WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from July 11, 2014

Listener comments!
	3:01pm DCE: how cute!
	3:03pm Mark Helsten: Great choice!! Happy Friday
	3:04pm Sem Chumbo: The post Civil War period is filled with melancholy ballads such as this one, recorded on a hard beeswax taper, an early medium of sound transfer.
	3:05pm Caryn: Hello all!
	3:08pm Kurt Gottschalk: good afternoon, everyone!
	3:10pm glenn: mmmmm. baguettes.
	3:10pm Mark Helsten: Good afternoon Kurt! Though I can hardly speak for _everyone_....
	3:12pm Caryn: We had a bagatelle game when I was a kid.
	3:13pm Dean: @Sem Chumbo: There was, for example, "Song Sung Gray."
	3:15pm ranjit: Last night I dreamed that I was visiting some other city where Kurt was leading a bike ride to a museum on a beach. He promised "summer jams."
	3:16pm Kurt Gottschalk: that really happened, ranjit!
	3:17pm nak11: This Varosha thing is really cool.
	3:20pm glenn: last night i dreamed my cat was sleeping on my head. then i woke up........and she was sleeping on my head.
	3:23pm ranjit: aww man, I missed it, because I woke up before we left the meeting point. I missed the summer jams. And when I woke up, glenn's cat was sleeping on my head!
	3:30pm Sem Chumbo: @dean: nice one, Johnny Reb.
	3:31pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Digging.
	3:35pm r i s k y: Hey Mr.G and all you listener folk! Owwww! Let's do this! Friday's here with it's funky ass all stankin
	3:36pm Kurt Gottschalk: hahaha! i'll get the party started with some abstract, disembodied jamz, riskay!
	3:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: disembooty™
	3:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Microscopic Minotaurs!
	3:40pm r i s k y: Owww! Kurt we're all ears over hear!
	3:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Neil Diamond's jacket is woven of the stars themselves; a glittering asphalt midnight of expert tailoring and male pattern baldness, can I get an amen..
	3:43pm Kurt Gottschalk: "disembooty" ha!!
	3:44pm Kurt Gottschalk: turnip you crackin' me up!
	3:48pm r i s k y: Stanky ole' Friday
	3:53pm r i s k y: People are asking 'What is this?'. I look at my speaker solemnly and say 'It's been like this all day.'
	4:06pm glenn: she gets around, my cat.
	4:07pm glenn: gary played some iranian (?) abba covers on bodega pop. pretty great.
	4:08pm Caryn: The first hour's been so good that I'm really going to feel bad missing next Friday's show. Good thing the archives exist.
	4:10pm steve: wow, the hits just keep comin
	4:10pm Mark Helsten: Some tasty scores on the 45s!
	4:15pm btown: song brings back memories, regardless of the language
	4:19pm Mark Helsten: A Canadian hit!
	4:20pm Seanbelly: This version shouldn't be so funny, should it?
	4:20pm Mark Helsten: The original is dead f'n serious.
	4:21pm rsj: who stole the kieshka?
	4:21pm Seanbelly: Serious, but happy!
	4:23pm Caryn: I wonder if the Czech "Seasons in the Sun" mentions the adultery, because some versions, like Terry Jacks, sure omitted that bit?
	4:23pm Mark Helsten: I thought Terry wrote it!
	4:25pm Mark Helsten: jesus, do I feel dumb! Jacques Brel!
	4:26pm Mark Helsten: I just never considered it past being an 8 year old...
	4:27pm glenn: don't feel bad, mark. i always thought terry jacks wrote it as well.
	4:28pm Caryn: Interesting version, but can't beat the Sammy Davis Jr. version (except in tempo... this is a fast one!)
	4:28pm Mark Helsten: I just wish it was someone less cool than Jacques who wrote it...
	4:29pm Caryn: I grew up with the McKuen version of "Seasons in the Sun".
	4:31pm Caryn: The Nirvana version of "Seasons in the Sun" ain't half bad, either.
	4:31pm davex: Whoops, just missed the new old Czech set, and will have to hit the archives. Just got the premium CD though, which is great! Thanks, Kurt!
	4:34pm ScottC: I love "Charade"! watch it over and over. The movie fell out of copyright (!!??!) so you can see it on youtube...
	4:40pm ScottC: @Caryn I lived across the street form Rod McKuen in the 60's ( Haight Ashbury) And when he moved away ( L.A.?) we kids would sneak around his abandoned house and watch the mail pile up. Then one day a giant yellow machine with big teeth came and ate the wooden house right down to the foundation. He wrote a poem about this period called "Stanyon St" I believe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233rTu8wdhg&feature=kp
	4:41pm Mark Helsten: Hoping to hear Baby Elephant Walk...
	4:41pm M: Love your show Super, Greek composer is fantastic He has a great site, many thanks!
	4:42pm Caryn: @ScottC: cool!
	4:44pm Marshall Stacks: I can just understand the Yiddish in this Tea for Two.
	4:46pm ScottC: @Caryn It's weird but that 3 block stretch ( Willard to Cole on Parnassus - crossing Stanyon) has had a few "famous" people living there. Michael Moore and the diminutive "craig" from craigslist...
	4:53pm r i s k y: YOWWW!!!
	4:56pm Dean: McKuen wrote an entire book about Stanyan Street and environs: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482215.Stanyan_Street_Other_Sorrows
	4:58pm brendanswfmuaccount: Is this piece from Christof Kurzmann and Burkhard Stangl new? I don't see it listed on Erstwhile's site.
	5:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Who's up for beersies?
	5:01pm Kurt Gottschalk: brendan, yes it is, the "song sung blue" 18 minute track is from neue schnee on erstpop
	5:02pm brendanswfmuaccount: Scratch that, found it.
	5:04pm Dean: Very bad news, very sad news. Utterly shocking.
	5:06pm glenn: well, i'm sad he died, but shocking? he was 77 years old.
	5:08pm Dean: I had no idea he had been so ill. I saw him not that long ago. These days 77 isn't all that old, either. And he had a cherubic visage.
	5:10pm Dean: New record with Keith Jarrett: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/keith-jarrett-charlie-haden-last-dance-review
	5:12pm steve: what a heavy song. RIP.
	5:31pm Cecile: What was shocking to me is that I thought Charlie Haden was already dead. Oops
	5:32pm Mark Helsten: Holy shit.... I just realized what you are talking about. RIP Mr. Haden
	5:35pm Cecile: he's a giant, for sure.
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Charlie Haden !! ...My straight-ahead Jazz 'mentor'/surrogate big brother when I lived on the West Coast was a major Charlie Haden enthusiast - & I met Charlie once !; saw the Quartet West in L.A. the same day I saw McCoy Tyner's smoking trio ! Wow.
	5:39pm Dean: It seems like only three or four years ago, but I saw him back in late '05 with Alan Broadbent and an amazing Liberation Music Orchestra. BTW, he wasn't quite 77. His birthday would have been not four weeks away.
	5:40pm common: hey kurt and people. been playing hooky from my stupid job. hello!
	5:41pm Listening Out There: Haden had an amazing life, considering singing country music when young, Ornette, West Coast jazz, Liberation Music Orchestra, triplet daughters, son in law Jack Black.
	5:41pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Just came back from a freakishly long meeting (on a friday afternoon, yet) - and just sussing the theme here. Drag. I was just jamming that Coltrane/Cherry LP recently; permanent classic.
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He was Politically Righteous & quite bravely outspoken - as well as both an innovative & soulful Bass master - & encouraging to students - & everyone. A great authority & communicator of Music & what it means.
	5:46pm common: yea. sorry i missed most of this show. going back.
	5:46pm adrian in mpls: yeah - thanks for playing all this Haden. Besides the music, I have always really appreciated his political commitment.
	5:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: That quartet with Ornette/Cherry/Haden/Blackwell is still one of the greatest alchemical mysteries of all time...
	5:48pm Cecile: you know it Rev.
	5:52pm Dean: Er, typo in the notes, Kurt?
	5:53pm Kurt Gottschalk: probably somewhere, not sure what you mean
	5:54pm Kurt Gottschalk: oh christ
	5:54pm Dean: Right. Less said the better.
	5:56pm Kurt Gottschalk: thanks for catching that
	5:56pm Caryn: Missed the typo but I think I can guess what it was. D'oh!
	6:00pm chris: love this album!
	6:00pm adrian in mpls: wow, this simultaneously makes me very happy and very sad
	6:01pm Dean: It turns out the new Jarrett/Haden disk was recorded in '07.
	6:01pm chris: oh dear god... just tuned in... fuck! I will miss him.

Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from July 11, 2014

View Kurt Gottschalk's profile

"I fancy him at the court of Minos, anxious to know what sort of unmentionable monster the Minotaur may be, whether he is as frightful as all that or perhaps charming?" - Albert Camus (Visit homepage.)

On WFMU | 91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM & wfmu.org
WFMU LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk playlists | Next playlist -->

July 11, 2014: Song Sung Blue
~~Animation by Minnesota Jeff

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Neil Diamond	Song Sung Blue "Song Sung Blue" by "Neil Diamond"		MCA	1872	45
Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet	6 Bagatelles	String Quartets - Ramifications - Songs, etc.	EMI Classics	2010	CD	Composed by György Ligeti, recorded in 1979	0:03:07 (Pop-up)
Yannis Kyriakides	Varosha (Disco Debris)	Resorts & Ruins	Unsounds	2012	CD		0:13:29 (Pop-up)
Günter Müller / Otomo Yoshihide	Victoriaville 01	Time Travel	Erstwhile Records	2003	CD
Joey Baron	Alfie "Alfie" by "Joey Baron"	Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach	Tzadik	1997	CD		0:52:28 (Pop-up)
Stan Getz	Trains and Boats and Planes	What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Bacharach and David	Verve	1998	CD	Originally released in 1968	0:55:59 (Pop-up)

Helena Vondráčková	Všechno už je pryč už je ráno		Supraphon	1969	45		1:03:02 (Pop-up)
Pavel Novak	Zofie "Zofie" by "Pavel Novak"		Supraphon	1966	45		1:05:46 (Pop-up)
Václav Neckář	Mrs. Robinson "Mrs. Robinson" by "Václav Neckář"		Supraphon	1970	45		1:08:14 (Pop-up)
Petr Rezek	Modrá zem "Modrá zem" by "Petr Rezek"		Supraphon	1974	45		1:12:35 (Pop-up)
Karel Gott	Léta Prázdnin "Léta Prázdnin" by "Karel Gott"		Supraphon	1975	45		1:17:02 (Pop-up)
Karel Gott	Tvůj stín se má "Tvůj stín se má" by "Karel Gott"	Romance za korunu	Supraphon	1975	LP		1:20:38 (Pop-up)
Luboš Fišer	Puppets "Puppets" by "Luboš Fišer"	Valerie a týden divů	B-Music	2006	CD	From the 1970 film	1:23:54 (Pop-up)
The Settlers	Rhythm of Life "Rhythm of Life" by "The Settlers"		Opus	1973	45		1:25:35 (Pop-up)
The Mancini Project	Charade "Charade" by "The Mancini Project"	Views of Mancini	FMR	2003	CD		1:29:24 (Pop-up)
The Adorables	Sophia "Sophia" by "The Adorables"	The Adorables	Cryptogramophone	2013	MP3		1:34:17 (Pop-up)
Henry Mancini	Something Loose "Something Loose" by "Henry Mancini"	Martinis With Mancini	RCA	1997	CD		1:37:11 (Pop-up)
The Barry Sisters	Tea for Two "Tea for Two" by "The Barry Sisters"	Our Way (Tahka-Tahka)	Stereophonic	2008	CD	Originally released in 1973	1:40:17 (Pop-up)
Christof Kurzmann / Burkhard Stangl	Song Songs	Neue Schnee	Erstwhile Records		MP3	thanks to the fine online record store squidco.com for sending this last minute mp3!	1:43:07 (Pop-up)

Charlie Haden	Oh Shenandoah "Oh Shenandoah" by "Charlie Haden"	Rambling Boy	Decca	2008	CD		2:07:32 (Pop-up)

Ornette Coleman	Face of the Bass "Face of the Bass" by "Ornette Coleman"	Change of the Century	Atlantic	1992	CD	Recorded in 1959	2:12:07 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane & Don Cherry	The Blessing	The Avant-Garde	Rhino	2000	CD	Originally released in 1966	2:18:58 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden with Alice Coltrane	For Turiya	Closeness	A&M	1976	LP		2:26:48 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden / Carlos Paredes	Song for Che	Dialogues	Antilles	1990	CD		2:39:08 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden / Hank Jones	Wade in the Water	Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns, and Folk Songs	Verve	1995	CD		2:46:19 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden Family and Friends	He's Gone	Rambling Boy	Decca	2008	CD	featuring Tanya Haden (vocals)	2:50:20 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden Family and Friends	Seven Year Blues	Rambling Boy	Decca	2008	CD	featuring the Haden Triplets (vocals)	2:54:48 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden Family and Friends	Old Haden Family Show	Rambling Boy	Decca	2008	CD	Broadcast in 1939	2:57:23 (Pop-up)

RSS feeds for Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Kurt Gottschalk | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk |

Listener comments!
	3:01pm DCE: how cute!
	3:03pm Mark Helsten: Great choice!! Happy Friday
	3:04pm Sem Chumbo: The post Civil War period is filled with melancholy ballads such as this one, recorded on a hard beeswax taper, an early medium of sound transfer.
	3:05pm Caryn: Hello all!
	3:08pm Kurt Gottschalk: good afternoon, everyone!
	3:10pm glenn: mmmmm. baguettes.
	3:10pm Mark Helsten: Good afternoon Kurt! Though I can hardly speak for _everyone_....
	3:12pm Caryn: We had a bagatelle game when I was a kid.
	3:13pm Dean: @Sem Chumbo: There was, for example, "Song Sung Gray."
	3:15pm ranjit: Last night I dreamed that I was visiting some other city where Kurt was leading a bike ride to a museum on a beach. He promised "summer jams."
	3:16pm Kurt Gottschalk: that really happened, ranjit!
	3:17pm nak11: This Varosha thing is really cool.
	3:20pm glenn: last night i dreamed my cat was sleeping on my head. then i woke up........and she was sleeping on my head.
	3:23pm ranjit: aww man, I missed it, because I woke up before we left the meeting point. I missed the summer jams. And when I woke up, glenn's cat was sleeping on my head!
	3:30pm Sem Chumbo: @dean: nice one, Johnny Reb.
	3:31pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Digging.
	3:35pm r i s k y: Hey Mr.G and all you listener folk! Owwww! Let's do this! Friday's here with it's funky ass all stankin
	3:36pm Kurt Gottschalk: hahaha! i'll get the party started with some abstract, disembodied jamz, riskay!
	3:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: disembooty™
	3:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Microscopic Minotaurs!
	3:40pm r i s k y: Owww! Kurt we're all ears over hear!
	3:43pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Neil Diamond's jacket is woven of the stars themselves; a glittering asphalt midnight of expert tailoring and male pattern baldness, can I get an amen..
	3:43pm Kurt Gottschalk: "disembooty" ha!!
	3:44pm Kurt Gottschalk: turnip you crackin' me up!
	3:48pm r i s k y: Stanky ole' Friday
	3:53pm r i s k y: People are asking 'What is this?'. I look at my speaker solemnly and say 'It's been like this all day.'
	4:06pm glenn: she gets around, my cat.
	4:07pm glenn: gary played some iranian (?) abba covers on bodega pop. pretty great.
	4:08pm Caryn: The first hour's been so good that I'm really going to feel bad missing next Friday's show. Good thing the archives exist.
	4:10pm steve: wow, the hits just keep comin
	4:10pm Mark Helsten: Some tasty scores on the 45s!
	4:15pm btown: song brings back memories, regardless of the language
	4:19pm Mark Helsten: A Canadian hit!
	4:20pm Seanbelly: This version shouldn't be so funny, should it?
	4:20pm Mark Helsten: The original is dead f'n serious.
	4:21pm rsj: who stole the kieshka?
	4:21pm Seanbelly: Serious, but happy!
	4:23pm Caryn: I wonder if the Czech "Seasons in the Sun" mentions the adultery, because some versions, like Terry Jacks, sure omitted that bit?
	4:23pm Mark Helsten: I thought Terry wrote it!
	4:25pm Mark Helsten: jesus, do I feel dumb! Jacques Brel!
	4:26pm Mark Helsten: I just never considered it past being an 8 year old...
	4:27pm glenn: don't feel bad, mark. i always thought terry jacks wrote it as well.
	4:28pm Caryn: Interesting version, but can't beat the Sammy Davis Jr. version (except in tempo... this is a fast one!)
	4:28pm Mark Helsten: I just wish it was someone less cool than Jacques who wrote it...
	4:29pm Caryn: I grew up with the McKuen version of "Seasons in the Sun".
	4:31pm Caryn: The Nirvana version of "Seasons in the Sun" ain't half bad, either.
	4:31pm davex: Whoops, just missed the new old Czech set, and will have to hit the archives. Just got the premium CD though, which is great! Thanks, Kurt!
	4:34pm ScottC: I love "Charade"! watch it over and over. The movie fell out of copyright (!!??!) so you can see it on youtube...
	4:40pm ScottC: @Caryn I lived across the street form Rod McKuen in the 60's ( Haight Ashbury) And when he moved away ( L.A.?) we kids would sneak around his abandoned house and watch the mail pile up. Then one day a giant yellow machine with big teeth came and ate the wooden house right down to the foundation. He wrote a poem about this period called "Stanyon St" I believe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233rTu8wdhg&feature=kp
	4:41pm Mark Helsten: Hoping to hear Baby Elephant Walk...
	4:41pm M: Love your show Super, Greek composer is fantastic He has a great site, many thanks!
	4:42pm Caryn: @ScottC: cool!
	4:44pm Marshall Stacks: I can just understand the Yiddish in this Tea for Two.
	4:46pm ScottC: @Caryn It's weird but that 3 block stretch ( Willard to Cole on Parnassus - crossing Stanyon) has had a few "famous" people living there. Michael Moore and the diminutive "craig" from craigslist...
	4:53pm r i s k y: YOWWW!!!
	4:56pm Dean: McKuen wrote an entire book about Stanyan Street and environs: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482215.Stanyan_Street_Other_Sorrows
	4:58pm brendanswfmuaccount: Is this piece from Christof Kurzmann and Burkhard Stangl new? I don't see it listed on Erstwhile's site.
	5:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Who's up for beersies?
	5:01pm Kurt Gottschalk: brendan, yes it is, the "song sung blue" 18 minute track is from neue schnee on erstpop
	5:02pm brendanswfmuaccount: Scratch that, found it.
	5:04pm Dean: Very bad news, very sad news. Utterly shocking.
	5:06pm glenn: well, i'm sad he died, but shocking? he was 77 years old.
	5:08pm Dean: I had no idea he had been so ill. I saw him not that long ago. These days 77 isn't all that old, either. And he had a cherubic visage.
	5:10pm Dean: New record with Keith Jarrett: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/keith-jarrett-charlie-haden-last-dance-review
	5:12pm steve: what a heavy song. RIP.
	5:31pm Cecile: What was shocking to me is that I thought Charlie Haden was already dead. Oops
	5:32pm Mark Helsten: Holy shit.... I just realized what you are talking about. RIP Mr. Haden
	5:35pm Cecile: he's a giant, for sure.
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Charlie Haden !! ...My straight-ahead Jazz 'mentor'/surrogate big brother when I lived on the West Coast was a major Charlie Haden enthusiast - & I met Charlie once !; saw the Quartet West in L.A. the same day I saw McCoy Tyner's smoking trio ! Wow.
	5:39pm Dean: It seems like only three or four years ago, but I saw him back in late '05 with Alan Broadbent and an amazing Liberation Music Orchestra. BTW, he wasn't quite 77. His birthday would have been not four weeks away.
	5:40pm common: hey kurt and people. been playing hooky from my stupid job. hello!
	5:41pm Listening Out There: Haden had an amazing life, considering singing country music when young, Ornette, West Coast jazz, Liberation Music Orchestra, triplet daughters, son in law Jack Black.
	5:41pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Just came back from a freakishly long meeting (on a friday afternoon, yet) - and just sussing the theme here. Drag. I was just jamming that Coltrane/Cherry LP recently; permanent classic.
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He was Politically Righteous & quite bravely outspoken - as well as both an innovative & soulful Bass master - & encouraging to students - & everyone. A great authority & communicator of Music & what it means.
	5:46pm common: yea. sorry i missed most of this show. going back.
	5:46pm adrian in mpls: yeah - thanks for playing all this Haden. Besides the music, I have always really appreciated his political commitment.
	5:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: That quartet with Ornette/Cherry/Haden/Blackwell is still one of the greatest alchemical mysteries of all time...
	5:48pm Cecile: you know it Rev.
	5:52pm Dean: Er, typo in the notes, Kurt?
	5:53pm Kurt Gottschalk: probably somewhere, not sure what you mean
	5:54pm Kurt Gottschalk: oh christ
	5:54pm Dean: Right. Less said the better.
	5:56pm Kurt Gottschalk: thanks for catching that
	5:56pm Caryn: Missed the typo but I think I can guess what it was. D'oh!
	6:00pm chris: love this album!
	6:00pm adrian in mpls: wow, this simultaneously makes me very happy and very sad
	6:01pm Dean: It turns out the new Jarrett/Haden disk was recorded in '07.
	6:01pm chris: oh dear god... just tuned in... fuck! I will miss him.

Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from July 11, 2014

Listener comments!

(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson