WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 08/17/18

Listener comments!

7:48am Uncle Michael:

Good morning.

8:02am Doug Schulkind:

Good Uncle.

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8:05am Brian in UK:

Good dog, sit.

8:07am Doug Schulkind:

Funny you should say. I am in a sleepless haze having been up most the night with a dog having a panic attack. Just the slightest change in barometric pressure gives her the going-out-of-my-mind-over-a-coming-thunderstorm blues.

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8:15am Brian in UK:

Should be a great show then. No, really.

8:16am Doug Schulkind:

Really really.

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8:19am Brian in UK:

Well, sort of, kind of, like.

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8:37am doctorjazz:

My last dog had major anxiety issues. They started 1 year during the 4th if July firecracker assault on the ears; every time it thundered or any other loud noise sent her unde the bed, and I couldn't get her to go out for days unless I carried her down the steps from my 3rd floor Park Slope walk up apartment (it was no fun).

8:57am annie:

good morning everyone!

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8:58am dutchtheo:

Howdy soul sisters and -brothers #2
(Where We'll) Never Grow Old
When our work here is done
And the life-crown is won
And our troubles and trials are o'er
All our sorrow will end
And our voices will blend
With the loved ones who've gone on before.

9:01am Uncle Michael:

Show's over?!

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

You can tell I'm sleep deprived. I just started the show with my out theme.

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
Interrobang‽

9:03am Uncle Michael:

My baby shot me down.

9:05am annie:

well, doug if you feel you want to cat-nap, then put on a long track...

9:06am Uncle Michael:

Put on a long cat.

9:07am mauri:

good morning

9:09am Doug Schulkind:

Hi mauri! Hi Uncle! Hi annie! Hi Brian in UK! Hi dutchtheo! Hi doctorjazz!

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9:13am duke:

Good morning All
Farewell Queen of Soul

9:14am holland orts:

drumma! peoples! eternal soul sisters!

9:15am Doug Schulkind:

duke and holland orts sittin' in a tree, L-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G!

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9:21am Brian in UK:

Thi puts me in mind of Peter Sellers/Sophia Lorens' Goodness Gracious Me

9:22am Doug Schulkind:

Your mind is a wonderful place to be, Brian in UK.

9:25am Webhamster Henry:

This Orbit is kind of Joe Meeky.

9:27am mauri:

its such a happy place up there on orbit

9:29am Doug Schulkind:

The Meek shall orbit the Earth eternally, never inheriting it, exactly.

9:31am Lewis:

yikes...

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9:32am Brian in UK:

Here is a photograph of the carillon in a church near us.
www.alamy.com...

9:33am Doug Schulkind:

Frickin hate mp3s. Can't live without 'em. Hate 'em.

9:34am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome, Lewis! Despite that offensive sound.

9:34am holland orts:

is this mr disco raga?

9:42am coelacanth∅:

guten morgen Doug, Drummers & other Lovers

...hello,Buzz.

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9:44am doctorjazz:

Jelly Roll's blues have this great, casual intensity and soul. (the content not so casual, just the singing style). Love it!

9:46am Doug Schulkind:

OK, killed the buzz. Looks like it was a failing turntable amp. Unfortunately, bad things happen in threes. What's next?

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9:47am Sam Segal:

This Jelly Roll is miraculous, Doug. Hey, gang!

9:48am coelacanth∅:

i have a recording of Jelly Roll talking about how he did these songs because he played piano and he might be considered foofy. (his actual words were that he "didn't want the feminine thing on so ... started making the songs kinda smutty")

9:48am Listener Gregory:

I love these old romantic songs!

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

You ol' softy, LG.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Sam! Howdy, coelacanth∅!

9:52am still b/p:

His name alone is smutty already, yeah?
Good morning all.

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9:52am doctorjazz:

Library of Congress recordings (looks like they can be downloaded free, Googled, but difficult to link on phone}
But here's the link I think
www.loc.gov...

9:53am Uncle Michael:

I hope this song never ends.

9:54am coelacanth∅:

maybe she'll give birth in prison and her daughter kills someone and the whole thing starts over again

9:55am Doug Schulkind:

It is said that Jelly Roll asked Alan Lomax if he should do this song "clean" and Lomax encouraged him not to.

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9:57am dutchtheo:

That good whiskey makes me moan...

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9:58am duke:

This song has something for everyone

9:58am coelacanth∅:

so, how was this recorded? tape? or consecutive disc cutters?

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9:59am Granny Spicy Tuna:

Oh, my, gooood morning!

9:59am Listener Gregory:

This song is the story of my life.

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

Not consecutive. I think Jelly Roll played continuously with little piano interludes while Lomax changed the recording device.

10:00am Doug Schulkind:

Hee hee hee, it's GST!

10:01am thedunkel:

Good Morning Mr. Drummer!

10:01am coelacanth∅:

i guess "in series" is more what i meant

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10:07am Granny Spicy Tuna:

I'll never be the same.

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

Pleased to see you, thedunkel!

10:08am still b/p:

So, agreed: slated for inclusion in Music in Schools programming.

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

@Granny Spicy Tuna
Don't ever change, my dear!

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10:09am Granny Spicy Tuna:

This song is breaking my brain apart and reconfiguring all the parts.

10:10am coelacanth∅:

can we hear Lucile Bogen after this?

10:12am Listener Gregory:

Liner notes reveal that the Morton recordings were on two battery-powered Presto disc recording machines, so that Lomax could switch discs with a minimum of delay.

10:16am coelacanth∅:

thanks Listener G that's the basic set-up i was imagining.

10:16am still b/p:

Heard a great clip yesterday of Aretha's father preaching.

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for the 411, Listener Gregory.

Good morning, still b/p!

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

@coelacanth∅
I'm too young to listen to Lucille Bogan.

10:18am Jeff Golick:

Timing is everything...Until it is.

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

Roswell Rudd on trombone here. Oh yes oh yes!

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10:25am dutchtheo:

and double double bass with Lewis Worrell and Walter Booker

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

@dutchtheo
I think it's just Booker on this number and three others. Worrell plays on Little Blue Devil only. I believe.

10:29am Webhamster Henry:

A jazzed up Kurt Weill tune!

10:29am ausmanx:

now this is a new experience for me, listening to doug in daylight! greetings from ugly london, fresh from visiting brian in lovely shropshire!

10:30am Doug Schulkind:

Words by Ira Gershwin, Webhamster Henry. Hello!

And greetings from UL, ausmanx!

10:31am Mr C:

Vortex was distributed by Atlantic, but who owned the label?

10:32am Doug Schulkind:

Vortex was an Atlantic subsidiary, no, Mr C?

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10:33am dutchtheo:

it sounded like two; I got my informaation from AllMusic;"You Know How We Do," recorded by a pianoless septet with Roswell Rudd on trombone, percussionist Archie Lee, and second bassist Lewis Worrell. The stark, gospel-style head (also deeply influenced by Coleman), where it exists at all, is supplanted by the dual bass fury and a solidly rhythmic attack -- even the solo phrasings on the brass and saxophone underscore this.

10:33am Doug Schulkind:

My man Joel Dorn produced a number of the Vortex releases (including the Robin Kenyatta we just heard), but not this Chick Corea effort. The producer of this record?....

Herbie Mann

10:34am Doug Schulkind:

Herbie Mann's son Geoff once played live on my show, leading the Eternal Buzz Brass Band.

10:35am Doug Schulkind:

@dutchtheo
You may just be right. The info I had didn't list Roswell Rudd on the track I played, but I clearly heard him. So...

10:36am fred:

Good morning Doug and all

10:37am Jeff Golick:

Stuck in a vortex and I don't want to get out.

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

This Byard Lancaster LP was produced by Joel Dorn.
(Joel Dorn to whom I am eternally grateful for his kind words in the liner notes to his Yusef Lateef reissue, The Man With the Big Front Yard.)

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10:39am dutchtheo:

I think that John Cale and Lou Reed listened to this, back in 1966

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

Good afternoon, fred!

Good vortex, Jeff Golick!

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

Sonny Sharrock on guitar here with Byard Lancaster. We'll hear from Sonny next. And from the magnificent Linda Sharrock as well.

10:43am Andrew Waterloo:

Good morning. Hoping you can help me drown out the sound of a scissor lift alarm

10:44am Jeff Golick:

Huh. This seems a curious item in the Vortex catalog: www.discogs.com...

10:45am Little Danny:

Mornin' Doug, mornin' all

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10:45am Sam Segal:

I once played this Byard Lancaster record on my college radio show at the University of Minnesota. Got a call on the studio line, picked up the phone, and heard in a thick southern accent, "Is this Byard Lancaster?!" I told the gentleman that it was indeed. He said, "Wow, I studied under Byard Lancaster in the '70s." The guy on the phone turned out to be George Cartwright, saxophonist from the great Downtown NYC act Curlew. Ended up having him on my show several times after that, all triggered by that amazing Byard Lancaster album.

10:47am Jeff Golick:

Wow great story and experience, @Sam!

Also: MILFORD GRAVES.

10:47am Doug Schulkind:

"My Back Pages" appeared on Keith Jarrett's Vortex LP Somewhere Before. But I'm not sure Lay Lady Lay every appeared on LP.

10:48am Doug Schulkind:

DJing truth to power: Sam Segal!

10:49am Jeff Golick:

Linda Sharrock is keepin' on, btw: improvising-beings.bandcamp.com...

10:51am fred:

That Sharrock track came conveniently pre-clicky-starred

10:51am Listener Gregory:

Linda Sharrock is being accompanied by road paving outside my window. Both can be seen as a valiant protest against the inevitable.

10:58am Listener Gregory:

From now on would like to be known as Listener Gregoree.

10:59am Listener Gregory:

Road work stopped coincident with Linda Sharrock! Coincidence?

11:00am Doug Schulkind:

Aretha had two children (or soon would have) at the time of this recording.

11:02am coelacanth∅:

i guess she yielded to temptation

11:04am Jeff Golick:

I enjoyed this little anecdote: "Etta James once recalled listening to Franklin’s version of Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael’s standard “Skylark.” In the second verse, Franklin jumps an octave. “I had to scratch my head and ask myself, How the fuck did that bitch do that? I remember running into Sarah Vaughan, who always intimidated me. Sarah said, ‘Have you heard of this Aretha Franklin girl?’ I said, ‘You heard her do ‘Skylark,’ didn’t you?’ Sarah said, ‘Yes, I did, and I’m never singing that song again.’ ”

11:04am Doug Schulkind:

Spirit in the Dark, an Aretha composition.

11:05am Doug Schulkind:

Duane Allman on guitar, I believe.

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
That anecdote stood out to me, too.

11:12am Dean:

Last Friday Doug played a track (twice!) from a 2005 compilation of early '50s gospel music out of Texas. On that day I ordered the comp from Amoeba, along with Aretha's Amazing Grace. The next day we learned that Aretha's health was declining precipitously. The Texas comp arrived yesterday. It's amazing. Still waiting on Amazing Grace, though.

11:13am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Amazing Grace is coming. It is coming. It shall come.

11:14am Doug Schulkind:

On of the great existential numbers OF ALL TIME.

11:15am jessie:

That's the one.

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

My beloved Jessie taught me to love this one.

11:16am jessie:

Lawyers gotta love proving it.

11:17am Doug Schulkind:

APOTHEOSIS

11:18am Jeff Golick:

sacred = profane, and vice versa

11:19am Doug Schulkind:

High point in American culture (whatever the fuck that is)?

11:20am Jeff Golick:

"Ain't it right? Yes, it is."

11:21am Doug Schulkind:

Emily J. Lordi wrote a spectacular piece in the New Yorker on this performance: www.newyorker.com...

(She is referring to the March 6 version of Dr. Feelgood. This version is from a different night.)

11:21am Doug Schulkind:

Dr. Feelgood, an Aretha original.

11:22am Goyim in the AM:

This is a terrific set to hear both the effortlessness and INCREDIBLE WORK that her singing could be at the same time.

11:22am northguineahills:

Thanks for the Aretha!

11:23am rw:

Morning! Thanks for this. Amazing.

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

So glad you're here, Goyim in the AM! And hey-ho, northguineahills! Oh boy, and rw, too!

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

I think the hippies liked her.

11:24am Listener Gregory:

I am buying this record the second the show ends.

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

She was worried they wouldn't.

11:25am northguineahills:

Haven't had a health emergency that wasn't injury induced in 27 years. If I don't improve by tomorrow, to the ER I go (my next Dr visit isn't for another 3 weeks(

11:26am Dean:

I've been trying to get my hands on the box set of Atlantic releases.

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11:27am doctorjazz:

Man.. .....

11:27am holland orts:

heart

11:29am Sem:

Glad I made it in time for the service, been sitting in the back pews, letting the wonder wash over me.

Thanks, Doug.

11:35am Dean:

@ngh: Sorry to hear about your continuing woes. Can't go to urgent care, sooner rather than later? I've been fighting my mom's medical issues lately. It's crap.

11:35am Doug Schulkind:

Wash, rinse, repeat, Sem.

11:35am Uncle Michael:

Please join me umm...sometime after the top of the hour for Hinky Dinky Time.

www.wfmu.org...

11:37am Listener Gregory:

Stephen Colbert played a great clip of Aretha at the Kennedy Center honors singing "Natural Woman" in honor of Carole King. It's on the show's website and is well worth checking out, if you have taken all your heart medication.

11:37am northguineahills:

@Dean: It was a minor annoyance for a while, but in the last two weeks, it's flared into a serious issue. I'm seeing the medication helps. However, one keeps me up at night and makes me nauseous, which keeps me from ingesting the other ones, I'm on day three of my medical regimen.

11:38am northguineahills:

I'm there, Gregory!

11:38am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
That performance is stunning. The mink-drop is one for the ages. Our president wiping away a tear. Oh, the humanity.

11:38am Monica:

you're killin' it, doug!

11:39am northguineahills:

I don't want to alarm my wife, after what she went though w/ her cancer, but she's urging me to do such and see a GP in addition to the specialist. (I couldn't hide it from her for too long)

11:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm here for the Aretha songs. Wish it was under better circumstances.

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

Thrilled to have you along for the ride, Monica. Radioway of love.

11:40am Listener Gregory:

@Doug Few people can really carry off a mink drop.

11:41am Mr C:

Mr DJ had a cool, fun appeal. It just came out and slunk away in the Aretha canon.

11:41am Doug Schulkind:

Love and blessings to you, Ken From Hyde Park.

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

Soul Sister Number One

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

Viola – Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke
Violin – Gayle Dixon, Julien Barber, Noel DaCosta, Sanford Allen
Cello – Kermit Moore, Ronald Lipscomb

These motherfuckers are killing it.

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11:44am dutchtheo:

hang on in there mr. dj! Thanks for the soul!

11:44am Listener Gregory:

Thank God they didn't try to fake the strings with a synthesizer.

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11:44am Brian in UK:

Is there an Aretha Day yet?

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

Columbia University radio WKCR will be doing an all-day Aretha memorial broadcast on Sunday.

www.cc-seas.columbia.edu...

11:45am Jeff Golick:

Aretha could also pull off a "wig drop." www.youtube.com...

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Oh yeah. That is the baddest bad-ass moment of truth in American stagecraft.

11:46am rw:

Heading out now. Will be listening from the car. Thanks again Doug! Later everone. ngh, hope the health issues get better soon!

11:47am Goyim in the AM:

This is a side of Purdie you don't really get from his Beatles work.

11:47am Doug Schulkind:

Keep both ears on the wheel, rw.

11:51am Doug Schulkind:

So many sides to Mr. Purdie.

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11:54am doctorjazz:

NGH, sorry to hear it, not sure what the problem is, but hope you can get to see someone soon, sounds like it needs attention. Hopefully get well soon!

11:55am Doug Schulkind:

Please do me the honor of staying tuned for Uncle Michael's Hinky Dinky Time broadcast, up next here on the Drummer Stream. After a power-loss knocked him off the air last week, you can only guess what kind of POWERHOUSE show he has in store for us today.

PLAYLIST: wfmu.org...

11:55am Rich in Washington:

This is lovely, Doug!
No voice like Aretha's.

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Hello radio brother Rich!

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

"How I Got Over" is probably my favorite performance on this LP, but that would not be the track to end all tracks today.

11:58am Listener Gregory:

I Never Loved a Show (the Way I Loved This One).
Thanks, Doug.

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

I think it's Rev. James Cleveland on piano (he is credited). But does anyone know for sure?

11:59am Uncle Michael:

Thank for the show, Doug...see you all in the next room...

12:00pm Rich in Washington:

catching up on the comment board - been listening while stuck in traffic until now....

12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

See you in the upper room, Aretha.

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

B♥ck atcha, Listener Gregory.

12:02pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Zats, isn't there a button to favorite this episode? I don't see the clicky-star for that.

12:02pm Mr C:

There's no where to go after this...silence is our canvas.

12:03pm Doug Schulkind:

Just put your hand on your heart, Ken From Hyde Park.

12:03pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Ah, there it is. Thanks, Doug!

12:03pm northguineahills:

Bravo, Ser Duggy!

12:04pm Jeff Golick:

I think it's Aretha at the piano: " Aretha smiled as her father spoke, and moments later as she seated herself behind a piano and started to play “God Will Take Care of You” and began to perspire, he took out his handkerchief and wiped her brow while she sang and pounded the keys." www.billboard.com...

12:04pm Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Doug! That was beautiful!

12:04pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Just to the right of the date. My eyes are blurry & watering for some strange reason.

12:06pm Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
I'm gonna have to put you on retainer! Thanks for the info!

12:09pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Doug
had to drift away for a bit but great program none-the-less!
take care

12:11pm Doug Schulkind:

Ridiculously happy to oblige, coelacanth∅!

10:29am thedunkel:

That bernard purdie track is amazing!

10:30am Doug Schulkind:

Preach, thedunkel, preach!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Appendix	Space Trip	Space Trip (Amigo 1973)
S. Torossi	Sweet-Beat	Speedball Experience: Obscure Pop Jazz from Early '70s Italian Music Library (Editions Giaguaro )
The Whitefield Brothers	Weiya (Serengeti Beat)	In the Raw (Soul Fire 2001)
Balsara & His Singing Sitars	My Favorite Things	The Sound of Music (Odeon 1967)
Ziad Rahbani	Second Introduction	Bennesbeh Labokra...Chou? (Relax-In 1978)
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan	Orbit Aurora	b/w Song of the Second Moon (Limelight 1968)
Cults Percussion Ensemble	Autun Carillion	Cults Percussion Ensemble (Highland Recording Studio/Trunk 1979)
Charanjit Singh	Manje Re	Bollywood Steel Guitar (Sublime Frequencies 1973)
Franz Auffray	Son of Popcorn the First (The Original)	Original Popcorn (Egg 1969)
Jelly Roll Morton	The Murder Ballad (pts, 1-7)	Complete Library of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax (Rounder 1938)

Robin Kenyatta	You Know How We Do	Until (Vortex 1966)
Chick Corea	This Is New	Tones for Joan's Bones (Vortex 1966)
Byard Lancaster	Satan	It's Not Up to Us (Vortex 1966)
Sonny & Linda Sharrock	Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black	Black Woman (Vortex 1969)

Aretha Franklin	Yield Not to Temptation (Listen: Pop-up)	Aretha Gospel (Chess 1956)
Aretha Franklin	Spirit in the Dark	Spirit in the Dark (Atlantic 1970)
Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted and Black	Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic 1971)
Nikki Giovanni & the New York Community Choir	Poem for Aretha (Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen)	Truth Is on Its Way (Right-On 1971)
Aretha Franklin	Prove It	Aretha Arrives (Atlantic 1967)
Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)	I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You) (Atlantic 1967)
Aretha Franklin	Dr. Feelgood	Live at Fillmore West (Atlantic 1971)
George Jackson	Aretha, Sing One for Me	b/w I'm Gonna Wait (Hi 1972)

Aretha Franklin	Rock Steady	b/w Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) (Atlantic 1971)
Aretha Franklin	Mr. DJ (5 for the DJ)	b/w As Long as You Are There (Atlantic 1975)
Bernard Purdie	Song for Aretha	Soul Is...Pretty Purdie (Flying Dutchman 1971)
Aretha Franklin	Amazing Grace	Amazing Grace (Atlantic 1972)

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