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Busy Doing Nothing : 16 September 2010

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

16 September | Exit, stage left

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

Sex Mob - Been It - Din of Inequity (Knitting Factory/Columbia)
Brian Eno & John Cale - Been There Done That - Wrong Way Up (Opal/Warner Bros.)
Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra - I'll Be Seeing You - Victor 78 (found here)
Stereo Total - Ushilo Sugata Ga Kilei - self-titled (Bobsled)
Alice Cooper - Alma Mater - School's Out (Warner Bros.)
    behind DJ: Tokyo Serenaders - So-Ma Bon Uta - Holiday in Japan (49th State)

Nilsson - The Cast and Crew (from Skidoo) - The Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks (va) (Motor)
Broadcast - Goodbye Girls - Tender Buttons (Warp)
The Guess Who - Arrivederci Girl - Rockin' (RCA)
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado - Adios - A Touch of Tabasco (RCA)
Cardigans - Been It - First Band on the Moon (Mercury)
Ornette Coleman - Happy Hour - Virgin Beauty (Portrait)
    behind DJ: Tokyo Serenaders - Yie Lai Shan - Holiday in Japan (49th State)

Roxanne Shante - Have a Nice Day - 12" single (Cold Chillin')
Gilda Radner - Lisa Loopner Piano Recital/The Way We Were - Live From New York (Warner Bros.)
Paula Tsui - Blue Moon - cassette
Jill O'Hara - Knowing When to Leave - Promises, Promises cast album (United Artists)
    behind DJ: Chinese Instrumental Ensemble - The Fragrance of Night - Masterpieces of Chinese Songs of the 1930s (Wind)

The Jaguars - The Way You Look Tonight - (originally R-Dell 7")
(Written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields for the 1936 RKO film, Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.  Won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was Astaire's most successful hit record, going to number one.) 
LB - Ashes to Ashes - Pop Artificielle (Shadow)
Amy X Neuburg - These Heavy Gaps - Residue (Other Minds)
Jimmy Scott - Heaven - Heaven (Warner Bros.)
Dionne Warwick - The Look of Love - Greatest Motion Picture Hits (Scepter); Hidden Gems (Rhino)
    behind DJ: Chinese Instrumental Ensemble - When Will You Come Again - Masterpieces of Chinese Songs of the 1930s (Wind)

Donald Fagen - The Goodbye Look - The Nightfly (Warner Bros.)
Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Just One Yesterday - The People's Republic of Rock n' Roll (Homestead)
Monica Lewis - Au Revoir - Signature 78 (found here)
Emperor Penguin - Magic Beams - Mysterious Pony (My Pal God)
Tony Mason-Cox - I'll Be Seeing You - I Must Sing
    behind DJ: Tokyo Serenaders - Samisen Mambo - Holiday in Japan (49th State)

Noonday Underground - Closing Time - Surface Noise (Setanta)
The Wonder Who - Don't Think Twice - 7" single (Philips)
    behind DJ: Lee Morgan - That's Where It Is - Warming Up! (Riverside; Fantasy)

no shoe tonight, 2 September 2010

Sorry to miss so many shoes lately.  As you can see, I've had to scavenge lately for nourishment.  But don't worry -- I'm busy plotting my next big move.  I'll be back soon with another "really big shoe"!