WFMU: Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from August 5, 2020

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Becky! Tonkies! Faster vinyl! Faster!
	♥ 8:02pm PigeonsAndRust: Happy belated Louis Armstrong!!
	♥ 8:02pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Becky! Muskrats!
	8:04pm adamp: Hi, friends!
	8:05pm P-90: Evenin’ Miz Becky
	8:05pm Lothianman: Seems like country Joe got his rag from that
	8:05pm Becky: Hey y'all - how unbearable is this on a scale from ouch to throw the radio out the window?
	8:06pm adamp: I was very exciting to see what direction we’re headed in now that we’ve made our way through the alphabet. This past week was a real nail biter!
	8:07pm Becky: Had to crank that one up!
	♥ 8:09pm PigeonsAndRust: They don't make songs like this anymore
	♥ 8:09pm Pauly from Clifton: Hiya, Becky, Crew, Boogiers!
	♥ 8:10pm Scott Williams: Totally bearable! The past always sounds more done-&-gone and melancholy through a good haze of surface noise
	♥ 8:11pm PigeonsAndRust: These 50s London 78s sound gorgeous.
	♥ 8:11pm steveo: Good evening, great to hear you. Enjoying along with the August twilight.
	♥ 8:12pm listener 126464: what are we frying?
	♥ 8:13pm steveo: Mark me down under wonderfully bearable.
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm ultradamno: Peel famously said life has surface noise, so what's a little more?
	8:14pm johnk77: @lman that does sound like fish cheer/ feel like i'm fixin to die
	♥ 8:15pm lukavino: these scratchy 78s sound rill good rn.
	8:15pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: sounds like you are playing 78s with an lp stylus
	♥ 8:16pm mariano: Hey Becky and crew, everyone. Love this country/blues mix, so much of both is cut from the same cloth.
	8:16pm P-90: Not one unbearable moment yet.
	8:16pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: if you get a 78 cartridge it will make the music louder and less noise.
	8:16pm Becky: As a matter of a fact, Mitzi, I am!!
	8:16pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: oh cool
	8:16pm Becky: Yeah. I know. One of these days I'll get around to it! :)
	8:17pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: oh I misunderstood you need a 78rpm stylus
	♥ 8:17pm steveo: 69, 78, hike!
	♥ 8:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'll bet that mean Old Codger has cornered the market on 78 RPM hardware.
	8:19pm johnk77: sound quality seems good listening to broadcast 91.1 in mono
	8:20pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, I like 78s and I figured I'd share cause I have many of them
	8:21pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: www.ebay.com...
	8:22pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: love the show !!! and I am glad you are playing 78s.
	8:22pm Becky: No, I appreciate it! One day I'll have a proper Victrola and do it right.
	8:23pm Tumble Reed: This is great. Thank you Becky!
	♥ 8:26pm PigeonsAndRust: I think the most flexible option is Stanton 500 carts...3.0 mil styli are about $20 EA on eBay. I used a Grado 78E for a while but went back to Stanton. I think the hardest thing is working around the non-RIAA eq curve
	♥ 8:27pm Scott Williams: Soooo much better to hear these physical recordings, instead of cleaned up CD comp issues!
	♥ 8:28pm lukavino: shadrack. smokin and drinkin on a wednesday nite.
	♥ 8:30pm Tommy in Neversink: Any word on when 90.1 will be back up?
	8:31pm The Butterman: I love the pops and crackles. I’ll listen to it all day long. Who was it that used to talk to “scratchy record”?
	♥ 8:32pm PigeonsAndRust: Tico records, right from NYC...they were basically the last label with new 78 issues in the US, right into the middle 60s
	8:33pm johnk77: nice work tonight selecter we get good results w/shure78 cartridge mounting each alternative cartridge in it's own headshell makes things simpler if u do not have a separate 78 machine
	♥ 8:34pm mariano: I went to an FMU event years ago on the LES, a live broadcast of the Antique Phonograph show, and Mac had a few lovely old restored phonographs. I imagine those were his, or at least some of them. Does FMU have its own?
	8:34pm johnk77: mac rocks the live shows
	♥ 8:36pm PigeonsAndRust: Johnk77 are you also a 78 DJ?
	8:36pm Tumble Reed: “Yo! Semite!” sounds a lot better than, “Hey! Jew!”
	8:36pm Tumble Reed: Drumpf is still a piece of human garbage.
	♥ 8:36pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: We have a Victrola and you can use bougainvillea thorns for needles!
	8:37pm Becky: @mariano we have 78 cartridges at WFMU. in my home, zero. I think Mac's Victrolas are all in his possession.
	🎸 ♥ 8:38pm ultradamno: Either he's gone his whole life without hearing the name of the park spoken or he worried that if he said it correctly it would remind people of the demon semen woman.
	8:38pm Hackensack Slim: These scratchy old 78's sound superb, Becky. Butterman, it was Scharpling who conversed with the scratchy records. His show, The Best Show, followed the Antique Phonograph Hour.
	♥ 8:39pm mariano: Ah, I see. Thanks Becky. I've never heard of 78 cartridges before, always learning something on FMU.
	8:39pm johnk77: no, retired audio worker i have provided gear and roadied for pro djs mac usually has very cool rigs
	8:40pm Tumble Reed: He never heard of Yosemite Sam? The a Confederate flag waving racist who hates Speedy Gonzales?
	♥ 8:41pm PigeonsAndRust: Lucky Millinder out front here! Variety is a less common label, I think they were only issued in 1937.
	8:42pm johnk77: mac had wind-up acoustic players w/small mics in the horn and used electrical sound reinforcement in addition
	8:42pm Becky: By the way, this isn't the Lefty version most people have heard!! A 78 exclusive!! You heard it here, people!
	♥ 8:42pm mariano: So there are artists today putting out LPs and cassettes, is anyone putting out 78s?
	🎸 ♥ 8:43pm ultradamno: You can play liar's poker with her SS#?
	♥ 8:43pm McGroovey: I love the hissy-cracklies. I have my dad's collection of jazz 78s in my friend's garage that I have to figure out how to get it of my friend's garage.
	8:43pm Becky: @mariano - Jack White has a direct-to-78 recording rig at Third Man in Nashville, so I believe folks have at least recorded to 78!
	♥ 8:44pm McGroovey: *out of my friend's garage
	♥ 8:44pm PigeonsAndRust: Mariano, they issue microgroove dubs on 78 each Record Store Day. As to proper wide groove 78s-- I know a few people doing very limited pressings of 78s
	8:45pm johnk77: the faster speeds can provide some benefits on the engineering tip:> if you keep the grooves far enough apart
	8:46pm The Butterman: Hackensack Slim, of course. Scharpling!
	♥ 8:50pm mariano: Interesting, thanks Becky, PigeonsAR and johnk77! In the late 90s I went to a presentation by George Martin, he said that when he first started in the business that they used a weight system to record directly to the record. Basically a weight that would slowly drop from the ceiling, powering the recording device's spin. since in those days gravity was more stable and steady than any mechanical means for turning a record.
	8:52pm johnk77: jack white has also used 2inch 8track analog tape great show tonight
	8:53pm yippie: they are usually about 3 inches longer
	8:53pm johnzo: is it just me or is it the same people who say "im gonna look out for you, nobody's gonna fuck with you" who end up punching you in the face for no reason
	♥ 8:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: I may have posted the story on a HTRG program before ... in high school, I saw Lefty Frizell's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and took a picture because the name intrigued me. I had never heard of him or his music at that point.
	8:54pm Becky: johnk77 supplying us with the poetry tonight
	♥ 8:55pm PigeonsAndRust: The longest 10" 78s I've encountered were a few 5-minute Durium/ Hit-of-the-Week cardboard 78s issued in the early 30s. Edison had a rare microgroove long playing Diamond Disc format..24 minutes a side in the late 20s at 80 RPM! But it was not a success.
	♥ 8:55pm listener 126464: Thanks Becky and FMU crew. Cheers everybody.
	8:56pm yippie: what about those 2 feet long records
	8:57pm johnk77: aw shucks selecter @becky a great book called perfecting sound forever reflects on these issues
	♥ 8:58pm PigeonsAndRust: Powerless here... I've been listening outside with all the bugs singing, a Kerosene lantern, and the phone hooked to my car radio. GREAT SHOW TONIGHT!!! THANKS!!
	♥ 8:58pm mariano: Thank you Becky and Crew, take care, all.
	8:58pm Tumble Reed: Thanks Becky!
	8:58pm Becky: Pigeons, that's a gorgeous image. Hope your power is restored soon.
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: The ingenuity WFMU inspires.
	9:00pm P-90: Thanks Becky!
	♥ 9:00pm McGroovey: Great show, Becky!
	9:01pm adamp: Loved this evening’s scratchy goodness. Thank you, Becky!
	♥ 9:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Becky. An all flexi show next week?

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August 5, 2020: The Definitely Advisable All-78s Hour

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Artist	Track	Label	Format	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five	Muskrat Ramble			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Big Joe Turner	Rebecca "Rebecca" by "Big Joe Turner"	Decca	78	0:03:48 (Pop-up)
Hank Snow	The Rhumba Boogie "The Rhumba Boogie" by "Hank Snow"	RCA Victor	78	0:06:54 (Pop-up)
Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms	In The Mood	London	78	0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Rodgers	My Rough and Rowdy Ways	Montgomery Ward	78	0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Todd Rhodes Orchestra	Rocket 69 "Rocket 69" by "Todd Rhodes Orchestra"	King	78	0:14:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five	Heebie Jeebies			0:17:27 (Pop-up)
The Gene Autry Trio	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Okeh	78	0:21:25 (Pop-up)
Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes	Okeh	78	0:23:39 (Pop-up)
Golden Gate Quartet	Shadrack "Shadrack" by "Golden Gate Quartet"	Columbia	78	0:26:00 (Pop-up)
Tito Puente	Rainfall "Rainfall" by "Tito Puente"	Tico	78	0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Louis Armstrong	Struttin' with Some Barbecue			0:32:43 (Pop-up)
Moon Mullican	I'll Sail My Ship Alone	King	7"	0:35:29 (Pop-up)
Mills' Blue Rhythm Band	Jungle Madness	Variety	78	0:38:17 (Pop-up)
Lefty Frizzell	My Baby's Just Like Money	Columbia	78	0:41:20 (Pop-up)
Larry Birdsong	Oh, Oh My Darling "Oh, Oh My Darling" by "Larry Birdsong"	Vee-Jay	78	0:44:24 (Pop-up)
Texas Ruby	Ain't You Sorry That You Lied	Columbia	78	0:46:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five	Got No Blues			0:48:42 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams	I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You	MGM	78	0:52:32 (Pop-up)
Little Miss Cornshucks	Keep Your Hand On Your Heart	Deluxe	78	0:54:34 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins	I'll Go On Alone "I'll Go On Alone" by "Marty Robbins"	Columbia	78	0:57:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Becky! Tonkies! Faster vinyl! Faster!
	♥ 8:02pm PigeonsAndRust: Happy belated Louis Armstrong!!
	♥ 8:02pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Becky! Muskrats!
	8:04pm adamp: Hi, friends!
	8:05pm P-90: Evenin’ Miz Becky
	8:05pm Lothianman: Seems like country Joe got his rag from that
	8:05pm Becky: Hey y'all - how unbearable is this on a scale from ouch to throw the radio out the window?
	8:06pm adamp: I was very exciting to see what direction we’re headed in now that we’ve made our way through the alphabet. This past week was a real nail biter!
	8:07pm Becky: Had to crank that one up!
	♥ 8:09pm PigeonsAndRust: They don't make songs like this anymore
	♥ 8:09pm Pauly from Clifton: Hiya, Becky, Crew, Boogiers!
	♥ 8:10pm Scott Williams: Totally bearable! The past always sounds more done-&-gone and melancholy through a good haze of surface noise
	♥ 8:11pm PigeonsAndRust: These 50s London 78s sound gorgeous.
	♥ 8:11pm steveo: Good evening, great to hear you. Enjoying along with the August twilight.
	♥ 8:12pm listener 126464: what are we frying?
	♥ 8:13pm steveo: Mark me down under wonderfully bearable.
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm ultradamno: Peel famously said life has surface noise, so what's a little more?
	8:14pm johnk77: @lman that does sound like fish cheer/ feel like i'm fixin to die
	♥ 8:15pm lukavino: these scratchy 78s sound rill good rn.
	8:15pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: sounds like you are playing 78s with an lp stylus
	♥ 8:16pm mariano: Hey Becky and crew, everyone. Love this country/blues mix, so much of both is cut from the same cloth.
	8:16pm P-90: Not one unbearable moment yet.
	8:16pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: if you get a 78 cartridge it will make the music louder and less noise.
	8:16pm Becky: As a matter of a fact, Mitzi, I am!!
	8:16pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: oh cool
	8:16pm Becky: Yeah. I know. One of these days I'll get around to it! :)
	8:17pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: oh I misunderstood you need a 78rpm stylus
	♥ 8:17pm steveo: 69, 78, hike!
	♥ 8:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'll bet that mean Old Codger has cornered the market on 78 RPM hardware.
	8:19pm johnk77: sound quality seems good listening to broadcast 91.1 in mono
	8:20pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, I like 78s and I figured I'd share cause I have many of them
	8:21pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: www.ebay.com...
	8:22pm Mitzi_in_Bowie: love the show !!! and I am glad you are playing 78s.
	8:22pm Becky: No, I appreciate it! One day I'll have a proper Victrola and do it right.
	8:23pm Tumble Reed: This is great. Thank you Becky!
	♥ 8:26pm PigeonsAndRust: I think the most flexible option is Stanton 500 carts...3.0 mil styli are about $20 EA on eBay. I used a Grado 78E for a while but went back to Stanton. I think the hardest thing is working around the non-RIAA eq curve
	♥ 8:27pm Scott Williams: Soooo much better to hear these physical recordings, instead of cleaned up CD comp issues!
	♥ 8:28pm lukavino: shadrack. smokin and drinkin on a wednesday nite.
	♥ 8:30pm Tommy in Neversink: Any word on when 90.1 will be back up?
	8:31pm The Butterman: I love the pops and crackles. I’ll listen to it all day long. Who was it that used to talk to “scratchy record”?
	♥ 8:32pm PigeonsAndRust: Tico records, right from NYC...they were basically the last label with new 78 issues in the US, right into the middle 60s
	8:33pm johnk77: nice work tonight selecter we get good results w/shure78 cartridge mounting each alternative cartridge in it's own headshell makes things simpler if u do not have a separate 78 machine
	♥ 8:34pm mariano: I went to an FMU event years ago on the LES, a live broadcast of the Antique Phonograph show, and Mac had a few lovely old restored phonographs. I imagine those were his, or at least some of them. Does FMU have its own?
	8:34pm johnk77: mac rocks the live shows
	♥ 8:36pm PigeonsAndRust: Johnk77 are you also a 78 DJ?
	8:36pm Tumble Reed: “Yo! Semite!” sounds a lot better than, “Hey! Jew!”
	8:36pm Tumble Reed: Drumpf is still a piece of human garbage.
	♥ 8:36pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: We have a Victrola and you can use bougainvillea thorns for needles!
	8:37pm Becky: @mariano we have 78 cartridges at WFMU. in my home, zero. I think Mac's Victrolas are all in his possession.
	🎸 ♥ 8:38pm ultradamno: Either he's gone his whole life without hearing the name of the park spoken or he worried that if he said it correctly it would remind people of the demon semen woman.
	8:38pm Hackensack Slim: These scratchy old 78's sound superb, Becky. Butterman, it was Scharpling who conversed with the scratchy records. His show, The Best Show, followed the Antique Phonograph Hour.
	♥ 8:39pm mariano: Ah, I see. Thanks Becky. I've never heard of 78 cartridges before, always learning something on FMU.
	8:39pm johnk77: no, retired audio worker i have provided gear and roadied for pro djs mac usually has very cool rigs
	8:40pm Tumble Reed: He never heard of Yosemite Sam? The a Confederate flag waving racist who hates Speedy Gonzales?
	♥ 8:41pm PigeonsAndRust: Lucky Millinder out front here! Variety is a less common label, I think they were only issued in 1937.
	8:42pm johnk77: mac had wind-up acoustic players w/small mics in the horn and used electrical sound reinforcement in addition
	8:42pm Becky: By the way, this isn't the Lefty version most people have heard!! A 78 exclusive!! You heard it here, people!
	♥ 8:42pm mariano: So there are artists today putting out LPs and cassettes, is anyone putting out 78s?
	🎸 ♥ 8:43pm ultradamno: You can play liar's poker with her SS#?
	♥ 8:43pm McGroovey: I love the hissy-cracklies. I have my dad's collection of jazz 78s in my friend's garage that I have to figure out how to get it of my friend's garage.
	8:43pm Becky: @mariano - Jack White has a direct-to-78 recording rig at Third Man in Nashville, so I believe folks have at least recorded to 78!
	♥ 8:44pm McGroovey: *out of my friend's garage
	♥ 8:44pm PigeonsAndRust: Mariano, they issue microgroove dubs on 78 each Record Store Day. As to proper wide groove 78s-- I know a few people doing very limited pressings of 78s
	8:45pm johnk77: the faster speeds can provide some benefits on the engineering tip:> if you keep the grooves far enough apart
	8:46pm The Butterman: Hackensack Slim, of course. Scharpling!
	♥ 8:50pm mariano: Interesting, thanks Becky, PigeonsAR and johnk77! In the late 90s I went to a presentation by George Martin, he said that when he first started in the business that they used a weight system to record directly to the record. Basically a weight that would slowly drop from the ceiling, powering the recording device's spin. since in those days gravity was more stable and steady than any mechanical means for turning a record.
	8:52pm johnk77: jack white has also used 2inch 8track analog tape great show tonight
	8:53pm yippie: they are usually about 3 inches longer
	8:53pm johnzo: is it just me or is it the same people who say "im gonna look out for you, nobody's gonna fuck with you" who end up punching you in the face for no reason
	♥ 8:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: I may have posted the story on a HTRG program before ... in high school, I saw Lefty Frizell's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and took a picture because the name intrigued me. I had never heard of him or his music at that point.
	8:54pm Becky: johnk77 supplying us with the poetry tonight
	♥ 8:55pm PigeonsAndRust: The longest 10" 78s I've encountered were a few 5-minute Durium/ Hit-of-the-Week cardboard 78s issued in the early 30s. Edison had a rare microgroove long playing Diamond Disc format..24 minutes a side in the late 20s at 80 RPM! But it was not a success.
	♥ 8:55pm listener 126464: Thanks Becky and FMU crew. Cheers everybody.
	8:56pm yippie: what about those 2 feet long records
	8:57pm johnk77: aw shucks selecter @becky a great book called perfecting sound forever reflects on these issues
	♥ 8:58pm PigeonsAndRust: Powerless here... I've been listening outside with all the bugs singing, a Kerosene lantern, and the phone hooked to my car radio. GREAT SHOW TONIGHT!!! THANKS!!
	♥ 8:58pm mariano: Thank you Becky and Crew, take care, all.
	8:58pm Tumble Reed: Thanks Becky!
	8:58pm Becky: Pigeons, that's a gorgeous image. Hope your power is restored soon.
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: The ingenuity WFMU inspires.
	9:00pm P-90: Thanks Becky!
	♥ 9:00pm McGroovey: Great show, Becky!
	9:01pm adamp: Loved this evening’s scratchy goodness. Thank you, Becky!
	♥ 9:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Becky. An all flexi show next week?

Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from August 5, 2020

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