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Artist Track Album / Format Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience ![]()
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1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Fleetwood Mac Trinity ![]()
25 Years - The Chain (MP3) ![]()
1972 / 1994 prev. unreleased Danny Kirwan song from Bare Trees sessions 0:02:58 Pop-up)
Happy Birthday!!Bruce Springsteen Girls in Their Summer Clothes ![]()
Magic (MP3) ![]()
2007 0:06:01 Pop-up) Ray Charles Mary Ann ![]()
The Birth of Soul 1952-1959 (CD box set) ![]()
1955 / 1991 0:10:10 Pop-up) John Coltrane Every Time We say Goodbye ![]()
My Favorite Things (CD) ![]()
1961 0:12:56 Pop-up) Chitra Neogy Leila The Flaterer ![]()
The Perfumed Garden (CD) ![]()
1968 0:18:36 Pop-up) Clarence Curvan My Favorite Things ![]()
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1966 not in waltz ttime 0:20:49 Pop-up) Manfred Mann Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron ![]()
The Best Of... (CD) ![]()
1965 / 1992 Paul Jones era 0:24:15 Pop-up) Manfred Mann Box Office Draw ![]()
Chapter Two: The Best of the Fontana Years (CD) 1966 / 1994 Mike D'Abo era 0:26:02 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"birds @ 302 Chestnut"0:28:06 Pop-up) Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy Floyd's Guitar Blues ![]()
Instrumentally Speaking 1936-1942 (LP) ![]()
1939 / 1980 Floyd Smith-Hawaiian guitar 0:36:29 Pop-up) Chuck Berry Guitar Boogie ![]()
One Dozen Berrys (LP) ![]()
1956 0:39:39 Pop-up) Yardbirds Jeff's Boogie ![]()
Over Under Sideways Down (LP) ![]()
1966 0:41:55 Pop-up) Jackie Mittoo Stereo Freeze ![]()
Now (CD) ![]()
1971 Thanks to Doug Young 0:44:18 Pop-up) Miles Davis Footprints [severe edit] ![]()
Miles Smiles (CD) ![]()
1967 / 1998 0:47:36 Pop-up) NRBQ Ramona ![]()
Message For The Mess Age (CD) ![]()
1994 0:50:46 Pop-up) Mac & Katie Kissoon Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep ![]()
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1971 0:53:32 Pop-up) Eyes Of Blue Supermarket Full Of Cans ![]()
Deram Dayze (LP) ![]()
1967 / 1987 VAR 0:57:03 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"Bob Brainen's Soul 'n RnB tape"0:57:21 Pop-up) Brass Bed w/Allison Bohl He Needs Me ![]()
On Nilsson (EP) ![]()
2012 1:10:13 Pop-up) Doris Go Back To Daddy ![]()
Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby? (CD) ![]()
1970 / 2013 Thanks to Doug & Andy 1:14:20 Pop-up) The Descendents of Mike and Phoebe Chick Chick ![]()
A Spirit Speaks (LP) ![]()
1974 1:14:58 Pop-up) Original Prophets Birds ![]()
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1966 https://www.discogs.com/Original-Prophets-Aint-That-Loving-You-BabyBirds/release/7122919 1:19:50 Pop-up) Faces Around The Plynth ![]()
First Step (CD) ![]()
1970 1:22:35 Pop-up) Mamas & Papas California Dreaming (female vocals only) ![]()
(MP3) ![]()
1966 1:28:17 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:29:49 Pop-up) Max Roach & the J.C. White Singers Joshua ![]()
Lift Every Voice And Sing (LP) ![]()
1971 1:38:37 Pop-up) David Greenberger & Prime Lens Alice Baker ![]()
My Thoughts Approximately (CD) * ![]()
2017 1:45:55 Pop-up) Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Salt Creek ![]()
(MP3) ![]()
1964 1:47:56 Pop-up) Buffalo Springfield Go And Say Goodbye ![]()
Buffalo Springfield (CD) ![]()
1966 / 1997 (stereo) 1:50:16 Pop-up) Heitor Villa-Lobos 1st Movement from Quator ![]()
Nonetto (CD) ![]()
1940 / 2008 1:52:44 Pop-up) Chico Hamilton Quintet w/ Eric Dolphy Nice Day ![]()
Chico Hamilton & Eric Dolphy - The Complete Studio Recordings (CD box set) ![]()
1958 / 2016 Live @ Newport 1:55:34 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's1:56:33 Pop-up)
(* = new,The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)
Listener comments!
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9:03am : good morning bob, it's always good to be here9:04am : Hi Bob, Annie, everyone!9:06am : Hello Bob and listeners around the globe.9:07am : Bruce Springsteen reimagines Brian Wilson![]()
♥ 9:08am :
Hmm, I hear it more like Bruce Springsteen reimagines Stephin Merritt![]()
9:08am : Hey all, it's great to be here!![]()
♥ 9:09am :
Bob, that Manfred Mann song you played last week, "It's So Easy Falling" was utterly sublime.![]()
9:12am : Never heard "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" before. What a wonderful song. Different and great melody. Surely that's not Bruce S. singing it, though.![]()
♥ 9:14am :
It is though.9:15am : Yes, Hughes, it sounds like Stephen Merritt. Melody and voice.
Though Springsteen often went in for big productions.9:17am : I agree, Karen. But Bob once played this song. Can’t imagine Bob being in the dark.9:20am : hey! greetings from Barcelona! love your music!♥ 9:23am :
Love Barcelona!9:29am : Good Morning everyone- This Show is one of my favorite things Hey Jeff!9:30am : Hey Doc - I switched names - when I saw Happy Birthday! I thought wow isn't that amazing that Bob knew it was my birthday yesterday![]()
♥ 9:35am :
Paramour is a word you don't hear much in these times.![]()
♥ 9:55am :
I love Chirpy Chirpy. On Bodega Pop this week Gary played what sounded like a Cambodian version, but the name of the song was different.9:56am : chirpy is one of my favorite songs of that era![]()
♥ 10:00am :
Erika is still dancing around the apartment singing "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep"10:01am : a warm autumn saturday greeting!10:08am : The first time I saw Sonny Rollins (early '70s), Tony Williams was on drums.10:12am : Wow, I love this cover already! Thanks for sharing10:14am : Much as I love the Popeye score, never thought I'd consider Shelley Duvall a superior vocalist to anyone...10:16am : Shelly Duvall was just too perfect in that role. I love He's Large too.![]()
10:28am : DAMN. This Faces song is fan-fucking-tastic!!!10:30am : Need more frogs I think![]()
♥ 10:30am :
This song always takes me back to Wong Kar Wai's "Chunking Express," the best movie!10:33am : The Mamas10:33am : Now I want to hear Cass do Wild Women Don't Get the Blues10:34am : Another Paul?10:40am : what?10:41am : I really love the whole show so far! so many new favorites10:44am : great show! it's the late evening here10:44am : Great show until this song. Not my cup of meat.10:45am : Mary Lou Williams' "Black Christ of the Andes" was November 1962. Post-Max Roach?10:58am : Bob, thanks for another great Saturday morning full of music and comments!