Favoriting Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah: Playlist from October 16, 2017 Favoriting

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Favoriting October 16, 2017: 103: SHOOBY TAYLOR! w/guest Irwin Chusid

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
Shooby Taylor  The Theme   Favoriting The Human Horn, Vol. 1  Cosmic Spy  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Shooby Taylor  Pennies From Heaven   Favoriting The Human Horn, Vol. 2  Cosmic Spy  0:12:45 (Pop-up)
Shooby Taylor  Release Me (trio)   Favoriting     0:27:26 (Pop-up)
 
Shooby Taylor  Medley of unreleased tunes   Favoriting     0:44:22 (Pop-up)
Shooby Taylor  Fugue from Mozart's Adadio & Fugue in C Minor   Favoriting The Human Horn  Cosmic Spy  0:49:25 (Pop-up)
Shooby Taylor  Theme from Elivra Madigan   Favoriting     0:51:52 (Pop-up)
 
Shooby        1:01:59 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Webhamster Henry:

Dweeb-n'be-bah, y'all!
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glenn:

stashu's not messin' with us tonight.
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northguineahills:

Gneiss!
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Richard S:

Shooby dooby doo!
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Michael 98145:

Good: Irwin twice this week !
  7:06pm
cat:

if shooby had lived in finland instead of newark he would have been the yoiking champion of the world
Avatar 7:07pm
Jesus:

I love Shooby!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
pinholga:

Wait, are there people who don't love Shooby?!?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
dale:

i would love to see the lyrics sheet for this pennies from heaven.
Avatar 7:12pm
Richard S:

Shooby is translating English into an alien language.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
coelacanth∅:

i Love Shooby; and sometimes i tolerate his music too.
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

He sounds really smooth here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Switchblade Batman:

From wikipedia, fascinating.

Shooby Taylor was born in Indiana Township, Pennsylvania, on September 19, 1929.[1] Shortly thereafter he moved with his family to Harlem, where he spent the majority of his life. Besides Shooby's several decades of pursuing a career as a scat singer, he also worked 21 years as a New York City postal worker.


Shooby recorded as Shooby Taylor, the human instrument. There is at least one "arcade recording", a two sided 45 rpm record of the acapella scat Expressing Myself parts 1 & 2 from 1971. This was given as a gift to Beverly Anderson who worked at the veterans hospital in Staten Island where, according to Beverly, Mr. Taylor was an intermittent psyche ward patient
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
coelacanth∅:

(for the record i tolerate shooby's scatting more than Ella's or most anyone else's)
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

So Irwin, are there isolated Shooby tracks so we can enjoy him in all his pure Shooby-ness and remix him on top of other arrangements?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
dale:

WHY was scatman caruthers a success? wouldn't it be great if shooby was the guy who knew the kid had the shining and got an axe in the back?
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glenn:

i pretty much can't stand scat
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Richard S:

"Key of Z" is a great book!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
dale:

i have that book. where i learned of the shaggs, shooby, the 'oh, canada' lady....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
coelacanth∅:

glenn, yeah. i'm trying to think of what scat singer i dislike less than Shooby Taylor, and i can't think of any that i have more than a bit of tolerance for.
  7:22pm
cat:

shoobie yippie yoik meow newark horn and human scat
Avatar 7:24pm
steve:

this is riveting
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Lucky he could remember where he kept the key to that apartment and also that he found the key, at that.
Avatar 7:26pm
glenn:

it just seems pointless and frankly ridiculous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
coelacanth∅:

hahaha! it is good for its comic value.
- i don't know how it was a mystery to him that they didn't take him seriously.
...if he'd marketed himself as a comedian, they would've taken him seriously.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
dale:

if englebert humberdink had scatted a bit his version might have been memorable
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
dale:

is ella's or mel's scat singing pointless?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
dale:

my wife just asked me 'is it called scat singing because it's shitty? like scat?'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
coelacanth∅:

Hahaha! dale that's hilarious!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
dale:

irwin - turn incorrect music into a netflix series.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
coelacanth∅:

i don't know if Ella or Mel scatting was pointless; but in my case, at least, listening to it is. it's something any child can do.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
dale:

geesh, this part is sad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Switchblade Batman:

I'm not a fan of the music, but this story is amazing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
coelacanth∅:

yeh. i have things to do but i can't leave.
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Shooby tape was in the WFMU Catalog, back in the day.
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Shooby is a proven effective analgesic for temporary relief from existential pain."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Switchblade Batman:

ok, I'm sorry, How the hell is this not funny?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
coelacanth∅:

so -going back to Webhamster Henry @7.15, are there any isolated/a cappella tracks of Shooby? i wouldn't mind giving them a treatment!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
dale:

people bought peter lemonjello - yet scoffed at shooby taylor.
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

If RSM had one ... perhaps!
  7:44pm
Sean:

All this anticipation and it sounds like an Italian man having a seizure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
dale:

gwilley edmondez took a page out of shooby's book.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Switchblade Batman:

lol, I wouldn't put it that way @Sean, but you're not far off the mark either.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
coelacanth∅:

true...and it's not any less bearable than justin beaver or, well, nearly everything on the bill-bored top (of the bottom of the barrel) 100.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
dale:

what's wrong with you naysayers? IT'S GENIUS!! just the pursuit of the style is genius.
  7:47pm
McGreivey:

Shooby is upsetting my cat. I'm not sure if she's good-upset, or bad-upset. She doesn't usually care about music, one way or the other.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
coelacanth∅:

...okay - maybe a little less bearable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Switchblade Batman:

I suppose. It's interesting, it's heartfelt @dale. But it's also very very funny.
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Dan: get Dave The Spazz in here to discuss the Shemp Meditation Tape. (Which was actually the break-out hit of the WFMU Catalog)
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Richard S:

You can TRY and sing like Shooby - go ahead, I dare you to try - but he's impossible to copy. And like Florence Foster Jenkins, what comes through all of it is the sheer love for and enjoyment of music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
dale:

i'll name my next cat shooby. or taylor.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
coelacanth∅:

haha! dale, i'm sorry! but i was doing shit like this when i was 7 years old. i don't think it's genius!
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RomanDogBird:

well it is
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
dale:

THIS deserves to be heard at carnegie hall. alas too late.
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zopa:

Thanks for this, Dan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Switchblade Batman:

I wouldn't want to sing like him. God bless him that he loves it. But come on, it's unintentional comedy genius. It's the stuff of the finest mockumentaries
Avatar 7:52pm
zopa:

Oh... thanks be to Irwin too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
chris:

so fun. thanks, Dan and Irwin. thanks, Irwin for following the thread on the guy; thanks, Dan, for having a show where Shooby fits right in.
Avatar 7:57pm
Garbaggio Toblerone:

thought he sounded familiar...department of eagles sampled him in "we have to respect each other"
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

That's a nice way to end the story. Wow, and thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
dale:

so much of music history is people getting discovered and people getting ignored and people getting screwed and people dying and people getting rediscovered
  8:00pm
cat:

the ghost that never walked
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Shooby would have done a great cover of "Let It Go".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
coelacanth∅:

jeez, Irwin, as much as i don't need to hear Shooby Taylor more than once every few years, Thank you for what you did with him. very respectable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
dale:

good show - thanks dan, and thanks irwin for coming out after dark.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dan.
tchau
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Switchblade Batman:

Yeah, the regular jazz stuff is good. Just when he scats to Johnny Cash it's hilarious
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Richard S:

Thank you Irwin! Thank you Dan! Thank you Shooby!
Avatar 🍳 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

No Shooby polkas to segue with? Thanks anyway!
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