WFMU: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 2, 2020

Listener comments!
	🥁 4:56pm david w: Moondog (Louis Hardin) May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999
	🥁 4:59pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon/evening/whatever, Ridgewoodians!
	🥁 5:00pm david w: james!
	5:00pm Michael 98145: Looking forward to this!
	🥁 5:01pm david w: Hello Michael 98145! Its a wild one!
	🥁 5:02pm WR: Hi all. Still working but I think the phone calls & meetings are done for today.
	🥁 5:04pm chresti: Hi David, ruth, and RR company!
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello WR and hello chresti! Welcome! Meetings bleccch!
	5:10pm doctorjazz: Hi David, and all you Ridgewood Revelers!
	🥁 5:12pm david w: doctorjazz!
	🥁 5:13pm WR: Love these pieces of Hardin solo on the street. Amazing that they are all just him.
	🥁 5:14pm david w: He had some (unknown to me) collaborators as you will hear.
	5:18pm ruth: Hi everybody. Moondog was a fixture of my childhood! I often had lunch with my Dad near his office in midtown or went to MOMA (one of the first places I was allowed to go alone!) He sometimes stood near the library at 5th Ave.and 42nd St. as well as a little further uptown. Viking helmet on head.
	5:19pm ruth: I think he was the first man with long hair I ever saw in person.
	🥁 5:20pm david w: Ruth! Amazing!
	5:21pm fred: Hello David, Ruth and listeners
	🥁 5:22pm david w: fred! We are going to keep you up late with this one.
	5:22pm StringOFperils: This is great, as I'm sure there must be a lot of Moondog's recordings that I haven't heard.
	🥁 5:24pm david w: StringOFperils, I found so much stuff!
	5:25pm Matt Freedman: Tim and Matt and Jude checking in. Mesmerized
	🥁 5:25pm listener james from westwood: @ruth: Only in New York!
	5:25pm ruth: Hi Fred and String! Love this one David.
	🥁 5:26pm david w: Matt and crew! Honored!
	5:27pm ruth: Matt!! Jude!! Ridgewood in the house!
	5:30pm fred: Collaborators you say? I think both Reich and Glass are featured on "Why spend the dark night with you"
	🥁 5:32pm david w: Yes, fred. They championed and supported him. But who played with him on the street I wonder?
	5:35pm Hank: Cool Moondog Marimba !
	🥁 5:39pm david w: Hey, Hank!
	5:40pm Moondoug Schulkind: Hello!
	🥁 5:41pm david w: Moonkind! Hello!
	5:46pm fred: I read "the viking of 6th avenue" years ago, I remember there were a lot of famous names (I think there was a drumming session with Brando), but not which ones played in the streets
	5:46pm doctorjazz: This has been great! Time to head home, thanks David and Ruth!
	🥁 5:47pm david w: Take care, djazz!
	🥁 5:48pm david w: Indeed, fred. He made some influential friends. That is part of the mystique eh?
	5:52pm fred: I guess it's part of why he wasn't forgotten. Sadly, quality of music is often not enough
	5:53pm ruth: I never saw him playing with anybody else in the street. I mostly remember him either just standing there or maybe reciting stuff, poems maybe?? he had some percussion implements, bells I think and a staff of some kind.
	5:56pm fred: I wonder what Graham did with this
	🥁 5:56pm david w: Truth, fred.
	🥁 5:57pm david w: Apparently, the Graham project went nowhere.
	6:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings david & ruth and all
	6:04pm northguineahills: David! Having a bad day w/ Americans in the wild w/ work. I’ll need a drink when I get back to the hotel. (It is balanced by a nice Colombian guy on Monday who gave me the same medication I needed for my affliction the last time it was a problem [topical]. He didn’t ask, saw me, and just went to his cabinet and gave a lot. I wept later for the kindness. The medication is working.
	6:04pm Michael 98145: Love this compostition
	🥁 6:04pm david w: greetings, coel and welcome to moondog world!
	6:05pm Michael 98145: take care, @ngh
	🥁 6:06pm david w: ngh! wow, some good news there. we'll take it.
	6:07pm ruth: Hey ngh!
	6:09pm ruth: coel hello! This one's great, really enjoying D.
	6:10pm fred: There was a tribute record to Moondog by (mostly) French musicians released many years ago. I never heard it, but it featured Ilitch, Dragibus, David Fenech and probably other people I know
	6:10pm ruth: Something to track down Fred.
	6:11pm ruth: @Fred Do you remember the label or the cover art?
	6:13pm Michael 98145: Perhaps this? www.discogs.com...
	6:15pm Franco Twinkie: Just took my mom some plums. She's starting to look like Moondog.
	6:16pm Michael 98145: @FT, except for the beard, i hope :)
	6:16pm Franco Twinkie: No beard....yet.
	🥁 6:16pm david w: There are many, many tributes and covers. For this show I opted to use material where (I think) he was in the room. The list of folks who wanted to honor him is stunning.
	6:17pm fred: @Micharl 98145: That's probably it! I only heard about it from people I know who told me they contributed to it. I'm most intrigued by the Dragibus cover, as it was a kid music band
	6:18pm Michael 98145: at least they aren't asking a fortune for the CD
	🥁 6:19pm david w: Franco! I need plums, my beard is growing!
	6:19pm northguineahills: Ruth! @Franco: I’ll have a beard for the foreseeable future, until my gash on my chin heals.
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: David, where are you?
	🥁 6:22pm david w: Ridgewood Queens always (at least during the show).
	6:24pm Franco Twinkie: NGH, after the first month your face will stop itching, and you'll like it.
	6:24pm fred: @Michael 98145: knowing one of the founders of the Trace label, the day it hits outrageous prices, they'll either re-release at a cheap price or put it for free on bandcamp
	6:25pm Franco Twinkie: That's kind of far. I'm in San Gabriel, California.
	🥁 6:28pm david w: Well, I've got figs and peaches growing outside my building in Brooklyn so... thanks for thinking of me! (Brooklyn fruit, hmmm)
	6:29pm ruth: Thnx Michael 98....
	6:29pm Michael 98145: A peach grows in Brooklyn
	6:30pm Franco Twinkie: Good for you David! To me Labor day means one thing - figs!
	6:31pm Michael 98145: Boy-howdy! tracelabel.bandcamp.com...
	6:31pm ruth: Raspberries and grapes on my roof right here in Ridgewood. Racoon (YES Racoon in NYC) ate ALL the grapes
	6:32pm Michael 98145: ... and the mine of gold moondog.bandcamp.com
	6:32pm ruth: Nice work Michael 98.... Will give a listen
	6:33pm Franco Twinkie: Let's all enjoy summer our fruit, because it's all going to change pretty damn quick.
	6:33pm ruth: What are they saying?
	🥁 6:34pm david w: Remember, walk away
	6:35pm ruth: thnx D
	🥁 6:35pm david w: This one is about Nero.
	6:36pm danjoseph: Love the rounds!
	🥁 6:36pm david w: And now... some trust some, some trust all, some trust none, not even myself
	🥁 6:37pm david w: dan, yes!
	🥁 6:38pm david w: wine, women too much for me
	🥁 6:40pm david w: maybe someday I'll be recognized for all I am before I'm dead and gone
	6:41pm fred: The guy from Trace that I know was on the board of the official radio of the French Anarchist Federation (maybe he still does, I don't see anyone these days) The very concept is puzzling on several levels
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Official anarchists, nice.
	6:46pm ruth: Anarchists have an "official" radio station in France?
	6:47pm StringOFperils: The Federated Anarchists' Charter isn't worth the paper it's written on, until you torch it.
	6:48pm coelacanth∅: haha
	6:51pm fred: @ruth: www.radio-libertaire.net Espsilonia (Thursdays 4pm your time) looks pretty cool
	🥁 6:53pm david w: Getting near the finish here so thanks to everybody!
	🥁 6:53pm david w: Up next: 7-10pm EDT: BODEGA POP LIVE with Gary Sullivan: Everyday Life (Ost): East German DIY, electronic, folk, punk, and underground sounds, 1970s-89
	6:53pm Hank: Thank you - great show DW !
	6:54pm northguineahills: Went home early. Broke my glasses, been one of those weeks....
	6:54pm fred: @StringOfPerils: Don't worry: that's not in the charter, but a bylaw seems to be that if more than ten people agree on something, it's time for a split
	6:54pm StringOFperils: Thank YOU, David! I feel as though I've attended a strange ritual, and I guess I have. Thanks Moondog!
	6:55pm StringOFperils: @fred: Ha ha. I love it.
	6:55pm northguineahills: I need a holiday, but Moondog works as well...
	6:57pm Hank: Fondness for Moondog always - and there is an upstate connection in Candor NY near Owego and the Experimental Television Center.
	6:57pm Michael 98145: Thank you!
	6:57pm northguineahills: I love the Moondog pic!
	6:57pm fred: Thanks David!
	6:58pm northguineahills: oh, and thanks, David & Ruth!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David, Ruth!
	🥁 6:58pm david w: I don't think he ever took a bad picture.
	6:59pm ruth: A fab show David one of my faves! Thanks all for listening- See ya next week! Take care!
	🥁 6:59pm david w: Everybody take care!
	🥁 6:59pm chresti: Thank you David and ruth!
	🥁 6:59pm WR: Thank you David and Ruth. I eschewed work for lying on my bed listening to Moondog. Over so quickly. Onward.
	7:00pm Hank: yes thanks David and Ruth.
	7:00pm Michael 98145: Gotta go shop at the bodega

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 2, 2020

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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September 2, 2020: Moondog’s Corner

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A musical profile of the eccentric, iconoclastic, visionary hermit known as Moondog,
who caught the attention of Leonard Bernstein, Charlie Parker, Janis Joplin,
and Philip Glass and influenced many more.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Moondog	Jazz Book: No. 2 "Jazz Book: No. 2" by "Moondog"	The Last Concert	Roof Records	2004	Piano by Dominique Ponty accompanied by Moondog (Louis Hardin) on percussion, recorded 6 weeks before his death. Live at the Mimi-Festival, Marseille, France, 1999. Included in the Moondog album, The German Years 1977-1999.

Moondog	On the Streets of New York (selections)	On the Streets of New York	London Records	1953	A collection of miniatures, some recorded on the street, in the early 50s and released on a 45rpm disc.	0:08:07 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Invocation "Invocation" by "Moondog"	Big Band	Trimba Music	1995	Performed by Moondog (tom tom) with The London Brass and London Saxophonic.	0:19:46 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Marimba Mondo 2 - Seascape of the Whales	Elpmas	Kopf	1991	Recorded at: Academy of St. Martin’s, Austria.	0:29:24 (Pop-up)

Moondog	High On A Rocky Ledge "High On A Rocky Ledge" by "Moondog"	H'art Songs	Kopf	1978	Piano – Fritz Storfinger; Vocals, Percussion – Louis Hardin (Moondog).	0:38:47 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Choo Choo Lullaby "Choo Choo Lullaby" by "Moondog"	H'art Songs	Kopf	1978	Same as above.	0:43:00 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Frost Flower "Frost Flower" by "Moondog"	Bracelli	Kakaphone	1986	Swedish musicians, the Flesk Quartet, joined by Anders Öberg on contrabass and percussionists Tina Kjebon and Stefan Lakatos (dedicated to Moondog's legacy and his method of drum playing).	0:48:59 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Witch of Endor (Instrumental)	Moondog	Columbia Masterworks	1969	Written for Martha Graham, his first release in 12 years.	0:53:07 (Pop-up)

Moondog	Arctic Ocean (Bird's Lament)	Oceans	CBS Records	1969	Performed by Moondog with The London Saxophonic.	1:02:30 (Pop-up)

Moondog	Selections "Selections" by "Moondog"	Moondog 2	CBS Records	1971	Selections from a collection of vocal compositions in canons, rounds, and madrigals.	1:31:59 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Chaconne C "Chaconne C" by "Moondog"	In Europe	Kopf	1989	Recorded 1977, Fritz Storfinger, organ.	1:41:32 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Galactic Ocean (Gygg) "Galactic Ocean (Gygg)" by "Moondog"	Rare Material	Roof Records	2006	A kind of jig (gygg!) in 5/8 meter. Also released on the album project entitled Oceans and on the Bracelli release.	1:44:27 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Pastoral "Pastoral" by "Moondog"	Moondog 2	CBS Records	1971	Gillian Stephens, harp	1:52:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Moondog	Wind River Powwow "Wind River Powwow" by "Moondog"	Elpmas	Kopf	1991	Recorded at: Academy of St. Martin’s, Austria.	1:55:03 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!
	🥁 4:56pm david w: Moondog (Louis Hardin) May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999
	🥁 4:59pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon/evening/whatever, Ridgewoodians!
	🥁 5:00pm david w: james!
	5:00pm Michael 98145: Looking forward to this!
	🥁 5:01pm david w: Hello Michael 98145! Its a wild one!
	🥁 5:02pm WR: Hi all. Still working but I think the phone calls & meetings are done for today.
	🥁 5:04pm chresti: Hi David, ruth, and RR company!
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello WR and hello chresti! Welcome! Meetings bleccch!
	5:10pm doctorjazz: Hi David, and all you Ridgewood Revelers!
	🥁 5:12pm david w: doctorjazz!
	🥁 5:13pm WR: Love these pieces of Hardin solo on the street. Amazing that they are all just him.
	🥁 5:14pm david w: He had some (unknown to me) collaborators as you will hear.
	5:18pm ruth: Hi everybody. Moondog was a fixture of my childhood! I often had lunch with my Dad near his office in midtown or went to MOMA (one of the first places I was allowed to go alone!) He sometimes stood near the library at 5th Ave.and 42nd St. as well as a little further uptown. Viking helmet on head.
	5:19pm ruth: I think he was the first man with long hair I ever saw in person.
	🥁 5:20pm david w: Ruth! Amazing!
	5:21pm fred: Hello David, Ruth and listeners
	🥁 5:22pm david w: fred! We are going to keep you up late with this one.
	5:22pm StringOFperils: This is great, as I'm sure there must be a lot of Moondog's recordings that I haven't heard.
	🥁 5:24pm david w: StringOFperils, I found so much stuff!
	5:25pm Matt Freedman: Tim and Matt and Jude checking in. Mesmerized
	🥁 5:25pm listener james from westwood: @ruth: Only in New York!
	5:25pm ruth: Hi Fred and String! Love this one David.
	🥁 5:26pm david w: Matt and crew! Honored!
	5:27pm ruth: Matt!! Jude!! Ridgewood in the house!
	5:30pm fred: Collaborators you say? I think both Reich and Glass are featured on "Why spend the dark night with you"
	🥁 5:32pm david w: Yes, fred. They championed and supported him. But who played with him on the street I wonder?
	5:35pm Hank: Cool Moondog Marimba !
	🥁 5:39pm david w: Hey, Hank!
	5:40pm Moondoug Schulkind: Hello!
	🥁 5:41pm david w: Moonkind! Hello!
	5:46pm fred: I read "the viking of 6th avenue" years ago, I remember there were a lot of famous names (I think there was a drumming session with Brando), but not which ones played in the streets
	5:46pm doctorjazz: This has been great! Time to head home, thanks David and Ruth!
	🥁 5:47pm david w: Take care, djazz!
	🥁 5:48pm david w: Indeed, fred. He made some influential friends. That is part of the mystique eh?
	5:52pm fred: I guess it's part of why he wasn't forgotten. Sadly, quality of music is often not enough
	5:53pm ruth: I never saw him playing with anybody else in the street. I mostly remember him either just standing there or maybe reciting stuff, poems maybe?? he had some percussion implements, bells I think and a staff of some kind.
	5:56pm fred: I wonder what Graham did with this
	🥁 5:56pm david w: Truth, fred.
	🥁 5:57pm david w: Apparently, the Graham project went nowhere.
	6:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings david & ruth and all
	6:04pm northguineahills: David! Having a bad day w/ Americans in the wild w/ work. I’ll need a drink when I get back to the hotel. (It is balanced by a nice Colombian guy on Monday who gave me the same medication I needed for my affliction the last time it was a problem [topical]. He didn’t ask, saw me, and just went to his cabinet and gave a lot. I wept later for the kindness. The medication is working.
	6:04pm Michael 98145: Love this compostition
	🥁 6:04pm david w: greetings, coel and welcome to moondog world!
	6:05pm Michael 98145: take care, @ngh
	🥁 6:06pm david w: ngh! wow, some good news there. we'll take it.
	6:07pm ruth: Hey ngh!
	6:09pm ruth: coel hello! This one's great, really enjoying D.
	6:10pm fred: There was a tribute record to Moondog by (mostly) French musicians released many years ago. I never heard it, but it featured Ilitch, Dragibus, David Fenech and probably other people I know
	6:10pm ruth: Something to track down Fred.
	6:11pm ruth: @Fred Do you remember the label or the cover art?
	6:13pm Michael 98145: Perhaps this? www.discogs.com...
	6:15pm Franco Twinkie: Just took my mom some plums. She's starting to look like Moondog.
	6:16pm Michael 98145: @FT, except for the beard, i hope :)
	6:16pm Franco Twinkie: No beard....yet.
	🥁 6:16pm david w: There are many, many tributes and covers. For this show I opted to use material where (I think) he was in the room. The list of folks who wanted to honor him is stunning.
	6:17pm fred: @Micharl 98145: That's probably it! I only heard about it from people I know who told me they contributed to it. I'm most intrigued by the Dragibus cover, as it was a kid music band
	6:18pm Michael 98145: at least they aren't asking a fortune for the CD
	🥁 6:19pm david w: Franco! I need plums, my beard is growing!
	6:19pm northguineahills: Ruth! @Franco: I’ll have a beard for the foreseeable future, until my gash on my chin heals.
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: David, where are you?
	🥁 6:22pm david w: Ridgewood Queens always (at least during the show).
	6:24pm Franco Twinkie: NGH, after the first month your face will stop itching, and you'll like it.
	6:24pm fred: @Michael 98145: knowing one of the founders of the Trace label, the day it hits outrageous prices, they'll either re-release at a cheap price or put it for free on bandcamp
	6:25pm Franco Twinkie: That's kind of far. I'm in San Gabriel, California.
	🥁 6:28pm david w: Well, I've got figs and peaches growing outside my building in Brooklyn so... thanks for thinking of me! (Brooklyn fruit, hmmm)
	6:29pm ruth: Thnx Michael 98....
	6:29pm Michael 98145: A peach grows in Brooklyn
	6:30pm Franco Twinkie: Good for you David! To me Labor day means one thing - figs!
	6:31pm Michael 98145: Boy-howdy! tracelabel.bandcamp.com...
	6:31pm ruth: Raspberries and grapes on my roof right here in Ridgewood. Racoon (YES Racoon in NYC) ate ALL the grapes
	6:32pm Michael 98145: ... and the mine of gold moondog.bandcamp.com
	6:32pm ruth: Nice work Michael 98.... Will give a listen
	6:33pm Franco Twinkie: Let's all enjoy summer our fruit, because it's all going to change pretty damn quick.
	6:33pm ruth: What are they saying?
	🥁 6:34pm david w: Remember, walk away
	6:35pm ruth: thnx D
	🥁 6:35pm david w: This one is about Nero.
	6:36pm danjoseph: Love the rounds!
	🥁 6:36pm david w: And now... some trust some, some trust all, some trust none, not even myself
	🥁 6:37pm david w: dan, yes!
	🥁 6:38pm david w: wine, women too much for me
	🥁 6:40pm david w: maybe someday I'll be recognized for all I am before I'm dead and gone
	6:41pm fred: The guy from Trace that I know was on the board of the official radio of the French Anarchist Federation (maybe he still does, I don't see anyone these days) The very concept is puzzling on several levels
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Official anarchists, nice.
	6:46pm ruth: Anarchists have an "official" radio station in France?
	6:47pm StringOFperils: The Federated Anarchists' Charter isn't worth the paper it's written on, until you torch it.
	6:48pm coelacanth∅: haha
	6:51pm fred: @ruth: www.radio-libertaire.net Espsilonia (Thursdays 4pm your time) looks pretty cool
	🥁 6:53pm david w: Getting near the finish here so thanks to everybody!
	🥁 6:53pm david w: Up next: 7-10pm EDT: BODEGA POP LIVE with Gary Sullivan: Everyday Life (Ost): East German DIY, electronic, folk, punk, and underground sounds, 1970s-89
	6:53pm Hank: Thank you - great show DW !
	6:54pm northguineahills: Went home early. Broke my glasses, been one of those weeks....
	6:54pm fred: @StringOfPerils: Don't worry: that's not in the charter, but a bylaw seems to be that if more than ten people agree on something, it's time for a split
	6:54pm StringOFperils: Thank YOU, David! I feel as though I've attended a strange ritual, and I guess I have. Thanks Moondog!
	6:55pm StringOFperils: @fred: Ha ha. I love it.
	6:55pm northguineahills: I need a holiday, but Moondog works as well...
	6:57pm Hank: Fondness for Moondog always - and there is an upstate connection in Candor NY near Owego and the Experimental Television Center.
	6:57pm Michael 98145: Thank you!
	6:57pm northguineahills: I love the Moondog pic!
	6:57pm fred: Thanks David!
	6:58pm northguineahills: oh, and thanks, David & Ruth!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David, Ruth!
	🥁 6:58pm david w: I don't think he ever took a bad picture.
	6:59pm ruth: A fab show David one of my faves! Thanks all for listening- See ya next week! Take care!
	🥁 6:59pm david w: Everybody take care!
	🥁 6:59pm chresti: Thank you David and ruth!
	🥁 6:59pm WR: Thank you David and Ruth. I eschewed work for lying on my bed listening to Moondog. Over so quickly. Onward.
	7:00pm Hank: yes thanks David and Ruth.
	7:00pm Michael 98145: Gotta go shop at the bodega

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 2, 2020

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