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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting October 5, 2018: Show #268 SPECIAL (Tom Waits songwriter tribute): October Jubilee Week #1: A special tribute to Tom Waits: Songwriter.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting         0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Violent Femmes  Step Right Up   Favoriting Step Right Up (The Songs Of Tom Waits)  Mammoth   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Small Change)  0:04:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  16 Shells From a 30-6   Favoriting It's A Mystery  Capitol   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Swordfishtrombones (written with Kathleen Brennan))  0:10:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jonathan Richman  The Heart Of A Saturday Night   Favoriting You Must Ask The Heart  Rounder   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of A Saturday Night)  0:14:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pete Shelley  Better Off Without a Wife   Favoriting Step Right Up (The Songs Of Tom Waits)  Manifesto   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Nighthawks At The Diner)  0:16:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frank Black And The Catholics  The Black Rider   Favoriting Black Letter Days  Cooking Vinyl   2002  (Originally released by T.W. on: The Black Rider (written with Greg Cohen))  0:20:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kid Congo Powers (Knoxville Girls)  Virginia Avenue   Favoriting Solo Cholo  Trans Solo   2002  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  0:22:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Los Lobos  Jockey Full Of Bourbon   Favoriting Ride This - The Covers EP  Mammoth   2004  (Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs (written with Uptown Horns, Kathleen Brennan, James Greenspan)  0:25:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tom Waits 

Fawn   Favoriting

Alice 

Anti- 

2002 

 

0:29:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alison Krauss  Trampled Rose   Favoriting Raising Sand  Rounder   2007  (Originally released by T.W. on: Real Gone (written with Kathleen Brennan))  0:35:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Norah Jones  The Long Way Home   Favoriting Feels Like Home  Blue Note  2004  (Originally released by T.W. on: Big Bad Love (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) (written with Kathleen Brennan, Jason Hammel))  0:40:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Linda Thompson  Day After Tomorrow   Favoriting Versatile Heart  Rounder   2007  (Originally released by T.W. on: Real Gone (written with Kathleen Brennan))  0:43:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lucinda Williams  Hang Down Your Head   Favoriting World Without Tears  Lost Highway   2003  (Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs (written with Kathleen Brennan))  0:48:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frente!  Ruby's Arms   Favoriting What's Come Over Me  Mushroom   1996  (Originally released by T.W. on: Heart Attack and Vine)  0:51:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Petra Haden & Bill Frisell  I Don't Want To Grow Up   Favoriting Petra Haden And Bill Frisell  Sovereign Artists   2004  (Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine (written with Kathleen Brennan))  0:55:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tom Waits 

Calliope   Favoriting

Blood Money 

Anti- 

2002 

 

0:59:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Willie Nelson  Picture In A Frame   Favoriting It Always Will Be  Lost Highway   2004  (Originally released by T.W. on: Mule Variations (written with Kathleen Brennan))  1:04:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Hammond  Clap Hands   Favoriting Wicked Grin  Pointblank   2001  (Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)  1:07:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dave Alvin  Blind Love   Favoriting West Of The West  Yep Roc   2006  (Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)  1:11:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Steve Earle  Way Down In The Hole   Favoriting Washington Square Serenade  New West   2007  (Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)  1:16:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kinky Friedman  A Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis   Favoriting The Loneliest Man I Ever Met  Avenue A Records, Thirty Tigers   2015  (Originally released by T.W. on: Blue Valentine)  1:19:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
T Bone Burnett  Time   Favoriting T Bone Burnett  Dot   1986  (Originally released by T.W. on: Rain Dogs)  1:22:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins  Ice Cream Man   Favoriting Black Music For White People  Bizarre/Planet   1991  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  1:26:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tom Waits 

Just Another Sucker on the Vine   Favoriting

Swordfishtrombones 

Island 

1983 

 

1:29:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jennifer Warnes  Invitation To The Blues   Favoriting The Well  Cisco Music   2001  (Originally released by T.W. on: Small Change)  1:35:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shawn Colvin  Hold On   Favoriting Uncovered  Fantasy   2015  (Originally released by T.W. on: Mule Variations (written with Kathleen Brennan))  1:40:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
10,000 Maniacs  I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You   Favoriting These Are Days CD Single  Elektra   1992  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  1:44:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Holly Cole  Jersey Girl   Favoriting Temptation  Alert   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Heart Attack and Vine)  1:48:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Anne Sofie Von Otter Meets Elvis Costello  Broken Bicycles (w/ Paul McCartney's "Junk")   Favoriting For The Stars  Deutsche Grammophon   2001  (Originally released by T.W. on: One From The Heart-OST)  1:52:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Niamh Parsons And The Loose Connections  Briar and the Rose   Favoriting Loosen Up  Green Linnet   1997  (Originally released by T.W. on: The Black Rider)  1:56:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tom Waits 

Dave the Butcher   Favoriting

Swordfishtrombones 

Anti- 

1983 

 

2:00:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nanci Griffith  Grapefruit Moon   Favoriting Ruby's Torch  Rounder   2006  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  2:05:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band  Please Call Me, Baby   Favoriting Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits  Leroy   2008  (Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of Saturday Night )  2:09:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Diana Krall  Temptation   Favoriting The Girl In The Other Room  Verve   2004  (Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)  2:14:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tim Buckley  Martha   Favoriting Sefronia  Discreet   1973  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  2:19:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Manhattan Transfer  Foreign Affair   Favoriting Extensions  Atlantic   1979  (Originally released by T.W. on: Foreign Affaairs)  2:22:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tom Jones  Bad As Me   Favoriting Spirit in the Room  Island   2012  (Originally released by T.W. on: Bad As Me (written with Kathleen Brennan))  2:26:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tom Waits 

Closing Time   Favoriting

Closing Time 

Asylum 

1973 

 

2:29:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Blind Boys of Alabama  Jesus Gonna Be Here   Favoriting Spirit Of The Century  Real World   2001  (Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)  2:34:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joan Baez  Whistle Down the Wind   Favoriting Whistle Down The Wind  Razor & Tie   2018  (Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)  2:39:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bette Midler  Shiver Me Timbers   Favoriting Songs For The New Depression  Atlantic   1976  (Originally released by T.W. on: The Heart Of Saturday Night )  2:44:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bettye Lavette  Yesterday Is Here   Favoriting Thankful N' Thoughtful  Anti-   2012  (Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years Brennan)  2:46:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Elvis Costello  Innocent When You Dream   Favoriting Kojak Variety  Warner Bros.   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Frank's Wild Years)  2:49:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ian Matthews  Ol' 55   Favoriting Some Days You Eat The Bear And Some Days The Bear Eats You  Elektra  1974  (Originally released by T.W. on: Closing Time)  2:54:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ramones  I Don't Wanna Grow Up   Favoriting ¡Adios Amigos!  Radioactive   1995  (Originally released by T.W. on: Bone Machine)  2:57:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 

Albatross   Favoriting

single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) 

Blue Horizon  

1968 

 

2:59:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Uncle Michael:

Please support the show, the stream and the station:
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Doug Schulkind:

There are no guilty pleasures. The all pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Insane for Uncle Michael!
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joe:

'ello folks
  12:06pm
rw:

How-dee hey.
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doctorjazz:

Hi folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
joe:

You started to say pay tribute and my heart sank and I ran to Google to make sure my fears were not true.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Uncle Michael:

UM! Doug! Joe! RW! Doc!
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Parq:

Nice to hear this Femmes version, which I've only heard once before. Do you suppose they sent in the creeping charlies for the lyrics like it said on the original LP sleeve?
  12:09pm
dan:

As long as you don't play Springsteen's version of Jersey Girl, this will be a perfect tribute.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:

Parq! Of course! Nobody's dead...it's just October!
Dan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Dominick:

the large print giveth and the small print taketh away
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Uncle Michael:

Dominick!
Avatar 12:13pm
burke:

This is gonna be a fun show. Fun to dwell on the influence of the songwriter while subtracting out the gravelly voice and the persona
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Uncle Michael:

Burke!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Jeff Golick:

Was just yesterday watching clips of Tom on the Letterman show. A legend -- thanks, @UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Rich in Washington:

Wow. I've never heard this before!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Jeff! Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
jmd:

Uncle!
  12:15pm
dan:

Bob Seger is about halfway there to Tom Waits' gravelly voice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Rich in Washington:

I've always really liked Bob Seger's voice, even though some of his stuff is played to death on 'classic rock' stations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

JMD!
Avatar 🛒 12:16pm
Parq:

Would we perhaps accept Jersey Girl by the Irish pop band Bagatelle?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
jmd:

Just covers or also songs written by Waits?
  12:18pm
dan:

@ Rich

I love Bob Seger They never play enough of his songs on the radio. When was the last time you heard "Mainstreet" or "We've Got Tonight" on a Classick Rock block?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Uncle Michael:

They're all written by Tom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Rich in Washington:

Didn't someone record a parody of Jersey Girl called Jersey Cow? Sometime in the 80s or early 90s?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
jmd:

Cool! Will we be hearing Solomon Burke?
  12:19pm
dan:

@ Rich

Sounds like something Weird Al would've done.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Rich in Washington:

The classic rock format is so stagnant. No deep cuts. Not even songs which were played in the 70s or 80s. I think it's the laziness of Programming people, mainly.
Avatar 12:20pm
mauri:

what fun !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
Uncle Michael:

Mauri!
  12:21pm
dan:

@ Rich

DJs used to have creative control. Now the FCC have these draconian regulations that severely limit what can be played on a commercial station. That's why I stopped listening to my local CR station.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Rich in Washington:

Nighthawks is such an amazing album. I remember playing it continuously in the early 90s.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Jeff Golick:

My first Waits was Rain Dogs, so that iteration -- RD/Swordfishtrombones/Frank's Wild Years -- was my Tom template. It was a surprise to go back and listen to the early albums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Rich in Washington:

I think it's also the laziness of Programming people, less reporting to file, less royalties to pay out, etc., with a streamlined playlist, and stations being owned by fewer and fewer and progressively larger conglomerates.
  12:24pm
dan:

I hope you play Ian Matthews version of Ol'55 instead of The Eagles' one.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
efd:

I have to admit, as someone who has no affinity at all for Tom Waits my first thought was "looks like I picked the wrong day to work from home" but I'm sticking with it as long as possible.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Rich in Washington:

I too started out with his weirder Island Records period. I remember seeing his 'In The Neighborhood' video on either Night Flight or Rock 'N America and it made me curious about him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Uncle Michael:

Thank you, Evan.
Avatar 12:27pm
Roberto:

I've been waitsing for this show all week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Roberto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
joe:

This makes me think the Cramps could have done some great Waits stuff.
Avatar 🛒 12:28pm
Parq:

Based on conversations I had with some programmers, albeit a long time ago, my own impression is that it's not laziness so much as a condescending belief that programming must be kept ultra-simple and limited only to one "hit" track per album to keep from confusing the listeners, who are stupid and have no attention span. In fairness, given what I have learned in the decades since about what some people sincerely believe and prefer, it's easier than it used to be for me to see their point.
Avatar 🛒 12:28pm
Parq:

Joe, oh man, would that have been cool as shit or what?
  12:29pm
dan:

@ Parq

Listeners of commercial radio have gotten stupider. They don't expand their minds and listen to the back wall stuff. But I guess that's where freeform radio and YouTube come into play.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
efd:

@dan, curious which FCC regulations you're referring to. They're generally only concerned with explicit language and/or content, which still leaves a ton of songs available for airplay (such as all the ones that were getting played back when those classic rock albums weren't classic yet). I think the tight playlists on today's classic rock stations are more driven by a lot of stations owned by a few corporations, and wanting the programming to be as familiar as possible to the largest number of people.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:30pm
Rich in Washington:

Parq: Having DJ'd live, public-ish events and my experiences with radio listening in the workplace, I think that part is probably true. Lots of people don't like variety, anything different, etc.
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joe:

As a 16 year old I was introduced to Tom Waits by way of Primus. I then heard Bone Machine played in a Tower Records and away I went.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
efd:

and I'll take this opportunity to work in a plug for WFMU's October fundraiser, since we don't have to worry about any of that BS (except the language) (although the stream shows don't even have to worry about that!):
pledge.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Rich in Washington:

Yes EFD. The FCC can't tell people which songs can't be played. They can only respond to complaints of obscenity in songs.
My station was part of a landmark FCC ruling in the early 2000s. To their credit, they've never told any of us DJs what NOT to play. We can play anything after 10pm except the Emergency Alert System sound.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

That was awesome!!!!
  12:33pm
dan:

@EFD

I heard that a radio station must have 800 songs at their disposal On my local station, you'd think there were only 100.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Rich in Washington:

I used to make the joke that my local classic rock and oldies stations only have 100 songs, but after stuffing a computer with several thousand songs to serve as our household jukebox, I was disappointed in the sheer repetition of some of the songs, like I really owe those stations an apology.
But you might be onto something. Maybe they have 150 songs?
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Jeff Golick:

Why is the BIG TIME movie so hard to find?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Granny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Uncle Michael:

Is it, Jeff? I've never looked.
Avatar 🛒 12:45pm
Parq:

Remember when the NPR crowd would have laid down their lives for Norah Jones? Good times.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

Howdy, Uncle Michael! So good to get tuned into Topeka!
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Parq:

Yeah, Jeff's right, it is. I've always assumed that was the artist's choice, kind of the way it's similarly hard to find that Laurie Anderson performance move filmed in Union City.
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The Oscar:

Afternoon folks! I think I've only ever seen Big Time at repertory screenings, and even then it hasn't screened around here in years.
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Rich in Washington:

I think Big Time is on one of those subscription services. I've seen it, but haven't watched it there. Maybe Fandor? Or perhaps Kanopy.
  12:47pm
dan:

I didn't even have to look and I knew that was Linda Thompson's voice.
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Jeff Golick:

Same, @dan. Instantly recognizable.
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Brian in UK:

Gene Clark wrote two songs on Raising Sand. Just saying.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Stanley:

Yay, Linda Thompson (I think I'll have a lie down)
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burke:

Never have I heard a more English description of Illinois
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:50pm
Uncle Michael:

Brian! Stanley!
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The Oscar:

I did love the brief Big Time parody in the Stop Making Sense episode of Documentary Now.
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Jeff Golick:

{races to Kanopy app}

no dice.
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Brian in UK:

Linda T's last album Won't Be Long Now is very good. Took me a while to realise her talent.
Avatar 🛒 12:51pm
Parq:

Lucinda!
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burke:

Now it's my turn to instantly recognize a singer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Doug Schulkind:

The playlist GIF looks to be the "crazy leprechaun" scene from Murnau's Nosferatu.

Wait, it's not?!
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Jeff Golick:

Waits, it is.
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Jeff Golick:

Oh, nice. The Ramones version of this ("Grow Up") is also tremendously great.
  1:09pm
Stanley:

This is nice
  1:10pm
rw:

UM, I only heard a bit of that earlier mic break but I'm one of those people who's a little bugged by TW. I think for me it feels a little too theater. That said, though I did see him perform at the Wiltern Theater years ago (late '80s?) and it was really great. I think maybe because of the theatricality. And THAT said, this show IS giving me the appreciation for the song writing that you were talking about! Thanks!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm delighted to hear that, rw.
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Uncle M and Dinklers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Coel!
  1:13pm
dan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs
Tom Waits as a cartoon character.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

So far the covers are from the mid-90's onward. I wonder what the oldest TW cover is?
Avatar 🛒 1:14pm
Parq:

Granny, I don't actually know, but my money would be on the Eagles' version of "Ol' 55".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
Uncle Michael:

The Frente! cover is from a 1980 song.
  1:16pm
dan:

@ Parq

I think the Ian Matthews version is slightly better. Am crossing my fingers for that to be played.
  1:19pm
Stanley:

The Wire was brilliant
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Jeff Golick:

@dan: wow, thanks for that link.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ooh I've been out for a lot of this Waits Fest!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
Uncle Michael:

Henry!
  1:22pm
dan:

@ Jeff Golick

That short film was up for an Oscar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

Oh, man, this one just breaks me.
Avatar 🛒 1:23pm
Parq:

There's a Guided by Voices track -- can't remember which -- that starts with the words "Well Charlie, for Chris'sake". Nice tribute to this song.
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The Oscar:

@Granny Agreed-- Kinky sells the hell out of that song. Holy cow.
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

I'm transfixed by these covers and can't focus on getting anything else done. Thanks a lot!
Avatar 🛒 1:26pm
Parq:

Here's one that kills me every time. ("Time")
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have a recording of Bette Midler singing Shiver Me Timbers that I recorded off her TV Special (featuring Dustin Hoffman) in 1977 or so!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

Oooh, Bette! I'll bet(te) it's a great rendition.
  1:27pm
rw:

This one sounds like Leonard Cohen. Is it the delivery or is it the song? (T.Bone B.)
  1:28pm
rw:

I think it's the melody, actually.
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The Oscar:

It's tough to say whether Tom or Jay would make a more unnerving ice cream man.
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Parq:

Harry, the original (well, Bette's original studio version) was segued with "Salmadi et Vedredi" on "Songs for the New Depression", my own favorite Bette album and way underrated IMO.
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Parq:

So many great versions I've never heard before. Digging this show to pieces, UM.
Avatar 1:31pm
Listening Out There:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins wanted to sing opera, I read...
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The Oscar:

Someone once speculated that Tim Curry was emulating Screamin' Jay for Rocky Horror, and now I can't unhear it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

I heard that Tim Curry sang "Tutti Frutti" for his audition.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
23 Wolves:

Great show, Uncle. Good music for harrowing times.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Waits is in the new Zombie flick "The Dead Don't Die", helmed by Jim Jarmusch #varietyspeak
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Uncle Michael:

L.O.T. 23W!
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Jeff Golick:

Among my many, many (many) life regrets: back in the 1990s, I passed on an invitation to attend one of the first gatherings of what became an annual Tom Waits party/weekend (later "Waitstock") up by Poughkeepsie.

My liver probably thanks me, though.
  1:43pm
still b/p:

Very glad Waits is in the world. Between having to
miss most of this show today and fretting with due pessimism about my senator....it's not a sunshiny day, despite the sunshine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Jeff G. I almost went to one of those - I think it was in Montclair.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
Uncle Michael:

SB/P!
  1:46pm
dan:

@ Still B/P

"Due Pessimism about my Senator" should be a Tom Waits song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
coelacanth∅:

so far i know all these songs and almost none of these versions (2)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
joe:

One of my closest and dearest friends committed an unforgivable act in that he went to see Tom at the Beacon Theater in 1999 (same show Scott McDowell posted a photo of the ticket stub from). He and his companion got really really good seats paid top dollar. Well they got into NYC a bit early and decided to go to a near by watering hole before the show. They drank so much that neither of them can remember anything about the show. I never let him live this down.
Avatar 🛒 1:51pm
Parq:

Note, on "Fall In Love" (a favorite TW song, b/t/w) the (album) title drop in the last line, "Well it's closing time".
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Parq:

Sorry, not the last line, the first line of the last verse.
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Parq:

Annnnd, I wondered if Holly C's version would be the jersey Girl for this show.
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joe:

UM I'm sure you had many options to choose from for Jersey Girl. Nice choice
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks...yes, plenty of choices.
  1:54pm
dan:

Jersey Girl meets Weill and Brecht
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joe:

I don't know if this got answered or elaborated on but according to Discogs the earliest recording of one of Tom's songs was by Lee Hazlewood on his album Poet Fool or bum and the song was Those Were Days Of Roses (Martha)
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coelacanth∅:

joe, i have a few non-memories like that. (ie an anti-nuclear demonstration in central park in the 80s where i guess i saw Crosby Stills & Nash and many other artists but only have a vague recollection of seeing figures on a distant stage)
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

Another soul-breaker.
  1:57pm
dan:

UM, did you play Tom Waits' version of "Broken Bicycles" during the "Songs That Declan Taught Us" show?
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Uncle Michael:

I remember almost nothing of the Patti Smith Group show I went to in '79.
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Uncle Michael:

don't recall, dan.
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coelacanth∅:

but...but... this isn't a Waits composition! Paul McCartney sang this in the 60s. (or part of it)
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Doug Schulkind:

This Sunday is the 63rd anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's first public reading of Howl.

Give the Drummer Radio is happy to broadcast this great work of love, rage and humanity. It will be broadcast about 5 minutes after the end of Jeff Golick's D:O Radio show finishes. Keep your Internets pointed to the Drummer Stream!
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joe:

I think the reason I get on him so much is that getting to see Tom is almost as rare as being trambled by a unicorn
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doctorjazz:

Yup, McCartney if I remember correctly, lovely version.
  2:01pm
dan:

@UM, I checked, you didn't.
  2:01pm
Dean:

First PM solo album, "Junk," 1970. UM did not play "BB" on the Declan show.
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coelacanth∅:

thank you doctor. i was wondering if i was losing (more of) my mind.
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The Oscar:

St. Vincent was a roommate of a friend of a friend in college, and I know I was at that apartment once or twice, but I couldn't tell you if I ever met her or not, and it kills me.
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coelacanth∅:

right, "junk".
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joe:

@Doug Schulkind that's very cool Thank you
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coelacanth∅:

("junk" originally recorded early 1968)
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joe:

I went to see David Byrne's Contempory Color which features St. Vincent. Didn't notice until she got up to leave about 3/4 of the way through that I had been sitting next to her. :)
  2:07pm
Dean:

The McCartney thread here is due to Elvis Costello's portion of the duet. He sings "Junk," rather than "Broken Bicycles."
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coelacanth∅:

Tom should've given credit to McCartney for that. same melody, similar lyrics. sorry UM but it's shameful.
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joe:

It seems that the middle part of the ASVO and EC version is from a PM song called Junk
Motorcars, handlebars
Bicycles for two
Broken-hearted jubilee
Parachutes, army boots
Sleeping bags for two
Sentimental jamboree

"Buy! Buy!" says the sign in the shop window
"Why? Why?" says the junk in the yard
  2:09pm
Dean:

I don't think Tom had anything to do with "Junk." ASVO and EC created the medley: https://www.discogs.com/Anne-Sofie-Von-Otter-Meets-Elvis-Costello-For-The-Stars/release/1952965
  2:09pm
dan:

I never cared for Nanci Griffith. She has the strangest voice that affects my enjoyment of the music, If you've ever heard her sing harmony vocals with Richard Thompson on "Vincent Black Lightning", you'll understand what I mean.
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coelacanth∅:

Dean is the junk portion of the song not in the original? i've never heard that soundtrack.
  2:11pm
Dean:

I have the soundtrack (on vinyl, pace UM), but I haven't played it in ages. I'm certainly don't recall an interjection of "Junk" on it.
  2:12pm
Dean:

And the soundtrack is gorgeous. Well, well, here it is!
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joe:

The song is a combination of the two. It's actually credited on the For the STars album as Broken Bicycles/Junk with writing credit to T Waits and P McCartney
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coelacanth∅:

okay, just looked. the "for the stars" album does credit both Waits and McCartney.
  2:14pm
Dean:

Now, see, "Please Call Me Baby" isn't even on the soundtrack. Just goes to show you how long it's been since I listened to it.
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coelacanth∅:

(oh joe got it)
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joe:

Last time I saw Southside Johnny they did this and I was very very impressed.
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Uncle Michael:

I'm up to three post-show playlist corrections and counting
  2:17pm
Dean:

One from the Heart did make it to CD.
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Uncle Michael:

that's good to hear
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Webhamster Henry:

Is there a Walking Spanish Down The Hall cover out there?
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Uncle Michael:

The guitar player on this Diana Krall is Anthony Wilson. He's terrific...and he teaches at UCLA if you're looking fora guitar teacher.
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Uncle Michael:

Not sure, Henry.
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Rich in Washington:

What a wonderful show, UM!
Not that Tom Waits' music needs any kind of vindication, but it says a lot about someone's songwriting when so many diversely beautiful covers can be had from such a wide array of musicians.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Rich.
  2:25pm
Dean:

Seems to me Theo Bleckmann does a great Waits cover on a record with three other vocalists. Moss?
  2:25pm
dan:

That Tim Buckley rendition is probably the best one of the program today. Now I gotta listen to the original.
  2:26pm
Dean:

Yeah, "Take It with Me." The entire Moss record is lovely.
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burke:

What dan said!
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The Oscar:

Whooooaaaaaa.
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Parq:

Bette Midler also covered "Martha". She sang it on an appearance on SNL, calling it (natch) "Tommy".
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burke:

Where Scarlett Johanssen at
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Uncle Michael:

I'm afraid I passed on all of Scarlet's Tom covers.
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burke:

Myself I have not braved that cover album but can't imagine it can be that good.
  2:43pm
dan:

Are we getting a ride on the Ol'55 UM?
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Uncle Michael:

Actually, no...Ian almost made it in...but time is short.
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Uncle Michael:

I may clean up a few loose Tom Waits ends after the Jubilee.
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Webhamster Henry:

There's Bette!
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Parq:

< breaks into a grin that you can probably see in Topeka .
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Uncle Michael:

I just had an "oh, why not?" moment.
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Stevel:

Holy am I gonna have to hit the archives since I just cam in on today's show!
  2:56pm
rw:

Thanks UM! Not enough people threw change in the violin case today.
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Parq:

Grinning again.
  2:57pm
dan:

You just made my day by playing Ian Matthews' version UM.
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Mark Hurst:

Happy weekend, UM
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Uncle Michael:

Steve!

Well, why not play it....I'll run a couple minutes long. *shrug*
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Uncle Michael:

Mark!
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Stanley:

This has been fun. Well done Uncle and thanks.
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burke:

A good weekend to all, Thanks Uncle Michael.
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mauri:

it's been a very entertaining show UM thanks a billion!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for Waiting!
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Uncle Michael:

I was never no closing with this.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone!
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The Oscar:

Aw, nice! This is a lovely song anyway, but something about Joey singing it always gets me.
  3:02pm
dan:

A perfect end to a great show. Thanks UM
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Brian in UK:

Just back from dinner. Did I miss Downtown Train?

Great show Uncle
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Brian in UK:

@dan or is it Iain?
  3:04pm
dan:

@ Brian

The train didn't get into the station
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Uncle Michael:

Bye friends!
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Webhamster Henry:

You're innocent when you dream; you're guilty when you're awake!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Uncle M
i was called away prematurely
Great show!
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