The Songs Vin Played for 10/06/2001

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® - 10/06/01 - Saturday, 8 PM to Midnight

"no matter what the neighbors say
no matter what the preachers say
no matter what the anchors say
ah, its not the end of the world ... "

- John Southworth, "Its Not The End Of The World" (1996)

The opening sequence tonight was rather surreal; it flowed in and out of a recording I made from the short wave radio band - eerie static and detached voices speaking in foreign languages. The list of songs doesn't really convey the ambience/ambiance of the set.

EDWARD G. ROBINSON   "Is this the end of Rico?"   (spoken word)
(the death scene from the classic 1930 Mervyn LeRoy gangster film "Little Caesar")
JACK McDUFF   Walking The Dog   (opening theme)
THREE LITTLE PIGS   Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?   (1933 Disney animation)
TOM WAITS   What's He Building In There
YOKO ONO   Time For Action!   (new)
BEE GEES   Stayin' Alive
THE DISNEYLAND CHORUS   It's A Small World (After All)
(originally recorded for the New York World's Fair, 1964)
MACY GRAY   Hey Young World part 2
WYCLEF JEAN   We Just Tryin' To Stay Alive
BOB DYLAN   Shelter From The Storm
THE DELFONICS   La-La Means I Love You
JOHN SOUTHWORTH   It's Not The End Of The World
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN   "The Ideal Republic"   (spoken word)
(famous speech from 1922)
HELEN REDDY   Candle On The Water
(from the 1977 film "Pete's Dragon")

JOSHUA BELL - guest - conversation

JOSHUA BELL Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
(arranged for violin and orchestra by William David Brohn and performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Zinman)

JOSHUA BELL   Bernstein:   New York New York
(same credits as above)
JOSHUA BELL   Sibelius:   Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Minor, Opus 47: III Allegro, Ma Non Tanto
JOSHUA BELL   Corigliano:   The Red Violin
(main theme from the film of the same name)

RICHARD JOO Billy Joel: Opus 3. Reverie (Villa D'Este)
(from Billy Joel's new album of classical solo piano compositions, performed by Richard Joo)

BILLY JOEL   Summer, Highland Falls
ELTON JOHN   The Emperors New Clothes   (new)
BENJAMIN WAGNER   Go Back To Sleep
(local artist - check out www.bejaminwagner.com for details)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG w/ HOAGY CARMICHAEL   Rockin' Chair
(recorded December 13, 1929)
BOB DYLAN   Po' Boy
JUDY HENSKE   Tin Star
JIMMY VAUGHAN w/ LOU ANN BARTON   In The Middle Of The Night
NORAH JONES & HER BAND   Cold Cold Heart   (Hank Williams)
(live performance on ID on 9/29/01; go to www.norahjones.com for info)
RYAN ADAMS   Nobody Girl
BOB DYLAN & JOHNNY CASH   Girl from The North Country

VARNALINE Song

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

Thanks tonight to Engineers Kevin and Louis ... to Engineer/Producer Bill ...
And, as always, to Producer Booker T. Manning ...

UPCOMING GUESTS:

OCT 13 STEVE BUSCEMI, conversation (please note new date)

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 Mixed Bag (Saturday 5PM-8PM) and others - will be archived for a period of time so that they can be listened to "on demand." It will happen when it happens!

SUPPORT WFUV! Become a member! Go to the web site and join us ... were 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