Rockabye Baby: Ken's show

Listener comments!

9:01am pierre:

Bonjour Ken !

9:01am duke:

The governor of Wisconsin sings.

9:05am Wes:

Greetings and salutations, old friend! Work the good, up keep.

9:05am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

Ken, pierre, duke, Velvet and Winged Monkeys, good morning all!

9:06am Ken:

Hi all!

9:06am crowe:

mornin, did ya ever check out Super Geek League's "fisher man"?

9:07am tr=sh:

'morning,

9:09am Ken:

Thanks you Crowe my brother! I NEEDED a 7 minute long song!

9:10am kat330:

Hi, Ken! Lovely opening with the "Brel" Building tune.

9:12am crowe:

OMMFG! i feel special

9:13am crowe:

have a nice poop

9:19am pierre:

is that Justin Timberlake?

9:20am Art Fern:

Jim Nabors?

9:21am Ken:

Yes, that is Justin Timberlake but no, that is not Jim Nabors.

9:21am eirikur:

hahaha this song is some kind of a masterpiece!

9:26am Tiki Pete:

prolly the best song of ALL TIME!!

9:27am seang:

Yeah baby

9:27am fred von helsing:

Yeehaw !

9:27am bbell:

That is not a yogic headstand.

9:27am pgw in mntclr:

i would like to hear a lou reed+metallica version of "looking for..."

9:28am pierre:

Is Justin singing in front of a pizza, in a disturb way ?

9:30am Ken:

Oui Pierre, it is Justin in front of a pizza and the pizza est TRES disturb.

9:30am Sam:

What the phoque is this?

9:30am kat330:

Rabid seal.

9:31am r i s k y:

THIS IS SOOOO SEALY!!!!!!

9:31am common:

BRILLIANT!!!

9:32am Sam:

The seal on the woman's sign looks so vicious! Is he their dictator?

9:32am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

I think I heard a dolphin chorus.

9:33am Webhamster Henry:

Eek, ock, ork, ah-ah!

9:33am Cecile:

I love you Ken.

9:33am kat330:

Well, you *started* on a high note with the Jacques Brel. That's a start.

9:34am kat330:

So, Ken, will there be no program devoted to classical music in the summer schedule?

9:36am kat330:

I interpret it to mean putting it on EVERYthing. IOW, USING god for every situation.

9:36am duke:

Are you going to play Kiss from a Rose by Seal?

9:37am Cecile:

I hate ketchup except on UP-style cornish pasties and in my speshal Sloppy Joe mix. So, God only in certain situations?

9:40am ricardo montalban:

For some reason, I find the use of ketchup on anything but a hamburger abhorrent. I don't know why.

9:41am fred von helsing:

aw man that's harsh

9:41am paul:

awesome

9:42am common:

sorry.

9:42am kiemzi:

ha!

9:42am Dan B From Upstate:

"Live and Let Die," written by W. Axl Rose and no one else.

9:42am MD:

PLEASE STOP NOW!!! NOT THIS RECORD!!! NOT THIS RECORD!!!!

9:42am giselle:

do you spontaneously start table drumming when you hear this song in your head?

9:42am Maria D:

Stop!!

9:43am Kurt:

Rock out man!!!!!

9:43am Skirkie:

Nice try but my Hall & Oats earworm isn't going anywhere.

9:43am Wes:

I woke up with Mary Hopkins' cover version of "Goodbye", another Paul McCartney song. Damn, what are the odds?

9:46am Cecile:

Here, this should help:
http://davidsimon.com/wire-the-musical/

9:47am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

According to British music magazine NME, a fan at GNR's May 31 concert at London's O2 Arena, who showed up a wearing a Slash T-shirt, was forced by security to remove his shirt at the door. The concertgoer, 18-year-old James Revell, grudgingly abided and entered the venue bare-chested.

When NME asked O2's security if there was in fact an official ban on Slash shirts, the answer was: "We were told by the management not to allow anyone into the O2 Arena who is wearing a Slash T-shirt, and we are asking anyone who is to remove it and if they refuse they will be turned away.

9:47am kat330:

Little dog has all the power, heh!

9:48am Kurt:

Could you play some Rush please.

9:48am reliable source:

Axl's do-rag = bedbugs

9:49am Cecile:

my favorite song.

9:50am Webhamster Henry:

I didn't know this song HAD a name.

9:50am Cecile:

The album is "Why Can't We Be Friends?" The label is United Artists.

9:50am david:

I'm not allowed to listen to kens show when i'm broke because i end up buying stuff right away. barnyard beat will be showing up at my house very soon I hope.

9:51am Tiki Pete:

Sun Ra- Nulear WAR!!!! Pleeeease

9:51am Cecile:

when I was a kid, I thought it was "cold, dry dust" instead of "low rider."

9:52am BSI:

I much prefer cold, dry dust.

9:52am falco:

c'mon and eat me I'm a danish

9:52am OM:

Would I get laughed off the playlist if I admitted to having a slight fondness for Falco?

9:53am Mark:

I always liked "Funky Worm" by The Ohio Players

9:53am Bad Ronald:

Good Morning All. "Der Kommisar" LIR's Shriek of the Week back in '81!

9:53am Art Fern:

Next up - Trio, Nena and Haircut 100 !

9:53am Cecile:

either way, it's great.
OM, if I dont' get thrown off for dancing to Falco in the 80s from time to time.

9:54am Kurt:

I LOVE this song.

9:54am Gerald:

I really hope that's an upside-down <em>woman</em>, as I really like watching that arse jiggle....

9:54am kat330:

For the Pizza Hut gif, this goes well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04

9:54am Cecile:

I really love Trio.
They were so weird. Their albums were pretty hilarious. Much more than Da Da Da.

9:54am Kurt:

Now you've got to play some Hall and Oats!

9:56am kat330:

Headless Annie's groovin' right on time to this beat.

9:56am Cecile:

OMG. I haven't heard this in 30 years.

9:56am Mark:

WLIR, the station dared to play Duran Duran

9:58am Ken:

Kurt. I would NEVER play Hall and Oates.

9:58am Bad Ronald:

And Vin Scelsa's Ramones attacks!

9:59am Gerald:

I'm not trying to be funny: I love the guitar solo in the middle of "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage"...I think I must have first heard it on KROQ-Pasadena immediately after "Der Kommissar".

10:01am asdf:

been dancing like an idiot for the last ten minutes.

10:03am Cecile:

awesome, Ken.

10:03am Cecile:

Are you screwing around with the pitch?

10:04am Cecile:

I believe it is RCA.

10:04am Ken:

No, for once I can honestly say: "I am not screwing around with the pitch."

10:05am seang:

is this FOTC?

10:05am Cecile:

It's Atlantic. I stand corrected.
It's a little slower than I remembered. But nice john oates lead voc.

10:05am Cecile:

Yes, it is the FOTC of Philadelphia, seang.

10:06am Cecile:

Or the Chromeo of Philly.

10:06am kat330:

Ken, would you mind answering my question at 9:34 about classical programming? Thanks.

10:10am Webhamster Henry:

I thought the official WFMU policy was only to play Hall and Oates if one of them were to become a serial killer. So I guess that must have happened.

10:11am seang:

this is classical programming

10:11am pierre:

i like your french Ken.

10:11am Ken:

Sorry Kat, there wont.

10:13am kat330:

Thanks for replying. Well, that's a gap I hope will be filled in the fall.

10:13am Listener zero:

While we're at it wrt programming: Night People should be longer than 1 hour again. Heya Ken, good morning to you, and all the people here, lovely or not.

10:13am eirikur:

A440 plays a good deal of classical music

10:14am kat330:

@eirikur: It's gone though in the summer.

10:16am duke:

I know it looks like I'm rocking, but I'm really not.

10:16am eirikur:

10:16am BSI:

Boxer on the trampoleeeny! I must run home and hug my dawg immediately.

10:17am weiterso:

@kat330
is that you?
http://tinyurl.com/c5kjahr

10:17am Mrs Krabappel:

Can't... stop... Doing.. the Monkey!!!

10:18am kat330:

Dogs really do know how to have fun.

10:19am Sam:

A440 is gone. What happens to all those shows that aren't on the schedule? They just got canned? What about Professor DumDum, that guy is freakin hilarious!

10:20am kat330:

OK, so cats know how to have fun, too. Although I'm not sure the expression on that cat is a happy one. :|

10:22am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

Yes, helicopta-cats. The best pet hybrid since the winged monkeys.

>^..^<

10:24am Gerald:

Collective nouns should take the plural, as a matter of the dignity of the individual members.

10:25am seang:

or Catcopter

10:27am Neg-guh-tor:

Rosko! Every conception is immaculate!

10:28am still b/p:

That cat is dead and stuffed and fitted with rotors for flight, for real, unless a pretty good hoaxicopter has been launched.

See 'im fly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8EXkiicOo

See the public propwash:
http://tinyurl.com/842jjl5

10:30am tr=sh:

Isn't or wasn't the cat's name 'Orville'?
Wright?

10:32am Listener zero:

Love this Latin set.

10:34am Andrew Waterloo:

You know, I've never considered owning a car before...

10:34am paula pc:

@ kat330 -- there is a lot of classical in that Fri 9-5 radio lineup, of the Bethany type too

10:34am Listener zero:

"Big 'FMU hit" – Andy Breckman doing an impersonation of Ken Freedman.

10:35am Andrew Waterloo:

I mean cat..

10:35am Mark:

someone pass the damn biscuits

10:36am Ruben:

What was that!!!!! christian music we hate that !!! awful .. Ken should ask Mrs. Professor Dum Dum for some good music.... I am outta here !!! and going to Professor Dum Dum play list

10:37am kat330:

@paula pc: Yes, I've found that to be true, and GTDR will have Gershwin, which satisfies my classical jones pretty well. :)

10:38am Webhamster Henry:

in re: biscuits: Who stole the kishka?

10:40am Jon:

Thanks for playing that Wolfman Jack. It was pleasantly awful!

10:44am kat330:

@s b/p from 10:28 (sorry, juggling phones and people at the door and gen. busyness): Oh, that tinyurl links to the Dog Trainer (as Harry Shearer refers to the L.A. Times :)

10:44am Sign on Ken's Desk:

The Buck Stops Here, Bitches.

10:45am kat330:

Our local paper, OTOH, is the Birdcage Liner.

10:46am Nina Si-Moan:

"Buck, you're a whole lotta man...."

10:46am G:

How did you get a picture of the Target dog's grandfather?

10:48am Nina Si-Moan:

Ken, did you have a born-again experience since last week?

10:48am Shemp:

That's Petey from Our Gang

10:48am Ken:

Target Dog??!! That's PETEY! With SHEMP! A collision of greatness and all you can talk about is TARGET?!

10:48am SteveL:

Petey needs to watch his paws.

10:48am G:

We're not worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:49am Nina Si-Moan:

@G: Besides the Target dog is an English bulldog, I believe, and a very different snout from Petey.

10:50am Nina Si-Moan:

@Ken: G gets $5 from paypal every time he mentions Target on the comments list. [I get $10 each, btw ]

10:50am Doug Z:

Oh boy! The Campbell's tearing it up. My soul has been rejuvenated for at least next 2-3 hrs.

10:51am G:

I didn't know Nina Si-Moan was a pedant, too, on top of her better-known talents :-)

10:51am kat330:

Nina is many things. :)

10:52am still b/p:

..Or a pedigreeant.

10:52am Lizardner Dave:

Well obviously the RIAA knows how to get in touch with God. In other news, why are those kids worshipping the Gorn again?

10:52am Cecile:

Target dog is a White Bull Terrier. Petey was a pitbull or American Bull Terrier. The Target/spuds mckenzie bull terriers have that slopey nose.

10:52am Webhamster Henry:

Why is this cut reminding me of Joe Frank?

10:52am other david:

ken, you're setting the bar pretty high for next weeks fill-in.

10:53am Joe Frank:

Hey, this isn't God - its me!

10:53am kat330:

Guess this playlist today could be entitled OMG.

10:53am Michael:

Please play "Banging in the Nails"---funnier and less obscene.

10:54am kat330:

@OD: Is that going to be Amadeo?

10:54am SteveL:

Creepiest thing I've heard in a long time.

10:54am Cecile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullseye_(mascot)

10:54am G:

Maybe anger management class morphed into bible study...

10:54am giselle:

God sounds quite bland

10:54am asparagus:

Jesus ken. Thanks for pointing out how much more horrifying religion is than norwegian black metal

10:54am asparagus:

Jesus ken. Thanks for pointing out how much more horrifying religion is than norwegian black metal

10:55am Cecile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_the_Pup

10:55am Mike East:

Joe Frank IS God!

10:55am Dan B From Upstate:

I love you too, God. Okay. Bye.

10:55am kat330:

Target's (another $10) dog breed is the same as Patton's dog. Saw lots of that breed in London's Hyde Park for whatever reason.

10:55am Detroit Mac:

Oh Lord, won't cha buy me a Mercedes Ruehl?

10:56am kat330:

Yep, exactly like catsup.

10:56am Cecile:

yup, Bull Terrier. Petey's a Pitbull.
They are crazy, funny dogs.

anyway, off to meeting. later.

10:57am Mike East:

Anyone ever notice that WNYC's stock photo for the NYPD is a picture of a police van partially obscured by fingers covering the lens? Incredible that its the best they can do.

10:57am Sam:

Can you make it say "Weather on the ones" ?

10:58am RIAA:

Did God's Own Label pay rights to Mannheim Steamroller?

10:59am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

hey, Julio is back! But he sounds a lil' bit down.

10:59am BDR:

Bodah?

11:00am other david:

@Kat - I believe so!

Oh Ken... rarely does this show not set my face to stunned

11:02am kat330:

DJ bird.

11:02am G:

Is this how Mary got pregnant with the son of God?

11:03am kat330:

This is exactly like the little tapes AT&T was posting on Friday's Primavera list. Is KEN the true ID of AT&T?

11:06am G:

not a bad guess, kat -- i was figuring it might be someone station-connected...

11:06am jojo:

Fearless leader! all the spiritual salvation wihtout the no talking and lack of sexy talk!!

11:08am paula pc:

other david gave Ken the compliment I've always wanted to give, but I couldn't find the words...thank you Ken for creating a show that sets my face to Stunned

11:08am Joe C:

Ken Freedman is a good man. A man of honor. A man of his WORD.

11:09am Davice:

But he cannot spell.

11:10am still b/p:

Obit o' the day: Ray Bradbury.

11:11am kat330:

I also considered it might be *you*, G. :)

11:12am Joe C:

That Paradise City shnick was actually kind of funky.

11:12am kat330:

WHAT?!?! Oh, no, really? And there was a story by Bradbury in the most recent NYer....

11:13am Mark:

I woke up this morning saying, "I'd really like to know more about canker sores"

11:13am Little Miss Dog Pedant:

Petey was registered with the UKC (the second-most esteemed dog registry in the US!) as an American Staffordshire Terrier. Bullseye, the Target dog, is a Bull Terrier, of which there are two varieties: white and colored.

11:13am Mike East:

Yeah, I read that, too, kat330. That's sad.

11:14am G:

@kat: Twasnt me, but I was wondering what the program was that was used to make those sound bites on the Friday Primavera page, and whether the poster had to have an AT&T contract or not... Also, whether they will die/timeout or not...

11:14am kat330:

Damn... "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (which sounds like what this chick is doing) was an atmospheric fave.

11:15am Detroit Mac:

How about "Tige" Buster Brown's dog? (They lived in you shoes!)

11:15am Sometimes Jasmine:

I'm looking around my office listening to this and getting a whole new perspective on my colleagues.....

11:15am G:

Is this audio of Mary getting pregnant wth the son of God?

11:15am kat330:

Oooh, Buster Brown show scared me as a kid.

11:16am Parq:

11:16am Vivian:

And I lower the volume on my computer..

11:16am Dan B From Upstate:

Glad i wear headphones at work, but that doesn't stop the color of my face changing.

11:17am other david:

Oh lord.. HAHA @ Vivian

And now the flashbacks to Bernt Dahlback's version of Je T'aime, which you also played a few months back..

*stunned silence*

11:17am Parq:

Came into the office halfway thru it. Thank Jeebus I keep the volume down when I'm out.

11:18am PMD:

I am playing loud and clear. Hi Ken...

11:19am Little Miss Dog Pedant:

Petey played Tige in early Buster Brown films. There is a lot of speculation as to what sort of dog Tige was supposed to be, but the original cartoon drawings most closely resemble an American Staffordshire Terrier.

11:20am still b/p:

BBC estimated that Donna Summer...got there...23 times in Love to Love You, Baby. Anyone keeping score for that last track?

11:21am Dan B From Upstate:

As an Uncle to a two week old, I need a copy of this GnR Rockabye... you know... in case I ever need to babysit.

11:21am G:

GNR was kind of cartoony music in the first place, honestly. I loved that video with them standing on an airstrip near the front of a Concorde, as if they were British or something. Yeah, right, guys -- you're the reincarnation of Led fucking Zeppelin...

11:22am Vivian:

Ken, I noticed that Neil Young & Crazy Horse are scheduled to play MSG on 11/27. Are you going?

11:22am BSI:

hellz yessir on the leatherette.....!

11:22am Tiki Pete:

that dog buscuit gif is the best!

11:23am kat330:

Crap, Parq blushing and Vivian turning down the radio -- what did I MISS? I had another phone call, dammit. All I know is this damn gif better go away soon....eeesh.

11:23am Tiki Pete:

...penetrates your thigh

11:24am Vivian:

@kat330, no worries, I turned up the volume.

11:24am G:

@kat: simulated "female getting sexually aroused" sounds

11:25am Jennique:

More dog gifs please!

11:25am kat330:

@G: well, I was already hearing that when the phone rang. I thought it, um, escalated to a whole 'nutha level.

11:26am PMD:

Because of the music being played, I thought the crab was mating in some horrible way.

11:26am G:

I think after a minute or two, some people reached their tolerance level...

11:27am kat330:

Is that a young Blair Brown? Can STILL see that terrible gif above her....pleeeeezee make it go away.

11:28am Dan B From Upstate:

I think there's some of the Nirvana rockabye on one of Trent's premiums from a few years back.

11:29am kat330:

@PMD: First dog species and now, crabs or spiders? I had thought spiders, but looks like water....hm..

11:31am Detroit Mac:

No kat330... Wisconsin is not "Altered States"

11:34am Andrew Waterloo:

Guess I'll never get Wisconsin off my mind

11:35am other david:

http://i.imgur.com/rYBUv.gif

11:35am Detroit Mac:

You get it from huffing Cheese Wiz?

11:39am kat330:

Wisconsin? Now I'm really confused. [and still being distracted by phones and emails and other goings-on here.]

11:40am G:

@kat: the joke was that Wisconsin's governor was not recalled yesterday, so it is not an "Altered State"

11:41am Detroit Mac:

I made a joke?

11:41am Little Miss Dog Pedant:

@kat330: Dog breeds, not "species."
Dogs are good.

11:41am kat330:

Ohhhh, OK. Yeah, more's the pity. SO, spiders or crabs? Blair Brown or ?

11:42am FoFo ^(*-*)^:

other david,

Looks like it needs viagra powder.

11:42am Nina Si-Moan:

@LMDP: You are correct. My bad.

11:42am βrian:

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you an election.

11:42am Little Miss Dog Pedant:

@kat330:
1. crabs
2. doesn't matter

11:43am Ken:

Vivian, I want to go the Neil show on 11/27.. when do the tickets go on sale?

11:44am kat330:

Despite how it appears, "more's the pity" comment was wholly for G, not LMDP. :)

11:47am ANT:

Keep your sore juice away Rembrandt!

11:48am Dan B From Upstate:

Is that the new Tullis and Clark? I approve.

11:48am Lizardner Dave:

Grove's Emulsified Canker Sore medicine. And RIP Ray Bradbury

11:49am ANT:

Ray is dead? Long live Ray.

11:50am Casey:

I've never been so exited about breakthroughs in canker sore treatment.

11:51am kat330:

Say, anyone got a rec on an Internet radio model? Our Grace digital gave us persistent power pack problems, so it's history and we're in the market for something else that can work wireless, a box to take outside while gardening, etc.

11:51am Vivian:

According to MSG's site: Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:00 PM. Unfortunately, NY & CH still hate the Southern man, so we're looking into either Boston or Hollywood bowl.

11:52am Detroit Mac:

I don't have any more canker sores now that the lyme disease has taken over my life... Have you noticed this on your end of the tick... Ken?

11:55am kat330:

@ANT: He was 91, so long-lived and well-lived. I was involved in presenting his Dandelion Wine as part of WCOZ's radio theatre, "Hour of the Wolf" some several years ago. Wonderful writer of childhood memories, like King.

11:59am Aaron in Jcity:

Bye Ken!

11:59am kat330:

@Mike East (from way up the list): Did you read the Gibson piece? It summed exactly how I feel about stumbling into SF at an early age. And he mentioned my fave, Theodore Sturgeon!

Bye, Ken, and thanks!

12:01pm Tom rom Cali:

Dj convict is a he not a she.

12:01pm Lizardner Dave:

Is this the Central Scrutinizer?

12:02pm FoFo ^(*-*)^:

Gracias Keno! See you all and till next episode!

12:03pm fred von helsing:

what is this?? it's great

12:03pm Ken:

Goodbye all! Im back in two weeks. But I am still here.

12:04pm dc pat:

HEY Shemp!!

12:07pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Well, DJ Duane knows how to butter up the boss( in a Bryce kinda way). Give 'em extra airtime!

12:08pm Uke Goldberg:

Uke Goldberg is online http://ukegoldberg.com/

12:09pm fred von helsing:

penalty bong !

12:09pm other david:

Possible new slot for Jim Price: between Ken & Duane, however long that gap may be

12:09pm Uke Goldberg:

Calling Fran Zappa!!!

12:10pm maja:

i love duane

12:10pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Three times...but who's counting?

12:10pm G:

I suspect Ken's anger management training is about to wear off.

12:10pm Patrick:

here is the crux of this situation ken, Duane plays good music....

12:10pm Watch Out:

Don't let him give you that BS about "white man's time"

12:11pm Mike East:

I'll bet he blames it on the path train

12:11pm KevinfromBayRidge:

@ other david, Great idea...one way to get Jim more airtime1

12:11pm G:

Cmon, have your "talk" with him *on* mic :-)

12:12pm FoFo ^(*-*)^:

Welcome to the Kuane show.

12:12pm buddy:

insubordination at its best

12:12pm G:

Some people interpret "freeform" to mean "no rules, period".

12:13pm Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm here now. Did I miss anything?