WFMU: Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from May 27, 2023

Listener comments!
	1:02pm davefromtoronto: fool's day out!
	🌮 ♥ 1:03pm Jessie: Happy Saturday Rex and everyone!
	1:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' Richard Damon Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death... Elliott was born in Boston, Massachusetts... Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician '...
	🌮 ♥ 1:04pm Ernie: Radio on Brain off...
	🌮 ♥ 1:05pm Bruce S.: good day Rex and all
	1:05pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Congo Beat" by "The Tradewinds" Good song, Rex
	🌮 ♥ 1:06pm Hubig Pie: Mr. Elliot was the man seen fleeing the market in the noir classic Gun Crazy
	🌮 ♥ 1:06pm egould: ↳ Ernie @1:04 Brow off!
	1:07pm modern blaze: I’ve played GUN
	🌮 ♥ 1:07pm luka: indian noises in the first 15 min means strap in
	🌮 ♥ 1:07pm The Butterman: Hi Rex and foolish ones.
	🌮 ♥ 1:08pm Mailman Tom: Can't wait to hear that hillbilly stuff you promised us!
	1:08pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Cross-Ties" by "Dale Hawkins" too good dang
	1:09pm P-90: Rex seems to have one of the world’s best collections of mind-blowing surf instrumentals
	1:10pm modern blaze: ↳ P-90 @1:09 Yeah and he still with us bless him more
	♥ 1:10pm Greg from ZONE 5: Dick Elliot appeared in over 50 movies in a 3 year stretch. Slacker.
	♥ 1:11pm DjLorraine: * puts on wfmu socks ; )
	1:12pm modern blaze: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 Wow Lorraine go-go-goo
	1:14pm morphe': Top Gf = Looks like Uncle Joe from Petticoate Junction ????
	1:16pm modern blaze: ↳ morphe' @1:14 long time no see baby
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm egould: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 When listening to Fool’s Paradise, the custom is to wear your socks on your hands.
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm Bruce S.: I think Dick Eliot spent some time in Mayberry
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm The Butterman: Does his baby sleep with her head in the kitchin and feets in the hall! I wunduh?
	1:16pm modern blaze: haha
	1:17pm davefromtoronto: i was at the MOMA just last weekend and was disappointed to not hear rex's battle cry echoing through the galleries
	1:17pm Jeech the Jooch: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 They have socks?! Where??
	♥ 1:17pm Colin in Durham England: Every time my postman comes I’m like SOCKS! But no, my estranged mother had just moved back to the country so it’s just lots of debt letters following her. Yay
	1:18pm modern blaze: Beacon beef with backdonna donuts with vegetables
	♥ 1:18pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Mama, Mama" by "Jesse Stevens and The Big Sandy B... Sounds like yr baby's got a drinkin' problem, son ..
	🌮 ♥ 1:19pm Mailman Tom: Dennis Hopper!
	1:23pm morphe': ↳ Colin in Durham England @1:17 The PostMan Always Rings Twice => heard an interview with Cain about the origins of the title = had so many rejected manuscripts from publisher(s) = bulk envelope - told the postperson to ring once for a letter=check and twice if a bulky returned manuscript ... ?? noir truth or noir false???
	🌮 ♥ 1:23pm Mailman Tom: ↳ morphe' @1:23 True, as far as I know.
	1:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Jump Baby Jump" by "Harry Carter the Rock n Roll ... ...'The New Early History of the RawkaRollaz' - Accordion to Rex...
	🌮 ♥ 1:24pm The Butterman: 2 “Sam”songs in a row, can we get 3. ?
	♥ 1:25pm DjLorraine: ↳ Jeech the Jooch @1:17 Swag for life members designed by Love & Victory sizes 9-11 or 10-13. # represents your foot inches. It has a radio tower on it!
	1:27pm davefromtoronto: no "cali sober" in this here set!
	♥ 1:27pm David Shortell: I see Dick Elliot played Marryin' Sam in the 1940 film "Li'l Abner"--the part that Stubby Kaye played in the 50's musical.
	1:27pm Steiner: Rock and Roll Salvation. Thank you, Rex! Thank you, fellow listeners! Bless.
	🌮 ♥ 1:30pm egould: I’m out of pinot grigio….
	1:31pm morphe': ↳ morphe' @1:23 Cain .. The PostMan Always Rings Twice => the post box was a small walk down from the house/LA cottage to the box...
	♥ 1:31pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:16 If so, it would have to have been in the Andy Griffith Show's first season.
	🌮 ♥ 1:32pm The Butterman: New Jersey afternoon inebriated.
	🌮 ♥ 1:34pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" This isn't going to end well.
	🌮 ♥ 1:34pm Bruce S.: ↳ David Shortell @1:31 wasn't he like the mayor of mayberry or something?
	♥ 1:34pm Karl Ward: A power move
	1:35pm morphe': Earle H. Hagen d.2008 He wrote the folksy, countrified whistle that opened “The Andy Griffith Show,” accompanying Sheriff Andy Taylor (Mr. Griffith) and his young son, Opie (Ron Howard), down a dirt road toward a fishing hole; he did the whistling himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/arts/television/28hagen.html
	1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" ..nuthin' good be happening by the time the needle hits the runout ...I just got a feelin'...
	♥ 1:36pm DjLorraine: ↳ egould @1:16 Checks out. Yup. Sock it to me. *Waves 🧦
	1:36pm Billy Jam: wow the whole gang is here for Rex inc. morphe' The (inebriated) Butterman, Greg from ZONE 5 and RevRabbit - love it!
	1:36pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Waiting At The Station" by "Hoot Gibson" Lover man explains it
	1:36pm davefromtoronto: geez this set's extra demented.
	1:37pm SeanG: hey Billy Jam!
	1:37pm morphe': ↳ The Butterman @1:32 GoButter!!! Lubricate the machinery so it functions correctly !!! Don't get Breathe tested at the shool door on Tuesday => enjoy the extra Monday..
	1:38pm Billy Jam: hey SeanG
	♥ 1:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:34 You're right! A little of the 2nd season too, before he died.
	🌮 ♥ 1:40pm The Butterman: ↳ morphe' @1:37 Thanks morph, no of course
	1:40pm bobobob plasticland: I live in Smyrna in Cobb Co....Right next to Douglasville Ga
	♥ 1:41pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" Oo Suspense… Hi hi hi
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Pedro in Arlington: Was that Elvis's Red West?
	🌮 ♥ 1:43pm egould: Cheers to Dick Elliott! clink
	1:43pm P-90: 380 credits is indeed a very successful run as a character actor
	♥ 1:45pm steveo: Very good Saturday afternoon everyone. I am enjoying the twang. Mama.
	1:45pm modern blaze: I was commenting earlier years on this show and it was Dick Elliot birfday
	1:45pm Megadano: Holy smokes, i'm just finding out now that Rex is on Saturdays on this schedule. This made my day. I worked as a volunteer for an FMU marathon with Rex in '96 and he had just moved from San Francisco. He said to me "I don't know if you've been there, but being in NYC makes SF feel like it is the size of a thimble."
	♥ 1:46pm David Shortell: "The Third Man" (starring Michael Rennie and Jonathan Harris) lasted 5 seasons but I've never seen it. I guess Harry Lime didn't die in that sewer after all.
	♥ 1:49pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:45 Was Scott the volunteer director already in 96?
	🌮 ♥ 1:50pm The Butterman: I’ll storm the station if no Rex on schedule
	🌮 ♥ 1:50pm Bruce S.: ↳ David Shortell @1:46 It lasted for five seasons? how could I have not known about that? but Michael Rennie as Harry Lime seems Interesting
	1:51pm Megadano: ↳ steveo @1:49 maybe '97 ? it was the Upsala house.
	♥ 1:51pm steveo: ↳ steveo @1:49 I guess probably not. Looks like his first broadcast was late 97.
	♥ 1:52pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:51 Musta been cool to be there back then
	♥ 1:53pm David Shortell: ↳ steveo @1:51 How long before was the Hound fired?
	1:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Little Billy" by "Lonnie Smith and The Generation" Oh ! ...so TheWho's anti-smoking LittleBilly has shall we say some precedent...
	1:55pm Megadano: ↳ steveo @1:52 eh. it was HARD to find and in a super sketchy neighborhood. I remember upstairs there was a little walk in closet with a mattress in it that Diane Kamikaze slinked into for a long nap thru most of the day. LOL
	🌮 ♥ 1:56pm egould: ↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less... Oh good. Puke. Diarrhea. Stinky underwear. Very no brow.
	1:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less... How Punk is this I arsks yer.
	1:57pm morphe': Lonnie Smith and The Generation Little Billy Knew from my father "The Ballad of the Green Beret" 1970??? but " Little Billy " was a surprise...
	🌮 ♥ 1:58pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @1:46 I've listened to several old time radio episodes of the Adventures of Harry Lime. Narrated by Orson Welles in 1951!
	1:58pm modern blaze: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:56 …Makes me sick…
	♥ 2:00pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:55 Haha
	🌮 ♥ 2:01pm Bruce S.: when the world seems particularly absurd to me, I still like to listen to the third man theme
	2:01pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans" Mambo
	🌮 ♥ 2:02pm egould: ↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans" Nice guitar solo.
	♥ 2:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:50 Apparently it was a BBC co-production---and Jonathan Harris was also doing "The Bill Dana Show" for some of that time!
	2:03pm morphe': ↳ Megadano @1:55 My Arnan (7?) and I went to So Orange = pre Greasey Kids .. 1990?? '91?? ..Ken thinking a kid for a Sat am kids show .. Bryce or Storck was sleeping on the couch in the entrance ...
	🌮 ♥ 2:04pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @2:02 My name, Jose Jiminez!
	2:04pm modern blaze: okay it’s almos hour in the end and i do admire this program today will revisit when doing fallout things outside stay informed i need leathers
	2:05pm davefromtoronto: with retch! lol
	2:07pm modern blaze: MA to NJ friend shows up to go boom boom to make your boyfriend screw him uo
	2:09pm modern blaze: radio on🇺🇸
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Flying Saucer" by "Little Walter" Little Walter,always great
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm Hubig Pie: Big Bill lookin' fer a widness
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm egould: This set is makin’ me wanna’ crawdad holdin’ in the mornin’.
	🌮 ♥ 2:11pm egould: The Prosecco is chilled. Bellini anyone?
	2:11pm SeanG: boin k-doe boin
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm The Butterman: Now what you do is you sprinkle some erbahseckstimuler on your ribtip and look out!
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm Bruce S.: Little Walter Double Play!
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm Mailman Tom: If you knew the ingredients of a hot link you wouldn't want to eat it!
	2:13pm P-90: I wonder what’s at that address in Illinois these days. Or if there are any photos around of City BBQ in its glory days…
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm HeyJimbo66: So far I have every record on this blues set.😎
	2:14pm modern blaze: ↳ egould @2:11 yes please
	2:14pm SeanG: pass the biscuits please
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm The Butterman: Buttah
	2:17pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: a song Good song, Rex this trouble
	2:18pm davefromtoronto: WBLK from detroit?
	🌮 ♥ 2:18pm egould: ↳ modern blaze @2:14 Cheers!
	2:19pm modern blaze: goes boom boom deta
	🌮 ♥ 2:19pm Mailman Tom: Angola prison population: 6,300!
	🌮 ♥ 2:19pm egould: ↳ P-90 @2:13 It’s a bodega/general merchandise store now. It’s findable on Apple maps.
	🌮 ♥ 2:20pm Hubig Pie: Too-lane and Broad, right by Criminal Court and the Dixie Brewery
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm The Butterman: Makes me miss the days of Radio Thrift shop into a 3 hour Fools Paradise.
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm egould: It’s very imbecilic!
	🌮 ♥ 2:23pm egould: Brunch. Bye. Thanks Rex.
	2:23pm modern blaze: Bye
	🌮 ♥ 2:26pm dave miss: baptized in buttah
	2:27pm davefromtoronto: one eyed cat in the seafood store.
	🌮 ♥ 2:28pm Bruce S.: The Riverias,of california sun fame
	2:31pm morphe': ↳ morphe' @2:03 1998 Angola Prison Doc = for later The Farm: Angola, USA ( 1998 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odx9NEHc17M
	2:33pm davefromtoronto: did he say eegah?
	2:37pm Late Bloomer: Thanks for the memories Dick! The tunes are coming Through loud and clear. Never sound better!
	2:39pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Boogie Chilluns Playhouse" by "Donnie Williams" Top shelf selection!!
	2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...they all good man !...
	♥ 2:40pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" I'll take this over Tchaikovsky any day.
	🌮 ♥ 2:41pm Bruce S.: one little rinky dinky drinkie
	🌮 ♥ 2:41pm Ernie: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" This isn't going to end well
	2:41pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" This one making me think of Kids In The Hall. Characters and sketch content.
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm Dave the Spazz: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" For years, I thought that this was an instrumental with voices overdubbed by Rex
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm The Butterman: “Hey, this cultural stuff is great”. That’s what I say to poke fun at my wife’s side of family.
	2:44pm morphe': If ya see a cro mag lookin dude with a uni-brow and a shaved head and the chubby bumpy ridges betwixt the skull and the neck .. can ya deicede to make decisions???
	♥ 2:47pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Dave the Spazz @2:43 Wasn't there are bidding war for that song between Brite Leaf and Spazzco?
	2:48pm Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn: Hitchcock? There’s a Hitchcock twofer tonight/tomorrow! Free, over the air on CUNY-TV’s CITY CINEMATHEQUE, no doubt followed by an egghead discussion. First, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH at 9:30PM, then THE 39 STEPS at midnight, which is tomorrow Sunday. You can have dinner in between them as two other programs separate them. Channel 25.3 on yer teleblaster...
	2:49pm morphe': Near dusk in Madrid - Swalllows doing last sorties ... Magpies looking for more than crumbs ... bats on the uptake ... a wee walk for me .... Thanks Rexy and all !!!
	🌮 ♥ 2:55pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "Thank You Mister Ballard (For Creating The Twist)... I have the greatest hits of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on a compact disc
	♥ 2:57pm radioronan: Thanks Rex..until next time!
	2:57pm Andres: Thanks for all the cultural stuff, Rex!
	♥ 2:58pm SeanG: epic show
	2:58pm Annette: Bye Rex, thanks for the laughs and good 🎶 music 🎶
	🌮 ♥ 2:58pm Bruce S.: Thanks Rex,have a good week
	♥ 2:59pm DjLorraine: Nice seeing ya Dick Elliot and Rex!
	🌮 ♥ 2:59pm The Butterman: Yeah what they said, thanks Rex, too good!
	🌮 ♥ 2:59pm Chili MacPagoda: Looking for a Little Walter comp at my local(Temescal!) rekkid shop today thanks to this good n greasy show - cheers Rex
	3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Rex ~
	4:01pm P-90: I remember Pat Byrne. He might not remember me.
	🌮 ♥ 3:38pm RevWaldo: Dick Elliot! Dohhh, youth is wasted on the wrong people!

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Artist	Track	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
The Tradewinds	Congo Beat "Congo Beat" by "The Tradewinds"	Dan-Tone		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jackie Lowell With Duane Diamond And The Astronauts	War Path	Band Box		0:05:27 (Pop-up)
Dale Hawkins	Cross-Ties "Cross-Ties" by "Dale Hawkins"	Checker		0:07:10 (Pop-up)
The Celts	Confusion "Confusion" by "The Celts"	Bo-An		0:10:44 (Pop-up)
Jesse Stevens and The Big Sandy Boys	Mama, Mama	Bluegrass		0:15:41 (Pop-up)
Jeff Daniels	Switch Blade Sam "Switch Blade Sam" by "Jeff Daniels"	Big Howdy		0:17:14 (Pop-up)
Red West	Ain't Nobody Gonna Take My Place	Sonnet		0:18:51 (Pop-up)
Harry Carter the Rock n Roll Apache with The Dixie Rhythmaires	Jump Baby Jump	Mar-Vel		0:20:46 (Pop-up)
York Brothers (Leslie and George)	Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby	Decca		0:23:25 (Pop-up)
Dub Dickerson	Mama Laid The Law Down	Todd		0:25:32 (Pop-up)
Wiley Jeffers	She's Coming Back Again	Ace		0:29:10 (Pop-up)
Kearney Williams	Travelin' Man "Travelin' Man" by "Kearney Williams"	Hickory		0:29:57 (Pop-up)
Freddie Hart	The Neon And The Rain	Kapp		0:32:23 (Pop-up)
Hoot Gibson	Waiting At The Station	Peach		0:34:38 (Pop-up)
Bill Blevins Westlanders	Fall Apart	Westland	Included on Corn Fed Vol 8 on Dagnabbit Records!!	0:44:32 (Pop-up)
Chuck & Jackie	Your Big Mouth "Your Big Mouth" by "Chuck & Jackie"	Rose Garden		0:46:43 (Pop-up)
Broken Arrow and the Tomahawks	I Get Rainy River Blues	Salamanca		0:47:45 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Smith and The Generation	Little Billy	Hap		0:52:10 (Pop-up)
Three Shif'less Skonks	Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You	Clown	Yup! This is Included on Corn Fed Vol 8 on Dagnabbit Records!!	0:53:51 (Pop-up)
Willie Egans	Come On "Come On" by "Willie Egans"	Mambo		1:00:31 (Pop-up)
Jimmy McCracklin and His Blues Blasters	Beer Tavern Girl	Irma		1:01:18 (Pop-up)
Rudy Moore	The Buggy Ride "The Buggy Ride" by "Rudy Moore"	Federal		1:04:27 (Pop-up)
Little Walter	Flying Saucer "Flying Saucer" by "Little Walter"	Checker		1:07:02 (Pop-up)
Little Walter	Nobody But You "Nobody But You" by "Little Walter"	Checker		1:10:55 (Pop-up)
Krazy Kris and the Swinging Gentlemen	Floyd's Guitar Blues	King		1:18:26 (Pop-up)
The Nomads	Coolsville "Coolsville" by "The Nomads"	Skoop		1:25:01 (Pop-up)
The Riverias	Rip It Up "Rip It Up" by "The Riverias"	Riviera		1:25:48 (Pop-up)
The Troup	Jungle Jive "Jungle Jive" by "The Troup"	RTB		1:28:08 (Pop-up)
Arch Hall Jr.	Konga Joe "Konga Joe" by "Arch Hall Jr."	Signature		1:30:23 (Pop-up)
Rivieres	Knock On Wood "Knock On Wood" by "Rivieres"	K-Lee		1:34:24 (Pop-up)
Donnie Williams	Boogie Chilluns Playhouse	Pure Gold		1:36:15 (Pop-up)
Gordo	Cocktails Darling "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo"	Brite Leaf		1:39:07 (Pop-up)
Al Garris	That's All "That's All" by "Al Garris"	Glodis		1:47:19 (Pop-up)
Glenn and Christy with The Adventures	Wombat Twist	Sonic		1:49:55 (Pop-up)
The Escos	Thank You Mister Ballard (For Creating The Twist)	Federal		1:52:35 (Pop-up)
The Midnighters	Rock N Roll Wedding	Federal		1:53:20 (Pop-up)
The Pitter Pats	It Do Me Good (Pt. 1)	Instant		1:56:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:02pm davefromtoronto: fool's day out!
	🌮 ♥ 1:03pm Jessie: Happy Saturday Rex and everyone!
	1:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' Richard Damon Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death... Elliott was born in Boston, Massachusetts... Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician '...
	🌮 ♥ 1:04pm Ernie: Radio on Brain off...
	🌮 ♥ 1:05pm Bruce S.: good day Rex and all
	1:05pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Congo Beat" by "The Tradewinds" Good song, Rex
	🌮 ♥ 1:06pm Hubig Pie: Mr. Elliot was the man seen fleeing the market in the noir classic Gun Crazy
	🌮 ♥ 1:06pm egould: ↳ Ernie @1:04 Brow off!
	1:07pm modern blaze: I’ve played GUN
	🌮 ♥ 1:07pm luka: indian noises in the first 15 min means strap in
	🌮 ♥ 1:07pm The Butterman: Hi Rex and foolish ones.
	🌮 ♥ 1:08pm Mailman Tom: Can't wait to hear that hillbilly stuff you promised us!
	1:08pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Cross-Ties" by "Dale Hawkins" too good dang
	1:09pm P-90: Rex seems to have one of the world’s best collections of mind-blowing surf instrumentals
	1:10pm modern blaze: ↳ P-90 @1:09 Yeah and he still with us bless him more
	♥ 1:10pm Greg from ZONE 5: Dick Elliot appeared in over 50 movies in a 3 year stretch. Slacker.
	♥ 1:11pm DjLorraine: * puts on wfmu socks ; )
	1:12pm modern blaze: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 Wow Lorraine go-go-goo
	1:14pm morphe': Top Gf = Looks like Uncle Joe from Petticoate Junction ????
	1:16pm modern blaze: ↳ morphe' @1:14 long time no see baby
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm egould: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 When listening to Fool’s Paradise, the custom is to wear your socks on your hands.
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm Bruce S.: I think Dick Eliot spent some time in Mayberry
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm The Butterman: Does his baby sleep with her head in the kitchin and feets in the hall! I wunduh?
	1:16pm modern blaze: haha
	1:17pm davefromtoronto: i was at the MOMA just last weekend and was disappointed to not hear rex's battle cry echoing through the galleries
	1:17pm Jeech the Jooch: ↳ DjLorraine @1:11 They have socks?! Where??
	♥ 1:17pm Colin in Durham England: Every time my postman comes I’m like SOCKS! But no, my estranged mother had just moved back to the country so it’s just lots of debt letters following her. Yay
	1:18pm modern blaze: Beacon beef with backdonna donuts with vegetables
	♥ 1:18pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Mama, Mama" by "Jesse Stevens and The Big Sandy B... Sounds like yr baby's got a drinkin' problem, son ..
	🌮 ♥ 1:19pm Mailman Tom: Dennis Hopper!
	1:23pm morphe': ↳ Colin in Durham England @1:17 The PostMan Always Rings Twice => heard an interview with Cain about the origins of the title = had so many rejected manuscripts from publisher(s) = bulk envelope - told the postperson to ring once for a letter=check and twice if a bulky returned manuscript ... ?? noir truth or noir false???
	🌮 ♥ 1:23pm Mailman Tom: ↳ morphe' @1:23 True, as far as I know.
	1:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Jump Baby Jump" by "Harry Carter the Rock n Roll ... ...'The New Early History of the RawkaRollaz' - Accordion to Rex...
	🌮 ♥ 1:24pm The Butterman: 2 “Sam”songs in a row, can we get 3. ?
	♥ 1:25pm DjLorraine: ↳ Jeech the Jooch @1:17 Swag for life members designed by Love & Victory sizes 9-11 or 10-13. # represents your foot inches. It has a radio tower on it!
	1:27pm davefromtoronto: no "cali sober" in this here set!
	♥ 1:27pm David Shortell: I see Dick Elliot played Marryin' Sam in the 1940 film "Li'l Abner"--the part that Stubby Kaye played in the 50's musical.
	1:27pm Steiner: Rock and Roll Salvation. Thank you, Rex! Thank you, fellow listeners! Bless.
	🌮 ♥ 1:30pm egould: I’m out of pinot grigio….
	1:31pm morphe': ↳ morphe' @1:23 Cain .. The PostMan Always Rings Twice => the post box was a small walk down from the house/LA cottage to the box...
	♥ 1:31pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:16 If so, it would have to have been in the Andy Griffith Show's first season.
	🌮 ♥ 1:32pm The Butterman: New Jersey afternoon inebriated.
	🌮 ♥ 1:34pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" This isn't going to end well.
	🌮 ♥ 1:34pm Bruce S.: ↳ David Shortell @1:31 wasn't he like the mayor of mayberry or something?
	♥ 1:34pm Karl Ward: A power move
	1:35pm morphe': Earle H. Hagen d.2008 He wrote the folksy, countrified whistle that opened “The Andy Griffith Show,” accompanying Sheriff Andy Taylor (Mr. Griffith) and his young son, Opie (Ron Howard), down a dirt road toward a fishing hole; he did the whistling himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/arts/television/28hagen.html
	1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" ..nuthin' good be happening by the time the needle hits the runout ...I just got a feelin'...
	♥ 1:36pm DjLorraine: ↳ egould @1:16 Checks out. Yup. Sock it to me. *Waves 🧦
	1:36pm Billy Jam: wow the whole gang is here for Rex inc. morphe' The (inebriated) Butterman, Greg from ZONE 5 and RevRabbit - love it!
	1:36pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Waiting At The Station" by "Hoot Gibson" Lover man explains it
	1:36pm davefromtoronto: geez this set's extra demented.
	1:37pm SeanG: hey Billy Jam!
	1:37pm morphe': ↳ The Butterman @1:32 GoButter!!! Lubricate the machinery so it functions correctly !!! Don't get Breathe tested at the shool door on Tuesday => enjoy the extra Monday..
	1:38pm Billy Jam: hey SeanG
	♥ 1:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:34 You're right! A little of the 2nd season too, before he died.
	🌮 ♥ 1:40pm The Butterman: ↳ morphe' @1:37 Thanks morph, no of course
	1:40pm bobobob plasticland: I live in Smyrna in Cobb Co....Right next to Douglasville Ga
	♥ 1:41pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "The Neon And The Rain" by "Freddie Hart" Oo Suspense… Hi hi hi
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Pedro in Arlington: Was that Elvis's Red West?
	🌮 ♥ 1:43pm egould: Cheers to Dick Elliott! clink
	1:43pm P-90: 380 credits is indeed a very successful run as a character actor
	♥ 1:45pm steveo: Very good Saturday afternoon everyone. I am enjoying the twang. Mama.
	1:45pm modern blaze: I was commenting earlier years on this show and it was Dick Elliot birfday
	1:45pm Megadano: Holy smokes, i'm just finding out now that Rex is on Saturdays on this schedule. This made my day. I worked as a volunteer for an FMU marathon with Rex in '96 and he had just moved from San Francisco. He said to me "I don't know if you've been there, but being in NYC makes SF feel like it is the size of a thimble."
	♥ 1:46pm David Shortell: "The Third Man" (starring Michael Rennie and Jonathan Harris) lasted 5 seasons but I've never seen it. I guess Harry Lime didn't die in that sewer after all.
	♥ 1:49pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:45 Was Scott the volunteer director already in 96?
	🌮 ♥ 1:50pm The Butterman: I’ll storm the station if no Rex on schedule
	🌮 ♥ 1:50pm Bruce S.: ↳ David Shortell @1:46 It lasted for five seasons? how could I have not known about that? but Michael Rennie as Harry Lime seems Interesting
	1:51pm Megadano: ↳ steveo @1:49 maybe '97 ? it was the Upsala house.
	♥ 1:51pm steveo: ↳ steveo @1:49 I guess probably not. Looks like his first broadcast was late 97.
	♥ 1:52pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:51 Musta been cool to be there back then
	♥ 1:53pm David Shortell: ↳ steveo @1:51 How long before was the Hound fired?
	1:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Little Billy" by "Lonnie Smith and The Generation" Oh ! ...so TheWho's anti-smoking LittleBilly has shall we say some precedent...
	1:55pm Megadano: ↳ steveo @1:52 eh. it was HARD to find and in a super sketchy neighborhood. I remember upstairs there was a little walk in closet with a mattress in it that Diane Kamikaze slinked into for a long nap thru most of the day. LOL
	🌮 ♥ 1:56pm egould: ↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less... Oh good. Puke. Diarrhea. Stinky underwear. Very no brow.
	1:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Pukin’ My Heart Out Over You" by "Three Shif'less... How Punk is this I arsks yer.
	1:57pm morphe': Lonnie Smith and The Generation Little Billy Knew from my father "The Ballad of the Green Beret" 1970??? but " Little Billy " was a surprise...
	🌮 ♥ 1:58pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @1:46 I've listened to several old time radio episodes of the Adventures of Harry Lime. Narrated by Orson Welles in 1951!
	1:58pm modern blaze: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:56 …Makes me sick…
	♥ 2:00pm steveo: ↳ Megadano @1:55 Haha
	🌮 ♥ 2:01pm Bruce S.: when the world seems particularly absurd to me, I still like to listen to the third man theme
	2:01pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans" Mambo
	🌮 ♥ 2:02pm egould: ↳ Song: "Come On" by "Willie Egans" Nice guitar solo.
	♥ 2:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Bruce S. @1:50 Apparently it was a BBC co-production---and Jonathan Harris was also doing "The Bill Dana Show" for some of that time!
	2:03pm morphe': ↳ Megadano @1:55 My Arnan (7?) and I went to So Orange = pre Greasey Kids .. 1990?? '91?? ..Ken thinking a kid for a Sat am kids show .. Bryce or Storck was sleeping on the couch in the entrance ...
	🌮 ♥ 2:04pm Mailman Tom: ↳ David Shortell @2:02 My name, Jose Jiminez!
	2:04pm modern blaze: okay it’s almos hour in the end and i do admire this program today will revisit when doing fallout things outside stay informed i need leathers
	2:05pm davefromtoronto: with retch! lol
	2:07pm modern blaze: MA to NJ friend shows up to go boom boom to make your boyfriend screw him uo
	2:09pm modern blaze: radio on🇺🇸
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Flying Saucer" by "Little Walter" Little Walter,always great
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm Hubig Pie: Big Bill lookin' fer a widness
	🌮 ♥ 2:09pm egould: This set is makin’ me wanna’ crawdad holdin’ in the mornin’.
	🌮 ♥ 2:11pm egould: The Prosecco is chilled. Bellini anyone?
	2:11pm SeanG: boin k-doe boin
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm The Butterman: Now what you do is you sprinkle some erbahseckstimuler on your ribtip and look out!
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm Bruce S.: Little Walter Double Play!
	🌮 ♥ 2:13pm Mailman Tom: If you knew the ingredients of a hot link you wouldn't want to eat it!
	2:13pm P-90: I wonder what’s at that address in Illinois these days. Or if there are any photos around of City BBQ in its glory days…
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm HeyJimbo66: So far I have every record on this blues set.😎
	2:14pm modern blaze: ↳ egould @2:11 yes please
	2:14pm SeanG: pass the biscuits please
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm The Butterman: Buttah
	2:17pm modern blaze: ↳ Song: a song Good song, Rex this trouble
	2:18pm davefromtoronto: WBLK from detroit?
	🌮 ♥ 2:18pm egould: ↳ modern blaze @2:14 Cheers!
	2:19pm modern blaze: goes boom boom deta
	🌮 ♥ 2:19pm Mailman Tom: Angola prison population: 6,300!
	🌮 ♥ 2:19pm egould: ↳ P-90 @2:13 It’s a bodega/general merchandise store now. It’s findable on Apple maps.
	🌮 ♥ 2:20pm Hubig Pie: Too-lane and Broad, right by Criminal Court and the Dixie Brewery
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm The Butterman: Makes me miss the days of Radio Thrift shop into a 3 hour Fools Paradise.
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm egould: It’s very imbecilic!
	🌮 ♥ 2:23pm egould: Brunch. Bye. Thanks Rex.
	2:23pm modern blaze: Bye
	🌮 ♥ 2:26pm dave miss: baptized in buttah
	2:27pm davefromtoronto: one eyed cat in the seafood store.
	🌮 ♥ 2:28pm Bruce S.: The Riverias,of california sun fame
	2:31pm morphe': ↳ morphe' @2:03 1998 Angola Prison Doc = for later The Farm: Angola, USA ( 1998 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odx9NEHc17M
	2:33pm davefromtoronto: did he say eegah?
	2:37pm Late Bloomer: Thanks for the memories Dick! The tunes are coming Through loud and clear. Never sound better!
	2:39pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Boogie Chilluns Playhouse" by "Donnie Williams" Top shelf selection!!
	2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...they all good man !...
	♥ 2:40pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" I'll take this over Tchaikovsky any day.
	🌮 ♥ 2:41pm Bruce S.: one little rinky dinky drinkie
	🌮 ♥ 2:41pm Ernie: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" This isn't going to end well
	2:41pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" This one making me think of Kids In The Hall. Characters and sketch content.
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm Dave the Spazz: ↳ Song: "Cocktails Darling" by "Gordo" For years, I thought that this was an instrumental with voices overdubbed by Rex
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm The Butterman: “Hey, this cultural stuff is great”. That’s what I say to poke fun at my wife’s side of family.
	2:44pm morphe': If ya see a cro mag lookin dude with a uni-brow and a shaved head and the chubby bumpy ridges betwixt the skull and the neck .. can ya deicede to make decisions???
	♥ 2:47pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Dave the Spazz @2:43 Wasn't there are bidding war for that song between Brite Leaf and Spazzco?
	2:48pm Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn: Hitchcock? There’s a Hitchcock twofer tonight/tomorrow! Free, over the air on CUNY-TV’s CITY CINEMATHEQUE, no doubt followed by an egghead discussion. First, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH at 9:30PM, then THE 39 STEPS at midnight, which is tomorrow Sunday. You can have dinner in between them as two other programs separate them. Channel 25.3 on yer teleblaster...
	2:49pm morphe': Near dusk in Madrid - Swalllows doing last sorties ... Magpies looking for more than crumbs ... bats on the uptake ... a wee walk for me .... Thanks Rexy and all !!!
	🌮 ♥ 2:55pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "Thank You Mister Ballard (For Creating The Twist)... I have the greatest hits of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on a compact disc
	♥ 2:57pm radioronan: Thanks Rex..until next time!
	2:57pm Andres: Thanks for all the cultural stuff, Rex!
	♥ 2:58pm SeanG: epic show
	2:58pm Annette: Bye Rex, thanks for the laughs and good 🎶 music 🎶
	🌮 ♥ 2:58pm Bruce S.: Thanks Rex,have a good week
	♥ 2:59pm DjLorraine: Nice seeing ya Dick Elliot and Rex!
	🌮 ♥ 2:59pm The Butterman: Yeah what they said, thanks Rex, too good!
	🌮 ♥ 2:59pm Chili MacPagoda: Looking for a Little Walter comp at my local(Temescal!) rekkid shop today thanks to this good n greasy show - cheers Rex
	3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Rex ~
	4:01pm P-90: I remember Pat Byrne. He might not remember me.
	🌮 ♥ 3:38pm RevWaldo: Dick Elliot! Dohhh, youth is wasted on the wrong people!

Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from May 27, 2023

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