The Songs Vin Played for 08/25/2001

There are three essential Commandments:

     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® - 8/25/01 - Saturday, 8 PM to Midnight

Well my back's been to the wall so long it seem like it's stuck
Why don't you break my heart one more time, just for good luck ....

- Bob Dylan, "Summer Days" (2001)

I opened with the "I am Spartacus!" scene from the film "Spartacus."

JACK McDUFF Walking The Dog (opening theme)

NORAH JONES   Turn Me On   (J.D. Loudermilk song)
LEONARD COHEN   Bird On A Wire
BOB DYLAN   Floater (too much to ask)
MACY GRAY   Oblivion   (pre-release)
DAVE VAN RONK   Thanks For The Memories
(with Sarah Partridge)

BILL JANOVITZ   Atlantic
MEG HENTGES   Bob On The Waves
BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET (w/Terrence Blanchard)    Mo' Better Blues
(from the Spike Lee film soundtrack of "Mo' Better Blues")

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW   La Booga Rooga
RAY CHARLES   Get On The Right Track
SARAH VAUGHAN   Misty
ERROLL GARNER   Misty
MACY GRAY   Don't Come Around   (pre-release)

JOHNNY A. & HIS BAND - guests - performance and conversation
www.johnnya.com

Johnny A. is from Boston. He performs instrumentals on electric guitar - picture a mix of Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Duane Eddy and Chet Atkins!

Johnny A. - electric guitar
Jonathan Stoyanoff - electric bass guitar
Ron Stewart - drums

WES MONTGOMERY Bumpin' On Sunset
JOHNNY A. (CD) In The Wind

JOHNNY A.   (live)   You Don't Love Me
JOHNNY A.   (live)   Wichita Lineman
LES PAUL & MARY FORD   Tennessee Waltz

JOHNNY A.   (live)   Two Wheel Horse
JOHNNY A.   (live)   Walk Don't Run
DUANE EDDY   Movin' And Groovin'

JOHNNY A. (live) Sometime Tuesday Morning
CHET ATKINS & MARK KNOPFLER There'll Be Some Changes Made

JOHNNY A. (live) Oh Yeah
BOB DYLAN Summer Days

JOHNNY A. (live) Lullaby for Nicole

OSCAR BROWN JR.   Brother Where Are You
OSCAR BROWN JR.   Forty Acres And A Mule
OSCAR BROWN JR.   Call Of The City
OSCAR BROWN JR.   Summer In The City
OSCAR BROWN JR.   Brother Where Are You (unedited version)
(live at The Cellar Door, Washington D.C., 1966)

JIMMY WEBB   Wichita Lineman
JIMMY WEBB   Wichita Lineman   (again)
NORAH JONES   Come Away With Me
CHRIS ISAAK   Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me)
JOHN HIATT   I'll Never Get Over You

Norah Jones is an impressive young New York vocalist/pianist with a beautiful 6-song EP she sells at gigs and on her web site. She is currently making an album for Blue Note. You can learn more about her at http://www.norahjones.com.

RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (closing theme)

Thanks to the great and wizard-like Engineer Kevin ... to Jill and Booker T. Manning ...
and to Engineer Louis for the book ...

UPCOMING GUESTS:

SEPT 22     BILL JANOVITZ (of Buffalo Tom)
SEPT 29     NORAH JONES
OCT 6       STEVE BUSCEMI, actor

NOTES:

Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is heard every Saturday night on broadcast radio in New York on member supported public radio 90.7 WFUV ... http://www.wfuv.org ... WFUV streams its broadcast signal live on the internet ... and soon 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 be archived for a period of time so that they can be listened to "on demand." This could happen by the end of summer.

SUPPORT WFUV! Become a member! Go to the web site and join us ... we're the only place on New York broadcast radio for quality adult eclectic music played for quality eclectic adults! Commercial radio is no longer interested in intelligently presenting quality music. Public radio is our only hope ... it must be supported ... or it will not survive.

My Internet-only free form show, "Vin Scelsa's Live At Lunch," is no longer in operation; I did my last show on Thursday March 29. Engineer Bill has a new web site - please note the new name and location - http://www.wfrewireless.com - which now has a functioning Message Board for "the wfre cybertribe" ... and some special new "archived" shows by me, Marshall Crenshaw and Pete Fornatale. http://www.wfrewireless.com is the place to go for information about any future Internet-only plans I might have.

THERE IS AN IDIOT'S DELIGHT T-SHIRT!!
I designed it myself. It's simple, low key and to the point. It's short-sleeved, in heather gray, with very dark blue (almost black) lettering. The "3 essential commandments" are on the front and the show name is on the back, all quite unobtrusive, with no station, corporate or commercial logos anywhere. The shirt is only available through World Hunger Year (it was a Hungerthon '99 premium), for a $50 donation to that fine organization. For further information, call Sue Leventhal at W.H.Y. - (212) 629-8850 or visit http://www.worldhungeryear.org

My friend Engineer Paul has a personal web page http://www.engineerpaul.com, which also contains "The Songs I Played" every week, as well as some of the digital photos he took of guests during our K-ROCK and WNEW days together.

There is a listener-run archive of the show lists at the following site:
http://cherk.com/vin/

I can be reached via e-mail at idvin@tellurian.com or vinscelsa@wfuv.org

I can be reached via snail mail at:

Vin Scelsa
Idiot's Delight
c/o WFUV
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458