Joe Frank radio dramas aired on WFMU for many years. A new feature-length bio-pic, "Somewhere Out There," directed by DP Carlson, screens at the Anthology Film Archives in New York on Weds Feb. 20. That afternoon from 3–6pm (Eastern), Carlson visits WFMU to talk about Joe on Irwin's program. Classic clips from Joe's dramas will be featured. The film will also screen at WFMU's Monty Hall on Sunday March 10 during our fundraising festival. "Somewhere Out There" features interviews with Joe's friends, actors, engineers and close associates, revealing his art, creative process, and personal life.
July 18, 2001: Brute Force (Stephen Friedland) visits the show (with co-hostess Dawn Eden)
Irwin welcomes inexplicable phenom Stephen Friedland, a.k.a. Brute Force. Brute's 1968 John Simon-produced album, Confections of Love, was a strange mixture of cabaret-rock, outsider humor, and mystifying pop songcraft. A songwriter who began his career in New York during the Brill Building era, his tunes by have been recorded by such well-known artists as The Chiffons, The Cyrkle, Del Shannon, and The Creation. He recorded one controversial 45 rpm single for Apple Records, which is listed in the censored song database of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. Brute, who performs comedy, acts, and teaches yoga, was born in Jersey City, and lives in New York. He snorkels and once swam halfway across the Bering Strait. Tune in to hear the guy who wrote the songs "Tapeworm of Love" and "To Sit on a Sandwich," and find out why.
Artist
Track
Album
Samm Bennett
Koko's Hypnotism / Cartoon Factory
New Music for Koko the Clown
Stop Children
Another Brick in the Wall
The Singing Dictionary
Plone
The Greek Alphabet
For Beginner Piano
Noonday Underground
London
Self-Assembly
Wagon Christ
It is Always Now, All of It is Now
Musipal
B(if)tek
Machines Work
20/20
Blake Babies
Disappear
God Bless the Blake Babies
The Platters
Bark, Battle & Ball
Encores
Vert
The Precious Meanwhile
Nine Types of Ambiguity
The Former Yugoslavia
Last Caress (Misfits)
The Singing Dictionary
Lake
Moonshadow
listener submission
Pram
The Mermaids' Hotel
The Owl Service
Jane Siberry
Writers are a Funny Breed
Jane Siberry
Foetus
Cirrhosis of the Heart
Flow
Chicago Underground Quartet
A Re-Occuring Dream
Chicago Underground Quartet
Buffalo Springfield
Down to the Wire
The Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Brute Force
In Jim's Garage
Confections of Love
Pimp Daddy Supreme
All-Star
The Singing Dictionary
The Swords/Project
The New Assassin
The Swords/Project
Mott the Hoople
Rabbit Foot and Toby Time/Half Moon Bay
Mott the Hoople
BRUTE FORCE (STEPHEN FRIEDLAND)
VISITS THE WFMU STUDIO
with Dawn Eden co-hostess
Brute Force
interview seg 1 (including the Doggie Surrender Pose)
Chiffons
Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me) [comp. Brute Force]
Laurie 45 (1965)
Brute Force
To Sit On A Sandwich
Confections of Love
Brute Force
interview seg 2
The Cyrkle
Why Can't You Give Me What I Want (comp. Brute Force)
Red Rubber Ball
Brute Force
Adam and Evening
Warner Bros. single (1968)
Brute Force
interview seg 3
Brute Force
No Olympian Heights
Confections of Love
Brute Force
interview seg 4
Brute Force
The Fuh King (excerpt)
Apple Records 45
Brute Force
interview seg 5
Brute Force
Franchise Guy
unreleased track
The Creation
For All That I Am (comp. Brute Force)
single prod. by Shel Talmy
Brute Force
I Find This Annoying
unreleased track from Confections of Love
Brute Force
interview seg 6
Brute Force
The Purpose of a Circus
Warner Bros. single (B-side of "Adam and Evening")
Brute Force
Pledge Allegiance to the Planet
Brute's Force 2
Brute Force
Dwayne of the Upper Regions
Extemporaneous
Brute Force
interview seg 7
Brute Force
Tapeworm of Love
Confections of Love
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Sun. 6/18/17 8:08am
Irwin:
Playlist compiled June 18, 2017.
Irwin Chusid:
Playlist
from July 18, 2001
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