WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from June 11, 2015

Listener comments!
	9:04am Claw!: Good morning, Joe and listeners! RIP, Mr. Last...
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Present!
	9:05am northguineahills: I wonder if anyone has James Last's whole back catalog, how many records would that be?
	9:06am SeanG: HEY!
	9:06am Marcel M: Hellow Joe n' friends
	9:07am northguineahills: Better then the original (Gary Glitter?) version
	9:07am Joe McG: Hello, friends! @ngh: He recorded over 200!
	9:08am pierre: SAlut Joe !
	9:08am Uncle Michael: I have a shit-ton of James Last in digital form. Good morning one and all.
	9:09am John W: What a peppy way to start this blah Thursday morning!
	9:09am dale: enoch light only rivaled by the mitch miller singers in my amateur estimation
	9:10am OTB: Morning, Joe and all! I could ask for no better start to my workday than this.
	9:10am dale: could the hollyridge strings be far off?
	9:11am northguineahills: I always had a soft spot for Enoch Light for some reason, it helps that his records are easy to find in thrift stores.
	9:11am Uncle Michael: I'm thinking "Les Humphries."
	9:11am KP: Good morning Joe
	9:12am Claw!: This is so much better than the original.
	9:13am Jack: Montovani? Ray Coniff? RIP Mr. Giant Man
	9:15am sphere: hello peoplez
	9:15am Kurt Gottschalk: tuned in during ted heath. amazing how instantly recognizable that simple melody is.
	9:16am Uncle Michael: I'm stealing this whole set for bed music.
	9:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...suddenly 1,000 episodes of Mike Douglas flood into memory from some lobe deep in the brain where they've hidden for 40 years...
	9:17am Santos L Halper: I missed James Last doing Wig Wam Bam?! Dang. Been digging these other covers tho.
	9:17am OTB: Swiftly and painfully transported back to the days of "beautiful music" stations...
	👻 9:17am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, she blew my nose and then she blew my mind, loses it's essence with swoooning strings. I got a soft spot, in our back yard.
	9:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you're spared these vocals I'm hearing OTB...
	9:18am Garth: This music is almost too good to be getting work done to.
	9:18am Marcel M: Joe, you going to this shindig in Greenpoint Saturday?
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or not...
	9:20am OTB: RRN63 - I was gonna say...
	9:20am northguineahills: @UM: And we'd all be better off for it!
	9:20am KP: Didn't you!
	9:21am Claw!: Man, VHS cover art could be so great. I miss walking up and down the aisles of Blockbuster and seeing shit like this, especially in the horror section: www.wired.com...
	9:21am Joe McG: KICKS...for you!
	9:21am mauri: always liked the spirits version of this song the most
	👻 9:21am Brian in UK: Is MAD magazine still ventilating?
	9:21am V Priceless: Mornin' Joe and all! RIP Christopher Lee.
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: @mauri was that on Spirit of '76? If so, totally agree.
	9:23am Uncle Michael: I sure could go for some Murry Wilson.
	9:23am fredr: By far the greatest version of Like...RS!
	9:23am mauri: Yeah that's the one Brian.
	9:23am dale: anthony newley starred in a GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE?!
	9:24am melinda: What a great cover of Like a Rolling Stone.
	9:24am John W: RIP James Last: http://time.com/3917299/james-last-music-band-leader-died/ He was still performing this year at age 86. All that music must have paid off.
	9:25am Cheri Pi: INSANE!!
	👻 9:25am Brian in UK: Lemmy on bass?
	9:26am bobdoesthings: good morning
	9:26am northguineahills: cool, thanks Claw!
	9:27am MD: ..././.-../.-../--- ALL!!!!
	9:29am Cooh John: I feel like I'm in the WFMU elevator
	9:29am Brendan: Hiya Joe!
	9:30am Uncle Michael: Three Suns bed music?
	👻 9:30am Brian in UK: Joe, have you got 'Born to be Wild' by Bert Kaempfert?
	9:31am MD: HE NOW SITS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE HEAD GIANT IN GIANT LAND!!! RIP JAMES!
	9:32am Claw!: Lovely first set, Joe!
	9:32am MD: Oh wait I ment to write ...././.-../.-../--- not "sello" but hello!!! GOOD MORNING ALL!!!
	9:33am thedunkel: Morning Joe! Morning Fellow Surface Noise Fans! - great start for my ears today (as usual!)
	👻 9:34am Brian in UK: It's got to have a melody said the old folks. A tune you can whistle. Hence The Old Grey Whistle Test.
	9:36am Uncle Michael: I never knew that was what the name meant.
	9:37am Joe McG: @Brian: That would have been a great addition to the set! I had the version by Enoch Light but didn't want to hit up Enoch twice in one set. He's less recently dead.
	👻 9:40am Brian in UK: @Uncle that was the acid test for songwriters, if the doorman in the writers building could whistle it straight off. It's a hit. So the story goes.
	9:42am Uncle Michael: Thanks for the information. The first rule of Beat Club is never talk about Beat Club.
	👻 9:42am Brian in UK: I thought Superior Viaduct was a good label name but Posh Isolation knocks it into a cocked hat.
	9:46am northguineahills: I remember flippy through the channels one day, and seeing this on Sesame Street years ago. It made me smile.
	9:46am Cheri Pi: How cute
	9:47am Cheri Pi: MONSTER DANCE PARTY
	9:48am Mark: Just heard that Ornette Coleman passed away this morning. Might warrant a mini-tribute.
	9:48am Listener Scott: Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Sesame St puppeteer) nailing the Kate Pierson part there.
	9:49am sphere: oh no. RIP Ornette.
	9:49am Andrew Waterloo: Apparently, an emotional roller-coaster of a monster dance party.
	9:49am Cheri Pi: RIP :(
	9:49am Joe McG: @Mark: Oh dear, I'm not up to that one, Mark. But I'm sure other DJs will do him justice. How sad.
	9:49am sphere: New York Times on Ornette: www.nytimes.com...
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Note to self: find & watch episodes of "Get a Life."
	👻 9:50am doctorjazz: Hi all-really sorry to hear about Ornette, haven't heard it. If it's true, I'd guess WKCR FM will be playing a tribute, usually just his music for 24 hrs (length varies). I'll check it out (after Joe, of course...)
	👻 9:51am Brian in UK: Please no more obits todays. Thank you. Train Wreck is Chip Taylors's label. Saw him the other week. Wonderful man.
	9:52am βrian: Purple haze over the isthmus today. Good morning.
	9:52am Claw!: Oh, this is cool!
	9:52am Kate: Wow! this version of soul man is so fun!
	9:53am OTB: Ugh, drag about Ornette...he had a pretty good 85 years, though. We are so much richer for having had him on our planet.
	👻 9:53am Brian in UK: No offense Joe. Got to go for a motorbike ride and clear my head.
	9:55am Greg from Bloomfield: Morning, Joe & all! WHY HAVEN'T I BOUGHT POPCORN EXOTICA YET?! Gonna do that now.
	9:56am northguineahills: Oh, hell, Ornette?
	👻 9:56am doctorjazz: I'm with you on Popcorn Exotica, sounds great...race you to Amazon!
	9:56am V Priceless: what Greg from Bloomfield said
	9:57am Greg from Bloomfield: OK, that's all taken care of.
	9:57am Joe McG: Yummy yum! A bit early for lunch, I guess....
	9:58am MD: Gettin into the "teenage bachelor land" Joe...NICE!!!
	10:05am Claw!: Liberace at his most rock 'n' roll: www.youtube.com...
	10:07am Polyus: Christopher Lee is also traded this world for the cold embrace of the crypt.
	10:09am OTB: What's that thing about threes, Polyus?
	10:10am SeanG: everyone is dying all the time
	10:19am Joe McG: Wow, so has this comments board!
	10:20am Claw!: Hahaha... I was just thinking that, Joe! Everyone has been busy contemplating their mortality.
	10:21am Joe McG: @Claw!: No doubt! Everybody's bumming about all the dead people. I don't blame them!
	10:22am Polyus: Eh, sooner or later we all go to meet the Wicker Man.
	10:22am Claw!: I bet some "Born to be Alive" would fix that. hint, hint
	10:23am Stevel: I, on the other hand, am not dead yet and continue to have an undying love for the Motels. My vote is with Claw!
	10:25am Claw!: I'm pricing a huge stack of Disco records right now, so I may be influenced by them a little...
	10:26am sphere: Disco is a pretty good way to get happy.
	10:26am Joe McG: @Claw!: I have to play some disco one of these days. It's been a few weeks, I think.
	10:28am Claw!: Yeah, Joe, you've been slackin' on the disco. Don't think I haven't noticed. ;-) Fortunately your taste in everything else is also impeccable, so it ain't so bad.
	10:28am melinda: Disco yes.
	10:28am Joe McG: @Claw: Aw!
	10:32am MD: Empire! everyday i learn something new on WFMU!!!!
	10:32am MD: "fm uNIVERSITY!!!!"
	10:32am Greg from Bloomfield: According to my Instagram, EVERYBODY saw them at Radio City last nite...
	10:34am Joe McG: @Greg: Everybody except ME, you mean.
	10:35am paul b: I remember that Dangerous Birds song as a 7" with "Smile on your Face" on the flip (that one was a Thalia Zedek song) out on Propeller or Ace of Hearts records
	10:35am Stevel: Tired of death? Post-nuclear holocaust music will PERK YOU UP!!
	10:35am Claw!: @Stevel - HA!
	10:35am Joe McG: @PaulB: Yep, Propeller!
	10:36am Michele: Hi Joe! I like this Lulu track!
	10:37am Joe McG: Hi, Michele! I like YOU! :)
	10:37am dale: lulu is fantastic - when she gets that growl...
	10:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & Lulu a 3rd Nov. baby like me. Don't hate it.
	10:41am FernandoBelmondo: Good morning Joe, Michelle and all. Thank you for a great show today.
	10:41am Greg from Bloomfield: ...EXCEPT JOE. They're incredible live. Super posi.
	10:42am Joe McG: @Greg: I've seen them 3 times. The first time was semi-life changing. The subsequent two, not so much. That's why the price seemed too high.
	10:43am Joe McG: Thanks, Fernando, great to see you!
	10:44am sphere: i want to see Richard Thompson but the tickets are $60 each. :(
	10:45am Michele: I saw them about 18 years ago in Boston, when they played Judy and the Dream of Horses I thought I was going to LOSE MY MIND.
	10:46am Claw!: This one goes out to the health nuts: www.mcsweeneys.net...
	10:46am Michele: Joe I am working the merch table for Big Blood, hope you are too!
	10:47am Joe McG: @Michele: I saw them around the same time, had the same reaction! @sphere: I respect that he's a great artist, but $60 is SO steep.
	10:47am Claw!: Nice A&S cut right here!
	10:47am Joe McG: @Claw!: Finally got some disco up for you, forgot I brought a couple!
	10:48am Greg from Bloomfield: I'm getting conflicting info about Big Blood—is it the 25th or the 27th?
	10:48am SeanG: Mekons are touring. Woo hoo!
	10:48am Claw!: Thanks, Joe. You're a peach. (◠‿◠)
	10:49am MONEYBAG$: @Michele was that show at some random building at BU?
	10:53am Joe McG: I'm with you on that one, SeanG! Already got my tickets.
	10:54am Michele: @MONEYBAG$ - yes some theater, I went to BU and worked at the photographic resource center so go to go for free and meet them
	10:54am Michele: @Greg, I think its whatever the Saturday is, I think the 25th
	10:54am Stevel: BTW, the show is kicking ass, per usual. You make work much more enjoyable, Joe. Thanks.
	10:54am SeanG: Nice!
	10:56am Joe McG: You bet, Stevel, happy to make work pass faster!
	10:56am Michele: Gotta go Joe, great show will catch the rest on the archive. xo
	10:57am Joe McG: Bye, Michele! ;)
	10:57am Marcel M: Haha! Bye Michele!
	10:58am V Priceless: oh this is superb! ; )
	10:58am Brendan: Hahaha!
	10:58am V Priceless: hold my calls!
	10:58am Claw!: Brilliant, this.
	10:58am nickybones: Holy shit, this is awesome.
	10:59am Marcel M: Haaa sick
	10:59am Parq: What V Pricelss says. All work stops.
	10:59am Cecile: where did you find this? This was as rare as hell for a while.
	10:59am thatpatsmith: !!!!!!!!!!
	👻 10:59am Ken From Hyde Park: @Claw! - The American Chili Dog Association thanks you for mentioning their products.
	10:59am Stevel: Been years since I've heard this. [standing. applauding, especially the fake falsetto]
	10:59am Listener Scott: Remember this from Dr. Demento. Perfect mashup before mashup was a thing.
	10:59am Greg from Bloomfield: I used to be a Mary Ann guy but at some point I switched over to Ginger.
	11:00am Parq: 'Cile, Hell isn't rare, it's well done. Hee.
	11:00am Parq: Interestingly, Gregg, I went just the opposite.
	11:00am Claw!: @Ken - It's a good cleanse, Man!
	11:01am Scott Williams: Hey Greg! Big Blood is Saturday July 25 - sorry for the confusing info that leaked out yesterday
	11:01am someone had to say it...: I hope that's credited to R.California, and not Page/Plant.
	11:01am Brendan: Encore! (Cig lighters ablaze)
	11:01am Greg from Bloomfield: Thanks, Scott! I'll be there.
	11:01am V Priceless: haha..right you are, someone...!
	11:02am Claw!: Wow. What a find.
	11:05am Cecile: I am completely the opposite on that song.
	11:06am Claw!: The Grateful Dead??? shudder
	11:09am Cecile: I don't like Lee Hazelwood very much.
	11:10am Joe McG: @Cecile: I like Lee Hazlewood VERY much.
	11:11am Cecile: see? that's probably why we disagree.
	11:12am Brendan: The natives are restless
	11:12am Cecile: yay, I love this Boredoms record. Somewhat underrated.
	11:12am Claw!: I LOVE Lee Hazlewood in combination with Nancy Sinatra.
	11:13am Cecile: See, I don't.
	11:13am Brendan: Perhaps we should offer them some fireball candy
	11:13am Claw!: I have this record in my hand right now, and I can't stop looking (and laughing) at the cover: cps-static.rovicorp.com...
	11:13am Brendan: Wait no that will only piss them off
	11:14am Claw!: Womp womp
	11:14am Stevel: I adore Lee Hazelwood on a lightly-toasted baguette. (I have never eaten Lee Hazelwood.)
	11:14am doca: Hi, Joe! Great show today. And I love this Boredoms track
	11:15am Brendan: Lee hazelwood coffee is so aromatic
	11:16am Joe McG: @Claw!: Love the cover, ha ha! @doca: Thanks!
	11:19am Claw!: I'm not a cat person, but it's tempting to make it my next avatar.
	👻 11:20am Ken From Hyde Park: @Joe - Swag arrived last week. The WFMU water bottle beats all!
	11:21am Cheri Pi: I love this album
	11:21am Polyus: what does it sound like Claw? Can the music possibly be as amazing as the cover?
	11:21am Claw!: This one's for you, V Priceless: www.recordsale.de...
	11:22am Whosondephone: this one would be a good audiosurf.
	11:24am Carmichael: Hi Joe and ne'er do wells.
	👻 11:25am Ken From Hyde Park: From the "Oh, Dear" files: www.inforum.com...
	11:26am Claw!: @polyus - Not really my thing, but it's aite. Bluesy-ish rock - some nice organ on the opening cut. Found this on YouTube, if you're still curious: www.youtube.com...
	11:28am Joe McG: @Ken: Good news about the water bottle! Bad news about that other person!
	11:29am V Priceless: thanks, Claw! Just what I wanna look at after dealing with an exploding toilet fiasco.
	11:30am Parq: Reading the news. Christopher Lee and Ornette Coleman are standing in line at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter turns to them and says...
	11:31am Brendan: Hey hey hey St Peter!
	11:33am Cecile: great back to back.
	11:33am northguineahills: Perfect segue!
	11:33am Cecile: Ornette passed? :(
	11:33am Claw!: Hahahaha! Sorry, Vee!
	11:35am V Priceless: @ Parq: "I know, I know..standing and waiting in line really blows...or bites, depending on your respective talent!"? np - all good, C!
	11:36am Claw!: @Ken - Talk about "hot" and bothered. Yikes.
	11:36am frenchee: love love LOVE Alice C. and co. THANKS JOE
	11:37am Joe McG: Hey Cecile, you'll be happy to know that I brought a Rupert Holmes 45 today that I didn't play. Hope I just made your day! :)
	11:37am Joe McG: You bet, frenchee!
	11:37am Cecile: You made my YEAR!
	11:38am Cecile: OK, Joe, if you could play Lonely Woman by Ornette, that would be awesome.
	11:38am Joe McG: @Cecile: Ha ha ha!
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thank You for Freeing Jazz Ornette Coleman. Wow.
	👻 11:41am tim from champaign: Hi Joe and gang! I can't listen right now but I'm following along on-line. RIP Ornette and James Last. I'm gonna have to find a way to sneak a listen to Fabio's show this afternoon.
	👻 11:41am doctorjazz: Ornette's crying tone is particularly piercing/sad now...
	11:42am Joe McG: @tim: Yes, I'm eager to hear Fabio talk about James Last myself!
	11:43am Cecile: hey tim!
	11:45am Brendan: Rip Ornette. After layin down some sweet grooves, you are just layin down , takin a set break. And Mr. Last you were First in Joe's show.
	11:46am someone had to say it...: sounds like a traffic jam in Clown Town.
	👻 11:46am tim from champaign: Yo Cecile!
	11:46am Greg from Bloomfield: Ornette, Mr. Giant Man and Dracula. Rough week.
	11:46am Cecile: THANK YOU
	11:46am someone had to say it...: I like it though...
	11:48am Cecile: Whenever I either play the record or the CD of this, I have to play Lonely Woman about three times.
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - very expressive clowns: I have mused that many Free players have deep backgrounds in Roots musics - R&B, Soul, Gospel - but there are academics among them as well...
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Charlie Haden - Bassist here, mid-western Country roots...
	11:50am Cecile: and some players have both an academic and roots background.
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& that is Jazz.
	11:51am Carmichael: Which Dracula died??
	11:51am someone had to say it...: I was being slightly flippant, rather than dismissive. I will repeat. I like it. And it is sad that Ornette has passed.
	11:51am Cecile: precisely, Rev someone, I didn't take it that way.
	11:51am Greg from Bloomfield: Christopher Lee :(
	11:52am Parq: Mrs. Parq and I had morning-coffee conversation over whether Lee would be mentioned in the news as Dracula or Saruman. I checked about four articles. All were quick to mention Saruman, but all led with Dracula.
	11:53am Greg from Bloomfield: What a run. Dude had an incredible career already and then BLEW UP in his mid-70s.
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @someone: yeah - horns, honks, cries, animals, naturalistic & expressive sounds.
	11:53am Cecile: I called my husband: "Big loss in both our camps today. Ornette Coleman and Christopher Lee." My hubby grew up with Hammer horror.
	11:53am Carmichael: Oh, son of a bitch, that's too bad about Lee. My favorite role of his was the leader of a gay motorcycle gang in the movie Serial.
	11:54am Polyus: Gotta go catch my train like Scorpions said. Thanks for the soundtrack to a nice, chill morning, Joe.
	11:54am Brendan: Nice song Joe. Sums it up.
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lee - WWII hero, spoke several languages, everybody loved him seems.
	11:56am Joe McG: You bet, Polyus, have a great week. And everybody else, have a great week, too! I guess we're all flies buzzing around someone's memory at some point. Hopefully next week fewer people will die!
	11:56am Greg from Bloomfield: Amen. Thanks, Joe!
	11:57am Chris from DC: Oh, didn't know about Christopher Lee. Sad.
	11:57am Claw!: Thank you, Joe! Always a pleasure. :-) Enjoy the rest of your week.
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: That's better. Cobwebs blown away. Hey Family Fodder on the Wonderful Jungle label.
	11:57am common: man im late! hello!
	11:59am V Priceless: thanks Joe!
	11:59am someone had to say it...: Great show Joe! Thanks! Now, where's my swag! :P
	11:59am Cecile: I did!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from June 11, 2015

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
James Last	Wig Wam Bam / Let's Dance / Rock and Roll Part 2	Non Stop Dancing '73	Polydor	1973	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Enoch Light Singers	I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight	12 Smash Hits	Project 3	1968	LP			0:06:41 (Pop-up)
Ted Heath and His Music	Honky Tonk Women	The Big Ones	London Phase 4	1970	LP			0:09:24 (Pop-up)
Living Marimbas	Proud Mary "Proud Mary" by "Living Marimbas"	"Spanish Harlem" and Other Hits	RCA Camden	1971	LP			0:12:45 (Pop-up)
The Groovin' Strings and Things	Walk Away Renee	The Groovin' Strings and Things	CUB	1968	LP			0:15:05 (Pop-up)
The Living Voices	Like a Rolling Stone	Spy Magazine Presents: Soft, Safe and Sanitized Vol. 3	Rhino	1994	CD	From 1966		0:17:50 (Pop-up)
James Last	Silver Machine / Children of the Revolution / School's Out	Non Stop Dancing '73	Polydor	1973	LP			0:23:48 (Pop-up)

Communions	Cobblestones "Cobblestones" by "Communions"	single	Posh Isolation	2015	45		*	0:35:33 (Pop-up)
Hazel English	Never Going Home "Never Going Home" by "Hazel English"		Hazel English	2015	MP3		*	0:37:41 (Pop-up)
Wallpaper	Toy Boy "Toy Boy" by "Wallpaper"	Songs for the Jet Set Vol 2	Jet Set	1999	CD			0:41:31 (Pop-up)
R.E.M. and Muppet Rocker	Furry Happy Monsters	Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music	Sesame Workshop	2003	CD			0:44:19 (Pop-up)
Evie Sands with Belle and Sebastian	Take Me for a Little While	Queen of Diamonds / Jack of Hearts	Train Wreck	2014	CD			0:47:40 (Pop-up)
Los Quandos	Soul Man "Soul Man" by "Los Quandos"	¡Chicas! Spanish Female Singers Vol. 2 1963-1978	VampiSoul	2015	CD	From 1968	*	0:50:47 (Pop-up)
The Jokers	Tabou "Tabou" by "The Jokers"	Popcorn Exotica	Croydon Municipal	2015	CD		*	0:53:27 (Pop-up)
Adolph Jacobs	Cannibal Stew "Cannibal Stew" by "Adolph Jacobs"	New Breed Blues with Black Popcorn	Kent / Ace	2013	CD			0:56:24 (Pop-up)
Vivien Goldman	Private Armies Dub	Sherwood at the Controls, Volume 1: 1979 – 1984	On-U Sound	2015	CD	From 1981	*	1:00:16 (Pop-up)
Drinks	Hermits on Holiday "Hermits on Holiday" by "Drinks"		Heavenly Recordings	2015	MP3	Feat. Cate Le Bon	*	1:04:13 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp	Yawn	The Thing That Everything Else Is About	Red Wig	2010	CD			1:07:37 (Pop-up)
The Mothmen	Not Moving "Not Moving" by "The Mothmen"	Pay Attention!	On-U Sound	2015	CD	From 1980	*	1:12:40 (Pop-up)
Empire	Hot Seat "Hot Seat" by "Empire"	Expensive Sound	Poorly Packaged Products	2003	CD	From 1981		1:14:21 (Pop-up)
Dangerous Birds	Alpha Romeo "Alpha Romeo" by "Dangerous Birds"	DIY: Mass. Ave.: The Boston Scene (1975-83)	Rhino	1993	CD	From 1982		1:17:34 (Pop-up)
Motels	Whose Problem? "Whose Problem?" by "Motels"	Careful	Capitol	1980	LP			1:20:27 (Pop-up)
Family Fodder	Film Music "Film Music" by "Family Fodder"	More Great Hits!	Jungle	2008	CD	From 1981 single		1:24:23 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s, all in a row
Lulu	Morning Dew "Morning Dew" by "Lulu"	single	Epic	1968	45			1:34:12 (Pop-up)
Future	Love Is All You've Got "Love Is All You've Got" by "Future"	single	Shamley	1969	45			1:36:47 (Pop-up)
Sam Cooke	Another Saturday Night "Another Saturday Night" by "Sam Cooke"	single	RCA Victor	1963	45			1:39:31 (Pop-up)
Graham Parker & the Rumour	Kansas City	single	Phonogram	1976	45			1:41:45 (Pop-up)
Ashford and Simpson	Don't Cost You Nothing	single	Warner Brothers	1977	45			1:44:37 (Pop-up)
Houseband	Dancing Shoes "Dancing Shoes" by "Houseband"	single	Midland International	1977	45			1:48:15 (Pop-up)
Terry Fell and the Fellers	Truck Driving Man	single	X	1954	45			1:51:55 (Pop-up)
The Emotions	Echo "Echo" by "The Emotions"	single	Kapp	1962	45			1:54:14 (Pop-up)
Little Roger & the Goosebumps	Gilligan's Island (Stairway)	single	Splash	1978	45			1:56:36 (Pop-up)

Boredoms	Seadrum "Seadrum" by "Boredoms"	Seadrum / House of Sun	Vice/Warner Music Japan	2005	CD			2:10:53 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane	Shiva-Loka "Shiva-Loka" by "Alice Coltrane"	Journey in Satchidananda	Impulse/MCA	1997	CD	From 1970		2:32:07 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman	Beauty Is a Rare Thing	Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings	Atlantic/Rhino	1993	CD	From 1960; R.I.P.		2:38:34 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman	Lonely Woman "Lonely Woman" by "Ornette Coleman"	Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings	Atlantic/Rhino	1993	CD	From 1959		2:45:44 (Pop-up)
Michael Chapman	In the Valley "In the Valley" by "Michael Chapman"	Window	Light in the Attic	2015	LP	From 1970	*	2:51:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:04am Claw!: Good morning, Joe and listeners! RIP, Mr. Last...
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Present!
	9:05am northguineahills: I wonder if anyone has James Last's whole back catalog, how many records would that be?
	9:06am SeanG: HEY!
	9:06am Marcel M: Hellow Joe n' friends
	9:07am northguineahills: Better then the original (Gary Glitter?) version
	9:07am Joe McG: Hello, friends! @ngh: He recorded over 200!
	9:08am pierre: SAlut Joe !
	9:08am Uncle Michael: I have a shit-ton of James Last in digital form. Good morning one and all.
	9:09am John W: What a peppy way to start this blah Thursday morning!
	9:09am dale: enoch light only rivaled by the mitch miller singers in my amateur estimation
	9:10am OTB: Morning, Joe and all! I could ask for no better start to my workday than this.
	9:10am dale: could the hollyridge strings be far off?
	9:11am northguineahills: I always had a soft spot for Enoch Light for some reason, it helps that his records are easy to find in thrift stores.
	9:11am Uncle Michael: I'm thinking "Les Humphries."
	9:11am KP: Good morning Joe
	9:12am Claw!: This is so much better than the original.
	9:13am Jack: Montovani? Ray Coniff? RIP Mr. Giant Man
	9:15am sphere: hello peoplez
	9:15am Kurt Gottschalk: tuned in during ted heath. amazing how instantly recognizable that simple melody is.
	9:16am Uncle Michael: I'm stealing this whole set for bed music.
	9:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...suddenly 1,000 episodes of Mike Douglas flood into memory from some lobe deep in the brain where they've hidden for 40 years...
	9:17am Santos L Halper: I missed James Last doing Wig Wam Bam?! Dang. Been digging these other covers tho.
	9:17am OTB: Swiftly and painfully transported back to the days of "beautiful music" stations...
	👻 9:17am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, she blew my nose and then she blew my mind, loses it's essence with swoooning strings. I got a soft spot, in our back yard.
	9:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you're spared these vocals I'm hearing OTB...
	9:18am Garth: This music is almost too good to be getting work done to.
	9:18am Marcel M: Joe, you going to this shindig in Greenpoint Saturday?
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or not...
	9:20am OTB: RRN63 - I was gonna say...
	9:20am northguineahills: @UM: And we'd all be better off for it!
	9:20am KP: Didn't you!
	9:21am Claw!: Man, VHS cover art could be so great. I miss walking up and down the aisles of Blockbuster and seeing shit like this, especially in the horror section: www.wired.com...
	9:21am Joe McG: KICKS...for you!
	9:21am mauri: always liked the spirits version of this song the most
	👻 9:21am Brian in UK: Is MAD magazine still ventilating?
	9:21am V Priceless: Mornin' Joe and all! RIP Christopher Lee.
	👻 9:22am Brian in UK: @mauri was that on Spirit of '76? If so, totally agree.
	9:23am Uncle Michael: I sure could go for some Murry Wilson.
	9:23am fredr: By far the greatest version of Like...RS!
	9:23am mauri: Yeah that's the one Brian.
	9:23am dale: anthony newley starred in a GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE?!
	9:24am melinda: What a great cover of Like a Rolling Stone.
	9:24am John W: RIP James Last: http://time.com/3917299/james-last-music-band-leader-died/ He was still performing this year at age 86. All that music must have paid off.
	9:25am Cheri Pi: INSANE!!
	👻 9:25am Brian in UK: Lemmy on bass?
	9:26am bobdoesthings: good morning
	9:26am northguineahills: cool, thanks Claw!
	9:27am MD: ..././.-../.-../--- ALL!!!!
	9:29am Cooh John: I feel like I'm in the WFMU elevator
	9:29am Brendan: Hiya Joe!
	9:30am Uncle Michael: Three Suns bed music?
	👻 9:30am Brian in UK: Joe, have you got 'Born to be Wild' by Bert Kaempfert?
	9:31am MD: HE NOW SITS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE HEAD GIANT IN GIANT LAND!!! RIP JAMES!
	9:32am Claw!: Lovely first set, Joe!
	9:32am MD: Oh wait I ment to write ...././.-../.-../--- not "sello" but hello!!! GOOD MORNING ALL!!!
	9:33am thedunkel: Morning Joe! Morning Fellow Surface Noise Fans! - great start for my ears today (as usual!)
	👻 9:34am Brian in UK: It's got to have a melody said the old folks. A tune you can whistle. Hence The Old Grey Whistle Test.
	9:36am Uncle Michael: I never knew that was what the name meant.
	9:37am Joe McG: @Brian: That would have been a great addition to the set! I had the version by Enoch Light but didn't want to hit up Enoch twice in one set. He's less recently dead.
	👻 9:40am Brian in UK: @Uncle that was the acid test for songwriters, if the doorman in the writers building could whistle it straight off. It's a hit. So the story goes.
	9:42am Uncle Michael: Thanks for the information. The first rule of Beat Club is never talk about Beat Club.
	👻 9:42am Brian in UK: I thought Superior Viaduct was a good label name but Posh Isolation knocks it into a cocked hat.
	9:46am northguineahills: I remember flippy through the channels one day, and seeing this on Sesame Street years ago. It made me smile.
	9:46am Cheri Pi: How cute
	9:47am Cheri Pi: MONSTER DANCE PARTY
	9:48am Mark: Just heard that Ornette Coleman passed away this morning. Might warrant a mini-tribute.
	9:48am Listener Scott: Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Sesame St puppeteer) nailing the Kate Pierson part there.
	9:49am sphere: oh no. RIP Ornette.
	9:49am Andrew Waterloo: Apparently, an emotional roller-coaster of a monster dance party.
	9:49am Cheri Pi: RIP :(
	9:49am Joe McG: @Mark: Oh dear, I'm not up to that one, Mark. But I'm sure other DJs will do him justice. How sad.
	9:49am sphere: New York Times on Ornette: www.nytimes.com...
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Note to self: find & watch episodes of "Get a Life."
	👻 9:50am doctorjazz: Hi all-really sorry to hear about Ornette, haven't heard it. If it's true, I'd guess WKCR FM will be playing a tribute, usually just his music for 24 hrs (length varies). I'll check it out (after Joe, of course...)
	👻 9:51am Brian in UK: Please no more obits todays. Thank you. Train Wreck is Chip Taylors's label. Saw him the other week. Wonderful man.
	9:52am βrian: Purple haze over the isthmus today. Good morning.
	9:52am Claw!: Oh, this is cool!
	9:52am Kate: Wow! this version of soul man is so fun!
	9:53am OTB: Ugh, drag about Ornette...he had a pretty good 85 years, though. We are so much richer for having had him on our planet.
	👻 9:53am Brian in UK: No offense Joe. Got to go for a motorbike ride and clear my head.
	9:55am Greg from Bloomfield: Morning, Joe & all! WHY HAVEN'T I BOUGHT POPCORN EXOTICA YET?! Gonna do that now.
	9:56am northguineahills: Oh, hell, Ornette?
	👻 9:56am doctorjazz: I'm with you on Popcorn Exotica, sounds great...race you to Amazon!
	9:56am V Priceless: what Greg from Bloomfield said
	9:57am Greg from Bloomfield: OK, that's all taken care of.
	9:57am Joe McG: Yummy yum! A bit early for lunch, I guess....
	9:58am MD: Gettin into the "teenage bachelor land" Joe...NICE!!!
	10:05am Claw!: Liberace at his most rock 'n' roll: www.youtube.com...
	10:07am Polyus: Christopher Lee is also traded this world for the cold embrace of the crypt.
	10:09am OTB: What's that thing about threes, Polyus?
	10:10am SeanG: everyone is dying all the time
	10:19am Joe McG: Wow, so has this comments board!
	10:20am Claw!: Hahaha... I was just thinking that, Joe! Everyone has been busy contemplating their mortality.
	10:21am Joe McG: @Claw!: No doubt! Everybody's bumming about all the dead people. I don't blame them!
	10:22am Polyus: Eh, sooner or later we all go to meet the Wicker Man.
	10:22am Claw!: I bet some "Born to be Alive" would fix that. hint, hint
	10:23am Stevel: I, on the other hand, am not dead yet and continue to have an undying love for the Motels. My vote is with Claw!
	10:25am Claw!: I'm pricing a huge stack of Disco records right now, so I may be influenced by them a little...
	10:26am sphere: Disco is a pretty good way to get happy.
	10:26am Joe McG: @Claw!: I have to play some disco one of these days. It's been a few weeks, I think.
	10:28am Claw!: Yeah, Joe, you've been slackin' on the disco. Don't think I haven't noticed. ;-) Fortunately your taste in everything else is also impeccable, so it ain't so bad.
	10:28am melinda: Disco yes.
	10:28am Joe McG: @Claw: Aw!
	10:32am MD: Empire! everyday i learn something new on WFMU!!!!
	10:32am MD: "fm uNIVERSITY!!!!"
	10:32am Greg from Bloomfield: According to my Instagram, EVERYBODY saw them at Radio City last nite...
	10:34am Joe McG: @Greg: Everybody except ME, you mean.
	10:35am paul b: I remember that Dangerous Birds song as a 7" with "Smile on your Face" on the flip (that one was a Thalia Zedek song) out on Propeller or Ace of Hearts records
	10:35am Stevel: Tired of death? Post-nuclear holocaust music will PERK YOU UP!!
	10:35am Claw!: @Stevel - HA!
	10:35am Joe McG: @PaulB: Yep, Propeller!
	10:36am Michele: Hi Joe! I like this Lulu track!
	10:37am Joe McG: Hi, Michele! I like YOU! :)
	10:37am dale: lulu is fantastic - when she gets that growl...
	10:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & Lulu a 3rd Nov. baby like me. Don't hate it.
	10:41am FernandoBelmondo: Good morning Joe, Michelle and all. Thank you for a great show today.
	10:41am Greg from Bloomfield: ...EXCEPT JOE. They're incredible live. Super posi.
	10:42am Joe McG: @Greg: I've seen them 3 times. The first time was semi-life changing. The subsequent two, not so much. That's why the price seemed too high.
	10:43am Joe McG: Thanks, Fernando, great to see you!
	10:44am sphere: i want to see Richard Thompson but the tickets are $60 each. :(
	10:45am Michele: I saw them about 18 years ago in Boston, when they played Judy and the Dream of Horses I thought I was going to LOSE MY MIND.
	10:46am Claw!: This one goes out to the health nuts: www.mcsweeneys.net...
	10:46am Michele: Joe I am working the merch table for Big Blood, hope you are too!
	10:47am Joe McG: @Michele: I saw them around the same time, had the same reaction! @sphere: I respect that he's a great artist, but $60 is SO steep.
	10:47am Claw!: Nice A&S cut right here!
	10:47am Joe McG: @Claw!: Finally got some disco up for you, forgot I brought a couple!
	10:48am Greg from Bloomfield: I'm getting conflicting info about Big Blood—is it the 25th or the 27th?
	10:48am SeanG: Mekons are touring. Woo hoo!
	10:48am Claw!: Thanks, Joe. You're a peach. (◠‿◠)
	10:49am MONEYBAG$: @Michele was that show at some random building at BU?
	10:53am Joe McG: I'm with you on that one, SeanG! Already got my tickets.
	10:54am Michele: @MONEYBAG$ - yes some theater, I went to BU and worked at the photographic resource center so go to go for free and meet them
	10:54am Michele: @Greg, I think its whatever the Saturday is, I think the 25th
	10:54am Stevel: BTW, the show is kicking ass, per usual. You make work much more enjoyable, Joe. Thanks.
	10:54am SeanG: Nice!
	10:56am Joe McG: You bet, Stevel, happy to make work pass faster!
	10:56am Michele: Gotta go Joe, great show will catch the rest on the archive. xo
	10:57am Joe McG: Bye, Michele! ;)
	10:57am Marcel M: Haha! Bye Michele!
	10:58am V Priceless: oh this is superb! ; )
	10:58am Brendan: Hahaha!
	10:58am V Priceless: hold my calls!
	10:58am Claw!: Brilliant, this.
	10:58am nickybones: Holy shit, this is awesome.
	10:59am Marcel M: Haaa sick
	10:59am Parq: What V Pricelss says. All work stops.
	10:59am Cecile: where did you find this? This was as rare as hell for a while.
	10:59am thatpatsmith: !!!!!!!!!!
	👻 10:59am Ken From Hyde Park: @Claw! - The American Chili Dog Association thanks you for mentioning their products.
	10:59am Stevel: Been years since I've heard this. [standing. applauding, especially the fake falsetto]
	10:59am Listener Scott: Remember this from Dr. Demento. Perfect mashup before mashup was a thing.
	10:59am Greg from Bloomfield: I used to be a Mary Ann guy but at some point I switched over to Ginger.
	11:00am Parq: 'Cile, Hell isn't rare, it's well done. Hee.
	11:00am Parq: Interestingly, Gregg, I went just the opposite.
	11:00am Claw!: @Ken - It's a good cleanse, Man!
	11:01am Scott Williams: Hey Greg! Big Blood is Saturday July 25 - sorry for the confusing info that leaked out yesterday
	11:01am someone had to say it...: I hope that's credited to R.California, and not Page/Plant.
	11:01am Brendan: Encore! (Cig lighters ablaze)
	11:01am Greg from Bloomfield: Thanks, Scott! I'll be there.
	11:01am V Priceless: haha..right you are, someone...!
	11:02am Claw!: Wow. What a find.
	11:05am Cecile: I am completely the opposite on that song.
	11:06am Claw!: The Grateful Dead??? shudder
	11:09am Cecile: I don't like Lee Hazelwood very much.
	11:10am Joe McG: @Cecile: I like Lee Hazlewood VERY much.
	11:11am Cecile: see? that's probably why we disagree.
	11:12am Brendan: The natives are restless
	11:12am Cecile: yay, I love this Boredoms record. Somewhat underrated.
	11:12am Claw!: I LOVE Lee Hazlewood in combination with Nancy Sinatra.
	11:13am Cecile: See, I don't.
	11:13am Brendan: Perhaps we should offer them some fireball candy
	11:13am Claw!: I have this record in my hand right now, and I can't stop looking (and laughing) at the cover: cps-static.rovicorp.com...
	11:13am Brendan: Wait no that will only piss them off
	11:14am Claw!: Womp womp
	11:14am Stevel: I adore Lee Hazelwood on a lightly-toasted baguette. (I have never eaten Lee Hazelwood.)
	11:14am doca: Hi, Joe! Great show today. And I love this Boredoms track
	11:15am Brendan: Lee hazelwood coffee is so aromatic
	11:16am Joe McG: @Claw!: Love the cover, ha ha! @doca: Thanks!
	11:19am Claw!: I'm not a cat person, but it's tempting to make it my next avatar.
	👻 11:20am Ken From Hyde Park: @Joe - Swag arrived last week. The WFMU water bottle beats all!
	11:21am Cheri Pi: I love this album
	11:21am Polyus: what does it sound like Claw? Can the music possibly be as amazing as the cover?
	11:21am Claw!: This one's for you, V Priceless: www.recordsale.de...
	11:22am Whosondephone: this one would be a good audiosurf.
	11:24am Carmichael: Hi Joe and ne'er do wells.
	👻 11:25am Ken From Hyde Park: From the "Oh, Dear" files: www.inforum.com...
	11:26am Claw!: @polyus - Not really my thing, but it's aite. Bluesy-ish rock - some nice organ on the opening cut. Found this on YouTube, if you're still curious: www.youtube.com...
	11:28am Joe McG: @Ken: Good news about the water bottle! Bad news about that other person!
	11:29am V Priceless: thanks, Claw! Just what I wanna look at after dealing with an exploding toilet fiasco.
	11:30am Parq: Reading the news. Christopher Lee and Ornette Coleman are standing in line at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter turns to them and says...
	11:31am Brendan: Hey hey hey St Peter!
	11:33am Cecile: great back to back.
	11:33am northguineahills: Perfect segue!
	11:33am Cecile: Ornette passed? :(
	11:33am Claw!: Hahahaha! Sorry, Vee!
	11:35am V Priceless: @ Parq: "I know, I know..standing and waiting in line really blows...or bites, depending on your respective talent!"? np - all good, C!
	11:36am Claw!: @Ken - Talk about "hot" and bothered. Yikes.
	11:36am frenchee: love love LOVE Alice C. and co. THANKS JOE
	11:37am Joe McG: Hey Cecile, you'll be happy to know that I brought a Rupert Holmes 45 today that I didn't play. Hope I just made your day! :)
	11:37am Joe McG: You bet, frenchee!
	11:37am Cecile: You made my YEAR!
	11:38am Cecile: OK, Joe, if you could play Lonely Woman by Ornette, that would be awesome.
	11:38am Joe McG: @Cecile: Ha ha ha!
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thank You for Freeing Jazz Ornette Coleman. Wow.
	👻 11:41am tim from champaign: Hi Joe and gang! I can't listen right now but I'm following along on-line. RIP Ornette and James Last. I'm gonna have to find a way to sneak a listen to Fabio's show this afternoon.
	👻 11:41am doctorjazz: Ornette's crying tone is particularly piercing/sad now...
	11:42am Joe McG: @tim: Yes, I'm eager to hear Fabio talk about James Last myself!
	11:43am Cecile: hey tim!
	11:45am Brendan: Rip Ornette. After layin down some sweet grooves, you are just layin down , takin a set break. And Mr. Last you were First in Joe's show.
	11:46am someone had to say it...: sounds like a traffic jam in Clown Town.
	👻 11:46am tim from champaign: Yo Cecile!
	11:46am Greg from Bloomfield: Ornette, Mr. Giant Man and Dracula. Rough week.
	11:46am Cecile: THANK YOU
	11:46am someone had to say it...: I like it though...
	11:48am Cecile: Whenever I either play the record or the CD of this, I have to play Lonely Woman about three times.
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - very expressive clowns: I have mused that many Free players have deep backgrounds in Roots musics - R&B, Soul, Gospel - but there are academics among them as well...
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Charlie Haden - Bassist here, mid-western Country roots...
	11:50am Cecile: and some players have both an academic and roots background.
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& that is Jazz.
	11:51am Carmichael: Which Dracula died??
	11:51am someone had to say it...: I was being slightly flippant, rather than dismissive. I will repeat. I like it. And it is sad that Ornette has passed.
	11:51am Cecile: precisely, Rev someone, I didn't take it that way.
	11:51am Greg from Bloomfield: Christopher Lee :(
	11:52am Parq: Mrs. Parq and I had morning-coffee conversation over whether Lee would be mentioned in the news as Dracula or Saruman. I checked about four articles. All were quick to mention Saruman, but all led with Dracula.
	11:53am Greg from Bloomfield: What a run. Dude had an incredible career already and then BLEW UP in his mid-70s.
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @someone: yeah - horns, honks, cries, animals, naturalistic & expressive sounds.
	11:53am Cecile: I called my husband: "Big loss in both our camps today. Ornette Coleman and Christopher Lee." My hubby grew up with Hammer horror.
	11:53am Carmichael: Oh, son of a bitch, that's too bad about Lee. My favorite role of his was the leader of a gay motorcycle gang in the movie Serial.
	11:54am Polyus: Gotta go catch my train like Scorpions said. Thanks for the soundtrack to a nice, chill morning, Joe.
	11:54am Brendan: Nice song Joe. Sums it up.
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lee - WWII hero, spoke several languages, everybody loved him seems.
	11:56am Joe McG: You bet, Polyus, have a great week. And everybody else, have a great week, too! I guess we're all flies buzzing around someone's memory at some point. Hopefully next week fewer people will die!
	11:56am Greg from Bloomfield: Amen. Thanks, Joe!
	11:57am Chris from DC: Oh, didn't know about Christopher Lee. Sad.
	11:57am Claw!: Thank you, Joe! Always a pleasure. :-) Enjoy the rest of your week.
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: That's better. Cobwebs blown away. Hey Family Fodder on the Wonderful Jungle label.
	11:57am common: man im late! hello!
	11:59am V Priceless: thanks Joe!
	11:59am someone had to say it...: Great show Joe! Thanks! Now, where's my swag! :P
	11:59am Cecile: I did!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from June 11, 2015

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