Your face, before you were born: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie

Listener comments!

11:37am annie:

yes, i'm early

11:40am Charlie:

hi, early. early annie. annie early.

11:46am Michael:

Swordfish. Can I come in?

11:49am Webhamster Henry:

I'm early too!

11:51am Uncle Michael:

What does your face look like when you're not looking at it?

11:52am βrian:

The other stream went into V-fib early, so I'm here.

11:55am Parq:

Present.

11:55am Charlie:

Michael has the password!
Hello Henry Early!
Uncle Michael -- Yes.
βrian also early, hello.

11:55am Charlie:

And hello, Parq Present.
And greetings to those not yet here, but whose faces are already here.

12:01pm Carmichael:

Good morning, Nothings. When I hear the Rocky & Bullwinkle theme, I know it's time for Charlie.

12:01pm Mayuko:

Good afternoon!

12:01pm βrian:

Oh ... I've been in this basement before. Yes, I remember ...

12:01pm listener james from westwood:

I think I have wireless today, so will say hi and hang on as long as I can !

12:04pm Webhamster Henry:

Melodica alert!

12:05pm Charlie:

Hello there, Carmichael and Mayuko and James!

12:05pm Charlie:

That's Miss Lily Banquette playing the melodica.

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12:07pm doctorjazz:

Lovely Combustible stuff

12:07pm Parq:

Neat. Is this Vic Mizzy?

12:07pm Webhamster Henry:

I'm the melodicist in my band.

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12:07pm doctorjazz:

Actually, it's Morticia's Theme I was hearing...

12:07pm βrian:

Lily Banquette — that's a lovely name. I swoon.

12:09pm Michael:

Lurch on harpsichord there.

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12:09pm doctorjazz:

And the Band, great track, is he singing in a wind tunnel?

12:09pm Charlie:

Combustible Edison cover Morticia's Theme on that album.

12:10pm Charlie:

Yes, Lurch on harpsichord!

12:10pm Charlie:

Oh, hey, doctorjazz :)

12:10pm Parq:

Ah, there we go. Was having trouble calling up the playlist portion of the page.

12:11pm βrian:

Cousin It on accompanying vocals ...

12:14pm Webhamster Henry:

TMBG & Robin Goldwasser do a good I Hear New World: vimeo.com...

12:15pm Charlie:

Ooh, will check that out, Henry!

12:15pm Listening Out There:

Nifty version of Icarus...originally by Oregon (Ralph Towner)...

12:16pm Webhamster Henry:

RSM can do anything!

12:16pm Charlie:

And he does everything ;)

12:17pm Parq:

Goldie Goldwasser is one of my favorite people on the New York off-mainstream scene. I've met her, and she's a sweetheart of a person into the bargain.

12:17pm Charlie:

Hi Listening Out There -- I love the Paul Winter Consort version also.

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12:18pm doctorjazz:

Does anyone else have problems getting to the GOTD page from the main WFMU page? The new videos that are posted below the choices of where to go make it impossible to get to the GTDR page...you can stream, but not from the pop-up (which I need to do to get past the work computer blocks). Usually link through the email Doug sends out, but would be nice to fix that.

12:18pm Parq:

Yeah, digging this Stevie cover. His covers are, if anything, even more ingenious than his original songs.

12:18pm Listening Out There:

Ah. Forgot about Paul Winter.

12:18pm Brian in UK:

Hello Charlie and funsters.
I seem to remember Miss Lily Banquette from Hyacinths & Thistles by The Sixths.

12:19pm Brian in UK:

Can a Moog yodel?

12:19pm Parq:

Shaking my head and grinning at this one (the
Focus cover).

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12:20pm doctorjazz:

I thought I know this cover, was this that Scandinavian band...?

12:20pm Parq:

Brian, we're about to find out, aren't we?

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12:20pm doctorjazz:

That's it! Cool!

12:20pm βrian:

Can Cousin It yodel?

12:21pm Brian in UK:

Dutch.

12:21pm Charlie:

They gave the yodel part to the harpsichord!

12:22pm Listening Out There:

Everyone knows harpschords yodel. Everyone...

12:22pm Webhamster Henry:

@Parq: she is a sweety; we both have sung in the Loser's Lounge shows in the 90s.

12:23pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!

12:23pm Roberto:

I get asked that all the time!

12:25pm Roberto:

Weird, I just attended a company presentation in which the main presenter reminder me of Malcolm McDowell.

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12:26pm doctorjazz:

I'm 0 for 5 so far today... :(

12:26pm Parq:

Henry, believe it or not, I am a Losers alum myself. I was the karaoke drawing winner at one of the XTC shows ca. 2003.

12:26pm Brian in UK:

Charlie talking of faces; our youngest daughter was born with a caul.

12:28pm Brian in UK:

fyi
www.pararesearchers.org...

12:30pm Santos L Halper:

Afternoon, Charlie and other busy bodies. Busy myself but digging what I can catch.

Any suggestions for an R Stevie M starter album or two?

12:32pm mauri:

Brian in UK, never heard of that before. Seems like it's called a hat of luck in finnish. finns swedes and sami folk used to dry it treasure it for the life and then buried with the owner.

12:32pm Charlie:

Hey, Brian in UK: Thanks for the lesson in anatomy and mythology. How did that go, was it the easier or more difficult kind to remove?

12:33pm Charlie:

Hi also Roberto, Mauri, Santos Halper.
re RSM, will suggest something in a few minutes.

12:33pm Webhamster Henry:

@Parq the Losers cast a wide net! I was with two other LL alums last night - up here in Kingston NY!
BTW, the LL cover of This Whole World by Mary Lee Cortez is also really good!

12:36pm Parq:

Santos, as I assume you know, there are literally dozens, many available only under sketchy circumstances to begin with. Out of sheer whimsy, I'm going to suggest you start with 1984's "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About R. Stevie Moore But Were Afraid To Ask", or 2007's "Meet the R. Stevie Moore".

12:37pm Listening Out There:

"Beware of Mr. Baker" :)

12:43pm Joe McG:

Hey Charlie--My local news telecast when I was growing up in PA used the first part of this Al Ham song as its theme!

12:43pm βrian:

This really has that A.M. radio tinge, n'est-ce pas?

12:45pm Charlie:

Hey, Joe McG! -- Yeah, one of the NY indie TV stations used it too. WPIX, I think.

12:45pm Brian in UK:

Charlie it was no problem.

mauri, we are heading for Sami country (Northern Norway - Tromso) at the end of February. Hope to see the Northern Lights. My wifes birthday surprise (do not do this every time)

12:46pm Jeff:

Wait wait waitaminnute - did "Move Closer to Your World" actually exist as an independent song before it became the news theme?

I guess I always assumed it had been composed for the news.

12:46pm Jeff:

Action News, to be specific.

12:47pm Charlie:

Santos --
He is incredibly prolific, and he constantly re-packages existing material. Phonography is a great early record. Contact Risk is also good. Also: The Future is Worse Than the Past (on Megaphon), and Hobbies Galore: His Best 24 (released himself). Check his website!

12:47pm Jeff:

Aha! Wikiwiki fills in the blanks again:

en.wikipedia.org...

12:48pm Brian in UK:

Kent Brockman I presume.

12:50pm Webhamster Henry:

yes, the Hillside Singers: singing about Coke .. uh .. world peace on a Hillside! They also did one based on a McDonalds ad (You deserve a break today) -> "We're Together"

12:52pm rf:

So good today. thank you. the Scala choir was esp. delightful

12:56pm mauri:

Tromsos a good choice. A very good chance of northern light then.

12:56pm Charlie:

Hi, rf, and thanks.
yes, Henry, perfect harmony...

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12:57pm doctorjazz:

So, I went to the R. Stevie Moore site, which takes you to the Bandcamp site, where albums he released or is on are listed. There are almost 300 of them! Wow!

12:58pm Charlie:

yes, doctorjazz. apparently he records, and releases, everything he does!

1:02pm Charlie:

This song, which I came across recently, is so beautiful to me, that I wanted to build a shrine to it. Or at least a radio show.

1:05pm jan:

just got to the party- looks like there's plenty left, but what did I miss?

1:11pm Parq:

Jan, we have agreed that (1) Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser is a peach; (2) R. Stevie Moore has put out more albums than Donald Trump has press releases; (3) "Move Closer to Your World" has an interesting history, to say the least, and (4) a Moog version of "Hocus Pocus" is a cool, if quirky, idea.

1:13pm Listening Out There:

(5) Stevies do it all

1:13pm still b/p:

So "folk" Masses were a thing when I was junior high age in a Catholic school, and when in a First Friday Mass the school team of guitarists/singers played "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," there was bloody aftermath! Tongue-lashings and tears! Despite the alternate no-soda lyrics, the nuns were in high dudgeon, feeling accosted by the Coke song as they returned to their seats after Communion. Chose a 13 year old scapegoat and ganged up on her with an improv Sacrament of Excoriation.

1:15pm βrian:

@still b/p: I remember those. And I remember thinking I don't want to grow up to be a Folk.

1:18pm still b/p:

With their limited chord vocabulary and unstable pitch, maybe they were proto-punks. Just needed to speed it up and turn it up!

1:20pm Brian in UK:

@still b/p tell me more about the tongue lashings.

1:23pm βrian:

Jesus Christ, Superstar caused quite a stir, I recall. Kids, these days!

1:24pm still b/p:

Fuller lashing description provided/performed for £3 per minute.

1:27pm Brian in UK:

The best work any nuns did was to develop musicians in Jamaica to perform Ska.

I'll take a powder on the TL's.

1:31pm Charlie:

overdue Hi to Jan and still b/p -- been too busy to keep up -- really looking forward to reading back through all the comments. every time I check in you guys are on to some new topic :)

1:31pm jan:

Lovely B-S&T. Mercifully without David Clayton Thomas' footprint. And nice hearing Stevie.

1:32pm northguineahills:

When I was in college, I used to sleep to Dirty, and this song would for some reason always wake me up...

1:34pm Charlie:

Hi NGH -- funny to think of sleeping to SY. Maybe this drum explosion was what would wake you.

1:34pm Charlie:

I could see sleeping to "Hoarfrost," from A Thousand Leaves, which I was thinking of playing today.

1:36pm Charlie:

btw, @doctorjazz -- I believe 'FMU is still working out some issues of the re-design, so some of those issues might be resolved.

1:38pm doyle:

flitting by in my butterfly way

1:38pm Uncle Michael:

Oh, how I love this Ethel Waters.

1:39pm Charlie:

We dig Ethel!
Hi Doyle!

1:40pm βrian:

Wait. What's the date for this Ethel Waters?

1:40pm Brian in UK:

b/w Gram Parson's One Hundred Years From This Day.

1:41pm Brian in UK:

Great show Charlie.

1:41pm Ike:

What a nice reminder from Ethel that we're ALL GOING TO DIE.

1:42pm Charlie:

@ βrian -- Recorded November 27, 1933. So, not quite a hundred years yet ;)

1:42pm doyle:

is already dead. in heaven.. listening to BUSY DOING NOTHING!

1:42pm Mike East:

I've been here trying to procrastinate all afternoon, but I just haven't had anything to comment...so here you go.

1:42pm Mike East:

busy commenting nothing

1:45pm Charlie:

busy commenting nothing indeed
hi Mike East
thanks for commenting something, even if it's nothing ;)

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1:48pm doctorjazz:

Nice track by Pernice Brothers, power pop, cool!

1:49pm doyle:

thumbs up PB's!

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1:49pm doctorjazz:

Going faster miles an hour to do nothing for 10 more minutes.

1:50pm northguineahills:

Thanks Charlie, gotta jet!

1:51pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks Charlie!

1:51pm Mike East:

never a wrong time to play jonathan richman

1:52pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!

1:52pm Charlie:

@Ike -- No exceptions!

1:52pm βrian:

Thanks, Charlie. Now it's safe to go get lunch.

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1:52pm doctorjazz:

Got the (internet) RADIO ON!
great show!

1:57pm Santos L Halper:

Thanks Parq

1:58pm Charlie:

Thanks, ndBob -- and hi! Sorry I missed you when you got here earlier! Hope you've had a drink and a canape.

1:58pm Charlie:

Thanks everyone!

1:59pm Michael:

And thank you Charlie.

2:00pm Santos L Halper:

Here 'tis: http://nightflight.com/newpost/

8:09pm Santos L. Halper:

My post got truncated by the app. Should have read: Thanks Parq *and Charlie!*

Then mentioned reading the story that someone linked to on another playlist recently about RSM, the link to which i then found. Anyway, thanks for a great show DJ Charlie, ciao.