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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting April 6, 2018: Show #244 SPECIAL (1939): Storm clouds were brewing (we're time-traveling to 1939).

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Artist Track Album Label Year Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting       0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Joe Loss & His Band (voc. Chick Henderson)  Begin The Beguine   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w My Prayer)  Royal Zonaphone   1939  0:04:23 (Pop-up)
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra  In The Mood   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w I Want To Be Happy)  Bluebird   1939  0:07:46 (Pop-up)
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra  Little Brown Jug   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Pavanne)  Bluebird   1939  0:11:11 (Pop-up)
Bea Wain & Larry Clinton  Deep Purple   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w A Study In Red)  Victor   1939  0:13:55 (Pop-up)
The Merry Macs  I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Igloo)  Decca   1939  0:17:31 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby And The Andrews Sisters  Yodelin' Jive   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Ciribiribin (They're So In Love))  Decca   1939  0:20:00 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 

Moonlight Serenade   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b-side to Sunrise Serenade) 

Bluebird  

1939 

0:22:49 (Pop-up)
Cliff Bruner & his Texas Wanderers  Truck Driver's Blues   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w I'm Tired Of You)  Decca   1939  0:28:01 (Pop-up)
Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys  Beautiful Brown Eyes   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Living On The Mountain, Baby Mine)  Vocalion   1939  0:30:50 (Pop-up)
The Pine Ridge Boys  You Are My Sunshine   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Farther Along)  Bluebird   1939  0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Hoosier Hot Shots  Annabelle   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to It's A Lonely Trail (When You're Travelin' All Alone))  Vocalion   1939  0:36:07 (Pop-up)
Tennessee Ramblers  Four Or Five Times   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Hootchie-Kootchie-Koo)  Bluebird   1939  0:38:37 (Pop-up)
Floyd Tillman  It Had To Be That Way   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w I'd Settle Down For You)  Decca   1939  0:41:14 (Pop-up)
Rex Griffin  Lovesick Blues   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w My Hill Billy Baby)  Decca   1939  0:44:07 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters 

Mobile Blues   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b/w Gal-Avantin') 

Vocalion  

1939 

0:46:35 (Pop-up)
Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang  A Good Man Is Hard To Find   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight)  Decca   1939  0:51:06 (Pop-up)
Barney Bigard & His Orchestra  Honey Hush   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Just Another Dream)  Okeh   1939  0:54:03 (Pop-up)
Albert Ammons  Boogie Woogie Stomp   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Boogie Woogie Blues)  Blue Note   1939  0:56:47 (Pop-up)
Fats Waller  Good for Nothin' But Love   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w You're The Cutest One)  Bluebird   1939  1:00:19 (Pop-up)
Earl Hines And His Orchestra  Ridin' And Jivin'   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Grand Terrace Shuffle)  Bluebird   1939  1:03:42 (Pop-up)
The Three Peppers  Fuzzy Wuzzy   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Down By The Old Mill Stream)  Decca   1939  1:06:16 (Pop-up)
Joe Turner And Pete Johnson  Roll 'em Pete   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Goin' Away Blues)  Vocalion   1939  1:08:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 

Wizzin' the Wizz   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b/w Denison Swing) 

Victor  

1939 

1:11:39 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra  Smorgasbord And Schnapps   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Solid Old Man)  Brunswick   1939  1:16:08 (Pop-up)
Woody Herman & His Orchestra  Woodchopper's Ball   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Big-Wig In The Wigwam)  Decca   1939  1:18:42 (Pop-up)
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra  Cherokee   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w (Stay Up "Stan") The All Night Record Man)  Bluebird   1939  1:21:55 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman's Sextet  Rose Room   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Flying Home)  Columbia   1939  1:25:09 (Pop-up)
Art Tatum  Tea For Two   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Deep Purple)  Decca   1939  1:27:55 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington, Piano - Jimmy Blanton, Bass  Plucked Again   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Blues)  Columbia   1939  1:30:59 (Pop-up)
Coleman Hawkins  Body And Soul   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Fine Dinner)  Bluebird   1939  1:33:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra 

Traffic Jam   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b/w Serenade To A Savage) 

Bluebird  

1939 

1:36:50 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway And His Orchestra  (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Trylon Swing)  Vocalion   1939  1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Slim Gaillard And His Flat-Foot-Floogee Boys  A-Well-A-Take-Em-Joe (Crapshooter's Jive)   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Chicken Rhythm)  Vocalion   1939  1:46:07 (Pop-up)
Tampa Red  She Got The Best In Town   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Hellish Old Feeling)  Bluebird   1939  1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Blind Boy Fuller  Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to I Want Some Of Your Pie)  Conqueror   1939  1:51:46 (Pop-up)
Leadbelly  The Bourgeois Blues   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to The Gallis Pole)  Musicraft   1939  1:54:23 (Pop-up)
Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band  Has My Gal Been Here   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Somebody Changed That Lock On My Door)  Bluebird   1939  1:57:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra 

Tuxedo Junction   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b-side to Gin Mill Special) 

Bluebird  

1939 

2:00:12 (Pop-up)
Marian Anderson  Trampin'   Favoriting Live at the Lincoln Memorial  n/a   1939  2:05:14 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday  Strange Fruit   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Fine and Mellow)  Commodore   1939  2:08:30 (Pop-up)
Paul Robeson  It Ain't Necessarily So   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w A Woman Is A Sometime Thing)  Victor   1939  2:11:38 (Pop-up)
Zora Neal Hurston  Po' Gal   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Tampa)  un.   1939  2:14:06 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Lamour  Strange Enchantment   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w That Sentimental Sandwich)  Bluebird   1939  2:17:16 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland  Over the Rainbow   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w The Jitterbug)  Decca   1939  2:20:19 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf Astoria Orquesta 

Night Must Fall   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b/w Cui Cui / Catalino Rolón) 

Victor  

1939 

2:23:03 (Pop-up)
Gene Autry  Back To The Saddle   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Little Old Band of Gold)  Vocalion   1939  2:26:38 (Pop-up)
Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm  South Of The Border   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w It's All Over Town)  Bluebird   1939  2:29:14 (Pop-up)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys  Convict And The Rose   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to San Antonio Rose)  Vocalion   1939  2:31:58 (Pop-up)
Patsy Montana (Accompanied by Prairie Ramblers)  I Wanna Be A Western Cowgirl   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w My Song Of The West)  Vocalion   1939  2:34:38 (Pop-up)
Red Nichols & His Orchestra  Tears from My Inkwell   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak)  Bluebird   1939  2:37:27 (Pop-up)
Wayne King & His Orchestra  My Man   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Arrancame La Vida)  Victor   1939  2:40:24 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Rex Stewart & His Feetwarmers 

Montmartre   Favoriting

shellac 10" (b/w Solid Old Man) 

Swing  

1939 

2:43:05 (Pop-up)
Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights (vocal Chorus by Red Ferrington, Le Ahn Sisters, Art Carney, Bob McCoy)  Piggy Wiggy Woo   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Two Hearts Are Better Than One)  Columbia   1939  2:46:54 (Pop-up)
Big Bill  You can't Sell 'Em in Here   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Baby Don't You Remember)  Vocalion   1939  2:49:27 (Pop-up)
Walter Huston  September Song   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w The Scars)  Brunswick   1939  2:52:00 (Pop-up)
The Ink Spots  If I Didn't Care   Favoriting shellac 10" (b-side to Knock Kneed Sal (On The Mourner's Bench))  Decca   1939  2:54:23 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Savoy Orchestra  My Last Goodbye   Favoriting shellac 10" (b/w Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb And His Orchestra-Heart Of Mine)  Decca   1939  2:57:19 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 

Albatross   Favoriting

single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) 

Blue Horizon  

1968 

3:00:30 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 12:02pm
duke:

Wang dang doo
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Doug Schulkind:

Every day's a Hinky day!
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Listening Out There:

TGIF HDTO, UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Stevel:

Good golly almighty!
Avatar 12:03pm
still b/p:

Gone With The Wang Dang Do was released in 1939.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
joe:

'ello folks
Avatar 12:04pm
Roberto:

Hola tio mio!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Dominick:

hey ho!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
joe:

Uncle Michael make sure your room is clean. No radio if your room is not clean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:

Duke! Doug! LOT! Steve! SB/P! Joe! Roberto! Dominick!
Avatar 12:07pm
northguineahills:

There are worst places then Ft Walton Beach. Actually, outside of Tallahassee in the panhandle, is one of the few places that ain't bad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Goyim in the AM:

Got my iSi-charged mojito going and ready to listen.
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Uncle Michael:

NGH!
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annie:

good timing just finished making the crab cakes..... one batch = 8 pats. and i settle in for the next stage of radio-ness.. hey UM and hinksters.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Parq:

I must complete my bust, two novels, finish my blueprint, begin my beguine.
  12:10pm
johnk77:

spring break was fun
in the panhandle
redneck riviera;>
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annie:

omg, is it going to be a standards show? i miss the nyc-based station The Music of Your Life. the web-based station isn't the same.
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Uncle Michael:

Goyim! Annie! Parq!

Not all swing orchestras today, I promise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Doug Schulkind:

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Avatar 12:12pm
annie:

i always miss that beat.. of course i don't really count them i try to "intuit" them..
Avatar 12:13pm
~§> scraps <§~:

h’kk h’kk h’kkkkkk—— bbZOOOllll!

ahhhhh. —h’lo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
joe:

Nothing wrong with that at all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Scraps!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Lane Gray:

Cool stuff, UM!
Avatar 12:14pm
Listening Out There:

So, UM, for the Glenn Miller, does this mean that you're playing a 78? It does sound kinda scratchy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Nope...read my disclaimer!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Dominick:

Some year. Lots of artistic corners turned. So much promise. Some got side tracked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

Lane!

Dom, we'll turn some of those corners.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Lane Gray:

Crossing fingers for some Alvino Rey. There was some good hillbilly music back then, too
Avatar 12:19pm
annie:

somewhere, in the glint of my future parents' eyes, i heard these tunes in real time, i know it. i guess i returned pretty fast from the previous life.... or had acces to radio while awaiting my '53 arrival.
  12:20pm
Dean:

That's the most metaphysically probing disclaimer I've ever read.
  12:20pm
rw:

Good morning! My mom would love this show. (Not that I'm not, just that it's exactly her moment, which is weird because unless my math is off she would have been 7 yrs old.)
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Parq:

Show of hands; who else, on hearing "I'm Forever", thinks of the oversized chicken sqeuaking out the song while Jack Bunny tries to drop her through an undersized trap door in the "Owl Joslen" cartoon?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean! RW!
Avatar 12:22pm
still b/p:

There's a guy up this way, annie, who's bought a few radio stations, and plays what amounts to that Music Of Your Life format a good part of the time. It's a crazy mix....Kenny Rogers or Celine Dion and then back to Perry Como or Margaret Whiting or Mills Brothers and then over to Pet Clark, all from his own music collection on these stations he runs just with his own money and requested donations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Dominick:

@Parq Oh yes! I Love to Singa
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annie:

@still b/p, i'd love to find him if you are able to share that info.
Avatar 12:29pm
annie:

i already listen to "Marion's attic" and that guy on friday nights on the shortwave station out of wbcq, The Planet.
Avatar 12:30pm
annie:

Dominick, i loved that the little owl was finally able to sing on the radio, and his dad came 'round.. one of my favorite cartoons
Avatar 12:30pm
northguineahills:

1939 was a good year unless you were in Czechoslavkia, Poland, or China, or unemployed.... actually it was a horrible year, probably why there was so much great art and music created....
Avatar 12:31pm
annie:

yeah, ngh, such a set of social contradictions ....
Avatar 12:33pm
annie:

hey, y'all have to see that doc on the Carters on netflix: "The Winding Stream". it's really very good..
  12:33pm
Dean:

Coverage of the Merry Macs in the entertainment press for the decades surrounding the '40s is massive. Lots of ads, too. Variety in Jan. '36 describes them as "Three men and a girl with neat vocal arrangements."

Still hunting for personnel...
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Uncle Michael:

neat!
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Lane Gray:

Cool selection of stuff.
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doctorjazz:

Loving this stuff!
Hi UM and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Good morning! Enjoying the show on a drive to LA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Lane Gray:

Just how long ago was Governor Jimmy Davis, that they were covering him in the 30s?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

Doc! Lizzie!

If this sounds like Gene Autry...well....
Avatar 12:36pm
still b/p:

annie, I think he still doesn't stream, unfortunately, claiming the fees for online-play licensing would kill 'im.
His stations are
WJIB in Boston
WJTO, WLAM, WLVP in Maine.
Quick press profiles of the dude:
www.bostonglobe.com...

www.pressherald.com...

He tosses interesting documentary recommendations and political philosophical lines into his IDs and irregular on-air appearances, "Don't be a slave to the corporate masters. Cut up your credit cards!"
Avatar 12:37pm
annie:

thanks b/p, i'll check it out..
Avatar 12:38pm
Listening Out There:

You Are My Sunshine - I saw Mose Allison more than once, and he did a sadder version of the song. He'd mention it was written by Jimmie Davis (Louisiana governor), but also related to mining. Miners were always happy to see the sun...
Avatar 12:38pm
annie:

oh crickey, the boston globe has a paywall....
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joe:

Discogs seems to have large holes in the Merry Macs discography
  12:39pm
Dean:

A review in June '37 refers to them as "a harmony act" with Lynn Martin "with support from a personable male trio." (Review of a Gene Autry show in Chicago on the same page. His show lasted sixteen minutes.)
Avatar 12:41pm
annie:

definitely one of those "smiling" shows UM.... clicky-starring it.
Avatar 12:41pm
still b/p:

Globe -- really?I thought they gave you a few free first. I was just there and they said I had one more free article. (And then if you clear your history, you typically can start over again, as I do with NYT occasionally.)
  12:43pm
Dean:

Oct. '39 issue of Variety reports that "Bea Wain replaced Helen Carroll as the femme part of the Merry Macs for this show."
Avatar 12:44pm
annie:

i can do that with other news sites, but the globe shut me out right away.. i'm okay with it; i have alternative options, so to speak.
  12:44pm
Rich in NC:

Hello all,. Hey Uncle Michael
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Uncle Michael:

Rich!
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annie:

oh, crickey i have no tissues handy Um, this brings the waterfalls... thanks, i guess
Avatar 12:50pm
northguineahills:

I thought you were ribbing us about it being Gene Autry, UM!
  12:51pm
Dean:

They were sued in June '37 for back commissions, at which time Cheri McKay was "no longer with them."

These reviews from the '30s are just fascinating. In '33 they released a record, reviewed in Variety. Reviewer writes, "Merry Macs (whoever they are, for they're new, although probably a nom-de-disk) do okay by their assignments."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
joe:

As of 1977 You are my Sunshine is the LA state song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
joe:

In looking that up I learned NJ has no state song of any sort. March, Anthem Polka etc.
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The Oscar:

Afternoon all! Checking out the playlist, and I am 100% on board.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
Uncle Michael:

Oscar!
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still b/p:

Accustomed only to later Louis. Nice to go a long stride earlier than wild days, lounge legend....and "I Wanna Be Like You" Louie.
Avatar 12:58pm
annie:

@still b/p: here's a review from the second article you posted: "brutal, just brutal. Bobby Sherman and Benny Goodman. huh ?"
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Parq:

Joe, at 12:54 -- you apparently don't remember the flap in the 70s (or was it the early 80s) when there was a move -- this is true, I promise -- to make Born to Run the NJ state song.
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Parq:

www.welcometoasburypark.com...
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Uncle Michael:

The 1939 plattanspeiler in the gif:

www.youtube.com...
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northguineahills:

@Parq: I'd support that, and I've never lived in NJ. (spent a lot of time there, though, and love it!).
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northguineahills:

Fats!
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Parq:

I'm missing the whole show because I keep having to run away from my desk. Not my day to listen, I fear.
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Uncle Michael:

Archives, Parq!
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annie:

oh, holy mother that piano!!!!
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Guido from Cologne:

Hello Michael!
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Parq:

Okay, maybe I can settle down for a while. UM, would that I had the time to listen to the archives of every cool hour I miss live.
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northguineahills:

@Parq: Tame your desk, treat it to respect you. Don't show fear!
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Uncle Michael:

Guido!
  1:20pm
Marie:

Fantastic show. Beautiful music. Thanks, UM. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks Marie!
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Listening Out There:

RE the archives: Yes, and great to have. I've always liked the incongruity of ready, 24/7 access to very old music, like this and like Mac's Antique Phonograph Music Program. But then...there are the temptations of People Like Us...or any number of great audio pipelines... :)
Avatar 1:23pm
northguineahills:

Can't go wrong w/ Smorgasbord and Schnapps!
  1:25pm
johnk77:

@UM great show today
like the Dual platter player
@ListeningOT Mac also does
great live shows!
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Uncle Michael:

John!
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annie:

bliss, pure bliss
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Listening Out There:

johnk77 - I follow Mac's projects on Ye Old Instagram and L'Book d'Faces. Great guy. Well, except for the bit of his singing I heard with the Hoof and Mouth Symphonia... :)
Avatar 1:41pm
Listening Out There:

Kansas was a hotspot for jazz, once upon a time. Jay McShann was from there, I think...
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Parq:

Listening Out, I accepted a long time ago that there is too much content on WFMU, never mind the Web as a whole, for me to have any hope of listening to everything that would interest me. Just can't do it, like hoping to travel and visit every location in the world that intrigues me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Guido from Cologne:

That was the title song of joe jackson's second album, right?
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Uncle Michael:

Yes. Joe's album of jump blues covers.
Avatar 1:59pm
Listening Out There:

Great rendition of "Bourgeois Blues." Had not heard that one. Uncle M knows how to pick 'em...
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annie:

i feel your pain, Parq
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doctorjazz:

Missed some nice set (gotta work, pay them bills), sounding great now though (is this Tuxedo Junction, Washboard Sam, I think...(actually my PC is way ahead, I'm up to Slim Gaillard, nowT ampa Red, glad I caught them).
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Uncle Michael:

Take care, Doc!
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Parq:

Can you imagine what it must have been like to be in attendance at that Lincoln Memorial performance?
Avatar 2:10pm
still b/p:

annie -- just looked back now and saw your pass-along of the "brutal..." comment ...and laughed out loud. Its exactly right, but I'm still onboard, baby! Rose and thorns, medicine and sugar, etc. And often the entertaining oddity of the octopus approach to music curating is part of the fun, BECAUSE of the surprises and clinkers and whiplashy shifts.
Avatar 2:13pm
annie:

indubitably, b/p!!!
  2:22pm
Dean:

Spoiler alert: It was all a dream.
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Uncle Michael:

Dammit, Dean.
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Parq:

Dean, ah, but was it?
Avatar 2:23pm
Listening Out There:

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
  2:24pm
Dean:

Coulda been a hangover, I suppose.
Avatar 2:24pm
still b/p:

I was just quoting a line from If I Were King of the Forest in a message to someone a moment ago.
Avatar 2:24pm
Listening Out There:

...aka Scott Pruitt
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Parq:

That's a different take than the one in the movie, yes?
Avatar 2:25pm
northguineahills:

Off to lunch, thanks UM!
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still b/p:

Fairly interesting musical analysis of Over the Rainbow...unless "analysis" and "rainbow" is like matter and anti-matter for ya.
www.pbs.org...
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Listening Out There:

A journalist on Twitter: Nifty stuff Scott Pruitt wanted so he could run the EPA more effectively, per the NYT: -- A $100,000/month charter plane membership -- A bulletproof SUV -- A bulletproof security desk -- A motorcade with sirens for speedy urban travel
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Parq:

Dorothy LaMour in a Loony Tune reminds me of that scene in one of the Hollywood Restaurant shorts where she persuades Jimmy Stewart to dance the conga and then scares him so much with her sexy moves that he announces that Mr. Smith had gone to Washington.
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The Oscar:

So hard to hear this song without hearing the Firesign Theatre lyrics.
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Uncle Michael:

We're back from the shadows again...
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Uncle Michael:

See ya, NGH.
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The Oscar:

Also, the Looney Tunes reference *I* think of when I hear Dorothy LaMour is the one where Daffy gets knocked silly and each of the stars circling his head is a caricature of a different Hollywood actress.
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The Oscar:

@UM Yippie-tie-one-on!
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Parq:

Oscar and UM, me too.
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Dean:

Funny you mention Firesign Theatre, @The Oscar, because I thought of Peter Bergman while "It Ain't Necessarily So" was spinning. The intro music for his daily radio show during the '80s on LA's KPFK was a new rendition of the song, every day.
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still b/p:

Haven't had TCM for too long now. On Easter family visit, yeah, sister's got it. And late Sunday felt good to find Holiday Inn playing. Fun and comfort-foodish film satisfactions, shticky, some it of with requisite dreadfulness, but worst is blackface number...such yin and yang in the old movie zone.
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Roberto:

I think this was the closing music to John Sayles's Lone Star.
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Uncle Michael:

Really?
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Roberto:

Yes although maybe not that version of it.
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Roberto:

(Western Cowgirl)
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doctorjazz:

So my song list is about 5 songs ahead of what's playing-is my internet connection so slow?
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Uncle Michael:

I have no explanation, Doc.
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Dean:

@doctorjazz: Sometimes I fail to stop the player I'm using, for whatever reason. Instead, if I pause it and return minutes later, the program picks up where I left it, while the playlist moves on.
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The Oscar:

Annnnnnd clickystarred.
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abutthegreat:

Someone sounds like Fozzie Bear. Is that Mr. Carney?
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Uncle Michael:

yep
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abutthegreat:

I see a theme on the playlist. I am a great noticer of patterns
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still b/p:

A kick to imagine everyone -- vocalists and musicians -- in the room to cut something like that.
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Uncle Michael:

A real golden throat coming up after Mr. Broonzy.
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Roberto:

Get out with your what?
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The Oscar:

An early pioneer in nut allergy awareness.
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Uncle Michael:

abtg!
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Parq:

Is there an eastern cowgirl?
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Dean:

Been buying up recordings of Lil Green, for whom Big Bill played. Just love her. She might have recorded this tune, too.
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Roberto:

Oh, peaNUTS. Got it.
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The Oscar:

Has there ever been a more calming musical act than the Ink Spots? Every time I hear them my blood pressure drops by the third bar.
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doctorjazz:

That sounded SO Django!
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Guido from Cologne:

So beautiful see you.
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Listening Out There:

Great program today. Many thanks!
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annie:

that may through december is one of the most beautiful renditions.... so nice to hear it!
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone! till next week...
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