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The Songs Vin Played for 12/13/1998
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 12/13/98
"change the radio
I hate background music
turn it off or make it loud
grab that cassette
& put some Jimmie Rodgers on
if you can't find nothing
on the dial"
—Jules Shear, "On These Wheels Again"
"Buzz offa...Good evening...Buzz offa to everybody...Oh, thank you,
buzz offa to you too...Oh well, it's a pleasure...Thank you..."
—Roberto Benigni, learning English, in "Down By Law"
I opened the show with the "It's a sad and beautiful world" scene from the
1986 Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law" featuring Roberto Benigni and Tom
Waits.
TOM WAITS Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
JULES SHEAR w/ SUZZY ROCHE On These Wheels Again
MERCURY REV Hudson Line
RUSSELL GUNN Sybil's Blues (pre-release)
THE BIG GERANIUMS Evolution
LARGO (featuring TAJ MAHAL) Freedom Ride
FRANK SINATRA Come Fly With Me
(December 12 was Sinatra's birthday; I played several of his recordings
during the night)
GLEN BURTNIK — guest
Glen stopped in to talk about his annual X-MAS X-TRAVAGANZA which will take
place with the ususal "cast of thousands" on Saturday 12/19 at the Bottom
Line.
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Christmas In The Trenches (John McCutcheon song)
GLEN BURTNIK (CD) Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man
(Randy Travis currently has a hit with his version of this song which
originally appeared on Glen's 1996 album <i>Palookaville</i>.)
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Cry (new sung)
PATTY SMYTH Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
(co-written by Glen and Patty; this was a big hit for Patty in 1992 when
she recorded it as a duet with Don Henley)
GLEN BURTNIK You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Beatles song)
(Glen once played the part of Paul McCartney in "Beatlemania")
FRANK SINATRA One For My Baby
(concert performance - Paris, 1962)
MARK EITZEL Some Bartenders Have The Gift Of Pardon
SEMISONIC Closing Time
PETER WOLF Long Way Back Again
RONNIE SPECTOR She Talks To Rainbows (Joey Ramone song)
THE RAMONES She Talks To Rainbows (original version)
Which led quite spontaneously into a RAMONES ATTACK!!!
THE RAMONES I Wanna Be Sedated
THE RAMONES It's Not My Place (In The 9 To 5 World)
THE RAMONES I Don't Want To Grow Up (Tom Waits song)
THE RAMONES I Just Want To Have Something To Do
THE RAMONES Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (John Fogerty song)
THE RAMONES Howling At The Moon (Sha-la-la)
THE RAMONES I Believe In Miracles
PETER HIMMELMAN 7 Circles
PETER HIMMELMAN 7 Circles (again)
(...does that make it 14 circles?)
BOB DYLAN Shelter From The Storm
MOJAVE 3 Baby's Coming Home
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Back In Your Arms (from <i>Tracks</i>)
I received several phone calls from people just getting home after the
Billy Joel concert at the Garden who wanted me to know that Billy had
mentioned Scott Muni and Dave Herman during the show and that he dedicated
his performance of the following song to them in appreciation for all that
they—and WNEW-FM—did for him in his early days. What a wonderful
classy thing for Billy to do.
BILLY JOEL Prelude / Angry Young Man
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES It's Been A Long Time
LITTLE STEVEN This Is The Time Of Your Life
MERCURY REV Opus 40
ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Pachelbel's Canon in D
COOLIO C U When U Get There
I read a lengthy piece that I wrote several years ago entitled "A White
(Album) Christmas" about working on WFMU at Upsala College in 1968 and how
we came to be the first station to play the <i>The Beatles</i> (a.k.a. <i>The
White Album</i>). I followed the reading with a sound collage of songs from
that album, using "Revolution #9" as the base. (This year, of course,
marks the 30th anniversary of the release of that album.)
THE BEATLES White Album Mix: Revolution # 9, Back In The USSR, Ob la di
Ob la da, Mother Nature's Son, Dear Prudence, Sexy Sadie, While My Guitar
Gently Weeps, Julia
SAM PHILLIPS Where The Colors Don't Go
KIRSTY MacCOLL Soho Square
ALANA DAVIS Weight Of The World
RANDY NEWMAN Dixie Flyer
CRY CRY CRY Fall On Me (the R.E.M. song; Dar Williams, lead vocal)
R.E.M. Driver 8
THE RED DIRT RANGERS 1999 (bluegrass version of the Prince song)
THE OFFSPRING Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
JAN BRADLEY Mama Didn't Lie
NICK LOWE All Men Are Liars
THE 5th DIMENSION Wedding Bell Blues
ELVIS COSTELLO WITH BURT BACHARACH Toledo
THE SILOS Prison Song
KYLE EASTWOOD (w/ JONI MITCHELL) Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye song)
MARVIN GAYE Trouble Man (original version)
FRANK SINATRA You're Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
PATRICIA BARBER Company
DAVE'S TRUE STORY Sex Without Bodies
AMY RIGBY The Summer Of My Wasted Youth
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Frankie (from <i>Tracks</i>)
MAX ROACH Rumble In The Jungle
(from his 1980 album entitled <i>M'boom</i>)
RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (closing
theme)
Show ended approximately 3:00 AM.
<h3>NOTES:</h3>
The new MERCURY REV album <i>Deserter's Songs</i> is on V2 Records.<p>
RUSSELL GUNN, a trumpet player who mixes jazz and hip-hop, has an album coming out soon entitled <i>Ethnomusicology, Volume 1</i> (Atlantic Records).<p>
The RONNIE SPECTOR recording is from a 4-song "EP" that will be released in England after the first of the year; it was co-produced by Joey Ramone and Daniel Rey. Ronnie will be performing her annual "Christmas Spectacular" (with Joey Ramone) on Wednesday 12/16 at Life, 158 Bleecker St, NYC.<p>
<a href="http://members.aol.com/himmelfans">PETER HIMMELMAN</a>'s new album <i>Love Thinketh No Evil</i> (<a href="http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com">Six Degrees Records</a>) is distributed by <a href="http://www.kochint.com">KOCH International</a>. Peter can be reached by e-mail at <a href="mailto:Himmelmail@aol.com">Himmelmail@aol.com</a>. There is a fan club snail mail address as well: Himmelfans, PO Box 11040, Chicago, IL 60611.<p>
MOJAVE 3 is an English band very influenced by a certain kind of moody American "desert music"—Nick Drake meets Gram Parsons, if you will. Their album <i>Out Of Tune</i> will be released in the U.S. in January.<p>
<a href="http://www.reddirtrangers.com">THE RED DIRT RANGERS</a> can be reached at (405) 525-DIRT; they have e-mail at <a href="mailto:info@reddirtrangers.com">info@reddirtrangers.com</a>. "1999" is on an EP entitled <i>Three Cool Songs</i>.<p>
<a href="http://www.world.std.com/~silos">THE SILOS</a>' <i>Heater</i> is on Checkered Past Records. 1456 North Dayton Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60622. The band can be reached via e-mail at <a href="TheSilos@aol.com">TheSilos@aol.com</a>. Their snail-mail address is Box 46811, Los Angeles CA 90046.<p>
Jazz bass player KYLE EASTWOOD is actor/director Clint Eastwood's son. His album, <i>From There To Here</i>, is on Columbia Records and was produced by Larry Klein—hence the presence of Joni Mitchell singing this Marvin Gaye song.<p>
PATRICIA BARBER's album <i>Modern Cool</i> is on <a href="http://www.premonitionandmusic.com">Premonition Records</a>, PO Box 477621, Chicago, IL 60647. The album title is an apt description of this jazz-tinged, lyrically-hip music. She will be appearing on the next "Nightbirds" show at the Bottom Line, 12/10/98.<p>
<a href="modhouse@mailexcite.com">AMY RIGBY</a>'s wonderful new album <i>Middlescence</i> is on <a href="http://www.kochint.com">KOCH International Records</a>.<p>
<h3>SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:</h3>
12/27 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY LYON & BOBBY BANDIERA<p>
PROGRAM NOTE: Once again WNEW-FM is carrying the New York Giants football games this season. Idiot's Delight will start late, following the post game show (approximately 8:30 PM or so), on the following night: 12/27.<p>
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING. The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN and PAUL ALTEMUS.<p>
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 12/13/98
"change the radio
I hate background music
turn it off or make it loud
grab that cassette
& put some Jimmie Rodgers on
if you can't find nothing
on the dial"
—Jules Shear, "On These Wheels Again"
"Buzz offa...Good evening...Buzz offa to everybody...Oh, thank you,
buzz offa to you too...Oh well, it's a pleasure...Thank you..."
—Roberto Benigni, learning English, in "Down By Law"
I opened the show with the "It's a sad and beautiful world" scene from the
1986 Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law" featuring Roberto Benigni and Tom
Waits.
TOM WAITS Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
JULES SHEAR w/ SUZZY ROCHE On These Wheels Again
MERCURY REV Hudson Line
RUSSELL GUNN Sybil's Blues (pre-release)
THE BIG GERANIUMS Evolution
LARGO (featuring TAJ MAHAL) Freedom Ride
FRANK SINATRA Come Fly With Me
(December 12 was Sinatra's birthday; I played several of his recordings
during the night)
GLEN BURTNIK — guest
Glen stopped in to talk about his annual X-MAS X-TRAVAGANZA which will take
place with the ususal "cast of thousands" on Saturday 12/19 at the Bottom
Line.
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Christmas In The Trenches (John McCutcheon song)
GLEN BURTNIK (CD) Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man
(Randy Travis currently has a hit with his version of this song which
originally appeared on Glen's 1996 album <i>Palookaville</i>.)
GLEN BURTNIK (live) Cry (new sung)
PATTY SMYTH Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
(co-written by Glen and Patty; this was a big hit for Patty in 1992 when
she recorded it as a duet with Don Henley)
GLEN BURTNIK You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Beatles song)
(Glen once played the part of Paul McCartney in "Beatlemania")
FRANK SINATRA One For My Baby
(concert performance - Paris, 1962)
MARK EITZEL Some Bartenders Have The Gift Of Pardon
SEMISONIC Closing Time
PETER WOLF Long Way Back Again
RONNIE SPECTOR She Talks To Rainbows (Joey Ramone song)
THE RAMONES She Talks To Rainbows (original version)
Which led quite spontaneously into a RAMONES ATTACK!!!
THE RAMONES I Wanna Be Sedated
THE RAMONES It's Not My Place (In The 9 To 5 World)
THE RAMONES I Don't Want To Grow Up (Tom Waits song)
THE RAMONES I Just Want To Have Something To Do
THE RAMONES Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (John Fogerty song)
THE RAMONES Howling At The Moon (Sha-la-la)
THE RAMONES I Believe In Miracles
PETER HIMMELMAN 7 Circles
PETER HIMMELMAN 7 Circles (again)
(...does that make it 14 circles?)
BOB DYLAN Shelter From The Storm
MOJAVE 3 Baby's Coming Home
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Back In Your Arms (from <i>Tracks</i>)
I received several phone calls from people just getting home after the
Billy Joel concert at the Garden who wanted me to know that Billy had
mentioned Scott Muni and Dave Herman during the show and that he dedicated
his performance of the following song to them in appreciation for all that
they—and WNEW-FM—did for him in his early days. What a wonderful
classy thing for Billy to do.
BILLY JOEL Prelude / Angry Young Man
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES It's Been A Long Time
LITTLE STEVEN This Is The Time Of Your Life
MERCURY REV Opus 40
ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Pachelbel's Canon in D
COOLIO C U When U Get There
I read a lengthy piece that I wrote several years ago entitled "A White
(Album) Christmas" about working on WFMU at Upsala College in 1968 and how
we came to be the first station to play the <i>The Beatles</i> (a.k.a. <i>The
White Album</i>). I followed the reading with a sound collage of songs from
that album, using "Revolution #9" as the base. (This year, of course,
marks the 30th anniversary of the release of that album.)
THE BEATLES White Album Mix: Revolution # 9, Back In The USSR, Ob la di
Ob la da, Mother Nature's Son, Dear Prudence, Sexy Sadie, While My Guitar
Gently Weeps, Julia
SAM PHILLIPS Where The Colors Don't Go
KIRSTY MacCOLL Soho Square
ALANA DAVIS Weight Of The World
RANDY NEWMAN Dixie Flyer
CRY CRY CRY Fall On Me (the R.E.M. song; Dar Williams, lead vocal)
R.E.M. Driver 8
THE RED DIRT RANGERS 1999 (bluegrass version of the Prince song)
THE OFFSPRING Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
JAN BRADLEY Mama Didn't Lie
NICK LOWE All Men Are Liars
THE 5th DIMENSION Wedding Bell Blues
ELVIS COSTELLO WITH BURT BACHARACH Toledo
THE SILOS Prison Song
KYLE EASTWOOD (w/ JONI MITCHELL) Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye song)
MARVIN GAYE Trouble Man (original version)
FRANK SINATRA You're Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
PATRICIA BARBER Company
DAVE'S TRUE STORY Sex Without Bodies
AMY RIGBY The Summer Of My Wasted Youth
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Frankie (from <i>Tracks</i>)
MAX ROACH Rumble In The Jungle
(from his 1980 album entitled <i>M'boom</i>)
RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (closing
theme)
Show ended approximately 3:00 AM.
<h3>NOTES:</h3>
The new MERCURY REV album <i>Deserter's Songs</i> is on V2 Records.<p>
RUSSELL GUNN, a trumpet player who mixes jazz and hip-hop, has an album coming out soon entitled <i>Ethnomusicology, Volume 1</i> (Atlantic Records).<p>
The RONNIE SPECTOR recording is from a 4-song "EP" that will be released in England after the first of the year; it was co-produced by Joey Ramone and Daniel Rey. Ronnie will be performing her annual "Christmas Spectacular" (with Joey Ramone) on Wednesday 12/16 at Life, 158 Bleecker St, NYC.<p>
<a href="http://members.aol.com/himmelfans">PETER HIMMELMAN</a>'s new album <i>Love Thinketh No Evil</i> (<a href="http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com">Six Degrees Records</a>) is distributed by <a href="http://www.kochint.com">KOCH International</a>. Peter can be reached by e-mail at <a href="mailto:Himmelmail@aol.com">Himmelmail@aol.com</a>. There is a fan club snail mail address as well: Himmelfans, PO Box 11040, Chicago, IL 60611.<p>
MOJAVE 3 is an English band very influenced by a certain kind of moody American "desert music"—Nick Drake meets Gram Parsons, if you will. Their album <i>Out Of Tune</i> will be released in the U.S. in January.<p>
<a href="http://www.reddirtrangers.com">THE RED DIRT RANGERS</a> can be reached at (405) 525-DIRT; they have e-mail at <a href="mailto:info@reddirtrangers.com">info@reddirtrangers.com</a>. "1999" is on an EP entitled <i>Three Cool Songs</i>.<p>
<a href="http://www.world.std.com/~silos">THE SILOS</a>' <i>Heater</i> is on Checkered Past Records. 1456 North Dayton Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60622. The band can be reached via e-mail at <a href="TheSilos@aol.com">TheSilos@aol.com</a>. Their snail-mail address is Box 46811, Los Angeles CA 90046.<p>
Jazz bass player KYLE EASTWOOD is actor/director Clint Eastwood's son. His album, <i>From There To Here</i>, is on Columbia Records and was produced by Larry Klein—hence the presence of Joni Mitchell singing this Marvin Gaye song.<p>
PATRICIA BARBER's album <i>Modern Cool</i> is on <a href="http://www.premonitionandmusic.com">Premonition Records</a>, PO Box 477621, Chicago, IL 60647. The album title is an apt description of this jazz-tinged, lyrically-hip music. She will be appearing on the next "Nightbirds" show at the Bottom Line, 12/10/98.<p>
<a href="modhouse@mailexcite.com">AMY RIGBY</a>'s wonderful new album <i>Middlescence</i> is on <a href="http://www.kochint.com">KOCH International Records</a>.<p>
<h3>SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:</h3>
12/27 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY LYON & BOBBY BANDIERA<p>
PROGRAM NOTE: Once again WNEW-FM is carrying the New York Giants football games this season. Idiot's Delight will start late, following the post game show (approximately 8:30 PM or so), on the following night: 12/27.<p>
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING. The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN and PAUL ALTEMUS.<p>