WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 24, 2014

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:02am common: yip! joe, peoples!
	♥ 9:02am 12539: Surface noise!
	9:05am Cheri Pi: Nice jaunty opening son!
	♥ 9:07am DCE: going OOOOLLLLD school, eh Joe? Grandpa used to tell me about how great Paul Whiteman's orchestra was back in the 30s when he was sowing his oats
	9:07am Marmalade Kitty: good morning/ afternoon Joe! wfmu - The pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.. that made me laugh!
	♥ 9:07am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Joe, and all. Like where this has started this morning.
	9:07am duke: This would be a good WFMU marathon song
	9:10am Jack: Cool start, loving it.
	9:14am adrian in mpls: this is a wonderful, unexpected beginning to the day!
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the make-believe ballroom.
	♥ 9:19am tadpoles: Love Al Bowlly.... let's have some more please & thanks.
	9:23am KP: Joe McGasko and his Orchestra
	9:23am Dr. Goot: Morning All!
	9:23am adrian in mpls: swooning
	♥ 9:24am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Delicious. Prime time lyrically.
	♥ 9:27am Stevel: Working as development director at an historic theater built in 1928, I am definitely bookmarking this set. Guessing many of these acts performed here.
	♥ 9:32am common: that sounds like a great job, stevel
	♥ 9:33am MD: hEY Joe and all the FMU Family...Check out on line "Cleaning Your vinal Records with Wood Glue!!!" A bit scary but I think it might work!!!!
	9:33am bobdoesthings: good morninggg peoples
	♥ 9:35am Stevel: common: It is. Not hard to ask for money for this place. www.fwembassytheatre.org
	♥ 9:37am Brian in UK: Surfs Up, Joe.
	9:37am bobdoesthings: I already like it.
	♥ 9:40am Joe McG: @Stevel: Very cool gig! @MD: I've seen that but haven't tried it. Should do it to Dick Powell! @Brian: Hola, sir!
	9:42am Marcel M: I like where this set is going. Mornin' Joe moniin' Bob and all
	9:46am Marmalade Kitty: was that a Selda cover or did Selda cover?
	♥ 9:46am common: wow stevel! that place looks grand!
	9:46am northguineahills: I was having the same Q MK.
	9:47am V Priceless: Hey Joe! I can't get that Algerian folk-pop tune "Abadane" by Freedom outta my head - from the Sublime Frequencies comp
	♥ 9:47am Joe McG: @Kitty: Fuzzy on the chronology, but I think Selda was first.
	♥ 9:49am Joe McG: @VP: That's a great one! I'm sure I'll play it in the next week or two.
	9:50am Cecile: morning, all. I missed Fred, boo. I love his singing, even though my in-laws think I"m nuts.
	♥ 9:53am Joe McG: @Cecile: Fred was a great favorite of songwriters. They loved his singing and were happy to write for him.
	9:55am Brendan: Sebastian Teller was the brainchild of Edward Teller and Sebastian Cabot
	♥ 9:55am Sem Chumbo: Mike Post could write 'em.
	♥ 9:56am DCE: oh shit James Garner died? whoa...Jim Rockford, childhood hero!
	♥ 9:56am Webhamster Henry: Trouble was looking for the Rockford files on Tuesday. Thanks for finding it!
	9:56am Cecile: He could really interpret a lyric. He was crafty becuase he didn't have a real strong voice. Pouring out Friday night orange Faygo for Jim Garner
	9:57am Cecile: The more I read about Jim Garner, I seriously believe he was as close to a real-life Ron Swanson as we will ever have.
	9:57am duke: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message.
	9:57am Cecile: And he was a lifelong Democrat to boot.
	9:58am adrian in mpls: Cecile - you just got 1000 points for referencing Faygo. The pop of my childhood -- Redpop, Rock N Rye, ahhhhh
	♥ 9:58am Brian in UK: Maverick by name, maverick by nature.
	9:59am Cecile: Yeah. Our Friday night treat was orange Faygo, OG Taco Doritos, and Rockford Files.
	10:00am Brendan: The Rockford files went missing for a number of years until later it was discovered that they were mistakenly filed under F instead of R
	♥ 10:00am Brian in UK: The Above used to be called Ditto.
	♥ 10:00am Guido from Cologne: Hi Joe and everyone! Not really on the boarrd but listening along ...
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @Brendan: Ha! I'm actually an owner of two Mike Post albums, one of which has the theme on it.
	10:04am duke: Watching the Rockford files was a religious duty at our house
	10:04am adrian in mpls: that's a great Friday night!
	10:05am Cecile: me too, duke. you know it, adrian
	10:05am Marmalade Kitty: I remember the camera scrolling across an empty office with answer machine, a deserted game of solitaire..rockford files
	10:06am Cecile: yup! the anti-private eye private eye show.
	♥ 10:07am Liz Berg: The Rockford Files would always come on immediately before or after the Smurfs where I grew up. Although I'd always groove out to the Rockford Files theme, I was of an age to prefer the little blue guys.
	♥ 10:07am common: i'm with you duke and cecile. ah, the good days.
	10:09am Cecile: It showed how unglamorous private eye work was. The rooting through files, hanging out in crappy bars, etc. I think about that because I read someone saying "Leverage" made them want to be a thief. No, they just want to live in magical Timothy Hutton land. I love that show, but c'mon.
	♥ 10:10am Andrew Waterloo: I only remember the Rockford files from A&E. Was recently working thought he series on Netflix until it got pulled from Canada.
	10:10am Cecile: And Police Woman! And whatever came on in the last time slot which never lasted more than a year.
	10:11am Cecile: That sucks Andrew. When I was training for cross country skiing, I'd do one Rockford File on the Nordic Track three times a week. That'll give you legs like tree trunks.
	10:13am Cecile: WOW. The Room. I used to have that record.
	10:14am adrian in mpls: that "unglamorous" part of detective work gets glossed over so much. that's what i love about a show like that. or those great sjowall and wahloo detective novels from the 70s.
	10:15am Cecile: Yeah. Also, why I like real police procedural doc shows.
	10:15am Cecile: this is also better than I remember.
	10:18am CTEmpress: Really liking this 82 stuff: and don't know it!
	10:19am Brendan: I loved the Rockford files because he lived in a trailer on the beach in CA.
	10:20am Cecile: I don't know this Garbochock and I was reading hte NME religiously back then.
	♥ 10:21am Joe McG: @Cecile: They're German, so they might have flown under the radar.
	10:21am Brendan: Plus he was always eating a burrito and usually dating a different girl each episode. Probably because he was always eating a burrito -
	♥ 10:22am Brian in UK: @Cecile did you wear a nuns habit?
	10:22am Cecile: very true. they had some chops there for sure.
	10:23am Brendan: RIP JG
	10:23am Cecile: very true. they had some chops there for sure.
	10:24am northguineahills: Wow, really digging this Inryo-fuen.
	♥ 10:24am Brian in UK: Joe you have moved this set along wonderfully.
	♥ 10:24am Brian in UK: Whilst pulling at our heart strings.
	10:25am βrian: I like this trolley car spank beat.
	10:25am bobdoesthings: clicky star for today's show!! great set thusfar joe
	10:26am Cecile: I was thinking and this is a quick and dirty chart I came up with evaluating trends Present - get it off my radio! 10 years - mild nostalgia 20 years - cultish fervor 30 years - classic! 40 years - untouchable 50 years - get it off my radio!
	10:26am Brendan: I think the natives are planning an attack
	10:27am Brendan: They dont sound friendly
	♥ 10:27am Brian in UK: They got into the stockade, tell my wife I love her. (collapses slowly & fade)
	10:27am βrian: The trailer address is where the Long Beach Museum of Art is. Not a trailer in sight, oddly.
	10:28am ground control: She knows
	10:31am fleep: 50 years ago is 1964. You may need to recalibrate.
	10:31am bobdoesthings: @fleep. I was gonna say this. yes. concurred.
	♥ 10:32am Brian in UK: @fleep has your mammal got hiccups?
	10:33am bobdoesthings: Is that how Sublime Frequencies finds all those gems? Trash cans?
	10:33am fleep: @Brian in UK More like giffups.
	♥ 10:34am Joe McG: @bob: Yes, at flea markets.
	10:34am Cecile: Whoops, I forgot the caveat that this is triangulated from you being a child of that era. So, 50 years back for me being a child of the 70s, was 20s music. Which was undecipherable to me.
	♥ 10:34am Brian in UK: Very good. A snooker term I believe. Nothing lewd.
	10:35am Cecile: Also, there are a number of bands who don't fit into my sloppy, unscientific model, so we'll just ignore them.
	♥ 10:36am 12539: I consider 'snooker' a lewd term.
	10:37am Cecile: that makes me as precise as anyone on Huffington Post
	♥ 10:37am Brian in UK: Cecile the calebration does get wonky. Fifty years back to Beatles, fifty years back from them to silent films.
	10:39am Brendan: Balalaika!
	10:40am SeanG: oooh baby
	10:40am Marcel M: Yes Bobby D!!! Love this record
	10:41am Cecile: Yeah, exactly. But I've heard a lot of things out of non-music fan kids' mouths that make my jaw drop, but would have been like something I said about 20s music. Before I got a clue.
	♥ 10:42am KK: Nice bazouki action on that Barry Blue song, hey Joe!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: Hey, KK! Glad you like the bazookies.
	♥ 10:42am Brian in UK: Balalaika/bazouki puts me in mind of the cheese sketch but from Russia. Siberian Yak cheese anyone. Yuk.
	10:43am Cecile: on a completely unrelated topic, excellent online music shop Squidco is having a ridiculous sale. Not affiliated, just filling up my shopping cart.
	♥ 10:44am Webhamster Henry: I thought I was going to hear Ina Mina Dika when this boogie started.
	♥ 10:44am DCE: I get emails from Squidco all the time because I bought something awhile back. I never check it out because...email...
	10:46am Cecile: Cleo Laine's husband's band. You should DCE. I got my This Heat box there for $20 less than Forced Exposure when I was looking.
	♥ 10:47am Brian in UK: Laine & the late Dankworth have a good venue called The Stables. That was where I saw Nick Lowe, Joe.
	10:47am duke: great. I didn't know about squidco. Now I can spend more money, damm you.
	♥ 10:48am KK: funny you should mention that Webhamster Henry. That's a good one - Ina Mina Dika's been buzzing around my brain lately, got some bollywood hits from the library i've been playing all week.
	10:48am duke: squidco looks like they have a great selection of improvised/jazz stuff
	10:49am steve: hey all. while we're on sales, Experimedia (my fav mailorder shop) is also having a serious sale right now. lots of new dance and abstract electronic stuff. i think he's actually closing up shop end of the year, which is a bummer.
	10:49am CTEmpress: Audrey Hall: nice call!
	10:50am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: Audrey Hall sounds like Olivia Newton John.
	10:50am Marmalade Kitty: I would have liked to hear the beegees sing this
	♥ 10:51am dale: audrey's voice is a little beauty pageant talent portionish for me, but i LIKE it!
	10:51am Cecile: steve, I will check that
	10:53am Marmalade Kitty: I'd would have liked to hear Lee Marvin and Barry white singing it also!
	10:55am Cecile: I love me some Shalamar.
	10:55am CTEmpress: Shalamar!!!
	♥ 10:56am DCE: @ steve, he's been talking about it for awhile but so far so good. Jeremy's a great guy.
	♥ 10:56am Joe McG: @Kitty: I think there's a Barry Gibb solo version!
	10:57am Jack: It always amazes me how great these singles sound, even over the radio...the presence, power, comes through much better than the CD/MP3 versions, maybe even than the LP versions. Love this part of the show.
	10:57am Marmalade Kitty: Brilliant!
	10:57am Cecile: Yeah, Jack, it's those deep-cut grooves.
	10:58am Marmalade Kitty: Does anyone like level42?
	♥ 10:58am Joe McG: @Jack: Thanks, Jack! Unfortunately, Red Foley is bound for the grooveyard. It sounded a bit bad.
	♥ 10:58am common: warm and fuzzy. Wow, that's weird, marmalade. Just had their hit in my head yesterday. What was that?
	♥ 10:59am common: something about you, i think.
	10:59am Marmalade Kitty: It's in the Grooveyard :D
	♥ 11:00am Brian in UK: @MK cannot answer in the positive.
	♥ 11:01am MattBelow: Groovin'
	♥ 11:01am dale: common - just a dead giveaway or some such thing?
	♥ 11:01am dale: oops -sorry, i was still thinnin' shalamar
	♥ 11:05am dale: reflections of my life was the the marmalade hit i think. that's not a typo, band was 'the marmalade'
	♥ 11:06am holland oats: Daniel Johnston sang over a couple Dankworth records on Hi How Are You I do believe
	11:07am Marmalade Kitty: ..looking back it's so bizzae, it runs in the family! All the thing's we are..
	♥ 11:09am Brian in UK: @dale they were The Marmalade then dropped the 'The'.
	♥ 11:11am dale: d'oh! if the the dropped a the they would just be the
	♥ 11:12am Joe McG: @dale: Ha! Catchy name, you must admit. The.
	♥ 11:13am common: @dale: maybe?
	11:15am steve: trying to figure out if there's already a band called The sounds like a serious internet challenge.
	♥ 11:19am MattBelow: Joe you lift me up on the funk and then land me safely on the ground
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: @Matt: Whew! I sometimes feel like I'm crashing people left and right!
	♥ 11:22am Sem Chumbo: Oh, just great stuff. Bill Anderson and that pedal steel. Nice thing, Joe.
	11:23am CTEmpress: I love the SOUL of Country! Carla Thomas said you have to be able to sing soul to sing country and vice versa. Likin' this Bill Anderson: and BTW so long Rodeo Bar!
	11:24am someGuy@Work: That Bill Anderson version of 'Have You Seen Here' was killer!
	♥ 11:24am Joe McG: @CTE: NOO, say it ain't so! Is Rodeo Bar closing???
	11:27am CTEmpress: Yepper, Joe McG. last round up is 27th. A bunch of us went Tuesday to tip our hats to the one place you could still get real down home. Hank-o-rama every new Year's Day. Good food, great atmosphere and the music well...New York ain't no town for live music
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: @CTE: I've enjoyed many nights there. This makes me very sad indeed.
	♥ 11:30am nickybones: yeah, a damn shame about Rodeo Bar. Caught BBQ Bob there last month, such a cool place.
	11:31am Brendan: Great Harry Dean clip here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I
	♥ 11:31am Brian in UK: Depends how you say THE. If you say it like Nesmith (thee) it becomes a different word or drum.
	11:31am rw: Harry Dean Stanton? That was really good.
	♥ 11:31am common: getting a tad weepy at work cuz o this great music.
	♥ 11:32am Sem Chumbo: Saw HDS play the corrupt second banana cop, trying to out-tough PI Robert Mitchum in FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, the noir-est, maybe, of the Raymond Chandler novels. Harry looks the same today, 40 years later:)
	11:33am CTEmpress: City is just going to hell with itself, especially for live music. Rumor about Hank's in Brooklyn too: and I was all ready to do Hank--Rama there on NYDay2015!They better not close!
	11:34am rw: @common, are you sure you're not getting weepy BECAUSE you're at work?
	11:34am adrian in mpls: @common - me too. deep introspection time.
	11:35am CTEmpress: Kleenex for all! Yes, this is some real purdy stuff today
	11:37am Yair Yona: show today is excellent. Thanks Joe.
	11:38am fleep: Any lower lo-fi and you'd be shouting into a tin can on a string.
	♥ 11:38am common: @adrian: and it keeps coming!
	♥ 11:39am Joe McG: @Yair Yona: Thanks, Yair! Hope things are OK for you over there.
	11:39am bobdoesthings: I wonder if Neil Young would want this track on his Pono in HD (I don't want no mp3... haha)
	11:40am Jack: did they deliberately add surface noise?
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @bob: You know, Neil. He grouses about fidelity for 10 years and then records something in a phonobooth!
	11:41am Cecile: yes yair, please be safe.
	11:41am adrian in mpls: @common - i'm with ya.
	11:42am bobdoesthings: @Joe... true.. but is that file lossless?!!?
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: @bob: Ha ha!
	11:43am rw: Imagine how lo-fi that song would sound in hi-fi
	11:43am Marcel M: The pono thing is bizarre
	♥ 11:43am Brian in UK: The name for a start.
	11:46am bobdoesthings: @brian .. yeah 'pono' sounds like a word teenagers make for n00bs in a video game... or a slang word for "hellll no" PONO!!
	♥ 11:46am common: @adrian: just teared up at work. Hee hee. I'm a sap sometimes.
	11:50am Brendan: This is good music to watch a leaf floating in a stream to.
	11:51am adrian in mpls: @common - glad to know i'm not the only one. it's a good thing i sit in the corner. for those lows. but also those highs - when bryce played marble sheep a month or two ago i was losing my shit, spazzing out.
	♥ 11:51am DCE: oh, missed the Jodorowsky piece...just saw Dance of Reality on Saturday!
	♥ 11:52am Brian in UK: Hey common let it go there must be a reason. JOE you have excelled yourself.
	11:52am Yair Yona: @Joe - well, it's war. again. we're used to it. I'm safe but I've got daily sirens and running for shelters. Still, my condition is gazillion times better than the people in Gaza. They are the ones who truly suffer here. If you want, I wrote this, you might find it interesting: www.yairyona.net... peace on us all.
	♥ 11:52am Guido from Cologne: Time to say "thank you for the music, Joe!": Thank you for the music, Joe! Loved it!
	♥ 11:53am Brian in UK: @yair keep your head down, brother.
	♥ 11:53am 12539: Wonderful sets today, Joe. Thanks.
	11:53am rw: Yes. Excellent (as always) show!! Nice sad sequence there at the end!
	11:54am listener mark: Thank you Joe, smooth morning music for a pleasant Thursday morning.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: oh man it's noon already, great show Joe!!
	11:55am rw: YY: stay safe.
	11:55am adrian in mpls: thanks Joe!!!!
	11:56am duke: You outdid yourself this week Joe
	11:56am Yair Yona: @Brian, @rw @cecil - I'm really fine, it's totally safe for me here. some sirens and some rockets in the sky but I'm not in danger
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everyone! Have a great weekend!
	11:59am Brendan: Ty joe
	3:25pm John W.: That set of 30s tunes was a delight! It put me in a good mood too. Thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 24, 2014

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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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July 24, 2014: It's Psychological

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Seger Ellis	Cheerful Little Earful	They Called It Crooning	ASV Living Era	1984	LP	From 1930		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ramona with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra	Are You Making Any Money?	Where Have We Met Before? Forgotten Songs From Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley	New World	1977	LP	From 1933		0:04:42 (Pop-up)
Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra Featuring Joey Nash	It's Psychological	1934-1935	Bluebird	1975	LP	From 1934		0:08:04 (Pop-up)
Ambrose and His Orchestra	Pu-Leeze Mr. Hemingway	The Golden Age of Ambrose and his Orchestra	EMI	1985	LP	From 1932; vocal by Elsie Carlisle		0:10:39 (Pop-up)
Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Band	Experiment	On the Sentimental Side	Decca	1978	LP	From 1933		0:13:06 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire with the RKO Orchestra	Things Are Looking Up	A Damsel in Distress Soundtrack	Curtain Calls	1970	LP	From 1937		0:16:15 (Pop-up)
Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra	Blue Moon	With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart	ASV Living Era	2001	CD	From 1934; Vocal by Kenny Sargent		0:20:36 (Pop-up)
Dick Powell with Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra	Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?	Dick Powell in Hollywood 1933-1935	Columbia	1966	LP	From 1934		0:23:51 (Pop-up)
Annette Hanshaw	We Couldn't Just Say "Goodbye"	Lovable & Sweet	ASV Living Era	1997	CD	From 1934		0:26:45 (Pop-up)

Rachid & Fethi	Habit en Ich "Habit en Ich" by "Rachid & Fethi"	1970's Algerian Folk and Pop	Sublime Frequencies	2014	CD		*	0:38:20 (Pop-up)
Edip Akbayram	Ince Ince Bir Kar Yağar	Edip Akbayram	Pharaway Sounds	2014	CD	From 1974	*	0:41:25 (Pop-up)
Karl Hector and the Malcouns	Karadeniz	Unstraight Ahead	Now-Again	2014	CD		*	0:44:55 (Pop-up)
Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo	Siriá Quente	Siriá	Analog Africa	2014	CD	late 70s	*	0:47:57 (Pop-up)
Sébastien Tellier	Love "Love" by "Sébastien Tellier"	L'Aventura	Record Makers	2014	CD		*	0:50:57 (Pop-up)
Mike Post	The Rockford Files "The Rockford Files" by "Mike Post"	Railhead Overature	MGM	1975	LP	R.I.P. James Garner		0:55:17 (Pop-up)
The Above	We Could Be Together "We Could Be Together" by "The Above"	Waterbury Street	Teen Sound	2014	LP		*	0:58:46 (Pop-up)
Sleepyhead	The Family Tree "The Family Tree" by "Sleepyhead"	Wild Sometimes	Carrot Top	2014	CD		*	1:02:00 (Pop-up)
The Skygreen Leopards	WWIII Style	Family Crimes	Woodsist	2014	CD		*	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Television Personalities	The Glittering Prizes	...and don't the kids just love it	Fire	1990	CD	From 1980		1:07:05 (Pop-up)
Beth Israel	Statue in the Car "Statue in the Car" by "Beth Israel"	Dental Denial	Dull Tools	2014	LP		*	1:09:55 (Pop-up)
The Room	Candle "Candle" by "The Room"	Indoor Fireworks	Red Flame	1982	LP			1:12:33 (Pop-up)
Garbochock	Ritual "Ritual" by "Garbochock"	Ritual	Heart Work	1982	LP			1:16:21 (Pop-up)
Inryo-fuen	Dakyo Sezu (Uncompromising)	Early Works 1980-82	Em	2014	CD		*	1:20:04 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s all in a row
Kissing the Pink	The Last Film "The Last Film" by "Kissing the Pink"	single	Magnet	1982	45			1:33:59 (Pop-up)
Barry Blue	Dancin' (On a Saturday Night)	single	Arista	1974	45			1:36:29 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan & the Band	Million Dollar Bash	single	Columbia	1975	45	Recorded in 1967, though		1:39:34 (Pop-up)
Red Foley	Milk Bucket Boogie "Milk Bucket Boogie" by "Red Foley"	single	Decca	1952	45			1:42:16 (Pop-up)
Johnny Dankworth and His Orchestra	Applecake	single	Capitol	1956	45			1:44:54 (Pop-up)
Audrey Hall	Woman in Love "Woman in Love" by "Audrey Hall"	single	Weed Beat	1987	45			1:47:47 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwicke	(I'm) Just Being Myself	single	Warner Brothers	1973	45			1:51:39 (Pop-up)
Shalamar	Some Things Never Change	single	Solar	1980	45			1:55:06 (Pop-up)

Jack Clement	I Know One "I Know One" by "Jack Clement"	For Once and For All	I.R.S.	2014	CD		*	2:10:49 (Pop-up)
Billy Joe Shaver	I'll Love You As Much As I Can	Long in the Tooth	Lightning Rod	2014	CD		*	2:12:54 (Pop-up)
Christopher Denny	Wings "Wings" by "Christopher Denny"	If the Roses Don't Kill Us	Partisan	2014	CD		*	2:16:15 (Pop-up)
Bill Anderson	Have You Seen Her "Have You Seen Her" by "Bill Anderson"	Bill	MCA	1973	LP			2:21:00 (Pop-up)
First Aid Kit	Waitress Song "Waitress Song" by "First Aid Kit"	Stay Gold	Columbia	2014	CD		*	2:23:16 (Pop-up)
Harry Dean Stanton	Hands on the Wheel	Partly Fiction	Omnivore	2014	LP		*	2:27:16 (Pop-up)
Gary & Randy Scruggs	Lonely Living (Without Love)	The Scruggs Brothers	Vanguard	1972	LP			2:30:12 (Pop-up)
Russell Hoke	Brown-Haired Smile "Brown-Haired Smile" by "Russell Hoke"	Haunted Brain	Unheard-Of	2014	LP		*	2:33:19 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	My Hometown "My Hometown" by "Neil Young"	A Letter Home	Third Man	2014	LP		*	2:36:38 (Pop-up)
Bruce Langhorne	Arch of Leaves "Arch of Leaves" by "Bruce Langhorne"	Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand Soundtrack	Blast First	2004	CD	From 1971		2:40:45 (Pop-up)
James Blackshaw	Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat Part 4	Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat	Tompkins Square	2014	CD		*	2:43:48 (Pop-up)
Adan Jodorowsky	La Glace "La Glace" by "Adan Jodorowsky"	The Dance of Reality Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	ABKCO	2014	CD		*	2:47:46 (Pop-up)
Lewis	Even Rainbows Turn Blue "Even Rainbows Turn Blue" by "Lewis"	L'Amour	Light in the Attic	2014	CD	From 1983	*	2:49:22 (Pop-up)

Frank Munn with Arden and Ohman Orchestra	Let's Call It a Day	Where Have We Met Before? Forgotten Songs From Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley	New World	1977	LP	From 1932		2:56:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:02am common: yip! joe, peoples!
	♥ 9:02am 12539: Surface noise!
	9:05am Cheri Pi: Nice jaunty opening son!
	♥ 9:07am DCE: going OOOOLLLLD school, eh Joe? Grandpa used to tell me about how great Paul Whiteman's orchestra was back in the 30s when he was sowing his oats
	9:07am Marmalade Kitty: good morning/ afternoon Joe! wfmu - The pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.. that made me laugh!
	♥ 9:07am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Joe, and all. Like where this has started this morning.
	9:07am duke: This would be a good WFMU marathon song
	9:10am Jack: Cool start, loving it.
	9:14am adrian in mpls: this is a wonderful, unexpected beginning to the day!
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the make-believe ballroom.
	♥ 9:19am tadpoles: Love Al Bowlly.... let's have some more please & thanks.
	9:23am KP: Joe McGasko and his Orchestra
	9:23am Dr. Goot: Morning All!
	9:23am adrian in mpls: swooning
	♥ 9:24am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Delicious. Prime time lyrically.
	♥ 9:27am Stevel: Working as development director at an historic theater built in 1928, I am definitely bookmarking this set. Guessing many of these acts performed here.
	♥ 9:32am common: that sounds like a great job, stevel
	♥ 9:33am MD: hEY Joe and all the FMU Family...Check out on line "Cleaning Your vinal Records with Wood Glue!!!" A bit scary but I think it might work!!!!
	9:33am bobdoesthings: good morninggg peoples
	♥ 9:35am Stevel: common: It is. Not hard to ask for money for this place. www.fwembassytheatre.org
	♥ 9:37am Brian in UK: Surfs Up, Joe.
	9:37am bobdoesthings: I already like it.
	♥ 9:40am Joe McG: @Stevel: Very cool gig! @MD: I've seen that but haven't tried it. Should do it to Dick Powell! @Brian: Hola, sir!
	9:42am Marcel M: I like where this set is going. Mornin' Joe moniin' Bob and all
	9:46am Marmalade Kitty: was that a Selda cover or did Selda cover?
	♥ 9:46am common: wow stevel! that place looks grand!
	9:46am northguineahills: I was having the same Q MK.
	9:47am V Priceless: Hey Joe! I can't get that Algerian folk-pop tune "Abadane" by Freedom outta my head - from the Sublime Frequencies comp
	♥ 9:47am Joe McG: @Kitty: Fuzzy on the chronology, but I think Selda was first.
	♥ 9:49am Joe McG: @VP: That's a great one! I'm sure I'll play it in the next week or two.
	9:50am Cecile: morning, all. I missed Fred, boo. I love his singing, even though my in-laws think I"m nuts.
	♥ 9:53am Joe McG: @Cecile: Fred was a great favorite of songwriters. They loved his singing and were happy to write for him.
	9:55am Brendan: Sebastian Teller was the brainchild of Edward Teller and Sebastian Cabot
	♥ 9:55am Sem Chumbo: Mike Post could write 'em.
	♥ 9:56am DCE: oh shit James Garner died? whoa...Jim Rockford, childhood hero!
	♥ 9:56am Webhamster Henry: Trouble was looking for the Rockford files on Tuesday. Thanks for finding it!
	9:56am Cecile: He could really interpret a lyric. He was crafty becuase he didn't have a real strong voice. Pouring out Friday night orange Faygo for Jim Garner
	9:57am Cecile: The more I read about Jim Garner, I seriously believe he was as close to a real-life Ron Swanson as we will ever have.
	9:57am duke: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message.
	9:57am Cecile: And he was a lifelong Democrat to boot.
	9:58am adrian in mpls: Cecile - you just got 1000 points for referencing Faygo. The pop of my childhood -- Redpop, Rock N Rye, ahhhhh
	♥ 9:58am Brian in UK: Maverick by name, maverick by nature.
	9:59am Cecile: Yeah. Our Friday night treat was orange Faygo, OG Taco Doritos, and Rockford Files.
	10:00am Brendan: The Rockford files went missing for a number of years until later it was discovered that they were mistakenly filed under F instead of R
	♥ 10:00am Brian in UK: The Above used to be called Ditto.
	♥ 10:00am Guido from Cologne: Hi Joe and everyone! Not really on the boarrd but listening along ...
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @Brendan: Ha! I'm actually an owner of two Mike Post albums, one of which has the theme on it.
	10:04am duke: Watching the Rockford files was a religious duty at our house
	10:04am adrian in mpls: that's a great Friday night!
	10:05am Cecile: me too, duke. you know it, adrian
	10:05am Marmalade Kitty: I remember the camera scrolling across an empty office with answer machine, a deserted game of solitaire..rockford files
	10:06am Cecile: yup! the anti-private eye private eye show.
	♥ 10:07am Liz Berg: The Rockford Files would always come on immediately before or after the Smurfs where I grew up. Although I'd always groove out to the Rockford Files theme, I was of an age to prefer the little blue guys.
	♥ 10:07am common: i'm with you duke and cecile. ah, the good days.
	10:09am Cecile: It showed how unglamorous private eye work was. The rooting through files, hanging out in crappy bars, etc. I think about that because I read someone saying "Leverage" made them want to be a thief. No, they just want to live in magical Timothy Hutton land. I love that show, but c'mon.
	♥ 10:10am Andrew Waterloo: I only remember the Rockford files from A&E. Was recently working thought he series on Netflix until it got pulled from Canada.
	10:10am Cecile: And Police Woman! And whatever came on in the last time slot which never lasted more than a year.
	10:11am Cecile: That sucks Andrew. When I was training for cross country skiing, I'd do one Rockford File on the Nordic Track three times a week. That'll give you legs like tree trunks.
	10:13am Cecile: WOW. The Room. I used to have that record.
	10:14am adrian in mpls: that "unglamorous" part of detective work gets glossed over so much. that's what i love about a show like that. or those great sjowall and wahloo detective novels from the 70s.
	10:15am Cecile: Yeah. Also, why I like real police procedural doc shows.
	10:15am Cecile: this is also better than I remember.
	10:18am CTEmpress: Really liking this 82 stuff: and don't know it!
	10:19am Brendan: I loved the Rockford files because he lived in a trailer on the beach in CA.
	10:20am Cecile: I don't know this Garbochock and I was reading hte NME religiously back then.
	♥ 10:21am Joe McG: @Cecile: They're German, so they might have flown under the radar.
	10:21am Brendan: Plus he was always eating a burrito and usually dating a different girl each episode. Probably because he was always eating a burrito -
	♥ 10:22am Brian in UK: @Cecile did you wear a nuns habit?
	10:22am Cecile: very true. they had some chops there for sure.
	10:23am Brendan: RIP JG
	10:23am Cecile: very true. they had some chops there for sure.
	10:24am northguineahills: Wow, really digging this Inryo-fuen.
	♥ 10:24am Brian in UK: Joe you have moved this set along wonderfully.
	♥ 10:24am Brian in UK: Whilst pulling at our heart strings.
	10:25am βrian: I like this trolley car spank beat.
	10:25am bobdoesthings: clicky star for today's show!! great set thusfar joe
	10:26am Cecile: I was thinking and this is a quick and dirty chart I came up with evaluating trends Present - get it off my radio! 10 years - mild nostalgia 20 years - cultish fervor 30 years - classic! 40 years - untouchable 50 years - get it off my radio!
	10:26am Brendan: I think the natives are planning an attack
	10:27am Brendan: They dont sound friendly
	♥ 10:27am Brian in UK: They got into the stockade, tell my wife I love her. (collapses slowly & fade)
	10:27am βrian: The trailer address is where the Long Beach Museum of Art is. Not a trailer in sight, oddly.
	10:28am ground control: She knows
	10:31am fleep: 50 years ago is 1964. You may need to recalibrate.
	10:31am bobdoesthings: @fleep. I was gonna say this. yes. concurred.
	♥ 10:32am Brian in UK: @fleep has your mammal got hiccups?
	10:33am bobdoesthings: Is that how Sublime Frequencies finds all those gems? Trash cans?
	10:33am fleep: @Brian in UK More like giffups.
	♥ 10:34am Joe McG: @bob: Yes, at flea markets.
	10:34am Cecile: Whoops, I forgot the caveat that this is triangulated from you being a child of that era. So, 50 years back for me being a child of the 70s, was 20s music. Which was undecipherable to me.
	♥ 10:34am Brian in UK: Very good. A snooker term I believe. Nothing lewd.
	10:35am Cecile: Also, there are a number of bands who don't fit into my sloppy, unscientific model, so we'll just ignore them.
	♥ 10:36am 12539: I consider 'snooker' a lewd term.
	10:37am Cecile: that makes me as precise as anyone on Huffington Post
	♥ 10:37am Brian in UK: Cecile the calebration does get wonky. Fifty years back to Beatles, fifty years back from them to silent films.
	10:39am Brendan: Balalaika!
	10:40am SeanG: oooh baby
	10:40am Marcel M: Yes Bobby D!!! Love this record
	10:41am Cecile: Yeah, exactly. But I've heard a lot of things out of non-music fan kids' mouths that make my jaw drop, but would have been like something I said about 20s music. Before I got a clue.
	♥ 10:42am KK: Nice bazouki action on that Barry Blue song, hey Joe!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: Hey, KK! Glad you like the bazookies.
	♥ 10:42am Brian in UK: Balalaika/bazouki puts me in mind of the cheese sketch but from Russia. Siberian Yak cheese anyone. Yuk.
	10:43am Cecile: on a completely unrelated topic, excellent online music shop Squidco is having a ridiculous sale. Not affiliated, just filling up my shopping cart.
	♥ 10:44am Webhamster Henry: I thought I was going to hear Ina Mina Dika when this boogie started.
	♥ 10:44am DCE: I get emails from Squidco all the time because I bought something awhile back. I never check it out because...email...
	10:46am Cecile: Cleo Laine's husband's band. You should DCE. I got my This Heat box there for $20 less than Forced Exposure when I was looking.
	♥ 10:47am Brian in UK: Laine & the late Dankworth have a good venue called The Stables. That was where I saw Nick Lowe, Joe.
	10:47am duke: great. I didn't know about squidco. Now I can spend more money, damm you.
	♥ 10:48am KK: funny you should mention that Webhamster Henry. That's a good one - Ina Mina Dika's been buzzing around my brain lately, got some bollywood hits from the library i've been playing all week.
	10:48am duke: squidco looks like they have a great selection of improvised/jazz stuff
	10:49am steve: hey all. while we're on sales, Experimedia (my fav mailorder shop) is also having a serious sale right now. lots of new dance and abstract electronic stuff. i think he's actually closing up shop end of the year, which is a bummer.
	10:49am CTEmpress: Audrey Hall: nice call!
	10:50am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: Audrey Hall sounds like Olivia Newton John.
	10:50am Marmalade Kitty: I would have liked to hear the beegees sing this
	♥ 10:51am dale: audrey's voice is a little beauty pageant talent portionish for me, but i LIKE it!
	10:51am Cecile: steve, I will check that
	10:53am Marmalade Kitty: I'd would have liked to hear Lee Marvin and Barry white singing it also!
	10:55am Cecile: I love me some Shalamar.
	10:55am CTEmpress: Shalamar!!!
	♥ 10:56am DCE: @ steve, he's been talking about it for awhile but so far so good. Jeremy's a great guy.
	♥ 10:56am Joe McG: @Kitty: I think there's a Barry Gibb solo version!
	10:57am Jack: It always amazes me how great these singles sound, even over the radio...the presence, power, comes through much better than the CD/MP3 versions, maybe even than the LP versions. Love this part of the show.
	10:57am Marmalade Kitty: Brilliant!
	10:57am Cecile: Yeah, Jack, it's those deep-cut grooves.
	10:58am Marmalade Kitty: Does anyone like level42?
	♥ 10:58am Joe McG: @Jack: Thanks, Jack! Unfortunately, Red Foley is bound for the grooveyard. It sounded a bit bad.
	♥ 10:58am common: warm and fuzzy. Wow, that's weird, marmalade. Just had their hit in my head yesterday. What was that?
	♥ 10:59am common: something about you, i think.
	10:59am Marmalade Kitty: It's in the Grooveyard :D
	♥ 11:00am Brian in UK: @MK cannot answer in the positive.
	♥ 11:01am MattBelow: Groovin'
	♥ 11:01am dale: common - just a dead giveaway or some such thing?
	♥ 11:01am dale: oops -sorry, i was still thinnin' shalamar
	♥ 11:05am dale: reflections of my life was the the marmalade hit i think. that's not a typo, band was 'the marmalade'
	♥ 11:06am holland oats: Daniel Johnston sang over a couple Dankworth records on Hi How Are You I do believe
	11:07am Marmalade Kitty: ..looking back it's so bizzae, it runs in the family! All the thing's we are..
	♥ 11:09am Brian in UK: @dale they were The Marmalade then dropped the 'The'.
	♥ 11:11am dale: d'oh! if the the dropped a the they would just be the
	♥ 11:12am Joe McG: @dale: Ha! Catchy name, you must admit. The.
	♥ 11:13am common: @dale: maybe?
	11:15am steve: trying to figure out if there's already a band called The sounds like a serious internet challenge.
	♥ 11:19am MattBelow: Joe you lift me up on the funk and then land me safely on the ground
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: @Matt: Whew! I sometimes feel like I'm crashing people left and right!
	♥ 11:22am Sem Chumbo: Oh, just great stuff. Bill Anderson and that pedal steel. Nice thing, Joe.
	11:23am CTEmpress: I love the SOUL of Country! Carla Thomas said you have to be able to sing soul to sing country and vice versa. Likin' this Bill Anderson: and BTW so long Rodeo Bar!
	11:24am someGuy@Work: That Bill Anderson version of 'Have You Seen Here' was killer!
	♥ 11:24am Joe McG: @CTE: NOO, say it ain't so! Is Rodeo Bar closing???
	11:27am CTEmpress: Yepper, Joe McG. last round up is 27th. A bunch of us went Tuesday to tip our hats to the one place you could still get real down home. Hank-o-rama every new Year's Day. Good food, great atmosphere and the music well...New York ain't no town for live music
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: @CTE: I've enjoyed many nights there. This makes me very sad indeed.
	♥ 11:30am nickybones: yeah, a damn shame about Rodeo Bar. Caught BBQ Bob there last month, such a cool place.
	11:31am Brendan: Great Harry Dean clip here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I
	♥ 11:31am Brian in UK: Depends how you say THE. If you say it like Nesmith (thee) it becomes a different word or drum.
	11:31am rw: Harry Dean Stanton? That was really good.
	♥ 11:31am common: getting a tad weepy at work cuz o this great music.
	♥ 11:32am Sem Chumbo: Saw HDS play the corrupt second banana cop, trying to out-tough PI Robert Mitchum in FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, the noir-est, maybe, of the Raymond Chandler novels. Harry looks the same today, 40 years later:)
	11:33am CTEmpress: City is just going to hell with itself, especially for live music. Rumor about Hank's in Brooklyn too: and I was all ready to do Hank--Rama there on NYDay2015!They better not close!
	11:34am rw: @common, are you sure you're not getting weepy BECAUSE you're at work?
	11:34am adrian in mpls: @common - me too. deep introspection time.
	11:35am CTEmpress: Kleenex for all! Yes, this is some real purdy stuff today
	11:37am Yair Yona: show today is excellent. Thanks Joe.
	11:38am fleep: Any lower lo-fi and you'd be shouting into a tin can on a string.
	♥ 11:38am common: @adrian: and it keeps coming!
	♥ 11:39am Joe McG: @Yair Yona: Thanks, Yair! Hope things are OK for you over there.
	11:39am bobdoesthings: I wonder if Neil Young would want this track on his Pono in HD (I don't want no mp3... haha)
	11:40am Jack: did they deliberately add surface noise?
	♥ 11:41am Joe McG: @bob: You know, Neil. He grouses about fidelity for 10 years and then records something in a phonobooth!
	11:41am Cecile: yes yair, please be safe.
	11:41am adrian in mpls: @common - i'm with ya.
	11:42am bobdoesthings: @Joe... true.. but is that file lossless?!!?
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: @bob: Ha ha!
	11:43am rw: Imagine how lo-fi that song would sound in hi-fi
	11:43am Marcel M: The pono thing is bizarre
	♥ 11:43am Brian in UK: The name for a start.
	11:46am bobdoesthings: @brian .. yeah 'pono' sounds like a word teenagers make for n00bs in a video game... or a slang word for "hellll no" PONO!!
	♥ 11:46am common: @adrian: just teared up at work. Hee hee. I'm a sap sometimes.
	11:50am Brendan: This is good music to watch a leaf floating in a stream to.
	11:51am adrian in mpls: @common - glad to know i'm not the only one. it's a good thing i sit in the corner. for those lows. but also those highs - when bryce played marble sheep a month or two ago i was losing my shit, spazzing out.
	♥ 11:51am DCE: oh, missed the Jodorowsky piece...just saw Dance of Reality on Saturday!
	♥ 11:52am Brian in UK: Hey common let it go there must be a reason. JOE you have excelled yourself.
	11:52am Yair Yona: @Joe - well, it's war. again. we're used to it. I'm safe but I've got daily sirens and running for shelters. Still, my condition is gazillion times better than the people in Gaza. They are the ones who truly suffer here. If you want, I wrote this, you might find it interesting: www.yairyona.net... peace on us all.
	♥ 11:52am Guido from Cologne: Time to say "thank you for the music, Joe!": Thank you for the music, Joe! Loved it!
	♥ 11:53am Brian in UK: @yair keep your head down, brother.
	♥ 11:53am 12539: Wonderful sets today, Joe. Thanks.
	11:53am rw: Yes. Excellent (as always) show!! Nice sad sequence there at the end!
	11:54am listener mark: Thank you Joe, smooth morning music for a pleasant Thursday morning.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: oh man it's noon already, great show Joe!!
	11:55am rw: YY: stay safe.
	11:55am adrian in mpls: thanks Joe!!!!
	11:56am duke: You outdid yourself this week Joe
	11:56am Yair Yona: @Brian, @rw @cecil - I'm really fine, it's totally safe for me here. some sirens and some rockets in the sky but I'm not in danger
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everyone! Have a great weekend!
	11:59am Brendan: Ty joe
	3:25pm John W.: That set of 30s tunes was a delight! It put me in a good mood too. Thanks!

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