WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from September 5, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:14am People Like Us: you hoo
	♥ 10:55am Charlie: halloo
	♥ 11:43am chresti: Hello, I can tell that everyone is extremely busy, dont mind me, I will wait quietly while drinking coffee.
	♥ 12:00pm listener james from westwood: How do, Charlie and all!
	♥ 12:01pm Sem: Hello, Charlie and nothing-doings.
	12:01pm Michael: Hello Charlie. A beautiful day today.
	♥ 12:02pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	12:02pm jan: Just checking in! Jacques Tati
	12:02pm Irene: Howdy Charlie! I will be busy doing something for a little while— listening to your show !
	♥ 12:06pm Charlie: Hello, People Like Us, chresti, james, Sem, Michael, doctorjazz, jan, Irene!
	12:17pm julie: groovy
	12:17pm Irene: The Move! An all-time fave of mine.
	♥ 12:17pm Charlie: it's a groovy day in the neighborhood, jules:)
	♥ 12:18pm Charlie: Me, too, Irene, a long-time fave! (also the first Elec Light Orch album)
	12:20pm jan: Yes, the Move- another time- you’re in tik-tok time now! Can you dig it?
	♥ 12:21pm Mx. Granny (e/em): greetings, Charlie and folx!
	12:23pm julie: this is awesome
	12:27pm Listening Out There: Hey, Chollie.....
	♥ 12:33pm schmutz: hi hi! making a lil breakfast and settling in
	♥ 12:35pm Irene Trudel: Wow, Charlie! First The Move and now Crack the Sky! I've had one of their albums laying near the top of a vinyl pile to play. It's like you're reading my mind today (a little).
	♥ 12:39pm Charlie: Irene, it's the WFMU synchronous moment mind-meld in action! I often think of a song and then hear it on someone's show.
	♥ 12:41pm Irene Trudel: Strange but true!
	♥ 12:44pm Charlie: hey Mx Granny, schmutz, Listening Out There :)
	♥ 12:49pm Mx. Granny (e/em): Lene!!!!
	♥ 12:50pm Charlie: yes!
	♥ 12:50pm Irene Trudel: I. I. I-aye-aye!
	♥ 12:51pm listener james from westwood: Classic Lovich!
	12:53pm Ruth Luwisch: Lene Lovich, a long lost relative perhaps?
	12:54pm julie: always lovely when I can hear you, Charlie
	12:56pm julie: yessss nancy. from the cool ones too, great flick
	♥ 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Charlie, I went back to bed awhile ago, but got back up when I heard Lene Lovich. That record, wow! The sound of 1978 in super concentrated form.
	♥ 1:00pm Charlie: i LUV the Cool Ones!
	♥ 1:00pm listener james from westwood: Ooh, good cover, sez this former Hackensack resident!
	♥ 1:01pm Charlie: Ruth! Lovich! yes!
	1:01pm Julie: outside of their most known songs I have a tendency to mix up Lene and Nina Hagen.
	♥ 1:01pm Webhamster Henry: I was busy doing lunch, but now, nothing.
	1:02pm Ruth Luwisch: Love this vocalist, "Back to Hackensack". Kinda like Charlie's voice IMHO!
	1:02pm Julie: yay Charlie song!
	♥ 1:02pm listener james from westwood: w00t! One from the host!
	♥ 1:03pm Webhamster Henry: Good chord changes there Charlie!
	1:03pm Irene: Sweet version, Charlie!
	1:03pm Ruth Luwisch: Wait, this sounds like Charlie too!! By golly, it IS Charlie!
	♥ 1:03pm doctorjazz: Love Hackensack, made me want to hear FOW.
	♥ 1:04pm schmutz: ❤️❤️❤️
	1:05pm Julie: and here it is
	♥ 1:05pm Franco Twinkie: I have never been to Hackensack. Is it a notable place for some reason? It makes me think of Mad Magazine in the 1960's and of course Steely Dan.
	♥ 1:06pm Webhamster Henry: There's an Erik Frandsen's song "Viking Rag" ends with Hackensack as the punchline.
	♥ 1:06pm Charlie: It's got a nice ring to it, doesn't it? "Hackensack... Hack - en - saaack...."
	♥ 1:07pm Charlie: then there's the Bob Dylan songs that ends with him saying he's heading for western skies: "So long New York, hello East Orange"
	♥ 1:08pm Doug Schulkind: Lovely Saturday afternooning with Charlie!
	1:10pm Julie: hacky sack?
	♥ 1:10pm Charlie: Hi Doug! @Henry - my last comment was to you. Hi! Could've played lots more Joisey songs!
	♥ 1:12pm Charlie: don't kick that town around!
	♥ 1:16pm doctorjazz: I've lived in NY/NJ all my life (Joisey almost 30 years), haven't been to Hackensack (and don't think I've missed anything).
	♥ 1:16pm Webhamster Henry: When it’s cherry blossom time in Orange, New Jersey, we’ll make a peach of a pear. Oh, honeydew be mine, because we cantaloupe.
	1:17pm Julie: same pretty sure I have not been to hackensack
	♥ 1:19pm chresti: Buffalo Daughter is great, too.
	♥ 1:20pm WR: Speaking up for great NJ line where Penn Station is said instead of the implied word temptation. Great NJ set.
	♥ 1:23pm chresti: I've been to Joisy, not Hackinsack tho.
	♥ 1:24pm Charlie: yes, chresti! Hi WR
	♥ 1:25pm schmutz: all sorts of nostalgia! definitely first heard Cibo Matto & Pizzicato on your show Charlie! My ma worked in Hackensack. Always loved the sound of it.
	1:25pm ndbob: heya charlie and everyone!
	♥ 1:25pm WR: Interesting this was your Morricone gateway song. Not typical Morricone to my ears. Nothing against it. Just saying what I'm hearing.
	♥ 1:27pm Doug Schulkind: ndbob! Always great to see you!
	♥ 1:27pm chresti: I think I know what you mean WR.
	♥ 1:27pm Franco Twinkie: Charlie, you started listening to WFMU in 1994 and you feel like you got to the party late? I started listening in 2018, so I guess I should jam drywall screws in my ears and then stick my head in the oven.
	♥ 1:28pm Webhamster Henry: Bacharach has a tune "Hasbrouck (sic) Heights", which is next door to Hackensack. Bacharach in Hackensack ... that might be a good lyric!
	1:28pm ndbob: heya Doug!
	♥ 1:28pm Charlie: Franco -- nah, just catch up on archives!
	♥ 1:29pm Charlie: Hiya Bob!
	♥ 1:29pm Franco Twinkie: I'm trying!
	♥ 1:30pm Charlie: I just mean I was already 36. But I'd been listening to pretty diverse stuff already.
	1:31pm Julie: I started listening in 89 I think. Yay Emma!
	♥ 1:31pm Charlie: lol, Henry also, haha, Franco;)
	♥ 1:32pm Charlie: Julie - Have you seen any of the videos on Patreon of Robyn Hitchcock and Emma? They're fabulous!
	♥ 1:32pm Franco Twinkie: Me too,Charlie. But this is a beast of a different order we are talking about, no?
	♥ 1:32pm Webhamster Henry: I hope you all rented Jazz On A Summer's Day to hear Anita, high on smack, do Tea For Two!
	♥ 1:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hiya, Charlie and doers.
	1:33pm Julie: yes Charlie indeed I have, they are great. Robyn & Emma and Fripp & Toyah have been the only good part of the lockdown.
	1:34pm ndbob: my fave stoneslp
	♥ 1:36pm chresti: I started listening to wfmu when I started exploring internet radio via itunes, around 2000. Living in California, that's the only way we can tune in.
	♥ 1:36pm Charlie: me too bob!
	♥ 1:38pm WR: Bela Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn have done several nice home vidcasts.
	♥ 1:39pm listener james from westwood: Haa, was just gonna say, likely more for the adults, those books.
	1:40pm ndbob: heya james!
	♥ 1:41pm Webhamster Henry: I started listening around 1987, and I should have been listening earlier. There was a tiny bit of freeform on WBAI (Peter Bochan, some of the remaining music peopel, Citizen Kafka's revival of the Free Music Store...) and so I fell hard for FMU. I put them on the pre-www internet ("gopherspace"), made a lot of features for the original WFMU website, helped get the station streaming, & wrote the first version of the iOS WFMU app.
	1:41pm Eli Ike: At my workplace, we get some kids’ audiobooks referring to themselves as “board books” and I’m like, can an audiobook really be a “board book”? And also you want to charge HOW much for this 3-minute reading?!?
	1:42pm ndbob: 1998 for me - Charlie's show was the first show I ever heard online
	1:43pm ekiike: Oops!
	♥ 1:45pm WR: I started listening to WFMU in 1985 during a visit to NYC and the several visits that followed. Moved to NYC in 92. It has since been one of my choices for listening. Started paying attention to the comments about 18 months ago.
	♥ 1:45pm schmutz: it was 1998 for me too–also Charlie! :)
	♥ 1:45pm Sem: I am convinced this singer sings the truth.
	♥ 1:45pm chresti: I learned about wfmu from listening to the shirley and Spinoza stream on itunes
	1:46pm Irene: Titanic Overture! Going out of my head, indeed. Charlie, I hope you will reconsider hosting a regular show. Thanks for such a great one today!
	♥ 1:48pm Charlie: bob - I was bound to be someone's first:)
	1:48pm ndbob: loll charlie
	♥ 1:48pm chresti: I discovered the playlist/comments when I could no longer get itunes, 2018?
	♥ 1:49pm Webhamster Henry: People Like Us in the house.
	♥ 1:49pm Sem: Arts and Letters Daily had a column: Diversions. 'FMU was on the list. Irwin Chusid was playing a recording of a live telephone conversation between the engineer of a runaway train and the track manager at the train station. I lived for a time in the area this took place. Hooked right then and there. 2013.
	♥ 1:51pm listener james from westwood: September 14, 1992. First real postcollege job, my new boss on my first day said, "I listen to this weird college radio station. If it ever bugs you, I can change the channel." It never did and he never did. Was pledging by the 1993 Marathon and volunteering by 1997 or so.
	♥ 1:52pm Charlie: It's fun reading all these origin stories!
	♥ 1:52pm listener james from westwood: @Sem, that recording is compelling!
	♥ 1:53pm Sem: ljfw: glad I am not the only one to find it so.
	♥ 1:53pm listener james from westwood: My first day at the station, Andy Waltzer was having Kristin Hersh on air. I helped with Marathon data entry. I heard Ken swear for the first time of many.
	♥ 1:54pm listener james from westwood: It was, and I quote, "because of that fuckin' bet I made with Andy." Andy Breckman is a traditionally legit reason to swear.
	♥ 1:55pm Sem: Jeez, it's been swell to have nothing to do with you for the summer, Charlie. Looking forward for another chance. See you, and all, later. Some later than others.
	♥ 1:55pm WR: Fun story listenerJfromW
	1:57pm ekiike: Late 93, went to college in NJ, disappointed by college’s 10-watt station, thought FMU did not play enough indie rock at first, but it was hard to pick up WPRB or WNYU. Was annoyed by shows like Laura Cantrell (thought I hated country) but after a while I started to like it. And the scary Davie and Goliath Show (or whatever it was called) went away.
	1:58pm ndbob: i remember them singing this on a local Baltimore TV show
	♥ 1:58pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for popping in this month Charlie! Doug can pop in here and detail all the Drummer Stream schedule changes, but there are some!
	♥ 1:58pm spodiodi: internet class of '97 or '98 checking in to say thanks for the last half-hour of your show today, Charlie! cheers, all
	♥ 1:59pm Michael 98145: Later -may- be too late
	♥ 1:59pm Doug Schulkind: Thank you thank you thank you, Charlie! So great to hear you in the air! Stay tuned for MUSIC FOR A FREE WORLD with Dave Sewelson. Dave's special guest is Indofunk Satish and his Firebird slide trumpet! PLAYLIST: wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:59pm listener james from westwood: The first actual time I heard WFMU was like 1989 or so, an accidental land on an Hour of Slack. The first DJ I heard was in 1990, Bronwyn C. Sammy Davis Jr. had just died, and Bronwyn, then the Death queen, played his "Got a Lotta Living to Do," then after it ended, said, "That was Sammy Davis Junior. GET IT??!"
	♥ 1:59pm schmutz: Yes loving these stories! This is my happy place. Thank you Charlie and all. til next tlime !
	♥ 1:59pm chresti: Before I had internet it was KXLU, a Christian pirate station started interrupting my radio's reception, which led me to listening online..
	♥ 2:00pm Michael 98145: Love that - xian pirates
	♥ 2:00pm Ike: Salut, Charlie!
	♥ 2:00pm listener james from westwood: Hugest of thanks, Charlie, and hoping for another residency down the line as chance affords. Be safe!
	♥ 2:01pm WR: Thanks Charlie, welcome you to come back anytime!
	♥ 2:01pm Doug Schulkind: @Webhamster Henry Julie and Dark Night of the Soul have moved to Tuesdays, 3-7pm David Dichelle and Continental Subway have moved to Thursdays, 12-3pm All times eastern.
	♥ 2:01pm listener james from westwood: WFMU listeners of a certain vintage get shudders at the prospect of Christian stations horning in on other stations' frequencies. . . .
	♥ 2:02pm listener james from westwood: It's rumored that that's why Ken's hair turned white.
	♥ 2:03pm chresti: Thanks Charlie, fine time!
	♥ 2:52pm doctorjazz: Had to leave before the end, but, since the page seems to still be open, thanks, Charlie, always love the show, hope you'll be back on soon

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from September 5, 2020

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September 5, 2020: Cultivation

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from Edward Lear's Nonsense Botany books

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
James Campbell/Francis Lemarque	Main Titles	Playtime (soundtrack)	Specta Films	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Psapp	Needle and Thread "Needle and Thread" by "Psapp"	The Only Thing I Ever Wanted	Domino	0:02:06 (Pop-up)
Jungle Brothers	Beeds on a String	Done by the Forces of Nature	Warner Bros.	0:06:15 (Pop-up)
BJ Block & Dawn Pemberton	Just Be	The Land of Make Believe	self-released	0:09:24 (Pop-up)
The Move	Fields of People "Fields of People" by "The Move"	Shazam!	A&M	0:13:08 (Pop-up)
Fatal Microbes	Violence Grows "Violence Grows" by "Fatal Microbes"	Violence Grows EP	Small Wonder	0:19:15 (Pop-up)
Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars	Polka Dots and Moonbeams	Patterns In Sound Volume 9 (various artists)	Project 3	0:22:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Crack the Sky	Hold On "Hold On" by "Crack the Sky"	Crack the Sky	Lifesong	0:30:54 (Pop-up)
Lena Horne	Less Than a Second "Less Than a Second" by "Lena Horne"	Feelin' Good	United Artists	0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Minisnap	Coppice "Coppice" by "Minisnap"	Bounce Around	Magic Marker	0:36:09 (Pop-up)
Habibi	Stronghold "Stronghold" by "Habibi"	Anywhere But Here	Muddguts Records	0:39:31 (Pop-up)
Chi-Lites	One Man Band (Plays All Alone)	Ultimate Chi-Lites	Brunswick	0:42:45 (Pop-up)
Lene Lovich	Lucky Number "Lucky Number" by "Lene Lovich"	Stateless	Stiff	0:47:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Shudder to Think	pH Balanced "pH Balanced" by "Shudder to Think"	High Art (soundtrack)	Velvel	0:50:14 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra	This Town "This Town" by "Nancy Sinatra"	Movin' With Nancy	Reprise; Sundazed	0:54:16 (Pop-up)
Jake McKelvie	Hackensack "Hackensack" by "Jake McKelvie"	Hackensack	self-released	0:56:56 (Pop-up)
Charlie	The Jersey Bounce "The Jersey Bounce" by "Charlie"	accompanying himself on the ukulele [more here!]	BDN Productions	1:00:00 (Pop-up)
Fountains of Wayne	Sick Day "Sick Day" by "Fountains of Wayne"	Fountains of Wayne	TAG / Atlantic	1:02:35 (Pop-up)
Cibo Matto	Sugar Water "Sugar Water" by "Cibo Matto"	Viva! La Woman	Warner Bros.	1:06:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ennio Morricone	Un Altro Mare "Un Altro Mare" by "Ennio Morricone"	Eviva! Morricone	Avanz	1:11:03 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone	Amare Assolutamente, from L'Assoluto Naturale	Eviva! Morricone	Avanz	1:19:01 (Pop-up)
Emma Swift	I Contain Multitudes "I Contain Multitudes" by "Emma Swift"	Blonde On the Tracks	Tiny Ghost Records	1:23:02 (Pop-up)
Anita O'Day	Beautiful Love "Beautiful Love" by "Anita O'Day"	This Is Anita	Verve	1:28:00 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones	Cool, Calm & Collected	Between the Buttons	London	1:30:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lew Howard All-Stars	Hula Rock "Hula Rock" by "Lew Howard All-Stars"	Super Sounds of Bosworth (various artists)	Trunk	1:34:46 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Titanic Overture "Titanic Overture" by "Alice Cooper"	Pretties for You	Straight	1:39:54 (Pop-up)
El Gran Combo	Going Out of My Head	Pata Pata Jala Jala Boogaloo	Disco Hit	1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Vinicius de Moraes, Maria Bethânia & Toquinho	Garota de Ipanema	En La Fusa	CBS	1:44:27 (Pop-up)
People Like Us	Do You See What I Hear	The Mirror	Cutting Hedge	1:46:32 (Pop-up)
The Supremes	All I Want "All I Want" by "The Supremes"	The Supremes	Motown	1:51:08 (Pop-up)
Shangri-Las	Right Now and Not Later	Myrmidons of Melodrama	RPM	1:54:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	1:57:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:14am People Like Us: you hoo
	♥ 10:55am Charlie: halloo
	♥ 11:43am chresti: Hello, I can tell that everyone is extremely busy, dont mind me, I will wait quietly while drinking coffee.
	♥ 12:00pm listener james from westwood: How do, Charlie and all!
	♥ 12:01pm Sem: Hello, Charlie and nothing-doings.
	12:01pm Michael: Hello Charlie. A beautiful day today.
	♥ 12:02pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	12:02pm jan: Just checking in! Jacques Tati
	12:02pm Irene: Howdy Charlie! I will be busy doing something for a little while— listening to your show !
	♥ 12:06pm Charlie: Hello, People Like Us, chresti, james, Sem, Michael, doctorjazz, jan, Irene!
	12:17pm julie: groovy
	12:17pm Irene: The Move! An all-time fave of mine.
	♥ 12:17pm Charlie: it's a groovy day in the neighborhood, jules:)
	♥ 12:18pm Charlie: Me, too, Irene, a long-time fave! (also the first Elec Light Orch album)
	12:20pm jan: Yes, the Move- another time- you’re in tik-tok time now! Can you dig it?
	♥ 12:21pm Mx. Granny (e/em): greetings, Charlie and folx!
	12:23pm julie: this is awesome
	12:27pm Listening Out There: Hey, Chollie.....
	♥ 12:33pm schmutz: hi hi! making a lil breakfast and settling in
	♥ 12:35pm Irene Trudel: Wow, Charlie! First The Move and now Crack the Sky! I've had one of their albums laying near the top of a vinyl pile to play. It's like you're reading my mind today (a little).
	♥ 12:39pm Charlie: Irene, it's the WFMU synchronous moment mind-meld in action! I often think of a song and then hear it on someone's show.
	♥ 12:41pm Irene Trudel: Strange but true!
	♥ 12:44pm Charlie: hey Mx Granny, schmutz, Listening Out There :)
	♥ 12:49pm Mx. Granny (e/em): Lene!!!!
	♥ 12:50pm Charlie: yes!
	♥ 12:50pm Irene Trudel: I. I. I-aye-aye!
	♥ 12:51pm listener james from westwood: Classic Lovich!
	12:53pm Ruth Luwisch: Lene Lovich, a long lost relative perhaps?
	12:54pm julie: always lovely when I can hear you, Charlie
	12:56pm julie: yessss nancy. from the cool ones too, great flick
	♥ 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Charlie, I went back to bed awhile ago, but got back up when I heard Lene Lovich. That record, wow! The sound of 1978 in super concentrated form.
	♥ 1:00pm Charlie: i LUV the Cool Ones!
	♥ 1:00pm listener james from westwood: Ooh, good cover, sez this former Hackensack resident!
	♥ 1:01pm Charlie: Ruth! Lovich! yes!
	1:01pm Julie: outside of their most known songs I have a tendency to mix up Lene and Nina Hagen.
	♥ 1:01pm Webhamster Henry: I was busy doing lunch, but now, nothing.
	1:02pm Ruth Luwisch: Love this vocalist, "Back to Hackensack". Kinda like Charlie's voice IMHO!
	1:02pm Julie: yay Charlie song!
	♥ 1:02pm listener james from westwood: w00t! One from the host!
	♥ 1:03pm Webhamster Henry: Good chord changes there Charlie!
	1:03pm Irene: Sweet version, Charlie!
	1:03pm Ruth Luwisch: Wait, this sounds like Charlie too!! By golly, it IS Charlie!
	♥ 1:03pm doctorjazz: Love Hackensack, made me want to hear FOW.
	♥ 1:04pm schmutz: ❤️❤️❤️
	1:05pm Julie: and here it is
	♥ 1:05pm Franco Twinkie: I have never been to Hackensack. Is it a notable place for some reason? It makes me think of Mad Magazine in the 1960's and of course Steely Dan.
	♥ 1:06pm Webhamster Henry: There's an Erik Frandsen's song "Viking Rag" ends with Hackensack as the punchline.
	♥ 1:06pm Charlie: It's got a nice ring to it, doesn't it? "Hackensack... Hack - en - saaack...."
	♥ 1:07pm Charlie: then there's the Bob Dylan songs that ends with him saying he's heading for western skies: "So long New York, hello East Orange"
	♥ 1:08pm Doug Schulkind: Lovely Saturday afternooning with Charlie!
	1:10pm Julie: hacky sack?
	♥ 1:10pm Charlie: Hi Doug! @Henry - my last comment was to you. Hi! Could've played lots more Joisey songs!
	♥ 1:12pm Charlie: don't kick that town around!
	♥ 1:16pm doctorjazz: I've lived in NY/NJ all my life (Joisey almost 30 years), haven't been to Hackensack (and don't think I've missed anything).
	♥ 1:16pm Webhamster Henry: When it’s cherry blossom time in Orange, New Jersey, we’ll make a peach of a pear. Oh, honeydew be mine, because we cantaloupe.
	1:17pm Julie: same pretty sure I have not been to hackensack
	♥ 1:19pm chresti: Buffalo Daughter is great, too.
	♥ 1:20pm WR: Speaking up for great NJ line where Penn Station is said instead of the implied word temptation. Great NJ set.
	♥ 1:23pm chresti: I've been to Joisy, not Hackinsack tho.
	♥ 1:24pm Charlie: yes, chresti! Hi WR
	♥ 1:25pm schmutz: all sorts of nostalgia! definitely first heard Cibo Matto & Pizzicato on your show Charlie! My ma worked in Hackensack. Always loved the sound of it.
	1:25pm ndbob: heya charlie and everyone!
	♥ 1:25pm WR: Interesting this was your Morricone gateway song. Not typical Morricone to my ears. Nothing against it. Just saying what I'm hearing.
	♥ 1:27pm Doug Schulkind: ndbob! Always great to see you!
	♥ 1:27pm chresti: I think I know what you mean WR.
	♥ 1:27pm Franco Twinkie: Charlie, you started listening to WFMU in 1994 and you feel like you got to the party late? I started listening in 2018, so I guess I should jam drywall screws in my ears and then stick my head in the oven.
	♥ 1:28pm Webhamster Henry: Bacharach has a tune "Hasbrouck (sic) Heights", which is next door to Hackensack. Bacharach in Hackensack ... that might be a good lyric!
	1:28pm ndbob: heya Doug!
	♥ 1:28pm Charlie: Franco -- nah, just catch up on archives!
	♥ 1:29pm Charlie: Hiya Bob!
	♥ 1:29pm Franco Twinkie: I'm trying!
	♥ 1:30pm Charlie: I just mean I was already 36. But I'd been listening to pretty diverse stuff already.
	1:31pm Julie: I started listening in 89 I think. Yay Emma!
	♥ 1:31pm Charlie: lol, Henry also, haha, Franco;)
	♥ 1:32pm Charlie: Julie - Have you seen any of the videos on Patreon of Robyn Hitchcock and Emma? They're fabulous!
	♥ 1:32pm Franco Twinkie: Me too,Charlie. But this is a beast of a different order we are talking about, no?
	♥ 1:32pm Webhamster Henry: I hope you all rented Jazz On A Summer's Day to hear Anita, high on smack, do Tea For Two!
	♥ 1:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hiya, Charlie and doers.
	1:33pm Julie: yes Charlie indeed I have, they are great. Robyn & Emma and Fripp & Toyah have been the only good part of the lockdown.
	1:34pm ndbob: my fave stoneslp
	♥ 1:36pm chresti: I started listening to wfmu when I started exploring internet radio via itunes, around 2000. Living in California, that's the only way we can tune in.
	♥ 1:36pm Charlie: me too bob!
	♥ 1:38pm WR: Bela Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn have done several nice home vidcasts.
	♥ 1:39pm listener james from westwood: Haa, was just gonna say, likely more for the adults, those books.
	1:40pm ndbob: heya james!
	♥ 1:41pm Webhamster Henry: I started listening around 1987, and I should have been listening earlier. There was a tiny bit of freeform on WBAI (Peter Bochan, some of the remaining music peopel, Citizen Kafka's revival of the Free Music Store...) and so I fell hard for FMU. I put them on the pre-www internet ("gopherspace"), made a lot of features for the original WFMU website, helped get the station streaming, & wrote the first version of the iOS WFMU app.
	1:41pm Eli Ike: At my workplace, we get some kids’ audiobooks referring to themselves as “board books” and I’m like, can an audiobook really be a “board book”? And also you want to charge HOW much for this 3-minute reading?!?
	1:42pm ndbob: 1998 for me - Charlie's show was the first show I ever heard online
	1:43pm ekiike: Oops!
	♥ 1:45pm WR: I started listening to WFMU in 1985 during a visit to NYC and the several visits that followed. Moved to NYC in 92. It has since been one of my choices for listening. Started paying attention to the comments about 18 months ago.
	♥ 1:45pm schmutz: it was 1998 for me too–also Charlie! :)
	♥ 1:45pm Sem: I am convinced this singer sings the truth.
	♥ 1:45pm chresti: I learned about wfmu from listening to the shirley and Spinoza stream on itunes
	1:46pm Irene: Titanic Overture! Going out of my head, indeed. Charlie, I hope you will reconsider hosting a regular show. Thanks for such a great one today!
	♥ 1:48pm Charlie: bob - I was bound to be someone's first:)
	1:48pm ndbob: loll charlie
	♥ 1:48pm chresti: I discovered the playlist/comments when I could no longer get itunes, 2018?
	♥ 1:49pm Webhamster Henry: People Like Us in the house.
	♥ 1:49pm Sem: Arts and Letters Daily had a column: Diversions. 'FMU was on the list. Irwin Chusid was playing a recording of a live telephone conversation between the engineer of a runaway train and the track manager at the train station. I lived for a time in the area this took place. Hooked right then and there. 2013.
	♥ 1:51pm listener james from westwood: September 14, 1992. First real postcollege job, my new boss on my first day said, "I listen to this weird college radio station. If it ever bugs you, I can change the channel." It never did and he never did. Was pledging by the 1993 Marathon and volunteering by 1997 or so.
	♥ 1:52pm Charlie: It's fun reading all these origin stories!
	♥ 1:52pm listener james from westwood: @Sem, that recording is compelling!
	♥ 1:53pm Sem: ljfw: glad I am not the only one to find it so.
	♥ 1:53pm listener james from westwood: My first day at the station, Andy Waltzer was having Kristin Hersh on air. I helped with Marathon data entry. I heard Ken swear for the first time of many.
	♥ 1:54pm listener james from westwood: It was, and I quote, "because of that fuckin' bet I made with Andy." Andy Breckman is a traditionally legit reason to swear.
	♥ 1:55pm Sem: Jeez, it's been swell to have nothing to do with you for the summer, Charlie. Looking forward for another chance. See you, and all, later. Some later than others.
	♥ 1:55pm WR: Fun story listenerJfromW
	1:57pm ekiike: Late 93, went to college in NJ, disappointed by college’s 10-watt station, thought FMU did not play enough indie rock at first, but it was hard to pick up WPRB or WNYU. Was annoyed by shows like Laura Cantrell (thought I hated country) but after a while I started to like it. And the scary Davie and Goliath Show (or whatever it was called) went away.
	1:58pm ndbob: i remember them singing this on a local Baltimore TV show
	♥ 1:58pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for popping in this month Charlie! Doug can pop in here and detail all the Drummer Stream schedule changes, but there are some!
	♥ 1:58pm spodiodi: internet class of '97 or '98 checking in to say thanks for the last half-hour of your show today, Charlie! cheers, all
	♥ 1:59pm Michael 98145: Later -may- be too late
	♥ 1:59pm Doug Schulkind: Thank you thank you thank you, Charlie! So great to hear you in the air! Stay tuned for MUSIC FOR A FREE WORLD with Dave Sewelson. Dave's special guest is Indofunk Satish and his Firebird slide trumpet! PLAYLIST: wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:59pm listener james from westwood: The first actual time I heard WFMU was like 1989 or so, an accidental land on an Hour of Slack. The first DJ I heard was in 1990, Bronwyn C. Sammy Davis Jr. had just died, and Bronwyn, then the Death queen, played his "Got a Lotta Living to Do," then after it ended, said, "That was Sammy Davis Junior. GET IT??!"
	♥ 1:59pm schmutz: Yes loving these stories! This is my happy place. Thank you Charlie and all. til next tlime !
	♥ 1:59pm chresti: Before I had internet it was KXLU, a Christian pirate station started interrupting my radio's reception, which led me to listening online..
	♥ 2:00pm Michael 98145: Love that - xian pirates
	♥ 2:00pm Ike: Salut, Charlie!
	♥ 2:00pm listener james from westwood: Hugest of thanks, Charlie, and hoping for another residency down the line as chance affords. Be safe!
	♥ 2:01pm WR: Thanks Charlie, welcome you to come back anytime!
	♥ 2:01pm Doug Schulkind: @Webhamster Henry Julie and Dark Night of the Soul have moved to Tuesdays, 3-7pm David Dichelle and Continental Subway have moved to Thursdays, 12-3pm All times eastern.
	♥ 2:01pm listener james from westwood: WFMU listeners of a certain vintage get shudders at the prospect of Christian stations horning in on other stations' frequencies. . . .
	♥ 2:02pm listener james from westwood: It's rumored that that's why Ken's hair turned white.
	♥ 2:03pm chresti: Thanks Charlie, fine time!
	♥ 2:52pm doctorjazz: Had to leave before the end, but, since the page seems to still be open, thanks, Charlie, always love the show, hope you'll be back on soon

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from September 5, 2020

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