Bob Brainen's playlist	November 19, 2011	E-mail Bob Brainen View Bob Brainen's profile
Another 3/4ths of Things With Strings
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Artist	Track	Album / Format	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Hank Levine w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience	(CD-R)	1961 / 1966		0:00:00 Pop-up)
P.J. O'Connell	Gettin' Gone	Join The Crowd (Vinyl) *	2011		0:03:04 Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren	Baby Let's Swing (full length song)	Runt + Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (CD box set) *	1970 / 2011		0:04:53 Pop-up)
Brother Jack McDuff & George Benson	Briar Patch	George Benson & Brother Jack McDuff (LP box set)	1965		0:09:06 Pop-up)
NRBQ	Hobbies	Transmissions (CD box set)	1977 / 2004	Japanese comp.	0:11:44 Pop-up)
Jake And The Rest Of The Jewels	Annabelle	A Lick And A Promise (CD)	2011		0:15:41 Pop-up)
Ronald Stein	50 Ft. Rock (& Roll) from The Attack of The 50 Foot Woman	Not Of This Earth! The Film Music Of Ronald Stein (CD)	1958 / 1995		0:17:59 Pop-up)
Imelda May	Sneaky Freak	Mayhem (CD)	2010		0:20:00 Pop-up)
Chiles And Pettiford	The Joker	Live At Jillys (LP)	1965		0:22:57 Pop-up)
Start: THINGS WITH STRINGS
Hollyridge Strings	Rag Doll	Play The Hits Of The Four Seasons (LP)	1964		0:26:02 Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Hollyridge Strings		Play The Hits Of The Four Seasons			0:26:46 Pop-up)
Blood Sweat & Tears	The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes and Freud	Child Is Father To The Man (CD)	1968 / 1994		0:38:15 Pop-up)
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway	Where Is The Love	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (LP)	1972		0:42:24 Pop-up)
Ronny & The Daytonas	Sandy	Sandy (LP)	1965		0:45:06 Pop-up)
Bert Kaempfert	That Happy Feeling	That Happy Feeling (LP)	1962	Used as the theme to the Sandy Becker show.	0:47:53 Pop-up)
Gallagher & Lyle	Trees	Fairytales Can Come True (CD)	1967 / 2007	VAR	0:50:56 Pop-up)
Gary McFarland Orchestra	Reflections In The Park	Gary McFarland Orchestra-Special Guest Soloist Bill Evans (LP)	1963		0:53:26 Pop-up)
Byrds	Old John Robertson	(45)	1967		0:57:08 Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bert Kaempfert		Greatest Hits			0:58:02 Pop-up)
Weekend	Past Meets Present	La Variete' (LP)	1982		1:11:07 Pop-up)
Graham Gouldman	My Father	The Graham Gouldman Thing (LP)	1968		1:13:53 Pop-up)
Carlos Salzedo	The Snow is Dancing	Debussy's Children's Corner Suite (CD-R)	1914 / 194?	Transcribed for flute harp and cello	1:16:37 Pop-up)
Alexander Desplat	Postcards	The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (CD box set)	2008	OST	1:20:10 Pop-up)
N.Y. Bass Violin Choir	John Coltrane (excerpt)	N.Y. Bass Violin Choir (LP)	1980	Strata East label	1:22:17 Pop-up)
Hollies	Stop Right There	Evolution (CD)	1967 / 1999		1:24:43 Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bert Kaempfert		Greatest Hits			1:25:33 Pop-up)
Pete Jolly & His Trio	Sweet September	(CD-R)	1964	Thanks to Gene Sculatti	1:35:21 Pop-up)
Melachrino Strings and Orchestra	Greensleeves	Music For Reading (7")	195?	Double 7" 45	1:37:49 Pop-up)
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	Sandy	Bare Wires (LP)	1968	Mick Taylor-guitar; Henry Lowther-violin	1:41:54 Pop-up)
Chico Hamilton Quintet w/ Eric Dolphy	Something To Live For	With Strings Attached (CD)	1959 / 2007		1:45:40 Pop-up)
David Hemmings	Anathea	Happens (CD)	1967 / 2004		1:49:51 Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bert Kaempfert		Greatest Hits			1:52:13 Pop-up)
Thomas Newman	Six Feet Under Theme	Six Feet Under Soundtrack (CD)	2002		1:59:29 Pop-up)

(* = new, The marked selections are from the Brainen Archive.)

Listener comments!
	9:05am David: Is this a first? No Hank Levine? Nevermind, let's talk about PJ's cd being in the top 10 of 2011.
	9:40am mrmucho: you should do all mellotron next, bob
	9:46am miketp: ah yes prog rock fusion show i can dig it
	9:47am SmokinJ: Nice!
	9:51am Robert: Yes, that was one of Becker's themes, but ISTR it wasn't the only one. Can't remember the others, though, so I could be confabulating.
	9:53am Robert: It had those stills from the show synchronized to the drumbeats.
	9:54am Robert: What I can't remember is whether before they had the stills, they used the same music or not.
	9:55am Jim B: As a kid never knew how Happy Feeling ended because they would always cut away to a commercial.
	10:01am Robert: I get it, it's a Becker suite!
	10:02am Robert: Thanks for filling in that gap in my memory, Danke Schoen being the other theme.
	10:09am tomB: Bob's string project is interesting, because it gives us a chance to pay attention to stringwork that doesn't stay with our memories of the song itself. Yet in many instances, a rehearing merely confirms that the string sweetening tended to be saccharine, and kind of lame. MrMucho's suggestion for a mellotron special brings to mind the use (&abuse) of all synthesized keyboards to replicate strings as an alternative to stringwork, a sound more portable and under the control of the band, rather than the producer--thus a dialectical alternative. I think this decline in the use of string sections, for a decade or more, forced string players to use styles not so readily replicated on keyboard, often gutsier, more so on the margins of pop (aka FMU playlist). The dialectic continues!
	10:18am Paul: Is a majority of what Bob plays from his personal oollection o the record library?
	10:22am zoot: Great to hear some Carlos Salzedo. He was an incredible innovator of the harp. My sister studied with his widow.
	10:25am moe: thanks for sandy...
	10:25am miketp: there was the childhood innocense during the late 50s and 60s. youd be sitting with your bowl of cereal withyour brothers watching sandy becker chuck mccan wonderama courageous cat n minte mouse felix the cat spunky n tadpole we were chilren and we were getting big doses o sci fi b movies n psychedelia. yesteryear was ok in my books beautiful ben button cut bob
	10:56am Jim Duffy: Nice Chico Hamilton. I saw Hamilton play last month at a small club on Avenue A. He's 90 years old and still swinging on the drums and writing great harmonies for three woodwinds.
	10:58am T-Zero: Thanks for another great show, Bob. Have a good week.
	11:00am miketp: may i reiterate your sentimets exactly t zero
	11:01am Andy in Berlin: Sometime in the late 70s I found myself in the elevator with Sandy Becker - just the two of us -and I was just totally speechless.
	3:18pm melinda: great show, I really like the strings theme you've been doing. Especially enjoyed hearing the Thomas Newman Six Feet Under theme...one of the best tv show themes ever.
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