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A three-hour exploration of excavations from the farthest reaches of humanity's hellish collective brain, through records, tapes, CDs, mostly scoured from country bumpkin thrift stores, creepy charity shops, backwoods junk stores, and even the internet - all mixed live. We don't judge, we just play 'em. Hosted by Rich in Washington.

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Favoriting February 22, 2019: Stare With Your Ears: A Brief Tribute to Ken Nordine



Stare With Your Ears

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Ken Nordine  Word Jazz Episode One   Favoriting Word Jazz Radio Show  WBEZ    MP3     

Music behind DJ:
Fred Katz 
Elegy   Favoriting
Fred Katz and his Jammers 
Decca 
1960 
LP 
 
0:02:55 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Sound Paintings   Favoriting Word Jazz  Dot Records  1957  LP    0:04:14 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Anytime, Anytime   Favoriting Son of Word Jazz  Dot Records  1957  LP    0:11:19 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  My Baby   Favoriting Word Jazz  Dot Records  1957  LP    0:13:25 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  I Used To Think My Right Hand Was Uglier Than My Left   Favoriting Son of Word Jazz  Dot Records  1957  LP    0:16:01 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Black   Favoriting Colors: A Sensuous Listening Experience  Asphodel  1995  CD  Orig. released 1966 on Philips.  0:18:31 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Gold   Favoriting Colors: A Sensuous Listening Experience  Asphodel  1995  CD    0:19:50 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Bury It Yourself Time Capsule   Favoriting You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters  Hip-O Select  2005  CD    0:21:37 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  The Vidiot   Favoriting Word Jazz  Dot Records  1957  LP    0:24:27 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Manned Satellite   Favoriting You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters  Hip-O Select  2005  CD    0:29:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fred Katz 
Imagination   Favoriting
Fred Katz and his Jammers 
Decca 
1960 
LP 
 
0:32:16 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  All The Things You Are   Favoriting Love Words  Hamilton   1959  LP    0:36:10 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Set Up / Speech Rehearsal   Favoriting Allied High Fidelity "Voice and Vision" Store Opening  WFMU's Beware of the Blog  1957  MP3  via Bob Purse  0:37:00 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Six Commercials In Search Of A Client [excerpt]   Favoriting Words We Live By / Six Commercials In Search Of A Client  Evatone Soundsheets  1970?  MP3    0:41:46 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Control the World   Favoriting Six Anti-Drug PSA’s  WFMU's Beware of the Blog  ?  MP3  Bob Purse again.  0:44:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fred Katz 
Dexterity   Favoriting
Fred Katz and his Jammers 
Decca 
1960 
LP 
 
0:45:59 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Live on Night Music   Favoriting Night Music Episode #119  NBC Television  1989  MP3    0:47:48 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Conqueror Worm   Favoriting Closed On Account Of Rabies - Poems And Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe  Mercury  1997  CD    0:51:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fred Katz 
Imagination   Favoriting
Fred Katz and his Jammers 
Decca 
1960 
LP 
 
0:54:27 (Pop-up)
 
BONUS CONTENT!
Ken Nordine  Radio Play: Two Heads Are Better (1950)   Favoriting Seven Classic Albums Plus Bonus Tracks  Real Gone  2013  CD    0:57:21 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  7:00pm
Martinibomb:

No I DO THE ROCK!
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Rich in Washington:

Hello!
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Don-O:

Rock out with Ken!!!!
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Mr Fab:

I do the roll!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Otis Fodder:

Staring, ahem, listening.
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Mr Fab:

Sad we had to lose Nordine, but hey, we get this whole show, so...
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Rich in Washington:

Hi Don-O!
Hi Mr. Fab!
Hi Martinibomb!
Hi Otis!
Thanks for tuning in everyone!
Avatar 7:02pm
Don-O:

Yo-Yoddle to you, Rich!
  7:02pm
Martinibomb:

The guy had a good life he lived way longer than most people. And wow his studio was kinda impressive.. was looking thru some documentarys/interviews he was an impressive fellow. Colors first album I bought at Tower Records Beaverton when I first moved here
Avatar 7:03pm
Linda Lee:

how sweet hearing this. thanks Rich.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Rich in Washington:

Hi Linda Lee! Glad to see you here!
Avatar 7:04pm
Linda Lee:

i feel as if Ken's voice is one of the threads running through my time.
Avatar 7:05pm
Mr Fab:

Martinibomb, "Colors" was one of the LAST albums I bought on vinyl from the late great Rhino Records store.
Avatar 7:05pm
Linda Lee:

wouldn't miss it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Rich in Washington:

Oh man. The Beaverton Tower was my mecca as a teenager!
  7:06pm
Martinibomb:

got my copy of Joe Meeks' I hear a new world there too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Rich in Washington:

I know what you mean, LL. His voice was everywhere in my youth, so by the time I first heard his Word Jazz program, it was amazing.
  7:07pm
Martinibomb:

I never got to shop at Rhino tho an old roommate ended up working there for awhile
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Rich in Washington:

There was one dude who worked that store, and if it had his scrawled 'RECOMMENDED!' on the label, I knew I had to buy it.
  7:08pm
Martinibomb:

Really? You got to hear Nordine when you were a kid? Yeah I just walked into tower and it was there and I thought hmm.. this looks interesting
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Rich in Washington:

My copies of these records are really 'well loved'.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Rich in Washington:

Yeah. OPB ran Word Jazz in the late 70s and KBOO also played the Now Nordine program. We just found some Ken reel to reels in storage that got sent to him last year, which apparently he didn't have them.
Avatar 7:09pm
Mr Fab:

Nordine really was one of the last surviving figures from the original Beat era, wasn't' he?
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Linda Lee:

i grew up in nyc in the 60s & 70s, sure i heard him on public radio..
Avatar 7:10pm
Linda Lee:

not sure how you'd hear him outside metro areas.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Rich in Washington:

I guess he was. How's Ferlinghetti doing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Rich in Washington:

Good thing we disabled that dead air thingamajig
  7:11pm
Martinibomb:

@Linda yeah you wouldn't i grew up in the woods so... had a lot to learn when I moved to a metro. always feel ike I'm trying to catch up still.. hahah
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Mr Fab:

Oh yeah, Ferlinghetti's still hanging in there, City Lights Books protected by the San Fran government I believe against development into condos
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Linda Lee:

i know i am! no such animal i suspect :-)
  7:12pm
Martinibomb:

I didn't even know who Kraftwerk was hah
Avatar 7:13pm
Linda Lee:

i hope i never catch up really..
did hear kraftwerk on the radio in junior high. we thought they were hilarious.
  7:13pm
Martinibomb:

I think I have an outsider's ear because of where I was raised tho.. so not all bad
Avatar 7:13pm
Mr Fab:

I gotta lot of respect for the small-town kids who worked to get hep. I didn't have to do anything really, was just around me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Rich in Washington:

Radio and later zines and magazines were my lifeline. And later record mail order catalogs. I was really fortunate to have a really weird radio station, KBOO, within earshot.
Avatar 7:15pm
Linda Lee:

i feel the same way, growing up in ny *but* of course you have to seek things out that will really interest you. not everything will.
  7:16pm
Martinibomb:

I think there were 50 people in my highschool if that gives you an idea
Avatar 7:16pm
Linda Lee:

nice! that's nice.
  7:17pm
Martinibomb:

the only thing that saved me were used bookstores.. like who's this Martin Denny guy.. yeah I kinda like this stuf.. Lol
Avatar 7:18pm
Linda Lee:

people who say we don't need libraries or bookstores really don't know what they're talking about.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Rich in Washington:

There was something like 1500 in my high school but most were dullards.
Avatar 7:18pm
grantbob:

Yes... Martin Denny and Lex Baxter were a gateway.
  7:19pm
Martinibomb:

@Rich my wife grew up in Vancouver and has fond memories of KBOO
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Rich in Washington:

Oh wow! I had no idea, Martinbomb! That's cool!
Avatar 7:21pm
Linda Lee:

i attended an arts high school in nyc ~ by senior year i sort of stopped going & went into the streets.
  7:21pm
Martinibomb:

I could kinda get Souther Oregon state college radio with Dr. Demento from time to time if conditions were right.. AM waves can travel far
Avatar 7:21pm
Don-O:

Zines seemed to be my gateway to a lot of this....then I discovered KXLU-FM in L. A., then I discovered Factsheet Five in Tower Records then it went on from there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Rich in Washington:

Yes. I think we can all trace our musical weirdness to the good Doctor.
Avatar 7:22pm
Don-O:

Speaking of KXLU, there was and still is Molotov Cocktail Hour! I still listen to them.
Avatar 7:22pm
βrian:

Picture windows. Who knows what those are, anymore?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Rich in Washington:

Hi βrian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks for tuning in!
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Linda Lee:

should i confess right here that i've never heard dr demento? :-)
Avatar 7:24pm
Don-O:

I remember listening to the Doctor and his old four hour show on KMET. I got my first taste of Leon Redbone, Tom Waits and Zappa.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Otis Fodder:

The good Dr. D, network of the Sub-G, and thrift stores were my gateway in the mid-late 80s. However, did not get into Nordine fully until mid-1990s when Colors was reissued on CD, then I was like, why did I bypass those Word Jazz LPs in bins before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Rich in Washington:

HA! No worries, LL! Maybe it was a weird adolescent boy thing. He can sort of polarize people.
  7:25pm
Martinibomb:

@Otis yup! That's the CD I picked up.. I mentioned earlier first purchase at Tower Records beaverton
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Linda Lee:

my own life was demented enough, apparently :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Rich in Washington:

I fairly recently bought this really cheap Nordine collection off Amazon (not this one) and it had most of his early records EXCEPT Colors. I was sort of mad, then looked for it online and it was by then out of print again and expensive. Then not a week later, I went to a Salvation Army and found a new CD of Colors for a buck. SO weird.
Avatar 7:27pm
Don-O:

Well, Dr. D just put out that Punk CD set.
Avatar 7:28pm
Linda Lee:

this vidiot thing is very amusing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Rich in Washington:

This is one of my favorite pieces by him.
Avatar 7:29pm
Mr Fab:

Dr D, like Mad Magazine, tapped into a smart - or at least, a smart-ass - youth's first sense that the adult world was preposterous, so feel free to laugh at it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Rich in Washington:

My whole family was raised on Mad Magazine. My parents would read it first and then it would get passed down the line.
Avatar 7:31pm
Linda Lee:

loved Mad as a kid, for sure. loved it visually!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Otis Fodder:

Time seems to move slow with Ken. Only 30 minutes, but it seems much longer and in this case, this is a VERY good thing.
Avatar 7:34pm
Linda Lee:

it is. absolutely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Rich in Washington:

I used magic time compression technology.
  7:35pm
Martinibomb:

agreed!
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Otis Fodder:

Whatever you are doing, keep doing.
Avatar 7:36pm
Linda Lee:

just decided: the next cat who adopts me will be named Ken Nordine.
Avatar 7:36pm
βrian:

Ooh, those brushes on the high hat! That mellifluous voice!
Avatar 7:37pm
Mr Fab:

ha, this is like one of those cheesy spoken word celebrity records
Avatar 7:38pm
Linda Lee:

interesting to hear his 'off mike' voice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Rich in Washington:

I hope the cat has the voice for it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Rich in Washington:

We briefly adopted a stray tom that I insisted on calling Early Tom Waits because of his deep, broken up meowl. No one else would call him that.
Avatar 7:41pm
Linda Lee:

wouldn't that be sweet!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Rich in Washington:

This thing is just a mic check but it's amazing.
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Linda Lee:

brilliant! Early Tom Waits! :-)
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βrian:

Was it true that Early Tom Waits for no man?
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Linda Lee:

yes, beautiful mic check.
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Mr Fab:

he was an Early Tomcat?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Rich in Washington:

We eventually found him a home with friends who had less cats than us, so, he didn't wait too long.
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Linda Lee:

my kinda crowd. more & less cats.
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βrian:

"Fewer cats," insists my grammarous beloved.

But more cats is preferrable to less cats, in any case. Just ask Colette.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Otis Fodder:

Really nice wide retrospect Rich! Thannnnnnnnks (in a long Nordine voice).
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Linda Lee:

thank you for the show, Rich! everything's set right again.
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Linda Lee:

it is fewer cats, but who's countin?
  7:49pm
Martinibomb:

when are we going to start the, "Pets Of Sheena's Jungle" fan page?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Rich in Washington:

Yay! Glad I could set SOMETHING right!
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βrian:

Thanks, @RIW. I shall revisit this show and share it with fellow Nordine Nerds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Otis Fodder:

Whaaaaat, I'll start taking pictures of my cat. When, when?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Otis!
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Linda Lee:

how does the 80s work sound dated, but the earlier stiff doesn't? got to be the instrumentation!
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Mr Fab:

"Night Music" cool show. used to VHS it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Rich in Washington:

βrian: Thanks for listening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Rich in Washington:

I know, LL! Weird, isn't it?
  7:52pm
Martinibomb:

we have a slack channel for Freeform Portland where everyone posts photos of their pets it's hilarious and awesome and super popular among the volunteers
Avatar 7:53pm
Linda Lee:

that Chuck Mangione flavor :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Rich in Washington:

I took a picture of my boy kitty Tigger playing with my turntables and I occasionally see it pop up on the web. It's kind of funny.
Avatar 7:54pm
Mr Fab:

yeah, that would be Dave Sanborn...still, they really did have a lot of great guests on that show
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Linda Lee:

Tigger! where can we see him Rich?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Rich in Washington:

Just an amazing show. I would just watch dumbfounded that it was on network television. The Residents and Conway Twitty.
Avatar 7:55pm
Linda Lee:

oh of course! Dave Sanborn!
  7:55pm
Martinibomb:

that's it eh?? Okay well thanks for book ending another great week of radio Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Rich in Washington:

But wait! There's more!
  7:57pm
Martinibomb:

4mins to be exact haha
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks for listening everybody! MWAAAH!
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Linda Lee:

fantastic. thanks again Rich!
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Rich in Washington:

This is Ken narrating. Weird, eh?
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Mr Fab:

really great job, Rich. Thx for diggin up those obscurities, got track em down now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Rich in Washington:

Gotta go rescue the wife from the snow. See you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Rich in Washington:

I mean pick her up from the fire station, where we park when it snows. Nothing too urgent.
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Linda Lee:

what a strange show!
  8:00pm
Martinibomb:

okay have a good weekend everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Rich in Washington:

Sounds like Don-O's show is starting again!
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