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The Songs Vin Played for 06/15/1997
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-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" -- 6/15/97
I opened the show with the audio of a scene from Louis Malle's film "Atlantic
City" featuring Burt Lancaster, in which Burt's character, a small-time
mobster's flunky with delusions of grandeur, compares the glory days of the
"old" Atlantic City to the antiseptic corporate realities of the "new" modern
incarnation of the town. I was inspired to open the show this way because of
my anger and dismay over the ongoing "Disneyfication" (and "mall-ing" -- or
should that be "mauling") of New York.
GRAHAM PARKER Disney's America
THE HIGH LLAMAS Cuckoo Casino
THE HIGH LLAMAS Sparkle Up
THE HIGH LLAMAS Literature Is Fluff
(from their album scheduled for release in July entitled "Hawaii")
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (CD) Purim
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET -- guests -- live performance and conversation
Andy Statman is one of the foremost American proponents of klezmer, the
traditional music of the Eastern European Jews, which is undergoing a big
revival in the New York downtown jazz community. On Andy's most recent album
"Between Heaven & Earth: Music Of The Jewish Mystics" (Shanachie Records), he
combines traditional klezmer melodies and playing with a John Coltrane/Albert
Ayler approach to free form jazz. The quartet is Russ Lossing (electric
keyboard), Bob Meyer (drums), Harvie Swartz (upright bass), and Andy on
clarinet and mandolin. The pieces they played tonight were long,
improvisational meditations -- very spiritual and exotic.
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (CD) If Not For ...
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Reb Nachman's Deveykus Niggun (clarinet)
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Flatbush Waltz (mandolin)
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Rikkud (dance) (clarinet)
BEN FOLDS FIVE Steven's Last Night In Town
(with members of the Klezmatics)
ITZHAK PERLMAN Tati Un Maina Tants
(with Statman's Klezmer Orchestra, performing a Statman composition)
BENNY GOODMAN And The Angels Sing
(with Martha Tilton - vocal; Harry James - trumpet)
DAVID BYRNE Daddy Go Down
JOE HENRY Trampoline
TARNATION Your Thoughts And Mine
THE RANK OUTSIDERS Checkpoint
OLD 97's Streets Of Where I'm From
SEMI-GLOSS Eight Million Strong
SEMI-GLOSS Sans Expliquer
VELVET UNDERGROUND w/NICO Femme Fatale
SEMI-GLOSS Latenight Stroll
Semi-Gloss is a New York band; their debut album is on the indie label Dirt
Records, Knickerbocker Station, P.O. Box 1053, NY, NY 10002; e-mail address
dirtrec@aol.com
MARK EITZEL If You Have To Ask
PAUL McCARTNEY The World Tonight
RICKIE LEE JONES Sunny Afternoon
JEFF BUCKLEY Grace
VAN MORRISON The Healing Game
RON SEXSMITH Thinly Veiled Disguise
PAL SHAZAR Look At The Sky
TINY LIGHTS Blue Sky
JULEE CRUISE Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
DAVID BYRNE They Are In Love
Pal Shazar's new album, "Woman Under The Influence" is on her label, Shiffaroe
Records, P.O. Box 1185, Woodstock, NY 12498.
ELVIS PRESLEY Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
PAL SHAZAR The Sky Turns Grey
LAURA NYRO Timer
COREY HARRIS Take Me Back
CHARLIE HUNTER QUARTET No Woman, No Cry
COREY HARRIS 5-0 Blues
ROYAL FINGERBOWL Nothing But Time (pre-release)
LO GALLUCCIO Black Sun
RICHARD THOMPSON & DANNY THOMPSON Lotteryland
ROBERT EARL KEEN Levelland (James McMurtry's song)
JAMES McMURTRY Sixty Acres
OLD 97's (with Excene Cervenka) Four Leaf Clover
ABRA MOORE Four Leaf Clover
ART GARFUNKEL Mrs. Robinson (solo concert version)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bookends Theme
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Save The Life Of My Child
SIMON & GARFUNKEL America
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Overs
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Voices Of Old People
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Old Friends
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bookends Theme
(This is "side one" of the original vinyl release of their 1968 album
"Bookends" -- a continuous piece that I like to think of as "the Bookends
Suite." I always associate this recording with late spring/early summer, ever
since my WFMU radio days in the late 60s, and from time to time I am moved to
play it late at night at this time of year.)
TONY BENNETT Willow Weep For Me
k.d. lang Theme From The Valley Of The Dolls
WORLD PARTY She's The One
KATELL KEINEG One Hell Of A Life
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS People Get Ready
THE HIGH LLAMAS Nomads
THE HIGH LLAMAS Snapshot Pioneer
THE HIGH LLAMAS Ill-fitting Suits
THE HIGH LLAMAS Recent Orienteering
(again, these pieces are on "Hawaii" which will be released in July)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 2:50 AM
(I quit earlier than usual tonight after being bested by some very
temperamental equipment and several ghosts in the machines. Some days you eat
the bear, and some days, of course, the bear eats you. Tonight the bear had
a feast!)
List typed up by Vin Monday 6/16/97 (Bloomsday '97 -- June 16, 1904 being the
day that the classic James Joyce novel "Ulysses" takes place) at 5:00 AM; all
omissions are inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING (and MOLLY BLOOM).
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN and PAUL
ALTEMUS (along with LEOPOLD BLOOM and STEPHEN DEDALUS).
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
6/29 COREY HARRIS
7/6 TUATARA
8/3 DAVID BYRNE
8/31 YO LA TENGO
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" -- 6/15/97
I opened the show with the audio of a scene from Louis Malle's film "Atlantic
City" featuring Burt Lancaster, in which Burt's character, a small-time
mobster's flunky with delusions of grandeur, compares the glory days of the
"old" Atlantic City to the antiseptic corporate realities of the "new" modern
incarnation of the town. I was inspired to open the show this way because of
my anger and dismay over the ongoing "Disneyfication" (and "mall-ing" -- or
should that be "mauling") of New York.
GRAHAM PARKER Disney's America
THE HIGH LLAMAS Cuckoo Casino
THE HIGH LLAMAS Sparkle Up
THE HIGH LLAMAS Literature Is Fluff
(from their album scheduled for release in July entitled "Hawaii")
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (CD) Purim
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET -- guests -- live performance and conversation
Andy Statman is one of the foremost American proponents of klezmer, the
traditional music of the Eastern European Jews, which is undergoing a big
revival in the New York downtown jazz community. On Andy's most recent album
"Between Heaven & Earth: Music Of The Jewish Mystics" (Shanachie Records), he
combines traditional klezmer melodies and playing with a John Coltrane/Albert
Ayler approach to free form jazz. The quartet is Russ Lossing (electric
keyboard), Bob Meyer (drums), Harvie Swartz (upright bass), and Andy on
clarinet and mandolin. The pieces they played tonight were long,
improvisational meditations -- very spiritual and exotic.
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (CD) If Not For ...
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Reb Nachman's Deveykus Niggun (clarinet)
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Flatbush Waltz (mandolin)
THE ANDY STATMAN QUARTET (live) Rikkud (dance) (clarinet)
BEN FOLDS FIVE Steven's Last Night In Town
(with members of the Klezmatics)
ITZHAK PERLMAN Tati Un Maina Tants
(with Statman's Klezmer Orchestra, performing a Statman composition)
BENNY GOODMAN And The Angels Sing
(with Martha Tilton - vocal; Harry James - trumpet)
DAVID BYRNE Daddy Go Down
JOE HENRY Trampoline
TARNATION Your Thoughts And Mine
THE RANK OUTSIDERS Checkpoint
OLD 97's Streets Of Where I'm From
SEMI-GLOSS Eight Million Strong
SEMI-GLOSS Sans Expliquer
VELVET UNDERGROUND w/NICO Femme Fatale
SEMI-GLOSS Latenight Stroll
Semi-Gloss is a New York band; their debut album is on the indie label Dirt
Records, Knickerbocker Station, P.O. Box 1053, NY, NY 10002; e-mail address
dirtrec@aol.com
MARK EITZEL If You Have To Ask
PAUL McCARTNEY The World Tonight
RICKIE LEE JONES Sunny Afternoon
JEFF BUCKLEY Grace
VAN MORRISON The Healing Game
RON SEXSMITH Thinly Veiled Disguise
PAL SHAZAR Look At The Sky
TINY LIGHTS Blue Sky
JULEE CRUISE Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
DAVID BYRNE They Are In Love
Pal Shazar's new album, "Woman Under The Influence" is on her label, Shiffaroe
Records, P.O. Box 1185, Woodstock, NY 12498.
ELVIS PRESLEY Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
PAL SHAZAR The Sky Turns Grey
LAURA NYRO Timer
COREY HARRIS Take Me Back
CHARLIE HUNTER QUARTET No Woman, No Cry
COREY HARRIS 5-0 Blues
ROYAL FINGERBOWL Nothing But Time (pre-release)
LO GALLUCCIO Black Sun
RICHARD THOMPSON & DANNY THOMPSON Lotteryland
ROBERT EARL KEEN Levelland (James McMurtry's song)
JAMES McMURTRY Sixty Acres
OLD 97's (with Excene Cervenka) Four Leaf Clover
ABRA MOORE Four Leaf Clover
ART GARFUNKEL Mrs. Robinson (solo concert version)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bookends Theme
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Save The Life Of My Child
SIMON & GARFUNKEL America
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Overs
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Voices Of Old People
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Old Friends
SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bookends Theme
(This is "side one" of the original vinyl release of their 1968 album
"Bookends" -- a continuous piece that I like to think of as "the Bookends
Suite." I always associate this recording with late spring/early summer, ever
since my WFMU radio days in the late 60s, and from time to time I am moved to
play it late at night at this time of year.)
TONY BENNETT Willow Weep For Me
k.d. lang Theme From The Valley Of The Dolls
WORLD PARTY She's The One
KATELL KEINEG One Hell Of A Life
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS People Get Ready
THE HIGH LLAMAS Nomads
THE HIGH LLAMAS Snapshot Pioneer
THE HIGH LLAMAS Ill-fitting Suits
THE HIGH LLAMAS Recent Orienteering
(again, these pieces are on "Hawaii" which will be released in July)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 2:50 AM
(I quit earlier than usual tonight after being bested by some very
temperamental equipment and several ghosts in the machines. Some days you eat
the bear, and some days, of course, the bear eats you. Tonight the bear had
a feast!)
List typed up by Vin Monday 6/16/97 (Bloomsday '97 -- June 16, 1904 being the
day that the classic James Joyce novel "Ulysses" takes place) at 5:00 AM; all
omissions are inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING (and MOLLY BLOOM).
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN and PAUL
ALTEMUS (along with LEOPOLD BLOOM and STEPHEN DEDALUS).
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
6/29 COREY HARRIS
7/6 TUATARA
8/3 DAVID BYRNE
8/31 YO LA TENGO
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)