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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Rose Royce  Sunrise   Favoriting Car Wash Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  MCA  1976  LP  Music composed by Norman Whitfield    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bill Withers  Naked and Warm (Heaven! Oh! Heaven!)   Favoriting Naked and Warm  Reel Music/Sony  2010  CD  From 1976    0:12:45 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  I Love Every Little Thing About You   Favoriting Music of My Mind  Tamla  1972  LP      0:18:22 (Pop-up)
Syreeta  I Love Every Little Thing About You   Favoriting Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973  Light in the Attic  2011  CD  From 1973    0:22:03 (Pop-up)
The Three Degrees  There's So Much Love All Around Me   Favoriting Mama's Got a Bag of Her Own  Stateside/EMI  2006  CD  From 1971    0:27:01 (Pop-up)
 
Kool and Together  Sittin' on a Red Hot Stove   Favoriting Kool and Together  Heavy Light  2011  CD  From 1973  *   0:34:38 (Pop-up)
Mike and the Censations  Split Personality   Favoriting Don't Sell Your Soul  Ubiquity  2011  CD  From 1969  *   0:39:08 (Pop-up)
Joe Bataan  Subway Joe   Favoriting Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Sound of Latin New York  Strut  2011  CD    *   0:41:21 (Pop-up)
Red Saunders with Dolores Hawkins and the Hambone Kids  Hambone   Favoriting The Roots of Hip Hop  Harte Recordings  2008  CD  From 1952    0:44:08 (Pop-up)
Chris Darlin  A Casual Look   Favoriting The Doré Story: Postcards From Los Angeles 1958-1964  Ace  2011  CD  From 1960  *   0:46:48 (Pop-up)
Question Mark  Mary Anne   Favoriting Be Nice to the People  Normal  2011  CD  From 1974  *   0:49:26 (Pop-up)
Avery Sunshine  I Got Sunshine   Favoriting Norman Jay Presents Good Times 30  Strut  2011  CD    *   0:52:11 (Pop-up)
 
The Allies  Disposed Dictator   Favoriting East Bay Punks - From the Streets of Berkeley - The Saucers & The Allies  Rave Up Records  2011  LP  From 1981  *   1:06:42 (Pop-up)
The Disco Zombies  Mary Millington   Favoriting Drums Over London  Acute  2011  LP  From 1980; download it from the Free Music Archive  *   1:09:03 (Pop-up)
The Embarrassment  Patio Set   Favoriting   Big Time  1980  MP3  Download it from the Free Music Archive    1:13:32 (Pop-up)
Fetchin Bones  So Brilliant   Favoriting Cabin Flounder  DB Recs  1985  LP      1:16:20 (Pop-up)
The Lighthouse Keepers  Seven Years   Favoriting Ode to Nothing: The Best of the Lighthouse Keepers  Feel Presents Pty  2011  CD  From 1985  *   1:19:24 (Pop-up)
 
The Greg Kihn Band  Roadrunner   Favoriting   Beserkley  1976  45      1:26:40 (Pop-up)
The Undertones  Smarter Than U   Favoriting   Sire  1979  45      1:29:13 (Pop-up)
The Jam  Town Called Malice   Favoriting   Polydor  1982  45      1:31:14 (Pop-up)
Clarence Reid  I'm Gonna Tear You a New Heart   Favoriting   Alston  1969  45      1:34:08 (Pop-up)
Tyrannosaurus Rex  Is It Love   Favoriting   Blue Thumb  1970  45      1:36:59 (Pop-up)
The Cryan' Shames  Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith & Jones   Favoriting   Columbia  1968  45      1:39:32 (Pop-up)
Sheila Hylton  The Bed's Too Big Without You   Favoriting   Mango  1980  45      1:41:50 (Pop-up)
Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation  Do You Think I'm Disco?   Favoriting   Ovation  1979  45      1:45:36 (Pop-up)
Vicki Sue Robinson  Turn the Beat Around   Favoriting   RCA  1976  45      1:49:08 (Pop-up)
 
The Undertones  Smarter Than U   Favoriting   Sire  1979  45  at 33 r.p.m. by popular demand    2:00:03 (Pop-up)
The Undertones  Smarter Than U   Favoriting   Sire  1979  45  at 78 r.p.m. by even more popular demand    2:02:16 (Pop-up)
The Undertones  Smarter Than U   Favoriting   Sire  1979  45  backwards! because no one demanded it    2:05:16 (Pop-up)
 
The Pentangle  Poison   Favoriting The Time Has Come 1967-1973  Castle  2007  CD  From 1968    2:16:24 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  Wish My Baby Was Here   Favoriting Nicola  Sanctuary/Castle  2002  CD  From 1967    2:18:36 (Pop-up)
The Pentangle  In Time   Favoriting Sweet Child  Reprise  1968  LP      2:19:55 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  Tree Song   Favoriting Birthday Blues  Sanctuary/Castle  2001  CD  From 1969    2:25:02 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  One for Jo   Favoriting Santa Barbara Honeymoon  Drag City  2009  CD  bonus live track circa 1975    2:27:34 (Pop-up)
The Pentangle  I Saw an Angel   Favoriting   Reprise  1969  45      2:30:59 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  Sylvie   Favoriting Rosemary Lane  Sanctuary/Castle  2001  CD  From 1971    2:35:07 (Pop-up)
The Pentangle  No Love Is Sorrow   Favoriting Solomon's Seal  Reprise  1972  LP      2:38:14 (Pop-up)
The Pentangle  When I Get Home   Favoriting Reflection  Reprise  1971  LP      2:41:02 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn  The Time Has Come   Favoriting Bert and John  Sanctuary/Castle  2001  CD  From 1966    2:45:57 (Pop-up)
 
Luiz Eça & Astor Silva e Seu Conjunto  Adios   Favoriting Sergio Mendes: Dance Moderno  él/Cherry Red  2011  CD  From 1961  *   2:52:51 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  12:25am
Lisa in Tampa:

Love you, Joe, and WFMU, and Bill Withers!
  12:27am
Joe McG:

Thanks, Lisa in Tampa! What a nice way to start off my comments board tonight.
  12:35am
Lisa in Tampa:

I hope your other listeners are able to cough it up for you. The $$, I mean.
  12:41am
Julie:

Battery of songland? Did it always say that?
  12:42am
Joe McG:

@Lisa: I wouldn't mind! I'm supposed to get to 100 percent by the end of this month and I only have this week and next week to do it. Up to 75% would be cool.
  12:43am
david:

nice sounds, mr. mcg.
  12:44am
Julie:

Sitting on a red hot stove would hurt like hell. what are these people thinking?
  12:46am
Joe McG:

@Julie: Yeah, it's been the battery of songland for a while! Nice Kinks special the other night, BTW. @David: Thanks, man!
  12:47am
Julie:

Thank you! it was so much fun, and really hard to whittle down to three hours. I could do a month of shows on them.
  12:52am
Joe McG:

Yeah, they've got so much great stuff. You really covered a lot of bases.
  12:59am
david:

whoa, the bass modulated 1/2 step up for part of "Mary Anne"
  1:01am
Joe McG:

And the drums fell apart near the end!
  1:13am
Matt from Springfield:

Hey there Joe!
What's all this about sittin' on a red hot stove? :)
  1:15am
Joe McG:

It seems to be the "hot" topic tonight!
  1:16am
Matt from Springfield:

Also, didn't realize Norman Whitfield wrote the "Car Wash" soundtrack. Did he write all the songs?
  1:20am
Joe McG:

@Matt: Yeah, he wrote the whole thing. Well, except for the Richard Pryor dialogue.
  1:21am
Matt from Springfield:

Well, obviously THAT part was Paul Mooney ;)
  1:24am
Joe McG:

Obviously, ha ha!
  1:27am
david:

brilliant stuff- that patio set almost approached post-punk at the end there.
  1:29am
Joe B:

Just tuned in but I keep hearing strange abstract Athens Georgia undertones in several songs. Anyone know that the dB's are touring and their new song at thedbs.com ?
  1:33am
Joe McG:

Cool! I saw Evan posted that on the ol' FB.
  1:36am
Matt from Springfield:

Gotta admit...that was the coolest thing I ever heard by the Greg Kihn Band!
  1:36am
Matt from Springfield:

Awwww, what was wrong with that 33??! :D
  1:38am
Joe McG:

Ha ha, Matt, I knew you'd want me to stick with it. But it's the Undertones! It's got to be fast.
  1:38am
david:

+1 MFS - now I want it at 33 in addition to 45 :)
  1:39am
Joe McG:

OK, I promise I'll play it at 33 after the set! I'm a people pleaser.
  1:39am
Matt from Springfield:

It's OK Joe, I'll hold you to it on account of "Single File" -- things should be either 45 or 7" there. But david has a point 'bout playing it later! :)
  1:40am
Matt from Springfield:

And "Town Called Malice"! Love The Jam, but have I talked before about them lifting the keyboard and rhythm from The Rascals "Good Lovin"?
  1:41am
Matt from Springfield:

And if you're still there Julie, The Jam even played something that sounded JUST LIKE "David Watts"!! :)
  1:41am
Joe McG:

@Matt: Yes, "Town Called Malice" is a clear Motown lift from "You Can't Hurry Love." With bedsit lyrics.
  1:43am
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, you're right about "You Can't Hurry Love"--have to make an instro version later and compare them.

Clarence does a great scream there!
  1:45am
12539:

What about those of us who want to hear the Undertones at 78?
  1:46am
Joe McG:

OK, 12539: Ask and ye shall receive...
  1:51am
Matt from Springfield:

Nice reggae.
"The bed's too big" and "the frying pan's too wide"...
  1:52am
Joe McG:

I think it's interesting to hear a real reggae singer do the Police's "white reggae."
  1:53am
Matt from Springfield:

Yeah! Disco novelty! I always think of Zappa's "Dancin' Fool" on that subject. Or, Kermit the Frog's "Disco Frog"...Cookie Monster's "Me Left Me Cookie At The Disco"...
  1:54am
Joe McG:

I have that Zappa 45! Didn't think of it. Maybe a future set!
  1:56am
Matt from Springfield:

Promising! Try to mix it in with real disco, just like now!
  1:57am
Joe McG:

Steve Dahl deserves it! This is a great record!
  2:06am
Matt from Springfield:

Thank yous much, Joe!
That intro, makes you think this IS the proper speed!
  2:06am
Brian in UK:

Mornin' Joe & everyone. If your're playing the Undertones it takes a positve touch!!
  2:06am
Joe McG:

@Brian: Well done! :)
  2:08am
Colm:

Hey Joe, Mickey Bradley (the Undertones) has a punk rock show on radio Ulster you should check it out
  2:08am
12539:

"But it's the Undertones! It's got to be fast."
  2:09am
Mary Wing:

Now play it BACKWARDS!
  2:09am
Matt from Springfield:

Crazy! Like when I've doubled the speed on something twice! :D
Thanks for the suggestion david!
  2:12am
Joe McG:

Linger Lumps! Linger Lumps!
  2:12am
Matt from Springfield:

Thanks for that idea Mary! Introducing the world to classic three-chord Danish punk!
"Lenge Raumst! Lenge Raumst!"
  2:15am
Julie:

@Matt I've played the Jam's David Watts :)
  2:19am
Julie:

Singles!
  2:21am
Matt from Springfield:

@Julie Oh, I know! I likewise enjoyed your Kinksfest!

Actually The Jam version was a nice tribute to the orig--I brought that up because we were talking about The Jam ripping off 60s songs for "Town Called Malice".
  2:21am
Julie:

you have a Tyrannosaurus Rex 45?? I'm so jealous.
  2:22am
Julie:

it is very true to the original
  2:26am
Brian in UK:

Listening to Bert & watching the Malaysian bike GP. Lazy start to the day. Drinking tea.
  2:30am
Matt from Springfield:

@Brian: What a nice, lazy, UK start to a Sunday!
What blend of tea?
  2:32am
Brian in UK:

Ceylon. Good 'n strong.
  2:35am
Matt from Springfield:

Lovely!
(inhales imaginary, steaming whiff of a hot cuppa Ceylon)
  2:39am
Brian in UK:

They serve it with warm milk over in Sri Lanka. Could take to be there now, Matt.
  2:42am
Brian in UK:

Willy O Winsbury?
  2:42am
Matt from Springfield:

Don't have bags of Ceylon with me--when it gets cold out I'll have to order some that way at a cafe, get transported to Sri Lanka.

I enjoyed fruit flavored and very green teas last year in Thailand--that and mangosteen fruit is a quick simple way of transporting me back there.
  2:46am
Brian in UK:

The only down side is the milk tastes like powdered not fresh, no surprise really.
  2:46am
Matt from Springfield:

Gorgeous "No Love Is Sorrow"!
  2:48am
Matt from Springfield:

I've noticed that milk (and coffee) is often powdered in the more touristy spots of South Asia. I suppose the working classes also drink them like that at home.
  2:52am
Brian in UK:

Have you seen the state of the cows over there?
  2:56am
Matt from Springfield:

True, Brian, true.
The largest they have are water buffalo, and they work them very hard!
  2:58am
Matt from Springfield:

Awesome Single File! And nice Bert tribute!
Thanks Joe and good night! Brian! Julie! Anyone else listening!
  2:58am
Brian in UK:

Byeeee
  2:59am
Joe McG:

Thanks for listening, everyone!
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