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Music behind DJ:
 

 

 

 

The Night Owl show will start in a bit! 

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Nirvana  In The Courtyard Of The Stars [Stereo Mix]   Favoriting   1967       
Nirvana  C Side of Ocho Rios   Favoriting          
The Byrds  Lady Friend   Favoriting Lady Friend  1967   
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Music behind DJ:
Deep Purple 

And The Address   Favoriting

 

 


Electric - A Haiku

Beautiful springtime
A piezo, electric friend
on the banana

 

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Electric Banana  (Vocal Tracks): Blow Your Mind (Heavy 'rhythm & blues' sound)   Favoriting even more electric banana  1969   
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Music behind DJ:
Composed And Arranged By David Axelrod 

Urizen   Favoriting

 

 


The Sound And Electric Electric

Whose electric is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch her frown. I cry hello.

She gives her electric a shake,
And sobs until the tears make.
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.

 

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Pink Floyd  Arnold Layne   Favoriting Arnold Layne b/w Candy And A Currant Bun  1967      0:11:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ronnie McNeir 

Sitting in My Class (Instr.)   Favoriting

 

 


Sixpence - A Haiku

New dampish springtime
A nimble, small sixpence pink
beyond the procol

 

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Procol Harum  In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence *   Favoriting The Best Of Procol Harum  1968   
Favoriting
0:16:03 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Lightnin' Rod 

Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


Sixpence, Part 2 - A Haiku

Darkening springtime
A crooked, small sixpence wee
before the procol

 

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The doors  My Eyes Have Seen You   Favoriting   1967   
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The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Vol.3  Ritual #1   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
The Shadows 

Atlantis   Favoriting

 

 


How happy is the cold sunlight!
Are you upset by how arctic it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the sunlight so parky?
I saw the the blue stare of my generation destroyed,
How I mourned the glare.
Are you upset by how gloomy it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the glare so dirty?
Don't belive that the sunblock is large?

 

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The Misunderstood  Children Of The Sun   Favoriting Children Of The Sun / I Unseen  1969   
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Music behind DJ:
David Axelrod 

The Fly   Favoriting

 

 


How happy is the cool misty!
Now slap-up is just the thing,
To get me wondering if the misty is carefree.
How happy is the misty moonlight!
A moonlight is brumous. a moonlight is cloudy,
a moonlight is hazy, however.
I cannot help but stop and look at big rays.
Do rays make you shiver?

 

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Cosmic Brotherhood  Sunshine World   Favoriting Sunshine World b/w Yentra II  1969   
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0:28:08 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

M-23   Favoriting

 

 


Instrumental - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
why instrumental mother
out of brotherhood

 

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Funkadelic  Music For My Mother (Instrumental)   Favoriting   1969   
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Music behind DJ:
David Axelrod 

The Fly   Favoriting

 

 


Instrumental, Part 2 - A Haiku

Eternal springtime
where instrumental mother
a funkadelic

 

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The Yardbirds  Little Games   Favoriting Little Games  1967   
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Music behind DJ:
David Axelrod 

The Fly   Favoriting

 

 

Instant Request 

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The Jim Sullivan Sound  She Walks Through The Fair   Favoriting   1966  Requested by: The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh 
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The Pretty Things  Mr. Evasion   Favoriting Defecting Grey / Mr. Evasion  1968   
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Music behind DJ:
David Axelrod 

The Fly   Favoriting

 

 

 

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the Collectors  She (Will-O-The-Wind)   Favoriting   1968   
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H.P. Lovecraft  Wayfaring Stranger   Favoriting H.P. Lovecraft  1967   
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Music behind DJ:
Velvett Fogg 

Telstar '69   Favoriting

 

 

 

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0:53:46 (Pop-up)
The Household Sponge  Scars   Favoriting Scars b/w Second Best  1967   
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Dorothy Ashby  Soul Vibrations   Favoriting   1968   
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The Vampires' Sound Incorporation  There Is No Satisfaction   Favoriting   1969   
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0:59:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

Synesthesia   Favoriting

 

 

 

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Alice Cooper  Fields of Regret   Favoriting Pretties For You  1969   
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Music behind DJ:
The Beatles 

Flying   Favoriting

 

 

 

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1:06:25 (Pop-up)
The Mothers Of Invention  Trouble Comin' Every Day   Favoriting Trouble Comin' Every Day b/w Who Are The Brain Police?  1966   
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1:06:59 (Pop-up)
lee hazlewood  You Look Like A Lady   Favoriting   1972   
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1:09:25 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

M-23   Favoriting

 

 


Invention - A Haiku

Darkening springtime
A pure, invention balloon
beyond the burning

 

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1:11:57 (Pop-up)
Pretty Things  Balloon Burning (A Phase In The Life Of S.F. Sorrow)   Favoriting Private Sorrow  1968   
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1:12:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Electric Banana 

(Instrumental Tracks): The Dark Theme (Moody melodic instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


Salvation - A Haiku

Eternal wet spring
An own, salvation balloon
beyond the burning

 

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Salvation  Come On Over Here   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
Iron Butterfly 

Iron Butterfly Theme   Favoriting

 

 


Salvation, Part 2 - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
A great, salvation silver
before the apples

 

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Silver Apples  I Don't Care What The People Say   Favoriting The Garden  1969   
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The Licorice Schtik  Flowers, Flowers   Favoriting The Kissin' Game b/w Flowers, Flowers  1968   
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Music behind DJ:
The Shadows 

Atlantis   Favoriting

 

 


Collector - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
A silver collector silver
beyond the monkees

 

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The Monkees  Star Collector   Favoriting Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. [1995 Reissue]  1967   
Favoriting
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Music behind DJ:
Electric Banana 

(Instrumental Tracks): The Dark Theme (Moody melodic instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


The On And Star Collector

Whose collector is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch him frown. I cry hello.

He gives his collector a shake,
And sobs until the tears make.
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.

 

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Stu Phillips  Hells Angels On Wheels   Favoriting Hells Angels On Wheels: Original Motion Picture Sound Track  1967   
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Music behind DJ:
The Beatles 

Flying   Favoriting

 

 


The Cant And Quit Sweat

Whose sweat is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch him frown. I cry hello.

He gives his sweat a shake,
And sobs until the tears make.
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.

 

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Blood Sweat & Tears  I Can't Quit Her   Favoriting Blood, Sweat And Tears  1968   
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1:35:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Lightnin' Rod 

Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


Sweat - A Haiku

Beautiful springtime
then a bloody, quit sweat blood
at the perfect blood

 

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Bee Gees  Cucumber Castle   Favoriting   1967   
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Music behind DJ:
Pedro Santos 

Savana   Favoriting

 

 


The life that's really last,
Above all others are the days.
Days are inalterable. days are endmost,
days are latter, however.
The time of life that's really consecutive,
Above all others are the years.
Are you upset by how back-to-back they are?
Does it tear you apart to see the years so sequent?

 

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Kevin Ayers  Song For Insane Times   Favoriting   1969   
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1:43:09 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

M-23   Favoriting

 

 


Happiness - A Haiku

Depressing springtime
A true, happiness machine
at the old machine

 

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1:47:04 (Pop-up)
The Soft Machine  Hope For Happiness   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
1:47:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Electronic Funk by Paul Beaver and Bernard L. Krause 

Ragnarök   Favoriting

 

 


A caroline, however hard it tries,
Will always be princess.
Does the caroline make you shiver?
does it?
How happy is the gentle elaine!
Down, down, down into the darkness of the elaine,
Gently it goes - the mild, the patrician, the aristocratical.
When I think of the suzanne, I see a gorgeous jeanne.

 

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1:51:50 (Pop-up)
Chad & Jeremy  Sister Marie   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
1:52:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Velvett Fogg 

Telstar '69   Favoriting

 

 


I saw the southwestern american state of my generation destroyed,
How I mourned texas.
Now south is just the thing,
To get me wondering if texas are western.
The river that's really beloved,
Above all others are the arkansas.
Are you upset by how dearest they are?
Does it tear you apart to see the arkansas so dear?

 

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The doors  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)   Favoriting   1967   
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Eric Burdon & The Animals  Monterey   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
Velvett Fogg 

Owed To The Dip   Favoriting

 

 


The american state that's really southeastern,
Above all others is the michigan.
Does the michigan make you shiver?
does it?
Pay attention to the memphis,
memphis are the most chattanooga city of all.
Do memphis make you shiver?
do they?

 

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2:00:17 (Pop-up)
The Kaleidoscope  Pulsating Dream   Favoriting   1967   
Favoriting
2:00:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Shadows 

The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt   Favoriting

 

 


Kaleidoscope - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
shall feeling kaleidoscope
despite the feeling

 

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2:02:50 (Pop-up)
The Sound Of Feeling  Spleen   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
2:03:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Velvett Fogg 

Telstar '69   Favoriting

 

 


Feeling - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
A good, feeling feeling sound
enjoying the spleen

 

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2:06:12 (Pop-up)
The FUGS  Wide Wide River   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
Deep Purple 

And The Address   Favoriting

 

 


Pay attention to the absence,
the absence is the most surprising deficiency of all.
Does the absence make you shiver?
does it?
I saw the the never imperfection of my generation destroyed,
How I mourned the failing.
Does the failing make you shiver?
does it?

 

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pearls before swine  i saw the world   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
The Beatles 

Flying   Favoriting

 

 

 

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2:14:03 (Pop-up)
Moby Grape  The Lake   Favoriting   1968   
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Music behind DJ:
George Harrison 

Wonderwall To Be Here   Favoriting

 

 

 

Favoriting

2:18:09 (Pop-up)
Van Der Graaf Generator  Aquarian   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
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Music behind DJ:
Nirvana 

C Side of Ocho Rios   Favoriting

 

 


Generator - A Haiku

Perpetual spring
A main, generator love
whilst watching the graaf

 

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2:26:32 (Pop-up)
Love  August   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
2:26:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Musiche Originali Di Ennio Morricone 

Beat N° 3   Favoriting

 

 


Strawberry - A Haiku

Eternal springtime
A pretty strawberry clock
after the psychout

 

Favoriting

2:31:57 (Pop-up)
Strawberry Alarm Clock  Pretty Song From Psych-Out   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
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Music behind DJ:
Funkadelic 

Music For My Mother (Instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


How happy is the wrist absent!
Does the absent make you shiver?
does it?
I cannot help but stop and look at the silent presence.
A presence is inexplicit. a presence is dumb,
a presence is soundless, however.
When I think of the dearth, I see an obvious rise.
Now elfin is just the thing,

 

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2:35:33 (Pop-up)
The Moles  We Are The Moles (Part 1)   Favoriting We Are The Moles (Part 1)  1968   
Favoriting
2:36:24 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ramsey Lewis 

Dear Prudence   Favoriting

 

 


Cirrus - A Haiku

Beautiful springtime
A composed cirrus minor
beyond the minor

 

Favoriting

2:40:48 (Pop-up)
played and composed by the pink floyd  Cirrus Minor   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
2:41:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Axelrod 

The Human Abstract   Favoriting

 

 


Country - A Haiku

Darkening springtime
A composed country minor
by the october

 

Favoriting

2:46:52 (Pop-up)
The October Country  October Country   Favoriting October Country  1968   
Favoriting
2:47:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Deep Purple 

And The Address   Favoriting

 

 

 

Favoriting

2:49:58 (Pop-up)
Ars Nova  And How Am I To Know • Entracte: Dancer   Favoriting         2:50:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

Joint Passing   Favoriting

 

 


Pay attention to the christ,
the christ is the most supernatural saviour of all.
Never forget the weird and occult christ.
I cannot help but stop and look at the pre bla.
Does the bla make you shiver?
does it?
Just like a plaine work, is the morte.
A morte is white-livered. a morte is old,

 

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2:55:35 (Pop-up)
The Mothers Of Invention  Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague   Favoriting   1969   
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2:56:17 (Pop-up)
The United States Of America  Hard Coming Love   Favoriting The United States Of America  1968   
Favoriting
3:00:14 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Lightnin' Rod 

Doriella Du Fontaine (Instrumental)   Favoriting

 

 


I cannot help but stop and look at twin pregnancies.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the pregnancies,
Gently they go - the couple, the matching, the similar.
How happy are underweight newborns!
Never forget the scraggy and weedy newborns.
How happy are yellow dads!
Dads are chromatic. dads are unhealthy,
dads are dishonorable, however.

 

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3:00:19 (Pop-up)
Velvett Fogg  Lady Caroline   Favoriting   1969   
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Music behind DJ:
Martin Denny 

Incense & Peppermints   Favoriting

 

 

 

Favoriting

3:03:44 (Pop-up)
Morgen  Purple   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
3:04:03 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Shadows 

A Place in the Sun   Favoriting

 

 


I cannot help but stop and look at the good spratt.
Are you upset by how angelic it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the spratt so beneficial?
How happy is the late lesley!
Are you upset by how previous it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the lesley so recent?
Cassandra is whimsical work.
whimsical work is cassandra.

 

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3:08:11 (Pop-up)
Grahame Bond  Crossroads Of Time   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
3:09:06 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
George Harrison 

On The Bed   Favoriting

 

 


Crossroads - A Haiku

Overcast springtime
A next, yellow crossroads boss
near the submarine

 

Favoriting

3:11:37 (Pop-up)
The Zodiac  Scorpio - The Passionate Hero   Favoriting   1967   
Favoriting
3:13:02 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ramsey Lewis 

Sexy Sadie   Favoriting

 

 


Controls - A Haiku

Eternal springtime
A passionate controls pink
on the scorpio

 

Favoriting

3:15:46 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
3:16:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Composed And Arranged By David Axelrod 

Holy Thursday   Favoriting

 

 


Controls, Part 2 - A Haiku

Beautiful springtime
A strict, tiny controls love
because of the floyd

 

Favoriting

3:21:45 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim  We Love It   Favoriting   1969   
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3:22:10 (Pop-up)
The Aggregation  White Light   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
3:24:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

Joint Passing   Favoriting

 

 


A tommy, however hard it tries,
Will always be minute.
Does the tommy make you shiver?
does it?
A larry, however hard it tries,
Will always be sure.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the larry,
Gently it goes - the sure as shooting, the doomed, the fated.

 

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3:27:01 (Pop-up)
July  My Clown   Favoriting July  1968   
Favoriting
3:27:51 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
the Electric Flag, an American Music Band 

Hobbit   Favoriting

 

 

 

Favoriting

3:30:57 (Pop-up)
October Country  I Wish I Was A Fire   Favoriting October Country  1968   
Favoriting
3:31:11 (Pop-up)
Silver Apples  Misty Mountain   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
3:32:57 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Big Jim Sullivan 

The Koan   Favoriting

 

 

 

Favoriting

3:35:36 (Pop-up)
Ultimate Spinach  Pamela   Favoriting   1968   
Favoriting
3:36:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Velvett Fogg 

Telstar '69   Favoriting

 

 


How happy is the amiable lindsey!
A lindsey is good-humored. a lindsey is friendly,
a lindsey is cordial, however.
A winnie, however hard it tries,
Will always be winsome.
Does the winnie make you shiver?
does it?
Kristin is dear doubt.

 

Favoriting

3:40:00 (Pop-up)
Andwellas Dream  Felix   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
3:40:39 (Pop-up)
The Appletree Theatre  Act II: E-Train (the jello song)   Favoriting   1967   
Favoriting
3:44:52 (Pop-up)
Frankie & Johnny  Sweet Thang   Favoriting   2008   
Favoriting
3:45:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Musiche Originali Di Ennio Morricone 

Beat N° 3   Favoriting

 

 


The people that are really getting,
Above all others is the lost.
Does the lost make you shiver?
does it?
All that is active is not disappearance,
disappearance, by all account is quiet.
Does the disappearance make you shiver?
does it?

 

Favoriting

3:48:04 (Pop-up)
The Nice  Dawn   Favoriting   1967   
Favoriting
3:48:52 (Pop-up)
Touch  Down at Cerce's Place   Favoriting   1969   
Favoriting
3:54:05 (Pop-up)
The Eclectic Mouse  5th Movement: Pre-Dawn Retrospective Chant   Favoriting         3:58:01 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:55pm
The Night Owl:

Starting at the Witching Hour in NYC!
Avatar 11:55pm
The Night Owl:

into the night we go
  12:06am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Hello Night Owl, lets see if this works - last night the pollen knocked me out.
  12:09am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Requesting The Jim Sullivan Sound
Avatar 12:09am
The Night Owl:

Hi to The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh
Avatar 12:10am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Was it the pollen or the brass you can't lay off of? I hear they can be deleterious when mixed.
  12:12am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

All things are sifted, only drinks are mixed..and some square dances.
Avatar 12:12am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Arnold August '67 Lane
Avatar 12:13am
The Night Owl:

Got your request The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh
  12:13am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

It's off of Union isn't it - Arnold Lane, near St. John's?
Avatar 12:13am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Arnold Lane goes camping at Brokeback Mt.
  12:13am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

ThankyouNightOwl
  12:14am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Listen, not everyone can work cowboy drag...
Avatar 12:14am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Or Square dance
  12:15am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

The only dance for Squares, daddy'o - you dig?
Avatar 12:16am
The Night Owl:

Hi to Mr. R.L. Horrorshow
Avatar 12:17am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Hello. Can you play Mathar by Dave Pike?
  12:20am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

You say something Mr. RLH and I'll give you such a pinch...
Avatar 12:20am
Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

It's comin'
  12:23am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

I know it is...hang on, I have to get my civil defense helmet.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

So apparently Crimea (otherwise known at the time as the Crimean AUTONOMOUS Soviet Socialist Republic, which was created in 1921 as part of the SFSR) was occupied by Nazi Germany in '41- '42 because in played a central role in Hitler's conception of the reordering of Europe; he was quoted as saying "Without Crimea, the war on the East doesn't have a genuine sacral meaning." For him Crimea stood for the ancient kingdom of the Goths, the ancestors of German tribes who lived by the Black Sea.According to Wikipedia: “Crimean Goths … were the least-powerful, least-known, and almost paradoxically, the longest-lasting of the Gothic communities.”

Their exact ethnic origin is a matter of debate. According to Wikipedia, “Many Crimean Goths were Greek speakers and many non-Gothic Byzantine citizens were settled in the region called Gothia by the government in Constantinople.”

To complicate matters further, there is a theory that “some Anglo-Saxons who left England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (were granted) by the Byzantine emperor ……. lands near the Sea of Azov in what may have been the Crimean Peninsula.”



Nevertheless, Hitler felt he had legitimate claims on ancient “Gothia” - ie. the Crimea. In his words “The Crimean peninsula should be free from all the strangers and is inhabited by the Germans only.”

In anticipation of German rule, Hitler renamed Crimea “Gotenland” (“the land of the Goths”) and Sevastopol “Theoderichshafen” (“the Harbor of the Theodoric” – Theodoric the Great, King of the Germanic Ostrogoths (475-526)).

Hitler, however, first had to conquer Sevastopol before he could put his plans into effect, and this, in fact, became one of his most important eastern campaigns. By some accounts, Hitler’s plans to conquer Sevastopol, Leningrad, and the oil fields of the Caucasus mattered more to him than the conquest of Moscow. Without firm control over the Crimea and, above all, Sevastopol, control of the Black Sea and, ultimately, of the Caucasus, was impossible.

Hitler’s army captured Crimea without much difficulty in the fall of 1941. Sevastopol, however, proved a much harder nut.

The long siege that followed was a surprise and certainly did not accord with Hitler’s plans. Impatient with delay, he had issued an order for the city’s capture by December 22, 1941 - the 6-month anniversary of Germany’s war against the Soviet Union. To conquer Sevastopol by this date, Hitler sent the cream of the German army there.

In any event, Sevastopol held out against overwhelming odds for eight months.
In spring 1944, the Red Army won it back.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Crimea’s importance is not just the result of its fascinating history (successively Scythian, Roman, Byzantine, Gothic, Hunnic, Tatar, and Russian) but also its strategic location in the Black Sea.

To control Crimea is to control the Black Sea.

Western leaders and Ukraine’s current pro-Western government understand this perfectly well. It seems they entertained ideas of a NATO base in Sevastopol, right on the border with Russia, offering NATO ships almost unlimited control over the region and also an opportunity to neutralize the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The return of Crimea to Russia dashed these plans. In light of this, it is not surprising that Crimea’s accession to Russia has become such a major issue in U.S.-Russian relations.

What few Western politicians may know is that their idea of taking control of Crimea mirrors a similar dream once held by Nazi Germany. As Hegel once said, “people and governments never have learnt anything from history.”
  12:35am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Ladies and gentlemen...12:34 and we have our first freak out for the evening.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

You know they put up a statue of Bill Clinton in Kosovo ?
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Named a Boulevard after him too.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Bill Clinton Boulevard is a boulevard located in Pristina, Kosovo. After the Kosovo War of 1998 to 1999, the Albanians in Kosovo wanted to thank former U.S. President Bill Clinton for his help in their struggle with the government of Yugoslavia. A 10-foot-high (3.0 m) statue of Clinton was unveiled on the boulevard on November 1, 2009.
  12:50am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Not off hand but if you hum a few bars I think I can fake it
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Interesting thing about the president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi...

A report to the Council of Europe, written by Dick Marty, issued on 15 December 2010 states that Hacim Thaçi was the leader of the "Drenica Group" in charge of trafficking organs taken from Serbian prisoners. As reported by several international, Serbian, Kosovan and Albanian news agencies, in an interview for Albanian television on 24 December 2010, Thaçi said he would publish information about Marty and Marty's collaborators' names.

BBC news reported having seen a draft of the Council of Europe document, and asserts that it names "Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's current Prime Minister and wartime political leader of the KLA, 27 times in as many pages".

They said the report charges the former KLA commanders of serious human rights abuses, including organ and drug trafficking.

In 2011, Marty retreated from earlier reports and said that his report never implicated Thaçi directly. Wonder why?
  12:52am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

So, Mr. RLH, what color are the pills tonight?
  12:52am
bigplanetnoise:

Hahahaha!
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Clear
  12:53am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Hello, BPN!
  12:54am
bigplanetnoise:

Hi Ayatollah and everyone!
  12:56am
bigplanetnoise:

Ayatolluh. Sorry - auto-correct.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Hej... that's Swedish for "Hey."
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

You think he can tell the difference ? But I guess maybe there is a good reason his name has an "uh" instead of an "ah"
  1:00am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

....
  1:01am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

I shouldn't have said anything before. Just go back to your political observations - it was keeping you occupied.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Pied... did you say pied?
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

You know those cool ass vintage British motorcycles called BSA's with the big gorgeous headlight???

BSA stands for the BRITISH company that made them... Birmingham Small Arms Company...

Same one that supplied rifles and "small arms" (to Turkish and British soldiers) fighting against Tsarist Russia in the Crimean War.. fought from October 1853 to February 1856... in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet they led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery"
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Hey, by the way...

Why is Malta not in Italy?

When Italy entered into World War II in June 1940, they immediately began air raids on Malta, which was considered to be of huge strategic importance due to its location in the middle of the Mediterranean. ... Malta is not part of Italy because it's a British island. Never been a part of Italy.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

The Islands became part of the British Commonwealth. Malta was part of the British Empire for over 150 years.
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Historically, Crimea has been a part of Russia since 1783.
  1:21am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

(I hate to say anything for fear that it might encourage - but thank you MR. RLH, our friend from Youreallydontseethatnoonegivesashitastanz)
  1:24am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Requesting The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Yup!
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

And good night!
  1:29am
The Ayatolluh of Rock n' Rolluh:

Good night Mr. RLH...ladies and gentlemen, that was Mr. RLH, funny and weird stuff. Next up, we have the kids from the new cast of Fame, and they are going to do a song from the show for us when we come back!
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

Yeah... Joy of a Toy Kevin Ayers!
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Mr. R.L. Horrorshow:

The League of Nations (the predecessor of the UN) supported the signing of a second treaty, the Treaty of Sevres, in 1920, which legitimised the European presence in the Middle East. France was given a mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, while Britain was entrusted with Palestine and Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq).

Ostensibly, the Europeans were helping to build new, independent nations. In reality, the mandates were thinly disguised licences for imperialism. The governments they established were basically colonial governments with minimal local representation. Obviously, the local people were less than happy with these arrangements, and there was serious civil unrest across the Arab world.

The European response to this opposition was horrific and brutal. In 1920, the Iraqi people rose up against the British who had showed no signs of honouring their promise to grant independence, and were instead ruthlessly exploiting Iraq’s economic resources. The Iraqis rose up in full strength in an attempt to force the British to leave Mesopotamia. The British responded with a savage bombing campaign, dropping 97 tonnes of bombs on the rebels, and on some civilian targets. The Iraqi death toll is estimated to have been between 7,000 and 10,000.
  3:52am
DA The DJ:

Goodnight.
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The Night Owl:

Thanks everyone!
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