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Favoriting April 21, 2010: Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  To Caravan and Brother Jim   Favoriting The End of an Ear  0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Colin McPhee & Benjamin Britten  Pemungkah / Rébong / Gambangan   Favoriting The Roots of Gamelan: The First Recordings  0:08:37 (Pop-up)
 
John Davis  Mark Twain Mazurka   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:17:34 (Pop-up)
 
John Davis  interview - part 1   Favoriting live in the studio  0:20:14 (Pop-up)
John Davis (quoting Mark Twain)  About Louis Moreau Gottschalk   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:30:10 (Pop-up)
John Davis  The Banjo (comp. Louis Moreau Gottschalk)   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:31:33 (Pop-up)
John Davis (quoting Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch)  My Father, Mark Twain   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:36:51 (Pop-up)
John Davis  Petite Sérénade Op. 1, No. 1 (comp. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:37:13 (Pop-up)
 
John Davis  interview - part 2   Favoriting live in the studio  0:39:47 (Pop-up)
John Davis  Nearer My God to Thee (arr. Blind Boone)   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:51:24 (Pop-up)
John Davis (quoting Henry Holt)  Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:55:17 (Pop-up)
John Davis  The Rain Storm (comp. Blind Tom)   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  0:55:40 (Pop-up)
 
John Davis  interview - part 3   Favoriting live in the studio  0:59:53 (Pop-up)
John Davis (quoting Mark Twain)  from Alta California   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  1:05:09 (Pop-up)
John Davis  Battle of Manassas   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  1:08:53 (Pop-up)
 
John Davis  interview - part 4   Favoriting live in the studio  1:18:27 (Pop-up)
John Davis  Cyclone Gallop (comp. Blind Tom)   Favoriting Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis  1:21:25 (Pop-up)
Helena Mayer Ahearn (& Beth S.)  flying birds   Favoriting nature  1:27:10 (Pop-up)
Old South Quartet  Pussy Cat Rag (for Willie, R.I.P.)   Favoriting The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets, 1894-1928  1:31:40 (Pop-up)
Rabbit Velvet (Danielle Kimak-Stauss)  The Sun Rose Grey   Favoriting Crowds and Doves  1:34:06 (Pop-up)
Andrew Bird  Darkmatter   Favoriting Armchair Apocrypha  1:38:51 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Lucifer Sam (for Willie, R.I.P.)   Favoriting The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn  1:43:40 (Pop-up)
The Liminanas  Je Ne Suis Pas Tres Drogue   Favoriting TIM010  1:46:56 (Pop-up)
 
Rude Mechanicals  Like Magnetism   Favoriting The Cyclops and the Wildebeest  1:55:02 (Pop-up)
Disappears  Magics   Favoriting Lux  1:59:24 (Pop-up)
John Prine  It's a Big Old Goofy World   Favoriting The Missing Years  2:02:53 (Pop-up)
The James Gang  Midnight Man   Favoriting James Gangs's Greatest Hits  2:08:09 (Pop-up)
The Black Keys  Tighten Up   Favoriting Brothers  2:11:09 (Pop-up)
Teenager  Alone Again   Favoriting Thirteen  2:14:43 (Pop-up)
David Ingles and His Little Boy  Satan Has Been Paralyzed   Favoriting Satan Has Been Paralyzed  2:18:33 (Pop-up)
 
Lee Morgan  Cunning Lee   Favoriting Caramba  2:25:49 (Pop-up)
Minisnap  Wintersweet   Favoriting Bounce Around  2:32:02 (Pop-up)
Lucy Reed  Because We're Kids   Favoriting The Singing Reed  2:34:57 (Pop-up)
Beth Sorrentino  There In My Head   Favoriting Shut Up, It's Christmas (A Suddenly, Tammy! Holiday EP)  2:38:01 (Pop-up)
The High Strung  Childhood   Favoriting Get the Guests  2:43:24 (Pop-up)
 
Javetta Steele  Calling You   Favoriting Baghdad Cafe (soundtrack)  2:50:32 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Me Mama Fire Butthole   Favoriting The Hardly Brains Quartet vs. Amanda  2:55:29 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:03pm
north guinea hills:

Cecil Barfield is just a pseudonym. His real name is Robert Williamson. He was afraid that when he was recorded, he would lose his Medicaid if it was found he made a $. These recordings were made in the early '70s. (last track maria played)
  3:06pm
Sean Daily:

Second comment! Woo hoo!
  3:12pm
annie:

yes...
  3:12pm
ytd:

Late to hooray for the background play on that iphone app, no doubt. Hooray.
  3:17pm
seang:

Hi Maud if you're listening and thanks for the shout-out! I spent time in Gainesville too circa 1993-94
  3:18pm
north guinea hills:

Britten/McPhee's gamelon pieces were awesome.

Seang, I was in Gainesville in 1994.
  3:21pm
annie:

irwin do you have the war prayer scheduled?
  3:24pm
seang:

yeah man, santa fe community college for one semester, then UF for one, and then left the summer of 94--the swamp!
  3:24pm
north guinea hills:

about 16 greats uncle was sir edmund halley, w/ whom i share a last name.
  3:25pm
north guinea hills:

in 1994, i was a freshman at UF, haha.
  3:25pm
steveo:

Davis is amazing; thanks Irwin!
  3:31pm
annie:

right on ngh!!
  3:37pm
north guinea hills:

Thanks annie!
  3:53pm
annie:

when we were children, back in the 50s, we had our grandparents player piano and probably over two hundred piano rolls..what great stuff..
  4:04pm
bryn:

great interview and story here - thanks muchly!
  4:11pm
north guinea hills:

I wish I could get my hands on a player piano and piano rolls. This interview is beyond amazing!
  4:21pm
Dan B From Upstate:

Fantastic interview. Thanks John and Irwin!
  4:29pm
Becky H:

What a fantastic lush musical landscape to my afternoon. Greetings from Southern California and thanks for the fantastic music, interviews and stories.
  4:46pm
cheripi:

I lost my 17 yr old cat recently, these last few songs, especially Lucifer Sam are very uplifting.
  4:49pm
Sean Daily:

Awright, the French "Whoop!" song.
  4:50pm
north guinea hills:

Sorry, cheripi, hopefully he/she will turn up soon. have a cheeryfullsome day!
  5:03pm
CheriPi:

Oh thanks north guinea hills , actually I lost her to the grim reaper. Some days are better than others.
  5:08pm
Greg Simpson:

Thanks for playing Disappears!
Love that band.
  5:21pm
Denise in Washington, DC:

This song makes me think of poor Satan rolling around in a motorized wheelchair like Stephen Hawking's.
  5:23pm
Pearly Sweets:

After Jesus cold clocked Satan, he called him a pussy. I saw it. I saw it all.
  5:24pm
PMD:

@Denise, if that's the case, we can mess with the sound and make him sound like a weasly little boy (like the dogs in Up)
  5:27pm
ginger tim:

Hajdu's book, The Ten-Cent Plague, is about the demonization of comic books, not comic strips. Big diff!
  5:31pm
Irwin:

@GT: I get the diff, but the 7SD show description says "strips." I don't mess with Ken's knowledge base, even if it's erroneous.
  5:45pm
PMD:

I think I need some drugs to listen to the High Strung
  5:50pm
annie:

i tried to place that song... i knew i knew it!! what a great film!!
  5:55pm
judy from croton:

Oh, it's Baghdad Cafe! I watched "Ballad From a Sad Cafe a few weks ago agonizingly thinking this song was going to show up. Thank you Irwin. I love it, it's, well, timeless.
  6:00pm
bundoon:

Amandas momma should go easy on the tobasco + jalpenas
  11:32pm
l:

Happy birthday
  5:12pm
tony hall:

i am fully de;ighted to hear the sounds of blind tom. i saw his story on public television once, but this is the only other time i have seen mention of him any where. a true musical gem.
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