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A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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The view from Vault Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, 16 December 1934. (source)

Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Bernard Herrmann  North by Northwest (Prelude)   Favoriting Alfred Hitchcock: 100 Years: A Bernard Herrmann Film Score Tribute  Milan    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Corigliano & David Hess  The Universal Military Bubblegum Band (The Children's Chorus)   Favoriting The Naked Carmen  Mercury    0:02:53 (Pop-up)
Rakhel Hadass  Treeya, Pedya, Volyotika   Favoriting Israeli, Yemenite, Ladino, Arabic and Greek Songs  Smithsonian Folkways    0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers  Circus   Favoriting Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers  Impulse    0:08:26 (Pop-up)
Clark Equipment  Hooray for Human Engineering   Favoriting Product Music  Honest-Abe Disc!    0:13:56 (Pop-up)
Coyle & Sharpe  Human Radio Transmitters   Favoriting unreleased      0:15:42 (Pop-up)
Candi Staton  Here I Am   Favoriting Candi  Warner Bros.    0:19:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Tipsy 

Bunny Kick   Favoriting

Uh-oh! 

Asphodel 

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0:22:58 (Pop-up)
The Barbarians  Moulty   Favoriting 7-inch single  Laurie    0:30:06 (Pop-up)
t.A.T.u  How Soon Is Now?   Favoriting 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane  Interscope    0:32:32 (Pop-up)
The Clash  Rudie Can't Fail   Favoriting London Calling  Epic    0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)   Favoriting One Nation Under a Groove  Warner Bros.    0:39:08 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Hatherley  Why You Wanna   Favoriting Grey Will Fade  Double Dragon    0:43:32 (Pop-up)
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba  Bassekou   Favoriting Segu Blue  Out Here Records    0:47:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Las Comadrejas 

Oaxacatelas   Favoriting

We Are Ugly, But We Have the Music 

Comad 

 

0:51:07 (Pop-up)
T. K. Ramamoorthy  Ranjani   Favoriting Fabulous Notes & Beats of the Indian Carnatic-Jazz  HMV/EM reissue    0:55:32 (Pop-up)
Patience and Prudence  Tonight You Belong to Me   Favoriting 7-inch single  Liberty     0:58:28 (Pop-up)
Lionel Hampton  Two-Finger Boogie   Favoriting 78  Decca    1:00:21 (Pop-up)
Joshua Rifkin  Gladiolus Rag   Favoriting Scott Joplin Piano Rags  Nonesuch    1:03:58 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper  Be My Lover   Favoriting Killer  Warner Bros.    1:08:22 (Pop-up)
Mae West  Havana for a Night (with Tito Coral, vocal)   Favoriting The Fabulous Mae West  Rev-Ola    1:11:41 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu  Ubu Dance Party   Favoriting Dub Housing  Chrysalis    1:14:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Domenique Dumont 

L'Esprit de l'Escalier   Favoriting

Comme Ça 

Antinote 

 

1:19:05 (Pop-up)
Tooters, Tweeters, Strings & Beaters  Crazy Paint (Beneral Headache Mix)   Favoriting Entertaining the Invalid (various artists)  Hot Air    1:24:03 (Pop-up)
Zia  Baroun Behar Do Barah   Favoriting Raks Raks Raks- 27 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets from the Iranian 60s scene  Raks Discos    1:27:21 (Pop-up)
Mitzi Green  Was That the Human Thing to Do?   Favoriting Hollywood on Parade, 1932 (found here)      1:30:02 (Pop-up)
Felix Bressart  Shylock speech from The Merchant of Venice   Favoriting To Be or Not to Be, d. Ernst Lubitch (1942)  United Artists films    1:31:12 (Pop-up)
The Soft Boys  Human Music   Favoriting A Can of Bees  Two Crabs Universal/Yep Roc reissue    1:31:45 (Pop-up)
Penny & The Quarters  You and Me   Favoriting Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (various artists)  Numero    1:36:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Shudder to Think 

pH Balanced   Favoriting

High Art (soundtrack) 

Velvel 

 

1:38:41 (Pop-up)
Arthur Alexander  Where Have You Been (All My Life)   Favoriting The Ultimate Arthur Alexander  Razor & Tie    1:42:29 (Pop-up)
Dominic Robertson (aka Ergo Phizmiz)  Disposable Love Song   Favoriting Boubouroche  AvantHard Collective    1:45:06 (Pop-up)
Juana Molina  Al Oeste   Favoriting Halo  Crammed Discs    1:50:02 (Pop-up)
John Barry  The Human Jungle (alternate version)   Favoriting The EMI Years, Vol.3: 1962–1964  EMI    1:53:00 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Johnny Beecher 

Sax Fifth Avenue   Favoriting

45 played at 33 

Warner Bros. 

 

1:56:05 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am
chresti:

Hi Charlie and busy buddies, I like it when the place opens early!
Avatar 11:57am
Michael:

Hey now. Here, listening and doing Saturday stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Good Saturday, Charlie and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
listener james from westwood:

I want to read the book that might use that photo as its cover art.
  12:02pm
wendy del formaggio:

What is this theme? Vertigo? I’m on the edge of my seat!
  12:02pm
Bill W:

Hello Charlie! This fandango sounds like THE MAN IN LINCOLN'S NOSE (original title).
  12:02pm
wendy del formaggio:

Whoops. Close. I guess I coulda just waited.
Anyway, hi Charlie! Hi other friends!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
listener james from westwood:

This timeslot has indeed been known for a bit of vertigo . . .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
chresti:

Back when women climbed rocks in heels.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Charlie:

Hiya, chresti, Michael, LJFW, Wendeleh, Bill W!
  12:04pm
wendy del formaggio:

Listener James, exactly!
  12:05pm
julie:

kazoos??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
chresti:

That's right, Vertigo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Doug Schulkind:

I am rather keen to listen this afternoon!
Avatar 12:07pm
βrian:

Carrots and collards planted. Time to do nothing. Good morning.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
schmutz:

howdy! I am awake now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
northguineahills:

Charlie! Actually busy working. Will have conference call at one, but will listen until then!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Charlie:

Yoohoo, Doug! and βrian and Schmutz!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Charlie:

Yes, kazoos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
listener james from westwood:

Judy Judy Judy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
listener james from westwood:

Ah, the original industrial music! I have yet to see that Bathtubs over Broadway doc but I hear it's good.
  12:17pm
wendy del formaggio:

“Product Music” is one of my favorite comps ever! I got mine a million years ago when the Montague (MA) Book Mill sold CDs on the top floor in...uh...1997?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
listener james from westwood:

You can hear the point where this interviewee begins mentally backing away from Coyle & Sharpe.
Avatar 12:19pm
Michael:

I had in-laws that lived in Montague. MIL grew up in Greenfield.
  12:19pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

receiving the KGO signal!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
schmutz:

I used to live right by the Montague Book Mill !! One of my favorite places.
  12:21pm
wendy del formaggio:

@Michael: I love both towns. The Pioneer Valley is such a wonderful place. I’m in Northfield today, at work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Busy Bodies!
  12:23pm
kitty:

hello humans!
Avatar 12:23pm
Michael:

I’m completely on the other side of the state. Head east on Route 2 and keep going.
  12:24pm
wendy del formaggio:

@Schmutz: Lucky you! Also a fav place of mine. I like the stuffed arm chair on the first floor that’s next to the window, where you can gaze out at the stream...and take a nap...
  12:25pm
Tower:

Finally made it in. Took a bit to figure out how today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
schmutz:

@Wendy yes!! perfect place to spend the day. They opened another record shop eventually– not sure if it's still there. Out in Austin TX now and so missing Pioneer Valley..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
northguineahills:

Bathtubs over Broadway, the oddest Weird Al parody of the OutKast's "Bombs over Bagdad"...
Avatar 12:30pm
βrian:

Nobody ever credits the studio hand-clappers either, darn it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Michael 98145:

RIP, Lorenzo W Milam ... www.nytimes.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Charlie:

hey there, kitty! Tower! 98145! Wow, bummer about Milam...
  12:33pm
wendy del formaggio:

@Schmutz: Turn It Up, a small local record chain, opened a little store in one of those buildings in the book mill compound. Not sure when.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
northguineahills:

One of Ken's fave's!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
listener james from westwood:

Heh, Ken Freedman's ears just twitched!
  12:34pm
julie:

yes TATU ❤
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
northguineahills:

james: jinx!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
northguineahills:

Now do Mexrissey!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm
listener james from westwood:

LOL, NGH!
  12:38pm
wendy del formaggio:

My mom used to have a dog named Rudy. Yes, I would sing this to him. Duh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Charlie:

hey there, kitty! Tower! 98145! Wow, bummer about Milam...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
chresti:

I had a cat named Rudy, he was a rude bwoy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Charlie:

hi Julie:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
northguineahills:

@chresti: *snert*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Sem:

Given the choice of doing something or doing nothing---
no logical choice but to be here.
Hello, Charlie, unbusy bodies, all.
Avatar 12:43pm
spodiodi:

aloha, Charlie and fellow do-nothings
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Charlie:

yo, northguineahills! Sem! Spodiodi, hehheh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:45pm
Sem:

S'up, spod'di?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
listener james from westwood:

Dig this Hatherley track!
Avatar 12:48pm
spodiodi:

Y'o h'o h'o, S'em. chillin' wit ma porridge and tea B^) happy to be alive. how about you
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
Charlie:

James -- I highly recommend that album, and the one that followed it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:50pm
Charlie:

Sem -- "unbusy-bodies" -- I like it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Sem:

Charlie, take it, it's yours.

Spod'di: watching the hummingbirds and doing nothing w/ you know who.
Avatar 12:52pm
spodiodi:

hummingbirds! nice. we get the occasional one in back of our place here.
  1:00pm
wendy del formaggio:

Two hummingbirds moved to my neighborhood a few weeks ago. Until then, I’d only seen a hummingbird maybe 4 times in my life. So, I’m pretty psyched. They come and drink from the jewelweed and phlox multiple times a day. I love them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:00pm
Sem:

Ruby-throated, I guess, WdF?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
Michael 98145:

Always loved this song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Charlie & sweet nothings
  1:02pm
wendy del formaggio:

@Sem, I don’t think so. They are dark with a little pale spot underneath. I think. They move so fast...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
doctorjazz:

Hemp, on piano!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
doctorjazz:

(Oops, Hamp...)
  1:05pm
andy the painter:

charlie! so good to hear your voice and excellent programming again....(glad i tuned in...i had forgotten you were filling in) what a treat.

your marathon premiums are still highly treasured documents ‘round these parts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
fred:

Hello Charlie and all, as I endeavor to go from liquid to solid form again after a grocery run
Avatar 1:06pm
People Like Us:

Sorry I'm late! Will catch up later with the past hour!
  1:06pm
wendy del formaggio:

I agree with everything Andy the Painter just wrote!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
doctorjazz:

Very gentle reading of this rag.
Avatar 1:07pm
People Like Us:

I too play those premiums a lot
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Charlie:

herroo, coelacanth, did I say hi doctorjazz:, andy the painter, fred, Vicki:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
fred:

@Vicki: there was also that party that Mary threw yesterday... didn't help me getting up early today
  1:10pm
Tower:

This Alice song is killer! .... LOL....sorry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Charlie:

By the way, which one's Pink?
  1:11pm
Tower:

Still have the LP with the calendar attached.
  1:12pm
Tower:

LOL, Charlie
Avatar 1:14pm
βrian:

Oh, we're making pickles today, speaking of Mae West.
  1:14pm
Bill W:

I've been rewatching some of Mae West's prime films this year. Still haven't steeled myself for MYRA BRECKENRIDGE or SEXTETTE.
  1:15pm
Tower:

Supposedly that noise at the end of Be My Lover is Neal Smith dropping a drum stick.
  1:15pm
Tower:

Have her LP and 45s on the Tower label of course. The LP had a cool poster.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
doctorjazz:

Speaking of dance parties...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
Charlie:

Be strong, Bill. If anyone can, you can!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17pm
Michael 98145:

Always Ubu Time
  1:17pm
Tower:

Was the singers teacher Dagmar Krause?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
chresti:

I've never seen Myra Breckenridge, nor Sextette.
  1:20pm
wendy del formaggio:

I will never tire of David Thomas’s singing. It delights me every time I hear it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Michael 98145:

yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
WR:

Hi all, connected. Receiving in the kitchen.
  1:26pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

oui, les mots justes, mais apres, malheureusement
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Charlie:

Yes Wendy, me too. Completely unlike anyone else:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Charlie:

Mike from Alaska! commenting live! I'm honored and delighted.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
chresti:

What time is it in Alaska? It's 10:28 in California.
  1:28pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

how could I resist tooters, tweeters et al?
  1:29pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

one hour earlier...(but I'm actually in Vermont right now. Don't tell anyone)
Avatar 1:30pm
ndbob:

Hi Charlie and everyone!
  1:31pm
wendy del formaggio:

Mike from Alaska!
  1:32pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

in the electronic flesh!
  1:32pm
Tower:

Hey there bob, good to see you.
  1:34pm
Tower:

Another great song.. Soft Boys!
Avatar 1:34pm
ndbob:

Heya Todd!
Avatar 1:34pm
spodiodi:

great track
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Charlie:

howdy, ndbob!
  1:35pm
wendy del formaggio:

Mike, I’ve been meaning to call you with the punch line to the smoke alarm story from last weekend. It started chirping late that night, and after much scrambling around trying to find the source...it was in the basement all along!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
chresti:

Hola spodi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
Ike:

Who would win a fight between a can of bees (Soft Boys) and a can of Aegean okra (Can)? Wrong answers only.
Avatar 1:36pm
spodiodi:

hola, chresti!
hola, coel!
poking around afk-ish here, but digging the tunes
  1:36pm
Bill W:

wow that Mitzi Green song was quick and brutal
  1:36pm
Tower:

I really like their LP Live at the Portland Arms. They seem to be having a lot of fun.
  1:37pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

Wendy D.F.- the old shell trick!
Avatar 1:39pm
ndbob:

good one here
  1:39pm
Tower:

I don't know, Ike, but the weapons used would be a chisel and a spoon.... How's that for arcane references?
  1:41pm
Dean:

Another actor named Green whose vocal recordings are worth one's time, Jane Green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Green_(singer)
Avatar 1:46pm
Michael:

Thanks for a fun show. Gotta get to the dump before it closes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Charlie:

Have fun at the solid waste transfer station, Michael!
Avatar 1:48pm
Michael:

You’re right - Transfer Station.
  1:49pm
MikeFrom Alaska:

don't forget to take the disposable love song
Avatar 1:49pm
People Like Us:

this album by ergo is fantastic
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
chresti:

Oh boy, the dump!
Avatar 1:49pm
People Like Us:

Buy Ergo's album here, it's soooo good composterofmusic.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
chresti:

Will do, PLU!
Avatar 1:51pm
People Like Us:

good, and he will appreciate that very much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
Charlie:

Thanks for the link, PLU!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
Charlie:

and for all the tracks I cribbed from you:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
Charlie:

And, thank you all so much for joining me here today! See you in two weeks:)
Avatar 1:57pm
ndbob:

great show Charlie!
  1:57pm
Tower:

Thank you for the music, Charlie!
Avatar 1:58pm
βrian:

Muchas, Charlie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
chresti:

Thanks Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
chresti:

And thanks for the link PLU!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm
schmutz:

Thank you Cholly! bye all!
Avatar 1:59pm
People Like Us:

thanks Charlie! Welcome Chresti.
Avatar 1:59pm
People Like Us:

he's Ergo again now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm
listener james from westwood:

Danke, Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm
Doug Schulkind:

So lucky to have the legendary Amina Claudine Myers visiting Music for a Free World!!!!

Go here: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm
chresti:

I first heard Ergo on Shirley and Spinoza..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Charlie!
  5:04pm
Allan Chen:

Once again, listening from California in the PM Pacific Time, enjoying on a quiet Saturday afternoon. Nice to hear you, Charlie.
Avatar 5:18pm
People Like Us:

listening again now and love it
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