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Busy Doing Nothing : 24 July 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

24 July 2008 | The pressure is all mine

(mp3 files will be loaded soon if I can find them on the station's computer)

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Carmen McRae - Got to Get You Into My Life - For Once In My Life (Atlantic)
Husky Rescue - Summertime Cowboy - Country Falls (Minty Fresh)
Sly & The Family Stone - Spaced Cowboy - There's a Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Rev. Edward Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - This Time Another Year You May Be Gone - American Primitive Vol. 1 (va) (Revenant)
Robert Wyatt - Free Will and Testament - Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
     behind DJ: Raymond Scott - Tempo Block - Soothing Sounds for Baby (Basta)

Marianne Faithfull - I'll Keep It With Mine - Strange Weather (Island)
Oranj Symphonette - Arabesque - The Oranj Album (Rykodisc)
Nancy Sinatra - This Town - Movin' with Nancy (Reprise; Sundazed reissue)
Jorge Ben - O Telefone Tocou Novamente - Força Bruta; Do Brasil Maravilhoso (Philips)
     behind DJ: Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day - Apollo (EG)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow - Strawberries Mean Love (Big Beat)
John Renbourn Group - A Maid in Bedlam - A Maid in Bedlam (Shanchie)
Sandy Posey - Single Girl - Single Girl (MGM)
Nino Rota - Nell'ufficio Di Produzione Di Otto E Mez - Otto e Mezzo (Cam)
Bette Midler - Hello in There - The Divine Miss M (Atlantic)
     behind DJ: Obeng Ungu & Jalan Buntu with Group - Menyelam Pakai Pipa Udara - 1951: Sumatran Ladies Wearing Hats Outlawed by Government (Hot Air)

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down - Money No Be Sand (va) (Original Music)
Healamonster & Tarsier - Hamster Wheel - 00:00:01 (17 Ft. Jellyfish)
Nobukazu Takemura - Bell Buoy - Songbook (Bubble Core/Childisc)
Gal Costa - A Rã - Cantar; Do Brasil Maravilhoso (Philips)
Kahimi Karie - The Harder They Come - K.K.K.K.K. (Import; Le Grand Magistery)
     behind DJ: Pierre Bastien - Eloj du Piqueupe - Musiques Paralloidres (Lowlands)

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Song to a Seagull - Fire Fleet & Candlelight (Vanguard)
Richard Youngs - Sonar in My Soul - The Naive Shaman (Jagjaguwar)
Taj Mahal - Done Changed My Way of Living - The Natch'l Blues (Columbia)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 2 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

The Luv'd Ones - Dance, Kid, Dance - Truth Gotta Stand (Sundazed)
Great Plains - Origin of My Silly Grin - Length of Growth 1981-89 (Old 3c)
Dennis Brown - Grooving Out on Life - If I Follow My Heart (Studio One)
     behind DJ: DJ Olive - Funky Cortado - Bodega (The Agriculture)

Busy Doing Nothing : 17 July 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

17 July 2008 | Offset

Download the show: BDN_080717_part1.mp3 ; BDN_080717_part2.mp3

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Deerhoof - The Perfect Me - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days - Houses of the Holy (Atlantic)
The Residents - You Yesyesyes - Fingerprince (Ralph; East Side Digital)
Glass Candy - Iko Iko - CD single (Troubleman Unlimited)
Dogliotti - Buma Buruma - Candombe for Export/Candombe Liso (Vampisoul)
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Turn on a Friend - The Great Conspiracy (Columbia)
The Sounds of Tomorrow - Caravan - The Sounds of Tomorrow: Mood Music Vol. 9 (RPM)
Imitation Electric Piano - Tension - Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds (Drag City)
Queen Latifah - Princess of the Posse - All Hail the Queen (Tommy Boy)
Ten Wheel Drive - Tightrope - Construction #1 (Polydor)
     behind DJ: Shudder to Think - pH Balanced - High Art soundtrack (Velvel)

Wilson Simonal - Coisa de Louco - Ninguém Proibe o Amor (RCA Victor); Brasil Original (va)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Escribeme Pronto - Piñata (National)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet with Ne Zhdali - Kanzas - Pollo d'Oro (No Man's Land)
Shocking Blue - Send Me a Postcard - singles collection
     behind DJ: Bolliger & Gloor - Sonderschüler - Summloch (self-released)

Bruce Haack & Miss Nelson - Mudra - Listen Compute Home Rock (Emperor Norton)
Kay Hoffman - Iste Mundus - Floret Silva (Robot)
Steeleye Span - Sheep-Crook and Black Dog - Below the Salt (Chrysalis)
Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P. - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
old radio commercial - Psssssst! ("instant spray shampoo")
     behind DJ: Sad Rockets - Winter's Over - Transition (Matador)

Stephen Stills - Nothin' to Do But Today - 2 (Atlantic)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Dead Dog in the Street - Buck Jump (Mammoth)
Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two - Ten (Mush)
Dump - White Worms - The Duplex Planet Presents: Ernie - Songs of Ernest Noyes Brookings (va) (Gadfly)
Stina Nordenstam - Purple Rain - People Are Strange (East West)
Click - My Pet - Click (ABC)
     behind DJ: Pierre Bastien - Play Meccano Play - Boîte No. 3 (Editions Cactus)

Bob Hund - Bob Hund: 1999 - Jag rear ut min själ! Allt skall bort!!! (Silence)
Susumu Yokota - Hurry Up to Planet Melon - 1999 (Sublime)
     behind DJ: DJ Olive - Birds Eye Blues - Bodega (The Agriculture)

Busy Doing Nothing : 10 July 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

10 July 2008 | Humdrum? Humdinger!

(No mp3 file available due to technical problems -- sorry!)

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Dim Dim - Thumb - Ananas (Audio Dregs)
Elakelasiset - Humppaleka ("Viva Las Vegas")
La Vern Baker - Bumblebee - Her Greatest Recordings (Atco)
Ornette Coleman Quartet - Humpty Dumpty - This Is Our Music (Atlantic)
Mekons - Hard to Be Human Again - Fear and Whiskey (Sin)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 2 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

Portishead - Humming - Portishead (Go! Beat / London)
A to Austr - Thumbquake and Earthscrew - Musics from Holy Ground (Holyground)
Lovin' Spoonful - Full Measure - Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra)
Motor Humming - Aluminum Man - Musical Aluminum (Tzadik)
Julie London - Hot Toddy - Best of (Liberty)
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

Sousa's Band - Trombone Sneeze, a humoresque Cake-Walk - Ragtime, Vol. 1, 1897-1919 (va) (Jazz Archives)
Frank Pahl - Lolita Ya Ya - Remove the Cork (Demosaurus)
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba - Pink Flag (Harvest)
Clark Equipment - Hooray for Human Engineering - Product Music (va) (Honest-Abe Disc)
Ivor Cutler Trio - A Suck of My Thumb - Ludo (Chrysalis; Rev-Ola)
Fred Astaire, Johnny Green & His Orchestra - They All Laughed, from Shall We Dance - Starring Fred Astaire (Columbia)
Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar - Hum Tumse Mile - Rocky (soundtrack) (Nalanda/Polydor)
     behind DJ: Glenn Branca - Bad Smells - Who You Staring At? (Giorno Poetry Systems)

Tin Huey - Hump Day - Contents Dislodged During Shipment (Warner Bros.)
Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)
The Impressions - It's All Right (45 played at 33) - 7-inch single (ABC Parmount; Roulette)
The Bran Flakes - Put a Hump in Your Back - I Remember When I Break Down  (Ovenguard)
     behind DJ: The Red Crayola - Parable of Arable Land - The Parable of Arable Land (International Artist; Decal)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - My Human Gets Me Blues - Trout Mask Replica (Reprise)
Coyle and Sharpe - Humilio (unreleased)
Moondog - Enough About Human Rights! - The Viking of Sixth Avenue (Honest Jons)
     behind DJ: Moondog - Rimshot; Snaketime Rhythm - The Viking of Sixth Avenue

John Barry - The Human Jungle (alternate version) - The EMI Years, Vol. 3 (EMI)
Goldfrapp - Human - Felt Mountain (Mute)
John Barry - The Human Jungle - The EMI Years, Vol. 3 (EMI)
Sam & Dave - You Got Me Hummin - Double Dynamite (Stax/Collectables)
Wretched Refuse String Band - Thumbelina - self-titled (Beet)
     behind DJ: Floyd Cramer - Last Date - slowed down 7-inch single (RCA)

Busy Doing Nothing : 3 July 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

3 July 2008 | Blue Fourth

Download the show: BDN_080703_part1.mp3 ; BDN_080703_part2.mp3

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

The Shadows - Thunderbirds Theme - unreleased collection
Messer für Frau Müller - Goodbye, Sea! - Allo, Superman! (Solnze)
The Rip Off Artist - What Kind of Blue - blu tribunL (va) (Inflatabl)
ESG - I Can't Tell You What to Do - A South Bronx Story (Universal Sound)
R.L. Burnside - Rollin' Tumblin' (remix) - Come On In (Fat Possum)
Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise - The Blues, vol 2 (va) (Smithsonian)
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

Brion Gysin - Junk - Life Is a Killer (Giorno Poetry Systems)
Jayne Cortez - Everybody Wants to Be Somebody - Everywhere Drums (Bola Press)
Village Stompers - Washington Square - 7-inch single (Epic)
Only a Mother - Warped #24 - Feral Chickens (T.E.C. Tones)
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Jubilee Stomp - The Ellington Era (Columbia)
Sandy Bull - Carmina Burana Fantasy - Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo (Vanguard)
     behind DJ: World Standard - The Lonely Driver 1952 - Country Gazette (Asphodel)

Dock Boggs - Pretty Polly - Country Blues (Revenant)
Bolliger & Gloor - Heimweh - Summloch (self-released)
Black Lodge Singers - Mickey Mouse - Kids' Pow-Wow Songs (Canyon Records Productions)
George Carlin - on white people - video found on YouTube
Soldier String Quartet - Moon Goin' Down, from Three Delta Blues - Sequence Girls (Rift)
Brian Eno - Everything Merges with the Night - Another Green World (EG)
     behind DJ: Brian Eno - Spirits Drifting - Another Green World (EG)

Kurt Schwitters - Zweiter Teil: Largo/Dritter Teil: Scherzo-Trio-Scherzo - Ursonate (Wergo)
Joseph Moskowitz with Alex Olshanetsky's Orchestra - Prinz Carol/Sirba - Art of the Cymbalom (Rounder)
Black Star Club with Sharmila - Chozi Lanitoka - Nyota: Black Star & Lucky Star Musical Clubs (va) (GlobeStyle)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright - excerpt from 13 April 2003 sermon - Bill Moyers Journal, 25 April 2008
Sister Wynona Carr - Don't Miss That Train - Dragnet for Jesus (Specialty)
The Free Design - You Be You and I'll Be Me - Heaven/Earth (Project 3)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 2 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

Johnny Russell - Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer - Kickin' Country (va) (K-Tel)
Johnny Dowd - Hell or High Water - Temporary Shelter (Koch)
Dolly Parton - Lonely Comin' Down - Best of (RCA)
Syl Johnson - Take Me to the River - 7-inch single (Hi)
The Gaylads - Over the Rainbow's End - 7-inch single (Trojan)
(available on: Over The Rainbow's End: Best Of The Gaylads 1968-71, Trojan Records)
The Wonder Who (The Four Seasons) - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - 7-inch single (Philips)
     behind DJ: Sister Wynona Carr - untitled instrumental - Dragnet for Jesus (Specialty)

Busy Doing Nothing : 26 June 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

26 June 2008 | Heavy rotation

Download the show: BDN_080626_part1.mp3 ; BDN_080626_part2.mp3

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Plastilina Mosh - Nordic Laser - Juan Manuel (Astralwerks)
Dim Dim - Fucha Fucha - Kiwi (Audio Dregs)
Perry Como - Round and Round - 7-inch single (RCA)
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song - Richard D. James Album (Sire/Warp)
The Free Design - 2002 A Hit Song - Heaven/Earth (Project 3; Light in the Attic)
     behind DJ: Pierre Bastien - Eloj du Piqueupe - Musiques Paralloidres (Lowlands)

Sister Gertrude Morgan - Let Us Make a Record - Let's Make a Record (True Believer) (from the 365 Days Project)
Christian Marclay - Frederic Chopin - More Encores (No Man's Land/Recommended)
Aletha & The Memories - Worst Record in the World - Kim Fowley: Outlaw Superman (Dionysus)
10cc - The Worst Band in the World - Sheet Music (UK)
Gudrun Gut - Girlboogie 6 - I Put a Record On (Monika)
     behind DJ: Steve Reich - Octet - Music for a Large Ensemble/Octet (ECM)

Record Making with Duke Ellington - audio from promotional short film
Twink - The Broken Record - The Broken Record (Seeland)
Laurie Anderson - From the Air - Big Science (Warner Bros.)
David Greenberger & Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - How Records Are Made - 1001 Real Apes (PelPel)
Emperor Penguin - The Cruise - Shatter the Illusion of Integrity, Yeah (My Pal God)
     behind DJ: Tony Hatch - Pretty Flamingo/Black Is Black/Guantanamera - A Latin Happening (Warner Bros.)

Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground - 45 played at 33 (Tamla)
text-to-speech synthesized voice + midi file - Because (synthesize your own text here!)
Hortense Ellis - People Make the World Go Round - Alton Ellis: I'm Still in Love with You, featuring Hortense Ellis (Heartbeat/Studio One)
Brian Dewan - The Record - Tells the Story (Bar None)
Albert & Harold - Old Ned Rag Yer Bone - Aural Offal Waffle Ten Pints of Bitter and a Bag of Pork Scratchings (VVM/Test)
     behind DJ: Igor Stravinsky - loop from Symphony in Three Movements - Igor conducting (Columbia)

Marshall Crenshaw - All I Know Right Now - Field Day (Warner Bros.)
R. Stevie Moore - Play Myself Some Music - The Future Is Worse Than the Past (Megaphon)
Strawbs - Round and Round - Hero and Heroine (A&M)
Bolliger & Gloor - Computergrafik - Summloch (self-released)
Wild Man Fischer - Merry Go Round - Zapped (va)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 8 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

Bruce Nauman - Pete and Repeat/Dark and Stormy Night - Raw Materials (Tate Modern)
Brak and Zorak - The Song That Doesn't End - Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que (Kid Rhino)
Peter Blegman & John Greaves - The Only Song - Unearthed (Sub Rosa)
Peter & Lou Berryman - Play It Again - No Relation (self-released)
Dim Dim - Flit - Kiwi (Audio Dregs)
     behind DJ: Tony Hatch - Guantanamera - A Latin Happening (Warner Bros.)

Busy Doing Nothing : 19 June 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

19 June 2008 | Expensive water

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Soul Rebel - Drive - No More Parades (TufAmerica/Tuff City)
Ne Zhdali - Twist - Whatever Happens, Twist! (Rec Rec)
Dan Deacon - Ohio - Twacky Cats (Comfort Stand)
Kids of Widney High - Life Without the Cow - Act Your Age (Moon Man)
Senor Coconut y su Conjunto - Trans Europe Express - El Baile Aleman (Emperor Norton)
Paris Sisters - Always Waitin' - The Jack Nitqsche Story: Hearing Is Believing (va) (Ace)
     behind DJ: Joe Harnell - Blame It on the Bossa Nova; Bermuda Concerto - Bossa Now! (Columbia)

Felix Kubin - Groscher Lausangriff - 7-inch single (PopEclectic)
Yaz - I Before E Except After C - Upstairs at Eric's (Sire)
impLOG -  Holland Tunnel Dive - New York Noise Vol. 3 (va) (Soul Jazz)
Thomas Mapfumo & Blacks Unlimited - Temerina - Ndangariro (Earthworks/Carthage)
     behind DJ: Hap Palmer - Far East Blues - Movin' (Educational Activities, Inc.)

Music Machine - Talk Talk - Nuggets, Vol. 1: The Hits (va) (Rhino)
Shelley Plimton - Frank Mills - Hair (cast album) (RCA Victor)
Angie - Peppermint Lump - 7-inch single (Stiff)
Swingle II (Swingle Singers) - Alligator Crawl - Rags and All That Jazz (CBS)
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson - I Feel the Earth Move - Einstein on the Beach (Elektra)
David Byrne - In the Future - Music for the Knee Plays (ECM)
     behind DJ: J.D. Robb - Green Mansions - Electronic Music from Razor Blades to Moog (Asch; Folkways/Smithsonian)

Shorty Rogers and His Giants - Martians Go Home - The Jazz Years (va) (Atlantic)
Pierre Bastien - The Thermodynamic Orchestra - Boite No. 3 (Editions Cactus)
MC Solaar - Armand est mort - Qui seme le vent recolte le tempo (Polydor)
The Mountain Goats - The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life - Ghana (3 Beads of Sweat)
Ennio Morricone - Punto e Basta - Ad Ogni Costo (Abraxas)
     behind DJ: Joe Harnell - Un Poco Rio - Bossa Now! (Columbia)

Future Bible Heroes - From Some Dying Star - Eternal Youth (Instinct)
Peter Zummo - Sci Fi, from Lateral Pass - Zummo with an X (New World)
Citay - First Fantasy - Little kingdom (Dead Oceans)
Love Is All - Felt Tip - Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture?)
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - Goodbye Charlie - 7-inch single (Capitol)
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

Busy Doing Nothing : 12 June 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

12 June 2008 | Endless ecstasy

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Bolliger & Gloor - Kaffeebraun - Summloch (self-released)
Francis Bebey - Bissau - Akwaaba (Original Music)
Augusto de Campos/Cid Campos - Tudo Esta Dito; O Quasar; SOS - Poesia e Risco (Polygram Brazil)
Franco Godi & Ensemble - La Felicita (3 versions) - Signor Rossi (soundtrack) (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)

Donovan - Please Don't Bend - Sutras (American Recordings)
Eberhard Weber - More Colours - The Colours of Chloe (ECM)
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth - Countdown to Ecstasy (ABC)
Specials - I Can't Stand It - More Specials (Chrysalis)
Marzipan Marzipan - My Bloody Sunshine - EP 2 (self-released)
     behind DJ: Ennio Morricone - Maltto, calso, soldi, morto... giorotondo, from Vergogna Schifosi - Eviva! Morricone (Avanz)

Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps - 7-inch single (99 Records)
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow - Movements (3-CD box) (West Side)
Vanilla Fudge - Ticket to Ride - Vanilla Fudge; Best of (Atco)
Lee Wiley with Fats Waller - Someone to Watch Over Me - Sings George Gershwin & Cole Porter (Monmouth-Evergreen)
Dixie Cups - You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me - The Complete Red Bird Recordings (Varese Sarabande)
Electrelane - Bells - Axes (Too Pure)
     behind DJ: H. Chappell - The Gonk - Dawn of the Dead (soundtrack) (Trunk)

People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Social Folk Dance - Rhapsody in Glue (PLURGO) (available through bleep.com)
Stravinsky - Violin Concerto, first movement - Symphony in Three Movements/Violin Concerto (Columbia)
K. Palmer - Hackney Carriage - Light Activity (KPM Library0
Jason Forrest - War Photographer - Shamelessly Exciting (Sonig)
The Clash - Silicone on Sapphire - Sandinista! (CBS)
Takako Minekawa - Black... White - Roomic Cube (What Are Records)
     behind DJ: Alan Hawkshaw - Bluebird - Sounds of the 60s and 70s Vol. 2 (KPM)

Nobody presents Blank Blue - All the Shallow Deep - Art Don't Sleep presents From L.A. with Love (va) (Milan)
Black Dice - Endless Happiness (Eye remix) - DFA Compilation #2 (va) (DFA)
     behind DJ: Ennio Morricone - Maltto, calso, soldi, morto... giorotondo - replica, from Vergogna Schifosi - Eviva! Morricone (Avanz)

Busy Doing Nothing : 5 June 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays, 6-8 pm (eastern time)

5 June 2008 | Story of my life

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Tom Waits - What's He Building? - Mule Variations (Anti/Epitaph)
Sandie Shaw - Symapthy for the Devil - Reviewing the Situation (RPM)
Petula Clark - Who Am I? - I Love to Sing (Sequel)
The Clash - What's My Name? - The Clash (CBS)
Scott Johnson - John Somebody, part 1 - John Somebody (Nonesuch)
R. Stevie Moore - Why Am I Here? - Tra La La La Phooey (RSM)

your host sings - Patches - accompanied by a Midi file
(originally recorded by Clarence Carter, a #4 hit in 1970)

Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road - Psychedelic Lollipop (Mercury)
Judy Collins - Hard Lovin' Loser - In My Life (Elektra)
Allan Sherman - The Rebel - Live! (Hoping You Are Too) (Warner Bros.)
The Great Society - Nature Boy - Vol. 2: How It Was (Columbia)

Pere Ubu - Story of My Life - Story of My Life (Imago)

June Christy - Something Cool - Jazz Vocal Essentials vol. 1 (Hip-O)
People Like Us - untitled (track 3) - Meet the Jet Black Hair People in Concert
Judy Garland - excerpt - Speaks! (Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God) played with
George Lewis/Eureka Brass Band - Just a Closer Walk With Thee - Dead and Gone (va) (Trikont)
Melvin Van Peebles - Eyes on the Rabbit - What the ... You Mean I Can't Sing? (Atlantic; Water)

Marty Robbins - El Paso - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (Columbia)
David Greenberger & The Shaking Ray Levis - Wonderful Life - Mayor of the Tennessee River (PelPel)
Phillip Kent Bimstein - A Little Bit About My Cows - Garland Hirschi's Cows (Starkland)
     behind DJ: Phillip Kent Bimstein - The Door - Garland Hirschi's Cows (Starkland)

Gary Burghoff & Reva Rose - Dr. Lucy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (cast album) (Decca)
Cheryl Ho - I Am a Winner - Audio Kitchen Leftovers: Hairy Eggs 1 (none)
Sean Landers - The Man Within - download it here or here

Arnie Chuckel - That's Life - The Arnie Chuckle Show (self-released)

Busy Doing Nothing : 29 May 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays, 6-8 pm (eastern time)

29 May 2008 | Amateur Hour

artist - song title - album (label) (va = various artists)

Mark Vernon - Derby Tape Club advert; Bill Howard and Pat Manners discuss tape speeds; Electronic samples tape splice cut up; Tape speed and on/off checks - Derby Tape Club
Dan Bau Vietnam - Rider in the Sky - Ho! #1: Roady Music from Vietnam (va) (Trikont)
Georgina Dobson & Cupboard Simon - The Message - Misfits (va) (Volume)
Ween - Strap on That Jammy Pac - The Pod (Shimmy Disc)
Del Rubio Triplets - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Whip It (no label)
Amelia HS Rock Ensemble - Dreammare - Poly High: School Bands Play the Classics (va) (Amalgamated)
     behind DJ: The Flaming Lips - untitled (Steven Drozd plays sampling keyboard) - from the film The Fearless Freaks

Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can - self-titled (Blue Thumb)
Du-Tels - Ring of Fire - No Knowledge of Music Required (Shimmy Disc)
Destroy All Monsters - Boots - 1974 1976 (Father Yod/Ecstatic Peace)
South Side Senior High School, Rockville Centre, Long Island  - Hide Your Love (Adam's Rib) - Context 70 (no label)
Jenny Moss - Hobbies - Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls (va) (RPM)
The Specialists - Groovin' - Americana Vol. 1: Vox Populi (va) (unreleased CD-R compilation)
     behind DJ: Ennio Morricone - Un Altro Mare, from Vergogna Schifosi - Eviva! Morricone (Avanz)

Scala - Dream On - Dream On (Pias)
Rolling Stones - Play With Fire - Out of Our Heads (London)
Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton - self-titled (Peacefrog)
Brattleboro Union High School Chorus - O Bless the Lord, My Soul; Day by Day (from Godspell) - Recording of 6 May 1973, 3:30 pm Concert (no label)
unknown crooner - All of Me - found cassette
Maryann - Funkytown - Singshot website
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

Monkees - She Hangs Out - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. (Colgems)
Dirtbombs - Maybe Your Baby - If You Don't Already Have a Style (In the Red)
Los Super Elegantes - Western - Channelizing Paradise (LSE)
Big Blood - In the Light of the Moon - The Grove (dontrustheruin)
Harry Reser - The Cat and the Dog - Banjo Crackerjax, 1922-1930 (Yazoo)
     behind DJ: Wackie's All-Stars - Hard to Find Dub - African Roots Act IV (Wackie's)

Majestic Arrows - If I Had a Little Love (rehearsal) - Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label (va) (Numero Group)
Shonen Knife - Music Square (edit) - Rock Animals (Virgin)
Henry Hall & Gleneagles Hotel Band - Home - The Shining (soundtrack) (Warner Bros.)
My Favorite - Homeless Club Kids - The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Double Agent)
     behind DJ: Destroy All Monsters - Space Beat - 1974 1976 (Father Yod/Ecstatic Peace)

note: today's show was inspired by the film Young@Heart, about Northampton, Massachusetts-based Young@Heart Chorus. 

Busy Doing Nothing : 22 May 2008

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays, 6-8 pm (eastern time)

22 May 2008 | Suddenly

artist - song title - album (label)

Joshua Gabriel - Allakaheez - Movement No. 2 (372 Music)
Natacha Atlas - I Put a Spell on You - Ayeshtem (Mantra)
No Doubt - Hella Good - Rock Steady (Interscope)
Erkin Koray - Istemem - Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music (QDK Media)
     behind DJ: Lew Howard All Stars - Hula Rock - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (Trunk)

10cc - Oh Effendi - Sheet Music (UK)
Herbert - Suddenly - Bodily Functions (K7)
Carmen McRae - Suddenly (In Walked Bud) - Sings Monk ()
The Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom - '65 (Red Bird); Myrmidons of Melodrama (RPM)
Tricky - Black Steel - Maxinquaye (Islnd)
The Cherry People - And Suddenly - 7-inch single (Heritage)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial #8 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

Jim Copp & Ed Brown - The House on Thimble Street - Agnes Mouthwash & Friends (Playhouse)
Frank Garner - Kryptoglyphics - Trunk Presents the Super Sounds of Bosworth (Trunk)
ZNR - Armistice Couronne de Feuillages - Barricade 3 (RCA France; Recommended Records)
Aavikko - Alas Volgaa - Aavikko (Bad Vugum)
Incredible String Band - The Hedgehog's Song - The 5,000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (Elektra; Hannibal)
     behind DJ: The Flaming Lips - untitled (Steven Drozd plays sampling keyboard) - from the film The Fearless Freaks

No. 9 - Get Gut - Micro Films (Locust)
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Gary's Anatomy - Rhapsody in Glue (available through bleep.com)
Coinola Orchestrion Piano (played from piano rolls) - Tea for Two - Here's a Nickel -- Play Me a Snappy Tune! (Concert Recording) (an automatically played mechanical orchestra)
Memphis Minnie - I'm So Glad - The Blues vol. 2 (Smithsonian Collection) (Sony)
Takarazuka Dance Theatre - Ya Kyu Ken (Baseball) - self-titled (Columbia)
Suddenly, Tammy - Not That Dumb - We Get There When We Do (Warner Bros.)
     behind DJ: The Red Crayola - Parable of Arable Land - The Parable of Arable Land (International Artist; Decal)

Nunzio & His Accordiocats - Washington Post March - Accelerated Accordions (Family)
Sir Henry - L.O.V.E. - Ums Nackte Leben (no label)
Rodd Keith - Great Fever - I'm Just the Other Woman (va) (Carnage Press)
Les Calamités - Toutes les Nuits - Les Calamités (Posh Boy)
1967 radio ad - Heaven S(c)ent (by Helena Rubinstein) - aircheck tape, provided by Gary Mitchell
Mae West, with Lenny Marvin Orchestra - Pardon Me for Loving and Running - Sixteen Sultry Songs (Rosetta)
Holger Hiller - Come - Holger Hiller (Mute)
Sir Henry - Wilhelm Tell Rumba - Ums Nackte Leben (no label)
     behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial #15 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)