WFMU: Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from August 11, 2015

Listener comments!
	7:02pm JakeGould: Boy! You had better play that “Dr. Who” theme tonight!
	7:04pm Cooh John: I wat to hear "The Prisoner."
	7:06pm fleep: Did not know Maigret was a stripper.
	7:07pm V Priceless: Woo! Hey!
	♥ 7:08pm dale: sexy AND creepy!
	7:08pm JakeGould: @fleep: I was going to say that theme sounded a bit randy, but wanted to be a bit classy.
	♥ 7:09pm Ike: For many in the UK in the 60s, this theme was the first time they'd ever heard something made without "real" instruments (and supposedly a lot of it was made using modified static) which is why it creeped a lot of them the hell out.
	7:10pm Cooh John: Perhaps Maigret was undercover.
	♥ 7:11pm dale: 59? holy crap - i better start enjoying life before my ticket expires.
	7:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - just getting here: which was the one that sounded like a good Shadows track ??
	🎸 ♥ 7:12pm melinda: I love the Dr. Who theme.
	7:13pm JakeGould: @RevRabbiNov63: You mean like the Casavette’s “Shadows?”
	♥ 7:14pm Īke: 12. (Or 13 if you count John Hurt, but don't do that. He was just a guest Doctor.) Also it was cancelled in 1989 and wasn't brought back until 2005. Still the longest-running sci-fi series.
	7:15pm JakeGould: The Prisoner!!! YES!
	7:15pm V Priceless: Cool!
	7:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I mean w/ guitar like Hank Marvin Shadows - or I think I do... Dr. Who & I began the same month - the show's premiere reportedly 1st thing on BBC after JFK assassination coverage.
	♥ 7:16pm Mike East: I made a friend on the train a couple weeks ago because of my Morricone Island Teeshirt. He mistook it for a Morricone Youth tee, which I explained is the same guy, but a different thing...though kinda the same. Had a good discussion about radio the rest of the train ride.
	7:18pm JakeGould: @RevRabbi1163: Seems a bit like a mixup of info to create a legend like that. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Dr. Who first aired November 23, 1963. Dr. Who probably just aired aired after normal news coverage.
	7:18pm Cooh John: Thanks for the alternate version of "The Prisoner."
	7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Jake - same dif? Ron Granier is the stuff.
	7:25pm JakeGould: @RevRabbi1163: Well, it’s not like, “U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot… And now, Dr. Who here on the BBC!” 24 hours makes all the difference.
	🎸 ♥ 7:25pm melinda: More Dr. Who! Yeah!
	7:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the coverage may have been total - or, just next day. Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis died that day also, & 'With the Beatles' was released too.
	7:27pm Julie: Joe is still doing that??
	♥ 7:28pm Īke: @Jake & @RRN63, Wiki says, "The BBC believed that many viewers had missed this introduction to a new series due to the coverage of the assassination as well as a series of power blackouts across the country, and they broadcast it again on 30 November 1963, just before episode two." (Some other sources say the blackouts were the bigger issue.) There was also a rumor that DW was one of the first regularly-scheduled things to air after continuous news coverage but I'm not sure about that one.
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers Ike. Lee Oswald was a fan too.
	7:32pm V Priceless: This is great!
	♥ 7:32pm Ike: Wow, that alternate version of "The Prisoner" was great! I liked that better than the original version.
	7:33pm JakeGould: U.K. or the U.S.: “The Eagles” and “Eagles” just look like a bunch of dinks.
	7:40pm JakeGould: Yes! Tom Baker! The only Dr. Who worth anything!
	♥ 7:42pm Ike: @Jake, pffft, stop baiting me.
	7:43pm JakeGould: Tom Baker’s look was inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec. Face!
	♥ 7:46pm Mike East: but he wasn't the last man on earth...he found a community of survivors. I believe he sacrifices himself at the end to save them? I seem to remember him striking a jesus pose at the end.
	7:47pm V Priceless: Great flick! With the ever-creepy Anthony Zerbe!
	7:48pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: In the book he realizes that he is not being hunted, but rather he is the hunter. All of society had become these vampires, but he was the real monster to their new world.
	♥ 7:49pm Mike East: @JakeGoule - Yeah, I remember hearing that. I gotta get to reading that one of these days, for sure.
	♥ 7:50pm Mike East: *Gould...excuse me
	7:51pm JakeGoule: @MikeEast: Yeah, in Hollywood everything is biblical and everything has to be redeemed. Part of the reason Hollywood stinks.
	7:52pm Chris T.: Is it ever really the Last Man On Earth?
	7:53pm Cooh John: Great show Devon. Sailing away from Morricone Island into the sunset....
	7:53pm JakeGould: @ChrisT.: I like how pretty much every “last man on Earth” story is a paranoid white guy who is “trapped” trying to survive among “savages”… Oh all of these savages who know not of this white guy and his desire to bring white guy’s society back from the rubble!
	♥ 7:54pm Mike East: @Chris T - good point. The only one that comes to mind is that Burgess Meredith Twilight Zone episode
	7:56pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: The last thoughts if the main character in “I Am Legend” as he faces execution—and faces who he is in this new world—is: “Full circle. A new terror born in death. A new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
	7:57pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: Even Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode: All of these savages of the real world… All I want to do is read!
	7:58pm Bklyn kid: thanks for the broadcast! ill have to rewind in the archive to hear it all.
	7:59pm JakeGould: Thanks Devon!
	♥ 7:59pm Devon E. Levins: Hey All! Chris T. was actually me (he was not logged out). Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
	7:59pm bunnywhiskers: Excellent show today~thanks!

Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from August 11, 2015

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August 11, 2015: The Many, Many Themes of Ron Grainer
Morricone Island remembers Australian-born film and television composer Ron Grainer (1922-1981) on what would have been his 93rd birthday. Perhaps most well known as the composer of the Doctor Who Theme (with Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), Grainer's body of work is so much more. While a fixture on the British pop music scene in the early 60's, he composed for television (Maigret, The Prisoner, Steptoe & Son) and film (To Sir, With Love, The Omega Man). He also discovered The Eagles! No, not Glen Frey and Don Henley, but the Bristol-based instrumental quartet which he produced and used as studio musicians for a number of his television themes.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Ron Grainer	Maigret Theme "Maigret Theme" by "Ron Grainer"	The Maigret Theme	Decca		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Bistro "Bistro" by "Ron Grainer"	The Maigret Theme	Decca		0:01:49 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Midnight in Montmartre	The Maigret Theme	Decca		0:04:11 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Doctor Who Theme "Doctor Who Theme" by "Ron Grainer"	Doctor Who	BBC		0:06:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ron Grainer	A Touch of Velvet, A Sting Of Brass/Joe 90	The Ron Grainer Orchestra	Casino Classics	Bed	0:09:26 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	The Prisoner [Alternate Version]	The Prisoner	Silva Screen		0:14:40 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	A Man in a Suitcase "A Man in a Suitcase" by "Ron Grainer"	A Man in a Suitcase	Pye		0:17:06 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Comedy Playhouse [Happy Joe]	Comedy Playhouse	Pye		0:19:13 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Detective "Detective" by "Ron Grainer"	Detective	RCA Victor		0:21:19 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Doctor Who New Opening Theme	Doctor Who - The Krotons	Silva Screen		0:23:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ron	Classical Lesson "Classical Lesson" by "Ron"	To Sir With Love	Fontana	Bed	0:24:36 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Exodus "Exodus" by "Ron Grainer"	The Eagles Exodus	Pye		0:29:45 (Pop-up)
Valerie Mountain/The Eagles	Some People	Some People	Pye		0:31:40 (Pop-up)
Georgie Fame	Dreams [Main Theme] "Dreams [Main Theme]" by "Georgie Fame"	In Search Of Gregory	VHS		0:34:14 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Thackeray and Denham Box in Gym	To Sir, With Love	Fontana		0:36:20 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Theme from Tales of the Unexpected	Tales of the Unexpected	Stet		0:39:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ron Grainer	Doctor Who Theme 1980	Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection	Silva Screen	Bed	0:39:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ron Grainer	On the Tumbril "On the Tumbril" by "Ron Grainer"	The Omega Man	Film Score Monthly	Bed	0:42:44 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Surprise Party "Surprise Party" by "Ron Grainer"	The Omega Man	Film Score Monthly		0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Jumped by the Family "Jumped by the Family" by "Ron Grainer"	The Omega Man	Film Score Monthly		0:51:15 (Pop-up)
Ron Grainer	Matthias the Victor "Matthias the Victor" by "Ron Grainer"	The Omega Man	Film Score Monthly		0:55:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ron Grainer	Doctor Who 1986 "Doctor Who 1986" by "Ron Grainer"	Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection	Silva Screen	Bed	0:58:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:02pm JakeGould: Boy! You had better play that “Dr. Who” theme tonight!
	7:04pm Cooh John: I wat to hear "The Prisoner."
	7:06pm fleep: Did not know Maigret was a stripper.
	7:07pm V Priceless: Woo! Hey!
	♥ 7:08pm dale: sexy AND creepy!
	7:08pm JakeGould: @fleep: I was going to say that theme sounded a bit randy, but wanted to be a bit classy.
	♥ 7:09pm Ike: For many in the UK in the 60s, this theme was the first time they'd ever heard something made without "real" instruments (and supposedly a lot of it was made using modified static) which is why it creeped a lot of them the hell out.
	7:10pm Cooh John: Perhaps Maigret was undercover.
	♥ 7:11pm dale: 59? holy crap - i better start enjoying life before my ticket expires.
	7:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - just getting here: which was the one that sounded like a good Shadows track ??
	🎸 ♥ 7:12pm melinda: I love the Dr. Who theme.
	7:13pm JakeGould: @RevRabbiNov63: You mean like the Casavette’s “Shadows?”
	♥ 7:14pm Īke: 12. (Or 13 if you count John Hurt, but don't do that. He was just a guest Doctor.) Also it was cancelled in 1989 and wasn't brought back until 2005. Still the longest-running sci-fi series.
	7:15pm JakeGould: The Prisoner!!! YES!
	7:15pm V Priceless: Cool!
	7:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I mean w/ guitar like Hank Marvin Shadows - or I think I do... Dr. Who & I began the same month - the show's premiere reportedly 1st thing on BBC after JFK assassination coverage.
	♥ 7:16pm Mike East: I made a friend on the train a couple weeks ago because of my Morricone Island Teeshirt. He mistook it for a Morricone Youth tee, which I explained is the same guy, but a different thing...though kinda the same. Had a good discussion about radio the rest of the train ride.
	7:18pm JakeGould: @RevRabbi1163: Seems a bit like a mixup of info to create a legend like that. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Dr. Who first aired November 23, 1963. Dr. Who probably just aired aired after normal news coverage.
	7:18pm Cooh John: Thanks for the alternate version of "The Prisoner."
	7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Jake - same dif? Ron Granier is the stuff.
	7:25pm JakeGould: @RevRabbi1163: Well, it’s not like, “U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot… And now, Dr. Who here on the BBC!” 24 hours makes all the difference.
	🎸 ♥ 7:25pm melinda: More Dr. Who! Yeah!
	7:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the coverage may have been total - or, just next day. Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis died that day also, & 'With the Beatles' was released too.
	7:27pm Julie: Joe is still doing that??
	♥ 7:28pm Īke: @Jake & @RRN63, Wiki says, "The BBC believed that many viewers had missed this introduction to a new series due to the coverage of the assassination as well as a series of power blackouts across the country, and they broadcast it again on 30 November 1963, just before episode two." (Some other sources say the blackouts were the bigger issue.) There was also a rumor that DW was one of the first regularly-scheduled things to air after continuous news coverage but I'm not sure about that one.
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers Ike. Lee Oswald was a fan too.
	7:32pm V Priceless: This is great!
	♥ 7:32pm Ike: Wow, that alternate version of "The Prisoner" was great! I liked that better than the original version.
	7:33pm JakeGould: U.K. or the U.S.: “The Eagles” and “Eagles” just look like a bunch of dinks.
	7:40pm JakeGould: Yes! Tom Baker! The only Dr. Who worth anything!
	♥ 7:42pm Ike: @Jake, pffft, stop baiting me.
	7:43pm JakeGould: Tom Baker’s look was inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec. Face!
	♥ 7:46pm Mike East: but he wasn't the last man on earth...he found a community of survivors. I believe he sacrifices himself at the end to save them? I seem to remember him striking a jesus pose at the end.
	7:47pm V Priceless: Great flick! With the ever-creepy Anthony Zerbe!
	7:48pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: In the book he realizes that he is not being hunted, but rather he is the hunter. All of society had become these vampires, but he was the real monster to their new world.
	♥ 7:49pm Mike East: @JakeGoule - Yeah, I remember hearing that. I gotta get to reading that one of these days, for sure.
	♥ 7:50pm Mike East: *Gould...excuse me
	7:51pm JakeGoule: @MikeEast: Yeah, in Hollywood everything is biblical and everything has to be redeemed. Part of the reason Hollywood stinks.
	7:52pm Chris T.: Is it ever really the Last Man On Earth?
	7:53pm Cooh John: Great show Devon. Sailing away from Morricone Island into the sunset....
	7:53pm JakeGould: @ChrisT.: I like how pretty much every “last man on Earth” story is a paranoid white guy who is “trapped” trying to survive among “savages”… Oh all of these savages who know not of this white guy and his desire to bring white guy’s society back from the rubble!
	♥ 7:54pm Mike East: @Chris T - good point. The only one that comes to mind is that Burgess Meredith Twilight Zone episode
	7:56pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: The last thoughts if the main character in “I Am Legend” as he faces execution—and faces who he is in this new world—is: “Full circle. A new terror born in death. A new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
	7:57pm JakeGould: @MikeEast: Even Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode: All of these savages of the real world… All I want to do is read!
	7:58pm Bklyn kid: thanks for the broadcast! ill have to rewind in the archive to hear it all.
	7:59pm JakeGould: Thanks Devon!
	♥ 7:59pm Devon E. Levins: Hey All! Chris T. was actually me (he was not logged out). Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
	7:59pm bunnywhiskers: Excellent show today~thanks!

Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from August 11, 2015

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