Bob Brainen's playlist March 4, 2017 E-mail Bob Brainen
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Artist Track Album / Format Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience (CD-R) 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) James Brown Tighten Up (live-edit) Soul Pride: The Instrumentals 1960 -1969 (CD box set) 1968 / 1993 Clyde Stubblefield-drums R.I.P. 0:02:24 Pop-up) S. A. Move Skophom Next Stop Soweto, Vol 2 (CD) 1969 / 2010 VAR 0:05:35 Pop-up) Gary Lewis & The Playboys (You Don't Have To) Paint Me A Picture The Legendary Masters Series (CD) 1966 / 1990 0:10:32 Pop-up) Turtles Outside Chance All The Singles (CD box set) * 1966 / 2016 Warren Zevon song 0:12:21 Pop-up) Turtles Like The Seasons All The Singles (CD box set) * 1967 / 2016 Warren Zevon song 0:13:47 Pop-up) ICP Orchestra Blue Chopsticks Restless In Pieces Herbie Nichols piece, arr. by Misha Mengelberg (R.I.P. Misha) 0:16:20 Pop-up) Eric Dolphy Hypochristmutreefuzz Last Date (LP) 1964 Misha Mengelberg-piano & composer 0:19:27 Pop-up) Walter Brennan Old Rivers (45) 1962 0:24:53 Pop-up) Eric Dolphy "famous quote" The Last Date (LP) 1964 0:27:39 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"birds @ 302 Chestnut"0:27:55 Pop-up) The Band Sleeping Stage Fright (LP) 1970 0:37:40 Pop-up) Greenberger Spring Child Hashimoto Digging Into Embarrassment Take Me Where I Don't Know I Am (CD) * 2016 0:41:17 Pop-up) Jon Brion Strings That Tie To You / Phone Call Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 OST 0:43:58 Pop-up) Gonzales Dot Solo Piano (CD) 2007 0:48:18 Pop-up) Francis Lai La Louve Solitaire from The Golden Claws Of The Cat Girl Monster Movie Music, Vol. 7 (CD-R) 1968 VAR 0:50:52 Pop-up) Gary Burton Quartet Fleurette Africaine Lofty Fake Anagram (LP) 1967 w/ Larry Coryell 0:55:30 Pop-up) Prince Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable Walkin' Uptown Soul Class Of '66 (LP) 1966 / 1983 VAR 0:56:30 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"0:56:41 Pop-up) Goffin & King & ? Up On The Roof WFMUzak [Bob Brainen's 2017 Fundraiser CD] (CD) 1962 / 2017 1:06:36 Pop-up) NRBQ The One and Only High Noon- A 50-Year Retrospective (CD box set) * 1989 / 2016 1:09:26 Pop-up) Rockin' Berries Funny How Love Can Be In Town (CD) 1965 1:15:15 Pop-up) Andy Iona's Islanders Maui Girl Hawai'i Authentic: The Pre-War Era Vol. 2 (1927-1936) (V/A) (LP) * 1936 / 2016 VAR 1:16:05 Pop-up) Staple Singers Don't Knock World's Greatest Gospel, Volume One 1960 / 2002 VAR 1:18:07 Pop-up) Bebop Boys Tropicana The Bebop Boys (2LP) 1949 / 1978 VAR 1:21:48 Pop-up) Denson's Sacred Harp Singers I'm On My Journey Home Religion is my Fortune: Sacred Harp Singing (CD) 1928 / 2004 VAR 1:23:22 Pop-up) Lee Dorsey People Gonna Talk Can You Hear Lee Dorsey? The Best Of... (2LP) 1961 / 1982 1:28:43 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:28:58 Pop-up) Bobby Timmons Trio This Here Roots Of Funk - Raw Soul, Rough Blues & All That Jazz (Boxed set) 1960 / 2015 VAR 1:39:04 Pop-up) Stevie Wonder I Was Made To Love Her (instro) Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox 1:43:28 Pop-up) Strawbs Pieces Of 79 & 15 Strawbs (LP) 1969 1:46:05 Pop-up) Theo Bleckmann Littlefields Elegy (CD) * 2017 1:50:10 Pop-up) xTC Big Day Skylarking Instrumentals (CD) * 1986 / 2016 1:51:17 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:53:14 Pop-up)
(* = new, The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)
Listener comments!
9:03am : Good morning Bob!!9:04am : Good morning, Bob and WFMU listeners around the globe.9:09am : What a start to the show!!!9:10am : Always awed by what great Bass there is on most Funky stuff.9:12am : Good Mornin Bob, Pleased to Meet You ; )9:13am : Diggin' the Playboys! Mornin' bb & crew!9:15am : This Turtles tune is so good. Good one Bob.9:21am : Excitable Boy Warren Zevon?9:23am : It really is - that Turtles! Yeah Zevon's on 'Nuggets' too - as 'Lyme & Cybele...Love this Mingus-y style here too - too much coffee Bop - I always related...9:24am : Eric Dolphy was so cool!! Beard & Hat is a great song!9:27am : Woke up a bit late and missed that fine pop of Gary Lewis and the Turtles,
In time,though,for that smoky bass clarinet of Dolphy's getting all angular.9:28am : Tune sounds like welfare Cadillac. So so funny. Forgot the artist for now.9:30am : GUY DRAKE - WELFARE CADILLAC..9:31am : Thanks 63, He played at Stockton State College in New Jersey in 1983 and was outstanding. Oh yeah Stockton is now Richard Stockton University🥁 9:31am : Holy shit, I played the hell out of Ol Rivers (and his Christmas record) when I was a kid. This is really flooding the memory banks. Morning Bob!!9:32am : Walter Brennan was an extreme right wing douchebag! (but, I loved him on the Real McCoys9:42am : Sad anniversary today: 31 years since Richard Manuel's apparent but inexplicable (say associates) suicide.9:43am : Hey Bob, Richard Manuel or Rick Danko?9:44am : What does Robbie Robertson say in his book about Richard Manuel's suicide?9:47am : I like Jon Brion.9:49am : I <3 Jon Brion9:51am : Dot was lovely.9:55am : That whole Gonzales album is beautiful. He has a more recent, Solo Piano II, I think.10:09am : According to the internet, "louve" is French for "she wolf."🥁 10:16am : The singer on "Roof" sounds familiar.10:17am : Isn't Funny how love can Be an Ivy League song?10:19am : Sounds like Ben E. King on "roof", too obvious?10:28am : @Snortley: the internet is right;
Bonjour Bob an listeners !10:30am : @pierre: are you going to Sonic Protest this year?🥁 10:32am : Walter Brennan was indeed a right wing douche, but I still loved that Henry had a Merry Christmas!!!10:32am : @fred : i'm going to try, yes. Some good stuff this year. 22 and 23 of march looks like my kind of thing. Will I see you ?10:32am : @Stuart: Yes - there's notably YT of them doing it Live @ the NME awards 1964... Reportedly singing background on TheWh♂'s 'I Can't Explain' was their big break.10:35am : ...NMEs *'65...10:36am : @pierre: probably. As usual, I took the pass and two weeks off from work. I'll miss a couple of shows (I'll miss Anne Gillis for a dance show and next Saturday to fulfill my pledging duties)10:49am : Thanks,Rev.11:00am : Thx DJ BB !11:01am : Next up! The miserable Michael Shelley show!