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Saturday, August 9, 2008
WFMU 50th Anniversary Radio Greats Weekend
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Terry Folger (TKF)
It’s true, WFMU is officially middle-aged. And to celebrate, many djs of yore return to the airwaves this weekend.
This week on TSP we join the party by suspending (for the most part) our usual ‘world music’ quasi-format and letting all hell break loose.
Joining in studio are indie artist manager extraordinaire (Manage This!) and former FMU dj / Program / Music Director David Newgarden + musician / composer and former FMU dj Matthew Ostrowski + Tom Crowe, the first DJ to go on the air at WFMU’s current studios in Jersey City. We remember other great ex-DJs with archival excerpts.
Also: we hear a couple of songs from a classic 1992 WFMU remote broadcast, the Ex and the late Tom Cora from the old NYC Knitting Factory. (The Ex soon re-enter our orbit as part of a star-studded WFMU/Lincoln Center collaborative multi-national multi-artist free concert at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors on Wednesday August 20.)
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WANTED: Obama Songs in multi-culti styles for our pre-election show!
We are putting together as many world music and / or non-English Obama songs as possible for the last show before the election on Saturday, November 1 and for a special one hour program during WFMU's special election day webstream on election day, November 4.
If you have suggestions for songs to play or want to offer your own creation, original song or mash-up please email your host Rob Weisberg via this g-mail address: r.l.weisberg AT gmail DOT com.
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This Week's Playlist:
MIA: Bamboo Banga / Kala / Interscope
Shoukichi Kina: Haisai Ojisan / Peppermint Tea House / Luaka Bop
S.E. Rogie: Toomus Meremereh Nor Good / Various Artists: Africa Dance / Original Music
Uncredited:
Hi Ho
/ Courlander's Almanac: Familiar Music in Strange Places
/ Smithsonian Folkways
Burmese song using the familiar melody. Produced by Harold Courlander in 1956 for Folkways Records.
Pawlo Humeniuk: I'm A Good Looking Cossack / Pawlo Humeniuk / Arhoolie
Mojmir Novakovic I Kries:
God Oh God
/ Ivo I Mara + Konjanik
(Konjanik means "Ghostrider".) Soundtrack to film by Croatian director Branko Ivanda.
Helmut Lachenmann:
Friere-Arie
/ Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern
/ ECM
The Little Match Girl
BMB Con: Amsterdam / Staalplaat
Dick Raaijmakers:
No: Track 6 / Beijing
Tereza Kesovija: Postao Si Navika / Kronolgija / Croatia Records
Paska: Bohemian Rhapsody / Women Are From Venus, Men From Anus / Riemu
Blazin' Spear: Wozani / Various Artists: Silvertab Harambe Dope Sessions / African Dope
Henry Mancini: The Floating Pad / Mr. Lucky (Soundtrack) / RCA
Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman: But It's Alright / Double Barrelled Soul / Atlantic
Aretha Frankln: Sweet Lover / Aretha / Columbia
Esquivel: Malaguena / The Genius of Esquivel / RCA Victor
Rosemary Clooney:
I Only Have Eyes For You
/ A Touch of Tabasco
/ RCA Victor
With Perez Prado
The Immigrant:
WFMU Aircheck
With John Kruth and Diana Kruth, July, 1986
Fred Frith:
WFMU Aircheck
Song is by the group Duck and Cover
The Ex and Tom Cora:
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WFMU Live Broadcast from the (old) Knitting Factory NYC April 16, 1992
The Ex and Tom Cora:
WFMU Live Broadcast from the (old) Knitting Factory NYC April 16, 1992
Montego Joe:
WFMU Aircheck: Drum Lesson
Recorded in Ghana; broadcast on his WFMU show "Accent on Percussion" on August 10, 1987
TKF:
WFMU Aircheck
With Jad Fair and Mo Tucker and Hank and Kate, October 2, 1987
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