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April 6, 2019: Guest: More With Elliot Lurie of Looking Glass
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CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"
CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!
CLICK HERE for "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"
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CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"
CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"
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CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
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CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel
CLICK HERE for a new song titled "People Are Disgusting" from Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE to listen to "Musicians fighting Spotify are ‘so f-cking dumb,’ music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz says"
CLICK HERE to read a Mike Love sympathetic piece titled "Beach Boys seek to overcome discord with new wave of Love"
CLICK HERE to listen to a new NPR interview with Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
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CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
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CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
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CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
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CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
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CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
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CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
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CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
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CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
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CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears
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I love THESE Beach Boy videos!
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CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
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![]() Ever have one of those days when just the word Baby, is all you need to say? Yup, me neither. Good morning!! |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:03am
prudy:
easy listening Brandy. Though the original was also easy listening. But I love it. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:04am
Sid:
Sounds like Ray Conniff needs a little Discwasher. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:07am
Sid:
Owwww! |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:10am
prudy:
looking forward to the CB show at the Bowery Ballroom this Thursday! | |
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![]() Confirming that i carry my Michael Shelly's #1 Hit Club card in my wallet at all times. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:11am
SmokinJ:
This is fantastic ms! We need to learn more about Elliot Lurie! 8-) |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:13am
Sid:
Still using carts for those bumpers? |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:14am
SmokinJ:
Hey! Carts rule! ;-) |
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![]() Today in music trivia. Fountains of Wayne's fabulous 2nd record, UTOPIA PARKWAY, was released 20 years ago to-day, 4/6/99. Time flies, and stuff. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:17am
Sid:
I really don't miss having to take carts apart and unstick them. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:18am
SmokinJ:
Use better carts! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:19am
Sid:
Carts all eventually need TLC. Of course, so do computers and servers. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:19am
SmokinJ:
I've serviced them for decades. Not real popular these days but my heart has a soft spot for them. Radio wouldn't have happened without them... |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:21am
Sid:
True. I have nostalgia for my mix tapes too, but I won't voluntarily go near a cassette when I can rip a CD or load a playlist. They don't melt . |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:22am
SmokinJ:
Each to his own! People are lazy.. :-) |
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![]() Good morning, anonymous friends of the WFMU boards, let's all drown our sorrows with the truly insane Ted Hawkins. From when "Country" was real. |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:29am
paul:
Happy Hour sounded like a Robbie Fulks song | |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:33am
Listener:
it stinks | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:40am
Listener Robert:
It's not often I wait to finish some tasks, then boot up and log in to throw a discouraging word about something a half hour earlier, but...that version of "Brandy" you opened with was overwrought, UNeasy listening, sorry. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:41am
SmokinJ:
So true Listener Robert! That song s a one of a kind. Hopefully we'll hear the real one soon. ;) |
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![]() Baby. Heading your way tonight, sort of. Phillip's way is more like it. Eesh, not as excited about it as I used to be. PS. you are on fire. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:43am
Michael Shelley:
Anybody listening in Maine? |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:44am
Listener Robert:
This version may not be my favorite, but it's not bad. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:44am
Sid:
faded chain? |
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Sat. 4/6/19 11:45am
SmokinJ:
The key is the vocal. No sub for Lurie! |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:49am
prudy:
perfect Pop tune | |
Sat. 4/6/19 11:56am
Vinnie Favale:
Mike Douglas show guest when Looking Glass was on was Tony Curtis. Curtis was cohost | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:00pm
Michael Shelley:
Vinnie Favale! Did you just remember that? |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:02pm
SmokinJ:
Vocal recording extraordinaire! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:04pm
Sid:
Gotta go dig out my 7" of 'Brandy.' I think the horns on the single were more prevalent. The one we heard on WABC ever 90 minutes. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:04pm
Sid:
...every 90 minutes |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:06pm
adam:
I just watched a documentary on the hollies and they spent a ton of time putting down this song and lots of the poppy stuff from this period | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:07pm
SmokinJ:
Sid..Not often enough! |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:08pm
Vpfavale:
Lol..i remembered from growing up. I also have a database of the mike Douglas show handy and confirmed it in two min. The Douglas show is one of the greatest libraries that still is mostly under lock and key. Raspberries performing “go all the way” is on YouTube but lots of great stuff (like Beach Boys) hasn’t been seen in decades | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:08pm
Michael Shelley:
Sam had a club the - CANT REMEMBER SHIT - club. He gave me a membership card. |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:12pm
Pedro in Arlington:
A lot of people might not know but Major Lance's daughter is mayor of Atlanta. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:13pm
Sid:
From wiki - "Jennifer Eccles was written by members of The Hollies with input from their wives and the title is a combination of their names (Allan Clarke's wife Jennifer nee Bowstead and Graham Nash's wife from 64 to 66 was Rose nee Eccles) and after criticism of "King Midas in Reverse" and was a return to the popular format that had been commercially successful though not necessarily lyrically sophisticated." So it was a forced return to the pop template. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:15pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
Love that Jim and Jesse cut on Roll Over Beethoven. So much drive in that hillbilly groove. |
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![]() Michael. You just read my mind. Kiss! |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:18pm
bebe:
Kiss sucks as a band...and as people. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:18pm
Sid:
"She's' been around, but she's young and clean." From Brandy to this in 15 minutes! |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:19pm
scott:
Christine turned out to be Hanna and kicked your arse. | |
![]() I took my seven-year-old to see KISS here in Ottawa Wednesday night. He fell asleep halfway though. But I did not. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:21pm
Sid:
Only #25 because of the lyrics I just quoted perhaps? Kind of like Raspberries' "Tonight." Great record, but a bit too far lyrically. |
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![]() @Sid, Gene Simmons, always a gent. |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:23pm
DG:
The Mike Douglas shows were shown on VH-1 in the '90s on that "Archives" show they had for awhile (back when they were a music station). They'd show clips, or sometimes entire shows (they aired the whole John & Yoko-hosting week later at night, I think--I know I taped them). I did a story on that for a TV magazine & interviewed Bill Flanagan, who told me about all the incredible stuff they had (maybe not all of it got into the show). Not sure if you can get the MD shows now. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:23pm
Sid:
Gene as gentlemen. LOL Bill! |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:24pm
DG:
Gene Simmons is the D. Trump of rock. | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:25pm
bebe:
Truly a horrible human. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:26pm
Sid:
It's a nightmare getting clearances for the old talk shows to air today. One of the nostalgia cable nets ran Johnny Carson for awhile - took them over a year to get a year's worth of shows cleared for broadcast. |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:29pm
DG:
Is it because of the music rights, or is it a matter of dealing with the Carson, Douglas, etc. estates? VH-1 didn't show Carson stuff, but "Archives" definitely showed Douglas, Dick Cavett, and maybe some other talk show clips. | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:33pm
Sid:
Antenna TV got the rights from the Carson family, but then had to go get the clearances separately for each act on the show. That was the hard part |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:33pm
Michael Shelley:
MF - and it was very good! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:35pm
Sid:
Looking forward to seeing Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets next Sat night. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:38pm
Michael Shelley:
ME TOO SID! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:39pm
Sid:
Michael did you opt to see Nick at The Bowery or Tarrytown? |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:41pm
Sid:
Wish Dave Edmunds would come out of retirement, but I guess that's a done deal. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:41pm
Michael Shelley:
tarrytown! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:43pm
Sid:
MS, Tarrytown is probably a wise choice. We can compare reviews in 2 weeks, NYC vs Westchester. |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:44pm
johnk77:
another great show interviewer and selecter mike douglas was very nice in person and seemed genuinely interested in the musical guests johnny carson not so much ed mcmahon was that show's schmoozer for the guests | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:47pm
Michael Shelley:
THANKS! |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:48pm
scott:
The Dick Cavett Show and Tom Snyder on youtube stuff is pretty good: Harrison, Hendrix, Forrest Gump/Ono, even Hoffa! | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:52pm
johnk77:
dick cavett very into popular music of the times he was super nice to janis joplin cavett also easy to talk to off-stage and in rehearsal | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:52pm
Johnzon:
thanks for sharing the modern lovers with us in the modern world | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:53pm
Johnzon:
Dick cavett was great... if you watch the Marlon Brando interview MB kinda breaks down why he's so good | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:54pm
scott:
Mike, maybe you could consider talking to Cavett on your show? | |
Sat. 4/6/19 12:54pm
Kid Kennedy:
Nice home stretch of songs....! | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:56pm
Sid:
The pause that refreshes.... |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:58pm
Listener Robert:
Yay! | |
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Sat. 4/6/19 12:58pm
Jimmy Wipper:
By my name, forget it! This NEVER gets old. Great show! |
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Sat. 4/6/19 1:00pm
Sid:
It would be better if your name was on the list. That tactic is always current. |
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