WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 8, 2018

Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: good morning joe!!
	9:04am medson: Good Morning Joe.
	9:04am Brendan in Carroll Gardens: ready to roll Joe! Good morning
	👻 9:05am 12539: Yip!
	9:05am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning Joe
	9:06am queems: good morning joe!
	9:06am Readie Righteous: This is super good, Joe, good morning to you!
	9:06am pantz: Hey, Joe! Thanks again for the Christmas music and happy new year.
	👻 9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy to report a swag delivery on Saturday. Up with turtles, I say! And, thank you!
	9:08am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe! Happy new year!
	9:08am queems: i got my swag on saturday too! what an exciting time that was
	9:08am Aaron Working In Newark: Yes!!!!
	9:09am melinda: Hi all!
	9:09am Aaron Working In Newark: hi
	👻 9:09am doctorjazz: Pretty start, just stringin' us along.
	9:10am Krys O.: Nice way to ease into the work day. Thanks, Joe.
	9:14am dale: break an acoustic guitar joe.
	9:15am Joe McG: Hey, good morning, everyone! I hope you're all feeling good this Monday morning, and thanks for spending some time with me on the radio and Internet.
	9:15am V Priceless: heya Joe! Nice DB BD trib on W&B!
	👻 9:18am Ken From Hyde Park: Just read a blurb in the paper that HBO will air a Bowie documentary at 8PM tonight. It covers the last five years of DB's life.
	9:19am dale: that was so dreamlike that it seemed to have a snoring sound in it.
	9:21am Slaboch: Free Gunn-Truscinski Duo show tomorrow at Union Pool with Vampire Belt (Bill Nace & Chris Corsano)!
	9:21am medson: Nice way to have my morning coffee break at work.
	9:22am Joe McG: @Slaboch: Ooh! Thanks for the head's up! @medson: And I know what you're drinking your coffee out of. :)
	9:24am medson: Yes Sir hahahaha
	9:26am Sem: Hello, and good morning, Joe, McGaskos, and all.
	9:27am steveo: Good morning! Coincidentally, this is the last song I played at home last night.
	9:27am steveo: also, this and the previous track are pre-clicky starred
	9:28am steveo: and finally, I've missed you, Joe, and another Monday holiday next week, sigh
	9:29am Joe McG: @steveo: Why, thank you, steveo! Doing a Monday show always means I fall on these holidays.
	9:30am fleep: [surfacing] greetings from a (finally) wet SoCal
	9:31am Listener Robert: This "Tesla" perfectly suits my mood right now. I had a bad night sleeping (extra long), now trouble waking up. It was fortuitous (I thought) when Ms. Berg used to play on Mon. morning, then Ms. Trudel on Mon. at noon, because the 1st show would get me going, then then 2nd would mellow me out.
	9:32am Brendan: Digging this drum pattern on the times. A tribal hello Joe and listeners
	9:33am Brendan: toms <sp>
	👻 9:40am Hughie Considine: Hitting my pop sweet spot with this Blush, Joe!
	9:41am melinda: This sounded kind of 90s until she mentioned cellphones.
	9:41am Joe McG: Real nice simple pop song!
	9:42am The Oscar: Morning all! Seconding everyone else on this one-- lovely little song.
	9:45am Leelee: Sad news about France Gall. Would you consider playing La Declaration? I know it's pop-py, but still.
	9:46am queems: is she singing about west milford
	9:46am mb: Good morning Joe and all the peoples. Swag arrived on Friday with a surprise bonus. Joy was displayed which led to sheer terror than back to joy. Thx!
	9:47am Joe McG: @queems: Yes, I think so! @Leelee: I will play some France, not sure what tracks yet. Just a couple since I'm anticipating a significant, better informed tribute later this week on Sheila B's show.
	9:48am dale: ray thomas couldn't live in a world without france gall...sigh.
	9:50am queems: @joe yay passaic county
	9:50am Leelee: Thank you, Joe; appreciate any.
	9:53am djsheilab: Hello Joe + friends! Thank you for "Slowly!" Nothing like Ann Margret's purr to ease us into the week.
	9:54am Joe McG: Oh, good, Sheila is here! Sheila, will you be doing something for France Gall this week on your show? No pressure! ;)
	9:54am Leelee: :) Was gonna ask for this one too, or Laisse Tomber les Filles Thank you!
	9:55am djsheilab: Oh France! Somehow I thought she'd be with us forever :(
	9:55am djsheilab: Joe McG—I will indeed :)
	👻 9:56am NotARealDoctor: Oh this is terrific! Sheila B! I just logged in to mention you when I heard this song!
	9:57am Leelee: Will be tuning in, thank you too, @ djsheilab
	9:57am dale: the video for les sucettes is hilarious.
	9:58am fred von helsing: requiet in pacem
	9:58am djsheilab: NotARealDoctor—So nice that you thought of me when hearing France Gall.
	👻 10:00am NotARealDoctor: I feel like you just played Poupée de cire, poupée de son a couple weeks ago, even though I know it was way back in October when you had the all doll intro set
	10:00am The Oscar: Aw, love FG. @djsheilab Your Instagram was where I first heard the news, which seems appropriate :)
	10:01am Guido from Cologne: Cult! :-D
	10:02am djsheilab: Love France Gall's silly German side! This is great Joe McG—thanks!
	10:02am adampsyche: holler from Utah, Joe! Thanks for the tunes,glad to take wfmu with me on this trip.
	10:02am queems: german sure is something
	10:02am Krys O.: Der Computer Nr. 3 is great!
	10:02am dale: ha ha - this is great.
	10:03am pantz: This is zany
	10:03am Listener Christoph: Wow, that song is about computer-matched dating!
	👻 10:03am NotARealDoctor: @queems, it's definitely a language! That much I know!
	10:03am Dennis Diken: also mourning France Gall's passing, but digging the show Joe. love Ann-Margret's "Slowly," a textbook example of Otis Blackwell's writing style
	10:03am Brad: Listening in Denmark Joe. Thanks for the great show thus far!
	👻 10:04am NotARealDoctor: Wow, I hadn't heard about FG's passing until just now. Very sad. :(
	10:04am djsheilab: "Chanson pour que tu m'aimes"!!!!! In my top 3 France Gall songs!
	10:08am sugarplumfairywolf: I own all these FG songs yet I still am going to put off getting up so I can listen to this set.
	10:09am KP: Hello from the treadmill, Jooooooooeee
	👻 10:10am NotARealDoctor: This is a beautiful song, makes my heart ache <3
	10:10am dale: trying to find a good johnny and france video, they performed together often...
	10:13am sugarplumfairywolf: I only recently found out that the British performer at Eurovision that year slapped France Gall!!!
	10:14am queems: i love silly albums
	10:15am queems: this sounds pretty much exactly like what i expected
	10:16am annie: here's an odd question: there's a netflix series called "Haters back off"... the lead character's name is amanda (??). she wants to break into the music industry. her singing is awful.. i wonder if she's a spin-off of another amanda we know..
	10:17am queems: i thought her name was miranda
	10:18am Krys O.: Oh, Nichols and May... <3
	10:18am dale: joe, have you ever heard 'when dalliance was in flower (and women lost their heads)?' - ed mccurdy, alan arkin and i forget the third person.
	10:18am annie: in the show, she is mistakenly called amanda ... so... close..
	10:19am βrian: I don't feel dressed without my merkin.
	10:19am queems: this guy is making me furious
	10:20am annie: i broke my eyeteeth on N&M..
	👻 10:21am Hughie Considine: Kind of interesting that Nichols plumbed wigs for comedy when he suffered from alopecia totalis. Maybe it helped him process his follicular deficiency?
	10:22am steveo: "that's right"
	10:22am dale: this sounds like steve martins' 'king tut' slowed down.
	10:23am βrian: Follicular deficiency, or apparent deficiency, is very much in fashion these days.
	10:23am βrian: With the exception of the beardy, I guess.
	10:24am dale: is this the brute force of the fuh king?
	10:25am The Oscar: Has anyone ever made a comp of faux Tom Lehrers?
	10:25am Joe McG: @dale: Yes, that's the fella.
	👻 10:26am NotARealDoctor: @The Oscar, you just read my mind, was thinking the same thing
	10:26am annie: this guy could be tom lerher
	10:27am annie: great brains think in the same gutter y'all
	10:27am Leelee: @Brian, eyebrows are an exception. If you've got to draw on eyebrows, for lack thereof, it's noticed. Ever notice someone w/o eyebrows? You kind of can't help noticing. Not in a good way.
	10:28am MD: Hello Gang! Happy 1918...!
	👻 10:28am NotARealDoctor: I remember reading about someone else recently who copied Tom Lehrer's sound, but I can't remember who it was
	10:29am βrian: Some time back, a cafe forbade its employees to have facial hair, thinking it unseemly. So they shaved off their eyebrows.
	10:29am The Oscar: I used to work at a record store in Harvard Square down the street from Tom Lehrer's house. It was always amusing reading articles about what a recluse he was when I could see him ambling down the street nearly every day.
	10:31am dale: cool and strange music did nice pieces on both tom lehrer and brute force. that was a fun zine .
	10:31am Cheri Pi: Joe! First day back at work and the boards
	10:31am Paul D: Is Michele C. at the station? Tell her Paul D. from the comments board said thanks for the cool NJ turnpike sticker with my WFMU devo shirt.
	👻 10:31am Hughie Considine: Whoopie Goldberg made shaving off eyebrows hip, I do believe.
	10:31am Dean: Charlie Byrd plays guitar on the album on which "Fallout" appears. And the liner notes are in English and hieroglyphics. That has to be a first.
	10:32am Joe McG: Hey Cheri! Happy New Year! @PaulD: I'll definitely tell her!
	10:32am Paul D: Thanks Joe Happy New Year
	10:34am Todd-o-phonic Todd: It's the real Morning Joe.
	10:34am northguineahills: I don't believe I've ever heard the Fall on WFMU ;)
	10:35am Joe McG: Hey, Todd! Ha ha @Dean: Wow!
	10:36am glenn: no eyebrows or a unibrow? tough decision.
	10:36am steveo: @ngh Brian Turner had them on live a while ago, IIRC
	10:36am βrian: "I'm with Frida."
	10:37am Leelee: Yikes, reading Brian's and Hughie C's comments sent me to google. Surprised to see shaving off eyebrows is/was a thing.
	10:38am βrian: Yup, akin to a hunger strike with those employees.
	10:38am glenn: is hickory holler in harlan county?
	10:38am northguineahills: I'm more of a Frida Kahlo sees Brian Damn it!
	10:39am pantz: It's just south of Big Bone Lick, KY.
	10:39am steveo: speaking of country music, this weekend I learned that Hank Williams passed away on new year's day in 1953 (wkcr has great country music shows on sundays...)
	10:39am Brendan: Oh man poor kid!
	10:40am annie: i have a friend who had her eyebrows shaved and got tatooed replacements
	10:40am pantz: Cheech & Chong!
	10:40am queems: i like all of these stories of southern hussies
	👻 10:41am Hughie Considine: Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'... poetry!
	👻 10:41am karlward: YES. "Earache My Eye" is my personal theme song. "Basketball Jones" was once in the running though, in eighth grade.
	10:41am annie: i love this... i lol each time i hear it
	10:41am jess: on the radioewwwewww
	10:41am dale: yes! who all is on this? george harrison, carole king, billy preston...
	10:41am queems: so good
	10:41am Parq: Chris Shenkel, don't sing nuthin'.
	10:41am Mister Dobalina: That basketball was like a basketball to me....hahahah. Never heard this before!
	10:42am CeeDubbles: I shaved my eyebrows after seeing The Wall in Times Sq high as a mountain goat, tanked on gin and apple cider. Not a good look with a full beard and jewfro, only slightly better with a high&tight a week later.
	10:42am dale: i didn't hear the cheech and chong christmas thing this year. i heard the waitresses way too much.
	10:43am pantz: Alopecia Universalis has made me hip, like Whoopi.
	👻 10:43am Hughie Considine: I got more moves than Ex-Lax!
	10:43am Jim Devoid: Ha! Just called my kid Basketball Jones this morning!
	10:43am annie: i've been wondering what to YT binge on... chhech and ching, here i caom...after the noisy hour
	10:44am dale: you can tell that single was well loved.
	10:44am annie: ok, who took over my keyboard??
	10:44am steveo: Musicians who appeared on the record included George Harrison,[1] Billy Preston, Tom Scott, and Carole King (the record became the highest peaking single on which King appeared during 1973). The Blossoms and Michelle Phillips (from The Mamas & the Papas) performed vocals as cheerleaders on the track. [wikipedia]
	10:45am dale: my keyboard is so full of cat hair and cookie crumbs - amazing it still works.
	10:45am eric from lake hiawatha: I have not heard this in Years, bless you
	10:46am Parq: Digging this deep cut from the "Fatal Attraction" soundtrack.
	10:46am βrian: Are you sure those aren't kibble crumbs?
	10:47am annie: mine is full of fabric dross... lint, etc..
	10:47am JtotheK: oh cool - 'the wash!' -- hi Joe, hi everyone.
	10:48am dale: i've never eaten cat food. sampled dog food when i was a kid, not so bad really.
	10:49am JakeGould: Hey Joe! I did the wash yesterday!
	10:49am Joe McG: Good job, Jake!
	10:50am glenn: bone appetit, y'all.
	10:50am dale: my cat peanut who had a leaky bladder got onto my mac laptop once and i chased her off and the screen was dark and i heard sizzling. by that point it was too old to bother fixing.
	10:51am queems: poor peanut
	10:51am dale: is this the gene and debbie who did 'playboy?'
	10:52am Joe McG: @dale: Yup! I played the B.
	10:56am melinda: Dale when I was a kid I sampled and liked both.
	10:56am josh in the uk: What a great song! Never heard of this band before. Love the synth.
	10:57am dale: melinda - did you have a shiny coat?
	10:58am josh in the uk: Oh, it's Frank Sidebottom!
	10:58am melinda: Haha, no
	10:58am Dean: There's a theme for a show, or some portion thereof: songs by one musical artist about another musical artist. "Roll Over, Beethoven"?
	10:58am Joe McG: @josh: Yes, one and the same!
	10:59am Krys O.: This Teardrop song reminds me of high school.
	10:59am Paul D: Love this teardrop explodes song
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: The Negro Problem was also compelled to sing about The Teardrop Explodes.
	11:00am dale: haven't heard this in - forever.
	11:01am judy from croton: Thinking about Sharpie as eyebrow pencil. Anyone? Hate makeup but want eyebrows
	11:01am whattawino: Julian Cope, people! Yay!
	11:01am queems: @judy i’ve done it
	11:02am herb.nyc: nice TEARDROP segment. (aside - i mentioned a "first bounce" remark that w.c. fields said in The Bank Dick, to friend yesterday)
	👻 11:02am officina: Hey Joe, Digging the TE. Looking forward to another year of great shows...
	11:03am Aaron Working In Newark: Great song!!! Love this!
	11:04am glenn: i use sharpies to fix dings in stained wood. they'll probably work on eyebrows.
	11:05am josh in the uk: They did - Fassbender was playing FS.
	11:05am pantz: Yes, "Frank, with Michael Fassbinder!
	11:05am Tomophobic Tom from Detroit: Do that to me one more time once is never enough with a test of the emergency broadcast system like you.....
	👻 11:06am NotARealDoctor: It was a decent movie, too!
	11:06am Brendan: That EAS / Kevin Ayers remix is dope
	11:07am annie: i'm so glad the EAS is anthropomorphising itself. has anyone adopted it yet?
	11:08am melinda: I wonder when and why eyebrow sculpting became the norm. I missed the memo.
	11:08am MD: tie your own shoe laces MAN!!!
	👻 11:08am NotARealDoctor: You know during his solo career, Chris Seivey wrote a computer program for the Sinclair ZX81 to create a music video on the computer. The catch was that you had to copy the B side of his record to a cassette tape, then play the cassette in your ZX81.
	👻 11:09am NotARealDoctor: Here is that music video/single if anyone cares. It's a pretty catchy tune, though. www.youtube.com...
	11:11am queems: i REALLLLY want to go to golden fest
	11:12am queems: i want to take my macedonian-american mom
	👻 11:15am karlward: Love the Allman Brothers.
	11:15am northguineahills: Fairport reporting!
	👻 11:15am karlward: Oh wait.
	11:15am steveo: My Macedonian deskmate was happy to hear about Golden Fest... He says that weekend in the orthodox christian new year also.. (Cool queems.)
	11:16am dale: i could listen to matty groves for hours.
	11:16am dale: little matty warwick....
	11:17am northguineahills: Matty groves is probably my favorite Fairport track.
	11:17am steveo: ...took the train to grove street and walked over to fmu?
	11:17am Joe McG: @dale: It will only be about a half hour! :) @Brendan: Thanks, I worked on it all weekend. ;)
	11:17am Will: Wait, Matty Groves is 8 minutes long! That means....
	11:17am northguineahills: haha, Will! yep!
	11:18am queems: @steveo orthodox christmas was on saturday, too. but my family just does regular christmas because it’s easier. i’ve been wanting to go to golden fest for a couple years now, so maybe this is finally the year!
	11:19am annie: well, ya went and done it, you got me to clicky-star this episode..
	11:19am steveo: @queems He does both Christmases, haha. I hope you can go.
	11:20am northguineahills: Hey, I'm more of an Armenian Xmas guy, (which was on Friday, the only xtian faith to celebrate it then).
	11:20am MD: when will the FMU DJ's Re-discover...SONGS FROM THE WOOD???!!!!???
	11:21am judy from croton: Strictly a personal graphic preference, eyebrows. Also somebody said i needed them. Ah, vanity.
	👻 11:21am karlward: For future reference, I would be completely OK / ecstatic with hearing different versions of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" as well. I've never heard the Judy Collins or Nina Simone versions. It's a masterpiece of a song.
	11:21am Joe McG: @MD: Once our Fairport box set wears out. :) @karl: Nice idea!
	11:21am queems: @steveo that takes determination! after the first christmas, i’m christmased out. we used to do a small lunch thing on orthodox christmas when the older generation was still alive, but now that they are gone we are kind of meh on it
	11:23am queems: @md hopefully soon
	👻 11:23am karlward: Love Merle Haggard.
	👻 11:23am karlward: Oh wait.
	11:23am glenn: norman and nancy blake do a good matty groves.
	11:24am steveo: i think the 25th is more for his kids so they don't feel left out / sing it Richard Thompson!
	11:25am herb.nyc: @glenn - are you spk'ng of Teenage Fan Club's Norman Blake? is Nancy his wife?
	11:25am glenn: this was the tour where fairport and zeppelin jammed in l.a. after a zeppelin show, richard burned jimmy page to the ground, and peter grant destroyed the soundboard tapes.
	11:25am dale: you could also slip in shady grove and no one would ever know.
	11:25am glenn: no, the other norman blake.
	11:26am MD: GOD BLESS THE MURDER BALLAD!!!
	11:26am vanya moscow: well, it's a good way to learn the lyrics anyway
	11:27am Joe McG: A lot of killin' goin' on in this particular song. Violent world!
	11:27am steveo: i hope the sex was good, at least
	👻 11:27am Hughie Considine: Next I'd like to hear a more soulful take by Barry White.
	11:27am Joe McG: @glenn: Wow, I never heard that story, but I don't doubt it! BTW, this "Full House" era version of "Matty Groves" KICKS ASS!
	11:29am judy from croton: Sounds like someone may have been a little high while singing. But what guitar!!!
	11:29am Will: So much for worry that the versions would sound too much alike...!
	11:29am dale: 4 in the morning by jesse colin young, john finn's wife by nick cave, long time man by tim rose...
	11:30am northguineahills: Ok, we have a Lord Donald version, and Lord Arnold version, what's next?
	11:31am Booz: Jeezum crow that's some pickin
	11:31am Agent Peter: there's always the Tom Waits version
	11:32am queems: you don’t say
	11:32am dale: i'm curious to hear the joan baez version.
	11:32am queems: ok this one is funkiest and thus my favorite
	11:33am Asheville Jon: no no no! no tom waits!
	11:33am MD: tHIS IS cOOL joE! tHANKS!
	11:33am Mick: This set is above and beyond!!
	11:33am glenn: holy cow, there is a tom waits version, except it's entitled mathie grove.
	11:33am herb.nyc: @glenn thanks for korrecting me on blake
	11:33am Joe McG: @queems: Yes, it got a little funky. A later version of the band even did it with a reggae lilt, not kidding! Jah Arnold.
	11:34am abutthegreat: All Matty Grove radio?
	11:35am David in London: Joe, don’t worry about song overkill. Please keep playing versions of Matty Goves for the next 8 weeks...
	11:35am steveo: @ngh quite a list of variants at en.wikipedia.org...
	11:35am glenn: fun fact - matty groves is child ballad #81.
	11:36am Will: Jeez did even this band get into the amphetamines?
	11:36am dale: ugh, just ran out of cooking propane before i got to add the 'HAM FLAVOR' packet to my pea soup. it's cooked anyway.
	11:37am Joe McG: @Will: They are certainly speeding!
	11:37am Asheville Jon: what are the ingredients for 'ham FLAVOR' ?
	11:37am northguineahills: @steveo: I think I've been to that page before, thanks!
	11:37am queems: that is some aggro fiddle
	11:38am MD: BIG ENDING!!!
	11:38am dale: i was listing to some carolann pegg last night and i know she's a musicologist - i wonder if she works on categorizing and keeping the history of this music
	11:39am dale: hoping for an edgar winter's frankenstin conclusion.
	11:40am SeanG: happy birthday elvis presley!
	11:40am KP: Woo. Matty’s not getting up after that one
	11:42am rw: Poor Matty.
	11:43am KP: Where does Judy Dyble fit into all this
	11:43am glenn: irie matty.
	11:43am Asheville Jon: one step beyond!
	11:44am steveo: Fairport is playing in Bromsgrove, England on my birthday. Should I go?
	11:44am CeeDubbles: WHOOPS DON"T DO IT AGAIN!
	11:44am glenn: judy gets short shrift, but frankly, i'd replace her with sandy denny too.
	11:45am queems: o dear
	11:45am Joe McG: @steveo: Definitely! They still got it.
	11:45am Asheville Jon: hmm, debating whether or not to continue to like Richard after this.....
	11:45am pantz: Oh Richard, no.
	11:45am glenn: i love 1000 years of popular music. play i live in trafalgar square, please, joe.
	11:46am steveo: better work on my passport :)
	11:46am queems: well he definitely gave it the old white dude spin
	11:46am Joe McG: When he sings it, it drips with venom, doesn't it?
	11:46am jess: hilarious
	11:47am Joe McG: And now, from the silly to the sublime...
	11:47am Listener Scott: He does own it. I think there are a few versions of that.
	11:47am Scott Williams: Thanks Joe! I wonder what he'd do with "Email My Heart"...
	11:48am Joe McG: @ScottW: Or "Call Me Maybe," which would probably sound like a threat.
	11:49am Marc Francis: Damn. This song is gorgeous. Perfect for this snowy Quebec Monday morning.
	11:50am Scott Williams: @Joe, I think he might leave off the "maybe"!
	11:51am slugluv1313: @ steveo -- YES YES YES!!!!!!!! @ Joe McG -- THANK YOU for a brilliant show! been listening but just hadda tell you how cool and great it is to hear those different versions of "Matty Groves;" really helps to heal a thoroughly crappy morning! as does RT covering "Oops, I Did It Again" -- thoroughly BIZARRE but i like it!
	11:52am Joe McG: @slugluv: Glad you enjoyed the show!
	👻 11:54am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:54am queems: thanks joe! great show, as always
	11:55am Booz: Great show end to end!
	11:55am steveo: thanks for the great show, Joe. See you in a coupla weeks.
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Stay tuned for Lola Pistola on Three Chord Monte. See you next time!
	11:56am northguineahills: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am rw: Thank you Mr. McGasko!
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: Oops is a solid pop song, heard it just the other day and I wasn't repulsed, but R T's cover does drip, wonder why he covered it.
	11:59am annie: thanks joe.... great show today!
	12:00pm Ochre Ogre: Cheers Joe, was going to request some Trees- Garden of Jane Delawney.
	👻 12:00pm doctorjazz: Like that RT cover myself Thanks, Joe

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 8, 2018

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January 8, 2018: West Milford to Groves' End

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Gimmer Nicholson	Hermetic Waltz "Hermetic Waltz" by "Gimmer Nicholson"	Christopher Idylls	Light in the Attic	2016	LP	From 1969		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Mark Fosson	Chineham Wood "Chineham Wood" by "Mark Fosson"	Solo Guitar	Drag City	2017	LP		*	0:05:37 (Pop-up)
Niilo Smeds	Betula "Betula" by "Niilo Smeds"	Once You Were a Baby	Gold Stain	2017	LP		*	0:09:30 (Pop-up)
Shells	Recollection "Recollection" by "Shells"	2	Ginkgo	2017	LP		*	0:11:45 (Pop-up)
Gunn-Truscinski Duo	Quiet Storm (Taksim III)	Bay Head	Three Lobed	2017	LP		*	0:16:17 (Pop-up)
Gospel of Mars	Tesla "Tesla" by "Gospel of Mars"	Gospel of Mars	Amish	2017	LP		*	0:21:28 (Pop-up)

Blush	Labor Days "Labor Days" by "Blush"	Blush	Arrowhawk	2017	CD		*	0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Long Neck	Elizabeth "Elizabeth" by "Long Neck"	Will This Do?	Tiny Engines	2017	CD		*	0:39:45 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood	If It's Monday Morning	Requiem for an Almost Lady	Light in the Attic	2017	CD	From 1971	*	0:43:12 (Pop-up)
Ann-Margret	Slowly "Slowly" by "Ann-Margret"	The Laziest Gal in Town: Sophisticated Boom Boom 2017 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2017	CD-R	From 1963		0:46:52 (Pop-up)
High Society	People Passing By "People Passing By" by "High Society"	Listen People: The Graham Gouldman Songbook	Ace	2017	CD	From 1966	*	0:49:04 (Pop-up)
France Gall	Poupée de cire, poupée de son	Eurovision Gala: 29 Winners-29 World Successes	Red Cross	1981	LP	From 1965; watch the actual Eurovision performance here		0:51:11 (Pop-up)
France Gall	Celui Que J'aime "Celui Que J'aime" by "France Gall"	Les Sucettes	Philips/Universal	2000	CD	also known as "FG," 1966		0:53:47 (Pop-up)
France Gall	Le temps de la rentrée	Baby Pop	Philips/Universal	2000	CD	From 1966		0:55:57 (Pop-up)
France Gall	Der Computer Nr. 3 "Der Computer Nr. 3" by "France Gall"	single	Decca	1968	45	thanks to Guido!		0:58:50 (Pop-up)
France Gall	Chanson pur que tu m'aimes un peu	1968	Polydor/Universal	2000	CD	From 1967; from the same album comes this one		1:01:03 (Pop-up)
France Gall	La Déclaration D'amour	single	Atlantic	1974	MP3	by request; watch here		1:04:49 (Pop-up)

The 18th Century Concepts	Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow	In the 20th Century Bag	Sidewalk	1966	LP			1:12:22 (Pop-up)
Mike Nichols and Elaine May	Hair Hat	Cass-CD: Artifacts From Irwin's Cassette Era 1974-1997	WFMU	2017	CD-R			1:14:26 (Pop-up)
Ben Vaughn Combo	I Dig Your Wig "I Dig Your Wig" by "Ben Vaughn Combo"	The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn Combo	Making Waves	1986	LP			1:16:47 (Pop-up)
I, Brute Force	No Olympian Height	Confections of Love	Columbia	1967	LP			1:19:19 (Pop-up)
Paul Winter	Fallout "Fallout" by "Paul Winter"	The Cold War: Inflatable Squirrel Carcass 2017 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2017	CD-R			1:21:37 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of random singles all played in a row
The Fall	Hit the North Part 1 "Hit the North Part 1" by "The Fall"	single	Beggars Banquet	1987	45			1:28:40 (Pop-up)
The Eye-Full Tower	Carol Cartoon "Carol Cartoon" by "The Eye-Full Tower"	single	SSS International	1967	45			1:31:56 (Pop-up)
Johnny Darrell	The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp	single	United Artists	1968	45			1:34:20 (Pop-up)
Cheech y Chong	Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces	single	Ode	1973	45			1:37:16 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Lewis	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	single	Tangerine	1969	45			1:41:05 (Pop-up)
Brenda & the Tabulations	The Wash	single	Dionn	1967	45	Thanks to Todd-o-phonic Todd and Kurt; Monday is wash day, after all		1:43:49 (Pop-up)
Gene and Debbe	I'll Come Running "I'll Come Running" by "Gene and Debbe"	single	TRX	1967	45			1:46:08 (Pop-up)
The Brothers	Voce Abousou (Vo-Say Ah-Bu-So)	single	RCA	1976	45			1:48:26 (Pop-up)
The Freshies	I Can't Get "Bouncing Babies" by The Teardrop Explodes	single	Razz/MCA	1981	45			1:51:11 (Pop-up)
The Teardrop Explodes	When I Dream	single	Mercury	1980	45	not "Bouncing Babies" because I couldn't get it, either!		1:55:23 (Pop-up)

Fairport Convention	Matty Groves "Matty Groves" by "Fairport Convention"	Come All Ye: The First Ten Years	Universal	2017	CD	Take 1, 1969; Sandy Denny vocal	*	2:13:32 (Pop-up)
Fariport Convention	Matty Groves "Matty Groves" by "Fariport Convention"	House Full: Fairport Convention Live in LA, 1970	Hannibal	1986	LP	Richard Thompson, vocal		2:19:57 (Pop-up)
Fairport Convention	Matty Groves "Matty Groves" by "Fairport Convention"	Live in Finland 1971	Real Gone Music/Sony	2016	CD	Simon Nicol, vocal		2:28:57 (Pop-up)

Richard Thompson	Oops, I Did It Again	RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson	Free Reed	2006	CD	live in 2002		2:42:00 (Pop-up)
Brigid Mae Power	I'm Grateful "I'm Grateful" by "Brigid Mae Power"	The Two Worlds	Tompkins Square	2017	CD		*	2:44:40 (Pop-up)
Holy	Heard Her "Heard Her" by "Holy"	All These Words Are Yours	PNKSLM	2018	CD		*	2:48:53 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn	No Exit	A Man I'd Rather Be (Part 1)	Earth Recordings	2018	CD	From "Bert and John," 1966	*	2:54:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: good morning joe!!
	9:04am medson: Good Morning Joe.
	9:04am Brendan in Carroll Gardens: ready to roll Joe! Good morning
	👻 9:05am 12539: Yip!
	9:05am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning Joe
	9:06am queems: good morning joe!
	9:06am Readie Righteous: This is super good, Joe, good morning to you!
	9:06am pantz: Hey, Joe! Thanks again for the Christmas music and happy new year.
	👻 9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy to report a swag delivery on Saturday. Up with turtles, I say! And, thank you!
	9:08am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe! Happy new year!
	9:08am queems: i got my swag on saturday too! what an exciting time that was
	9:08am Aaron Working In Newark: Yes!!!!
	9:09am melinda: Hi all!
	9:09am Aaron Working In Newark: hi
	👻 9:09am doctorjazz: Pretty start, just stringin' us along.
	9:10am Krys O.: Nice way to ease into the work day. Thanks, Joe.
	9:14am dale: break an acoustic guitar joe.
	9:15am Joe McG: Hey, good morning, everyone! I hope you're all feeling good this Monday morning, and thanks for spending some time with me on the radio and Internet.
	9:15am V Priceless: heya Joe! Nice DB BD trib on W&B!
	👻 9:18am Ken From Hyde Park: Just read a blurb in the paper that HBO will air a Bowie documentary at 8PM tonight. It covers the last five years of DB's life.
	9:19am dale: that was so dreamlike that it seemed to have a snoring sound in it.
	9:21am Slaboch: Free Gunn-Truscinski Duo show tomorrow at Union Pool with Vampire Belt (Bill Nace & Chris Corsano)!
	9:21am medson: Nice way to have my morning coffee break at work.
	9:22am Joe McG: @Slaboch: Ooh! Thanks for the head's up! @medson: And I know what you're drinking your coffee out of. :)
	9:24am medson: Yes Sir hahahaha
	9:26am Sem: Hello, and good morning, Joe, McGaskos, and all.
	9:27am steveo: Good morning! Coincidentally, this is the last song I played at home last night.
	9:27am steveo: also, this and the previous track are pre-clicky starred
	9:28am steveo: and finally, I've missed you, Joe, and another Monday holiday next week, sigh
	9:29am Joe McG: @steveo: Why, thank you, steveo! Doing a Monday show always means I fall on these holidays.
	9:30am fleep: [surfacing] greetings from a (finally) wet SoCal
	9:31am Listener Robert: This "Tesla" perfectly suits my mood right now. I had a bad night sleeping (extra long), now trouble waking up. It was fortuitous (I thought) when Ms. Berg used to play on Mon. morning, then Ms. Trudel on Mon. at noon, because the 1st show would get me going, then then 2nd would mellow me out.
	9:32am Brendan: Digging this drum pattern on the times. A tribal hello Joe and listeners
	9:33am Brendan: toms <sp>
	👻 9:40am Hughie Considine: Hitting my pop sweet spot with this Blush, Joe!
	9:41am melinda: This sounded kind of 90s until she mentioned cellphones.
	9:41am Joe McG: Real nice simple pop song!
	9:42am The Oscar: Morning all! Seconding everyone else on this one-- lovely little song.
	9:45am Leelee: Sad news about France Gall. Would you consider playing La Declaration? I know it's pop-py, but still.
	9:46am queems: is she singing about west milford
	9:46am mb: Good morning Joe and all the peoples. Swag arrived on Friday with a surprise bonus. Joy was displayed which led to sheer terror than back to joy. Thx!
	9:47am Joe McG: @queems: Yes, I think so! @Leelee: I will play some France, not sure what tracks yet. Just a couple since I'm anticipating a significant, better informed tribute later this week on Sheila B's show.
	9:48am dale: ray thomas couldn't live in a world without france gall...sigh.
	9:50am queems: @joe yay passaic county
	9:50am Leelee: Thank you, Joe; appreciate any.
	9:53am djsheilab: Hello Joe + friends! Thank you for "Slowly!" Nothing like Ann Margret's purr to ease us into the week.
	9:54am Joe McG: Oh, good, Sheila is here! Sheila, will you be doing something for France Gall this week on your show? No pressure! ;)
	9:54am Leelee: :) Was gonna ask for this one too, or Laisse Tomber les Filles Thank you!
	9:55am djsheilab: Oh France! Somehow I thought she'd be with us forever :(
	9:55am djsheilab: Joe McG—I will indeed :)
	👻 9:56am NotARealDoctor: Oh this is terrific! Sheila B! I just logged in to mention you when I heard this song!
	9:57am Leelee: Will be tuning in, thank you too, @ djsheilab
	9:57am dale: the video for les sucettes is hilarious.
	9:58am fred von helsing: requiet in pacem
	9:58am djsheilab: NotARealDoctor—So nice that you thought of me when hearing France Gall.
	👻 10:00am NotARealDoctor: I feel like you just played Poupée de cire, poupée de son a couple weeks ago, even though I know it was way back in October when you had the all doll intro set
	10:00am The Oscar: Aw, love FG. @djsheilab Your Instagram was where I first heard the news, which seems appropriate :)
	10:01am Guido from Cologne: Cult! :-D
	10:02am djsheilab: Love France Gall's silly German side! This is great Joe McG—thanks!
	10:02am adampsyche: holler from Utah, Joe! Thanks for the tunes,glad to take wfmu with me on this trip.
	10:02am queems: german sure is something
	10:02am Krys O.: Der Computer Nr. 3 is great!
	10:02am dale: ha ha - this is great.
	10:03am pantz: This is zany
	10:03am Listener Christoph: Wow, that song is about computer-matched dating!
	👻 10:03am NotARealDoctor: @queems, it's definitely a language! That much I know!
	10:03am Dennis Diken: also mourning France Gall's passing, but digging the show Joe. love Ann-Margret's "Slowly," a textbook example of Otis Blackwell's writing style
	10:03am Brad: Listening in Denmark Joe. Thanks for the great show thus far!
	👻 10:04am NotARealDoctor: Wow, I hadn't heard about FG's passing until just now. Very sad. :(
	10:04am djsheilab: "Chanson pour que tu m'aimes"!!!!! In my top 3 France Gall songs!
	10:08am sugarplumfairywolf: I own all these FG songs yet I still am going to put off getting up so I can listen to this set.
	10:09am KP: Hello from the treadmill, Jooooooooeee
	👻 10:10am NotARealDoctor: This is a beautiful song, makes my heart ache <3
	10:10am dale: trying to find a good johnny and france video, they performed together often...
	10:13am sugarplumfairywolf: I only recently found out that the British performer at Eurovision that year slapped France Gall!!!
	10:14am queems: i love silly albums
	10:15am queems: this sounds pretty much exactly like what i expected
	10:16am annie: here's an odd question: there's a netflix series called "Haters back off"... the lead character's name is amanda (??). she wants to break into the music industry. her singing is awful.. i wonder if she's a spin-off of another amanda we know..
	10:17am queems: i thought her name was miranda
	10:18am Krys O.: Oh, Nichols and May... <3
	10:18am dale: joe, have you ever heard 'when dalliance was in flower (and women lost their heads)?' - ed mccurdy, alan arkin and i forget the third person.
	10:18am annie: in the show, she is mistakenly called amanda ... so... close..
	10:19am βrian: I don't feel dressed without my merkin.
	10:19am queems: this guy is making me furious
	10:20am annie: i broke my eyeteeth on N&M..
	👻 10:21am Hughie Considine: Kind of interesting that Nichols plumbed wigs for comedy when he suffered from alopecia totalis. Maybe it helped him process his follicular deficiency?
	10:22am steveo: "that's right"
	10:22am dale: this sounds like steve martins' 'king tut' slowed down.
	10:23am βrian: Follicular deficiency, or apparent deficiency, is very much in fashion these days.
	10:23am βrian: With the exception of the beardy, I guess.
	10:24am dale: is this the brute force of the fuh king?
	10:25am The Oscar: Has anyone ever made a comp of faux Tom Lehrers?
	10:25am Joe McG: @dale: Yes, that's the fella.
	👻 10:26am NotARealDoctor: @The Oscar, you just read my mind, was thinking the same thing
	10:26am annie: this guy could be tom lerher
	10:27am annie: great brains think in the same gutter y'all
	10:27am Leelee: @Brian, eyebrows are an exception. If you've got to draw on eyebrows, for lack thereof, it's noticed. Ever notice someone w/o eyebrows? You kind of can't help noticing. Not in a good way.
	10:28am MD: Hello Gang! Happy 1918...!
	👻 10:28am NotARealDoctor: I remember reading about someone else recently who copied Tom Lehrer's sound, but I can't remember who it was
	10:29am βrian: Some time back, a cafe forbade its employees to have facial hair, thinking it unseemly. So they shaved off their eyebrows.
	10:29am The Oscar: I used to work at a record store in Harvard Square down the street from Tom Lehrer's house. It was always amusing reading articles about what a recluse he was when I could see him ambling down the street nearly every day.
	10:31am dale: cool and strange music did nice pieces on both tom lehrer and brute force. that was a fun zine .
	10:31am Cheri Pi: Joe! First day back at work and the boards
	10:31am Paul D: Is Michele C. at the station? Tell her Paul D. from the comments board said thanks for the cool NJ turnpike sticker with my WFMU devo shirt.
	👻 10:31am Hughie Considine: Whoopie Goldberg made shaving off eyebrows hip, I do believe.
	10:31am Dean: Charlie Byrd plays guitar on the album on which "Fallout" appears. And the liner notes are in English and hieroglyphics. That has to be a first.
	10:32am Joe McG: Hey Cheri! Happy New Year! @PaulD: I'll definitely tell her!
	10:32am Paul D: Thanks Joe Happy New Year
	10:34am Todd-o-phonic Todd: It's the real Morning Joe.
	10:34am northguineahills: I don't believe I've ever heard the Fall on WFMU ;)
	10:35am Joe McG: Hey, Todd! Ha ha @Dean: Wow!
	10:36am glenn: no eyebrows or a unibrow? tough decision.
	10:36am steveo: @ngh Brian Turner had them on live a while ago, IIRC
	10:36am βrian: "I'm with Frida."
	10:37am Leelee: Yikes, reading Brian's and Hughie C's comments sent me to google. Surprised to see shaving off eyebrows is/was a thing.
	10:38am βrian: Yup, akin to a hunger strike with those employees.
	10:38am glenn: is hickory holler in harlan county?
	10:38am northguineahills: I'm more of a Frida Kahlo sees Brian Damn it!
	10:39am pantz: It's just south of Big Bone Lick, KY.
	10:39am steveo: speaking of country music, this weekend I learned that Hank Williams passed away on new year's day in 1953 (wkcr has great country music shows on sundays...)
	10:39am Brendan: Oh man poor kid!
	10:40am annie: i have a friend who had her eyebrows shaved and got tatooed replacements
	10:40am pantz: Cheech & Chong!
	10:40am queems: i like all of these stories of southern hussies
	👻 10:41am Hughie Considine: Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'... poetry!
	👻 10:41am karlward: YES. "Earache My Eye" is my personal theme song. "Basketball Jones" was once in the running though, in eighth grade.
	10:41am annie: i love this... i lol each time i hear it
	10:41am jess: on the radioewwwewww
	10:41am dale: yes! who all is on this? george harrison, carole king, billy preston...
	10:41am queems: so good
	10:41am Parq: Chris Shenkel, don't sing nuthin'.
	10:41am Mister Dobalina: That basketball was like a basketball to me....hahahah. Never heard this before!
	10:42am CeeDubbles: I shaved my eyebrows after seeing The Wall in Times Sq high as a mountain goat, tanked on gin and apple cider. Not a good look with a full beard and jewfro, only slightly better with a high&tight a week later.
	10:42am dale: i didn't hear the cheech and chong christmas thing this year. i heard the waitresses way too much.
	10:43am pantz: Alopecia Universalis has made me hip, like Whoopi.
	👻 10:43am Hughie Considine: I got more moves than Ex-Lax!
	10:43am Jim Devoid: Ha! Just called my kid Basketball Jones this morning!
	10:43am annie: i've been wondering what to YT binge on... chhech and ching, here i caom...after the noisy hour
	10:44am dale: you can tell that single was well loved.
	10:44am annie: ok, who took over my keyboard??
	10:44am steveo: Musicians who appeared on the record included George Harrison,[1] Billy Preston, Tom Scott, and Carole King (the record became the highest peaking single on which King appeared during 1973). The Blossoms and Michelle Phillips (from The Mamas & the Papas) performed vocals as cheerleaders on the track. [wikipedia]
	10:45am dale: my keyboard is so full of cat hair and cookie crumbs - amazing it still works.
	10:45am eric from lake hiawatha: I have not heard this in Years, bless you
	10:46am Parq: Digging this deep cut from the "Fatal Attraction" soundtrack.
	10:46am βrian: Are you sure those aren't kibble crumbs?
	10:47am annie: mine is full of fabric dross... lint, etc..
	10:47am JtotheK: oh cool - 'the wash!' -- hi Joe, hi everyone.
	10:48am dale: i've never eaten cat food. sampled dog food when i was a kid, not so bad really.
	10:49am JakeGould: Hey Joe! I did the wash yesterday!
	10:49am Joe McG: Good job, Jake!
	10:50am glenn: bone appetit, y'all.
	10:50am dale: my cat peanut who had a leaky bladder got onto my mac laptop once and i chased her off and the screen was dark and i heard sizzling. by that point it was too old to bother fixing.
	10:51am queems: poor peanut
	10:51am dale: is this the gene and debbie who did 'playboy?'
	10:52am Joe McG: @dale: Yup! I played the B.
	10:56am melinda: Dale when I was a kid I sampled and liked both.
	10:56am josh in the uk: What a great song! Never heard of this band before. Love the synth.
	10:57am dale: melinda - did you have a shiny coat?
	10:58am josh in the uk: Oh, it's Frank Sidebottom!
	10:58am melinda: Haha, no
	10:58am Dean: There's a theme for a show, or some portion thereof: songs by one musical artist about another musical artist. "Roll Over, Beethoven"?
	10:58am Joe McG: @josh: Yes, one and the same!
	10:59am Krys O.: This Teardrop song reminds me of high school.
	10:59am Paul D: Love this teardrop explodes song
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: The Negro Problem was also compelled to sing about The Teardrop Explodes.
	11:00am dale: haven't heard this in - forever.
	11:01am judy from croton: Thinking about Sharpie as eyebrow pencil. Anyone? Hate makeup but want eyebrows
	11:01am whattawino: Julian Cope, people! Yay!
	11:01am queems: @judy i’ve done it
	11:02am herb.nyc: nice TEARDROP segment. (aside - i mentioned a "first bounce" remark that w.c. fields said in The Bank Dick, to friend yesterday)
	👻 11:02am officina: Hey Joe, Digging the TE. Looking forward to another year of great shows...
	11:03am Aaron Working In Newark: Great song!!! Love this!
	11:04am glenn: i use sharpies to fix dings in stained wood. they'll probably work on eyebrows.
	11:05am josh in the uk: They did - Fassbender was playing FS.
	11:05am pantz: Yes, "Frank, with Michael Fassbinder!
	11:05am Tomophobic Tom from Detroit: Do that to me one more time once is never enough with a test of the emergency broadcast system like you.....
	👻 11:06am NotARealDoctor: It was a decent movie, too!
	11:06am Brendan: That EAS / Kevin Ayers remix is dope
	11:07am annie: i'm so glad the EAS is anthropomorphising itself. has anyone adopted it yet?
	11:08am melinda: I wonder when and why eyebrow sculpting became the norm. I missed the memo.
	11:08am MD: tie your own shoe laces MAN!!!
	👻 11:08am NotARealDoctor: You know during his solo career, Chris Seivey wrote a computer program for the Sinclair ZX81 to create a music video on the computer. The catch was that you had to copy the B side of his record to a cassette tape, then play the cassette in your ZX81.
	👻 11:09am NotARealDoctor: Here is that music video/single if anyone cares. It's a pretty catchy tune, though. www.youtube.com...
	11:11am queems: i REALLLLY want to go to golden fest
	11:12am queems: i want to take my macedonian-american mom
	👻 11:15am karlward: Love the Allman Brothers.
	11:15am northguineahills: Fairport reporting!
	👻 11:15am karlward: Oh wait.
	11:15am steveo: My Macedonian deskmate was happy to hear about Golden Fest... He says that weekend in the orthodox christian new year also.. (Cool queems.)
	11:16am dale: i could listen to matty groves for hours.
	11:16am dale: little matty warwick....
	11:17am northguineahills: Matty groves is probably my favorite Fairport track.
	11:17am steveo: ...took the train to grove street and walked over to fmu?
	11:17am Joe McG: @dale: It will only be about a half hour! :) @Brendan: Thanks, I worked on it all weekend. ;)
	11:17am Will: Wait, Matty Groves is 8 minutes long! That means....
	11:17am northguineahills: haha, Will! yep!
	11:18am queems: @steveo orthodox christmas was on saturday, too. but my family just does regular christmas because it’s easier. i’ve been wanting to go to golden fest for a couple years now, so maybe this is finally the year!
	11:19am annie: well, ya went and done it, you got me to clicky-star this episode..
	11:19am steveo: @queems He does both Christmases, haha. I hope you can go.
	11:20am northguineahills: Hey, I'm more of an Armenian Xmas guy, (which was on Friday, the only xtian faith to celebrate it then).
	11:20am MD: when will the FMU DJ's Re-discover...SONGS FROM THE WOOD???!!!!???
	11:21am judy from croton: Strictly a personal graphic preference, eyebrows. Also somebody said i needed them. Ah, vanity.
	👻 11:21am karlward: For future reference, I would be completely OK / ecstatic with hearing different versions of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" as well. I've never heard the Judy Collins or Nina Simone versions. It's a masterpiece of a song.
	11:21am Joe McG: @MD: Once our Fairport box set wears out. :) @karl: Nice idea!
	11:21am queems: @steveo that takes determination! after the first christmas, i’m christmased out. we used to do a small lunch thing on orthodox christmas when the older generation was still alive, but now that they are gone we are kind of meh on it
	11:23am queems: @md hopefully soon
	👻 11:23am karlward: Love Merle Haggard.
	👻 11:23am karlward: Oh wait.
	11:23am glenn: norman and nancy blake do a good matty groves.
	11:24am steveo: i think the 25th is more for his kids so they don't feel left out / sing it Richard Thompson!
	11:25am herb.nyc: @glenn - are you spk'ng of Teenage Fan Club's Norman Blake? is Nancy his wife?
	11:25am glenn: this was the tour where fairport and zeppelin jammed in l.a. after a zeppelin show, richard burned jimmy page to the ground, and peter grant destroyed the soundboard tapes.
	11:25am dale: you could also slip in shady grove and no one would ever know.
	11:25am glenn: no, the other norman blake.
	11:26am MD: GOD BLESS THE MURDER BALLAD!!!
	11:26am vanya moscow: well, it's a good way to learn the lyrics anyway
	11:27am Joe McG: A lot of killin' goin' on in this particular song. Violent world!
	11:27am steveo: i hope the sex was good, at least
	👻 11:27am Hughie Considine: Next I'd like to hear a more soulful take by Barry White.
	11:27am Joe McG: @glenn: Wow, I never heard that story, but I don't doubt it! BTW, this "Full House" era version of "Matty Groves" KICKS ASS!
	11:29am judy from croton: Sounds like someone may have been a little high while singing. But what guitar!!!
	11:29am Will: So much for worry that the versions would sound too much alike...!
	11:29am dale: 4 in the morning by jesse colin young, john finn's wife by nick cave, long time man by tim rose...
	11:30am northguineahills: Ok, we have a Lord Donald version, and Lord Arnold version, what's next?
	11:31am Booz: Jeezum crow that's some pickin
	11:31am Agent Peter: there's always the Tom Waits version
	11:32am queems: you don’t say
	11:32am dale: i'm curious to hear the joan baez version.
	11:32am queems: ok this one is funkiest and thus my favorite
	11:33am Asheville Jon: no no no! no tom waits!
	11:33am MD: tHIS IS cOOL joE! tHANKS!
	11:33am Mick: This set is above and beyond!!
	11:33am glenn: holy cow, there is a tom waits version, except it's entitled mathie grove.
	11:33am herb.nyc: @glenn thanks for korrecting me on blake
	11:33am Joe McG: @queems: Yes, it got a little funky. A later version of the band even did it with a reggae lilt, not kidding! Jah Arnold.
	11:34am abutthegreat: All Matty Grove radio?
	11:35am David in London: Joe, don’t worry about song overkill. Please keep playing versions of Matty Goves for the next 8 weeks...
	11:35am steveo: @ngh quite a list of variants at en.wikipedia.org...
	11:35am glenn: fun fact - matty groves is child ballad #81.
	11:36am Will: Jeez did even this band get into the amphetamines?
	11:36am dale: ugh, just ran out of cooking propane before i got to add the 'HAM FLAVOR' packet to my pea soup. it's cooked anyway.
	11:37am Joe McG: @Will: They are certainly speeding!
	11:37am Asheville Jon: what are the ingredients for 'ham FLAVOR' ?
	11:37am northguineahills: @steveo: I think I've been to that page before, thanks!
	11:37am queems: that is some aggro fiddle
	11:38am MD: BIG ENDING!!!
	11:38am dale: i was listing to some carolann pegg last night and i know she's a musicologist - i wonder if she works on categorizing and keeping the history of this music
	11:39am dale: hoping for an edgar winter's frankenstin conclusion.
	11:40am SeanG: happy birthday elvis presley!
	11:40am KP: Woo. Matty’s not getting up after that one
	11:42am rw: Poor Matty.
	11:43am KP: Where does Judy Dyble fit into all this
	11:43am glenn: irie matty.
	11:43am Asheville Jon: one step beyond!
	11:44am steveo: Fairport is playing in Bromsgrove, England on my birthday. Should I go?
	11:44am CeeDubbles: WHOOPS DON"T DO IT AGAIN!
	11:44am glenn: judy gets short shrift, but frankly, i'd replace her with sandy denny too.
	11:45am queems: o dear
	11:45am Joe McG: @steveo: Definitely! They still got it.
	11:45am Asheville Jon: hmm, debating whether or not to continue to like Richard after this.....
	11:45am pantz: Oh Richard, no.
	11:45am glenn: i love 1000 years of popular music. play i live in trafalgar square, please, joe.
	11:46am steveo: better work on my passport :)
	11:46am queems: well he definitely gave it the old white dude spin
	11:46am Joe McG: When he sings it, it drips with venom, doesn't it?
	11:46am jess: hilarious
	11:47am Joe McG: And now, from the silly to the sublime...
	11:47am Listener Scott: He does own it. I think there are a few versions of that.
	11:47am Scott Williams: Thanks Joe! I wonder what he'd do with "Email My Heart"...
	11:48am Joe McG: @ScottW: Or "Call Me Maybe," which would probably sound like a threat.
	11:49am Marc Francis: Damn. This song is gorgeous. Perfect for this snowy Quebec Monday morning.
	11:50am Scott Williams: @Joe, I think he might leave off the "maybe"!
	11:51am slugluv1313: @ steveo -- YES YES YES!!!!!!!! @ Joe McG -- THANK YOU for a brilliant show! been listening but just hadda tell you how cool and great it is to hear those different versions of "Matty Groves;" really helps to heal a thoroughly crappy morning! as does RT covering "Oops, I Did It Again" -- thoroughly BIZARRE but i like it!
	11:52am Joe McG: @slugluv: Glad you enjoyed the show!
	👻 11:54am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:54am queems: thanks joe! great show, as always
	11:55am Booz: Great show end to end!
	11:55am steveo: thanks for the great show, Joe. See you in a coupla weeks.
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Stay tuned for Lola Pistola on Three Chord Monte. See you next time!
	11:56am northguineahills: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am rw: Thank you Mr. McGasko!
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: Oops is a solid pop song, heard it just the other day and I wasn't repulsed, but R T's cover does drip, wonder why he covered it.
	11:59am annie: thanks joe.... great show today!
	12:00pm Ochre Ogre: Cheers Joe, was going to request some Trees- Garden of Jane Delawney.
	👻 12:00pm doctorjazz: Like that RT cover myself Thanks, Joe

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 8, 2018

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