WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 21, 2020

Listener comments!
	11:00am Handy Haversack: Happy Saturday, Michael and all the Shelle Gamers! Oh wow, Suzie Q! Very nice! I'm taking this show outside!
	11:00am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!!!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Make it all better, Baby.
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Very nice Handy! Waiting for my beer delivery.
	11:00am Squints: ok, then
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Baby!
	11:01am Squints: boo woo woo
	11:01am Listener Baby: Hi My main man Frank!
	11:01am clarke: heyNOWWWWW
	11:02am Michael in Montclair: Good Morning everyone!
	11:02am egould310: Pork butt.
	11:02am clarke: alabama OR atlanta
	11:03am clarke: THE FOX!
	11:03am Handy Haversack: I am going to deliver myself some beer as soon as I get this proofing job done, Frank!
	11:04am Corey: Morning Michael, crew, and listeners! Nice to join you all.
	11:04am Frank In Queens: I went the delivery route, because the local options are getting stale.
	11:05am Grab Em: Is this the place with the Naughty By Nature sets?
	11:05am clarke: frank had beer delivered to the office.
	11:06am Frank In Queens: No office or work at all until the 30th!
	11:07am Handy Haversack: I hear you, Frank. I pretty much just get PBR around here as everything else is insanely pricey. But I do go for the fancy ciders at the fancy cider store. Hey, Corey, clarke!
	11:07am clarke: that's good - except for the overtime
	11:07am Listener Baby: Baby, we don't want Jupe, we need Jupe. Please summon the AP for if just few a moments. Throw us a bone.
	11:07am Pedro in Arlington: I now tune in to the show expecting positive breaking news on elections, impending Supreme Court retirements and various indictments.
	11:08am Frank In Queens: And Naughty By Nature!
	11:08am clarke: ain't a thang wrong with PBR!! or wasn't when i was a drinking man.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: clarke, OT is a rarity anyway, so luckily I don't rely on it.
	11:09am Corey: Hey Handy! Enjoy the PBR!
	11:09am Ross T.: The warmth of 4 track analog....
	11:10am clarke: howza about the fine, extra-fine-fine, cuts that have been leaked from Fashions?? wow!!
	11:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Shelleys and all!
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Haven't heard them yet!
	11:12am clarke: Styles We Never Paid For - sounds like it is way above (already high) average!
	11:12am Handy Haversack: I put out like nine stadium cups of seed in the various bird feeders back here yesterday, and it's almost all gone. These Greenpoint sparrows are out of control. Their rapaciousness knows no satiety! Morning, Greg! Corey, in Oceana County, it comes in thirty-packs! Alas, not in Brooklyn.
	11:13am steveo: THE 1250 WATT FLAMETHROWER WFMU
	11:13am clarke: there's some extry pixie dust up in thar!
	11:14am Ross T.: Do your thing -- that's the answer!
	11:14am Dennis Diken: Hey Mikey & everyone! diggin’ the noise!
	11:15am clarke: DD!!
	11:16am Hams: mr. tambourine man!
	11:17am spodiodi: good morning, Michael Shelley and gang!
	11:18am spodiodi: that pooch is adorable!
	11:18am Greg from ZONE 5: @Handy: Here on WFMU, the gourmand metamorphosizes into the voluptuary! Read an interesting bird book recently and it turns out sparrows are kinda dicks.
	11:20am McGroovey: Sounds like Squeeze, to my ear.
	11:20am Ross T.: The animal kingdom is a close second to humanity for dickdom.
	11:20am clarke: ramon & declan
	11:20am Handy Haversack: Greg, I have spent the pandemic back here observing sparrow society. It's like always having The Sopranos on. They are tough little bastards and very much enjoy pointing it out to all comers! I am really going to miss them when Sleet Season drives me inside. Morning, spodi!
	11:21am Handy Haversack: (And there's a slate-colored junco back here right now!)
	11:22am Frank Zaatar: What we've got here are the best disciples of Buddy Holly of their respective generations.
	11:22am clarke: ...and a failure to communicate
	11:23am Mailman Tom: Hey Abbott!
	11:23am DjLorraine: @ McGroovey i thought the same thing. Morning @Spodiodi. Suzy Q is showing her edible skeleton crew. I always enjoy the coaster pictures.
	11:25am clarke: don't want to stir the controversy stick, at this point in 'events'; however, i am one of the slightly disappointed listeners to the Steve Greenburg blog.
	11:27am clarke: i had rather high expectations seeing that he borrowed the title of my favorite Chris Bell song (guitar version, not steel drum) - and then, doesn't seem to get IT - the whole Big Star thang.
	11:28am Sean: My backyard trap just caught Snagglepuss. #CougarRoastThanksgiving
	11:29am Matt Clarke: Hello Michael n all
	11:29am Squints: Roasted. Stuffed, even.
	11:30am clarke: and (to me) the Big Star thang is: SOUL. it added soul to pop in a way that (some) pop doesn't seem to get
	11:30am Hoboken Jack: Hey Michael, Ruth, Frank, Matt, Greg, Dennis, Baby, Handy, McGroove, one and all!!
	11:31am Listener Baby: Good morning Jack!
	11:31am Corey: Man this Coasters track is kinda blowing my mind.
	11:31am Sean: Always with the sax solos!
	11:32am clarke: yeah, speaking of soul!!
	11:32am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack!
	11:33am Dennis Diken: thanks for the props Mikey - and the dedication! hadn't heard that fine Bootiques track before (delightful!) nor did I know of any Costello offspring's musical offerings!! (I did know Bud Abbott, Jr, RIP – good guy, not a musician but a music fan). when it comes to record-making young Ms. Costello is not a “baa-aad girl”! sounds like Jim Troxel on drums…
	11:34am clarke: those coasters have a forcefield around them
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Bagpipe can do that, too. The drooling sets in immediately, though.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: Hi Jack! Hi Matt!
	11:35am spodiodi: hi Handy, Jack, Matt!
	11:36am Frank In Queens: I want to see Oil City Confidential so badly.
	11:36am Ross T.: @clarke -- it's the Memphis factor
	11:37am Handy Haversack: OK, we watched /Vampires vs. the Bronx/ last night. Drop everything and watch it with your loved ones the minute your WFMU listening day is over, everyone!
	11:37am clarke: the rest of the nola boyz don't seem to be awake, yet. the funny thing about paul prudhomme is that he was not even the best cook in his own family!!
	11:37am myron feld: What service/source did you watch Oil City Confidential on, please?
	11:38am Frank In Queens: This week was Thief, Forty Guns, and the In Laws.
	11:40am clarke: we talking the Thief with treat williams?
	11:40am phat: I need to watch Oil City Confidential, definitely.
	11:41am Listener Baby: Do it again!!
	11:41am Ross T.: Cool how they put the bongos in there.
	11:42am Frank Zaatar: This version has the whininess missing in The Who's version.
	11:42am myron feld: Michael, I believe you spoke of seeing the Derek Del Gaudio "In And Of Itself" show a couple years ago. We saw and loved it. The film version is now available for rental. tickets.ifccenter.com...
	11:43am Corey: @Handy Thanks for the tip! It's on the docket for Saturday night escape movie.
	11:44am clarke: courtesy of tcm i re-visited both Maltese Falcon AND The Big Sleep this week. still amazing!
	11:44am Sean: "Forty Guns" is like 85% hysterical subtext. Or at least I like to view it that way.
	11:45am Handy Haversack: Thrills, chills, and feelz, Corey!
	11:45am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	11:45am spodiodi: Handy, on what service did you watch it?
	11:46am Be Now Homeboy: Montclair in the house.. Trinity place I sit looking out my window :)
	11:47am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I got a quote for one tree last week: $720 with a 10% winter discount available. They won't be taking the stump.
	11:47am Hoboken Jack: What's this about stumps? #toosoon
	11:48am Geoffrey in Ottawa: One place said, Get back to us in February. We're full.
	11:48am Handy Haversack: Assigned male or female, not born. Just saying. Spod, I think it's from Netflix? Zing, Jack!
	11:48am spodiodi: never mind, Handy, got it! ^ just found it, thanks for the tip! yep thanks
	11:49am Michael Shelley: jack for the win
	11:50am spodiodi: that was pretty funny (late props, but it did make me lol)
	11:51am Tennessee Jeb: Good stuff Michael
	11:51am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Currently reading Ribowsky's Little Richard bio. Am I the only one who finds it odd that he doesn't even reference Charles White's book in the bibliography?
	11:52am Frank In Queens: Sean, Forty Guns is very funny. Clarke, Thief with James Caan.
	11:53am Frank Zaatar: "The Sahara Forest? Don't you mean that Sahara Desert?" "NOW it's the Sahara Desert." (Old Borscht Belt joke.)
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Broadcasting from home, everyone! The cats are onto us!
	11:54am Niall: Having some much fun with this set!
	11:56am steveo: i was just thinking the same thing about country when you were playing willie
	11:56am Listener Baby: And horrible George Throgood
	11:58am Hoboken Jack: There's a joint U.S./European satellite launching momentarily -- will monitor sea level increase and climate change.
	11:58am Moammar: In "Ghost World," the idea of a terrible bar band Blueshammer never fails to make me laugh.
	11:58am Pedro in Arlington: American monkeys came back and some later worked with Spazz. Laika was a girl.
	11:59am Listener Baby: @Moammar. Perhaps the greatest scene in any movie ever made.
	12:00pm clarke: that Thief is good
	12:01pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I worked as a dishwasher.
	12:01pm Frank In Queens: Most movies with Treat are exactly the opposite.
	12:03pm Hubig Pie: TCM is playing Dr. Strangelove for the 3rd in the last 2 weeks this afternoon. 2nite they showin' Kiss Me Deadly.
	12:03pm steveo: i had a great career running dish machines, starting at $3.67 an hour at the old folks home, and onward at the college dining hall. pretty quick on the old dishbelt too
	12:03pm clarke: yes, but i like Prince Of The City
	12:03pm spodiodi: butts... putz... love it
	12:03pm smevvyk: Omg. Shoved out the door with a bus pass the summer after I turned 14 to wash dishes at a restaurant and came the second night with a pair of rubber gloves to avoid scalding and the dudes in the kitchen immediately named me Professor Pussy Gloves.
	12:03pm Ross T.: This my anthem.
	12:04pm Hubig Pie: <edit> 3rd time
	12:04pm phat: Boy, have I done a lot of dishes. I was a TERRIBLE line cook, though. Glad I ended up waiting tables and bartending.
	12:05pm Marci: Lucky me - my husband loves doing dishes - his first job in high school
	12:05pm Handy Haversack: I was pretty good at line cook but much happier once I got out on the floor waiting tables. My dad was a waiter, too.
	12:05pm smevvyk: The ‘Professor’ seemed to be on account of I wore these huge 80s glasses that would slip down my nose in the damp.
	12:05pm phat: When I do get around to washing dishes in my kitchen, though, I get them done very fast.
	12:06pm Tim In SF: Having waited tables in SF for over 35 years I can tell you that the hardest working employees in the restaurant business are the DISHWASHERS.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: I made $4.10 mixing live shows by the likes of Etta James, Charlie Haden, The Heath Brothers, Zoot Sims, Tal Farlow, and countless others.
	12:06pm adam: my sister lives in 'new rock city' I'll have to play this for her
	12:07pm Bootsie: This is great!
	12:08pm Montmaster J: In the kitchen of that small restaurant (le carre de choux) the chef would sometimes serreptitiously put the super sharp cuinsiart blade in the sink...I don't know how I kept all my fingers!
	12:08pm Ross T.: You're right about people leaving you alone while you're washing being the big perk. As a manager I would would sometimes take it upon myself to wash glasses. plates whatever. 10 - 15 minutes of peace.
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: She liked to drink wine out of a measuring cup
	12:09pm Handy Haversack: My first night washing dishes I got a clam fork jammed in between my thumb and forefinger and was assured roundly that it was best to get it out the way early.
	12:09pm Montmaster J: Yeah...I liked her....I NEVER drank the Heinkeins
	12:10pm Corey: Washed dishes and bussed for my first jobs too. Front of the house/back of the house differences an early education in social inequality. On the plus side generally good camaraderie in the back of the house.
	12:11pm Tim In SF: @Ross...sometimes the dishwasher wouldn't show up and the chef would spend the entire shift in the dish pit. I think he liked the zen break of not being on the line for a night.
	12:11pm spodiodi: i swear i was just thinking about tp. cheers, michael shelley!
	12:11pm myron feld: Best Tom Petty song.
	12:12pm Ross T.: @Corey like actors and techies.
	12:12pm spodiodi: i worked in the dishroom at a retirement condo type place. it was fun... unless you were on pots (isolated and hard work)
	12:13pm spodiodi: a guy named joel was on pots most of the time. he was usually angry and strong as an ox
	12:13pm Corey: @Ross T. For sure!
	12:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the space tip, Jack. www.nasa.gov is streaming it live. About four minutes to lift-off.
	12:13pm Handy Haversack: Corey, in Ann Arbor I got a job waiting tables at that brewpub. There was an annual staff trip to Founders after Art Fair -- except they didn't invite the kitchen! So I refused to go and instead went to party in a Metropark with the BOH staff, and that was it -- I was back in the BOH family the rest of the time I worked there.
	12:14pm Ross T.: Creative types/food and beverage workers -- that's us!
	12:15pm Montmaster J: I've taken that advice to heart for years.
	12:15pm Handy Haversack: My dad waited tables in the Village in the fifties. They moved out of the city/Jersey in like '65, I think. When I came up here for the first time for school in 1993, there were still places in the Village where all had to do was mention my dad's name and I was good for a free drink or even a meal!
	12:16pm luka: in college i washed dishes in the kitchen of the food court at Watterson Towers which at the time (and still may be?) the largest dorm in the US? i want to say it was dreadful, but i actually look back on it kind of fondly. got to scavenge a lot of meals.
	12:16pm Handy Haversack: ^all *I had to do.
	12:16pm McGroovey: I washed dishes at the governor's mansion in Albany when I was in college. That was an extreme front-of-house/back-of-house split. The only people from the front who came to visit us were the Butler (nice Irish guy) and Chris Cuomo. This was when Mario Cuomo was governor, Andrew newly married to Caroline Kennedy, and Chris C was a pleasant, happygolucky teenager. Oh, and daughter Madeline was also going to SUNY Albany, though I only crossed paths with her on campus a couple times in passing.
	12:17pm spodiodi: nice, Handy. not surprised he was as likeable as you are
	12:17pm Mister Dobalina: MySpace...hehehe. Could have been GeoCities..
	12:17pm clarke: notable dish-washer: Alex Chilton. washed dishes at Commander's Palace in the 80's - told me he loved it!
	12:17pm Moammar: Them bongos!
	12:17pm Handy Haversack: Oh jeez -- thanks, spodi. That's might nice of you to say!
	12:18pm Hubig Pie: Front of the house is self control Back of the house be rock 'n' roll
	12:18pm Handy Haversack: ^mighty* OK, full disclosure: my fingers are pretty cold for typing. There's never any sun back here.
	12:19pm Ross T.: That's right about Alex Chilton! For a few years washed dishes and played no music. Think he also trimmed trees.
	12:19pm Mister Dobalina: Is the Number One Hit's membership card still available?
	12:20pm spodiodi: also on the dark side of the house (where my desk is... it's going to be a long winter.) have 3 heaters at my ready, but still about to search for some gloves i can work on online
	12:20pm louie astoria: love those hanna-barberra bongos! don't ever stop!!!
	12:21pm clarke: yeah but alex HATED trimming trees!
	12:21pm Ciggy: I was an under-age dishwasher in the late 60s at The Balalaika on Bronx River Road in Yonkers, NY for $10 on Friday nights. I felt sorry for my friend Albie who had to clean the Pots. Very Hot & Steamy.
	12:22pm Ross T.: Tree trimming is nasty work.
	12:22pm Michael Shelley: yeah for sure - but hard to get to the station to pick up the mail... but send your sase and our staff will get to it when this is all over...
	12:22pm Sean: produced by Gumby
	12:22pm Corey: @Handy That's exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about! Good for you. At Farm Club everyone works a farm shift once a month to try to break that habit. Harder to address the tipped versus wage differences especially during the flush summer season.
	12:23pm Tim In SF: Anthony Bourdain talked about "dishwasher syndrome": any available moment to get away from foaming sauces to spend a few carefree moments washing dishes.
	12:24pm myron feld: Yeah, those BG vocals are pretty awful.
	12:25pm Handy Haversack: That's a good policy, Corey. I would happily work a farm shift right now if I could get to Western Michigan!
	12:26pm clarke: actually, it was chet atkins that started the bad background "singers"
	12:27pm Mister Dobalina: Thanks for the info, M.S.. also, I see that you have a MySpace page that is still active, how neat is that?
	12:30pm Mister Dobalina: Are those photos of your executive producer, back in her younger days? The photo of the baby in a plane seat with her bottle is super cute.
	12:30pm Corey: @Handy A lot of kneeling on the cold ground and pulling weeds, but it's pretty meditative.
	12:30pm Handy Haversack: Strum and Thrum is on its way to me as we speak!
	12:30pm clarke: dour people to stereotype
	12:31pm clarke: it ain't a stereotype if one lives up to it.
	12:31pm Squints: Sounds like Cyclones have been listening to Juniper.
	12:32pm spodiodi: hear that, Squints
	12:32pm spodiodi: tmbg! yeah!
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: YEAH! What a set!
	12:33pm Greg from ZONE 5: Easily in my top 3 TMBG songs.
	12:33pm Michael Shelley: Mr D. = wow, that's the kid. Amazed that's still up. (if you can get past the pop ups)
	12:33pm spodiodi: i just referenced this on Joe B or TOPT's show when they played young fresh fellows
	12:33pm paul: I bought a compilation in the 80s called Sturm & Twang! German bands, I think.
	12:34pm Squints: Roccccking you like ein hurrican.
	12:35pm paul: One of the bands was called Ostzonensuppenwurfelmachenkrebs.
	12:35pm Ed From Jersey City: A great dishwasher is to a kitchen what a great drummer is to a band or a great catcher is to a baseball team. It all starts there.
	12:36pm Hoboken Jack: Was thrilled to learn my buddy Marc Seligman (also of The Vines of Hoboken) played bass in the Cyclones!
	12:36pm Hoboken Jack: Rare double shot here on the Shelley program.
	12:37pm spodiodi: doubleplus good
	12:38pm spodiodi: cool.
	12:38pm clarke: you hear more than one song by an artist these days and one thinks that someone has gone to the wrong side of the grass.
	12:38pm Frank In Queens: I remember the days of plugging multiple instruments into an amp.
	12:39pm Squints: There was a Mundanes I remember opened for the Ramones in Hartford in like 1980, maybe 1979. Song title I remember is It's Friday Night And I Want To Go To The Disco (But My Friends Tell Me It's Wrong).
	12:39pm spodiodi: yeah, topt played Gear Summer 2013 1 week ago. nice nice nice. twisting has been on my mind since. thanks, MS! and for the doubleshot and story
	12:39pm Dean: My band, four members, shared one tiny amp when we played the Masque a couple times. The first time we opened for Sunset Bombers, The Knack's Doug Feiger's earlier band. Feiger would not let us use any of their equipment. The second time we opened for Levi & the Rockats. They did let us use their gear.
	12:39pm Montmaster J: The Mundanes were nice to us! I think they were bemused. There were two 14 year olds in that room.
	12:41pm spodiodi: before anyone had proper amps, we were molesting old stereo equipment to be used as amps
	12:41pm spodiodi: so much electrical tape, rca cables, and hinky cables in general
	12:42pm Ross T.: Best harp sound I ever got was through an old KLH system....
	12:42pm Sean: I just bought the M.M. on 45. Great tune!
	12:42pm spodiodi: you are killin it today, MS!
	12:42pm Micheal: The Mundanes started in Providence before locating to NY. In addition to John Linnell, they had a great drummer, Kevin Tooley, who has had a long career.
	12:43pm Moammar: The Country Gentleman version of "Fox on the Run" kills me every time. My vote for best version of this one, by far.
	12:43pm Squints: I remember them saying at the time they was from Providence.
	12:44pm Squints: Pousette Dart Band used to cover this that bluegrass way (with a beat) in 1978.
	12:44pm spodiodi: dat twang
	12:45pm spodiodi: dat fiddle
	12:45pm Squints: dose bongos
	12:45pm Frank In Queens: This is very reminiscent of Hayseed Dixie.
	12:45pm spodiodi: this is pretty funny/enjoyable
	12:45pm Stevel: Five hun-derd miles!
	12:45pm spodiodi: dat pickin
	12:45pm Mike Sin: Completely enjoying today's show. In the early '80s, I had a Marantz stereo that had stereo mic inputs. You could record onto one of the channels while playing a LP and record it onto cassette. You could basically overdub your own backing vocals or tuba onto one of the channels of, say, a Rolling Stones' track.
	12:46pm spodiodi: haha Stevel
	12:46pm spodiodi: clever cover
	12:46pm Steve: Love the Cleverlys covers of hip hop hits.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: lol mike
	12:47pm Cooh John: Yee haw!
	12:47pm clarke: if you happened to have a tuba
	12:47pm spodiodi: eets naht a tuba!
	12:47pm Chop Scott: Great show Michael--Cheers!
	12:47pm paul: Reminds me of the Gourds' Gin & Juice.
	12:47pm Handy Haversack: That "or tuba" is a brilliant aside, Mike Sin.
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: I have this amazing image of a young Mike Sin blowing into a tuba in my mind.
	12:48pm Squints: hah, spodes.
	12:48pm Handy Haversack: If your mind had stereo mic inputs, Frank, he could overdub your thoughts!
	12:48pm Steve: Saw the Cleverlys here in Bluffton. Funniest show ever!
	12:49pm Mister Dobalina: I trying being a busboy many years ago, I hated it. & I also have lots of friends who have worked/work in the service industry, super respect for them.
	12:50pm Micheal: Everyone should work as a dishwasher at least once in their lifetime.
	12:50pm Frank In Queens: Handy, my thoughts are always the basic tracks.
	12:51pm Squints: The groove on the Joe Tex thang is NUTS.
	12:51pm spodiodi: i liked the camaraderie among restaurant workers, and even after i moved on to other work, i'd enjoy hanging out after hours with those of my friends who were still slingin and servin hash... good times
	12:51pm Cooh John: I'z a dishwasher before.
	12:51pm clarke: i MUCH would have rathered to wash dishes as i, too, did NOT have the busboy gene
	12:52pm Squints: Less filling. Tastes great. Both.
	12:52pm listener 126464: dishwasher box checked
	12:52pm Listener Bop Monroe: the Busboys were a great band! greetings from cloudy Tannersville Mr. MS and all.
	12:52pm egould310: The Who is the correct answer, anyway.
	12:53pm Ross T.: Stones vs Beatles well the answer of course is...the Kinks!
	12:53pm pottybear: Kinks
	12:53pm paul: Dave Clark 5
	12:53pm phat: https://images.app.goo.gl/283TAck2rBsGwwTG8
	12:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: How about the 2005 movie "Waiting..."? www.imdb.com... Seemed a bit far-fetched and contrived to me, but somewhat funny.
	12:53pm Ross T.: Or the Flamin' Groovies.
	12:54pm Squints: egould310: Like Boogie's answer in Diner. Except even "Presley" was wrong. the correct answer was and is always "DiMucci."
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: Two more great songs about dishwashing: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com...
	12:54pm spodiodi: whynotboth, indeed
	12:54pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Hit after hit after hit. Enjoy your Saturday all.
	12:55pm clarke: so...there's no guest today???
	12:55pm Sean: I don't even remember what the question was but yes, DiMucci, definitely!
	12:55pm Ross T.: Or NRBQ.
	12:55pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Teeth are tiny timebombs in your head
	12:55pm Handy Haversack: Great show, MS! A real home run! Speedy recovery to assoc. prod.! Great chatting, all. Have good Saturdays. Until next time!
	12:56pm spodiodi: i've had one root canal, and the guy who did it was talking about golf when he BROKE my tooth... joy. now i wear a (broken) crown
	12:56pm clarke: OUCH!!!
	12:56pm Ross T.: There's a bum note in this song as I recall. There it was.
	12:57pm listener 126464: Thanks Michael, thanks Ruth.
	12:57pm spodiodi: to your wife, MS, and to your show! thank you! great one today. i'm flying high now
	12:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Ruth!
	12:57pm Dennis Diken: Jolly good show Mikey!
	12:57pm clarke: The REAL Voice!!
	12:58pm spodiodi: when i dither/vacillate/equivocate, well ya know i'm gunna be the one...
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Beatles, Kinks, and Who over the Stones for sure. But of course, the Stones are also amazing.
	12:59pm Ross T.: Of course they're all great.
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael..thanks skeleton crew!
	1:00pm clarke: nice'a'show!!
	1:00pm Montmaster J: Happy Birthday Molly!
	1:01pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael and everyone. Enjoy the holiday, preferably not in large groups.

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November 21, 2020: I'll Give It Away

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Bill Fox	I'll Give It Away "I'll Give It Away" by "Bill Fox"
Denny Laine	Say You Don't Mind "Say You Don't Mind" by "Denny Laine"
Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley	Fly, Lovebird Fly
Della Reese	Brand New Day "Brand New Day" by "Della Reese"
Jackson do Pandeiro	Vamos Chegar Pra Lá
Paul McCartney And Elvis Costello	Twenty Fine Fingers
Bootiques, The	Did You Get Your Fun
Bystanders, The	My Way Of Thinking
Sturgill Simpson	Railroad Of Sin "Railroad Of Sin" by "Sturgill Simpson"
Coasters, The	Three Cool Cats (takes 11 & 12)
Dr. Feelgood	One Weekend "One Weekend" by "Dr. Feelgood"
Stumps, The	My Generation "My Generation" by "Stumps, The"
Young Men, The	A Young Man's Problem
Willie Nelson	Three Days "Three Days" by "Willie Nelson"
George Smith	Yes Baby "Yes Baby" by "George Smith"
Mighty Sparrow	Russian Satelite "Russian Satelite" by "Mighty Sparrow"
Queers, The	Born To Do Dishes "Born To Do Dishes" by "Queers, The"
Rami And The Reliables	New Rochelle
Fountains Of Wayne	Strapped For Cash
Tom Petty	I Need To Know "I Need To Know" by "Tom Petty"
Floyd Dakil Four, The	Kitty Kitty
Ronny And The Daytonas	Little G.T.O.
Pokey LaFarge	Ain't Comin' Home "Ain't Comin' Home" by "Pokey LaFarge"
Johnny Nash	What Kind Of Love Is This?
Dynatones, The	The Bottom End "The Bottom End" by "Dynatones, The"
Cyclones	I'm In Heaven "I'm In Heaven" by "Cyclones"
They Might Be Giants	Twisting "Twisting" by "They Might Be Giants"
They Might Be Giants	Erase "Erase" by "They Might Be Giants"
Happy Confusion	The Singer Sings The Song (and the Gambler Gambles On)
Manfred Mann	Fox On The Run "Fox On The Run" by "Manfred Mann"
Cleverlys, The	500 MIles "500 MIles" by "Cleverlys, The"
Joe Tex	Go Home And Do It "Go Home And Do It" by "Joe Tex"
Los Straitjackets	I Feel Fine "I Feel Fine" by "Los Straitjackets"
NRBQ	It Feels Good "It Feels Good" by "NRBQ"
Julia Lee	When You're Smiling "When You're Smiling" by "Julia Lee"
Mike Francesa	Vince Lombardi "Vince Lombardi" by "Mike Francesa"

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Listener comments!
	11:00am Handy Haversack: Happy Saturday, Michael and all the Shelle Gamers! Oh wow, Suzie Q! Very nice! I'm taking this show outside!
	11:00am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!!!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Make it all better, Baby.
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Very nice Handy! Waiting for my beer delivery.
	11:00am Squints: ok, then
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Baby!
	11:01am Squints: boo woo woo
	11:01am Listener Baby: Hi My main man Frank!
	11:01am clarke: heyNOWWWWW
	11:02am Michael in Montclair: Good Morning everyone!
	11:02am egould310: Pork butt.
	11:02am clarke: alabama OR atlanta
	11:03am clarke: THE FOX!
	11:03am Handy Haversack: I am going to deliver myself some beer as soon as I get this proofing job done, Frank!
	11:04am Corey: Morning Michael, crew, and listeners! Nice to join you all.
	11:04am Frank In Queens: I went the delivery route, because the local options are getting stale.
	11:05am Grab Em: Is this the place with the Naughty By Nature sets?
	11:05am clarke: frank had beer delivered to the office.
	11:06am Frank In Queens: No office or work at all until the 30th!
	11:07am Handy Haversack: I hear you, Frank. I pretty much just get PBR around here as everything else is insanely pricey. But I do go for the fancy ciders at the fancy cider store. Hey, Corey, clarke!
	11:07am clarke: that's good - except for the overtime
	11:07am Listener Baby: Baby, we don't want Jupe, we need Jupe. Please summon the AP for if just few a moments. Throw us a bone.
	11:07am Pedro in Arlington: I now tune in to the show expecting positive breaking news on elections, impending Supreme Court retirements and various indictments.
	11:08am Frank In Queens: And Naughty By Nature!
	11:08am clarke: ain't a thang wrong with PBR!! or wasn't when i was a drinking man.
	11:09am Frank In Queens: clarke, OT is a rarity anyway, so luckily I don't rely on it.
	11:09am Corey: Hey Handy! Enjoy the PBR!
	11:09am Ross T.: The warmth of 4 track analog....
	11:10am clarke: howza about the fine, extra-fine-fine, cuts that have been leaked from Fashions?? wow!!
	11:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Shelleys and all!
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Haven't heard them yet!
	11:12am clarke: Styles We Never Paid For - sounds like it is way above (already high) average!
	11:12am Handy Haversack: I put out like nine stadium cups of seed in the various bird feeders back here yesterday, and it's almost all gone. These Greenpoint sparrows are out of control. Their rapaciousness knows no satiety! Morning, Greg! Corey, in Oceana County, it comes in thirty-packs! Alas, not in Brooklyn.
	11:13am steveo: THE 1250 WATT FLAMETHROWER WFMU
	11:13am clarke: there's some extry pixie dust up in thar!
	11:14am Ross T.: Do your thing -- that's the answer!
	11:14am Dennis Diken: Hey Mikey & everyone! diggin’ the noise!
	11:15am clarke: DD!!
	11:16am Hams: mr. tambourine man!
	11:17am spodiodi: good morning, Michael Shelley and gang!
	11:18am spodiodi: that pooch is adorable!
	11:18am Greg from ZONE 5: @Handy: Here on WFMU, the gourmand metamorphosizes into the voluptuary! Read an interesting bird book recently and it turns out sparrows are kinda dicks.
	11:20am McGroovey: Sounds like Squeeze, to my ear.
	11:20am Ross T.: The animal kingdom is a close second to humanity for dickdom.
	11:20am clarke: ramon & declan
	11:20am Handy Haversack: Greg, I have spent the pandemic back here observing sparrow society. It's like always having The Sopranos on. They are tough little bastards and very much enjoy pointing it out to all comers! I am really going to miss them when Sleet Season drives me inside. Morning, spodi!
	11:21am Handy Haversack: (And there's a slate-colored junco back here right now!)
	11:22am Frank Zaatar: What we've got here are the best disciples of Buddy Holly of their respective generations.
	11:22am clarke: ...and a failure to communicate
	11:23am Mailman Tom: Hey Abbott!
	11:23am DjLorraine: @ McGroovey i thought the same thing. Morning @Spodiodi. Suzy Q is showing her edible skeleton crew. I always enjoy the coaster pictures.
	11:25am clarke: don't want to stir the controversy stick, at this point in 'events'; however, i am one of the slightly disappointed listeners to the Steve Greenburg blog.
	11:27am clarke: i had rather high expectations seeing that he borrowed the title of my favorite Chris Bell song (guitar version, not steel drum) - and then, doesn't seem to get IT - the whole Big Star thang.
	11:28am Sean: My backyard trap just caught Snagglepuss. #CougarRoastThanksgiving
	11:29am Matt Clarke: Hello Michael n all
	11:29am Squints: Roasted. Stuffed, even.
	11:30am clarke: and (to me) the Big Star thang is: SOUL. it added soul to pop in a way that (some) pop doesn't seem to get
	11:30am Hoboken Jack: Hey Michael, Ruth, Frank, Matt, Greg, Dennis, Baby, Handy, McGroove, one and all!!
	11:31am Listener Baby: Good morning Jack!
	11:31am Corey: Man this Coasters track is kinda blowing my mind.
	11:31am Sean: Always with the sax solos!
	11:32am clarke: yeah, speaking of soul!!
	11:32am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack!
	11:33am Dennis Diken: thanks for the props Mikey - and the dedication! hadn't heard that fine Bootiques track before (delightful!) nor did I know of any Costello offspring's musical offerings!! (I did know Bud Abbott, Jr, RIP – good guy, not a musician but a music fan). when it comes to record-making young Ms. Costello is not a “baa-aad girl”! sounds like Jim Troxel on drums…
	11:34am clarke: those coasters have a forcefield around them
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Bagpipe can do that, too. The drooling sets in immediately, though.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: Hi Jack! Hi Matt!
	11:35am spodiodi: hi Handy, Jack, Matt!
	11:36am Frank In Queens: I want to see Oil City Confidential so badly.
	11:36am Ross T.: @clarke -- it's the Memphis factor
	11:37am Handy Haversack: OK, we watched /Vampires vs. the Bronx/ last night. Drop everything and watch it with your loved ones the minute your WFMU listening day is over, everyone!
	11:37am clarke: the rest of the nola boyz don't seem to be awake, yet. the funny thing about paul prudhomme is that he was not even the best cook in his own family!!
	11:37am myron feld: What service/source did you watch Oil City Confidential on, please?
	11:38am Frank In Queens: This week was Thief, Forty Guns, and the In Laws.
	11:40am clarke: we talking the Thief with treat williams?
	11:40am phat: I need to watch Oil City Confidential, definitely.
	11:41am Listener Baby: Do it again!!
	11:41am Ross T.: Cool how they put the bongos in there.
	11:42am Frank Zaatar: This version has the whininess missing in The Who's version.
	11:42am myron feld: Michael, I believe you spoke of seeing the Derek Del Gaudio "In And Of Itself" show a couple years ago. We saw and loved it. The film version is now available for rental. tickets.ifccenter.com...
	11:43am Corey: @Handy Thanks for the tip! It's on the docket for Saturday night escape movie.
	11:44am clarke: courtesy of tcm i re-visited both Maltese Falcon AND The Big Sleep this week. still amazing!
	11:44am Sean: "Forty Guns" is like 85% hysterical subtext. Or at least I like to view it that way.
	11:45am Handy Haversack: Thrills, chills, and feelz, Corey!
	11:45am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	11:45am spodiodi: Handy, on what service did you watch it?
	11:46am Be Now Homeboy: Montclair in the house.. Trinity place I sit looking out my window :)
	11:47am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I got a quote for one tree last week: $720 with a 10% winter discount available. They won't be taking the stump.
	11:47am Hoboken Jack: What's this about stumps? #toosoon
	11:48am Geoffrey in Ottawa: One place said, Get back to us in February. We're full.
	11:48am Handy Haversack: Assigned male or female, not born. Just saying. Spod, I think it's from Netflix? Zing, Jack!
	11:48am spodiodi: never mind, Handy, got it! ^ just found it, thanks for the tip! yep thanks
	11:49am Michael Shelley: jack for the win
	11:50am spodiodi: that was pretty funny (late props, but it did make me lol)
	11:51am Tennessee Jeb: Good stuff Michael
	11:51am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Currently reading Ribowsky's Little Richard bio. Am I the only one who finds it odd that he doesn't even reference Charles White's book in the bibliography?
	11:52am Frank In Queens: Sean, Forty Guns is very funny. Clarke, Thief with James Caan.
	11:53am Frank Zaatar: "The Sahara Forest? Don't you mean that Sahara Desert?" "NOW it's the Sahara Desert." (Old Borscht Belt joke.)
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Broadcasting from home, everyone! The cats are onto us!
	11:54am Niall: Having some much fun with this set!
	11:56am steveo: i was just thinking the same thing about country when you were playing willie
	11:56am Listener Baby: And horrible George Throgood
	11:58am Hoboken Jack: There's a joint U.S./European satellite launching momentarily -- will monitor sea level increase and climate change.
	11:58am Moammar: In "Ghost World," the idea of a terrible bar band Blueshammer never fails to make me laugh.
	11:58am Pedro in Arlington: American monkeys came back and some later worked with Spazz. Laika was a girl.
	11:59am Listener Baby: @Moammar. Perhaps the greatest scene in any movie ever made.
	12:00pm clarke: that Thief is good
	12:01pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I worked as a dishwasher.
	12:01pm Frank In Queens: Most movies with Treat are exactly the opposite.
	12:03pm Hubig Pie: TCM is playing Dr. Strangelove for the 3rd in the last 2 weeks this afternoon. 2nite they showin' Kiss Me Deadly.
	12:03pm steveo: i had a great career running dish machines, starting at $3.67 an hour at the old folks home, and onward at the college dining hall. pretty quick on the old dishbelt too
	12:03pm clarke: yes, but i like Prince Of The City
	12:03pm spodiodi: butts... putz... love it
	12:03pm smevvyk: Omg. Shoved out the door with a bus pass the summer after I turned 14 to wash dishes at a restaurant and came the second night with a pair of rubber gloves to avoid scalding and the dudes in the kitchen immediately named me Professor Pussy Gloves.
	12:03pm Ross T.: This my anthem.
	12:04pm Hubig Pie: <edit> 3rd time
	12:04pm phat: Boy, have I done a lot of dishes. I was a TERRIBLE line cook, though. Glad I ended up waiting tables and bartending.
	12:05pm Marci: Lucky me - my husband loves doing dishes - his first job in high school
	12:05pm Handy Haversack: I was pretty good at line cook but much happier once I got out on the floor waiting tables. My dad was a waiter, too.
	12:05pm smevvyk: The ‘Professor’ seemed to be on account of I wore these huge 80s glasses that would slip down my nose in the damp.
	12:05pm phat: When I do get around to washing dishes in my kitchen, though, I get them done very fast.
	12:06pm Tim In SF: Having waited tables in SF for over 35 years I can tell you that the hardest working employees in the restaurant business are the DISHWASHERS.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: I made $4.10 mixing live shows by the likes of Etta James, Charlie Haden, The Heath Brothers, Zoot Sims, Tal Farlow, and countless others.
	12:06pm adam: my sister lives in 'new rock city' I'll have to play this for her
	12:07pm Bootsie: This is great!
	12:08pm Montmaster J: In the kitchen of that small restaurant (le carre de choux) the chef would sometimes serreptitiously put the super sharp cuinsiart blade in the sink...I don't know how I kept all my fingers!
	12:08pm Ross T.: You're right about people leaving you alone while you're washing being the big perk. As a manager I would would sometimes take it upon myself to wash glasses. plates whatever. 10 - 15 minutes of peace.
	12:09pm Michael Shelley: She liked to drink wine out of a measuring cup
	12:09pm Handy Haversack: My first night washing dishes I got a clam fork jammed in between my thumb and forefinger and was assured roundly that it was best to get it out the way early.
	12:09pm Montmaster J: Yeah...I liked her....I NEVER drank the Heinkeins
	12:10pm Corey: Washed dishes and bussed for my first jobs too. Front of the house/back of the house differences an early education in social inequality. On the plus side generally good camaraderie in the back of the house.
	12:11pm Tim In SF: @Ross...sometimes the dishwasher wouldn't show up and the chef would spend the entire shift in the dish pit. I think he liked the zen break of not being on the line for a night.
	12:11pm spodiodi: i swear i was just thinking about tp. cheers, michael shelley!
	12:11pm myron feld: Best Tom Petty song.
	12:12pm Ross T.: @Corey like actors and techies.
	12:12pm spodiodi: i worked in the dishroom at a retirement condo type place. it was fun... unless you were on pots (isolated and hard work)
	12:13pm spodiodi: a guy named joel was on pots most of the time. he was usually angry and strong as an ox
	12:13pm Corey: @Ross T. For sure!
	12:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the space tip, Jack. www.nasa.gov is streaming it live. About four minutes to lift-off.
	12:13pm Handy Haversack: Corey, in Ann Arbor I got a job waiting tables at that brewpub. There was an annual staff trip to Founders after Art Fair -- except they didn't invite the kitchen! So I refused to go and instead went to party in a Metropark with the BOH staff, and that was it -- I was back in the BOH family the rest of the time I worked there.
	12:14pm Ross T.: Creative types/food and beverage workers -- that's us!
	12:15pm Montmaster J: I've taken that advice to heart for years.
	12:15pm Handy Haversack: My dad waited tables in the Village in the fifties. They moved out of the city/Jersey in like '65, I think. When I came up here for the first time for school in 1993, there were still places in the Village where all had to do was mention my dad's name and I was good for a free drink or even a meal!
	12:16pm luka: in college i washed dishes in the kitchen of the food court at Watterson Towers which at the time (and still may be?) the largest dorm in the US? i want to say it was dreadful, but i actually look back on it kind of fondly. got to scavenge a lot of meals.
	12:16pm Handy Haversack: ^all *I had to do.
	12:16pm McGroovey: I washed dishes at the governor's mansion in Albany when I was in college. That was an extreme front-of-house/back-of-house split. The only people from the front who came to visit us were the Butler (nice Irish guy) and Chris Cuomo. This was when Mario Cuomo was governor, Andrew newly married to Caroline Kennedy, and Chris C was a pleasant, happygolucky teenager. Oh, and daughter Madeline was also going to SUNY Albany, though I only crossed paths with her on campus a couple times in passing.
	12:17pm spodiodi: nice, Handy. not surprised he was as likeable as you are
	12:17pm Mister Dobalina: MySpace...hehehe. Could have been GeoCities..
	12:17pm clarke: notable dish-washer: Alex Chilton. washed dishes at Commander's Palace in the 80's - told me he loved it!
	12:17pm Moammar: Them bongos!
	12:17pm Handy Haversack: Oh jeez -- thanks, spodi. That's might nice of you to say!
	12:18pm Hubig Pie: Front of the house is self control Back of the house be rock 'n' roll
	12:18pm Handy Haversack: ^mighty* OK, full disclosure: my fingers are pretty cold for typing. There's never any sun back here.
	12:19pm Ross T.: That's right about Alex Chilton! For a few years washed dishes and played no music. Think he also trimmed trees.
	12:19pm Mister Dobalina: Is the Number One Hit's membership card still available?
	12:20pm spodiodi: also on the dark side of the house (where my desk is... it's going to be a long winter.) have 3 heaters at my ready, but still about to search for some gloves i can work on online
	12:20pm louie astoria: love those hanna-barberra bongos! don't ever stop!!!
	12:21pm clarke: yeah but alex HATED trimming trees!
	12:21pm Ciggy: I was an under-age dishwasher in the late 60s at The Balalaika on Bronx River Road in Yonkers, NY for $10 on Friday nights. I felt sorry for my friend Albie who had to clean the Pots. Very Hot & Steamy.
	12:22pm Ross T.: Tree trimming is nasty work.
	12:22pm Michael Shelley: yeah for sure - but hard to get to the station to pick up the mail... but send your sase and our staff will get to it when this is all over...
	12:22pm Sean: produced by Gumby
	12:22pm Corey: @Handy That's exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about! Good for you. At Farm Club everyone works a farm shift once a month to try to break that habit. Harder to address the tipped versus wage differences especially during the flush summer season.
	12:23pm Tim In SF: Anthony Bourdain talked about "dishwasher syndrome": any available moment to get away from foaming sauces to spend a few carefree moments washing dishes.
	12:24pm myron feld: Yeah, those BG vocals are pretty awful.
	12:25pm Handy Haversack: That's a good policy, Corey. I would happily work a farm shift right now if I could get to Western Michigan!
	12:26pm clarke: actually, it was chet atkins that started the bad background "singers"
	12:27pm Mister Dobalina: Thanks for the info, M.S.. also, I see that you have a MySpace page that is still active, how neat is that?
	12:30pm Mister Dobalina: Are those photos of your executive producer, back in her younger days? The photo of the baby in a plane seat with her bottle is super cute.
	12:30pm Corey: @Handy A lot of kneeling on the cold ground and pulling weeds, but it's pretty meditative.
	12:30pm Handy Haversack: Strum and Thrum is on its way to me as we speak!
	12:30pm clarke: dour people to stereotype
	12:31pm clarke: it ain't a stereotype if one lives up to it.
	12:31pm Squints: Sounds like Cyclones have been listening to Juniper.
	12:32pm spodiodi: hear that, Squints
	12:32pm spodiodi: tmbg! yeah!
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: YEAH! What a set!
	12:33pm Greg from ZONE 5: Easily in my top 3 TMBG songs.
	12:33pm Michael Shelley: Mr D. = wow, that's the kid. Amazed that's still up. (if you can get past the pop ups)
	12:33pm spodiodi: i just referenced this on Joe B or TOPT's show when they played young fresh fellows
	12:33pm paul: I bought a compilation in the 80s called Sturm & Twang! German bands, I think.
	12:34pm Squints: Roccccking you like ein hurrican.
	12:35pm paul: One of the bands was called Ostzonensuppenwurfelmachenkrebs.
	12:35pm Ed From Jersey City: A great dishwasher is to a kitchen what a great drummer is to a band or a great catcher is to a baseball team. It all starts there.
	12:36pm Hoboken Jack: Was thrilled to learn my buddy Marc Seligman (also of The Vines of Hoboken) played bass in the Cyclones!
	12:36pm Hoboken Jack: Rare double shot here on the Shelley program.
	12:37pm spodiodi: doubleplus good
	12:38pm spodiodi: cool.
	12:38pm clarke: you hear more than one song by an artist these days and one thinks that someone has gone to the wrong side of the grass.
	12:38pm Frank In Queens: I remember the days of plugging multiple instruments into an amp.
	12:39pm Squints: There was a Mundanes I remember opened for the Ramones in Hartford in like 1980, maybe 1979. Song title I remember is It's Friday Night And I Want To Go To The Disco (But My Friends Tell Me It's Wrong).
	12:39pm spodiodi: yeah, topt played Gear Summer 2013 1 week ago. nice nice nice. twisting has been on my mind since. thanks, MS! and for the doubleshot and story
	12:39pm Dean: My band, four members, shared one tiny amp when we played the Masque a couple times. The first time we opened for Sunset Bombers, The Knack's Doug Feiger's earlier band. Feiger would not let us use any of their equipment. The second time we opened for Levi & the Rockats. They did let us use their gear.
	12:39pm Montmaster J: The Mundanes were nice to us! I think they were bemused. There were two 14 year olds in that room.
	12:41pm spodiodi: before anyone had proper amps, we were molesting old stereo equipment to be used as amps
	12:41pm spodiodi: so much electrical tape, rca cables, and hinky cables in general
	12:42pm Ross T.: Best harp sound I ever got was through an old KLH system....
	12:42pm Sean: I just bought the M.M. on 45. Great tune!
	12:42pm spodiodi: you are killin it today, MS!
	12:42pm Micheal: The Mundanes started in Providence before locating to NY. In addition to John Linnell, they had a great drummer, Kevin Tooley, who has had a long career.
	12:43pm Moammar: The Country Gentleman version of "Fox on the Run" kills me every time. My vote for best version of this one, by far.
	12:43pm Squints: I remember them saying at the time they was from Providence.
	12:44pm Squints: Pousette Dart Band used to cover this that bluegrass way (with a beat) in 1978.
	12:44pm spodiodi: dat twang
	12:45pm spodiodi: dat fiddle
	12:45pm Squints: dose bongos
	12:45pm Frank In Queens: This is very reminiscent of Hayseed Dixie.
	12:45pm spodiodi: this is pretty funny/enjoyable
	12:45pm Stevel: Five hun-derd miles!
	12:45pm spodiodi: dat pickin
	12:45pm Mike Sin: Completely enjoying today's show. In the early '80s, I had a Marantz stereo that had stereo mic inputs. You could record onto one of the channels while playing a LP and record it onto cassette. You could basically overdub your own backing vocals or tuba onto one of the channels of, say, a Rolling Stones' track.
	12:46pm spodiodi: haha Stevel
	12:46pm spodiodi: clever cover
	12:46pm Steve: Love the Cleverlys covers of hip hop hits.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: lol mike
	12:47pm Cooh John: Yee haw!
	12:47pm clarke: if you happened to have a tuba
	12:47pm spodiodi: eets naht a tuba!
	12:47pm Chop Scott: Great show Michael--Cheers!
	12:47pm paul: Reminds me of the Gourds' Gin & Juice.
	12:47pm Handy Haversack: That "or tuba" is a brilliant aside, Mike Sin.
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: I have this amazing image of a young Mike Sin blowing into a tuba in my mind.
	12:48pm Squints: hah, spodes.
	12:48pm Handy Haversack: If your mind had stereo mic inputs, Frank, he could overdub your thoughts!
	12:48pm Steve: Saw the Cleverlys here in Bluffton. Funniest show ever!
	12:49pm Mister Dobalina: I trying being a busboy many years ago, I hated it. & I also have lots of friends who have worked/work in the service industry, super respect for them.
	12:50pm Micheal: Everyone should work as a dishwasher at least once in their lifetime.
	12:50pm Frank In Queens: Handy, my thoughts are always the basic tracks.
	12:51pm Squints: The groove on the Joe Tex thang is NUTS.
	12:51pm spodiodi: i liked the camaraderie among restaurant workers, and even after i moved on to other work, i'd enjoy hanging out after hours with those of my friends who were still slingin and servin hash... good times
	12:51pm Cooh John: I'z a dishwasher before.
	12:51pm clarke: i MUCH would have rathered to wash dishes as i, too, did NOT have the busboy gene
	12:52pm Squints: Less filling. Tastes great. Both.
	12:52pm listener 126464: dishwasher box checked
	12:52pm Listener Bop Monroe: the Busboys were a great band! greetings from cloudy Tannersville Mr. MS and all.
	12:52pm egould310: The Who is the correct answer, anyway.
	12:53pm Ross T.: Stones vs Beatles well the answer of course is...the Kinks!
	12:53pm pottybear: Kinks
	12:53pm paul: Dave Clark 5
	12:53pm phat: https://images.app.goo.gl/283TAck2rBsGwwTG8
	12:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: How about the 2005 movie "Waiting..."? www.imdb.com... Seemed a bit far-fetched and contrived to me, but somewhat funny.
	12:53pm Ross T.: Or the Flamin' Groovies.
	12:54pm Squints: egould310: Like Boogie's answer in Diner. Except even "Presley" was wrong. the correct answer was and is always "DiMucci."
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: Two more great songs about dishwashing: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com...
	12:54pm spodiodi: whynotboth, indeed
	12:54pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Hit after hit after hit. Enjoy your Saturday all.
	12:55pm clarke: so...there's no guest today???
	12:55pm Sean: I don't even remember what the question was but yes, DiMucci, definitely!
	12:55pm Ross T.: Or NRBQ.
	12:55pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Teeth are tiny timebombs in your head
	12:55pm Handy Haversack: Great show, MS! A real home run! Speedy recovery to assoc. prod.! Great chatting, all. Have good Saturdays. Until next time!
	12:56pm spodiodi: i've had one root canal, and the guy who did it was talking about golf when he BROKE my tooth... joy. now i wear a (broken) crown
	12:56pm clarke: OUCH!!!
	12:56pm Ross T.: There's a bum note in this song as I recall. There it was.
	12:57pm listener 126464: Thanks Michael, thanks Ruth.
	12:57pm spodiodi: to your wife, MS, and to your show! thank you! great one today. i'm flying high now
	12:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Ruth!
	12:57pm Dennis Diken: Jolly good show Mikey!
	12:57pm clarke: The REAL Voice!!
	12:58pm spodiodi: when i dither/vacillate/equivocate, well ya know i'm gunna be the one...
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Beatles, Kinks, and Who over the Stones for sure. But of course, the Stones are also amazing.
	12:59pm Ross T.: Of course they're all great.
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael..thanks skeleton crew!
	1:00pm clarke: nice'a'show!!
	1:00pm Montmaster J: Happy Birthday Molly!
	1:01pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael and everyone. Enjoy the holiday, preferably not in large groups.

Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 21, 2020

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