Bob Brainen's playlist September 19, 2020 E-mail Bob Brainen
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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience 1961 / 1966 0:00:00 Pop-up) Godchildren Of Soul Soulfingertips Anyone Can Join! 1994 0:02:35 Pop-up) Bio Ritmo Call me up (644-7215) Rhumba Baby Rhumba 1996 0:08:39 Pop-up) Pharoah Sanders Love Is Everywhere Wisdom Through Music 1973 0:12:53 Pop-up) Weekend Woman's Eyes La Variete' 1982 The one and only Allison Statton singing 0:18:11 Pop-up) Paul Butterfield One More Heartache The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw 1967 cover of a Marvin Gaye number 0:20:54 Pop-up) Chambers Brothers All Strung Out Over You Time Has Come Today 1967 0:24:30 Pop-up) Family Burlesque Bandstand 1972 0:27:13 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
frogs & more frogs from Joe Bauer's ranch0:30:55 Pop-up) Dent May Sea Salt & Caramel Late Checkout * 2020 0:35:17 Pop-up) Beach Boys All This Is That Carl & the Passions - So Tough 1972 0:38:11 Pop-up) Leslie Gore California Nights 1967 She sang this on "Batman:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeAhjkJFNQ (sorry, gotta brush up on the little HTML I know...) 0:42:09 Pop-up) Marianne Faithfull Summer Nights 1965 0:45:11 Pop-up) Rumbles, LTD California My Way cover of The 5th Dimension; a 45 on the Lemon label 0:46:43 Pop-up) "bonus announcement" 0:48:51 Pop-up) Randy Bachman & Co. "the most famous chord ever on a 12 string guitar" 2014 0:49:49 Pop-up) Ranky Tanky Ranky Tanky Ranky Tanky 2017 0:50:44 Pop-up) Gary Burton Quartet General Mojo's Well Laid Plan Duster 1967 0:52:56 Pop-up) Electric Flag "An American Music Band" Peter's Trip The Trip 1967 OST (predated their debut album) 0:57:56 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
"children playing"1:00:28 Pop-up) Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin I'm In A Different World Up From The Dark 1986 cover of a Four Top's song.
obligato: FXO1:10:11 Pop-up) Monkees Little Girl Good Times! 2016 (belated) RIP Peter Tork 1:13:50 Pop-up) Hugh Masekela Stop! The Promise Of A Future 1968 cover of a Howard Tate song. (anyone know who is on guitar? Not credited on album) 1:16:30 Pop-up) Will Simmons The Morose Polka read #258 * 2020 1:19:09 Pop-up) Igor Stravinsky The Cirkus Polka Miniature Masterpieces 1942 / 1991 1:20:07 Pop-up) MaseQua Myers and Jami Ayinde Black Land of the Nile 1975/ 2004 split 45 w/ Mary Lou Williams 1:23:32 Pop-up) Rufus feat. Chaka Khan Sweet Thing Rufus feat. Chaka Khan 1975 1:26:37 Pop-up) John Barry Main Title: Beat Girl Beat Girl 1960 OST 1:29:50 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
frogs & more frogs from Joe Bauer's ranch 1:31:35 Pop-up) NRBQ Smackaroo (instrumental) High Noon-A 50-Year Retrospective 1983/ 2016 1:37:34 Pop-up) Aggregation Intro (to: Lady at the Gate) Mind Odyssey 1968 1:39:30 Pop-up) Crazy Elephant No More Umbopo 1970 actually pre-10cc w/Kevin Godley-lead vocal w/ Lol Creme. 1:41:00 Pop-up) Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Religion Is A Fortune Religion Is A Fortune: Sacred Harp Singing 1928 / 2004 VAR 1:43:09 Pop-up) Delphine Dora L'horizon inconnu L'Intangible * 2020 1:45:57 Pop-up) Olafur Arnalds Momento (choir version) Re member 2019 Thanks to Keith Spring 1:47:44 Pop-up) Eggstone Water Sommersault 1994 1:50:28 Pop-up) Music behind DJ:
frogs & more frogs @ Joe Bauer's ranch1:53:34 Pop-up) Thanks to:
Ron Jett, Scott Konzelmann, Ruth Hayduk, Greg Harrison, Doug Young & Pete Tomlinson.
And to you if you're listening or reading this!
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Listener comments!
9:00am : Good morning, Bob! It’s a glorious day. Elated that you can share your music with us -- it’s like the universe: simultaneously infinite and expanding. Welcome back.9:00am : Welcome back Bob.9:00am : HE'S BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!🥁 9:00am : Yay Bob! So great to hear you on FMU again.9:00am : Welcome back, Bob. We missed you!9:00am : Welcome back Bob Brainen!
My vote for the best thing to happen in 2020!9:00am : How my heart has missed this on saturdays.9:01am : Welcome back! Glad to have you on this morning9:01am : Welcomeback Bob!9:01am : Welcome back Bob. Got any Moby Grape? Hee..9:01am : Glad to hear you! Welcome back.9:01am : Your throne, sir....You have been missed.9:01am : Hi Bob! Great to hear Hank & Tim again, it's like old times.9:01am : YEA !<>! so nice to "see" you again BoB peace not pieces ,,now this is Saturday Morning !<>!9:01am : Holy cow, Bob is back?!! Woo-hoo!9:01am : Good morning and welcome back Bob!9:01am : Welcome back, Bob. Fantastic hearing Hank Levine again.9:02am : Welcome back bob Whew9:02am : Excellence at last! 8-)9:02am : Hey Bob!! What a great surprise.9:02am : Welcome back Bob!9:02am : It is so graet to hear you back on Saturday at 9AM. Welcome back. I missed you.9:02am : Welcome back Bob! No better way to start a Saturday than with Hank Levine and Tim.9:02am : hey! you're back! YAY!9:02am : Omg. tears of joy hearing this opener again.9:02am : Good morning Bob and listeners! Welcome back!9:03am : thrilled!!!!!!9:03am : This makes me so happy, welcome back Bob!9:03am : Bobby “The Brain” Brainen has leaped back into ring! Saturday morning just got more awesome. Welcome back. Big smiling greetings from Seattle!9:03am : Hey welcome everyone! Nice to be here with you!9:03am : Brainen is back!!!!!!9:04am : Welcome back neighbor.9:04am : Another welcome back, Bob!9:04am : Hooray! Welcome back to the airwaves, Bob Brainen. I’ve missed you!9:05am : You always made my Saturday mornings complete Bob! I rallied for over a year to bring you back. Welcome home brother!9:05am : @smevvyk it's still the best opener9:06am : yahahahahaaaa welcome back bob!!!!9:06am : Oh man it's Bob !, your back. front and sides, top and bottom. This is going to be a treat.9:06am : So nice to hear your back on, got me to weigh in after 15 plus years.9:06am : Welcome home Bob.9:07am : Hey BobbyBob, us Bobs gotta stick together!9:08am : Welcome back Bob!9:08am : May this be the beginning of everything getting better! Peace and Love to you BoB Brainen. Welcome back!9:09am : Hell yeah! Welcome back BB.9:09am : Welcome back, Bob -- I needed some good news this morning.9:09am : Starting a long hike. Great soundtrack!9:10am : Hi Bob! Welcome back!9:10am : just in time to salvage 2020 -- many thanks, bob9:14am : Bit Ritmo "Call me up" is a good one for the list of phone number songs (6060-842, 867-5309, etc). I didn't know this one.9:15am : Welcome Back Bob! This is a rare good thing to happen in 2020.9:15am : @Adam-12 Have a good hike! I just checked air quality here in Seattle. It’s “Good”. I’m gonna stretch out for a half hour and then go for a seven mile run. Listening to Bob Brainen on WFMU the whole time.9:16am : Welcome Home! You are the much needed joy booster shot today.9:16am : So glad you're back, Bob!9:18am : Missed you, glad you’re back Bob!9:18am : Toots 54-469:22am : Glad to have you back Bob! And veg produced a fantastic animated graphic!9:23am : RIP Toots!9:23am : welcome back Bob ! much needed.9:24am : RIP Toots & R.B.G.9:24am : Good morning everyone...So happy that you're back on the air Bob...hope you rested up!9:25am : Which graphic is that, kevlicki?9:25am : best news ever9:26am : Sounds like Jimi Hendrix on backup vocals on that Chambers Bros.9:26am : And RIP The Mighty RBG. A Heavy Hit.9:26am : 2020 just got a lot brighter. welcome back, bob!9:27am : Family! So underrated.9:27am : Family - turn up LOUD!9:27am : Good Morning Mr. Brainen. I am very pleased to be hearing you LIVE once again over the WFMU airwaves.🥁 9:31am : Good to hear the frogs again.9:31am : That voice sounds familiar.9:32am : John Wetton's best bass work is on Bryan Ferry's cover of The Everly Brothers' "The Price Of Love".9:32am : It's good to have you back, Bob.9:33am : That background noise sounds familiar.9:33am : Love to have you and the frogs back BB! One of the few silver linings of 2020! Great set! Keep it up!9:33am : Never realized how much I missed background frogs.9:34am : Welcome home, Bob. We’ve been waiting for you.9:35am : So good to hear you back on. RIP RBG9:36am : Great summer song!9:36am : Another summer despiser! This weekend will be glorious.9:36am : exactly that vibe!9:39am : Alas, could this be the point where 2020 finally turns around ?! The return of the "frog man" Bob Brainen. Welcome back buddy.9:39am : Welcome back9:41am : Nice to see your return, BB.9:42am : Hey Bob, I always associated the way how Hank Levine & his/O images part,one sounds like to how Nelson Riddles route 66 sounds like. those two songs are a perfect match. and yes, I remember you saying that you are a winter person.9:43am : Nice summer suite, Bob--even for those of us not thrilled with summer.9:44am : Bob, it's great to have you back. I've missed this Saturday morning vibe!9:44am : Yeah kpx, I hear the similarity. Both "breezy" tunes.
And yes, Winter is my season.9:46am : hello. have this faithfull album. there's a weird echo on a couple of the tracks, but it's overall great.9:47am : bob brainen making saturday mornings great again!9:47am : A much preferred Saturday morning post "Planet" sound! Thanks9:48am : This show is always so interesting. Glad you are back Mr. Brainen9:49am : Hi Bob, great to have you back. I liked your fave summer song too...9:49am : randy bachman!9:52am : Thanks to one and all for your good vibes!9:53am : greetings from sunny Tannersville.
welcome back Mr. BB!
yea, greatest opening chord EVER!9:55am : hey, where's the early early early Steely Dan....?!9:57am : Gary Burton track: Larry Coryell on guitar? Very sweet.9:57am : Ha. Moby Grape and pre-Steely Dan coming up on future shows. Promise. Where is Tannersville?9:58am : Thanks for coming back, Bob. No offense to any other show but yours is a perfect start to the Saturday morning and transitioning to Michael's.9:58am : Yup, Coryell9:58am : Rockin with Mister BB on a Saturday. All is right with the world! Well, except for the rest of the world.9:58am : upstate ny, catskills, next to Hunter Mtn.
thank goodness for the webstream!9:59am : Flag rules!10:01am : So glad you're back Bob.10:01am : Where do I recognize the melody from Peter's Trip? I swear I know it from another song.10:03am : Welcome back, Bob! Missed hearing you on these airwaves.10:03am : How did I guess that was a Swallow piece. I do love that tune.10:07am : For fans of Double Dip Recess, tune in to Sheena's Jungle Room Stream starting Oct. 3.10:09am : I always liked Frank's fill-in shows.10:09am : So happy to hear your voice again. And your selections. Welcome back!10:10am : Welcome back Bob - we've missed you.10:12am : I tuned into a wonderful surprise today after yesterday’s news it’s great to hear you again !
Welcome back Bob10:12am : That's Dave Stewart from Hatfield and the North, and she sang backup as a "Northette." Huh.10:13am : It's great to have you back, Bob. The Saturday Dream Team is back in full force!10:16am : So glad you’re back, mr Bob!10:16am : @Todd-o-phonic Todd you got that right.10:17am : 1/2 of the monkee's gone but not forgotten. RIP Peter and Davy.10:18am : According to AllMusic, the guitarist is Bruce Langhorne.10:20am : Welcome back Bobo!! You're the first DJ I ever heard live on WFMU way back in the early go-go 90s...10:20am : Phat, forgot about Hatfield which is probably his biggest credit (?)10:20am : Welcome back, Bob!10:21am : Bruce Langhorne, man he was everywhere for awhile. Thanks Dan.10:25am : I thought this was My Favorite Things when it started!10:28am : @Bob Brainen definitely his biggest credit. I always think of that other Dave Stewart from Eurythmics .10:28am : Same rhythm Jimbo, they're both waltzes w/soprano sax!10:28am : We prefer Double Dip Recess. Sorry to my kids that their show was taken off.10:29am : Chaka Khan and Patti Labelle sound so much alike.10:30am : hearing the word Egypt reminds me of an obscure band called mighty baby, and their semi one-hit wonder song, I was born in an Egyptian tomb. who remembers that one?10:30am : Welcome back, Bob! It’s great to once again hear an exemplar of the form such as you.10:31am : Rarouse-see my comment above @10.07.10:32am : Sigh of relief...Bob’s back. And the frogs.10:32am : good to hear you're back!10:32am : @ Todd-o-phonic: Dream team IS back. Things are looking good.10:33am : Bob - Welcome back. It is great to hear Timothy Leary and the frogs again on Saturday morning. Love the music. Keep Free Form alive!10:35am : Sounding good WFMU!10:37am : Well all right! Welcome back, Bob Brainen!10:37am : I missed the most famous chord .. mumph. Welcime back, Bob.10:37am : I missed the most famous chord .. mumph. Welcime back, Bob.10:37am : Bob and the Crickets are back!10:38am : welcome back!🥁 10:38am : So great to have you back on the air, Bob!!10:38am : Aaah, NRBQ on a Saturday morning...10:38am : Now it's a party!10:39am : Yes!10:40am : how do you get the other stream on the app?10:41am : Adam, click "Audio" on the upper right-hand corner of the screen and choose the stream you want to listen to.10:41am : So nice to have you back, Bob. The natural order of my Saturday radio has been restored.10:41am : So glad you are back on BB *10:42am : Must say again how happy I am to be listening to your show again, Mr. Brainen, and to have my Straight-shot Saturday back from 7-6. That it coincides with a perfect early fall day here in NYC is just icing on the cake.10:44am : Hi y'all. Love this 'Sacred Heart' singing, it reminds me of 'Idumea' in the wonderful film 'Cold Mountain'.10:44am : ty frank, found it more easily through the unofficial woof moo app on Android. thanks for the show Bob!10:45am : Frogs. My bad.10:45am : *Harp10:45am : amazing harmonies!!!10:45am : Oh, *Heart was alright.10:46am : OK ngl I did miss the frogs.10:46am : Our favorite show to wake up to... missed you!10:48am : Welcome back, Bob! Heading over to UWS, cause I'm posh like that. I'll be tuned in for the duration!10:49am : Hello all, this show has been good! thank you, Bob10:51am : BB on Saturdays was my gateway drug to WFMU . .. about 20 yrs ago. pretty sure it was the NRBQ content.10:52am : 1. Safety first
2. Stay hydrated
Good water song, Bob. Thanks for playing.10:52am : Water will take you there10:52am : My reminder to have a glass of water. Stay hydrated everyone10:53am : Welcome back, old friend.10:55am : Frogs are drowning you out, Bob.10:56am : Thanks for coming back Bob.10:56am : Thanks for the great show Bob and skeleton crew! So nice to have you back Bob. Take care all.10:58am : Beside myself with joy at Bob’s return to this spot! If only the Avant Ghetto kept its spot too -but welcome back, my weekends are now much better10:58am : Thank you Bob! Great show!10:58am : Yay! Now if we can get Bill Kelly to come back....10:58am : thnx again Mr. BB!
till next week!10:58am : Once again, good to have you back Bob.See you next week!10:58am : Thanks, Bob!🥁 10:58am : Thanks Bob. Wonderful show!10:59am : When will you be back?11:00am : Thanks all, see you next week.12:49pm : Glad to have you back on Saturday morning. "Thumbs" up!10:48pm : Bob, it is so fucking good to have you back. Deep breath of relief and a ton of love to you. <35:22pm : So glad to have you back on the radio Bob.1:06pm : So happy. Saturday mornings have meaning again. I take this as a very good omen. Welcome back!