WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 18, 2014

Listener comments!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: This thing on?
	12:01pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:01pm Stanley: Kansas! Kansas!
	12:02pm K wilde: Little delay but up and running now
	12:02pm still b/p: Let's all do what the ding dang do.
	12:03pm duke: Hello UM et al.
	12:04pm Uncle Michael: Hello everyone!
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Who put the "Rama" in the Rama Lama Ding Dong?
	12:05pm pacific standard simon: Rama-lama-ding-dong likes to play with my ding-a-ling.
	12:05pm duke: I went to school with a girl named Rama Lama Ding Dong. Oh wait, no, her name was Dianne
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: What, it's only 10:05 in Kizel! Must be another one somewhere to the east.
	12:06pm listener james from westwood: BTW, "dinkies" autocorrects to "funkiest." So you've got that going for you. Which is nice.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: I was referring to Kyzyl. en.wikipedia.org...
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Nice Caddyshack reference, James.
	12:11pm still b/p: Tuva-luva-luva, that's a Kyzylian lullaby, with overtones.
	12:11pm Alex In Illinois: I dropped ukulele in the ocean here!
	12:13pm Mike East: I didn't know until yesterday that Harold Ramis directed Caddyshack. I'm a bit embarrassed
	12:13pm Roberto: Lene! Thanks for the 1983 flashback. Yes it's from '78 but '83 was when my brother's girlfriend listened to "Stateless" nonstop.
	12:14pm Alex In Illinois: That comment was supposed to appear during the second stanza of Lucky Number, but there is a delay with these comments sometimes.
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: I remember learning about French Kyzyl. Ooh la la!
	12:14pm Mike East: final jeopardy the other night asked what TV series used Crystal Blue Persuasion in an episode...no one got it right. I guess nerds don't watch Breaking Bad.
	12:14pm VAC: Is Harold Ramis Canadian or is that the other guy?
	12:14pm Lane Steelpicker: Was that twang in the Darrel Statler a steel with a sitar bar?
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: French Kyzyl, where they speak in tongues.
	12:15pm Mike East: They both are, VAC
	12:15pm earrie: Harold Ramis was from Chicago, Illinois, no?
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: I'll buy that story, Roberto! Hello ro you and Alex and Mike and still b/p and Doug and james and Simon and Duke and Lane and Bob and Stanley and k wilde!
	12:16pm Mike East: wiki corrects me...Ramis is from Chicago originally. Who am I to judge those jeopardy nerds? oy.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Lane, I'll have to listen to it on the archive. I'm not really here.
	12:16pm still b/p: That guitar opening on Crystal Blue Persuasion and subsequent fills are almost comically schlocky, but I love 'em for some reason.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Hello to VAC and anyone I may have missed!
	12:17pm Alex In Illinois: I put all of the danceable tracks from Stateless, Flex and No Man's Land (plus the New Toy Never Never Land EP) on various cassettes I made throughout the early 1980's.
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: Hello earrie!
	12:18pm Alex In Illinois: IS this the Original first recording of Certain Girl? There have been plenty of covers.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Nah, I'm pretty sure Lee Dorsey was first.
	12:20pm Lane Steelpicker: It was either that or a REALLY fretbuzzy Mosrite.
	12:20pm earrie: Heya, UM. @Mike East - 'was from'
	12:25pm Mike East: yeah, earrie, I knew that...my brain is fried
	12:29pm pacific standard simon: Is Wayne the last of the MC5 tontine?
	12:30pm Doug Schulkind: Enjoying the hell out of this.
	12:30pm ndbob: I've only been shopping on record store day once - where I lived in ND was 100 miles from the nearest record store - went to a store in Fargo with a friend - it was pretty poor - small selection - overpriced common LPs, very few 45s, and a large stack of LPs I couldn't look through
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: No, Wayne's not the last. Only a couple are gone...
	12:31pm Santos L Halper: Greetings Uncle and all. Enjoying a non-working live listen; a good Friday indeed! This Lexington sounds great.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Doug, Dr. Charles Moore is Wayne's collaborator on thus project.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Santos!
	12:33pm pacific standard simon: Sorry, I was busy looking up the answer. Only Wayne and drummer Dennis survive.
	12:33pm earrie: A great who wore all those different creative hats wonderfully. Director, writer, producer, actor and obviously not the asshole asshat hat.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Hmm...ok. I'm wrong again...
	12:37pm pacific standard simon: You were fooled because Michael Davis participated in that reunion a few years ago, but he also kicked the bucket in 2012.
	12:39pm Lane Steelpicker: Love McGriff. Me and some guy named Emmons steel licks from him.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: That is what got me.
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: I'd like to hear a Buddy track with stolen McGriff licks, Lane. Recommend something, please!
	12:47pm Alex In Illinois: Jimmy McGriff is often heard on a certain 3pm section of a weekly radio show. I don't remember the name of the show, but the 3 pm section is called: "Let the B-3 be free at Three"
	12:48pm Lane Steelpicker: I'll hunt it up. I talked to him in St. Louis one year, thinking I heard the influence. He beamed big at getting caught. Recommended that I listen to Shirley Scott
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: You are indeed contributing to this good Friday! Can't believe how quickly we got to this Friday since the last one.
	12:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks James...and thank you Lane.
	12:52pm Gaylord Fields: Someone get that gal some shoes!
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Hey Uncle. Is this a Chris Andrews song?
	12:53pm Uncle Michael: Brian, I could not tell you...and hello! Hello, Gaylord!
	12:54pm Lane Steelpicker: I think I heard some B-3 licks in the Danny Gatton Buddy Emmons thing "Rock Candy"
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: @Brian in UK: It most certainly is.
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: Well, I'll be a Monkee's Uncle! (Sorry, UM.)
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: That's ok, Gaylord...I had it coming.
	12:59pm Gaylord Fields: B&R are masters of deadpan absurdity.
	1:01pm Santos L Halper: Little known fact: Arnold Layne made his own golfballs too.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: You mean you didn't write down those instructions?
	1:02pm Santos L Halper: Or was it goofballs...?
	1:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm all hopped up on golfballs.
	1:04pm Gaylord Fields: @UM: I'm all hooped up on basketballs.
	1:05pm listener james from westwood: @UM: Just like Flanders!
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: Is that a Flanderism?
	1:08pm Gaylord Fields: I have a couple of mid-late-'60s Four Freshmen LPs, where they go in a bit of a mod direction; the songs that are good are exhilarating, and the songs that aren't good are embarrassing.
	1:10pm tater: Happy friday
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Gaylord, that Different Strokes album is...something.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Howdy Tate!
	1:15pm Frank from VT: Hey, I care about Prairie Village - my grandparents lived there!
	1:15pm Uncle Michael: Excellent!
	1:20pm Gaylord Fields: @Uncle Michael: The FF were way over their heads by the time of Different Strokes, but I can't really fault them for trying. Their harmonies are a gift, and any venue that keeps them alive is ultimately oke by me, even if their versions become cringe-making at times.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: @Gaylord; Don't get me wrong, I know that era caught a lot of legacy acts with their pants down. It's no shame. I have a certain fascination for that particular album.
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: I need to correct this entry. It's Luke the Drifter Jr.
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: @UM: Ned was falsely accused of being hopped up on said goofballs, then incriminated himself in front of a chunk of the congregation.
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: goofballs or golfballs?
	1:26pm Gaylord Fields: @UM: Oh, I can tell you have the same level of no-illusions affection as I do.
	1:26pm listener james from westwood: Goofballs in his case.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: hopped on golfballs is funnier
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: Fred Cole twin spin unfolding...
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: Actually that would have been funnier, in context.
	1:30pm efd: present!
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: I wasn't expecting you till the next set!
	1:32pm Holly in NC: Fred Cole drew me from 2 rooms away :-) Hi UM, hi efd, hi everyone!
	1:33pm Uncle Michael: Hi Holly!
	1:33pm efd: I guess I jumped the gun a little bit.
	1:35pm listener james from westwood: Oh, that conjures an image.
	1:39pm listener james from westwood: Huh, so 2 songs mention Charles Whitman.
	1:40pm Uncle Michael: And the Harry Chapin song!
	1:41pm Uncle Michael: And Steely Dan...sorta.
	1:43pm still b/p: I'm often a luckless pedestrian, so I kinda got a Steely Dan mention, there, too. Though not as luckless as the song-context pedestrians.
	1:44pm hyde: ok, I'm back. What'd I miss? I mean, besides the four hours of cool music.
	1:44pm efd: ha, this song (Paley Bros) just came on my iPhonePod the other day!
	1:45pm Uncle Michael: How does it come on? wot?
	1:45pm Gaylord Fields: Okay, I need to get the Complete Recordings, and stat!
	1:46pm efd: Gaylord, it's so good!
	1:46pm Uncle Michael: This is not the sort of pop song that should last five and a half minutes but it does...
	1:46pm efd: UM, it came up while I was listening to my music in shuffle mode.
	1:46pm Uncle Michael: This was Andy Partridge before...
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: shake the hand you never hold... geez
	1:48pm Mike East: Meet the Invisible Man = #1Hit!!
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: Naturally Shelley beat me to this!
	1:49pm still b/p: Speaking of Andys, maybe you could throw Andy Pratt's Avenging Annie on sometime.
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: maybe!
	1:50pm Gaylord Fields: @efd: I have the Paley Bros. LP, of course, and the "Come Out and Play" EP, and I foolishly thought that would be enough.
	1:51pm Holly in NC: @UM - I was just looking up Darrell Statler to see if Statler is his real last name (it is, unlike the Statler Bros) and turns out while I was noting that Darrell wrote "I Love The Blues And The Boogie Woogie " for Billy 'Crash' Craddock and totally bizarrely you were playing BCC at the EXACT SAME TIME. That is odd.
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: I expect that sort of synchronicity all the time, Holly. Like....the back to back play of a Tommy James song and the b-side of a Tommy James cover was utterly an accident. Thanks for the info.
	1:53pm ndbob: woah Holly - and both sides of the Billy Crash Craddock 45 are good
	1:53pm earrie: Starring this one seems fitting. Adding the non-existent big-star option.
	1:58pm Lane Steelpicker: Met BCC at the same festival where Tom T. Hall hit me. HUGE Elvis Complec
	1:59pm VAC: How did you say ABBA?
	1:59pm still b/p: Teach-In vocalist like a combo of Pet Clark and The Seekers Georgy Girl singer and a touch of Karen Carpenter. Or maybe that's the vegetable biryani lunch talking.
	2:01pm Uncle Michael: Is it backin' up on ya?
	2:03pm Holly in NC: @Lane S - That's a story that seems worth telling...
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: I used a labial percussive, VAC.
	2:03pm Lewis: @UM = a while ago you played "take a stroll thru your mind" and opened up a whole new view of the temptations and that era and genre for me - very cool, thanks!
	2:03pm still b/p: Give The Dumpling Some.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: You're welcome, Lewis. I think you ought to seek out the "Masterpiece" album.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm playing a lot of long versions of things today.
	2:05pm Lewis: Thanks - will do!
	2:06pm listener james from westwood: Long versions always welcome.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: Sometimes when I start listening to the Philly Int'l box set...I can't stop.
	2:08pm Mike East: no complaints here, UM
	2:09pm SeanG: Philly soul rules all!
	2:09pm Holly in NC: Sometimes I can't stop watching the effect of a red hot ball of nickel on peeps, though there's a definite lack of suspense.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: Hell yes it does...till something else does!
	2:12pm Uncle Michael: Umm...Holly?
	2:13pm still b/p: Hot nickel balls falling in the NC weather? Local coffee shop has a contest with peep scenes/dioramas -- parades, Hunger Games, Trojan (a la Horse) Peep, vacation locales...
	2:13pm Uncle Michael: I'd get kinda tired dancing to this beat.
	2:15pm Holly in NC: MARSHMALLOW Peeps, UM www.youtube.com...
	2:15pm VAC: Ah.
	2:17pm Lane Steelpicker: It's along story, Holly. Shot you the contact thingy
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: That's no way to treat one's peeps.
	2:19pm Uncle Michael: Melody partially lifted from "Them There Eyes?"
	2:23pm Holly in NC: LOVE Aguaturbia. @Lane S - Thank you!
	2:28pm Uncle Michael: Coming up...an original version.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: now doubting this is the 1949 recording
	2:32pm Lane Steelpicker: Like that Grady Martin noodling. I grew up on the Foy Willing version
	2:33pm Lane Steelpicker: Sure sounds like Burl
	2:33pm still b/p: Recording quality sounds later, eh?
	2:33pm Holly in NC: Ah, Burl. Adore him, even though he unwittingly makes my live a living hell every Christmas season.
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: It's Burl but I'm not sure that's the 1949 recording.
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: wow...phase shifter headphone madness!
	2:35pm Holly in NC: Here is the 1949 recording: www.youtube.com...
	2:35pm Gaylord Fields: Burl Ives — he don't know that he's ugly!
	2:36pm Uncle Michael: Mendacity!
	2:37pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Holly. I'm sure I have a variety of versions. I just grabbed the wrong one.
	2:39pm still b/p: Doug Schulkind, re GTDS: "You will never hear Burl Ives on this show."
	2:40pm Uncle Michael: Right...but thankfully you have me.
	2:40pm Holly in NC: @UM :-)
	2:41pm Gaylord Fields: Okay, then, but Burl shouldn't have been such an insect lookist. Or sing to the HUAC.
	2:45pm Gaylord Fields: But if Pete Seeger can forgive Burl for naming names, so can I. But his talking smack about bugs, I can never countenance!
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: I still watch Elia Zazan films, too.
	2:47pm Gaylord Fields: I even stopped watching Lainie Kazan films. That's how committed I am to the cause.
	2:47pm Uncle Michael: That's committed...and you should be!
	2:49pm listener james from westwood: The Velvet Fog!
	2:50pm Gaylord Fields: The voices in my head that won't stop say otherwise, Uncle Michael.
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: Ain't this pretty?
	2:52pm Gaylord Fields: It's lovely, very much so. And Mel's never really gotten his due as a songwriter.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: or as an actor
	2:55pm Gaylord Fields: I recently saw him on an episode of Run for Your Life, and he was really good.
	2:55pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:55pm northguineahills: Thanks UM! Great tunes!
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone...appreciate you making HDT a part of your Fridays. See you next week!
	2:57pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, UM, for another great workweek-ending diversion!
	2:58pm listener james from westwood: Stellar show, UM! Many thanks!
	2:58pm hyde: thanks, UM!
	3:00pm Santos L Halper: Thanks Unk! Have a great week and watch out for those insect-lookist types.
	3:00pm earrie: Thanks for the Friday aft tunesm UM.
	3:01pm Mike East: yeah, talk about diversion...I haven't gotten any work done for the last 3 hours!!
	3:02pm Lane Steelpicker: Good show. Watch the MST3K version of Girl's Town. It'll restore your Mel...
	3:03pm Holly in NC: Thank you, UM
	3:03pm tater: Good show
	3:03pm Uncle Michael: Bye everyone! Thanks!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 18, 2014

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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Artist	Track	Album
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
The Edsels	Rama Lama Ding Dong "Rama Lama Ding Dong" by "The Edsels"	b/w Bells (Dub - 1958) From: Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll - Vol 4
Three Dog Night	Eli's Coming "Eli's Coming" by "Three Dog Night"	Suitable for Framing (ABC-Dunhill - 1969)
Darrell Statler	Blue Collar Job "Blue Collar Job" by "Darrell Statler"	b/w I'm Barely Gettin' By (Dot - 1969)
Lene Lovich	Lucky Number "Lucky Number" by "Lene Lovich"	b-side to I Think We're Alone Now (Stiff - 1978) From: The Big Stiff Box Set
Tommy James & The Shondells	Crystal Blue Persuasion	b/w I'm Alive (Roulette - 1969)
Willie Harper	A Certain Girl "A Certain Girl" by "Willie Harper"	b-side to I Don't Need You Anymore (Tou-Sea - 1968)
Esquivel, His Piano And Group	Tico Tico	Four Corners of the World (RCA-Victor - 1958)
Music behind DJ: The James Gang	Yadig "Yadig" by "The James Gang"	Thirds (ABC - 1971)
Wayne Kramer, The Lexington Arts Ensemble	The Wayne In Spain	Lexington (Industrial Amusement - 2014)
Jimmy McGriff Organ & Blues Band	Down Home On The Moon	A Thing To Come By (Solid State - 1969)
Isley Brothers	Fight the Power Pt. 1	b/w Fight the Power Pt. 2 (TNeck - 1975)
Music behind DJ: The Sounds Of Jack Downes	Up-Up And Away	unk. (unk. - 1967) From: Lost Jukebox - Vol 134
Sandie Shaw	Message Understood "Message Understood" by "Sandie Shaw"	b/w Don't You Count On It (Pye - 1965) From: 60's Brit Girls (Castle SELCD 528)
Bob & Ray	Fred Falby - DIY Golfballs	WOR-AM 1975 Tape 1 (Recorded off air - 1975)
David Crosby	I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here	If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic - 1971)
Pink Floyd	Arnold Layne "Arnold Layne" by "Pink Floyd"	b/w Candy And A Currant Bun (Columbia - 1967) From: Shine On Box Set Bonus CD
The Four Freshmen	Charade "Charade" by "The Four Freshmen"	b-side to Funny How Time Slips Away (Capitol - 1963)
Ethel Smith	Carioca "Carioca" by "Ethel Smith"	Rhythm Antics! (Decca - 1963)
People's Choice	Do It Any Way You Wanna	b/w The Big Hurt (TSOP - 1975) From: Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversay
Music behind DJ: Sammy Kaye	Charade - Theme From Charade	b/w Maria Elena (Decca - 1964)
Ronnie Love	Chills And Fever "Chills And Fever" by "Ronnie Love"	b/w No Use Pledging My Love (Dot - 1960) From: Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll - Vol 11
(Billy) Crash Craddock	Don't Destroy Me	b/w Boom Boom Baby (Columbia - 1959)
Chaino	Swamp Girl "Swamp Girl" by "Chaino"	Africana (London - 1959) From: Africana & Beyond!
Hank Williams Jr. (as Luke The Drifter Jr.)	I Was With Red Foley (The Night He Passed Away)	b/w The Drifter (MGM - 1968)
Dead Moon	Street Of Despair "Street Of Despair" by "Dead Moon"	Thirteen Off My Hook (Music Maniac - 1990)
The Rats	Can't Stand Back "Can't Stand Back" by "The Rats"	In a Desperate Red (Whizeagle - 1983)
The Dictators	Young, Fast, Scientific	Manifest Destiny (Asylum - 1977)
Music behind DJ: Buffalo Springfield	Kahuna Sunset	Archives (Rhino - 2001) From: Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Bobby Lee Trammell And The Jordanaires	What Is This World Coming To	b/w I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (unk. - 1968) From: VA - Wacked-Out Hillbilly 45s
Emitt Rhodes	Long Time No See "Long Time No See" by "Emitt Rhodes"	Emitt Rhodes (ABC-Dunhill - 1970) From: Recordings [1969-1973]
The Paley Brothers	Meet The Invisible Man (Unreleased)	prev. unr. (PPC - 2013) From: The Complete Recordings
Big Star	O My Soul "O My Soul" by "Big Star"	Radio City (Ardent - 1974) From: #1 Record/Radio City
Teach-In	Ding-A-Dong "Ding-A-Dong" by "Teach-In"	b/w Let Me In (Philips - 1975) From: Congratulations 50 Years Of The Eurovision Song Contest All The Winners + Favourites 1956 1980
Music behind DJ: Chuck Berry	Ingo "Ingo" by "Chuck Berry"	One Dozen Berrys (Chess - 1958)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	Wake Up Everybody (Original Album Version)	Wake Up Everybody (Philadelphia International - 1975) From: Philadelphia International Records - 40th Anniversay
The O'Jays	Backstabbers "Backstabbers" by "The O'Jays"	b/w 992 Arguments (Philadelphia International - 1972) From: Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversay
The Olympic Runners	The Bitch "The Bitch" by "The Olympic Runners"	b/w Energy Beam (Polydor - 1979)
Aguaturbia	I Wonder Who "I Wonder Who" by "Aguaturbia"	Volumen 2 ( Arena Producciones - 1970) From: Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music
The Surprise Package	The Other Me	b/w The Merry-Go-Round Is Slowing You Down (Columbia - 1967) From: Lost Jukebox Volume - 22
Music behind DJ: Incredible Bongo Band	Let There Be Drums	Bongo Rock The Story Of (MGM - 2001)
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra	Kickin' The Gong Around	b/w unk. (Brunswick - 1931) From: The Early Years, 1930-1934, Volume 1
Artie Shaw & His New Music	All God's Chillun' Got Rhythm	b/w unk. (Brunswick - 1937) From: The Chronological Artie Shaw 1936-37
Burl Ives	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend	b/w Wayfaring Stranger/Woolie Boogie Bee (Columbia - 1949)
The Fox	Only You Can "Only You Can" by "The Fox"	b/w Out Of My Body (GTO - 1975)
Street People	Wanna Slow Dance With You Baby (At The Disco)	b/w I Wanna Spend My Whole Life With You (Vigor - 1976)
Booker T. & The MGs	Mrs. Robinson	b/w Soul Clap '69 (Stax - 1969) From: The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Vol 2
The Cyrkle	Terry's Theme [unreleased]	prev. unr. (none - 1970) From: The Minx - Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Sundazed, 2003)
Snooks Eaglin	Sophisticated Blues	New Orleans Street Singer (Folkways - 1968) From: ABC of the Blues
Mel Tormé	It's A Blue World "It's A Blue World" by "Mel Tormé"	It's A Blue World (Bethlehem - 1955)
The Critters	Mr. Dieingly Sad "Mr. Dieingly Sad" by "The Critters"	b/w It Just Won't Be That Way (Kapp - 1966)
The Kingston Trio	The Last Thing On My Mind	Somethin' Else (Decca - 1965)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm Uncle Michael: This thing on?
	12:01pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:01pm Stanley: Kansas! Kansas!
	12:02pm K wilde: Little delay but up and running now
	12:02pm still b/p: Let's all do what the ding dang do.
	12:03pm duke: Hello UM et al.
	12:04pm Uncle Michael: Hello everyone!
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Who put the "Rama" in the Rama Lama Ding Dong?
	12:05pm pacific standard simon: Rama-lama-ding-dong likes to play with my ding-a-ling.
	12:05pm duke: I went to school with a girl named Rama Lama Ding Dong. Oh wait, no, her name was Dianne
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: What, it's only 10:05 in Kizel! Must be another one somewhere to the east.
	12:06pm listener james from westwood: BTW, "dinkies" autocorrects to "funkiest." So you've got that going for you. Which is nice.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: I was referring to Kyzyl. en.wikipedia.org...
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Nice Caddyshack reference, James.
	12:11pm still b/p: Tuva-luva-luva, that's a Kyzylian lullaby, with overtones.
	12:11pm Alex In Illinois: I dropped ukulele in the ocean here!
	12:13pm Mike East: I didn't know until yesterday that Harold Ramis directed Caddyshack. I'm a bit embarrassed
	12:13pm Roberto: Lene! Thanks for the 1983 flashback. Yes it's from '78 but '83 was when my brother's girlfriend listened to "Stateless" nonstop.
	12:14pm Alex In Illinois: That comment was supposed to appear during the second stanza of Lucky Number, but there is a delay with these comments sometimes.
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: I remember learning about French Kyzyl. Ooh la la!
	12:14pm Mike East: final jeopardy the other night asked what TV series used Crystal Blue Persuasion in an episode...no one got it right. I guess nerds don't watch Breaking Bad.
	12:14pm VAC: Is Harold Ramis Canadian or is that the other guy?
	12:14pm Lane Steelpicker: Was that twang in the Darrel Statler a steel with a sitar bar?
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: French Kyzyl, where they speak in tongues.
	12:15pm Mike East: They both are, VAC
	12:15pm earrie: Harold Ramis was from Chicago, Illinois, no?
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: I'll buy that story, Roberto! Hello ro you and Alex and Mike and still b/p and Doug and james and Simon and Duke and Lane and Bob and Stanley and k wilde!
	12:16pm Mike East: wiki corrects me...Ramis is from Chicago originally. Who am I to judge those jeopardy nerds? oy.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Lane, I'll have to listen to it on the archive. I'm not really here.
	12:16pm still b/p: That guitar opening on Crystal Blue Persuasion and subsequent fills are almost comically schlocky, but I love 'em for some reason.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: Hello to VAC and anyone I may have missed!
	12:17pm Alex In Illinois: I put all of the danceable tracks from Stateless, Flex and No Man's Land (plus the New Toy Never Never Land EP) on various cassettes I made throughout the early 1980's.
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: Hello earrie!
	12:18pm Alex In Illinois: IS this the Original first recording of Certain Girl? There have been plenty of covers.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Nah, I'm pretty sure Lee Dorsey was first.
	12:20pm Lane Steelpicker: It was either that or a REALLY fretbuzzy Mosrite.
	12:20pm earrie: Heya, UM. @Mike East - 'was from'
	12:25pm Mike East: yeah, earrie, I knew that...my brain is fried
	12:29pm pacific standard simon: Is Wayne the last of the MC5 tontine?
	12:30pm Doug Schulkind: Enjoying the hell out of this.
	12:30pm ndbob: I've only been shopping on record store day once - where I lived in ND was 100 miles from the nearest record store - went to a store in Fargo with a friend - it was pretty poor - small selection - overpriced common LPs, very few 45s, and a large stack of LPs I couldn't look through
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: No, Wayne's not the last. Only a couple are gone...
	12:31pm Santos L Halper: Greetings Uncle and all. Enjoying a non-working live listen; a good Friday indeed! This Lexington sounds great.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Doug, Dr. Charles Moore is Wayne's collaborator on thus project.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Santos!
	12:33pm pacific standard simon: Sorry, I was busy looking up the answer. Only Wayne and drummer Dennis survive.
	12:33pm earrie: A great who wore all those different creative hats wonderfully. Director, writer, producer, actor and obviously not the asshole asshat hat.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Hmm...ok. I'm wrong again...
	12:37pm pacific standard simon: You were fooled because Michael Davis participated in that reunion a few years ago, but he also kicked the bucket in 2012.
	12:39pm Lane Steelpicker: Love McGriff. Me and some guy named Emmons steel licks from him.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: That is what got me.
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: I'd like to hear a Buddy track with stolen McGriff licks, Lane. Recommend something, please!
	12:47pm Alex In Illinois: Jimmy McGriff is often heard on a certain 3pm section of a weekly radio show. I don't remember the name of the show, but the 3 pm section is called: "Let the B-3 be free at Three"
	12:48pm Lane Steelpicker: I'll hunt it up. I talked to him in St. Louis one year, thinking I heard the influence. He beamed big at getting caught. Recommended that I listen to Shirley Scott
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: You are indeed contributing to this good Friday! Can't believe how quickly we got to this Friday since the last one.
	12:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks James...and thank you Lane.
	12:52pm Gaylord Fields: Someone get that gal some shoes!
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Hey Uncle. Is this a Chris Andrews song?
	12:53pm Uncle Michael: Brian, I could not tell you...and hello! Hello, Gaylord!
	12:54pm Lane Steelpicker: I think I heard some B-3 licks in the Danny Gatton Buddy Emmons thing "Rock Candy"
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: @Brian in UK: It most certainly is.
	12:54pm Gaylord Fields: Well, I'll be a Monkee's Uncle! (Sorry, UM.)
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: That's ok, Gaylord...I had it coming.
	12:59pm Gaylord Fields: B&R are masters of deadpan absurdity.
	1:01pm Santos L Halper: Little known fact: Arnold Layne made his own golfballs too.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: You mean you didn't write down those instructions?
	1:02pm Santos L Halper: Or was it goofballs...?
	1:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm all hopped up on golfballs.
	1:04pm Gaylord Fields: @UM: I'm all hooped up on basketballs.
	1:05pm listener james from westwood: @UM: Just like Flanders!
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: Is that a Flanderism?
	1:08pm Gaylord Fields: I have a couple of mid-late-'60s Four Freshmen LPs, where they go in a bit of a mod direction; the songs that are good are exhilarating, and the songs that aren't good are embarrassing.
	1:10pm tater: Happy friday
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Gaylord, that Different Strokes album is...something.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Howdy Tate!
	1:15pm Frank from VT: Hey, I care about Prairie Village - my grandparents lived there!
	1:15pm Uncle Michael: Excellent!
	1:20pm Gaylord Fields: @Uncle Michael: The FF were way over their heads by the time of Different Strokes, but I can't really fault them for trying. Their harmonies are a gift, and any venue that keeps them alive is ultimately oke by me, even if their versions become cringe-making at times.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: @Gaylord; Don't get me wrong, I know that era caught a lot of legacy acts with their pants down. It's no shame. I have a certain fascination for that particular album.
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: I need to correct this entry. It's Luke the Drifter Jr.
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: @UM: Ned was falsely accused of being hopped up on said goofballs, then incriminated himself in front of a chunk of the congregation.
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: goofballs or golfballs?
	1:26pm Gaylord Fields: @UM: Oh, I can tell you have the same level of no-illusions affection as I do.
	1:26pm listener james from westwood: Goofballs in his case.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: hopped on golfballs is funnier
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: Fred Cole twin spin unfolding...
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: Actually that would have been funnier, in context.
	1:30pm efd: present!
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: I wasn't expecting you till the next set!
	1:32pm Holly in NC: Fred Cole drew me from 2 rooms away :-) Hi UM, hi efd, hi everyone!
	1:33pm Uncle Michael: Hi Holly!
	1:33pm efd: I guess I jumped the gun a little bit.
	1:35pm listener james from westwood: Oh, that conjures an image.
	1:39pm listener james from westwood: Huh, so 2 songs mention Charles Whitman.
	1:40pm Uncle Michael: And the Harry Chapin song!
	1:41pm Uncle Michael: And Steely Dan...sorta.
	1:43pm still b/p: I'm often a luckless pedestrian, so I kinda got a Steely Dan mention, there, too. Though not as luckless as the song-context pedestrians.
	1:44pm hyde: ok, I'm back. What'd I miss? I mean, besides the four hours of cool music.
	1:44pm efd: ha, this song (Paley Bros) just came on my iPhonePod the other day!
	1:45pm Uncle Michael: How does it come on? wot?
	1:45pm Gaylord Fields: Okay, I need to get the Complete Recordings, and stat!
	1:46pm efd: Gaylord, it's so good!
	1:46pm Uncle Michael: This is not the sort of pop song that should last five and a half minutes but it does...
	1:46pm efd: UM, it came up while I was listening to my music in shuffle mode.
	1:46pm Uncle Michael: This was Andy Partridge before...
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: shake the hand you never hold... geez
	1:48pm Mike East: Meet the Invisible Man = #1Hit!!
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: Naturally Shelley beat me to this!
	1:49pm still b/p: Speaking of Andys, maybe you could throw Andy Pratt's Avenging Annie on sometime.
	1:49pm Uncle Michael: maybe!
	1:50pm Gaylord Fields: @efd: I have the Paley Bros. LP, of course, and the "Come Out and Play" EP, and I foolishly thought that would be enough.
	1:51pm Holly in NC: @UM - I was just looking up Darrell Statler to see if Statler is his real last name (it is, unlike the Statler Bros) and turns out while I was noting that Darrell wrote "I Love The Blues And The Boogie Woogie " for Billy 'Crash' Craddock and totally bizarrely you were playing BCC at the EXACT SAME TIME. That is odd.
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: I expect that sort of synchronicity all the time, Holly. Like....the back to back play of a Tommy James song and the b-side of a Tommy James cover was utterly an accident. Thanks for the info.
	1:53pm ndbob: woah Holly - and both sides of the Billy Crash Craddock 45 are good
	1:53pm earrie: Starring this one seems fitting. Adding the non-existent big-star option.
	1:58pm Lane Steelpicker: Met BCC at the same festival where Tom T. Hall hit me. HUGE Elvis Complec
	1:59pm VAC: How did you say ABBA?
	1:59pm still b/p: Teach-In vocalist like a combo of Pet Clark and The Seekers Georgy Girl singer and a touch of Karen Carpenter. Or maybe that's the vegetable biryani lunch talking.
	2:01pm Uncle Michael: Is it backin' up on ya?
	2:03pm Holly in NC: @Lane S - That's a story that seems worth telling...
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: I used a labial percussive, VAC.
	2:03pm Lewis: @UM = a while ago you played "take a stroll thru your mind" and opened up a whole new view of the temptations and that era and genre for me - very cool, thanks!
	2:03pm still b/p: Give The Dumpling Some.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: You're welcome, Lewis. I think you ought to seek out the "Masterpiece" album.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: I'm playing a lot of long versions of things today.
	2:05pm Lewis: Thanks - will do!
	2:06pm listener james from westwood: Long versions always welcome.
	2:06pm Uncle Michael: Sometimes when I start listening to the Philly Int'l box set...I can't stop.
	2:08pm Mike East: no complaints here, UM
	2:09pm SeanG: Philly soul rules all!
	2:09pm Holly in NC: Sometimes I can't stop watching the effect of a red hot ball of nickel on peeps, though there's a definite lack of suspense.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: Hell yes it does...till something else does!
	2:12pm Uncle Michael: Umm...Holly?
	2:13pm still b/p: Hot nickel balls falling in the NC weather? Local coffee shop has a contest with peep scenes/dioramas -- parades, Hunger Games, Trojan (a la Horse) Peep, vacation locales...
	2:13pm Uncle Michael: I'd get kinda tired dancing to this beat.
	2:15pm Holly in NC: MARSHMALLOW Peeps, UM www.youtube.com...
	2:15pm VAC: Ah.
	2:17pm Lane Steelpicker: It's along story, Holly. Shot you the contact thingy
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: That's no way to treat one's peeps.
	2:19pm Uncle Michael: Melody partially lifted from "Them There Eyes?"
	2:23pm Holly in NC: LOVE Aguaturbia. @Lane S - Thank you!
	2:28pm Uncle Michael: Coming up...an original version.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: now doubting this is the 1949 recording
	2:32pm Lane Steelpicker: Like that Grady Martin noodling. I grew up on the Foy Willing version
	2:33pm Lane Steelpicker: Sure sounds like Burl
	2:33pm still b/p: Recording quality sounds later, eh?
	2:33pm Holly in NC: Ah, Burl. Adore him, even though he unwittingly makes my live a living hell every Christmas season.
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: It's Burl but I'm not sure that's the 1949 recording.
	2:34pm Uncle Michael: wow...phase shifter headphone madness!
	2:35pm Holly in NC: Here is the 1949 recording: www.youtube.com...
	2:35pm Gaylord Fields: Burl Ives — he don't know that he's ugly!
	2:36pm Uncle Michael: Mendacity!
	2:37pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Holly. I'm sure I have a variety of versions. I just grabbed the wrong one.
	2:39pm still b/p: Doug Schulkind, re GTDS: "You will never hear Burl Ives on this show."
	2:40pm Uncle Michael: Right...but thankfully you have me.
	2:40pm Holly in NC: @UM :-)
	2:41pm Gaylord Fields: Okay, then, but Burl shouldn't have been such an insect lookist. Or sing to the HUAC.
	2:45pm Gaylord Fields: But if Pete Seeger can forgive Burl for naming names, so can I. But his talking smack about bugs, I can never countenance!
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: I still watch Elia Zazan films, too.
	2:47pm Gaylord Fields: I even stopped watching Lainie Kazan films. That's how committed I am to the cause.
	2:47pm Uncle Michael: That's committed...and you should be!
	2:49pm listener james from westwood: The Velvet Fog!
	2:50pm Gaylord Fields: The voices in my head that won't stop say otherwise, Uncle Michael.
	2:50pm Uncle Michael: Ain't this pretty?
	2:52pm Gaylord Fields: It's lovely, very much so. And Mel's never really gotten his due as a songwriter.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: or as an actor
	2:55pm Gaylord Fields: I recently saw him on an episode of Run for Your Life, and he was really good.
	2:55pm ndbob: excellent show UM!
	2:55pm northguineahills: Thanks UM! Great tunes!
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone...appreciate you making HDT a part of your Fridays. See you next week!
	2:57pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks, UM, for another great workweek-ending diversion!
	2:58pm listener james from westwood: Stellar show, UM! Many thanks!
	2:58pm hyde: thanks, UM!
	3:00pm Santos L Halper: Thanks Unk! Have a great week and watch out for those insect-lookist types.
	3:00pm earrie: Thanks for the Friday aft tunesm UM.
	3:01pm Mike East: yeah, talk about diversion...I haven't gotten any work done for the last 3 hours!!
	3:02pm Lane Steelpicker: Good show. Watch the MST3K version of Girl's Town. It'll restore your Mel...
	3:03pm Holly in NC: Thank you, UM
	3:03pm tater: Good show
	3:03pm Uncle Michael: Bye everyone! Thanks!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 18, 2014

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