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December 31, 2016: No Holding Back
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| Artist | Track |
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| Above, The |
Holding Back
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| Cymbaline, The |
Peanuts And Chewy Macs
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| Bill Carter |
Shot Four Times And Dy'n
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| Don Covay |
Mercy Mercy
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| Bee-Bom |
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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| Radio Days |
Never Gonna Make It
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| Clique, The |
Superman
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| Bluegrass Kats, The |
Mr Jet Plane
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| Little Mr. Lee And The Cherokees |
Party Time
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| Yolks, The |
Don't Cry Anymore
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| Sound Laboratory, The |
Twenty-First Century Girl
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| Cactus Blossoms, The |
Mississippi
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| Earl Forest |
The Duck
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| Desmond Dekker |
You Can Get It If You Really Want
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| Monkees, The |
You Bring The Summer
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| Rockets, The |
It's A Mistake
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| Nikki Lane w/ Dan Auerbach |
Love's On Fire
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| Sam and Dave |
Don't Knock It
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| Peter And The Penguins |
Here I Go Again
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| Paul Revere & the Raiders |
Him or Me (what's it gonna be?)
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| Laura Cantrell |
Hong Kong Blues
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| Yvonne Baker & the Sensations |
Party Across The Hall
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| Jeevas, The |
Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) aka The Bike That I Ride
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| Helen Reddy |
One Way Ticket
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| Tex Williams |
Blue Danube
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| Jean Knight |
Do Me
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| Formulars Dance Band |
Never Never Let Me Down
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| Daniel Johnston and Yo La Tengo |
Speeding Motorcycle!
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| Utopia |
Where Does The World Go To Hide?
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| Chris Erikson |
When I Write My Memoir
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| Ben E. King |
Let The Water Run
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| David Bowie & Elvis Presley |
Golden Years (unreleased demo)
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| Mark Bacino |
Not That Guy
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| Redbone |
Come and Get Your Love
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| A Minute With |
SCOTT SCHINDER
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| Juniper |
May You Always
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CLICK HERE for a new song titled "People Are Disgusting" from Jonathan Richman CLICK HERE to read "The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History"
CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE to listen to an episode of Recode Media titled "Musicians fighting Spotify are ‘so f-cking dumb,’ music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz says"
CLICK HERE to read a Mike Love sympathetic piece titled "Beach Boys seek to overcome discord with new wave of Love"
CLICK HERE to listen to a new NPR interview with Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read "How Rockpile Tried To Change Rock and Roll"
CLICK HERE to read "The Zombies Are Back"
CLICK HERE to watch the trailer for "Ticket To Write" a documentary film that explores the golden age of rock music writing
CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
CLICK HERE to see how Norman from Teenage Fanclub rates the bands albums
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"
CLICK HERE for info about the tuning used on Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough"
CLICK HERE for Artist Management According To Flo & Eddie
CLICK HERE to see the March 25th Hot 100 chart - when Happy Together was number one!!
CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits
CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show
CLICK HERE to see a Thought Leader gives a talk on Thought Leadership
CLICK HERE to find out about a medical fundraiser for Scott Schinder
CLICK HERE to find out Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be
CLICK HERE to find out Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals … … and every other major event on the planet
CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms
CLICK HERE to hear "How Music Taste Evolved"
CLICK HERE to get to know my new favorite person Lively Val Shively
CLICK HERE to check the stats
CLICK HERE for Ringo's isolated drums from "Oh Darling"
CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell ina BBC interview with some woman with a lot of plastic surgery
CLICK HERE for info on the new lp from The Explorers Club
CLICK HERE to see some paintings by Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"
CLICK HERE for a FREE download of Money Mark's "Mark's Keyboard Repair"
CLICK HERE for The Hollies Family Tree
CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE for a free download of The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"
CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"
CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch
CLICK HERE to see a BBC Allen Toussaint Documentary
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Esquerita
CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"
CLICK HERE for the Glyn Johns interview in Tape Op!
CLICK HERE for Bruce Swedien: Recording Michael Jackson!
CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!
CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour
CLICK HERE for "Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World"
CLICK HERE for a new Q&A with Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read about "The Endless Fall of Suge Knight" (yikes!)
CLICK HERE for Barack Obama on WTF
CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album
CLICK HERE for a video of David Myhr's cover of Oh Susie, featured on "Even More Super Hits of the Seventies"
CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club
CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"
CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to
CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar
CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"
CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload
CLICK HERE for Gay Robot
CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!
CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"
CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story
CLICK HERE for Ock TV
CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"
CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?
CLICK HERE for optical illusions
CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work
CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill
CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"
CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off
CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show
CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU
CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut
CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of
CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"
CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"
CLICK HERE for a laugh
CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"
CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin
CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people
CLICK HERE if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is.
CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"
CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot
CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does
CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes
CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was
CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"
CLICK HERE for a grammar test
CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."
CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears
CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!
CLICK HERE for STAX at The White House
CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website
CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers
CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine
CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps!
CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings.
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
I love THESE Beach Boy videos!
CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
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Listener comments!
Listener Baby:
P-9O:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Miss Mailas:
Uncle Michael:
The question on everyone's mind: Is Bill Mac chewy?
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Larf @ Sammy - but ya dig him too...
Uncle Michael:
Listener Baby:
David in ATL from NJ:
Michael Shelley:
A Simple Rotisserie & Bar
Wood-Fired Cuisine × Classic cocktails
melinda:
Uncle Michael:
Once-a-year fish eggs is our tradition.
Listener Baby:
Danizete:
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Uncle Michael:
Todd-o-phonic Todd:
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Mika:
Parq:
Mika:
That said - thanks for the music.
herb.nyc:
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dk50b:
Todd-o-phonic Todd:
Michael Shelley:
Will:
Listener Baby:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Pedro G.:
AND Mike's advice saved me $500, passing on the VIP experience for the Brian Wilson show. It would have been an expensive few minutes of awkwardness.
Thanks Mike! And Happy 2017 even if it means watching a hateful orange toddler and his even more dangerous pals attempt to destroy our country. Cesspools don't drain swamps. Resist beginning Jan. 20.
dk50b:
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And Tower Records in The Village was record nerd mecca.
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Private Presley:
Parq:
Uncle Michael:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
Pedro G.:
P-9O:
Uncle Michael:
sonnyspop:
Frank Above:
Andrew:
Anyone else?
Juke Joint Jonny:
Michael Shelley:
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Mr C:
Listener Baby:
Frank Above:
Michael Shelley:
Montmaster J:
Frank Above:
Michael Shelley:
Montmaster - post a link to that McCartney thing - who wrote that?
Ken in Tucson:
Montmaster J:
Listener Baby:
David in ATL from NJ:
David in ATL from NJ:
Tommy Jack Haynes:
Listener Baby:
Marc15:
Juke Joint Jonny:
Tommy Jack Haynes:
Tommy Jack Haynes:
andy in berlin:
Marc15:
Anita:
David in ATL from NJ:
Amazing!
Michael Shelley:
Cooh John:
Stevel:
Montmaster J:
Montmaster J:
David in ATL from NJ:
James H. was the producer. He IS still around.
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