WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 15, 2016

Listener comments!
	6:44pm Flash Strap: Good evening crewmen and steel drummers
	6:48pm walking_daydream: Hey, Flash. Nice to be able to listen live tonight!
	6:51pm Flash Strap: Daydream, my man! Very happy to see you! how have you been?
	6:54pm Ehd: Hi Flash and daydream!
	6:55pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! Wonderful to see you as well!
	6:58pm walking_daydream: Hi Ehd. I've been good; glad this year is coming to an end. How are things in the East?
	7:00pm ndbob: evening Evan and everyone!
	7:01pm Carmichael: Heya Flash and Explorers.
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:03pm walking_daydream: We're going cinematic tonight!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Bob, Carmichael, James! How are we this fine evening
	7:04pm still b/p: Good evening. Love the Bahamas Treasure Chest...at least two notions short of success, but somehow perfect.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P! agreed on the perfect
	7:13pm northguineahills: Thankfully it was ACTUALLY recorded in the Bahamas!
	7:14pm Ehd: I feel like I'm in the Bahaymas!
	7:14pm Flash Strap: NGH, Hello! Sadly, we won't hear anything from that Treasure Chest LP tonight, but we will hear some stuff from the Carib Label
	7:16pm northguineahills: I have some rekkids off the Carib label, I believe even one from Montserrat.
	7:17pm MrFab: Yo, Chief Strap! Thanks to a new work schedule, I am now a captive audience for this, and Dj Danny's show. Hangin' live is always more fun than archives.
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, hello and welcome!
	7:22pm MrFab: Yep, looking forward to you and danny transforming my cubicle into a tiki wonderland of wonders every week.
	7:26pm quinn: oh i'm so glad this show is on tonight while i work!
	7:27pm hyde: hello all. it's dang cold here tonight, so i sure wish i was in the bahamas..
	7:31pm still b/p: 13F here now , tonight going down to 1F with wind chill -19.
	7:35pm hyde: we're at 18F but the wind seems to have died down some. tho i know it could be worse, i have a friend who lives in winnipeg...
	7:38pm northguineahills: 64F here...
	7:38pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, I look froward as well! Quinn, I too am glad! Hyde! It's pretty godawful cold in Bahama right now, so the Bahamas thing is helping. Supposed to get down to 18 or so tonight and the assholes who are supposed to fix my chimney so I can use my wood stove keep deciding it's TOO COLD to work on it! Ah Dammit
	7:39pm Flash Strap: *forward, of course
	7:41pm ndbob: It was 5 here this morning
	7:43pm still b/p: You may well look froward, given chimney vexations.
	7:43pm Flash Strap: on this song: "depicts Ebenezer Joshua the head of labor union and head of the government of Saint Vincent (island) vacationing during a time of labor strife leading indirectly to the deaths of three men. The accuracy of Von Schmidt's characterization of Joshua's involvement in the incident has been disputed. Given that Mr. Joshua died poor and remains a revered figure on the island, his depiction in the song is probably less sympathetic than it should be."
	7:47pm Flash Strap: GREAT LP art: img.discogs.com...
	7:47pm northguineahills: fug, I miss NYC winters....
	7:48pm hyde: that looks like abe lincoln, whaler
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this is the saddest song about someone going to Hawaii
	7:49pm Flash Strap: @hyde: that's often the deal with Ahab
	7:50pm Flash Strap: I love how Dylan sounds 130 years old on most of the Basement Tapes. Though on the other hand sometimes he sounds about 12
	7:52pm MrFab: Oh, Hawaii? He should be pronouncing it "HEE-lo", shouldn't he? A Hawaiian guy told me how the Beach Boys butchered the pronunciation of Waimea Bay.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: You know, I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure. Those songs are constantly and idiosyncratically anglicizing pronunciations.
	7:56pm northguineahills: Well, you know Versailles, IN is pronounced Ver-SAILS and Cairo, GA is pronounced CAY-ROW.
	7:56pm Flash Strap: weirdest TVZ song that I know of
	7:57pm Little Danny: Was just listening to TVZ two hours ago, and "Rake" in particular, which reminds me of this track musically
	7:57pm Flash Strap: and to bring it all home: Bahama NC, Bahayma, to my persistent disapproval
	7:57pm hyde: ooh, i love this one
	7:57pm Scraps: hey
	7:58pm ndbob: excellent show Evan! catch the rest later
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Hi there LD!
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Scraps!
	7:59pm Scraps: love this song
	8:00pm Flash Strap: me too, Hyde. sooo good. Carl & Dennis makin it happen
	8:00pm hyde: later ndb!
	8:01pm hyde: @Flash it's such a weird song, amazing.
	8:03pm melinda: hi everyone
	8:03pm doctorjazz: Hi all! Nice Dylan, not one I hear much these days.
	8:03pm quinn: i love this show
	8:04pm Flash Strap: was recently reading Joseph Conrad's Victory, and kept thinking throughout: where have I read this before? Then I realized, oh right. Black Diamond Bay
	8:04pm Flash Strap: This show loves you
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Wonderful, wonderful! and Dr. Jazz! Hello friend
	8:07pm Flash Strap: seriously, Victory is pretty amazing. Though I agree with most of the major critiques of it, it's nonetheless amazing stuff. And this is a peak example of a certain sort of songwriting for Dylan, in my opinion
	8:08pm melinda: It's funny to hear Dylan mention Walter Cronkite.
	8:11pm hyde: this show is so not what i was expecting, which is fantastic
	8:11pm melinda: same here, hyde.
	8:12pm doctorjazz: What a great Sloop John B, never heard it...the original? (I did hear the version by Joseph Spence, is that first?)
	8:12pm northguineahills: I have some Lomax recordings where there are some John B Sail versions. This one is nice!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: very happy to surprise!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: pretty close to "original", I think a lot of people credit it to Blake
	8:19pm still b/p: Ya ain't lived until ya watched the video of Tom Jones doing Sloop John B. in a white speedo and casual captain's cap on the deck of a substantial sailing vessel.
	8:20pm melinda: Is that on youtube?!
	8:24pm still b/p: Oh, yes. www.youtube.com...
	8:27pm Flash Strap: Holy moly b/p i know what I'm doing as soon as this is over
	8:27pm Scraps: Funny, Conrad and Nabokov are probably two greatest writers in English that began speaking not in English. Maybe Stoppard too, if he qualifies (I don't know if he was speaking English growing up)
	8:28pm quinn: what a jolly li'l ditty
	8:28pm Flash Strap: I think about that a lot, Scraps
	8:29pm melinda: I watched a bit with the sound off...dear god.
	8:30pm Scraps: I really really like Conrad, but I've never read Victory. I should, if I still can tackle it
	8:30pm melinda: Just in time for 'Jones! Oh Jones! haha
	8:32pm Flash Strap: If you don't like Conrad, it probably won't change your mind, Scraps. It's definitely got the decadence of a writer late in his career, and all his patriarchal tendencies are in full force. If you don't like Heart of Darkness, you might just not like Conrad
	8:33pm Flash Strap: but you never know!
	8:34pm Scraps: I really really like Conrad!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Nigger of the Narcissus is pretty tremendous though, you might try that one. Great "tale of the sea", that one. Unfortunate title notwithstanding
	8:35pm Flash Strap: oh shit Scraps! I though you said "I never really liked" Sorry man, what a doofus i am
	8:36pm Flash Strap: SORRY EVERYBODY
	8:37pm hyde: sorry to go back a bit, but...that tom jones speedo version of sloop john b? holy crap! how can that video have less than 10k views? thanks stll b/p!
	8:38pm Scraps: :-) I think my favorite is The Secret Agent, which is fairly late
	8:40pm Scraps: But! Boy, I like Exuma
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I know, I sort of wish I was just doing a whole set of Exuma
	🥁 8:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Never knew that about Dylan & Joseph Conrad & Nabokov - tho' I did know that about Townes & Tolkien. Everybody says Conrad is like the most accomplished writer - & English wasn't his original language - but Polish? They now have these coffee-table books about every Dylan song - & it's interesting to learn from whence the elements derive... Not sure how much I've actually heard 'Folk' versions of John B. even. What about the roots of 'Louie Louie'? That would be interesting...
	8:52pm melinda: I haven't heard this in along time. My father brought back this Eloise Trio record from his Navy stint in Barbados and played it for us when I was young.
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Love Eloise
	8:54pm Flash Strap: usually I find Jude covers a little tiresome – though I do like Bing Crosby's a lot for some reason – but this one is so fresh and emotionally rich, particularly in the back half
	9:05pm Alex In Illinois: Mother Carey?
	9:06pm just julia: always sort of liked mad madam mim, actually...
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Me too, Just Julia! I loved her! She just gave me the willies is all
	9:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Alex!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: God this is EXACTLY LIKE Madam Mim, I hardly realized till now
	🥁 9:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'His little pig eyes glitter like stars.' Like Firesign Theatre riffing Joyce. Her 'accent' scans ambiguously Class-wise...Disney decay...there might be scarier old women on the bus here in New Hampshire...
	9:11pm just julia: the willies, i'll agree and accept. probably time to revisit sword in the stone, feel all those feelings and childhood impressions again and interrogate them
	9:11pm Flash Strap: bus-hags are always scarier than sea-hags, Rev Rab
	9:13pm Flash Strap: I love Disney in that period, Julia!
	🥁 9:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this slave ship a groovy place to sip mixed drinks...
	9:21pm Flash Strap: such a troubling title for a bit of straight-up exotica
	9:22pm still b/p: Walt Disney date of death in 1966 was today, Dec. 15.
	9:23pm 23 Wolves: This show is fantastic!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: huh!
	9:24pm Flash Strap: Thanks 23 Wolves!
	9:24pm just julia: this is that moment that comes to me at least once per show, when i scramble to the playlist to desperately determine: WHAT ARE THESE SOUNDS? "is that a ship i hear" has completely CAUGHT me, jeez!
	9:25pm hyde: total disney aside: i keep waiting for someone to write a defense of the Disney late 60's/early 70's live films like, say, the Million Dollar Duck, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Boatniks or The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes et al. i loved these as a kid. and i know these were a huge John Waters influence. then again, i haven't seen these movies for forty years.
	9:26pm Flash Strap: @ JJ: well that should be no surprise, as you are an established admirer of Joe meek's wonderful sounds!
	9:27pm just julia: can't believe i never looked deeper at the tornados than telstar, hello, what am i doin'
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ha, I loved The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes!
	9:30pm Flash Strap: Tornados are some of Meek's best work, and they did a ton of stuff together!
	9:30pm Alex In Illinois: Slave ship, reminds me... There is one cheerful sounding major-key sea shanty called "Alabama John Cherokee", about a native American who gets abducted into slavery and beaten to death and returns as an avenging ghost.
	9:32pm melinda: I saw the Apple Dumpling Gang but don't remember much about it. I think Don Knotts was involved.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: jesus! I don't know that one, but I guess I better get to know it
	9:33pm Flash Strap: sort of reminds me of George Leroy Chickashea
	9:34pm still b/p: I remember the scene of Kurt getting ka-zapped in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and I remembered permanently afterward the answer someone else on his team in the TV student quiz show had to come up when Kurt's magically charged brainpower lost the juice: Lebanon, Kansas.
	9:34pm hyde: Yay@melinda Don Knotts and Tim Conway! i have not seen that movie since 1975, but with that sort of pedigree, how can it be bad???
	9:36pm jeff: i had no idea disney made live action movies
	9:37pm Alex In Illinois: I never knew there was so much watercraft-themed exotica/lounge music.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! They did a bunch, I remember really liking Swiss Family Robinson
	9:39pm Alex In Illinois: MY favorite is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Disney is so proud of it, that they hade rides based on it at both Disneyland and Disney World.
	9:39pm still b/p: And how about The Barefoot Executive? Chimp becomes TV network programmer where low-rung Kurt Russell works!
	9:40pm melinda: @hyde: how could I forget Tim Conway? I was 4 in 1975, maybe that's why it's hazy.
	9:40pm MrFab: I think they all starred Dean Jones.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: so good, Alex! also, Mary Poppins is amazing
	9:41pm melinda: I remember really liking Escape From Witch Mountain. That might have been just for TV.
	9:41pm hyde: @jeff they really cranked those things out from the mid sixties until the 80's. it seems like they put more money int that than animation, in that era.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: god, I remember all these!
	9:43pm just julia: escape from witch mountain! yep. i remember little, but i remember liking.
	9:43pm melinda: Donovan! The first Explorers Room I listened to was the Donovan marathon.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Don't think I ever sat thru much of that - tho' there was the viewmaster of 20,000 Leagues...& loved all the Don Knotts like Mr. Limpett & Reluctant Astronaut...& some small venue band had Marry Poppins scenes on behind - & it is perfectly Psychedelic.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Every day is a Donovan marathon in my life!
	9:45pm Alex In Illinois: I saw Escape To Witch Mountain in the theater on the big screen,
	9:45pm hyde: @melinda Escape From Witch Mountain is great! the director (john Hough) went from Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry to that one. he also made a really odd horror movie for Disney in 1980 with Bette Davis and Carroll Baker called the Watcher in the Woods.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: whoa, Hyde, that sounds worth a watch
	9:46pm melinda: Does anyone remember Unidentified Flying Oddball? I never saw it but it was one of the movies previewed in the theater when my family went to see Breaking Away. For some reason it made an impression.
	9:46pm Little Danny: Epic set, Flash. Brilliant work
	9:47pm melinda: Never heard of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry but it sounds funny.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: did Disney do the Don Knotts flick, The Ghost & Mr. Chicken?
	9:48pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD my brother
	9:48pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, handsome listeners!
	9:48pm Alex In Illinois: I think the last Disney live action that was made before they spun off Touchstone was The Black Hole. There was something unsatisfying about that one. It seemed to end too soon.
	9:49pm Alex In Illinois: Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry is not for kids.
	9:50pm hyde: the internest tells me that The Ghost & Mr Chicken was a Universal production. Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry was a staple of my 12" crt black and white viewing.
	9:53pm Little Danny: Majestic beast Doug Schulkind!
	9:53pm still b/p: Just encountered recently the post-stardom story of Tommy Kirk, who did heavy work for Disney from Mickey Mouse Show Hardy Boys serial, through Old Yeller, Flubber films, Swiss Family Robinson and plenty more. Walt fired him when he learned he was gay. But he was a money-maker so they brought him back in for a few things. Adult life beyond that not good at all for a long while.
	9:53pm Alex In Illinois: The Witch Mountain movie is Escape TO Witch Mountain. It is where the telepathic telekinetic siblings know that they have to go.
	9:54pm Little Danny: Hope everyone will follow me from this paradise to another: wfmu.org...
	9:55pm Alex In Illinois: See you next door Danny!
	9:55pm walking_daydream: Goodnight to all and to all a good night~
	9:55pm melinda: Thanks for the correction, Alex. I was wondering about that.
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx DJ FlashStrap!
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Majestic beets: www.fona.com...
	9:56pm Scraps: The Black Hole wasn't, you know, black. The basic thing about black holes is light doesn't escape them. I really hated The Black Hole as a 13-year-old wannabe scientist. :-)
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Thanks all, much love and a most good night to you
	9:57pm still b/p: This voyage has been bon!
	9:57pm hyde: @Alex you're right, the sequel (also directed by John Hough) is Return From Witch Mountain. Pronoun trouble.
	9:58pm hyde: thank you, Flash!
	9:59pm jeff: tahnk you
	9:59pm Scraps: Thank you, Flash. Really nice show

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 15, 2016

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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December 15, 2016: Bahama Boat

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Les Baxter	Jungle River Boat "Jungle River Boat" by "Les Baxter"	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)		1951		0:02:25 (Pop-up)
Lee Dorsey	Riverboat "Riverboat" by "Lee Dorsey"	Yes We Can		1970	wr./pr. by Allen Toussaint	0:05:18 (Pop-up)
Rudy Mills	John Jones "John Jones" by "Rudy Mills"	John Jones / Place Called Happiness 7"		1968	wr. with Derrick Harriott	0:07:28 (Pop-up)
Biosis Now	Independent Bahamas "Independent Bahamas" by "Biosis Now"	A Nation is Born – A Musical History of the Bahamas		1973		0:10:48 (Pop-up)
Kool & Together	Nassau Beat (demo)	Original Recordings 1970-77				0:18:20 (Pop-up)
Richie Delamore	Bahama Lullaby "Bahama Lullaby" by "Richie Delamore"	Sings "A Night In The Caribbean"	Carib	1962		0:20:12 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan and the Band	Joshua Gone Barbados	The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11				0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Sailboat Voyage "Sailboat Voyage"					0:36:33 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues	Highway 61 Revisited		1965		0:36:54 (Pop-up)
Eric Von Schmidt	Joshua Gone Barbados	Eric Sings Von Schmidt		1965		0:41:42 (Pop-up)
Dave Van Ronk	The Cruel Ship's Captain	Inside Dave Van Ronk		1964		0:45:01 (Pop-up)
Paul Clayton	Johnny's Gone to Hilo	Whaling And Sailing Songs From The Days Of Moby Dick		1956		0:46:58 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan and the Band	Bonnie Ship the Diamond	The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11				0:51:41 (Pop-up)
Townes Van Zandt	Silver Ships of Andilar	The Late Great Townes Van Zandt		1972		0:53:29 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Steamboat "Steamboat" by "The Beach Boys"	Holland		1973		0:59:06 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Black Diamond Bay "Black Diamond Bay" by "Bob Dylan"	Desire		1976		1:02:57 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	Cripple Creek Ferry "Cripple Creek Ferry" by "Neil Young"	After the Gold Rush		1970		1:10:13 (Pop-up)
Blind Blake Higgs & his Royal Victoria Calypsos	John B. Sail (Wreck of the John B.)	A Second Album of Bahamian Songs		1952		1:11:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Southern Tropical Harmony Steel Band	Limbo	Limbo Party				1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Blind Blake Higgs & his Royal Victoria Calypsos	Jones! Oh Jones!	A Group of Bahamian Songs		1951		1:27:11 (Pop-up)
Exuma	Fire in the Hole "Fire in the Hole" by "Exuma"	Exuma II (Air)		1970		1:29:30 (Pop-up)
"Chippy's" Junkanoo Champions	Chippy's Junkanoo Street Carnival	Carnival in Paradise	Carib	1962		1:36:16 (Pop-up)
King Scratch	Christmas Time in Nassau	90 Degrees Of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean 1946-73				1:39:53 (Pop-up)
Peanuts Taylor	Nassau Blues "Nassau Blues" by "Peanuts Taylor"	90 Degrees Of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean 1946-73				1:43:00 (Pop-up)
George Symonette & his Goombay Sextette	Peanuts Plays the Drum	Goombay Rhythms		1956		1:45:08 (Pop-up)
André Toussaint	Nassau Cha Cha Cha	Nassau's Junkanoo Festival		1956		1:47:09 (Pop-up)
Richie Delamore	Goombay "Goombay" by "Richie Delamore"	Sings "A Night In The Caribbean"				1:49:12 (Pop-up)
The Eloise Trio	Cocoanut Woman "Cocoanut Woman" by "The Eloise Trio"	The Eloise Trio		1960		1:51:59 (Pop-up)
Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters	Jude	Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters		1969		1:54:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Papworth	Sails Unfurled "Sails Unfurled" by "Keith Papworth"	All About the Sea				1:58:41 (Pop-up)
Martha Wentworth as The Old Sea Hag	Shipwreck	Terror Tales by the Old Sea Hag		1959		2:07:17 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez	The Old Boat "The Old Boat" by "Eden Ahbez"	Eden's Island: Music of an Enchanted Isle		1960		2:10:44 (Pop-up)
Kenyon Hopkins	Ghost Ship "Ghost Ship" by "Kenyon Hopkins"	Nightmare!!		1962		2:13:11 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Shipwreck "Shipwreck" by "Armando Sciascia"	Sea Fantasy		1972		2:14:46 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Slave Ship "Slave Ship" by "Les Baxter"	The Primitive and the Passionate		1962		2:17:59 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Schooner "Schooner" by "Les Baxter"	Bora Bora (Soundtrack)		1970		2:20:35 (Pop-up)
The Tornados	Is That a Ship I Hear	Is That a Ship I Hear / Do You Come Here Often 7"		1966		2:22:43 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Namaro Trio	Tahiti Boat "Tahiti Boat" by "Jimmy Namaro Trio"	Driftwood		1958		2:25:45 (Pop-up)
The Markko Polo Adventurers	Yokohama Ferryboat	Orienta		1959		2:29:03 (Pop-up)
Werner Müller und sein Orchester	Ferry Boat Serenade	East of India		19??	"Exotic melodies arranged for modern orchestra"	2:31:24 (Pop-up)
Roger Roger & Le Mode Symphony Orchestra	Bahama Buggyride	Musique Des Iles		1966		2:34:31 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	The Girl from Nassau "The Girl from Nassau" by "Les Baxter"	Jewels of the Sea		1961		2:36:19 (Pop-up)
Mike Cooper	Journey to the East "Journey to the East" by "Mike Cooper"	Do I Know You?		1970		2:39:16 (Pop-up)
Donovan	The Voyage of the Moon "The Voyage of the Moon" by "Donovan"	H.M.S. Donovan		1971		2:42:28 (Pop-up)
Nilsson	Blanket for a Sail "Blanket for a Sail" by "Nilsson"	Knnillssonn		1977		2:48:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno	The Big Ship "The Big Ship" by "Brian Eno"	Another Green World		1975		2:50:35 (Pop-up)
Vito Ricci	The Ship Was Sailing "The Ship Was Sailing" by "Vito Ricci"	Music From Memory				2:56:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:44pm Flash Strap: Good evening crewmen and steel drummers
	6:48pm walking_daydream: Hey, Flash. Nice to be able to listen live tonight!
	6:51pm Flash Strap: Daydream, my man! Very happy to see you! how have you been?
	6:54pm Ehd: Hi Flash and daydream!
	6:55pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! Wonderful to see you as well!
	6:58pm walking_daydream: Hi Ehd. I've been good; glad this year is coming to an end. How are things in the East?
	7:00pm ndbob: evening Evan and everyone!
	7:01pm Carmichael: Heya Flash and Explorers.
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:03pm walking_daydream: We're going cinematic tonight!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Bob, Carmichael, James! How are we this fine evening
	7:04pm still b/p: Good evening. Love the Bahamas Treasure Chest...at least two notions short of success, but somehow perfect.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P! agreed on the perfect
	7:13pm northguineahills: Thankfully it was ACTUALLY recorded in the Bahamas!
	7:14pm Ehd: I feel like I'm in the Bahaymas!
	7:14pm Flash Strap: NGH, Hello! Sadly, we won't hear anything from that Treasure Chest LP tonight, but we will hear some stuff from the Carib Label
	7:16pm northguineahills: I have some rekkids off the Carib label, I believe even one from Montserrat.
	7:17pm MrFab: Yo, Chief Strap! Thanks to a new work schedule, I am now a captive audience for this, and Dj Danny's show. Hangin' live is always more fun than archives.
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, hello and welcome!
	7:22pm MrFab: Yep, looking forward to you and danny transforming my cubicle into a tiki wonderland of wonders every week.
	7:26pm quinn: oh i'm so glad this show is on tonight while i work!
	7:27pm hyde: hello all. it's dang cold here tonight, so i sure wish i was in the bahamas..
	7:31pm still b/p: 13F here now , tonight going down to 1F with wind chill -19.
	7:35pm hyde: we're at 18F but the wind seems to have died down some. tho i know it could be worse, i have a friend who lives in winnipeg...
	7:38pm northguineahills: 64F here...
	7:38pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, I look froward as well! Quinn, I too am glad! Hyde! It's pretty godawful cold in Bahama right now, so the Bahamas thing is helping. Supposed to get down to 18 or so tonight and the assholes who are supposed to fix my chimney so I can use my wood stove keep deciding it's TOO COLD to work on it! Ah Dammit
	7:39pm Flash Strap: *forward, of course
	7:41pm ndbob: It was 5 here this morning
	7:43pm still b/p: You may well look froward, given chimney vexations.
	7:43pm Flash Strap: on this song: "depicts Ebenezer Joshua the head of labor union and head of the government of Saint Vincent (island) vacationing during a time of labor strife leading indirectly to the deaths of three men. The accuracy of Von Schmidt's characterization of Joshua's involvement in the incident has been disputed. Given that Mr. Joshua died poor and remains a revered figure on the island, his depiction in the song is probably less sympathetic than it should be."
	7:47pm Flash Strap: GREAT LP art: img.discogs.com...
	7:47pm northguineahills: fug, I miss NYC winters....
	7:48pm hyde: that looks like abe lincoln, whaler
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this is the saddest song about someone going to Hawaii
	7:49pm Flash Strap: @hyde: that's often the deal with Ahab
	7:50pm Flash Strap: I love how Dylan sounds 130 years old on most of the Basement Tapes. Though on the other hand sometimes he sounds about 12
	7:52pm MrFab: Oh, Hawaii? He should be pronouncing it "HEE-lo", shouldn't he? A Hawaiian guy told me how the Beach Boys butchered the pronunciation of Waimea Bay.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: You know, I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure. Those songs are constantly and idiosyncratically anglicizing pronunciations.
	7:56pm northguineahills: Well, you know Versailles, IN is pronounced Ver-SAILS and Cairo, GA is pronounced CAY-ROW.
	7:56pm Flash Strap: weirdest TVZ song that I know of
	7:57pm Little Danny: Was just listening to TVZ two hours ago, and "Rake" in particular, which reminds me of this track musically
	7:57pm Flash Strap: and to bring it all home: Bahama NC, Bahayma, to my persistent disapproval
	7:57pm hyde: ooh, i love this one
	7:57pm Scraps: hey
	7:58pm ndbob: excellent show Evan! catch the rest later
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Hi there LD!
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Scraps!
	7:59pm Scraps: love this song
	8:00pm Flash Strap: me too, Hyde. sooo good. Carl & Dennis makin it happen
	8:00pm hyde: later ndb!
	8:01pm hyde: @Flash it's such a weird song, amazing.
	8:03pm melinda: hi everyone
	8:03pm doctorjazz: Hi all! Nice Dylan, not one I hear much these days.
	8:03pm quinn: i love this show
	8:04pm Flash Strap: was recently reading Joseph Conrad's Victory, and kept thinking throughout: where have I read this before? Then I realized, oh right. Black Diamond Bay
	8:04pm Flash Strap: This show loves you
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Wonderful, wonderful! and Dr. Jazz! Hello friend
	8:07pm Flash Strap: seriously, Victory is pretty amazing. Though I agree with most of the major critiques of it, it's nonetheless amazing stuff. And this is a peak example of a certain sort of songwriting for Dylan, in my opinion
	8:08pm melinda: It's funny to hear Dylan mention Walter Cronkite.
	8:11pm hyde: this show is so not what i was expecting, which is fantastic
	8:11pm melinda: same here, hyde.
	8:12pm doctorjazz: What a great Sloop John B, never heard it...the original? (I did hear the version by Joseph Spence, is that first?)
	8:12pm northguineahills: I have some Lomax recordings where there are some John B Sail versions. This one is nice!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: very happy to surprise!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: pretty close to "original", I think a lot of people credit it to Blake
	8:19pm still b/p: Ya ain't lived until ya watched the video of Tom Jones doing Sloop John B. in a white speedo and casual captain's cap on the deck of a substantial sailing vessel.
	8:20pm melinda: Is that on youtube?!
	8:24pm still b/p: Oh, yes. www.youtube.com...
	8:27pm Flash Strap: Holy moly b/p i know what I'm doing as soon as this is over
	8:27pm Scraps: Funny, Conrad and Nabokov are probably two greatest writers in English that began speaking not in English. Maybe Stoppard too, if he qualifies (I don't know if he was speaking English growing up)
	8:28pm quinn: what a jolly li'l ditty
	8:28pm Flash Strap: I think about that a lot, Scraps
	8:29pm melinda: I watched a bit with the sound off...dear god.
	8:30pm Scraps: I really really like Conrad, but I've never read Victory. I should, if I still can tackle it
	8:30pm melinda: Just in time for 'Jones! Oh Jones! haha
	8:32pm Flash Strap: If you don't like Conrad, it probably won't change your mind, Scraps. It's definitely got the decadence of a writer late in his career, and all his patriarchal tendencies are in full force. If you don't like Heart of Darkness, you might just not like Conrad
	8:33pm Flash Strap: but you never know!
	8:34pm Scraps: I really really like Conrad!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Nigger of the Narcissus is pretty tremendous though, you might try that one. Great "tale of the sea", that one. Unfortunate title notwithstanding
	8:35pm Flash Strap: oh shit Scraps! I though you said "I never really liked" Sorry man, what a doofus i am
	8:36pm Flash Strap: SORRY EVERYBODY
	8:37pm hyde: sorry to go back a bit, but...that tom jones speedo version of sloop john b? holy crap! how can that video have less than 10k views? thanks stll b/p!
	8:38pm Scraps: :-) I think my favorite is The Secret Agent, which is fairly late
	8:40pm Scraps: But! Boy, I like Exuma
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I know, I sort of wish I was just doing a whole set of Exuma
	🥁 8:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Never knew that about Dylan & Joseph Conrad & Nabokov - tho' I did know that about Townes & Tolkien. Everybody says Conrad is like the most accomplished writer - & English wasn't his original language - but Polish? They now have these coffee-table books about every Dylan song - & it's interesting to learn from whence the elements derive... Not sure how much I've actually heard 'Folk' versions of John B. even. What about the roots of 'Louie Louie'? That would be interesting...
	8:52pm melinda: I haven't heard this in along time. My father brought back this Eloise Trio record from his Navy stint in Barbados and played it for us when I was young.
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Love Eloise
	8:54pm Flash Strap: usually I find Jude covers a little tiresome – though I do like Bing Crosby's a lot for some reason – but this one is so fresh and emotionally rich, particularly in the back half
	9:05pm Alex In Illinois: Mother Carey?
	9:06pm just julia: always sort of liked mad madam mim, actually...
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Me too, Just Julia! I loved her! She just gave me the willies is all
	9:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Alex!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: God this is EXACTLY LIKE Madam Mim, I hardly realized till now
	🥁 9:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'His little pig eyes glitter like stars.' Like Firesign Theatre riffing Joyce. Her 'accent' scans ambiguously Class-wise...Disney decay...there might be scarier old women on the bus here in New Hampshire...
	9:11pm just julia: the willies, i'll agree and accept. probably time to revisit sword in the stone, feel all those feelings and childhood impressions again and interrogate them
	9:11pm Flash Strap: bus-hags are always scarier than sea-hags, Rev Rab
	9:13pm Flash Strap: I love Disney in that period, Julia!
	🥁 9:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this slave ship a groovy place to sip mixed drinks...
	9:21pm Flash Strap: such a troubling title for a bit of straight-up exotica
	9:22pm still b/p: Walt Disney date of death in 1966 was today, Dec. 15.
	9:23pm 23 Wolves: This show is fantastic!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: huh!
	9:24pm Flash Strap: Thanks 23 Wolves!
	9:24pm just julia: this is that moment that comes to me at least once per show, when i scramble to the playlist to desperately determine: WHAT ARE THESE SOUNDS? "is that a ship i hear" has completely CAUGHT me, jeez!
	9:25pm hyde: total disney aside: i keep waiting for someone to write a defense of the Disney late 60's/early 70's live films like, say, the Million Dollar Duck, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Boatniks or The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes et al. i loved these as a kid. and i know these were a huge John Waters influence. then again, i haven't seen these movies for forty years.
	9:26pm Flash Strap: @ JJ: well that should be no surprise, as you are an established admirer of Joe meek's wonderful sounds!
	9:27pm just julia: can't believe i never looked deeper at the tornados than telstar, hello, what am i doin'
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ha, I loved The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes!
	9:30pm Flash Strap: Tornados are some of Meek's best work, and they did a ton of stuff together!
	9:30pm Alex In Illinois: Slave ship, reminds me... There is one cheerful sounding major-key sea shanty called "Alabama John Cherokee", about a native American who gets abducted into slavery and beaten to death and returns as an avenging ghost.
	9:32pm melinda: I saw the Apple Dumpling Gang but don't remember much about it. I think Don Knotts was involved.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: jesus! I don't know that one, but I guess I better get to know it
	9:33pm Flash Strap: sort of reminds me of George Leroy Chickashea
	9:34pm still b/p: I remember the scene of Kurt getting ka-zapped in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and I remembered permanently afterward the answer someone else on his team in the TV student quiz show had to come up when Kurt's magically charged brainpower lost the juice: Lebanon, Kansas.
	9:34pm hyde: Yay@melinda Don Knotts and Tim Conway! i have not seen that movie since 1975, but with that sort of pedigree, how can it be bad???
	9:36pm jeff: i had no idea disney made live action movies
	9:37pm Alex In Illinois: I never knew there was so much watercraft-themed exotica/lounge music.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! They did a bunch, I remember really liking Swiss Family Robinson
	9:39pm Alex In Illinois: MY favorite is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Disney is so proud of it, that they hade rides based on it at both Disneyland and Disney World.
	9:39pm still b/p: And how about The Barefoot Executive? Chimp becomes TV network programmer where low-rung Kurt Russell works!
	9:40pm melinda: @hyde: how could I forget Tim Conway? I was 4 in 1975, maybe that's why it's hazy.
	9:40pm MrFab: I think they all starred Dean Jones.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: so good, Alex! also, Mary Poppins is amazing
	9:41pm melinda: I remember really liking Escape From Witch Mountain. That might have been just for TV.
	9:41pm hyde: @jeff they really cranked those things out from the mid sixties until the 80's. it seems like they put more money int that than animation, in that era.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: god, I remember all these!
	9:43pm just julia: escape from witch mountain! yep. i remember little, but i remember liking.
	9:43pm melinda: Donovan! The first Explorers Room I listened to was the Donovan marathon.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Don't think I ever sat thru much of that - tho' there was the viewmaster of 20,000 Leagues...& loved all the Don Knotts like Mr. Limpett & Reluctant Astronaut...& some small venue band had Marry Poppins scenes on behind - & it is perfectly Psychedelic.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Every day is a Donovan marathon in my life!
	9:45pm Alex In Illinois: I saw Escape To Witch Mountain in the theater on the big screen,
	9:45pm hyde: @melinda Escape From Witch Mountain is great! the director (john Hough) went from Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry to that one. he also made a really odd horror movie for Disney in 1980 with Bette Davis and Carroll Baker called the Watcher in the Woods.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: whoa, Hyde, that sounds worth a watch
	9:46pm melinda: Does anyone remember Unidentified Flying Oddball? I never saw it but it was one of the movies previewed in the theater when my family went to see Breaking Away. For some reason it made an impression.
	9:46pm Little Danny: Epic set, Flash. Brilliant work
	9:47pm melinda: Never heard of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry but it sounds funny.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: did Disney do the Don Knotts flick, The Ghost & Mr. Chicken?
	9:48pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD my brother
	9:48pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, handsome listeners!
	9:48pm Alex In Illinois: I think the last Disney live action that was made before they spun off Touchstone was The Black Hole. There was something unsatisfying about that one. It seemed to end too soon.
	9:49pm Alex In Illinois: Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry is not for kids.
	9:50pm hyde: the internest tells me that The Ghost & Mr Chicken was a Universal production. Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry was a staple of my 12" crt black and white viewing.
	9:53pm Little Danny: Majestic beast Doug Schulkind!
	9:53pm still b/p: Just encountered recently the post-stardom story of Tommy Kirk, who did heavy work for Disney from Mickey Mouse Show Hardy Boys serial, through Old Yeller, Flubber films, Swiss Family Robinson and plenty more. Walt fired him when he learned he was gay. But he was a money-maker so they brought him back in for a few things. Adult life beyond that not good at all for a long while.
	9:53pm Alex In Illinois: The Witch Mountain movie is Escape TO Witch Mountain. It is where the telepathic telekinetic siblings know that they have to go.
	9:54pm Little Danny: Hope everyone will follow me from this paradise to another: wfmu.org...
	9:55pm Alex In Illinois: See you next door Danny!
	9:55pm walking_daydream: Goodnight to all and to all a good night~
	9:55pm melinda: Thanks for the correction, Alex. I was wondering about that.
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx DJ FlashStrap!
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Majestic beets: www.fona.com...
	9:56pm Scraps: The Black Hole wasn't, you know, black. The basic thing about black holes is light doesn't escape them. I really hated The Black Hole as a 13-year-old wannabe scientist. :-)
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Thanks all, much love and a most good night to you
	9:57pm still b/p: This voyage has been bon!
	9:57pm hyde: @Alex you're right, the sequel (also directed by John Hough) is Return From Witch Mountain. Pronoun trouble.
	9:58pm hyde: thank you, Flash!
	9:59pm jeff: tahnk you
	9:59pm Scraps: Thank you, Flash. Really nice show

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 15, 2016

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