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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time | |||
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John Sangster |
Om: The Cosmic Breath / The New Universe Begins (excerpt)
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Once Around the Sun Original Soundtrack Recording | Roundtable | 2010 | LP | From 1970 | 0:00:00 (Pop‑up) | |||
Leon Lowman |
Listen
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Syntheseas | Syntheseas | 1980 | LP | 0:06:54 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Waikikis |
Here, There, and Everywhere
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Midnight Luau | Kapp | 1968 | LP | 0:09:28 (Pop‑up) | ||||
George Barr and the Islanders |
Hawaiian War Chant
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Music for Polynesian Dancing | Hoctor Dance | 1974 | LP | Featuring Loki Ontai | 0:11:25 (Pop‑up) | |||
Ramon Marquez and His Orchestra |
Lessons in Cha Cha Cha
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Cha Cha Cha - Mambo - Merengue | Fiesta | 1955 | LP | 0:13:20 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Carl Stevens and His Orchestra |
Indian Love Call (Twist)
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High Society Twist | Mercury | 1962 | LP | 0:16:00 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Do Ray Mi Trio |
Saturday Night Fish Fry
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That Wonderfully Musical Do Ray Mi Trio | Stere-O-Craft | 1959 | LP | 0:18:30 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Elmer Snowden Quartet |
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
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Harlem Banjo | Riverside/Fantasy | 1990 | LP | From 1960 | 0:21:35 (Pop‑up) | |||
Florika Sava and His Violin |
Doina Voda
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The Mad Gypsy | Capitol | 1959 | LP | 0:24:18 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Sheik's Men |
Miserlou
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The Belly Dancer | Reprise | 1961 | LP | 0:27:03 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Abdul Alexi Freeman and His Enquirers |
Abdul the Cool
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The Belly Dancer | Time | 1966 | LP | 0:29:38 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Elba Ramalho |
Rumbaiana
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Elba | Philips | 1987 | LP | 0:40:39 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Tambu/Charlies Roots |
This Party Is It
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Culture | Sire | 1987 | LP | 0:43:03 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Tamlins |
Squeengie Weengie Love
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Love Divine | Heartbeat | 1989 | LP | 0:48:40 (Pop‑up) | ||||
J. J. Fad |
Eenie Meenie Beats
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Supersonic | Ruthless | 1988 | LP | 0:52:26 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Daniel Owino Misiani and Shirati Band |
Okoth Atari (Okoth Is Supercool)
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Benga Blast! | Earthworks/Virgin | 1989 | LP | 0:55:34 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Bound & Gagged |
Attack
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Bound & Gagged | Modern Method | 1980 | EP | 1:01:31 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The White Animals |
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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Lost Weekend | Dread Beat | 1983 | LP | 1:04:19 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Slaughter Joe and the Modern Folk Quintet |
Wild Mountain Thyme
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All Around My Hobby Horse's Head | Kaleidoscope Sound | 1987 | LP | 1:07:23 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Low Max |
I Am R.E.M.
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Sptiz Bube | Skyclad | 1991 | LP | 1:09:54 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Miss Bliss |
Electric Housewife
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Greek Picnic | Ruling Factor | 1988 | LP | 1:12:51 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Nature Lovers |
You Know It's True
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Beginning to End | Ink | 1985 | LP | aborted! | 1:16:27 (Pop‑up) | |||
Tom Novembre |
Les Nains de 1 M 80
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L'insecte | Philips | 1985 | LP | 1:19:59 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Kirjuhel |
Chanson de la plus haute tour
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12 Poèmes En Langue Française | Revoe | 1986 | LP | poem by Arthur Rimbaud | 1:22:13 (Pop‑up) | |||
Mark Graham |
LIfe Is Hard When You're Dumb / Their Brains Were Small and They Died
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Natural Selections | Front Hall | 1987 | LP | Matt Warwick's random pull! | 1:28:39 (Pop‑up) | |||
Single File: a bunch of 45s from the WFMU library I've never heard before |
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The Dull |
She's a Nuclear Bomb
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single | Budget Ranch | 1986 | 45 | 1:39:46 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Alfie Khan und die Cornehlsen Singers |
Come On Babe
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single | Hansa | 1970 | 45 | 1:43:47 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Mi Generación |
Triste y Solo
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single | Wah Wah | 2007 | 45 | From 1971 | 1:46:05 (Pop‑up) | |||
The Continental Co-Ets |
Let's Live for the Present
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single | Get Hip | 1994 | 45 | mid '60s | 1:48:53 (Pop‑up) | |||
The Joe Hebert Band |
I Don't Wanna Be a Preppy
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single | Complex | 1981 | 45 | 1:51:31 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Conceptuol (The Band) |
Bulk Fiber
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single | Undertone Music | ? | 45 | 1:54:37 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Riff Doctors |
I Don't Want to Go Back
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single | Coyote | 1983 | 45 | 1:56:27 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Travelers Insurance Companies |
The Triumph of Man
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single | RCA Custom | 1964 | 45 | 1:59:42 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Ant Trip Ceremony |
Hey Joe
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24 Hours | No Label | 1968 | LP | 2:14:05 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Klute |
Nothing to Hide
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Explicit | Zoth Ommoc | 1991 | EP | Station Manager Ken's random pull! | 2:19:22 (Pop‑up) | |||
Pat Morrissey |
I Can't Believe You're in Love with Me
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Standing Pat: Pat Morrissey Sings Songs of Love | Addison | 1960 | LP | 2:25:12 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Jerome Richardson |
Ode to Billie Joe
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Groove Merchant | Verve | 1967 | LP | 2:26:10 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Arbee Stidham |
Take Your Hand Off My Knee
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A Time for Blues | Mainstream | 1972 | LP | with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra | 2:28:50 (Pop‑up) | |||
Bon Ton St. Mary |
Back Door Boogie
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Highway Zydeco | Goldband | 1983 | LP | 2:32:01 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Mirk |
Why Should I?
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Tak a Dram Afore Ye Go | Springthyme | 1982 | LP | 2:34:46 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Larry Sparks |
John Deere Tractor
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John Deere Tractor | Rebel | 1980 | LP | 2:36:54 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Linda Hargrove |
The Only Man-Made Thing in Heaven Are the Scars on Jesus' Hands
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Just Like You | Capitol | 1976 | LP | 2:41:19 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Various Artists |
National Anthem / Record Runs
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1963 Winternationals | Fleetwood | 1963 | LP | 2:44:08 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Maldoon |
Ballad of Lots
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Maldoon | Purple | 1973 | LP | 2:47:08 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Dom Minasi |
Theme from Prisoner of Second Avenue
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I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before | Blue Note | 1975 | LP | 2:50:09 (Pop‑up) |
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Listener comments!
Greetings, Yippers!
David, how does Monday find you?
Hey Snoochmeister. And steveo.
The Joe McGask-au-GoGo
(it's groovy baby)
I had to look up Once Around the Sun. A (for a long time unreleased) documentary about Australia's first ever open air rock music festival: www.cinephilia.net.au...
Man, I would love to go to a Midnight Luau right now. But it's 2pm. And I'm in Hackney. And I can't leave the house. Sigh.
Hey, Snooch!
Hey TDK. Greetings to you.
@Joe: do you have to keep you finger hovering over the dump button?
No stinkers yet, Joe!
I'm badly in need of some Crud right now. If only someone would appear with a bountiful supply.... Hey Crudbringer.
i had to get very specific to find the right one. (^)
charlies roots brought the
soca fire live
back in the nineties
Hey Toothgrinder Tom.
peter tosh live
north america 1979
well known then in ja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QGAwsCi8zg
Hey morphester.
Tom - shred some for me pal!
My FAVORITE Exhibit at the Worlds Fair
I haven’t listened to it in years.
He job today might've been considered data entry, or something else depending on the type of tabulation.
i thought the middle of that song was the best part.
This is not a wig (simply a bad haircut) .
Frank Herbert must've known about idiots savants, because the mentats were people who, thru study and practice, could switch at will into a trancelike savant state. I remember the Paul Gross character's having done that on "Due South" once.
I thought billie jo was a female
Sounds like baseball is back on!
Hey Nulsh.
I've been listening sporadically this afternoon - some mad selections.
I did like SMK's monkey noise pick!
Greetings from Vienna
From Joe to Joe!
BOUND and GAGGED - Live Hurrah 1981 -one album wonders....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QGAwsCi8zg
Memories of reading the book circa 1979 though.
Thanks, Joe!