The Songs Vin Played for 06/16/2001

     Respect The Elders.
     Embrace The New.
     Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
     Without Bias.
                                                       -  David Fricke

These are the songs I played on
Vin Scelsa's IDIOT'S DELIGHT®

These are the songs I played on member supported 90.7 FM  WFUV in  New York
on VIN SCELSA'S IDIOT'S DELIGHT®  - 6/16/01 - Saturday, 8 PM to Midnight

TODAY IS JUNE 16 - BLOOMSDAY!

" .... and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

- James Joyce, Ulysses - the last words of Molly Bloom's soliloquy, which ends the novel
 
 

PETER SELLERS   A Hard Day's Night   (spoken word)
(Sellers impersonating Laurence Olivier performing Richard III reciting the Beatles song)

THE YAYHOOS   What Are We Waiting For
THE ROLLING STONES   Start Me Up
MEMPHIS JUG BAND   On The Road Again   (1928)
TRIXIE SMITH & THE JAZZ MASTERS   My Man Rocks Me (with one steady roll)   (1923)
JOHN HAMMOND   Get Behind The Mule   (Tom Waits)

NICHOLAS PAYTON   West End Blues
TODD RUNDGREN & UTOPIA   Something's Coming   (Bernstein/Sondheim)
RICKIE LEE JONES w/ JOE JACKSON   One Hand One Heart   (Bernstein/Sondheim)
TOM WAITS   There's A Place For Us   (Bernstein/Sondheim)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN   Meeting Across The River
PROFESSOR & MARYANN   Usual Places
DON DIXON   Cool   (Bernstein/Sondheim)
LARRY KERT   Something's Coming   (Bernstein/Sondheim)
(from original Broadway cast album)
JOSHUA BELL   New York, New York   (Bernstein)

JOSHUA BELL - guest - conversation only
http://www.joshuabell.com/

Joshua Bell, one of the most respected classical violinists of his generation, discussed his new recording of Leonard Bernstein's music for West Side Story and we played the piece in its entirety.  Unfortunately Joshua arrived a bit late - his driver got "lost in Yonkers" - and had to leave early (to pack for a morning flight to Istanbul), so we didn't have as much time with him as I hoped we would.  He promised to come back ... and under the right circumstances he even promised to play for us!  Joshua will be performing the "West Side Story Suite" and other Bernstein material with the New York Philharmonic in Central Park on the Great Lawn (July 10), Van Cortland Park (July 12), Cunningham Park (July 13) and Westchester Community College (July 14).

JOSHUA BELL   Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
(with Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman)

JOSHUA BELL & EDGAR MEYER   Concert Duo, The Prequel
THE PEARLFISHERS   Is It Any Wonder?
ELVIS COSTELLO & BURT BACHARACH   Painted From Memory
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER & ELVIS COSTELLO   Broken Bicycles / Junk
THE PEARLFISHERS   I Was A Cowboy

THE PEARLFISHERS   The Vampires Of Camelon   (instrumental)
DIONNE WARWICK   Walk On By
THE PEARLFISHERS   Across The Milky Way

Since today was June 16 - Bloomsday - the day on which the great James Joyce novel Ulysses takes place (June 16, 1904) - I read some sections from the book, including the first paragraph and the final two pages of Molly's soliloquy.  Followed by some appropriate music.   Yes.

KATE BUSH   The Sensual World
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE   rejoyce
(Grace Slick, lead vocal)
LARRY KIRWAN   Molly
(with Suzzy Roche, second vocal)
JEFF BUCKLEY   Everybody Here Wants You
DINAH WASHINGTON   You Don't Know What Love Is
BOB DYLAN   Love Sick
"CAROUSEL" CAST   If I Loved You (Intro) / If I Loved You   (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
(Sally Murphy as Julie Jordan and Michael Hayden as Billy Bigelow; from the great 1994 Lincoln Center production directed by Nicholas Hytner)
VAN MORRISON   I Forgot That Love Existed
(from "Poetic Champions Compose" - 1987)
GREG TROOPER   Real Like That
(with Julie Miller, second vocal)

KEB' MO'   Big Yellow Taxi   (Joni Mitchell
(from his new "family album" entitled "Big Wide Grin")

RICHARD "GROOVE"  HOLMES    Do Nothin Til You Hear From Me   (closing theme)

Thanks to Engineer  Kevin Kaminski  ...
... and to Jill and PTP Manning ...
 

UPCOMING GUESTS:

JUNE 23   DAVID HAJDU, author of the  non-fiction book Positively 4th Street: The Lives And Times Of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina (Farrar, Straus & Garrets) - a look into the early Sixties Greenwich Village scene as it centered around the lives of these key players.  Hadju is also author of the highly acclaimed Lush Life (1996) a biography of jazz great Billy Strayhorn.
JUNE 30   JOHN WESLEY HARDING

JULY  7    RICHARD RUSSO, novelist, author of the current Empire Falls (Knopf) as well as Straight Man, Nobody's Fool, The Risk Pool, and Mohawk.
JULY 14   LLOYD COLE & JILL SOBULE

AUG 11     DUNCAN SHEIK & HIS BAND

Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is happy to be back on broadcast radio in New York - on member supported public radio 90.7 WFUV ... their web site is http://www.wfuv.org  Good news!  WFUV streams its broadcast signal on the live on the internet ... and there is a good chance that some of the new weekend specialty shows - including ID, and Rita Houston's The Whole Wide World (Friday 8PM-11PM), Pete Fornatale's Mixed Bag (Saturday 5PM-8PM) and others - will also be archived for a period of time so that they can be listened to "on demand."  Stay tuned to 90.7 FM for further news in this regard.

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With regard to the new WFUV Idiot's Delight Message Board: Can we try to avoid using it like a "chat room" with lots of one sentence personal notes and jokes sent bank and forth by a few people?  I mean, that's fun stuff, but it's more like what goes on in a "live chat room" and it's not the way I envision the use of a Message Board.  It makes it much harder for everyone to read everything ... especially me while I'm on the air.  And I think it intimidates potential writers who may get the feeling that the board is just some kind of private club - which it's not supposed to be.  I guess I'm hoping for a level of interchange that will be of wide interest to the general listener, as well as the general Message Board reader.  Thanks for your consideration in this regard.
 

My Internet-only free form show -  "Vin Scelsa's Live At Lunch" -  is no longer in operation, although the web site is still up - http://www.liveatlunch.com.  Alas, the show archives are no longer available.  I did my last show on Thursday March 29.   Engineer Bill has a new web site - http://www.wfre.net - which now has a functioning Message Board for both "the wfre cybertribe" and a separate board than can be used on Saturday nights during Idiot's Delight by WFUV listeners, until such time as WFUV has its own Message Board.   http://www.wfre.net  is the place to go for information about any future Internet-only plans I might have.  (The letters stand for Wireless FreeForm Radio Empire!  WFRE!  We're the land of the brave and home of the fre(e), you see ... just leave off the last "e" ... that's the "e" that stands for expensive!)

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Idiot's Delight
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Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458

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