Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)
26 August 2010 | Oompah oompah, stick it up your jumper
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artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)
Yes - Every Little Thing - Yes (Atlantic) The Score - Please Please Me - (originally Acme/Decca 7") Fanny - Hey Bulldog - First Time in a Long Time: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) glomag - h3lt3r sk3lt3r - Wanna Hld Yr Handheld (va) (8-Bit Operators) Les Fizz - Si tu fais ça (You Can't Do That) - (originally Ducretet-Thomson EP) Tiny Tim with Brave Combo - Hey Jude - Girl (Rounder) behind DJ: George Martin - It's Only Love - Help! (Columbia/EMI)
Assagai - Hey Jude - Assagai (Contour) Orchestra Super Mazembe - Malaba d'Amour (Words of Love) - Kaivaska (Virgin) Terri Fisher - Look What You're Doing - Fixin' Hole (Tamar's 2003 WFMU Marathon Premium) Cathy Berberian - Girl - Revolution: An Operatic First (Fontana) Margarita Pracatan - From Me to You - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic) Guess Who - Till We Kissed - (originally Scepter 7") behind DJ: George Martin - Tell Me What You See - Help! (Columbia/EMI)
P.M. Dawn - The Beautiful - Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross (Gee Street/Island) Lol Coxhill - I Am the Walrus - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic) Big City Orchestra - Bulldog - Beatlerape (Realization) Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends (vox, bass & tambourine) - multitrack masters (bootleg) Edu Lobo - Hey Jude - (Sergio Mendes Presents) Edu Lobo (A&M) behind DJ: Peter Knight Orchestra - With a Little Help From My Friends
Barbara Casini Quartet - Taxman - Stasera Beatles (Philology) Steve Fisk - Taxman - Over and Thru the Night: A 10-Year Retrospective (K) Steve Dirkx - Hari Georgeson - The Butcher's Covers (unreleased) George Harrison, and cast members - dialogue from - A Hard Day's Night (United Artists films) Shelley Plimpton - Frank Mills - Hair (cast album) (RCA) GTO's - Rodney - Permanent Damage (Bizarre/Straight) The Rutles - Nevertheless - The Rutles (Warner Bros.) R.A.M. Pietsch - Piggies - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic) behind DJ: The 52 Key Verbeek Fairground Organ - Yesterday/Hey Jude - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic)
Shang Shang Typhoon - Let It Be - Shang Shang Typhoon 2 (Sony Japan) Maurice Chevalier - Yellow Submarine - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic) Esther Phillips - And I Love Him - And I Love Him (Atlantic) William Shatner - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - The Transformed Man (Decca; Rev-Ola) The Underground Electrics - Hey Jude - Hey Jude (Crown) Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo - Rocky Raccoon - Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo (Buddah; Cherry Red) behind DJ: Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes (w. King Curtis) - Get Back
Percy Thrillington - Monkberry Moon Delight - Thrillington! (Regal Zonophone) (download) Wing - Yesterday - Beatles Classics (Wing Music) Mae West - Day Tripper - The Exotic Beatles 2 (va) (Exotic) behind DJ: Steve Dirkx - Hari Georgeson - The Butcher's Covers (unreleased)
He still needs someone to fetch his gin, though! (click for larger version. found here, on Modern Mechanix blog)
Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)
19 August 2010 | Rockin' chair
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artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party - 45 @ 33 (Capitol) Psychotic Tanks - Let's Have a Party - Security Idiots 7" (Idiot) Black Flag - TV Party - Wasted Again (SST) Del Rubio Triplets - Whip It - Whip It (self-released) Lee Scott - Tipsy Topsy Turvy - I'm Just the Other Woman: MSR Madness vol. 4 (va) (Carnage Press) (watch Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story on Hulu here) Steven Wright - Cross Country - I Have a Pony (WEA/Reprise) Arling & Cameron - Voulez-Vous? - All-In (Emperor Norton) behind DJ: Malena - Flute Juice - Fried Samba (Freestyle)
Sharda - Baat Zara Hai Aapas Ki, Part 2 - Doob Doob O'Rama (va) (QDK Media) Nancy Sinatra - Your Groovy Self - Speedway soundtrack (RCA) (watch the clip here, if you dare) Henry Mancini - Tipsy - Mr. Lucky soundtrack (RCA) Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam - An Elephant on the Roof - Eclektronics (Basenotic) Combustible Edison - Hot & Bothered - The Impossible World (Sub Pop) behind DJ: Soul Bossa Trio - Snooky Little Pigs - Dancing in the Street (Bomba)
Breeders - Flipside - Last Splash (4AD) Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Blue Tune - The Ellington Era: 1927-1940 (Columbia) The Clash - Junco Partner - Sandinista! (CBS) Cornershop - Butter the Soul - When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Luaka Bop) Begnagrad - Pjan Ska (Drinking One) - Begnagrad (MIO) Tony Mottola, with the Groovies (aka The Free Design) - With a Little Help from My Friends - Warm, Wild & Wonderful (Project 3) behind DJ: Shirley Scott - Downtown - Talkin' Verve (Verve)
Tipsy - Papaya Freeway - Uh-Oh! (Asphodel) Albert & Harold - Old Ned, Rag Yer Bone - Aural Offal Waffle Ten Pints of Bitter and a Bag of Pork Scratchings (va) (VVM/Test) Tom Mabe - Support Your Local Police - Revenge on the Telemarketers (Harder Than Normal) Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Rockin' Chair - Hoagy Sings and Plays Carmichael (va) (Kingazz) Dennis Farnon - Hip Pocket Full of Rye - Mother Magoo Suite (performed by the Metropole Orchestra) (Basta) Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted - The Hottest New Group in Jazz (Columbia) Pere Ubu - Drinking Wine Spodyody - Dub Housing (Chrysalis) behind DJ: The Clash - Version Partner - Sandinista! (CBS)
Tom Recchion - The Drinking Doctor - Chaotica (Birdman) William S. Burroughs - Twilight's Last Gleaming - You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (va) (Giorno Poetry Systems) Amy Allison - The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter - The Maudlin Years (Koch) George Jones - Ya Ba Da Ba Do (So Are You) - The Essential George Jones: Spirit of Country (Epic) (er, make that "The King Is Gone (So Are You)") Lydia Lunch - Diddy Wah Diddy - Hysterie 1976-1986 (Rough Trade) Aavikko - Street Pilot - Multi Muysic (Hawaii Sounds) behind DJ: Combustible Edison - Mr. Pushin Came to Shove - The Impossible World (Sub Pop)
Dim Dim - Thumb - Ananas (Audio Dregs) Dick Shawn - Show Me the Way to Go Home - Sings With His Little People (20th Century Fox) Goose Creek Bands - Chameleon - found on their Soundclick pages
The Free Design: l-r, Bruce, Sandy, Ellen, and Chris Dedrick (unknown guitarist at center)
Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)
12 August 2010 | A worthy design (for ChrisDedrick)
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artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Let It Bleed (London) Tom Cora - There Will Be a Happy Meeting - Hallelujah, Anyway: Remembering Tom Cora (va) (Tzadik) The Wild Tchoupitoulas - Indian Red - The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Antilles) behind DJ: Colortone Library - Jazz for Butterflies - Colortone Library (Yellow Fantastic Recordings)
Steve Reid - Lions of Juda - Nova (Universal Sound) Stereolab - Fuses - Cobra & Phases Group (Elektra) The Hi-Lo's - Agogically So - And All That Jazz (Coronet) The Free Design - Felt So Good - One By One (Project 3; Light in the Attic) Stereolab - The Free Design - Cobra & Phases Group (Elektra) ("What is our earthly task but a worthy design?") behind DJ: Dave "Baby" Cortez - Little Parts Melody - Organ Greats (Design)
Sad Rockets - Lachmachun Special - Transition (Matador) Land of the Loops - Mathematical Park - Bundle of Joy (Up) Sonic Youth - I Know There's an Answer - Smiles, Vibes, & Harmony (va) (De Milo) Cornelius - Chapter 8: Seashore & Horizon - Fantasma (Matador) Oranj Symphonette - Dreamsville - The Oranj Album (Rykodisc) behind DJ: Ray Bryant - Quizas, Quizas, Quizas - 7" (Cadet)
Prefuse 73 - Radio Attack - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (Warp) Friends of Distinction - Lonesome Mood - Grazin' (RCA) Sharpshooters - Love Walked Past - Twice as Nice (Light in the Attic) The Free Design - Pineapple Crabapple - There Is a Song (Ambrotype; Light in the Attic) Stereolab - How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight - Aluminum Tunes (Duophonic) The Hi-Lo's - Small Fry - And All That Jazz (Coronet) behind DJ: Jimmy Smith - I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Organ Greats (Design)
Miles Davis - Honky Tonk - Get Up With It (Legacy) Ferrante & Teicher - El Cumbanchero - Soundproof (Westminster) impLOG - On B'way - Holland Tunnel Dive (Infidelity) behind DJ: Runaways UK - Piano Tune - Classic Tales (Red Ant)
The Free Design - Dorian Benediction - Heaven/Earth (Project 3; Light in the Attic) The Free Design - Little Cowboy - Sing for Very Important People (Project 3; Light in the Attic) David Darling & The Wulu Bunun - Ku-Isa Tama Laug - Mudanin Kata (World Music Network) behind DJ: Tipsy (remixing Charles Wilp) - Size 178-79-55-91 (Tipsy's 31-22-36 Mix) - Michelangelo in Space: The Bunny Remixes (va) (Atatak)
Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)
5 August 2010 | Vielleicht, peut-être, quizás
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artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)
Angry Man Breakfast - Nine Trees - Have Another Day (Big Tiny) Pomplamoose - Another Day - 3 New Songs Woot! (watch, buy) The New Session People - Siboney - Famous Songs from Days-Gone-By (Amarillo) Bats - Hold All the Butter - Fear of God (Flying Nun/Mammoth) Bobby Goldsboro - Little Things - 7" (United Artists) Doris Day - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Latin for Lovers (Columbia) behind DJ: Tony Hatch - Herbin' - Hatchback (Sequel)
Dennis Brown - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - If I Follow My Heart (Studio One) Dionne Warwick - I Smiled Yesterday - Make Way for Dionne Warwick (Scepter) Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists (Warner Bros.) Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Lancet Bossa Nova - Futuremuzik (Scamp) Hans Reichel - A Life Without Lychees - Yuxo (Free Music Production) Ryan Hardy - Takes Ye Away - Heavy Mandolin (forthcoming? from Womb) behind DJ: William Penn - Moonshine - Crystal Rainbows (Sounds Reasonable Inc.)
General Strike - The Fatal Glass - Danger in Paradise (Piano) Sam Cooke - Shake - 45 played at 33 (RCA) P.M. Dawn - Paper Doll - Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross (Gee Street/Island) Desi Arnaz - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) - Babalu (RCA) Dymaxion - Mme Commander - Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 39:21 (Trattoria) Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - When the Machines Rock - Replicas (Atco) behind DJ: Ethel Smith - Quizas, Quizas, Quizas - The Many Moods of Ethel Smith (Decca)
Akiko Yano - What's Got in Your Eyes? - There Must Be Love (Midi) Ryuichi Sakamoto The Peanuts - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás - The Peanuts (King) (get it here) Takako Minekawa - Klaxon - Roomic Cube (What Are Records?) The Tokey Tones - Round These Walls - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (va) (Merge) Supergrass - Alright - I Should Coco (Parlophone) Zombies - Don't Go Away - The Singles A's & B's (See For Miles) behind DJ: Sol Hoopii - Most of All I Want Your Love - Master of the Hawaiian Guitar (Yazoo)
Ruben Gonzalez - Cumbanchero - Introducing... (Nonesuch) Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Fashion Nugget (Capricorn) The Utility Project - Is This Love? - 1/33 (Utility Project) Mickey Baker - Baia - Wildest Guitar (Atlantic) Same Actor - The Model - Kraftspiel (Womb) Steve Allen - You're So Influential - Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Coral) behind DJ: Hypnotuba - Springing - Loosed (Hypnotuba)
Robert Maxwell, His Harp & Orchestra - Pumpkin Yellow - The Magic of Robert Maxwell (Vocalion) Nat 'King' Cole - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás - Cole Español (Capitol) Keith Mansfield - Teenage Chase - Beat Incidental (KPM 1043-B) (KPM Music Recorded Library) behind DJ: Hillbilly Jazz - Breakfast Feud - Hillbilly Jazz (Flying Fish)
