WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from February 9, 2013

Artist	Track
Gabriel	The Buzzard Lope
Explorers Club, The	Don't Forget The Sun
Junior Brown	Phantom Of The Opry
Etta James	You Took It
Frank Barber Percussion	Busy Lizzie
Explorers Club, The	I Lost My Head
Billy Lee Riley	I Got A Thing About You Baby
Wanda Jackson	This Gun Don't Care who it Shoots
Ollie & The Nightingales	I've Never Found a Man (To Love Me Like You Do)
Explorers Club, The	Any Little Way
Explorers Club, The	Anticipatin' (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Bluebird (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Interview
Explorers Club, The	Acapulco (Sunrise) (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Go For You (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Interview
Explorers Club, The	No Good to Cry (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Forever (live at WFMU)
Explorers Club, The	Run, Run, Run
Tony Rivers And The Castaways	Girl Don't Tell Me
Little Jimmy Dickens	Country Music Lover
O.V. Wright	Monkey Dog
Frank Sinatra	Guys And Dolls (live at the Sands)
Elvis Presley	We're Gonna Move
Todd Rundgren	I Saw The Light
Curiosities, The	Walking The Dog
Jerry Lee Lewis	It'll Be Me
Spencer Wiggins	I'd Rather Go Blind
dB's, The	Before We Were Born
Fireballs, The	Say I Am
Carl Belew	I Gotta Go Get My Baby
Esther Phillips	The Party's Over
Fleetwood Mac	I Don't Want To Know (early basic track)
Mae West and Somebody's Children	If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Gary Lewis & The Playboys	Lies
A MINUTE WITH	SCOTT SCHINDER
Half Pint	Billy Jeans I
Teen Girl	Punks vs. Freaks

Listener comments!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:05am glenn:

oooh. mauve.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:07am glenn:

i checked out gabriel's show on kdhx (is that right?). great stuff.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:07am G:

mauvelous

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:11am Mike East:

nice nord

Sat. 2/9/13 11:19am ChrisB:

Great photo! These guys were swell at Maxwell's. Nice seeing you there, too, Michael (and Todd, and Joe...).

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:27am Roberto:

Technically, that should be "whom" it shoots.

Sat. 2/9/13 11:33am Cubicle Carl:

Gonna drive my Woody through the snow this morning.

Sat. 2/9/13 11:39am wendy del formaggio:

I see Glenn!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:41am Cubicle Carl:

Nice mix on this live set. Kudos to the engineer.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:42am glenn:

wendy. where have you been? your name came up yesterday. there was a discussion on cheese theft.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:43am Glenn L:

@Carl. Engineers. And Thank You!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:44am Michael Shelley:

YES - Gil Shuster & Glenn Luttman really did a great job with the sound!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:44am wendy del formaggio:

Haha. Hi lower-case Glenn (not to be confused with MY Glenn, who is in the picture to the left)! I've been busy trying to get my store re-opened (we had to relocate). Yeah, cheese gets stolen a lot, according to the Google news feed that comes to my email inbox.

Sat. 2/9/13 11:44am Joe B:

second that on the amazing job by Gil and Glenn!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:45am John V.:

Band sounds great Michael@!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:45am wendy del formaggio:

Third that on the fine engineering by Gil and Glenn! What a nice, full sound.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:48am David in ATL from NJ:

Thanks for having the EC in Michael. Enjoying this very much.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:48am Stevel:

At the risk of being redundant: Listening a bit distractedly, I had no clue this was a live studio set. That's a pretty high production value.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:50am Glenn L:

Thanks y'all! Really couldn't think of a better way to spend a Thursday.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:53am Mike East:

sweet harmonies!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:56am Wendy del Formaggio:

Good score, Michael, getting this band on your show. Thank you! So great.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 11:58am Stevel:

Lack of irony: Not a bad thing at all.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:00pm Michael Shelley:

Absolutely!

Sat. 2/9/13 12:01pm Phelger Nank:

I "agree"

Sat. 2/9/13 12:02pm geno:

fantastic guest (and show) michael

Sat. 2/9/13 12:02pm ChrisB:

Terrific live studio performance. Congrats to the engineers. And, Michael, you are spot on with the lack of irony and niceness. These guys were so joyful in their performance Thursday, it was even better than I had hoped (and I love the records, so had high expectations). Thanks for making the EC studio thing happen.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:04pm bruxx:

Changes to the chord changes on Girl Don't Tell Me were driving me batty.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:04pm glenn:

hah! i shoveled my walk 6 times yesterday, and once this morning.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:10pm Mike East:

that impression is spot on, Michael!!! lol!!!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:11pm Gaylord Fields:

Thanks for the dedication, Michael! Perhaps you heard me play Monkey Dog on my show. The song's genius reveals itself when O.V. Wright starts spelling out the title and then commences to barking. Why? Why not!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:12pm G:

Frank had his dice blown on many times.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:12pm glenn:

i love damon runyon's stories, and it saddens me that hardly anybody reads him anymore.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:15pm Gaylord Fields:

@bruxx: But what about the fact that Tony Rivers and the Castaways rearrange the song so that it's no longer a Fake Beatles song but a Fake Beach Boys song?

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:16pm Stevel:

glenn:If you like Damon Runyon, you should probably look up a book that documents the newspaper era he came from. Timberline/by Gene Fowler. Fowler was a contemporary of Runyon's. He tells the history of how the Denver Post was built via a merged effort of community need and hucksterism.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:17pm Michael Shelley:

Gaylord - you are right - you turned me on to that song 20 years ago and I'll be forever grateful.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:17pm Stevel:

G: Most certainly.

glenn: I'm picking up Runyon at the library tomorrow. Never read his stuff, except in pieces.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:18pm scott:

The original version of "Girl Don't Tell Me" is one of the few Beach Boys tracks with no harmony vocals. So really Tony Rivers and the Castaways were just fixing it.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:19pm EzSezz:

Every now and then Jonathan Schwartz interviews his old friend Carly Simon on air? Creeeepy.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:20pm glenn:

didn't horace greeley start the denver post? i have a book which compiles runyon's articles from various trials he attended, as well as romance in the roaring forties, bloodhounds of broadway and blue plate special. you will love his stuff.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:24pm Parq:

Michael, I love that Tood track too. Here's Todd and Daryl Hall rocking "Saw The Light" at Todd's place in Haw-why-ah.
www.youtube.com...

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:24pm Gaylord Fields:

@scott: It's also one of the rare Beach Boys songs from that era on which they played the instruments themselves. (Also, on the Tony Rivers version, I like the quote of the BBs' rivals, the Four Seasons, at the end!)

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:24pm Stevel:

G: How much snow did you get?

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:27pm Parq:

Not to mention Kieth Richards.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:29pm Gaylord Fields:

Original last line of JLL song: "If you find a turd in your toilet bowl/It'll be me/And I'll be lookin' for you"! Absolutely true!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:29pm G:

About a foot in Central Brooklyn. Very windy and in drifts now, hard to be exact to the inch. I hear places in Connecticut were close to 3 feet, and 75 miles east of here near the end of Long Island were 2 feet,

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:30pm James:

Snowed in with 34" in southern CT

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:32pm glenn:

is stickle a verb?

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:37pm G:

Denver Post was founded in very late 1800s by supporters of President Grover Cleveland, who was a conservative-ish pragmatic Democrat (he was the only Democrat president in the post-civil war era from the 1960s through Wilson in 1913).

For the record, Greeley was a Whig, and then a Republican when the northern anti-slavery pro-econ.-dvlpmt. Whigs kicked out the southern slavery Whigs and founded the Republicans in the early 1850s during the lead-up the the Civil War. Greeley ran the biggest Whig/Republican paper in NYC, the Tribune, which from the 1840s through the 60s was the most prestigious and influential paper certainly in the northern part of the US. The NY Times was an upstart rival that didn't get to be a big deal till it started printing government dispatches in full during World War I.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:42pm Trumbull, CT:

http://jumpshare.com/v/WVQUUh?b=u79BCP

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:48pm Stevel:

Post founders were Fred Bonfils and HarryTammen. You see the Bonfils name on everything in Denver. Fred was a con man. Ran fake lotteries in small towns. (Had a shill as the winner, split the take.) But, the following wiki excerpt sets the tone pretty well.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:48pm Stevel:

"In 1900, both Bonfils and Tammen were horsewhipped and hospitalized by a lawyer who disliked their yellow journalism. Bonfils took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal."

en.wikipedia.org...

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:49pm glenn:

and people think history is boring.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:50pm Stevel:

I love Timberline, especially because I was a newspaper photographer for two decades. The more things change...

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:51pm G:

At the time the Denver Post was started, the Dems were finally making a comeback nationally after being kind of tainted in the North due to the War.

Throughout the 19th century both parties gave money to back papers as a way of getting more leverage in a city or state. Big mining money in Colorado from the 1870s on meant Dems and Reps were fighting for the state via newspapers etc etc in the later 1800s...

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:52pm Stevel:

Mae West. Wow.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:54pm Gordon in Chapel Hill:

Great show as always. Thanks Michael! and xo to Gaylord...

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:56pm Stevel:

Gary Lewis comment was hysterical! That was a really sharp drummer on that track.

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 12:56pm glenn:

i kinda miss the days when you could just horsewhip somebody if you felt like it. then again, when was the last time anybody saw a horse whip outside of the kentucky derby?

Sat. 2/9/13 12:59pm Dennis Diken:

might be Jim Keltner on GL&PB "Lies" - he's pictured on the cover of their "She's Just My Style" LP and played on some sides

Sat. 2/9/13 12:59pm frenchee:

Glenn! Gil! Thanks for the awesome engineering!

♥ Sat. 2/9/13 1:00pm Stevel:

I mean, its not like he used a BULL whip.

Sun. 2/10/13 12:19pm Peter:

The bari guitar figure behind the chorus in "Lies" is the same as the dominant guitar figure (on one chord) in the Go-Gos' "We Got The Beat....."?

Michael Shelley: Playlist from February 9, 2013

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