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Favoriting April 16, 2016: A Wondeful Life

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Irene Kral  Wonderful Life   Favoriting
Chris Collingwood  Sundown   Favoriting
Willis Brothers, The  Highway Patrol   Favoriting
Johnny Adams  Proud Woman   Favoriting
Rene Kollo  Eso Beso   Favoriting
Nancy  I Want You Bad   Favoriting
Karen Verros  You Just Gotta Know My Mind   Favoriting
Gosdin Brothers, The  Bowling Green   Favoriting
Marlena Shaw  California Soul   Favoriting
James Hunter Six  If That Don't Tell You   Favoriting
Groop, The  The Jet Song (When The Weekend's Over)   Favoriting
Merle Haggard  I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can   Favoriting
Sugar Pie Desanto  Go Go Power   Favoriting
Sarah Vaughan  It Had Better Be Tonight   Favoriting
Above, The  Holding Back   Favoriting
Steve Miller Band, The  True Fine Love   Favoriting
Golfs, The  You're No Good   Favoriting
Osborne Brothers, The  Bluegrass Express   Favoriting
Dillard Crume & The Soul Rockers  Mini Dress   Favoriting
Paul Collins Beat  Walking Out On Love   Favoriting
Jean and the Statesides  Putty In Your Hands   Favoriting
Noel Boggs  Caravan   Favoriting
Little Betty  Twistin School   Favoriting
Bogard Brothers  Flying Rock   Favoriting
Pearl Harbour and The Explosions  You Got It (Release It)   Favoriting
Cliff Richard  Concrete And Clay   Favoriting
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn  Picking Wild Mountain Berries   Favoriting
Spinners, The  Ooh Child   Favoriting
Teenage Fanclub  It's All In My Mind   Favoriting
Now Generation  You Showed Me   Favoriting
Chuck Wood  Friday Night Fights   Favoriting
Impressions, The  Gotta Get Away   Favoriting
Mickey Finn and the Blue Men  Tom Hark   Favoriting
Twin Peaks  Walk To The One You Love   Favoriting
Jon and Robin  Love Me Baby   Favoriting
Lee Dorsey  A Little Dab A Do Ya   Favoriting
Sammy Davis Jr.  Bee-Bom   Favoriting
Bucky  Let's Make Our Baby Pay   Favoriting
Cars, The  Don't Cha Stop   Favoriting
A Minute With  Scott Schinder   Favoriting
Queen  My Best Friend (TRACK)   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your ability to tap your mouse to the beat

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for a story about the new Emitt Rhodes album and CLICK HERE to to buy it & watch a video about it

CLICK HERE for Mitchell Kezin' IndieGoGo Campaign Page for "BUT FOR NOW: The Music & Mojo of Bob Dorough"

CLICK HERE to see a BBC Allen Toussaint Documentary

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Esquerita

CLICK HERE to help Joey Spampinato through cancer treatment

CLICK HERE and CLICK HERE for a huge trove of downloadable, remixable stems

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE for the Glyn Johns interview in Tape Op!

CLICK HERE for Bruce Swedien: Recording Michael Jackson!

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for "Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World"

CLICK HERE for a new Q&A with Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read about "The Endless Fall of Suge Knight" (yikes!)

CLICK HERE for Barack Obama on WTF

CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album

CLICK HERE for a video of David Myhr's cover of Oh Susie, featured on "Even More Super Hits of the Seventies"

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for Paul Lukas' excellent piece about cultural criticism

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Roz Chast's piece “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”

CLICK HERE for a brief history of the baritone guitar"

CLICK HERE for "The Making of 96 Tears"

CLICK HERE for a Rolling Stone piece about The Jerky Boys

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Dues" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is.

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE for my July 2007 interview with Mighty Hannibal

CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for a weird Tonight Show episode where Jerry Lewis fills in for Johnny, with guest Bob Hope

CLICK HERE for the Jim Keltner Discography

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE Rolling Stone's 500 Worst Reviews of All Time, according to Schmidtt

CLICK HERE for the 1966 Esquire Magazine piece "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"

CLICK HERE for a dumbly titled, but interesting piece on Tom Wilson

CLICK HERE to find out about folks buying old lps in the USA to sell in Europe

CLICK HERE for a grammar test

CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

CLICK HERE to see Jerry Lewis and Al Goldstein show of gadgets in 1976 on "A.M. New York"

CLICK HERE for Nick Lowe's odd appearance on the Adam Carolla show.

CLICK HERE for a $400+ out of print book about Pub Rock that Nick Lowe recommends - OR - buy it HERE for for £20 (about $30), including postage, on Will Birch's website

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE for a new interactive video from Bob Dylan

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for STAX at The White House

CLICK HERE to read the list of the best selling vinyl records of the last 20 years

CLICK HERE for photos of Nashville session cello player Byron Bach's ledger from Paul Lukas' excellent Permanent Record web site

CLICK HERE if you're a BEATLE fan!

CLICK HERE for The Turtles "Happy Together" (vocals only)

CLICK HERE to read the story behind Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” bass line

CLICK HERE I think this hurts ants, but it looks cool - I want one

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for some videos from the BUCKY album 'Women, Ladies and Girls (Sing the Bucky Songbook).' (I especially like THIS ONE! {due to the great acting})

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for Liverpool Scene's "Batpoem Live!

CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps!

CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings.

CLICK HERE for How we made "You Really Got Me"!

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.


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Listener comments!

Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Listener Baby:

B> A>B>Y!!
Finally back where I belong. No more of this silly traveling with my family, or near death sickness. Give me #! hits, or give me death. Welcome back Baby! Hello to all the fine peeps listening and supporting WFMU. Baby.
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Marc Francis:

POW POW POW!
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Marc Francis:

GORD'S GOLD!!!!
  11:05am
paul:

This ain't bad.
  11:05am
davefromtoronto:

morning mike

that's the second time i've heard a cover of sundown this morning on WFMU
  11:05am
dinatekno:

Almost sounds like Liam Gallagher doing Gordon Lightfoot. This is a fantastic cover! Welcome back Mike!
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Marc Francis:

Cathy Smith....
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:09am
Gaylord Fields:

And, like Gord's original, it counts as CanCon (because of music + lyrics), guaranteeing ample Beaver Bin plays!
  11:10am
davefromtoronto:

what the h***'s a beaver bin???
  11:12am
paul:

I live in FL. And I lived in Ohio. Ohio has worse drivers. But FL isn't far behind.
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totallybiased:

Northeast Kingdom, Vermont checking in
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:16am
Artie Haywire:

Nancy!
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SmokinJ:

SUCH a sweet version!
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Marc Francis:

Quebec drivers are terrible.
  #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:19am
David in ATL from NJ:

How was this song not a hit back in the day????!!!!
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Marc Francis:

Hahahahahaaaa. Beaver bin plays.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:20am
Gaylord Fields:

@davefromtoronto: It was a way for CBC radio programmers to minimally comply with CanCon, by segregating all the MAPL-qualifying music:

www.gutenberg.us...

www.torontostandard.com...
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Marc Francis:

It made sure a certain amount of Canadian made music was played on Canadian airwaves. I think it worked really well for a while but I am not so sure these days? Google time!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:26am
Gaylord Fields:

@Marc Francis: It worked for awhile, until the government started upping the required percentage of Canadian content. This frustrated programmers, especially those near the US border. So this resulted in the "Beaver Hour" (all CanCon, and usually at 4 am), played from the aforementioned bin.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:27am
Listener Baby:

Gaylord always comes up with the BEST band names.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:29am
Gaylord Fields:

@Baby: You'd be interested in a band called Beaver Bin, certainly?
  11:30am
dinatekno:

I moved to Naples, FL from Hoboken. I'd rather drive on the NJ Turnpike all day than have to make my 25 miles one way work commute to Estero. It's a demolition derby with all of the midwestern and Canadian snowbirds. Come on down during OFF season, it's not so bad.
  11:31am
davefromtoronto:

thanks gaylord.

i've suffered under CanCon up hear forever but had never heard the "beaver bin" term
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duke:

Don Ho?
  11:32am
davefromtoronto:

sugar ray!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:32am
Gaylord Fields:

@dinatekno: Good job in integrating both of today's themes: bad-driving in Florida and Canadians.
  11:34am
DG:

yeah, I think the song is "Every Morning" by Sugar Ray, before its lead singer became an entertainment reporter.
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Michael Shelley:

YES SUGAR RAY!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:35am
Gaylord Fields:

@davefromtoronto: My pleasure! The term was strictly radio industry jargon, and not something the public would have encountered.
  11:36am
davefromtoronto:

you sang it better than the dude in the band...
  11:36am
DG:

Didn't they have a Canadian content rule on TV as well? I thought that's how the Bob & Doug McKenzie bits on "SCTV" got started.
  11:36am
P-90:

That's a lot of ba-ba's
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SmokinJ:

Steve Miller_Milwaukee proud!
  11:38am
dinatekno:

@Gaylord - it's a running joke down here. Any blue and white license plate....AVOID!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

In terms of what Charts & gets overexposed forever on Radio, &tc. - Steve Miller is mercy...
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Marc Francis:

Ahhhhh. Thanks Gaylord!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:41am
Gaylord Fields:

@DG: Precisely! SCTV was told to add two minutes of Canadian content to the show, so it gave the gov't the most broad, preposterous Canuck stereotypes it could think of. And the rest is comedy history.
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Marc Francis:

@Gaylord: I am loving this Saturday morning lesson!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:47am
Gaylord Fields:

@dinatekno: Sorta like the concept of "party plates" in Ohio (known as "whiskey plates" in Minnesota) issued to drivers convicted of DUI.

www.lifesafer.com...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:48am
Gaylord Fields:

@Mark Francis: I have TMI, and I know how to use it.
  11:50am
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Holding Back…gimme more more more
  11:55am
davefromtoronto:

groovy!

this is better than the LR version
  11:55am
dinatekno:

@Gaylord - wow! That is excellent! We need that here for sure! We have crazy locals that speed, tailgate, get irate and at times, criminal in their actions. It's a real problem. It's like...you live in Florida, where the majority of drivers are old and tend to be cautious! What do you expect? Tempers go from 0-Violent in under 5 seconds.
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Listener Baby:

I do!!
  12:02pm
Hackensack Slim:

You're right Michael. If James Brown was still around, I don't think he'd sing "Sweat Pants, huuuuh!"
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Marc Francis:

Damn. C'est ma toune!
  12:10pm
P-90:

Good ol' Joe Franklin, he was always so warm and generous with his praise, in-between and even during lawsuits.
  12:22pm
rob in nc:

Conway and Loretta's Wild Mountain Berries makes me miss Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson!
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Melissa Jean:

just had this song in my head the other day!
  12:22pm
davefromtoronto:

hey mike how'd you get Ali G to do a drop for you?
  12:24pm
P-90:

If Elvis were still alive, he'd probably be making about two albums a year, including an annual Christmas record, which would have tons of cool guest stars, and maybe a diflferent hot producer every year. You'd go shopping at the mall at the holidays and Elvis's Christmas single/duet with Taylor Swift or whoever would be playing everywhere...
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
Dano59:

love that TFC song… and this Gene Clark song … and all the other songs. How DO you do it?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Dano59:

CanCon helped make radio great up there!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
brendanswfmuaccount:

This Twin Peaks track reminds me of mid-90s Sloan. Which I guess reminds me of early 70s everything.
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Juke Joint Jonny:

Can't miss when you rewrite Gloria.
  12:51pm
davefromtoronto:

that cars guy was a real pop genius...
  12:53pm
slackawaan:

I don't think I ever heard you play the Cars not are not a bad as people think
  12:58pm
P-90:

Thanks, Michael!
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