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Favoriting March 22, 2021: Too Marvelous for Words

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Helen Merrill  Don't Explain   Favoriting Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown  Wax Time  2010  LP  From 1957    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Chet Baker  I Get Along Without You Very Well   Favoriting Let's Get Lost: The Best of Chet Baker Sings  Pacific Jazz  1989  CD  From 1954    0:07:30 (Pop-up)
Julie London  Well, Sir   Favoriting London by Night  Pathe Marconi/EMI  1983  LP  From 1963    0:10:26 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan  Lush Life   Favoriting Sassy  EmArcy/Mercury  1955  LP      0:13:56 (Pop-up)
Chris Connor  Moon Ray   Favoriting A Jazz Date with Chris Connor  Atlantic  1957  LP      0:17:38 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Collins  Out of This World   Favoriting Songs by Dorothy Collins  Coral  1957  LP  with Barney Kessel    0:20:52 (Pop-up)
Mel Tormé  These Foolish Things   Favoriting The Mel Tormé Collection (1944-1985)  Rhino  1996  CD  From 1957    0:24:10 (Pop-up)
Lester Young  Polka Dots and Moonbeams   Favoriting The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve  Verve  1999  CD  From 1949    0:27:41 (Pop-up)
Artie Shaw  Too Marvelous for Words   Favoriting Self-Portrait  Bluebird/BMG  2001  CD  From 1954    0:31:37 (Pop-up)
 
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network  Ballet of Apes   Favoriting Ballet of Apes  Castle Face  2020  CD      0:47:24 (Pop-up)
Wildflower  Flute Song   Favoriting Spiritual Jazz Now! Vol. 13 - Part Two  Jazzman  2020  CD  From 2017    0:53:29 (Pop-up)
Liraz  Lalai / Lalabye   Favoriting Zan  Glitterbeat  2020  MP3      0:58:23 (Pop-up)
Altin Gün  Sevda Olmasaydi   Favoriting Yol  Glitterbeat  2021  MP3    *   1:05:09 (Pop-up)
Tom Zé  Contos de Fraldas   Favoriting Raridades  Warner Music Brasil  2021  MP3  "Diaper Tales"  *   1:08:46 (Pop-up)
Ryan Dugré  Living Language   Favoriting Three Rivers  11A  2021  CD    *   1:12:22 (Pop-up)
Beautify Junkyards  Cosmorama   Favoriting Cosmorama  Ghost Box  2020  MP3      1:15:05 (Pop-up)
Jane Weaver  Heartlow   Favoriting Flock  Fire  2021  CD    *   1:18:06 (Pop-up)
Miss Bliss  Grey   Favoriting Southeast of Saturn: Michigan Shoegaze / Dream Pop / Space Rock  Third Man  2020  LP  From 1995    1:22:49 (Pop-up)
RINSE  Tamaryn (Wherever I Am)   Favoriting Wherever I Am  RINSE  2021  MP3    *   1:25:45 (Pop-up)
 
 
Single File Single Artist: This time, Elvis Costello doing other people's songs
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down   Favoriting single  F Beat  1980  45      1:39:25 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  Getting Mighty Crowded   Favoriting single  F Beat  1980  45      1:41:08 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  From Head to Toe   Favoriting single  F Beat  1982  45      1:43:02 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  Neat Neat Neat   Favoriting single  Radar  1978  45      1:45:36 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  Psycho   Favoriting single  F Beat  1981  45      1:48:36 (Pop-up)
The Coward Brothers  They'll Never Take Her Love from Me   Favoriting single  Imp/Demon  1985  45  Leon Payne doubleshot (EC and T Bone Burnett)    1:52:11 (Pop-up)
The Imposter  Withered and Died   Favoriting single  Imposter  1984  45      1:55:01 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello  My Funny Valentine   Favoriting single  Radar  1979  45      1:58:15 (Pop-up)
NIck Lowe and His Sound  What's So Funny, 'Bout (Peace, Love and Understanding)   Favoriting single  Radar  1978  45      1:59:48 (Pop-up)
 
 
Return of the Rigby
The Young-Holt Unlimited  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting Funky But!  Brunswick  1967  LP      2:14:14 (Pop-up)
Buckwheat  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting Buckwheat  London  1971  LP      2:17:57 (Pop-up)
The 18th Century Concepts  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting In the 20th Century Bag  Sidewalk  1965  LP      2:24:17 (Pop-up)
Red, White & Blue(grass)  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting Red, White & Blue(grass) and Company  Mercury  1977  LP      2:26:28 (Pop-up)
The Average Disco Band  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting Music of the Beatles Goes Disco  H&L  1977  LP      2:29:10 (Pop-up)
Dennis Coffey  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting One Night at Morey's: 1968  Omnivore Recordings  2018  CD      2:33:44 (Pop-up)
Velvet Opera  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting The Very Best of Elmer Gantry & the Velvet Opera  See for Miles  1996  CD  From 1969    2:47:19 (Pop-up)
P.P. Arnold  Eleanor Rigby   Favoriting The First Lady of Immediate  Sony Special Music Products  1991  CD  From 1968    2:52:56 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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YETI BOB:

YIP
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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there Joe and everybody else.
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Handy Haversack:

Let us Yip.

Morning, Joe and all.
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12539:

YIP
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DJ Guin:

McGasko! I want your gun and badge, now!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01am
Strandlund:

Yip Yip Yippy!!
  9:01am
Listener Bop Monroe:

greetings from sunny Tannersville.
RAYDEEEOH!!!
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john_zilla:

greets everyone thanks Joe and crew and listeners for the marathon
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Krys O.:

Greetings!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Yip yip!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there Handy!
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Phillippe Bastille:

Good morning
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

WOW. YOU DID IT.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03am
BillyLundun:

Happy happy happy
  9:04am
MplsCoco:

Good morning Joe! ❤️
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04am
Son Of Pantz:

Ah yes. Easing into Monday like a warm bath.
Avatar ♥ 9:04am
TDK60:

Good morning, Monday Joe. GOAL!
Avatar ♥ 9:05am
βrian:

Scheduled for jab. Mirabile dictu!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05am
Handy Haversack:

Hey, Andrew!

Joe, you were in fine, fine form last night -- good show!
  9:05am
Rick A:

Relaxing music for the post-marathon hangover, congrats on reacning the goal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05am
Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there TDK60!
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Marley P. Dogg:

Good morning Joe McG! Congrats and thanks to you and the whole crew on crushing tor marathon!
Avatar ♥ 9:06am
TDK60:

Good morning, Toronto Andrew.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06am
Folsom:

When did the station meet the goal? Was it hoof and mouth?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06am
Handy Haversack:

Marley, in case it got lost in the WAB churn, congrats to you and Fenton! That's so exciting!
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:06am
YETI BOB:

I find it interesting that Jelena Milcetic felt she had to change her name to Helen Merrill. I wonder if people are more open to non-WASP names now than they were in the 50's or if she would still do the same today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06am
steveo:

Good morning.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07am
melinda:

howdy all!
Avatar ♥ 9:07am
Joe McG:

Good morn, radio friends, and thank you SO MUCH for going that extra mile and getting us to our goal this year. You all are the best!
  9:07am
Brendan:

I wonder, wonder whatever became of that Joe McGasko?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07am
john_zilla:

\o/ \o/
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Joe McG:

@Brendan: Living on the air in Jersey City, WFMU. :)
  9:08am
Rick A:

Long live WKRP!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08am
Uncle Michael:

Good morning. I love everyone today.
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YETI BOB:

She made an album in 2000 where she sings some songs in Croatian
  9:09am
Yes:

Howdy everyone
Avatar ♥ 9:10am
Lixiviated Life:

I'm for all things Chet Baker (except the chemical addiction part)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10am
Rich in Bay Ridge:

Good morninng Joe and McGangsters
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βrian:

Chesney!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10am
Handy Haversack:

@Folsom, about half an hour before the first note of Hoof and Mouth!
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:10am
YETI BOB:

Awww Uncle Michael, that's marvelous
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11am
Krys O.:

@Yeti Bob: The answer is no, the majority of folks still have issues with certain names.
  9:11am
Brendan:

@Joe, and in our hearts, you celebrity heartthrob.
  9:11am
John in Phoenixville:

@ Joe McG These first two tracks are ones I usually listen to after midnight, but I’m enjoying them as a start to Moody Monday. Curiously, I just got new vinyl reissues of these Merrill and Baker albums!
  9:12am
Brendan:

You and Sheila killed it last night. Great job!
Avatar 9:12am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Motley Krewn...
Avatar ♥ 9:13am
Joe McG:

@John: Yes, sometimes I wish I could magically transport myself to the midnight hour to do sets like this. I just thought it would be nice to bring things down after 2 weeks of non-stop uptempo hysteria.
  9:13am
Miles:

cocktails at tHis hour? 🍸
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:14am
YETI BOB:

good plan Joe, things did get a bit frantic
  9:14am
John in Phoenixville:

@ Joe McG. Much appreciated in all respects. This Julie London is on my after-midnight rotation as well.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14am
Son Of Pantz:

I'll take a Scotch and seltzer.
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βrian:

Seltzer! There's an Old World word.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15am
Handy Haversack:

Joe, do you have a long day of work and math ahead of you after the show?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...April in Paris, Julie in London is what I always says...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15am
McGroovey:

This is perfect music for not yelling over asking for money! For listening like money doesn't matter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:16am
B R M:

Hartman/ Coltrane version of Lush Life will always be my fav... but these voices! So buttery and mixed so well. *swoon*
Avatar 9:17am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...ok Joe but I just have 10 questions about my pledge
...just kidding...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17am
Tim 07030:

I've already smoked two packs while staring moodily into the distance during this set. And good morning and congrats to you, Joe!
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βrian:

Uptempo hysteria = A peyote triumphs
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Joe McG:

@Handy: Hopefully not too much math, but certainly still the marathon continues for me for a week or more afterwards. @RR63: Ha ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17am
Webhamster Henry:

This set is probably very useful for people in time zones about 10-12 hours later than EDT.
Avatar 9:18am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

B R M that's the bar...
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Joe McG:

@Tim: Ha ha, under a streetlamp, I hope.
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Jim the Poet:

I definitely live the lush life
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TonyR:

I'm late, and rewarded with Sarah! Good morting!
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βrian:

Those lingering symptoms of marathon.
Avatar 9:19am
DJ Guin:

"There's a million stories in the Big City,,,,this is Joe McGasko's..."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19am
Brian in UK:

Joe, CONGRATULATIONS.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19am
Son Of Pantz:

Will we hear some Judy Garland, Joe? I have my barbiturates at the ready.
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Threemoons:

Morning Joe, fellow Yip Yips. Out the door soon for Fauci Ouchie #2!
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TonyR:

Can you still fit into your "Valley of the Dolls" wardrobe test?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20am
Marley P. Dogg:

Thanks Handy - picking up the pup this afternoon- I’ll send you a picture
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Tim 07030:

Speaking of streetlamps, the new Willie Nelson album cover made me LOL (as Willie would say) when I first saw it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21am
Handy Haversack:

Congrats, Threemoons!

Also, Kate and the hound walked over into LIC yesterday, and Kate reports that Dominie's Hoek is open again! We'll both be second-vaxxed by mid-April and are starting to talk about what that might mean ...

Nice, Marley, please do!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21am
word:

This set is perfect for this morning.
  9:21am
John in Phoenixville:

I was going to ask for a little Chris Connor to go with the mood you’re setting so well, but you’ve got it covered. Good song choice too, Joe.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22am
McGroovey:

This music is very useful for people 0 hours ahead of EDT.

Sez I.
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TonyR:

Coral had a reputation for using easily broken materials for their singles.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23am
Uncle Michael:

I used to get high and read fairy tales.
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TonyR:

iI think the ghost of Coral is running my VPN connection to WFH. That 9:30 meeting is going to be festive.
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Joe McG:

@TonyR: This LP is a bit stiff and shellac-feeling.
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Paulo AD:

Evening all :)
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Karen's Mountain View:

Did any of you catch Handsome Joe McG singing twice last night? Hubba Hubba!
Avatar ♥ 9:24am
Creature Boy:

She had a face you could read by and a place to rest your drink. She walked in to my office & my heart sunk as I rose to my feet. i hardly had a chance to straighten my tie when...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25am
Paulo AD:

Joe - Thanks fro sorting out my swag for life debacle :)
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TonyR:

I only saw "Love is Strange", which was beautiful.
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BillyLundun:

I give this set 5 out 5 martinis!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Drummer Stream kicked grand phat gluteus btw.
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Karen's Mountain View:

He also did the theme to WKRP
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YETI BOB:

Melle Mel Torme!
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DJ Guin:

the Golden Smog
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Webhamster Henry:

Dorothy Collins was still married to Raymond Scott at the time of that recording.
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TonyR:

[Takes all the drinks]

Now you have 0. That's math.
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YETI BOB:

(Tormé, of course)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm no professional music judger by any means, but I found last night's karaoke performances to be very good. Would not change a thing. 👍
  9:26am
wenzo llc.:

good ole' Mel
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27am
courtneynoir:

Good morning, all. And congrats, WFMU!
Avatar ♥ 9:27am
βrian:

Velvet Foghat was Doug's first band's name.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27am
Webhamster Henry:

We used to have live band Karaoke here that was amazing! the band would play for about 3 hours straight!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I would change the delay between backing tracks & vocals. But then again ?...
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TonyR:

The Marathon taught me what my bosses knew for years. I really need to be yelled at.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28am
The Oscar:

Fun fact: "These Foolish Things" was written about the great Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong! (Also congrats!!!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28am
Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, JMC! You KILLED last night, as we have come to expect.
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waters7:

your killing me with kindness. xo
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Threemoons:

@Handy just saw this and YAY! IIRC the other part of my Sunday rotation, Judy and Punch, is open also! Summer can't come fast enough....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29am
D Rok (in brooklyn):

Beautiful set this morning, Joe McG.
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Joe McG:

@Oscar: Really? Wow! @Greg: Aw, thanks, I had a really great time singing with Sheila despite technical snafus.
  9:29am
Colleen:

Ooohhh Joooee...this is all sooo goood!!!
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TDK60:

Didn't know we'd hear from a president.
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Son Of Pantz:

Creature Boy stars in the new hard-boiled thriller, "The Dame With The Loaded Eyes"
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Did not even realize there would *be* a Hoof&Mouth this year! So you kicked that hard in the gluteus too FMU...
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Joe McG:

@TDK: THE President. Glad everyone's enjoying the mellow. We'll pick it up soon, I'm just easing in.
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tom in Glasgow:

Chill Week is always a really nice post-marathon fixture
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eºIºk:

@TonyR@9:27, you’re not alone.
@Yeti Bob@9:06, well, she’s not a singer AFAIK, but Croatian actor Ivana Milicevic hasn’t changed her name and has gotten some good TV roles.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32am
The Oscar:

Looking into it I guess there's actually some debate-- it's probably either about Wong, Hermoine Gingold (!!), or Jean Ross. Still, I want to believe!
  9:33am
Blix:

Joe...I made a small pledge Saturday night but I didn't get an email confirmation (which I thought always happened in the past) nor was the pledge acknowledged on air (which is no big deal). Typical wait time thing or worth looking in to?
BTW great job last night; I only had audio for your song, and I hope you dressed up like Herb Tarlick.
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fm Mike:

Maaan, I woke up too late for Clay's show!!!!

But this sounds nice too, gotta admit.
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Creature Boy:

haha @pantz
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Artie Shaw - Dropping Out before Julian Cope...
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YETI BOB:

Blix - I always get the email immediately - it sounds like something may have gone wrong. But let's see what Joe says.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:35am
Brian in UK:

Tom in Glasgow. Did you get any sleep?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36am
tom in Glasgow:

ha ha approximately 4am-9:55am before my 10am shift... i work weird patterns, though, so this actually my last one of the week and my weekend's tomorrow
Avatar ♥ 9:38am
Creature Boy:

Diggin these crazy sides , blood. Man oh mango chutney
  9:39am
Don:

Good morning everyone. Such a refreshing morning. Glad I found this station.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:39am
fionnland:

Nice set so far! Too Marvelous for Words has popped up for me a couple times this week - love Lee Konitz ripping through it with the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartet
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:41am
YETI BOB:

Don - welcome! Make sure you check out WFMU at 9AM on Friday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42am
B R M:

No, thank *YOU* ... always appreciate when gratitude is a two-way street!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43am
Webhamster Henry:

Not only can you still pledge, the SWAG IS STILL AVAILABLE!
  9:44am
Don:

@Yeti. Plan to.
Avatar ♥ 9:45am
TDK60:

You have that huge WFMU library almost to yourself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45am
tom in Glasgow:

in reality, a velvet fog would likely be very oppressive
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45am
Handy Haversack:

I finally had a chance to listen to the state of the station show yesterday. Very proud that 11222 was the third-most-common zip code after 11215 and the United Kingdom. If the stupid ferry company would get its crap together, the Greenpoint-Jersey City commute would be such a breeze!
Avatar ♥ 9:45am
Creature Boy:

Lester Young ! Thx for reminding me Joe
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46am
The Oscar:

My partner pledged for the first time this year! Last night during the marathon, when Ken and Michele were talking about necrophilia, she turned to me and said, "I am SO HAPPY this station exists!"
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:46am
YETI BOB:

Lester Young was probably the coolest cat ever. (He coined the word "cool", according to some)
  9:47am
Spring has Sprung:

@Yeti Bob, maybe she just got tired of people mispronouncing and misspelling her non-WASP name. Speaking from personal experience ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47am
Steve from Dunwoody:

+
Leap in, Yeti Bob!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47am
PaulRobeson1920:

Yip yip !
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Prez & the Birth of (the) Cool
- read all about it :
www.amazon.com...
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YETI BOB:

@Spring: It's a cycle, people don't know how to pronounce "odd-looking" names, so they never see them, and they remain odd-looking.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49am
Webhamster Henry:

I was kind of hoping for a live rendition of the Party Girls song from Jim Price, but it was a great show!
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Joe McG:

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention how a couple of those songs mentioned spring - the breeze of March and so on. Here we are and happy spring!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49am
Handy Haversack:

May it be a much happier spring than the last one -- for all of us.
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YETI BOB:

@Joe - thanks for not playing "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most"
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YETI BOB:

(I like that song but it's a bummer)
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Joe McG:

@YETI: Yeah, I wasn't feeling that one today, much as I like it.
  9:53am
headcleaner:

a joy and a blessing it is to have you and the rest of WFMU with us for another year, Joe
  9:53am
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Is this song dedicated to those $GME apes?
Avatar 9:54am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Happy Schpring !
& Joyeux Solar Returns to all the ⦿Suns in ♈︎Aries ! :
www.facebook.com...
  9:55am
Dayffid:

Loving this set so far
  9:58am
Jeffrey D:

What a great start to the week...thanks as ever Joe
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59am
PaulRobeson1920:

91.1FM sounding clear!

Good morning from a 14ft lorry on the corner of 11th av & 42nd st!

Hoooray for WFMU!!!! What a beautiful day! My baby loves the spring time!
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 9:59am
TonyR:

I think JMcG revealed his full surname on one of the marathon shows. I, too, have a surname too laden with consonants.
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Joe McG:

Aw, thanks, JD!
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bukowski.:

♡♡♡♡♡
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Hubig Pie:

Sabah al-khair
  10:02am
Don:

Meeting time. Ugh
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TDK60:

Love that string instrument - a tanbur or setar possibly. Liraz's voice too.
  10:03am
Rachel Bo Bachel:

Joe, you are casting a magical spell this morning! Listening with my THREE kids- newly minted mini-glistener is two weeks old already! <3 manages to sneak you some bird-seed during marathon :) Much love for all you do!!!
  10:03am
Blix:

@JoeMcG...may have missed a question I posed above about a pledge I made Saturday night that never seemed to get confirmed. I have to leave now, but if you leave a message here about what I should do (email someone or just leave it and wait) I'll come back here later and heed your advice.
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Handy Haversack:

Good to see you, Rachel! Hope all is well!

TDK60, definitely. I keep meaning to pick up this album.
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Joe McG:

@RBR: Wow, congrats on your new addition! @Blix: If you wouldn't mind e-mailing me at jmcgasko@wfmu.org, I can take care of you after the show.
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tom in Glasgow:

Blix, you might be best off emailing jmcgasko@wfmu.org to make sure it isn't missed
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TDK60:

Hello, Handy. Rachel, congrats on the arrival of your babe.
  10:05am
Blix:

Got it! Thanks! Great show thus far as always.
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tom in Glasgow:

congrats Rachel!
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TonyR:

The pledge confirmation bots responded to me like clockwork and almost immediately. All hiccups were local, and a result of my running a script-blocker.
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Stevel:

Good morning, and happy post successful marathon buzz to all!
  10:08am
eric from lake hiawatha:

Thanks for the AG!
  10:08am
Rachel Bo Bachel:

Thank you Tom in Glasgow! Tell Belle and Sebastian I say hi! Handy I miss you and all the accu-buddies!! Sooo buried these days lol! Hope you and Kate are well!!!
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Toutevoix:

((((((◍ ◍))))))
  10:09am
Rachel Bo Bachel:

TDK60 and Joe- thank you!! He is a little fuss-budget but I love him a lot already ❤️❤️❤️
  10:10am
Spring has Sprung:

@TonyR, my surname has 6 consonants and 2 vowels. One consonant pair occurs twice, so when I have to spell my name and get to the second pair, people think I'm starting over at the beginning. Oy
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Handy Haversack:

Hanging in, Rachel! We're both a couple weeks out from second shot and desperate for spring.

Hey, Stevel!
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fred:

Good morning Joe and listeners.
It's been a while since the station reached the goal during the marathon. A pleasant surprise
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Will the Sound Guy:

I picked up yol before the marathon, I can't wait to drop the needle on it
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Joe McG:

@Will: Pretty great, they add some really new wave/dancey flavors into the mix.
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Handy Haversack:

This set is fantastic, Joe. A perfect pivot from the first set. Wow, it's nice to be here and listening.
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Joe McG:

@Handy: Glad to be here and glad you're enjoying.
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Son Of Pantz:

I'm a SFL member and I still feel like I'm committing Grand Larceny. Compared to what I get from WFMU, I'd pay 10X it if I could afford to.
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fred:

Does Matt Warwick know about Beautify Junkyards?
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Will the Sound Guy:

I agree with Handy, you're on point Joe
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Flawless Playlist
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Dano59:

This Jane Weaver's good stuff. You have learned much of the art of the segue, young Jedi
  10:21am
chresti in tennis booth:

Good morning from Griffith Park!
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Jason from Houston:

*+:꒰◍• ᴗ •◍꒱:+*
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Dano59:

also liked the Tom Zé. Amazing that this set is all. new stuff.
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Stashu:

We made the goal! Thank you everyone! I’m still coming down from all the excitement. Hi Joe!
  10:24am
Ernest:

need to check out that Weaver record, sounds awesome. Thanks!
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Son Of Pantz:

Dance with me, Stashu!
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Dano59:

@The Oscar: your partner should check out Katie Halper on the Useful Idiots podcast. Their opening segments often comment on necrophilia as not such a bad thing, ethically (that's about as far as it goes , to be fair)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Stashu you were an absolute Muppet in the greatest & highest sense.
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Dano59:

wow ... nice! Perfect morning music. SE of Saturn compiles older releases?
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

peeple.
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Joe McG:

STASHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
  10:26am
chresti in tennis booth:

Another round of applause for Stashu and Joe! You guys were fabulous last night!
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Will the Sound Guy:

We made broke through the goal, it was exciting. Maybe you guys can fix that infamous toilet tank lid!
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Dano59:

I was going to order Palladium so I think this is going on the list.
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Gaylord Fields:

Hi, Joe! Hi, Stashu! I need to be here this morning, and not just for the usual reasons. Still have much WFMU love in reserve.
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Handy Haversack:

What chresti said! You were fantabulistically wonderatious, Stashu!!!
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rx scabin:

Trying to work, but listening and now commenting instead. According to Clay, it is National Goof-off Day, so . . . .
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JR HTX:

So nice to hear these selections ....after two weeks
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Dano59:

I was importing covers and Rolling Stones stuff for my radio project; I had to stop and listen more intently. Jeez ... but thanks, Joe. Music is a salve, a balm ... and the bomb.
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Joe McG:

Hey Gaylord!
  10:30am
Dennis Diken:

alright Joe! hey all! thanks to everyone!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Without WFMU life would be a mistake.
- Fred Nietzsche
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YETI BOB:

"National Goof-Off Day" is providing me with an excellent excuse today. But I'm goofing off by cleaning the apartment instead of doing my "real job".
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Paulo AD:

Thats me done for the day guys, have a great day ahead :)
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Gaylord Fields:

Joe, I usually wake up at 11 on Mondays, but not this morning. I needed to bask in your aural sunlight as early as possible.
  10:35am
Nuno:

B. Junkyards are a PORTUGUESE band!
  10:36am
Nuno:

(and as for Tom Zé), it is Contos de FRALDAS ("diapers tales")
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Handy Haversack:

Melenas from Pamplona, Spain.
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Handy Haversack:

Gaylord, your selection and performance last night were absolutely perfect! Death! An absolute favorite for me and K8. We were shouting with joy -- thanks so much, Gaylord!
  10:38am
headcleaner:

obrigado pelo esclarecimento, Nuno
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TonyR:

McGasko's a good cop!!
  10:39am
Nuno:

Um prazer. Great set.
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Matt Fiveash:

Livin' on the air in Jersey City!
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Ernest:

good choice.
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YETI BOB:

50,000,000 Elvis fans can't be wrong!
  10:39am
Spring has Sprung:

Joe n Stashu were so cute during the Marathon. Yes I did pledge.
  10:39am
Andrew:

Elvis is KING!!!
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Uncle Michael:

Love his voice. LOVE his songwriting. Really dig his covers. I might have more EC 45s than any other artist.
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Glorious Estephonic:

ELVIS COSTELLO ! YESSSSS ! covers love his covers ! !!! so happy about this.
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The Oscar:

Fingers crossed for "Psycho!"
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TonyR:

Costello == a fine choice for this morning. Forget the h8rz.
  10:41am
Listener Alexandra:

Good morning, Joe! Happy post-Marathon Monday :)
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Handy Haversack:

I'd get on line for this Single File!
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Dano59:

I heard the original of another Get Happy!! track the other day on Rock'n'Soul and ... I had no idea! I stand accused ...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Attractions - wotta band !!
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Will the Sound Guy:

Single file let's Go Joe McG! Bringing that Costello heat this morning.
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Son Of Pantz:

Elvis Costello revived Chet Baker's career in the early 80's. It seems fitting you would play both today.
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jinjabredboy:

wow @The Oscar - I was typing the exact same words!!!
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Jim the Poet:

Elvis me
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Dano59:

Taking Liberties and Out of Our Idiot are full of this stuff; and I have about 40 EC singles for others. So I have no excuse!
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Lixiviated Life:

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to clicky-star every one of these.
(let's see now...)
  10:43am
headcleaner:

the good vibes just pouring out of you today, Joe. Exactly what I need, post-marathan (and on the anniversary day of the lockdown in NYC, by my calculations)
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Spinning Giant:

Morning all - looks like I picked a great time to drop in :D
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YETI BOB:

Honestly this has never really been 'my kind of music' (whatever that means) but I recognize his enormous talent & he's had a great career and I'm happy to listen to this segment today while I do some spring cleaning.
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Steve from Dunwoody:

Work can wait when Elvis sings soul 45s
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Dano59:

@headcleaner: I'm going by March 13, the first day we were told to work from home. I let the anniversary pass without comment. It's not as important, as, say, Nick Lowe's birthday (3/24)
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Steve from Dunwoody:

Oh Yeti -- This is my wheelhouse. Let me show you my herky jerky dance!
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Gaylord Fields:

Thanks, Handy (and K8)! I hope it was as cathartic for everyone as it was for me.
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tadpoles:

Excellent Joe. Elvis in Central Park a couple of years ago...brilliant! Bring 'em back! Cheers.
  10:46am
Andres:

Good morning, Joe and all! I thought the only argument regarding EC was EC with or without The Attractions.
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Dano59:

the Trust tour in '09 was fantastic, as was Imperial Bedroom (and Other Chambers) in '17.
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YETI BOB:

(pops a couple of Ibuprofen and puts his dancin' shoes on)
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Dano59:

The Damned ... an outlier. This was given away at a London show.
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The Oscar:

WHOA-- never heard this one!
  10:48am
chresti in tennis booth:

And, before I actually start working, big ups to Gaylord for his astounding performance last night!
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Stevel:

Brand new cover to me. Very cool!
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Dano59:

one of the rarer EC singles
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Only critique of ♍︎Virgo ElvisC might be sometimes you can hear him writing : a self-consciousness born of his acute intelligence. But if a critique is that some Pop is too Smart I'll deal with it! Nothing in light of his assets... Criticizing his voice just seems petty to me personally. A distinctive voice wielded effectively is what FunkPop-a-Rolla is all about... & maybe what he is reportedly like to be in a band with - but that's really none uh muh beeswax anyhow...
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bk845:

This makes me wonder if the Damned's version is the original or a cover?
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The Oscar:

YES.
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jinjabredboy:

Yes
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Dano59:

@RevRabbit: I've seen the same critique of Graham Parker. At least Elvis' songs are easier to cover 'cos GP's are very much of *his* brain.
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Lewis:

oyyyy - this song is creepy no matter what, Elvis adds that little extra...
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mariano:

Jesus, I turned on the show and thought for a second EC had died! 'Morning, Joe, Crew, folks. That's one way to jump-start one's heart ;)
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Tim 07030:

My favorite version of "Psycho'
  10:51am
headcleaner:

@Dano59 - yeah it was all a bit of a blur. That date, March 13, was the last, or the next-to-last night the bars and such were open in NYC. In any case it was when Ken hit the Gong at the end of the Marathon finale on the 15th -- leading right into "Nowhere Places" -- that's when the lockdown, and the Great Year of Nothingness really started for me
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Handy Haversack:

@Gaylord: very much! Much cathecting and catharting all through the Marathon, and last night was a glorious release of joy!

Morning, Mariano!
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Dano59:

my ex-wife wasn't a fan of Elvis' voice. that explains that. (he did do a lot of screaming on his records.)
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-Ken:

Morning everybody. This version of Psycho brings back great memories
  10:53am
headcleaner:

I am sometimes a fan of Elvis's voice. This song is one of those times
  10:53am
Bobnoss Dugnutt:

The Jack Kittel version of this is probably my most played song of the last 6 months for some reason
  10:53am
Spring has Sprung:

Never heard this one before. I don't get it. Is he trying to redo a joke song as a genuine murder ballad?
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MD:

CONGRATS TO WFMU FOR REACHING THE GOAL!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!
GREAT MARATHON!!!!
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The Oscar:

"Psycho" is one of my favorite songs ever. I love that it gets to the natural murder ballad endpoint by the end of the first verse, and then just KEEPS GOING.
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Dano59:

Rufus Wainwright did 'Psycho' too
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McGroovey:

I live Psycho. Not sure if I've ever heard EC's version. It's good.
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McGroovey:

*love

(Not live)
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tadpoles:

Elvis' autobiography is an excellent read.
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Jim the Poet:

My mama did think I was psycho
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Dano59:

indeed ... Henry and Howard Coward
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mariano:

Hey, Handy! And yeah, what a show, Gaylord!
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Lewis:

@tadpoles - thanks for the recommendation!
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-Ken:

@Oscar, I agree. By the end of "Psycho," the murderer has gotten even crazier, and doesn't even realize that he killed his Ma
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Dano59:

much love for all the EC love, Joe.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Dano59: GrahamParsons ...& I love JoeJackson too while were @ it...
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Dano59:

I could see him played by Vincent Gallo
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

GrahamPARKER.
...Good Morning...
  10:57am
KWilde:

Great Richard Thompson song
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Dano59:

@RevRabbit: Gram Parsons maybe too. But I thought of Joe as well.
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nathan:

richard & linda cover??? where are you digging this stuff up
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

#PsychobillyForever
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YETI BOB:

@Steve from Dunwoody: I was trying to do the herky-jerky dance but the beat withered and died
  10:58am
headcleaner:

Ken's rap last night was even crazier than Psycho, I say
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Dano59:

EC dueted with Tony Bennett on a Gershwin tribute; has sung Weill, worked with a classical quartet. No one more diverse or masterful. Until he met the Brodskys he couldn't even read music!
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Tim 07030:

If you like EC doing covers, I highly recommend locating the 2-CD reissue of 'Kojak Variety' (unless you already have it!). The bonus CD is much better than the album if you ask me.
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Dano59:

yeah it is @Tim
  10:59am
johnk77:

regarding the attractions
pete thomas is 1 of the
great live drummers
also a very cool guy off-stage
approachable, fun, nice to
support acts
and a big fan of african music
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Dano59:

still looking for the hearts-label red vinyl 45 of this one
  11:00am
headcleaner:

non-reaading + otherwise "illiterate" musicians are among my favorite kind
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Handy Haversack:

Great Single File, Joe! The hound and I are getting ready to head out, but it's hard to tear ourselves away from this!

(I assume Bagpipe will let me speak for him in this matter.)
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Hi Joe and everybody. Congratulations on the Marathon success, Joe! I'm surprised you're still standing. :)
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Yooper_Listener_1970N:

There we go - was waiting.
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Krys O.:

Costello did a nice cover of A Good Year for the Roses.
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Dano59:

"Nick Lowe and His Sound" - he pulled the same gag on a Jenny Lewis single
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thatpatsmith:

makes the morning
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Dano59:

Oh, @Kris -!! (swooon)
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@headcleaner - Did you ever hear this one? The music critic Dave Marsh responded to hearing that Ted Nugent said Marsh is his favorite music writer with "I wonder what he'll think when he learns how to read."
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Dano59:

@Krys - sorry, autocorrect. OK, great set. Back to work work work...
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Pedro in Arlington:

Costello hasn't gotten the "thanks for living long enough, you're now a legend" treatment like Santana and others. Maybe because he's worked in a variety of genres.
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Dano59:

and the Hall, or the Grammy folk, don't know if he's pop or rock'n'roll enough. Bastids.
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Marko:

On April, the Montclair (NJ) Literary Festival features Richard Thompson discussing his autobiography. The interviewer? Elvis Costello.
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Joe! Later on, all!
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Marko:

April 6!
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nortonjutland:

great single file; and back to good old regular Joe.
thanks Joe!
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Dano59:

I wonder if Joe plays this same music bed off vinyl every time.
  11:06am
headcleaner:

@tim - that's a good quote, + new to me
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Pedro a little like Joni if I could (or should) make such a comparison...
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@headcleaner - Musician's with an IQ of a chimp are generally my favorites too.
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Pedro in Arlington:

Costello is a fun TV host. His Spectacle TV show is now on YouTube. And he was grand filling in for Letterman when Dave had heart surgery. I guess the guy needs money because his reissues should have stopped with the Rhino sets. But he's never sold much so I don't begrudge.
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Stevel:

Great water drinking. Very pleasurable.
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Mike Sin:

Great single file -- when I was younger, I always thought EC should have released his cover of "I Stand Accused" as a single!
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Son Of Pantz:

Judd Nelson??? Where's that guy been hiding?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Elvis Costello had a cancer issue a couple of years ago. I trust he is recovering and he is past it now.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Do it to us! I love Joe's groaners!
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Kevlicki:

“Hard earned” I’m keeping my earnings and trying to distribute my stimulus $ to places that can put it to good use!
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Barno:

I saw a the premier of Electric Jesus at the virtual Toronto Film Fest. It was cute, especially for someone, like me, who was interested in Christian hair metal in the 80's :)
  11:17am
Andres:

For my part, I enjoy the lots of talking-on-air part and it always takes me awhile to adjust to the lack of it post-marathon.
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fred:

Eleanor Rigby again? Is that a version you didn't play earlier? Will you be catching up for the rest of the show?
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Barno - In 1987 I bought a tape of TSOL's Revenge. I was so excited. Then when I got home I discovered that Stryper had been duped on it. I was so crushed.
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Dano59:

hmmm I don't see any April 6 event with RT and EC, but there is an April 8 virtual event with RT an Wesley (JWH) Stace. tix include RT's book, signed. and he lives in Montclair? damn.
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Tim 07030:

Is this turning into southern rock?
  11:19am
egould310:

That’s annoying as fuck.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

HowardGoodall woke me to the unobserved in plain sight that EleanorRigby is Modal like ancient UK stuff... Not a lot of Pop up to then like that @ all...
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Joe McG:

@fred: Time will tell, Fred!
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Kotzwinkled:

This Eleanor Rigby Morse Code beeping is tripping my dog out.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

This version is "o-tay" in my book.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

ScarboroughFair for instance another Modal Folk style one...
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YETI BOB:

@RR63: Dorian, to be specific. If you've never seen Alan W. Pollock's Beatles notes, you might enjoy them - www.icce.rug.nl...
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steveo:

this r eminds me of a dream i had once
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Righteous YetiB !
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Dano59:

@Rev how about the Left Banke? baroque pop, maybe not modal (count me among the musically semi-illiterate)
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Tim 07030:

Eleanor Rigby / Qu'est-ce que
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Asheville Jon:

we pledge to wfmu to then be aurally assaulted by this? sigh.
  11:22am
John in Phoenixville:

Will you be playing Morgana King’s version of “Eleanor Rigby”?? She knows how it feels to be lonely.
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YETI BOB:

@RR63: Also Dorian - "Purple Haze"
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Jim the Poet:

Did Shatner do Eleanor Rigby
  11:22am
Brendan:

I thought you had reformed, but still, the sadistic behavior continues.This is a most heinous crime.
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Dano59:

in the last 2-3 weeks I've been down a Billy Joel rabbithole, an R.E.M. rabbithole, and now fixing a Beatles rabbithole where the rain gets in ...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Dano59: Well - I wonder if it's like saying there was No Poetry in Rawk Before Dylan. True & Not True... LeftBanke are PostFabs for sure...
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LouV:

been really into that third wave eleanor rigby cover that you played on Scott's show last week - so good!
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Spardocus:

This cover should be outlawed. I'd rather hear aerosmith than this!
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YETI BOB:

"Modal" is a tricky word. "Modal jazz" uses mode-changes in place of (or alongside) chord changes. These folk tunes stay in one mode, which is Dorian
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Asheville Jon:

i'd rather hear Joe play 3 hours of billy joel!
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Dano59:

@Rev - the influence went both ways with Dylan and the Fabs
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Spring has Sprung:

@RR1163; oh interesting. I was actually wondering about that hearing that great Y-L Unlimited version (thank you Joe). Learned a tiny bit of modes music theory years ago, it's fascinating
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Son Of Pantz:

Be careful what you wish for @Asheville Jon.
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Yes:

jams
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fred:

OK then, so you have a drunk guy version? Because that was my favorite in Ken's Bohemian Rhapsody show (I guess he stole the idea from you, but made it worse, as is his wont)
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WaffleMix:

It just won't end
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YETI BOB:

But all traditional music is in one mode or another! Major key is Ionian, and minor is Aeolian. Dorian is sort of a different, less common version of a minor key (minor 3 while retaining the major 6 and 7).
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Asheville Jon:

i could handle it! :)
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Dano59:

I guess I haven't been on enough Monday mornings to realize this song is Joe's Felder-like Achilles' heel.
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Asheville Jon:

oh noooooooo more beatless covers. ugh, switching to the drummer stream
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steveo:

1965?
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Uncle Michael:

Eleanor Rigby picked up her eyes in a church where a wedding had been.
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Dano59:

I think Troubadors of British Folk on Rhino opened me up to the Child Ballads and stuff via Fairport and others. that's usually what it takes for a post-folk revival boomer. Elton John might also have dabbled.
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Matt Fiveash:

Look at him working, putting his socks on his hands and his gloves on his feet
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DJ Guin:

this is what Hell sounds like for Lennon and Harrison
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Joe McG:

That 3 hour Billy Joel special is a great idea!
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mariano:

Wait, why all these "Eleanor Rigby" covers? Don't tell me she died too!
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Spardocus:

2 or so years ago I caught a set on FMU comprised entirely of covers of Toto's 'Africa'
It was wild. Thought I was in the midst of a fever dream, but nope. Simply FMU doing FMU things.
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

Those darn socks!
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Asheville Jon:

go for it joe!
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Dano59:

Good lord, just play 'Father McKenzie' by "Eleanore Rigby" and be done with it!
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Dano59:

... and yet no one has dared mash this up with 'Elenore'. ... the mind reels
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Asheville Jon:

hey Joe, how about playing the Emmett Chapman cover of eleanor rigby?
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Matt Fiveash:

Scottie McKenzie, going to Frisco with flowers all over his hair, nobody cares
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Erin in TO:

I am loving this covers set
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Lewis:

this hurts very badly...
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rx scabin:

No Billy Joel please ever. For some reason, just hearing his name makes me red-faced angry. I do not know why.
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Son Of Pantz:

You wouldn't, Joe. Say it ain't so.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

YetiB - Thx ! ...In my ignorance - I basically think of Modal in terms of being - on a few notes in a scale around a tonal center / drone - like Indian music. Just listened to a McCartney interview in which he says he & John called breaks a 'middle eight' - however many bars it actually was - cause they heard real musicians talk & had no idea ! ...for instance...
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Yes:

:::slaps leg. buckles up::
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Tim 07030:

Foggy Mountain Rigby!
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Uncle Michael:

My computer allows me to change my listening choice without making an announcement about it. Others need to look into that upgrade.
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Lewis:

what @Dano59 said...
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thatpatsmith:

Aretha's Eleanor cover is also great
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Dano59:

@Matt F: ho ho ho...
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Eleanor Rigby smokin' grass!
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Kotzwinkled:

At the risk of crossing streams, Chances with Wolves did a two hour show of "Rigby" covers, if you dare: www.chanceswithwolves.com...
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YETI BOB:

@RR: I wasn't trying to correct you - just wanted to add a bit of detail. You weren't wrong.
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Asheville Jon:

Emmett Chapman's version:
www.youtube.com...
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DJ Guin:

Elenore was a pastiche of Happy Together when the record execs asked for another hit song like Happy Together
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steveo:

the devil went down to his socks in the night when there's nobody there
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Spring has Sprung:

Who was the fmu dj who used to always rag on him calling him Billy Jo-EL?
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Fingers crossed for a disco version!
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Yes:

GO JOE GO
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DJ Guin:

no one ruins a song like the Queen of Soulless
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fred:

A Billy Joel special right after the marathon... If not then, then when?
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tim from champaign (now washington):

For all you groaners, jusrt be glad Joe isn't doing back to back 'When I'm 64' covers.
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Uncle Michael:

wow..prescient!
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Asheville Jon:

UM!!!!
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

This Disco one is pretty good
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Son Of Pantz:

"Get down Eleanor"?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

YetiB: Thx - Sincerely. I want to be Schooled re Musics.
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DJ Guin:

Disco Rigby and All Your Favorites on K-Tel's Super Sounds of the Seventies
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Joe McG:

Maybe if Eleanor had got down, she wouldn't have been so lonesome.
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Brendan:

My god this is horrible
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Ernest:

Curious what their I Want You (She's So Heavy) sounds like...
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Jason from Houston:

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
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Dano59:

Eleanor R. is the 'Mustang Sally' of the record geek set
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Jason from Houston:

I love all of these so much.
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DJ Guin:

Joe McG -- dry cleaners callled...go pick up your white suit and platform shoes
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Uncle Michael:

Hi, Jon!
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Erin in TO:

This disco cover is the best yet - I say this as a lonely person who just wants to get down hah
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WaffleMix:

👍
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fred:

@Joe: But then would she have become a Party Girl?
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Joe McG:

@Erin: Ha ha ha!
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Gaylord Fields:

@10:48 chresti in tennis booth: Thanks for the kind compliment! (I was doing my actual work and missed this lovely comment.)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nice Dano59.
Thing is - Beatles go so deep - like to their Saturday Cartoon in its original bounce in my toddlerhood deep. I suspect I'm not alone. Coulda been worse !! :D
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DJ Guin:

@Ernest -- by request -- www.youtube.com...
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Joe McG:

@fred: In love with her doctor?
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Gaylord Fields:

Thanks, mariano!
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egould310:

Doodah doodah get down Michelle, my belle.
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Billy Jam:

@Joe McGasko - what up + good job last night. @WFMU Marathon 2021 supporters = thank YOU for your generous contributions toward this wonderful radio station
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Ernest:

@DJ Guin: oh thanks! i guess i could have looked that up myself ;-)
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Dano59:

Didn't Hendrix cover it?
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Other thn the bluegrass one, I think all of these are #1 Hits.
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steveo:

this one stole the drum fill from the disco one though
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rx scabin:

This one!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

♏︎Scorpio Brutha Coffey.
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Fingers crossed for a cold-wave version!
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DJ Guin:

"I hope someone does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs"
- George Harrison
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Dano59:

actually @RevR, ER was an entree into serious, dark subject matter for this kid. The silliness of Yellow Submarine aside ...
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Joe McG:

Hey, Billy Jam!
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YETI BOB:

OK, so, somebody stop me if this is too much. Raag, scale, and mode are all related concepts. Your instument can make more different notes than you can use (unless you are Schoenberg) you don't use all 12 notes in an octave on the piano, you choose a smaller set of notes to use. This choice is a "scale". The most basic scales are pentatonic (black keys on keyboard) and diatonic (white keys).
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Jim the Poet:

This Eleanor person sounds like my type
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Dano59: That too ! A great sequence in an extraordinary practically unique film.
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YETI BOB:

Modes are a way to get new scales from old. If you play all the white keys from C to C it's a standard major scale. But if you start on A you get minor. Dorian is what you get if you start on D. It's much less common.
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Andres:

This version is good. Oh, this one is better. This one is the best yet. Etc.
All gold!
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Dano59:

@YetiB I appreciate it too. I know real rock musicians who know the modes; I never did. I can plot out a simple melody on a scale but that's about it. Most of my 'composing' comes about messing around on a guitar.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Bill Jam to the rescue!
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Jason from Houston:

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
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Strandlund:

Joe, didn't you do an entire show of Eleanor Rigby Covers?
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Joe McG:

BTW, I haven't played this many Rigbys since 2014, so it HAS been 7 years since I last did this to you.
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Asheville Jon:

play Emmett Chapman! :)
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YETI BOB:

You can get minor from major by starting on a different note (A instead of C) and keeping all the same pitches. But you can also get a minor scale by keeping the C as the starting note, and changing some of the pitches (flatten the 3, 6, and 7 - use black keys). So "scale" and "mode" are very related
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Dano59:

Eleanor would be a Goth Girl today
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fred:

@Joe: She may be looking for more, but if Ken goes back to Bohemian Rhapsody I'm going to blame you
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Tim 07030:

You can pick up a lot of rice during this guitar solo.
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Joe McG:

@Strandlund: Yup! It's in the archives, sometime in 2014. I forget what I called the show.
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Joe McG:

@Tim: Ha ha ha!
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

Thanks @YetiBob. Been trying to make a bit more sense of this area of theory. Good explanation.
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fionnland:

This one is breaking it up nicely.
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Jason from Houston:

I have listened to that show and made other people listen to it sooooo many times. Thank you, Joe.
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Asheville Jon:

this Dennis Coffee isn't all *that* bad, because you can barely tell it's eleeanor rugby
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mariano:

When I was in grade school, I was such a Beatles fan that I assumed they played all the instruments on all the songs, so I imagined them sitting together as a string quartet playing and singing "Eleanor Rigby."
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DJ Guin:

Billy Jam + WEED = Best Friday Evenings, ever
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Strandlund:

I love your cover shows!! Summertime was THE BEST!!
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YETI BOB:

Mixolydian - white keys tarting on G - is indispensible for jazz - it's like a major scale with a flat 7. OK enough music theory Dano - keep messing around, that's the most important thing!!
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Jason from Houston:

wfmu.org...
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YETI BOB:

(starting, not tarting)
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fred:

@Joe: In a wild fit of inspiration, you called it "Eleanor Rigby": wfmu.org...
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Joe McG:

Ah, thanks for posting the link. None of these are repeats. I checked.
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mb:

G'morning Joe and Monday people.

Great marathon this year. Was not expecting to hit it on time. WFMU #1.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

YetiB: This is Keyboard Brain vs. GittarBrain... You can't put a Capo on a Piano - but it's all there in a line... As a kid I took Sax lessons for a couple years & tried to follow dots. But - I didn't practice. I went home & played Gittar by ear! & that's me in a nutshell really... Have heard that in fact lobes on one side top the brain are reinforced in string players - & in the *opposite* hemisphere @ same attitude for keyboardists !... What happened for Prince no one knows...
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Jason from Houston:

That is the wild part. I was just thinking, "none of these are on that show!" Hahahaha...
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Joe McG:

May I pause to say that this damn band COOKS?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*Lattitude dammit...
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Yes:

jammer
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YETI BOB:

Joe McG: Hell yeah!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...or attitude in case of this band...
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DJ Guin:

this sounds like someone forgot the chords to Black Magic Woman or some Deep Purple song
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Joe - you could really drive the peanut gallery to foaming-at-the-mouth territory if you played 3 hours of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah covers.
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Joe McG:

@tim: Ooh, tim, that's very evil. I like how you think!
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Webhamster Henry:

@YETIB & RR11/63 don't get me started on microtonality.
A 19-tone Eleanor Rigby might be nice!
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Dano59:

@fred: David Bash posted his top 10 Billy Joel tracks (and he's done Rush and others recently) and that sparked a lot of memories for me. It's a pretty solid catalog and one you can be selective about.
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Jason from Houston:

WHAAAAAAAA
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Spring has Sprung:

@ Yeti Bob: awesome thanks! Bet you are good at math too.
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Jason from Houston:

*+:꒰◍• ᴗ •◍꒱:+*
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Billy Jam:

there's actually enough hip-hop songs that sample (to varying degrees) "eleanor rigby" by The Beatles that one could do a whole show or long set of them
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Son Of Pantz:

Stop encouraging him @Tim!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...we hear the Hallelujah chorus anyhow is the thing ...
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Brendan:

One hell of a bathroom break
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Mick:

checking in late to say: this version is seriously smoking
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Lewis:

did any of you experience Ken's Bohemian Rhapsody show? That was fun...
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Tank Top:

Love this version
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Joe McG:

@Mick: Agree! @TT: Me, too
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Mick:

Also - congrats on the marathon!
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Spring has Sprung:

The 7-Year Rigby Itch
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Andres:

Billy Jam: Looking forward to hearing you do that show! For real!
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Asheville Jon:

lewis, i "experienced" that. it was awful!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Son of Pantz - It's not positive reinforcement that eggs on Joe, it's the negative reinforcement, ;)
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paul:

One entire night at Morey's
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Lewis:

while a bit sideways on the covers idea, Kenny G's Ron Asheton RIP show is also a classic...
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Dano59:

the only ER cover I have in my library is P.P. Arnold. Now I'm thinking twice about playing it on-air in a couple weeks. oy.
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Stevel:

Dennis Coffey has me dancing in the office, in my basement, but still!
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morphe':

Thanks Joe and all !!!!!!
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Lewis:

@ Asheville Jon - and yet we kept listening...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lewis (my middle btw spelled that way) - @ the beginning of that I sensed where it was going & said - oh, this won't be easy - but - it will be Epic...
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DJ Guin:

@Joe Mcg -- big ask, but can you spin something off of Transformed Man for William Shatner's 90th Birthday?
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YETI BOB:

@RR: I play bass and a bit of keys, I've taken some lessons on both, I'm equally bad at both, but it's really interesting to me to compare the approaches. My brain is probably a total mess. @Spring - you're welcome! and yes, I majored in math in college but I've always loved music too.
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Andrew_in_WI:

Had to sign in for that one.... it deserves ALL the clicky-stars.
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Joe McG:

@Dano59: Oh, I have that one with me! I'll finish with it for you.
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Stevel:

I can take whatever Joe McG dishes out. I think.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I thought it was going to bust into Stairway to Rigby for a second.
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Jason from Houston:

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
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Asheville Jon:

Lewis, i turned it off after about 15 minutes. unbearable
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Brendan:

If there’s a vaccine for this song I’m taking it
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Joe McG:

@Stevel: I think I'll start my Billy Joel special with "The Entertainer."
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Toutevoix:

))
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ChukAmok:

@JoeMcG I see you’ve come in strong on the Rigby this week. Kudos!
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Jason from Houston:

LOL, tim! This is a good one! That bass is not hiding out...
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Stevel:

Velvet Opera scores with a gnarly bass sound!

Joe McG: You can't scare me.
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WaffleMix:

I ascribe to the leave it on, something worse will definitely come on, approach to WFMU
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lewis - RonAsheton is a Major Gittar Hero for me. Is a Link to that handy ??
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I might suggest "The Longest Time", Joe.
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McGroovey:

I vote in favor of the Dennis Coffey Eleanor Rigby.

Also, I would endorse the concept of three hours of Leonard Cohen. Or of Flipper, but no one asked for Flipper, except me. But Flipper probably hasn't made enough records to fill three hours, unless you pad it with the Brainwash 7" locked groove.
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Lewis:

Ashevilles Jon - I suppose I am a glutton for that special punishment that our favorite radio station dishes out every now and the...
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Toutevoix:

it knits
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Asheville Jon:

do your worst on the billy joel special Joe, we can handle it!
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andy the painter:

congrats to the Skeleton Crew, and ALL of us, for reaching the Marathon goal. thanks for all your work, Joe!
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Asheville Jon:

Lewis, after the beatless, queen is my most hated band. fortunately fmu has other streams! :)
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

Damn if I don't like every one of these E/R covers...well maybe not so high on the bluegrass one.
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Hubig Pie:

I like my beer cold
My TV loud
And my radio......... unbearable
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Spring has Sprung:

Joe McG ER 2028... start getting ready NOW
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Lewis:

@RR - here ya go... wfmu.org...
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Stevel:

Joe McG: What's amazing is, as one of the nicest people on the planet (hanging right with Sheila B) you are as cantankerous, radio-wise, as Ken. One of the many wonders of WFMU
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Joe McG:

@Asheville Jon: I know it! You guys can handle anything. That's why we love you!
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Strandlund:

Congratulations on making the marathon goal! It's shows like this that keep the money coming in!!
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Jason from Houston:

This version just keeps giving!
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Asheville Jon:

Joe, please play the longest version of Scenes from an Italian Restaurant you can find!
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YETI BOB:

@Webhamster Henry: Please make a 19TET "Elanor Rigby" so we can all hear what it would sound like!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Here's a tough one: 3 hours of Rock-a-bye Baby covers.
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TonyR:

There's a funny film called "Party Girl" where the crazed club owner REALLY had a thing against one mixer (a name like "Frankie Knuckles', but not him), and the hapless DJ was seduced into playing one, and got the record broken for his troubles. Where are THOSE GIFs, Internet??
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

Well, Joe, you eased us into what turned into a triumphant first post-Marathon show. Kudos and THANKS!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Cheers Lewis !
...BillyJoel is someone I have to be coddled into admitting has any merit whatsoever - the fake EltonJohn far as I'm concerned. People like him cause they look like him - but that's true of everybody...
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Strandlund:

CARAVAN would make a great all cover show, Joe!
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Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz:

I am freaking out over this set. Absolutely loving it. Some of the coolest stuff I've heard in a while.
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Lewis:

my favorite week on wfmu is the week after the marathon!
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Joe McG:

@Strandlund: Still considering it!
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βrian:

FYI: Irene Trudel is coming up on the Drummer Stream:
wfmu.org...
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Jason from Houston:

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TonyR:

@Lewis: afterglow
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12539:

Thanks (and congratulations), Joe!
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Strandlund:

YAY!!
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Lewis:

@TonyR - exactly!
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Jason from Houston:

GAH THIS ONE
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Up next: Joe Belock plays 3 hours of Louie Louie.
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Toutevoix:

All the lonely people together unite!
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Joe McG:

Hey thanks for putting up with this today and well, thanks again for supporting WFMU and getting us to our goal this year. Despite what I just did to you, I love you all.
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YETI BOB:

@Strandlund: Hahaha, me and a few friends once recorded a punk-jazz version called "I Don't Caravan"
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TonyR:

Plague has transformed my 'FMUing into a highly structured/scheduled affair. I have all my fave shows' days memorized.
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McGroovey:

These are all fine Eleanor Rigbys.
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TonyR:

"No one was saved."

Abt sums it up.
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βrian:

Joe is sporting a Listener Beater today.
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Erin in TO:

I am loving this P.P. Arnold version so much...so sad and a little creepy
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Santos L Halper:

Thanks for that hot Coffey Joe! Looks like there’s 2 sets of stuff from those shows. And congrats on the marathon!
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Yes:

THANK YOU JOE
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D Rok (in brooklyn):

I've been on a call for work, and have been aware of this string of Eleanor Rigby covers happening in the background, but am damn sad I haven't been able to really listen to them.
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Asheville Jon:

Joe, you need to check out Emmett Chapman's version. might be a bit too psychedelic for this show though
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Michael Shelley:

pleasure to just hear some good music this morning!
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johnk77:

7year rigby itch
sounds like a social disease
picked up in a rock club
in the before times?;>
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Stevel:

The Joe McG show, pioneering the Stockholm Syndrome waves of radio glory.
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Joe non Papa:

I'm sorry I missed the Elvis Costello singles (food shopping). I had this memory ringing in my head since I heard the the Chet Baker you played early in the show. I was at one of those Dr Pepper open air concerts by the Hudson River around 1983 and went to hear EC on his Punch the Clock tour, I think. He took a special break to introduce a guest trumpeter, I recall. I was not familiar with Jazz at the time. Anyone know if that happened to be Chet Baker playing with EC?
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

@TonyR - i only know what day of the week/time of day it is by who is on the air at any given time
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Asheville Jon:

thanks Joe, for the show, and everything you do for WFMU!!!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Mainstream 1970s Music is often my weak spot for enlightened tolerance ...Disco is a weird area & whole Sociological topic ...Yerknow - some of us just aren't especially Dancey.
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Erin in TO:

@Joe McG can't speak for anyone else, but all you did to me was give me multiple new, fantastic versions of a song I love
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Toutevoix:

wfmunited
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Thanks, Joe! You are the best!
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Brendan:

That was fucked up Joe, but I forgive you already
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Devin B.:

Always thought the plural was 'Eleanors Rigby.'
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johnk77:

great work selecter
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radioronan:

Thanks Joe..congrats on marathon success! Thanks to all the skeletons! Cheers!
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vanessa:

I will love any iterations of Eleanor Rigby you can play. Thank you!
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steveo:

i'm still not sure about 1965.. didn' the orig come out in 66?
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Andres:

No apologies. All gold. Thanks Joe!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for the fun today, Joe. "Going to the E.R." has a new meaning now.
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nardo:

Thought maybe this was a new stream called 24 Hours ER.
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Rich in Bay Ridge:

We somehow missed out on the Caetano Veloso Eleanor Rigby-Billie Jean mashup
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happymaan:

Love this show, thanks!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Mary Wing does Three OF a Kind - several versions of one tune all the time. It's in fact a very interesting study of Song Structure...
Original ER on 'Revolver', August 1966.

TY JB !!
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YETI BOB:

Devin B: Like "Attorneys General". Correct.
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Toutevoix:

off out playing rugby, love
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mariano:

Thanks Joe!!!
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patti fundament:

Getting on here late to remember the Tom Zé. He's always so good, but this particular recording, synth & all, sounded positively Kink-ish to me. His vocal style, even. Anyhow good on ya reaching that goal & achieving multiple DJ personalities!
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