WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 11, 2020

Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 11, 2020

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January 11, 2020: Put Love First!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Soft Soul Transition	Put Love First
Explorers Club, The	Ruby "Ruby" by "Explorers Club, The"
Freddy Countryman	Cocaine Blues "Cocaine Blues" by "Freddy Countryman"
Baby Al & The Capps	Grab Your Partner And Do Your Own Thing
Chaco	Bum Bum "Bum Bum" by "Chaco"
Bucky	Dog Calendar "Dog Calendar" by "Bucky"
Bucky	Teenage Research "Teenage Research" by "Bucky"
Valiants, The	I'll Return To You "I'll Return To You" by "Valiants, The"
Dale Hawkins	Who? "Who?" by "Dale Hawkins"
Baby Huey And The Babysitters	"Mighty" "Mighty" Children - Pt 1 (Unite Yourself This Hour)
dB's, The	Judy "Judy" by "dB's, The"
Mouse And The Traps	Cryin' Inside
Stanley Brothers, The	Nobody's Business
Don Covay	Iron Out The Rough Spots
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	99 1/2 Won't Do
Ben Vaughn	I'm Just Sayin' "I'm Just Sayin'" by "Ben Vaughn"
Wayne Cochran	The Coo "The Coo" by "Wayne Cochran"
Mop Tops, The	Stand By Me "Stand By Me" by "Mop Tops, The"
Cory Branan	You Make Me "You Make Me" by "Cory Branan"
Tyrone Davis	It Ain't Me No More "It Ain't Me No More" by "Tyrone Davis"
Minutemen, The	History Lesson Part II
Rockin' Berries, The	Across The Street
Buddy Holly	Midnight Shift "Midnight Shift" by "Buddy Holly"
Ground Hog	Sticking Because She's Stuck
Frank Barber Percussion Ensemble, The	Busy Lizzie
Redd Kross	There's No One Like You
Tommy Rettig	Never Too Young "Never Too Young" by "Tommy Rettig"
Flying Burrito Brothers, The	Tried So Hard
Ike and Tina Turner	Sit And Hold Your Hand
Fountains Of Wayne	Barbara H "Barbara H" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
Angi-D's, The	I Like Girls "I Like Girls" by "Angi-D's, The"
Charmaines with Lonnie Mack	Sticks and Stones
Osborne Brothers, The	Driving Nails In My Coffin
Barbara Mason	Shackin' Up "Shackin' Up" by "Barbara Mason"
Jonathan Richman	Stop This Car "Stop This Car" by "Jonathan Richman"
Sylvie Vartan	Quand Tu Es Ls "Quand Tu Es Ls" by "Sylvie Vartan"
Association, The	Blistered "Blistered" by "Association, The"
Faith Healer	Sufferin' Creature "Sufferin' Creature" by "Faith Healer"
Bo Diddley	Mr. Engineer "Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley"
Red	Tube Bar selections "Tube Bar selections" by "Red"

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CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for Martin Mull's "Soundstage: 60 Minutes to Kill" from 1975

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for a detailed look at cymbals in 1920s jazz

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

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 for the animated guide to compression

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"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

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 to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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 for detailed Pet Sounds credits

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

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

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

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 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"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

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

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

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

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

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

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

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

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

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.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

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

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.

Listener comments!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Хонгор минь
	11:04am Cat: Baby baby!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Шинэ оны мэнд Cat!!!
	11:05am TheLoneliestMonk: Good saturday, Mike. how's 2020 finding you?
	11:06am mariano: Hey Mike, everyone - let's see how long I last: severe weather in New Orleans, power outages predicted.
	11:06am TheLoneliestMonk: @LB google translate has that detected as mongolian?!
	11:07am TheLoneliestMonk: howard was a great guest on ACP!
	11:08am Listener Baby: Donkin's Inn (Bar) was my first Little League team sponsor.
	11:08am mariano: @TLMonk: Haha, I'm the same way, I just have to translate things from unfamiliar alphabets/languages.
	11:09am TheLoneliestMonk: looks cyrillic ....it's all greek to me
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael and fellow midday melody mavens!
	11:10am mariano: Well, it is showing up as Mongolian (lots of non-Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet), the first one as "My darling" and the second as "Happy new year".
	11:11am TheLoneliestMonk: @M yup
	11:12am Listener Baby: Although Michael Shelley is an old, and very dear friend. I don't think I've ever referred to him as "my darling" I think a little something was lost in translation.
	11:13am Dean: Donkins: www.marinadelreyhistoricalsociety.org/donkins/ I wonder where in MdR it is/was.
	11:13am Juke Joint Jonny: So it's Listener My Darling now?
	11:14am Sean: Bum Bumming me out
	11:15am Listener Baby: @Dean D-Inn was right along the harbour front. Where all those themed restaurants are. Huge places.
	11:16am steveo: You can get cheap reading glasses at the drug store. Digging your picks!
	11:16am Listener Baby: @JJJ Apparently it is? I guess I'm okay with that.
	11:17am Michael Shelley: Hi have 20 pairs at home!
	11:18am steveo: :)
	11:18am Dean: Thanks, @LB. Found a 1974 LA Times article mentioning it as one of the places where "Pretty People of Marina del Rey...Dress[] the Part in Marina del Rey." Caption to a photo: "THE INN SCENE -- Peter Jacques, left, and brother Jerry Jacques dress in matching vinyl jackets and polyester shirts when they join the 'pretty people' at Donkins Inn."
	11:19am Gaylord Fields: Unsolicited fact check: It was actually Sonny Liston who made the Ringo/dog comparison.
	11:20am Listener Baby: I think I remember doing an end of season banquet at D-inn 49 years ago? Yikes!
	11:22am Juke Joint Jonny: Just going to picture a dog playing drums on all the tunes for the rest of the show. The Valiants drummer was an English Sheepdog and Doberman mix.
	11:23am Listener Robert: Well, Loneliest Monk, you can pretty well pronounce Cyrillic as Greek, except for some of the letters that we'd render as diphthongs in Roman.
	11:23am mariano: www.boxing.com...
	11:24am Listener Baby: This is magic! “My dog can play better drums than that kid with the big nose.”
	11:24am Hughie Considine: Before there was Yoko, there was Ringo. The arrangement on Meet the Beatles, with Ringo on a slightly lower plane from the other three, was deliberate. Robert Freeman, who also took the cover shots for Rubber Soul and Help!, confirmed this: “He was the last to join the group, he was the shortest and he was the drummer.”
	11:25am Dean: Another LAT article, 1970: "Donkin's Inn, 14130 Marquesas Way, Marina del Rey. Open daily from 11:30 to 2 a.m. Sunday from 10. Dinner served to 11:15, Friday and Saturday to 12:15. Reservations honored: 823-4551." Also, "The restaurant is deliberately informal, so that you may dock your boat or park your car and come right on in." Just love poring over old newspapers.
	11:26am Ross T.: The Marx Brothers were among the founders of Rock and Roll.
	11:26am Listener Robert: Just pronounce any character you don't recognize as a sneeze, and you won't be far wrong, unless it's a silent one.
	11:26am Juke Joint Jonny: Definitely some kind of terrier on this track.
	11:28am Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): mighty mighty!
	11:28am Corey: Sweet version of Mighty Mighty!
	11:29am Listener Robert: And if it happens to be Russian, chances are good the word is French or slightly modified French, a legacy of Peter the Great. If not French, then it's probably from Greek.
	11:31am Hughie Considine: Ha, I interviewed Chris for over an hour on his own turf, and I never got close to simpatico with the man. Tried.
	11:34am Michael Shelley: Sometimes, especially on radio, that kind of interview can be revealing, in its own way.
	11:38am Listener Robert: I missed it, which Chris was that?
	11:39am HumilityJane: Chris brought back the dark side of the downtown music snobs of the late70s/early 80s. "Cool" yet competitive ..and not particularly female friendly.
	11:40am HumilityJane: still like his music :)
	11:44am Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): that was a stellar opening rhyme!
	11:45am Listener Baby: Baby. For weeks I've been trying to figure out the Eddie Cochran / Italian actor who died joke. Please make me whole on that.
	11:47am Listener Baby: The "Nervous Breakdown" joke.
	11:53am mariano: No, everyone knows Clarence was the 5th Beatle: vimeo.com... But that's not the craziest theory I've heard. That one would have to be the conspiracy theory that Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles' songs as a way to get Western youth to take drugs and turn to communism. Because, you know, the Beatles were such ardent Stalinists.
	11:53am Michael Shelley: I honestly dont remember a thing about it.! More info please.
	11:54am TheLoneliestMonk: For the Beatles fanatics out there: pretty good interview with Peter Asher on lopate's show this past month
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: Have a friend who's a sideman/session drummer in LA. Hates purdie with a passion!
	11:56am Listener Baby: You said that this actor who was on Kojack, etc wrote Nervous Breakdown, not Eddie C. I think that was a great joke, that I didn’t get
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Michael and all!
	12:02pm Agent Peter: ah yes, the reflective words of d.boon
	12:02pm egould310: Minutemen, yes! Thanks Michael. Good catch on the f-bomb.
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: cant exactly remember - but this guy en.wikipedia.org... wrote it - though a lot of records credit Eddie
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: used to see Mario at Schwabs all the time
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: HI GREG
	12:04pm mariano: Yeah, in the UK it's "BURM-ing-um" and "BUCK-ing-um".
	12:05pm Ross T.: I saw the Minutemen piling out of a van in Windsor Terrace not much before D Boon died. Stuck in my head.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Oh! No wonder I didn’t get the joke. It wasn’t a joke. Doh!
	12:08pm SmokinJ: Thanks for the Buddy ms!
	12:12pm TheLoneliestMonk: @MS 'lluminati is puttin' drugs in the water...POE!
	12:13pm Sean: I think they now call those $.59 cent records "Exotica"
	12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: Yeah, this is everything I love about music in one compact little package.
	12:19pm SmokinJ: TR4 rules! Go Tommy Go!
	12:21pm George in WO: Whatever happened to Rick Roberts?
	12:24pm Jeanne: RIP the great Gene Clark. Thanks for another great show, Michael
	12:26pm Mike Sin: That third Burrito Bros LP gets overshadowed by the first two because it lacks Gram Parsons, but Rick Roberts rises to the occasion. That LP is right up there with the first two.
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: The first Fountains of Wayne record had the pathos.
	12:28pm jake6573: Ike actually started as an A & R man. Howlin wolf was one of his discoveries.
	12:28pm George in WO: I agree Mike Sin. Roberts did some great song writing on that third LP.
	12:32pm mariano: Wasn't there a Texas group in the wake of the British Invasion who spoke with British (or "British") accents, tried to pass themselves off? Also, remember Ministry's early incarnation as a UK-style new wave band, with Jourgensen singing in an affected (and somewhat androgynous) English accent?
	12:32pm Micheal: Angi-D’s sounds like perfect RI band name. In Mono?
	12:32pm Frank Zaatar: Why make a fake records in 1965? Sir Douglas Quintet, Beau Brummels, et al--makes sense to me.
	12:33pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Angi-D's! Pre-Satan's Breed!
	12:35pm mariano: Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed...
	12:43pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Jonathan Richman and Bonnie Prince Billy at Town Hall on March 9th!
	12:44pm swk: Was listening to the earlier bluegrass track eyeballing Jonathan Richman tunes to grab online (balked at the price) and then here we go. Thanks Mr S
	12:44pm mariano: Wow Todd, that's a hell of a lineup.
	12:48pm ChrisB.: @Mike, @George: Saw Rick Roberts, post Burritos, pre Firefall, open solo acoustic for BTO & Commander Cody. Rough crowd.
	12:49pm Spinning Giant: Seriously, Todd - wow - looking into flights from the great white north...
	12:51pm Spinning Giant: Great show today, Shelley! Enjoying with some brewskies :) It's my birthday weekend, yeehaw!
	12:52pm Spinning Giant: Hey Bo............................. Diddley r.o.c.k.s.
	12:53pm Michael Shelley: happy birthday!
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Just got back from canoeing. In January. In New York City. We're all doomed!! But I got to hear some Michael Shelley on the car radio, which is rare and fun.
	12:55pm Spinning Giant: ....aaaAAAnd, it's my son's birthday... do they allow 8 year olds in the club, "in the name of education", of course ;)
	12:56pm Corey: Thanks Michael for this edition of #1s! A lot of new favorites today.
	12:57pm Michael Shelley: Thanks ALL!
	12:58pm mariano: Thanks Michael (and Red)!
	12:59pm Spinning Giant: Thanks Michael! Cheers
	12:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	12:59pm Tim from LH: I delivered Miller Beer to Red at the Tube Bar in the 80’s!
	10:13pm Greg in Portland OR: Always glad to hear a Minutemen song; never thought one would be a Number One Hit!
	4:58pm Mark in Toronto: I think the whole Bernard Purdie thing has to do with one of those "Live at the Star Club" type albums ie one of those tapes of the Beatles in Hamburg that had really bad sound. So the owners of the tape hired Purdie to punch up, or play along to the tape, so that's how he came to "play" with the Beatles.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Soft Soul Transition	Put Love First
Explorers Club, The	Ruby "Ruby" by "Explorers Club, The"
Freddy Countryman	Cocaine Blues "Cocaine Blues" by "Freddy Countryman"
Baby Al & The Capps	Grab Your Partner And Do Your Own Thing
Chaco	Bum Bum "Bum Bum" by "Chaco"
Bucky	Dog Calendar "Dog Calendar" by "Bucky"
Bucky	Teenage Research "Teenage Research" by "Bucky"
Valiants, The	I'll Return To You "I'll Return To You" by "Valiants, The"
Dale Hawkins	Who? "Who?" by "Dale Hawkins"
Baby Huey And The Babysitters	"Mighty" "Mighty" Children - Pt 1 (Unite Yourself This Hour)
dB's, The	Judy "Judy" by "dB's, The"
Mouse And The Traps	Cryin' Inside
Stanley Brothers, The	Nobody's Business
Don Covay	Iron Out The Rough Spots
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	99 1/2 Won't Do
Ben Vaughn	I'm Just Sayin' "I'm Just Sayin'" by "Ben Vaughn"
Wayne Cochran	The Coo "The Coo" by "Wayne Cochran"
Mop Tops, The	Stand By Me "Stand By Me" by "Mop Tops, The"
Cory Branan	You Make Me "You Make Me" by "Cory Branan"
Tyrone Davis	It Ain't Me No More "It Ain't Me No More" by "Tyrone Davis"
Minutemen, The	History Lesson Part II
Rockin' Berries, The	Across The Street
Buddy Holly	Midnight Shift "Midnight Shift" by "Buddy Holly"
Ground Hog	Sticking Because She's Stuck
Frank Barber Percussion Ensemble, The	Busy Lizzie
Redd Kross	There's No One Like You
Tommy Rettig	Never Too Young "Never Too Young" by "Tommy Rettig"
Flying Burrito Brothers, The	Tried So Hard
Ike and Tina Turner	Sit And Hold Your Hand
Fountains Of Wayne	Barbara H "Barbara H" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
Angi-D's, The	I Like Girls "I Like Girls" by "Angi-D's, The"
Charmaines with Lonnie Mack	Sticks and Stones
Osborne Brothers, The	Driving Nails In My Coffin
Barbara Mason	Shackin' Up "Shackin' Up" by "Barbara Mason"
Jonathan Richman	Stop This Car "Stop This Car" by "Jonathan Richman"
Sylvie Vartan	Quand Tu Es Ls "Quand Tu Es Ls" by "Sylvie Vartan"
Association, The	Blistered "Blistered" by "Association, The"
Faith Healer	Sufferin' Creature "Sufferin' Creature" by "Faith Healer"
Bo Diddley	Mr. Engineer "Mr. Engineer" by "Bo Diddley"
Red	Tube Bar selections "Tube Bar selections" by "Red"

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Listener comments!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Хонгор минь
	11:04am Cat: Baby baby!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Шинэ оны мэнд Cat!!!
	11:05am TheLoneliestMonk: Good saturday, Mike. how's 2020 finding you?
	11:06am mariano: Hey Mike, everyone - let's see how long I last: severe weather in New Orleans, power outages predicted.
	11:06am TheLoneliestMonk: @LB google translate has that detected as mongolian?!
	11:07am TheLoneliestMonk: howard was a great guest on ACP!
	11:08am Listener Baby: Donkin's Inn (Bar) was my first Little League team sponsor.
	11:08am mariano: @TLMonk: Haha, I'm the same way, I just have to translate things from unfamiliar alphabets/languages.
	11:09am TheLoneliestMonk: looks cyrillic ....it's all greek to me
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael and fellow midday melody mavens!
	11:10am mariano: Well, it is showing up as Mongolian (lots of non-Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet), the first one as "My darling" and the second as "Happy new year".
	11:11am TheLoneliestMonk: @M yup
	11:12am Listener Baby: Although Michael Shelley is an old, and very dear friend. I don't think I've ever referred to him as "my darling" I think a little something was lost in translation.
	11:13am Dean: Donkins: www.marinadelreyhistoricalsociety.org/donkins/ I wonder where in MdR it is/was.
	11:13am Juke Joint Jonny: So it's Listener My Darling now?
	11:14am Sean: Bum Bumming me out
	11:15am Listener Baby: @Dean D-Inn was right along the harbour front. Where all those themed restaurants are. Huge places.
	11:16am steveo: You can get cheap reading glasses at the drug store. Digging your picks!
	11:16am Listener Baby: @JJJ Apparently it is? I guess I'm okay with that.
	11:17am Michael Shelley: Hi have 20 pairs at home!
	11:18am steveo: :)
	11:18am Dean: Thanks, @LB. Found a 1974 LA Times article mentioning it as one of the places where "Pretty People of Marina del Rey...Dress[] the Part in Marina del Rey." Caption to a photo: "THE INN SCENE -- Peter Jacques, left, and brother Jerry Jacques dress in matching vinyl jackets and polyester shirts when they join the 'pretty people' at Donkins Inn."
	11:19am Gaylord Fields: Unsolicited fact check: It was actually Sonny Liston who made the Ringo/dog comparison.
	11:20am Listener Baby: I think I remember doing an end of season banquet at D-inn 49 years ago? Yikes!
	11:22am Juke Joint Jonny: Just going to picture a dog playing drums on all the tunes for the rest of the show. The Valiants drummer was an English Sheepdog and Doberman mix.
	11:23am Listener Robert: Well, Loneliest Monk, you can pretty well pronounce Cyrillic as Greek, except for some of the letters that we'd render as diphthongs in Roman.
	11:23am mariano: www.boxing.com...
	11:24am Listener Baby: This is magic! “My dog can play better drums than that kid with the big nose.”
	11:24am Hughie Considine: Before there was Yoko, there was Ringo. The arrangement on Meet the Beatles, with Ringo on a slightly lower plane from the other three, was deliberate. Robert Freeman, who also took the cover shots for Rubber Soul and Help!, confirmed this: “He was the last to join the group, he was the shortest and he was the drummer.”
	11:25am Dean: Another LAT article, 1970: "Donkin's Inn, 14130 Marquesas Way, Marina del Rey. Open daily from 11:30 to 2 a.m. Sunday from 10. Dinner served to 11:15, Friday and Saturday to 12:15. Reservations honored: 823-4551." Also, "The restaurant is deliberately informal, so that you may dock your boat or park your car and come right on in." Just love poring over old newspapers.
	11:26am Ross T.: The Marx Brothers were among the founders of Rock and Roll.
	11:26am Listener Robert: Just pronounce any character you don't recognize as a sneeze, and you won't be far wrong, unless it's a silent one.
	11:26am Juke Joint Jonny: Definitely some kind of terrier on this track.
	11:28am Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): mighty mighty!
	11:28am Corey: Sweet version of Mighty Mighty!
	11:29am Listener Robert: And if it happens to be Russian, chances are good the word is French or slightly modified French, a legacy of Peter the Great. If not French, then it's probably from Greek.
	11:31am Hughie Considine: Ha, I interviewed Chris for over an hour on his own turf, and I never got close to simpatico with the man. Tried.
	11:34am Michael Shelley: Sometimes, especially on radio, that kind of interview can be revealing, in its own way.
	11:38am Listener Robert: I missed it, which Chris was that?
	11:39am HumilityJane: Chris brought back the dark side of the downtown music snobs of the late70s/early 80s. "Cool" yet competitive ..and not particularly female friendly.
	11:40am HumilityJane: still like his music :)
	11:44am Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): that was a stellar opening rhyme!
	11:45am Listener Baby: Baby. For weeks I've been trying to figure out the Eddie Cochran / Italian actor who died joke. Please make me whole on that.
	11:47am Listener Baby: The "Nervous Breakdown" joke.
	11:53am mariano: No, everyone knows Clarence was the 5th Beatle: vimeo.com... But that's not the craziest theory I've heard. That one would have to be the conspiracy theory that Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles' songs as a way to get Western youth to take drugs and turn to communism. Because, you know, the Beatles were such ardent Stalinists.
	11:53am Michael Shelley: I honestly dont remember a thing about it.! More info please.
	11:54am TheLoneliestMonk: For the Beatles fanatics out there: pretty good interview with Peter Asher on lopate's show this past month
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: Have a friend who's a sideman/session drummer in LA. Hates purdie with a passion!
	11:56am Listener Baby: You said that this actor who was on Kojack, etc wrote Nervous Breakdown, not Eddie C. I think that was a great joke, that I didn’t get
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Michael and all!
	12:02pm Agent Peter: ah yes, the reflective words of d.boon
	12:02pm egould310: Minutemen, yes! Thanks Michael. Good catch on the f-bomb.
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: cant exactly remember - but this guy en.wikipedia.org... wrote it - though a lot of records credit Eddie
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: used to see Mario at Schwabs all the time
	12:04pm Michael Shelley: HI GREG
	12:04pm mariano: Yeah, in the UK it's "BURM-ing-um" and "BUCK-ing-um".
	12:05pm Ross T.: I saw the Minutemen piling out of a van in Windsor Terrace not much before D Boon died. Stuck in my head.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Oh! No wonder I didn’t get the joke. It wasn’t a joke. Doh!
	12:08pm SmokinJ: Thanks for the Buddy ms!
	12:12pm TheLoneliestMonk: @MS 'lluminati is puttin' drugs in the water...POE!
	12:13pm Sean: I think they now call those $.59 cent records "Exotica"
	12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: Yeah, this is everything I love about music in one compact little package.
	12:19pm SmokinJ: TR4 rules! Go Tommy Go!
	12:21pm George in WO: Whatever happened to Rick Roberts?
	12:24pm Jeanne: RIP the great Gene Clark. Thanks for another great show, Michael
	12:26pm Mike Sin: That third Burrito Bros LP gets overshadowed by the first two because it lacks Gram Parsons, but Rick Roberts rises to the occasion. That LP is right up there with the first two.
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: The first Fountains of Wayne record had the pathos.
	12:28pm jake6573: Ike actually started as an A & R man. Howlin wolf was one of his discoveries.
	12:28pm George in WO: I agree Mike Sin. Roberts did some great song writing on that third LP.
	12:32pm mariano: Wasn't there a Texas group in the wake of the British Invasion who spoke with British (or "British") accents, tried to pass themselves off? Also, remember Ministry's early incarnation as a UK-style new wave band, with Jourgensen singing in an affected (and somewhat androgynous) English accent?
	12:32pm Micheal: Angi-D’s sounds like perfect RI band name. In Mono?
	12:32pm Frank Zaatar: Why make a fake records in 1965? Sir Douglas Quintet, Beau Brummels, et al--makes sense to me.
	12:33pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Angi-D's! Pre-Satan's Breed!
	12:35pm mariano: Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed...
	12:43pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Jonathan Richman and Bonnie Prince Billy at Town Hall on March 9th!
	12:44pm swk: Was listening to the earlier bluegrass track eyeballing Jonathan Richman tunes to grab online (balked at the price) and then here we go. Thanks Mr S
	12:44pm mariano: Wow Todd, that's a hell of a lineup.
	12:48pm ChrisB.: @Mike, @George: Saw Rick Roberts, post Burritos, pre Firefall, open solo acoustic for BTO & Commander Cody. Rough crowd.
	12:49pm Spinning Giant: Seriously, Todd - wow - looking into flights from the great white north...
	12:51pm Spinning Giant: Great show today, Shelley! Enjoying with some brewskies :) It's my birthday weekend, yeehaw!
	12:52pm Spinning Giant: Hey Bo............................. Diddley r.o.c.k.s.
	12:53pm Michael Shelley: happy birthday!
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Just got back from canoeing. In January. In New York City. We're all doomed!! But I got to hear some Michael Shelley on the car radio, which is rare and fun.
	12:55pm Spinning Giant: ....aaaAAAnd, it's my son's birthday... do they allow 8 year olds in the club, "in the name of education", of course ;)
	12:56pm Corey: Thanks Michael for this edition of #1s! A lot of new favorites today.
	12:57pm Michael Shelley: Thanks ALL!
	12:58pm mariano: Thanks Michael (and Red)!
	12:59pm Spinning Giant: Thanks Michael! Cheers
	12:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	12:59pm Tim from LH: I delivered Miller Beer to Red at the Tube Bar in the 80’s!
	10:13pm Greg in Portland OR: Always glad to hear a Minutemen song; never thought one would be a Number One Hit!
	4:58pm Mark in Toronto: I think the whole Bernard Purdie thing has to do with one of those "Live at the Star Club" type albums ie one of those tapes of the Beatles in Hamburg that had really bad sound. So the owners of the tape hired Purdie to punch up, or play along to the tape, so that's how he came to "play" with the Beatles.

Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 11, 2020

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