WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 12, 2020

Listener comments!
	♥ 11:00am Listener Baby: Hey something?
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Saturday greetings, Michael and the Shelle Gamers!
	♥ 11:01am Frank In Queens: Baby, it's HEY NOW!!!!!
	♥ 11:01am Listener Baby: Doh!
	11:02am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from chilly Tannersville. mike mike mike it's humpday!
	11:02am paul: Nice drink on that coaster!
	♥ 11:02am Woo: The clean version
	11:02am GListener MW: “Mike’s a charmer... of earthworms!”
	11:03am ?: HEY! now?
	♥ 11:03am Handy Haversack: Strong opening gambit! Hey, Frank!
	11:03am clarke: jes soi ?
	11:04am KWilde: Greetings Michael and fellow listeners!
	♥ 11:04am Phillippe Bastille: good morning! Hey Handy!
	11:04am paul: Roger François Jouret, better known as Plastic Bertrand, was born one day after me.
	♥ 11:04am theia: Cheers!
	11:05am clarke: your operator's license has been renewed.
	11:05am phat: I should probably listen to more French pop.
	11:05am P-90: Dang, I hate it when I miss the “Mike/Michael” montage at the top of the show. Grrr.
	11:06am clarke: paul in florida seems to having a better time than us.
	♥ 11:06am Jimmy Wipper: Roger Whittaker always reminds me of my parents. They had his greatest hits in the '70s, and they played it all the time.
	11:06am paul: phat: Check out April March
	♥ 11:06am Michael Shelley: & has better glassware
	11:06am P-90: From Bertrand straight into Roger, now THAT’s free form...
	♥ 11:07am Frank In Queens: Hiya Handy! Clarke! Michael! Everyone!
	11:07am clarke: on Uzzle Street?
	♥ 11:07am Michael in Montclair: Good Morning and Happy Saturday Mr. Shelley & family, skeleton crew, and all of my fellow WFMU listening mates!
	♥ 11:07am Handy Haversack: Phillippe! clarke! Gang!
	♥ 11:07am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! Nice to join you all.
	11:08am paul: That glass was one of four my sister gave me. I broke one, and each of the cats broke another.
	♥ 11:08am Jimmy Wipper: Of course on Uzzle Street, Clarke!
	♥ 11:08am theia: paul, cats have their uses for glassware don't they?
	11:09am phat: @Jimmy Wipper my mom loved Roger Whitaker.
	11:09am clarke: of course!
	11:09am phat: @paul i will!
	11:09am paul: Thela, you got that right!
	♥ 11:09am Uncle Michael: Not too rare on Jerry Reed records. Good morning!
	11:09am clarke: we are getting a good Roger-ing!
	11:10am phat: Goddamn Roger Miller. So good.
	♥ 11:11am TDK60: Good morning DJ MS, allz.
	♥ 11:11am Woo: Jim Dandy vs Batman. Who wins?
	11:11am phat: I dare you to not hum that little ascending riff. Doo doodle-oo
	11:11am Cooh John: Roger, that. Roger followed by Roger.
	♥ 11:11am Listener Baby: Baby, there is talk of secession if Jupe doesn’t make an appearance today. Not a threat, just a fact.
	11:12am phat: How many Batman songs records are there? Probably not enough and too many.
	11:12am Listener Bop Monroe: holy guadelcanal Batman, what now??!
	♥ 11:12am Listener Baby: Go Jim Batman!
	♥ 11:12am theia: summoning batman for the rescue! absolutely needed for the remainder of 2020!
	♥ 11:14am Handy Haversack: WFMU bandanas sold out while I was checking out! These Flash Sales are serious -- like Tickle Me Freeform Elmo!
	11:15am Mister Dobalina: The baseball player?
	♥ 11:15am Listener Baby: And he could steal abase
	11:15am clarke: you'll have to design a woof-moo haversack
	♥ 11:16am Frank In Queens: One of the great mysteries in life is how the hell the Rockpile album got such negative reviews.
	11:16am John from Madison: greetings from finally snowy Wis..
	11:16am MFlynn: Dave and Nick playing Don and Phil to perfection!
	11:17am clarke: i thought they got a good review in Rolling Stone - not that they mattered.
	11:18am clarke: not that rolling stone mattered, rather
	11:19am Gerry from Miami: Nick Lowe and his Rockpile buddies made a stone-cold classic album! The limited-edition enclosed 7-inch disc with those Everly Bros. covers was a surprise bonus and really cool.
	11:19am clarke: it's weird because all the Rockpile periphery albums got great reviews - same personnel, same band.
	♥ 11:19am Listener Baby: Re: Rockpile. I think folks were expecting something bigger better, since they were finally coming together. Fact was they were always together. So it came off as just another good/great album. I must admit to being let down by it at first.
	♥ 11:20am Woo: Some of the old AM station compilations of hits sounded like someone turned on a tape recorder next to a Close'N Play Phonograph. I love that sound.
	11:21am clarke: i guess the jump to a major label made some kind of "difference"
	11:21am Listener Bop Monroe: saw rockpile at the heatwave fest in canada minus nick lowe. the rest of the fest was incredible too!
	11:22am clarke: billy bremner just toured japan, backed by Spampinato Bros, just before the lockdown
	11:23am dk50b: Saturday greetings! Was long confused about that zippy French version because a friend who worked at the RPI radio station gave me some surplus LPs, including Elton Motello's Victim of Time. That included Jet Boy Jet Girl, which I assumed was the English version of Ca Plane Por Moi. But Motello'a lyrics about unrequited underage gay love didn't seem to match what I could decipher of Ca Plane Pout Moi (this was before you could look things up on the WWW). I later found the real story..ig.ft.com...
	11:25am Listener Bop Monroe: he is still king of the divan
	11:25am paul: The Sprague Brothers, featuring Howard on lead vocals.
	11:25am clarke: rainy and gloomy in the crescent city
	♥ 11:26am Frank In Queens: We gotta hear the bongo feet with this one!
	♥ 11:26am Frank In Queens: Pretty crappy up here too, clarke
	11:27am clarke: overtime bongos
	♥ 11:27am Frank In Queens: There they are!
	11:27am Bob Nolan: Tuning in late. Missed Rockpile and that ain't great.
	11:27am Dennis Diken: hey Mikey and all! funnily, re: "Wooly Bully" - in 1965 I totally thought Sham was singing "let's' not be all stubborn." heck, what did I know, I was 8! I'm a fan of the fine Coronet label, ditto Diplomat, Spin-O-Rama (love that name!), et al
	11:28am dk50b: Darn paywall...www.google.com...
	♥ 11:28am theia: Imagine, James Brown and Batman! 2020 needs all the superheroes we can get
	♥ 11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, listen to that!
	♥ 11:29am Listener Baby: Flat wound greatness!
	♥ 11:29am Dominick: Above!
	♥ 11:29am Richard: Love The Above!
	11:29am clarke: and Beyond!!
	♥ 11:29am Frank In Queens: Baby, believe it or not, those are rounds!
	♥ 11:30am Handy Haversack: Above above is Above!
	♥ 11:30am Listener Baby: Huh?
	11:30am Dean: Don Snowden in LA Times called Seconds of Pleasure "satisfying but surprisingly timid..." Robert Palmer in the NYT wrote, "It is a delightful record, unpretentious and more varied than either of the two principals' solo efforts." Palmer included the album among his picks of the year's best. In 1994 Edmunds explained in the LA Times that he wouldn't work with Lowe, whom he continued to like and admire, so long as Jake Riviera continued to manage Lowe.
	11:30am phat: I always thought the lyric for Wooly Bully was psychromatic something something... I like that much better. I may have to use it.
	♥ 11:30am Frank In Queens: It's true.
	11:31am clarke: Baby's coming around
	♥ 11:31am Listener Baby: You sound Dee Murray on those black taper strings.
	11:31am phat: I love Wooly Bully, however. I mean, love it.
	♥ 11:31am Handy Haversack: Those big ice cubes get a lot of use around here. The Negroni hour, especially. Frank, they're saying a foot of snow on Wednesday!
	11:32am Mister Dobalina: Negroni is nice, very nice!
	♥ 11:32am Frank In Queens: Damn, Handy. At least I'll be working from home that day!
	11:32am clarke: i don't miss the snow (yet)
	♥ 11:33am DjLorraine: I enjoy the geometry in Paul in Florida's coaster picture
	11:33am phat: Wow.
	♥ 11:33am Handy Haversack: We're laying the Field Roast and vermouth on Tuesday!
	♥ 11:34am Frank In Queens: Chris was phenomenal on that tour.
	♥ 11:34am Handy Haversack: ^^laying *in! Goodness!
	11:35am paul: Thanks, @DjLorraine. (That's Redemption bourbon, for the record.)
	11:35am clarke: in florida for the record
	11:36am paul: Me and all the crazies, @clarke.
	♥ 11:36am spodiodi: good morning, Michael Shelley and friendly types :)
	♥ 11:36am TDK60: Will definitely catch that Todd show, if not during, then in amber later.
	11:36am bongo don: can u repeat where to find the time machine map of music?
	♥ 11:36am Frank In Queens: MOVIE TIME!!!!!
	11:37am clarke: the record is all that matters
	♥ 11:38am Handy Haversack: The Cultureshock doc. series (from Netflix, I think) episode on F&G is excellent and well worth it.
	11:38am clarke: OK Frank! this week, i have been on a Liam Neeson binge. the guy is a SOLID actor.
	♥ 11:38am Frank In Queens: Wow, which of his movies?
	♥ 11:38am JohnEBGood: Good Day Michael and FMU family. That James Brown tune was fantastic. I thought it was Wilson Pickett. Thank you and the crew for rocking us! Peace
	11:38am Cumbia Phil: Love these movie reviews man
	11:38am bongo don: I'm on a Naomi Watts kick.
	11:39am Dean: Saw Ronnie Blakley at Al's Bar, the punk venue east of downtown LA.
	11:39am clarke: so far, have watched Neeson's latest three - all very different
	11:39am paul: "This whole court is out of order!"
	11:39am herb.nyc: Michael Shelley and Billie Eilish, similar to me and bway play The Inheritance, also March 12. TDF made a refund.
	♥ 11:39am Listener Baby: Sounds like a game show
	♥ 11:39am spodiodi: this was our wedding song
	♥ 11:39am Frank In Queens: Last two weeks: Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Pulp, The Last Starfighter, and Dazed And Confused
	11:40am clarke: Ordinary Love, Made In Italy and Honest Thief - all decent
	♥ 11:40am TDK60: '79? I thought you were gonna play Tom Robinson Band.
	11:40am yerfriendpaul: Agree with you on Downhill. Not good
	11:40am John from Madison: Reminds me of CHiP'S
	11:40am Ross T.: This is what inspired people to form punk bands.
	11:40am phat: That music is out of order!
	♥ 11:40am spodiodi: the last starfighter ftw
	11:40am bongo don: I can't believe you just hit on 1979. I've been trying to reconstruct my record collection from 1978.
	11:41am clarke: totally agree on the score for And Justice For All - but, the flick is hilarious
	♥ 11:41am Handy Haversack: Word, spodi!
	11:41am Bob Nolan: Kinda stole BR549's arrangement completely
	♥ 11:41am spodiodi: \\// Mr. Haversack
	11:41am clarke: the weird thing is david grusin had some decent scores before this film.
	11:41am phat: Scores like that are why Gen X hate saxophone.
	♥ 11:41am Frank In Queens: I'll look into them. Last I noticed of Liam Neeson it seemed like he kept making Taken movies.
	♥ 11:42am spodiodi: BR549 ftw too (sawr them in Mpls)
	11:42am Juke Joint Jonny: Number one hit right there
	♥ 11:43am spodiodi: gen x here who loves sax (i thank Happy Days / Richie Cunnigham)
	11:43am bongo don: phat. agreed re sax.
	♥ 11:43am Listener Baby: Compared to the Kingbees, that version is a little tame, no?
	11:43am clarke: that's what i thought, Frank. i was mostly originally interested in catching up on that Taken thing.
	♥ 11:43am Frank In Queens: Spodiodi, I hadn't seen Starfighter since the 80s when I was a kid. Still held up as a decent, fun, and warm movie. Apparently it was one of if not the first major use of CGI.
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: In a better world, Liam Neeson kept making Excalibur movies.
	♥ 11:44am Frank In Queens: Or Darkman movies.
	11:44am Moammar: Goldwax excellence in action.
	11:44am paul: On that map...Greenland 1966 is a No. 1 hit.
	11:45am Ross T.: "Taken" flicks -- great stuff. A guy eligible for Social Security beating the crap out of an endless stream of millennial and Gen X killers!
	11:45am clarke: well here's some strange news: Neeson is slated to play Phillip Marlowe in the film Marlowe (production for '21)
	11:45am Bob Nolan: Liam will never top Satisfaction with Justine Bateman and Julia Roberts. One of the best bad rock band movies ever.
	♥ 11:45am spodiodi: glad to hear it, Frank in Queens -- i think i've seen it a couple of times since way back, but it's time for another viewing ... and Darkman ftw
	11:45am Ross T.: Darkman the first -- recommended.
	♥ 11:46am spodiodi: pay five dollars to see the dancing freak!
	♥ 11:46am Frank In Queens: Arrow just released a nice restoration of Starfighter this year. It looks great; even the dated effects.
	♥ 11:46am Handy Haversack: At work, we published a book on the search for terroir in whiskey, and to celebrate the publication, the author sent me a bottle of the small-batch, single-farm bourbon from the distillery he works for. That was a very nice Friday surprise! Last Starfighter sounds like a good idea for a rewatch.
	11:46am Dean: For a second there I thought you said, "Let's talk about Rahm Emanuel." Thankfully, I was wrong.
	♥ 11:46am DjLorraine: I love the Oud sound
	11:47am clarke: The Apartment is such a powerful flick. macmurray is ALWAYS phenomenal!!
	11:47am goyim in the am: Oud rhymes with “dude”.
	♥ 11:47am TDK60: Wow fast country oud. First I heard. Never heard slow either.
	♥ 11:47am Frank In Queens: The Apartment is fantastic. I love Shirley McLaine in it.
	♥ 11:48am spodiodi: Zodiac Killer's most difficult cipher has been cracked "was solved by an international three-person team of codebreakers: American computer programmer David Oranchak, Belgian computer programmer Jarl Van Eycke and Australian applied mathematician Sam Blake." that's just cool. a little late, but cool
	11:48am clarke: straining spagetti with a tennis racket!!
	♥ 11:48am JohnEBGood: Found a weirdo channel on Pluto. Camp late 70's and 80's stuff. I'm addicted. Of course the sound is muted so I can rock with FMU🎸
	♥ 11:48am Frank In Queens: Yeah, Plimsouls!!
	♥ 11:48am spodiodi: heck yeah, plimsouls. great song
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: Ahh, this song is so good! Valley Girl soundtrack!
	11:49am Dean: Got this Plimsouls album for review when I was working the college newspaper.
	♥ 11:49am Frank In Queens: Yeah, but then he rinsed the pasta in the sink! A big no-no!
	11:49am zivilars: Plimsouls, fuck yeah!
	11:49am clarke: not back then, frank-o
	11:49am phat: I think jangle pop is on its way back.
	♥ 11:49am DjLorraine: Zero hour
	♥ 11:49am spodiodi: one of my fave songs from one of my favorite mix tapes from my then gf... college days, yeah
	♥ 11:50am TDK60: Oud is still used in current Arab pop and non-pop. And it's the influence on the Euro. lute.
	♥ 11:50am Frank In Queens: It always was if you're Italian!
	11:50am clarke: i'm on the Best Coast!!
	♥ 11:50am Frank Zaatar: The oud is the most beautiful instrument in the world IMHO. Leonard Cohen had the great Armenian-American oudist John Belezekian in his touring band. You can hear him on Field Commander Cohen aned a few other albums.
	11:51am egould310: On behalf of the entire West Coast, I would like to extend a heartfelt “ Thank You” for playing the Plimsouls. Greetings from Seattle!
	11:51am clarke: this album suffered from shitty mix
	11:51am Bob Nolan: Is Oud To Billie Joe a thing? It definitely should be.
	♥ 11:51am TDK60: Strong Plimsouls cut, haven't heard in ages.
	11:51am phat: I mean, I'm Gen X and love sax. But you won't find a lot of Gen X bands with sax players. They were all over pop music until the 80s. Not anymore.
	11:52am dk50b: @phat Guitars will have to come back first
	11:52am paul: "Bombshell" was really good. Great cast!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: I finally got shipping confirmation on that Strum and Twang jangle comp.
	11:53am clarke: does Juniper's generation have a nickname?
	♥ 11:53am TDK60: Is the bass sharp? (No, not his suit.)
	11:53am Dean: Best oud record ever: Hamza El Din, Lily of the Nile, Water Lily Acoustics LP
	♥ 11:54am JohnEBGood: Did the Hooters have a hit with Million Miles?
	11:54am dk50b: Best Jangle/Power Pop band ever is Game Theory
	11:54am Mister Dobalina: Run, Barney, RUnnnnnn!
	11:54am Moammar: The bongos!
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Downloaded this album 'Guano! Novelties from the Batcave' from somewhere but I can't get no websearch satisfaction now ... : www.garagepunk.com...
	11:55am 1whoknewcthulhu: Great Rare Breed tune. It made it into the expanded Nuggets box set.
	11:55am clarke: the natives are restless, tonite, kemosabe (sp?)
	11:55am paul: @dk50b, love Erica's Word.
	11:55am phat: My sister asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I rarely think of anything special but efd was playing that Cyclones track from Strum and Thrum and now that's on its way.
	11:55am Moammar: They drum across the river, bwana.
	♥ 11:56am DjLorraine: My middleastern dance company musicians played the the Oud in Taqsim or taksims. Slow and beautiful.
	11:56am Brian: No Christmas show? That is the 100% WRONG attitude to have this year. You are saying "the bad guys of 2020 won. I surrender." I will be doing my Christmas show 12/19 on WOWD, Takoma Park, MD a few hours after yours, 4pm, so you can tune in!
	♥ 11:56am TDK60: Ahh recall the olde days of bands tuning onstage? Painful.
	11:56am Dean: Capital Records tower, early Sunday morning monthly record swap meet was amazing.
	11:56am Dean: ^Capitol
	11:56am Mister Dobalina: Gonna have to hit the record & play button on this one.
	11:57am paul: Nick Lowe has cited TEF as an early influence.
	11:58am Listener Robert: See, there's an occurrence of "D'ohhh!" long before Simpson.
	♥ 11:58am Pedro in Arlington: The Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA has a fine Tennessee Ernie display. And his birthplace is just a few blocks away in Tennessee.
	11:59am Ross T.: I love this record too.
	♥ 11:59am Dominick: ya think?
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tennessee makes me think of Junior Brown. & I like that very much.
	♥ 11:59am Frank In Queens: It feels like we live on Xmas Planet these days, so I'm completely fine with having a 2 hour block on a Saturday morning not inundating me with something Xmas themed.
	11:59am Listener Robert: I remember in the 1980s WFMU's being a place to get AWAY from Christmas music on the radio.
	11:59am paul: I was sure you'd play one of those two Xmas songs Nick Lowe released last week.
	12:00pm clarke: i am pro-anti-xmas!
	♥ 12:00pm Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 12:01pm Frank In Queens: Goddamn Larry Graham....
	12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Segregate Xmas & XmasFree. & flag them.
	12:01pm Peter Horvath: Great show, Michael. Greetings from Highland Park, the home of the Band-Aid AND Station Manager Ken!
	12:02pm clarke: i am thinking that sly was one of the first to mic the hi-hats separately? DD chime in?
	12:02pm Mister Dobalina: Tik Tok...hahahah.
	♥ 12:02pm Montmaster J: Hey now!
	♥ 12:02pm DjLorraine: Gen Z for zoomers
	12:02pm johnk77: larry graham on the bass:>
	♥ 12:02pm JohnEBGood: Love the Sly tune. Sandanista!!!
	12:03pm Moammar: Cronkite. I laughed out loud.
	12:03pm Mister Dobalina: I gotta go check my MySpace page...brb.
	12:03pm phat: Never noticed the snare on that Sly track before. It's kind of unusual for the time. But that kind of thing got big in R&B in the 90s.
	♥ 12:03pm Dominick: @Frank in Queens - That's Sly on bass on "If YOu Want Me to Stay"
	♥ 12:03pm TDK60: Hi DJ daughter!
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was way into AntiXmas songs - but it was becoming - a Tradition...
	♥ 12:03pm Handy Haversack: 100 percent agree, Frank. Christmas just feels hostile to me. But I am not Christian, I don't like stuff, and I was raised too poor to find Christmas anything but alienating.
	♥ 12:03pm Frank In Queens: @Dominick, really! Had no idea!
	12:03pm clarke: oh, ok. GenZ
	12:03pm johnk77: i stand corrected
	12:03pm BillD: Hey Mike, will you ever fill in for Wake again?;You were a natural and really good.
	12:03pm zivilars: The Radio Time Machine link in the show's liner notes is very nice – just discovered it, thanks for the hint, Michael!
	12:04pm Mike + Lilah: Cronkite. That’s so great. I think we had Chet Huntley or something like that too. Gen Z is lame. Just two iterations past X. It’s unoriginal
	♥ 12:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm feeling better and better about my planned Christmas show!
	12:04pm Christina Low: The Quitters were AMAZING live. I saw them so many times growing up.
	♥ 12:04pm DjLorraine: I was unaware there was news on tik tok. I always learn something on WMFU
	♥ 12:04pm JohnEBGood: Sandanista released 40 years ago today.
	12:04pm phat: I don't do Christmas. But I absolutely love 40s, 50s, 60s Christmas country, R&B, and Rock n Roll Christmas tunes.
	12:04pm clarke: thnx Jupe!!
	12:04pm zivilars: (The link probably is there for weeks or even months, but didn't discover it until now)
	♥ 12:04pm McGroovey: When I lived in Rochester, I went to see the Quitters whenever they played, which was like once a month. They were fantastic.
	12:05pm paul: After GenZ, they move on to the Greek alphabet, like with hurricanes.
	12:05pm Christina Low: @McGroovey, we probably crossed paths many times...
	♥ 12:05pm Michael Shelley: BillD - would love to!
	12:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hamza El Din made definitive oud Nile music.
	12:05pm clarke: and the people who know who conkrite was are like "what's tik tok?"
	12:06pm TCJimmy: Quitters are #1
	♥ 12:06pm Dominick: @paul - hexadecimal
	♥ 12:06pm Frank In Queens: I'm not anti-Xmas per se. But it's getting to be re-goddamn-diculous that the so-called season starts earlier and earlier every year and with Xmas themed content coming at you from every possible angle. And don't get me started about the stupid fucking "war on Xmas"....
	12:07pm paul: @Dominick, that's over my head.
	♥ 12:07pm JohnEBGood: Washington Bullets!!
	12:07pm clarke: what frank said.
	♥ 12:08pm Frank In Queens: Like I said earlier, "Xmas Planet"
	12:08pm Cooh John: Hello, DjLorraine. Had to bail before the interview was over yesterday.
	♥ 12:08pm Uncle Michael: A lot of covers if this seem to be covers of the Who's cover.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good as TheWho's version - presuming that's the model.
	♥ 12:09pm DjLorraine: I replayed the archive as promised
	12:09pm Mister Dobalina: You know what is also from Sweden? Fish eggs in a tube & all other sorts of food in a tube. Like a toothpaste tube I mean.
	♥ 12:09pm Frank In Queens: Tages version swings way more than The Who version.
	♥ 12:09pm McGroovey: One of the Quitters player later in another Rochester band you play sometimes, but it's slipping my band which band. Drummer Rob played drums in about half the bands in Rochester. He played bass for the Priests--also a great band (Bill Kelly used to play the Priests a bit). Rob is a fixture at the Bop Shop, the second best record store in Rochester.
	♥ 12:10pm Frank In Queens: McGroovey, The Fox Sisters?
	12:10pm paul: The Monkey Speaks His Mind.
	12:10pm Mister Dobalina: That's why my friend, Torbjorn said.
	12:10pm DG: Didn't know this song (Leaving Here) until I heard the Who's version on one of those odds & sods collections (maybe "Who's Missing" ?)....the original (by Eddie Holland himself) is good too.
	♥ 12:10pm Dominick: More baboon, less xmas
	♥ 12:10pm McGroovey: @Frank yes, that's the one.
	12:11pm johnk77: wikipedia has rustee allen as bass player on the sly track also of note andy newmark on drums and jerry martini on sax
	♥ 12:12pm Listener Baby: Can you believe I missed Jupe?.. wtf?..
	12:12pm clarke: mike shell. EEEEEEEE
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ProtoGarage. Way Kewl. 50s Punk.
	12:13pm Royal Rusty: Come on baaby you know you're driving me craazy I guess I've been a foool for you
	12:15pm clarke: toussaint wrote it
	♥ 12:15pm Dominick: Very "sugar Shack" bass happening here
	12:15pm Dean: This reminds to listen again to Mariano & the Unbelievables. Wish I had their "Whiter Shade of Pale."
	12:16pm clarke: orleanians pronounce it: two-SAINT
	♥ 12:16pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Shelleys & Ruth & gang!
	12:16pm Glenn J: "Ya Ya" written by Lee Dorsey & Bobby Robinson
	12:16pm paul: I think Chip Douglas played that when he hosted his first party and didn't invite Ernie.
	♥ 12:17pm DjLorraine: If anyone finds a Walter Cronkite hologram we could possibly break the disinformation spell
	12:17pm clarke: i have been corrected
	♥ 12:18pm DjLorraine: I could use an Uncle Charlie
	12:18pm clarke: funny tho, i have seen toussaint 'cover' La La live, before - assumed he wrote it
	♥ 12:19pm Jimmy Wipper: One of my favorite episodes of Freaks and Greeks.
	♥ 12:20pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Greg from ZONE 5!
	12:20pm Bob Nolan: How in the world did you grow up in the 80's and not see at least one laser show?
	12:20pm clarke: Walter Conkrite Laser Show
	12:20pm Moammar: This one owes a debt to "Rollers Show" by Nick Lowe.
	12:21pm paul: LOL @DjLorraine.
	♥ 12:21pm Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Handy!
	12:21pm Christina Low: Fittingly for theme, there used to be a laser Christmas show projected onto the gorge walls at the High Falls water fall back in Rochester. We used to go out and stand in the freezing cold ever December. It was then, at the young age of 9, that I realized how meh ‘Wonderul Christmas time’ is.
	♥ 12:21pm Frank In Queens: Drive back on the LIE until the Vanderbilt Planetarium started having laser shows too.
	12:22pm paul: Kim Fowley wrote Ya-Ya.
	♥ 12:23pm Michael Shelley: Ilike wCT
	12:24pm clarke: in a perfect world, Miss Low, The Chesterfield Kings would have been playing at the Falls
	12:25pm paul: Merseybeats. :)
	♥ 12:25pm Frank In Queens: WCT is over-played, just like every other Xmas song, but there's nothing wrong with it.
	12:25pm Mister Dobalina: Check out M. Shelley's MySpace page.
	♥ 12:26pm Dominick: Ray is a peach!
	12:27pm Dennis Diken: @clarke re Sly hi hat: dunno? Mikey, thanks for shout out
	12:29pm Christina Low: @clarke in the early 90’s of my youth, that would have been worth it!
	12:30pm dk50b: Caught Laser Floyd at the long shuttered McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto during my college years. So that's checked off the list.
	12:31pm clarke: there's this part in Sly's Stand where the drums just JUMP out - hi-hat is like louder (the bridge?)
	♥ 12:31pm Michael Shelley: Interesting - every cover of WCT Ive heard doesnt quite work
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HBD Rob Tyner : m.facebook.com...
	♥ 12:31pm Mike Sin: Re: WCT Quality aside, McCartney's most "bang for the buck" record. Basically smokes a joint, heads downstairs, hops on the synth and creates the track. No other musicians to pay, no co-songwriting, no real studio time... goes platinum... prints money every year.
	12:32pm clarke: buys back the catalogue from Michael
	♥ 12:33pm Uncle Michael: not impaired, enhanced
	12:33pm Dean: Julie of Dark Night proclaims WCT the worst Christmas song ever.
	♥ 12:33pm Michael Shelley: MIKE - 100% right
	♥ 12:33pm Jimmy Wipper: It IS a real II!
	12:34pm johnk77: live rock bands had laser shows in the 70s another great show today by selecter
	12:34pm Christina Low: Reflecting on it, as a child, I really didn’t like the synth sounds on WTC. Also, I was at the laser show completely unimpaired, as I was 9 when we started going. I enjoy them for what they are, but I like shiny things.
	12:34pm phat: I love WCT. I was sober when I saw a Rush lazer show. I can't imagine seeing it loaded. The one time I saw the actual band Rush jacked up on something was... intense.
	12:34pm clarke: i try to not confused over-played with bad. but, i don't know WCT is pretty fucking annoying.
	12:34pm paul: Koko Taylor channeling David Johansen.
	♥ 12:35pm Micheal: WCT would be much better if Koko Taylor sang it at a laser show.
	12:35pm disgraceddavefromtoronto: they had laser shows at the planetarium in toronto back in the day. laser zeppelin and floyd were the most popular and yes i was under the influence of the dreaded lysergic. i remember staring at the lighted exit sign and thinking it was part of the show.
	♥ 12:35pm ike p: greetings michael, skeleton crew, and awesome listners! i loved going to lazer shows sober just for the sound quality, which i realize might be like reading playboy just for the articles but there you have it :)
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Haha!
	12:36pm clarke: - to confuse
	12:36pm paul: Oh, That was Willie Dixon.
	12:36pm John in Long Branch: I went to the St Louis science center Laser Floyd in 94ish. We pre-partied inside an old volvo in the parking lot and I mostly remember playing in the hands-on children's science section and not the show much.
	♥ 12:38pm DjLorraine: In WCT the lyrics: We're here, “and that's enough“ sounds more reasonable each progressing year.
	12:39pm phat: @DjLorraine yes
	♥ 12:40pm Handy Haversack: The laser show in Atlanta was projected on the side of Stone Mountain, the largest exposed outcrop of granite in the world. Unfortunately, it has Confederate "heroes" carved in ~60' reliefs on the face where the lasers are projected. At the climax, they are animated (to Lee Greenwood, natch) and symbolically break their swords and ride off ... but it's not very convincing. A fraught but one tended to go at least once a year.
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WCT - makeweight Macca @ best.
	♥ 12:40pm spodiodi: jiji jerky boys
	♥ 12:41pm Corey: Didn't think it was for me, but listened to it recently and have to cast a vote in favor of WCT. Those Beatles promo xmas songs are also winners in my book. Catchy and short enough that they don't overstay their welcome.
	12:43pm dano59: Nothing wrong with WCT
	12:43pm clarke: yes, there is.
	12:43pm dk50b: Sorry but WCT is from McCartney's treacly side, does nothing for me as a non celebrant. But it's understandable because only Jews can write Christmas songs that have mass appeal. Rudolph's writer Johnny Marx, for example, drew on his childhood bullying to create the tale of underdog triumph. As to Laser Floyd, I enjoyed it despite being unimpaired. maplewood.kanopy.com...
	♥ 12:44pm Montmaster J: Malkmus...yeah...maybe we should have been guards.;). Was he known as "spiral staircase' at that time? I can't remember.
	12:44pm Mister Dobalina: I met Johnny Brennan & he gave me his autograph! Silverman, baby!
	12:44pm Ross T.: Laser Macca?
	12:45pm clarke: Spiral Staircase is NOT steve - it is another member of Pavement
	12:46pm paul: Mass appeal. I get it.
	12:46pm Rick A.: This is a great, rocking tune. I first heard it on one of Trouble's marathon premiums and it resonated.
	♥ 12:47pm Montmaster J: @clarke: Maybe that's why he never talked to me.:)
	12:48pm Moammar: Bongo madness!
	12:49pm Rick A.: Scott Kannberg is Spiral Stairs. He started a band called Preston School of Industry. The production on that Breakaways song is nonpareil.
	12:49pm clarke: Spiral was Scott Kannberg (sp?) and he has put out a few great solo LP's
	12:49pm paul: Those boys sure can sing, Mr. Darling.
	12:51pm dk50b: The song that makes cringe most is Bruce's rendition of Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. I'm lukewarm on Bruce, love Christmastime, but for some reason hearing that song in a store reinforces the commercial excess about to flood us, and Bruce's slightly sung narration is horrific.
	♥ 12:51pm jake6573: Purchased A Willie Dixon box set at the Last WFMU record show. Best thing I own.
	12:51pm clarke: The Real Feel and Doris & The Daggers are both winner albums - very bowie'esque
	♥ 12:52pm Dominick: must get dooly wah
	♥ 12:52pm Jason from Houston: Good food song also...
	♥ 12:52pm myron feld: Wild Jimmy Spruill playing the greatest solo ever. I just came in, so if you announced that already I apologize.
	12:52pm clarke: i kinda think Them's version of Baby Please Don't Go might be the best solo ever.
	12:52pm Dean: Did that Dick Van Dyke write that song?
	12:52pm Ross T.: Fave Xmas tune -- "Christmas in Jail."
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McCartney is Thee Melodic Genius - but the Gemini needs an Editor. Just no getting around Lennon & McCartney were perfect mutual foils : Lennon brought gravitas @ Paulie accessibility.
	♥ 12:53pm Kotzwinkled: Late to this, but Cactus Blossoms do a sublime cover of Charlie Rich's "Life Has It's Little Ups and Downs". I heard it live and it made me pull the trigger on proposing to my girlfriend.
	♥ 12:54pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Won’t speak of WCT, beneath notice, but I went to a laser planetarium show in the 70s with Pink Floyd etc. and someone was screaming and yelling throughout. When the lights came up, it was a special needs kid. I guess he enjoyed it and it certainly made it more interesting. I thought there were going to be 3d floating images so I was a little disappointed.
	♥ 12:54pm myron feld: @Ross T.: absolutely.
	♥ 12:54pm Montmaster J: Hopefully the Mets will sign this generation's Kevin McReynolds....George Springer!
	12:54pm Dean: I'm more inclined to believe my own solo, pace Eddie Van Halen, on a spontaneous track my buddies and I recorded, "Crabmeat Baltimore" (lyrics straight from the cookbook), surpasses that Pyramids solo.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Fave Xmas is 4'33''.
	12:54pm Dennis Diken: That was a great guitar solo but I’m for Zally on Lovin’ Spoonful’s “My Gal”
	12:55pm Moammar: @Montmaster J: If we do, Steven Cohen will have to spring for a suitable trash can.
	12:55pm DG: McCartney fan here but sorry, WCT is annoying, and Mike Sin is probably right about how he created it (another reason I didn't like M2---too much screwing around w/synths & not enough real songs). I don't mind "experimental" McCartney (I liked "Electric Arguments") if some effort went into it, hope the new album isn't like #2....and yes, he isn't always the best judge of his own material (same w/Springsteen), Dylan, etc.).
	12:55pm dano59: Another take on WCT’s true meaning: https://mobile.twitter.com/theryangeorge/status/1204821475800363008
	♥ 12:56pm JohnEBGood: Thumbs down on the solo 🎵
	12:56pm Moammar: Speaking of the Mets, we have apparently signed McCann in the course of this show. Unsure if the wonders of freeform radio helped lure him.
	♥ 12:57pm Montmaster J: @moammar....Hah! He can afford it but hopefully no cheating in Queens!
	12:57pm Moammar: McCann > McCartney
	12:57pm Listener Bop Monroe: time for a late lunch. another great show Mr. MS. until next week be safe all.
	♥ 12:58pm jake6573: did he say they were uncles of or father of Kevin, just asking ?
	♥ 12:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley! thanks Ruth & Crew!
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: splendid show Mikey!
	♥ 12:58pm Corey: Thanks Michael and skeletons for bringing us the past two hours of radio! Take care all.
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: Dang, that went so fast! Thanks, Michael, Ruth! Be well, all.
	12:58pm Listener Bop Monroe: sebastion bacon!
	♥ 12:59pm Frank In Queens: Proper modulation...
	12:59pm clarke: GAIN STRUCK-CHAAAAAHHHHH
	♥ 12:59pm Montmaster J: Thanks Michael!
	♥ 1:00pm JohnEBGood: I love you Michael. Thank you and the crew!
	1:00pm Ross T.: Thank you sir.
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: Great show Mike! Cheers all!
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: "Rock Out"? I'll be there!
	♥ 1:01pm theia: thx

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Plastic Bertrand	Ca Plan Pour Moi
Roger Whittaker	New World In The Morning
Roger Miller	It Happened Just That Way
Laverne Baker	Batman To The Rescue
Jackie Robinson	Let The Little Girl Dance
Rockpile	Now and Always "Now and Always" by "Rockpile"
Coronet Records House Band	Wooly Bully
Sprague Brothers, The	Right Or Wrong
James Brown	Bring It Up (Hipster Avenue)
Above, The	Coming Around "Coming Around" by "Above, The"
Byrds, The	Time Between "Time Between" by "Byrds, The"
Willie Barry And The California Hot Shots	Sweet Sweet Girl
James Carr	You Didn't Know It, But You Had Me
Rami Gabriel	Black Cowboy Hat "Black Cowboy Hat" by "Rami Gabriel"
Plimsouls, The	A Million Miles Away
Rare Breed, The	Beg Borrow And Steal
Tennessee Ernie Ford	Full Time Job
Sly and The Family Stone	If You Want Me To Stay
Quitters, The	Who Do You Love? "Who Do You Love?" by "Quitters, The"
Tages	Leaving Here "Leaving Here" by "Tages"
Jimmy Murphy	Baboon Boogie "Baboon Boogie" by "Jimmy Murphy"
Bunie Fitz	Just a Fool For You "Just a Fool For You" by "Bunie Fitz"
Enoch Light And His Orchestra	Ya Ya
Bucky	O Miranda "O Miranda" by "Bucky"
Fountains Of Wayne	Lazer Show "Lazer Show" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
Mercybeats, The	Last Night I Made A Little Girl Cry
Cactus Blossoms, The	Desperado (live 2.14.19 for wfmu)
Cactus Blossoms, The	Please Don't Call Me Crazy (live for WFMU at Magic Door)
Koko Taylor	Insane Asylum "Insane Asylum" by "Koko Taylor"
Stephen Malkmus	Jenny And The Ess-Dog
Vernon Girls, The	You Know What I Mean
Breakaways, The	That's How It Goes
Jim and Jesse McReynolds	Stay A Little Longer
Pyramids, The	Hot Dog Dooly Wah "Hot Dog Dooly Wah" by "Pyramids, The"
Jody Porter	Crashland "Crashland" by "Jody Porter"
Harry Harrison	The In Sound "The In Sound" by "Harry Harrison"
Alex	Shut Up "Shut Up" by "Alex"
Joker	Drummer Joke "Drummer Joke" by "Joker"
Buddy Holly	Hops On The Trend "Hops On The Trend" by "Buddy Holly"
Sebastian Cabot	Bacon "Bacon" by "Sebastian Cabot"
Nick	Just Wants To Bring The Baklava
Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable	At The Trip
Teen Girl	Whatever Mom "Whatever Mom" by "Teen Girl"
Daniel's Dad	Not Going To Send That
Peter Faulk	Please Leave A Message
Kenneth Copeland	Har Har Har Har Har
Paul Harvey	Good Day "Good Day" by "Paul Harvey"

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	♥ 11:01am Listener Baby: Doh!
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	11:04am KWilde: Greetings Michael and fellow listeners!
	♥ 11:04am Phillippe Bastille: good morning! Hey Handy!
	11:04am paul: Roger François Jouret, better known as Plastic Bertrand, was born one day after me.
	♥ 11:04am theia: Cheers!
	11:05am clarke: your operator's license has been renewed.
	11:05am phat: I should probably listen to more French pop.
	11:05am P-90: Dang, I hate it when I miss the “Mike/Michael” montage at the top of the show. Grrr.
	11:06am clarke: paul in florida seems to having a better time than us.
	♥ 11:06am Jimmy Wipper: Roger Whittaker always reminds me of my parents. They had his greatest hits in the '70s, and they played it all the time.
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	♥ 11:06am Michael Shelley: & has better glassware
	11:06am P-90: From Bertrand straight into Roger, now THAT’s free form...
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	11:07am clarke: on Uzzle Street?
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	11:08am paul: That glass was one of four my sister gave me. I broke one, and each of the cats broke another.
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	♥ 11:08am theia: paul, cats have their uses for glassware don't they?
	11:09am phat: @Jimmy Wipper my mom loved Roger Whitaker.
	11:09am clarke: of course!
	11:09am phat: @paul i will!
	11:09am paul: Thela, you got that right!
	♥ 11:09am Uncle Michael: Not too rare on Jerry Reed records. Good morning!
	11:09am clarke: we are getting a good Roger-ing!
	11:10am phat: Goddamn Roger Miller. So good.
	♥ 11:11am TDK60: Good morning DJ MS, allz.
	♥ 11:11am Woo: Jim Dandy vs Batman. Who wins?
	11:11am phat: I dare you to not hum that little ascending riff. Doo doodle-oo
	11:11am Cooh John: Roger, that. Roger followed by Roger.
	♥ 11:11am Listener Baby: Baby, there is talk of secession if Jupe doesn’t make an appearance today. Not a threat, just a fact.
	11:12am phat: How many Batman songs records are there? Probably not enough and too many.
	11:12am Listener Bop Monroe: holy guadelcanal Batman, what now??!
	♥ 11:12am Listener Baby: Go Jim Batman!
	♥ 11:12am theia: summoning batman for the rescue! absolutely needed for the remainder of 2020!
	♥ 11:14am Handy Haversack: WFMU bandanas sold out while I was checking out! These Flash Sales are serious -- like Tickle Me Freeform Elmo!
	11:15am Mister Dobalina: The baseball player?
	♥ 11:15am Listener Baby: And he could steal abase
	11:15am clarke: you'll have to design a woof-moo haversack
	♥ 11:16am Frank In Queens: One of the great mysteries in life is how the hell the Rockpile album got such negative reviews.
	11:16am John from Madison: greetings from finally snowy Wis..
	11:16am MFlynn: Dave and Nick playing Don and Phil to perfection!
	11:17am clarke: i thought they got a good review in Rolling Stone - not that they mattered.
	11:18am clarke: not that rolling stone mattered, rather
	11:19am Gerry from Miami: Nick Lowe and his Rockpile buddies made a stone-cold classic album! The limited-edition enclosed 7-inch disc with those Everly Bros. covers was a surprise bonus and really cool.
	11:19am clarke: it's weird because all the Rockpile periphery albums got great reviews - same personnel, same band.
	♥ 11:19am Listener Baby: Re: Rockpile. I think folks were expecting something bigger better, since they were finally coming together. Fact was they were always together. So it came off as just another good/great album. I must admit to being let down by it at first.
	♥ 11:20am Woo: Some of the old AM station compilations of hits sounded like someone turned on a tape recorder next to a Close'N Play Phonograph. I love that sound.
	11:21am clarke: i guess the jump to a major label made some kind of "difference"
	11:21am Listener Bop Monroe: saw rockpile at the heatwave fest in canada minus nick lowe. the rest of the fest was incredible too!
	11:22am clarke: billy bremner just toured japan, backed by Spampinato Bros, just before the lockdown
	11:23am dk50b: Saturday greetings! Was long confused about that zippy French version because a friend who worked at the RPI radio station gave me some surplus LPs, including Elton Motello's Victim of Time. That included Jet Boy Jet Girl, which I assumed was the English version of Ca Plane Por Moi. But Motello'a lyrics about unrequited underage gay love didn't seem to match what I could decipher of Ca Plane Pout Moi (this was before you could look things up on the WWW). I later found the real story..ig.ft.com...
	11:25am Listener Bop Monroe: he is still king of the divan
	11:25am paul: The Sprague Brothers, featuring Howard on lead vocals.
	11:25am clarke: rainy and gloomy in the crescent city
	♥ 11:26am Frank In Queens: We gotta hear the bongo feet with this one!
	♥ 11:26am Frank In Queens: Pretty crappy up here too, clarke
	11:27am clarke: overtime bongos
	♥ 11:27am Frank In Queens: There they are!
	11:27am Bob Nolan: Tuning in late. Missed Rockpile and that ain't great.
	11:27am Dennis Diken: hey Mikey and all! funnily, re: "Wooly Bully" - in 1965 I totally thought Sham was singing "let's' not be all stubborn." heck, what did I know, I was 8! I'm a fan of the fine Coronet label, ditto Diplomat, Spin-O-Rama (love that name!), et al
	11:28am dk50b: Darn paywall...www.google.com...
	♥ 11:28am theia: Imagine, James Brown and Batman! 2020 needs all the superheroes we can get
	♥ 11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, listen to that!
	♥ 11:29am Listener Baby: Flat wound greatness!
	♥ 11:29am Dominick: Above!
	♥ 11:29am Richard: Love The Above!
	11:29am clarke: and Beyond!!
	♥ 11:29am Frank In Queens: Baby, believe it or not, those are rounds!
	♥ 11:30am Handy Haversack: Above above is Above!
	♥ 11:30am Listener Baby: Huh?
	11:30am Dean: Don Snowden in LA Times called Seconds of Pleasure "satisfying but surprisingly timid..." Robert Palmer in the NYT wrote, "It is a delightful record, unpretentious and more varied than either of the two principals' solo efforts." Palmer included the album among his picks of the year's best. In 1994 Edmunds explained in the LA Times that he wouldn't work with Lowe, whom he continued to like and admire, so long as Jake Riviera continued to manage Lowe.
	11:30am phat: I always thought the lyric for Wooly Bully was psychromatic something something... I like that much better. I may have to use it.
	♥ 11:30am Frank In Queens: It's true.
	11:31am clarke: Baby's coming around
	♥ 11:31am Listener Baby: You sound Dee Murray on those black taper strings.
	11:31am phat: I love Wooly Bully, however. I mean, love it.
	♥ 11:31am Handy Haversack: Those big ice cubes get a lot of use around here. The Negroni hour, especially. Frank, they're saying a foot of snow on Wednesday!
	11:32am Mister Dobalina: Negroni is nice, very nice!
	♥ 11:32am Frank In Queens: Damn, Handy. At least I'll be working from home that day!
	11:32am clarke: i don't miss the snow (yet)
	♥ 11:33am DjLorraine: I enjoy the geometry in Paul in Florida's coaster picture
	11:33am phat: Wow.
	♥ 11:33am Handy Haversack: We're laying the Field Roast and vermouth on Tuesday!
	♥ 11:34am Frank In Queens: Chris was phenomenal on that tour.
	♥ 11:34am Handy Haversack: ^^laying *in! Goodness!
	11:35am paul: Thanks, @DjLorraine. (That's Redemption bourbon, for the record.)
	11:35am clarke: in florida for the record
	11:36am paul: Me and all the crazies, @clarke.
	♥ 11:36am spodiodi: good morning, Michael Shelley and friendly types :)
	♥ 11:36am TDK60: Will definitely catch that Todd show, if not during, then in amber later.
	11:36am bongo don: can u repeat where to find the time machine map of music?
	♥ 11:36am Frank In Queens: MOVIE TIME!!!!!
	11:37am clarke: the record is all that matters
	♥ 11:38am Handy Haversack: The Cultureshock doc. series (from Netflix, I think) episode on F&G is excellent and well worth it.
	11:38am clarke: OK Frank! this week, i have been on a Liam Neeson binge. the guy is a SOLID actor.
	♥ 11:38am Frank In Queens: Wow, which of his movies?
	♥ 11:38am JohnEBGood: Good Day Michael and FMU family. That James Brown tune was fantastic. I thought it was Wilson Pickett. Thank you and the crew for rocking us! Peace
	11:38am Cumbia Phil: Love these movie reviews man
	11:38am bongo don: I'm on a Naomi Watts kick.
	11:39am Dean: Saw Ronnie Blakley at Al's Bar, the punk venue east of downtown LA.
	11:39am clarke: so far, have watched Neeson's latest three - all very different
	11:39am paul: "This whole court is out of order!"
	11:39am herb.nyc: Michael Shelley and Billie Eilish, similar to me and bway play The Inheritance, also March 12. TDF made a refund.
	♥ 11:39am Listener Baby: Sounds like a game show
	♥ 11:39am spodiodi: this was our wedding song
	♥ 11:39am Frank In Queens: Last two weeks: Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Pulp, The Last Starfighter, and Dazed And Confused
	11:40am clarke: Ordinary Love, Made In Italy and Honest Thief - all decent
	♥ 11:40am TDK60: '79? I thought you were gonna play Tom Robinson Band.
	11:40am yerfriendpaul: Agree with you on Downhill. Not good
	11:40am John from Madison: Reminds me of CHiP'S
	11:40am Ross T.: This is what inspired people to form punk bands.
	11:40am phat: That music is out of order!
	♥ 11:40am spodiodi: the last starfighter ftw
	11:40am bongo don: I can't believe you just hit on 1979. I've been trying to reconstruct my record collection from 1978.
	11:41am clarke: totally agree on the score for And Justice For All - but, the flick is hilarious
	♥ 11:41am Handy Haversack: Word, spodi!
	11:41am Bob Nolan: Kinda stole BR549's arrangement completely
	♥ 11:41am spodiodi: \\// Mr. Haversack
	11:41am clarke: the weird thing is david grusin had some decent scores before this film.
	11:41am phat: Scores like that are why Gen X hate saxophone.
	♥ 11:41am Frank In Queens: I'll look into them. Last I noticed of Liam Neeson it seemed like he kept making Taken movies.
	♥ 11:42am spodiodi: BR549 ftw too (sawr them in Mpls)
	11:42am Juke Joint Jonny: Number one hit right there
	♥ 11:43am spodiodi: gen x here who loves sax (i thank Happy Days / Richie Cunnigham)
	11:43am bongo don: phat. agreed re sax.
	♥ 11:43am Listener Baby: Compared to the Kingbees, that version is a little tame, no?
	11:43am clarke: that's what i thought, Frank. i was mostly originally interested in catching up on that Taken thing.
	♥ 11:43am Frank In Queens: Spodiodi, I hadn't seen Starfighter since the 80s when I was a kid. Still held up as a decent, fun, and warm movie. Apparently it was one of if not the first major use of CGI.
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: In a better world, Liam Neeson kept making Excalibur movies.
	♥ 11:44am Frank In Queens: Or Darkman movies.
	11:44am Moammar: Goldwax excellence in action.
	11:44am paul: On that map...Greenland 1966 is a No. 1 hit.
	11:45am Ross T.: "Taken" flicks -- great stuff. A guy eligible for Social Security beating the crap out of an endless stream of millennial and Gen X killers!
	11:45am clarke: well here's some strange news: Neeson is slated to play Phillip Marlowe in the film Marlowe (production for '21)
	11:45am Bob Nolan: Liam will never top Satisfaction with Justine Bateman and Julia Roberts. One of the best bad rock band movies ever.
	♥ 11:45am spodiodi: glad to hear it, Frank in Queens -- i think i've seen it a couple of times since way back, but it's time for another viewing ... and Darkman ftw
	11:45am Ross T.: Darkman the first -- recommended.
	♥ 11:46am spodiodi: pay five dollars to see the dancing freak!
	♥ 11:46am Frank In Queens: Arrow just released a nice restoration of Starfighter this year. It looks great; even the dated effects.
	♥ 11:46am Handy Haversack: At work, we published a book on the search for terroir in whiskey, and to celebrate the publication, the author sent me a bottle of the small-batch, single-farm bourbon from the distillery he works for. That was a very nice Friday surprise! Last Starfighter sounds like a good idea for a rewatch.
	11:46am Dean: For a second there I thought you said, "Let's talk about Rahm Emanuel." Thankfully, I was wrong.
	♥ 11:46am DjLorraine: I love the Oud sound
	11:47am clarke: The Apartment is such a powerful flick. macmurray is ALWAYS phenomenal!!
	11:47am goyim in the am: Oud rhymes with “dude”.
	♥ 11:47am TDK60: Wow fast country oud. First I heard. Never heard slow either.
	♥ 11:47am Frank In Queens: The Apartment is fantastic. I love Shirley McLaine in it.
	♥ 11:48am spodiodi: Zodiac Killer's most difficult cipher has been cracked "was solved by an international three-person team of codebreakers: American computer programmer David Oranchak, Belgian computer programmer Jarl Van Eycke and Australian applied mathematician Sam Blake." that's just cool. a little late, but cool
	11:48am clarke: straining spagetti with a tennis racket!!
	♥ 11:48am JohnEBGood: Found a weirdo channel on Pluto. Camp late 70's and 80's stuff. I'm addicted. Of course the sound is muted so I can rock with FMU🎸
	♥ 11:48am Frank In Queens: Yeah, Plimsouls!!
	♥ 11:48am spodiodi: heck yeah, plimsouls. great song
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: Ahh, this song is so good! Valley Girl soundtrack!
	11:49am Dean: Got this Plimsouls album for review when I was working the college newspaper.
	♥ 11:49am Frank In Queens: Yeah, but then he rinsed the pasta in the sink! A big no-no!
	11:49am zivilars: Plimsouls, fuck yeah!
	11:49am clarke: not back then, frank-o
	11:49am phat: I think jangle pop is on its way back.
	♥ 11:49am DjLorraine: Zero hour
	♥ 11:49am spodiodi: one of my fave songs from one of my favorite mix tapes from my then gf... college days, yeah
	♥ 11:50am TDK60: Oud is still used in current Arab pop and non-pop. And it's the influence on the Euro. lute.
	♥ 11:50am Frank In Queens: It always was if you're Italian!
	11:50am clarke: i'm on the Best Coast!!
	♥ 11:50am Frank Zaatar: The oud is the most beautiful instrument in the world IMHO. Leonard Cohen had the great Armenian-American oudist John Belezekian in his touring band. You can hear him on Field Commander Cohen aned a few other albums.
	11:51am egould310: On behalf of the entire West Coast, I would like to extend a heartfelt “ Thank You” for playing the Plimsouls. Greetings from Seattle!
	11:51am clarke: this album suffered from shitty mix
	11:51am Bob Nolan: Is Oud To Billie Joe a thing? It definitely should be.
	♥ 11:51am TDK60: Strong Plimsouls cut, haven't heard in ages.
	11:51am phat: I mean, I'm Gen X and love sax. But you won't find a lot of Gen X bands with sax players. They were all over pop music until the 80s. Not anymore.
	11:52am dk50b: @phat Guitars will have to come back first
	11:52am paul: "Bombshell" was really good. Great cast!
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: I finally got shipping confirmation on that Strum and Twang jangle comp.
	11:53am clarke: does Juniper's generation have a nickname?
	♥ 11:53am TDK60: Is the bass sharp? (No, not his suit.)
	11:53am Dean: Best oud record ever: Hamza El Din, Lily of the Nile, Water Lily Acoustics LP
	♥ 11:54am JohnEBGood: Did the Hooters have a hit with Million Miles?
	11:54am dk50b: Best Jangle/Power Pop band ever is Game Theory
	11:54am Mister Dobalina: Run, Barney, RUnnnnnn!
	11:54am Moammar: The bongos!
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Downloaded this album 'Guano! Novelties from the Batcave' from somewhere but I can't get no websearch satisfaction now ... : www.garagepunk.com...
	11:55am 1whoknewcthulhu: Great Rare Breed tune. It made it into the expanded Nuggets box set.
	11:55am clarke: the natives are restless, tonite, kemosabe (sp?)
	11:55am paul: @dk50b, love Erica's Word.
	11:55am phat: My sister asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I rarely think of anything special but efd was playing that Cyclones track from Strum and Thrum and now that's on its way.
	11:55am Moammar: They drum across the river, bwana.
	♥ 11:56am DjLorraine: My middleastern dance company musicians played the the Oud in Taqsim or taksims. Slow and beautiful.
	11:56am Brian: No Christmas show? That is the 100% WRONG attitude to have this year. You are saying "the bad guys of 2020 won. I surrender." I will be doing my Christmas show 12/19 on WOWD, Takoma Park, MD a few hours after yours, 4pm, so you can tune in!
	♥ 11:56am TDK60: Ahh recall the olde days of bands tuning onstage? Painful.
	11:56am Dean: Capital Records tower, early Sunday morning monthly record swap meet was amazing.
	11:56am Dean: ^Capitol
	11:56am Mister Dobalina: Gonna have to hit the record & play button on this one.
	11:57am paul: Nick Lowe has cited TEF as an early influence.
	11:58am Listener Robert: See, there's an occurrence of "D'ohhh!" long before Simpson.
	♥ 11:58am Pedro in Arlington: The Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA has a fine Tennessee Ernie display. And his birthplace is just a few blocks away in Tennessee.
	11:59am Ross T.: I love this record too.
	♥ 11:59am Dominick: ya think?
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tennessee makes me think of Junior Brown. & I like that very much.
	♥ 11:59am Frank In Queens: It feels like we live on Xmas Planet these days, so I'm completely fine with having a 2 hour block on a Saturday morning not inundating me with something Xmas themed.
	11:59am Listener Robert: I remember in the 1980s WFMU's being a place to get AWAY from Christmas music on the radio.
	11:59am paul: I was sure you'd play one of those two Xmas songs Nick Lowe released last week.
	12:00pm clarke: i am pro-anti-xmas!
	♥ 12:00pm Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 12:01pm Frank In Queens: Goddamn Larry Graham....
	12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Segregate Xmas & XmasFree. & flag them.
	12:01pm Peter Horvath: Great show, Michael. Greetings from Highland Park, the home of the Band-Aid AND Station Manager Ken!
	12:02pm clarke: i am thinking that sly was one of the first to mic the hi-hats separately? DD chime in?
	12:02pm Mister Dobalina: Tik Tok...hahahah.
	♥ 12:02pm Montmaster J: Hey now!
	♥ 12:02pm DjLorraine: Gen Z for zoomers
	12:02pm johnk77: larry graham on the bass:>
	♥ 12:02pm JohnEBGood: Love the Sly tune. Sandanista!!!
	12:03pm Moammar: Cronkite. I laughed out loud.
	12:03pm Mister Dobalina: I gotta go check my MySpace page...brb.
	12:03pm phat: Never noticed the snare on that Sly track before. It's kind of unusual for the time. But that kind of thing got big in R&B in the 90s.
	♥ 12:03pm Dominick: @Frank in Queens - That's Sly on bass on "If YOu Want Me to Stay"
	♥ 12:03pm TDK60: Hi DJ daughter!
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was way into AntiXmas songs - but it was becoming - a Tradition...
	♥ 12:03pm Handy Haversack: 100 percent agree, Frank. Christmas just feels hostile to me. But I am not Christian, I don't like stuff, and I was raised too poor to find Christmas anything but alienating.
	♥ 12:03pm Frank In Queens: @Dominick, really! Had no idea!
	12:03pm clarke: oh, ok. GenZ
	12:03pm johnk77: i stand corrected
	12:03pm BillD: Hey Mike, will you ever fill in for Wake again?;You were a natural and really good.
	12:03pm zivilars: The Radio Time Machine link in the show's liner notes is very nice – just discovered it, thanks for the hint, Michael!
	12:04pm Mike + Lilah: Cronkite. That’s so great. I think we had Chet Huntley or something like that too. Gen Z is lame. Just two iterations past X. It’s unoriginal
	♥ 12:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm feeling better and better about my planned Christmas show!
	12:04pm Christina Low: The Quitters were AMAZING live. I saw them so many times growing up.
	♥ 12:04pm DjLorraine: I was unaware there was news on tik tok. I always learn something on WMFU
	♥ 12:04pm JohnEBGood: Sandanista released 40 years ago today.
	12:04pm phat: I don't do Christmas. But I absolutely love 40s, 50s, 60s Christmas country, R&B, and Rock n Roll Christmas tunes.
	12:04pm clarke: thnx Jupe!!
	12:04pm zivilars: (The link probably is there for weeks or even months, but didn't discover it until now)
	♥ 12:04pm McGroovey: When I lived in Rochester, I went to see the Quitters whenever they played, which was like once a month. They were fantastic.
	12:05pm paul: After GenZ, they move on to the Greek alphabet, like with hurricanes.
	12:05pm Christina Low: @McGroovey, we probably crossed paths many times...
	♥ 12:05pm Michael Shelley: BillD - would love to!
	12:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hamza El Din made definitive oud Nile music.
	12:05pm clarke: and the people who know who conkrite was are like "what's tik tok?"
	12:06pm TCJimmy: Quitters are #1
	♥ 12:06pm Dominick: @paul - hexadecimal
	♥ 12:06pm Frank In Queens: I'm not anti-Xmas per se. But it's getting to be re-goddamn-diculous that the so-called season starts earlier and earlier every year and with Xmas themed content coming at you from every possible angle. And don't get me started about the stupid fucking "war on Xmas"....
	12:07pm paul: @Dominick, that's over my head.
	♥ 12:07pm JohnEBGood: Washington Bullets!!
	12:07pm clarke: what frank said.
	♥ 12:08pm Frank In Queens: Like I said earlier, "Xmas Planet"
	12:08pm Cooh John: Hello, DjLorraine. Had to bail before the interview was over yesterday.
	♥ 12:08pm Uncle Michael: A lot of covers if this seem to be covers of the Who's cover.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good as TheWho's version - presuming that's the model.
	♥ 12:09pm DjLorraine: I replayed the archive as promised
	12:09pm Mister Dobalina: You know what is also from Sweden? Fish eggs in a tube & all other sorts of food in a tube. Like a toothpaste tube I mean.
	♥ 12:09pm Frank In Queens: Tages version swings way more than The Who version.
	♥ 12:09pm McGroovey: One of the Quitters player later in another Rochester band you play sometimes, but it's slipping my band which band. Drummer Rob played drums in about half the bands in Rochester. He played bass for the Priests--also a great band (Bill Kelly used to play the Priests a bit). Rob is a fixture at the Bop Shop, the second best record store in Rochester.
	♥ 12:10pm Frank In Queens: McGroovey, The Fox Sisters?
	12:10pm paul: The Monkey Speaks His Mind.
	12:10pm Mister Dobalina: That's why my friend, Torbjorn said.
	12:10pm DG: Didn't know this song (Leaving Here) until I heard the Who's version on one of those odds & sods collections (maybe "Who's Missing" ?)....the original (by Eddie Holland himself) is good too.
	♥ 12:10pm Dominick: More baboon, less xmas
	♥ 12:10pm McGroovey: @Frank yes, that's the one.
	12:11pm johnk77: wikipedia has rustee allen as bass player on the sly track also of note andy newmark on drums and jerry martini on sax
	♥ 12:12pm Listener Baby: Can you believe I missed Jupe?.. wtf?..
	12:12pm clarke: mike shell. EEEEEEEE
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ProtoGarage. Way Kewl. 50s Punk.
	12:13pm Royal Rusty: Come on baaby you know you're driving me craazy I guess I've been a foool for you
	12:15pm clarke: toussaint wrote it
	♥ 12:15pm Dominick: Very "sugar Shack" bass happening here
	12:15pm Dean: This reminds to listen again to Mariano & the Unbelievables. Wish I had their "Whiter Shade of Pale."
	12:16pm clarke: orleanians pronounce it: two-SAINT
	♥ 12:16pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Shelleys & Ruth & gang!
	12:16pm Glenn J: "Ya Ya" written by Lee Dorsey & Bobby Robinson
	12:16pm paul: I think Chip Douglas played that when he hosted his first party and didn't invite Ernie.
	♥ 12:17pm DjLorraine: If anyone finds a Walter Cronkite hologram we could possibly break the disinformation spell
	12:17pm clarke: i have been corrected
	♥ 12:18pm DjLorraine: I could use an Uncle Charlie
	12:18pm clarke: funny tho, i have seen toussaint 'cover' La La live, before - assumed he wrote it
	♥ 12:19pm Jimmy Wipper: One of my favorite episodes of Freaks and Greeks.
	♥ 12:20pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Greg from ZONE 5!
	12:20pm Bob Nolan: How in the world did you grow up in the 80's and not see at least one laser show?
	12:20pm clarke: Walter Conkrite Laser Show
	12:20pm Moammar: This one owes a debt to "Rollers Show" by Nick Lowe.
	12:21pm paul: LOL @DjLorraine.
	♥ 12:21pm Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Handy!
	12:21pm Christina Low: Fittingly for theme, there used to be a laser Christmas show projected onto the gorge walls at the High Falls water fall back in Rochester. We used to go out and stand in the freezing cold ever December. It was then, at the young age of 9, that I realized how meh ‘Wonderul Christmas time’ is.
	♥ 12:21pm Frank In Queens: Drive back on the LIE until the Vanderbilt Planetarium started having laser shows too.
	12:22pm paul: Kim Fowley wrote Ya-Ya.
	♥ 12:23pm Michael Shelley: Ilike wCT
	12:24pm clarke: in a perfect world, Miss Low, The Chesterfield Kings would have been playing at the Falls
	12:25pm paul: Merseybeats. :)
	♥ 12:25pm Frank In Queens: WCT is over-played, just like every other Xmas song, but there's nothing wrong with it.
	12:25pm Mister Dobalina: Check out M. Shelley's MySpace page.
	♥ 12:26pm Dominick: Ray is a peach!
	12:27pm Dennis Diken: @clarke re Sly hi hat: dunno? Mikey, thanks for shout out
	12:29pm Christina Low: @clarke in the early 90’s of my youth, that would have been worth it!
	12:30pm dk50b: Caught Laser Floyd at the long shuttered McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto during my college years. So that's checked off the list.
	12:31pm clarke: there's this part in Sly's Stand where the drums just JUMP out - hi-hat is like louder (the bridge?)
	♥ 12:31pm Michael Shelley: Interesting - every cover of WCT Ive heard doesnt quite work
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HBD Rob Tyner : m.facebook.com...
	♥ 12:31pm Mike Sin: Re: WCT Quality aside, McCartney's most "bang for the buck" record. Basically smokes a joint, heads downstairs, hops on the synth and creates the track. No other musicians to pay, no co-songwriting, no real studio time... goes platinum... prints money every year.
	12:32pm clarke: buys back the catalogue from Michael
	♥ 12:33pm Uncle Michael: not impaired, enhanced
	12:33pm Dean: Julie of Dark Night proclaims WCT the worst Christmas song ever.
	♥ 12:33pm Michael Shelley: MIKE - 100% right
	♥ 12:33pm Jimmy Wipper: It IS a real II!
	12:34pm johnk77: live rock bands had laser shows in the 70s another great show today by selecter
	12:34pm Christina Low: Reflecting on it, as a child, I really didn’t like the synth sounds on WTC. Also, I was at the laser show completely unimpaired, as I was 9 when we started going. I enjoy them for what they are, but I like shiny things.
	12:34pm phat: I love WCT. I was sober when I saw a Rush lazer show. I can't imagine seeing it loaded. The one time I saw the actual band Rush jacked up on something was... intense.
	12:34pm clarke: i try to not confused over-played with bad. but, i don't know WCT is pretty fucking annoying.
	12:34pm paul: Koko Taylor channeling David Johansen.
	♥ 12:35pm Micheal: WCT would be much better if Koko Taylor sang it at a laser show.
	12:35pm disgraceddavefromtoronto: they had laser shows at the planetarium in toronto back in the day. laser zeppelin and floyd were the most popular and yes i was under the influence of the dreaded lysergic. i remember staring at the lighted exit sign and thinking it was part of the show.
	♥ 12:35pm ike p: greetings michael, skeleton crew, and awesome listners! i loved going to lazer shows sober just for the sound quality, which i realize might be like reading playboy just for the articles but there you have it :)
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Haha!
	12:36pm clarke: - to confuse
	12:36pm paul: Oh, That was Willie Dixon.
	12:36pm John in Long Branch: I went to the St Louis science center Laser Floyd in 94ish. We pre-partied inside an old volvo in the parking lot and I mostly remember playing in the hands-on children's science section and not the show much.
	♥ 12:38pm DjLorraine: In WCT the lyrics: We're here, “and that's enough“ sounds more reasonable each progressing year.
	12:39pm phat: @DjLorraine yes
	♥ 12:40pm Handy Haversack: The laser show in Atlanta was projected on the side of Stone Mountain, the largest exposed outcrop of granite in the world. Unfortunately, it has Confederate "heroes" carved in ~60' reliefs on the face where the lasers are projected. At the climax, they are animated (to Lee Greenwood, natch) and symbolically break their swords and ride off ... but it's not very convincing. A fraught but one tended to go at least once a year.
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WCT - makeweight Macca @ best.
	♥ 12:40pm spodiodi: jiji jerky boys
	♥ 12:41pm Corey: Didn't think it was for me, but listened to it recently and have to cast a vote in favor of WCT. Those Beatles promo xmas songs are also winners in my book. Catchy and short enough that they don't overstay their welcome.
	12:43pm dano59: Nothing wrong with WCT
	12:43pm clarke: yes, there is.
	12:43pm dk50b: Sorry but WCT is from McCartney's treacly side, does nothing for me as a non celebrant. But it's understandable because only Jews can write Christmas songs that have mass appeal. Rudolph's writer Johnny Marx, for example, drew on his childhood bullying to create the tale of underdog triumph. As to Laser Floyd, I enjoyed it despite being unimpaired. maplewood.kanopy.com...
	♥ 12:44pm Montmaster J: Malkmus...yeah...maybe we should have been guards.;). Was he known as "spiral staircase' at that time? I can't remember.
	12:44pm Mister Dobalina: I met Johnny Brennan & he gave me his autograph! Silverman, baby!
	12:44pm Ross T.: Laser Macca?
	12:45pm clarke: Spiral Staircase is NOT steve - it is another member of Pavement
	12:46pm paul: Mass appeal. I get it.
	12:46pm Rick A.: This is a great, rocking tune. I first heard it on one of Trouble's marathon premiums and it resonated.
	♥ 12:47pm Montmaster J: @clarke: Maybe that's why he never talked to me.:)
	12:48pm Moammar: Bongo madness!
	12:49pm Rick A.: Scott Kannberg is Spiral Stairs. He started a band called Preston School of Industry. The production on that Breakaways song is nonpareil.
	12:49pm clarke: Spiral was Scott Kannberg (sp?) and he has put out a few great solo LP's
	12:49pm paul: Those boys sure can sing, Mr. Darling.
	12:51pm dk50b: The song that makes cringe most is Bruce's rendition of Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. I'm lukewarm on Bruce, love Christmastime, but for some reason hearing that song in a store reinforces the commercial excess about to flood us, and Bruce's slightly sung narration is horrific.
	♥ 12:51pm jake6573: Purchased A Willie Dixon box set at the Last WFMU record show. Best thing I own.
	12:51pm clarke: The Real Feel and Doris & The Daggers are both winner albums - very bowie'esque
	♥ 12:52pm Dominick: must get dooly wah
	♥ 12:52pm Jason from Houston: Good food song also...
	♥ 12:52pm myron feld: Wild Jimmy Spruill playing the greatest solo ever. I just came in, so if you announced that already I apologize.
	12:52pm clarke: i kinda think Them's version of Baby Please Don't Go might be the best solo ever.
	12:52pm Dean: Did that Dick Van Dyke write that song?
	12:52pm Ross T.: Fave Xmas tune -- "Christmas in Jail."
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McCartney is Thee Melodic Genius - but the Gemini needs an Editor. Just no getting around Lennon & McCartney were perfect mutual foils : Lennon brought gravitas @ Paulie accessibility.
	♥ 12:53pm Kotzwinkled: Late to this, but Cactus Blossoms do a sublime cover of Charlie Rich's "Life Has It's Little Ups and Downs". I heard it live and it made me pull the trigger on proposing to my girlfriend.
	♥ 12:54pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Won’t speak of WCT, beneath notice, but I went to a laser planetarium show in the 70s with Pink Floyd etc. and someone was screaming and yelling throughout. When the lights came up, it was a special needs kid. I guess he enjoyed it and it certainly made it more interesting. I thought there were going to be 3d floating images so I was a little disappointed.
	♥ 12:54pm myron feld: @Ross T.: absolutely.
	♥ 12:54pm Montmaster J: Hopefully the Mets will sign this generation's Kevin McReynolds....George Springer!
	12:54pm Dean: I'm more inclined to believe my own solo, pace Eddie Van Halen, on a spontaneous track my buddies and I recorded, "Crabmeat Baltimore" (lyrics straight from the cookbook), surpasses that Pyramids solo.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Fave Xmas is 4'33''.
	12:54pm Dennis Diken: That was a great guitar solo but I’m for Zally on Lovin’ Spoonful’s “My Gal”
	12:55pm Moammar: @Montmaster J: If we do, Steven Cohen will have to spring for a suitable trash can.
	12:55pm DG: McCartney fan here but sorry, WCT is annoying, and Mike Sin is probably right about how he created it (another reason I didn't like M2---too much screwing around w/synths & not enough real songs). I don't mind "experimental" McCartney (I liked "Electric Arguments") if some effort went into it, hope the new album isn't like #2....and yes, he isn't always the best judge of his own material (same w/Springsteen), Dylan, etc.).
	12:55pm dano59: Another take on WCT’s true meaning: https://mobile.twitter.com/theryangeorge/status/1204821475800363008
	♥ 12:56pm JohnEBGood: Thumbs down on the solo 🎵
	12:56pm Moammar: Speaking of the Mets, we have apparently signed McCann in the course of this show. Unsure if the wonders of freeform radio helped lure him.
	♥ 12:57pm Montmaster J: @moammar....Hah! He can afford it but hopefully no cheating in Queens!
	12:57pm Moammar: McCann > McCartney
	12:57pm Listener Bop Monroe: time for a late lunch. another great show Mr. MS. until next week be safe all.
	♥ 12:58pm jake6573: did he say they were uncles of or father of Kevin, just asking ?
	♥ 12:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley! thanks Ruth & Crew!
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: splendid show Mikey!
	♥ 12:58pm Corey: Thanks Michael and skeletons for bringing us the past two hours of radio! Take care all.
	♥ 12:58pm Handy Haversack: Dang, that went so fast! Thanks, Michael, Ruth! Be well, all.
	12:58pm Listener Bop Monroe: sebastion bacon!
	♥ 12:59pm Frank In Queens: Proper modulation...
	12:59pm clarke: GAIN STRUCK-CHAAAAAHHHHH
	♥ 12:59pm Montmaster J: Thanks Michael!
	♥ 1:00pm JohnEBGood: I love you Michael. Thank you and the crew!
	1:00pm Ross T.: Thank you sir.
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: Great show Mike! Cheers all!
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: "Rock Out"? I'll be there!
	♥ 1:01pm theia: thx

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