WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from January 18, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Charlie!!
	♥ 3:00pm Webhamster Henry: C H A R L I E !
	♥ 3:01pm Erica: I can't see my username
	♥ 3:01pm chresti: Hi Charlie and busy do-nothings!
	♥ 3:01pm Charlie: Oh look: people are here!
	♥ 3:01pm Erica: This "Charlie" is filling in for Larry Grogan I see
	♥ 3:01pm spodiodi: greetings, Charlie! good to hear you
	♥ 3:02pm Sem: This is great, having nothing to do and being able to do it w/ Charlie.
	♥ 3:02pm Michael 98145: Whoa. I'm usually busy doing nothing.
	♥ 3:02pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @3:01 Better get busy!
	♥ 3:02pm Charlie: Hi James, Henry, Chresti, spodiodi, Sem, Erica! (I can see your username)
	♥ 3:03pm Charlie: Greetings, Michael 98145! Shall I call you Michael, or 98145?
	3:03pm Ryan H: Hi Charlie! Great to hear you again!
	♥ 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Charlie and listeners busy not testifying!
	♥ 3:05pm Erica: ↳ Charlie @3:02 Hi Charlie. I don't like the black backgrounds on my phone. They make it hard to read what I type.
	♥ 3:05pm Charlie: Hi Ryan, and Yvang.
	♥ 3:06pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @3:03 hey, bub works
	♥ 3:07pm Brian in UK: Hello Charlie, long time no sea.
	♥ 3:08pm Michael 98145: haven't heard Bob Dorough in a very long time
	♥ 3:08pm Charlie: Hello Brian, good to see you:)
	♥ 3:08pm Jeff Moore: Hey Charlie!
	♥ 3:09pm chresti: My eyes like black backgrounds.
	♥ 3:09pm Charlie: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:11pm doctorjazz: Hello Charlie and Busybodies!
	♥ 3:12pm Charlie: Hiya doctorjazz!
	♥ 3:12pm Charlie: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:08 Love me some Bob Dorough:)
	♥ 3:13pm Michael 98145: enjoying what i'm hearing
	♥ 3:13pm Wenzo: diggin' this!
	♥ 3:13pm Charlie: If anyone has comments about my levels, let me know! This is my first show after re-setting up my studio, thanks!
	♥ 3:14pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Two on the Stage" by "Akiko Yano" Ooh I like this one.
	♥ 3:14pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Erica @3:05 Hi Erica i check your phone's accessibility features. both iOS and Android can fiddle with color and contrast, type size and more!
	♥ 3:15pm Charlie: Thank goodness there's a bona fide webhamster here!
	3:16pm Listener Robert: I'm here on the endorsement of someone on Pseu Braun's comments, saying it would be hard to pick between your show and Scott Williams. So far I understand why, thanks.
	3:16pm still b/p: ↳ Charlie @3:13 Music level sounds good here. Some Drummer shows giz me the bass distortion in computer speakers -- never sure if it's speaker inability or overdriven at source -- but not now. Distortion devils are busy doing nothing.
	♥ 3:17pm listener james from westwood: Levels sound fine over here!
	♥ 3:18pm northguineahills: finally I'm not doing nothing while charlie's busy doing nothing!
	♥ 3:18pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @3:13 could be a bit higher ...
	♥ 3:18pm Webhamster Henry: There were a few Riuchi Sakamoto programs on yesterday. (his birthday)
	♥ 3:18pm Charlie: Hi Robert, thanks for tuning in! Pseu and Scott are two of the best!
	3:19pm jan: Hi Charlie- Great to hear ya! Sounds good on Sonos through amp, and I did adjust the levels from the regular Sonos WFMU. I had debated, hear you live or archived- hard to choose between you and Scott- but there was a track played on Scott that sent me to you. I catch the canned show later and dig you live!
	♥ 3:20pm chresti: On the levels good on a little bluetooth speaker
	♥ 3:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Niki" by "Third Wave" More 🌻 power!
	♥ 3:20pm Charlie: Hi NGH and Jan!
	♥ 3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:18 only cuz David's show was higher
	♥ 3:21pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:18 Mr Akiko Yano;)
	♥ 3:21pm Webhamster Henry: We'll also see if the mic levels are significantly different from the music.
	♥ 3:22pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:21 I'd appreciate that!
	3:22pm Listening Out There: Good t’hear Chollie…
	♥ 3:23pm Charlie: Hello, Out There! Glad you could make it;)
	♥ 3:23pm Doug Schulkind: Busy Doing %^#&!
	♥ 3:24pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Listener Robert @3:16 C'etait moi.
	♥ 3:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... 🎶 It's Us Again! 🎶
	♥ 3:27pm Erica: I feel like I'm in Hollywood
	♥ 3:27pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... In my ongoing musical education from cartoons, I first heard "Something Big" in the old, old Simpsons ep where Bart and Lisa try to get Krusty back in his dad's good graces.
	♥ 3:27pm Charlie: Hey Doug!
	3:27pm Fred R: Greetings Charlie and all! Sounding good
	♥ 3:29pm Jeff Moore: ↳ jan @3:19 Also, a note for those on the fence who are sonically concerned: for audio-chain reasons the Mothership archives are routinely technically excellent, while Drummer archives often sound a little bit like ass; so if there are two competing shows you definitely want to listen to both of, that's a nudge to listen to the Drummer one live.
	♥ 3:29pm βrian: Well, Charlie! I had no idea. Good to hear you.
	♥ 3:29pm Erica: Echo echo
	♥ 3:30pm chresti: Good to start something and not make a big deal about it.
	♥ 3:30pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 i usually find myself here, anyway
	♥ 3:31pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:30 It's a good neighborhood.
	3:31pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): ¡ B. D. N. ! = “appreciation guaranteed !!!”
	♥ 3:33pm unpopularfred: hey Charlie, busy doing something for money, but listening all the same. Enjoying as always
	♥ 3:33pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:31 indeed
	♥ 3:35pm Charlie: hey Fred, βrian, Erik, unpopularfred!
	♥ 3:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 The streams don't get no respect.. or high bitrate mp3s.
	♥ 3:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:35 the rodney dangerfields of wfmu
	♥ 3:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: CHARLIE!!!
	♥ 3:38pm Charlie: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:27 I learned the classics from old Warner Bros cartoons! And many songs of the great American songbook:)
	♥ 3:38pm Charlie: Wendy!!!
	♥ 3:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:38 Same. Or the Bonzo Dog Band.
	♥ 3:41pm chresti: A neighbor just hung a bag containing 3 avocados on the back door!
	♥ 3:41pm waters7: thanks, Charlie. Long time, no hear. Had to thank you for this song. (also Steve and Eddie)
	♥ 3:42pm Charlie: hi waters7:)
	♥ 3:42pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Me and Magdalena" by "The Monkees" Somehow I've never heard this song before, and it's particularly lovely.
	♥ 3:43pm Michael 98145: ↳ chresti @3:41 i need better neighbors
	♥ 3:43pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @3:41 My new neighbor on one side has a grapefruit tree and gives me bags full! And the neighbor on the other side has an orange tree, ditto:)
	♥ 3:43pm Sem: ^ as Wendy says.
	♥ 3:43pm waters7: It's too good. Or sooo good.
	3:44pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... I swear I've seen a better quality clip of this, but in any case this is a must-see. LONG backstage walk 'n sing with team of Steve Allen and guests doing this song. Great vintage TV and showbiz flavor, and a curious/fascinating performance in practical/technical terms. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 3:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:43 Me too. I'm on the rural mail route, and my neighbors won't clear the snow from the boxes (at the edge of their driveway), so I can't get my mail. That reminds me... I gotta call the post office.
	♥ 3:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 Is that because of the mp3 vs AAC option on the Mothership? (I usually listen to archives in the office, from an old iPad into a small B&W Zeppelin Mini, usually its a Drummer Stream Archive, haven't figured out getting archives on my home stereo streamer. Haven't noticed the big difference in Drummer Stream Archives, but, then again, the live stream is also 128 mp3)).
	3:45pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): … or ‘Harper’s Bizarre’ … heh heh. (& other audio & visual artists that wisely chose to cover the greats - Hoagy Carmichael ?!?) 😀
	♥ 3:46pm Michael 98145: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:45 i'm usually the only one sidewalk shoveling
	3:47pm still b/p: ↳ still b/p @3:44 To be watched LATER, not now, or else you get three rotten avocados (and three stench hens!) hung on your door.
	♥ 3:48pm Sem: At this tempo, up and up and away seems labourious at best.
	♥ 3:49pm Charlie: ↳ still b/p @3:44 I've seen that clip before and it's amazing! Thanks for sharing it. Eveyone should go watch it later. It's a masterpiece of some kind. Kinda like the tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil. Or sumpin.
	♥ 3:49pm chresti: ↳ still b/p @3:47 Thank goodness the neighbor doesn't hang any hens on the door!
	♥ 3:51pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @3:49 That's one. long. shot!
	♥ 3:51pm Erica: I wanna be freeee
	♥ 3:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Not me! My body can't handle that kinda mishegas these days. I currently have a Cabin Boy shoveling snow for me. Not that we've had much until this week...
	3:53pm still b/p: ↳ chresti @3:51 Everyone in it is GOOD at pulling it off. They had to rehearse it -- how many times? -- but then it was in, ostensibly, a live show!
	♥ 3:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "What Will I Do" by "People Like Us" ealier vicki!
	♥ 3:55pm Discotech Underground: So, what's everybody doing in here, besides nothing?
	♥ 3:56pm Sem: Reading Beingness and Nothingness.
	3:56pm still b/p: ↳ Discotech Underground @3:55 This Must Be The Start of Something Begged Off.
	♥ 3:57pm Erica: Keeping warm and enjoying the music.
	♥ 3:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ Discotech Underground @3:55 cleaning the french press
	♥ 3:57pm Webhamster Henry: You may be busy doing nothing, but I have nothing to say and I am saying it.
	♥ 3:58pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Erica @3:57 Sounds like a great plan!
	♥ 3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:53 I've historically been the snow removal service at Chez Doctorjazz. But, my back has been freaking out (not in a good way) the past few weeks, digging up substitutes...
	♥ 3:59pm chresti: Touch of Evil is one of the rare movies where Charlton Heston is OK.
	♥ 4:00pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "All I Want" by "The Supremes" The name you are looking for is Jean Terrell.
	♥ 4:00pm Michael 98145: ↳ chresti @3:59 he did not turn out well
	♥ 4:03pm Jeff Moore: Did you say "Noirchestra?"
	♥ 4:03pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "I'd Rather Have the Blues (Alison Lewis, vocal)" ... Yes you did.
	♥ 4:09pm Charlie: I gave up shoveling to spend half the year baking like a lizard on a rock.
	♥ 4:12pm Jeff Moore: Since you mentioned Yma Sumac... now I'm reminded to wonder if you've played songs by the band Bombay Ricky (with those amazing vocals, I think by the remarkable and very busy Kamala Sankaram)
	♥ 4:12pm βrian: I just shoveled 2 feet of snow off my car roof. It was just the wrong look.
	♥ 4:12pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:12 No, I don't know them! I'll look 'em up, thanks.
	♥ 4:14pm Charlie: ↳ βrian @4:12 Well, you can't drive around with two feet of snow on your car roof!
	4:14pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): Angel 👼 Olsen has indeed been delivered to us from a higher plane … I’m utterly taken away by ALL aspects !
	♥ 4:15pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @4:12 Oh good! I expect they'll be up your alley, but I look forward to hearing your reaction either way.
	♥ 4:16pm Charlie: ↳ Erik-O-Vert (VT) @4:14 I agree, Erik! She seems to be always growing and changing too.
	♥ 4:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "All the Things You Do" by "Jane Weaver" Casiotic percussion!
	♥ 4:21pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "It Could Be Sweet" by "Portishead" This whole album. All killer, no filler.
	♥ 4:22pm Charlie: ↳ listener james from westwood @4:21 Agreed! Still sounds so fresh.
	♥ 4:22pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:15 How come in the U.S. we say "up your alley," but in England they say "up your street"?
	♥ 4:25pm waters7: You're killing me, Charlie (with kindness)
	♥ 4:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" love her voice
	♥ 4:25pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" This is something I could see Larry playing! He loves his obscure cover versions.
	♥ 4:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" It makes that someone is singing a Gordon Lightfoot song, since he famously sang ever song ever written. ;-) youtu.be...
	♥ 4:26pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @4:09 excellent choice
	♥ 4:27pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" I like the arrangement on this.
	♥ 4:27pm Charlie: Hi Kip! Yup, I could see Larry playing this too.
	♥ 4:27pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:26 So every song is a Gordon Lightfoot cover then?!
	♥ 4:29pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Charlie @4:27 He comes up with some doozies. Probably the weirdest was Dinah Shore's version of The Guess Who's "Undun!" It actually exists!
	♥ 4:31pm Michael 98145: great show today
	♥ 4:35pm Discotech Underground: Like the man says, don't touch that dial and stay tuned for Discotech Underground coming up next! Here is a link to the playlist and chat for the show. wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "I Couldn't Say It to Your Face" by "Arthur Russell" Always lots of hearts for Arthur Russell. <3 <3 <3
	♥ 4:38pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:37 Agreed! And you gave me this album:)
	♥ 4:38pm Michael 98145: yup
	♥ 4:39pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @4:38 Oh right! My, what good taste we have.
	♥ 4:40pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Charlie, dug the show (as usual)!
	♥ 4:40pm Charlie: This song was written by Elvis Costello, but I don't think he ever recorded it himself.
	♥ 4:40pm StringOFperils: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:39 Ha ha ha
	♥ 4:41pm Charlie: Ute Lemper will be performing at Carnegie Hall, Feb 9: www.carnegiehall.org...
	♥ 4:42pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself" by "Ute Lemper" only know her interpreting Kurt Weil
	♥ 4:43pm Charlie: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:42 This is from her album of contemporary songwriters. Some of it is wonderful!
	♥ 4:44pm Michael 98145: guess i should look for this! www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:45pm Sem: Love doing nothing with Charlie. Sweet, sweet spins, sir. Better than nothing.Thank you.
	♥ 4:45pm Michael 98145: actually got to see her at the Kennedy Center some years ago
	♥ 4:47pm StringOFperils: I have the Berlin Cabaret Songs album she released w the Matrix Ensemble, in German. It's excellent. Well-delivered because it's well-understood. And she has unlimited chops
	♥ 4:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Take It With Me" by "Tom Waits" And you gave me THIS album, Charlie. Again: my, what good taste we have.
	♥ 4:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take It With Me" by "Tom Waits" Sounds much like Early Waits...
	♥ 4:48pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:47 The Drummer stream is just brimming with good taste, innit?
	♥ 4:48pm StringOFperils: ↳ doctorjazz @4:47 Grapefruit Moon
	4:48pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): Re Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself by Ute Lemper (Punishing Kiss) type vibes : if y’all are into this kinda cover sentiments … try the preferred Dutch singer MATHILDE SANTING (beginning to earlier half of career is best! 1982-1999). Some very worthy albums.
	♥ 4:49pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @4:48 'tis! That was a frequent topic of conversation for some of us at the holiday party a few weeks ago.
	♥ 4:49pm Charlie: ↳ Erik-O-Vert (VT) @4:48 Thanks for the tip, Erik
	♥ 4:50pm Charlie: I love how I can hear the pedals on the piano on this Tom Waits number
	♥ 4:51pm Webhamster Henry: Well, this show is going by fast!
	4:52pm Ryan H: That transition tho
	♥ 4:52pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @4:22 Maybe because Brits realize that "up your alley" sounds a little too much like "up your bunghole"? Which, not intrinsically bad, but a different discussion.
	♥ 4:53pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:52 Good point!
	♥ 4:53pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @4:51 Quickest two hours I've ever spent!
	♥ 4:53pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:52 😎
	4:54pm Listener Robert: It's been worthwhile, judging by the number of times I've come here to see what that was I just heard, thanks.
	♥ 4:55pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	♥ 4:55pm Charlie: ↳ Listener Robert @4:54 😊
	♥ 4:55pm Charlie: Thanks everyone for doing nothing with me today! Stay tuned for Discotech Underground!
	4:56pm Ryan H: Thanks, Charlie! Another great show!
	♥ 4:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Yay! Thank you, Charlie! xo p.s. There's something that should arrive in the mail tomorrow from me.
	♥ 4:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Charlie! always enjoy your shows
	♥ 4:58pm Jeff Moore: Thanks as always, Charlie! This flew by.
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: ↳ spodiodi @4:57 Sets a high bar. Thanks Charlie.
	♥ 4:58pm radioronan: Had to hop over from Scott's show to hear your show Charlie.Always such a treat thanks so much and come back soon!
	♥ 4:58pm Discotech Underground: Thanks, Charlie! Fun show today! Stay tuned for ME! NEXT! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:59pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:58 👍
	♥ 5:00pm Erica: Relaxing show tonight Charlie.
	♥ 5:00pm Erica: Bye
	♥ 5:00pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Charlie, and already looking forward to your next fill-in!

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from January 18, 2024

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January 18, 2024: Busy, and other four-letter words

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Molly Lewis	Lounge Lizard "Lounge Lizard" by "Molly Lewis"	On the Lips	Jagjaguwar	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bob Dorough	It Could Happen to You	Devil May Care	Bethlehem	0:03:33 (Pop-up)
Sima Bina	Naz Kardanet Vaveyla "Naz Kardanet Vaveyla" by "Sima Bina"	Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych of The 60s and 70s (various artists)	Finders Keepers	0:06:25 (Pop-up)
Jorge Ben	O Plebeu "O Plebeu" by "Jorge Ben"	África Brasil	PolyGram	0:09:26 (Pop-up)
Akiko Yano	Two on the Stage "Two on the Stage" by "Akiko Yano"	To Ki Me Ki	Philips Japan; We Want Sounds	0:12:42 (Pop-up)
Third Wave	Niki "Niki" by "Third Wave"	Trip on Me: Soft Psych and Sunshine, 1966-1969 (various artists)	Big Beat	0:17:04 (Pop-up)
Archie Bell & The Drells	Glad You Could Make It	Hard Not to Like It	Philadelphia International	0:21:01 (Pop-up)
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé	This Could Be the Start of Something Big	The Songs of Steve Allen (various artists)	Varèse Sarabande	0:24:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:26:58 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwick	Up, Up and Away "Up, Up and Away" by "Dionne Warwick"	Valley of the Dolls	Scepter	0:32:01 (Pop-up)
Arlo Parks	Impurities "Impurities" by "Arlo Parks"	My Soft Machine	Transgressive	0:34:33 (Pop-up)
The Monkees	Me and Magdalena "Me and Magdalena" by "The Monkees"	Good Times!	Rhino	0:38:16 (Pop-up)
The Supremes	All I Want "All I Want" by "The Supremes"	The Supremes (Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb)	Motown	0:41:42 (Pop-up)
Oranj Symphonette	Up, Up and Away	The Oranj Album	Rykodisc	0:45:18 (Pop-up)
People Like Us	What Will I Do "What Will I Do" by "People Like Us"	Welcome Abroad	Illegal Art	0:49:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Las Comadrejas	Oaxacatelas "Oaxacatelas" by "Las Comadrejas"	We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music	Comad	0:53:44 (Pop-up)
Hollywood Film Noirchestra	I'd Rather Have the Blues (Alison Lewis, vocal)	Dark Passages	Killer Kern	1:01:17 (Pop-up)
Angel Olsen	Go Home "Go Home" by "Angel Olsen"	Big Time	Jagjaguwar	1:05:38 (Pop-up)
Donovan	Celeste "Celeste" by "Donovan"	Sunshine Superman	Epic	1:10:40 (Pop-up)
Jane Weaver	All the Things You Do	Flock	Fire	1:14:50 (Pop-up)
Portishead	It Could Be Sweet "It Could Be Sweet" by "Portishead"	Dummy	Go! Discs/London	1:19:09 (Pop-up)
Jeannie C. Riley	If You Could Read My Mind	Jeannie	Plantation	1:23:03 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	Stuff Like That There	Matador	1:26:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Raymond Scott	Tempo Block "Tempo Block" by "Raymond Scott"	Soothing Sounds for Baby	Basta	1:29:36 (Pop-up)
Arthur Russell	I Couldn't Say It to Your Face	Love Is Overtaking Me	Audika	1:35:45 (Pop-up)
Ute Lemper	Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself	Punishing Kiss	Decca	1:38:14 (Pop-up)
Amber Arcades	You Could Never Let Me Down	Barefoot On Diamond Road	Fire	1:41:12 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Take It With Me "Take It With Me" by "Tom Waits"	Mule Variations	Anti-	1:44:58 (Pop-up)
Lamb	Feela "Feela" by "Lamb"	Lamb	Fontana	1:49:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Plas Johnson	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Plas Johnson"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	1:56:12 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Charlie!!
	♥ 3:00pm Webhamster Henry: C H A R L I E !
	♥ 3:01pm Erica: I can't see my username
	♥ 3:01pm chresti: Hi Charlie and busy do-nothings!
	♥ 3:01pm Charlie: Oh look: people are here!
	♥ 3:01pm Erica: This "Charlie" is filling in for Larry Grogan I see
	♥ 3:01pm spodiodi: greetings, Charlie! good to hear you
	♥ 3:02pm Sem: This is great, having nothing to do and being able to do it w/ Charlie.
	♥ 3:02pm Michael 98145: Whoa. I'm usually busy doing nothing.
	♥ 3:02pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @3:01 Better get busy!
	♥ 3:02pm Charlie: Hi James, Henry, Chresti, spodiodi, Sem, Erica! (I can see your username)
	♥ 3:03pm Charlie: Greetings, Michael 98145! Shall I call you Michael, or 98145?
	3:03pm Ryan H: Hi Charlie! Great to hear you again!
	♥ 3:04pm Yvang: Hi Charlie and listeners busy not testifying!
	♥ 3:05pm Erica: ↳ Charlie @3:02 Hi Charlie. I don't like the black backgrounds on my phone. They make it hard to read what I type.
	♥ 3:05pm Charlie: Hi Ryan, and Yvang.
	♥ 3:06pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @3:03 hey, bub works
	♥ 3:07pm Brian in UK: Hello Charlie, long time no sea.
	♥ 3:08pm Michael 98145: haven't heard Bob Dorough in a very long time
	♥ 3:08pm Charlie: Hello Brian, good to see you:)
	♥ 3:08pm Jeff Moore: Hey Charlie!
	♥ 3:09pm chresti: My eyes like black backgrounds.
	♥ 3:09pm Charlie: Hey Jeff!
	♥ 3:11pm doctorjazz: Hello Charlie and Busybodies!
	♥ 3:12pm Charlie: Hiya doctorjazz!
	♥ 3:12pm Charlie: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:08 Love me some Bob Dorough:)
	♥ 3:13pm Michael 98145: enjoying what i'm hearing
	♥ 3:13pm Wenzo: diggin' this!
	♥ 3:13pm Charlie: If anyone has comments about my levels, let me know! This is my first show after re-setting up my studio, thanks!
	♥ 3:14pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Two on the Stage" by "Akiko Yano" Ooh I like this one.
	♥ 3:14pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Erica @3:05 Hi Erica i check your phone's accessibility features. both iOS and Android can fiddle with color and contrast, type size and more!
	♥ 3:15pm Charlie: Thank goodness there's a bona fide webhamster here!
	3:16pm Listener Robert: I'm here on the endorsement of someone on Pseu Braun's comments, saying it would be hard to pick between your show and Scott Williams. So far I understand why, thanks.
	3:16pm still b/p: ↳ Charlie @3:13 Music level sounds good here. Some Drummer shows giz me the bass distortion in computer speakers -- never sure if it's speaker inability or overdriven at source -- but not now. Distortion devils are busy doing nothing.
	♥ 3:17pm listener james from westwood: Levels sound fine over here!
	♥ 3:18pm northguineahills: finally I'm not doing nothing while charlie's busy doing nothing!
	♥ 3:18pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @3:13 could be a bit higher ...
	♥ 3:18pm Webhamster Henry: There were a few Riuchi Sakamoto programs on yesterday. (his birthday)
	♥ 3:18pm Charlie: Hi Robert, thanks for tuning in! Pseu and Scott are two of the best!
	3:19pm jan: Hi Charlie- Great to hear ya! Sounds good on Sonos through amp, and I did adjust the levels from the regular Sonos WFMU. I had debated, hear you live or archived- hard to choose between you and Scott- but there was a track played on Scott that sent me to you. I catch the canned show later and dig you live!
	♥ 3:20pm chresti: On the levels good on a little bluetooth speaker
	♥ 3:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Niki" by "Third Wave" More 🌻 power!
	♥ 3:20pm Charlie: Hi NGH and Jan!
	♥ 3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:18 only cuz David's show was higher
	♥ 3:21pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:18 Mr Akiko Yano;)
	♥ 3:21pm Webhamster Henry: We'll also see if the mic levels are significantly different from the music.
	♥ 3:22pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:21 I'd appreciate that!
	3:22pm Listening Out There: Good t’hear Chollie…
	♥ 3:23pm Charlie: Hello, Out There! Glad you could make it;)
	♥ 3:23pm Doug Schulkind: Busy Doing %^#&!
	♥ 3:24pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Listener Robert @3:16 C'etait moi.
	♥ 3:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... 🎶 It's Us Again! 🎶
	♥ 3:27pm Erica: I feel like I'm in Hollywood
	♥ 3:27pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... In my ongoing musical education from cartoons, I first heard "Something Big" in the old, old Simpsons ep where Bart and Lisa try to get Krusty back in his dad's good graces.
	♥ 3:27pm Charlie: Hey Doug!
	3:27pm Fred R: Greetings Charlie and all! Sounding good
	♥ 3:29pm Jeff Moore: ↳ jan @3:19 Also, a note for those on the fence who are sonically concerned: for audio-chain reasons the Mothership archives are routinely technically excellent, while Drummer archives often sound a little bit like ass; so if there are two competing shows you definitely want to listen to both of, that's a nudge to listen to the Drummer one live.
	♥ 3:29pm βrian: Well, Charlie! I had no idea. Good to hear you.
	♥ 3:29pm Erica: Echo echo
	♥ 3:30pm chresti: Good to start something and not make a big deal about it.
	♥ 3:30pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 i usually find myself here, anyway
	♥ 3:31pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:30 It's a good neighborhood.
	3:31pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): ¡ B. D. N. ! = “appreciation guaranteed !!!”
	♥ 3:33pm unpopularfred: hey Charlie, busy doing something for money, but listening all the same. Enjoying as always
	♥ 3:33pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:31 indeed
	♥ 3:35pm Charlie: hey Fred, βrian, Erik, unpopularfred!
	♥ 3:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 The streams don't get no respect.. or high bitrate mp3s.
	♥ 3:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Webhamster Henry @3:35 the rodney dangerfields of wfmu
	♥ 3:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: CHARLIE!!!
	♥ 3:38pm Charlie: ↳ listener james from westwood @3:27 I learned the classics from old Warner Bros cartoons! And many songs of the great American songbook:)
	♥ 3:38pm Charlie: Wendy!!!
	♥ 3:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:38 Same. Or the Bonzo Dog Band.
	♥ 3:41pm chresti: A neighbor just hung a bag containing 3 avocados on the back door!
	♥ 3:41pm waters7: thanks, Charlie. Long time, no hear. Had to thank you for this song. (also Steve and Eddie)
	♥ 3:42pm Charlie: hi waters7:)
	♥ 3:42pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Me and Magdalena" by "The Monkees" Somehow I've never heard this song before, and it's particularly lovely.
	♥ 3:43pm Michael 98145: ↳ chresti @3:41 i need better neighbors
	♥ 3:43pm Charlie: ↳ chresti @3:41 My new neighbor on one side has a grapefruit tree and gives me bags full! And the neighbor on the other side has an orange tree, ditto:)
	♥ 3:43pm Sem: ^ as Wendy says.
	♥ 3:43pm waters7: It's too good. Or sooo good.
	3:44pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" by "Ste... I swear I've seen a better quality clip of this, but in any case this is a must-see. LONG backstage walk 'n sing with team of Steve Allen and guests doing this song. Great vintage TV and showbiz flavor, and a curious/fascinating performance in practical/technical terms. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 3:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:43 Me too. I'm on the rural mail route, and my neighbors won't clear the snow from the boxes (at the edge of their driveway), so I can't get my mail. That reminds me... I gotta call the post office.
	♥ 3:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Jeff Moore @3:29 Is that because of the mp3 vs AAC option on the Mothership? (I usually listen to archives in the office, from an old iPad into a small B&W Zeppelin Mini, usually its a Drummer Stream Archive, haven't figured out getting archives on my home stereo streamer. Haven't noticed the big difference in Drummer Stream Archives, but, then again, the live stream is also 128 mp3)).
	3:45pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): … or ‘Harper’s Bizarre’ … heh heh. (& other audio & visual artists that wisely chose to cover the greats - Hoagy Carmichael ?!?) 😀
	♥ 3:46pm Michael 98145: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:45 i'm usually the only one sidewalk shoveling
	3:47pm still b/p: ↳ still b/p @3:44 To be watched LATER, not now, or else you get three rotten avocados (and three stench hens!) hung on your door.
	♥ 3:48pm Sem: At this tempo, up and up and away seems labourious at best.
	♥ 3:49pm Charlie: ↳ still b/p @3:44 I've seen that clip before and it's amazing! Thanks for sharing it. Eveyone should go watch it later. It's a masterpiece of some kind. Kinda like the tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil. Or sumpin.
	♥ 3:49pm chresti: ↳ still b/p @3:47 Thank goodness the neighbor doesn't hang any hens on the door!
	♥ 3:51pm chresti: ↳ Charlie @3:49 That's one. long. shot!
	♥ 3:51pm Erica: I wanna be freeee
	♥ 3:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Not me! My body can't handle that kinda mishegas these days. I currently have a Cabin Boy shoveling snow for me. Not that we've had much until this week...
	3:53pm still b/p: ↳ chresti @3:51 Everyone in it is GOOD at pulling it off. They had to rehearse it -- how many times? -- but then it was in, ostensibly, a live show!
	♥ 3:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "What Will I Do" by "People Like Us" ealier vicki!
	♥ 3:55pm Discotech Underground: So, what's everybody doing in here, besides nothing?
	♥ 3:56pm Sem: Reading Beingness and Nothingness.
	3:56pm still b/p: ↳ Discotech Underground @3:55 This Must Be The Start of Something Begged Off.
	♥ 3:57pm Erica: Keeping warm and enjoying the music.
	♥ 3:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ Discotech Underground @3:55 cleaning the french press
	♥ 3:57pm Webhamster Henry: You may be busy doing nothing, but I have nothing to say and I am saying it.
	♥ 3:58pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Erica @3:57 Sounds like a great plan!
	♥ 3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:53 I've historically been the snow removal service at Chez Doctorjazz. But, my back has been freaking out (not in a good way) the past few weeks, digging up substitutes...
	♥ 3:59pm chresti: Touch of Evil is one of the rare movies where Charlton Heston is OK.
	♥ 4:00pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "All I Want" by "The Supremes" The name you are looking for is Jean Terrell.
	♥ 4:00pm Michael 98145: ↳ chresti @3:59 he did not turn out well
	♥ 4:03pm Jeff Moore: Did you say "Noirchestra?"
	♥ 4:03pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "I'd Rather Have the Blues (Alison Lewis, vocal)" ... Yes you did.
	♥ 4:09pm Charlie: I gave up shoveling to spend half the year baking like a lizard on a rock.
	♥ 4:12pm Jeff Moore: Since you mentioned Yma Sumac... now I'm reminded to wonder if you've played songs by the band Bombay Ricky (with those amazing vocals, I think by the remarkable and very busy Kamala Sankaram)
	♥ 4:12pm βrian: I just shoveled 2 feet of snow off my car roof. It was just the wrong look.
	♥ 4:12pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:12 No, I don't know them! I'll look 'em up, thanks.
	♥ 4:14pm Charlie: ↳ βrian @4:12 Well, you can't drive around with two feet of snow on your car roof!
	4:14pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): Angel 👼 Olsen has indeed been delivered to us from a higher plane … I’m utterly taken away by ALL aspects !
	♥ 4:15pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @4:12 Oh good! I expect they'll be up your alley, but I look forward to hearing your reaction either way.
	♥ 4:16pm Charlie: ↳ Erik-O-Vert (VT) @4:14 I agree, Erik! She seems to be always growing and changing too.
	♥ 4:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "All the Things You Do" by "Jane Weaver" Casiotic percussion!
	♥ 4:21pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "It Could Be Sweet" by "Portishead" This whole album. All killer, no filler.
	♥ 4:22pm Charlie: ↳ listener james from westwood @4:21 Agreed! Still sounds so fresh.
	♥ 4:22pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:15 How come in the U.S. we say "up your alley," but in England they say "up your street"?
	♥ 4:25pm waters7: You're killing me, Charlie (with kindness)
	♥ 4:25pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" love her voice
	♥ 4:25pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" This is something I could see Larry playing! He loves his obscure cover versions.
	♥ 4:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" It makes that someone is singing a Gordon Lightfoot song, since he famously sang ever song ever written. ;-) youtu.be...
	♥ 4:26pm Michael 98145: ↳ Charlie @4:09 excellent choice
	♥ 4:27pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "If You Could Read My Mind" by "Jeannie C. Riley" I like the arrangement on this.
	♥ 4:27pm Charlie: Hi Kip! Yup, I could see Larry playing this too.
	♥ 4:27pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:26 So every song is a Gordon Lightfoot cover then?!
	♥ 4:29pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Charlie @4:27 He comes up with some doozies. Probably the weirdest was Dinah Shore's version of The Guess Who's "Undun!" It actually exists!
	♥ 4:31pm Michael 98145: great show today
	♥ 4:35pm Discotech Underground: Like the man says, don't touch that dial and stay tuned for Discotech Underground coming up next! Here is a link to the playlist and chat for the show. wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "I Couldn't Say It to Your Face" by "Arthur Russell" Always lots of hearts for Arthur Russell. <3 <3 <3
	♥ 4:38pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:37 Agreed! And you gave me this album:)
	♥ 4:38pm Michael 98145: yup
	♥ 4:39pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @4:38 Oh right! My, what good taste we have.
	♥ 4:40pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Charlie, dug the show (as usual)!
	♥ 4:40pm Charlie: This song was written by Elvis Costello, but I don't think he ever recorded it himself.
	♥ 4:40pm StringOFperils: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:39 Ha ha ha
	♥ 4:41pm Charlie: Ute Lemper will be performing at Carnegie Hall, Feb 9: www.carnegiehall.org...
	♥ 4:42pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself" by "Ute Lemper" only know her interpreting Kurt Weil
	♥ 4:43pm Charlie: ↳ Michael 98145 @4:42 This is from her album of contemporary songwriters. Some of it is wonderful!
	♥ 4:44pm Michael 98145: guess i should look for this! www.discogs.com...
	♥ 4:45pm Sem: Love doing nothing with Charlie. Sweet, sweet spins, sir. Better than nothing.Thank you.
	♥ 4:45pm Michael 98145: actually got to see her at the Kennedy Center some years ago
	♥ 4:47pm StringOFperils: I have the Berlin Cabaret Songs album she released w the Matrix Ensemble, in German. It's excellent. Well-delivered because it's well-understood. And she has unlimited chops
	♥ 4:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Take It With Me" by "Tom Waits" And you gave me THIS album, Charlie. Again: my, what good taste we have.
	♥ 4:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Take It With Me" by "Tom Waits" Sounds much like Early Waits...
	♥ 4:48pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:47 The Drummer stream is just brimming with good taste, innit?
	♥ 4:48pm StringOFperils: ↳ doctorjazz @4:47 Grapefruit Moon
	4:48pm Erik-O-Vert (VT): Re Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself by Ute Lemper (Punishing Kiss) type vibes : if y’all are into this kinda cover sentiments … try the preferred Dutch singer MATHILDE SANTING (beginning to earlier half of career is best! 1982-1999). Some very worthy albums.
	♥ 4:49pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @4:48 'tis! That was a frequent topic of conversation for some of us at the holiday party a few weeks ago.
	♥ 4:49pm Charlie: ↳ Erik-O-Vert (VT) @4:48 Thanks for the tip, Erik
	♥ 4:50pm Charlie: I love how I can hear the pedals on the piano on this Tom Waits number
	♥ 4:51pm Webhamster Henry: Well, this show is going by fast!
	4:52pm Ryan H: That transition tho
	♥ 4:52pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Charlie @4:22 Maybe because Brits realize that "up your alley" sounds a little too much like "up your bunghole"? Which, not intrinsically bad, but a different discussion.
	♥ 4:53pm Charlie: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:52 Good point!
	♥ 4:53pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @4:51 Quickest two hours I've ever spent!
	♥ 4:53pm Michael 98145: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:52 😎
	4:54pm Listener Robert: It's been worthwhile, judging by the number of times I've come here to see what that was I just heard, thanks.
	♥ 4:55pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	♥ 4:55pm Charlie: ↳ Listener Robert @4:54 😊
	♥ 4:55pm Charlie: Thanks everyone for doing nothing with me today! Stay tuned for Discotech Underground!
	4:56pm Ryan H: Thanks, Charlie! Another great show!
	♥ 4:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Yay! Thank you, Charlie! xo p.s. There's something that should arrive in the mail tomorrow from me.
	♥ 4:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Charlie! always enjoy your shows
	♥ 4:58pm Jeff Moore: Thanks as always, Charlie! This flew by.
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: ↳ spodiodi @4:57 Sets a high bar. Thanks Charlie.
	♥ 4:58pm radioronan: Had to hop over from Scott's show to hear your show Charlie.Always such a treat thanks so much and come back soon!
	♥ 4:58pm Discotech Underground: Thanks, Charlie! Fun show today! Stay tuned for ME! NEXT! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:59pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:58 👍
	♥ 5:00pm Erica: Relaxing show tonight Charlie.
	♥ 5:00pm Erica: Bye
	♥ 5:00pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Charlie, and already looking forward to your next fill-in!

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