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Favoriting March 30, 2019: I'm Calling You!

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Cactus Blossoms, The  I'm Calling You   Favoriting 0:00:00 (Pop-up)
October Country  I Was A Fire   Favoriting 0:04:43 (Pop-up)
Spade Cooley  Spadella   Favoriting 0:07:41 (Pop-up)
Esther Phillips  Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You   Favoriting 0:10:49 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Sell The Pussy   Favoriting 0:13:30 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads  Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick   Favoriting 0:17:53 (Pop-up)
Chad & Jeremy  Can't Get Used To Losing You   Favoriting 0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Tex Williams  Wild Card   Favoriting 0:23:59 (Pop-up)
Impressions, The  Too Slow   Favoriting 0:26:22 (Pop-up)
XTC  Then She Appeared   Favoriting 0:29:03 (Pop-up)
Carnival, The  Sweets For My Sweet   Favoriting 0:33:51 (Pop-up)
Hank Penny  Hadacillin Boogie   Favoriting 0:37:11 (Pop-up)
Ike and Tina Turner  Flee Flee Fla   Favoriting 0:41:35 (Pop-up)
Carpenters, The  We've Only Just Begun (vocal, bass & drums)   Favoriting 0:45:10 (Pop-up)
Teenage Fanclub  Dumb Dumb Dumb   Favoriting 0:48:28 (Pop-up)
Linda Gail Lewis  Break Up The Party   Favoriting 0:53:26 (Pop-up)
Motel Mirrors  Let Me Be Sweet To You   Favoriting 0:56:08 (Pop-up)
Patti Drew  Sufferer   Favoriting 0:59:26 (Pop-up)
Hi-Risers, The  Hang Around With You   Favoriting 1:01:26 (Pop-up)
Love Generation, The  The Love In Me   Favoriting 1:03:23 (Pop-up)
Lester Flatt  I Can't Tell the Boys From the Girls   Favoriting 1:05:58 (Pop-up)
Arthur Alexander  Black Night   Favoriting 1:08:24 (Pop-up)
Gable-Airs, The  Travelin' Shoes   Favoriting 1:11:09 (Pop-up)
Avett Brothers, The  Slight Figure of Speech   Favoriting 1:12:51 (Pop-up)
Bandits, The  Memphis   Favoriting 1:16:49 (Pop-up)
Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis  Round Too Long   Favoriting 1:19:45 (Pop-up)
Dumpy "Piano" Rice  St. Louis Blues   Favoriting 1:22:55 (Pop-up)
Starry Skies  Starry Skies   Favoriting 1:25:03 (Pop-up)
Utopia  That's Not Right   Favoriting 1:28:29 (Pop-up)
Waylon Jennings  Don't Think Twice It's Alright   Favoriting 1:31:03 (Pop-up)
Lil' Bob & The Lollipops  I Got Loaded   Favoriting 1:33:52 (Pop-up)
Teddy Brown  Rose Garden   Favoriting 1:36:16 (Pop-up)
They Might Be Giants  Apartment Four   Favoriting 1:39:30 (Pop-up)
Elton John  Come And Get It   Favoriting 1:42:17 (Pop-up)
Boyce and Hart  I'm Digging You Digging Me   Favoriting 1:44:56 (Pop-up)
Rock N Roll Casey  Bowl All Night   Favoriting 1:47:20 (Pop-up)
Eli Paperboy Reed  Do It Again   Favoriting 1:49:33 (Pop-up)
Cactus Blossoms, The  Who'll Be the Next in Line (live for WFMU at Magic Door)   Favoriting 1:53:03 (Pop-up)
Willie Mitchell  Take Five   Favoriting 1:55:47 (Pop-up)
Wipper Brothers, The  Amagram   Favoriting 1:57:59 (Pop-up)

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CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE to read the four key lessons learned from the Steely Dan estate lawsuit

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CLICK HERE for the official "How To Read Nancy" website

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

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CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

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

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

CLICK HERE to find out Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals … … and every other major event on the planet

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE to hear "How Music Taste Evolved"


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

CLICK HERE to see some paintings by Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

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

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

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

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

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

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

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

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

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

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


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Listener comments!

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Listener Baby:

Baby.. It's a busy one today. I need you with your phasers on full this morning. You're all I've got. Evil Dr. Gopher, Noxious weed, and the Prune Monster are coming to get me. Plus we finish Jive Talking later today. Yep, I hope you brought your glasses. And good morning universe of fine souls!
  11:06am
andy fuchs:

Love the Cactus Blossoms !! Like a modern day Everly brothers, but even better !!!
  11:10am
Dr. Gopher:

Mwa-haha-ha-ha-ha....
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Listener Baby:

You're going down, Gopher Man!
Avatar 11:16am
purpleknif:

Just love critters in general. I've worked for a vet for 30 years! Cute furry animals are better company than lots of humans I know.
  11:16am
Baby:

I’m guessing R Kelly is not going to cover this one
Avatar 11:16am
Michael Shelley:

BABY, Update - LOS LOBOS IS ON
  11:17am
Baby:

Yay!!
Avatar 11:19am
Kevin_Ringwood_ UK:

Ian!
Avatar 11:19am
Kevin_Ringwood_ UK:

what a waste...
  11:36am
George in WO:

Morning Michael. Any chance you could plug The Campfire Flies CD Release Party? Tomorrow at 4 pm at Fox & Crow in JC. http://www.foxandcrowjc.com/event-cal/2019/3/31/the-campfire-flies-album-release-party
  11:42am
George in WO:

Thanks! See you at Los Lobos.
  11:43am
Scott of Hell's Kitchen:

Spring weather and #1 hits....perfect Saturday morning!
  11:45am
andy fuchs:

I'm betting Ike Turner played a baritone guitar on that track.
  11:45am
scott:

Ike on baritone guitar.
  11:49am
scott:

Joe Osborn talked about bringing Karen and Richard into his home studio in the beginning, and how they asked him to be their producer. He told it doesn't work that way.
  11:49am
Frank Zaatar:

Those patent medicines were definitely a thing. In Binghamton NY, one of the local tycoons got rich on something called Kilmer's Swamp Root. He built a couple of spectacular mansions from that money, one of which eventually became the local Reform synagogue.
  11:50am
Santos L Halper:

No need to apologize for the Carpenters! And thanks for a favorite xtc track
  11:51am
DANIEL BAKER:

Great show! That Blaine-Osborne track was an eye-opener! Keep up the good work, dude.
Avatar 12:02pm
Bic Lighter:

It's like the singer is on another continent.
  12:04pm
Cal Zone!:

Hi Risers from Rockin' Rochester USA!
  12:04pm
Kyle J:

I don’t wanna walk around with you by Ramones- before or after that last one? Thanks!
Avatar 12:21pm
Bic Lighter:

I you have two microphones and two tracks you have stereo. How far can we go? I guess there must have been stereo demonstration records back in the day that really pushed it?
  12:31pm
Joe R.:

This Utopia track is one of my all-time favorite Fab Faux tracks. So bizarre that Rundgren did a whole Beatles pastiche album!
  12:32pm
Sean in Bristol, UK:

Off to see Todd Rundgren a week today at Hammersmith Odeon, London, can’t wait,
  12:32pm
scott:

Also the 60's tributes on the 'Faithful' album.
  12:44pm
Patster:

Would never in a trillion years would I guess that was EJ.
  12:48pm
scott:

Danny Byron of Uriah Heep sang the lead on EJ 'Come and Get It'
Avatar 12:49pm
Sid:

Ugh! Schlitz.
  12:51pm
Mr C:

Eli!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:58pm
Jimmy Wipper:

It's 9 o'clock in San Francisco!
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