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Playlist for The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon - May 15, 2006

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May 15, 2006: Easy Favorites

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	Comments	Year
This may be the single worst Dusty Show ever ... so far. It was a weird week. I just couldn't seem to get a show off the ground. Many false starts ... second guessing ... and real-life interruptions. Then suddenly ... I had one night left to produce a show. So what I ended up doing was melding two previously abandoned half-shows and sending it in. I should have just aired a re-run. The Doyle Slater character gets boring pretty fast. In hindsight, I wish i had done the whole show in the Easy Favorites format. That was more fun. I had an e-discussion with Mike Lupica of FMU about the "Easy Listening" format. He pointed out to me how he felt that it was a great loss when Easy Listening stations disappeared from the radio landscape and I agree. At the time, back in the day, I suppose many young people thought it was pretty annoying. A real symbol of an anti-music older generation. But now, I love my easy listening albums and closer inspection reveals that whole genre to have produced some rather innovative and even experimental records. After all ... it was usually done by good musicians who probably needed work and skilled directors given a certain amount of leeway to make music which embodied certain "moods." Hense the often used term, Mood Music. As I mentioned to Mike, I would take Muzak™ over Smooth Jazz (today's equivalent of Easy Listening) any day. Then again ... maybe 30 years from now Smooth Jazz from the turn of this century will end up being cool somehow. Hard to imagine but who knows? I will most likely be annelid fodder by then. Anyway ... apologies to those who found this episode less than satisfactory and thanks to those precious few who seemed to enjoy it. I think you were just being kind.
Doyle Slater Fills In
Doyle enjoys Fox News and Rush Limbaugh
The relentlessly repeated background music for all the Doyle Slater segments is from a Bud Shank LP on World Pacific called "California Dreamin'." The song is called "Gotta Go" and was written by Marty Paich and Rod McKuen.
Modern Sound	The Spirit Of This Land	Hootenanny And American Ballads	Modern Sound	LP	I usually buy anything I see on the Modern Sound label. Lo-budget knock off LP's out of Nashville where studio musicians re-create the favorites of the day. Some of these are delightfully horrible.	1964?
Doyle is On a Roll
Doyle Doesn't Whistle Or Hum
Whistling Jack Smith	I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman	The Greatest Hits From England	Parrot	LP	#20 in the states in 1967 and #5 in England. This was a studio project and there was no actual person named Whistling Jack Smith. Someone was "appointed" to be him when the record took off, but the hit machine stopped there. One-hit wonderland but a good one.	1967
Dusty Is Lying Down
Sally Field	Find Yourself A Rainbow / Felicidad	The Flying Nun	Colgems	LP	Sorry if I was a bit brusque with these two Sally songs. i just couldn't handle it. She was a label-mate to the Monkees though on the Colgems label. Fun to think of them hanging out.	1967
Oh my. This show is abyssmal.
Doyle Dislikes Feelings and Emotions
Doyle's Housefly Exhibit
William Hanna	The Jetsons (Main Title)	Television's Greatest Hits	TVT	LP	Originally written in 1962. Evidently performed by William Hanna of Hanna Barbera fame?? Or he wrote it?? Anyway ... it's pretty great.	1986
Wayne Shanklin	Jockey Martin	The Modern Minstrel	Coral	LP	I have played Wayne before on the Dusty Show. I am not sure why but I love this song and have ever since I found this in some forlorn thrift store in Florida. "Go on and use the whip whip whip!" Wayne also wrote Frankie Laine's huge hit "Jezebel."	50's
Doyle salutes some e-mailers. You can e-mail me immediately: dusty@wfmu.org I'd like to hear from you.
An Abrupt and Inexplicable Shift into the Easy Favorites!
Muzak	Living Together, Growing Together	Stimulus Progression 5	Muzak	LP	Volumes could be written about Muzak and it's effect on our minds. I love this Stimulus Progression Lp and vividly remember the elevator music of my youth. It's all quite scientific. As the liner notes say ... "Muzak programs are employed to create environmental conditions condicive to improved customer relations and profits." Oh, dear. Another curious thing ... if this is #5 ... where are the other LP's? I see #5 in thrift stores quite often. Here is an excellent site to read more. http://www.clarisonus.com/blog/?p=49	1973
The Electronic Concept Orchestra	Stella By Starlight	Electric Love	Limelight	LP	Eddie Higgins on Moog synthesizer. This is a great LP. I use it all the time as Dusty background music. The 3rd and final ECO LP and representative of a trend at the time that saw early MOOG enthusiasts mixing synth and real strings for a new kind of Easy Listening experience. This was all in response to Walter (now Wendy) Carlos' initial success in this arena. Read more about Moog here: http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/moog/	1973
Alfred Newman	Inez' Theme	Airport (Original Soundtrack Album	Decca	LP	Another wonderful album of music from the motion picture, Airport. Can I just tell you how bummed I am that i have abused the crap out of my albums making these shows all these years! Talk about ringwear and split seams. I could have made a fortune on EBAY. I'll be lucky to get a quarter for them at a yard sale now. I'm queasy just thinking of it. Losing sleep. Nuerotic nocturnal calculations of immeasurable loss. 5 years ago this LP was prisitine. Now, it looks as though it has been run over by a Cub Cadet riding mower. I need to go digital. I never learned to take care of my things.	1970
Dory and Andre Previn	Chance Meeting	Valley Of The Dolls Soundtrack	20th Century Fox	LP	Always spooks me seeing Sharon Tate on the LP cover.	1967
The Organ Happenings	Shadows	The Organ Happenings	Power Records	LP	Power Records of Newark, NJ. Who could fault a band named The Organ Happenings?! Front and back cover features an ecstatic youngish gal dancing in a miniskirt.	Late 60's?
Jose Feliciano	And I Love Her	Feliciano	RCA	LP	Here's some interesting reading concerning Feliciano's controversial rendering of the National Anthem in 1968 which was to cloud his career for years. http://www.josefeliciano.com/anthem.html	1968
Floyd Cramer	The Monkees Theme	Floyd Cramer Plays The Monkees	RCA	LP	Man, I am so lucky I found this album. I don't actually have to listen to it, but I can hold it ... and I own it! Jealous?	1967
More E-mailers Acknowledged. Thanks for writing to me. As of today (5/21/06) it is almost unfathomable to me that I haven't received a crank e-mail about this show. You guys are too nice! dusty@wfmu.org
John Barry	Florida Fantasy	Midnight Cowboy (Soundtrack)	United Artists	LP	Ratso dreams of Florida.	1969
Arthur Feidler and the Boston Pops	And I Love Her	Play The Beatles	RCA	LP	Didn't even realize until making this playlist (a week late!) that I had played two instrumental versions of "And I Love Her." I am also disturbed today about Paul and Heather splitting so it all ties in.	1969
Motley Moment - is there an option key for umlots?
The Walter Wanderly Trio	Here's That Rainy Day	Cheganca	Verve	LP	Great sound from Sao Paulo Brasil courtesy of Creed Taylor. I am getting some play from all those lounge records I bought a few years ago! I blame Irwin Chusid for this glut of Martin Denny and the like ... now that the fad has wained. Still love this stuff though.	?60's
Gil Trythall	Cattle Call (Edit)	Switched On Nashville - Country Moog	Athena	LP	Another example of the "Switched-On" movement started by Wendy Carlos. Country Moog. It doesn't get much better/worse than this. Where have all the good times gone?	1970
Muzak	The First Time Ever I saw Your Face	Stimulus Progression 5	Muzak	LP	See above for more Muzak info.	1973
The Electronic Concept Orchestra	Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet	Electric Love	Limelight	LP	See above for more info on ECO.	1973
Well, that's it. Finally this show ends. Thanks for checking out the program and the playlist. You guys have been great with your support and comments. I really enjoy your feedback. If you would like to e-mail, please do. dusty@wfmu.org The answering machine hasn't been checked in a while, but I'll bet there are some calls on there I could air. If you want to call and leave somethign I can play on the air I heartily invite you to do so. Get odd! 201 521 1375 Until next time this is the Pidge in Wisconsin saying .... always remember!

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Format

Comments

Year

This may be the single worst Dusty Show ever ... so far. It was a weird week. I just couldn't seem to get a show off the ground. Many false starts ... second guessing ... and real-life interruptions. Then suddenly ... I had one night left to produce a show. So what I ended up doing was melding two previously abandoned half-shows and sending it in. I should have just aired a re-run. The Doyle Slater character gets boring pretty fast. In hindsight, I wish i had done the whole show in the Easy Favorites format. That was more fun. I had an e-discussion with Mike Lupica of FMU about the "Easy Listening" format. He pointed out to me how he felt that it was a great loss when Easy Listening stations disappeared from the radio landscape and I agree. At the time, back in the day, I suppose many young people thought it was pretty annoying. A real symbol of an anti-music older generation. But now, I love my easy listening albums and closer inspection reveals that whole genre to have produced some rather innovative and even experimental records. After all ... it was usually done by good musicians who probably needed work and skilled directors given a certain amount of leeway to make music which embodied certain "moods." Hense the often used term, Mood Music. As I mentioned to Mike, I would take Muzak™ over Smooth Jazz (today's equivalent of Easy Listening) any day. Then again ... maybe 30 years from now Smooth Jazz from the turn of this century will end up being cool somehow. Hard to imagine but who knows? I will most likely be annelid fodder by then. Anyway ... apologies to those who found this episode less than satisfactory and thanks to those precious few who seemed to enjoy it. I think you were just being kind.

Doyle Slater Fills In

Doyle enjoys Fox News and Rush Limbaugh

The relentlessly repeated background music for all the Doyle Slater segments is from a Bud Shank LP on World Pacific called "California Dreamin'." The song is called "Gotta Go" and was written by Marty Paich and Rod McKuen.

Modern Sound

The Spirit Of This Land

Hootenanny And American Ballads

Modern Sound

I usually buy anything I see on the Modern Sound label. Lo-budget knock off LP's out of Nashville where studio musicians re-create the favorites of the day. Some of these are delightfully horrible.

1964?

Doyle is On a Roll

Doyle Doesn't Whistle Or Hum

Whistling Jack Smith

I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman

The Greatest Hits From England

Parrot

#20 in the states in 1967 and #5 in England. This was a studio project and there was no actual person named Whistling Jack Smith. Someone was "appointed" to be him when the record took off, but the hit machine stopped there. One-hit wonderland but a good one.

1967

Dusty Is Lying Down

Sally Field

Find Yourself A Rainbow / Felicidad

The Flying Nun

Colgems

Sorry if I was a bit brusque with these two Sally songs. i just couldn't handle it. She was a label-mate to the Monkees though on the Colgems label. Fun to think of them hanging out.

1967

Oh my. This show is abyssmal.

Doyle Dislikes Feelings and Emotions

Doyle's Housefly Exhibit

William Hanna

The Jetsons (Main Title)

Television's Greatest Hits

TVT

Originally written in 1962. Evidently performed by William Hanna of Hanna Barbera fame?? Or he wrote it?? Anyway ... it's pretty great.

1986

Wayne Shanklin

Jockey Martin

The Modern Minstrel

Coral

I have played Wayne before on the Dusty Show. I am not sure why but I love this song and have ever since I found this in some forlorn thrift store in Florida. "Go on and use the whip whip whip!" Wayne also wrote Frankie Laine's huge hit "Jezebel."

50's

Doyle salutes some e-mailers. You can e-mail me immediately: dusty@wfmu.org I'd like to hear from you.

An Abrupt and Inexplicable Shift into the Easy Favorites!

Muzak

Living Together, Growing Together

Stimulus Progression 5

Muzak

Volumes could be written about Muzak and it's effect on our minds. I love this Stimulus Progression Lp and vividly remember the elevator music of my youth. It's all quite scientific. As the liner notes say ... "Muzak programs are employed to create environmental conditions condicive to improved customer relations and profits." Oh, dear. Another curious thing ... if this is #5 ... where are the other LP's? I see #5 in thrift stores quite often. Here is an excellent site to read more. http://www.clarisonus.com/blog/?p=49

1973

The Electronic Concept Orchestra

Stella By Starlight

Electric Love

Limelight

Eddie Higgins on Moog synthesizer. This is a great LP. I use it all the time as Dusty background music. The 3rd and final ECO LP and representative of a trend at the time that saw early MOOG enthusiasts mixing synth and real strings for a new kind of Easy Listening experience. This was all in response to Walter (now Wendy) Carlos' initial success in this arena. Read more about Moog here: http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/moog/

1973

Alfred Newman

Inez' Theme

Airport (Original Soundtrack Album

Decca

Another wonderful album of music from the motion picture, Airport. Can I just tell you how bummed I am that i have abused the crap out of my albums making these shows all these years! Talk about ringwear and split seams. I could have made a fortune on EBAY. I'll be lucky to get a quarter for them at a yard sale now. I'm queasy just thinking of it. Losing sleep. Nuerotic nocturnal calculations of immeasurable loss. 5 years ago this LP was prisitine. Now, it looks as though it has been run over by a Cub Cadet riding mower. I need to go digital. I never learned to take care of my things.

1970

Dory and Andre Previn

Chance Meeting

Valley Of The Dolls Soundtrack

20th Century Fox

Always spooks me seeing Sharon Tate on the LP cover.

1967

The Organ Happenings

Shadows

The Organ Happenings

Power Records

Power Records of Newark, NJ. Who could fault a band named The Organ Happenings?! Front and back cover features an ecstatic youngish gal dancing in a miniskirt.

Late 60's?

Jose Feliciano

And I Love Her

Feliciano

RCA

Here's some interesting reading concerning Feliciano's controversial rendering of the National Anthem in 1968 which was to cloud his career for years. http://www.josefeliciano.com/anthem.html

1968

Floyd Cramer

The Monkees Theme

Floyd Cramer Plays The Monkees

RCA

Man, I am so lucky I found this album. I don't actually have to listen to it, but I can hold it ... and I own it! Jealous?

1967

More E-mailers Acknowledged. Thanks for writing to me. As of today (5/21/06) it is almost unfathomable to me that I haven't received a crank e-mail about this show. You guys are too nice! dusty@wfmu.org

John Barry

Florida Fantasy

Midnight Cowboy (Soundtrack)

United Artists

Ratso dreams of Florida.

1969

Arthur Feidler and the Boston Pops

And I Love Her

Play The Beatles

RCA

Didn't even realize until making this playlist (a week late!) that I had played two instrumental versions of "And I Love Her." I am also disturbed today about Paul and Heather splitting so it all ties in.

1969

Motley Moment - is there an option key for umlots?

The Walter Wanderly Trio

Here's That Rainy Day

Cheganca

Verve

Great sound from Sao Paulo Brasil courtesy of Creed Taylor. I am getting some play from all those lounge records I bought a few years ago! I blame Irwin Chusid for this glut of Martin Denny and the like ... now that the fad has wained. Still love this stuff though.

?60's

Gil Trythall

Cattle Call (Edit)

Switched On Nashville - Country Moog

Athena

Another example of the "Switched-On" movement started by Wendy Carlos. Country Moog. It doesn't get much better/worse than this. Where have all the good times gone?

1970

Muzak

The First Time Ever I saw Your Face

Stimulus Progression 5

Muzak

See above for more Muzak info.

1973

The Electronic Concept Orchestra

Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet

Electric Love

Limelight

See above for more info on ECO.

1973

Well, that's it. Finally this show ends. Thanks for checking out the program and the playlist. You guys have been great with your support and comments. I really enjoy your feedback. If you would like to e-mail, please do. dusty@wfmu.org The answering machine hasn't been checked in a while, but I'll bet there are some calls on there I could air. If you want to call and leave somethign I can play on the air I heartily invite you to do so. Get odd! 201 521 1375 Until next time this is the Pidge in Wisconsin saying .... always remember!

Playlist for The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon - May 15, 2006

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