WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 11, 2024

Listener comments!
	12:00pm βrian: Ready for some poots rock!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Brian!
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Michael, and all other listeners!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Andrew!
	12:01pm TDK60: Dialing in Lawrence, Kansas.... Ahoy, Uncle Michael. Come in...
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: TDK!
	12:03pm Kat in the chat: waves
	12:04pm dan: Good afternoon all
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Kat! dan!
	12:08pm StringOFperils: Knee deep in the poetry, UM.
	🛒 12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh ...this will be rather good. Won't it...
	12:09pm Roberto: Here's what I can't figure out. I lived in L.A. throughout the '80s and I'm pretty sure I didn't hear I Love L.A. until about five years after it was released.
	12:09pm dan: Predictions for todays show Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not To Come Alan Price: Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear Joe Cocker: You Can Leave Your Hat On Gene Pitney: Just One Smile
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: SOp! Roberto!
	12:10pm KWilde: Good afternoon!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Dan got one!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: KWIlde!
	🛒 12:10pm Brian in UK: Uncle. Is that the Spirit of Ecstasy on the bonnet/hood.
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: BiUK! Say what now?
	12:12pm dan: Randy Newman is a great songwriter and film composer, but his singing voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
	🛒 12:12pm Brian in UK: Rolls Royce.
	🛒 12:12pm (Mr) Bill: Uncle. Michael.
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Bill!
	12:13pm Spinning Giant: greetings, UM HD crew friends
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Brian in UK @12:12 still sans clue here
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: SG!
	12:13pm Spinning Giant: you're going to make us all cry today, aren't you, UM...?
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:13 That bad?
	🛒 12:14pm Brian in UK: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:13 The hood ornament of a Rolls Royce. Is Mr Newman (no relation!) driving one.
	12:15pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:13 Hi, Sg!
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Brian in UK @12:14 No, he's not!
	12:16pm StringOFperils: The model for that hood ornament died with hundreds of other passengers on 30 December 1915 when the SS Persia, on which she was travelling with the second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu through the Mediterranean on the way to India, was torpedoed without warning by the German U-boat U-38. Life's a bitch.
	🛒 12:17pm Brian in UK: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: Interestingly, he may be in a Rolls after all. I'm almost certain he's not in the beginning of the video. But I could be wrong.
	12:19pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:14 not inherently, i suppose, no... Friday Cryday...?
	12:19pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:15 Hello Andrew!
	12:20pm StringOFperils: Has anyone ever been torpedoed WITH warning?
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:19 You'll be the judge.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @12:20 Only on Star Trek.
	12:20pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 haha - awright i can handle that (i think?!) lol
	12:21pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 Bahahahahahaha
	🛒 12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @12:20 ...in Gaza as we speak ? ...Thx for asking...
	🛒 12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 Right.
	12:22pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "I Love L.A." by "William Hung" YES
	12:22pm dan: William Hung: The man who was so bad on American Idol, he still got a recording contract.
	12:22pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "I Love L.A." by "William Hung" I thought it was Robin Williamson at first. But no.
	12:24pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:21 Let's, just for today, not go there.
	12:24pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @12:24 Gracias.
	🛒 12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ TDK60 @12:22 ...he did do 'Ace of Spades'...
	🛒 12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @12:24 I'll presume none of us are there today. Probly.
	12:25pm dan: @TDK 60 Robin Williamson is a musical genius compared to William Hung
	12:25pm AS from MP: this will be an interesting 3 hours - keep it coming, Uncle M
	12:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:25 Presumption's half the problem. The stains that won't come out.
	🛒 12:26pm Brian in UK: Difficult to think of a better version of I Think It's Going to Rain Today than Mr Newman's.
	12:26pm TDK60: ↳ dan @12:25 Ho, dan. Thanks. It was something in the vocal chords. I can't comment on the results of those vocal chords and air.
	12:27pm StringOFperils: Doh. Not talking about IT.
	🛒 12:29pm Michael C St Lou: Hello UM and HDT shoppers everywhere. i had a cart w broken wheel stuck in the parking lot
	🛒 12:30pm Brian in UK: ↳ Michael C St Lou @12:29 Do not tell. Everyone will want one.
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: AS from MP!
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Michael! I'll tell maintenance.
	12:34pm dan: Tammy Grimes, mother of Amanda Plummer and definitely not a singer by main profession.
	12:34pm StringOFperils: wOW! I only know Tammy Grimes as an actress.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Tammy won a Tony in 1960 for The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She was always a singer.
	🛒 12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" by "Tammy ... Made me think of EarthaKitt a bit.
	🛒 12:38pm WR: Checking in. Hi UM and folks.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: WR!
	🛒 12:40pm Bjorn Be: Hi Uncle Michael and all hinky dinky time travelers.
	12:41pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Song: "Dayton Ohio 1903" by "Wayne Fontana" as it happens, I would! (currently sippin on a cuppa)
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: Bjorn!
	12:41pm unpopularfred: afternoon greetings Uncle Michael and all assembled
	🛒 12:41pm Michael C St Lou: ↳ Brian in UK @12:30 🤣🤣more than enough for everyone 💨💨
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "I Think He's Hiding" by "Jack Sheldon" Jack Sheldon rocked the schoolhouse.
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: fred!
	🛒 12:44pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "I Think He's Hiding" by "Jack Sheldon" Jack Friggin’ Sheldon. He’s killing it here. I’m still recovering from the cancellation of “Run Buddy Run."
	12:44pm Cmurtha: Hello everyone!
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:44 deep cut
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Cmurtha!
	12:47pm StringOFperils: Part of where the odd sound of Randy's first album came from!
	12:48pm StringOFperils: And vice versa I guess.
	12:48pm doctorjazz: Hi Hinks and Dinks! UM!
	12:49pm Uncle Michael: Doc!
	12:49pm dan: Looks like I predicted the Artist (Alan Price) and the Song (Simon Smith) but separately
	12:51pm KWilde: ↳ Song: "No One Ever Hurt So Bad" by "Alan Price" Sounds a little like Spinning Wheel
	12:55pm doctorjazz: Hoping for Baltimore by The Tamlins!
	12:55pm dan: This isn’t Gene Pitney or it might be slowed down
	12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Just One Smile" by "Gene Pitney" Know the Blood, Swear and Tears version of this, never heard this version.
	12:56pm Cmurtha: Gene Pitney VaPoR WaVe works well.
	12:56pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Uncle M
	12:57pm Uncle Michael: coel!
	12:58pm adamdoesit: Hey UM and Hinky Dinky shoppers.
	12:58pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Just One Smile" by "Gene Pitney" Pitney's vocal chords sound a bit different.
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: that Alan Price song reminded me of both spinning wheel and relance (Gal Costa)
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: hey adam
	1:00pm adamdoesit: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 Hiya coel!
	1:03pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" by "Tammy ... I saw Tammy in a 1981 production of 42nd Street.
	1:05pm Cmurtha: oh really? Short People is iconic. I like how I come in for this section since I feel like the last time I was on the board we were in a Randy Newman based discussion lol.
	1:05pm StringOFperils: They got no reason to live AND they don't get their song played. Talk about getting looked down on.
	1:05pm dan: Randy Newman’s inner Weill/Brecht coming out
	1:06pm Cmurtha: Oh no I'm picturing this song actually being sung by Randy Newman and not Marianne...Its so clear this is Randy song my god.
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: adam!
	1:07pm Cmurtha: Are we gonna get anything from James in the Giant Peach? Randy killed it on that soundtrack. As that funny as hell, Twitter Account pretending to be JZ said.
	1:08pm Uncle Michael: I have always imaged that the man in the song is thinking of the sea because he knows he needs to get the hell out of Germany.
	🛒 1:10pm Bjorn Be: ↳ Song: "In Germany Before The War" by "Marianne Faithfull" Woul have been perfect for Marlene Dietrich.
	1:11pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @1:05 they definitely get the short end of the stick
	1:13pm StringOFperils: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:08 The little golden girl who has lost her way, who seems to have died (it's post 1933)...
	1:13pm Spinning Giant: Babs!
	1:14pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:05 I read that Randy thought the concept of Short People was so over-the-top that no one could possibly be offended. People will always surprise!
	1:14pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @1:14 Still, nothing compared to the humourless literalness of today.
	1:15pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:14 It's made worse by people constantly overusing and misusing the term "literally."
	1:16pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:11 Things are looking up. It's no biggie.
	1:19pm adamdoesit: Today is my dad’s yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death. I’d like to think he’d have enjoyed this set. Even if he wouldn’t, the melancholy mood suits me fine. Here’s looking at you, dad o’ adamdoesit.
	1:19pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @1:16 but are they loosening up?
	1:20pm Roberto: Whom do you all like in tonight's game, the Padgers or the Dodres?
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: ↳ adamdoesit @1:19 May his great name be blessed, forever and ever. Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, honored, elevated and luaded be the Name of the holy one, Blessed is he – above and beyond any blessings and hymns, Praises and consolations which are uttered in the world; and say Amen.
	1:21pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Marie" by "Charlie Rich" Absolutely love this song.
	1:23pm StringOFperils: 'Kathleen' sounds like an earthier (?) flip of this same song...another feel w different lyrics
	1:25pm StringOFperils: I've seen Etta do this live. She's too much! Hah!
	1:26pm dan: There’s a filmed concert of Etta James at the Montreux Jazz Festival sometime in the 1970s and you’ll never believe who the bassist in the performance was; the most popular hard rock bassist of the day; John Paul Jones.
	1:26pm Kat in the chat: ↳ StringOFperils @1:25 Hawt!
	1:27pm adamdoesit: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:21 He’d probably prefer to be remembered for his gribnis, but that’s cool, too.
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Kat in the chat @1:26 fan it
	1:30pm StringOFperils: When Etta says hat on, she means something that sounds like that.
	🛒 1:31pm (Mr) Bill: Gee—you lost him in the hours before Kol Nidre. Must have been extraordinarily rough.
	🛒 1:32pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:31 Sorry, all—meant for adamdoesit.
	🛒 1:33pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" by "Lou Rawls" Is there a prequel to this song, involving wishing bad people into the cornfield?
	🛒 1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Have You Seen My Baby?" by "Flamin’ Groovies" Yay Grooviez.
	1:37pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Beehive State" by "The Doobie Brothers" Life in the Beehive Lane?
	🛒 1:37pm PAULS: Flamin' Groovies, Doobie Bros... how can I resist burnin one right now? It's after noon here in Austin...
	1:37pm unpopularfred: ↳ Song: "The Beehive State" by "The Doobie Brothers" OK, who out there went "I didn't know Rany Newman wrote 'Life in the Fast Lane'"?
	1:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:33 Wouldn't be surprised if one of Randy's three famous uncles met Marius Constant, the TZ theme's composer
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: PAULS!
	🛒 1:39pm PAULS: ↳ StringOFperils @1:38 One of 'em might have even lost the TZ theme gig to Constant! Hey Uncle!
	1:40pm unpopularfred: ↳ Roberto @1:37 Roberto, this is not the first time you and I have had similar thoughts, and you type faster than I.
	1:41pm Roberto: ↳ unpopularfred @1:40 eye tipez gud
	1:41pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Guilty" by "Nazareth" My '90s band played this song, didn't know it was a Newman.
	1:42pm StringOFperils: Bonnie Raitt for the win
	🛒 1:42pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ PAULS @1:39 You or SoP will tell me about Randy Newman’s three famous uncles?
	1:42pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:42 Yeah, that was the version we covered.
	1:43pm Uncle Michael: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Three great film composers were his uncles.
	1:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Look up Alfred Newman for starters
	1:45pm adamdoesit: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:32 Thanks (Mr) Bill. It’s traditional for men in my family to croak on or about Yom Kippur.
	1:46pm Roberto: Feliz Yomidad a todo el mundo!
	🛒 1:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Last Night I Had a Dream" by "Fanny" Makes me think of Betty Davis somehow. Which maybe makes it the most interesting Fannytrack I've heard...
	1:50pm Cmurtha: oooh this song is so good. Though I will say, this will always be Nina's song to me.
	🛒 1:51pm PAULS: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Yes Randy comes from a strong songwriting family tradition!
	1:52pm StringOFperils: Keith don't go to Baltimore!
	🛒 1:52pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Baltimore" by "Nils Lofgren" Nils! my hometown guy... Montgomery County, MD
	1:53pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:42 We were guilty of not being a particularly good band.
	🛒 1:54pm DjLorraine: Hello
	1:54pm Uncle Michael: DJL!
	1:56pm doctorjazz: OK, pre-fast meal cooking, sitting down for a bit...
	1:57pm winston legthigh: hello uncle michael, all!
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: winston!
	1:59pm StringOFperils: I can see why you wouldn't want to talk over top of this too soon.
	🛒 2:01pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ StringOFperils @1:43 Ah. Whenever I see or hear the film composer’s name, I reflexively think of Alfred E. Neuman, making it impossible for me to associate him with Randy Newman, with whom I do associate the mononymic Newman from “Seinfeld."
	2:02pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @2:01 What? Me confused?
	🛒 2:05pm PAULS: Nice Curtis Mayfield drop, UM -- has he done a Randy Newman cover? Will you play it?
	2:05pm doctorjazz: I saw the Nina Simone doc a whole back. Very good, very sad.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" ... written by Jeannie Seely, Randy Newman, Judith Arbuckle and Pat Sheeran
	2:07pm StringOFperils: Speaking of sad. This one's a weeper. AND I never knew RN had anything to do with this!
	2:07pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:06 Wow, I had no idea that Randy Newman was a cowriter on this one!
	🛒 2:07pm PAULS: ↳ doctorjazz @2:05 My friend Amy was the producer! nominated for an academy award. But yes, very sad
	🛒 2:08pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ adamdoesit @1:45 Gevalt. Very, very rough. The 10th of Tishri is tough enough by itself, without having to mourn a father and other beloved departeds.
	2:08pm StringOFperils: Gawd! Her vocal phrasing is just from the great beyond..
	2:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" Timely
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @2:15 yeah...giving me chills
	2:15pm Marie in Chicago: Hey UM, hey All, I've been working away and enjoying the show. I have to say this is really making me appreciate Randy Newman. I never really liked his songs too much but I'm thinking these are great. (I always thought, among other things, that his songs are too long and kind of plodding). I think I never heard so many or them or such good versions
	2:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" Like the singing on this version!
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: Marie! That makes me happy.
	🛒 2:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" ...they're big on Coolidge up here near Vermont...
	🛒 2:17pm PAULS: Jazz Fest... 199? ? Was catching Randy's set in 90 degree heat and he played this song as it started to rain. Hard! But very cooling.
	2:18pm Roberto: Oy der video ist kaput
	2:18pm Roberto: ok ist bak
	🛒 2:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PAULS @2:17 Some are just strong with the Power.
	2:21pm dan: Always thought My Old Kentucky Home was written in the 1900s by a miscellaneous songwriter
	2:21pm doctorjazz: Gotta go, appointment, will listen in the car. THANKS, UM!
	2:21pm Uncle Michael: Miscellaneous Stephen Foster?
	2:21pm Roberto: Dang, are there any songs Randy didn't write?
	2:23pm StringOFperils: Taking the p*** out of Foster and the homey notion of the ol' south. Respectfully, all the same.
	2:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @2:21 Sonic Reducer?
	2:25pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @2:25 Further research required.
	🛒 2:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh yeah Foster wrote that one about the Ol' Miscellaneous River. Only one he didn't trade the Rights to for whiskey iirc...
	🛒 2:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @2:25 ...no but Randy did name the DeadBoys I'm pretty sure...
	2:27pm StringOFperils: LOL. The Dead Good Ol' Boys
	🛒 2:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @2:27 ...it's subtle...
	2:31pm Pedro in Arlington: At a book-signing in the 90s, I told the Ol' Possum he should go back to the crewcut. He laughed.
	2:31pm dan: https://youtu.be/sBPTuAl2Qyk?feature=shared An unlucky duet performance between John Martyn and Kathy Mattea doing Martyn’s classic “May You Never”
	2:33pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:21 No, but it totally seems like it could be by that guy named Trad.
	2:33pm StringOFperils: That little harmonica break at the end of You've Got A Friend in Me is SOOOOO similar to the harmonica ornament at the end of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee's cover of 'Sail Away'. Can it be mere coincidence?
	2:35pm dan: @StringsofPeril My guess is Mickey Raphael. It has that Willie Nelson feel to it
	2:36pm Pedro in Arlington: In 2000 after a show, had Randy N. sign my Quad 8-track of "Good Old Boys." He wrote "Peace and Love on all 8 Tracks." Said they had a tough time getting the mix right on the Quads. I promised him I'd send another if I found one. Still haven't.
	2:36pm StringOFperils: ↳ dan @2:35 I just mean its form. They could have been listening to their own fave RN covers when prepping that...or a producer brought it in maybe. Just speculatin'
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: Arb's up next! wfmu.org...
	2:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @2:36 We'll never know. That's half the fun.
	2:43pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta" Wow. He really did write everything.
	2:44pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta" Relax, Mama Told Me Don't Do It.
	🛒 2:46pm PAULS: gotta roll thanks UM! listening in the car have a great weekend everybody
	2:47pm TDK60: ↳ adamdoesit @2:43 adamdoesit - Yes, some songs I didn't know that he wrote.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: See ya, PAULS.
	2:48pm StringOFperils: That was how it still worked in the music industry in the mid to late '60s, for RN, and Nilsson, Bacharach etc when songwriters didn't put out the songs themselves...they're at the very end of that...machine. Then came the singer/songwriters...Laura Nyro's another, the Brill Building kids....during that transition...some people DID write everything
	2:52pm burke: Three hours of incontrovertible proof that RN is a towering figure in American song. Thanks
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: burke! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
	2:56pm winston legthigh: thanks uncle michael, happy weekend to all!
	2:56pm TDK60: Thanks, DJ UM.
	2:57pm burke: Maybe Dodger Stadium will hear I Love L.A. tonight
	2:58pm dan: Great show UM
	2:58pm Marie in Chicago: Thanks, UM, apu, excellent selections (imho)
	2:58pm adamdoesit: Thanks, UM! I’ll be returning to this one with my lyrics-ears on.
	2:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks UM, and special thanks to everybody else for putting up with my effusiveness. My admiration gets away with me. Thanks.:)
	2:59pm sinner: Good one, of course.
	2:59pm Marie in Chicago: Have a great ride!
	🛒 3:00pm (Mr) Bill: Great stuff, UM. Thank you.
	3:00pm Listener Robert: Bye-bye.
	🛒 3:00pm WR: Thank you! UM!
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, everyone!
	🛒 3:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ UM ~
	3:06pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @1:59 Thanks UM
	3:08pm coelacanth∅: oops, i mean Thanks UM!
	🛒 6:31pm Mxter Baba: listening in the archives with utter delight!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 11, 2024

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October 11, 2024: Show #557 "You can leave your hats on."
(Randy Newman songwriter tribute)

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Track information pertains, as much as is possible, to the original release, and should not be construed as bearing any relationship to the presence or absence of a particular artifact in Uncle Michael's possession.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Billy Storm	Baby, Don't Look Down	single (b-side to I Never Want To Dream Again (There In A Garden))	Loma	1964	0:04:59 (Pop-up)
Nic Jones	Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father	prev. unr.	n/a	1981	0:06:01 (Pop-up)
Judy Mayhan	He Gives Us All His Love	Judy Mayhan	Decca	1971	0:08:44 (Pop-up)
John Martyn	God's Song "God's Song" by "John Martyn"	The Church With One Bell	Thirsty Ear	1998	0:14:35 (Pop-up)
The Bobs	Lonely At The Top "Lonely At The Top" by "The Bobs"	The Bobs Cover The Songs Of	Rounder	1994	0:17:56 (Pop-up)
William Hung	I Love L.A. "I Love L.A." by "William Hung"	Miracle: Happy Summer from William Hung	Koch	2005	0:21:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kenny Burrell	I Think It’s Going to Rain Today	’Round Midnight	Fantasy	1972	0:24:33 (Pop-up)

Irma Thomas	While the City Sleeps	Wish Someone Would Care	Imperial	1964	0:30:16 (Pop-up)
Tammy Grimes	Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do	single (b/w The Big Hurt)	Reprise	1966	0:32:25 (Pop-up)
Jerry Butler	I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore	single (b-side to I Stand Accused)	Vee Jay	1964	0:34:37 (Pop-up)
Wayne Fontana	Dayton Ohio 1903 "Dayton Ohio 1903" by "Wayne Fontana"	single (b/w Say Goodbye To Yesterday)	Fontana	1969	0:37:33 (Pop-up)
Jack Sheldon	I Think He's Hiding "I Think He's Hiding" by "Jack Sheldon"	The Cool World Of Jack Sheldon	Dot	1969	0:40:06 (Pop-up)
H.P. Lovecraft	I've Been Wrong Before	H.P. Lovecraft	Philips	1967	0:43:08 (Pop-up)
Harpers Bizarre	Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear	Feelin' Groovy	Warner Bros.	1967	0:45:48 (Pop-up)
Alan Price	No One Ever Hurt So Bad	This Price Is Right	Parrot	1968	0:48:06 (Pop-up)
Connie Stevens	She'll Never Understand Him (Like I Do)	single (b-side to 5:30 Plane)	Bell	1970	0:50:36 (Pop-up)
Gene Pitney	Just One Smile "Just One Smile" by "Gene Pitney"	single (b/w The Boss's Daughter)	Stateside	1966	0:53:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Julia Hülsmann Trio With Anna Lauvergnac	Short People	Come Closer - Celebrating Randy Newman	ACT	2004	0:57:15 (Pop-up)

Marianne Faithfull	In Germany Before The War	Easy Come, Easy Go	Naive	2008	1:04:20 (Pop-up)
Lou Rawls	Let's Burn Down The Cornfield	You've Made Me So Very Happy	Capitol	1970	1:08:18 (Pop-up)
Barbra Streisand	Living Without You	prev. unr.	Columbia	1971	1:11:19 (Pop-up)
Holly Cole	Same Girl "Same Girl" by "Holly Cole"	Romantically Helpless	Alert	2000	1:13:11 (Pop-up)
Della Reese	Love Story "Love Story" by "Della Reese"	Right Now	Avco Embassy	1970	1:16:36 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich	Marie "Marie" by "Charlie Rich"	single (b-side to A Man Just Don't Know What A Woman Goes Through)	Elektra	1980	1:20:48 (Pop-up)
Etta James	Leave Your Hat On "Leave Your Hat On" by "Etta James"	single (b/w Only A Fool)	Chess	1974	1:23:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kenny Burrell	I Think It’s Going to Rain Today	’Round Midnight	Fantasy	1972	1:27:00 (Pop-up)

Flamin’ Groovies	Have You Seen My Baby?	Teenage Head	Kama Sutra	1971	1:33:13 (Pop-up)
The Doobie Brothers	The Beehive State	The Doobie Brothers	Warner Bros.	1971	1:35:56 (Pop-up)
Nazareth	Guilty "Guilty" by "Nazareth"	Hair Of The Dog	Vertigo	1975	1:38:31 (Pop-up)
Keith Moon	Naked Man "Naked Man" by "Keith Moon"	Two Sides Of The Moon	Track	1975	1:42:10 (Pop-up)
Fanny	Last Night I Had a Dream "Last Night I Had a Dream" by "Fanny"	Mother's Pride	Reprise	1973	1:45:28 (Pop-up)
Nils Lofgren	Baltimore "Baltimore" by "Nils Lofgren"	Nils	A&M	1979	1:49:16 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone	I Think It's Gonna Rain Today	Nina Simone & Piano!	RCA Victor	1969	1:55:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kenny Burrell	I Think It’s Going to Rain Today	’Round Midnight	Fantasy	1972	1:59:03 (Pop-up)

Irma Thomas	Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)	single (b-side to Time Is On My Side)	Imperial	1964	2:05:30 (Pop-up)
J.J. Cale	Rollin' "Rollin'" by "J.J. Cale"	prev. unr.	n/a	unk.	2:08:15 (Pop-up)
Ghostland & Kirsty MacColl	Sail Away	Beautiful People (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Colosseum	1999	2:11:04 (Pop-up)
Asleep At The Wheel	Louisiana "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel"	Collision Course	Capitiol	1978	2:14:13 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash	My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine And Dandelion Wine)	John R. Cash	Columbia	1975	2:19:17 (Pop-up)
Dr. John	Down in New Orleans "Down in New Orleans" by "Dr. John"	The Princess And The Frog (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack)	Walt Disney	2009	2:22:00 (Pop-up)
Brodsky Quartet And Friends (Elvis Costello)	Real Emotional Girl	Moodswings	Brodsky	2005	2:24:21 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Kathy Mattea	You've Got A Friend In Me	The Best Of Country Sing The Best Of Disney	Walt Disney	1996	2:28:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Julia Hülsmann Trio With Anna Lauvergnac	Short People	Come Closer - Celebrating Randy Newman	ACT	2004	2:30:36 (Pop-up)

Natalie Merchant	Political Science	iTunes Session	Myth America	2011	2:36:11 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	Cowboy "Cowboy" by "Harry Nilsson"	Nilsson Sings Newman	RCA Victor	1970	2:38:46 (Pop-up)
Odetta	Mama Told Me Not To Come "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta"	Odetta Sings	Polydor	1970	2:41:21 (Pop-up)
Lulu	Vine Street "Vine Street" by "Lulu"	Melody Fair	Atco	1970	2:44:06 (Pop-up)
Tim Hardin	I'll Be Home "I'll Be Home" by "Tim Hardin"	Painted Head	Columbia	1972	2:46:52 (Pop-up)
Bonnie Raitt	Feels Like Home "Feels Like Home" by "Bonnie Raitt"	Randy Newman's Faust	Reprise	1995	2:52:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968	2:56:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:00pm βrian: Ready for some poots rock!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Brian!
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Michael, and all other listeners!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: Andrew!
	12:01pm TDK60: Dialing in Lawrence, Kansas.... Ahoy, Uncle Michael. Come in...
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: TDK!
	12:03pm Kat in the chat: waves
	12:04pm dan: Good afternoon all
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Kat! dan!
	12:08pm StringOFperils: Knee deep in the poetry, UM.
	🛒 12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh ...this will be rather good. Won't it...
	12:09pm Roberto: Here's what I can't figure out. I lived in L.A. throughout the '80s and I'm pretty sure I didn't hear I Love L.A. until about five years after it was released.
	12:09pm dan: Predictions for todays show Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not To Come Alan Price: Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear Joe Cocker: You Can Leave Your Hat On Gene Pitney: Just One Smile
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: SOp! Roberto!
	12:10pm KWilde: Good afternoon!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Dan got one!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: KWIlde!
	🛒 12:10pm Brian in UK: Uncle. Is that the Spirit of Ecstasy on the bonnet/hood.
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: BiUK! Say what now?
	12:12pm dan: Randy Newman is a great songwriter and film composer, but his singing voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
	🛒 12:12pm Brian in UK: Rolls Royce.
	🛒 12:12pm (Mr) Bill: Uncle. Michael.
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Bill!
	12:13pm Spinning Giant: greetings, UM HD crew friends
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Brian in UK @12:12 still sans clue here
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: SG!
	12:13pm Spinning Giant: you're going to make us all cry today, aren't you, UM...?
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:13 That bad?
	🛒 12:14pm Brian in UK: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:13 The hood ornament of a Rolls Royce. Is Mr Newman (no relation!) driving one.
	12:15pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:13 Hi, Sg!
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Brian in UK @12:14 No, he's not!
	12:16pm StringOFperils: The model for that hood ornament died with hundreds of other passengers on 30 December 1915 when the SS Persia, on which she was travelling with the second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu through the Mediterranean on the way to India, was torpedoed without warning by the German U-boat U-38. Life's a bitch.
	🛒 12:17pm Brian in UK: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: Interestingly, he may be in a Rolls after all. I'm almost certain he's not in the beginning of the video. But I could be wrong.
	12:19pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:14 not inherently, i suppose, no... Friday Cryday...?
	12:19pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:15 Hello Andrew!
	12:20pm StringOFperils: Has anyone ever been torpedoed WITH warning?
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Spinning Giant @12:19 You'll be the judge.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @12:20 Only on Star Trek.
	12:20pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 haha - awright i can handle that (i think?!) lol
	12:21pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 Bahahahahahaha
	🛒 12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @12:20 ...in Gaza as we speak ? ...Thx for asking...
	🛒 12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:20 Right.
	12:22pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "I Love L.A." by "William Hung" YES
	12:22pm dan: William Hung: The man who was so bad on American Idol, he still got a recording contract.
	12:22pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "I Love L.A." by "William Hung" I thought it was Robin Williamson at first. But no.
	12:24pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:21 Let's, just for today, not go there.
	12:24pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @12:24 Gracias.
	🛒 12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ TDK60 @12:22 ...he did do 'Ace of Spades'...
	🛒 12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @12:24 I'll presume none of us are there today. Probly.
	12:25pm dan: @TDK 60 Robin Williamson is a musical genius compared to William Hung
	12:25pm AS from MP: this will be an interesting 3 hours - keep it coming, Uncle M
	12:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:25 Presumption's half the problem. The stains that won't come out.
	🛒 12:26pm Brian in UK: Difficult to think of a better version of I Think It's Going to Rain Today than Mr Newman's.
	12:26pm TDK60: ↳ dan @12:25 Ho, dan. Thanks. It was something in the vocal chords. I can't comment on the results of those vocal chords and air.
	12:27pm StringOFperils: Doh. Not talking about IT.
	🛒 12:29pm Michael C St Lou: Hello UM and HDT shoppers everywhere. i had a cart w broken wheel stuck in the parking lot
	🛒 12:30pm Brian in UK: ↳ Michael C St Lou @12:29 Do not tell. Everyone will want one.
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: AS from MP!
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: Michael! I'll tell maintenance.
	12:34pm dan: Tammy Grimes, mother of Amanda Plummer and definitely not a singer by main profession.
	12:34pm StringOFperils: wOW! I only know Tammy Grimes as an actress.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Tammy won a Tony in 1960 for The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She was always a singer.
	🛒 12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" by "Tammy ... Made me think of EarthaKitt a bit.
	🛒 12:38pm WR: Checking in. Hi UM and folks.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: WR!
	🛒 12:40pm Bjorn Be: Hi Uncle Michael and all hinky dinky time travelers.
	12:41pm Spinning Giant: ↳ Song: "Dayton Ohio 1903" by "Wayne Fontana" as it happens, I would! (currently sippin on a cuppa)
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: Bjorn!
	12:41pm unpopularfred: afternoon greetings Uncle Michael and all assembled
	🛒 12:41pm Michael C St Lou: ↳ Brian in UK @12:30 🤣🤣more than enough for everyone 💨💨
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "I Think He's Hiding" by "Jack Sheldon" Jack Sheldon rocked the schoolhouse.
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: fred!
	🛒 12:44pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "I Think He's Hiding" by "Jack Sheldon" Jack Friggin’ Sheldon. He’s killing it here. I’m still recovering from the cancellation of “Run Buddy Run."
	12:44pm Cmurtha: Hello everyone!
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:44 deep cut
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: Cmurtha!
	12:47pm StringOFperils: Part of where the odd sound of Randy's first album came from!
	12:48pm StringOFperils: And vice versa I guess.
	12:48pm doctorjazz: Hi Hinks and Dinks! UM!
	12:49pm Uncle Michael: Doc!
	12:49pm dan: Looks like I predicted the Artist (Alan Price) and the Song (Simon Smith) but separately
	12:51pm KWilde: ↳ Song: "No One Ever Hurt So Bad" by "Alan Price" Sounds a little like Spinning Wheel
	12:55pm doctorjazz: Hoping for Baltimore by The Tamlins!
	12:55pm dan: This isn’t Gene Pitney or it might be slowed down
	12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Just One Smile" by "Gene Pitney" Know the Blood, Swear and Tears version of this, never heard this version.
	12:56pm Cmurtha: Gene Pitney VaPoR WaVe works well.
	12:56pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Uncle M
	12:57pm Uncle Michael: coel!
	12:58pm adamdoesit: Hey UM and Hinky Dinky shoppers.
	12:58pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Just One Smile" by "Gene Pitney" Pitney's vocal chords sound a bit different.
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: that Alan Price song reminded me of both spinning wheel and relance (Gal Costa)
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: hey adam
	1:00pm adamdoesit: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 Hiya coel!
	1:03pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do" by "Tammy ... I saw Tammy in a 1981 production of 42nd Street.
	1:05pm Cmurtha: oh really? Short People is iconic. I like how I come in for this section since I feel like the last time I was on the board we were in a Randy Newman based discussion lol.
	1:05pm StringOFperils: They got no reason to live AND they don't get their song played. Talk about getting looked down on.
	1:05pm dan: Randy Newman’s inner Weill/Brecht coming out
	1:06pm Cmurtha: Oh no I'm picturing this song actually being sung by Randy Newman and not Marianne...Its so clear this is Randy song my god.
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: adam!
	1:07pm Cmurtha: Are we gonna get anything from James in the Giant Peach? Randy killed it on that soundtrack. As that funny as hell, Twitter Account pretending to be JZ said.
	1:08pm Uncle Michael: I have always imaged that the man in the song is thinking of the sea because he knows he needs to get the hell out of Germany.
	🛒 1:10pm Bjorn Be: ↳ Song: "In Germany Before The War" by "Marianne Faithfull" Woul have been perfect for Marlene Dietrich.
	1:11pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @1:05 they definitely get the short end of the stick
	1:13pm StringOFperils: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:08 The little golden girl who has lost her way, who seems to have died (it's post 1933)...
	1:13pm Spinning Giant: Babs!
	1:14pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:05 I read that Randy thought the concept of Short People was so over-the-top that no one could possibly be offended. People will always surprise!
	1:14pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @1:14 Still, nothing compared to the humourless literalness of today.
	1:15pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:14 It's made worse by people constantly overusing and misusing the term "literally."
	1:16pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:11 Things are looking up. It's no biggie.
	1:19pm adamdoesit: Today is my dad’s yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death. I’d like to think he’d have enjoyed this set. Even if he wouldn’t, the melancholy mood suits me fine. Here’s looking at you, dad o’ adamdoesit.
	1:19pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @1:16 but are they loosening up?
	1:20pm Roberto: Whom do you all like in tonight's game, the Padgers or the Dodres?
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: ↳ adamdoesit @1:19 May his great name be blessed, forever and ever. Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, honored, elevated and luaded be the Name of the holy one, Blessed is he – above and beyond any blessings and hymns, Praises and consolations which are uttered in the world; and say Amen.
	1:21pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Marie" by "Charlie Rich" Absolutely love this song.
	1:23pm StringOFperils: 'Kathleen' sounds like an earthier (?) flip of this same song...another feel w different lyrics
	1:25pm StringOFperils: I've seen Etta do this live. She's too much! Hah!
	1:26pm dan: There’s a filmed concert of Etta James at the Montreux Jazz Festival sometime in the 1970s and you’ll never believe who the bassist in the performance was; the most popular hard rock bassist of the day; John Paul Jones.
	1:26pm Kat in the chat: ↳ StringOFperils @1:25 Hawt!
	1:27pm adamdoesit: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:21 He’d probably prefer to be remembered for his gribnis, but that’s cool, too.
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Kat in the chat @1:26 fan it
	1:30pm StringOFperils: When Etta says hat on, she means something that sounds like that.
	🛒 1:31pm (Mr) Bill: Gee—you lost him in the hours before Kol Nidre. Must have been extraordinarily rough.
	🛒 1:32pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:31 Sorry, all—meant for adamdoesit.
	🛒 1:33pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" by "Lou Rawls" Is there a prequel to this song, involving wishing bad people into the cornfield?
	🛒 1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Have You Seen My Baby?" by "Flamin’ Groovies" Yay Grooviez.
	1:37pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Beehive State" by "The Doobie Brothers" Life in the Beehive Lane?
	🛒 1:37pm PAULS: Flamin' Groovies, Doobie Bros... how can I resist burnin one right now? It's after noon here in Austin...
	1:37pm unpopularfred: ↳ Song: "The Beehive State" by "The Doobie Brothers" OK, who out there went "I didn't know Rany Newman wrote 'Life in the Fast Lane'"?
	1:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:33 Wouldn't be surprised if one of Randy's three famous uncles met Marius Constant, the TZ theme's composer
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: PAULS!
	🛒 1:39pm PAULS: ↳ StringOFperils @1:38 One of 'em might have even lost the TZ theme gig to Constant! Hey Uncle!
	1:40pm unpopularfred: ↳ Roberto @1:37 Roberto, this is not the first time you and I have had similar thoughts, and you type faster than I.
	1:41pm Roberto: ↳ unpopularfred @1:40 eye tipez gud
	1:41pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Guilty" by "Nazareth" My '90s band played this song, didn't know it was a Newman.
	1:42pm StringOFperils: Bonnie Raitt for the win
	🛒 1:42pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ PAULS @1:39 You or SoP will tell me about Randy Newman’s three famous uncles?
	1:42pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @1:42 Yeah, that was the version we covered.
	1:43pm Uncle Michael: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Three great film composers were his uncles.
	1:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Look up Alfred Newman for starters
	1:45pm adamdoesit: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:32 Thanks (Mr) Bill. It’s traditional for men in my family to croak on or about Yom Kippur.
	1:46pm Roberto: Feliz Yomidad a todo el mundo!
	🛒 1:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Last Night I Had a Dream" by "Fanny" Makes me think of Betty Davis somehow. Which maybe makes it the most interesting Fannytrack I've heard...
	1:50pm Cmurtha: oooh this song is so good. Though I will say, this will always be Nina's song to me.
	🛒 1:51pm PAULS: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:42 Yes Randy comes from a strong songwriting family tradition!
	1:52pm StringOFperils: Keith don't go to Baltimore!
	🛒 1:52pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Baltimore" by "Nils Lofgren" Nils! my hometown guy... Montgomery County, MD
	1:53pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:42 We were guilty of not being a particularly good band.
	🛒 1:54pm DjLorraine: Hello
	1:54pm Uncle Michael: DJL!
	1:56pm doctorjazz: OK, pre-fast meal cooking, sitting down for a bit...
	1:57pm winston legthigh: hello uncle michael, all!
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: winston!
	1:59pm StringOFperils: I can see why you wouldn't want to talk over top of this too soon.
	🛒 2:01pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ StringOFperils @1:43 Ah. Whenever I see or hear the film composer’s name, I reflexively think of Alfred E. Neuman, making it impossible for me to associate him with Randy Newman, with whom I do associate the mononymic Newman from “Seinfeld."
	2:02pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @2:01 What? Me confused?
	🛒 2:05pm PAULS: Nice Curtis Mayfield drop, UM -- has he done a Randy Newman cover? Will you play it?
	2:05pm doctorjazz: I saw the Nina Simone doc a whole back. Very good, very sad.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" ... written by Jeannie Seely, Randy Newman, Judith Arbuckle and Pat Sheeran
	2:07pm StringOFperils: Speaking of sad. This one's a weeper. AND I never knew RN had anything to do with this!
	2:07pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:06 Wow, I had no idea that Randy Newman was a cowriter on this one!
	🛒 2:07pm PAULS: ↳ doctorjazz @2:05 My friend Amy was the producer! nominated for an academy award. But yes, very sad
	🛒 2:08pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ adamdoesit @1:45 Gevalt. Very, very rough. The 10th of Tishri is tough enough by itself, without having to mourn a father and other beloved departeds.
	2:08pm StringOFperils: Gawd! Her vocal phrasing is just from the great beyond..
	2:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" Timely
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: ↳ StringOFperils @2:15 yeah...giving me chills
	2:15pm Marie in Chicago: Hey UM, hey All, I've been working away and enjoying the show. I have to say this is really making me appreciate Randy Newman. I never really liked his songs too much but I'm thinking these are great. (I always thought, among other things, that his songs are too long and kind of plodding). I think I never heard so many or them or such good versions
	2:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" Like the singing on this version!
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: Marie! That makes me happy.
	🛒 2:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Louisiana" by "Asleep At The Wheel" ...they're big on Coolidge up here near Vermont...
	🛒 2:17pm PAULS: Jazz Fest... 199? ? Was catching Randy's set in 90 degree heat and he played this song as it started to rain. Hard! But very cooling.
	2:18pm Roberto: Oy der video ist kaput
	2:18pm Roberto: ok ist bak
	🛒 2:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PAULS @2:17 Some are just strong with the Power.
	2:21pm dan: Always thought My Old Kentucky Home was written in the 1900s by a miscellaneous songwriter
	2:21pm doctorjazz: Gotta go, appointment, will listen in the car. THANKS, UM!
	2:21pm Uncle Michael: Miscellaneous Stephen Foster?
	2:21pm Roberto: Dang, are there any songs Randy didn't write?
	2:23pm StringOFperils: Taking the p*** out of Foster and the homey notion of the ol' south. Respectfully, all the same.
	2:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @2:21 Sonic Reducer?
	2:25pm Roberto: ↳ StringOFperils @2:25 Further research required.
	🛒 2:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...oh yeah Foster wrote that one about the Ol' Miscellaneous River. Only one he didn't trade the Rights to for whiskey iirc...
	🛒 2:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @2:25 ...no but Randy did name the DeadBoys I'm pretty sure...
	2:27pm StringOFperils: LOL. The Dead Good Ol' Boys
	🛒 2:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @2:27 ...it's subtle...
	2:31pm Pedro in Arlington: At a book-signing in the 90s, I told the Ol' Possum he should go back to the crewcut. He laughed.
	2:31pm dan: https://youtu.be/sBPTuAl2Qyk?feature=shared An unlucky duet performance between John Martyn and Kathy Mattea doing Martyn’s classic “May You Never”
	2:33pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:21 No, but it totally seems like it could be by that guy named Trad.
	2:33pm StringOFperils: That little harmonica break at the end of You've Got A Friend in Me is SOOOOO similar to the harmonica ornament at the end of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee's cover of 'Sail Away'. Can it be mere coincidence?
	2:35pm dan: @StringsofPeril My guess is Mickey Raphael. It has that Willie Nelson feel to it
	2:36pm Pedro in Arlington: In 2000 after a show, had Randy N. sign my Quad 8-track of "Good Old Boys." He wrote "Peace and Love on all 8 Tracks." Said they had a tough time getting the mix right on the Quads. I promised him I'd send another if I found one. Still haven't.
	2:36pm StringOFperils: ↳ dan @2:35 I just mean its form. They could have been listening to their own fave RN covers when prepping that...or a producer brought it in maybe. Just speculatin'
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: Arb's up next! wfmu.org...
	2:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ StringOFperils @2:36 We'll never know. That's half the fun.
	2:43pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta" Wow. He really did write everything.
	2:44pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by "Odetta" Relax, Mama Told Me Don't Do It.
	🛒 2:46pm PAULS: gotta roll thanks UM! listening in the car have a great weekend everybody
	2:47pm TDK60: ↳ adamdoesit @2:43 adamdoesit - Yes, some songs I didn't know that he wrote.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: See ya, PAULS.
	2:48pm StringOFperils: That was how it still worked in the music industry in the mid to late '60s, for RN, and Nilsson, Bacharach etc when songwriters didn't put out the songs themselves...they're at the very end of that...machine. Then came the singer/songwriters...Laura Nyro's another, the Brill Building kids....during that transition...some people DID write everything
	2:52pm burke: Three hours of incontrovertible proof that RN is a towering figure in American song. Thanks
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: burke! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
	2:56pm winston legthigh: thanks uncle michael, happy weekend to all!
	2:56pm TDK60: Thanks, DJ UM.
	2:57pm burke: Maybe Dodger Stadium will hear I Love L.A. tonight
	2:58pm dan: Great show UM
	2:58pm Marie in Chicago: Thanks, UM, apu, excellent selections (imho)
	2:58pm adamdoesit: Thanks, UM! I’ll be returning to this one with my lyrics-ears on.
	2:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks UM, and special thanks to everybody else for putting up with my effusiveness. My admiration gets away with me. Thanks.:)
	2:59pm sinner: Good one, of course.
	2:59pm Marie in Chicago: Have a great ride!
	🛒 3:00pm (Mr) Bill: Great stuff, UM. Thank you.
	3:00pm Listener Robert: Bye-bye.
	🛒 3:00pm WR: Thank you! UM!
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, everyone!
	🛒 3:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ UM ~
	3:06pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @1:59 Thanks UM
	3:08pm coelacanth∅: oops, i mean Thanks UM!
	🛒 6:31pm Mxter Baba: listening in the archives with utter delight!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 11, 2024

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