Favoriting The Cool Blue Flame with Little Danny: Playlist from June 8, 2017 Favoriting

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Postwar atmospherica.

Jazz modernism, mystical pop, electronic creaks & pulses, Latin rhythms, soundtrack & library moods, cinematic surf, exotica & instrumental curios, soul heartache, hypnotic blues & R&B, spoken trances, lonesome country & rock 'n' roll, strange scales, drones, haze.

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Favoriting June 8, 2017

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Karel Velebny Nonet  Nude   Favoriting Nonet     
Bennie Green  Catwalk   Favoriting 7" 45    0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Betty Carter  But Beautiful   Favoriting Out There    0:07:38 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez  The Wanderer   Favoriting Eden's Island    0:11:09 (Pop-up)
Douglas Gamley  Blue Coral   Favoriting South Sea Island Magic    0:15:07 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Star Dreams   Favoriting Bora Bora    0:17:46 (Pop-up)
The Soulful Strings  Within You Without You   Favoriting 7" 45    0:20:41 (Pop-up)
The Phoenix Trolley  Three-Part Invention (Too Many Trees in the Forest)   Favoriting 7" 45    0:23:17 (Pop-up)
The Factory  Path Through The Forest   Favoriting Chocolate Soup For Diabetics, vol. 3    0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Meddy's People  Fantasy World   Favoriting Psychedelic Archaeology Volume 7    0:29:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

welcome to the club  

 

 

0:31:56 (Pop-up)
Len Bright Combo  Young Upwardly Mobile... and Stupid   Favoriting Wreckless Eric Presents the Len Bright Combo    0:41:30 (Pop-up)
Little Walter  Roller Coaster   Favoriting 7" 45    0:42:56 (Pop-up)
Bobby Gonzales  Got My Mo-Jo Working   Favoriting 7" 45    0:47:03 (Pop-up)
Bo Diddley  I'm Looking for a Woman   Favoriting Bo Diddley's a Twister    0:48:17 (Pop-up)
Sanger Shafer  Seven Day Blues   Favoriting 7" 45    0:51:08 (Pop-up)
Chuck Mills & the Monarchs  Who Was the Fool   Favoriting 7" 45    0:52:32 (Pop-up)
The Moonlighters  Broken Heart   Favoriting 7" 45    0:54:19 (Pop-up)
Nerve City  Living Wage   Favoriting Nerve City: Recordings 2007-2008 LP (2010, Sweet Rot)    0:56:36 (Pop-up)
Zorba and The Greeks  Shockwave   Favoriting 7" 45    0:59:02 (Pop-up)
The Offset: Spectacles  循環線 THE LOOP SWING   Favoriting The Offset: Spectacles    1:01:13 (Pop-up)
Holmes Sisters  Gonna Ride this Train   Favoriting 7" 45    1:04:57 (Pop-up)
Art Neville  Arabian Love Call   Favoriting 7" 45    1:06:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

the wide open  

 

 

1:09:53 (Pop-up)
Ambassadors of Soul  Cool Sticks Beat (Pt. 1)   Favoriting 7" 45    1:17:25 (Pop-up)
Dell Ingrid  Try It You'll Like It - Pt 1   Favoriting 7" 45    1:19:45 (Pop-up)
Preston Epps Trio - vocals:Andre Franklin  Say Yeah!!   Favoriting 7" 45    1:22:54 (Pop-up)
Frances Faye  Comin' Home Baby   Favoriting 7" 45    1:25:05 (Pop-up)
T-V Slim and His Bluesmen  Love Bounce   Favoriting 7" 45    1:27:04 (Pop-up)
Nathaniel Mayer and His Fabulous Twilights  I Had a Dream   Favoriting 7" 45  Look people, I'm merely a Kris Holmes copycat: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/71511  1:29:25 (Pop-up)
Mac Rebennack and the Soul Orchestra  The Point   Favoriting 7" 45    1:31:32 (Pop-up)
'Baby Face' Willette  Somethin' Strange   Favoriting 7" 45    1:33:53 (Pop-up)
Duke Payne  Reaction   Favoriting 7" 45    1:40:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

the jungle speaks  

 

 

1:44:42 (Pop-up)
The Paris Sisters  I Love How You Love Me   Favoriting 7" 45    1:53:26 (Pop-up)
Veronica  So Young   Favoriting 7" 45    1:54:49 (Pop-up)
Ruby and the Romantics  Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore   Favoriting 7" 45    1:57:02 (Pop-up)


Listener comments!

Avatar 10:00pm
hyde:

hello hello
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JtotheK:

hello hello hello
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Flash Strap:

Hello !!!!
!!

!!
  10:03pm
MrFab:

Nude is a great way to kick off a show. Welcome to the Cool Blue Burlesque House. More naughty nekkid musics please!
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JtotheK:

@Flash - been enjoying the shows lately, even though not always able to comment (until after kiddo bedtime, anyway).
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Little Danny:

Hyde, J2tK, Flash. Mis compadres!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Little Danny:

Annnnndddd MrF! Hello sir
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
coelacanth∅:

'ello 'ello
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Doug Schulkind:

This is Praguelicious.
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
doctorjazz:

Nice Benny Green (7", no less)~
Hi Flame Throwers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Little Danny:

Big Coel! Big Doug! Thank you both for being here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Doctor, and hello! You may have divined that I have a terrible fetish for jazz 45s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Little Danny:

They're just so damn affordable!
  10:10pm
MrFab:

I have a Jack Webb album where he does a spoken-word version of But Beautiful. One critic described his perfomance as "grim."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Little Danny:

check the cover for Betty Carter: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 10:11pm
still b/p:

Speakin' a' nude -- Starting with a mention on last night's Testify show, I started looking at the Nudie Cohn story, and...that's a story worth some lookin'.
Avatar 10:12pm
hyde:

@Doc Jaz hah, yeah, crazy 45.

but i still can't get over the Alice Coltrane 45 from a week or two back.

who has an Alice Coltrane 45?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Doug Schulkind:

Wow! What a lineup on that Betty Carter LP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Little Danny:

Haha, of course you do MrF. I know that album though don't own it. "Grim" is perfect
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Little Danny:

@Doug I know! Arranged by Gigi Gryce too. My favorite Carter album for many reasons, including the cover
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Little Danny:

Hi Still B/P! And, yeah! Cohn is what we talk about when we talk about the classic American Dream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Little Danny:

@hyde: Impulse also released 45s by Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman. I'll play the Coleman one of these days - it only came out on 45
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
doctorjazz:

Alice Coltrane is really impressive, true @hyde. She's getting some attention these days.
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
doctorjazz:

The Ayler and Coleman 45s would be awesome to hear!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
JtotheK:

gabor szabo has a cool cover of 'the beat goes on' on an impulse 45...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Little Danny:

Yeah, I was thinking that too Doctor - it must be due to the Luaka Bop thing
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
JtotheK:

...and john lee hooker 'money' is an impulse 45 i hope to find. someday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Little Danny:

@Jason: reaching for my stash of Impulse 45s as I write
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still b/p:

All this talk of important jazz...and I'm thinking how much I like Blue Coral. Ah, whuttamagonnado?
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JtotheK:

re: Alice Coltrane - just saw that there's a link in the WFMU newsletter to an article about 'The Strange World of Alice Coltrane' - i'll give that a read later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Little Danny:

It just goes to show that you are a listener of broad and impeccable tastes, still b/p!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
doctorjazz:

I heard about Alice Coltrane's recent Ecstatic Music on NPR, read an article in The New Yorker...that's more attention than she ever got during her "heyday".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Dano59:

Good evening ... old business. On the Lonely Beat tip, Danny, I sent you a note on Twitter. That atmospheric 'seaside' song I mentioned here a few weeks back is 'Without You,' Joe Gaston and the Crew. Definitely one of yours! Maybe you got to it since. My attention is shot.
Avatar 10:30pm
hyde:

haha, love the Alice Coltrane talk. The one cd i have here that is on display and watches over me is Universal Consciousness
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Dano59:

show us the stash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Little Danny:

@Jason: here's a crappy pic of my impulse stash that I took just now:
officenaps.com...
Avatar 10:44pm
hyde:

ok. must sleep. night all!!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
JtotheK:

very nice!
Avatar 10:45pm
Kris Holmes:

Little Walter :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Little Danny:

Hi Dano! I never check my twitter account any more but I'm surprised that I didn't seem to get the message notification. "Without You" is so insanely great
  10:46pm
MrFab:

You gotta open a diner Danny just so you can stock a jukebox with those 45s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Dano59:

That it is. One of my favorite Office Naps tracks. (along with The Bangs' Go, Go Kitty ...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of Coltrane, now seems as good a time as any to announce that, beginning Friday, June 16, and running for five consecutive Fridays — in five one-hour installments beginning at 11am (eastern)...

I will be airing the 5-part John Coltrane documentary Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone. It is simply spectacular. One of the most profoundly meaningful presentations of a creative artist's life and work I have ever encountered. I first aired it a decade ago and will be re-broadcasting it now to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's passing, on July 17, 1967.

Because it is still commercially available (directly from the producer), I will not be archiving the broadcast of this documentary.

Make plans now to sit near your devices and streaming speakers 11am-noon (ET) for five consecutive Fridays, beginning June 16.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Little Danny:

@Jason, @Dano: Here's a MUCH better image of my Impulse stash: officenaps.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Little Danny:

Krrrriiiiisssss Holmes! Got some stuff coming up that we've discussed in texts
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JtotheK:

@Danny - i know some of those! the larry frazier before/after is great. shirley scott 'soul sauce' - is the 45 a vocal version? (i think the LP version is...) - i'll (usually) grab impulse 45s when i see 'em marked affordably.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Little Danny:

And thanks MrF & Dano! I dream of such jukeboxes...
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
coelacanth∅:

gnight hyde
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Dano59:

Nice that the See You Later WLP is in an ABC label group sleeve...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Little Danny:

Night Hyde!
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Dano59:

you'd need a chain of jukebox diners ... different moods/genres
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Little Danny:

Oh man I love you Dano. So into this idea
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Little Danny:

@J2tk: totally agree re: that Larry Frazier. His only recording as a leader? And yeah the Scott 45 has her charming vocal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Little Danny:

Also, the one 45 that's totally covered up in that picture is Yusef Lateef's "Theme from the Prize."

Man my desk is filthy
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Uncle Michael:

Greets.
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coelacanth∅:

when i was about 10 my older brother and his friends scored 2 vintage jukeboxes during the annual "junk week" in our town (as well as much amazing other stuff) -one from the mid sixties and one from the late 50s, which had a few doowop 45s in it. i still have fantasies about using them in my own little pub
- though they're not in the family any more...and i'll probably never own a pub.
  11:17pm
MrFab:

Lenny Kaye stocked the CBGB jukebox with the actual 45s he used for 'Nuggets.' That would certainly be a contender for the Greatest Jukebox Ever.
  11:18pm
Dean:

Another contender: the jukebox at Al's Bar in LA. What a mess.
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Little Danny:

Uncle Michael! What's a gentleman like yourself doing in a place like this? Delighted you're here either way
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Little Danny:

And the same to you Dean! Hi!
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Uncle Michael:

In a way, Lenny's original Nuggets had an unintended consequence of creating a certain kind of canon that established a tiny (very worthy) subset of songs as a kind of garage rock magnetic north, almost in that weird way that the American Graffiti soundtrack did for -50s rock and roll. Both collections had an out-sized influence.
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Little Danny:

@coel: I really do have jukebox fantasies. Your brother's score sounds amazing
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Uncle Michael:

A lot of people coming home...one way or another.

Mel or Georgie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Little Danny:

Oh, absolutely UM. Nuggets was such a crucial (and early) entry point into garage band stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Little Danny:

Yeah I'm on a "Comin' Home Baby" tangent
  11:34pm
Dean:

Your implication, UM, is that influence ought to be proportionate, correcting for marketing, hype, gossip, etc. In other words, you're saying, there's an appropriate level of influence beyond which no more. But there isn't. It just is. And I'm not sure Lenny didn't intend the result.
  11:36pm
Dean:

Alternatively, I could go fuck myself.
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Dano59:

UM : I'll only say re Nuggets setting the canon, that nothing succeeds like success. I suppose the modern analogue may be NOW That's What I Call Music! before overkill and repetitive formulaic content ossified the whole thing...
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Uncle Michael:

My point is that Lenny could have included this track, or left of another...and altered canon, by happenstance or design. For a whole lot of people too young to have been steeped in that music in its time...and/or geographically removed from records that were only regionally known, that collection was the entry point. This is not a judgment of merit, just an observation. The collection found an audience. Had it not, its influence would have been minor. If memory serves, it found a bigger audience when reissued at a time when there were musical trends that were reverberations of the album's ilk. I think the original release kind of sank.
  11:41pm
MrFab:

I don't think you can intentionally create a cultural phenomenon. Lawd knows many try...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Dano59:

The same could be said of Harry Smith! He was only saving 78s from oblivion. With a purpose and aesthetic goals, of course. Even though, there are now canonical songs like Rose Connelly that are NOT (but should have been, following this logic) on the Anthology of Am Folk Music.
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm grateful for Nuggets. It's doubtful anyone would have done a better job with the roadmap than Lenny. I'm grateful for every single shitty garage 45 tat appeared on Boulders, Pebbles, Debris, etc. etc.
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
coelacanth∅:

i never did hear any of those nuggets collections. i learned of the songs bit by bit, mostly from the radio. (wpix in the late 70s and wfmu in the 80s)
...i did buy an album early on though, before that, called "wild thing", from my record club, as a teen. it's got some major players on it.
...this one: www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Dano59:

Nowadays there are too many garage comps ... and I doubt ANYONE among the original artists or writers is getting paid...
  11:44pm
Dean:

That's how canons work. Picking and choosing. Nobody chooses the "real" canon. The influence is always "out-sized," precisely because the selected set stands in for the full population.
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Little Danny:

check this scan of the Duke Payne 45 (c/o Larry Grogan!): www.funky16corners.com...
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Uncle Michael:

Mot of my comp collections aren't even commercial releases. I don't care whether or not the artists are paid. If they are, great. But at bottom, I'm grateful the cultural artifacts are simply unearthed. Jeffrey Glenn's "Lost Jukebox" series, anyone?
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean, rarely does one archivist or academic get to establish a canon. Normally this is something that happens by many hands over a long period. Again, this is just an observation. What Lenny was able to do, I find unusual.
  11:48pm
MrFab:

Wow, that 'Wild Thing' comp was a straight-up ripoff of Nuggets, put out by a major label even.
Here was my first comp:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Goofy-Greats/release/1607696
Saw a tv ad for it and asked mom to buy it for me. First time I saw the Cramps once and they started the show with 2 songs from it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Dano59:

Oh, I'm totally grateful for the unearthed. I own bootlegs, like one of the 'Billy' LPs and a Whyte Boots/Girls 45 that I think Norton carried.
Lenny and Billy Miller were definitely cut from the same cloth!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Uncle Michael:

Kogar's "Lux & Ivy's Favorites" series is indispensable tuff, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Dano59:

And Goofy Greats gathers a canon of its own. Flound one at the library sale last year. (Where K-Tel releases go to live on)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Dano59:

and for being geeks!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the music, Danny.
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JtotheK:

enjoyed the show - thanks Danny!
Avatar 🦭 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
coelacanth∅:

haha! that goofy greats is goofy! -and great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Dano59:

Yes, sublime sets, as always!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Little Danny:

@Jason: Have you reached episode 5 of TP yet?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Little Danny:

* TP season 3 that is
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Little Danny:

Thanks everybody! I'll be back on the air in two weeks! See around the FMU comment galaxy in the meantime
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
northguineahills:

Thanks LD!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Little Danny!
later on, y'all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Little Danny:

Hi observer NGH, thanks!
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still b/p:

Clicking stars to the last ticks of the show clock. Thanks for happy listen time.
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