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The Songs Vin Played for 06/06/1999
Respect The Elders.For Mel Torme, who died in Los Angeles on June 5 at the age of 73...
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on IDIOT'S DELIGHT 6/6/99
"Somewhere there's musicMEL TORME Lullaby Of Birdland
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon..."—M. Lewis / N. Hamilton, "How High The Moon"
MEL TORME How High The Moon
MEL TORME Nice Work If You Can Get It
MEL TORME It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
MEL TORME The Gershwin Medley
(recorded live 9/74 with Al Porcino & his Orchestra in the Maisonette Room at the St. Regis Hotel in NYC—15 minutes long!—Mel's arrangement quite literally "samples" dozens of Gershwin songs—a Torme classic!)
CIBO MATTO Working For Vacation
JILL SOBULE One Of These Days (unreleased demo)
AMY RIGBY The Summer Of My Wasted Youth
OLD 97's Busted Afternoon
OLD 97's Definitely
MIKE NESS Crime Don't Pay
NED SUBLETTE Ghost Riders In The Sky
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Chan Chan
KURT ANDERSEN, author—guest—conversation
Kurt Andersen is the author of the new novel, Turn Of The Century (Random House), a wonderful satirical look at Big Media, Big Money and Big Technology, set mostly in New York City (with side trips to L.A., Las Vegas and Seattle), in year 2000. Kurt is a staff writer at The New Yorker, was editor in chief of New York magazine earlier in this decade, co-founded and co-edited Spy magazine in the '80s, and worked for many years at Time as that magazine's architecture and design critic. Turn Of The Century is his first novel.
BEE GEES Turn Of The Century
DON BYRON Powerhouse (Raymond Scott) (this music figures in a party scene in the book)
THE RENTALS Hello, Hello
BOB DYLAN Everything Is Broken
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Take Your Partner By The Hand
MOBY South Side
LATIN PLAYBOYS Cuca's Blues
TITO PUENTE Oye Como Va (a performance with his Golden Latin Jazz All-Stars "Live at The Village Gate" - 1992)
SANTANA Migra (pre-release)
MOBY Honey
SHOOTYZ GROOVE L Train
BESSIE JONES & GROUP Sometimes (Alan Lomax field recording)
MOBY Honey (samples the Bessie Jones recording, which is a children's song from Georgia)
BESSIE JONES & GROUP Johnny Cuckoo (Alan Lomax field recording)
SHOOTYZ GROOVE Dear God (Oh My God) (yes, this is a hip-hop version of the XTC song!)
CHOCOLATE GENIUS Don't Look Down
ELEANOR McEVOY All I Have
MANIC STREET PREACHERS You Stole The Sun From My Heart
WHISTLER Don't Jump In Front Of My Train
WHISTLER Closing Time
WHISTLER If I Give You A Smile
CIBO MATTO Spoon
SANTANA Love Of My Life (pre-release; with Dave Matthews, vocal)
In the next three songs the female backing vocalists engage in a spirited dialog with the lead male vocalist; in each song the women definitely rule!
RAY CHARLES Hit The Road, Jack
PROZZÄK Sucks To Be You (Canadian import; U.S. release this summer)
RANDY NEWMAN Shame
LUSCIOUS JACKSON Ladyfingers
DALE ANN BRADLEY Stuck In The Middle With You (bluegrass version of the old Stealers Wheel song)
LONDON BUS STOP (featuring Randy Bachman) You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
RICHARD JULIAN The Restless Sea
MILES DAVIS Spanish Key (from the groundbreaking Bitches Brew - 1969)
CASSANDRA WILSON Seven Steps
MEG HENTGES Bob In The Waves
MONGO SANTAMARIA Watermelon Man (1963)
LES NUBIANS Tabou
JOE HENRY Like She Was A Hammer
JUNE CARTER CASH Ring Of Fire
k.d. lang Constant Craving
THE BRILLIANT MISTAKES The Absence of Passion
HERB ALBERT This Guy's In Love With You (Bacharach-David; summer of
1968)
BEULAH Calm Go The Wild Seas
BEACH BOYS With Me Tonight
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE A Fine Day For A Parade (with Ron Sexsmith, backing vocal)
RON SEXSMITH The Idiot Boy
TIM HARDIN Black Sheep Boy
RON SEXSMITH Still Time
TIM HARDIN Part Of The Wind
EDDI READER Bell, Book And Candle
EMMYLOU HARRIS Goodbye
RANDY NEWMAN Every Time It Rains
TOM WAITS Take It With Me
MEL TORME These Foolish Things
RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:45 A.M.
NOTES:
OLD 97s have a terrific new album entitled Fight Songs on Elektra Records.MIKE NESS is the gruff-voiced singer from the band Social Distortion. His new solo album is Cheating At Solitaire on Time Bomb Recordings, 6 W. 57 St. NY, NY 10019. There are guest appearances on the album by Bruce Springsteen and Brian Setzer. Mike has an e-mail address: mikeness@timebombrecordings.com; snail mail: Mike Ness, 219 Broadway Suite 519, Laguna Beach, CA 92651.
NED SUBLETTE's latest album is Cowboy Rumba—cowboy songs done with Latin arrangements!—co-produced with Ramón Orlando. It's on Palm Pictures. Ned can be e-mailed at ned@qbadisc.com.
MOBY's new album is Play (Rave New World/V2).
ELEANOR McEVOY's new album is Snapshots (Columbia).
WHISTLER is a quirky English trio. Their eponymously-titled album is on Beggar's Banquet.
RANDY NEWMAN's new album is Bad Love (DreamWorks Records).
CASSANDRA WILSON's new album is Traveling Miles (Blue Note), a collection of songs associated with and inspired by Miles Davis.
MEG HENTGES is an Austin-based artist whose album Brompton's Cocktail was produced by Fountain Of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger. It's on Robbins Entertainment, 30 W. 21 Street, NY, NY 10010; info@robbinsent.com. My local drug store owner informs me that a "Brompton's Cocktail" was a concoction used in the 1980s for terminal cancer patients—a mixture composed primarily of cocaine, liquid phenobarbital and morphine; it was developed at Brompton Hospital in England and is also called "Brompton Mixture"; it is no longer used.
JUNE CARTER CASH has a new "autobiographical" album entitled Press On on Risk Records, (404) 577-5955. She will be a guest on Idiot's Delight on June 27.
THE BRILLIANT MISTAKES have an album called All Hands & The Cook on Aunt Mimi's Records, 305 W. 18 St. #3F, NY, NY 10011.
BEULAH's When Your Heartstrings Break is on Sugar Free Records, P.O. Box 14166, Chicago, IL 60614.
The new FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE album Utopia Pkwy is on Atlantic Records. There's a band-sanctioned fan-run web site at: http://www.netaxs.com/~bbort/fow_main.html
RON SEXSMITH's new album is Whereabouts (Interscope).
EDDI READER is a wonderful vocalist from Scotland. Her new album is entitled Angels & Electricity on Compass Records out of Nashville, 800-757-2277. Boo Hewerdine wrote many of the songs on this album and plays guitar throughout.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
6/27 JUNE CARTER CASH
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING. The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN and PAUL ALTEMUS.