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February 16, 2019: Coconut
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Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
Listener comments! | |
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![]() I'm racking Tempranillo whilst listening to Baby rock the world. Who's with me? This is so much better than whistling while you work. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:05am
twinoak170:
Good morning Michael, how are ya Harry! |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:05am
David in ATL from NJ:
Another gem of a marathon premium, Michael. | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:05am
Michael Shelley:
I'M HERE BABY! |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:08am
egould310:
An all covers show, Michael? Thrill me. :-) | |
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![]() Good morning Michael! |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:09am
paul:
Harry didn't write Without You. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:10am
Patster:
Badfinger wrote it, no? | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:11am
Michael Shelley:
100% right - and I knew that... |
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![]() Good morning Michael and fellow listeners! This version of If You Gotta Go is smokin. |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:12am
clarke:
ever get the feeling you've been cheated?!? | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:12am
paul:
MS, you said they were both from the pen of HN. That surprised me. That's all. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:13am
paul:
Patster, yes, Ham and Evans. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:15am
clarke:
ahhhh, life's rich pageants | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:17am
Hoboken Jack:
Hello Michael, Matt, all! Far be it for me to reveal details that haven't yet been publicly announced, but suffice to say I have purchased tickets. #nj |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:18am
clarke:
you int'd andy | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:19am
Michael Shelley:
JACK - no hinting allowed... what are you talking about? |
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![]() I can't hear even a faint trace of Henley here. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:20am
Michael Shelley:
Paul - I meant.... "songbook of... or like that |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:20am
clarke:
cryptic shit!!! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:21am
paul:
I dig. I knew you would know the writer. :) | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:26am
George in WO:
Wish I was on that Cactus Blossoms guest list. Ray has a beautiful studio there! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:28am
clarke:
i was expecting more from Green Book, too | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:29am
paul:
"Word Jazz" by Ken Nordine. Did those far-out Levi's commercials in the late 60s or early 70s. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:30am
clarke:
that's one film where you DON'T want to show a photo of the real person the film is about, at the end, because vito looks NOTHING like the dude!! semi-spoiler alert. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:32am
paul:
Ken Nordine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCJURLuzdw | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:32am
gene sculatti:
Michael, this Neighbors cut kills; first heard it on your show. Thanks! | |
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![]() Baby.. I thought we all agreed that you were to play this song every week?? |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:33am
clarke:
ever get the feeling you done been Baby'd?? | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:36am
Hoboken Jack:
Laura Cantrell's States of Country -- New Jersey, 2/27, Sid Gold's Request Room |
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![]() It's getting to the point where I can just about predict the Flintstone feet. I think I need a life. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:39am
Michael Shelley:
JACK- you do see a lot of shows... a man of taste |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:52am
clarke:
this brings to mind a subject for Banter: there are cover songs that are so radically a departure from the original that the artist could just write new lyrics over the music and call it their own. one that comes to mind is Van Morrison's take of Baby Blue by dylan | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 11:54am
dale:
i may have misheard you but i thought the kinks DID record it. marion mertz has a nice version too. |
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![]() You are correct Michael about the Kinks never doing it. Only a publishing demo that Ray did that was tacked on as a bonus track to Kinda Kinks CD |
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![]() Only know the demo version. This is nice. |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:56am
clarke:
you can't handle The Truth | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:57am
clarke:
i DO like the typo for the song title: I Got To Sleep - maybe i should write that one!! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 11:58am
scott:
guess NJ is a long from the border, so sorry to hear that the ever increasingly socialist NY won't get that Amazon HQ. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:00pm
clarke:
perfection!!! | |
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![]() Another one of those shows where you could favorite every song. |
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![]() lol @ Amazon |
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![]() we delivered backline for the Cactus Blossoms last week. Turns out they didn't need it...venue forgot to cancel it. Oops. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:14pm
clarke:
did you have to charge them?? | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:14pm
Cooh John:
Cactus Blossoms--album of the year if every song is as good as this one. | |
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![]() @clarke...gonna let that one go...venue was the client, and they're a good one. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:17pm
clarke:
good move!! ; ] | |
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![]() One of the best things about the CD era was being able to find singles like this on that great DIY series of American and British power pop. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:19pm
clarke:
ahhh the CD Era.... | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:21pm
clarke:
btw, PLENTY of power-pop from mississippi! for instance, Windbreakers, Bobby Sutliff, Neillson Hubbard, Neckbones, The High Tops, a few more... | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:25pm
battleaxe:
@Clarke...YES! Also plenty of nice people who's only sin was being born or employed there. Michael, please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:26pm
clarke:
... This Living Hand, The Usurpers, Hudson Bell, maybe more... | |
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![]() It's true, Clarke. It shouldn't be counterintuitive that Anglophile power poppers might hail from the South. I dig the Windbreakers a ton. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:27pm
clarke:
and all their off-shoots!! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:28pm
clarke:
let's not forget the pioneer of 'em all: The Gants!!! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:30pm
Nate K.:
"Picture My Face" is my absolute jam. | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:30pm
dale:
not enough frankie venom on this station. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:31pm
Nate K.:
"Yesterday I needed love, today I need some hate." Poetry. | |
![]() Teenage Head played here last night. I had my son and couldn't go but a friend said it was great. First album reissue coming RSD. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:33pm
clarke:
this is a really wild guess: but, for SOME reason i bet marc eric is in hawaii (if i end up being right, give me the rocktobah) | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:34pm
dale:
whose the singer geoff? frankie venom died 2 or 3 years ago. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:34pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:
Really nice job warming up for me today. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:34pm
dale:
WHO'S..... |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:35pm
clarke:
hey todd, nice job warming up for MS last week. | |
![]() @dale I believe the singer is someone named Dave Rave or something like that. I didn't mind missing it. I saw many a great Teenage Head show when I was younger. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:38pm
clarke:
btw, todd - i DID enjoy your show (from the archives), last week!!! | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:39pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:
@clarke: Thanks! |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:40pm
clarke:
speaking of dorsey -- mardi gras is crankin' up in nola. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:42pm
Wild Bill:
I enjoy your show while walking my dog Sat mornings. But, my cultural filter as aTN resident stuck on your parochial comments about The Criers from MS. Ten years earlier, The Gants made some of the best garage sounds in the country. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:42pm
Tim G:
PS "I Go To Sleep" was indeed recorded by the Kinks.... | |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:43pm
dale:
i used to hear 'top down' on chum fm when i lived near buffalo. my gateway head. |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:44pm
twinoak170:
Hit after hit after hit! |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:45pm
Michael Shelley:
Wild Bill - understood, but, that's kind of my point - if I played that record to 100 people and asked "guess what state this is from" I doubt any would have guessed correctly - it's interesting |
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Sat. 2/16/19 12:45pm
Michael Shelley:
TIM G- what record? |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:47pm
clarke:
i don't think there is a kinks version of I Go To Sleep - it is just ray, alone, doing a demo | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:48pm
Tim G:
Picture Book | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:49pm
clarke:
oh Kaye DEFINITELY is on the guitar on this song. | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:50pm
clarke:
it is her signature solo!! | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:51pm
clarke:
the friggin' Twigs!!! | |
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![]() And to complete the power pop theme, this Lemon Twigs tune is so damn good - perfect distillation of Todd/Nazz at their catchiest. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:52pm
clarke:
non-o-phonic Todd | |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:55pm
clarke:
hughie, hear the new Mould album, yet? i like it. | |
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![]() Thanks for a great show, Michael! Looking forward to Rex and TOPT. Can you beat Saturdays on WFMU?!? |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:57pm
clarke:
this was a real cool time!! l8r kids! | |
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![]() Clarke, not yet but it's on my list. Love that guy. |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:58pm
clarke:
it is "sunny" ha ha -- the closest solo record to sound like Sugar, to my ears | |
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![]() Sounds right up my street. Always loved his melodic stuff. thanks man |
Sat. 2/16/19 12:59pm
clarke:
ah ha ha!!! | |
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