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The Songs Vin Played for 09/14/1997
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-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" 9/14/97,
another working day in the captious world.
JOE GRUSHECKY Idiot's Delight (unreleased; used as opening theme)
(co-written by Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen)
GRAHAM PARKER Sharpening Axes
BOB DYLAN Positively 4th Street
TONY BENNETT By Myself
TANYA DONELLY Landspeed Song
MOSE ALLISON Young Man Blues
PAUL AUSTER, the writer whose latest book is a non-fiction work entitled "Hand
To Mouth," was my guest for about an hour. Auster — poet, film maker,
essayist and novelist — is one of my favorite writers. He is the author of
"The New York Trilogy," "The Music Of Chance," "In The Country Of Last
Things," "Moon Palace," "Leviathan," and many other wonderful books.
DAVID BYRNE & SELENA God's Child
(from the "Blue In The Face" soundtrack: Paul Auster's film for which Byrne
served as musical director)
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Chan Chan
(a new Ry Cooder project with some wonderful Cuban musicians, due out soon on
Nonesuch)
DAVID BYRNE Burnt By The Sun
DAVID BYRNE was my guest for the next few hours; conversation and recorded
music only, no live performance. We concentrated almost entirely on music
from his recent album "Feelings." He brought some other things to play,
including a couple of unreleased tracks that were recorded during the
"Feelings" sessions but were left off the album.
DAVID BYRNE Wicked Little Doll
DAVID BYRNE Dance On Vaseline
DAVID BYRNE A Soft Seduction
DAVID BYRNE Miss America
KIRSTY MacCOLL My Affair
SUSANA BACA Molino Molero
(Afro-Peruvian singer with an album coming out on Byrne's Luaka Bop label)
DAVID BYRNE Finite — Alright
CORNERSHOP Brimful Of Asha
WYCLEF JEAN Guantanamera
DAVID BYRNE Fuzzy Freaky (Mark Walk remix — unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Ain't Got Far To Go (unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE The Gates Of Paradise
DAVID BYRNE She Only Sleeps (unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Amnesia
DAVID BYRNE Gypsy Woman (live performance, unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
(from "The Catherine Wheel" — the theater collaboration with Twyla Tharp)
DAVID BYRNE the untitled "track 13" from "Feelings"
DAVID BYRNE They Are In Love
TERESA STRATAS Youkali Tango
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
JUNE TABOR No Good At Love
GIDON KREMER Astor Piazzolla's "El Tango"
(J.L.Borges poem read by Caetano Veloso)
RON SEXSMITH Thinly Veiled Disguise
MIKE SCOTT Wonderful Disguise
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Brilliant Disguise
JUNE TABOR Go Away From My Window
June Tabor's new album, "Aleyn" in on Green Linnet Records; both of the above
songs are from it.
Rhino Records has just released a 5-CD RAY CHARLES box set entitled "Genius &
Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection" which provides a wonderful overview of
the man's entire recording career. From it I played:
RAY CHARLES What'd I Say Parts 1 & 2
RAY CHARLES I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
RAY CHARLES Busted
RAY CHARLES Georgia
RAY CHARLES How Long Has This Been Going On?
RAY CHARLES Yesterday
GREG BROWN Whatever It Was (pre-release)
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing
THE FRANK & WALTERS Restraint
EVA TROUT Beautiful South
(this is a group from Australia — not a person)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Six Blocks Away
EDWYN COLLINS The Magic Pipe (Of Love)
TOM WAITS Little Drop Of Poison
(from "The End Of Violence" soundtrack, V/A)
DAWN UPSHAW Regret (from her Claude Debussy album)
JANET JACKSON Got 'Til It's Gone
(with Q-Tip vocal and Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi" samples)
TANYA DONELLY The Bright Light
THE MOTORS Love & Loneliness
BOB DYLAN Love Sick
MAGNET featuring MOE TUCKER Don't Be A Penguin
GARY GLITTER Rock And Roll Part Two
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (radio mix)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (original mix)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (gunshot mix)
(then I mixed all three versions into my own ID mix)
MECCA BODEGA w/DOUGHTY Love On The A Train
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET Magnificent Seventies
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET Using The Hope Diamond As A Doorstop
BETTY CARTER Lonely House
(from "September Songs: The Music Of Kurt Weill" V/A)
PAUL SIMON Still Crazy After All These Years
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:15 AM.
List typed up by Vin on Monday 9/15/97 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.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/12 CATIE CURTIS
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
10/26 ANNE RICE, author
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" 9/14/97,
another working day in the captious world.
JOE GRUSHECKY Idiot's Delight (unreleased; used as opening theme)
(co-written by Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen)
GRAHAM PARKER Sharpening Axes
BOB DYLAN Positively 4th Street
TONY BENNETT By Myself
TANYA DONELLY Landspeed Song
MOSE ALLISON Young Man Blues
PAUL AUSTER, the writer whose latest book is a non-fiction work entitled "Hand
To Mouth," was my guest for about an hour. Auster — poet, film maker,
essayist and novelist — is one of my favorite writers. He is the author of
"The New York Trilogy," "The Music Of Chance," "In The Country Of Last
Things," "Moon Palace," "Leviathan," and many other wonderful books.
DAVID BYRNE & SELENA God's Child
(from the "Blue In The Face" soundtrack: Paul Auster's film for which Byrne
served as musical director)
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Chan Chan
(a new Ry Cooder project with some wonderful Cuban musicians, due out soon on
Nonesuch)
DAVID BYRNE Burnt By The Sun
DAVID BYRNE was my guest for the next few hours; conversation and recorded
music only, no live performance. We concentrated almost entirely on music
from his recent album "Feelings." He brought some other things to play,
including a couple of unreleased tracks that were recorded during the
"Feelings" sessions but were left off the album.
DAVID BYRNE Wicked Little Doll
DAVID BYRNE Dance On Vaseline
DAVID BYRNE A Soft Seduction
DAVID BYRNE Miss America
KIRSTY MacCOLL My Affair
SUSANA BACA Molino Molero
(Afro-Peruvian singer with an album coming out on Byrne's Luaka Bop label)
DAVID BYRNE Finite — Alright
CORNERSHOP Brimful Of Asha
WYCLEF JEAN Guantanamera
DAVID BYRNE Fuzzy Freaky (Mark Walk remix — unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Ain't Got Far To Go (unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE The Gates Of Paradise
DAVID BYRNE She Only Sleeps (unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Amnesia
DAVID BYRNE Gypsy Woman (live performance, unreleased)
DAVID BYRNE Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
(from "The Catherine Wheel" — the theater collaboration with Twyla Tharp)
DAVID BYRNE the untitled "track 13" from "Feelings"
DAVID BYRNE They Are In Love
TERESA STRATAS Youkali Tango
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
JUNE TABOR No Good At Love
GIDON KREMER Astor Piazzolla's "El Tango"
(J.L.Borges poem read by Caetano Veloso)
RON SEXSMITH Thinly Veiled Disguise
MIKE SCOTT Wonderful Disguise
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Brilliant Disguise
JUNE TABOR Go Away From My Window
June Tabor's new album, "Aleyn" in on Green Linnet Records; both of the above
songs are from it.
Rhino Records has just released a 5-CD RAY CHARLES box set entitled "Genius &
Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection" which provides a wonderful overview of
the man's entire recording career. From it I played:
RAY CHARLES What'd I Say Parts 1 & 2
RAY CHARLES I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
RAY CHARLES Busted
RAY CHARLES Georgia
RAY CHARLES How Long Has This Been Going On?
RAY CHARLES Yesterday
GREG BROWN Whatever It Was (pre-release)
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing
THE FRANK & WALTERS Restraint
EVA TROUT Beautiful South
(this is a group from Australia — not a person)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Six Blocks Away
EDWYN COLLINS The Magic Pipe (Of Love)
TOM WAITS Little Drop Of Poison
(from "The End Of Violence" soundtrack, V/A)
DAWN UPSHAW Regret (from her Claude Debussy album)
JANET JACKSON Got 'Til It's Gone
(with Q-Tip vocal and Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi" samples)
TANYA DONELLY The Bright Light
THE MOTORS Love & Loneliness
BOB DYLAN Love Sick
MAGNET featuring MOE TUCKER Don't Be A Penguin
GARY GLITTER Rock And Roll Part Two
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (radio mix)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (original mix)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping (gunshot mix)
(then I mixed all three versions into my own ID mix)
MECCA BODEGA w/DOUGHTY Love On The A Train
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET Magnificent Seventies
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET Using The Hope Diamond As A Doorstop
BETTY CARTER Lonely House
(from "September Songs: The Music Of Kurt Weill" V/A)
PAUL SIMON Still Crazy After All These Years
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:15 AM.
List typed up by Vin on Monday 9/15/97 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.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/12 CATIE CURTIS
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
10/26 ANNE RICE, author
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.