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Favoriting July 13, 2019: Guest: Barry Alfonso, Rod Mckuen biographer

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Artist Track
Rod McKuen  The New Words   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  Bathtub Surfing   Favoriting
Sonny Curtis  I Wanna Go Bummin' Around   Favoriting
Dee Dee Warwick  We're Doing Fine   Favoriting
Som Tres  For Once In My Life   Favoriting
Brendan Benson  Tiny Spark   Favoriting
Bob McFadden & Dor  Beat Generation   Favoriting
Sammy Masters  Flat Feet   Favoriting
Willie Mitchell  Bum Daddy   Favoriting
Queers, The  Today I Fell In Love   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  Weekend   Favoriting
Ron-Dels, The  It's Over   Favoriting
Tex Williams  On The Double   Favoriting
Reggie Hall  The Joke   Favoriting
Clancy Eccles  Don't Brag, Don't Boast   Favoriting
Wire  Dot Dash   Favoriting
Coolies, The  Blueberry Crumble   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  Co-Existence Bagel Shop Blues   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  No Pictures Please   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  Like   Favoriting
Barry Alfonso  Interview   Favoriting
Rod McKuen  To Share The Summer Sun   Favoriting
Smithereens, The  All The Same   Favoriting
Soup Greens, The  That's Too Bad   Favoriting
Freddie Hart  California Grapevine   Favoriting
Jesse Thomas With Huey Smith Band  I'm Boss Yeah   Favoriting
Belle and Sebastian  Jonathan David   Favoriting
Cyrkle, The  There's A Fire In The Fireplace   Favoriting
Bellfuries, The  Bad Seed Sown   Favoriting
Cliff Nobles  Let's Have A Good Time   Favoriting
Lalo Schifrin  You And I   Favoriting
Dave Edmunds  They've Never Been In Love   Favoriting
Hollies, The  King Midas In Reverse   Favoriting
George Jackson  Pollution   Favoriting
Bruce Springsteen  The Girls In Their Summer Clothes   Favoriting
Little John And The Sherwoods  Long Hair   Favoriting
Incredible Casuals, The  On The Beach   Favoriting
Beach Boys, The  Wild Honey Sessions   Favoriting
Public Service  Like Father Like Son   Favoriting
Bob Dylan  1988 Rock And Roll Hall of Shame   Favoriting
Sunrays, The  Kentucky Fried Chicken   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE to hear a lovely short BBC radio piece where Nick Lowe talk about Fatback Louisiana USA by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Harlan County by Jim Ford

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for interesting photos of closed music clubs

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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 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 Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

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 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 for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see 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 for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

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 info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album

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 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 for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

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 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 garbage. 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 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 a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

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!

Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:00am
Listener Baby:

Thinking I might tune in? Baby are you eating enough vegetables? Methinks not. Good morning all. It's a scorcher today. No reason to turn down the heat. Give us both barrels MS.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Listening to the warm…
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hehe... Harry Shearer uses 'Listen to the Warm' to intro his 'News of the Warm' feature about climate...
Now - where was it I heard 'Do You Know Me Maria' all the time as a kid? Must've had the record...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:20am
Listener Baby:

Reminds me of Sam and Louie
Avatar 11:20am
Juke Joint Jonny:

Is this Copabilly?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:21am
Listener Baby:

JJJ: I believe the correct term is Fuzzabilly
Avatar 11:23am
Juke Joint Jonny:

Peace Officer Rock
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27am
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

i pretty much like any song with a la-la-la refrain!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28am
suzyhotrod:

Joe Queer. Such a softie. I love this song!
Avatar 11:29am
Michael Shelley:

Indeed - I wish he'd just admit he has a POP heart - and make a whole lp like this
Avatar 11:31am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I am told Wimpy will fight anybody denies Beach Boys are Punk...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

it's a law of physics that at least one Rod McKuen record lurks in the midst of any given stack of dusty record crates
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am
listener 126464:

can count on The Queers playing in a town near you at least 2x a year
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33am
nostrangerer:

Have you considered that they were influenced by the same source as the Beatles, Buddy Holly?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:34am
Gaylord Fields:

Considering that Delbert McClinton taught John Lennon the finer points in playing blues harmonica, turnabout is fair play.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35am
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Am i bragging or complaining when i share that i have a ridiculous supply of Rod McKuen albums in my collection? I even paid for some of them! Maybe it's a cry for help? And yet, there's an undeniable affection i feel for that gentle weirdo.
Avatar 11:40am
Michael Shelley:

thecoolieswcr.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
listener 126464:

i pre-ordered
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:43am
Hughie Considine:

One of Wire's great almost pure pop moments -- the band's lyrics were always a bit inscrutable, I'd say.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am
listener 126464:

who's your favorite Coolie?
  #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:45am
David in ATL from NJ:

Hey Michael, your 2019 dj premium is SO excellent! Thanks for putting that together.
Avatar 11:46am
SmokinJ:

good, ya? 8-)
  11:52am
Cooh John:

Rod's lingo is like, pre Valley Girls. OMG.
  12:00pm
Kuba:

so will Luna's "California All The Way" be in the playlist since it namechecks McKuen?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Thanks, Barry! Will check out the book. Fascinating character, that Rod.
  12:06pm
Paddy in Matawan:

Artist Aaron Freeman's album Marvellous Clouds explores McKuen's work. And not being the biggest McKuen fan, I love it. Perhaps I will explore him more. Thanks Mike.
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thriftstoreleather:

thanks for this show, Michael
  12:13pm
morphe':

Michael = you have been warned and forewarned repeatedly..
trapping me in the house with your enticing spinning...
making me co-dependent and socially dysfunctional..
if you continue so, the authorities will be called!!!!!

"Stop PlayinG Those Songs..." Z-Effect
( a friend named dave!!)

On a serious note, thanks for spinning!!!!!!

morphe'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

morphe': i know, i'm trying to leave the house, too!
  12:17pm
egould310:

Im in California. I don’t grow grapes. But I did drive part of the Grapvine last week. Also parts of The Old Road.
  12:17pm
Baby:

Thanks Baby. I’m just as God made me.
  12:20pm
morphe':

Granny - good to see/read you!!!!
Missing Clay, you and all...
I am in NYC for 3 days...
No internet in Madrid for 61.7 days!!!!!!!!!DAYZZZZ!
Fuckin' losers over there - vodafone - Spanish version of Comcast or ATT or??

till??????????

morphe'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

morphe': wow, well, great to read you here today!!!
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Juke Joint Jonny:

What else do you need for a song?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
nostrangerer:

Late addition but thank you for the Rod McKuen feature. Back in the day I found his recordings and books too intolerably middlebrow and sentimental pandering lacking meaningful content. I had missed the humorous aspect of some of it (though the humor may only be available in retrospect). Perhaps us cultural elitists would have been less incensed if his arrangers were more creative.
Whatever, his work was undoubtedly a significant part of the 60s to 70s pop culture.
  12:36pm
middlebun:

Alphabetical? Zappa screwed again.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So Out it's In...back in Modernism everything had to serve the New... Now we revere Karen Carpenter fetinstance...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
common:

Great interview
  12:41pm
morphe':

nostrangerer: Belfast = Stranraer ... nice ferry ride aside from the RUC,CID, Special Branch hassles[PLURAL x 3]
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not that McKuen is a talent like Karen - but ' has the advantage of being distinct...& like her - more behind the curtain... Sometimes you just need hindsight...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
listener 126464:

i'm not too big on bruce but some of his songs...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
common:

This blows my mind! Thought it was magnetic fields
  12:47pm
kevlicki:

Huh, i sense this song having influenced Stephin Merritt’s singing and songwriting!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

He's great...but over-ProBruced...
  12:48pm
kevlicki:

Common, I had the same initial reaction! I’m not familiar with this Springsteen song
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:48pm
Jimmy Wipper:

I think Springsteen's new album is pretty good too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
nostrangerer:

Thanks for the shout out morphe'. Reasonably pleasant summer days in NYC this weekend.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

For Mainstreamers - maybe Brooce gave ' emotion so e of what the rest of us got from Punk - l but they couldn't get to ?: lower class or something & more direct. Just different streets?
  12:52pm
kevlicki:

Huh, guess that’s vice versa, Bruce must’ve been listening to 69 love songs when he wrote that one
  12:52pm
morphe':

nostrangerer: your nom made me think of the ferry..
Ps all
IKEA ferry -Bklyn Man-Bklyn - free on Weekends.. No IKEA required..
Nice ride and ya can drink openly (as on the SI Ferry) Serious=
Maritime rules apply!!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*gave 'em some of...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
common:

@kevlicki: glad I’m not alone
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I like Brooce in nterviews - & politics & stuff...
  12:57pm
paul:

Father is smoking!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
common:

Me too, revrab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Michael
  12:59pm
Cooh John:

I remember that PSA.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

TY MS !
  3:12pm
Miss Georgia Peach:

You have steered me towards many good books - I thank you and the Saint Paul Public Library thanks you, as I've had to request they acquire most of them
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