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Favoriting December 21, 2019: Christmas Spectaular with guests George Faulkner, Margo Guryan, WFMU djs picks & co-host Gaylord Fields!

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Artist Track
JD McPherson  What's That Sound?   Favoriting
Ronettes, The  Sleigh Ride   Favoriting
Four Seasons, The  I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus   Favoriting
Beach Boys  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Kevin Nutt picks a song   
Weeks Sisters, The  Silent Night   Favoriting
Staple Singers, The  Joy to the World   Favoriting
Three Suns, The  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Gaylord Fields Picks A Song   
Joy Strings, The  Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem   Favoriting
Charles Brown  Christmas Comes Once A Year   Favoriting
Mike Sin picks a song   
Marvin Gaye  Purple Snowflakes   Favoriting
Ramsey Lewis Trio  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Nick The Bard picks a song   
Professor Oak  I'm Giving Santa A Pickachu For Christmas   Favoriting
Los Straitjackets  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
George Faulkner  Interview   Favoriting
George Faulkner  Happy Happy Holidays   Favoriting
Lenny Dee  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Brenda Lee  I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus   Favoriting
Jimmy McGriff  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Smithereens, The  Christmastime All Over the World   Favoriting
Dennis Diken  picks a song   Favoriting
Beach Boys, The  Merry Christmas Baby   Favoriting
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass  Jingle Bells (bed music)   Favoriting
Ira-The-K picks a song   
NRBQ  Christmas Wish   Favoriting
Margo Guryan  Interview   Favoriting
Margo Guryan  I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE to find how how to submit music to Michael for airplay consideration

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for Martin Mull's "Soundstage: 60 Minutes to Kill" from 1975

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for a detailed look at cymbals in 1920s jazz

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

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CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.


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Listener comments!

  11:03am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

Does this mean Juniper is in the house? Either way I played “Boys! Boys! Boys! Boys!” For my kids, and my daughter (9) was all for it my sons (6) was incredulous! That’s not what all boys are like! We are not all liars!
Meanwhile I was grooving and bouncing!
  11:05am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

Son 6, only two kids for me!
Not sons!
Yikes, 2 6 year old boy brothers would be nuts. Lovely, I’m sure, but nuts!
  11:06am
SeanG:

pow pow pow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06am
LW Rhino:

Good morning Michael,
Really enjoyed the WFMU Monte Hall show last Saturday. You and your daughter ,as well as the whole band, were great.
  11:06am
Ed From Jersey City:

The Phil Spector Christmas record is one of the best records of its era.
  11:07am
Joe R.:

Can’t go wrong starting off the show with tracks from two of the best Christmas LPs ever (and yes, I’m putting the relatively new J.D. McPherson record in that company)
  11:07am
Joe R.:

make that 3 with the bed music
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am
WR:

I smell fire, kinda aromatic.
  11:08am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

Gaylord! Not Juniper! A cast of Characters to come!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:10am
ChrisB.:

Gaylord! Where can I find the lyrics to "Little Rascals Who Died?"
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WR:

You guys are so entertaining I forgot what step I was on in prepping lunch.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Uncle Michael:

Happy Holidaze, everyone! Nice opener, Michael!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:14am
Gaylord Fields:

@ChrisB: Email me via my WFMU address, and I’ll see what I can do.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:21am
evancuts:

Can someone ask Kevin which year he did the "all Silent Night" show?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:22am
evancuts:

Please.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Merry Crimble, Michael & Gaylord and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23am
mariano:

Sitting on the edge of my bed trying to caffeinate my brain, found my toes tapping involuntarily to Staple Singers.
  11:24am
paul:

Nick Lowe sounds like Michael Caine.
  11:24am
Jimmy Wipper:

Love the Three Suns!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:24am
ChrisB.:

@Gaylord: Cool. Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:26am
listener 126464:

Dave's early set when the youngsters were there was very cool last Saturday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29am
WR:

180 degrees rising sin rising star!!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:29am
Gaylord Fields:

House of the Rising Star
  11:35am
Marley Dogg:

Deborah Gibson
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:35am
Gaylord Fields:

Gary Grimble to you, @Greg
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Mark Hurst:

Hi Gaylord, hi Michael, hi all! Merry everything.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Gaylord Fields:

Ecumenical holiday greetings to you, Mark!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Gaylord Fields:

Don’t eat the purple snowflakes!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:44am
Listener Baby:

Good morning Baby and Gaylord. Oh Happy Day to all. Let's do this, eh?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:45am
Gaylord Fields:

Baby!
  11:46am
P-90:

I’d like to mention that when Stan Lee left is, Nick’s show did one of the best tributes to him anywhere.
  11:46am
P-90:

*left us
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am
kentuckywoman:

I love Nick's show! I no longer work while he's on the air, so I always play his archives :D
  11:48am
Marley Dogg:

I agree Nick the Bard
Avatar 11:50am
RomanDogBird:

this is a society
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Juniper absolutely, 100% knows who Pikachu is!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:51am
Uncle Michael:

Pikachu was launched in the U.S. at an event in Topeka. No lie.
  11:54am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

Agreed! Greg from Zone 5, there is no way if you have been alive in the last 14 years that you are not aware of the name Pikachu.
You don’t have to like it, but you know the name!
Juniper do what you do best and shut Mike down!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am
Greg from ZONE 5:

LIES!!!
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βrian:

I looked up Pikachu just now.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:56am
GFaulkner:

Gulp
  11:56am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

No way! I’m with Gaylord! Juniper knows who Pikachu is! Despite what Mrs. Shelly says! Is Juniper on one of the social media apps? Someone get on Snap and Tic Toc and ask her about Pikachu, include a picture!
  11:58am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

By the way I’m having so much fun listening to this show! What a mix, what a cast! Despite my outrage at Pika-hate, what a show!
Avatar 11:58am
RobinSays:

Gaylord! Michael! This Pikachu debacle is making me laugh heartily on a Saturday when I'm having some difficulty:( I love both your shows (despite my not really being a Beach Boys fan). Happy Merry to you both!
  11:59am
Daybreak and the Holiday Adventures!:

Pika-gate, autocorrected to Pika-hate, accident, I think not!
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Gaylord Fields:

Robin! Nonetheless, you still know who the Beach Boys are, right? Season’s greetings to you!
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RobinSays:

Gaylord you're so funny:) I must admit I like "Good Vibrations." All the best to you and the Missus:)
  12:06pm
davefromtoronto:

holy jumpin peekachoo's!
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Moammar:

That Pikachu song -- I'm still shaking in the corner.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Gaylord Fields:

@davefromtoronto: Gesundheit!
  12:08pm
P-90:

omg @Gaylord beat me to it
  12:08pm
davefromtoronto:

someone should've cracked him with a 2 x 4
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:09pm
GFaulkner:

Gaylord for the win.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
WR:

She's too young. Pokemon is done.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
myron feld:

I bet Bill Somebody knows who Pikachu is.
  12:13pm
johnzo:

yea that peanut butter comment did not make a whole lot of sense lol... didn’t go very high on the ole’ Johnzon Sense-o-meter tm
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Gaylord Fields:

@GFaulkner: I’ve got your back, friend!
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suzyhotrod:

WATER SPORTS?!?! I thought this was a family friendly programme!
  12:17pm
Joe R.:

Gaylord’s giving us a new definition of Blue Christmas (assuming Rudy Ray Moore didn’t do it years ago)
Avatar 12:19pm
RomanDogBird:

pikachu made the cover of teen beat once
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

How many different words can you make from "pikachu"? hip cup puck chip chap cap pick pack hack ... there must be more
  12:37pm
P-90:

Didn’t Gaylord make the cover of Teen Beat once too?
Avatar 12:38pm
Jollyroget:

More Juniper More Juniper More Juniper.
Avatar 12:38pm
Jollyroget:

Punk Rock Boy preview.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Gaylord Fields:

@P-90: If you count the mailing label, sure!
  12:46pm
Micheal:

Excellent NRBQ choice, thanks!
  12:49pm
daniel kirk:

I really love NRBQ Christmas Wish. It seems like an obvious Beach Boy tribute, but still there's nothing like NRBQ with Joey. Always warms my heart.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Handy Haversack:

Hi, @suzyhotrod! You said you have a fill-in show soon, right? Next Sun.?
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Uncle Michael:

This show has been a delight.
  12:55pm
Corey:

Thanks Michael and all star crew for the fun show! Happy holidays all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
listener 126464:

priceless
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks for a great show! Have a good week.
  12:59pm
P-90:

Prediction: “Pikachu Army” to be one of top ten news stories in 2020.
  1:00pm
P-90:

Time’s “Yellow Person of the Year 2020”: Pikachu Resurgent
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