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October 18, 2015: The Beautiful Sounds of WFMU
This show is a loving tribute to the "Beautiful Music" radio format.
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:07pm
redkayak:
This is awesome :) |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:07pm
Pete L:
At last, REAL music! ---exquisite, thanks | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:08pm
Fifty Shades of Chicken:
I don't believe I've lived this graciously in months. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:10pm
bill:
boy is gaylord in a groovy bag today | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:10pm
steve:
love it |
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![]() Hello Gaylord and all you Fielders! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...never ? twice ! Glad to be here... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:11pm
Gaylord Fields:
Nothing but this for the next two hours! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:14pm
JakeGould:
So do they know the elevator is broken? Someone pushed the button, right? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:17pm
steve:
having not lived through the hayday of this (what is it called? easy listening?), im wondering where would people hear stuff like this when it was a thing? AM radio? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:17pm
Minnesota Jeff:
's blissful |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:17pm
redkayak:
When I was a kid my mom would listen to this kind of music - - we called it her "nerve music" God knows she needed it, raising the four of us! |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:18pm
Syd:
Hiya Gaylord! Smooth sounds. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:19pm
Gaylord Fields:
Hey, Syd! Hey everyone else! |
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![]() Just this, plus some pledging. Some snacks would be great. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:20pm
efd:
The first of several songs we'll hear today, I imagine, for which the Beautiful Music treatment was unnecessary. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:21pm
JakeGould:
@steve: This is the stuff that pre-dated adult contemporary and then was superseded by smooth jazz. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:22pm
efd:
@steve, when I was younger I knew it as Beautiful Music and it was usually on FM stations. In Boston WJIB was the primary station; in the NYC area I think it was WPAT, but I'm sure Gaylord could confirm/correct. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:22pm
Gaylord Fields:
@efd: Yes, some of these songs were shorter journeys than others. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:24pm
steve:
i got a great 101 Strings LP a year or two ago at Scott W's stoop sale, largely because i saw it had a cover of Macho's "I'm a Man". |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:26pm
steve:
great info... thanks! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:28pm
Minnesota Jeff:
This sounds like devil music! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:30pm
dale:
thinking how beatlesque that sounded and i log in to see how that is! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:30pm
redkayak:
Gaylord, play some Montovani & his orchestra! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:30pm
efd:
love the weather forecast! Perfect! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:31pm
efd:
Boston's WJIB had a whole nautical theme going... their studios were on Commercial Wharf in Boston, and their station IDs included the sound of a buoy bell. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:32pm
dale:
better be some mitch miller on the record changer. i don't care if it takes a nickle on the tonearm! |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:32pm
Jeff in HI:
Sounding great today! Thanks Gaylord. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:33pm
dale:
my wife got pickpocketed on the uptown bus. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:34pm
redkayak:
@dale mitch miller - yes |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:34pm
redkayak:
Now, this is root canal music... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:37pm
dale:
i wonder if there was a 'wrecking crew' sort of session musicians who worked on all these easy listening albums? an fmu deejay would know. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:38pm
dale:
oh man - this is up there with her jealous guy cover. |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:38pm
Listener Robert:
Steve, it was heard on both some AM & FM stations. As to where radios might be tuned to "easy listening" or "beautiful music", that might've been barber shops, waiting rooms & elevators, self service retail areas, etc. that didn't want to pay for Muzak or similar programming distributed by FM subcarriers. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:39pm
bill:
WPAT FM | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:39pm
redkayak:
Claudine Longet! Home run! |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:40pm
Listener Robert:
Yes, WPAT-FM, but also for long periods WPAT AM. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:40pm
redkayak:
Skiiers, beware.... |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:40pm
BriJet:
Hello! | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:41pm
Listener Robert:
WVOX's FM affiliate WRTN had many hrs. of it too. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:43pm
Listener Robert:
However, during those hrs. on WRTN, it was automated & so wouldn't've had weather anmts. I think some automated stations experimented with automated weather anmts, though. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:43pm
JakeGould:
This sounds like Jean Naté and VapoRub. |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:43pm
P-90:
I remember WPAT well. I also remember we used to refer to this style generically as "Muzak", although that was the name of that specific company. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:45pm
dale:
jake - and ayds candy. |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:45pm
bill:
SANDPIPERS!!!!!!!!!! | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:46pm
frenchee:
I love this so much. I'm so mellow that the money is flowing right outta my pocketbook to WFMU! | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:47pm
Listener Robert:
Actually Muzak eventually got to have some pretty sophisticated music on several channels, with commissioned recordings. Yes, they actually became a recording label, although I don't know if there was any public distribution of pieces, other than via piracy. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:47pm
P-90:
We also generically called this "elevator music" for many years. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:48pm
JakeGould:
@dale: Soap on a Rope. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:48pm
KP:
Happy Sunday, Gaylord. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:48pm
dale:
'please hold while we connect your call.......' |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:49pm
frenchee:
Irish Spring, @JakeGould, @dale | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:49pm
redkayak:
It's frightening to realize how many of these titles I remember.... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:50pm
dale:
english leather soap on a rope. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:50pm
JakeGould:
Brüt… By Menin… |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:51pm
JakeGould:
Like EFD said, this “Grazing in the Grass” was unnecessary. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:51pm
dale:
anyone who can type an uumlaat (sp) thing wins! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:52pm
glenn:
because i like it too. |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:53pm
frenchee:
I want a traffic report next, please. How are the flights out of Idlewild? Flushing Airport? haaaaaa | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:53pm
dale:
this HAS to be many of the same singers from sing along with mitch and so many other 'groups.' i smell a tell-all expose in the making. |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:54pm
P-90:
I think I remember reading years ago that there was a "Wrecking Crew" of sorts that did a lot of the Muzak stuff, I think it said there were actually a lot of professional symphony musicians who moonlighted on their tracks. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:55pm
frenchee:
"Nerve music" is the perfect name though we *mistakenly* called it Muzak too. It became less amusing when they covered Neil Young. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:55pm
BriJet:
I love this music so much! :P | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 5:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
@Dale: Umlauts: www.nthuleen.com... |
Sun. 10/18/15 5:58pm
P-90:
Those were the days- a $10 prescription and 20 cents change back. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:00pm
dale:
oh, that looks like a lot of work on a pc. i used to be a graphic designer and still get annoyed when I see incorrect fi, fl, ffi and ffl ligatures. don't get me started on folks using foot or inch marks for quotation marks. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:00pm
frenchee:
I bow down low to you, O Gaylord. | |
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![]() A dude at work died from walking pneumonia some years ago. He seemed fine when I last saw him. The next week, folks said he had passed away. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:01pm
redkayak:
Kicking out the jams now :) |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:02pm
jonathan:
I've heard orchestral arrangements of I am the Walrus and Magic Bus. Some wiseass must have been making those choices. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:02pm
dale:
the drummer on this something in the air is ripping it a new one. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:03pm
dale:
if only the living voices and living marimbas got together to jam... |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:03pm
P-90:
Lalo! | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:04pm
bill:
GAYLORD IS THIS ALL YOUR STUFF, OR FROM THE LIBRARY | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:05pm
Gaylord Fields:
@bill: 100% mine!!! And I've got a WHOLE lot more! |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:06pm
P-90:
Maybe Tommy Tedesco on that Mission Impossible guitar solo | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:06pm
redkayak:
Any Dylan? Jefferson Airplane? |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:06pm
V Priceless:
Hi Gaylord! Swell sounds! | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:06pm
bill:
IS IT ALL DOLLAR BIN STUFF? | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:08pm
bill:
PROBABLY NOT | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:09pm
dale:
liberace's cover of crown of creation is not half bad. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:09pm
Gaylord Fields:
A few I paid $$ for; most no more than a dollar.This is going back 30-plus years, mind you. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:11pm
dale:
just did an image search for mitch miller's tv show - every guy in the chorus looks like fred mertz |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:12pm
bill:
ITS AMAZING WHAT A HIP DJ CAN DO WITH A SQUARE'S JUNK | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:13pm
Gaylord Fields:
@bill: Thanks! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:13pm
Gaylord Fields:
@dale: And a few of the women. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:13pm
JakeGould:
@dale: That’s because they were all Fred Mertz. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:13pm
DL in LA:
It's so trippy hearing some of this stuff on WFMU! | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:14pm
dale:
you made me do a spit take of gin and tonic gaylord! |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:14pm
bill:
and in SUPER3-D STEREO! | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:15pm
dale:
DL - you don't listen to the station enough if this seems unusual to you. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:16pm
dale:
michel polnareff would not be too displeased. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:17pm
dale:
or did sandie shaw record it first? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:18pm
redkayak:
The Hump. Alright! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:20pm
Gaylord Fields:
@dale: Raymond Lefevre's version of Polnareff's "Ame Caline" is one of my favorite songs of all time. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:20pm
dale:
my mother got equally giddy over englebert and bobby vinton. if there's one hip song by the polish prince - gaylord knows it. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:25pm
bill:
IS THERE AN EASY-LISTENING VERSION OF 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:25pm
redkayak:
Yep.....my folks had some Percy Faith LP's as I recall.....Got any Perry Como, Gaylord? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:27pm
dale:
i have a como album and he does the partridge family's 'i think i love you'. a real hoot. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:29pm
frenchee:
I have some doozies: probably my fave is the Enoch Light DISCO album or Bing singing "Hey Jude" | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:30pm
efd:
Everyone had an orchestra back in those days. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:31pm
bill:
I'M GROWING MY SIDEBURNS | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:32pm
KP:
I read a story about Muzak written while it was still recording its own music. The writer dropped in on a session for a version of Paul Weller's "Ever Changing Moods." |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:33pm
dale:
come over for fondue bill. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:34pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...or fon don't if you don't like that... |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:34pm
bill:
GROOVY DALE | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:35pm
dale:
do you own any jose melis gaylord? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:36pm
redkayak:
@efd is right.....everyone really DID have an orchestra.... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:37pm
dale:
the feel good happy sounds of hashish! |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:37pm
P-90:
Love that swingin' electric sitar! | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:37pm
JakeGould:
This version of “Marrakesh Express” is beyond soft. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:37pm
Gaylord Fields:
@dale: I own it all, but I brought just a small percentage. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:37pm
redkayak:
I can see the King Family singing this....oy... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:38pm
dale:
this is up there with guy and ralna doing that old spiritual 'one toke over the line' |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:39pm
bill:
THERE ARE REEMS OF THIS STUFF ON YOUTUBE | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:39pm
dale:
i hate to admit i own a few jose melis rekkids only because he looked so earnest and goofy. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:39pm
Folsom:
Oh this Lenny Dee is awesome. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:39pm
glenn:
one thing i find interesting is that the people who listened to this stuff way back when wouldn't have been caught dead listening to the original versions. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:40pm
bill:
AND VICE VERSA | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:40pm
Linda Lee:
love the show!! fantastic. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:41pm
bill:
PEOPLE DON'T REMEMBER HOW DIVIDED THE CULTURE] WAS | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:42pm
P-90:
Got my Dashiki on, slapped my face with a little Hai Karate, got the Gino's Pizza Rolls on the center rack of the oven, on my second Harvey Wallbanger. this should be an annual affair, @Gaylord. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:43pm
redkayak:
@P-90 wins with Hai Karate reference :) |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:43pm
Linda Lee:
i'm with P-90 .. tho i think it should be monthly. like so many other wonderful things. | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:44pm
Linda Lee:
lovin it deeply. truly. madly. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:45pm
Folsom:
This music would be a good pledge swag compilation. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:46pm
redkayak:
@Folsom Yep! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:46pm
dale:
only orchestra missing was jackie gleason and his orchestra. he has one album where he delves into the sitar a bit. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:47pm
Linda Lee:
all we need now is some Rod McKuen. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:50pm
dale:
my wife is falling asleep on the kitchen floor to this. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:51pm
dale:
i looooooove l'amour est bleu. |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:51pm
bill:
NEXT WEEK--GAYLORD PLAYS DEATH METAL | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:52pm
P-90:
@dale: lol | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
Gordon FM:
Loving your show as always, Gaylord. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
dk:
this show has been giving me the most massive flashbacks: my dad's favorite radio station when i was growing up was minnesota's easy listening station: WAYL, "the beautiful whale". |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
Dave Sustain:
To early for Christmas music | |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
stumpy:
I am in a groovy bag right now thanks Gaylord | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
dk:
if WAYL had a theme song, it was probably this version of "Love Is Blue" |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:53pm
mrmucho:
brilliant show! | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:54pm
dale:
how did ronnie play two pianos at once? |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:54pm
KevinfromBayRidge:
Lovin' the Easy, Gaylord.. Of course back in my early adolescence, I was a desperately captive audience to my parent's newly purchased Motorola color tv/am/fm stereo console. Much to my dismay, WPAT ruled during non -(outer borough ghost image)TV times. Occasionally I got control and thus my gateway ( WABC-FM) to the real stuff. Great job! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:54pm
JakeGould:
I can’† describe how mellow this show has made me. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:54pm
efd:
This Brass Impact tune should be Todd-O-Phonic Todd's parenthetical theme song. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:55pm
redkayak:
Back in the day, it was WAIT here in Chicago..... |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:55pm
Jeff from Rahway:
Gaylord, you raided my record collection tonight! I can't afford $30 vinyl records so it's the easy listening bargain bin for me. I'll just pour myself a G&T, don my slippers and robe and enjoy your show. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:55pm
KevinfromBayRidge:
Whiskey Sours for all! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:56pm
redkayak:
Thanks Gaylord - the show brought back nice memories of my folks :) |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:56pm
dale:
key party at gaylord's house after the show! |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:56pm
Linda Lee:
Jake .. just imagine what it was like back in the day, with any desired pharmaceutical readily available from your doctor. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:56pm
Gaylord Fields:
Thank you, everyone for getting in the spirit of this thing. Sorry I couldn't be more active with the comments. |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:57pm
JakeGould:
A can of Fresca for Gaylord! |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:57pm
Linda Lee:
you're doing the Lord's work, Gaylord. just what the doctor ordered. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:57pm
Jeff from Rahway:
Finally a WFMU show my parents would understand :-) |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:58pm
dale:
man, the arrangement of this jack jones is just so....so....SO....gorgeous! |
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Sun. 10/18/15 6:59pm
soup and fog:
Such a sweet mell-oh-dee |
Sun. 10/18/15 6:59pm
Linda Lee:
@dale .. key party indeed! best wake up the wife .. | |
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Sun. 10/18/15 7:00pm
KevinfromBayRidge:
You couldda actually made money doing radio, Gaylord! |
Sun. 10/18/15 7:04pm
P-90:
Thanks, Gaylord, | |
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Mon. 10/19/15 10:39am
Lynn F:
I just moved, which means I had to drag my record collection along, which I haven't touched in years. And for whatever reason, I rarely listen to FMU anymore. But while I was taking the records out of boxes and putting them back on shelves in my new place, Gaylord was basically playing the soundtrack of my collection. I mean, what are the chances? You file a Lenny Dee album on the shelf, and 30 minutes later, there's Lenny's version of "Wichita Lineman" playing on the radio. Thanks, Gaylord, for reminding me that there are magic moments that can only be achieved via WFMU. |
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