WFMU: Gaylord Fields: Playlist from July 4, 2021

Listener comments!
	8:01pm headcleaner: gaylord > fireworks, any day
	8:01pm ultradamno: Gaylord! Wayoutfielders! Looking forward to the exotica, hope it can compete with the increasing explosives.
	8:02pm davefromtoronto: greetings sir gaylord of the fields.
	8:02pm phat in Lincoln: Looking forward to this. Also, Nature Boy seems like a perfect choice for exotica. Hi everybody! Happy Independence Day!
	8:02pm chresti: Hi Gaylord and company!
	8:03pm Bruce S.: Hey Gaylord, Exotica, Far outica
	8:06pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, headcleaner, ultradamno, davefromntoronto, phat in Lincoln, chresti and Bruce S. Happy Independence day or belated Canada Day, everyone!
	8:08pm sugarwolf!!!: hello!
	8:08pm patrick321: Happy 4th Gaylord and everyone listening.
	8:08pm DjLorraine: Good evening Gaylord Fields and the rare flower folks
	8:09pm headcleaner: ahbez quote from WP: "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are."
	8:10pm phat in Lincoln: Oh wait! He wrote Nature Boy. I had no idea.
	8:10pm Gaylord Fields: Hello, sugarwolf! Happy 4th patrick321, good evening, DjLorraine!
	8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sometimes think Ahbez makes an interesting compare / contrast to Moondog. Except - Ahbez actually was a kind of Proto-Hippe on the West Coast.
	8:11pm Franco Twinkie: Gaylord, this is great!
	8:11pm Bruce S.: Wow Sam cooke was amazeing,the many voices he had
	8:12pm Franco Twinkie: Brian did Dumb Angel, right?
	8:12pm Gaylord Fields: @Franco Twinkie: Yes, with Domenic Priore.
	8:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Gaylord & Brian. Happy 245th, USA!
	8:13pm Gaylord Fields: Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You are so on the mark.
	8:13pm Franco Twinkie: Yup, I went to one of their readings.
	8:14pm Bruce S.: I think he had shoulder leanth hair in the 40s
	8:14pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Ken From Hyde Park! Happy birthday, USA, you great big baby!
	8:15pm headcleaner: The theater (now a church) where a bearded and sandaled ahbez handed "Nature Boy" to Nat King Cole's road manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Theater_(Los_Angeles)
	8:15pm phat in Lincoln: Well hell. He's my new favorite weirdo artist.
	8:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there were people just before the Hippies who identified as 'Freaks' - like some of the folk that Zappa associated with. A bit more individualistic than the stereotypical Hippies...
	8:16pm Carmichael: Heya Gaylord and residents of free America.
	8:16pm listener 126464: Great stories and songs, thanks Gaylord.
	8:17pm ultradamno: It's my understanding they were fabulous, furry and all related.
	8:17pm Gaylord Fields: Hello, Carmichael! Thanks, listener 126464! One more segment of interview coming up.
	8:19pm Franco Twinkie: RR, The thing about L.A. then and now, is you could/can be your own kind of nut, more or less without getting too bugged. And yes, there is fruit just hanging off trees.
	8:20pm Daisy Lacy: hi Gaylord!
	8:20pm phat in Lincoln: @Franco Twinkie James Ellroy wrote a lot about that.
	8:20pm Bruce S.: I'm not really familiar, did he write this set? it's beautiful, thanks Gaylord
	8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco - I was homeless in Santa Barbara a short while - in the mid-late 1980s. It was an ordeal - but in my early 20s, not impossible...
	8:21pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Daisy! Welcome to paradise!
	8:22pm Franco Twinkie: Phat ,and James Ellroy is nothing if not a nut!
	8:22pm phat in Lincoln: And by weirdo, Iran that in only the most respectful and appreciative manner. I have only respecy for legit weirdos.
	8:22pm Gaylord Fields: @Bruce S. All the songs in this set are written by Eden Ahbez.
	8:22pm Julie P.: Love the Wondermints! Hello all and Happy Fourth!
	8:23pm Bruce S.: California also has a very strong and very crazy right wing as well, I think it was always there
	8:23pm The Butterman: Franco! Loved your orange juice video. I really appreciated Jerry’s “Clementine” as your soundtrack and who I assume was your lovely mother holding up Aoaxomoxoa!
	8:23pm Gaylord Fields: Jooools!!! Welcome! And they certainly are a group worthy of their name.
	8:24pm Carmichael: Orange County & San Diego, Bruce.
	8:25pm phat in Lincoln: @Franco Twinkie you're telling me. I didn't know him well, but there was a big sort of thing for him on hipsters in the 90s, when I was in my 20s. The funny thing was, I had asked my mom, who loved biographies, what her favorite biographies was and she had said, My Dark Places. I regret never asking her what she enjoyed about it after I read it. My mom was not known for her fascination with that kind of strangeness.
	8:25pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Butterman! I have a house in a neighborhood full of fruit trees. And I, for the grace of god and supportive loving parents didn't wind up in the street.
	8:26pm Bruce S.: I always wanted to visit San Diego
	8:26pm headcleaner: exotica svenska
	8:26pm Julie P.: Gaylord - saw them when they played with Brian Wilson and a 12-piece orchestra on the first Pet Sounds Live tour. It was a memorable night.
	8:26pm phat in Lincoln: Iran = I mean. That's an odd autocorrect.
	8:27pm Joe R.: great show! if I knew the focus earlier (my bad) I would have saved my Planter’s Punch for now
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: Jools, Darian of the Wondermints is a friend and an expert musician and arranger and student of all things concerning good pop music.
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe R.: Why, make another one!
	8:29pm Julie P.: Gaylord - I'm so jelly! They are very talented!
	8:29pm Franco Twinkie: The exotica thing has always been part of the L.A. landscape. The music scene here in the 80's-90's really ran with the ball.
	8:32pm Julie P.: I LOVE exotica! Such a wonderful groove.
	8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - okay ...so - Ahbez was a major progenitor of Exotica ? ? & - he & Brian Wilson were familiar... What are the timelines...
	8:33pm Gaylord Fields: Jools, it's a huge love of mine, and I hope to get to do more DJing in that style now that those opportunities are coming back.
	8:35pm Gaylord Fields: RevRab: Ahbez started in the 1940s but was writing songs into the 1970s. His Eden's Island LP came out in 1960, and BW was definitely familiar with it.
	8:35pm Bruce S.: Sounds very exciting Gaylord
	8:37pm phat in Lincoln: Luckily this is going to be archived, since he's doing 4th stuff right now.
	8:38pm Gaylord Fields: @Bruce: Thanks! I'm excited.
	8:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: I feel like I've stumbled into an obscure corner of a music museum. Learning about things I never know existed. Rummy's "unknown unknowns"?
	8:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Explorer's Room program here on the Drummer Stream helped me to connect the dots between Exotica & Psychedelia...
	8:40pm Gaylord Fields: I know my way around exotica pretty decently, yet I learn so much from Explorers Room every time I listen.
	8:45pm Bruce S.: You have expanded mymusical conciosness again Galord, I feel like I know much more now then I did before
	8:51pm Bruce S.: I think of Exotica as a very expansive musical style that can incorporate a very wide range of music under it's banner
	8:51pm Gaylord Fields: Definitely!
	8:52pm Bruce S.: I think 70s dance music is somehow connected to Exotica
	8:52pm phat in Lincoln: Oh! My buddy is listening now. I had recommended your show, @Gaylord Fields already as a good source for exotica. He's enjoying the show.
	8:53pm Gaylord Fields: Very cool, Phat! Thanks for tipping him off.
	8:53pm Speedo Gonzalez: Hi Gaylord! awesome show!!!
	8:55pm chaos_in_la_la: Overcomers of the World unite!
	8:55pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, Speedo Gonzalez! Becky the Honky Tonk Radio Girl and I were singing your praises earlier today.
	8:56pm Gaylord Fields: @chaos_in_la_la: !!!
	8:56pm Bruce S.: It's time to expose Exotica's hidden influence on pop culture, and of course it's great to listen to just for enjoyment's sake
	8:57pm Free Will-E: This is amazing. The last one was not the Doors?
	8:57pm Gaylord Fields: @Free Will-E: Well, not at first. :)
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: Gaylord, you are smooooove.
	9:03pm phat in Lincoln: Lol. My buddy had downloaded Dharmaland, but he just ordered the LP.
	9:05pm Bruce S.: Ahhh,beautiful show man
	9:05pm Gaylord Fields: You don't need any extra greeze yourself, Uncle Michael.
	9:05pm Uncle Michael: Last week, I could have.
	9:06pm Speedo Gonzalez: Wow thanks Gaylord and Becky, big compliment! and such a treat this show tonight, as the Eden-maniac I am
	9:06pm HyperDose: A most enjoyable selection. Pleased to have this be my soundtrack to the show outdoors!
	9:07pm Scott67: G'day Gaylord & Field Trippers! ✌😎🌏🌻
	9:07pm Gaylord Fields: @Speedo: So happy I got to air a few less common Eden Ahbez tracks Brian Chidester sent my way.
	9:08pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, HyperDose; glad to supply your soundtrack. Happy Monday, Scott67, and I love that moniker for the listeners.
	9:08pm nathan: yoooo. enjoying these tunes and eagerly anticipating pizza...
	9:09pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, nathan! Good night for pizza (meaning any night, to be specific)!
	9:09pm nathan: also i am spending 4th of july caretaking some pigs, sheep and chickens :D hope everybody else is having a good one
	9:11pm Scott67: Gaylord, all yours mate!👍😎
	9:13pm phat in Lincoln: This definitely not run of the mill exotica. Heavy, definitely.
	9:15pm nathan: yeah, was getting martin denny vibes from the eden stuff. cooool
	9:15pm Bruce S.: No questions about WFMU's educational value after this show
	9:16pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: Hiya Gaylord! 4th greetings from me @ hifivicky.
	9:16pm ri: great show!
	9:17pm patrick321: From my perch on the high end of Monty Street I can see fireworks from Coney Island to the Outerbridge and it looks like every corner of Jersey City has its own local Grucci. Despite all the pop pop pop I'm digging your soundtrack Gaylord.
	9:17pm davefromtoronto: great show gaylord - you're outstanding in your field(s)
	9:22pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, ri! Very cool, patrick321! Aw, I appreciate it, davefromtoronto!
	9:22pm Gaylord Fields: Best wishes, Jeff & Vicky! You're both the aces in the deck!
	9:23pm ultradamno: One relatively modern act with pretty deep exotica influences I've been deep diving into this past pandemic year, thanks to Bandcamp availability is (the pre-Messer Chups act) Messer Für Frau Müller, endlessly delightful stuff. messerfurfraumuller.bandcamp.com
	9:24pm Andres: Hello! Is there a term for this ghostly vocalizing?
	9:25pm Bruce S.: This is like 4th of July in another dimension
	9:25pm slugluv1313: good evening, Gaylord! Fields Enthusiasts! not signed in yet -- but LOVING what you are playing -- especially that "Fire of the Soul" -- WOW!!! got home a little while ago, such a lovely contrast to all the noise outside (NYC, Jersey City, Hoboken too! 😵🙃😩)
	9:26pm Tommy in Neversink: I'm in to this
	9:26pm Gaylord Fields: @Andres: No specific term that I know of; it's generally just called wordless vocals.
	9:26pm ultradamno: Voice theremin
	9:27pm Tommy in Neversink: Thanks for that link ultradamno
	9:28pm Andres: Thanks, Gaylord. Good one, ultradamno!
	9:29pm nathan: love this show
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: Welcome, slugluv1313! Glad you're safe and (enjoying exotic) sound.
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Tommy! Cool stuff, ain't it?
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: @ultradamno: That name could catch on. Love it!
	9:30pm Franco Twinkie: I was just outside having watermelon, listening to the beginning of the aerial assault. People really put their heart into it around here.
	9:32pm Bruce S.: Thanks so much Ultradamno, thats on my to do list
	9:32pm chresti: Lovely show Gaylord, thank you! I'm taking it with me to the shower.
	9:32pm Andres: Franco, a fave video of this last year was an aerial shot of LA last July 4th. It was an endless sea of fireworks. Spectacular!
	9:35pm phat in Lincoln: Lincoln will be blanketed in smoke like a thick fog, in a couple hours. It's usually pretty crazy here, but this year is way, way beyond the usual already.
	9:36pm Gaylord Fields: Franco: Enjoy your watermelon accompaniment! chresti: Enjoy your water accompaniment!
	9:37pm Franco Twinkie: Andres oh yeah, last year it was beyond berserk. My sister just called. She's at our mom's house and is totally freaked.
	9:40pm ?: psssst...hi franco t
	9:41pm ShelbyG: that was me..silly interwebs
	9:42pm Julie: gaylord
	9:43pm I k e: Though I’m in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the fireworks most clearly visible to me from my fire escape are the Jersey City ones, because those dips in Manhattan are doing theirs way uptown again. What a bunch of wieners.
	9:43pm Gaylord Fields: Julie! Hope the birds are enjoying this.
	9:43pm Bruce S.: The exotica sound, just have a cocktail and wile away your dreams
	9:44pm ShelbyG: I just had a very violent urge to watch Tho Who's bit on rock n' roll circus..sorry, it couldn't be helped...oh sheesh..that's magic..I mean no disrespect (this sounds Bungle-esque) wow ... hi shelby RANDO
	9:47pm Mike Sin: Just checking in from a NJ rest stop to say this whole show has been great. I got schooled on some cool music I didn’t know too much about.
	9:47pm RevErie: didn't know what to expect coming into this, but I'm sure glad I did!
	9:48pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Mike! Thanks for almost literally stopping by! Love the show you and Matt did yesterday, but I was driving upstate and didn't pull over to tell you. Sorry. :)
	9:49pm Gaylord Fields: @RevErie: Glad you did!
	9:50pm Corey: Sitting around thinking what to do before fireworks wake up my kid...oh yeah, Sunday, Gaylord Fields show. Only an hour and half too late! Well at least catching a couple of songs before the fireworks.
	9:52pm Bruce S.: Gaylord enjoying the show but you've gotta do this again sometime when it's not rockets red glare
	9:53pm Corey: Ellingtonian feel to this one.
	9:53pm Gaylord Fields: Glad you made it, Corey!
	9:56pm Bruce S.: But Exotica is great to listen to with someone else so it fits
	9:57pm slugluv1313: wonderful wonderful show, Gaylord -- thanks so much!!! 😺😺😺
	9:57pm Scott67: Thanks Gaylord, you made my cold Monday morning a little warmer. ✌🤙😎🌏🌻
	9:57pm Corey: Happy to make it! Perfect sendoff into the wild 4th of July night.
	9:58pm DjLorraine: Thank you kindly
	9:58pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, everyone!
	9:59pm Bruce S.: Thank you so much Gaylord,really enjoyed it
	9:59pm ultradamno: Great one GF, even though the last half hour was largely drowned out by mortar shells and whistling rockets
	9:59pm Zetti: Thanks.
	9:59pm nathan: MORE!!!
	9:59pm ARB: Thanks Gaylord!
	9:59pm ?: thanks gaylord fields!
	9:59pm nathan: (also thanks)
	10:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Gaylord. Great show tonight!
	10:00pm Julie P.: Thank you for a delightful evening, Gaylord! I look forward to hearing more exotica from you in the future! Happy Fourth, everyone!
	1:00pm Becky Ebenkamp: So sorry I missed this live! Brian is a good friend who has been working on this project for a long time—thank you for giving it recognition, Gaylord! - the other Becky

Gaylord Fields: Playlist from July 4, 2021

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Sun. Dec 22nd, 3pm - 5pm: The Unsolicited Return of the Winter Soul-stice (fill-in for Paul Bruno) (More info...)
You can't stop the seasons from turning, and you evidently also can't stop an old dog from performing his one old trick. Answering the teeming clamor of one New York Times food columnist , Gaylord Fields is returning to WFMU's airwaves for a one-off Winter Soul-stice program. In his time away he's learned nothing, so the format will remain the same: two hours of original 1960s soul 45s, and the abuse of an expensive reverb machine for the sake of corny vocal effects.

July 4, 2021: Exotica Special, Featuring an Interview With Eden Ahbez Historian Brian Chidester

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Sil Austin	Nature Boy "Nature Boy" by "Sil Austin"
Interview with Brian Chidester, part 1, followed by songs written by Eden Ahbez
Sam Cooke	Lonely Island "Lonely Island" by "Sam Cooke"
Annita Ray	Frankie's Song "Frankie's Song" by "Annita Ray"
Ethel Ennis	Hey Jacques "Hey Jacques" by "Ethel Ennis"
Ahbe Casabe	Divine Melody "Divine Melody" by "Ahbe Casabe"
Wondermints	Full Moon "Full Moon" by "Wondermints"
Ìxtahuele	Theme I "Theme I" by "Ìxtahuele"
Interview with Brian Chidester, part 2, followed by tracks from Eden Ahbez's Dharmaland* alongside the songs by Ahbe that inspired Ìxtahuele's arrangements.*
Eden Ahbez	Anna Was Mine "Anna Was Mine" by "Eden Ahbez"
Ìxtahuele	New Anthem "New Anthem" by "Ìxtahuele"
Eden Ahbez	Overcomers of the World
Ìxtahuele feat. Kadhja Bonet	Manna
Eden Ahbez	A Neat Song "A Neat Song" by "Eden Ahbez"
Ìxtahuele	Scene I (Excerpt) "Scene I (Excerpt)" by "Ìxtahuele"
Eden Ahbez	The Old Boat "The Old Boat" by "Eden Ahbez"
Ìxtahuele	Fire of the Soul "Fire of the Soul" by "Ìxtahuele"

The Surfmen	Jungle Romance "Jungle Romance" by "The Surfmen"
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Strange Echoes
Bill Jaffee and His Islanders	House of Jade
Chaino	Swamp Girl "Swamp Girl" by "Chaino"
Sondi Sodsai	Bali Hai "Bali Hai" by "Sondi Sodsai"
John McFarland Sextet	Watusi "Watusi" by "John McFarland Sextet"
Michel Magne et son Grand Orchestre	Baia
Elisabeth Waldo	Saycusca! (The Weary Stones)
Dominic Frontiere and His Orchestra	Jaguar God (Balam)
The Out-Islanders	Moon Mist "Moon Mist" by "The Out-Islanders"
Don Ralke	Black Panther "Black Panther" by "Don Ralke"
Tak Shindo	Bantu Spear Dance "Bantu Spear Dance" by "Tak Shindo"

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Listener comments!
	8:01pm headcleaner: gaylord > fireworks, any day
	8:01pm ultradamno: Gaylord! Wayoutfielders! Looking forward to the exotica, hope it can compete with the increasing explosives.
	8:02pm davefromtoronto: greetings sir gaylord of the fields.
	8:02pm phat in Lincoln: Looking forward to this. Also, Nature Boy seems like a perfect choice for exotica. Hi everybody! Happy Independence Day!
	8:02pm chresti: Hi Gaylord and company!
	8:03pm Bruce S.: Hey Gaylord, Exotica, Far outica
	8:06pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, headcleaner, ultradamno, davefromntoronto, phat in Lincoln, chresti and Bruce S. Happy Independence day or belated Canada Day, everyone!
	8:08pm sugarwolf!!!: hello!
	8:08pm patrick321: Happy 4th Gaylord and everyone listening.
	8:08pm DjLorraine: Good evening Gaylord Fields and the rare flower folks
	8:09pm headcleaner: ahbez quote from WP: "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are."
	8:10pm phat in Lincoln: Oh wait! He wrote Nature Boy. I had no idea.
	8:10pm Gaylord Fields: Hello, sugarwolf! Happy 4th patrick321, good evening, DjLorraine!
	8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sometimes think Ahbez makes an interesting compare / contrast to Moondog. Except - Ahbez actually was a kind of Proto-Hippe on the West Coast.
	8:11pm Franco Twinkie: Gaylord, this is great!
	8:11pm Bruce S.: Wow Sam cooke was amazeing,the many voices he had
	8:12pm Franco Twinkie: Brian did Dumb Angel, right?
	8:12pm Gaylord Fields: @Franco Twinkie: Yes, with Domenic Priore.
	8:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Gaylord & Brian. Happy 245th, USA!
	8:13pm Gaylord Fields: Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You are so on the mark.
	8:13pm Franco Twinkie: Yup, I went to one of their readings.
	8:14pm Bruce S.: I think he had shoulder leanth hair in the 40s
	8:14pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Ken From Hyde Park! Happy birthday, USA, you great big baby!
	8:15pm headcleaner: The theater (now a church) where a bearded and sandaled ahbez handed "Nature Boy" to Nat King Cole's road manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Theater_(Los_Angeles)
	8:15pm phat in Lincoln: Well hell. He's my new favorite weirdo artist.
	8:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there were people just before the Hippies who identified as 'Freaks' - like some of the folk that Zappa associated with. A bit more individualistic than the stereotypical Hippies...
	8:16pm Carmichael: Heya Gaylord and residents of free America.
	8:16pm listener 126464: Great stories and songs, thanks Gaylord.
	8:17pm ultradamno: It's my understanding they were fabulous, furry and all related.
	8:17pm Gaylord Fields: Hello, Carmichael! Thanks, listener 126464! One more segment of interview coming up.
	8:19pm Franco Twinkie: RR, The thing about L.A. then and now, is you could/can be your own kind of nut, more or less without getting too bugged. And yes, there is fruit just hanging off trees.
	8:20pm Daisy Lacy: hi Gaylord!
	8:20pm phat in Lincoln: @Franco Twinkie James Ellroy wrote a lot about that.
	8:20pm Bruce S.: I'm not really familiar, did he write this set? it's beautiful, thanks Gaylord
	8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Franco - I was homeless in Santa Barbara a short while - in the mid-late 1980s. It was an ordeal - but in my early 20s, not impossible...
	8:21pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Daisy! Welcome to paradise!
	8:22pm Franco Twinkie: Phat ,and James Ellroy is nothing if not a nut!
	8:22pm phat in Lincoln: And by weirdo, Iran that in only the most respectful and appreciative manner. I have only respecy for legit weirdos.
	8:22pm Gaylord Fields: @Bruce S. All the songs in this set are written by Eden Ahbez.
	8:22pm Julie P.: Love the Wondermints! Hello all and Happy Fourth!
	8:23pm Bruce S.: California also has a very strong and very crazy right wing as well, I think it was always there
	8:23pm The Butterman: Franco! Loved your orange juice video. I really appreciated Jerry’s “Clementine” as your soundtrack and who I assume was your lovely mother holding up Aoaxomoxoa!
	8:23pm Gaylord Fields: Jooools!!! Welcome! And they certainly are a group worthy of their name.
	8:24pm Carmichael: Orange County & San Diego, Bruce.
	8:25pm phat in Lincoln: @Franco Twinkie you're telling me. I didn't know him well, but there was a big sort of thing for him on hipsters in the 90s, when I was in my 20s. The funny thing was, I had asked my mom, who loved biographies, what her favorite biographies was and she had said, My Dark Places. I regret never asking her what she enjoyed about it after I read it. My mom was not known for her fascination with that kind of strangeness.
	8:25pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Butterman! I have a house in a neighborhood full of fruit trees. And I, for the grace of god and supportive loving parents didn't wind up in the street.
	8:26pm Bruce S.: I always wanted to visit San Diego
	8:26pm headcleaner: exotica svenska
	8:26pm Julie P.: Gaylord - saw them when they played with Brian Wilson and a 12-piece orchestra on the first Pet Sounds Live tour. It was a memorable night.
	8:26pm phat in Lincoln: Iran = I mean. That's an odd autocorrect.
	8:27pm Joe R.: great show! if I knew the focus earlier (my bad) I would have saved my Planter’s Punch for now
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: Jools, Darian of the Wondermints is a friend and an expert musician and arranger and student of all things concerning good pop music.
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe R.: Why, make another one!
	8:29pm Julie P.: Gaylord - I'm so jelly! They are very talented!
	8:29pm Franco Twinkie: The exotica thing has always been part of the L.A. landscape. The music scene here in the 80's-90's really ran with the ball.
	8:32pm Julie P.: I LOVE exotica! Such a wonderful groove.
	8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - okay ...so - Ahbez was a major progenitor of Exotica ? ? & - he & Brian Wilson were familiar... What are the timelines...
	8:33pm Gaylord Fields: Jools, it's a huge love of mine, and I hope to get to do more DJing in that style now that those opportunities are coming back.
	8:35pm Gaylord Fields: RevRab: Ahbez started in the 1940s but was writing songs into the 1970s. His Eden's Island LP came out in 1960, and BW was definitely familiar with it.
	8:35pm Bruce S.: Sounds very exciting Gaylord
	8:37pm phat in Lincoln: Luckily this is going to be archived, since he's doing 4th stuff right now.
	8:38pm Gaylord Fields: @Bruce: Thanks! I'm excited.
	8:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: I feel like I've stumbled into an obscure corner of a music museum. Learning about things I never know existed. Rummy's "unknown unknowns"?
	8:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Explorer's Room program here on the Drummer Stream helped me to connect the dots between Exotica & Psychedelia...
	8:40pm Gaylord Fields: I know my way around exotica pretty decently, yet I learn so much from Explorers Room every time I listen.
	8:45pm Bruce S.: You have expanded mymusical conciosness again Galord, I feel like I know much more now then I did before
	8:51pm Bruce S.: I think of Exotica as a very expansive musical style that can incorporate a very wide range of music under it's banner
	8:51pm Gaylord Fields: Definitely!
	8:52pm Bruce S.: I think 70s dance music is somehow connected to Exotica
	8:52pm phat in Lincoln: Oh! My buddy is listening now. I had recommended your show, @Gaylord Fields already as a good source for exotica. He's enjoying the show.
	8:53pm Gaylord Fields: Very cool, Phat! Thanks for tipping him off.
	8:53pm Speedo Gonzalez: Hi Gaylord! awesome show!!!
	8:55pm chaos_in_la_la: Overcomers of the World unite!
	8:55pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, Speedo Gonzalez! Becky the Honky Tonk Radio Girl and I were singing your praises earlier today.
	8:56pm Gaylord Fields: @chaos_in_la_la: !!!
	8:56pm Bruce S.: It's time to expose Exotica's hidden influence on pop culture, and of course it's great to listen to just for enjoyment's sake
	8:57pm Free Will-E: This is amazing. The last one was not the Doors?
	8:57pm Gaylord Fields: @Free Will-E: Well, not at first. :)
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: Gaylord, you are smooooove.
	9:03pm phat in Lincoln: Lol. My buddy had downloaded Dharmaland, but he just ordered the LP.
	9:05pm Bruce S.: Ahhh,beautiful show man
	9:05pm Gaylord Fields: You don't need any extra greeze yourself, Uncle Michael.
	9:05pm Uncle Michael: Last week, I could have.
	9:06pm Speedo Gonzalez: Wow thanks Gaylord and Becky, big compliment! and such a treat this show tonight, as the Eden-maniac I am
	9:06pm HyperDose: A most enjoyable selection. Pleased to have this be my soundtrack to the show outdoors!
	9:07pm Scott67: G'day Gaylord & Field Trippers! ✌😎🌏🌻
	9:07pm Gaylord Fields: @Speedo: So happy I got to air a few less common Eden Ahbez tracks Brian Chidester sent my way.
	9:08pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, HyperDose; glad to supply your soundtrack. Happy Monday, Scott67, and I love that moniker for the listeners.
	9:08pm nathan: yoooo. enjoying these tunes and eagerly anticipating pizza...
	9:09pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, nathan! Good night for pizza (meaning any night, to be specific)!
	9:09pm nathan: also i am spending 4th of july caretaking some pigs, sheep and chickens :D hope everybody else is having a good one
	9:11pm Scott67: Gaylord, all yours mate!👍😎
	9:13pm phat in Lincoln: This definitely not run of the mill exotica. Heavy, definitely.
	9:15pm nathan: yeah, was getting martin denny vibes from the eden stuff. cooool
	9:15pm Bruce S.: No questions about WFMU's educational value after this show
	9:16pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: Hiya Gaylord! 4th greetings from me @ hifivicky.
	9:16pm ri: great show!
	9:17pm patrick321: From my perch on the high end of Monty Street I can see fireworks from Coney Island to the Outerbridge and it looks like every corner of Jersey City has its own local Grucci. Despite all the pop pop pop I'm digging your soundtrack Gaylord.
	9:17pm davefromtoronto: great show gaylord - you're outstanding in your field(s)
	9:22pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, ri! Very cool, patrick321! Aw, I appreciate it, davefromtoronto!
	9:22pm Gaylord Fields: Best wishes, Jeff & Vicky! You're both the aces in the deck!
	9:23pm ultradamno: One relatively modern act with pretty deep exotica influences I've been deep diving into this past pandemic year, thanks to Bandcamp availability is (the pre-Messer Chups act) Messer Für Frau Müller, endlessly delightful stuff. messerfurfraumuller.bandcamp.com
	9:24pm Andres: Hello! Is there a term for this ghostly vocalizing?
	9:25pm Bruce S.: This is like 4th of July in another dimension
	9:25pm slugluv1313: good evening, Gaylord! Fields Enthusiasts! not signed in yet -- but LOVING what you are playing -- especially that "Fire of the Soul" -- WOW!!! got home a little while ago, such a lovely contrast to all the noise outside (NYC, Jersey City, Hoboken too! 😵🙃😩)
	9:26pm Tommy in Neversink: I'm in to this
	9:26pm Gaylord Fields: @Andres: No specific term that I know of; it's generally just called wordless vocals.
	9:26pm ultradamno: Voice theremin
	9:27pm Tommy in Neversink: Thanks for that link ultradamno
	9:28pm Andres: Thanks, Gaylord. Good one, ultradamno!
	9:29pm nathan: love this show
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: Welcome, slugluv1313! Glad you're safe and (enjoying exotic) sound.
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Tommy! Cool stuff, ain't it?
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: @ultradamno: That name could catch on. Love it!
	9:30pm Franco Twinkie: I was just outside having watermelon, listening to the beginning of the aerial assault. People really put their heart into it around here.
	9:32pm Bruce S.: Thanks so much Ultradamno, thats on my to do list
	9:32pm chresti: Lovely show Gaylord, thank you! I'm taking it with me to the shower.
	9:32pm Andres: Franco, a fave video of this last year was an aerial shot of LA last July 4th. It was an endless sea of fireworks. Spectacular!
	9:35pm phat in Lincoln: Lincoln will be blanketed in smoke like a thick fog, in a couple hours. It's usually pretty crazy here, but this year is way, way beyond the usual already.
	9:36pm Gaylord Fields: Franco: Enjoy your watermelon accompaniment! chresti: Enjoy your water accompaniment!
	9:37pm Franco Twinkie: Andres oh yeah, last year it was beyond berserk. My sister just called. She's at our mom's house and is totally freaked.
	9:40pm ?: psssst...hi franco t
	9:41pm ShelbyG: that was me..silly interwebs
	9:42pm Julie: gaylord
	9:43pm I k e: Though I’m in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the fireworks most clearly visible to me from my fire escape are the Jersey City ones, because those dips in Manhattan are doing theirs way uptown again. What a bunch of wieners.
	9:43pm Gaylord Fields: Julie! Hope the birds are enjoying this.
	9:43pm Bruce S.: The exotica sound, just have a cocktail and wile away your dreams
	9:44pm ShelbyG: I just had a very violent urge to watch Tho Who's bit on rock n' roll circus..sorry, it couldn't be helped...oh sheesh..that's magic..I mean no disrespect (this sounds Bungle-esque) wow ... hi shelby RANDO
	9:47pm Mike Sin: Just checking in from a NJ rest stop to say this whole show has been great. I got schooled on some cool music I didn’t know too much about.
	9:47pm RevErie: didn't know what to expect coming into this, but I'm sure glad I did!
	9:48pm Gaylord Fields: Hi, Mike! Thanks for almost literally stopping by! Love the show you and Matt did yesterday, but I was driving upstate and didn't pull over to tell you. Sorry. :)
	9:49pm Gaylord Fields: @RevErie: Glad you did!
	9:50pm Corey: Sitting around thinking what to do before fireworks wake up my kid...oh yeah, Sunday, Gaylord Fields show. Only an hour and half too late! Well at least catching a couple of songs before the fireworks.
	9:52pm Bruce S.: Gaylord enjoying the show but you've gotta do this again sometime when it's not rockets red glare
	9:53pm Corey: Ellingtonian feel to this one.
	9:53pm Gaylord Fields: Glad you made it, Corey!
	9:56pm Bruce S.: But Exotica is great to listen to with someone else so it fits
	9:57pm slugluv1313: wonderful wonderful show, Gaylord -- thanks so much!!! 😺😺😺
	9:57pm Scott67: Thanks Gaylord, you made my cold Monday morning a little warmer. ✌🤙😎🌏🌻
	9:57pm Corey: Happy to make it! Perfect sendoff into the wild 4th of July night.
	9:58pm DjLorraine: Thank you kindly
	9:58pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, everyone!
	9:59pm Bruce S.: Thank you so much Gaylord,really enjoyed it
	9:59pm ultradamno: Great one GF, even though the last half hour was largely drowned out by mortar shells and whistling rockets
	9:59pm Zetti: Thanks.
	9:59pm nathan: MORE!!!
	9:59pm ARB: Thanks Gaylord!
	9:59pm ?: thanks gaylord fields!
	9:59pm nathan: (also thanks)
	10:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Gaylord. Great show tonight!
	10:00pm Julie P.: Thank you for a delightful evening, Gaylord! I look forward to hearing more exotica from you in the future! Happy Fourth, everyone!
	1:00pm Becky Ebenkamp: So sorry I missed this live! Brian is a good friend who has been working on this project for a long time—thank you for giving it recognition, Gaylord! - the other Becky

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