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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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Options July 28, 2017: SPECIAL (chart singles from 1974): I've got Boogie Fever!
(celebrating charted singles released in 1975)

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Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Options   0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Steely Dan  Black Friday   Options b/w Throw Back The Little Ones (ABC - May 1975)   0:01:54 (Pop‑up)
Grand Funk Railroad  Bad Time   Options b/w Good And Evil (Capitol - March 24 1975)   0:05:17 (Pop‑up)
Nazareth  Love Hurts   Options b/w Hair Of The Dog (A&M - March 1975)   0:08:04 (Pop‑up)
Queen  Killer Queen   Options b/w Flick Of The Wrist (Elektra - December 1975)   0:11:02 (Pop‑up)
Roxy Music  Love Is The Drug   Options b/w Both Ends Burning (Atco - December 1975)   0:13:57 (Pop‑up)
Suzi Quatro  Can The Can   Options b/w Don't Mess Around (Big Tree - December 1975)   0:18:00 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Ray Conniff 
Love Theme From An X-Rated Movie   Options
b/w Theme From "Paper Tiger" (My Little Friend) (Columbia - April 15 1975)  
0:21:27 (Pop‑up)
War  Low Rider   Options b/w So (United Artists - August 1975)   0:25:13 (Pop‑up)
Pete Wingfield  Eighteen With A Bullet   Options b/w Shadow Of A Doubt (Island - July 1975)   0:28:17 (Pop‑up)
Bee Gees  Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)   Options b/w Country Lanes (RSO - December 1975)   0:31:42 (Pop‑up)
David Bowie  Young Americans   Options b/w Knock On Wood (RCA Victor - January 1975)   0:35:37 (Pop‑up)
The Temptations  Shakey Ground   Options b/w I'm A Bachelor (Gordy - February 17 1975)   0:40:40 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Soul Train Gang 
Soul Train '75 (Instrumental)   Options
b-side to Soul Train "75" (Vocal) (Soul Train - October 1975)  
0:44:36 (Pop‑up)
America  Sister Golden Hair   Options b/w Midnight (Warner Bros. - March 19 1975)   0:49:41 (Pop‑up)
Joan Baez  Diamonds And Rust   Options b/w Winds Of The Old Days (A&M - August 1975)   0:52:53 (Pop‑up)
Bob Dylan  Tangled Up in Blue   Options b/w If You See Her, Say Hello (Columbia - February 25 1975)   0:57:28 (Pop‑up)
Bruce Springsteen  Born To Run   Options b/w Meeting Across The River (Columbia - September 1975)   1:03:05 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Barry White 
Let The Music Play (Instrumental B-Side Version)   Options
b-side to Let The Music Play (20th Century - December 1975)  
1:07:30 (Pop‑up)
The Sylvers  Boogie Fever   Options b/w Free Style (Capitol - November 1975)   1:12:59 (Pop‑up)
Gwen McCrae  Rockin' Chair   Options b/w It Keeps On Raining (Cat - March 1975)   1:16:18 (Pop‑up)
Silver Convention  Fly, Robin, Fly   Options b/w Chains Of Love (Midland International - September 1975)   1:19:32 (Pop‑up)
Donna Summer  Love To Love You Baby   Options b/w Need-A-Man Blues (Oasis - November 1975)   1:23:16 (Pop‑up)
Mike Post  The Rockford Files   Options b/w Dixie Lullabye (MGM - May 1975)   1:26:30 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Isaac Hayes 
Chocolate Chip (Instrumental)   Options
b/w Chocolate Chip (Vocal) (Hot Buttered Soul / ABC - August 1975)  
1:29:36 (Pop‑up)
Willie Nelson  Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain   Options b/w Bandera (Columbia - July 1975)   1:33:48 (Pop‑up)
Emmylou Harris  If I Could Only Win Your Love   Options b/w Boulder To Birmingham (Reprise - June 4 1975)   1:35:58 (Pop‑up)
Billie Jo Spears  Blanket on the Ground   Options b/w Come On Home (United Artists - January 1975)   1:38:28 (Pop‑up)
Tom T. Hall  Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)   Options b/w No New Friends Please (Mercury - December 1975)   1:41:56 (Pop‑up)
David Allan Coe  Longhaired Redneck   Options b/w Family Reunion (Columbia - November 1975)   1:44:44 (Pop‑up)
The Amazing Rhythm Aces  Third Rate Romance   Options b/w Mystery Train (ABC - April 1975)   1:47:04 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
B.T. Express 
Express   Options
b/w Express (Disco Mix) (Roadshow - January 1975)  
1:50:19 (Pop‑up)
10cc  I'm Not In Love   Options b/w Channel Swimmer (Mercury - May 1975)   1:55:33 (Pop‑up)
Wings  Venus And Mars - Rock Show   Options b/w Magneto And Titanium Man (Capitol - October 27 1975)   2:01:26 (Pop‑up)
Jigsaw  Sky High   Options b/w Brand New Love Affair (Chelsea - August 1975)   2:05:01 (Pop‑up)
Kiss  Rock & Roll All Nite   Options b/w Getaway (Casablanca - April 1975)   2:07:50 (Pop‑up)
ABBA  S.O.S.   Options Man In The Middle (Atlantic - July 1975)   2:10:39 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Hubert Laws 
The Chicago Theme   Options
b/w I Had A Dream (CTI - August 1975)  
2:13:52 (Pop‑up)
Hot Chocolate  You Sexy Thing   Options b/w Amazing Skin Song (Big Tree - October 1975)   2:17:55 (Pop‑up)
The Fatback Band  (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop   Options Gotta Learn How To Dance (Event - November 1975)   2:21:23 (Pop‑up)
Parliament  Chocolate City   Options b/w Chocolate City (Casablanca - April 1975)   2:24:34 (Pop‑up)
Funkadelic  Red Hot Momma   Options b/w Vital Juices (20th Century/Westbound - February 1975)   2:30:03 (Pop‑up)
Isley Brothers  Fight The Power (Part 1)   Options b/w Fight The Power Part 2 (T Neck - May 31 1975)   2:34:51 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Salsoul Orchestra 
Salsoul Hustle   Options
b/w Tangerine (Salsoul - December 1975)  
2:38:05 (Pop‑up)
Foghat  Slow Ride   Options b/w Save Your Loving (For Me) (Bearsville - November 1975)   2:41:57 (Pop‑up)
Sweet  Fox On The Run   Options b/w Burn On The Flame (Capitol - November 1 1975)   2:45:48 (Pop‑up)
ZZ Top  Tush   Options b/w Blue Jean Blues (London - July 1975)   2:49:06 (Pop‑up)
Dwight Twilley Band  I'm on Fire   Options b/w Did You See What Happened? (Shelter - February 1975)   2:51:17 (Pop‑up)
Bachman Turner Overdrive  Roll On Down The Highway   Options b/w Sledgehammer (Mercury - January 1975)   2:54:23 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 
Albatross   Options
single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)  
2:58:14 (Pop‑up)


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Listener comments!

  11:58am davefromtoronto:

first come first serve!

what's up UM?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Gary:

Crank up the (they weren't exactly all) hits!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Gary:

You sound good on this end
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm doctorjazz:

Hey UM and Dinksteroons!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm listener james from westwood:

How do, UM and all! Bed just got louder for a sec, if that helps.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm listener james from westwood:

Now it's quiet beneath your voice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm listener james from westwood:

(quieter, I should say)
And I can hear Dan fine!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Jeff Golick:

Roy's making me a little sea sick. Toggle: OFF.

Looking forward to '75!
Avatar 12:04pm Roberto:

Uncle-leh!
  12:05pm Rich in NC:

Hey Uncle Michael
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Jeff Golick:

I have no idea what 95% of Steely Dan songs are "about."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Uncle Michael:

Dave! Gary! Doc! James! Jeff! Roberto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm joe:

'ello folks
Avatar 12:05pm Roberto:

Leading off with the Dan! Can't go wrong there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Uncle Michael:

JOE!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm Jeff Golick:

(Not that this lessens my enjoyment any.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm melinda:

Hi everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:08pm Uncle Michael:

Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff
I believe that Black Friday is about a Friday that is black.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:08pm Jeff Golick:

@Doug: that seems credible, but I'm dubious.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm Jeff Golick:

And I hope soon to be Doobie-ous.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:10pm Uncle Michael:

No Blackwater this Black Friday. Sorry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm Gary:

You can't tell me this isn't a chart *topper*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm melinda:

Why did I not know that Love Hurts was Nazareth? Always learning.
  12:12pm Dean:

Earliest entry in OED says, "A Friday on which an examination is held." A quote from 1610 supporting the definition reads, " Let me tell them of another schoole tricke; at the worlds end there is a black friday, a generall examination."
  12:13pm Dean:

So, will there be a quiz?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:14pm Uncle Michael:

Dean!

Just a cavity search.
  12:15pm Dean:

My kids love this Roxy Music tune.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Webhamster Henry:

Hello Hinky Dinky Shoppers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Jeff Golick:

Geez that's a killer single.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Uncle Michael:

Henry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm Webhamster Henry:

Roy Scheider is kind of in synch with the beat here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm Stanley:

Woo Hoo! I'm here and sixteen years old again!
Hello Uncle and all his nephews.
Here we go SUZI yay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm listener james from westwood:

Brody: "You're gonna need a bigger beat."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:21pm Uncle Michael:

Stanley!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm joe:

once a month a friend and i send a message to Suzi begging her to come to the states
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:21pm Uncle Michael:

No restraining order yet, Joe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm joe:

nope still good to go
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm 23 Wolves:

Hot stuff! 75 sounds great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm listener james from westwood:

July '75 I had just become a New Jerseyan! Family moved out earlier that month from the Bronx. Started 1st grade in NJ 2 months later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm Stanley:

These records were all released on different labels, over here in UK.
Roxy was an Island signing, for instance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:27pm Gary:

This is w/out question my favorite track of the year
  12:27pm Dean:

I think the only X-rated movie I've seen is Caligula, which sucked, figuratively speaking. Was Pasolini's Canterbury Tales also X-rated? I saw that, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm Webhamster Henry:

@Dean yes .. back when X was X! Midnight Cowboy was also X.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:28pm Uncle Michael:

23W!
  12:29pm Dean:

Must correct an erroneous comment earlier this week to the effect that Irvine Arditti played on Art Garfunkel's Watermark. Not so. He played on Lee Oskar's After the Rain.

Thanks, @WH. Saw Midnight Cowboy, too. Guess that makes me a viewer of triple X.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm Stanley:

...and my first, Easy Rider.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:30pm Uncle Michael:

with a pullet?
  12:30pm johnk77:

headed to northern new mexico
for vacation in 6 weeks
also low rider country
so far, so great @unclemichael
  12:31pm Rich in NC:

This charted?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Uncle Michael:

John! love northern nm
  12:31pm Dean:

The line "Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it" is ambiguous in a way that kinda messes with the vibe by turning the refrain into a fart joke.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:32pm Uncle Michael:

Rich!

Dean, maybe a clitoris joke?
  12:33pm johnk77:

art porn does not equal
porn
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Uncle Michael:

Last Tango was also X
  12:34pm Dean:

Well, there's a third reading.

"Fanny" might be my favorite Bee Gee's song. No, it's not a butt joke.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:34pm Brian in UK:

Hello Uncle, ever see the first tango?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:35pm Uncle Michael:

nope, I waited till they got it right
  12:35pm melinda:

Bees
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:36pm Brian in UK:

Dean funny how American fannys are backwards facing where ours are forwards facing.
  12:36pm Dean:

Has something to do with the side of the road we drive on. Most American drivers are assholes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm Stanley:

Dean - "Fanny" has a different meaning for us. In the same general area, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm doctorjazz:

Great Bowie hit!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:38pm Brian in UK:

Stanley, time to get the headphones on? Gagging for a pint.
  12:38pm johnk77:

people from uk
like outfits w/
no backs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm Stanley:

Fortunately, my pub rendezvous isn't until 7.30 tonight, which means I can luxuriate in teenage nostalgia. Man, I had very cool taste back then
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:43pm Uncle Michael:

That illusion stems from the fact that I have very cool tasste *now*.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm Stanley:

@johnk77 - you mean like butt-less chaps?
(I've been waiting an age to say that)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:44pm Uncle Michael:

I have to say that every time someone asks what the hell I'm wearing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:45pm Stanley:

@UM - you get those phone calls too?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:46pm Brian in UK:

Stuck with one ear on the cricket Test match where England are whipping South Africa.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm listener james from westwood:

It's my understanding that the Thin White Duke was snorting a lot of thin white lines 'round that stretch.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm Stanley:

Brian - visions of you in the garden deck chair, warm beer in hand, hanky on head.
Salad days, mate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:50pm listener james from westwood:

Fuckin' loved the SNF soundtrack from the git-go in '77 as an 8-year-old and love it to this day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm Doug Schulkind:

Fill-inky Dinky Time!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:51pm Brian in UK:

Stanley, that's done down to the cellar for beer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm listener james from westwood:

And if you ever revisit that film, revel in how actually bleak it is. Wow. Dark horse entry along w/ French Connection and other 70s films in terms of stark NYC cinema.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm Stanley:

Me too, cheers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm listener james from westwood:

And with ya on loving this track too!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:53pm Jeff Golick:

NYC locals: Film Forum is having a NY in the 70s series right now.

Sister Golden Hair is a top car singalong.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:53pm Brian in UK:

So, two bottles of "No Name for the Back of the Knees" it is then.
  12:55pm davefromtoronto:

boy it's a strange time-trip hearing all these tunes together.

i was 10/11 in 75 so these tunes are truly embedded in my psyche as well as my radio shack clock radio.
Avatar 12:56pm 67tele:

just heard Judas Priest version of this on Martys show...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm joe:

Well that's a weird coincidence Marty played the Judas Priest version of htis song this morning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm listener james from westwood:

@Jeff, that's of those many film series that makes me wish I were independently wealthy so I could take in the whole damn program.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm Stanley:

....and a packet of 'Old Scrotum's Original Scratchings'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm listener james from westwood:

@davefromtoronto, I can relate to that! And great to hear the ones I've never heard, like this jewel of a Baez track!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:56pm Uncle Michael:

JP version of what song??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm joe:

Diamonds and Rust
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:57pm Uncle Michael:

wtf
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm Stevel:

My wife hates that I love the Judas Priest version of Diamonds and Rust. I also love Joan Baez. Can't we all just get along?
  12:58pm Dean:

Maybe Joan Baez was the real force behind the backwards masking scandal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm joe:

Yup www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm joe:

Actually knew that version way before JOan's
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59pm joe:

Oh I see what you did there :)
Avatar 12:59pm northguineahills:

These last few Fridays I've been usually on the road to finish up all of the logistics w/ my move/job during your show UM, but I'm usually listening via the app. 8 more days.

Nashville Skyline!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:00pm Uncle Michael:

NGH!

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:00pm Brian in UK:

Was 1975 the year that "Trampled Under Foot" was released as a single.
  1:00pm johnk77:

film forum part of why
i moved to nyc
@stanley marianne faithfull
in a backless outfit i cannot
yet find on interthingie
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:00pm Uncle Michael:

Good luck NGH!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Uncle Michael:

I believe so, Brian.
Avatar 1:01pm northguineahills:

Whoops, just reminded me of his Nashville Skyline period for some reason.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:01pm Brian in UK:

@johnk77 Girl on a Motorcycle?
Avatar 1:03pm northguineahills:

Thanks UM!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:04pm Jeff Golick:

BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEE
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm The Oscar:

Afternoon all! One summer my high school assigned the Born to Run album as the required summer "reading." I went to an odd school.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm Stanley:

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Avatar 1:05pm Roberto:

Here's the exact moment my wife's infatuation with the Boss (at age 9) began.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm Chris Christie:

He's really not all that good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm Stanley:

Terrific production.
  1:06pm Dean:

One paper I wrote in high school was about Tales from Topographic Oceans.
  1:06pm johnk77:

naked under leather
title also reused by suzi quatro
can the can #1 uk
thanks @brianuk
but in my fading memories
no bikes
yes jagger
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Jeff Golick:

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I've always really hated the Big Man's horn sound.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm doctorjazz:

I would have guessed Born to Run was earlier than 75
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Stanley:

1-2-3-4
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm Webhamster Henry:

NJ State Song: About getting out of Jersey as fast as you can.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm doctorjazz:

I always like The Big Man's horn sound, but he didn't play all that many interesting notes...
  1:08pm Dean:

Another paper was an annotated issue of Playboy magazine, a proto-(for me)-feminist critique.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm Stanley:

Feels like I'm driving this song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:09pm Jeff Golick:

Yeah that song really jumps out of the speakers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm The Oscar:

@Dean My greatest coup was my 8th-grade presentation on Lenny Bruce, in which I did a dramatic reading of "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb." I am very lucky I went to the school I did.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:10pm Brian in UK:

You folks might be interested in this.
www.bbc.co.uk...
  1:11pm Dean:

@The Oscar: I wish I'd been worldly enough in high school even to know about Lenny Bruce, dammit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm Brian in UK:

Uncle like the fact that you played the NEW Dylan right after the old Dylan.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:12pm Brian in UK:

Ed Sheeran is the NEW Dylan. Just kidding.
  1:13pm johnk77:

jersey shore sound horn-driven
out of town per @webmasterh
i see southside + miami steve
sometimes at my jobsite
gary us bonds very cool
when i worked 1 show w/him
late seventies
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm Chris Christie:

@Brian in UK
Yes, Ed Sheeran is noodlin'.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm Uncle Michael:

Oscar!
  1:17pm davefromtoronto:

sounds like the day tripper riff
  1:19pm johnk77:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/49891508342300709
bowie+faithfull in psych worship togs
my memory failing but will
continue research;>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm listener james from westwood:

I started making "Mmmm! Mmmm!" happy-Frankenstein noises mid-lunch when I heard this Silver Convention track begin.
  1:22pm Dean:

Folks, haven't listened to any of this yet, but it looks really promising: https://www.bespacific.com/field-recordings-from-the-dictionary-of-american-regional-english/
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:22pm Uncle Michael:

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm Guido from Cologne:

Hello Michael!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:23pm Uncle Michael:

What's fun is a GREAT BIG WASP on the mixing board.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:23pm Uncle Michael:

Guido!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm listener james from westwood:

"You just made a 'yummy' sound, so I thought you liked the dessert."
"I didn't make a 'yummy' sound!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm Guido from Cologne:

Munich section?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:25pm Uncle Michael:

maybe?
  1:28pm Jeff g.:

The 70s were an odd time.
  1:29pm davefromtoronto:

wow - theme from rockford files...

i'm gonna be in therapy after todays show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:29pm Uncle Michael:

indeed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm Webhamster Henry:

More theme songs coming up?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm joe:

The 70's were a big time for TV themes making it to airplay huh?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm Stanley:

@jeff g. - music - good, films - good, TV - not so good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm joe:

@Stanley WHAT!!!!!??????
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm Webhamster Henry:

Ooh an on-air tongue lashing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm doctorjazz:

Ooooooo......
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm Stanley:

(turns red with shame)
  1:33pm davefromtoronto:

"the hilarious house of frightenstein" - need i say more?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm Doug Schulkind:

Barney Miller Theme, hello?!?!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm Stanley:

You should have seen what we had to put up with. Brian - come to my aid!
Avatar 1:36pm Parq:

Just joining the fun. What are the other nine?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:37pm Brian in UK:

Oooh a tongue lashing, please.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm The Oscar:

SCTV was so freakin' great. I quote Count Floyd's "VERY scary!" enough that it's spread to many friends who I know have never seen it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:38pm Brian in UK:

Never had a television for most of the Seventies but what Stanley says is true. That thing with David Carradine burning his arms was probably the highlight.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:39pm Brian in UK:

I used to like Chuck & Pete from Whirlybirds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm Stanley:

We had Fawlty Towers and Rising Damp, granted but please cut me some slack with the rest of the shite. That said the American imports were our saving grace e.g. Kung Fu
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:41pm Uncle Michael:

slack; cut
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:42pm Brian in UK:

That's it Kung Fu. Still crap. TV is like a demanding child. Radio is for grown ups.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:42pm Brian in UK:

Stanley Situation Comedy is beyond redemption.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:44pm Brian in UK:

That said, screw all Gold Radio stations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm Stanley:

I haven't watched the tube for years (nay decades)
Brian - what Leonard Rossiter Rising Damp, Reginald Perrin?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm Brian in UK:

Never saw them, never needed to. If you accept the principle then the rest follows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm Stanley:

There's always exceptions,
Avatar 1:47pm Parq:

Stanley, we had some of that shite thrown at us on public television as a "classy" alternative. Does that speak of how bad 70s US TV was, or how anglophilic middlebrow Americans are? Both, actually.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm The Oscar:

Holy cow-- never realized this is where GG Allin copped this tune...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:47pm Brian in UK:

Fair enough for the 1%.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:49pm Brian in UK:

Stanley my case for the prosecution. Terry & June.
Avatar 1:50pm Parq:

Loved this ARA single.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:50pm Uncle Michael:

Fawlty Towers is the best sitcom I've ever seen.
  1:50pm davefromtoronto:

elvis costello did a version of this ARA's tune before he got big.
  1:51pm johnk77:

rhythm aces were great live
in the mid-seventies
russell smith heck of a writer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:51pm Stanley:

Parq - I can only imagine how dire US TV was that the viewers 'enjoyed' Dad's Army and 'Are You Being Served', which I'm sure are continually running on some station or other for the 'benefit' of new generations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm Stanley:

UM - I had no choice, I had to defend myself.
  1:53pm melinda:

Good Neighbors was pretty good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm Stevel:

Eggs Over Easy?
  1:54pm Jeff g.:

OMG THAT KORMAN THING SOUNDS HORRIFIC. How did I miss it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm Stevel:

...which was NOT Elvis C's band.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:55pm Brian in UK:

Are you thinking of Clover?
  1:55pm johnk77:

flip city?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm listener james from westwood:

AYBS kinda boiled down to the same five beats:
--Gay joke for that one guy
--Pussy joke for Mrs. Bluehair
--Capt Peacock grumbles
--Churchill guy pisses and moans about being past his prime
--Young Mr. Grace says "You've all done very well!"
~fin~
~BBC logo~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm The Oscar:

Was there an actual British sitcom about Hitler, or am I just misremembering a Young Ones skit?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm Stevel:

Flip City, most likely.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm Brian in UK:

Hall & Oats rip off?
Avatar 1:57pm Parq:

Stanley, "Dr In the House" anyone? And bad as US TV was, don't overestimate the "It has a British accent, that means it's classy" effect on the New York Times crowd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm listener james from westwood:

Also, as a teen, I had a weird crush on, of all people, Sybil Fawlty.

@The Oscar: I think it ran one episode, "Heil Honey, I'm Home!"
  1:58pm Jeff g.:

What is the LOWEST chart position, the cut-off? 200?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm Stanley:

..and, Listener James, I believe it came out in the seventies?
(evidence for the prosecution)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm Uncle Michael:

Yes, Flip City.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Stanley:

@Jeff g. Hahaha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Uncle Michael:

100 Jeff...and depending on the year, 50 for C&W or R&B
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm The Oscar:

@James That's it! The fact that that existed still blows my mind.
  1:59pm Jeff g.:

This is the antithesis of cock rock
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:59pm Brian in UK:

Stanley was there a second hand clothes shop called Flip or Flip City around then.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm listener james from westwood:

@Stanley: Nineteen ninety. OMFG.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm Stanley:

Parq: snobs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm listener james from westwood:

I mean, by 1990, you think someone would have taken one of the creators by the arm and locked them in a closet, but evidently no.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm Stanley:

I believe there was, lasted until the the end of the nighties in Edinburgh.
That was a load of rubbish too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm The Oscar:

That said, the '70s are also the time that Michael O'Donoghue very nearly had a monthly sketch comedy show modeled after Mondo Cane. I sometimes wonder how differently TV comedy would have evolved if that got ordered to series.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm joe:

@theoscar there was Hail HOney I'm home but htat was later and a one shot thing. There was alos 'ello 'ello which took place in WW II france but that was the 80's
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:02pm Brian in UK:

I rest my case. Oh Stanley Mrs Brown's Boys. Christ Almighty. How did that get commisioned.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm joe:

@Parq and don't forget on PBS
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:03pm Uncle Michael:

I've never played the single edit of this Wings track before.
  2:04pm melinda:

I am more familiar with the Langley Schools version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:04pm Doug Schulkind:

John McCain is giving this show a thumbs up.
  2:05pm davefromtoronto:

hearing him say "concert-gabo" always cracks me up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm listener james from westwood:

Gabbo is coming!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm listener james from westwood:

"Sky High"!!
Avatar 2:07pm Parq:

Saw the Venus and Mars tour when it played NYC in summer '75. (A local critic derided McC for his "coy substitution" of "Madison Square" for the original lyric, kicking off my lifelong distaste for critics who don't bother to pay attention to detail.) Had friends on crew, so I got the official tour teeshirt. Wore it until it literally could no longer be worn, but still have it in my closet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:08pm 23 Wolves:

There's a version of this song on Dance Dance Revolution!
  2:08pm davefromtoronto:

this sounds different than the one i know?
Avatar 2:08pm Parq:

Dave, it's "Concertgebouw", a venue in Amsterdam.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:08pm Uncle Michael:

yes...lame rerecord..sorry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:08pm Stanley:

Brian - do you remember the TV 'comedian' Arthur Mullard? Had a series called 'Yus, My dear'. completely unbearable. 1976 (more evidence)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:08pm Uncle Michael:

Parq, MS is in the original lyric!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:10pm joe:

Wow I never realized how much the single version sounds different.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:10pm Jeff Golick:

So KISS never sounds, to me, as they looked. If that makes sense.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:11pm listener james from westwood:

One of my new New Jersey friends in '75 was a MASSIVE Kiss fan. Went over his house a couple years later to watch that "Phantom of the Theme Park" film. It was the first time I watched someone become visibly crestfallen.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:11pm Brian in UK:

Yus. Cop this.
www.youtube.com...



Uncle. Nice one. To the kitchen. Good weekend everyone, those not working.
  2:11pm Dean:

Is it really spelled N-I-T-E?
  2:11pm davefromtoronto:

parq i know that's why it cracks me up - the way he pronounces it so it rhymes with "show"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:12pm Jeff Golick:

Speaking of looks, I think the biggest problem I might have with watching British 70s sitcoms is the quality of the sets/production values.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm Stanley:

Unfortunately I have to bow out of this particularly enjoyable spat.
And most enjoyable show, too UM.
See y'all later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm The Oscar:

@Jeff Totally! As a kid, I was mostly aware of Kiss through comics and action figures, and always assumed they were hardcore metal, or at least something like Alice Cooper. It made zero sense to me when I learned they were the band that did "Rock & Roll All Nite."
  2:12pm Rich in NC:

Great show today Uncle Michael
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm joe:

@JeffGolick makes total sense. My friends and I talk about that all the time. Actually despised Kiss because of it until I was in my 30's. When we were kids and saw Kiss we basically expected them to sound like we eventually found Slayer to sound like years later. So we were really pissed that something so "wimpy" could come out of something so cool looking. Things are different now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:12pm Brian in UK:

Stanley. Bottoms up.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:13pm Uncle Michael:

Bye bye...early bailers!
  2:14pm melinda:

SOS! Someone played a funny version of this earlier in the week, I forget what show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:14pm Jeff Golick:

Maybe dial back the public shaming next time, @UM.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:14pm Uncle Michael:

I'm a cruel DJ.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:15pm Jeff Golick:

(That's [an attempt at] a joke, btw.)
  2:15pm Dean:

It was Wing's version. Can't remember the show, melinda.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:15pm Jeff Golick:

Cruel to be kind.
Avatar 2:15pm Parq:

Yes, UM, that was my point about critics who don't bother to pay attention to detail.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:16pm Stanley:

(Haha -I'm on the phones)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm listener james from westwood:

It occurs to me we're also now into the high age of disaster films. Which means all the elements have been assembled for the eventual production of "Airplane!"
Avatar 2:18pm Roberto:

It's definitely a can't-wait-to-get-the-f-out-of-nyc day out there. One more day and I'm off to the beach for two weeks!
  2:19pm Dean:

I went to high school, and even appeared on stage (Ibsen's Peer Gynt), with the actor who played the role of the singing stewardess in "Airplane!" I learned on the WFMU comment board--from, I think, Jeff G.--that she is now a cantor.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:20pm The Oscar:

Further evidence of my weirdo high school: This was literally my class song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:20pm listener james from westwood:

@Dean: Wow! IIRC she was among those interviewed for one of those oral histories on the film.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm listener james from westwood:

One year our class song "I Can't Smile Without You." Another year it was "King Tut."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:21pm Uncle Michael:

That's just nuts, Oscar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm joe:

Because when UM explained I had to find it to watch www.youtube.com... 10cc making I'm not in Love
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm Lane Gray:

James: But Gene's brother was an only child
Avatar 2:21pm Parq:

Dept of Mondagreens: at first, I heard the lyric as "I believe in Melco", that being a brand of muffler that was advertising heavily on NYC television around that time.
Avatar 2:22pm Parq:

And thanks for that mini-treatise on the production of "Not In". I always wondered how they got those effects. Thought maybe it was vocoder, but they're not mentioned in "How to Wreck a Nice Beach".
  2:23pm Dean:

She and a corps of her classmates, @ljfw, competed as an improv team at high school drama festivals. To this day I remain in awe of their talent. They modeled their approach directly on commedia del'arte.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:23pm Jeff Golick:

Strap your hands around these engines, eh, @Parq?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:24pm Jeff Golick:

@The Oscar: where was this school of yours?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:24pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Joe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:25pm joe:

@Parq was not familiar with HOw to Wreck A Nice Beach just looked it up will have to check it out
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:25pm Uncle Michael:

The black kids in my class had us all practicing the Bus Stop at lunch hour.
  2:25pm melinda:

@Parq that's hilarious.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:26pm Uncle Michael:

GAININ' on ya!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:26pm Jeff Golick:

I can co-sign How to Wreck... it's ridiculously over-stuffed with information.
  2:27pm Dean:

Clinton's latest Parliament/Funkadelic ensemble is playing a club in downtown Berkeley next month.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:28pm Uncle Michael:

go.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm listener james from westwood:

Cosigning "How to Wreck" in triplicate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:30pm Guido from Cologne:

ahead of it's time!
Avatar 2:30pm Parq:

I've mentioned this before, but the day after Obama's first election, Kenny G played "CC" on repeat for three hours. I confess, I lasted only about 20 minutes.
Avatar 2:30pm Roberto:

One of the greatest moments in WMFU history was Kenny G playing Chocolate City for three straight hours the morning after Obama's first presidential election.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:30pm Uncle Michael:

You got the point in only 20 minutes?
Avatar 2:31pm Roberto:

Right on, Parq. Except I think I lasted the entire three hours lolz
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:31pm The Oscar:

@Jeff Central Mass-- I went to a charter school, located in a former elementary school building on a former military base. We didn't have a huge sports program, so the punks were the dominant social class. It was pretty alright.
  2:32pm Dean:

Frederick Seidel makes several references to Obama in his 2012 collection, Nice Weather. One poem includes the following lines:

Fifty years later, Barack Obama rules.
Lady Gaga reigns.
Avatar 2:32pm Parq:

Roberto, someone I know (online) put the volume on extra low and used it as white noise.
Avatar 2:33pm PKNY:

Yay, Funkadelic! Eddie Hazel is killing it as usual on this.
  2:33pm Dean:

Clinton had a birthday not a week ago.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:34pm Jeff Golick:

Parl/Funk are possibly underplayed/underappreciated.
  2:34pm melinda:

My computer speaker extension cord just arrived. Yay!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:34pm Uncle Michael:

PKNY!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:34pm Jeff Golick:

(Not HERE, but, y'know.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:36pm Jeff Golick:

@The Oscar: gotcha. I was North Shore of Mass. Couldn't have been more straightforwardly different. (Bigger sports program.) (I was in the drama club.)

(And math team.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm listener james from westwood:

Ah, good to have the stream to hear this unclipped!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm melinda:

I love hearing swears on the stream.
  2:44pm Dean:

When you said the bit about "out on a roll" I knew we were in for Foghat.
  2:44pm davefromtoronto:

take it sleeezy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:44pm Uncle Michael:

Dean's wise to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:44pm Stevel:

Foghat came through our theater a few years back. Got to hold a door for them and say hey. Nice guys who seem to have survived relatively well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm The Oscar:

I'm not proud of how excited I get when I hear the opening bars of "Slow Ride," but I can't deny facts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm Uncle Michael:

1975 was the year I saw Foghat in Des Moines.
Avatar 2:45pm geezerette:

Country white disco!
So glad there's the archive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm Goyim in the AM:

The only acceptable instance of slap bass in a rock song in the history of music. Hell yeah!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:46pm Uncle Michael:

Geez! Goyim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm Lewis:

go! UM!
Avatar 2:47pm Parq:

Best glam single ever. One of them, anyway.
  2:48pm SeanG:

SWEET!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:48pm Uncle Michael:

Lewis!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:48pm Uncle Michael:

Sean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48pm Goyim in the AM:

Have been listening. Haven't been commenting. Have been dancing!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:49pm Uncle Michael:

DANCE!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:49pm joe:

For Fox Sake
Avatar 2:49pm geezerette:

All I can see are bell bottoms! (Jeans.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:50pm doctorjazz:

Thanks UM, catch you for the marathon next week (it is next week, no?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:51pm Uncle Michael:

Yes, six hours next week. See ya!
  2:51pm SeanG:

rockin set UM!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:51pm Jeff Golick:

aka the return of Fanny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:52pm The Oscar:

When I worked at a used record store, we had a "customer" we called Telephone Googler, who would call and ask for the names or artists of songs (but never buy anything). The best was when he sang me the chorus of "Tush" in a Boston townie monotone, complete with guitar riff.
Avatar 2:52pm geezerette:

I want my (old) MTV!!!
Thanks, America's favorite uncle!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:52pm Uncle Michael:

Badly-pronounced Yiddishism.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53pm The Oscar:

(We eventually got rid of him by answering every question with either Electric Light Orchestra or Bell Biv Devoe).
  2:53pm Dean:

Just like Google, @The Oscar.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:53pm Uncle Michael:

I love that story.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:54pm Jeff Golick:

Ha haha haha that's great, @The Oscar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm joe:

In my younger prick elitist days working in a major chain mall record store we used to torture people who came in looking for the song Teenage Wasteland. I kinda feel bad for it now
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm Uncle Michael:

I'd do that now, Joe.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm Jeff Golick:

"Canada's answer to ELP."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm Lewis:

@ Joe - isn't that found at around 3p on Sundays at 91.1 fm?
Avatar 2:58pm geezerette:

Joe, nice coffee cup!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm joe:

UM I said I felt bad I didn't say I would not still do it :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:58pm Uncle Michael:

Ask Little Stephen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm Lewis:

@geezerette - I thought the same thing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm joe:

@geezerette thanks I think I'm gonig to adopt as my crest
Avatar 2:59pm Parq:

Saw a guy walk into the (now gone) J&R Records in lower Manhattan and ask an employee "Are the Greatful Dead disco?"
  2:59pm Dean:

A happy record store moment for me was when the father of a friend with whom I worked would drop in to visit. He was even then an older guy with Einstein-like hair and a goatee. Once, he spied Alternative TV's recent release, Vibing Up the Senile Man. Grabbed a copy and brought it to the counter, where he said to an unsuspecting clerk, "I'll take a dozen of these."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm listener james from westwood:

Altogether amazing survey of 75; thanks, UM!!
  3:00pm davefromtoronto:

that;s all folks!

thanks michael great show.
Avatar 3:00pm geezerette:

Hey Lewis! Joe!
I miss Greek coffee shops. :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Uncle Michael.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm joe:

@parq maybe they saw the cover to Go To Heaven
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm Goyim in the AM:

Fantastic show, UM.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm joe:

Great show UM
Avatar 3:02pm geezerette:

UM, thanks for communal past life regression! :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm melinda:

Thanks UM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm The Oscar:

Fun as always-- thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm doctorjazz:

Thanks UM, catch you for the marathon next week (it is next week, no?)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm Uncle Michael:

Thanks saddle pals! See ya!
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