WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 5, 2018

Listener comments!
	11:58am Uncle Michael: Please support the show, the stream and the station: pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: There are no guilty pleasures. The all pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Insane for Uncle Michael!
	12:05pm joe: 'ello folks
	12:06pm rw: How-dee hey.
	12:06pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	12:08pm joe: You started to say pay tribute and my heart sank and I ran to Google to make sure my fears were not true.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: UM! Doug! Joe! RW! Doc!
	12:08pm Parq: Nice to hear this Femmes version, which I've only heard once before. Do you suppose they sent in the creeping charlies for the lyrics like it said on the original LP sleeve?
	12:09pm dan: As long as you don't play Springsteen's version of Jersey Girl, this will be a perfect tribute.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: Parq! Of course! Nobody's dead...it's just October! Dan!
	12:09pm Dominick: the large print giveth and the small print taketh away
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Dominick!
	12:13pm burke: This is gonna be a fun show. Fun to dwell on the influence of the songwriter while subtracting out the gravelly voice and the persona
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Burke!
	12:14pm Jeff Golick: Was just yesterday watching clips of Tom on the Letterman show. A legend -- thanks, @UM!
	12:14pm Rich in Washington: Wow. I've never heard this before!
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Rich!
	12:15pm jmd: Uncle!
	12:15pm dan: Bob Seger is about halfway there to Tom Waits' gravelly voice.
	12:16pm Rich in Washington: I've always really liked Bob Seger's voice, even though some of his stuff is played to death on 'classic rock' stations.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: JMD!
	12:16pm Parq: Would we perhaps accept Jersey Girl by the Irish pop band Bagatelle?
	12:17pm jmd: Just covers or also songs written by Waits?
	12:18pm dan: @ Rich I love Bob Seger They never play enough of his songs on the radio. When was the last time you heard "Mainstreet" or "We've Got Tonight" on a Classick Rock block?
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: They're all written by Tom.
	12:18pm Rich in Washington: Didn't someone record a parody of Jersey Girl called Jersey Cow? Sometime in the 80s or early 90s?
	12:19pm jmd: Cool! Will we be hearing Solomon Burke?
	12:19pm dan: @ Rich Sounds like something Weird Al would've done.
	12:19pm Rich in Washington: The classic rock format is so stagnant. No deep cuts. Not even songs which were played in the 70s or 80s. I think it's the laziness of Programming people, mainly.
	12:20pm mauri: what fun !
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Mauri!
	12:21pm dan: @ Rich DJs used to have creative control. Now the FCC have these draconian regulations that severely limit what can be played on a commercial station. That's why I stopped listening to my local CR station.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: Nighthawks is such an amazing album. I remember playing it continuously in the early 90s.
	12:23pm Jeff Golick: My first Waits was Rain Dogs, so that iteration -- RD/Swordfishtrombones/Frank's Wild Years -- was my Tom template. It was a surprise to go back and listen to the early albums.
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: I think it's also the laziness of Programming people, less reporting to file, less royalties to pay out, etc., with a streamlined playlist, and stations being owned by fewer and fewer and progressively larger conglomerates.
	12:24pm dan: I hope you play Ian Matthews version of Ol'55 instead of The Eagles' one.
	12:24pm efd: I have to admit, as someone who has no affinity at all for Tom Waits my first thought was "looks like I picked the wrong day to work from home" but I'm sticking with it as long as possible.
	12:25pm Rich in Washington: I too started out with his weirder Island Records period. I remember seeing his 'In The Neighborhood' video on either Night Flight or Rock 'N America and it made me curious about him.
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Evan.
	12:27pm Roberto: I've been waitsing for this show all week.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	12:28pm joe: This makes me think the Cramps could have done some great Waits stuff.
	12:28pm Parq: Based on conversations I had with some programmers, albeit a long time ago, my own impression is that it's not laziness so much as a condescending belief that programming must be kept ultra-simple and limited only to one "hit" track per album to keep from confusing the listeners, who are stupid and have no attention span. In fairness, given what I have learned in the decades since about what some people sincerely believe and prefer, it's easier than it used to be for me to see their point.
	12:28pm Parq: Joe, oh man, would that have been cool as shit or what?
	12:29pm dan: @ Parq Listeners of commercial radio have gotten stupider. They don't expand their minds and listen to the back wall stuff. But I guess that's where freeform radio and YouTube come into play.
	12:29pm efd: @dan, curious which FCC regulations you're referring to. They're generally only concerned with explicit language and/or content, which still leaves a ton of songs available for airplay (such as all the ones that were getting played back when those classic rock albums weren't classic yet). I think the tight playlists on today's classic rock stations are more driven by a lot of stations owned by a few corporations, and wanting the programming to be as familiar as possible to the largest number of people.
	12:30pm Rich in Washington: Parq: Having DJ'd live, public-ish events and my experiences with radio listening in the workplace, I think that part is probably true. Lots of people don't like variety, anything different, etc.
	12:30pm joe: As a 16 year old I was introduced to Tom Waits by way of Primus. I then heard Bone Machine played in a Tower Records and away I went.
	12:31pm efd: and I'll take this opportunity to work in a plug for WFMU's October fundraiser, since we don't have to worry about any of that BS (except the language) (although the stream shows don't even have to worry about that!): pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:32pm Rich in Washington: Yes EFD. The FCC can't tell people which songs can't be played. They can only respond to complaints of obscenity in songs. My station was part of a landmark FCC ruling in the early 2000s. To their credit, they've never told any of us DJs what NOT to play. We can play anything after 10pm except the Emergency Alert System sound.
	🛒 12:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna: That was awesome!!!!
	12:33pm dan: @EFD I heard that a radio station must have 800 songs at their disposal On my local station, you'd think there were only 100.
	12:35pm Rich in Washington: I used to make the joke that my local classic rock and oldies stations only have 100 songs, but after stuffing a computer with several thousand songs to serve as our household jukebox, I was disappointed in the sheer repetition of some of the songs, like I really owe those stations an apology. But you might be onto something. Maybe they have 150 songs?
	12:39pm Jeff Golick: Why is the BIG TIME movie so hard to find?
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Granny!
	12:44pm Uncle Michael: Is it, Jeff? I've never looked.
	12:45pm Parq: Remember when the NPR crowd would have laid down their lives for Norah Jones? Good times.
	🛒 12:46pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Howdy, Uncle Michael! So good to get tuned into Topeka!
	12:46pm Parq: Yeah, Jeff's right, it is. I've always assumed that was the artist's choice, kind of the way it's similarly hard to find that Laurie Anderson performance move filmed in Union City.
	12:46pm The Oscar: Afternoon folks! I think I've only ever seen Big Time at repertory screenings, and even then it hasn't screened around here in years.
	12:47pm Rich in Washington: I think Big Time is on one of those subscription services. I've seen it, but haven't watched it there. Maybe Fandor? Or perhaps Kanopy.
	12:47pm dan: I didn't even have to look and I knew that was Linda Thompson's voice.
	12:47pm Jeff Golick: Same, @dan. Instantly recognizable.
	🛒 12:48pm Brian in UK: Gene Clark wrote two songs on Raising Sand. Just saying.
	12:48pm Stanley: Yay, Linda Thompson (I think I'll have a lie down)
	12:48pm burke: Never have I heard a more English description of Illinois
	12:50pm Uncle Michael: Brian! Stanley!
	12:50pm The Oscar: I did love the brief Big Time parody in the Stop Making Sense episode of Documentary Now.
	12:50pm Jeff Golick: {races to Kanopy app} no dice.
	🛒 12:51pm Brian in UK: Linda T's last album Won't Be Long Now is very good. Took me a while to realise her talent.
	12:51pm Parq: Lucinda!
	12:52pm burke: Now it's my turn to instantly recognize a singer
	12:52pm Doug Schulkind: The playlist GIF looks to be the "crazy leprechaun" scene from Murnau's Nosferatu. Wait, it's not?!
	12:53pm Jeff Golick: Waits, it is.
	1:00pm Jeff Golick: Oh, nice. The Ramones version of this ("Grow Up") is also tremendously great.
	1:09pm Stanley: This is nice
	1:10pm rw: UM, I only heard a bit of that earlier mic break but I'm one of those people who's a little bugged by TW. I think for me it feels a little too theater. That said, though I did see him perform at the Wiltern Theater years ago (late '80s?) and it was really great. I think maybe because of the theatricality. And THAT said, this show IS giving me the appreciation for the song writing that you were talking about! Thanks!!
	1:11pm Uncle Michael: I'm delighted to hear that, rw.
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: greetings Uncle M and Dinklers
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: Coel!
	1:13pm dan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs Tom Waits as a cartoon character.
	🛒 1:14pm Granny Spicy Tuna: So far the covers are from the mid-90's onward. I wonder what the oldest TW cover is?
	1:14pm Parq: Granny, I don't actually know, but my money would be on the Eagles' version of "Ol' 55".
	1:16pm Uncle Michael: The Frente! cover is from a 1980 song.
	1:16pm dan: @ Parq I think the Ian Matthews version is slightly better. Am crossing my fingers for that to be played.
	1:19pm Stanley: The Wire was brilliant
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: @dan: wow, thanks for that link.
	1:20pm Webhamster Henry: Ooh I've been out for a lot of this Waits Fest!
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Henry!
	1:22pm dan: @ Jeff Golick That short film was up for an Oscar
	🛒 1:22pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Oh, man, this one just breaks me.
	1:23pm Parq: There's a Guided by Voices track -- can't remember which -- that starts with the words "Well Charlie, for Chris'sake". Nice tribute to this song.
	1:25pm The Oscar: @Granny Agreed-- Kinky sells the hell out of that song. Holy cow.
	🛒 1:25pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I'm transfixed by these covers and can't focus on getting anything else done. Thanks a lot!
	1:26pm Parq: Here's one that kills me every time. ("Time")
	1:26pm Webhamster Henry: I have a recording of Bette Midler singing Shiver Me Timbers that I recorded off her TV Special (featuring Dustin Hoffman) in 1977 or so!
	🛒 1:27pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Oooh, Bette! I'll bet(te) it's a great rendition.
	1:27pm rw: This one sounds like Leonard Cohen. Is it the delivery or is it the song? (T.Bone B.)
	1:28pm rw: I think it's the melody, actually.
	1:30pm The Oscar: It's tough to say whether Tom or Jay would make a more unnerving ice cream man.
	1:30pm Parq: Harry, the original (well, Bette's original studio version) was segued with "Salmadi et Vedredi" on "Songs for the New Depression", my own favorite Bette album and way underrated IMO.
	1:30pm Parq: So many great versions I've never heard before. Digging this show to pieces, UM.
	1:31pm Listening Out There: Screamin' Jay Hawkins wanted to sing opera, I read...
	1:32pm The Oscar: Someone once speculated that Tim Curry was emulating Screamin' Jay for Rocky Horror, and now I can't unhear it.
	🛒 1:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I heard that Tim Curry sang "Tutti Frutti" for his audition.
	1:33pm 23 Wolves: Great show, Uncle. Good music for harrowing times.
	1:34pm Webhamster Henry: Waits is in the new Zombie flick "The Dead Don't Die", helmed by Jim Jarmusch #varietyspeak
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: L.O.T. 23W!
	1:39pm Jeff Golick: Among my many, many (many) life regrets: back in the 1990s, I passed on an invitation to attend one of the first gatherings of what became an annual Tom Waits party/weekend (later "Waitstock") up by Poughkeepsie. My liver probably thanks me, though.
	1:43pm still b/p: Very glad Waits is in the world. Between having to miss most of this show today and fretting with due pessimism about my senator....it's not a sunshiny day, despite the sunshine.
	1:43pm Webhamster Henry: @Jeff G. I almost went to one of those - I think it was in Montclair.
	1:44pm Uncle Michael: SB/P!
	1:46pm dan: @ Still B/P "Due Pessimism about my Senator" should be a Tom Waits song.
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: so far i know all these songs and almost none of these versions (2)
	1:49pm joe: One of my closest and dearest friends committed an unforgivable act in that he went to see Tom at the Beacon Theater in 1999 (same show Scott McDowell posted a photo of the ticket stub from). He and his companion got really really good seats paid top dollar. Well they got into NYC a bit early and decided to go to a near by watering hole before the show. They drank so much that neither of them can remember anything about the show. I never let him live this down.
	1:51pm Parq: Note, on "Fall In Love" (a favorite TW song, b/t/w) the (album) title drop in the last line, "Well it's closing time".
	1:51pm Parq: Sorry, not the last line, the first line of the last verse.
	1:52pm Parq: Annnnd, I wondered if Holly C's version would be the jersey Girl for this show.
	1:52pm joe: UM I'm sure you had many options to choose from for Jersey Girl. Nice choice
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: Thanks...yes, plenty of choices.
	1:54pm dan: Jersey Girl meets Weill and Brecht
	1:55pm joe: I don't know if this got answered or elaborated on but according to Discogs the earliest recording of one of Tom's songs was by Lee Hazlewood on his album Poet Fool or bum and the song was Those Were Days Of Roses (Martha)
	1:55pm coelacanth∅: joe, i have a few non-memories like that. (ie an anti-nuclear demonstration in central park in the 80s where i guess i saw Crosby Stills & Nash and many other artists but only have a vague recollection of seeing figures on a distant stage)
	🛒 1:56pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Another soul-breaker.
	1:57pm dan: UM, did you play Tom Waits' version of "Broken Bicycles" during the "Songs That Declan Taught Us" show?
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: I remember almost nothing of the Patti Smith Group show I went to in '79.
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: don't recall, dan.
	1:58pm coelacanth∅: but...but... this isn't a Waits composition! Paul McCartney sang this in the 60s. (or part of it)
	1:59pm Doug Schulkind: This Sunday is the 63rd anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's first public reading of Howl. Give the Drummer Radio is happy to broadcast this great work of love, rage and humanity. It will be broadcast about 5 minutes after the end of Jeff Golick's D:O Radio show finishes. Keep your Internets pointed to the Drummer Stream!
	1:59pm joe: I think the reason I get on him so much is that getting to see Tom is almost as rare as being trambled by a unicorn
	1:59pm doctorjazz: Yup, McCartney if I remember correctly, lovely version.
	2:01pm dan: @UM, I checked, you didn't.
	2:01pm Dean: First PM solo album, "Junk," 1970. UM did not play "BB" on the Declan show.
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: thank you doctor. i was wondering if i was losing (more of) my mind.
	2:02pm The Oscar: St. Vincent was a roommate of a friend of a friend in college, and I know I was at that apartment once or twice, but I couldn't tell you if I ever met her or not, and it kills me.
	2:02pm coelacanth∅: right, "junk".
	2:02pm joe: @Doug Schulkind that's very cool Thank you
	2:03pm coelacanth∅: ("junk" originally recorded early 1968)
	2:04pm joe: I went to see David Byrne's Contempory Color which features St. Vincent. Didn't notice until she got up to leave about 3/4 of the way through that I had been sitting next to her. :)
	2:07pm Dean: The McCartney thread here is due to Elvis Costello's portion of the duet. He sings "Junk," rather than "Broken Bicycles."
	2:07pm coelacanth∅: Tom should've given credit to McCartney for that. same melody, similar lyrics. sorry UM but it's shameful.
	2:09pm joe: It seems that the middle part of the ASVO and EC version is from a PM song called Junk Motorcars, handlebars Bicycles for two Broken-hearted jubilee Parachutes, army boots Sleeping bags for two Sentimental jamboree "Buy! Buy!" says the sign in the shop window "Why? Why?" says the junk in the yard
	2:09pm Dean: I don't think Tom had anything to do with "Junk." ASVO and EC created the medley: https://www.discogs.com/Anne-Sofie-Von-Otter-Meets-Elvis-Costello-For-The-Stars/release/1952965
	2:09pm dan: I never cared for Nanci Griffith. She has the strangest voice that affects my enjoyment of the music, If you've ever heard her sing harmony vocals with Richard Thompson on "Vincent Black Lightning", you'll understand what I mean.
	2:10pm coelacanth∅: Dean is the junk portion of the song not in the original? i've never heard that soundtrack.
	2:11pm Dean: I have the soundtrack (on vinyl, pace UM), but I haven't played it in ages. I'm certainly don't recall an interjection of "Junk" on it.
	2:12pm Dean: And the soundtrack is gorgeous. Well, well, here it is!
	2:12pm joe: The song is a combination of the two. It's actually credited on the For the STars album as Broken Bicycles/Junk with writing credit to T Waits and P McCartney
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: okay, just looked. the "for the stars" album does credit both Waits and McCartney.
	2:14pm Dean: Now, see, "Please Call Me Baby" isn't even on the soundtrack. Just goes to show you how long it's been since I listened to it.
	2:14pm coelacanth∅: (oh joe got it)
	2:14pm joe: Last time I saw Southside Johnny they did this and I was very very impressed.
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: I'm up to three post-show playlist corrections and counting
	2:17pm Dean: One from the Heart did make it to CD.
	2:18pm Uncle Michael: that's good to hear
	2:19pm Webhamster Henry: Is there a Walking Spanish Down The Hall cover out there?
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: The guitar player on this Diana Krall is Anthony Wilson. He's terrific...and he teaches at UCLA if you're looking fora guitar teacher.
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Not sure, Henry.
	2:21pm Rich in Washington: What a wonderful show, UM! Not that Tom Waits' music needs any kind of vindication, but it says a lot about someone's songwriting when so many diversely beautiful covers can be had from such a wide array of musicians.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Rich.
	2:25pm Dean: Seems to me Theo Bleckmann does a great Waits cover on a record with three other vocalists. Moss?
	2:25pm dan: That Tim Buckley rendition is probably the best one of the program today. Now I gotta listen to the original.
	2:26pm Dean: Yeah, "Take It with Me." The entire Moss record is lovely.
	2:28pm burke: What dan said!
	2:29pm The Oscar: Whooooaaaaaa.
	2:34pm Parq: Bette Midler also covered "Martha". She sang it on an appearance on SNL, calling it (natch) "Tommy".
	2:37pm burke: Where Scarlett Johanssen at
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: I'm afraid I passed on all of Scarlet's Tom covers.
	2:39pm burke: Myself I have not braved that cover album but can't imagine it can be that good.
	2:43pm dan: Are we getting a ride on the Ol'55 UM?
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: Actually, no...Ian almost made it in...but time is short.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: I may clean up a few loose Tom Waits ends after the Jubilee.
	2:47pm Webhamster Henry: There's Bette!
	2:47pm Parq: < breaks into a grin that you can probably see in Topeka .
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: I just had an "oh, why not?" moment.
	2:51pm Stevel: Holy am I gonna have to hit the archives since I just cam in on today's show!
	2:56pm rw: Thanks UM! Not enough people threw change in the violin case today.
	2:57pm Parq: Grinning again.
	2:57pm dan: You just made my day by playing Ian Matthews' version UM.
	2:57pm Mark Hurst: Happy weekend, UM
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: Steve! Well, why not play it....I'll run a couple minutes long. shrug
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: Mark!
	2:58pm Stanley: This has been fun. Well done Uncle and thanks.
	2:58pm burke: A good weekend to all, Thanks Uncle Michael.
	2:59pm mauri: it's been a very entertaining show UM thanks a billion!
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for Waiting!
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: I was never no closing with this.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone!
	3:00pm The Oscar: Aw, nice! This is a lovely song anyway, but something about Joey singing it always gets me.
	3:02pm dan: A perfect end to a great show. Thanks UM
	🛒 3:03pm Brian in UK: Just back from dinner. Did I miss Downtown Train? Great show Uncle
	🛒 3:04pm Brian in UK: @dan or is it Iain?
	3:04pm dan: @ Brian The train didn't get into the station
	3:06pm Uncle Michael: Bye friends!
	3:38pm Webhamster Henry: You're innocent when you dream; you're guilty when you're awake!
	3:55pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Uncle M i was called away prematurely Great show!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open					0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Violent Femmes	Step Right Up "Step Right Up" by "Violent Femmes"	Step Right Up (The Songs Of Tom Waits)	Mammoth	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Small Change)	0:04:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	16 Shells From a 30-6	It's A Mystery	Capitol	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Swordfishtrombones (written with Kathleen Brennan))	0:10:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jonathan Richman	The Heart Of A Saturday Night	You Must Ask The Heart	Rounder	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of A Saturday Night)	0:14:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pete Shelley	Better Off Without a Wife	Step Right Up (The Songs Of Tom Waits)	Manifesto	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Nighthawks At The Diner)	0:16:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Black And The Catholics	The Black Rider	Black Letter Days	Cooking Vinyl	2002	(Originally released by T.W. on: The Black Rider (written with Greg Cohen))	0:20:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kid Congo Powers (Knoxville Girls)	Virginia Avenue	Solo Cholo	Trans Solo	2002	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	0:22:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Los Lobos	Jockey Full Of Bourbon "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" by "Los Lobos"	Ride This - The Covers EP	Mammoth	2004	(Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs (written with Uptown Horns, Kathleen Brennan, James Greenspan)	0:25:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Waits	Fawn "Fawn" by "Tom Waits"	Alice	Anti-	2002		0:29:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alison Krauss	Trampled Rose "Trampled Rose" by "Alison Krauss"	Raising Sand	Rounder	2007	(Originally released by T.W. on: Real Gone (written with Kathleen Brennan))	0:35:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Norah Jones	The Long Way Home "The Long Way Home" by "Norah Jones"	Feels Like Home	Blue Note	2004	(Originally released by T.W. on: Big Bad Love (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) (written with Kathleen Brennan, Jason Hammel))	0:40:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Linda Thompson	Day After Tomorrow	Versatile Heart	Rounder	2007	(Originally released by T.W. on: Real Gone (written with Kathleen Brennan))	0:43:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lucinda Williams	Hang Down Your Head	World Without Tears	Lost Highway	2003	(Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs (written with Kathleen Brennan))	0:48:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frente!	Ruby's Arms "Ruby's Arms" by "Frente!"	What's Come Over Me	Mushroom	1996	(Originally released by T.W. on: Heart Attack and Vine)	0:51:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Petra Haden & Bill Frisell	I Don't Want To Grow Up	Petra Haden And Bill Frisell	Sovereign Artists	2004	(Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine (written with Kathleen Brennan))	0:55:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Waits	Calliope "Calliope" by "Tom Waits"	Blood Money	Anti-	2002		0:59:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Willie Nelson	Picture In A Frame "Picture In A Frame" by "Willie Nelson"	It Always Will Be	Lost Highway	2004	(Originally released by T.W. on: Mule Variations (written with Kathleen Brennan))	1:04:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Hammond	Clap Hands "Clap Hands" by "John Hammond"	Wicked Grin	Pointblank	2001	(Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)	1:07:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dave Alvin	Blind Love "Blind Love" by "Dave Alvin"	West Of The West	Yep Roc	2006	(Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)	1:11:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steve Earle	Way Down In The Hole "Way Down In The Hole" by "Steve Earle"	Washington Square Serenade	New West	2007	(Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)	1:16:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kinky Friedman	A Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met	Avenue A Records, Thirty Tigers	2015	(Originally released by T.W. on: Blue Valentine)	1:19:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
T Bone Burnett	Time "Time" by "T Bone Burnett"	T Bone Burnett	Dot	1986	(Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)	1:22:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Ice Cream Man	Black Music For White People	Bizarre/Planet	1991	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	1:26:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Waits	Just Another Sucker on the Vine	Swordfishtrombones	Island	1983		1:29:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jennifer Warnes	Invitation To The Blues	The Well	Cisco Music	2001	(Originally released by T.W. on: Small Change)	1:35:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shawn Colvin	Hold On "Hold On" by "Shawn Colvin"	Uncovered	Fantasy	2015	(Originally released by T.W. on: Mule Variations (written with Kathleen Brennan))	1:40:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
10,000 Maniacs	I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You	These Are Days CD Single	Elektra	1992	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	1:44:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Holly Cole	Jersey Girl "Jersey Girl" by "Holly Cole"	Temptation	Alert	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Heart Attack and Vine)	1:48:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Anne Sofie Von Otter Meets Elvis Costello	Broken Bicycles (w/ Paul McCartney's "Junk")	For The Stars	Deutsche Grammophon	2001	(Originally released by T.W. on: One From The Heart-OST)	1:52:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Niamh Parsons And The Loose Connections	Briar and the Rose	Loosen Up	Green Linnet	1997	(Originally released by T.W. on: The Black Rider)	1:56:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Waits	Dave the Butcher "Dave the Butcher" by "Tom Waits"	Swordfishtrombones	Anti-	1983		2:00:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nanci Griffith	Grapefruit Moon "Grapefruit Moon" by "Nanci Griffith"	Ruby's Torch	Rounder	2006	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	2:05:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band	Please Call Me, Baby	Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits	Leroy	2008	(Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of Saturday Night )	2:09:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Diana Krall	Temptation "Temptation" by "Diana Krall"	The Girl In The Other Room	Verve	2004	(Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)	2:14:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tim Buckley	Martha "Martha" by "Tim Buckley"	Sefronia	Discreet	1973	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	2:19:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Manhattan Transfer	Foreign Affair	Extensions	Atlantic	1979	(Originally released by T.W. on: Foreign Affaairs)	2:22:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tom Jones	Bad As Me "Bad As Me" by "Tom Jones"	Spirit in the Room	Island	2012	(Originally released by T.W. on: Bad As Me (written with Kathleen Brennan))	2:26:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tom Waits	Closing Time "Closing Time" by "Tom Waits"	Closing Time	Asylum	1973		2:29:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blind Boys of Alabama	Jesus Gonna Be Here	Spirit Of The Century	Real World	2001	(Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)	2:34:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joan Baez	Whistle Down the Wind "Whistle Down the Wind" by "Joan Baez"	Whistle Down The Wind	Razor & Tie	2018	(Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)	2:39:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bette Midler	Shiver Me Timbers "Shiver Me Timbers" by "Bette Midler"	Songs For The New Depression	Atlantic	1976	(Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of Saturday Night )	2:44:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bettye Lavette	Yesterday Is Here "Yesterday Is Here" by "Bettye Lavette"	Thankful N' Thoughtful	Anti-	2012	(Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years Brennan)	2:46:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elvis Costello	Innocent When You Dream	Kojak Variety	Warner Bros.	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)	2:49:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ian Matthews	Ol' 55 "Ol' 55" by "Ian Matthews"	Some Days You Eat The Bear And Some Days The Bear Eats You	Elektra	1974	(Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)	2:54:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ramones	I Don't Wanna Grow Up "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" by "Ramones"	¡Adios Amigos!	Radioactive	1995	(Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)	2:57:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968		2:59:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:58am Uncle Michael: Please support the show, the stream and the station: pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: There are no guilty pleasures. The all pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Insane for Uncle Michael!
	12:05pm joe: 'ello folks
	12:06pm rw: How-dee hey.
	12:06pm doctorjazz: Hi folks!
	12:08pm joe: You started to say pay tribute and my heart sank and I ran to Google to make sure my fears were not true.
	12:08pm Uncle Michael: UM! Doug! Joe! RW! Doc!
	12:08pm Parq: Nice to hear this Femmes version, which I've only heard once before. Do you suppose they sent in the creeping charlies for the lyrics like it said on the original LP sleeve?
	12:09pm dan: As long as you don't play Springsteen's version of Jersey Girl, this will be a perfect tribute.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: Parq! Of course! Nobody's dead...it's just October! Dan!
	12:09pm Dominick: the large print giveth and the small print taketh away
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Dominick!
	12:13pm burke: This is gonna be a fun show. Fun to dwell on the influence of the songwriter while subtracting out the gravelly voice and the persona
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Burke!
	12:14pm Jeff Golick: Was just yesterday watching clips of Tom on the Letterman show. A legend -- thanks, @UM!
	12:14pm Rich in Washington: Wow. I've never heard this before!
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Rich!
	12:15pm jmd: Uncle!
	12:15pm dan: Bob Seger is about halfway there to Tom Waits' gravelly voice.
	12:16pm Rich in Washington: I've always really liked Bob Seger's voice, even though some of his stuff is played to death on 'classic rock' stations.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: JMD!
	12:16pm Parq: Would we perhaps accept Jersey Girl by the Irish pop band Bagatelle?
	12:17pm jmd: Just covers or also songs written by Waits?
	12:18pm dan: @ Rich I love Bob Seger They never play enough of his songs on the radio. When was the last time you heard "Mainstreet" or "We've Got Tonight" on a Classick Rock block?
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: They're all written by Tom.
	12:18pm Rich in Washington: Didn't someone record a parody of Jersey Girl called Jersey Cow? Sometime in the 80s or early 90s?
	12:19pm jmd: Cool! Will we be hearing Solomon Burke?
	12:19pm dan: @ Rich Sounds like something Weird Al would've done.
	12:19pm Rich in Washington: The classic rock format is so stagnant. No deep cuts. Not even songs which were played in the 70s or 80s. I think it's the laziness of Programming people, mainly.
	12:20pm mauri: what fun !
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Mauri!
	12:21pm dan: @ Rich DJs used to have creative control. Now the FCC have these draconian regulations that severely limit what can be played on a commercial station. That's why I stopped listening to my local CR station.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: Nighthawks is such an amazing album. I remember playing it continuously in the early 90s.
	12:23pm Jeff Golick: My first Waits was Rain Dogs, so that iteration -- RD/Swordfishtrombones/Frank's Wild Years -- was my Tom template. It was a surprise to go back and listen to the early albums.
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: I think it's also the laziness of Programming people, less reporting to file, less royalties to pay out, etc., with a streamlined playlist, and stations being owned by fewer and fewer and progressively larger conglomerates.
	12:24pm dan: I hope you play Ian Matthews version of Ol'55 instead of The Eagles' one.
	12:24pm efd: I have to admit, as someone who has no affinity at all for Tom Waits my first thought was "looks like I picked the wrong day to work from home" but I'm sticking with it as long as possible.
	12:25pm Rich in Washington: I too started out with his weirder Island Records period. I remember seeing his 'In The Neighborhood' video on either Night Flight or Rock 'N America and it made me curious about him.
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Evan.
	12:27pm Roberto: I've been waitsing for this show all week.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	12:28pm joe: This makes me think the Cramps could have done some great Waits stuff.
	12:28pm Parq: Based on conversations I had with some programmers, albeit a long time ago, my own impression is that it's not laziness so much as a condescending belief that programming must be kept ultra-simple and limited only to one "hit" track per album to keep from confusing the listeners, who are stupid and have no attention span. In fairness, given what I have learned in the decades since about what some people sincerely believe and prefer, it's easier than it used to be for me to see their point.
	12:28pm Parq: Joe, oh man, would that have been cool as shit or what?
	12:29pm dan: @ Parq Listeners of commercial radio have gotten stupider. They don't expand their minds and listen to the back wall stuff. But I guess that's where freeform radio and YouTube come into play.
	12:29pm efd: @dan, curious which FCC regulations you're referring to. They're generally only concerned with explicit language and/or content, which still leaves a ton of songs available for airplay (such as all the ones that were getting played back when those classic rock albums weren't classic yet). I think the tight playlists on today's classic rock stations are more driven by a lot of stations owned by a few corporations, and wanting the programming to be as familiar as possible to the largest number of people.
	12:30pm Rich in Washington: Parq: Having DJ'd live, public-ish events and my experiences with radio listening in the workplace, I think that part is probably true. Lots of people don't like variety, anything different, etc.
	12:30pm joe: As a 16 year old I was introduced to Tom Waits by way of Primus. I then heard Bone Machine played in a Tower Records and away I went.
	12:31pm efd: and I'll take this opportunity to work in a plug for WFMU's October fundraiser, since we don't have to worry about any of that BS (except the language) (although the stream shows don't even have to worry about that!): pledge.wfmu.org...
	12:32pm Rich in Washington: Yes EFD. The FCC can't tell people which songs can't be played. They can only respond to complaints of obscenity in songs. My station was part of a landmark FCC ruling in the early 2000s. To their credit, they've never told any of us DJs what NOT to play. We can play anything after 10pm except the Emergency Alert System sound.
	🛒 12:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna: That was awesome!!!!
	12:33pm dan: @EFD I heard that a radio station must have 800 songs at their disposal On my local station, you'd think there were only 100.
	12:35pm Rich in Washington: I used to make the joke that my local classic rock and oldies stations only have 100 songs, but after stuffing a computer with several thousand songs to serve as our household jukebox, I was disappointed in the sheer repetition of some of the songs, like I really owe those stations an apology. But you might be onto something. Maybe they have 150 songs?
	12:39pm Jeff Golick: Why is the BIG TIME movie so hard to find?
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Granny!
	12:44pm Uncle Michael: Is it, Jeff? I've never looked.
	12:45pm Parq: Remember when the NPR crowd would have laid down their lives for Norah Jones? Good times.
	🛒 12:46pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Howdy, Uncle Michael! So good to get tuned into Topeka!
	12:46pm Parq: Yeah, Jeff's right, it is. I've always assumed that was the artist's choice, kind of the way it's similarly hard to find that Laurie Anderson performance move filmed in Union City.
	12:46pm The Oscar: Afternoon folks! I think I've only ever seen Big Time at repertory screenings, and even then it hasn't screened around here in years.
	12:47pm Rich in Washington: I think Big Time is on one of those subscription services. I've seen it, but haven't watched it there. Maybe Fandor? Or perhaps Kanopy.
	12:47pm dan: I didn't even have to look and I knew that was Linda Thompson's voice.
	12:47pm Jeff Golick: Same, @dan. Instantly recognizable.
	🛒 12:48pm Brian in UK: Gene Clark wrote two songs on Raising Sand. Just saying.
	12:48pm Stanley: Yay, Linda Thompson (I think I'll have a lie down)
	12:48pm burke: Never have I heard a more English description of Illinois
	12:50pm Uncle Michael: Brian! Stanley!
	12:50pm The Oscar: I did love the brief Big Time parody in the Stop Making Sense episode of Documentary Now.
	12:50pm Jeff Golick: {races to Kanopy app} no dice.
	🛒 12:51pm Brian in UK: Linda T's last album Won't Be Long Now is very good. Took me a while to realise her talent.
	12:51pm Parq: Lucinda!
	12:52pm burke: Now it's my turn to instantly recognize a singer
	12:52pm Doug Schulkind: The playlist GIF looks to be the "crazy leprechaun" scene from Murnau's Nosferatu. Wait, it's not?!
	12:53pm Jeff Golick: Waits, it is.
	1:00pm Jeff Golick: Oh, nice. The Ramones version of this ("Grow Up") is also tremendously great.
	1:09pm Stanley: This is nice
	1:10pm rw: UM, I only heard a bit of that earlier mic break but I'm one of those people who's a little bugged by TW. I think for me it feels a little too theater. That said, though I did see him perform at the Wiltern Theater years ago (late '80s?) and it was really great. I think maybe because of the theatricality. And THAT said, this show IS giving me the appreciation for the song writing that you were talking about! Thanks!!
	1:11pm Uncle Michael: I'm delighted to hear that, rw.
	1:12pm coelacanth∅: greetings Uncle M and Dinklers
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: Coel!
	1:13pm dan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs Tom Waits as a cartoon character.
	🛒 1:14pm Granny Spicy Tuna: So far the covers are from the mid-90's onward. I wonder what the oldest TW cover is?
	1:14pm Parq: Granny, I don't actually know, but my money would be on the Eagles' version of "Ol' 55".
	1:16pm Uncle Michael: The Frente! cover is from a 1980 song.
	1:16pm dan: @ Parq I think the Ian Matthews version is slightly better. Am crossing my fingers for that to be played.
	1:19pm Stanley: The Wire was brilliant
	1:20pm Jeff Golick: @dan: wow, thanks for that link.
	1:20pm Webhamster Henry: Ooh I've been out for a lot of this Waits Fest!
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Henry!
	1:22pm dan: @ Jeff Golick That short film was up for an Oscar
	🛒 1:22pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Oh, man, this one just breaks me.
	1:23pm Parq: There's a Guided by Voices track -- can't remember which -- that starts with the words "Well Charlie, for Chris'sake". Nice tribute to this song.
	1:25pm The Oscar: @Granny Agreed-- Kinky sells the hell out of that song. Holy cow.
	🛒 1:25pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I'm transfixed by these covers and can't focus on getting anything else done. Thanks a lot!
	1:26pm Parq: Here's one that kills me every time. ("Time")
	1:26pm Webhamster Henry: I have a recording of Bette Midler singing Shiver Me Timbers that I recorded off her TV Special (featuring Dustin Hoffman) in 1977 or so!
	🛒 1:27pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Oooh, Bette! I'll bet(te) it's a great rendition.
	1:27pm rw: This one sounds like Leonard Cohen. Is it the delivery or is it the song? (T.Bone B.)
	1:28pm rw: I think it's the melody, actually.
	1:30pm The Oscar: It's tough to say whether Tom or Jay would make a more unnerving ice cream man.
	1:30pm Parq: Harry, the original (well, Bette's original studio version) was segued with "Salmadi et Vedredi" on "Songs for the New Depression", my own favorite Bette album and way underrated IMO.
	1:30pm Parq: So many great versions I've never heard before. Digging this show to pieces, UM.
	1:31pm Listening Out There: Screamin' Jay Hawkins wanted to sing opera, I read...
	1:32pm The Oscar: Someone once speculated that Tim Curry was emulating Screamin' Jay for Rocky Horror, and now I can't unhear it.
	🛒 1:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I heard that Tim Curry sang "Tutti Frutti" for his audition.
	1:33pm 23 Wolves: Great show, Uncle. Good music for harrowing times.
	1:34pm Webhamster Henry: Waits is in the new Zombie flick "The Dead Don't Die", helmed by Jim Jarmusch #varietyspeak
	1:39pm Uncle Michael: L.O.T. 23W!
	1:39pm Jeff Golick: Among my many, many (many) life regrets: back in the 1990s, I passed on an invitation to attend one of the first gatherings of what became an annual Tom Waits party/weekend (later "Waitstock") up by Poughkeepsie. My liver probably thanks me, though.
	1:43pm still b/p: Very glad Waits is in the world. Between having to miss most of this show today and fretting with due pessimism about my senator....it's not a sunshiny day, despite the sunshine.
	1:43pm Webhamster Henry: @Jeff G. I almost went to one of those - I think it was in Montclair.
	1:44pm Uncle Michael: SB/P!
	1:46pm dan: @ Still B/P "Due Pessimism about my Senator" should be a Tom Waits song.
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: so far i know all these songs and almost none of these versions (2)
	1:49pm joe: One of my closest and dearest friends committed an unforgivable act in that he went to see Tom at the Beacon Theater in 1999 (same show Scott McDowell posted a photo of the ticket stub from). He and his companion got really really good seats paid top dollar. Well they got into NYC a bit early and decided to go to a near by watering hole before the show. They drank so much that neither of them can remember anything about the show. I never let him live this down.
	1:51pm Parq: Note, on "Fall In Love" (a favorite TW song, b/t/w) the (album) title drop in the last line, "Well it's closing time".
	1:51pm Parq: Sorry, not the last line, the first line of the last verse.
	1:52pm Parq: Annnnd, I wondered if Holly C's version would be the jersey Girl for this show.
	1:52pm joe: UM I'm sure you had many options to choose from for Jersey Girl. Nice choice
	1:53pm Uncle Michael: Thanks...yes, plenty of choices.
	1:54pm dan: Jersey Girl meets Weill and Brecht
	1:55pm joe: I don't know if this got answered or elaborated on but according to Discogs the earliest recording of one of Tom's songs was by Lee Hazlewood on his album Poet Fool or bum and the song was Those Were Days Of Roses (Martha)
	1:55pm coelacanth∅: joe, i have a few non-memories like that. (ie an anti-nuclear demonstration in central park in the 80s where i guess i saw Crosby Stills & Nash and many other artists but only have a vague recollection of seeing figures on a distant stage)
	🛒 1:56pm Granny Spicy Tuna: Another soul-breaker.
	1:57pm dan: UM, did you play Tom Waits' version of "Broken Bicycles" during the "Songs That Declan Taught Us" show?
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: I remember almost nothing of the Patti Smith Group show I went to in '79.
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: don't recall, dan.
	1:58pm coelacanth∅: but...but... this isn't a Waits composition! Paul McCartney sang this in the 60s. (or part of it)
	1:59pm Doug Schulkind: This Sunday is the 63rd anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's first public reading of Howl. Give the Drummer Radio is happy to broadcast this great work of love, rage and humanity. It will be broadcast about 5 minutes after the end of Jeff Golick's D:O Radio show finishes. Keep your Internets pointed to the Drummer Stream!
	1:59pm joe: I think the reason I get on him so much is that getting to see Tom is almost as rare as being trambled by a unicorn
	1:59pm doctorjazz: Yup, McCartney if I remember correctly, lovely version.
	2:01pm dan: @UM, I checked, you didn't.
	2:01pm Dean: First PM solo album, "Junk," 1970. UM did not play "BB" on the Declan show.
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: thank you doctor. i was wondering if i was losing (more of) my mind.
	2:02pm The Oscar: St. Vincent was a roommate of a friend of a friend in college, and I know I was at that apartment once or twice, but I couldn't tell you if I ever met her or not, and it kills me.
	2:02pm coelacanth∅: right, "junk".
	2:02pm joe: @Doug Schulkind that's very cool Thank you
	2:03pm coelacanth∅: ("junk" originally recorded early 1968)
	2:04pm joe: I went to see David Byrne's Contempory Color which features St. Vincent. Didn't notice until she got up to leave about 3/4 of the way through that I had been sitting next to her. :)
	2:07pm Dean: The McCartney thread here is due to Elvis Costello's portion of the duet. He sings "Junk," rather than "Broken Bicycles."
	2:07pm coelacanth∅: Tom should've given credit to McCartney for that. same melody, similar lyrics. sorry UM but it's shameful.
	2:09pm joe: It seems that the middle part of the ASVO and EC version is from a PM song called Junk Motorcars, handlebars Bicycles for two Broken-hearted jubilee Parachutes, army boots Sleeping bags for two Sentimental jamboree "Buy! Buy!" says the sign in the shop window "Why? Why?" says the junk in the yard
	2:09pm Dean: I don't think Tom had anything to do with "Junk." ASVO and EC created the medley: https://www.discogs.com/Anne-Sofie-Von-Otter-Meets-Elvis-Costello-For-The-Stars/release/1952965
	2:09pm dan: I never cared for Nanci Griffith. She has the strangest voice that affects my enjoyment of the music, If you've ever heard her sing harmony vocals with Richard Thompson on "Vincent Black Lightning", you'll understand what I mean.
	2:10pm coelacanth∅: Dean is the junk portion of the song not in the original? i've never heard that soundtrack.
	2:11pm Dean: I have the soundtrack (on vinyl, pace UM), but I haven't played it in ages. I'm certainly don't recall an interjection of "Junk" on it.
	2:12pm Dean: And the soundtrack is gorgeous. Well, well, here it is!
	2:12pm joe: The song is a combination of the two. It's actually credited on the For the STars album as Broken Bicycles/Junk with writing credit to T Waits and P McCartney
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: okay, just looked. the "for the stars" album does credit both Waits and McCartney.
	2:14pm Dean: Now, see, "Please Call Me Baby" isn't even on the soundtrack. Just goes to show you how long it's been since I listened to it.
	2:14pm coelacanth∅: (oh joe got it)
	2:14pm joe: Last time I saw Southside Johnny they did this and I was very very impressed.
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: I'm up to three post-show playlist corrections and counting
	2:17pm Dean: One from the Heart did make it to CD.
	2:18pm Uncle Michael: that's good to hear
	2:19pm Webhamster Henry: Is there a Walking Spanish Down The Hall cover out there?
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: The guitar player on this Diana Krall is Anthony Wilson. He's terrific...and he teaches at UCLA if you're looking fora guitar teacher.
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Not sure, Henry.
	2:21pm Rich in Washington: What a wonderful show, UM! Not that Tom Waits' music needs any kind of vindication, but it says a lot about someone's songwriting when so many diversely beautiful covers can be had from such a wide array of musicians.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Rich.
	2:25pm Dean: Seems to me Theo Bleckmann does a great Waits cover on a record with three other vocalists. Moss?
	2:25pm dan: That Tim Buckley rendition is probably the best one of the program today. Now I gotta listen to the original.
	2:26pm Dean: Yeah, "Take It with Me." The entire Moss record is lovely.
	2:28pm burke: What dan said!
	2:29pm The Oscar: Whooooaaaaaa.
	2:34pm Parq: Bette Midler also covered "Martha". She sang it on an appearance on SNL, calling it (natch) "Tommy".
	2:37pm burke: Where Scarlett Johanssen at
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: I'm afraid I passed on all of Scarlet's Tom covers.
	2:39pm burke: Myself I have not braved that cover album but can't imagine it can be that good.
	2:43pm dan: Are we getting a ride on the Ol'55 UM?
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: Actually, no...Ian almost made it in...but time is short.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: I may clean up a few loose Tom Waits ends after the Jubilee.
	2:47pm Webhamster Henry: There's Bette!
	2:47pm Parq: < breaks into a grin that you can probably see in Topeka .
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: I just had an "oh, why not?" moment.
	2:51pm Stevel: Holy am I gonna have to hit the archives since I just cam in on today's show!
	2:56pm rw: Thanks UM! Not enough people threw change in the violin case today.
	2:57pm Parq: Grinning again.
	2:57pm dan: You just made my day by playing Ian Matthews' version UM.
	2:57pm Mark Hurst: Happy weekend, UM
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: Steve! Well, why not play it....I'll run a couple minutes long. shrug
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: Mark!
	2:58pm Stanley: This has been fun. Well done Uncle and thanks.
	2:58pm burke: A good weekend to all, Thanks Uncle Michael.
	2:59pm mauri: it's been a very entertaining show UM thanks a billion!
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for Waiting!
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: I was never no closing with this.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone!
	3:00pm The Oscar: Aw, nice! This is a lovely song anyway, but something about Joey singing it always gets me.
	3:02pm dan: A perfect end to a great show. Thanks UM
	🛒 3:03pm Brian in UK: Just back from dinner. Did I miss Downtown Train? Great show Uncle
	🛒 3:04pm Brian in UK: @dan or is it Iain?
	3:04pm dan: @ Brian The train didn't get into the station
	3:06pm Uncle Michael: Bye friends!
	3:38pm Webhamster Henry: You're innocent when you dream; you're guilty when you're awake!
	3:55pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Uncle M i was called away prematurely Great show!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 5, 2018

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