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from June 8, 2005
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The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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June 8, 2005: You can do a lot of things at the seaside...
| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Format | Comments | Year | ||
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Ragtime Dance No. 4
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The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives: World Premieres and First Editions | Koch Int'l | CD | James Sinclair cond. Orchestra New England | |||
| Chet Baker with Russ Freeman |
Love Nest
(Listen:
Real)
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Quartet | Pacific arts | CD | w/ Leroy Vinneger, bass; Shelly Manne, drums. | 1956 | ||
| Sonny Stitt |
Topsy
(Listen:
Real)
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Constellation | Cobblestone | LP | ||||
| Keely Smith |
It's Magic
(Listen:
Real)
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Swingin' Pretty | Capitol | LP | arr. Nelson Riddle | |||
| Willie Hutch |
Shake Rattle and Roll
(Listen:
Real)
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Concert in Blues | Motown | LP | 1976 | |||
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Do the Trashy Dog
(Listen:
Real)
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Will You Marry Me? | Safehouse | CD | with Lorette Velvette. | 1994 | ||
| Here's the only WFMU DJ whose surfboard was bitten in half by a rabid Asbury Park lifeguard: Bob Rixon. (Listen: Real) | ||||||||
| Gladhands |
House of Mirrors
(Listen:
Real)
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La Di Da | CD | 1997 | ||||
| Grassroots |
Ain't That Loving You Baby?
(Listen:
Real)
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Where Were You When I Needed You? | CD | Steve Barri & P.F. Sloan | ||||
| A-Lines |
Can't Explain
(Listen:
Real)
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You Can Touch | Sympathy for record | CD | Arthur Lee / Love song. | 2005 | ||
| Outrageous Cherry |
You're Not a Nice Girl
(Listen:
Real)
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Our Love Will Change The World | CD | 2005 | ||||
| Irene Olszewski Orchestra |
When I'm Down Oberek
(Listen:
Real)
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Explosive Polkas | Leman's | LP | teen polka band | 1978 | ||
| Grass Roots |
Lollipop Train
(Listen:
Real)
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Where Were You When I Needed You? | CD | Clearly, P.F. Sloan considered this one of his important songs, evidence in his case that "folk-rock" was essentially about how west coast studio pros used Bob Dylan - in this song it was Uncle Bob's troubador misogyny, making Sloan a spiritual father of the Eagles. | 1966 | |||
| Barbara Manning & the Go-Luckys |
I Mean Nothing
(Listen:
Real)
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Minidisc | 2005 | |||||
| (Listen: Real) | ||||||||
| The Meters |
I Just Kissed My Baby
(Listen:
Real)
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Rejuvenanation | LP | 1974 | ||||
| Stanley Cowell |
El Space O
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Real)
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New Thing (compilation) | Soul Jazz | CD | Definitely not "New Thing," rather an unusual mid-70's side trip by Cowell into fusion / electronica. Still, the cut was new to me. | |||
| Carla Baker |
Hot Shot
(Listen:
Real)
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Mango | 12" |
Allen Toussaint playing studio auteur with a singer who doesn't even warrant a mention at AMG. Simultaneously behind & ahead of its time. |
1984 | |||
| Luke Vibert |
Gwithian
(Listen:
Real)
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Lover's Acid | Planet Mu | CD | Too choreographed for free form DJ make out sets. | 2005 | ||
| Yellow Magic Orchestra |
Multiples: Altern 8 Syncopated Mix
(Listen:
Real)
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High Tech / No Crime / YMO Reconstructed | Moonshine | CD | A favorite, forgotten 1993 album of YMO remixes. | |||
| Jack Costanza |
Salta Perico
(Listen:
Real)
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Liberty Presents Stereo - the Visual Sound | Liberty | LP | Originally from Bongo Fever | |||
| "Man falls off motel balcony." One may become famous by dying stupidly. (Listen: Real) | ||||||||
| Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney |
Kilter
(Listen:
Real)
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Time Changes | Cryptogramophone | CD | 2005 | |||
| Big Dipper |
Lou Gehrig's Disease
(Listen:
Real)
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None Whatsoever | Vacant Lot | LP | (compilation) | 1987 | ||
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Underwater's Where the Action Is
(Listen:
Real)
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Antique Glow | Jackpine Social Club | CD | 2003 | |||
| Joiner, Arkansas Jr. High School Band |
National City
(Listen:
Real)
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Original Hits Vol. 7 | Liberty | LP | ||||
| A "frightfully awful record." (Listen: Real) | ||||||||
| Buddy Morrow |
International Detective
(Listen:
Real)
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Double Impact | RCA | LP | Arr. by Ray Martin. It's awful. | 1960 | ||
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Hoodunit!
(Listen:
Real)
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The Sound of Sight | Phase Four | LP | Full Cover art by Mad Magazine's Jack Davis | |||
| Jimmy Giuffre 3 |
Off Center
(Listen:
Real)
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The Easy Way | Verve | CD | with Jim Hall & Ray Brown | 1959 | ||
| Peggy Lee |
When in Rome
(Listen:
Real)
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In the Name of love | Capitol | LP | ||||
| Candido with Al Cohn |
Perdido
(Listen:
Real)
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Candido | Verve | CD | 1956 | |||
| (Listen to your DJ: Real) | ||||||||
| Stanley Holloway |
You Can Do a Lot of Things at the Seaside
(Listen:
Real)
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'ere's 'olloway | Columbia | LP | ||||
| Sonny Cunha |
Hula Blues
(Listen:
Real)
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| Danny Marks Band |
Summertime Blues
(Listen:
Real)
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Surfin' Safari | Avalon | CD |
Album notable for use of classic guitars, on this cut a Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran's fav, backed by a Gibson J185 acoustic for "maximum Duane." |
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| Harry Owens & his Royal Hawaiians |
Hilo Hattie
(Listen:
Real)
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Columbia | 10" | |||||
| Sol K Bright & His Hollywaiians |
Heatwave
(Listen:
Real)
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Hawaii to Hollywood | Old Masters | CD | Dedicated to my left coast Hollywood friend, the Doowop Broad. | |||
| Squid Vicious Overdose |
Wade in the Water
(Listen:
Real)
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Surfin' Senoritas | Wildbeest | CD | compilation | |||
| Tornadoes |
Busted Board
(Listen:
Real)
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Suf & Drag Vol. 2 | CD | |||||
| Danny Marks Band |
Wouldn't It Be Nice
(Listen:
Real)
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Surfin' Safari | Avalon | CD | Fender Jaguar with Vibroverb | |||
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Espana
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Real)
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Piano Works Vol 3 | Naxos | CD | Georges Rabol & Sylvie Dugas, pianos | |||
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