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The Songs Vin Played for 12/08/1996
There are three essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-NY on "VIN SCELSA's SUNDAY NIGHT" --
12/8/96:
December 8 being the 16th Anniversary of the death of John Lennon.
I was on the air on WNEW on that night in 1980. This is my first 12/8 back on
WNEW, so from time to time during the show I reflected on that still sad
resonant event.
TOM WAITS & ROBERTO BENIGNI It's A Sad And Beautiful World
(dialog excerpt from the Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law")
JOHN LENNON Excerpt from a tape of him answering questions about life in NYC
(from my collection; this is a cassette tape John made for me sitting in his
kitchen at the Dakota in 1975 answering a series of questions I put to him in
writing about his thoughts on living in New York; it was made for a special
tribute to New York in response to the fiscal crisis the city was undergoing
in 1975. The special was never completed, but I've played this several times
over the years.)
JOHN LENNON Strawberry Fields Forever (demo; from "Anthology Volume 3")
TRAFFIC Dear Mr. Fantasy
THE BEATLES Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1; from "Anthology Volume 3")
KULA SHAKER Magic Theatre / Into The Deep
GLEN BURTNIK Learning To Crawl
GLEN BURTNIK, DARLA ROSE BURTNIK and TONY SHANAHAN -- guests
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man
Glen has a wonderful album recently released on the New Jersey-based DEKO
label called "Palookaville". Contact DEKO at 2 Engle Street, Tenafly, NJ
07670. Glen's e-mail address is: FORKBOY@IX.netcom.com
WILLIE NILE Oh Come All Ye Faithful
(from the "Live Christmas Extravaganza" CD, also on DEKO)
KULA SHAKER Knight On The Town
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN (live) Hide Your Love Away (Glen, lead vocal)
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN (live) Jealous Guy (Tony, lead vocal)
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN & BURTNIK (live) Happy Xmas / War Is Over
The Burtniks (Darla is Glen's 11-year-old daughter) and Tony were on the show
to promote the upcoming Annual Christmas Extravaganza benefit to be held
12/13/96 at The Bottom Line, featuring Richard Barone, Freedy Johnston, Fred
Schneider, Jules Shear, Phoebe Snow, Lenny Kaye and a cast of 1000s!
JOHN LENNON The complete 9 minute tape of John mentioned above -- recorded
in 1975
PLASTIC ONO BAND New York City
LENNY KAYE I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
(from the "Live Christmas Extravaganza" CD)
MUNDY Reunion (UK import)
U2 One
AL GREEN Keep On Pushing Love
CYRUS CHESTNUT Jesus Loves Me
DAN BERN -- guest -- with Josh Zawaduk, accordion and second guitar)
DAN BERN (live) Jerusalem
DAN BERN (live) Now The World Can End / Kurt
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) Wasteland
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) King Of The World
DAN BERN (live) Talkin' Woody Bob Bruce & Dan Blues
BOB DYLAN Song To Woody
WOODY GUTHRIE Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues / conversation with Alan Lomax
WOODY GUTHRIE Do Re Me
DAN BERN (live) Marilyn
DAN BERN (pre-released tape) I'm Not The Guy
DAN BERN (live) Hannibal
DAN BERN (live) Dan Bern's Xmas Song
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) Estelle
BOY GEORGE Same Thing In Reverse
BERN's album will be released in early March of 1997 on the WORK label. He
has a 6-song EP available now with one song -- "Jerusalem" -- that will be on
the album; the other 5 songs will only be available on the EP. For further
info about Dan Bern -- and to purchase the EP (which he sells at gigs and is
not commercially released) -- call 1-888-222-BERN.
RAINRAVENS Coyote Moon
LOOSE DIAMONDS One Kiss Won't Hurt
JOHN MARTYN The Downward Pull Of Human Nature (UK import)
JOHN MARTYN Sunshine's Better (UK import)
UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO Mess With People
NOT PRINCE Mr. Happy
NOT PRINCE La La La Means I Love You
ONCE BLUE Stardust & Snow
NOT PRINCE One Of Us
ANI DIFRANCO Amazing Grace
JOE HENRY Trampoline
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Sink To The Bottom
RANK OUTSIDERS Come To Me
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES I Talk To The Night (demo CD)
STAN GETZ Time After Time (the old standard)
THE HOOTERS Time After Time (the one Cyndi Lauper had a hit with)
MADELEINE PEYROUX (Getting Some) Fun Out Of Life
(The Hooters version of "Time After Time" is a previously unreleased live
performance available now on the album "Hooterization" -- a retrospective of
the band's career. Hooter Rob Hyman co-wrote the song with Lauper.)
At this point fellow deejay Marty Martinez -- who was a newsroom desk
assistant at WNEW in 1980 -- and I talked a bit more about what went down at
the station the night Lennon died.
CHRISTINE LAVIN The Dakota
JOHN LENNON Stand By Me
THE BEATLES Let It Be
Engineer Vanderheyden went squirreling about in the station's tape archives
and found an air check from 12/8/80. Marty, Producer Manning and I listened
to a few minutes of it -- the first minutes of my breaking the news of
Lennon's death, reading the wire reports, trying to remain calm, etc. I had
never heard this tape before. Needless to say, hearing it again (and back on
WNEW) was an extremely emotional and very odd experience for me.
JOHN LENNON Bless You
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND One Sweet World (Happy Birthday, Marty and Kara --
12/13!)
MUNDY Mundy In Wonderland (UK import)
MICKEY HART'S MYSTERY BOX Down The Road
DAN BERN (tape of live performance from earlier) Dan Bern's Xmas Song
TINY TIM The Christmas Song
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended at approximately 3:45 AM.
SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING GUESTS
12/15 MADELEINE PEYROUX
12/22 GREG BROWN
1/12 BRUCE COCKBURN
2/9 EMMET SWIMMING
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-NY on "VIN SCELSA's SUNDAY NIGHT" --
12/8/96:
December 8 being the 16th Anniversary of the death of John Lennon.
I was on the air on WNEW on that night in 1980. This is my first 12/8 back on
WNEW, so from time to time during the show I reflected on that still sad
resonant event.
TOM WAITS & ROBERTO BENIGNI It's A Sad And Beautiful World
(dialog excerpt from the Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law")
JOHN LENNON Excerpt from a tape of him answering questions about life in NYC
(from my collection; this is a cassette tape John made for me sitting in his
kitchen at the Dakota in 1975 answering a series of questions I put to him in
writing about his thoughts on living in New York; it was made for a special
tribute to New York in response to the fiscal crisis the city was undergoing
in 1975. The special was never completed, but I've played this several times
over the years.)
JOHN LENNON Strawberry Fields Forever (demo; from "Anthology Volume 3")
TRAFFIC Dear Mr. Fantasy
THE BEATLES Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1; from "Anthology Volume 3")
KULA SHAKER Magic Theatre / Into The Deep
GLEN BURTNIK Learning To Crawl
GLEN BURTNIK, DARLA ROSE BURTNIK and TONY SHANAHAN -- guests
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man
Glen has a wonderful album recently released on the New Jersey-based DEKO
label called "Palookaville". Contact DEKO at 2 Engle Street, Tenafly, NJ
07670. Glen's e-mail address is: FORKBOY@IX.netcom.com
WILLIE NILE Oh Come All Ye Faithful
(from the "Live Christmas Extravaganza" CD, also on DEKO)
KULA SHAKER Knight On The Town
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN (live) Hide Your Love Away (Glen, lead vocal)
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN (live) Jealous Guy (Tony, lead vocal)
BURTNIK & SHANAHAN & BURTNIK (live) Happy Xmas / War Is Over
The Burtniks (Darla is Glen's 11-year-old daughter) and Tony were on the show
to promote the upcoming Annual Christmas Extravaganza benefit to be held
12/13/96 at The Bottom Line, featuring Richard Barone, Freedy Johnston, Fred
Schneider, Jules Shear, Phoebe Snow, Lenny Kaye and a cast of 1000s!
JOHN LENNON The complete 9 minute tape of John mentioned above -- recorded
in 1975
PLASTIC ONO BAND New York City
LENNY KAYE I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
(from the "Live Christmas Extravaganza" CD)
MUNDY Reunion (UK import)
U2 One
AL GREEN Keep On Pushing Love
CYRUS CHESTNUT Jesus Loves Me
DAN BERN -- guest -- with Josh Zawaduk, accordion and second guitar)
DAN BERN (live) Jerusalem
DAN BERN (live) Now The World Can End / Kurt
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) Wasteland
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) King Of The World
DAN BERN (live) Talkin' Woody Bob Bruce & Dan Blues
BOB DYLAN Song To Woody
WOODY GUTHRIE Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues / conversation with Alan Lomax
WOODY GUTHRIE Do Re Me
DAN BERN (live) Marilyn
DAN BERN (pre-released tape) I'm Not The Guy
DAN BERN (live) Hannibal
DAN BERN (live) Dan Bern's Xmas Song
DAN BERN (pre-release tape) Estelle
BOY GEORGE Same Thing In Reverse
BERN's album will be released in early March of 1997 on the WORK label. He
has a 6-song EP available now with one song -- "Jerusalem" -- that will be on
the album; the other 5 songs will only be available on the EP. For further
info about Dan Bern -- and to purchase the EP (which he sells at gigs and is
not commercially released) -- call 1-888-222-BERN.
RAINRAVENS Coyote Moon
LOOSE DIAMONDS One Kiss Won't Hurt
JOHN MARTYN The Downward Pull Of Human Nature (UK import)
JOHN MARTYN Sunshine's Better (UK import)
UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO Mess With People
NOT PRINCE Mr. Happy
NOT PRINCE La La La Means I Love You
ONCE BLUE Stardust & Snow
NOT PRINCE One Of Us
ANI DIFRANCO Amazing Grace
JOE HENRY Trampoline
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Sink To The Bottom
RANK OUTSIDERS Come To Me
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES I Talk To The Night (demo CD)
STAN GETZ Time After Time (the old standard)
THE HOOTERS Time After Time (the one Cyndi Lauper had a hit with)
MADELEINE PEYROUX (Getting Some) Fun Out Of Life
(The Hooters version of "Time After Time" is a previously unreleased live
performance available now on the album "Hooterization" -- a retrospective of
the band's career. Hooter Rob Hyman co-wrote the song with Lauper.)
At this point fellow deejay Marty Martinez -- who was a newsroom desk
assistant at WNEW in 1980 -- and I talked a bit more about what went down at
the station the night Lennon died.
CHRISTINE LAVIN The Dakota
JOHN LENNON Stand By Me
THE BEATLES Let It Be
Engineer Vanderheyden went squirreling about in the station's tape archives
and found an air check from 12/8/80. Marty, Producer Manning and I listened
to a few minutes of it -- the first minutes of my breaking the news of
Lennon's death, reading the wire reports, trying to remain calm, etc. I had
never heard this tape before. Needless to say, hearing it again (and back on
WNEW) was an extremely emotional and very odd experience for me.
JOHN LENNON Bless You
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND One Sweet World (Happy Birthday, Marty and Kara --
12/13!)
MUNDY Mundy In Wonderland (UK import)
MICKEY HART'S MYSTERY BOX Down The Road
DAN BERN (tape of live performance from earlier) Dan Bern's Xmas Song
TINY TIM The Christmas Song
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended at approximately 3:45 AM.
SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING GUESTS
12/15 MADELEINE PEYROUX
12/22 GREG BROWN
1/12 BRUCE COCKBURN
2/9 EMMET SWIMMING