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The Songs Vin Played for 08/17/1997
here 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-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" 8/17/97 EISD
(Elvis Is Still Dead), another working day in the post-ironic world.
JOE GRUSHECKY Idiot's Delight (unreleased)
(used as an opening theme)
LIVING COLOUR Elvis Is Dead
THE FAIRFIELD FOUR w/ELVIS COSTELLO That Day Is Done
(pre-release of a new Fairfield Four album with Elvis guesting; this is a new
version of a Paul McCartney/Elvis Costello song that originally appeared on
McCartney's "Flowers In The Dirt" album.)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Man If We Could Surf Forever
(from a Canadian album entitled "Mars Pennsylvania" which I featured
throughout the show)
THE BEACH BOYS Surf's Up
MIDNIGHT OIL Surf's Up Tonight
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Let's Jazz All You Young Aliens
DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN died Saturday 8/16/97 in London; he was the world's most
influential Pakistani Sufi/Qawwali singer. He was only 48 years old; he
suffered cardiac arrest and had a history of liver and weight-related
problems.
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & MICHAEL BROOK Lament
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & EDDIE VEDDER The Face of Love
(from the "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack)
JEFF BUCKLEY Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
(Jeff was a huge admirer of Nusrat and had been profoundly influenced by him;
how ironic that they would both die so close in time to each other.)
DANA BRYANT — poet — was my guest; we chatted about a variety of subjects,
played tracks from her album and she read selections from her book entitled
"Song Of The Siren" (Boulevard/Putnam)
B'WAY CAST OF "FOR COLORED GIRLS..." A Laying On Of Hands / I Found God In
Myself
(Dana saw this Broadway show as a child and was profoundly influenced by the
writing of it's author, Ntozake Shange)
DANA BRYANT (CD) Heat
DANA BRYANT (CD) Ode To Chaka Khan (canis rufus)
(from Dana's album entitled "Wishing From The Top")
CHARLES MINGUS Hora Decubitus
RUFUS w/CHAKA KHAN Tell Me Something Good
DANA BRYANT (reading) To Me (Heavy Mellow)
DANA BRYANT (reading) House Cleaning
(which she read over JOHN COLTRANE's "Naima")
TONY BENNETT Willow Weep For Me
I talked about a cookbook entitled "Jamaican Cooking," written by Lucinda
Scala Quinn, the wife of fellow deejay Tony Pigg. The book, subtitled "140
Roadside and Homestyle Recipes," is published in trade paperback by Macmillan.
DANA BRYANT (CD) Food (with Zap Mama)
DANA BRYANT (reading) Religion
BARRY WHITE Love's Theme
DAVID BYRNE A Soft Seduction
VINICIUS CANTUARIA Samba Da Estrela
DANA BRYANT (CD) Margaret (second cousin)
CHARLIE HADEN QUARTET WEST When Tomorrow Comes
THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS w/ JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Deep Water
KATE CAMPBELL When Panthers Roamed In Arkansas
LUNA Tracy I Love You
THE SUNDAYS Summertime
JOHN SOUTHWORTH It's Not The End Of The World
LUNA Indian Summer (live performance on the show 8/3/97)
SOUL COUGHING Disseminated (live performance on the show 8/10/97)
SOUL COUGHING Maybe I'll Come Down (live performance on the show 8/10/97)
(this is a new song, not on either of their two albums)
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Lazy Line Painter Jane (import EP)
STEREOPHONICS A Thousand Trees (import acoustic EP; they're from Wales)
(Producer Manning brought these recordings back from her recent month-long
sojourn in Scotland.)
ROD STEWART Every Picture Tells A Story (w/MAGGIE BELL)
MOXY FRUVOUS You Will Go To The Moon
(this song was played recently by NASA Mission Control to wake the crew on the
shuttle Discovery)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Girl On The Moon
MERRIE AMSTERBURG Walking On The Moon
(live performance on the show of the Police song, 4/6/97)
LEE FELDMAN On The Moon
BONO Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
(from the new Jimmie Rodgers tribute album)
JIMMIE RODGERS Why There's A Tear In My Eye
DUKE LEVINE Lava
WHISKEYTOWN Inn Town
JOHN FORSTER The Tragic Kingdom
GIDON KREMER El Tango (featuring a poem by Jorge Luis Borges read by
Caetano Veloso)
(from classical violinist Kremer's new album "Astor Piazzolla: El Tango" — his
second CD featuring the compositions of Piazzolla)
THE LONDON SINFONIETTA Georges Delerue's "Day For Night: Chorale"
(from a new Nonesuch album of Delerue's music for the films of Francois
Trauffaut)
ROBERT PLANT & JIMMY PAGE Rude World
(from "The Inner Flame" various artists performing the songs of Rainer Ptacek)
JEB LOY NICHOLS As The Rain
BOB DYLAN Tangled Up In Blue
(the "first version" which appears on "The Bootleg Series")
DAR WILLIAMS If I Wrote You
TOWNES VAN ZANDT w/BARB DONOVAN I'll Be Here In The Morning
TRISH MURPHY She Belongs To Me
BOB DYLAN Farewell Angelina (also appears on "The Bootleg Series")
RADIOHEAD No Surprises
THE JAYHAWKS Trouble
(Thanks to listener Andrew Sobel for giving me the Radiohead/Jayhawks segue;
it's perfect!)
CUARTETO PATRIA Y COMPAY SEGUNDO Guajira Guantanamera
WYCLEF JEAN w/CELIA CRUZ Guantanamera
B'WAY CAST OF "WEST SIDE STORY" A Boy Like That / I Have A Love
(Carole Lawrence as "Maria" and Chita Rivera as "Anita")
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE BRODSKY QUARTET Lost In The Stars
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" — pre-release)
ROYAL FINGERBOWL Manahawkin
MADELEINE PEYROUX Walking After Midnight
BUDDY MILLER That's How Strong My Love Is
ROLLING STONES That's How Strong My Love Is
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant (pre-release)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 4:15 AM
List typed up by Vin on Monday 8/18/97 at 6:30 AM; all omissions are
inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
NOTE: YO LA TENGO, scheduled for 8/31, is postponed and will hopefully be
rescheduled
8/24 DAR WILLIAMS
9/7 JOE JACKSON
9/14 PAUL AUSTER, author
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
11/16 HUNGERTHON RENT PARTY to raise money for World Hunger Year
(Yes, I will once again play your requests for donations to W.H.Y. —
the only time I ever play requests!)
PROGRAM NOTE: Due to the broadcast this Fall of the New York Giants Sunday
afternoon football games, Idiot's Delight will start at approximately 9 PM
(instead of 8 PM) immediately following the "post-game show" on the following
dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/12, 10/19, 11/9 and 11/30. There will be no show at all
on 11/23 because that's a night game.
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" 8/17/97 EISD
(Elvis Is Still Dead), another working day in the post-ironic world.
JOE GRUSHECKY Idiot's Delight (unreleased)
(used as an opening theme)
LIVING COLOUR Elvis Is Dead
THE FAIRFIELD FOUR w/ELVIS COSTELLO That Day Is Done
(pre-release of a new Fairfield Four album with Elvis guesting; this is a new
version of a Paul McCartney/Elvis Costello song that originally appeared on
McCartney's "Flowers In The Dirt" album.)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Man If We Could Surf Forever
(from a Canadian album entitled "Mars Pennsylvania" which I featured
throughout the show)
THE BEACH BOYS Surf's Up
MIDNIGHT OIL Surf's Up Tonight
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Let's Jazz All You Young Aliens
DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN died Saturday 8/16/97 in London; he was the world's most
influential Pakistani Sufi/Qawwali singer. He was only 48 years old; he
suffered cardiac arrest and had a history of liver and weight-related
problems.
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & MICHAEL BROOK Lament
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & EDDIE VEDDER The Face of Love
(from the "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack)
JEFF BUCKLEY Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
(Jeff was a huge admirer of Nusrat and had been profoundly influenced by him;
how ironic that they would both die so close in time to each other.)
DANA BRYANT — poet — was my guest; we chatted about a variety of subjects,
played tracks from her album and she read selections from her book entitled
"Song Of The Siren" (Boulevard/Putnam)
B'WAY CAST OF "FOR COLORED GIRLS..." A Laying On Of Hands / I Found God In
Myself
(Dana saw this Broadway show as a child and was profoundly influenced by the
writing of it's author, Ntozake Shange)
DANA BRYANT (CD) Heat
DANA BRYANT (CD) Ode To Chaka Khan (canis rufus)
(from Dana's album entitled "Wishing From The Top")
CHARLES MINGUS Hora Decubitus
RUFUS w/CHAKA KHAN Tell Me Something Good
DANA BRYANT (reading) To Me (Heavy Mellow)
DANA BRYANT (reading) House Cleaning
(which she read over JOHN COLTRANE's "Naima")
TONY BENNETT Willow Weep For Me
I talked about a cookbook entitled "Jamaican Cooking," written by Lucinda
Scala Quinn, the wife of fellow deejay Tony Pigg. The book, subtitled "140
Roadside and Homestyle Recipes," is published in trade paperback by Macmillan.
DANA BRYANT (CD) Food (with Zap Mama)
DANA BRYANT (reading) Religion
BARRY WHITE Love's Theme
DAVID BYRNE A Soft Seduction
VINICIUS CANTUARIA Samba Da Estrela
DANA BRYANT (CD) Margaret (second cousin)
CHARLIE HADEN QUARTET WEST When Tomorrow Comes
THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS w/ JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Deep Water
KATE CAMPBELL When Panthers Roamed In Arkansas
LUNA Tracy I Love You
THE SUNDAYS Summertime
JOHN SOUTHWORTH It's Not The End Of The World
LUNA Indian Summer (live performance on the show 8/3/97)
SOUL COUGHING Disseminated (live performance on the show 8/10/97)
SOUL COUGHING Maybe I'll Come Down (live performance on the show 8/10/97)
(this is a new song, not on either of their two albums)
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Lazy Line Painter Jane (import EP)
STEREOPHONICS A Thousand Trees (import acoustic EP; they're from Wales)
(Producer Manning brought these recordings back from her recent month-long
sojourn in Scotland.)
ROD STEWART Every Picture Tells A Story (w/MAGGIE BELL)
MOXY FRUVOUS You Will Go To The Moon
(this song was played recently by NASA Mission Control to wake the crew on the
shuttle Discovery)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Girl On The Moon
MERRIE AMSTERBURG Walking On The Moon
(live performance on the show of the Police song, 4/6/97)
LEE FELDMAN On The Moon
BONO Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
(from the new Jimmie Rodgers tribute album)
JIMMIE RODGERS Why There's A Tear In My Eye
DUKE LEVINE Lava
WHISKEYTOWN Inn Town
JOHN FORSTER The Tragic Kingdom
GIDON KREMER El Tango (featuring a poem by Jorge Luis Borges read by
Caetano Veloso)
(from classical violinist Kremer's new album "Astor Piazzolla: El Tango" — his
second CD featuring the compositions of Piazzolla)
THE LONDON SINFONIETTA Georges Delerue's "Day For Night: Chorale"
(from a new Nonesuch album of Delerue's music for the films of Francois
Trauffaut)
ROBERT PLANT & JIMMY PAGE Rude World
(from "The Inner Flame" various artists performing the songs of Rainer Ptacek)
JEB LOY NICHOLS As The Rain
BOB DYLAN Tangled Up In Blue
(the "first version" which appears on "The Bootleg Series")
DAR WILLIAMS If I Wrote You
TOWNES VAN ZANDT w/BARB DONOVAN I'll Be Here In The Morning
TRISH MURPHY She Belongs To Me
BOB DYLAN Farewell Angelina (also appears on "The Bootleg Series")
RADIOHEAD No Surprises
THE JAYHAWKS Trouble
(Thanks to listener Andrew Sobel for giving me the Radiohead/Jayhawks segue;
it's perfect!)
CUARTETO PATRIA Y COMPAY SEGUNDO Guajira Guantanamera
WYCLEF JEAN w/CELIA CRUZ Guantanamera
B'WAY CAST OF "WEST SIDE STORY" A Boy Like That / I Have A Love
(Carole Lawrence as "Maria" and Chita Rivera as "Anita")
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE BRODSKY QUARTET Lost In The Stars
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" — pre-release)
ROYAL FINGERBOWL Manahawkin
MADELEINE PEYROUX Walking After Midnight
BUDDY MILLER That's How Strong My Love Is
ROLLING STONES That's How Strong My Love Is
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant (pre-release)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 4:15 AM
List typed up by Vin on Monday 8/18/97 at 6:30 AM; all omissions are
inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
NOTE: YO LA TENGO, scheduled for 8/31, is postponed and will hopefully be
rescheduled
8/24 DAR WILLIAMS
9/7 JOE JACKSON
9/14 PAUL AUSTER, author
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
11/16 HUNGERTHON RENT PARTY to raise money for World Hunger Year
(Yes, I will once again play your requests for donations to W.H.Y. —
the only time I ever play requests!)
PROGRAM NOTE: Due to the broadcast this Fall of the New York Giants Sunday
afternoon football games, Idiot's Delight will start at approximately 9 PM
(instead of 8 PM) immediately following the "post-game show" on the following
dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/12, 10/19, 11/9 and 11/30. There will be no show at all
on 11/23 because that's a night game.