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Busy Doing Nothing : 12 November 2009

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

12 November 2009 | Stay

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

Electrelane - Suitcase - Axes (Too Pure)

Donna Regina - Blue of the Pool - Late (Karaoke Kalk)
Marvin Pontiac (aka John Lurie) - Small Car - The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits (Strange and Beautiful)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Montana (featuring the Ikettes) - Over-Nite Sensation (Discreet; Ryko)
Giovanni Sollima - Loof and Let Dime (vocal: Robert Wilson) - Aquilarco (Point Music)
    behind DJ: Les Baxter - Dawn on the City - Sounds of Adventure (Capitol)

Tyrone Davis - I Got Carried Away - Let's Be Closer Together (Columbia)
George School Theater Arts and Music Dept - Persephone's Song - Journey of Persephone (found here)
Raincoats - Lola - Raincoats (Rough Trade; DGC)
Kirsty MacColl - Days - Galore (I.R.S.)
Bazooka - Dada Dodo - 7" b-side (Polydor) (found here)
    behind DJ: Les Baxter - Paris Interlude - Sounds of Adventure (Capitol)

Hedningarna - Kruspolska - Kaksi! (Northside) courting reel
Amy Denio - Salvatore - Tongues (FOT)
Connie Acher - Be With Me? - Spray Me Down (Flipped Out)
Galt MacDermot - Piano Concerto, Part 2 - Up From the Basement (Kilmarnock)
Grassroots - Melody for You - Feelings (ABC Dunhill)
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light (by which I travel into this and that) - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
    behind DJ: Les Baxter - Lost in Meditation - Sounds of Adventure (Capitol)

Karen Dalton - How Did the Feeling Feel to You - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (Capitol; Light in the Attic)
Cream - Sitting on Top of the World - Wheels of Fire (Atco)
Hedningarna - Chicago - Kaksi! (Northside)
Blossom Dearie - Moonlight Saving Time - Once Upon a Summertime (verve)
Duke Ellington (The Harlem Footwarmers) - Ring Dem Bells - Hot From the Cotton Club (EMI)
    behind DJ: Les Baxter - A Distant Star - Sounds of Adventure (Capitol)

June Tabor - Solitude - Some Other Time (Hannibal)
Susanna - Stay - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos (Rune Grammofon)
Tipper - California Rolls - Surrounded (Myutopia)
Pomplamoose - Nature Boy - Covers (download it here; watch it here)
A Camp - Love Has Left the Room - Colonia (Nettwerk)
    behind DJ: Angry Man Breakfast - Have Another Day - Have Another Day (Big Tiny Records)

Busy Doing Nothing : 5 November 2009

(found here, at the Modern Mechanix blog)

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

5 November 2009 | Fun razer, with DJ Cam!

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

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Everybody's Boppin' - The Hottest New Group In Jazz (Columbia)
Pearl Bailey - I'm Gonna Keep on Doin' (What I'm Doin') - The Intoxicating Pearl Bailey (Wing/Mercury)
Jackie & Roy - A Big Beautiful Ball - Lovesick (Verve)
Monkey Power Trio - Happy With Myself - House of the Mechanical Sun (Pocahontas Swamp Machine Recordings)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Bim Bom - Equinox (A&M)
Betty Carter - Something Big - Inside Betty Carter (Roulette)
    behind DJ: Tony Hatch - A Latin Happening (Warner Bros.)

Dummy Run - Happy - Medical Milestones (Hot Air)
Box Tops - The Happy Song - 7" single (Mala)
Kevin Coyne - Happy - Knocking on Your Brain (Rockport)
Shaggs - I'm So Happy When You're Near - Philosophy of the World (RCA)
    behind DJ: Trombones Unlimited - You're Gonna Hear from Me (Us!) (Liberty)

Arling & Cameron - Groovy - All-In (Emperor Norton)
Cryer & Ford - Do Whatcha Gotta Do to Make Yourself Happy - Cryer & Ford (RCA)
Dennis Brown - Grooving Out on Life - If I Follow My Heart (Studio One)
    behind DJ: Lenny Dee - Dee-licious! (Decca)

Tipsy - Kitty Takes a Ride - Uh-Oh! (Asphodel)
The Young Generation - Sweet Gingerbread Man - Happy Together (RCA)
Phofo - I Love Meatballs - New York Noise (va) (New York Noise)
Sir Henry - L.O.V.E. - Ums Nackte Leben (no label)
    behind DJ: Joe Harnell - Bossa Now (Columbia)

Barry Sisters - Trop'ns Fin Regen oif Mein Kopf (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head) - Our Way (Mainstream)
Lennart Grahn - Du Blir Nog Aldrig Froken Sverige - Kvart/Tva Dansen (V2)
Queen of Japan - Ma Quale Idea - Headrush (Echokammer)
Alberta Hunter - I'm Having a Good Time - Amtrak Blues (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Tony Hatch - A Latin Happening (Warner Bros.)

Dim Dim - Electric Boogaloo - Nectarine (Brinkman)
Rosemary Clooney - Aren't You Glad You're You? - Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! (RCA Victor)
Rascals - Groovin' (sung in Spanish) - All I Really Need (box set) (Rhino)
Lennon Sisters - Elusive Butterfly - Today (Mercury)
Mongo Santamaria - Happy Now - Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (Rhino)
    behind DJ: Lonesomes - Waking Up the Cows - A Tribute to the Great OUtdoors (NMC)

Liza Minnelli - The Singer - The Singer (Columbia)
Puffy Ami Yumi - Your Love Is a Drug - Nice (Bar None)
Rod McKuen/Anita Kerr - The Flower People - The Earth (Warner Bros.)
The Plugz - El Clavo y la Cruz - Repo Man (soundtrack) (MCA)
    behind DJ: Fifth Dimension - The Eleventh Song (What a Groovy Day!) - Stoned Soul Picnic (Soul City)

Busy Doing Nothing : 29 October 2009

All Men Are Cremated Equal (cropped) by Niagara (found here)

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

29 October 2009 | In the dark

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_091029

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

Oranj Symphonette - A Shot in the Dark - Plays Mancini (Gramavision)
Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror (Twist) - Experiment in Terror (RCA Victor)
Judson Fountain - The Old Woman of Haunted House - Completely in the Dark! (Innova)
Vic Mizzy - Gomez - The Addams Family (TV soundtrack) (RCA)
    behind DJ: Christopher Komeda - Dream - Rosemary's Baby (soundtrack) (Dot)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire - Press Color (Ze)
The Sweet - Blockbuster - The Sweet (Bell)
Destroy All Monsters - Paranoid of Blonds - 1974 1976 (Father Yod/Ecstatic Peace)
Cardigans - Step on Me - First Band on the Moon (Mercury)
Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango - An Evening Wasted With (Reprise)
Bob Dorough - Devil May Care - Devil May Care (Bethlehem)
    behind DJ: George Duning - The Spell - Bell, Book & Candle (soundtrack) (Colpix; Citadel/Varese Sarabande)

The Free Design - Girls Alone - Heaven/Earth (Project 3/Light in the Attic)
Frank Pahl - Cape Fear - Euphoniums
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today - It's Raining Today: The Scott Walker Story 1967-1970 (Razor & Tie)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - I Won't Hurt You - Volume One (Sundazed)
Woody Allen - The Science Fiction Film - Standup Comic (United Artists; Rhino)
Dondero High School Symphony Band & A Capella Choir - Sunshine of Your Love - Pop Concert 1995 (available here)
    behind DJ: Alex North - Sunday, Tomorrow All Day - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (soundtrack) (Warner Brothers)

Funkadelic - You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me - Hardcore Jollies (WB)
Carmen McRae - Ghost of Yesterday - Bittersweet (Focus; Koch)
Lounge Lizards - The Hanging - Voice of Chunk (Knitting Factory; Strange and Beautiful)
Dr. Seuss - What Was I Afraid of? Read by Marvin Miller, music by Marty Gold - Horton Hatches the Egg, The Sneetches, and Other Stories (RCA Camden)
    behind DJ: Christopher Komeda - Through the Closet; What Have You Done to Its Eyes - Rosemary's Baby (Dot)

Viparat Piengsuwan - YoK YoK (Jump Jump) - Thai Beat a Go-Go, vol 2 (va) (Subliminal Sounds)
Judson Fountain - The Garbage Can from Thailand - Completely in the Dark! (Innova)
The Count - The First Day of School - The Count's Countdown (Sesame Street)
Soupy Sales - Your Brains'll Fall Out - Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse (ABC-Paramount)
Soupy Sales - Words of Wisdom - Still Soupy After All These Years (MCA)
Vic Mizzy - Morticia's Theme - The Addams Family (TV soundtrack) (RCA)
Richard Burton w. Elizabeth Taylor & Sandy Dennis - dialogue - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dialogue soundtrack album) (Warner Brothers)
Judy Garland - The Purple People Eater - at the Grove (Capitol)
Bob Lind - Mister Zero - Don't Be Concerned (World Pacific)
    behind DJ: Henry Mancini - A Shot in the Dark - Days of Wine & Roses (RCA)

Busy Doing Nothing : 22 October 2009

(image found here)

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

22 October 2009 | People should think; machines should explode

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_091022

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

Ron Grainer - The Prisoner, Main Titles - The Prisoner File 1 (Silva Screen)
Dukes of Stratosphear - My Love Explodes - 25 O'Clock (Virgin)
Music Explosion - Little Bit o' Soul - (originally Laurie 7")
Linoleum - Sing to Me - The Dead Cheap Fierce Panda Sampler (va) (Fierce Panda)
Minisnap - Big Blue Sky - Bounce Around (Magic Marker)
Fifth Dimension - Blowin' Away - The Age of Aquarius (Soul City)
    behind DJ: Henry Mancini - Hangin' Out - Best of, Vol. 3 (RCA)

Noonday Underground - Boy Like a Timebomb - Surface Noise (Setanta)
Exciters - Blowin' Up My Mind (originally RCA Victor 7")
Biz Markie - Biz Is Goin' Off - Goin' Off (Cold Chillin')
Bare Jr. - You Blew Me Off - Boo-Tay (Immortal/Epic)
    behind DJ: Henry Mancini - Just You and Me Together Love - Best of, Vol. 3 (RCA)

R. Stevie Moore - Part of the Problem - Nevertheless Optimistic (Innova)
Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again - Singles Gong Steady (I.R.S.)
Sharades - Dumb Head - Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls (va) (RPM)
The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream - 7" (Mercury)
The Clean - End of My Dream - Anthology (Merge)
    behind DJ: Henry Mancini - Once Is Not Enough - Best of, Vol. 3 (RCA)

Salif Keita - Begin the Beguine - Red Hot + Blue (va) (Chrysalis)
Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Begin the Beguine - Sweet & Lovely (Best of) (Varese Sarabande)
Sammy Davis Jr - Begin the Beguine - The Wham of Sam (Warner Archives) (orig: What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers)
Jackie & Roy - Fixing a Hole - Grass (Capitol)
Raymond Scott - IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion - Manhattan Research Inc (Basta)
    behind DJ: Peter Nero & His Trio - The Way You Look Tonight - Our Love Is Here to Stay (Spin-o-Rama/Premier)

Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Re Ya Dumedisa - Paris-Soweto (Polydor)
Tommy James & the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion - 7" (Roulette)
Minisnap - In the Morning - Bounce Around (Magic Marker)
Paula Tsui - Love Is Like Rain Threads - collection (Contec)
Talking Heads - Happy Day - 77 (Sire)
Shirelles - Foolish Little Girl (originally Scepter 7")
    behind DJ: Raymond Scott - IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion (instr.) - (as above)

Frankie Laine - Don't Make My Baby Blue - Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story 1962-1979 (va) (Ace)
Move - Don't Make My Baby Blue - Shazam (A&M)
Nouvelle Vague - I Melt With You - Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog)
The Clean - Whatever I Do It's Right - Anthology (Merge)
Great Plains - Origin of My Silly Grin - Length of Growth 1981-89 (Old 3c)
    behind DJ: GoTo80 - Come Together - Wanna Hld Yr Handheld (va) (8-Bit Operators)

Busy Doing Nothing : 15 October 2009

John Lurie, Richard Edson, & Eszter Balint in Stranger Than Paradise (d. Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

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

15 October 2009 | Stranger Than Paradise

Download the show:  BusyDoingNothing_091015

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

Henry Mancini - Main Title - Touch of Evil (soundtrack) (Varese Sarabande)

Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You (originally Okeh 7")
John Lurie & Eszter Balint - dialogue from Stranger Than Paradise (d. Jim Jarmusch, 1984) - "Screaming Jay Hawkins"
John Lurie - Bella by Barlight - Stranger Than Paradise (soundtrack) (Made to Measure; Strange & Beautiful)
Duke Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy - The Ellington Era, vol. 1 (Columbia)
Barry Adamson - Under Wraps - Moss Side Story (Mute)
    behind DJ: Walter Wanderley - Cheganca - Samba Swing (Scamp)

Edu Lobo - Zanzibar - (Sergio Mendes Presents) Edu Lobo (A&M)
Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes (originally Threshold 7")
Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You - Bittersweet: The Very Best of (7N/BMG)
Shirley Hughey - Pink and Green - Tobacco a Go Go, Vol 3: 1966-68 (va)(none) (get it here)
The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan - Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby - self-titled (Pickwick)
    behind DJ: Fats Waller - Mamacita - The Last Years (1940-1943) (Bluebird)

Eszter Balint - Tattoo Sun - Flicker (Scratchie)
Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk - The Voice of Chunk (Knitting Factory; Strange and Beautiful) [John Lurie: leader and alto sax]
Sonic Youth - I Don't Want to Push It - Sonic Youth (EP) (Neutral) [Richard Edson: drums]
John Lurie & Eszter Balint - dialogue from Stranger Than Paradise (d. Jim Jarmusch, 1984) - "TV dinner"
Les IUDz featuring Piki Soul - I Put a Spell on You (find it here)
Thelonious Monk - Black and Tan Fantasy - The Thelonious Monk Memorial Album (Milestone)
    behind DJ: Gelbart - Mood Indigo - Four Track Improvisations (Defekt)

Like a Tim & Gina D'Orio - The End of the World - Bass Girl (Dub)
Eileen Romey - Live and Learn - Sings (Audio Fidelity)
Daniel Johnston - Sweet Heart - Yip Jump Music (Homestead)
Minisnap - In a Dream - Bounce Around (Magic Marker)
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind Singles and Demos 1964-67 (FatCat/Spinney/DiCristina)
Fountains of Wayne - Sick Day - Fountains of Wayne (Tag/Atlantic)
    behind DJ: John Lurie - excerpts from - Stranger Than Paradise (soundtrack) (as above)

Scavenger Quartet - Lucy's Piano - Whistling for Leftovers (Snowdonia)
Richard Edson & Eszter Balint - dialogue from Stranger Than Paradise - "Cleveland"
Pere Ubu - Rounder - The Art of Walking (Rough Trade)
Arthur Brown - I Put a Spell on You - The Crazy World of (Track)
Ladytron - Discotraxx - 604 (Emperor Norton)
Bloodless Pharaohs - Stella by Strobelight - Bloodless Pharaohs (Distortions)
    behind DJ: IQU - Under the Cherry Blossom - Sun Q (Sonic Boom)

Thievery Corporation - Hooverphonic: This Strange Effect - Abductions & Reconstructions (Eighteenth Street Lounge)
Eszter Balint - Mambo Sun - Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (va) (Tzadik)
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - In The Waking - Rhapsody in Glue (PLURGO) (also download it here)
    behind DJ: Shnabubula - All Blues - Kind of Bloop

Busy Doing Nothing : 8 October 2009

(from the Bell System Memorial website)

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

8 October 2009 | The help desk

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_091008

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

Scritti Politti - Perfect Way - Cupid & Psyche '85 (Warner Bros.)
Arthur Brown - Rest Cure - The Crazy World of (Track)
Wailers - Try Me - a collection of late 60s & early 70s tracks
Mrs. Miller - Downtown - Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits (Capitol)
Simon Townshend - I'm the Answer - Sweet Sound (21 Records/Polydor)
    behind DJ: Shirley Scott - Downtown - Talkin' Verve (Verve)

Bobbie Gentry - Mornin' Glory - Chickasaw County Child: The Artistry of Bobbie Gentry (Shout Factory)
Bebel Gilberto - Samba da Bencao - Tanto Tempo (Six Degrees)
Piero Umiliani - Crystal, from La Morte Bussa Due Volte - Piero's Pleasure: The Touch of Piero Umiliani (Bella Casa/Cherry Red)
The Crystals - Uptown - (originally a Philles 7")
Ramones - The K.K.K. Took My Baby Away - Ramones Mania (Sire)
    behind DJ: Grant Green - Sookie Sookie - Blue Break Beats (va) (Blue Note)

Misty Roses - Clouded Sulphur - Villainess (Frog Man Jake)
Television - Guiding Light - Marquee Moon (Elektra)
Shonen Knife - Butterfly Boy - Rock Animals (Virgin)
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks - 7" (Columbia)
The Jazz Butcher - Get It Wrong - Fishcoteque (Relativity)
    behind DJ: Piero Umiliani - Cinque Bambole Azzure (version cembalo), from 5 Bambole per la Luna D'agosto) - Piero's Pleasure: The Touch of Piero Umiliani (Bella Casa/Cherry Red)
 
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running - Another Green World (EG)
Blue Ash - Smash My Guitar - No More, No Less (Mercury)
Evie Sands - Take Me for a Little While - Any Way That You Want Me (A&M; Rev-Ola)
Beach Boys - Let Us Go on This Way - Love You (Reprise/Brother)
dB's - Amplifier - Repercussion (Albion)
Association - Come on In - Birthday (Warner Bros.)
    behind DJ: Las Comadrejas - Oaxacatelas - We Are Ugly But We Have the Music (Comad)
 
Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl - Cupid & Psyche '85 (Warner Bros.)
Mad Mix Mustang - From the Heart of Glass - MadMixMustang website
Ashford & Simpson - Gimme Something Real - Gimme Something Real (Warner Bros.)
Teresa Teng - Moonlight Whisper - (from Chinese cassette)
    behind DJ: Richard Groove Holmes - Grooving With Mr. G - Blue Break Beats (va) (Blue Note)
 
The B-52's - Downtown - The B-52's (Warner Bros.)
Piero Umiliani - Le Isole Dell'Amore (Shake) - Piero's Pleasure (as above)
Rolling Stones - Dandelion - 7" (London)
    behind DJ: Piero Umiliani - Crystal, from La Morte Bussa Due Volte - (as above)

Busy Doing Nothing : 1 October 2009

Enter (photo by Danny Nunez)

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

1 October 2009 | In case it's your birthday...

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_091001

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

Henry Mancini - Something for Cat - Breakfast at Tiffany's (soundtrack) (RCA)
Deanna Durbin & Robert Paige - Californ-i-ay - 78 (Brunswick) (found here)
Ramones - California Sun - Leave Home (Sire)
Petula Clark - The Sound of Love - I Love to Sing (RPM)
orchestra instrumental - The Pompeii Club (Rich Man's Frug) - Sweet Charity (soundtrack) (Decca)
    behind DJ: Harry Breuer - March of the Martians - The Happy Moog; Hot Butter - Song of the Nairobi Trio - Popcorn (found here)

Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child - Made in USA (Matador)
John McMartin - Sweet Charity - Sweet Charity (soundtrack) (Decca)
Tipsy - Mr. Excitement - Trip Tease (Asphodel)
Christopher Komeda - Main Title (vocal: Mia Farrow) - Rosemary's Baby (soundtrack) (Dot)
Barbara Parkins, narration, over Theme from Valley of the Dolls (Dory & Andre Previn) - Valley of the Dolls (soundtrack) - (20th Century Fox)
1,000 Clowns - I Love N.Y. - Freelance Bubblehead (Rat/Elektra)
    behind DJ: Rick Powell - I Walk the Line - Switched-on Country (found here)

Nortec Collective - Tijuana Makes Me Happy - Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 (Nacional)
Dory Previn - Mary C. Brown & The Hollywood Sign - Mary C. Brown & The Hollywood Sign (United Artists)
Doris Day - Move Over Darling - Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story 1962-1979 (va) (Ace)
TV show theme (by Dominic Frontiere & Sid Wayne) - Who Needs Wings to Fly - from The Flying Nun
Paul Whiteman - California Here I Come - 78 (Victor) (found here)
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Vieja Luna - Celia & Johnny (Vaya)
    behind DJ: Enoch Light - Marrakesh Express - Permissive Polyphonics (found here)

Roches - Big Nuthin' - Speak (Paradox/MCA)
Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down - Dusty In Memphis (Atlantic)
Mike Nichols & Elaine May - Morning Rounds - Nichols & May Examine Doctors (Mercury)
New Christy Minstrels - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - The Great Soap Opera Themes (Capitol Special Markets)
Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - The Best of Bubble Gum Music (va) (K-Tel) (orig Bell 45)
Mama Cass (Elliot) - California Earthquake - Dream a Little Dream (Dunhill)
Spike Jones - It Never Rains in Sunny California - 78 (RCA Victor) (found here)
    behind DJ: Tipsy - Tuatara - Trip Tease (Asphodel)

Walter Carlos - What's New Pussycat? - By Request (found here)
John Mulaney - The Salt and Pepper Diner - The Top Part (Comedy Central)
Piranha Man - It's Not Unusual - ?
Dino, Desi & Billy - Thru Spray Colored Glasses (from the film Follow Me) - The Mad Mad World of Soundtracks (va) (Motor)
    behind DJ: Bernard Herrmann - Marnie (excerpt) - Music from the Great Movie Thrillers (London)

cast members - Talking Pictures - Rock Follies (Island)
Sonic Youth - Kissability - Daydream Nation (Blast First/Enigma)
Chuck and Danny - Brand New Key - Chuck and Danny (Show and Tell)
Dear David - Narration: Patty Duke, Music: Henry Mancini, lyrics: Rod McKuen - Me, Natalie (soundtrack) (Columbia)
James Copp - Peaches and Myrtle - James Copp 3 (Liberty Music Shops) (courtesy Kiddie Records Weekly)
Neil Diamond - Thom McAn commercial
Beatrice Lillie - I've Been to a Marvelous Party! - A Marvelous Party with Beatrice Lillie (AEI)
    behind DJ: Tipsy - Cinnabar - Trip Tease (Asphodel)

Busy Doing Nothing : 24 September 2009

(Five Tubas, by Bob Compton)

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

24 September 2009 | (not really) The most unwanted music

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_090924

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

Nunzio and His Accordiocats - Minuet (from Boccherini's Quintet in E, for strings) - Accelerated Accordions (Family Records)
Bruce Nauman - Consummate Mask of Rock - Raw Materials (Tate Modern)
Boys of the Lough - Colonel Robertson/The Atholl Highlanders (marches) - The Piper's Broken Finger (Philo)
Roy Smeck - Nifty Pickin' - Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, and Guitar, 1926-1949 (Yazoo)
Spanish Fly - If 6 Were 9 - Rags to Britches (Knitting Factory)
Duke Ellington - Jubilee Stomp - The Ellington Era (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Nunzio and His Accordiocats - Ritka Buza - Accelerated Accordions

Dave Soldier, with Komar & Melamid - The Most Unwanted Song (excerpt) - The People's Choice Music (Dia; Mulatta) (lyrics here)
Indeep - Buffalo Bill - 7" single (Sound of New York)
Nino Tempo & April Stevens - I Love How You Love Me - Sweet and Lovely: The Best of (Varese Sarabande)
Art Van Damme Quintet - Turnabout - Manhattan Time (Columbia; Collectors' Choice)
Cryan' Shames - The Sailing Ship - A Scratch in the Sky (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Julia Wolff - Lick - Bang on a Can: Industry (Sony)

Langley Schools Music Project - I'm Into Something Good - Innocence and Despair (Basta/Bar None)
Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause - 12" single (Def Jam)
Dave Soldier & Da Hip Hop Raskalz - Do the Lollipop - Dave Soldier & Da Hip Hop Raskalz (Mulatta)
7-11 - Dance the Slurp - Product Music (va) (Honest-Abe Disc)
    behind DJ: Tipsy - Bunny Kick - Uh-Oh! (Asphodel)

M.A. Numminen - The World Is All; In Order to (texts based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)
The Red Krayola - Dad - Hazel (Drag City)
Arnold Schoenberg - Mondestrunken (Moonstuck) - Pierrot Lunaire (Nonesuch)
Tony Mason-Cox - I'll Be Seeing You - I Must Sing
Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
    behind DJ: Brian Eno - 1/1 - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (EG)

Charlie Branch, songstress - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - Popular Love Songs (self-released)
Carly Simon - Attitude Dancing - Playing Possum (Elektra)
Dave Soldier, with Komar & Melamid - The Most Wanted Song - The People's Choice Music (Dia; Mulatta)
    behind DJ: Glenn Branca - Bad Smells - Who You Staring At? (Giorno Poetry Systems)

Laurie Anderson - Sweaters - Big Science (Warner Bros.)
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna - 7" single (Rough Trade)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Unclean Waters - Buck Jump (Mammoth)
Dick Shawn - Inka Dinka Doo - Sings with His Little People (20th Century Fox Records)
    behind DJ: The Angel - Strange Times - Deep Concentration (Om)

Busy Doing Nothing : 17 September 2009

(Rush hour escalator, (c) Beckerman Photo)

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

17 September 2009 | This is your life

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_090917

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

Glaxo Babies - This Is Your Life - This Is Your Life EP (Heartbeat)
Kleenex - You - LiLiPUT (Kill Rock Stars)
Delta 5 - Try - 7" (Rough Trade)
Peter, Paul & Mary - Too Much of Nothing - Ten Years Together (Warner Bros.)
    behind DJ: Glenn Branca - Bad Smells - Who You Staring At? (Giorno Poetry Systems)

Teenage PhDs - Eat the Poor - 7" single
Jim Carroll - People Who Died - Catholic Boy (Atlantic)
Henry Gibson - United Appeal for the Dead - Kentucky Fried Movie (found on YouTube)
John Rydgren - Rinky Dink - Silhouette Segments (no label)
Holy Modal Rounders - Half a Mind - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders (Elektra)
John Ylvisaker - Highly Polished Tin - Cool Livin' (Avant Garde)
original cast - I Saw a Man (Shannon Bolin voc) - Promenade (RCA)
    behind DJ: Stravinsky - loop from Symphony in Three Movements (Igor conducting) (Columbia)

Charles Aznavour - Tu exagere - Qui? (Barclay)
France Gall - Le temps du tempo - Lounge Legends series (Polydor)
Leonard Cohen - Jazz Police - I'm Your Man (Columbia)
Steely Dan - Glamour Profession - Gaucho (MCA)
Alberta Hunter - Amtrak Blues - Amtrak Blues (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Las Comadrejas - Oaxacatelas - We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music (Comad)

Patti Smith - Redondo Beach - Horses (Arista)
Randy Newman - Lucinda - 12 Songs (Reprise)
Vicki Carr - Sunday Morning Coming Down - Nashville by Carr (Liberty)
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Best of (MGM)
Golliwogs - You Came Walking - Creedence Clearwater Revival (box) (Fantasy)
    behind DJ: Shudder to Think - pH Balanced - High Art (soundtrack) (Velvel)

Guided by Voices - Hold on Hope - Do the Collapse (TVT)
Bonniwell Music Machine - Worry (vocal and instrumental versions) - Ignition (Sundazed)
Grateful Dead - Cold Rain and Snow (instrumental) - Birth of the Dead (Rhino)
Monkees - For Pete's Sake - Headquarters (Rhino deluxe reissue)
Mary McCaslin - Let It Be Me - Way Out West (Philo)
    behind DJ: The Lonesomes - Waking Up the Cows - A Tribute to the Great Outdoors (Audio Collage/NMC)

Neil Young - Walk On - On the Beach (Reprise)
Meters - Funky Miracle - Cissy Strut (Island)
Petula Clark - You're the One - I Love to Sing (Sequel)
France Gall - Quand on est ensemble - Lounge Legends series (Polydor)
Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me - Peter Sellers collection (EMI)
Nina Simone - Ain't Got No/I Got Life - Bittersweet: The Very Best of (7N/BMG)
    behind DJ: Billy Taylor - That's Where It Is - Warming Up! (Riverside)

Busy Doing Nothing : 10 September 2009

(Lal Waterson; Lal Waterson; Lal Waterson)

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

10 September 2009 | Strange sweet songs

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

Robert Fripp - Mary (Terre Roche, vocal) - Exposure (EG/Polydor)
Lal & Mike Waterson - Never the Same - Bright Phoebus (Trailer)
Edu Lobo - Dois Coelhos - Missa Breve (Odeon)
King Crimson - Moonchild - In the Court of the Crimson King (Atlantic)
Beach Boys - Wind Chimes - Wild Honey (Capitol)
Alasdair Roberts - The Bird - Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson (va) (Honest Jons)
    behind DJ: King Crimson - The Dream - In the Court of the Crimson King (Atlantic)

Telectu - 3'30 - Theremin Tao (SPH/Extasis)
Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked - Big Science (Warner Bros.)
Anonymous 4 - Veni creator spiritus - The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen (Harmonia Mundi)
played with:
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Griot (over "Contagious Magic") - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (EG)
The Velvet Underground & Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
    behind DJ: Brian Eno - Tal Coast - On Land (EG)

Swandive - Losing My Religion - Songs of the Siren (va) (Shadow)
Paula Tsui - The Wind's Road - collection (title in Chinese) (Contec)
O*N*T*J - Jose - Jose (Benten)
Kazmi with Rickies - Preach - Who (Toshiba EMI)
Lal & Mike Waterson - Bright Phoebus - Bright Phoebus (Trailer) 1972

    behind DJ: Pere Ubu - Thriller! - Dub Housing (Rough Trade reissue)
Beniamino Gigli - Del tempio al limitar, from The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) - Beniamino Gigli, Tenor (Eterna)
Harry Partch - The Intruder; I Am a Peach Tree (from Li Po Songs) - Music of John Cage and Harry Partch (New World)
Teiji Ito - Teiji's Song - King Ubu (Tzadik)
Joseph Moskowitz - Buhusher Chusid - The Art of the Cymbalom (Rounder)
Joe Maneri - Paniots Nine - Paniots Nine (Avant)
    behind DJ: Kimio Eto & Bud Shank - Haruno Umi, part 1 - Koto & Flute (World-Pacific)

Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name - Trailer Park (Dedicated/Heavenly)
The Association - Requiem for the Masses - Insight Out (Warner Bros.)
Chico Buarque - Fado Tropical - Calabar, o Elogio da Traicao ou Chico Canta (Phonogram)
Adrian Crowley - Never the Same - Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson (va) (Honest Jons)
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - Cornfield - Once in a Blue Moon (Topic)
    behind DJ: Teiji Ito - Mama Ubu's Dance - King Ubu (Tzadik)

King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Synchro Feelings - Ilako - Synchro System (Mango)
Don Cherry (with Ed Blackwell) - Mu, excerpt (closing) - Mu, the complete session (Affinity/Charly)
Natural Self - Faultlines - The Art of Vibration (Tru Thoughts)
    behind DJ: Tom Recchion - Dubby Struts in Trenchtown (RIFS #2) - I Love My Organ (Birdman)

Busy Doing Nothing : 3 September 2009

 

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

3 September 2009 | The revolution will not be televised

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

Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentics - Fire in the Zoo - Inspiration Information 3 (Strut)
Stereolab - Metronomic Underground - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Duophonic/Elektra)
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Evolution (And Flashback): The Very Best of Gil Scott-Heron (RCA Victor)
Tommy James - Draggin' the Line - 7" (Roulette)
    behind DJ: Land of the Loops - Mathematical Park - Bundle of Joy (Up)

The Pointer Sisters - Grinning in Your Face - The Pointer Sisters (Blue Thumb)
Three Dog Night - Nobody - Three Dog Night (Dunhill)
Dizzy Gillespie - Nobody Knows (Joe Carroll, vocal) - Dee Gee Days (Savoy)
X - The New World - More Fun in the New World (Elektra)
Crusaders - Put It Where You Want It - All Day Thumbsucker Revisited (va) (Blue Thumb)
    behind DJ: The Revolutionaries - 79 Rock; Danger Rockers - Outlaw Dub (Trojan)

Liza Minnelli - Use Me - The Singer (Columbia)
Tenko - Gradual Disappearance - Slope/Gradual Disappearance (RecRec)
Gal Costa - Passarinho - India (Philips)
War - Low Rider - Greatest Hits (United Artists)
Tom Tom Club - L'Elephant - Tom Tom Club (Sire)
    behind DJ: Sad Rockets - Extra Medium - Transition (Matador)

Ast0r - So What - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the Leader - 12" (Uni)
MC Solaar - Today Is a Good Day - Mach 6 (Sentinal Quest/Warner Music Group)
Laura Nyro - Stoned Soul Picnic - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Land of the Loops - I Dream of Ghosts - Bundle of Joy (Up)

Peggy Lee - A Song for You - Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota (Capitol)
Traffic - Many a Mile to Freedom - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (Island)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Bridges - The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Capitol)
Ken Nordine (with Richard Campbell & The Northern Jazz Quartet) - You're Getting Better - Best of Word Jazz, vol. 1 (Rhino)
Claude Perraudin with Monday's Singers - Gainsbooker - Voices (Zippy)
Satan & Adam - Ode to Billie Joe - Living on the River (Rave-On/Flying Fish)
    behind DJ: Qypthone - Drive Music - Sushi 4004 (va) (Bungalow)

Busy Doing Nothing : 27 August 2009

 

(cover of "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn & John)

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

27 August 2009 | Folk is just a four-letter word

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

William Saint James - A Song for Every Mood - A Song for Every Mood (ABC Dunhill)
Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (FatCat/Spinney/DiCristina)
Bobby Darin - Change - Born Walden Robert Cassotto (Direction)
Marissa Nadler - Silvia - Songs III: Bird on the Water (Kemado)
They Might Be Giants - Hide Away Folk Family - They Might Be Giants (Bar None)
    behind DJ: Chinese Instrumental Ensemble - Travelling Singer in Pursuit of Love - Masterpieces of Chinese Songs 0f the 1930s (Wind)

Joan Baez - Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word - Any Day Now (Vanguard); I Shall Be Unreleased: The Songs of Bob Dylan (va) (Rhino)
Patty Griffin - Mad Mission - Living With Ghosts (A&M)
The Free Design - California Dreamin' - You Could Be Born Again (Project 3; Light in the Attic reissue)
The Roches - Runs in the Family - The Roches (Warner Bros.)
The Incredible String Band - Little Cloud - The 5000 Spirits, or The Layers of the Onion (Elektra; Hannibal reissue)
    behind DJ: Piero Umiliani - Motore a Ioni - Musica Elettronica (Right Tempo)

Clarence "Tom" Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird - Anthology of American Folk Music (va) (Smithsonian Folkways)
Holy Modal Rounders - Sweet William - Last Round (Adelphi)
The Carter Family - Single Girl, Married Girl - Anthology of American Folk Music (va) (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Bothy Band - Do You Love an Apple - Best of (Green Linnet)
Virginia Dare - Camellia - Baby Got Away (Absolutely Kosher)
Holy Modal Rounders - Livin' off the Land - Good Taste Is Timeless (Metromedia; Sundazed reissue)
    behind DJ: Gil Trythall - Wichita Lineman - Nashville Gold (Athena)

Donovan - Season of the Witch - Sunshine Superman (Epic)
The Fugs - Morning Morning - Second Album (ESP/Fantasy)
Boruk Glasgow - Desert Fox - Blackhole Boogie (self-released)
Gypsy - Mariah - Ladies Love Outlaws (on Tony Coulter's 2009 WFMU marathon premium, "Hit Replay: A Second Collection of Covers")
First Presbyterian Church of Greenlawn NY - Suzanne, sung by Linda Marrapodi - Pass It On! (Silver Crest Custom)
    behind DJ: Debashish Bhattacharya - Sleep Walk - Calcutta to California (Frequency Glide)

Nic Jones - The Drowned Lovers - Penguin Eggs (Topic)
The Shangri-Las - Give Us Your Blessings - Myrmidons of Melodrama (RPM)
Moe Tucker - (And) Then He Kissed Me - I Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky Records)
The Raindrops - The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget - 7" single (Jubilee)
Holy Modal Rounders - Happy Rolling Cowboy - Too Much Fun! (Rounder)
    behind DJ: Jack Nitzsche - Da Doo Ron Ron - The Lonely Surfer (Collectors' Choice)

Butterscott - Kissing the Velvet Glove - Throwing Meatloaf at the Sun (Rev-Ola)
Chris Knox - The Man in the Crowd - Beat (Thirsty Ear)
Peter Blegvad - Crumb de la Crumb - Downtime (ESD/ReR Megacorp)
    behind DJ: Tom Recchion - A Complex Shape in the Sky - Chaotica (Birdman)