Bob Brainen's show

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Hank Levine Orch. w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience		1961 / 1966		0:00:00 Pop-up)
John Coltrane	My Favorite Things, Pt. 1	My Favorite Things (Special Edition)	1961 / 1998	Single version side A	0:02:27 Pop-up)
Mike Harrison	Paid My Dues	Smokestack Lightning	1972		0:05:07 Pop-up)
Doris	Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby?	Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby?	1970		0:09:21 Pop-up)
Young Holt Unlimited	The "In" Crowd	On Stage	1967		0:12:37 Pop-up)
Moonlight Benjamin	Kafou	Simido *	2020		0:15:10 Pop-up)
Cymbals	Hey, Leader!	Tom Ardolino's Magic Jukebox			0:18:57 Pop-up)
Mary Jane	Hazy Days	Hazy Days	1996		0:21:52 Pop-up)
Humblebums (Gerry Rafferty)	Keep It to Yourself	Open Up The Door	1970		0:25:22 Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby	Lazy Bones (1st version)	Havin' Fun With Bing & Louis 1949-1951	1949 / 1996	Radio Broadcasts	0:28:34 Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					0:31:25 Pop-up)
Aaron Copland	Mvt. Two: Prelude from Music For The Theatre	Bernstein Conducts Copland	1925 / 1965		0:36:03 Pop-up)
Robbie Basho	American Sunday	Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes *	2020		0:41:50 Pop-up)
Judee Sill	The Phoenix	Heart Food	1973		0:45:08 Pop-up)
Pete Jolly Trio	Sweet September		1964		0:49:50 Pop-up)
Foundations	I Can Take Or Leave Your Lovin'	Build Me Up Buttercup	1967		0:50:01 Pop-up)
Charles Albertine	The Long Ships (Part One)	Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals II	1964 / 2003	VAR	0:52:18 Pop-up)
Asher Gamedze	State of Emergence Suite, Mvt. Three: Synthesis	Dialectic Soul *	2020		0:54:31 Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: "birds @ 302 Chestnut"					0:59:57 Pop-up)
Billy Harper (w/Elvin Jones)	Sir Galahad	Capra Black	1973	Strata East label	1:04:58 Pop-up)
Zedashe	`Datvma Lkh'ini (Bear's Feast)	Silver Sanctuary *	2020		1:13:01 Pop-up)
Don Crawford	Up Down	Don Crawford	1966		1:15:21 Pop-up)
Hushdrops	Tomorrow Takes The Sun	*	2021	from upcoming album	1:19:08 Pop-up)
Bumps Blackwell Orchestra	Sumpin' Jumpin'		1958		1:20:12 Pop-up)
Charles Mingus	Wham Bam, Thank You Ma'am	Passions of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961	1960 / 1997		1:22:13 Pop-up)
Electric Flag	Sittin' In Circles	A Long Time Comin'	1968		1:27:00 Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: "birds @ 302 Chestnut"					1:30:44 Pop-up)
Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian	Blue Umbrella	Blue Umbrella E.P. *	2020		1:36:11 Pop-up)
NRBQ	Some Kind Of Blues	Grooves In Orbit	1983 / 1990	Hope this comes through: Missed last night? NRBQ “Listening Party” streaming today! Sat Jan 2 - 2:00 pm EST Streaming on… Facebook - NRBQ Headquarters (https://www.facebook.com/NRBQHeadquarters/ ) YouTube - Q-vision 2 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqntRzCSMoMzgaEG3RoNPg Instagram - @NRBQHeadquarters (https://www.instagram.com/nrbqheadquarters/)	1:40:28 Pop-up)
Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers	Promised Land	Religion Is A Fortune: Sacred Harp Singing	early 50s / 2004	VAR	1:43:40 Pop-up)
Leo Watson w/ Vic Dickenson Quintet	The Snake Pit	The Original Scat Man	1946 / 1999		1:46:15 Pop-up)
David Greenberger & Tyson Rogers	Better Call Forward	Everybody's Home *	2020		1:49:11 Pop-up)
Festival	Today	Before During And After: The Story Of 10cc	197? / 2017		1:50:34 Pop-up)
John Coltrane	My Favorite Things, Pt.II	My Favorite Things (Special Edition)	1961 / 1998	Single version side B	1:55:00 Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					1:58:07 Pop-up)
Thanks To David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young, Andrew Taylor & Pete Tomlinson

Listener comments!

9:01am 1whoknewcthulhu:

Good morning, Bob, and Happy New Year all!

9:01am Jeff:

Good Morning Bob, Doc Rock and fellow listeners.
Happy and Healthy New Year to you all!

9:02am Deborah:

Good Morning WFMUniverse!

9:02am SmokinJ:

Hey bb! What's shakin' bud? Mornin' all! 8-)

9:02am Andrew in Toronto:

Good morning Bob and all other Brainiacks.
Happy New Year to everybody out there!

🥁

9:03am Wm.fromDumont:

Morning Bob and all. Happy New Year!

9:03am Bob Brainen:

Happy New Year to you,1whoknewcthulhu, Jeff,
Deborah & SmokinJ!
& Andrew!

9:03am Doc Rock:

Good morning Bob and all listeners.
Good morning Jeff.
Happy New Year to all.

9:04am melinda:

morning Bob and all!

9:04am Bob Brainen:

Hey Wm. I'm gonna shorten it to: HNY!
Hey Doc Rock

9:04am Wendy del Formaggio:

Good morning, Bob! Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things" is... well... one of my favorite things. HNY!

9:06am Jeff:

Hey, was that the 45 single edit version?

9:06am DonJuanTijuana:

Happy New Year @BobB!!! One of my favorite things is to hear your show every Saturday morning...Welcome back!!

9:07am Joe Merklee:

Morning all, Happy New Year!

9:07am dale:

perfect production on this one. strings make everything better.

9:08am TDK60:

Good Saturday the 2nd morning, Bob.

9:08am Bob Brainen:

Hey Wendy,
Yeah Jeff, single edit.
Morning DonJuanTijuana, well thank you!
Hey Joe M. & Dale. Hey TDK60.

9:09am vanya moscow:

When my parents bought our first player, the first tape they had was «my favourite things”. So many memories

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9:11am Wm.fromDumont:

Is this Doris Troy or a different Doris?

9:12am Bob Brainen:

Morning melinda,
vanya moscow, what a nice memory!

9:13am Bob Brainen:

Doris Svenson, Wm.

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9:14am Wm.fromDumont:

Ah. It didn't sound like Doris Troy.

9:14am Marc Francis:

Howdy Bob! Loved that Mike Harrison song!

9:16am 1whoknewcthulhu:

That Young Holt number sounded so Ramsey Lewis that it's hard to believe it wasn't.

9:17am Bob Brainen:

Hey marc francis, glad you dug!
Wm. just reading about that 1st Doris Troy album on Apple. George H. produced it and had Peter Frampton play guitar.

9:18am Bob Brainen:

1whoknewcthulhu, agree! same bass & drums on both!

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9:20am Wm.fromDumont:

I forgot she had an LP on Apple.

9:22am DaveInPA:

If not Cruisin' for a Bruisin', then Strainin' for a Brainen?

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9:24am Brian in UK:

Hello Bob & devotees. H N Y.

9:24am Bob Brainen:

Hey DaveInPA,
Anyone out there get snow?

9:25am Jeff:

Bob, you’re blowing my mind again. In my 66+ years on this planet, I thought I heard everything.

9:25am Marc Francis:

Snowing up here in Montreal!

9:25am Bob Brainen:

Hiya Brian in UK, HNY to you!

9:25am Zoot:

Snow on the Poker nose

9:26am Mike tp:

hello Bob and pals.great to be here.

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9:27am Brian in UK:

We have had five cold days some with snow. Nothing to stop cars.

9:28am Wendy del Formaggio:

I've just been reading a little bit about Humblebums. I'm reading the David Cavanagh book about John Peel, "Good Night and Good Riddance," and they're mentioned because Peel liked them and played them often.

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9:28am Wm.fromDumont:

Re Humblebums. Billy Connolly tunes not good?

9:31am qwerty:

Haw! No healthcare for you, lazybonez!

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9:31am Brian in UK:

Wendy, what do you think of the setup for David Cavanagh's book.

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9:36am Wm.fromDumont:

I love 45cat.

9:40am adamdoesit:

Good morning and happy new year, Bob and listeners.

9:41am Patrick:

Good morning and Happy New Yesr to Bob and his listeners.Thanks for the uplifting John Coltrane.Wish the City of Philadelphia would do more to maintain and promote the John Coltrane historical house .

9:42am Wendy del Formaggio:

Brian in UK: I like the format. I've never read a book structured like that before, and I'm interested in different ways of writing. The pacing is good, and it's easy for my brain to absorb and integrate the large amounts on information because it's in short vignettes. What about you?

9:44am Bob Brainen:

morning to you adamdoesit,
HNY Patrick, that would be nice.\Wendy, can you explain structure? An oral history?

9:49am Corey:

Good morning all and Happy New Year! Really enjoying these first two sets, Bob.

9:49am Jeff:

Man, Judee Sill was so good! If I’m not mistaken, she was the first artist on Asylum. Was supposed to be Laura Nyro but she bailed. David Geffen really had good taste, at one time.

9:51am Wendy del Formaggio:

Bob: What Cavanagh does is structure the book in passages in chronological order, and he uses episodes of John Peel's various radio programs (starting with his time on the pirate-radio ship Radio London, into his long employment with the BBC) as the section headings. So, each section will have the date, a selection of artists Peel played, a few sentences about current events (mostly political), and then a longer narrative about that specific show, Peel's responses/reactions, trends in his music and mic breaks, etc. It's a lot to explain here and I hope I've done it justice.

9:52am Woo:

Nice Hermits cover. This song suits the Foundations.

9:52am Dennis Diken:

good morning Bob and all. diggin' the noise! all good wishes for the new year

9:55am Bob Brainen:

Hey corey, That's right Jeff. Wendy, that sounds like a great approach.
Hey woo, hey Denny! HNY

9:55am Jeff:

Strings are the thing(s)

9:58am Wendy del Formaggio:

Bob: Yeah, it's great! I tried to find a good review of the book so you could read further about the structure, but most reviews are just trying to write really short versions of Peel's life and influence. They're not reviewing the book. The outlier is this one from the Irish Times; bless them, they know how to review a book: bit.ly...

9:58am TimBrosnan:

Happy new year Bob and all fellow BB fans! Any show that starts off with Trane is bound to be great - and it is! Loving this Asher Gamedze track!

10:00am Bob Brainen:

Thanks TimBrosnan

10:01am Wendy del Formaggio:

My only problem with the book is its predictable and lazy misogyny. The musical taste of housewives is disdained without any examples, and numerous bands are described as music "your girlfriend wouldn't like." Blecch.

10:04am Uncle Michael:

I think I spoke or emailed back and forth with Gene when I did my Warner Bros. Loss Leaders shows.

10:05am bigplanetnoise:

GoodMorningGoodMorning and Happy New Year!!

10:08am Bob Brainen:

Hey Uncle Michael, Yeah Gene digs the station. He's a also a fine DJ on luxuria.com and a great writer.
Hey bigplanetnoise!

10:08am Gina Bacon:

Good morning! This is great to wake up to.

10:09am YETI BOB:

I've got nothing to say, but it's OK
Good morning, good morning

10:09am Yes:

hii

10:09am Uncle Michael:

Gene was pretty much the editorial voice behind the humor imbued in that series. I spoke to a number of the parties involved. I even got to pick Barry Hansen's brain a bit.

10:09am luka:

Bob, i’ve been not so purposefully been timing my saturday morning runs as of late to coincide with the show and it’s just been delightful.

10:12am Gina Bacon:

Elvin Jones! Wow.

10:13am Bob Brainen:

Hey Gina, thanks! Hey YETI BOB, & Yes.

10:13am Bob Brainen:

A force of nature Gina

10:14am Dennis Diken:

agreed re Gene Sculatti, he knows his stuff and is a fine dude. his show Atomic Cocktail is s gas. and he's a big fan of WFMU, indeed

10:15am egould310:

Good morning from chilly and rainy Seattle. What a great way to wake up; jazzy tunes from Bob Brainen’s playlist.

Happy New Year, Bob and WFMU listeners!

10:15am Alvy Singer:

If i'm not mistaken, the great Billy Cobham played on the Capra Black album as well.

10:17am Jeff:

Is this guy doing Jimmy Reed?

10:17am Bob Brainen:

Hey egould310, Alvy Singer,, you are correct and Warren Smith as well

10:17am Listener Robert:

Barry Hansen!? UM, what's he doing these days? I knew someone who was his college dorm mate before his Demento days.

10:18am egould310:

@luka Running to Bob’s show is the best. Looks like I’ll be running to Mike Shelley/Rex today. I’m a little hungover and need to wake up.

10:20am Yes:

excellent set

10:23am Uncle Michael:

Robert, I have no idea. I didn't take up any of his time beyond the topic he was kind enough to share his thoughts about. He wrote a whole lot of the liner notes for those albums.

10:26am Bob Brainen:

Barry Hansen is such a cool cat. Even helped the band Spirit get off the ground.

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10:27am Wm.fromDumont:

Some of those Warner Bros. comps have some rare items on them. Van Dyke Parks music for commercials, etc.

10:27am bigplanetnoise:

I doubt Spirit would’ve been signed if not for Barry!

10:28am Bob Brainen:

For that alone, Bob, we owe him a deep deep debt!

10:29am bigplanetnoise:

Most certainly!

10:29am Bob Brainen:

Wm. agree. some mind blowing stuff on those loss leaders.

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10:31am Wm.fromDumont:

Nice to hear the Flag. I dig Barry Goldberg's version as well.

10:32am Uncle Michael:

Wm. I featured at least one of those VDP ads when I did my specials. I decided to do the retrospectives when I complete my collection of all the Loss Leader releases. It's been a few years ago.

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10:35am Wm.fromDumont:

Uncle Michael, did Mr. Hansen come up with the title for Shlagers? And what does it mean?

10:36am Jeffrey Davison:

Billy Harper is great. Saw him play once, but cannot recall the venue.

10:37am Uncle Michael:

I don't know the answer to that. A "Schlager" is basically what they call big, popular, bombastic hit in Germany. Think Eurovision.

10:37am small change:

sup Bob! love Billy Harper and that LP. got to see him some years back

10:38am Uncle Michael:

Daniel related to Barry, Bob?

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10:38am Gina Bacon:

This is really nice. I hadn't heard any of it yet.

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10:38am Wm.fromDumont:

Thanks Uncle Michael. I've wondered for years.

10:39am bigplanetnoise:

Yes - Barry and Holly’s son!

10:39am common:

Good day bob, all.

10:39am YETI BOB:

It's just the German word for "Hits" but it's acquired a certain connotation - sentimental, easy to sing-along, etc. Not too far from our "Top 40", maybe

10:41am Uncle Michael:

I'm happy to have any Bob answer any of my questions!

10:43am bigplanetnoise:

Hahahaha!

10:43am Jeff:

When (and if) things return to normal, check out The Cookers. They’re an all star jazz group with Billy Harper. Great band!

10:43am Bob Brainen:

Hey small change. And he's in the Lee Morgan Doc! He was up on the bandstand at Slugs that fateful night! Damn.
Daniel = what a voice!

10:46am Bob Brainen:

Will do Jeff. I think they'll be a 'Normal" but a different looking landscape for sure!

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10:49am Wm.fromDumont:

There's a non LP Sal Valentino cut on one of the early Warner Bros. comps that is outstanding.

10:51am adamdoesit:

What a cool scat track, straddling the border between trombone as voice and voice as horn.

10:51am Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks for the heads up on the NRBQ show.

10:52am Bob Brainen:

Sure Andrew.

10:54am McGroovey:

Pseu played a cut from the new Graham Gouldman album the other day, and now we get to hear 10cc. Now I wanna hear more.

10:54am Uncle Michael:

I recognized this voice and had to check!

10:56am Jeff:

What a beautiful way to begin and end! Thanks Bob

10:56am bigplanetnoise:

Thanks so much, Bob! Always brilliant! ❤️

10:56am Uncle Michael:

Wm. Maybe one day I'll do a Loss Leaders Revisted, Revisited.

10:57am Corey:

Man, what a show! Thanks Bob and skeleton crew for bringing it to us. Enjoy your Saturday everybody.

10:57am Cooh John:

Is this where this song got popular in jazz?

10:57am egould310:

McCoy Tyner, tho...

10:57am Bob Brainen:

Thank you guys

10:57am Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Bob. Thanks, Boneys.

🥁

10:57am Wm.fromDumont:

Great kick-off for '21 Bob.

10:58am Dennis Diken:

thanks Bob, I'm reminded how good it is to have you back!

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10:58am Gina Bacon:

Thank you!

10:59am Bob Brainen:

Uncle Michael, please do!
Cooh John, yes.
Thanks all!

11:00am Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks for another great show!!!

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11:00am Wm.fromDumont:

Sounds good Uncle Michael!

11:01am bLeubomberune:

Bonsoir Mon. BB. Meilluere diffusion de’l Anne

11:01am Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks, Bob!

11:03am McGroovey:

Is "Today" not on a 10cc album? I have all the 10cc and Godley and Creme records, and Hotlegs, and nothing by Festival, but I know this song. Hmmm

11:09am McGroovey:

Ah. "Today" is on the Hotlegs album. Question answered.

11:52am phat:

OMG. Preston Love. His son is a colleague. I didn't know WFMU had that on the wall. I'll let him know it's up there next time I talk to him.

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