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October 14, 2014 Favoriting
Happy 52nd birthday, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
 James Brown  		Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Favoriting b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1967)

Louis Armstrong  The Daughter of a Planter from Havana   Favoriting
Mildred Bailey  The Weekend of a Private Secretary   Favoriting
Buddy Pipp's Highlifers  Cuban Nightingale   Favoriting
Lina Romay w/Xavier Cugat  A Week in Havana   Favoriting
Andy Kirk  Cuban Boogie Woogie   Favoriting
Slim Gaillard  Cuban Rumbarini   Favoriting

Talkover Music:
 Sabu Martínez  		High Tension   Favoriting In Orbit
(SMC 1960)

Jack Costanzo  Learn Afro-Cuban   Favoriting
Charlie Stewart & the Gem Tones  Hey! Castro   Favoriting
Gene Freeman  Fidel Castro   Favoriting
Jaybee Wasden  De Castrow (Hey Castro)   Favoriting
Dave Bartholomew  Ah Cubanas   Favoriting
Los Zafiros  Bossa Cubana   Favoriting

Talkover Music:
 Jack Costanzo  		Bajo Numero Uno   Favoriting

Antonio Molina y Orquesta Montilla  Cuaba No Debe Favores   Favoriting
Angel Parra y Los Blops  Cuba Va   Favoriting
Olodum  Vinheta Cuba-Brasil   Favoriting
Tito Puente  Cuban Nightingale   Favoriting
Caridad Cuervo  Jardín Cubano   Favoriting
Fruko y Sus Tesos  Cuba y Mi Son   Favoriting

Closing Theme:
 Specks Williams  		We Gave the Drummer Some   Favoriting b/w Specks Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm Artie:

These are not the jetpacks we were promised.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:36pm Doug Schulkind:

Please don't use the term "wetbacks" on this page, Artie. What?...Oops. Nevermind.
Avatar 5:42pm annie:

locked and loaded! i remember this event actually very well..
Avatar 5:43pm glenn:

i was 1.8 years old.
Avatar 5:44pm glenn:

sorry. i was 3.8.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:44pm Doug Schulkind:

I was 2.3.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:45pm Doug Schulkind:

i was still 2.3.
Avatar 5:46pm annie:

i was just past 9
Avatar 5:47pm glenn:

9.1? 9.2?
Avatar 5:48pm annie:

oh jeez... uh.. ok.. 9 years 3 months.. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:48pm Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of numbers, just $24 pledged will push us up to 50% of the goal!!
Avatar 5:51pm annie:

i'm on the slow drip version, doug
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:52pm Doug Schulkind:

I think of you more as a French Roast, Annie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:53pm Doug Schulkind:

I'll get this think percolating in 7 minutes...
Avatar 5:54pm annie:

yes!!! how did you guess! and only in a french press...
Avatar 5:55pm glenn:

as long as she's not the cat poop blend.
Avatar 5:56pm Carmichael:

Hiya Doug and drummers. I was 5.something ....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:56pm listener james from westwood:

A jetpack setback? Get back, lest I ketjak!


I'll see myself out.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:57pm Gary:

Yay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm listener james from westwood:

As to the crisis in Cuber, I was as yet not on the scene, but my dad was called back to active Army duty for the duration. My not yet mom was duly freaked out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm Doug Schulkind:

Hi Carm! Hi Listener James! Hi Gary! Hi (mystery person who shall be next)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:59pm listener james from westwood:

Later that month, according to a surviving Polaroid, he added a beard and a stogie to his Army cap and greens for a quickie Castro costume. (My mom was a bee, and her parents, in an even more priceless pic, were beatniks.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of Polaroid, I believe today is George Eastman's birthday. Born in, what, 1884?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:02pm listener james from westwood:

Even earlier, 1854! He was still firmly in the black-and-white era.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:04pm Doug Schulkind:

Oops. This is what happened on todays date in 1884: The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm listener james from westwood:

I occasionally have to check this, but Fidel is actually still alive.
@Doug: Still a big date for him. Hell, for what it brought him, who'd spite him moving his birthday to today?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm Doug Schulkind:

And who could forget my Fidel Castro birthday special last year? wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm listener james from westwood:

I LOVE this Bailey cut. WFMU search shows it as a GTDR exclusive between you and UM.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm Doug Schulkind:

UM just played it within the past coupla weeks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:09pm listener james from westwood:

Where the hell was I that I didn't hear that b'day show? Inexcusable. Bookmarked.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:09pm Rich in Washington:

Hola, Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:10pm Doug Schulkind:

A few tracks from that show will find their way on to today's playlist.

Hellloooo Rich in Washington!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm Doug Schulkind:

Mary Lou Williams on piano with Andy Kirk here...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm Doug Schulkind:

When does 24 = 50? When you pledge just $24 more, our total goes to 50%! Do the math, people!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm Jeff Golick:

Bay of Pigs is such a resonant place name.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm Gary:

I was gonna say, but didn't want to appear didactic. Also, I like the idea of a Xavier Cougar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm Jeff Golick:

Fun stuff on Cugat re wiki:
Cugat was born as Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu.
His fifth wife was Charo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:24pm Doug Schulkind:

Hi Jeff Golick!

The name Xavier Cougat always makes me think of the cholatey nougat center of some generic candy bar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm Doug Schulkind:

Next up: Left left left left left left.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm Jeff Golick:

Hi Doug!

Ok, I'll be that guy: the nougat association would explain the extra O you have in his name...

I'll follow listener james out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm Doug Schulkind:

That would be my problem, Jeff Golick!
Avatar 6:27pm Carmichael:

Xavier Cougar Mellencamp. Hey Doug, will there be any Phil Ochs prattling on about injustices?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:27pm Doug Schulkind:

I think I've been spelling Cugat's name wrong since at least his third wife.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm Doug Schulkind:

Gene Freeman sounds a whole lot like Brother Claude Ely!
Avatar 6:28pm still b/p:

This was my introduction to Castro when I was 5, and my my older brother asked the sibs -- in some kind of cocky current events awareness check -- whether it was Castro or Khrushchev pictured on the cover.
upload.wikimedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm Doug Schulkind:

No Folksy Ochsy prattling this evening, Carmichael.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm listener james from westwood:

Alfred E. Neuman was in on those CIA plots to whack the Beard, I see.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm Doug Schulkind:

Nice one, still b/p. I can practically smell the tabacky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm Jeff Golick:

I thought it was Richard Libertini.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm Doug Schulkind:

His statue of his wife stands in New York Harbor: Lady Libertini.

Thanks. I'll be here all week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm listener james from westwood:

Make that two Libertinis, with some olives in mine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm Doug Schulkind:

Ladies and gents, restoring some sanity to the proceedings: Los "Bigger Than the Beatles" Zafiros.
Avatar 6:37pm glenn:

xavier cougar mellencamp is a tribute band playing mellencamp songs with son rhythms. and if they aren't, they should be.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm Jeff Golick:

Little pink casas, for you and yo.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm Gary:

Enjoying this as I frantically attempt to flash fry some chicken breasts in lime
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm Doug Schulkind:

Anyone wanna help us climb up to the 50% mark with a $24 pledge? I'd be muy feliz!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm Gary:

More than enjoying this, actually
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm Doug Schulkind:

I hope you're not texting while flash frying, Gary.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm Gary:

Back & forth!
Avatar 6:44pm glenn:

gary is the crippen of chicken breasts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm Gary:

HOLY CRAP they're delicious! Simultaneously stir-fried lime+garlic kale in a wok as I did the chicken. Dinner is ON ... :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm listener james from westwood:

Viva Olodum!
Nice work, Gary! Will strap on my jetpack and be there in a trice with a suitable wine pairing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm Doug Schulkind:

Stir crazy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm Doug Schulkind:

The father of NYC television meteorologist Audrey Puente is up next.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm Doug Schulkind:

Caridad is about 14 here.
Avatar 6:55pm annie:

man, pilar is missing a great show. sending her the link..
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm Doug Schulkind:

I bet she's a Pillar of her community.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Gary:

This is one of the most out of control shows I've heard in a while!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Gary:

*was .... :(
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm listener james from westwood:

Sweet show. Fair play for Cuba from stem to stern! Muchas gracias!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Out of control = good radio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks peeps!
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