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October 26, 2019: Guest: Burt Kearns co-author of "The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage."
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| Explorers Club, The |
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
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| Elly Kasim |
Malereng
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| Nikki Lane |
Hard Livin'
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| Dee Dee Warwick |
Do It With All Your Heart
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| Lalo Schifrin |
You And Me
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| NRBQ |
You Can't Hide
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| Soft Soul Transition |
I'm A Believer
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| Patsy Cline |
Stop, Look and Listen (take 4)
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| Al King |
It's Getting Late
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| Yo La Tengo |
Smile A Little Smile For Me (from Super Hit Tsunami!)
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| Soulful Dynamics |
Mademoiselle Ninette
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| Chuck Wood |
Friday Night Fights
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| Meters, The |
Look-Ka Py Py
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| Pat Flowers |
I Got Rhythm
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| Gang Of Four |
Damaged Goods
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| Carnival, The |
Take Me For A Little While
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| Onie Wheeler |
When We All Get There
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| Burt Kearns |
INTERVIEW
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| Nick Lowe |
So It Goes
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| Sandy Sarjeant |
Can't Stop the Want
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| Sarah Shook And The Disarmers |
Damned If Do, Damned If I Don't
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| Esther Phillips |
As Tears Go By
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| Peggy Lee |
Let's Fall In Love
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| Greg Townson |
Venus
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| Sam Elwitt |
I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top (from Super Hit Tsunami!)
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| Spacemen, The |
Fever
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| Sly and The Family Stone |
If You Want Me To Stay
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| Steve Ward |
Turn It Around
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| Mamas And The Papas, The |
I Can't Wait
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| Cuff Links |
Jennifer Tompkins
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| Bruce Springsteen |
Ricky Wants A Man Of Her Own
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| Carvel |
Haloween Commercial
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| Frank Zappa |
Dental PSA
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| Bobby "Boris" Pickett |
WFWB
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| Haunted Mansion In Long Branch |
Commercial
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CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID
CLICK HERE to find how how to submit music to Michael for airplay consideration
CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer
CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs
CLICK HERE for a detailed look at cymbals in 1920s jazz
CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project
CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper
CLICK HERE to hear a lovely short BBC radio piece where Nick Lowe talk about Fatback Louisiana USA by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Harlan County by Jim Ford
CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.
CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast
CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!
CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!
CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air
CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!
CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!
CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas
CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag
CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel
CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore
CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts
CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"
CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"
CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!
CLICK HERE for "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"
CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world
CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves
CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court
CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression
CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography
CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s
CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU
CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds
CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"
CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"
CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it
CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"
CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "
CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"
CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel
CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"
CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits
CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show
CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms
CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"
CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"
CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"
CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch
CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"
CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!
CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour
CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club
CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"
CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to
CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar
CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"
CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload
CLICK HERE for Gay Robot
CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!
CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"
CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story
CLICK HERE for Ock TV
CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"
CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?
CLICK HERE for optical illusions
CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work
CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill
CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"
CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off
CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show
CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU
CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut
CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of
CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"
CLICK HERE for a laugh
CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"
CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin
CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people
CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"
CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does
CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes
CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was
CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."
CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears
CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!
CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website
CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers
CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
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