Favoriting Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from May 1, 2021 Favoriting

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A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
June Christy & the Stan Kenton Orchestra  This Is My Theme   Favoriting June Christy & the Stan Kenton Orchestra  Collector's Choice Music  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Viking Band  Phom Rak Khoon Tching Tching   Favoriting Thai Beat a Go-Go  Subliminal Sounds  0:03:13 (Pop-up)
Yma Sumac  Bo Mambo   Favoriting Mambo!  The Right Stuff  0:06:11 (Pop-up)
Liza Minnelli  I Want You Now   Favoriting Results  Epic  0:09:35 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra  Day Tripper   Favoriting Boots  Reprise  0:14:21 (Pop-up)
Noonday Underground  Follow the Light   Favoriting On a Quiet Night  Hands Full  0:17:11 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tipsy 

Bunny Kick   Favoriting

Uh-oh! 

Asphodel 

0:20:22 (Pop-up)
Linda Smith  Wandering You Know   Favoriting Till Another Time: 1988​-​1996  Captured Tracks  0:24:25 (Pop-up)
The Majestic Arrows  If I Had a Little Love (rehearsal)   Favoriting Eccentric Soul: the Bandit Label (various artists)  Numero Group  0:27:20 (Pop-up)
Dennis Brown  If I Follow My Heart   Favoriting If I Follow My Heart  Studio One  0:29:17 (Pop-up)
The Manhattans  Follow Your Heart   Favoriting 7-inch single (orig); Doing Their Best Things (comp.)  Carnival; UpFront Records  0:32:45 (Pop-up)
Dim Dim  Love Serenade   Favoriting Ananas  Audio Dregs  0:36:01 (Pop-up)
Doris Day  Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps   Favoriting Latin for Lovers  Columbia  0:38:44 (Pop-up)
Jane Birkin  Comment te dire adieu   Favoriting Versions Jane  Philips  0:41:20 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Las Comadrejas 

Oaxacatelas   Favoriting

We are Ugly, But We Have the Music 

Comad 

0:44:03 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time  Bourgeois Boogie   Favoriting Virgin Beauty  Portrait  0:48:17 (Pop-up)
Klezmer Conservatory Band  Old World Beat   Favoriting Old World Beat  Rounder  0:53:10 (Pop-up)
Julie Budd  Black Is Black   Favoriting Child of Plenty  MGM  0:55:47 (Pop-up)
unknown  Anywhere on Earth   Favoriting Bob & Ray: WOR-AM 1975    0:58:30 (Pop-up)
Folklor Folk Orchestra  Leutarsko Horo   Favoriting Moldavian Folk Music (various artists)  Sounds of the World  1:01:44 (Pop-up)
Shocking Blue  I'll Follow the Sun   Favoriting 3rd Album  Pink Elephant  1:03:34 (Pop-up)
Nouvelle Vague  I Melt With You   Favoriting Nouvelle Vague  Peace Frog  1:06:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Shudder to Think 

pH Balanced   Favoriting

High Art (soundtrack) 

Velvel 

1:09:53 (Pop-up)
Fantastic Plastic Machine  Pura Saudade (Optiganally Mix)   Favoriting Fantastic Plastic Machine  Bungalow; Emperor Norton  1:13:59 (Pop-up)
Friends of Dean Martinez  I Wish You Love   Favoriting The Shadow of Your Smile  Sub Pop  1:18:20 (Pop-up)
Last Town Chorus  Do You Really Want to Hurt Me   Favoriting live on WFMU, on Irene Trudel's show, February 24, 2003    1:20:58 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock  Sayonara Judge   Favoriting Robyn Hitchcock  Yep Roc  1:24:44 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight & The Pips  The Way We Were/Try to Remember   Favoriting 7-inch single (originally)  Buddah  1:30:50 (Pop-up)
Gilda Radner  Lisa Loopner Piano Recital   Favoriting Live from New York  Warner Bros.  1:31:37 (Pop-up)
Brenda Lee  The Crying Game   Favoriting 7-inch single  Decca  1:38:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Floyd Cramer 

Last Dance   Favoriting

45 played at 33 

 

1:40:58 (Pop-up)
Arlo Parks  Eugene   Favoriting Collapsed in Sunbeams  Transgressive  1:45:05 (Pop-up)
Satanicpornocultshop  Next Year's Snow   Favoriting Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos  Some Bizarre  1:48:53 (Pop-up)
Pram  The Mermaid's Hotel   Favoriting The Museum of Imaginary Animals  Merge  1:53:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Johnny Beecher 

Sax Fifth Avenue   Favoriting

45 played at 33 

Warner Bros. 

1:57:25 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 8:47am
People Like Us:

yay
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Charlie:

whee!
Avatar 6:55pm
HyperDose:

Salutations Charlie & welcome back! First time listener of the show here. :)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Charlie-I've got nothing to do now (not really...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
WR:

Because, that's why!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Scott67:

G'day Charlie & Slackers!
😎🤙🌏☀️
  7:03pm
Andres:

Hey, Charlie! I’m busy making dinner but my ears are here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Charlie:

Well, hi, HyperDose, and welcome. And hello to doctorjazz, WR, Scott67, and Andres!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Charlie and busybodies
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Your Ace From Exchange Place:

Greetings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Charlie:

yo, coelacanth, and Ace!
  7:07pm
wendy del formaggio:

Hi Charlie! I’m busy doing nothing while the oven finishes cooking my dinner.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Charlie:

Wendy! Wendy! Wendy!
  7:08pm
headcleaner:

yet another rekkurd I own that sounds so much better played on the radio (when you least expect it)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Scott67:

9am Sunday morning here, so perfect show for me.👣 😎🤙
  7:08pm
wendy del formaggio:

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar

Oh wait. Wrong show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Charlie:

haha wendy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Charlie:

headcleaner - radio contextualizes for the better sometimes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Charlie:

Good morning to you then, Scott:)
Avatar 7:12pm
The Knave:

Thanks for filling in for me brother... Sounding great!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Charlie:

Happy to be here!
Avatar 7:14pm
Michael:

Charlie! Liza with a Z?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Charlie:

And good morning to you too, Knave:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Charlie:

Yes! That would make me, er, Charlie with a "rl" and you Michael with a "ch"!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Charlie:

Is this Nancy track cheesy or what?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Charlie, nah, it's Gouda.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Charlie:

heh heh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Jeff Golick:

Wassup, Charlie! Great to hear you!
  7:28pm
Andres:

I was here by chance last time. Loved it! Fully intentional this time. Loving it! It pays to check the schedule.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Charlie:

Hey, Jeff!
Andres -- thanks for joining with intention:)
Avatar 7:36pm
northguineahills:

Charkie!

Since my sleeping schedule is appoaching somewhere near normal, will be doing an evening walkabout, instead of 1am
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Wow, I've never heard this Manhattans single, and I'm loving everything about it already.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Charlie:

enjoy your walkabout, northguineahills
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Charlie:

Wendy - great, right? And they're from Jersey City!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Charlie, indeed! Maybe they called themselves that because "We Can See Manhattan From Our House" was too long to fit on a 7" record. haha.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Charlie:

haha!
Avatar 7:42pm
Michael:

The Journal Squares does not have the same cachet Wendy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Charlie:

True, Michael, true...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Michael, true. But, that's a pretty good band name in its own right. I wonder if anyone has ever used it.
  7:43pm
Sally:

Quel voice!
Avatar 7:44pm
northguineahills:

quizas!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Charlie:

Sally - yeah, Dottie could really sing:)
  7:47pm
Doug Schulkind:

Bon soir, Monsieur Charlie!
  7:49pm
Allan:

Enjoying your show live for the first time in a while, Charlie, from here in California. Best wishes to you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Charlie:

Doug, thanks for checking in:)
Allan -- great to see you "live"!
  7:52pm
headcleaner:

If you must know, Charlie - it was my cheatin' heart that led me here. Once I skipped out on RobW long enough to hear the end of Lady C.... and then once you came in with June Christy... well that's how cheatin' starts, right? (So sorry, Rob)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
WR:

headcleaner, variety is the spice, etc.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
doctorjazz:

Ornette!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Charlie:

Well, headcleaner, you never said it would be an exclusive relationship;)
  8:01pm
Andres:

Great song! Great version!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
doctorjazz:

Come over to the Drummer side, Headcleaner!
Avatar 8:07pm
northguineahills:

Shocking Blue, not to be w/ a certain song called Computer Blue.
Avatar 8:10pm
northguineahills:

I got here by falling through the 6th wall (this is a hexagon, right?)
  8:11pm
Andres:

This Nouvelle Vague is maybe better than the original. Heresy, I know.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
doctorjazz:

Do like this cover!
Avatar 8:12pm
northguineahills:

what Andres said....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
schmutz:

howdy (: great to hear ya Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
WR:

+1 like doctorjazz said
Avatar 8:15pm
northguineahills:

Wait, that was on Peace Frog recs????!!! (I only know them from their hardcore British house /techno/and trance records.
  8:17pm
Andres:

Fantastic and plastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Charlie:

That Nouvelle Vague album has many great covers (it's all covers of early 80s song like that)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Charlie:

ngh -- i guess they were branching out?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
doctorjazz:

Interesting Sub Pop release.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Oh! I had no idea Friends of Dean Martinez covered such an old standard. Now I gotta check out that album. I only know "Atardecer." Thanks, Charlie!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
doctorjazz:

Speaking of branching out...
  8:24pm
Julie 🖤:

oh this is nice
  8:25pm
Andres:

This is also lovely. You’ve been hoarding all the sweet covers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Charlie:

Hi Julie:) Yes, this is so gorgeous
Avatar 8:28pm
Michael:

She does a real nice cover of Modern Love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Charlie:

Michael--yes, I love that one too!
Avatar 8:30pm
DL in LA:

Yay, it’s Busy Doing Nothing! Sounding great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Charlie:

btw they never officially released that cover of Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, but it was posted on their (now defunct) website, and on various blogs. I added a link to a site where it can be downloaded, on the playlist.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Charlie:

Hi, DL in LA, thanks!
  8:34pm
Julie 🖤:

omg Lisa lupner
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
doctorjazz:

Great set! (Love this BrendaLee)!
  8:43pm
Andres:

This original is better. Sorry, George.
Avatar 8:44pm
Julie:

I remember watching that special when it was newish it was so great..oh Gilda
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Charlie! catching the tail of the show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Charlie:

Hi Henry -- catching a nothing by the tail:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Charlie:

This is a cover of a song by Vashti Bunyan called Glow Worms
  8:55pm
Andres:

Thank you, Charlie!! Absolutely wonderful show tonight. I like forward to the next!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Charlie, great show as usual! Hope too catch you next time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Charlie:

Thanks Andres, and thanks everyone for hanging out on Saturday night (or morning, as the case may be)!
Avatar 8:59pm
Michael:

Thank you much Charlie. Always a pleasure!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Charlie:

Thanks Michael, and doctorjazz.
See you next time:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Thank you, Charlie! <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Scott67:

Thanks Charlie!
✌😎🌏🌞
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'll catch the archive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
schmutz:

thanks Charlie!! look forward to next time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
WR:

9PM already? Thank you Charlie! Laters all y'all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Charlie!
- 'till then...
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