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Favoriting April 29, 2023: Guest: Magician Asi Wind

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Artist Track
Calexico  The El Burro Song   Favoriting
Del Shannon  For A Little While   Favoriting
Tommy Sosebee  Barbershop Boogie   Favoriting
Cliques, The  I'm In Love With A Girl   Favoriting
Astrud Gilberto  Crickets Sing For Anamaria   Favoriting
Rubinoos, The  I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend   Favoriting
Left Banke, The  She May Call You Up Tonight   Favoriting
Charley Crockett  Lil' Girl's Name   Favoriting
Clarence Carter  Take It All Off   Favoriting
Nuevo  77   Favoriting
Honeybus  I Can't Let Maggie Go   Favoriting
Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men  Baby Please Don't Go   Favoriting
Amos Milburn, Jr.  Gloria   Favoriting
Louis Jordon And His Tympany Five  Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens   Favoriting
Fountain Of Wayne  Hey Julie   Favoriting
Cindermen, The  You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling   Favoriting
Lee Hazlewood  Dark In My Heart   Favoriting
Roy Lee Johnson  Plowing Playboy   Favoriting
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby  Do You Remember That?   Favoriting
Buggs, The  Liverpool Drag   Favoriting
Deke Dickerson And The Whippersnappers  Bucket Of Blood   Favoriting
Oscar Toney, Jr.  Ain't That True Love   Favoriting
Steven Malkmus  Jenny And The Ess-Dog   Favoriting
Lyres, The  Help You Ann   Favoriting
Kurt Baker  She Don't Really Love You, Dude   Favoriting
Bug Club, The  Only In Love   Favoriting
Jacob James, The  Don't Want To Stay   Favoriting
First Base  I've Gotta Girl   Favoriting
Bob Dorough  Three Is A Magic Number   Favoriting
Asi Wind  Interview   Favoriting
Pilot  Magic   Favoriting

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

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 Please Kill Me!

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 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 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 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 listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

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 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 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 HERE for 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 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

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

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 Please Kill Me!

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 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 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 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 listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

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 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 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 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 10:35am
Listener Baby:

Baby. I feel magic in the air. Why?
  11:01am
clarke:

hey now
oh oh oh it's magic.
Avatar 11:01am
HyperDose:

I don't care what anyone says, magic is cool!
  11:01am
Peter Horvath:

Yo Michael and all the #1ers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Aaron in Minneapolis:

OOH maybe he can do tricks on air!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Squints:

ok then.

hey HEY hey now.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Baja Joe:

Good morning Mike
  11:02am
egould:

Michael, are you a caller to the Dan Patrick Show?
  11:02am
clarke:

Squints - got spring?
  11:03am
clarke:

↳ Song: "The El Burro Song" by "Calexico"
on drums: john convertino
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03am
jmd:

rippin' start!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:03am
Squints:

↳ clarke @11:02
Close enough. Not the full April. But pieces of it.
  11:03am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:03
on the cape, april is the cruellest month.
  11:04am
DanFA:

Is he going to make Michael disappear?
  11:04am
rx scabin:

Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
  11:05am
DanFA:

↳ HyperDose @11:01
Hard agree. Definitely recommend the Ricky Jay documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:05am
Squints:

↳ clarke @11:03
I might need a word with that damned groundhog.
  11:06am
rx scabin:

Close-up radio magic is quite a concept.
Avatar 11:06am
PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "For A Little While" by "Del Shannon"
A little Sugar, Sugar
  11:06am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:05
he now prefers to be called phillip.
  11:07am
clarke:

↳ DanFA @11:05
need to see this!
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Squints:

↳ clarke @11:06
That's MISTER Phillip to you and me.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Morning all.
  11:08am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:07
and Sir Phillip in some portals
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dale:

i like del's 'psych' record. really good.
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myron feld:

↳ DanFA @11:05
Yes, yes, 1000x times yes. Derek Del Gaudio is wonderful as well: www.hulu.com...
  11:10am
DanFA:

↳ myron feld @11:08
Also recommend The X-Files episode he and another close-up magician were in as a pair of con men. Not a great X-Files episode, but it's fun to see Ricky Jay interact with Mulder and Scully.
  11:11am
clarke:

the side of ricky jay i like is his study and expertise in the con. not so much the magic side - but that's okay too.
  11:11am
wenzo:

Mornin MS & radio frenz
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jmd:

There are dozens of close-up magic performance videos from The Magic Castle on youtube. Some better than others, all pretty cool.
  11:12am
MrDeb:

@Dale: which one is that? Do you mean The Further Adventures...? I know nothing re Del Shannon and wanna change that
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Squints:

↳ clarke @11:11
Agreed. Although wasn't the magic stuff he did a little Harry Anderson wink-wink, reminding us that "it's a gag?"

Was Ricky Jay also the one who purported to throw cards through things like they were bladed?
  11:13am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:12
i don't think that was ricky jay, throwing cards.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ egould @11:02
No sir
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Squints:

↳ MrDeb @11:12
Do the dive. Not quite Dion-level "never made a bad record," but not that far behind. Just about everything is worthy.
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pgalub:

Hey Michael and everyone! I think Barbara Manning's song "Lately, I Keep Scissors" also has real life scissors on the recording. ✂️
  11:14am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:12
speaking of harry anderson, i have become pals with his widow who lives about 4 blocks from me - great gal!
  11:15am
clarke:

↳ pgalub @11:14
ello pedro!
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pgalub:

↳ clarke @11:15
Hey clarke!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by "Rubinoos, The"
A-number-one right here.
  11:16am
clarke:

wassup main?
  11:16am
Steve from Dunwoody:

#1
  11:16am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:16
uhh, it's in the lyrics!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Steve from Dunwoody @11:16
YES!
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Squints:

↳ clarke @11:16
Ain't bragging if they can do it.
  11:18am
clarke:

no brag, just fact.
  11:18am
Crei6hton:

Morning WFMU
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dale:

↳ MrDeb @11:12
yeah, further adventures of charles westover.
  11:19am
clarke:

MS - how does/did Fool Me change the magic world?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Doing the Beatles sorter right now. Lol
  11:20am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:19
wellsir, good day!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "She May Call You Up Tonight" by "Left Banke, The"
BankE
  11:20am
Steve from Dunwoody:

I don’t know, “I Only Want to Dance with You” has the same feel/vibe/radio-pop with earlier technology.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Can't ever get enough Left Banke.
  11:21am
clarke:

they sure can sing and play, tho
  11:21am
clarke:

lukovsky.
  11:21am
Jay S.:

New Jersey band?
  11:22am
clarke:

nyc
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Handy Haversack:

Hey now! Michael and all the Shellegamers!
  11:22am
clarke:

some of them from new rochelle, i believe
  11:23am
clarke:

handrew - how's the Kingdom?
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:23
Extremely unruly! I'm trying to make/eat brunch here!
  11:24am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:23
there's a beverage here!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:22
Home of Rob and Laura Petrie
  11:25am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:24
a red edsel.
  11:26am
clarke:

there's so many wigs in nola!
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Handy Haversack:

Strokin'!

Oh, wait.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Take It All Off" by "Clarence Carter"
There is a proud tradition of wig songs, not to mention wig-hat songs. Take it off, honey!
  11:27am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:26
let that afro flow
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drr:

heh heh
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drr:

(my Clarence Carter impression)
  11:28am
clarke:

mornin' dave! cloudy tho it be.
  11:28am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:28
we figured that.
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Handy Haversack:

¡Nuevo!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "77" by "Nuevo"
Any chance these guys would do a live set, MS? Or come to NYC/NJ one day?
  11:29am
rx scabin:

Thank you, Michael. I must leave. I would much rather stay.
  11:30am
clarke:

rx have a gooder!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:25
!
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Handy Haversack:

I can't see any Michael Shelley Show coasters in the Asi Wind picture. Had he made them disappear.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I need that recipe.
  11:32am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:32
look behind your ear!
  11:34am
Peter Horvath:

Every Honeybus song is a number one hit
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Dano59:

"vegetarian cheeseburger pizza" is a whole lotta non sequitur oxymoron (from an omnivore)
  11:34am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:32
look behind your ear!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "I Can't Let Maggie Go" by "Honeybus"
Every time I hear this band I feel like I need more
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Andrea C:

↳ Song: "I Can't Let Maggie Go" by "Honeybus"
Sounds familiar to me. I may be recalling this from Wake and Bake.
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myron feld:

↳ Song: "I Can't Let Maggie Go" by "Honeybus"
I first heard Honeybus on a Michael Shelley marathon premium disc some years ago. Another fine reason to support this here station.
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Handy Haversack:

When K8's at band practice, I often eat vegan nachos for one. Which I think is one the saddest phrases the language is capable of. But it sure is tasty.
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Christina Ginger:

Good morning!
  11:36am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:35
amazingly, to go with, it's tequila for two!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
  11:36am
clarke:

christina - good mawnin'!!
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prof.fuzz:

morning y'all
  11:37am
clarke:

FuZZZZZZZZZZ!
  11:38am
clarke:

wearing a FeZZZZZZ!
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prof.fuzz:

ClarkEEEEEEEEEE!
HandYYYYYYYYYY!
  11:38am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Baby Please Don't Go" by "Billy Lee Riley and His...
wow, i always assumed this was the muddy waters song!
  11:39am
clarke:

↳ clarke @11:38
i mean, it sort-of IS - but.. different.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @11:38
does a 3-chord monty trucker hat count as a FeZZZZZZZ???
  11:41am
clarke:

in some states.
  11:41am
clarke:

not texas, tho.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @11:38
...not to say AmboyDukes
...cause ...you wouldn't say it
...tho someone might say Them...
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @11:41
are those states "pants-optional"?
asking for a friend...
  11:41am
clarke:

them?? not them!!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ drr @11:27
lol
  11:42am
clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:41
tell your friend that sweatpants are NOT trousers!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:36
Math checks out.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:29
I have reached out... so you never know
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Handy Haversack:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:38
Hey, prof.!
  11:43am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:42
that's a miracle.
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Squints:

↳ clarke @11:42
No prince of the blood ever said, "I'd like to be your sweatpants."
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:42
Fantastic. Here's hoping!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @11:41
...I told you & your Uncle if you didn't keep it tidy we'd have Ants...
  11:44am
clarke:

↳ Squints @11:43
except Sir Phillip
  11:44am
gf2002:

My dad had this Louis Jordan record on 78rpm. When I was a kid I used to play it all the time until one day I tried to put it on the spindle and it literally shattered. He also had Bill Haley's Shake Rattle And Roll on 78rpm...and I accidentally sat on it. Love The Tympany Five!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Hey Julie" by "Fountain Of Wayne"
swoon
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @11:42
for the record, i only own one pair of sweatpants...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:45
I'm gonna hold you to that.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:43
what's up, handy?
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Squints:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:44
what you said
  11:45am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:44
there is NOTHING like hearing 78's on an old hi-fi (mono) system!!!
  11:46am
clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:45
are they perhaps joggers or warm-ups?
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Hey Julie" by "Fountain Of Wayne"
There should be more songs with the word "pennyweight"
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:45
it's a rule in casa de fuzz: one pair of sweatpants in, one pair of sweatpants out...

they are basic black sweatpants.
  11:46am
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @11:46
duly noted.
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Christina Ginger:

↳ clarke @11:36
Hello hello clarke!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Hey Julie" by "Fountain Of Wayne"
Imagine Drumpf hadn't been President, Society functioned & Covid got handled well & Adam Lyons Schlesinger was alive.
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prof.fuzz:

hi christina ginger.
enjoyed your show the other day.
  11:47am
clarke:

↳ Christina Ginger @11:46
how goes? is Queens quieter, right now??
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Hughie Considine:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:46
Sometimes you have to lay down the law.
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Christina Ginger:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:47
Thanks so much! 😊
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:47
fortunately, we no longer have that rule for guitars and pedals.
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Christina Ginger:

↳ clarke @11:47
Queens is quieter until Monday nite. Ha.
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jmd:

whoa, now that's four on the floor!
  11:49am
clarke:

↳ Christina Ginger @11:48
ha ha ha. well, it will be quiet for a few days AFTER, too!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
Never have liked the original of this.
  11:49am
morphe':

"
‘We got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form’: AIsis, the band fronted by an AI Liam Gallagher"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/18/oasis-aisis-band-fronted-by-an-ai-liam-gallagher
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Michael Shelley:

Here's the pizza: ibb.co...
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UncleHeavy:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
Wow, full chorus right up front.. why make us wait!??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
Confabulation of HangOnSloopy arrangement to RighteousBros. tune...
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egould:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
Not a fan of the original. It’s like a shitty Hang on Sloopy.
  11:50am
Rick A:

Hello Michael and All, I don't change the station when I hear the original, only because I don't hear it very much because I listen to WFMU most of the time. This version weirdly songs like that song from Grease, "Summer Nights", I think.
  11:50am
gf2002:

↳ clarke @11:45
Agreed! We had an old console turntable and radio combo unit, a big old wooden thing, and the turntable still had 4 speeds! I never had a 16rpm record to play on it. Sounded great with my dad's 78's, the ones I didn't break. I still have a few.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
There are at least ten parallel universes wherein this one was the gold record.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
is that a chimes crash on the one???
  11:51am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:50
it would have been great to collect 78's - but, i am glad i did not start that, now.

here's the pizza.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Well, RighteousBros. original is a slow build. Melodrama. A great thing one has to be in the mood for. & ...not have heard too much.
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jmd:

↳ Song: "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by "Cindermen, The"
my mistake, eight on the floor.
  11:51am
TimG:

OK, I’ll take the minority position…I love the Righteous Bros version even if it’s overplayed
  11:52am
Rick A:

I like the production on The Righteous Brothers' version. It's incredibly dramatic. I just lose myself in it when I hear it.
  11:52am
clarke:

what is that noise in the background? rope??
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Did he just say, "top 40 trash?"
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Because that's genius.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Song: "Dark In My Heart" by "Lee Hazlewood"
kick drum solo!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ gf2002 @11:50
Reportedly - 16 RPM was for like Military Instructional recordings ? Big 15" things ???
  11:53am
Rick A:

Lee Hazlewood is always welcome. Someone should make a documentary about his life and work.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Rick A @11:53
I'm amazed someone hasn't.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Rick A @11:53
Is there a bad LeeHazelwood track ? Anywhere ?
  11:55am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:54
there's a great article in a fanzine - i will have to figure out which. i have it SOMEwhere.
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drr:

Lots of sermons released on 16 rpm.
  11:55am
clarke:

a sermon-collector.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ drr @11:55
Interesting. Anybody ever seen a 16RPM slab ??
  11:56am
gf2002:

↳ Rick A @11:52
I'm a fan too, I love to hear the Wrecking Crew on that record. Earl Palmer got that one on drums instead of Hal. The swell in Gold Star on that one is fantastic, like "I Got You Babe".
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not even a minor Lee doc anywhere ? Are you sure ? ...Not that we want a minor one I suppose...
  11:58am
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56
many of the old USO radio transcriptions are/were on 16
  11:58am
gf2002:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:53
I don't know much about them, only that they could hold like 40 minutes per side which was much more than the 33 1/3. It was cool to be able to slow down records to 16 to hear/learn guitar solos though
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myron feld:

↳ gf2002 @11:56
Yes. The bongo/cowbell/whatever comes in midway through the bridge slays me every time.
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Moammar:

This is possibly the only song that namechecks P.P. Arnold.
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drr:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56
Well, yeah, sermons. Our next-door neighbors had some.
I think Aretha's dad released some records on 16, maybe even popular ones.
  11:59am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:58
i have found a few in thrift stores, but didn't buy them. one has to cut it off, at SOME point!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @11:58
Those were the big 15"s - for broadcast in other timezones for instance ?? Or am I conflating things I don't know in the 1st place...
  12:00pm
P-90:

complete with YLT mention
  12:00pm
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:00
yes, they are huge.
  12:01pm
clarke:

↳ P-90 @12:00
that's PRESIDENT YLT!!!
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egould:

Another hour of #1 Hit Music?!? How does he do it?!?
  12:02pm
clarke:

someone summoning gaylord?
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Christina Ginger:

↳ clarke @12:02
Ha, this stuff is like his Bat Signal.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Liverpool Drag" by "Buggs, The"
...maybe BrianEpstein knew something regarding the Drag scene Merseyside ...which might have been different than what the BeachBoys used the term for...
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drr:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:00
Those 15" records were put out by the military. IDK what speed those played at, only seen them in in record stores. Also don't quote me on this but some of the early Nat Cole Trio recordings were made specifically for armed forces radio and originally came out on these big discs.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ drr @12:03
- to hold whole Radio Programs then presumably...
  12:05pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:03
those were transcription records and had regular 78 single releases before that.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ drr @12:03
- the Nazis actually advanced magnetic Tape Recording as it happens ...even a broken clock right twice a day I suppose...
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Bucket Of Blood" by "Deke Dickerson And The Whipp...
Deke used to play at various branches of the Ocean County Library. Most recently at Barnegat in 2012.
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Don Gorden:

YO Mike , I'm late to the party today.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:06
...cue Tom Lehrer's VonBraun diddy...
  12:09pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Jenny And The Ess-Dog" by "Steven Malkmus"
yessss (dog!)!!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ David Shortell @12:09
yeah - those were great shows! (nrbq TOO!)
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Handy Haversack:

Tristen and the Bug Club are playing NYC on the same night. What am I supposed to do with this rich world?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Jenny And The Ess-Dog" by "Steven Malkmus"
Never has a toe-ring so ingeniously deployed in song.
  12:10pm
SeanG:

you always play this song!
  12:10pm
Rick A:

This is a great song, though it is sadly ironic. I feel bad for the dog. I saw Malkmus on this tour for his first solo albums, great show.
  12:10pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:10
it was only a pennyweight
  12:11pm
gf2002:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:06
Yes they did, and it's a fascinating story how an army officer in the signal corps brought some of the tape machines to the US from Germany, and how it eventually got to Bing Crosby and then to Les Paul, and the rest is history. Bing was interested in the new tape technology so he could record his radio programs at home instead of traveling. Bing financed a lot of that technology with tape and tape machines. I think the army officer's name was Dick Ranger. Germany actually had vari-speed technology in use during World War 1, for spies to broadcast messages across the Atlantic via code, which they'd record and transmit at super high speeds that couldn't be deciphered. Fascinating stuff.
  12:11pm
Rick A:

This is cutting commentary on class differences.
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London Calling Francky:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:10
Or a dog named after Trey Anastasio from Phish...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
BAWSTIN
  12:12pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
oh yes. hell yess..
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
Good God, this track is so goddamn good.
  12:13pm
Rick A:

NPR had a series on the mixtape which featured that Bing Crosby, World War II, and tape story. It's a very revealing and fascinating story.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ SeanG @12:10
Not since Dec 2020. It was due.
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myron feld:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
is there a number higher than #1? This is it.
  12:14pm
gf2002:

↳ Rick A @12:13
That's very cool, I'll have to find that program! I read about it like 20 years ago in a recording magazine. Thanks for the tip!
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
One of the best songs ever
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
Drumstix not to be caught under.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ London Calling Francky @12:12
yes, it's full of great details throughout ("a Volvo with ancient plates")
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London Calling Francky:

↳ Song: "Help You Ann" by "Lyres, The"
Killing track!
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "She Don't Really Love You, Dude" by "Kurt Baker"
Dude!
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Moammar:

↳ Moammar @12:15
Dude rock. A new genre.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "She Don't Really Love You, Dude" by "Kurt Baker"
Power ✔︎
Pop ✔︎
...Farfisa ...now yer just showin' off...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:16
Agree - nice icing on the cake
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clarke:

Nachos For One, Tequila For Two
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:10
You make an excellent point, MS.
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egould:

↳ Moammar @12:15
I watched “Baseketball” last night. Matt and Trey call each other dude like 3,000 times during the course of the movie.
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Only In Love" by "Bug Club, The"
Bug Club : another band of bestsongevermakers!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:17
...I mean - energy ...catchiness ...a little sonic novelty now ? What are you the gawdam Beatles...
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "She Don't Really Love You, Dude" by "Kurt Baker"
I saw him the second day of Asbury Lanes' 2011 Power Pop-A-Licious festival.
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McGroovey:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:10
You're supposed to go see the Bug Club. Sezz I.
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clarke:

America's New Hit-Makers!!
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Rick A:

At the risk of hyping a WFMU competitor. The episode on Vietnam is really haunting, almost like a horror movie: https://radiolab.org/series/mixtape
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dana:

3
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Song: "Three Is A Magic Number" by "Bob Dorough"
The drummer! (Grady Tate, I think)
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gf2002:

↳ Song: "Three Is A Magic Number" by "Bob Dorough"
De La Soul!
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clarke:

i had a strange dream, this morning. was younger and my parents were still alive. my mom was driving the old station wagon we used to have when i was a kid. here's the pertinent part: on the radio was playing a version of Hold Me Tight - but with lennon on lead. i woke up. this doesn't exist does it?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

What is it!?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

11/3/1963 here. Just sayin'.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Three Is A Magic Number" by "Bob Dorough"
Math checks out.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Three Is A Magic Number" by "Bob Dorough"
Cosmic
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clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:25
was hoping so.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:24
Sometimes denigrated as a throwaway with nothing lyrics ...I put it to you : Listen to that Gittar Tone in 1963 !! Way overdriven & chunky. Metallic !!! In the Rhythm too. & do I hear Ringo's kit metal creaking ? It's Heavy man.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:25
i was told there would be no math on this show...
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clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:27
right? this version was so vivid - not that i have a problem with macca's vocal performance - LOVE it! but, in the dream... omg!!
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clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @12:27
you don't have to remember dates, either.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:29
Early Lennon Vocals ...what can you say. Every now & then they sing Unison & it takes an expert to even tell...
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clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:30
that's mostly because mccartney could do a good john
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:24
Huge Hold Me Tight fan here. As a kid, it was just so grabby.
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:33
gosh, i wish you could have heard my dream!! so vivid!! turn it up mom!!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:33
amazing what the brain can cook up on a good night
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clarke:

it was insane. i hardly ever remember my dreams, but this one stuck!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:31
Point taken.
  12:36pm
clarke:

btw, i still have to check out some of your latest blog editions... will get there! they are GREAT!
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clarke:

↳ clarke @12:36
that was for hughie, btw.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The perceptual aspect of Illusion fascinates me - in the sense of not really hiding something - but this is how people's senses & attention work so they don't see it.
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McGroovey:

I'm hearing Paul McCartney singing the Pavement song Trigger Cut in my head right now.

Your brain can make anything.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @12:30
i tend to forget most of the dates i've had. the women did too.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:37
...not that I know anything about how to so it !....
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clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @12:37
what about raisins?
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McGroovey:

Oh. Now I'm heading Ringo singing The KKK Took My Baby Away.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ McGroovey @12:37
There's some AI of Macca singing something he doesn't going round right now this moment...
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Andrea C from the app:

Amen.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @12:38
i prefer the dried cranberry version
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @12:38
*hearing
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HyperDose:

A lot of parallels between comedy and magic. Pretty cool
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:38
pleasant dreams
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clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @12:39
that's why the women forget.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ clarke @12:39
what women???
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clarke:

i forget.
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Andrea C from the app:

Moms, of course!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ HyperDose @12:39
StraightMan : 'You know what the secret of Comedy is don't you?'
FunnyMan: 'No ...what is the secret to your Timing?'...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:37
thanks buddy. I do appreciate it!
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:41
good stuff, mate!
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clarke:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Asi Wind"
ah, you have answered my earlier query.
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clarke:

i dont want to believe he died.
  12:47pm
DanFA:

↳ clarke @12:46
Who died?
  12:48pm
clarke:

↳ DanFA @12:47
referring to the interview.
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clarke:

it's like: uhhm, i don't want to believe that the person is really being cut in half by the saw.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Asi Wind"
For someone in a profession that puts me on my guard (whatever that says about me) - he has a really pleasant voice / manner of speaking.
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, MS and Asi!
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Corey:

Inspired choice for an interview! Really enjoyed it.
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clarke:

ever get the feelin' you been cheated? good night.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Asi Wind"
Interesting & charming 👏
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gf2002:

Great interview!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Great interview! Have fun everyone!
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Asi Wind"
really enjoyed that interview
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P-90:

very nice interview as always, @Michael
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clarke:

sounded like he had some rope in the background, there.
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efd:

↳ Song: "Magic" by "Pilot"
I was thinking it was a missed opportunity when you didn't play this *before* the interview!
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gf2002:

I thought we'd hear "Strange Magic" in today's show too
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I mean rather that than more crank callers ...everyone's a critic...
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Dano59:

↳ Song: "Magic" by "Pilot"
is this power pop? discuss.
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nortonjutland:

i really enjoyed the interview Michael. thank you!
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clarke:

↳ Dano59 @12:58
THIS is Ian McBairn!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Magic" by "Pilot"
Certainly never heard this with headphones: glorious!
Great interview and show, as uzhe...
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DanFA:

No Steve Miller Abracadabra?
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clarke:

good nite.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

If the Interview's that good imagine the Show.
~ TY Always DJ MS ~
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