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Favoriting May 28, 2014: Holly Elson discusses her upcoming documentary about Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Chicago interview excerpt (1972)   Favoriting Radio Triad  0:04:07 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Up Broadway   Favoriting The Story of Moondog  0:04:55 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Frog Bog / To a Seahorse   Favoriting Moondog (Prestige, 1956)  0:10:10 (Pop-up)
Moondog with Orchestre de Bretagne  Elf Dance (live)   Favoriting Concert, Rennes, France (1988)  0:14:36 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON  interview seg 1   Favoriting Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)  0:15:56 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Chicago interview excerpt (1972)   Favoriting Radio Triad  0:28:46 (Pop-up)
Moondog with the London Saxophonic  Dog Trot   Favoriting Sax Pax for a Sax  0:29:52 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Art of the Canon, Book V, No. 9   Favoriting Moondog: The German Years  0:31:39 (Pop-up)
Moondog  High on a Rocky Ledge   Favoriting H'art Songs  0:36:35 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON  interview seg 2   Favoriting Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)  0:41:00 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Dark Eyes   Favoriting Moondog: The German Years  0:49:26 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Single Foot   Favoriting A New Sound of An Old Instrument  0:51:14 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Pastoral   Favoriting Moondog (Columbia, 1969)  0:53:07 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON  interview seg 3   Favoriting Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)  0:56:23 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Three Couplets   Favoriting Moondog: The German Years  1:04:53 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Jazz Book, No. 2   Favoriting Moondog: The German Years  1:05:20 (Pop-up)
Moondog  You Have to Have Hope   Favoriting Big Band  1:07:19 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Paris   Favoriting Sax Pax for a Sax  1:10:22 (Pop-up)
HOLLY ELSON  interview seg 4   Favoriting Producer/Director: The Viking of 6th Avenue (Moondog doc)  1:13:31 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Wind River Powwow   Favoriting Elpmas  1:18:18 (Pop-up)
Moondog with Orchestre de Bretagne  Romance in G   Favoriting Concert, Rennes, France (1988)  1:25:15 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Do Your Thing   Favoriting H'art Songs  1:31:01 (Pop-up)
 
Jerome Cooper  Munich   Favoriting A Magical Approach  1:35:43 (Pop-up)
Metropole Orchestra ft. The Beau Hunks Saxtette  Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner   Favoriting Raymond Scott: The Chesterfield Arrangements, 1937-38  1:42:35 (Pop-up)
The Carpenters  Ticket to Ride (vocal/drums)   Favoriting Ticket to Ride  1:46:08 (Pop-up)
Betty Garrett and Frank Sinatra  It's Fate   Favoriting Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film soundtrack)  1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Murals  Turning Still / Golden Arrow   Favoriting On a Passing Cloud  1:53:10 (Pop-up)
 
Clifford Jordan / John Gilmore  Status Quo   Favoriting Blowing in from Chicago  2:03:22 (Pop-up)
The Temple Cloud Country Club  My Mother's Coat   Favoriting Bremen Is My Name  2:08:27 (Pop-up)
Gang of Four  Anthrax   Favoriting Entertainment!  2:12:59 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields  California Girls   Favoriting Distortion  2:16:58 (Pop-up)
The Two Friends  Family Reunion   Favoriting H.P.C. Records  2:19:48 (Pop-up)
 
Teddybears (feat. Robyn)  Cardiac Arrest   Favoriting Devil's Music  2:27:20 (Pop-up)
Tommy (Bjornar Loberg)  A Butter Message to the USA!   Favoriting tommylife.blogg.no  2:29:53 (Pop-up)
Wigwam  Kite   Favoriting Nuclear Nightclub  2:34:46 (Pop-up)
Madder Rose  Altar Boy (demo)   Favoriting 1990s demo cassette  2:38:41 (Pop-up)
 
Connie Britton, Lennon Stella, Maisy Stella  The Blues Have Blown Away   Favoriting The Blues Have Blown Away  2:44:31 (Pop-up)
Roy Harper  I'll See You Again   Favoriting Valentine  2:46:53 (Pop-up)
Anathallo  John J. Audubon   Favoriting Canopy Glow  2:52:39 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:02pm
Listening Out There:

I look forward to hearing today's interview!
  3:04pm
Laura L:

It's not everybody could wear a Viking hat so well as Mr. Moondog.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
common:

moondog. love love love!!!
  3:06pm
EL MUSGO:

GREAT SHOW !!!!! LOVE MOONDOG!!!!!
Avatar 3:08pm
TDK60:

Irwin: Was fun to hear you on WKCR spinning Sun Ra along with Michael D. Anderson.
  3:16pm
Alison Porchnik:

This music makes me want to dance
  3:17pm
The Brooklyn Kid:

Ohh:-) another English girl
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
common:

excited about this film!
Avatar 3:19pm
TDK60:

I saw Moondog as a child a few times, standing selling his music in Midtown.
  3:22pm
The Brooklyn Kid:

Actually never heard of moondog
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Ike:

Wow, TDK60@3:08, I missed that. I bet those were just about the most relaxed, conversational voices on KCR in years. Heh.
  3:23pm
The Brooklyn Kid:

Philip glass now there is a name I know
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
common:

that's pretty great, tdk60!
Avatar 3:26pm
Jeremy N:

Sam Ulano actually passed away earlier this year on January 2.
Avatar 3:29pm
TDK60:

Ike, yes their voices were sonically pleasing.
  3:34pm
Alison Porchnik:

This is such beautiful music. Like a music box.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Irwin:

Didn't know about Sam's passing. He was over 90. Hopefully providing a swinging beat behind the heavenly choir
  3:38pm
Holly Elson:

So sad to hear about Sam Ulano
Avatar 🎸 3:39pm
Monica:

"high on a rocky ledge," a sentimental fave.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
common:

never heard "high on a rocky ledge". beautiful!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Aharon:

This is great music. I just realized with embarrassment that I'd always unconsciously conflated Tiny Tim and Moondog. For shame!
Avatar 3:56pm
Jeremy N:

Very much enjoying the show and very much looking forward to the film! I've been fanatical about Moondog since finding "& his Friends" and the Brunswick release in a box of 10"s over 25 years ago...hit me like a missive from the gods.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nice harp piece - I should get it for my daughter to play. Where do you get his scores?
  4:00pm
Ellen T:

Don't mean to barge in on a tangent, but I wanted to share that I had a personal encounter with Moondog. I am 63 years old and this happened probably when I was about 7. I was walking with my parents on 6th Ave. being a little wise guy, running ahead of them to show my independence. I was suddenly "accosted" and kind of swooped up snd carried along by a man wearing a cloak and Viking head dress. He made me feel I had left the world I was in entirely, and he surrounded me with an energy that felt, to my young self, both terrifying and sublime simultaneously. After walking some steps together, he broke off, and there were my parents, laughing. My father said, "you know who that was, don't you?" Which of course, I did not. "That was Moondog!" I was so incredulous that my father would know about someone like this -- he gave me the sense that this was not any run of the mill street person, but someone quite extraordinary. As I said, I am 63, and this experience has always remained exceptionally vivid, even though it was many years before I connected the dots, and realized who Moondog was.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
rrg:

I love that story, Ellen.
  4:05pm
Laura L:

What rrg said, me too.
  4:12pm
eventi:

Ellen - That gave me chills - Thanks
  4:15pm
Ellen T:

He made some kind of noise, too. At first I was so frightened. He had this blustery, fierceness, and a real seriousness, as if to say, I'm not fooling around here. But it was as if I met an actual magical being. It's nice to share this. I rarely talk about it. I will go to the website and tell the story to the documentarians.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Cherie, Cherie you look like Gene Autry, your fig're is like Trigger, my cherie" -- same tune, abused lyrics from Spike Jones
  4:21pm
Holly Elson:

Brilliant story Ellen thanks for sharing!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
Stevel:

Thanks, Ellen. Wow.
Avatar 🎸 4:27pm
northguineahills:

wowwow, Ellen, just Wow! That's awesome!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
chris:

This is really quite nice. Hauntingly beautiful, I'd say. Thanks for sharing his works with us today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
common:

ellen...ditto!!! thank you irwin and holly! been a wheepin' a bit a work. but happy!
  4:29pm
Holly Elson:

Here's the New York Times piece I mentioned by Allan Kozinn http://ow.ly/xmCm4
  4:29pm
Ellen T:

I wish my dad was still alive so I could ask him how he knew who Moondog was, and that he was so special. I mean, I thought I had left the earth, and there were my parents some steps behind, just watching the whole thing -- with no fear for the safety of their little girl. Hard to imagine that happening in the world of today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
chris:

Wow, Ellen! Thanks for sharing that! So cool.
Avatar 4:33pm
Carmichael:

Wow, I walked into a ton of Moondog. Hi everyone.
  4:39pm
Ellen T:

Thank you everyone, for being so receptive!!!!
Avatar 4:40pm
MikeY:

the first show i miss in weeks and it has moondog, My father was fascinated by his poetry and music, I think I have a phto with him and my old man in it.
  4:41pm
Ellen T:

I think one of the things my dad said was, "he's been around for a loooong time" and I thought he meant like hundreds of years!
Avatar 🎸 4:45pm
northguineahills:

Enjoyed the Jerome Cooper. Wasn't familiar w/ him.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
rrg:

A superb segment, Irwin (and Holly). Thanks.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
rrg:

And, you see, things like this isolated Karen Carpenter track are what keep me coming back to Irwin's program.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
rrg:

Where did it come from?
  4:51pm
PMD:

Only got the tail end of Moondog, darn it. Will go back and listen. But really like this Karen Carpenter track!~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Irwin:

rrg: no recollection, had it for years.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
rrg:

These days, I imagine--though I've never tried--that with only a little bit of software, one can do these sorts of isolations on one's own.
Avatar 4:54pm
Dan:

It's fate baby it's faate
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

@rrg not as cleanly -- but you can fix things in a mix you aren't too closely listening to.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
rrg:

Right. Even that mostly-isolated Karen track that Irwin played still had a fair bit of bleed-through with Richard's voice in it.
Avatar 5:00pm
Dan:

I'll bleed you! (not in an aggressive way)
Avatar 5:02pm
Dan:

oh... sun ra!
Avatar 5:08pm
Dan:

What's a good sun ra track where he speaks? I got a book of his poems, but couldn't find music to match it.
Avatar 5:10pm
Dan:

I've been enjoying lanquidity
  5:15pm
spodiodi:

Yes
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

@northguineahills - Did you ever get tickets for the US/Turkey soccer match? More tickets went on sale today, according to ussoccer.com web site.
  5:16pm
berbo:

that is a thing that I don't want to catch.
Avatar 5:18pm
Dan:

please make this noise stop
Avatar 🎸 5:20pm
northguineahills:

I saw that Ken. I haven't been to the site yet today. Thanks for reminding me!
Avatar 5:31pm
Dan:

Butter products!
Avatar 5:32pm
Dan:

I'd feel pretty bad to be honest.
Avatar 5:33pm
Dan:

can we send this guy some butter?
  5:35pm
?:

This has been a solid show, cheers Irwin.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
chris:

Silly English Kaaaanigits!
Avatar 5:38pm
Carmichael:

Damn phone calls. I missed an important message re: butter.
  5:38pm
Dean:

More Wigwam!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:38pm
rrg:

I agree with ?.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:38pm
chris:

i really like people who say F-you and then thanks very much. Politeness is so hard to teach these days.
  5:38pm
nobunny ever here:

...maybe if you got butter over there you'd get the international Nobel Grease Prize...
Avatar 🎸 5:42pm
northguineahills:

Like Madder Rose better on their demo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:45pm
Irwin:

Thanks to rrg for this one.
Avatar 5:46pm
Carmichael:

Thanks, rrg. Friends of yours?
  5:47pm
iris:

I missed the name of this tune. What is it?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:47pm
rrg:

"Nashville" cast members.
  5:48pm
iris:

Very nice! It complimented my stew perfectly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:49pm
dale:

has anyone given roy's newest album a listen?
  5:51pm
iris:

Didn't know about it! When was it released?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
dale:

within the year

www.royharper.co.uk
  3:11pm
Holly Elson:

We're into the last 20 hours of the Kickstarter campaign for the Moondog Movie you can pledge here - help us cross the finish line! http://kck.st/1puWucw Ends 12 noon EST June 26
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