WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from June 19, 2021

Michael Shelley: Playlist from June 19, 2021

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June 19, 2021: Querido

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Artist	Track	Album
Nuevo	Querido "Querido" by "Nuevo"	Nuev
Bee Gees, The	Lay It On Me "Lay It On Me" by "Bee Gees, The"	2 Years On
Dennis Leise	I Think About You Naked	State Of Affairs
Swamp Dogg	Synthetic World "Synthetic World" by "Swamp Dogg"	45
Ken Boothe	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	45
Furies	Get Out Of Denver "Get Out Of Denver" by "Furies"	mp3
Idle Race	Days of the Broken Arrows	45
Red Sovine	Okey Dokey "Okey Dokey" by "Red Sovine"	Juke Joint Johnny
Fats Domino	Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)	45
Los Lobos	Let's Just Say Goodnight	45
Television	See No Evil "See No Evil" by "Television"	Marquee Moon
Crystal Teardrop	Findin' My Own Kind Of Song	Pacific Northwest Juke Box
Grandpa Jones	Hip Cat's Wedding "Hip Cat's Wedding" by "Grandpa Jones"	45
Bobby Womack	Broadway Walk "Broadway Walk" by "Bobby Womack"	45
Peggy Lee	Come Back To Me "Come Back To Me" by "Peggy Lee"	45
Outta Sites, The	Beautiful You "Beautiful You" by "Outta Sites, The"	Beautiful You
Astronauts, The	Girls Like You "Girls Like You" by "Astronauts, The"	Rarities
Onie Wheeler	That's All "That's All" by "Onie Wheeler"	45
Right Kind, The	(Tell Me) Why Did You Have To Lie?	45
Loose Lips	Kyle "Kyle" by "Loose Lips"	Hung Up On Pop
Zombies, The	I Want Her, She Wants Me	Oddessey And Oracle
Burt Bacharach & His Orchestra & Chorus	I Say A Little Prayer (backing track)	Best Of
Ray Liberto	Riot In Cell Block #9	The Man in Black: 1959-'62
Marva Whitney and Ellis (Gripey) Taylor	We Need More (But Somebody Gotta Sacrifice)	45
Utopia	One World "One World" by "Utopia"	Swing To The Right
Remo Four, The	Lies "Lies" by "Remo Four, The"	45
Jeannie C. Riley	We Were Raised On Love	Country Girl
Don Bryant	Weak And Broken Hearted	The Northern Souljers Meet Hi-Rhythm
Edwin Starr	Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head	War and Peace
Shoes	Say It Like You Mean It "Say It Like You Mean It" by "Shoes"	Ignition
Everly Brothers, The	Hey Doll Baby (demo)	The Cadence Sessions
Buggs, The	Mersey Mercy "Mersey Mercy" by "Buggs, The"	The Beetle Beat
Percy Mayfield	Stranger In My Own Home Town	45
Tracey Ullman	They Don't Know "They Don't Know" by "Tracey Ullman"	45
Carvel	Father's Day "Father's Day" by "Carvel"	none

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CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

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CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

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CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

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CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

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CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

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 sense of pitch

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

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 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

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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

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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

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

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

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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 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 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 laugh

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

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 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 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 garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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 Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

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CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

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 sense of pitch

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

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 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 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 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 laugh

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

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 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 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 garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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 Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

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

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

Listener comments!
	10:50am Listener Baby: Your comment
	11:01am clarke: WON YEH
	11:01am Squints: ok then hey hey HEY now
	11:02am clarke: THAT is a lot of paperwork!! howdy kids!!
	11:03am P-90: That was one of the best “Mike/Michael” collages ever
	11:03am phat in Lincoln: I really like Nuevo.
	11:04am Listener Baby: Hey Baby!! Can you smell Maui yet? Because I can, and I’m not going.
	11:04am clarke: that's THE maui, Baby -- BABY!!!
	11:06am Squints: I grabbed the Nuevo disc on bandcamp two weeks ago. Had to have it. Always pay 2x the ask on bandcamp because you want your guys to make another.
	11:06am Squints: I didn't know Barry's range went this low. Or is this Maurice? 8^)
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well there's an interesting read - whoosh...
	11:08am Listener Baby: Roy Orbison was 52 or something close to that. Mind blowing.
	11:08am Squints: Sonofagun. I thought you'd just missed something in the playlist. I am humbled.
	11:08am DJ Johnny Cool: Pronounced Morris.
	11:08am Squints: Maurice was one cool cat.
	11:09am clarke: squints, weren't you saying that you'd had a dave mattacks sighting, recently? was that you?
	11:09am phat in Lincoln: 53? That's depressing. That's another 3 years for me. Yikes. Maybe that nap I was about to take is misguided.
	11:10am Squints: Not recently. Mattacks was Stawbs? Went to see Strawbs with a bud in Foxborough in 2009 or so.
	11:10am P-90: Yep, Maurice sure can speak of the pompatus of love
	11:10am Squints: Now I'm trying to think of Daves I've seen in the late before times.
	11:10am Mike Sin: Well all right! Listening live at shore through the phone app until the battery drains down!
	11:10am Andres: Good morning! 53!? That put the fear in me.
	11:10am clarke: mattacks was Fairport Convention - think he lives in or near Marblehead these days
	11:11am Squints: Ah. No, clarke. I'm South Shore. practically the Caoe.
	11:12am gene sculatti: Greatest Swamp Dogg evah, Michael! Thanx or spinning this.
	11:12am clarke: that's cool too - maaaaahshfield???
	11:14am clarke: it is quite possible that mattacks was subbing for Strawbs, tho.
	11:15am Squints: plymouth
	11:16am clarke: ah, yes. home of me ancestors.
	11:16am Squints: i honestly donna recall.
	11:17am phat in Lincoln: Well damn. This is a hell of a cover of Get Out of Denver.
	11:18am Dennis Diken: You go, Mikey! Hey everyone!
	11:18am clarke: hey ho!
	11:19am clarke: yes, he was!!
	11:19am Peter Horvath: That certainly sounds like Jeff singing
	11:20am McGroovey: Well, that sure sounds like Jeff Lynn
	11:20am phat in Lincoln: @Peter Horvath that's what I was thinking
	11:20am Peter Horvath: What a great splice that was
	11:21am Frank In Queens: Belated hey now!
	11:22am clarke: drowned yer sorrows a bit late, frank??
	11:22am clarke: yer boyz need to git it in GEAR!!
	11:23am Frank In Queens: No, prepping for today's game. Heading out the Island in a little bit. Seeing the family before hitting the game.
	11:23am Squints: do you think he's gently tweaking booker when he says that?
	11:23am clarke: taking the train??
	11:24am Frank In Queens: Yeah, I ain't got no car.
	11:24am clarke: i think cropper is just used to doing ID's for "major" stations
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's interesting how the very earliest Psychedelic tracks were like 'Novelty' rekkids... As Roger McGuinn said, 'Greenwich Village became the World'...
	11:25am clarke: and you are GOING to the game?? or going to watch it with the fam?
	11:25am Frank In Queens: If Michael wrote this song, it would be titled "No Problem" ;)
	11:26am Frank In Queens: GOING to the game. I was there on Thursday as well. I'm a diehard, man!
	11:26am clarke: dang!! well hope it is more productive this time!
	11:27am Frank In Queens: Seriously.
	11:27am clarke: oh wait - you won on thursday? good luck!
	11:28am Frank In Queens: No, they lost. Down 2-1. Same as the previous 2 series.
	11:29am Frank Zaatar: This is so much better than the Beatles cover version.
	11:29am clarke: well, i'm sure your prescence will make it happen!
	11:29am Andres: That Fats is an example of a song where the lyrics are more accessible to me in a cover version.
	11:30am clarke: pre-aerobed times!! ouch!!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: I"m 5-2 so far this playoffs. I missed one game, and they lost that one.
	11:31am Squints: that'll learn ya
	11:31am clarke: doh!!!
	11:31am P-90: Wow I think I know exactly the two used record stores in the Melrose district that Michael just referred to…
	11:31am Montmaster J: Brooklyn welcomed you after your LA sojourn. Those were the days!
	11:34am clarke: ficca!!
	11:37am Eddy in Australia: Saw Ficca up close one night when he was in Richard Lloyd’s band - mind blown. Hi Clarke!
	11:37am clarke: ay mate - a mind-blowah!! gain struck-chah galore!!
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not in the band that did the 'Marquee Moon' album. What, really, is the point of life...
	11:38am clarke: how goeth in the middle of WINTER, late at night?
	11:39am clarke: yer flatting dear.
	11:40am Eddy in Australia: Haven’t braved the cold cos I’ve been crook, otherwise all okayish
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you sound taller on the radios...
	11:40am clarke: what's "crook"??
	11:41am mariano: Gaaah! You said Old Spice and now I'm gonna have that whistling song stuck in my head all day. 'Morning, Michael, everyone.
	11:41am Eddy in Australia: ... except stereo in the shop so I can’t play RSD purchases
	11:41am clarke: DAMN Mariano!! how the hell are ya!!
	11:41am Eddy in Australia: Oh, sorry, crook = sick
	11:42am clarke: ah!! sorry to hear that, mate!! apparently it is MovieTime????
	11:42am wenzo: I had a really great dad... wouldn’t trade 18 years with him for 50 with anyone else. very gentle, diplomatic, zen, funny, got along with everyone, very smart, had one of the loudest laughs Ive ever heard
	11:43am TimG: Battered Bastards is a great film (my humble opinion)...but I am a baseball fan
	11:43am Woo: When I would come home from the record store my dad would often ask 'don't you have enough?' Of course the answer was and still is NO.
	11:43am mariano: Hi clarke! Doing ok thanks, how are you? Think that storm's gonna hit us pretty bad? Seems like Slidell's gonna get the worst of it.
	11:44am clarke: surviving the 'storm'??
	11:44am Eddy in Australia: Mare of Easttown overrated
	11:44am clarke: we have enuff breaks in the rain - i think drainage will be okay (but i am on the ridge!). hope you've been well???
	11:45am dymphnite: Mare of Shittown
	11:46am clarke: luckily, there is some dry air over texas that is probably going to save us - once again dodging that bullet.
	11:47am Squints: Just married off my youngest in PTown (on Race Point Beach) last weekend.
	11:47am clarke: race point - nice beach!!
	11:47am P-90: “…do you take this chick for better or worse?…”
	11:48am Squints: "She's yours now, Petrucchio." I kid. Somewhat.
	11:49am mariano: Don't know if any of y'all saw SNL's sendup of Mare, but it was good for a coupla cheap yuks: www.youtube.com... All good, clarke, thanks -- been absolutely slammed with work which is great. I'd forgotten what it was like to have money in the bank after paying rent and bills. Sure beats the alternative! You've been doing well, I hope?
	11:49am clarke: too bad, Squints, the new spampinato band is playing (near) race point, this weekend! Value Leaders - look out fo' 'em!!
	11:50am clarke: there's a great venue to see a band (if the bugs weren't so bad) on the way to the entrance to beach parking lot.
	11:50am Squints: Love those guys. Miss Joey. Don't get to see 'em nearly enough.
	11:51am clarke: joey's not in this one - just johnny. but they're GREAT!!
	11:51am clarke: the bass player does a great joey on bass!!
	11:52am Sean: "On a mule in a jet?" I gotta find a different airline
	11:52am clarke: @Mariano - just tried The Turkey & The Wolf, yesterday - mui bueno!!
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: And now I'm home. This feels right.
	11:56am Michael Shelley: GREAT job this morning GFZ5
	11:56am Hubig Pie: The Castaways were from land locked Minneapolis
	11:57am Squints: Yeah, I know joey is sidelined. Probably haven't seen him play since that pickup band at the Weelfleet Oyster Festival in 2012.
	11:58am Squints: What if the Troggs were from Colorado?
	11:58am clarke: i wuz there. in the rain??
	11:59am mariano: clarke: Been meaning to try that place for years, can't believe I haven't made it there yet! My current favorite for delivery is Ba Chi Canteen, some of the best Vietnamese food I've had here.
	12:00pm clarke: o wow - love me some viet!! but, i am out of your delivery zone - which is NOT Zone 5
	12:00pm Andres: Castaways took a charter out of Duluth that got blown off course to Thunder Bay.
	12:01pm P-90: The brilliant comedian/comic actor Duck Shawn died of a heart attack onstage during a standup and the audience ACTUALLY thought it was a bit. Now THATS the way to go…
	12:01pm clarke: been re-going out a bit, and hit Tan Dinh a few weeks ago - VERY superb!!
	12:02pm P-90: *Dick Shawn
	12:02pm Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael and crew!!
	12:02pm clarke: Ba Chi Canteen on my list - in the bywater??
	12:04pm Dennis Diken: Hello Jack!
	12:04pm Peter Horvath: Ahoy Jack
	12:05pm Hubig Pie: Dick Shawn - "That's our Hitler !"
	12:05pm Squints: clarke, the drizzle in the permagale. you know.
	12:06pm ChrisB.: My father’s favorite bad was Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra. Then he got into operettas later in life. Always had a big box of home made cassettes in his truck.
	12:06pm Andres: I was listening to Fishbone on my boombox when my father came into the room and demanded that I "turn down that noise!". Also, there are some John Lennon records in his collection that nobody else in the family wants.
	12:06pm clarke: my dad took me to get my first real drum-set when i was a tween! this is sorta like having a death sentence, ha ha, getting your kid a drum-kit (it was my money and savings, but dad brought me).
	12:06pm mariano: I'll have to try that one out, clarke. Since I work from home, I basically only go out to go to the grocery. One of my cousins drags me out to lunch every couple of weeks though, which is good. Went to Harbor in Kenner for the first time in over a year a month or so ago. I love how your table there ends up looking like a still life of Neptune's bounty. Regarding Ba Chi, it's actually on Maple, just up from Cooter Brown's. Luckily they deliver to the Marigny. Where are you again, in River Ridge? If so, much closer to you than to me.
	12:07pm Frank In Queens: My father is my musical hero. It’s really because of him that i got into music at an early age and I probably got whatever talent I have from him. He played keyboards in a band in the 60s, and I grew up with music always playing in the house. I knew more about The Beatles at age 5 in 1982 then any 5 year old probably should.
	12:07pm Squints: Numbah effin one.
	12:08pm Mark in Columbus Ohio: My dad wasn’t into any music but back in the 60s he drove me and my band to our gigs and helped unload equipment at 2 in the morning.
	12:08pm clarke: i live right next to audubon park. and Ba Chi IS my zone!! will be ordering TONIGHT, thnx!!
	12:08pm Webhamster Henry: My father was very funny and like a big kid. His music taste was kind of Dolly Parton-y and Musical Comedy-y. But when he learned that Phil Glass, to whom he had given soccer lessons in school, was a composer, he got all the Phil Glass he could.
	12:08pm Hoboken Jack: My dad was not a music guy. Did not care for Dylan's voice. He did like that song "Oh What a Lonely Boy." We did always have the top 40 station on in the car, which I suppose was his doing.
	12:10pm Jim from Tranquility: Back in the mid 70’s my father came into the basement to yell at us to turn down the noise. He noticed a poster on the wall and asked “who’s that?” Dad that’s Eric Clapton, the greatest guitar player. A couple days later the neighbor complained to him that our music was too loud. He told them “that’s Eric Clapton, the greatest guitar player “
	12:11pm Mary Marge: O&O might be my favorite record ever
	12:11pm McGroovey: My dad was a jazz drummer and jazz fan. He only played good drums when he'd had too much to drink when I was a kid, but after we'd all gone of to college, he started playing in local Syracuse jazz band again and did it for the rest of his life. His drums were still on his station wagon when he died. There was always music in the house--mostly jazz from the "classic" era (teens to fifties). Later, in his fifties, he became a fan of modern, almost-rock stuff.
	12:11pm Montmaster J: My dad could play piano. Sometimes-in the good times-he would come home make himself a drink and play for an hour before dinner. I'm happy to remember him that way.
	12:11pm McGroovey: Only played *HIS drums
	12:12pm mariano: Nice one, clarke! Hope you like it.
	12:12pm Mike Sin: I definitely owe my love of Sam Cooke to my father. He listened to him nonstop.
	12:12pm Mailman Tom: Jim, I love that story about your father.
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Odessey one of if not thee 1st things recorded in AbbeyRoad2 after Pepper. MOJO reports that The Zombies were walking in as Engineers were separating the four track machines TheBeatles had joined for more tracks - & TheZombies said - hey, hang on a minute...
	12:13pm Sean: who drums on this Bacharach?
	12:13pm Cooh John: Got to hear Pet Sounds and Oddysey and Oracle live.🎵
	12:13pm kevlicki: I grew up with a hippy dad. My dad bailed on work to go to Woodstock, he was one of the folks that actually bought a ticket. He was recently telling me how he saw Zepplin at the Filmore Sast on their first Us tour. He’s taken me to se Dylan about a dozen times. I was an infant for my first concert. Huey Lewis at the Orange County Fairgrounds…8 y/o for Duran Duran at the Beacon Theater and the list goes on for pop concerts. My folks were understanding of the community that musical subcultures create so they did not discourage my engagement with the 90’s hardcore punk scene.
	12:15pm Squints: My pop wasn't a music head but was indulgent of me. He liked instrumentals. I heard a lot of Tijuana Brass and Booker T & The MGs growing up. That stuff makes me smile to this day. He really dug the pre-Broadway Roger Miller, and Johnny Cash.
	12:15pm Dennis Diken: @Sean - Gary Chester was Burt B’s go to drummer in NYC. He also used Buddy Saltzman and probably others. “Prayer” sounds like it could be Buddy?
	12:15pm gf2002: My Dad was a WW2 vet and I was born in the early 70's, and he wasn't a music fanatic but he liked good music of all eras and introduced me to a lot of what influenced me. Always supported me as a musician too, and I'm always grateful for that. Some of the early albums I remember were Glenn Miller (LOVED the Miller band), some Sun Records compilations, Sinatra on Reprise, Herb Alpert TJB (every house had those), he loved Get Back and other rocking Beatles tracks. Had an 8-track of Best Of The Beach Boys vol.2, the White Album, and a Count Basie tape, and War. Back in the 50's he'd go to the Wildwood clubs and see The Treniers rip up the joint, he saw Boots Randolph live walk down the bar playing his sax not spilling a drink, Bill Haley, etc. Lots more but I appreciate what he did and miss him every day. Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" was the song I picked for his memorial service.
	12:16pm clarke: was going to guess Salzman
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Charming Dad stories. Jealous! Mine was distant & I was youngest of five so generation gap stuff... Not the worst fellow but more Father than Dad...
	12:18pm egould310: Mu dad is a good man and great father. One of the best guitarists I’ve ever heard. Taught me to play guitar. I bought a Used Ludwig drum set (champagne sparkle) in 10th grade. Our band would practice in our basement. Dad would get home from work and hook up his guitar and just shred. Buddy Holly, Beach Boys, Byrds, Dylan, Eagles were his jams. He was cool with most music I played. Except Black Flag. That dude hates Black Flag. Happy Fathers Day!
	12:20pm clarke: DO NOT STACK!!!!
	12:20pm dymphnite: About my musical taste, my dad told me, "Elton John's a 'mo!"
	12:22pm HyperDose: Woo, made it!
	12:22pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: My father suffered through two of my earliest concerts with me. The first one was supposed to be West, Bruce and Laing in Asbury Park Convention Center. But Jack Bruce left the band before the gig and it became Leslie West's Wild West Show featuring Corky Laing and Mitch Ryder. In his autobiography, Mitch Ryder said that this tour was the worst time of his life (I think because of management). And then there was The Patti Smith Group in Central Park. I remember my Dad reading the newspaper during the encore. He was. good sport.
	12:23pm Baby: Baby. Music was the only thing my Dad and I had in common. We spent countless hours listening and talking about music. He taught me so much about how to listen to music. He had great taste, and a pretty open mind too. Other than that, he was a pretty below average Pop. Miss him though.
	12:23pm kevlicki: My favorite album as a 6 y/o was Marleys Confrontation, my dad played that cassette in the truck on repeat forever.
	12:24pm ChrisB.: Hey @Todd. I went to that Show, hastily billed as Leslie West’s Wild West Show. It stunk.
	12:24pm clarke: maybe you'll see Todd in maui, baby!!
	12:24pm Moammar: My pop, a former aspiring beatnik, took me to see Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie Orchestra. I looted his record collection. Formative stuff.
	12:25pm Squints: One of my sneaky Todd faves.
	12:26pm clarke: what mix is this?!?
	12:26pm mariano: With me, it was one of my uncles, who's only 8 years older, so he's more like a big brother. In the 70s when I was a wee tyke, he was (and still is) really into Zappa, Beefheart, Mahavishnu, and a bunch of other jazz and fusion stuff, though he always had his ear to the ground with music in general. First time I heard the Ramones, the Pistols, Sid's "My Way," the Tubes, and a few others was when he played them for me. I used to hang out in his room with him for hours as he played records and told me about the artists, what the songs were about, etc.
	12:26pm P-90: Good point: the world could really use a new album of Todd Rundgren pop songs right about now.
	12:26pm Scott from Denver: My dad passed away in 1980 when I was a HS freshman but he would've been 100 in November. He had a RCA Hi-Fi in our basement and he'd crank that up with Frank Sinatra on the turntable and have me dance with him. It was usually after he had a pitcher of beer at Pizza Hut.
	12:26pm HyperDose: Lesley, Corky, & Malcolm are/were wonderful people. Salt of the Earth.
	12:28pm clarke: you forGOT tha' feet!?!
	12:28pm muddybrookrambler: One of my earliest memories is my Dad coming through the door after work, likely beat from a long day, and my asking him to put on "the record". The record was Al Hirt's version of Java. Once I heard it I would go mad dancing in the living room, jumping off the couch, shaking my butt, and he was laugh and dance with me. Still miss him so. He loved watching Hee Haw (probably for the girls), and would tell me to turn up the radio whenever "The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy came on. When he passed, my mom gave me an envelope from him with dollars he'd been stuffing under their bed--the note saying I should use it for a new bass and amp. Such an awesome guy, he got it.
	12:29pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: @ChrisB: I couldn't say whether it stunk or not because as it was my first concert I could not believe the sheer volume. Though I guess I will say that the sound itself certainly seemed horrible even if I had nothing to judge it against.
	12:29pm Squints: These ain't The Knickerbockers, but those are sure Knickerbocker harmonies.
	12:30pm Vertual: When I was about 10 my dad decided I needed to hear a Hank Williams album, the Buddy Knox single "Party Doll" and a few others. He always let my brother and me control the car radio and he didnt mind WABC or whatever AM gold station was hot at the time and loved the Beatles records and Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Mom was always singing Build me Up Buttercup or Candida when she washed dishes. She had boxes of shellac 78 rpm pop records from the 40s thru 50s . They also played Lou Monte , Dean Martin and Sinatra constantly in our Italian household!
	12:30pm Squints: Cost ya more not to meet him.
	12:31pm Squints: I still have the Stanky Brown 1978 LP. Haven't played it in forever.
	12:31pm McGroovey: Todd R still writes pop songs; he just doesn't record them with a pop-rock band anymore. He seems to love the laptop-EDM thing now. He can record it all in his closet from samples, with a hint of guitar thrown on top. They're fine songs, if you want to listen to laptop music. I don't. I get the albums and admire the songs, but I don't really want to listen to those recordings of them A great project for someone would be to put together a band to play them "rock-ly".
	12:31pm DG: My dad was into jazz (like Benny Goodman, Basie, Ella, etc.) & B'way shows (Company & Fiddler on the Roof were constantly playing in our house in the '60s/70s), although my parents actually bought "Sgt. Pepper" & "Tommy" before I did (didn't get into rock until 6th grade or so).....my sister & I later inherited those. He sorta liked the Beatles, maybe some other non-noisy stuff but never really made an effort to listen to or like the stuff I did later on: Elton, Zappa, Springsteen, & certainly not punk/new wave. He's pretty quick to dismiss any contemporary (i.e. anything after 1960) music so I can't really discuss this stuff w/him. Came to 1-2 gigs with my mom for bands I was in, but I think it was aways too loud for him, or something. He's impossible to change.
	12:33pm Hubig Pie: Me pops music collection- reel to reel copies of Enoch Light, The Limeliters and Harry Belafonte
	12:33pm Micheal: Hats off to your step-Dad, Michael!
	12:37pm mariano: Scott from Denver: That's a great memory. My grandpa loved his tech and had a hi-fi with the reel-to-reel tape player, and was always playing stuff like that: Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Ray Conniff Orchestra, etc.
	12:37pm Eddy in Australia: My old radio show was called Ready Eddy Go!
	12:37pm adam: didn't you say parenting was the best long con
	12:37pm clarke: grimes = keepin' it UNreal!!
	12:38pm clarke: how do we get archives, eddy??
	12:39pm Eddy in Australia: Ha, pre-digital, thankfully. I’ll dub you some cassettes!
	12:40pm Cat: Pop grew up in South Carolina and used to hitchhike to Ocean Drive (“OD”, now part of North Myrtle Beach) to dance the shag to “beach music” (R&B) and sleep on the beach. He and Mom volunteered at the Carolina Beach Music Festival for years. As a young adult, I went to many dances together with my parents. (I can’t shag.) Going to see Pop tomorrow. He’s in rough shape these days, but still my hero and role model. We’ll surely play some beach music, including Sixty Minute Man.
	12:40pm clarke: shipping would be nitemare
	12:40pm mariano: Speaking of my grandpa's hi-fi, lol. "Raindrops" was one of my favorite songs when I was a toddler, he used to play the BJ Thomas version. That and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "They All Ask'd for You."
	12:41pm Andrew Hollywood: Rain-tastic!
	12:42pm clarke: @Mariano - speaking of the by and bywater - made it to Euclid Records the other day. greatest record store in the world!
	12:42pm bobobob: is this the same edwin starr did War what is it good for
	12:42pm Eddy in Australia: Is the stream down?
	12:43pm Michael Shelley: yeah, same
	12:43pm clarke: get brent weir i said!!!
	12:44pm clarke: i'm getting signal LOUD AND CLEAR, eddy
	12:45pm Eddy in Australia: Yep, just reconnected
	12:45pm clarke: atta boy!
	12:46pm Eddy in Australia: The same Euclid that sells old soul 45s online, I assume?
	12:47pm clarke: yeah probably - they want to have EVERYthing on vinyl possible
	12:47pm clarke: the mothership store is in St. Louis, but their new orleans store is the shit!!
	12:48pm Sean: @Dennis. Thanks. Took me a while to find it. I appreciate the info
	12:48pm Eddy in Australia: I’ll visit in person one day. If they ever reopen our borders
	12:48pm Vertual: Dad was obsessed with Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again (Naturally), and The Guess Who's These Eyes - unfortunately I think it was because he was lamenting an ill fated extramarital affair.
	12:49pm clarke: hope i'm still around when u do! we need to get u a Saints jersey!!
	12:50pm phat in Lincoln: I sometimes wish 1) my sister could sing and 2) we didn't hate each other growing up, because I think we probably could have been a good duo.
	12:50pm Andres: Gotta hit the road. Thank you, Michael, for the music and for spurring all the discussion. Happy Fathers Day to all of you!
	12:50pm clarke: the name of this song is You've Got Me Bugged
	12:51pm mariano: Yeah, these Buggs fellas remind me of someone, can't quite put my finger on it...
	12:52pm clarke: ha ha
	12:53pm clarke: did you have much crawfish this season, M??
	12:58pm ChrisB.: Now THIS is a number one hit! Tracy!
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: fantabulous show, Mikey!
	12:58pm phat in Lincoln: This Tracy Ullman is seriously, seriously good. I mean, it's astounding as a song, the arrangement is perfect, her performance is wonderful and the recording is aces. Just amazing.
	12:58pm Doug in JC: The video for this is great too
	12:59pm dymphnite: <3 Kirsty
	12:59pm dmartnewmexico: Is it wrong to love Ullman’s version more? I don’t think so.
	12:59pm clarke: time flies!! ever get the feeling you been cheated?
	12:59pm ?: I love this... great show Michael... Love Peta in Brentford...
	12:59pm Eddy in Australia: I miss Kirsty MacColl
	12:59pm dymphnite: yes it;s wrong
	12:59pm gf2002: What more could you ask for on radio when you hear a clip of South American Getaway followed by Kirsty MacColl's classic...Yes Tracy's video was cool, with the Sir Paul cameo
	12:59pm Vertual: Fudgie the Whale!
	12:59pm ?: Happy Father's Day...
	1:00pm DG: That Carvel tune sounds quite a bit like "Christmas Time is Here" from the Charlie Brown Xmas show, hmmm....
	1:00pm Mary Marge: Such a great show <3
	1:00pm Dominick: thanks for a great show Michael
	1:00pm mariano: Thank you, MS, happy Fathers' Day!
	1:00pm Juke Joint Jonny: "Even Rex" ouch
	1:00pm GerryB: I’ll still take Kirsty’s version every time. But Tracey does it justice.
	1:00pm HyperDose: Hey that was the jam!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ MS !
	1:01pm clarke: good nite.
	1:05pm Michael Shelley: HEY - I LOVE REX!
	5:06pm ?: Hey Michael: Is that Burt Bacharach Orchestra piece available anywhere? Tres cool.
	5:07pm Mark: That Burt Bacharach question above is from me. I forgot to ID myself.
	4:25pm Mark in Toronto: Johnny Cash's first wife was Vivian Liberto. Must have been related to Ray Liberto?

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Artist	Track	Album
Nuevo	Querido "Querido" by "Nuevo"	Nuev
Bee Gees, The	Lay It On Me "Lay It On Me" by "Bee Gees, The"	2 Years On
Dennis Leise	I Think About You Naked	State Of Affairs
Swamp Dogg	Synthetic World "Synthetic World" by "Swamp Dogg"	45
Ken Boothe	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	45
Furies	Get Out Of Denver "Get Out Of Denver" by "Furies"	mp3
Idle Race	Days of the Broken Arrows	45
Red Sovine	Okey Dokey "Okey Dokey" by "Red Sovine"	Juke Joint Johnny
Fats Domino	Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)	45
Los Lobos	Let's Just Say Goodnight	45
Television	See No Evil "See No Evil" by "Television"	Marquee Moon
Crystal Teardrop	Findin' My Own Kind Of Song	Pacific Northwest Juke Box
Grandpa Jones	Hip Cat's Wedding "Hip Cat's Wedding" by "Grandpa Jones"	45
Bobby Womack	Broadway Walk "Broadway Walk" by "Bobby Womack"	45
Peggy Lee	Come Back To Me "Come Back To Me" by "Peggy Lee"	45
Outta Sites, The	Beautiful You "Beautiful You" by "Outta Sites, The"	Beautiful You
Astronauts, The	Girls Like You "Girls Like You" by "Astronauts, The"	Rarities
Onie Wheeler	That's All "That's All" by "Onie Wheeler"	45
Right Kind, The	(Tell Me) Why Did You Have To Lie?	45
Loose Lips	Kyle "Kyle" by "Loose Lips"	Hung Up On Pop
Zombies, The	I Want Her, She Wants Me	Oddessey And Oracle
Burt Bacharach & His Orchestra & Chorus	I Say A Little Prayer (backing track)	Best Of
Ray Liberto	Riot In Cell Block #9	The Man in Black: 1959-'62
Marva Whitney and Ellis (Gripey) Taylor	We Need More (But Somebody Gotta Sacrifice)	45
Utopia	One World "One World" by "Utopia"	Swing To The Right
Remo Four, The	Lies "Lies" by "Remo Four, The"	45
Jeannie C. Riley	We Were Raised On Love	Country Girl
Don Bryant	Weak And Broken Hearted	The Northern Souljers Meet Hi-Rhythm
Edwin Starr	Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head	War and Peace
Shoes	Say It Like You Mean It "Say It Like You Mean It" by "Shoes"	Ignition
Everly Brothers, The	Hey Doll Baby (demo)	The Cadence Sessions
Buggs, The	Mersey Mercy "Mersey Mercy" by "Buggs, The"	The Beetle Beat
Percy Mayfield	Stranger In My Own Home Town	45
Tracey Ullman	They Don't Know "They Don't Know" by "Tracey Ullman"	45
Carvel	Father's Day "Father's Day" by "Carvel"	none

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Listener comments!
	10:50am Listener Baby: Your comment
	11:01am clarke: WON YEH
	11:01am Squints: ok then hey hey HEY now
	11:02am clarke: THAT is a lot of paperwork!! howdy kids!!
	11:03am P-90: That was one of the best “Mike/Michael” collages ever
	11:03am phat in Lincoln: I really like Nuevo.
	11:04am Listener Baby: Hey Baby!! Can you smell Maui yet? Because I can, and I’m not going.
	11:04am clarke: that's THE maui, Baby -- BABY!!!
	11:06am Squints: I grabbed the Nuevo disc on bandcamp two weeks ago. Had to have it. Always pay 2x the ask on bandcamp because you want your guys to make another.
	11:06am Squints: I didn't know Barry's range went this low. Or is this Maurice? 8^)
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well there's an interesting read - whoosh...
	11:08am Listener Baby: Roy Orbison was 52 or something close to that. Mind blowing.
	11:08am Squints: Sonofagun. I thought you'd just missed something in the playlist. I am humbled.
	11:08am DJ Johnny Cool: Pronounced Morris.
	11:08am Squints: Maurice was one cool cat.
	11:09am clarke: squints, weren't you saying that you'd had a dave mattacks sighting, recently? was that you?
	11:09am phat in Lincoln: 53? That's depressing. That's another 3 years for me. Yikes. Maybe that nap I was about to take is misguided.
	11:10am Squints: Not recently. Mattacks was Stawbs? Went to see Strawbs with a bud in Foxborough in 2009 or so.
	11:10am P-90: Yep, Maurice sure can speak of the pompatus of love
	11:10am Squints: Now I'm trying to think of Daves I've seen in the late before times.
	11:10am Mike Sin: Well all right! Listening live at shore through the phone app until the battery drains down!
	11:10am Andres: Good morning! 53!? That put the fear in me.
	11:10am clarke: mattacks was Fairport Convention - think he lives in or near Marblehead these days
	11:11am Squints: Ah. No, clarke. I'm South Shore. practically the Caoe.
	11:12am gene sculatti: Greatest Swamp Dogg evah, Michael! Thanx or spinning this.
	11:12am clarke: that's cool too - maaaaahshfield???
	11:14am clarke: it is quite possible that mattacks was subbing for Strawbs, tho.
	11:15am Squints: plymouth
	11:16am clarke: ah, yes. home of me ancestors.
	11:16am Squints: i honestly donna recall.
	11:17am phat in Lincoln: Well damn. This is a hell of a cover of Get Out of Denver.
	11:18am Dennis Diken: You go, Mikey! Hey everyone!
	11:18am clarke: hey ho!
	11:19am clarke: yes, he was!!
	11:19am Peter Horvath: That certainly sounds like Jeff singing
	11:20am McGroovey: Well, that sure sounds like Jeff Lynn
	11:20am phat in Lincoln: @Peter Horvath that's what I was thinking
	11:20am Peter Horvath: What a great splice that was
	11:21am Frank In Queens: Belated hey now!
	11:22am clarke: drowned yer sorrows a bit late, frank??
	11:22am clarke: yer boyz need to git it in GEAR!!
	11:23am Frank In Queens: No, prepping for today's game. Heading out the Island in a little bit. Seeing the family before hitting the game.
	11:23am Squints: do you think he's gently tweaking booker when he says that?
	11:23am clarke: taking the train??
	11:24am Frank In Queens: Yeah, I ain't got no car.
	11:24am clarke: i think cropper is just used to doing ID's for "major" stations
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's interesting how the very earliest Psychedelic tracks were like 'Novelty' rekkids... As Roger McGuinn said, 'Greenwich Village became the World'...
	11:25am clarke: and you are GOING to the game?? or going to watch it with the fam?
	11:25am Frank In Queens: If Michael wrote this song, it would be titled "No Problem" ;)
	11:26am Frank In Queens: GOING to the game. I was there on Thursday as well. I'm a diehard, man!
	11:26am clarke: dang!! well hope it is more productive this time!
	11:27am Frank In Queens: Seriously.
	11:27am clarke: oh wait - you won on thursday? good luck!
	11:28am Frank In Queens: No, they lost. Down 2-1. Same as the previous 2 series.
	11:29am Frank Zaatar: This is so much better than the Beatles cover version.
	11:29am clarke: well, i'm sure your prescence will make it happen!
	11:29am Andres: That Fats is an example of a song where the lyrics are more accessible to me in a cover version.
	11:30am clarke: pre-aerobed times!! ouch!!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: I"m 5-2 so far this playoffs. I missed one game, and they lost that one.
	11:31am Squints: that'll learn ya
	11:31am clarke: doh!!!
	11:31am P-90: Wow I think I know exactly the two used record stores in the Melrose district that Michael just referred to…
	11:31am Montmaster J: Brooklyn welcomed you after your LA sojourn. Those were the days!
	11:34am clarke: ficca!!
	11:37am Eddy in Australia: Saw Ficca up close one night when he was in Richard Lloyd’s band - mind blown. Hi Clarke!
	11:37am clarke: ay mate - a mind-blowah!! gain struck-chah galore!!
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not in the band that did the 'Marquee Moon' album. What, really, is the point of life...
	11:38am clarke: how goeth in the middle of WINTER, late at night?
	11:39am clarke: yer flatting dear.
	11:40am Eddy in Australia: Haven’t braved the cold cos I’ve been crook, otherwise all okayish
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you sound taller on the radios...
	11:40am clarke: what's "crook"??
	11:41am mariano: Gaaah! You said Old Spice and now I'm gonna have that whistling song stuck in my head all day. 'Morning, Michael, everyone.
	11:41am Eddy in Australia: ... except stereo in the shop so I can’t play RSD purchases
	11:41am clarke: DAMN Mariano!! how the hell are ya!!
	11:41am Eddy in Australia: Oh, sorry, crook = sick
	11:42am clarke: ah!! sorry to hear that, mate!! apparently it is MovieTime????
	11:42am wenzo: I had a really great dad... wouldn’t trade 18 years with him for 50 with anyone else. very gentle, diplomatic, zen, funny, got along with everyone, very smart, had one of the loudest laughs Ive ever heard
	11:43am TimG: Battered Bastards is a great film (my humble opinion)...but I am a baseball fan
	11:43am Woo: When I would come home from the record store my dad would often ask 'don't you have enough?' Of course the answer was and still is NO.
	11:43am mariano: Hi clarke! Doing ok thanks, how are you? Think that storm's gonna hit us pretty bad? Seems like Slidell's gonna get the worst of it.
	11:44am clarke: surviving the 'storm'??
	11:44am Eddy in Australia: Mare of Easttown overrated
	11:44am clarke: we have enuff breaks in the rain - i think drainage will be okay (but i am on the ridge!). hope you've been well???
	11:45am dymphnite: Mare of Shittown
	11:46am clarke: luckily, there is some dry air over texas that is probably going to save us - once again dodging that bullet.
	11:47am Squints: Just married off my youngest in PTown (on Race Point Beach) last weekend.
	11:47am clarke: race point - nice beach!!
	11:47am P-90: “…do you take this chick for better or worse?…”
	11:48am Squints: "She's yours now, Petrucchio." I kid. Somewhat.
	11:49am mariano: Don't know if any of y'all saw SNL's sendup of Mare, but it was good for a coupla cheap yuks: www.youtube.com... All good, clarke, thanks -- been absolutely slammed with work which is great. I'd forgotten what it was like to have money in the bank after paying rent and bills. Sure beats the alternative! You've been doing well, I hope?
	11:49am clarke: too bad, Squints, the new spampinato band is playing (near) race point, this weekend! Value Leaders - look out fo' 'em!!
	11:50am clarke: there's a great venue to see a band (if the bugs weren't so bad) on the way to the entrance to beach parking lot.
	11:50am Squints: Love those guys. Miss Joey. Don't get to see 'em nearly enough.
	11:51am clarke: joey's not in this one - just johnny. but they're GREAT!!
	11:51am clarke: the bass player does a great joey on bass!!
	11:52am Sean: "On a mule in a jet?" I gotta find a different airline
	11:52am clarke: @Mariano - just tried The Turkey & The Wolf, yesterday - mui bueno!!
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: And now I'm home. This feels right.
	11:56am Michael Shelley: GREAT job this morning GFZ5
	11:56am Hubig Pie: The Castaways were from land locked Minneapolis
	11:57am Squints: Yeah, I know joey is sidelined. Probably haven't seen him play since that pickup band at the Weelfleet Oyster Festival in 2012.
	11:58am Squints: What if the Troggs were from Colorado?
	11:58am clarke: i wuz there. in the rain??
	11:59am mariano: clarke: Been meaning to try that place for years, can't believe I haven't made it there yet! My current favorite for delivery is Ba Chi Canteen, some of the best Vietnamese food I've had here.
	12:00pm clarke: o wow - love me some viet!! but, i am out of your delivery zone - which is NOT Zone 5
	12:00pm Andres: Castaways took a charter out of Duluth that got blown off course to Thunder Bay.
	12:01pm P-90: The brilliant comedian/comic actor Duck Shawn died of a heart attack onstage during a standup and the audience ACTUALLY thought it was a bit. Now THATS the way to go…
	12:01pm clarke: been re-going out a bit, and hit Tan Dinh a few weeks ago - VERY superb!!
	12:02pm P-90: *Dick Shawn
	12:02pm Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael and crew!!
	12:02pm clarke: Ba Chi Canteen on my list - in the bywater??
	12:04pm Dennis Diken: Hello Jack!
	12:04pm Peter Horvath: Ahoy Jack
	12:05pm Hubig Pie: Dick Shawn - "That's our Hitler !"
	12:05pm Squints: clarke, the drizzle in the permagale. you know.
	12:06pm ChrisB.: My father’s favorite bad was Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra. Then he got into operettas later in life. Always had a big box of home made cassettes in his truck.
	12:06pm Andres: I was listening to Fishbone on my boombox when my father came into the room and demanded that I "turn down that noise!". Also, there are some John Lennon records in his collection that nobody else in the family wants.
	12:06pm clarke: my dad took me to get my first real drum-set when i was a tween! this is sorta like having a death sentence, ha ha, getting your kid a drum-kit (it was my money and savings, but dad brought me).
	12:06pm mariano: I'll have to try that one out, clarke. Since I work from home, I basically only go out to go to the grocery. One of my cousins drags me out to lunch every couple of weeks though, which is good. Went to Harbor in Kenner for the first time in over a year a month or so ago. I love how your table there ends up looking like a still life of Neptune's bounty. Regarding Ba Chi, it's actually on Maple, just up from Cooter Brown's. Luckily they deliver to the Marigny. Where are you again, in River Ridge? If so, much closer to you than to me.
	12:07pm Frank In Queens: My father is my musical hero. It’s really because of him that i got into music at an early age and I probably got whatever talent I have from him. He played keyboards in a band in the 60s, and I grew up with music always playing in the house. I knew more about The Beatles at age 5 in 1982 then any 5 year old probably should.
	12:07pm Squints: Numbah effin one.
	12:08pm Mark in Columbus Ohio: My dad wasn’t into any music but back in the 60s he drove me and my band to our gigs and helped unload equipment at 2 in the morning.
	12:08pm clarke: i live right next to audubon park. and Ba Chi IS my zone!! will be ordering TONIGHT, thnx!!
	12:08pm Webhamster Henry: My father was very funny and like a big kid. His music taste was kind of Dolly Parton-y and Musical Comedy-y. But when he learned that Phil Glass, to whom he had given soccer lessons in school, was a composer, he got all the Phil Glass he could.
	12:08pm Hoboken Jack: My dad was not a music guy. Did not care for Dylan's voice. He did like that song "Oh What a Lonely Boy." We did always have the top 40 station on in the car, which I suppose was his doing.
	12:10pm Jim from Tranquility: Back in the mid 70’s my father came into the basement to yell at us to turn down the noise. He noticed a poster on the wall and asked “who’s that?” Dad that’s Eric Clapton, the greatest guitar player. A couple days later the neighbor complained to him that our music was too loud. He told them “that’s Eric Clapton, the greatest guitar player “
	12:11pm Mary Marge: O&O might be my favorite record ever
	12:11pm McGroovey: My dad was a jazz drummer and jazz fan. He only played good drums when he'd had too much to drink when I was a kid, but after we'd all gone of to college, he started playing in local Syracuse jazz band again and did it for the rest of his life. His drums were still on his station wagon when he died. There was always music in the house--mostly jazz from the "classic" era (teens to fifties). Later, in his fifties, he became a fan of modern, almost-rock stuff.
	12:11pm Montmaster J: My dad could play piano. Sometimes-in the good times-he would come home make himself a drink and play for an hour before dinner. I'm happy to remember him that way.
	12:11pm McGroovey: Only played *HIS drums
	12:12pm mariano: Nice one, clarke! Hope you like it.
	12:12pm Mike Sin: I definitely owe my love of Sam Cooke to my father. He listened to him nonstop.
	12:12pm Mailman Tom: Jim, I love that story about your father.
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Odessey one of if not thee 1st things recorded in AbbeyRoad2 after Pepper. MOJO reports that The Zombies were walking in as Engineers were separating the four track machines TheBeatles had joined for more tracks - & TheZombies said - hey, hang on a minute...
	12:13pm Sean: who drums on this Bacharach?
	12:13pm Cooh John: Got to hear Pet Sounds and Oddysey and Oracle live.🎵
	12:13pm kevlicki: I grew up with a hippy dad. My dad bailed on work to go to Woodstock, he was one of the folks that actually bought a ticket. He was recently telling me how he saw Zepplin at the Filmore Sast on their first Us tour. He’s taken me to se Dylan about a dozen times. I was an infant for my first concert. Huey Lewis at the Orange County Fairgrounds…8 y/o for Duran Duran at the Beacon Theater and the list goes on for pop concerts. My folks were understanding of the community that musical subcultures create so they did not discourage my engagement with the 90’s hardcore punk scene.
	12:15pm Squints: My pop wasn't a music head but was indulgent of me. He liked instrumentals. I heard a lot of Tijuana Brass and Booker T & The MGs growing up. That stuff makes me smile to this day. He really dug the pre-Broadway Roger Miller, and Johnny Cash.
	12:15pm Dennis Diken: @Sean - Gary Chester was Burt B’s go to drummer in NYC. He also used Buddy Saltzman and probably others. “Prayer” sounds like it could be Buddy?
	12:15pm gf2002: My Dad was a WW2 vet and I was born in the early 70's, and he wasn't a music fanatic but he liked good music of all eras and introduced me to a lot of what influenced me. Always supported me as a musician too, and I'm always grateful for that. Some of the early albums I remember were Glenn Miller (LOVED the Miller band), some Sun Records compilations, Sinatra on Reprise, Herb Alpert TJB (every house had those), he loved Get Back and other rocking Beatles tracks. Had an 8-track of Best Of The Beach Boys vol.2, the White Album, and a Count Basie tape, and War. Back in the 50's he'd go to the Wildwood clubs and see The Treniers rip up the joint, he saw Boots Randolph live walk down the bar playing his sax not spilling a drink, Bill Haley, etc. Lots more but I appreciate what he did and miss him every day. Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" was the song I picked for his memorial service.
	12:16pm clarke: was going to guess Salzman
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Charming Dad stories. Jealous! Mine was distant & I was youngest of five so generation gap stuff... Not the worst fellow but more Father than Dad...
	12:18pm egould310: Mu dad is a good man and great father. One of the best guitarists I’ve ever heard. Taught me to play guitar. I bought a Used Ludwig drum set (champagne sparkle) in 10th grade. Our band would practice in our basement. Dad would get home from work and hook up his guitar and just shred. Buddy Holly, Beach Boys, Byrds, Dylan, Eagles were his jams. He was cool with most music I played. Except Black Flag. That dude hates Black Flag. Happy Fathers Day!
	12:20pm clarke: DO NOT STACK!!!!
	12:20pm dymphnite: About my musical taste, my dad told me, "Elton John's a 'mo!"
	12:22pm HyperDose: Woo, made it!
	12:22pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: My father suffered through two of my earliest concerts with me. The first one was supposed to be West, Bruce and Laing in Asbury Park Convention Center. But Jack Bruce left the band before the gig and it became Leslie West's Wild West Show featuring Corky Laing and Mitch Ryder. In his autobiography, Mitch Ryder said that this tour was the worst time of his life (I think because of management). And then there was The Patti Smith Group in Central Park. I remember my Dad reading the newspaper during the encore. He was. good sport.
	12:23pm Baby: Baby. Music was the only thing my Dad and I had in common. We spent countless hours listening and talking about music. He taught me so much about how to listen to music. He had great taste, and a pretty open mind too. Other than that, he was a pretty below average Pop. Miss him though.
	12:23pm kevlicki: My favorite album as a 6 y/o was Marleys Confrontation, my dad played that cassette in the truck on repeat forever.
	12:24pm ChrisB.: Hey @Todd. I went to that Show, hastily billed as Leslie West’s Wild West Show. It stunk.
	12:24pm clarke: maybe you'll see Todd in maui, baby!!
	12:24pm Moammar: My pop, a former aspiring beatnik, took me to see Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie Orchestra. I looted his record collection. Formative stuff.
	12:25pm Squints: One of my sneaky Todd faves.
	12:26pm clarke: what mix is this?!?
	12:26pm mariano: With me, it was one of my uncles, who's only 8 years older, so he's more like a big brother. In the 70s when I was a wee tyke, he was (and still is) really into Zappa, Beefheart, Mahavishnu, and a bunch of other jazz and fusion stuff, though he always had his ear to the ground with music in general. First time I heard the Ramones, the Pistols, Sid's "My Way," the Tubes, and a few others was when he played them for me. I used to hang out in his room with him for hours as he played records and told me about the artists, what the songs were about, etc.
	12:26pm P-90: Good point: the world could really use a new album of Todd Rundgren pop songs right about now.
	12:26pm Scott from Denver: My dad passed away in 1980 when I was a HS freshman but he would've been 100 in November. He had a RCA Hi-Fi in our basement and he'd crank that up with Frank Sinatra on the turntable and have me dance with him. It was usually after he had a pitcher of beer at Pizza Hut.
	12:26pm HyperDose: Lesley, Corky, & Malcolm are/were wonderful people. Salt of the Earth.
	12:28pm clarke: you forGOT tha' feet!?!
	12:28pm muddybrookrambler: One of my earliest memories is my Dad coming through the door after work, likely beat from a long day, and my asking him to put on "the record". The record was Al Hirt's version of Java. Once I heard it I would go mad dancing in the living room, jumping off the couch, shaking my butt, and he was laugh and dance with me. Still miss him so. He loved watching Hee Haw (probably for the girls), and would tell me to turn up the radio whenever "The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy came on. When he passed, my mom gave me an envelope from him with dollars he'd been stuffing under their bed--the note saying I should use it for a new bass and amp. Such an awesome guy, he got it.
	12:29pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: @ChrisB: I couldn't say whether it stunk or not because as it was my first concert I could not believe the sheer volume. Though I guess I will say that the sound itself certainly seemed horrible even if I had nothing to judge it against.
	12:29pm Squints: These ain't The Knickerbockers, but those are sure Knickerbocker harmonies.
	12:30pm Vertual: When I was about 10 my dad decided I needed to hear a Hank Williams album, the Buddy Knox single "Party Doll" and a few others. He always let my brother and me control the car radio and he didnt mind WABC or whatever AM gold station was hot at the time and loved the Beatles records and Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Mom was always singing Build me Up Buttercup or Candida when she washed dishes. She had boxes of shellac 78 rpm pop records from the 40s thru 50s . They also played Lou Monte , Dean Martin and Sinatra constantly in our Italian household!
	12:30pm Squints: Cost ya more not to meet him.
	12:31pm Squints: I still have the Stanky Brown 1978 LP. Haven't played it in forever.
	12:31pm McGroovey: Todd R still writes pop songs; he just doesn't record them with a pop-rock band anymore. He seems to love the laptop-EDM thing now. He can record it all in his closet from samples, with a hint of guitar thrown on top. They're fine songs, if you want to listen to laptop music. I don't. I get the albums and admire the songs, but I don't really want to listen to those recordings of them A great project for someone would be to put together a band to play them "rock-ly".
	12:31pm DG: My dad was into jazz (like Benny Goodman, Basie, Ella, etc.) & B'way shows (Company & Fiddler on the Roof were constantly playing in our house in the '60s/70s), although my parents actually bought "Sgt. Pepper" & "Tommy" before I did (didn't get into rock until 6th grade or so).....my sister & I later inherited those. He sorta liked the Beatles, maybe some other non-noisy stuff but never really made an effort to listen to or like the stuff I did later on: Elton, Zappa, Springsteen, & certainly not punk/new wave. He's pretty quick to dismiss any contemporary (i.e. anything after 1960) music so I can't really discuss this stuff w/him. Came to 1-2 gigs with my mom for bands I was in, but I think it was aways too loud for him, or something. He's impossible to change.
	12:33pm Hubig Pie: Me pops music collection- reel to reel copies of Enoch Light, The Limeliters and Harry Belafonte
	12:33pm Micheal: Hats off to your step-Dad, Michael!
	12:37pm mariano: Scott from Denver: That's a great memory. My grandpa loved his tech and had a hi-fi with the reel-to-reel tape player, and was always playing stuff like that: Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Ray Conniff Orchestra, etc.
	12:37pm Eddy in Australia: My old radio show was called Ready Eddy Go!
	12:37pm adam: didn't you say parenting was the best long con
	12:37pm clarke: grimes = keepin' it UNreal!!
	12:38pm clarke: how do we get archives, eddy??
	12:39pm Eddy in Australia: Ha, pre-digital, thankfully. I’ll dub you some cassettes!
	12:40pm Cat: Pop grew up in South Carolina and used to hitchhike to Ocean Drive (“OD”, now part of North Myrtle Beach) to dance the shag to “beach music” (R&B) and sleep on the beach. He and Mom volunteered at the Carolina Beach Music Festival for years. As a young adult, I went to many dances together with my parents. (I can’t shag.) Going to see Pop tomorrow. He’s in rough shape these days, but still my hero and role model. We’ll surely play some beach music, including Sixty Minute Man.
	12:40pm clarke: shipping would be nitemare
	12:40pm mariano: Speaking of my grandpa's hi-fi, lol. "Raindrops" was one of my favorite songs when I was a toddler, he used to play the BJ Thomas version. That and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "They All Ask'd for You."
	12:41pm Andrew Hollywood: Rain-tastic!
	12:42pm clarke: @Mariano - speaking of the by and bywater - made it to Euclid Records the other day. greatest record store in the world!
	12:42pm bobobob: is this the same edwin starr did War what is it good for
	12:42pm Eddy in Australia: Is the stream down?
	12:43pm Michael Shelley: yeah, same
	12:43pm clarke: get brent weir i said!!!
	12:44pm clarke: i'm getting signal LOUD AND CLEAR, eddy
	12:45pm Eddy in Australia: Yep, just reconnected
	12:45pm clarke: atta boy!
	12:46pm Eddy in Australia: The same Euclid that sells old soul 45s online, I assume?
	12:47pm clarke: yeah probably - they want to have EVERYthing on vinyl possible
	12:47pm clarke: the mothership store is in St. Louis, but their new orleans store is the shit!!
	12:48pm Sean: @Dennis. Thanks. Took me a while to find it. I appreciate the info
	12:48pm Eddy in Australia: I’ll visit in person one day. If they ever reopen our borders
	12:48pm Vertual: Dad was obsessed with Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again (Naturally), and The Guess Who's These Eyes - unfortunately I think it was because he was lamenting an ill fated extramarital affair.
	12:49pm clarke: hope i'm still around when u do! we need to get u a Saints jersey!!
	12:50pm phat in Lincoln: I sometimes wish 1) my sister could sing and 2) we didn't hate each other growing up, because I think we probably could have been a good duo.
	12:50pm Andres: Gotta hit the road. Thank you, Michael, for the music and for spurring all the discussion. Happy Fathers Day to all of you!
	12:50pm clarke: the name of this song is You've Got Me Bugged
	12:51pm mariano: Yeah, these Buggs fellas remind me of someone, can't quite put my finger on it...
	12:52pm clarke: ha ha
	12:53pm clarke: did you have much crawfish this season, M??
	12:58pm ChrisB.: Now THIS is a number one hit! Tracy!
	12:58pm Dennis Diken: fantabulous show, Mikey!
	12:58pm phat in Lincoln: This Tracy Ullman is seriously, seriously good. I mean, it's astounding as a song, the arrangement is perfect, her performance is wonderful and the recording is aces. Just amazing.
	12:58pm Doug in JC: The video for this is great too
	12:59pm dymphnite: <3 Kirsty
	12:59pm dmartnewmexico: Is it wrong to love Ullman’s version more? I don’t think so.
	12:59pm clarke: time flies!! ever get the feeling you been cheated?
	12:59pm ?: I love this... great show Michael... Love Peta in Brentford...
	12:59pm Eddy in Australia: I miss Kirsty MacColl
	12:59pm dymphnite: yes it;s wrong
	12:59pm gf2002: What more could you ask for on radio when you hear a clip of South American Getaway followed by Kirsty MacColl's classic...Yes Tracy's video was cool, with the Sir Paul cameo
	12:59pm Vertual: Fudgie the Whale!
	12:59pm ?: Happy Father's Day...
	1:00pm DG: That Carvel tune sounds quite a bit like "Christmas Time is Here" from the Charlie Brown Xmas show, hmmm....
	1:00pm Mary Marge: Such a great show <3
	1:00pm Dominick: thanks for a great show Michael
	1:00pm mariano: Thank you, MS, happy Fathers' Day!
	1:00pm Juke Joint Jonny: "Even Rex" ouch
	1:00pm GerryB: I’ll still take Kirsty’s version every time. But Tracey does it justice.
	1:00pm HyperDose: Hey that was the jam!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ MS !
	1:01pm clarke: good nite.
	1:05pm Michael Shelley: HEY - I LOVE REX!
	5:06pm ?: Hey Michael: Is that Burt Bacharach Orchestra piece available anywhere? Tres cool.
	5:07pm Mark: That Burt Bacharach question above is from me. I forgot to ID myself.
	4:25pm Mark in Toronto: Johnny Cash's first wife was Vivian Liberto. Must have been related to Ray Liberto?

Michael Shelley: Playlist from June 19, 2021

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