanks for asking!
	5:04pm Uncle Michael: I'd like to collect more product-specific promotional records...a tangentially-related area. For instance, I need a cleaner copy of Trini Lopez' Fresca record.
	5:05pm Uncle Michael: The cast of Bonanza for Chevrolet is nice too.
	5:06pm Carmichael: I do have an mp3 of Sammy Davis' Alka Seltzer commercial. It's a hepcat Broadway version of the plop plop fizz fizz song.
	👻 5:07pm rrg: All you record collectors make my music collection seem puny and inconsequential. Because it is.
	5:07pm jan: Were the attendees at The Seagram Distillers Distributor Meeting, 1965 imbibing. That would have helped. I've given up doing any more work so that I can focus on the lyrics as well as the discussions between the tracks.
	5:08pm Uncle Michael: "Chico and the Man" for Banquet Frozen Dinners... OK, I made that one up.
	👻 5:10pm G: If only John Lydon had sung his UK butter commercial.
	5:12pm northguineahills: Stupid work, making me miss these gems!
	5:14pm dale: i remember your live performance of silicones. it was quite good
	5:15pm Pine: MY BATHROOM! Still stuck in my head :D
	5:15pm Webhamster Henry: Play "Proximatics" instead.
	5:17pm Irwin: Playing both, Henry!
	5:18pm northguineahills: I suddenly want some bourbon....
	5:19pm hamburger: oh. brother. !!
	5:20pm Carmichael: I'll belt this out the next time I'm droppin' a deuce.
	5:20pm dale: shouldn't it be 'where i wash and where i pee?'
	5:20pm Shana: I bet this lady spends a lot of Friday nights drinking with the "Calgon, take me away!" woman.
	5:21pm Sean D. Daily: I'm getting the sense that she's free.
	5:21pm Roberto: Dream and cream and cream and cream
	5:21pm dale: "..and cream and dream" - really?
	5:22pm Uncle Michael: I'll bet this was really something special in performance. I can see the baby-doll, the puffy frilled panties, the high-heeled slippers...
	5:22pm Webhamster Henry: Somewhere I have an air check of the show where Irwin first played this. It was a memorable show.
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks @Irwin!
	5:25pm dale: it's too bad that the who what where of most of these performers isn't known.
	5:25pm Dave in PA: my friend's father wrote a piece for Diesel Dazzle, FWIW...
	5:27pm dale: what people did for their day rate plus cab fare, if they were lucky.
	👻 5:28pm chris: I want a tractor.
	5:28pm Droll: I'm so jealous of these composers and performers... I wish SelectQuote would hire me for their next salesforce conference.
	5:29pm jan: This "Standard Equipment" sounds like yiddish theater, don't it?
	5:29pm dale: i'll sell you one chris - farmall cub anyone?
	5:29pm Sean D. Daily: So this is Ford's version of "Street Fighting Man"?
	5:30pm dale: oh man, ford golden jubilees were da' bomb!
	👻 5:31pm chris: only if all the radio plays is tractor driving man, dale, cuz that would be bomb
	5:31pm dale: very tex ritter high noon
	5:31pm Carmichael: Hey, I just found a bunch of KFC employee training tapes. They're awful.
	5:32pm Sean D. Daily: Ah, screw Ford tractors. (I say that mostly because my dad spent a summer working at International Harvester)
	5:32pm Webhamster Henry: I forgot how double-entendre-y that Proximatics was.
	5:32pm Kathy: Look At This Tub! another winner on the A.S. LP
	👻 5:35pm rrg: Hey, I don't think "My Bathroom" is absurd. Maybe a little dated (leading to all the jokes about "where I cream") but I love that.
	5:37pm dale: radio? on a tractor? uh, okay.
	👻 5:37pm G: @Droll -- I heard a brand new SelectQuote radio ad while on a road trip last week. Dan and Joel may have finally gone the way of all adflesh.
	5:38pm dale: i literally laughed out loud on the 'footwear line' line
	5:39pm Carmichael: This music just proves what a hack Mark Russell was.
	5:39pm Sean D. Daily: Old Don Hadley's doing lines, E-I-E-I-O, with a twitch twitch here and a bloody nose there...
	5:39pm Roberto: Clearly the typical Irwin listener has a higher-than-average musical tolerance. So far this sounds just dandy to me.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: Hey here's a contemporary article about "All About LIFE", one of my faves: news.google.com...
	5:39pm Carmichael: Key change!!
	5:40pm dale: oh god, i'm having client brief flashbacks. 30 or 40 page briefs for a 30 second commercial. but these guys are getting it ALLLLLL in!
	5:40pm crateslinger: it's not fair only the dj's know how long this is gonna go on.
	5:41pm Sean D. Daily: This song is from Keds' 1971 meeting. *1971.* It's like the Beatles and the Stones and Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan and James Brown never happened.
	5:41pm Uncle Michael: oy
	5:42pm Droll: G, I don't think so, someone recently left a comment on a YT video about how the ad is still running. Why didn't the songwriter leave space for breathing? And the serial gear shifting -- there is no bottom...
	👻 5:42pm G: penis boot?
	5:42pm Carmichael: Now I want to play my New Chrity Minstrel albums.
	5:42pm Webhamster Henry: Playlist readers can find "All About LIFE" in the WFMU Beware of the Blog. blog.wfmu.org...
	5:42pm Roberto: My kid, on the other hand, bailed out about 5 minutes ago.
	5:42pm dale: i wanna hear step right up by tom waits now.
	5:42pm Droll: Correction, this song is from the 1971-75 meeting. It's that long.
	5:43pm Dave in PA: lol@penis boot
	5:43pm Carmichael: I suppose this is fate. I made my kids sit through Jesus Christ Superstar on Saturday afternoon.
	5:44pm Sean D. Daily: @Droll: Ba-bing!
	5:44pm Roberto: So I guess I wasn't the only one who heard "penis boot."
	5:45pm dale: damn, i wanna see this coca cola show! right after i see the most happy fella
	5:46pm Uncle Michael: I wanna be a route man.
	5:46pm northguineahills: No, you weren't, Roberto.
	5:46pm Carmichael: I bet they're doing the Charleston while singing this.
	👻 5:46pm G: Speaking of cheesy, just saw a link to George Jones's just-finished cemetery monument: www.savingcountrymusic.com...
	5:47pm Cubicle Carl: I produced this type of stuff for big corporations in the 80's, but by then they wanted things to sound like Kenny Rogers and Bruce Springsteen.
	5:48pm dale: g - i'm horrified, yet i expect nothing less.
	5:49pm Robert: Damn, listening to that Coke show made me want to do what I kept threatening that we friends that gathered at Cedar Tavern do: put on a musical show. Partly it was because Nadine actually had such entertainment aspirations long ago. And we never did, and now half of us are dead.
	5:49pm Sean D. Daily: Round of applause for Steve Young and Sport Murphy for rounding this material up, everyone, and for letting us have our ironic fun at their expense.
	5:51pm Uncle Michael: Thanks all for a very entertaining show.
	5:51pm Robert: Yay for more free entertainment!
	5:51pm dale: silicone is pretty amazing, it can be as hard as a bowling ball....as squishy as some caulky stuff
	5:51pm spodiodi: Claps loudly
	5:52pm dale: oh man, my parents drank nothing but instant coffee. always gave me the scoots.
	5:55pm dale: what ever happened to michelle, irwin?
	5:55pm Droll: I hardly noticed the transition! You're like a PAMS chorus.
	5:55pm Fredericks: I believe, I heard the original version of "Stronger Than Dirt" (Mummies) on Nardwar's show. Laundry detergent love song.
	5:56pm Sean D. Daily: And silicone tastes nice and goes down smooth and the nice doctors who pump your stomach are always SO nice.
	👻 5:57pm rrg: I expect it will never happen, but it would be a very nice thing if "Incorrect Music" returned to the airwaves. At least for a while.
	5:58pm Barb E.: Incredible. Great show you guys - fantastic book, too!
	5:59pm Webhamster Henry: Nice show today folks! I don't think I can make it down on Saturday, though. Next book: lyrics to songs you didn't think had any.
	👻 5:59pm G: Silicone turns your gross green.
	👻 5:59pm rrg: Indeed, thanks. Unquestionably, the answer.
	5:59pm jan: Michelle Boule, Amy Kessler, Sport Murphy, Irwin Chusid perform faultlessly. Now to develop a new libretto to expand their repertoire.
	5:59pm Sean D. Daily: Surprisingly tight performance for a bunch of volunteer DJs.
	6:00pm northguineahills: I'm very impressed. Nice talent, folks!
	6:07pm Robert: Looks like this now becomes the comment line for tonight's 7SD. I thought that was Don McLean singing the theme song.
	6:08pm Robert: Are The Clams named that because they hit a lot of clams when they play? (That's slang for bad notes on wind instruments.)
	9:01am Michael: Great show - more please! Tractor Drivin' Man in My Bathroom!
	1:47pm Francis: Great stuff. Somehow I'd never heard of Raymond Scott's "A Man Called Brown" until today. Would love to see that album posted on the WFMU blog (fingers crossed)!

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 20, 2013

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