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Ben Vaughn Quintet  Gimme Gimme Gimme   Favoriting
2 Of Clubs  My First Heart Break   Favoriting
Steve Earle  This Is How It Ends   Favoriting
Stevie Wonder  We Can Work It Out   Favoriting
Cab Calloway  Tarzan of Harlem   Favoriting
Josie Cotton  Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne   Favoriting
Dave Berry  My Baby Left Me   Favoriting
Chris Scruggs  Really Ain't Got A Care   Favoriting
Big Daddy Rucker  Just Do Your Thing   Favoriting
Aimee Mann  Freeway   Favoriting
Beach Boys, The  Aren't You Glad? (remix)   Favoriting
Slim Rhiodes  Gonna Romp And Stomp   Favoriting
Señor Soul  Get On Up   Favoriting
Dahlmanns, The  I Want You Around   Favoriting
Dion  My Love   Favoriting
Dion and The Belmonts  Swinging on a Star   Favoriting
Ronnie Sessions  Big O   Favoriting
Cinnamons, The  Strange Strange Feeling   Favoriting
Toreno Band  Can't Buy Me Love   Favoriting
Green  Curry Your Favor   Favoriting
Bobby Gallant  Sunshine Comes To My House   Favoriting
George Jones  Ain't Love A Lot Like That   Favoriting
Marie Knight  I Can't Sit Down   Favoriting
Tinted Windows  Kind Of Girl   Favoriting
Del Shannon  Show Me   Favoriting
Johnny Paycheck  Hang On Sally   Favoriting
Daylighters, The  Oh Mom (Teach Me How To How To Uncle Willie)   Favoriting
Ohta-San  Sushi   Favoriting
Wilson Pickett  New Orleans   Favoriting
The Lyres  Sick and Tired   Favoriting
Billy Fayard  I Get So Mad   Favoriting
Johnnie and Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys  South in New Orleans   Favoriting
Danny White  The Twitch   Favoriting
Charles Smith  You Need An Education   Favoriting
Snooks Eaglin  I've Been Walking   Favoriting
Diamond Joe  How To Pick A Winner   Favoriting
Leroy Clofer and Company  Mr. Big Man   Favoriting
Mary Jane Hooper  Harper Valley PTA   Favoriting
Danny Barker and The Baby Dodds Trio  My Indian Red   Favoriting
Ken Lindsey  I Got Loaded   Favoriting
Lee Dorsey  Mellow Good Time (Part 1)   Favoriting
Clarence "Frogman" Henry  The Glory Of Love   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE for an Interview with Chris Collingwood about the death of Fountains of Wayne and his new project Look Park

CLICK HERE to listen to a playlist of exclusive unreleased recordings by Longmont Potion Castle

CLICK HERE for a free download of a 16 track compilation from The Wipper Brothers

CLICK HERE for "Taylor Hackford Remembers Making a Movie With Chuck Berry: ‘The Greatest Nightmare of Any Filmmaking Experience I’ve Ever Had' "

CLICK HERE for tales from Chuck Berry's backing bands

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE for a story about The Beatles remastered version of "Live at the Hollywood Bowl"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE for a new song titled "People Are Disgusting" from Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE to listen to "Musicians fighting Spotify are ‘so f-cking dumb,’ music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz says"

CLICK HERE to read a Mike Love sympathetic piece titled "Beach Boys seek to overcome discord with new wave of Love"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new NPR interview with Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE for "Jerry Lewis at 90: His Mouth Runneth Over"

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for info about the tuning used on Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough"

CLICK HERE to see the March 25th Hot 100 chart - when Happy Together was number one!!

CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits

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CLICK HERE to see a Thought Leader gives a talk on Thought Leadership

CLICK HERE to find out Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be

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CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE to hear "How Music Taste Evolved"


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CLICK HERE for Ringo's isolated drums from "Oh Darling"

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell in a BBC interview with some woman with a lot of plastic surgery

CLICK HERE to see some paintings by Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

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CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

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CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

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CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

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CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

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CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

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I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

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CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.


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Listener comments!

Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:02am
Listener Baby:

Baby
When whipporwill call
And evenin' is nigh
I'll hurry to my blue heaven
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:02am
Frank Above:

Give me!
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Mailman Tom:

We like green!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:06am
Frank Above:

Hey congrats!
  11:09am
Eddy in Australia:

Juniper made jazz band? I credit the Tim Tams!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am
Aaron in Minneapolis:

You decided to get rid of all the links?
  11:11am
sonnyspop:

One of the best records and Beatle covers ever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11am
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Ok I stand corrected
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:12am
Frank Above:

Yeah, this is a good one sonny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Aaron in Minneapolis:

BOOO GET BETTER JOKES!!!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:14am
Hoboken Jack:

Uber Calloway, oof!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am
Mister Dobalina:

Just tuned in and see that Michael has jokes. Good way to start the day!
  11:16am
Dean:

Sheila B. played No Doubt yesterday and I thought, "Is this a new Gwen Stefani record?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17am
Mister Dobalina:

Oh wow! Yes & Yes to both...amazing!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:18am
Listener Baby:

You are No Doubt correct, Baby. Except for the dearth of songs in No Doubt's catalog.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19am
Mister Dobalina:

& Josie Cotton has a Elvira vibe to her. This is all one big rip off. Ugh.
  11:20am
medson:

Hasn't Josie Cotton had that sound since the late 70s early 80s?
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Marc Francis:

That's alright mamma!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:21am
Listener Baby:

Big Jim Sullivan, too!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:22am
Listener Baby:

Baby.. Who did Chris S. replace?
Avatar 11:23am
Michael Shelley:

happy to see you here Marc!
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Marc Francis:

Happy to be here! Good morning, sir! Good morning all!
Avatar 11:26am
Michael Shelley:

Chris replaced Paul martin - who started a band with his kids & wife
www.martinfamilycircus.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28am
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Damn famiy men, making us all look bad
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BEAVO:

Father's Day was last week.
  11:37am
Dean:

Debbie Harry's birthday is next week.
  11:43am
the REAL Bruce Thomas:

'allo! 'allo! what-what, pip-pip!!
  11:45am
clarke:

POURING a southern-type'a rain on cape cod, today!! mawnin' ya'll!!
  11:47am
clarke:

dylan sang in an entirely different way for Nashille Skyline
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:47am
Listener Baby:

They were so amazing. So much energy coming off their records. Wish I could that.
  11:48am
clarke:

not that i liked that way, ha ha.
  11:49am
clarke:

supposedly, baby, the belmonts were fuddy-duddies, though...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:50am
Listener Baby:

Then sign me up for fuddy duddy status, Clarke.
  11:51am
clarke:

ha ha - what i mean is that the reason dion went solo is because the other guys were not adventurous enough for him
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:52am
Listener Baby:

Ah, got it. Stuck in a rut. But I tell you what, with those guys behind him, the shit was on.
  11:52am
clarke:

The Wanderer was too much for them!!
  11:53am
clarke:

also dion was getting involved with some heavy substances at the time...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:54am
Listener Baby:

Here is a question for Baby, and the gang out there. Were the Jordanires ever on a bad record?
  11:54am
clarke:

wearing a lotta dark glasses
  11:55am
clarke:

didn't the jordinaires back up wayne newton?
  11:56am
clarke:

but i am not sure about on record
  11:57am
clarke:

yes: Green!!!
  11:58am
Dennis Diken:

nice show Mikey!
  11:59am
clarke:

i was not aware of the Green re-issue, and was in a record store in new orleans and PSYCHED when their vinyl appeared in my hands!! i thought i had found the few copies that were not on cassette only!! ha ha
  12:01pm
clarke:

what's the story on Bobby Gallant??
  12:04pm
clarke:

that 12-string was swinnnngin'!!
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Bootsie:

Tinted Windows YEEEESSSSSS!
  12:08pm
clarke:

bootsie - did TW ever come out on vinyl and i missed that??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Bootsie:

@Clarke I only have on CD.
  12:10pm
clarke:

yeah i figured
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Bootsie:

I don't buy anything new on vinyl. My cheap-ass Crosley turntable doesn't like it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Love how this is recorded - nutty stereo separation & all...
  12:11pm
Dennis Diken:

Del rules!
  12:11pm
clarke:

the crosley would like it!
  12:13pm
clarke:

i use a crosley to make 8-track mixtapes of some 45's - mine has rca outputs
  12:15pm
clarke:

you don't want your mother to teach you the uncle willie
  #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:15pm
David in ATL from NJ:

Hey, Michael, Jim Lauderdale has a new album out that sounds very good.
What a talent he is!
  12:21pm
clarke:

i saw wilson pickett in new orleans - jazzfest '75
  12:23pm
clarke:

good call w/Lyres!!
  12:26pm
Dennis Diken:

enjoyed Tony Fletcher's Wilson Pickett bio
  12:27pm
clarke:

wicked pickett - would like to read that
  12:28pm
clarke:

hey MS (and all): buddy'o'mine put this comp together that would right up this show's alley:
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/1946-small-town-country-vol-1
  12:31pm
clarke:

-be
  12:37pm
George in WO:

Speaking of New Orleans, tonight in Orange, NJ, NOLA legend Johnny Sansone with John Fohl and Stanton Moore on drums. https://www.hatcitykitchen.com
  12:44pm
clarke:

MS - you find yerself in the city wondering what to do - use the nola hotline!!
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Michael Shelley:

will do
  12:50pm
clarke:

i forgot to say that my phone doesn't ring unless your # is already in my system - so text first
  12:53pm
clarke:

nah - those places are for tourists - no one sells the good shit there much anymore
  12:55pm
clarke:

you WILL want to hit Euclid Records though in bywater
  12:57pm
clarke:

reminiscent of some old record stores the way they used to be, back in the day - Jim Russell's is museum priced tourist trap now
  1:04pm
Jill:

What was the song about Obeying and Love? A woman was singing?
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