Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from May 30, 2023 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting May 30, 2023: Mr Fab: "Harry Belafonte Don't Give A Damn, He Done Dead Already"

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Harry Belafonte  Banana Boat (Day-O)   Favoriting  
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Harry Belafonte  Lean On Me   Favoriting  
Harry Belafonte  Suzanne   Favoriting 0:07:36 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Venezuela   Favoriting 0:10:56 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Coconut Woman   Favoriting 0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Matilda   Favoriting 0:16:42 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  there's a hole in the bucket (w/Odetta)   Favoriting 0:21:03 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  contemporary dance   Favoriting 0:22:40 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  one more dance (w/Miriam Makeba)   Favoriting 0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  lie stone dead in the market   Favoriting 0:31:07 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  zombie jamboree   Favoriting 0:31:52 (Pop-up)
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your DJ speaks    0:33:29 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Bess You Is my Woman (w/Lena Horne)   Favoriting 0:34:27 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Man Smart (Woman Smarter)   Favoriting 0:40:56 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu Paloma   Favoriting 0:44:28 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Mama Looka Boo Boo   Favoriting 0:51:04 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Delia’s Gone   Favoriting 0:53:56 (Pop-up)
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your DJ speaks    0:57:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte  Jamaica Farewell   Favoriting 0:58:40 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 6:26pm
Mr Fab:

Hel-o! Helllll-o! Subway come and me want to go home. But as Krys O runs the show, yours truly will be updating the tracklist and commenting when I can. Join me in dipping into a small sliver of the great work of Jamaican/Harlem exotic music icon, sex symbol, and civil rights pioneer, Harry Belafonte March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Krys O.:

Hey, hey, hey!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @6:26
I've been plotting an upcoming "People Who Died" installment on MVM, and I've been torn as to what Belafonte tune to include. Perhaps you will help me decide?
Avatar 👻 7:58pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @7:57
You'll have an hour's worth of suggestions tonight.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
WR:

Here to hear.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @7:58
Or: should I try to fill in something you don't play? Choices...
Avatar 👻 8:00pm
Mr Fab:

Getting a jump (in the line) on the playlist as I'm a bit busy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Aitch:

tally me bananas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hey-O Mr. Fab, Krys, gang!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Austin Rich:

Greetings, Pauly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Aitch:

What a voice
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aitch @8:05
I have not been tiring of the extra Belafonte we've been getting, via all the tributes and whatnot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Pauly from Clifton:

↳ Austin Rich @8:05
Hiya Austin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Krys O.:

This is such a treat.
Avatar 👻 8:08pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Aitch @8:05
Yes i wanted to establish right off the bat that this man could SING.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Suzanne" by "Harry Belafonte"
Wow. I've never heard this one before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Pauly from Clifton:

↳ Aitch @8:05
That is a GOLDEN voice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "Suzanne" by "Harry Belafonte"
I just remembered where I heard this one. It was in the film Harry made with Dorothy Dandridge called Bright Road. This was just before Carmen Jones.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:12
I haven't seen that! I wonder if I could stream it later...
Avatar 👻 8:13pm
Mr Fab:

Running the playlist on the office/ walking down the street/ waiting for the subway. Another radio first!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:13
All in a day's work for... MR. FAB!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:12
It's worth looking for.
Avatar 👻 8:16pm
Mr Fab:

He made another film with Dorothy Dandridge, “Island in the Sun.” Big hit song (that I didn’t have room for tonight)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Austin Rich:

Double Feature? I don't think I've seen that either.
  8:17pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Matilda" by "Harry Belafonte"
Cannot hear w/o also hearing "My Zelda".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Krys O.:

Have you ever seen The Angel Levine? Harry haunts Zero Mostel as an angel.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:18
Damn! That sounds great! While I love old movies, I usually look for old horror or noir stuff these days. I should check that out.
Avatar 👻 8:20pm
Mr Fab:

Ok folks the subway will be entering the no-internet zone for a bit, so I’ll be off the chat and falling behind on the playlist for a bit.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:20
Good Luck. If you run into The Warriors, just let them do their thing.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "one more dance (w/Miriam Makeba)" by "Harry Belaf...
I also had never heard this one, either. Wow.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

"Back to back, belly to belly..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Mr Fab and wigglyworms

...rest in peace Mr. Belafonte.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Austin Rich:

I can think of at least 10 versions of Zombie Jamboree. I sense a crazy mash-up in my future...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

I always wanted to see an experimental duo named "Korg-y & Bass."
Avatar 👻 8:35pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:27
The “sick humor” portion of the show…
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:35
I'm filing that one away, for future use.
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:35
Ha!

Or “Corgi,” a dog act?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:37
I mean, this is a rough draft. We can workshop it until it's just right. No reason to waste a good idea just yet?
Avatar 👻 8:38pm
Mr Fab:

I used to find Belafonte albums for real cheap. There were a lot of em. I’d buy any one I found.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:38
You inspired me to check. I only have two... I feel like I need to get more, now.
Avatar 👻 8:41pm
Mr Fab:

Doing my rum drunk spazzy dancing to this one
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

Probably time for a cocktail...
Avatar 👻 8:43pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:39
He sold millions so there’s lots of his records out there. You may like some more than others, but basically Belafonte was incapable of sucking.
  8:45pm
Listener Robert:

As a child I heard so much Belafonte because Mother was nuts about him. But then, what woman wouldn't be? And yet he had that Sinatra-like quality of appealing to men too.
Avatar 👻 8:45pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu Paloma" by "Harry Belafonte"
I say this one’s flamenco but doh! It’s Mexican. Yo soy estúpido.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:43
Marla and I would put on this one I have, a Greatest Hit deal, quite often. But this is certainly more of a "forgotten gems" show you've got here.
Avatar 👻 8:46pm
Mr Fab:

How long can he hold his breath?!?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:46
Yeah, I don't know anyone who can do that.
Avatar 👻 8:47pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:45
Yeah for example thanks to Beetlejuice “Jump In The Line” is pretty familiar so figured I could skip that one, good as it is.
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
Mr Fab:

BIG breath…
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:47
You certainly exposed me to a lot I'd never heard, and I felt like I at least knew what he did. Now I feel like I had only scratched the surface before...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Krys O.:

Could be circular breathing.
  8:49pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Mr Fab @8:47
But if you go by that standard, you could do like Irwin in leaving Belafonte out of his calypso series entirely, because "Belafonte you can get anywhere".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Krys O.:

That takes a lot of practice and horn players use it.
Avatar 👻 8:50pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Listener Robert @8:49
Yeah but his calypsos are fun! Had to include a few.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
WR:

Thank you for this survey, definitely reminded to explore Belafonte some more.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "Mama Looka Boo Boo" by "Harry Belafonte"
We used to sing this in chorus practice in junior high.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks again, for the lesson, and the leadin'. You are the best, Mr. Fab.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Krys O.:

Thank you, Mr. Fab!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Aitch:

Thanks Fab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Thanks, Mr. Fab, Krys!
Avatar 👻 8:59pm
Mr Fab:

Thank YOU Krys!

And all of you.
Stay tuned for Austin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am
Jan Turkenburg:

Thanks for this, Mr Fab. Belafonte was one of my heroes!
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