WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 18, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:02am Cheri Pi: yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Ra-di-o!
	9:04am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Joe, hi-dee-ho, pi, ditto rad-i-o, KfHP.
	9:04am BLCKDGRD: I'm completely unfamiliar with this Suicide song.
	9:04am annie: hey everyone, i did not fall back asleeep
	9:06am Marcel M: Morning Joe! This is cool!
	9:06am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:06am Joe McG: @BLCKDGRD: Ha ha ha! Morning, everyone! Happy July whatever it is today.
	9:07am Marcel M: "This seemed fair enough," haaha
	9:08am P-90: Yip yip yip! Wow! Good Morning Joe and Martians.
	9:08am bobdoesthings: theatre of the mind here
	9:09am P-90: Thurl!
	9:09am Wild Neil: Peace Joe et al....showtunes?
	9:09am annie: i love this stuff!!!
	9:09am Sem Chumbo: I wish people would burst into song in my City, accompanied by a nice string arrangement and a male chorus.
	9:10am Marcel M: @SemChumbo: Believe it or not... it actually gets tiring here in NYC.
	9:10am bobdoesthings: @joe/all - what does your Happiness Cocktail recipe include?
	9:10am KP: Cleveland, City of Lights, City of Magic
	👻 9:11am Ken From Hyde Park: @bobdoesthings - That's a good topic for SUW.
	9:11am Joe McG: @KP: Ha! I wish Randy had written an ode to NYC as good as this one.
	9:12am bobdoesthings: @kenfromHP-yeah! well..could be.. I could imagine it going south quick
	9:13am P-90: 1956! This is exactly the period I've been researching. I must learn more about this.
	9:13am pierre: Hello Joe !
	9:13am Parq: Ohhh, so this is where that Rex drop-in comes from.
	9:14am Sem Chumbo: "Conjugation up to par." On the edge of NSFW, Joe.
	9:14am Joe McG: @Sem and Marcel: Ha ha ha! @P-90: The original version of this came out right after the war in 1946. This is the rerecorded version. Hi, pierre!
	9:17am Sem Chumbo: A love the vocal artistry that helps the lyric out when it doesn't exactly scan.
	9:26am Polyus: Oh, hot dog!
	9:29am sphere: morning all! were the Jenkins songs a musical or was it a suite designed for an LP?
	9:29am Wild Neil: The Turtles had AMAZING vocals and always remind me of Frank Zappa since he sang with them and actually did Happy Together at a Frank show that I heard once!
	9:30am Joe McG: @sphere: He wrote it to be recorded. I'm not sure if it was ever really performed, but probably!
	👻 9:31am tadpoles: The Fluorescent Leech & Eddie!
	9:32am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	9:32am Parq: Some good Flo and Eddie footage in the new Zappa doc.
	9:33am Marcel M: I'm sensing a theme here..
	9:34am Joe McG: I'm not a Zappa fan by any stretch, but I want to see that new documentary!
	9:34am Wild Neil: This Talking Heads album naïve tone is reminiscent of the earlier Modern Lovers...wonder if David Byrne was inspired by them? The music behind him ROCKS on this album...I am at a loss for a theme unless its awesome vocals...
	9:35am Sem Chumbo: Talking Heads to Nick Gilder. That's some fine DJ'ing there, Joe:-D
	9:37am pantz: Is "We Built This City" next? Morning, Joe!
	9:38am P-90: Wiki says Jenkins & Co. performed an early 16 minute version of the suite on Ed Sullivan's show. An unusual invitation from Sullivan, who usually liked to keep things moving with acts that lasted just a few minutes. Patti Page apparently did a version later. Beverly Mahr, who was the original "Julie", was married to Jenkins and a siinger in his orchestra.
	9:39am Listener Scott: You chose wisely.
	9:39am Wild Neil: Oh, City. Got it..."City I live in " Talking Geds...I thought We Built This City was a commercial jingle when I first heard it...one of the worst songs EVER!!!
	👻 9:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Cities In Dust"?
	9:43am P-90: "All-Male Bar" meant something very different then than it does now...
	9:43am Marcel M: It surprises me they were out at 4am back then as well. I think a few years back you could hire a guy to take you around in a shopping cart but I think Rudy dropped him off somewhere in NJ.
	👻 9:44am Ken From Hyde Park: She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, you say?
	9:44am Wild Neil: Here we go...could be anything..."highbrow" I think was meant ironically...
	9:45am Joe McG: Shopping cart rides around Central Park is a brilliant idea!
	👻 9:47am Ken From Hyde Park: My swag package arrived this weekend, all in order. Thanks, Joe and delivery team!
	9:47am Marcel M: @Joe: Something tells me De Blasio may be into reinstating it now that King Bloomberg is out ;-)
	9:48am Marcel M: Oh snap, is Justin Bieber on deck?
	9:49am JP from KC: 'Morning, all! I'd take a shopping cart ride over a carriage ride any day.
	9:50am annie: yay, ken, that means mine can't be too far behind!
	9:50am Andrew Waterloo: I'm anxious. Should be time for my swag to arrive, and Canada Post has not gone on strike... better knock on wood.
	9:54am Joe McG: @Andrew: We were holding off on Canada, but I think we're going to send 'em out soon!
	9:58am Cecile: hola!
	9:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Mornin', Joe!
	10:00am Joe McG: G'mornin'! :)
	10:00am Cecile: mainstream modern soul? this cuts sounds more like blues.
	10:01am Cecile: it's still great. But some of these new categories: eccentric soul, mainstream modern soul...seem kind of weird to me.
	10:03am Wild Neil: Is James Brown "eccentric soul"? Hey Cecile!
	10:03am Cecile: wow. This is crazy. It sounds like Eno and Anthony Moore!
	10:03am Joe McG: @Cecile: In this case it's referring to the Mainstream label, so it's not really an attempt at genre coining!
	10:03am annie: cecile, i still can't figure out the "psych" category
	10:03am Cecile: oh! Good. See? It's confusing.
	10:04am Marcel M: Psych is really, really overused now...
	10:04am Cecile: I think eccentric soul is weird one-off soul 45s done by people who just wanted a souvenir of their career or something.
	10:05am annie: i learned a hellova lot when i first started riffling through the FMA
	10:06am Cecile: FINCH! One of their guys played in Skyhooks for a while. I went to school with sharpies!
	10:07am Cecile: OK, Joe, how do you feel about Foghat? I think the Fool for the City LP is pretty great.
	10:07am Wild Neil: Finch really sounds like its from 1976. Joe, thanks for putting years in your playlist, it helps me place music in time and space.
	10:09am Cecile: 1976 was such a pivotal year for me.
	10:09am Joe McG: @Neil: No problem! @Cecile: I have no problem with Foghat! I may have never played them on my show, but it's not intentional.
	10:10am βrian: Foghat conjures sitting in the cork-lined "sound room" in the basement, black light posters and all. Incense, yo.
	10:10am Cecile: If you could slip some on some day, that would be awesome.
	10:10am Wild Neil: I think Donny Iris is seriously under-rated. "Ah Leah" is an AWESOME song from the 80's.
	10:12am Cecile: Donny Iris was not underrated in my neck of the woods. He never really spoke to me, but I wasn't the target audience.
	10:13am Joe McG: @Neil: "Ah-Leah" is one of my favorite songs of that whole period. I've played it a couple of times but I would like to play it every week.
	10:13am Cecile: Peter Perrett!
	10:13am Planet Tyler: Peter Perrett - thanks for playing!
	10:13am MattBelow: "Love In The City" is one of the best singles from 1969. Hard to beat that top notch tune!
	10:14am Wild Neil: I am glad Donny Iris had a hit so that I got to hear it at all. I thought England's Glory was going to be The Grateful Dead, but it turns out it sounds like the Violent Femmes meet the Rolling Stones....and The Velvet Underground vocals...
	10:15am Joe McG: Hey, Matt! :)
	10:15am Cecile: They were the precursor band to the Only Ones. Gordon Gano probably took a lot from Peter's vocals.
	10:18am Wild Neil: This is certainly an ECELECTIC show today, for sure! COOLio. Can you play Harsh Toke? or Horse Lords?
	10:18am Wild Neil: Joe? Please?
	10:22am KP: Petty Booka? Nice
	10:25am MD: THE EAST COAST IS ON FIRE!!! HOT HOT HOT!!!!
	10:25am MD: OUA OUA!!!!
	10:26am βrian: I'm hearing some truly diaphragmatic pyrotechnics here.
	10:26am MD: we mean it ...MAN!!
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: This Oua Oua is just FABULOUS! Great set!
	10:26am Sem Chumbo: Great stuff, Joe. You'd make Gabby happy!
	10:27am Marcel M: Yes!
	10:27am BLCKDGRD: !
	10:27am Will: Enjoying the show. Full disclosure: I played the Robert Goulet narrator role for a full-scale production of Manhattan Tower in a cabaret, 1986 in Portland Maine.
	10:27am Marcel M: Mad babies poppin' off in this set.
	10:28am Joe McG: @Will: I am thoroughly happy that you shared that information!
	10:28am Cooh John: Woke up thinking about this
	👻 10:28am tadpoles: Brilliant segue Joe. Excellent music today. Cheers.
	10:29am sphere: that first Suicide album. so so so good.
	10:29am Joe McG: Thanks for all the nice comments, my radio friends.
	10:30am Roberto: The Alan Vega death headlines are potentially confusing. "Alan Vega of Suicide dead" -- sounds like it was written by Yoda.
	10:31am Marcel M: @Roberto: haha
	10:31am Cecile: OH NO. not alan vega
	👻 10:32am tadpoles: Yikes! I'm just learning of his death. Tragic!
	10:33am Marcel M: If dying in your sleep at 80 is tragic...
	10:35am P-90: There are "people who want to fall out of a roller coaster"?
	10:35am Cecile: it is the way to go, I gotta say.
	10:36am Wild Neil: I just read about Suicide on Wikipedia...Suicide sounds dangerous. That sentence sounds kinda dumb. Sorry Alan Vega died...
	10:36am Cecile: Mods meet skinhead clothes. "Spunky" means sexy in Aussie. hahahah
	10:36am Marcel M: One of my philosophy professors used to say that he wanted to die while fully awake and conscious so he could finally know what happened. He'd be upset to die in his sleep and not notice anything. I kind of respect that!
	10:36am Cecile: Suicide are amazing.
	10:37am Cecile: I want the Elliott Carter death. Finish up a piece of music at 103. Tell your nurse you're taking a nap. Go take a nap. Don't wake up.
	10:39am Joe McG: @P-90: Well, I don't really know, just riffing. Got to be somebody! :)
	10:40am Cecile: OH NOES
	10:41am Roberto: Oh hell yes!
	10:41am Marc Francis: I once mixed Suicides Franky Teardrop into Springsteen's State Trooper. It worked so well. The boss lady wasn't impressed though. I guess it was 11 o'clock on a Friday night at a packed bar.....
	10:41am Neanderthal Head: Hey, the Dusty Show is early this week!
	10:41am Mick: Ummmm...
	10:41am bobdoesthings: haha this reminds me of Wet Hot American Summer
	10:41am Marcel M: They use this riff in Wet Hot American Summer, don't they?
	10:41am melinda: I love seeing the reactions to songs like this.
	10:42am Marcel M: @Bob: haha.. I knew you were thinking that as well!
	10:42am Joe McG: I sincerely love this song!
	10:42am Cecile: I loved Tom Schapling's "scare yourself listening to Frankie Teardrop in a darkened room" challenge.
	10:42am Neanderthal Head: Don't let it slip away! C'mon, sing with me!
	10:43am bobdoesthings: @marcel - haha yup.. I think they just use the instrumental riff part..
	10:43am Todd-o-phonic: This show is real Morning Joe.
	10:43am melinda: I like it too.
	10:43am annie: remember that wildlife guy who specialized in snakes, then got bit by a poisonous one? sure to die he directed his crew to write down everything he was experiencing for the sake of science. ... hehe, and now the whole "death" thread has kicked the bucket, too..
	10:44am Uncle Michael: Oh good, I didn't miss Molly Hatchet! (not kidding)
	10:44am annie: i gotta type faster
	10:45am P-90: @Joe: I know what you meant, wanting to go out in some kind of "Blaze of Glory." Interesting story from @Will: was this production actually staged? Jenkins himself apparently only performed it as an oratorio kind of thing with his orchestra. And yes I saw that Goulet did an LP version of his own...
	10:45am Joe McG: @Todd: Always!
	10:47am βrian: Empty pop bottles.
	10:47am Cecile: I love this song.
	10:48am P-90: Now it's getting real random.
	10:48am melinda: This is the best cover of Paradise. I love Jim and Jesse.
	10:48am sphere: Jim & Jesse are great.
	10:49am Joe McG: @melinda: I also love the Everlys' version.
	10:50am Will: @P-90. Yes the organizers of the production got full rights to stage it, we had a 12-piece band (The Charlie Brown Orchestra) and all the trimmings (dancing, general absurdity).
	10:51am Marcel M: Off to work. Bye Joe and friends!
	10:51am Todd-o-phonic: I've always thought Laura Lee was very underrated.
	10:52am bobdoesthings: bye @marcel
	10:52am melinda: Joe I'll have to look that one up. There is a J and J version on YouTube where their harmonies are especially pure and clear.
	10:52am sphere: the Everly Brothers started out in country music. if you want to hear something special, try their albumn "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"--their version of Willow Garden is harrowing.
	10:53am Joe McG: @melinda and sphere: Yeah, they're also from Kentucky, so it really rings true.
	10:53am Cecile: DAF!
	👻 10:54am Ken From Hyde Park: Went out to put a letter in the mailbox and spied a five-leafed clover. No fooling! I need to find out if that means super good luck or that imminent doom is at hand.
	10:55am annie: extra luck, ken
	10:56am Wild Neil: @Ken From Hyde Park-it's the new ISO standards clover that is metric.
	10:56am βrian: That clover will fix your nitrogen; all is well.
	👻 10:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Possibly just "Your soil harbors critical amounts of mutagens."
	10:57am βrian: But, really, five leaves is no more odd than three.
	10:58am P-90: Springsteen comments on admiration of Vega: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-on-alan-vega-there-was-nobody-like-him-w429586
	10:59am annie: when i was a youngster, there was a patch in the back yard that yieded 4,5, and 7-leaf clovers. i saved each one i picked.there are patches of clover that have that strain of mutations. i thought it was special, then, well.... i got over it due to the xcessive numbers of them and my luck still stunk
	11:00am Joe McG: Coming up shortly: a live 15-minute set from Sonny and the Sunsets recorded here last week. Stay tuned!
	11:02am Marc Francis: @ sphere: Wow. Thanks for that Everly Brothers Willow Garden tip. Wow!
	11:03am P-90: @ Ken FHP: They have been seeing flowers grow in some wildly unusual variations near Fukushima...
	11:04am Marc Francis: @P-90: Thanks for the link!
	11:07am KP: Yes, .38 Special. Horrendous
	11:07am steve: hey people!
	11:07am Wild Neil: Hold On Loosely is indelibly imprinted on my brain as "early 80's"...I tried to hook up Jim the Poet with my favorite local radio show host Tom from WBEN in Buffalo....at the convention...hope they get to meet and interview each other...
	11:08am steve: id like to report Muffs at Monty Hall ruled
	11:09am emily: Yayyyyy! Sonny and the Sunsets!!! YAAAAYYYYY
	11:10am βrian: @steve: That would be a good pass phrase for a blind pig.
	11:13am Linda Lee: honestly Joe, there's no better monday morning radio anywhere. sincerely!
	11:14am Joe McG: Aw, thanks, Linda! @steve: Sorry I missed the Muffs!
	11:17am Linda Lee: you're welcome. & how great a name is Tahlia Harbour?
	11:17am Whosondephone: I was stoned. Stoned and starving.
	11:18am Wild Neil: Lunch is too far away for me at noon...maybe I must snack...
	11:18am Joe McG: @Linda Lee: She was also super nice and even made the coffee for the band because (shameful face) I never actually made coffee at WFMU before.
	11:20am osvi: Sonny and the Sunsets!
	11:21am βrian: I have a fine little chicken curry calling my name, with beautiful tapered red peppers and delicate slices of baby summer squash.
	11:21am Cecile: Rolling Stone used to HATE Suicide so much.
	11:21am Carmichael: Heya Joe and Faithful.
	11:23am Clay Pigeon: Joe, look at all these comments. Your Arbies must be through the roof!
	11:23am Joe McG: Wow, Clay Pigeon in the house!
	11:24am Wild Neil: @Clay Pigeon-hello! You are the funniest man on radio bar none.
	11:24am Linda Lee: Tahlia sounds like a sweetheart. hey there Clay!
	11:25am steve: is the mysterious "Arby's" WFMU Friendship Society commentor some sort of twisted and hilarious play on the Arbies?
	11:28am Joe McG: I think the Arbies used to open for the Archies.
	11:31am Jeff: Then the Peoplemeters used to open for the Arbies, before the Peoplemeters became headliners in their own right.
	11:31am Clay Pigeon: TY Wild Neil! Hi Linda! Arbies is the slang term we used to use for Arbitron ratings back in the day. Great show, Joe, as always!
	11:35am Joe McG: Aw, thanks, Clay! I'd like to dedicate the .38 Special to you today. Don't let go!
	11:36am coelacanth: good morning Joe and Surfactants
	11:37am coelacanth: i like Sonny & the Sunsets
	11:38am Joe McG: Really swell people, great songs. I'm going to finish this segment where it began in just a sec. Later on I'll put up a pic on the playlist...
	11:40am Carmichael: Ya mean Hold On Loosely?
	11:41am melinda: I'm enjoying this set too.
	11:43am Wild Neil: Beavis and Butthead would have a lot of fun with this title " I Wanna Do It". heh heh heh....
	11:44am coelacanth: i guess i caught less than 1/2 the set. -definitely coming back to hear the whole thing.
	11:44am P-90: Hi coel. And Hi @Clay! It's like the .38 Special drew you like a moth to a flame.
	11:46am P-90: @Cecille: interesting observation about Rolling Stone hating on Suicide, then flooding the web with Springsteen's tribute to Vega when he checks out.
	👻 11:47am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. Have a good, lucky week.
	11:48am bobdoesthings: oooooo this is lovely! Can't wait for next weeks show!
	11:49am Joe McG: Thanks, Ken! @bobdt: Yes, she's such an amazing singer. I can't wait to broadcast it.
	11:49am coelacanth: P-90 -or kept me at bay a little too long! (actually i do kind of wish i'd heard that song today. i loathed .38 special in high school & haven't heard it since; i'm curious what i'd think of it now.)
	11:51am Wild Neil: I never really liked .38 special...
	11:53am melinda: Nice interpretation.
	11:54am sphere: i never thought i would like Send In The Clowns, to be honest. but it happened here.
	11:55am SeanG: Great show Joe!
	11:55am Joe McG: Well, it's just about time for me to vamoose. Thanks for listening, everyone! Have a great week, and stay tuned for Paul Collins with Joe Belock on the Three Chord Monte! See you next week with Brigid Mae Power.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: man.. not that I'm complaining.. but this Suicide track has been getting tons of play lately. <3 it though!
	11:56am oks: R.I.P. Alan , dream baby ,dream forever
	11:56am coelacanth: Thanks Joe
	11:57am Mick: Thanks for a great show Joe. Looking forward to next week's Brigid Mae Power set!
	11:57am P-90: @DJ Joe McG: Thanks for a flawless, exemplary radio show today. I'd never heard Manhattan Tower, the rest of the playlist was spot-on, and the live set was very nice. Couldn't ask for more. Have yourself a good week.
	11:58am bobdoesthings: thanks Joe!! great show as usual. till next week!
	11:58am Will: @sphere. This is what is known as "The McGasko Principle."
	11:59am coelacanth: certainly the best send in the clowns for my money.
	12:38pm Cheri Pi: CIncinnati!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 18, 2016

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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July 18, 2016: Happiness Cocktail (with Special Guest Sonny & the Sunsets)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Gordon Jenkins	Magical City / Happiness Cocktail / I'm Learnin' My Latin / Once Upon a Dream / Never Leave Me / This Close to the Dawn / Repeat After Me	The Complete Manhattan Tower	Capitol	1956	LP	Steven: Elliott Lewis; Julie: Beverly Mahr		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Turtles	Love in the City "Love in the City" by "The Turtles"	Turtle Soup	White Whale	1969	LP			0:27:18 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads	Don't Worry About the Government	Talking Heads: 77	Sire	1977	LP			0:30:56 (Pop-up)
Nick Gilder	Hot Child in the City	City Nights	Chrysalis	1978	LP			0:33:58 (Pop-up)

Sensation	Baby "Baby" by "Sensation"	Boobs: The Junkshop Glam Discotheque	RPM	2005	CD	From 1973		0:44:44 (Pop-up)
Harvey and Doc with the Dwellers	Oh Baby!	At the Party	Candy	1986	LP	From 1964; Phil Spector & Doc Pomus		0:47:14 (Pop-up)
The Salty Peppers	Uh Huh Yeah "Uh Huh Yeah" by "The Salty Peppers"	Celebrities...at their Best! Vol. 4 - Three Chord Monte 2016 Premium	WFMU	2016	CD-R	From 1969	*	0:50:06 (Pop-up)
Dan Penn and Don Covay	I Can't Stop (The Feeling Won't Let Me)	Close to Me: More Fame Recordings	Ace	2016	CD	mid-60s	*	0:51:59 (Pop-up)
Durand Jones & the Indications	Giving Up	Durand Jones & the Indications	Colemine	2016	CD		*	0:54:03 (Pop-up)
Lenny Welch	A Hundred Pounds of Pain	Mainstream Modern Soul 1969-1976	Kent Dance	2016	CD	From 1974	*	0:58:49 (Pop-up)
Driver 67	Car 67 "Car 67" by "Driver 67"	Quadraphonic! Starting with the '70s IV: Evan "Funk" Davies 2016 Premium	WFMU	2016	CD-R	From 1978	*	1:02:21 (Pop-up)
Finch	Hey Spunky "Hey Spunky" by "Finch"	When Sharpies Ruled: A Vicious Selection	Festival/Warner Bros.	2015	CD	From 1976		1:05:32 (Pop-up)
Trevor White	Crazy Kids "Crazy Kids" by "Trevor White"	single	Just Add Water	2016	45	From 1976	*	1:08:59 (Pop-up)
England's Glory	Devotion "Devotion" by "England's Glory"	Legendary Lost Album	Anagram	1994	CD	From 1973		1:12:06 (Pop-up)
The Flatbackers	Buzzz Going Round	Sharon Signs to Cherry Red: Independent Women 1979-1985	RPM	2016	CD	From 1980	*	1:14:50 (Pop-up)
Joan Moody	The Life of the Party "The Life of the Party" by "Joan Moody"	Modernism	Kent Dance	2016	CD	From 1965	*	1:17:26 (Pop-up)
Petty Booka	I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend	Blue Lagoon of Petty Booka	Sister	2000	CD			1:19:42 (Pop-up)
Kanui and Lula	Oua Oua "Oua Oua" by "Kanui and Lula"	Hawai'i Authentic: The Pre-War Era Vol. 1 (1925-1936)	Asherah	2016	LP	From 1933	*	1:23:26 (Pop-up)
Suicide	Cheree "Cheree" by "Suicide"	single	Superior Viaduct	2016	45	1978; remixed version; R.I.P. Alan Vega	*	1:26:12 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for no reason in particular
Bangor Flying Circus	Come On People	single	Dunhill-abc	1969	45			1:37:47 (Pop-up)
.38 Special	Hold On Loosely "Hold On Loosely" by ".38 Special"	single	A&M	1980	45			1:40:15 (Pop-up)
Laura Lee	It's Mighty Hard "It's Mighty Hard" by "Laura Lee"	single	Chess	1967	45			1:43:49 (Pop-up)
Jim & Jesse	Paradise "Paradise" by "Jim & Jesse"	single	Opryland	1974	45			1:46:29 (Pop-up)
Julius La Rosa with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra	Man to Man	single	RCA Victor	1957	45			1:49:00 (Pop-up)
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick	single	Virgin	1981	45	"Love at First Sight"		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Evelyn "Champagne" King	Action "Action" by "Evelyn "Champagne" King"	single	RCA	1983	45			1:55:56 (Pop-up)
Claude François	Les Cloches Sonnaient	single	Philips	1964	45	"The Bells Are Tolling"		1:59:12 (Pop-up)

Sonny and the Sunsets Live on WFMU. Featuring Sonny Smith (lead vocal, guitar), Tahlia Harbour (vocal, guitar, percussion), Shayde Sartin (bass), Richard Gowen (drums). Engineered and photographed by Mario Santana.
Sonny and the Sunsets	I Wanna Do It	Live on WFMU						2:11:25 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	The Hospital Grounds at Night	Live on WFMU				unexpurgated version will be available on the FMA in a couple of weeks!		2:13:31 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	Check Out "Check Out" by "Sonny and the Sunsets"	Live on WFMU						2:15:47 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	White Cops on Trial	Live on WFMU						2:20:08 (Pop-up)
Sonny Smith	Mondrian "Mondrian" by "Sonny Smith"	Live on WFMU						2:22:51 (Pop-up)
Short Interview with Sonny	"Short Interview with Sonny"							2:25:33 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	My Little Death	Moods Baby Moods	Polyvinyl	2016	CD		*	2:26:48 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	Death Cream	single	Soft Abuse	2009	45			2:29:34 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	Talent Night at the Ashram	Talent Night at the Ashram	Polyvinyl	2015	CD			2:32:35 (Pop-up)
Sonny and the Sunsets	Pretend You Love Me	Longtime Companion	Polyvinyl	2012	CD			2:35:33 (Pop-up)
Earth Girl Helen Brown	I Wanna Do It	single	Turn Up	2011	45	a.k.a. Sonny and the Sunsets		2:41:04 (Pop-up)

Brigid Mae Power	How You Feel "How You Feel" by "Brigid Mae Power"	Brigid Mae Power	Tompkins Square	2016	CD	live on the show next week!	*	2:47:19 (Pop-up)
Mark Kozalek	Send in the Clowns "Send in the Clowns" by "Mark Kozalek"	Lost Verses: Live	Caldo Verde	2016	CD		*	2:51:02 (Pop-up)
Suicide	Dream Baby Dream "Dream Baby Dream" by "Suicide"	single	Superior Viaduct	2016	45	From 1979	*	2:53:56 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am Cheri Pi: yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Ra-di-o!
	9:04am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Joe, hi-dee-ho, pi, ditto rad-i-o, KfHP.
	9:04am BLCKDGRD: I'm completely unfamiliar with this Suicide song.
	9:04am annie: hey everyone, i did not fall back asleeep
	9:06am Marcel M: Morning Joe! This is cool!
	9:06am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:06am Joe McG: @BLCKDGRD: Ha ha ha! Morning, everyone! Happy July whatever it is today.
	9:07am Marcel M: "This seemed fair enough," haaha
	9:08am P-90: Yip yip yip! Wow! Good Morning Joe and Martians.
	9:08am bobdoesthings: theatre of the mind here
	9:09am P-90: Thurl!
	9:09am Wild Neil: Peace Joe et al....showtunes?
	9:09am annie: i love this stuff!!!
	9:09am Sem Chumbo: I wish people would burst into song in my City, accompanied by a nice string arrangement and a male chorus.
	9:10am Marcel M: @SemChumbo: Believe it or not... it actually gets tiring here in NYC.
	9:10am bobdoesthings: @joe/all - what does your Happiness Cocktail recipe include?
	9:10am KP: Cleveland, City of Lights, City of Magic
	👻 9:11am Ken From Hyde Park: @bobdoesthings - That's a good topic for SUW.
	9:11am Joe McG: @KP: Ha! I wish Randy had written an ode to NYC as good as this one.
	9:12am bobdoesthings: @kenfromHP-yeah! well..could be.. I could imagine it going south quick
	9:13am P-90: 1956! This is exactly the period I've been researching. I must learn more about this.
	9:13am pierre: Hello Joe !
	9:13am Parq: Ohhh, so this is where that Rex drop-in comes from.
	9:14am Sem Chumbo: "Conjugation up to par." On the edge of NSFW, Joe.
	9:14am Joe McG: @Sem and Marcel: Ha ha ha! @P-90: The original version of this came out right after the war in 1946. This is the rerecorded version. Hi, pierre!
	9:17am Sem Chumbo: A love the vocal artistry that helps the lyric out when it doesn't exactly scan.
	9:26am Polyus: Oh, hot dog!
	9:29am sphere: morning all! were the Jenkins songs a musical or was it a suite designed for an LP?
	9:29am Wild Neil: The Turtles had AMAZING vocals and always remind me of Frank Zappa since he sang with them and actually did Happy Together at a Frank show that I heard once!
	9:30am Joe McG: @sphere: He wrote it to be recorded. I'm not sure if it was ever really performed, but probably!
	👻 9:31am tadpoles: The Fluorescent Leech & Eddie!
	9:32am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	9:32am Parq: Some good Flo and Eddie footage in the new Zappa doc.
	9:33am Marcel M: I'm sensing a theme here..
	9:34am Joe McG: I'm not a Zappa fan by any stretch, but I want to see that new documentary!
	9:34am Wild Neil: This Talking Heads album naïve tone is reminiscent of the earlier Modern Lovers...wonder if David Byrne was inspired by them? The music behind him ROCKS on this album...I am at a loss for a theme unless its awesome vocals...
	9:35am Sem Chumbo: Talking Heads to Nick Gilder. That's some fine DJ'ing there, Joe:-D
	9:37am pantz: Is "We Built This City" next? Morning, Joe!
	9:38am P-90: Wiki says Jenkins & Co. performed an early 16 minute version of the suite on Ed Sullivan's show. An unusual invitation from Sullivan, who usually liked to keep things moving with acts that lasted just a few minutes. Patti Page apparently did a version later. Beverly Mahr, who was the original "Julie", was married to Jenkins and a siinger in his orchestra.
	9:39am Listener Scott: You chose wisely.
	9:39am Wild Neil: Oh, City. Got it..."City I live in " Talking Geds...I thought We Built This City was a commercial jingle when I first heard it...one of the worst songs EVER!!!
	👻 9:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Cities In Dust"?
	9:43am P-90: "All-Male Bar" meant something very different then than it does now...
	9:43am Marcel M: It surprises me they were out at 4am back then as well. I think a few years back you could hire a guy to take you around in a shopping cart but I think Rudy dropped him off somewhere in NJ.
	👻 9:44am Ken From Hyde Park: She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, you say?
	9:44am Wild Neil: Here we go...could be anything..."highbrow" I think was meant ironically...
	9:45am Joe McG: Shopping cart rides around Central Park is a brilliant idea!
	👻 9:47am Ken From Hyde Park: My swag package arrived this weekend, all in order. Thanks, Joe and delivery team!
	9:47am Marcel M: @Joe: Something tells me De Blasio may be into reinstating it now that King Bloomberg is out ;-)
	9:48am Marcel M: Oh snap, is Justin Bieber on deck?
	9:49am JP from KC: 'Morning, all! I'd take a shopping cart ride over a carriage ride any day.
	9:50am annie: yay, ken, that means mine can't be too far behind!
	9:50am Andrew Waterloo: I'm anxious. Should be time for my swag to arrive, and Canada Post has not gone on strike... better knock on wood.
	9:54am Joe McG: @Andrew: We were holding off on Canada, but I think we're going to send 'em out soon!
	9:58am Cecile: hola!
	9:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Mornin', Joe!
	10:00am Joe McG: G'mornin'! :)
	10:00am Cecile: mainstream modern soul? this cuts sounds more like blues.
	10:01am Cecile: it's still great. But some of these new categories: eccentric soul, mainstream modern soul...seem kind of weird to me.
	10:03am Wild Neil: Is James Brown "eccentric soul"? Hey Cecile!
	10:03am Cecile: wow. This is crazy. It sounds like Eno and Anthony Moore!
	10:03am Joe McG: @Cecile: In this case it's referring to the Mainstream label, so it's not really an attempt at genre coining!
	10:03am annie: cecile, i still can't figure out the "psych" category
	10:03am Cecile: oh! Good. See? It's confusing.
	10:04am Marcel M: Psych is really, really overused now...
	10:04am Cecile: I think eccentric soul is weird one-off soul 45s done by people who just wanted a souvenir of their career or something.
	10:05am annie: i learned a hellova lot when i first started riffling through the FMA
	10:06am Cecile: FINCH! One of their guys played in Skyhooks for a while. I went to school with sharpies!
	10:07am Cecile: OK, Joe, how do you feel about Foghat? I think the Fool for the City LP is pretty great.
	10:07am Wild Neil: Finch really sounds like its from 1976. Joe, thanks for putting years in your playlist, it helps me place music in time and space.
	10:09am Cecile: 1976 was such a pivotal year for me.
	10:09am Joe McG: @Neil: No problem! @Cecile: I have no problem with Foghat! I may have never played them on my show, but it's not intentional.
	10:10am βrian: Foghat conjures sitting in the cork-lined "sound room" in the basement, black light posters and all. Incense, yo.
	10:10am Cecile: If you could slip some on some day, that would be awesome.
	10:10am Wild Neil: I think Donny Iris is seriously under-rated. "Ah Leah" is an AWESOME song from the 80's.
	10:12am Cecile: Donny Iris was not underrated in my neck of the woods. He never really spoke to me, but I wasn't the target audience.
	10:13am Joe McG: @Neil: "Ah-Leah" is one of my favorite songs of that whole period. I've played it a couple of times but I would like to play it every week.
	10:13am Cecile: Peter Perrett!
	10:13am Planet Tyler: Peter Perrett - thanks for playing!
	10:13am MattBelow: "Love In The City" is one of the best singles from 1969. Hard to beat that top notch tune!
	10:14am Wild Neil: I am glad Donny Iris had a hit so that I got to hear it at all. I thought England's Glory was going to be The Grateful Dead, but it turns out it sounds like the Violent Femmes meet the Rolling Stones....and The Velvet Underground vocals...
	10:15am Joe McG: Hey, Matt! :)
	10:15am Cecile: They were the precursor band to the Only Ones. Gordon Gano probably took a lot from Peter's vocals.
	10:18am Wild Neil: This is certainly an ECELECTIC show today, for sure! COOLio. Can you play Harsh Toke? or Horse Lords?
	10:18am Wild Neil: Joe? Please?
	10:22am KP: Petty Booka? Nice
	10:25am MD: THE EAST COAST IS ON FIRE!!! HOT HOT HOT!!!!
	10:25am MD: OUA OUA!!!!
	10:26am βrian: I'm hearing some truly diaphragmatic pyrotechnics here.
	10:26am MD: we mean it ...MAN!!
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: This Oua Oua is just FABULOUS! Great set!
	10:26am Sem Chumbo: Great stuff, Joe. You'd make Gabby happy!
	10:27am Marcel M: Yes!
	10:27am BLCKDGRD: !
	10:27am Will: Enjoying the show. Full disclosure: I played the Robert Goulet narrator role for a full-scale production of Manhattan Tower in a cabaret, 1986 in Portland Maine.
	10:27am Marcel M: Mad babies poppin' off in this set.
	10:28am Joe McG: @Will: I am thoroughly happy that you shared that information!
	10:28am Cooh John: Woke up thinking about this
	👻 10:28am tadpoles: Brilliant segue Joe. Excellent music today. Cheers.
	10:29am sphere: that first Suicide album. so so so good.
	10:29am Joe McG: Thanks for all the nice comments, my radio friends.
	10:30am Roberto: The Alan Vega death headlines are potentially confusing. "Alan Vega of Suicide dead" -- sounds like it was written by Yoda.
	10:31am Marcel M: @Roberto: haha
	10:31am Cecile: OH NO. not alan vega
	👻 10:32am tadpoles: Yikes! I'm just learning of his death. Tragic!
	10:33am Marcel M: If dying in your sleep at 80 is tragic...
	10:35am P-90: There are "people who want to fall out of a roller coaster"?
	10:35am Cecile: it is the way to go, I gotta say.
	10:36am Wild Neil: I just read about Suicide on Wikipedia...Suicide sounds dangerous. That sentence sounds kinda dumb. Sorry Alan Vega died...
	10:36am Cecile: Mods meet skinhead clothes. "Spunky" means sexy in Aussie. hahahah
	10:36am Marcel M: One of my philosophy professors used to say that he wanted to die while fully awake and conscious so he could finally know what happened. He'd be upset to die in his sleep and not notice anything. I kind of respect that!
	10:36am Cecile: Suicide are amazing.
	10:37am Cecile: I want the Elliott Carter death. Finish up a piece of music at 103. Tell your nurse you're taking a nap. Go take a nap. Don't wake up.
	10:39am Joe McG: @P-90: Well, I don't really know, just riffing. Got to be somebody! :)
	10:40am Cecile: OH NOES
	10:41am Roberto: Oh hell yes!
	10:41am Marc Francis: I once mixed Suicides Franky Teardrop into Springsteen's State Trooper. It worked so well. The boss lady wasn't impressed though. I guess it was 11 o'clock on a Friday night at a packed bar.....
	10:41am Neanderthal Head: Hey, the Dusty Show is early this week!
	10:41am Mick: Ummmm...
	10:41am bobdoesthings: haha this reminds me of Wet Hot American Summer
	10:41am Marcel M: They use this riff in Wet Hot American Summer, don't they?
	10:41am melinda: I love seeing the reactions to songs like this.
	10:42am Marcel M: @Bob: haha.. I knew you were thinking that as well!
	10:42am Joe McG: I sincerely love this song!
	10:42am Cecile: I loved Tom Schapling's "scare yourself listening to Frankie Teardrop in a darkened room" challenge.
	10:42am Neanderthal Head: Don't let it slip away! C'mon, sing with me!
	10:43am bobdoesthings: @marcel - haha yup.. I think they just use the instrumental riff part..
	10:43am Todd-o-phonic: This show is real Morning Joe.
	10:43am melinda: I like it too.
	10:43am annie: remember that wildlife guy who specialized in snakes, then got bit by a poisonous one? sure to die he directed his crew to write down everything he was experiencing for the sake of science. ... hehe, and now the whole "death" thread has kicked the bucket, too..
	10:44am Uncle Michael: Oh good, I didn't miss Molly Hatchet! (not kidding)
	10:44am annie: i gotta type faster
	10:45am P-90: @Joe: I know what you meant, wanting to go out in some kind of "Blaze of Glory." Interesting story from @Will: was this production actually staged? Jenkins himself apparently only performed it as an oratorio kind of thing with his orchestra. And yes I saw that Goulet did an LP version of his own...
	10:45am Joe McG: @Todd: Always!
	10:47am βrian: Empty pop bottles.
	10:47am Cecile: I love this song.
	10:48am P-90: Now it's getting real random.
	10:48am melinda: This is the best cover of Paradise. I love Jim and Jesse.
	10:48am sphere: Jim & Jesse are great.
	10:49am Joe McG: @melinda: I also love the Everlys' version.
	10:50am Will: @P-90. Yes the organizers of the production got full rights to stage it, we had a 12-piece band (The Charlie Brown Orchestra) and all the trimmings (dancing, general absurdity).
	10:51am Marcel M: Off to work. Bye Joe and friends!
	10:51am Todd-o-phonic: I've always thought Laura Lee was very underrated.
	10:52am bobdoesthings: bye @marcel
	10:52am melinda: Joe I'll have to look that one up. There is a J and J version on YouTube where their harmonies are especially pure and clear.
	10:52am sphere: the Everly Brothers started out in country music. if you want to hear something special, try their albumn "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"--their version of Willow Garden is harrowing.
	10:53am Joe McG: @melinda and sphere: Yeah, they're also from Kentucky, so it really rings true.
	10:53am Cecile: DAF!
	👻 10:54am Ken From Hyde Park: Went out to put a letter in the mailbox and spied a five-leafed clover. No fooling! I need to find out if that means super good luck or that imminent doom is at hand.
	10:55am annie: extra luck, ken
	10:56am Wild Neil: @Ken From Hyde Park-it's the new ISO standards clover that is metric.
	10:56am βrian: That clover will fix your nitrogen; all is well.
	👻 10:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Possibly just "Your soil harbors critical amounts of mutagens."
	10:57am βrian: But, really, five leaves is no more odd than three.
	10:58am P-90: Springsteen comments on admiration of Vega: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-on-alan-vega-there-was-nobody-like-him-w429586
	10:59am annie: when i was a youngster, there was a patch in the back yard that yieded 4,5, and 7-leaf clovers. i saved each one i picked.there are patches of clover that have that strain of mutations. i thought it was special, then, well.... i got over it due to the xcessive numbers of them and my luck still stunk
	11:00am Joe McG: Coming up shortly: a live 15-minute set from Sonny and the Sunsets recorded here last week. Stay tuned!
	11:02am Marc Francis: @ sphere: Wow. Thanks for that Everly Brothers Willow Garden tip. Wow!
	11:03am P-90: @ Ken FHP: They have been seeing flowers grow in some wildly unusual variations near Fukushima...
	11:04am Marc Francis: @P-90: Thanks for the link!
	11:07am KP: Yes, .38 Special. Horrendous
	11:07am steve: hey people!
	11:07am Wild Neil: Hold On Loosely is indelibly imprinted on my brain as "early 80's"...I tried to hook up Jim the Poet with my favorite local radio show host Tom from WBEN in Buffalo....at the convention...hope they get to meet and interview each other...
	11:08am steve: id like to report Muffs at Monty Hall ruled
	11:09am emily: Yayyyyy! Sonny and the Sunsets!!! YAAAAYYYYY
	11:10am βrian: @steve: That would be a good pass phrase for a blind pig.
	11:13am Linda Lee: honestly Joe, there's no better monday morning radio anywhere. sincerely!
	11:14am Joe McG: Aw, thanks, Linda! @steve: Sorry I missed the Muffs!
	11:17am Linda Lee: you're welcome. & how great a name is Tahlia Harbour?
	11:17am Whosondephone: I was stoned. Stoned and starving.
	11:18am Wild Neil: Lunch is too far away for me at noon...maybe I must snack...
	11:18am Joe McG: @Linda Lee: She was also super nice and even made the coffee for the band because (shameful face) I never actually made coffee at WFMU before.
	11:20am osvi: Sonny and the Sunsets!
	11:21am βrian: I have a fine little chicken curry calling my name, with beautiful tapered red peppers and delicate slices of baby summer squash.
	11:21am Cecile: Rolling Stone used to HATE Suicide so much.
	11:21am Carmichael: Heya Joe and Faithful.
	11:23am Clay Pigeon: Joe, look at all these comments. Your Arbies must be through the roof!
	11:23am Joe McG: Wow, Clay Pigeon in the house!
	11:24am Wild Neil: @Clay Pigeon-hello! You are the funniest man on radio bar none.
	11:24am Linda Lee: Tahlia sounds like a sweetheart. hey there Clay!
	11:25am steve: is the mysterious "Arby's" WFMU Friendship Society commentor some sort of twisted and hilarious play on the Arbies?
	11:28am Joe McG: I think the Arbies used to open for the Archies.
	11:31am Jeff: Then the Peoplemeters used to open for the Arbies, before the Peoplemeters became headliners in their own right.
	11:31am Clay Pigeon: TY Wild Neil! Hi Linda! Arbies is the slang term we used to use for Arbitron ratings back in the day. Great show, Joe, as always!
	11:35am Joe McG: Aw, thanks, Clay! I'd like to dedicate the .38 Special to you today. Don't let go!
	11:36am coelacanth: good morning Joe and Surfactants
	11:37am coelacanth: i like Sonny & the Sunsets
	11:38am Joe McG: Really swell people, great songs. I'm going to finish this segment where it began in just a sec. Later on I'll put up a pic on the playlist...
	11:40am Carmichael: Ya mean Hold On Loosely?
	11:41am melinda: I'm enjoying this set too.
	11:43am Wild Neil: Beavis and Butthead would have a lot of fun with this title " I Wanna Do It". heh heh heh....
	11:44am coelacanth: i guess i caught less than 1/2 the set. -definitely coming back to hear the whole thing.
	11:44am P-90: Hi coel. And Hi @Clay! It's like the .38 Special drew you like a moth to a flame.
	11:46am P-90: @Cecille: interesting observation about Rolling Stone hating on Suicide, then flooding the web with Springsteen's tribute to Vega when he checks out.
	👻 11:47am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. Have a good, lucky week.
	11:48am bobdoesthings: oooooo this is lovely! Can't wait for next weeks show!
	11:49am Joe McG: Thanks, Ken! @bobdt: Yes, she's such an amazing singer. I can't wait to broadcast it.
	11:49am coelacanth: P-90 -or kept me at bay a little too long! (actually i do kind of wish i'd heard that song today. i loathed .38 special in high school & haven't heard it since; i'm curious what i'd think of it now.)
	11:51am Wild Neil: I never really liked .38 special...
	11:53am melinda: Nice interpretation.
	11:54am sphere: i never thought i would like Send In The Clowns, to be honest. but it happened here.
	11:55am SeanG: Great show Joe!
	11:55am Joe McG: Well, it's just about time for me to vamoose. Thanks for listening, everyone! Have a great week, and stay tuned for Paul Collins with Joe Belock on the Three Chord Monte! See you next week with Brigid Mae Power.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: man.. not that I'm complaining.. but this Suicide track has been getting tons of play lately. <3 it though!
	11:56am oks: R.I.P. Alan , dream baby ,dream forever
	11:56am coelacanth: Thanks Joe
	11:57am Mick: Thanks for a great show Joe. Looking forward to next week's Brigid Mae Power set!
	11:57am P-90: @DJ Joe McG: Thanks for a flawless, exemplary radio show today. I'd never heard Manhattan Tower, the rest of the playlist was spot-on, and the live set was very nice. Couldn't ask for more. Have yourself a good week.
	11:58am bobdoesthings: thanks Joe!! great show as usual. till next week!
	11:58am Will: @sphere. This is what is known as "The McGasko Principle."
	11:59am coelacanth: certainly the best send in the clowns for my money.
	12:38pm Cheri Pi: CIncinnati!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 18, 2016

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