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Playlists for Vin Scelsa's Sunday Night on WNEW (102.7 FM, New York) · 1996

The Songs Vin Played for 10/27/1996

There are three essential Commandments:

Respect The Elders.

Embrace The New.

Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.

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These are the songs I played on WNEW-NY on "VIN SCELSA's SUNDAY NIGHT" --

10/27/96:



ORANJ SYMPHONETTE Experiment in Terror (opening theme)



TOM WAITS New Coat Of Paint

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES The Fever

SHAWN COLVIN Wichita Skyline



MADELEINE PEYROUX Walkin' After Midnight

DARDEN SMITH First Day Of The Sun

THE ORIGINAL SINS Sunday Nights



DON BYRON Powerhouse

SOUL COUGHING Disseminated

ANI DIFRANCO Outta Me, Onto You

ALLEN GINSBERG C'mon Jack (the Vin Scelsa "bleep" version)



ALLEN GINSBERG -- guest -- with HAL WILNER



WALT WHITMAN America

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS To Elsie

ALLEN GINSBERG Written In My Dream By William Carlos Williams



ALLEN GINSBERG The Ballad Of The Skeletons (long version)

TOM WAITS & WILLIAM BURROUGHS 'Tain't No Sin



ALLEN GINSBERG (live reading) C'mon Pigs Of Western Civilization, Eat

More Grease

ALLEN GINSBERG (live reading) Is About



DONOVAN Nirvana

ALLEN GINSBERG Amazing Grace



ALLEN GINSBERG (live reading) Dope Calypso



THE GATHERING FIELD Are You An Angel (about Jack Kerouac)

ALLEN GINSBERG The Ballad Of The Skeletons (short version)

PATTI SMITH The Wicked Messenger

BOB DYLAN Man In The Long Black Coat



JOHNNY CASH Memories Are Made Of This

GREG BROWN Two Little Feet

DOLLY PARTON w/LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Peace Train

JONELL MOSSER Where I Lead Me



AL ANDERSON -- guest -- conversation and solo performance



AL ANDERSON (CD) Change Is Gonna Do Me Good

AL ANDERSON (live) In My Dreams



AL ANDERSON (CD) Bang Bang Bang

AL ANDERSON (live) A Little Bit Of Bad



AL ANDERSON (CD) It Came From The South

AL ANDERSON (CD) After The Mardi Gras

THE METERS They All Ask'd For You



AL ANDERSON (live) Under The Hood

AL ANDERSON (CD) Under The Hood

JERRY LEE LEWIS Goosebumps



AL ANDERSON (live) A Better Word For Love

AL ANDERSON (CD) Listen To Your Heart



AL ANDERSON (live) Hotel Coup DeVille

AL ANDERSON (CD) Hiss-On-U

THE BEATLES Rocky Raccoon



R.E.M. E-bow The Letter

SEPTEMBER 67 Setting The Old House On Fire

EAST RIVER PIPE Kill The Action

GIDON KREMER Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla composition)

BETTY CARTER September Song

LOU REED September Song

(from "Lost In The Star: The Music of Kurt Weill" - various artists)



AMY RIGBY Beer & Kisses (w/John Wesley Harding)

JOHN WESLEY HARDING Still Photo

KRIS McKAY Tear-Stained Eye

COUNTING CROWS Goodnight Elizabeth

LEADBELLY Goodnight Irene

PHIL CODY All The Way My Lover Leads

THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN Something In The Air

MARTIN'S FOLLY Let It Burn

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Something About What Happens When We Talk

THE BAND Whispering Pines

CASSANDRA WILSON Harvest Moon

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Sick Day

SAM PHILLIPS Slapstick Heart

THE ZOMBIES She's Not There

MARTI JONES Life's A Game

MARTI JONES Life's A Game (double play!)

THE BEATLES Because (a capella version)



FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Leave The Biker

ASS PONY Blow Oskar



DAN BERN Estelle

BOB DYLAN One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

TIM O'BRIEN Farewell Angelina



SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)



Show ended approximately 3:40 AM



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SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING GUESTS:



11/3 KURT VONNEGUT; KRIS McKAY

11/10 DONOVAN; ORLEANS

11/17 MARTI JONES

11/24 HUNGERTHON

(This year my portion of this annual event will be an

all-request-for-your-donations-to-WHY Rent Party; no live guests. Here's your

chance to do what is otherwise, at any other time of year, impossible: get me

to play a request! But I will do so for your contributions to WORLD HUNGER

YEAR. So, come up with some good ones as well as the necessary bucks!)

12/1 DON BYRON

12/8 DAN BERN

12/15 MADELEINE PEYROUX

12/22 GREG BROWN

1/12 BRUCE COCKBURN