WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from May 28, 2014

Listener comments!
	3:02pm Listening Out There: I look forward to hearing today's interview!
	3:04pm Laura L: It's not everybody could wear a Viking hat so well as Mr. Moondog.
	♥ 3:05pm common: moondog. love love love!!!
	3:06pm EL MUSGO: GREAT SHOW !!!!! LOVE MOONDOG!!!!!
	3:08pm TDK60: Irwin: Was fun to hear you on WKCR spinning Sun Ra along with Michael D. Anderson.
	3:16pm Alison Porchnik: This music makes me want to dance
	3:17pm The Brooklyn Kid: Ohh:-) another English girl
	♥ 3:18pm common: excited about this film!
	3:19pm TDK60: I saw Moondog as a child a few times, standing selling his music in Midtown.
	3:22pm The Brooklyn Kid: Actually never heard of moondog
	♥ 3:23pm Ike: Wow, TDK60@3:08, I missed that. I bet those were just about the most relaxed, conversational voices on KCR in years. Heh.
	3:23pm The Brooklyn Kid: Philip glass now there is a name I know
	♥ 3:25pm common: that's pretty great, tdk60!
	3:26pm Jeremy N: Sam Ulano actually passed away earlier this year on January 2.
	3:29pm TDK60: Ike, yes their voices were sonically pleasing.
	3:34pm Alison Porchnik: This is such beautiful music. Like a music box.
	♥ 3:34pm Irwin: Didn't know about Sam's passing. He was over 90. Hopefully providing a swinging beat behind the heavenly choir
	3:38pm Holly Elson: So sad to hear about Sam Ulano
	3:39pm Monica: "high on a rocky ledge," a sentimental fave.
	♥ 3:39pm common: never heard "high on a rocky ledge". beautiful!
	🎸 ♥ 3:50pm Aharon: This is great music. I just realized with embarrassment that I'd always unconsciously conflated Tiny Tim and Moondog. For shame!
	3:56pm Jeremy N: Very much enjoying the show and very much looking forward to the film! I've been fanatical about Moondog since finding "& his Friends" and the Brunswick release in a box of 10"s over 25 years ago...hit me like a missive from the gods.
	♥ 3:56pm Webhamster Henry: Nice harp piece - I should get it for my daughter to play. Where do you get his scores?
	4:00pm Ellen T: Don't mean to barge in on a tangent, but I wanted to share that I had a personal encounter with Moondog. I am 63 years old and this happened probably when I was about 7. I was walking with my parents on 6th Ave. being a little wise guy, running ahead of them to show my independence. I was suddenly "accosted" and kind of swooped up snd carried along by a man wearing a cloak and Viking head dress. He made me feel I had left the world I was in entirely, and he surrounded me with an energy that felt, to my young self, both terrifying and sublime simultaneously. After walking some steps together, he broke off, and there were my parents, laughing. My father said, "you know who that was, don't you?" Which of course, I did not. "That was Moondog!" I was so incredulous that my father would know about someone like this -- he gave me the sense that this was not any run of the mill street person, but someone quite extraordinary. As I said, I am 63, and this experience has always remained exceptionally vivid, even though it was many years before I connected the dots, and realized who Moondog was.
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm rrg: I love that story, Ellen.
	4:05pm Laura L: What rrg said, me too.
	4:12pm eventi: Ellen - That gave me chills - Thanks
	4:15pm Ellen T: He made some kind of noise, too. At first I was so frightened. He had this blustery, fierceness, and a real seriousness, as if to say, I'm not fooling around here. But it was as if I met an actual magical being. It's nice to share this. I rarely talk about it. I will go to the website and tell the story to the documentarians.
	♥ 4:16pm Webhamster Henry: "Cherie, Cherie you look like Gene Autry, your fig're is like Trigger, my cherie" -- same tune, abused lyrics from Spike Jones
	4:21pm Holly Elson: Brilliant story Ellen thanks for sharing!
	♥ 4:26pm Stevel: Thanks, Ellen. Wow.
	4:27pm northguineahills: wowwow, Ellen, just Wow! That's awesome!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm chris: This is really quite nice. Hauntingly beautiful, I'd say. Thanks for sharing his works with us today.
	♥ 4:28pm common: ellen...ditto!!! thank you irwin and holly! been a wheepin' a bit a work. but happy!
	4:29pm Holly Elson: Here's the New York Times piece I mentioned by Allan Kozinn http://ow.ly/xmCm4
	4:29pm Ellen T: I wish my dad was still alive so I could ask him how he knew who Moondog was, and that he was so special. I mean, I thought I had left the earth, and there were my parents some steps behind, just watching the whole thing -- with no fear for the safety of their little girl. Hard to imagine that happening in the world of today.
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm chris: Wow, Ellen! Thanks for sharing that! So cool.
	4:33pm Carmichael: Wow, I walked into a ton of Moondog. Hi everyone.
	4:39pm Ellen T: Thank you everyone, for being so receptive!!!!
	4:40pm MikeY: the first show i miss in weeks and it has moondog, My father was fascinated by his poetry and music, I think I have a phto with him and my old man in it.
	4:41pm Ellen T: I think one of the things my dad said was, "he's been around for a loooong time" and I thought he meant like hundreds of years!
	4:45pm northguineahills: Enjoyed the Jerome Cooper. Wasn't familiar w/ him.
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm rrg: A superb segment, Irwin (and Holly). Thanks.
	🎸 ♥ 4:48pm rrg: And, you see, things like this isolated Karen Carpenter track are what keep me coming back to Irwin's program.
	🎸 ♥ 4:48pm rrg: Where did it come from?
	4:51pm PMD: Only got the tail end of Moondog, darn it. Will go back and listen. But really like this Karen Carpenter track!~
	♥ 4:51pm Irwin: rrg: no recollection, had it for years.
	🎸 ♥ 4:54pm rrg: These days, I imagine--though I've never tried--that with only a little bit of software, one can do these sorts of isolations on one's own.
	4:54pm Dan: It's fate baby it's faate
	♥ 4:56pm Webhamster Henry: @rrg not as cleanly -- but you can fix things in a mix you aren't too closely listening to.
	🎸 ♥ 4:59pm rrg: Right. Even that mostly-isolated Karen track that Irwin played still had a fair bit of bleed-through with Richard's voice in it.
	5:00pm Dan: I'll bleed you! (not in an aggressive way)
	5:02pm Dan: oh... sun ra!
	5:08pm Dan: What's a good sun ra track where he speaks? I got a book of his poems, but couldn't find music to match it.
	5:10pm Dan: I've been enjoying lanquidity
	5:15pm spodiodi: Yes
	♥ 5:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: @northguineahills - Did you ever get tickets for the US/Turkey soccer match? More tickets went on sale today, according to ussoccer.com web site.
	5:16pm berbo: that is a thing that I don't want to catch.
	5:18pm Dan: please make this noise stop
	5:20pm northguineahills: I saw that Ken. I haven't been to the site yet today. Thanks for reminding me!
	5:31pm Dan: Butter products!
	5:32pm Dan: I'd feel pretty bad to be honest.
	5:33pm Dan: can we send this guy some butter?
	5:35pm ?: This has been a solid show, cheers Irwin.
	🎸 ♥ 5:36pm chris: Silly English Kaaaanigits!
	5:38pm Carmichael: Damn phone calls. I missed an important message re: butter.
	5:38pm Dean: More Wigwam!
	🎸 ♥ 5:38pm rrg: I agree with ?.
	🎸 ♥ 5:38pm chris: i really like people who say F-you and then thanks very much. Politeness is so hard to teach these days.
	5:38pm nobunny ever here: ...maybe if you got butter over there you'd get the international Nobel Grease Prize...
	5:42pm northguineahills: Like Madder Rose better on their demo.
	♥ 5:45pm Irwin: Thanks to rrg for this one.
	5:46pm Carmichael: Thanks, rrg. Friends of yours?
	5:47pm iris: I missed the name of this tune. What is it?
	🎸 ♥ 5:47pm rrg: "Nashville" cast members.
	5:48pm iris: Very nice! It complimented my stew perfectly.
	♥ 5:49pm dale: has anyone given roy's newest album a listen?
	5:51pm iris: Didn't know about it! When was it released?
	♥ 5:52pm dale: within the year www.royharper.co.uk
	3:11pm Holly Elson: We're into the last 20 hours of the Kickstarter campaign for the Moondog Movie you can pledge here - help us cross the finish line! http://kck.st/1puWucw Ends 12 noon EST June 26

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May 28, 2014: Holly Elson discusses her upcoming documentary about Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue

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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)
Moondog	Chicago interview excerpt (1972)	Radio Triad	0:04:07 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Up Broadway "Up Broadway" by "Moondog"	The Story of Moondog	0:04:55 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Frog Bog / To a Seahorse "Frog Bog / To a Seahorse" by "Moondog"	Moondog (Prestige, 1956)	0:10:10 (Pop-up)
Moondog with Orchestre de Bretagne	Elf Dance (live)	Concert, Rennes, France (1988)	0:14:36 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON	interview seg 1 "interview seg 1" by "HOLLY ELSON"	Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)	0:15:56 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Chicago interview excerpt (1972)	Radio Triad	0:28:46 (Pop-up)
Moondog with the London Saxophonic	Dog Trot	Sax Pax for a Sax	0:29:52 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Art of the Canon, Book V, No. 9	Moondog: The German Years	0:31:39 (Pop-up)
Moondog	High on a Rocky Ledge "High on a Rocky Ledge" by "Moondog"	H'art Songs	0:36:35 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON	interview seg 2 "interview seg 2" by "HOLLY ELSON"	Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)	0:41:00 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Dark Eyes "Dark Eyes" by "Moondog"	Moondog: The German Years	0:49:26 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Single Foot "Single Foot" by "Moondog"	A New Sound of An Old Instrument	0:51:14 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Pastoral "Pastoral" by "Moondog"	Moondog (Columbia, 1969)	0:53:07 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON	interview seg 3 "interview seg 3" by "HOLLY ELSON"	Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)	0:56:23 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Three Couplets "Three Couplets" by "Moondog"	Moondog: The German Years	1:04:53 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Jazz Book, No. 2 "Jazz Book, No. 2" by "Moondog"	Moondog: The German Years	1:05:20 (Pop-up)
Moondog	You Have to Have Hope "You Have to Have Hope" by "Moondog"	Big Band	1:07:19 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Paris "Paris" by "Moondog"	Sax Pax for a Sax	1:10:22 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON	interview seg 4 "interview seg 4" by "HOLLY ELSON"	Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)	1:13:31 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Wind River Powwow "Wind River Powwow" by "Moondog"	Elpmas	1:18:18 (Pop-up)
Moondog with Orchestre de Bretagne	Romance in G	Concert, Rennes, France (1988)	1:25:15 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Do Your Thing "Do Your Thing" by "Moondog"	H'art Songs	1:31:01 (Pop-up)

Jerome Cooper	Munich "Munich" by "Jerome Cooper"	A Magical Approach	1:35:43 (Pop-up)
Metropole Orchestra ft. The Beau Hunks Saxtette	Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner	Raymond Scott: The Chesterfield Arrangements, 1937-38	1:42:35 (Pop-up)
The Carpenters	Ticket to Ride (vocal/drums)	Ticket to Ride	1:46:08 (Pop-up)
Betty Garrett and Frank Sinatra	It's Fate	Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film soundtrack)	1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Murals	Turning Still / Golden Arrow	On a Passing Cloud	1:53:10 (Pop-up)

Clifford Jordan / John Gilmore	Status Quo	Blowing in from Chicago	2:03:22 (Pop-up)
The Temple Cloud Country Club	My Mother's Coat	Bremen Is My Name	2:08:27 (Pop-up)
Gang of Four	Anthrax "Anthrax" by "Gang of Four"	Entertainment!	2:12:59 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	California Girls "California Girls" by "Magnetic Fields"	Distortion	2:16:58 (Pop-up)
The Two Friends	Family Reunion "Family Reunion" by "The Two Friends"	H.P.C. Records	2:19:48 (Pop-up)

Teddybears (feat. Robyn)	Cardiac Arrest	Devil's Music	2:27:20 (Pop-up)
Tommy (Bjornar Loberg)	A Butter Message to the USA!	tommylife.blogg.no	2:29:53 (Pop-up)
Wigwam	Kite "Kite" by "Wigwam"	Nuclear Nightclub	2:34:46 (Pop-up)
Madder Rose	Altar Boy (demo) "Altar Boy (demo)" by "Madder Rose"	1990s demo cassette	2:38:41 (Pop-up)

Connie Britton, Lennon Stella, Maisy Stella	The Blues Have Blown Away	The Blues Have Blown Away	2:44:31 (Pop-up)
Roy Harper	I'll See You Again "I'll See You Again" by "Roy Harper"	Valentine	2:46:53 (Pop-up)
Anathallo	John J. Audubon "John J. Audubon" by "Anathallo"	Canopy Glow	2:52:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:02pm Listening Out There: I look forward to hearing today's interview!
	3:04pm Laura L: It's not everybody could wear a Viking hat so well as Mr. Moondog.
	♥ 3:05pm common: moondog. love love love!!!
	3:06pm EL MUSGO: GREAT SHOW !!!!! LOVE MOONDOG!!!!!
	3:08pm TDK60: Irwin: Was fun to hear you on WKCR spinning Sun Ra along with Michael D. Anderson.
	3:16pm Alison Porchnik: This music makes me want to dance
	3:17pm The Brooklyn Kid: Ohh:-) another English girl
	♥ 3:18pm common: excited about this film!
	3:19pm TDK60: I saw Moondog as a child a few times, standing selling his music in Midtown.
	3:22pm The Brooklyn Kid: Actually never heard of moondog
	♥ 3:23pm Ike: Wow, TDK60@3:08, I missed that. I bet those were just about the most relaxed, conversational voices on KCR in years. Heh.
	3:23pm The Brooklyn Kid: Philip glass now there is a name I know
	♥ 3:25pm common: that's pretty great, tdk60!
	3:26pm Jeremy N: Sam Ulano actually passed away earlier this year on January 2.
	3:29pm TDK60: Ike, yes their voices were sonically pleasing.
	3:34pm Alison Porchnik: This is such beautiful music. Like a music box.
	♥ 3:34pm Irwin: Didn't know about Sam's passing. He was over 90. Hopefully providing a swinging beat behind the heavenly choir
	3:38pm Holly Elson: So sad to hear about Sam Ulano
	3:39pm Monica: "high on a rocky ledge," a sentimental fave.
	♥ 3:39pm common: never heard "high on a rocky ledge". beautiful!
	🎸 ♥ 3:50pm Aharon: This is great music. I just realized with embarrassment that I'd always unconsciously conflated Tiny Tim and Moondog. For shame!
	3:56pm Jeremy N: Very much enjoying the show and very much looking forward to the film! I've been fanatical about Moondog since finding "& his Friends" and the Brunswick release in a box of 10"s over 25 years ago...hit me like a missive from the gods.
	♥ 3:56pm Webhamster Henry: Nice harp piece - I should get it for my daughter to play. Where do you get his scores?
	4:00pm Ellen T: Don't mean to barge in on a tangent, but I wanted to share that I had a personal encounter with Moondog. I am 63 years old and this happened probably when I was about 7. I was walking with my parents on 6th Ave. being a little wise guy, running ahead of them to show my independence. I was suddenly "accosted" and kind of swooped up snd carried along by a man wearing a cloak and Viking head dress. He made me feel I had left the world I was in entirely, and he surrounded me with an energy that felt, to my young self, both terrifying and sublime simultaneously. After walking some steps together, he broke off, and there were my parents, laughing. My father said, "you know who that was, don't you?" Which of course, I did not. "That was Moondog!" I was so incredulous that my father would know about someone like this -- he gave me the sense that this was not any run of the mill street person, but someone quite extraordinary. As I said, I am 63, and this experience has always remained exceptionally vivid, even though it was many years before I connected the dots, and realized who Moondog was.
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm rrg: I love that story, Ellen.
	4:05pm Laura L: What rrg said, me too.
	4:12pm eventi: Ellen - That gave me chills - Thanks
	4:15pm Ellen T: He made some kind of noise, too. At first I was so frightened. He had this blustery, fierceness, and a real seriousness, as if to say, I'm not fooling around here. But it was as if I met an actual magical being. It's nice to share this. I rarely talk about it. I will go to the website and tell the story to the documentarians.
	♥ 4:16pm Webhamster Henry: "Cherie, Cherie you look like Gene Autry, your fig're is like Trigger, my cherie" -- same tune, abused lyrics from Spike Jones
	4:21pm Holly Elson: Brilliant story Ellen thanks for sharing!
	♥ 4:26pm Stevel: Thanks, Ellen. Wow.
	4:27pm northguineahills: wowwow, Ellen, just Wow! That's awesome!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm chris: This is really quite nice. Hauntingly beautiful, I'd say. Thanks for sharing his works with us today.
	♥ 4:28pm common: ellen...ditto!!! thank you irwin and holly! been a wheepin' a bit a work. but happy!
	4:29pm Holly Elson: Here's the New York Times piece I mentioned by Allan Kozinn http://ow.ly/xmCm4
	4:29pm Ellen T: I wish my dad was still alive so I could ask him how he knew who Moondog was, and that he was so special. I mean, I thought I had left the earth, and there were my parents some steps behind, just watching the whole thing -- with no fear for the safety of their little girl. Hard to imagine that happening in the world of today.
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm chris: Wow, Ellen! Thanks for sharing that! So cool.
	4:33pm Carmichael: Wow, I walked into a ton of Moondog. Hi everyone.
	4:39pm Ellen T: Thank you everyone, for being so receptive!!!!
	4:40pm MikeY: the first show i miss in weeks and it has moondog, My father was fascinated by his poetry and music, I think I have a phto with him and my old man in it.
	4:41pm Ellen T: I think one of the things my dad said was, "he's been around for a loooong time" and I thought he meant like hundreds of years!
	4:45pm northguineahills: Enjoyed the Jerome Cooper. Wasn't familiar w/ him.
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm rrg: A superb segment, Irwin (and Holly). Thanks.
	🎸 ♥ 4:48pm rrg: And, you see, things like this isolated Karen Carpenter track are what keep me coming back to Irwin's program.
	🎸 ♥ 4:48pm rrg: Where did it come from?
	4:51pm PMD: Only got the tail end of Moondog, darn it. Will go back and listen. But really like this Karen Carpenter track!~
	♥ 4:51pm Irwin: rrg: no recollection, had it for years.
	🎸 ♥ 4:54pm rrg: These days, I imagine--though I've never tried--that with only a little bit of software, one can do these sorts of isolations on one's own.
	4:54pm Dan: It's fate baby it's faate
	♥ 4:56pm Webhamster Henry: @rrg not as cleanly -- but you can fix things in a mix you aren't too closely listening to.
	🎸 ♥ 4:59pm rrg: Right. Even that mostly-isolated Karen track that Irwin played still had a fair bit of bleed-through with Richard's voice in it.
	5:00pm Dan: I'll bleed you! (not in an aggressive way)
	5:02pm Dan: oh... sun ra!
	5:08pm Dan: What's a good sun ra track where he speaks? I got a book of his poems, but couldn't find music to match it.
	5:10pm Dan: I've been enjoying lanquidity
	5:15pm spodiodi: Yes
	♥ 5:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: @northguineahills - Did you ever get tickets for the US/Turkey soccer match? More tickets went on sale today, according to ussoccer.com web site.
	5:16pm berbo: that is a thing that I don't want to catch.
	5:18pm Dan: please make this noise stop
	5:20pm northguineahills: I saw that Ken. I haven't been to the site yet today. Thanks for reminding me!
	5:31pm Dan: Butter products!
	5:32pm Dan: I'd feel pretty bad to be honest.
	5:33pm Dan: can we send this guy some butter?
	5:35pm ?: This has been a solid show, cheers Irwin.
	🎸 ♥ 5:36pm chris: Silly English Kaaaanigits!
	5:38pm Carmichael: Damn phone calls. I missed an important message re: butter.
	5:38pm Dean: More Wigwam!
	🎸 ♥ 5:38pm rrg: I agree with ?.
	🎸 ♥ 5:38pm chris: i really like people who say F-you and then thanks very much. Politeness is so hard to teach these days.
	5:38pm nobunny ever here: ...maybe if you got butter over there you'd get the international Nobel Grease Prize...
	5:42pm northguineahills: Like Madder Rose better on their demo.
	♥ 5:45pm Irwin: Thanks to rrg for this one.
	5:46pm Carmichael: Thanks, rrg. Friends of yours?
	5:47pm iris: I missed the name of this tune. What is it?
	🎸 ♥ 5:47pm rrg: "Nashville" cast members.
	5:48pm iris: Very nice! It complimented my stew perfectly.
	♥ 5:49pm dale: has anyone given roy's newest album a listen?
	5:51pm iris: Didn't know about it! When was it released?
	♥ 5:52pm dale: within the year www.royharper.co.uk
	3:11pm Holly Elson: We're into the last 20 hours of the Kickstarter campaign for the Moondog Movie you can pledge here - help us cross the finish line! http://kck.st/1puWucw Ends 12 noon EST June 26

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from May 28, 2014

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