WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 25, 2017

Listener comments!
	3:01pm Undead83: This time I didn't miss Lee Morgan \o/
	3:01pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin and everyone :)
	3:02pm Carmichael: Me neither. I'm in it to win it!
	3:05pm Irwin: Chad is the drummer. And yes, he played with Zappa.
	3:07pm Lizardner Dave: Odd coincidence - just finished reading "Zappa the Hard Way" a book about the 1988 tour and consequently was listening to "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" before tuning in here.
	3:07pm V Priceless: heya Irwin
	3:09pm Carmichael: That's James Muller on guitar, who replaced Alan Holdsworth in Wackerman's trio.
	👻 3:09pm AnAnonymousParty: Wackerman played with Holdsworth, and the guitar player sure sounds like has been influenced by Allan.
	3:11pm Carmichael: You can see Wackerman play on the Zappa concert vid Does Humor Belong in Music?
	3:12pm Lopez: Egypt Strut is amazing! Great show man
	3:13pm Lopez: I meant show starter but really, great outta the gates
	3:13pm Irwin: There's a great Ragab collection on Art Yard. Every track is prime. Most date from 1968-1972.
	3:14pm Anonymous Coward: OK, I give... who is Ed?
	👻 3:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, folks. Today's 7SD newsletter claims this is Andy Breckman. Is there any doubt? youtu.be... Also, RIP Mary Tyler Moore.
	3:16pm Irwin: Ed wrote the only book on Teddy Reig, "Reminiscing in Tempo." Passed away over the weekend, age 67.
	3:18pm Anonymous Coward: TNX, What a cowinkidink - you had been talking about this Music Factory episode last week.
	3:18pm Irwin: Been talking about it for weeks. But I never mentioned Ed, so I'm blameless.
	3:19pm Irwin: This is pre-Buck/Nix Macwood.
	3:19pm Carmichael: The REAL Fleetwood Mac!
	3:20pm Passaic River Blues: I think I read about Reig in a book about Savoy Records specifically or jazz in Newark generally (possibly Barbara Kukla's "Swing City"). Anyway, excited to hear him on TMF this week.
	3:21pm Passaic River Blues: TODAY, I mean.
	3:21pm Sem Chumbo: Hello, Irwin, and Chusidians. Obsidians, find your own Irwin.
	3:21pm Irwin: Reig produced tons of stuff for Savoy in the 1940s. That's where he got his start. You can't write a history of Savoy without Reig.
	3:21pm flashbazbo: Danny Kirwan is a lost treasure.
	3:22pm Irwin: ^ Agreed about Kirwan.
	3:23pm Mike Sin: I came to this "middle period" Fleetwood Mac quite late. Knew the multi-million dollar era by being a kid in the late '70s and then the "purists" hipped me to the Peter Green era, but this Bob Welch era seemed to pass me by until middle age, as it were. Better late than never. Great album cover on this LP, too.
	3:27pm Carmichael: Kirwan, Spencer and Green are all still alive, though (I think) only Green is still active in music. I was surprised they all made it through the eye of the 60s needle ...
	3:28pm Ochre Ogre: Bare Trees! Great album, including one the best female vocalists in my book, Christen McVie.
	3:30pm Ochre Ogre: Christine
	3:33pm Irwin: R.I.P Mary Tyler Moore.
	3:33pm Brendan: Hey ...swinging scene you cats got goin on here.
	3:34pm Hoboken Jack: I almost shared a completely fictional anecdote involving Sam Coomes. Turns out it was Sam Prekop. Thanks Wikipedia!
	3:34pm Brendan: That bass is power walking.
	3:35pm coelacanth∅: excellent Sam Coomes ...samcoomes.bandcamp.com
	3:38pm Parq: "Mis -stur Gra-a-a-a-nt!"
	3:40pm Sem Chumbo: "You've got spunk, Mary." "I hate spunk."
	3:41pm coelacanth∅: Mary Tyler Moore? oh what a world we live in.
	3:42pm MD: Not the Mad Flutist!!!
	3:42pm Brendan: Flaut it Ian!
	3:42pm Irwin: Tull drums: Clive Bunker. Extraordinary stickman.
	3:43pm MD: I used to Love Tull..Because I was tick as a Brick...
	3:43pm Sem Chumbo: OK, seeing as how we are flashing back to the early 70s, flaut it.
	3:44pm coelacanth∅: Jethro Tull was extraordinary. -every player.
	3:45pm Mike Sin: There's a John Peel session out there from around the time of the LP that offers a cool version of this track.
	3:45pm FRE: Tull makes me want to fill my bong with whiskey and go see heavy metal at the midnight movie...
	3:45pm coelacanth∅: ...just getting into "17" from the collectors edition of benefit earlier today.
	3:45pm Brendan: The solo on the Isle of Wight concert really impressed me
	3:45pm MD: These Drums are Great...
	3:48pm Steppenwolf: Ted Hawkins's raspy voice does it for me
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: Hey Irwin I think you ought to preface today's MF episode with a reefer advisory as well.
	3:50pm Irwin: Reig loved him some reefer, no question.
	3:50pm Parq: Jethro Tull was histrionic, vulgar and childishly sexual. And baby, that's rock and roll!
	3:50pm coelacanth∅: haha! are you the one who's changed the (grammatically correct) "is" on all the band pages to (the grammatically incorrect)"are"? (ie: fleetwood mac ARE a band...)
	3:51pm Irwin: Brendan: Bunker's solo at Wight is mind-boggling. It's on YT, highly recommended viewing if you appreciate virtuosity on the kit.
	👻 3:53pm Alison Porchnik: I'm going to call my next Brooklyn-based retro jazz string band Reefer Rendezvous. (Apropos of something almost nobody here knows or cares about.)
	3:53pm Irwin: What about Pastrami Mountain? Different band?
	👻 3:55pm Alison Porchnik: That's the Brooklyn-based retro borscht-belt indie rock band.
	👻 3:56pm Alison Porchnik: Different band.
	3:58pm listener Rey: especially psyched to hear the Reig episode. In the 40s 110th st. in Harlem was home to Park Palace, legendary latin music venue
	4:03pm Stevel: Very excited about this. Great buildup.
	4:05pm JakeGould: Pastrami Mountain = What comes out of you after a colonic.
	4:13pm melinda: hi everyone.
	4:13pm Passaic River Blues: This is already excellent.
	4:16pm melinda: Sad news about MTM. Glad to be hearing the Music Factory, though.
	4:22pm Dean: Good god, I am at this very moment researching agunahs, the by-product of Jewish weddings.
	4:25pm Irwin: Producer Jerry Wexler: "Teddy had wonderful taste and cosmic chutzpah. Teddy was the embodiment of Norman Mailer's 'White Negro.' He had a green card into the black nation. He married a black woman and … lived black. Before any of us, he also understood how to make a buck off music—and brilliant music at that. Teddy was a freelancer and a wheeler-dealer who suffered no fools and took no prisoners. He could be rude and crude. He smoked enough reefer to launch a rocket. Some considered him a liar and schemer and self-serving schmuck. I liked him. I liked the music he made. I liked the fact that he delivered. Were it not for guys like him, the world of recorded jazz would be considerably poorer."
	👻 4:25pm Alison Porchnik: I love the bass line on this
	4:35pm Anonymous Coward: @RIP MTM-"A little joke, a little dance, a little seltzer in your pants..."
	4:44pm Passaic River Blues: Was there ever an all-Gospel episode of the Music Factory?
	4:46pm Irwin: PRB: Not that I'm aware. I haven't heard all eps yet, but based on the upcoming guests, there's hardly a prayer for a Sinner's Crossroad edition.
	4:48pm Irwin: Wilson did produce at least three gospel albums, recorded at a short-lived NYC "gospel nightclub," the Sweet Chariot. All issued on Columbia '63-'64.
	4:57pm common: irwin. people
	4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I missed TedHawkins - but not all of MusicFactory...
	5:05pm Passaic River Blues: Fantastic. That went all over the place and ended on an Eric Burdon track that summed up the whole thing. The Latin numbers and Basie song were GOLD. ... Irwin, stay on the case! Get those tapes!
	5:08pm Ike: That anecdote was wholly unacceptable! Such disrespect for our boys in blue! That troublemaker oughta been locked up! I thought this was a program of good conservative values! What's happened to you, Irwin?!? Bwahahahaha.
	5:09pm Carmichael: Irwin's building a wall and making WNEW pay for it.
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Beethoven & the PalaceGuard...
	5:12pm Irwin: Ike, I'm so ashamed. I hope my knuckledragging political bedfellows will forgive me.
	5:14pm laughingacademy: Until I read the track info I thought "I've Begun to Fall in Love" was Brian Wilson
	5:15pm Monica: great TW episode today, irwin. love the reig color commentary you added. sorry about the untimely death of ed berger.
	5:17pm Irwin: Thx, Mo. They ain't makin' 'em like Teddy no more. What a contrast to Artie Ripp.
	5:22pm Parq: Aw, Al's EBay. There's a fan video for this, which consists of a montage of pics, one at a time, of each item mentioned in the song. Of all of them, only one isn't from an actual EBay auction. And no, the one is not Shatner's old toupee.
	👻 5:29pm Alison Porchnik: Thanks for the Elvis C!
	5:29pm Linda Lee: i liked pissed-off Elvis very much.
	5:30pm Irwin: Parq: Dr. Dre's snot-caked hankie?
	👻 5:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: More news of the dead. Butch Trucks from the Allman Brother has passed away. RIP
	5:30pm coelacanth∅: pissed-off Elvis is the only good Elvis.
	5:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - all that w/ the Attractions - Classic idn't it? Derek Trucks' dad?
	5:31pm Linda Lee: i think so too, coel ..
	5:32pm Hoboken Jack: The summer my folks moved down to Maryland, I didn't know anyone down there and was pretty bummed. I drove around a lot. Bought a cassette of This Year's Model, would listen to "No Action," stop, rewind, listen again, stop, rewind, play, etc. I'd eventually get to "Lip Service" and enjoyed that too.
	5:32pm coelacanth∅: not Derek Trucks' dad. Butch Trucks. rest in peace.
	5:33pm Linda Lee: the soundtrack to a bummer :-) definitely.
	5:34pm Parq: Irwin, I don't think so. My kid would know for sure, but I think it was the Duke's of Hazard ashtray.
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Derek's uncle.
	5:34pm MenfussMike: a DEAD elvis is the only good elvis
	5:35pm Parq: And much as I love pissed-off Elvis, I gotta say a few words in defense of Wistful Elvis, a great mix of sentiment and wordplay.
	5:41pm coelacanth∅: Costello has penned many excellent songs...i just think his fairly terrible voice only works for pissed-off, or snarky. -my opinion.
	5:41pm Hoboken Jack: This genuinely is great Jewish music!
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sometimes I think you can 'hear' Costello writing - but I'll take self-apparent cleverness over an ocean of stoopid out there...& teed-off helps...& it's just good.
	👻 5:46pm Alison Porchnik: Great Jewish Music followed by early MJ - the world is mysterious and wonderful.
	5:46pm northguineahills: yaye, we can listen to MJ again!
	5:46pm coelacanth∅: yeh, he's a craftsman. even the angry stuff is pop craftsmanship. he did it well though, for 2 albums. (& here and there since then)
	5:46pm Irwin: Love this arrangement. and the lyrics are dark and twisted.
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Quincy Jones knew a thing or two, I guess...
	👻 5:47pm Alison Porchnik: Like your soul?
	5:48pm coelacanth∅: really?! i never listened to the lyrics very closely.
	5:48pm Irwin: Coel: Seriously? Jeezus. Not the kinda words you ordinarily hear on the dance floor.
	5:52pm Linda Lee: very strange darkness there indeed ~ & we all danced our cans off.
	5:53pm coelacanth∅: i never liked Michael Jackson enough to keep listening - though i agree about the arrangement being good, for dance pop.
	5:54pm common: on fire!
	5:54pm Parq: Irwin, you're playing a lot of "Birds of Fire" lately. That was a fave of mine. Is there a new edition out?
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: An FMU-J or two have played some Michael - he sang like hell, no two ways about it ...McLaughlin&Co. make this remind me of 'Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)' by Jimi...
	5:56pm Passaic River Blues: Great show, IC.
	5:57pm Linda Lee: something amazing happened on a dance floor at the start of a Michael Jackson song. if you weren't on it, you got on it!!
	👻 5:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: His nickname was The King of Pop. I can't imagine the pressure he must have faced.
	5:58pm Linda Lee: the poor man was brutalized all his life. the name was the least of it ..
	5:58pm coelacanth∅: Linda, i remember. i think the only MJ song i ever danced to was Billy Jean.
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He may have been the Greatest Performer - but it seems that exactly that ate into his being a Human Being (his Dad pressured him from probably infancy) - & Artist? Hm...
	5:59pm coelacanth: Thanks Irwin.

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January 25, 2017: The Music Factory #10: Tom Wilson interviews Teddy Reig

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Record producer Teddy Reig, New York, ca. 1946–1948
photo by William P. Gottlieb
Today's episode of the Music Factory is dedicated to Ed Berger (1949–2017)

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Chad Wackerman	Scream "Scream" by "Chad Wackerman"	Scream	0:03:31 (Pop-up)
Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band	Egypt Strut	Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band Present Egyptian Jazz	0:09:54 (Pop-up)
Delicate Steve	Winners "Winners" by "Delicate Steve"	This Is Steve	0:14:17 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac	Child of Mine "Child of Mine" by "Fleetwood Mac"	Bare Trees	0:17:35 (Pop-up)

Sam Coomes	Bugger Me "Bugger Me" by "Sam Coomes"	Bugger Me	0:27:07 (Pop-up)
Mick Rossi	Chrome "Chrome" by "Mick Rossi"	160	0:31:36 (Pop-up)
Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs	September	Cats, Dogs and Ghosts	0:33:55 (Pop-up)
Ted Hawkins	Happy Hour "Happy Hour" by "Ted Hawkins"	The Ted Hawkins Story: Suffer No More	0:37:19 (Pop-up)
Jethro Tull	Nothing is Easy "Nothing is Easy" by "Jethro Tull"	Stand Up	0:40:56 (Pop-up)

Herbie Hancock	A Jump Ahead "A Jump Ahead" by "Herbie Hancock"	Inventions and Dimensions	0:49:07 (Pop-up)

TOM WILSON	The Music Factory (ep. 10: Teddy Reig)	THE MUSIC FACTORY (MGM-Verve series, 1967-68)	1:03:16 (Pop-up)
Tom Wilson	Program intro (theme: "Help, I’m a Rock") and welcoming Teddy Reig
Kinshasa (Congo) district natives	Ayilongo/Afro-Mogambo	Sounds of Africa
commercial	Tim Hardin 1 (album) "Tim Hardin 1 (album)" by "commercial"
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 1
Patato & Totico	Mas Que Nada "Mas Que Nada" by "Patato & Totico"	Verve Records ‎single VK-10568
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 2
Chico O'Farrill	Reza "Reza" by "Chico O'Farrill"	Married Well
commercial	The Cowsills (debut album)
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 3
Willie Bobo	Knock on Wood "Knock on Wood" by "Willie Bobo"
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 4
Jerome Richardson	Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon	Groove Merchant
Tom Wilson	introduces Roland Kirk track
Roland Kirk	Fallout "Fallout" by "Roland Kirk"	Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
commercial	The James Cotton Blues Band (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	lunchtime at the Music Factory (program mid-point)
commercial	Sopwith Camel (debut album)
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 5 (discussing Count Basie's "Nasty Magnus")
Count Basie Orchestra	Nasty Magnus	Li'l Ol' Groovemaker
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 6
Jerome Richardson	Groove Merchant	Groove Merchant
commercial	Gone with the Wind (soundtrack album)
Tom Wilson	Teddy Reig interview seg 7
The Alan Bown	Toyland "Toyland" by "The Alan Bown"	Outward Bown
Eric Burdon & the Animals	It's All Meat	Winds of Change
commercial	Odetta (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	Outro (theme: “Help I’m a Rock”) and thanks to Teddy Reig		2:02:15 (Pop-up)

Eric Reed	Ruby, My Dear "Ruby, My Dear" by "Eric Reed"	The Dancing Monk	2:06:49 (Pop-up)
Brian D'Addario (of Lemon Twigs)	I've Begun to Fall in Love (R. Stevie tune)	unreleased track	2:12:34 (Pop-up)
Shrink	I Am a Doll "I Am a Doll" by "Shrink"	I Am A Doll (A&M single, 1979)	2:14:49 (Pop-up)
Weird Al	eBay "eBay" by "Weird Al"	Poodle Hat	2:19:17 (Pop-up)
The Dagons	Heaven Wasn't In the Sky	Teeth for Pearls	2:22:52 (Pop-up)
Mac Demarco	Salad Days (demo) "Salad Days (demo)" by "Mac Demarco"	Salad Days Demos	2:25:05 (Pop-up)
Elvis Costello	Lip Service "Lip Service" by "Elvis Costello"	This Year's Model	2:27:43 (Pop-up)
Thomas Bergeron	Rondeau "Rondeau" by "Thomas Bergeron"	Sacred Feast	2:30:08 (Pop-up)

Tame Impala	Feels Like We Only Go Backwards	Lonerism	2:36:23 (Pop-up)
Shahar Haziza	Kacha Stam "Kacha Stam" by "Shahar Haziza"	Great Jewish Music: Sasha Argov	2:39:39 (Pop-up)
Michael Jackson	Wanna Be Startin' Something	Thriller	2:43:44 (Pop-up)
Mahavishnu Orchestra	Miles Beyond	Birds of Fire	2:49:33 (Pop-up)
A.C. Thompson	Odale "Odale" by "A.C. Thompson"	I'm Alive!	2:54:23 (Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	3:01pm Undead83: This time I didn't miss Lee Morgan \o/
	3:01pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin and everyone :)
	3:02pm Carmichael: Me neither. I'm in it to win it!
	3:05pm Irwin: Chad is the drummer. And yes, he played with Zappa.
	3:07pm Lizardner Dave: Odd coincidence - just finished reading "Zappa the Hard Way" a book about the 1988 tour and consequently was listening to "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" before tuning in here.
	3:07pm V Priceless: heya Irwin
	3:09pm Carmichael: That's James Muller on guitar, who replaced Alan Holdsworth in Wackerman's trio.
	👻 3:09pm AnAnonymousParty: Wackerman played with Holdsworth, and the guitar player sure sounds like has been influenced by Allan.
	3:11pm Carmichael: You can see Wackerman play on the Zappa concert vid Does Humor Belong in Music?
	3:12pm Lopez: Egypt Strut is amazing! Great show man
	3:13pm Lopez: I meant show starter but really, great outta the gates
	3:13pm Irwin: There's a great Ragab collection on Art Yard. Every track is prime. Most date from 1968-1972.
	3:14pm Anonymous Coward: OK, I give... who is Ed?
	👻 3:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, folks. Today's 7SD newsletter claims this is Andy Breckman. Is there any doubt? youtu.be... Also, RIP Mary Tyler Moore.
	3:16pm Irwin: Ed wrote the only book on Teddy Reig, "Reminiscing in Tempo." Passed away over the weekend, age 67.
	3:18pm Anonymous Coward: TNX, What a cowinkidink - you had been talking about this Music Factory episode last week.
	3:18pm Irwin: Been talking about it for weeks. But I never mentioned Ed, so I'm blameless.
	3:19pm Irwin: This is pre-Buck/Nix Macwood.
	3:19pm Carmichael: The REAL Fleetwood Mac!
	3:20pm Passaic River Blues: I think I read about Reig in a book about Savoy Records specifically or jazz in Newark generally (possibly Barbara Kukla's "Swing City"). Anyway, excited to hear him on TMF this week.
	3:21pm Passaic River Blues: TODAY, I mean.
	3:21pm Sem Chumbo: Hello, Irwin, and Chusidians. Obsidians, find your own Irwin.
	3:21pm Irwin: Reig produced tons of stuff for Savoy in the 1940s. That's where he got his start. You can't write a history of Savoy without Reig.
	3:21pm flashbazbo: Danny Kirwan is a lost treasure.
	3:22pm Irwin: ^ Agreed about Kirwan.
	3:23pm Mike Sin: I came to this "middle period" Fleetwood Mac quite late. Knew the multi-million dollar era by being a kid in the late '70s and then the "purists" hipped me to the Peter Green era, but this Bob Welch era seemed to pass me by until middle age, as it were. Better late than never. Great album cover on this LP, too.
	3:27pm Carmichael: Kirwan, Spencer and Green are all still alive, though (I think) only Green is still active in music. I was surprised they all made it through the eye of the 60s needle ...
	3:28pm Ochre Ogre: Bare Trees! Great album, including one the best female vocalists in my book, Christen McVie.
	3:30pm Ochre Ogre: Christine
	3:33pm Irwin: R.I.P Mary Tyler Moore.
	3:33pm Brendan: Hey ...swinging scene you cats got goin on here.
	3:34pm Hoboken Jack: I almost shared a completely fictional anecdote involving Sam Coomes. Turns out it was Sam Prekop. Thanks Wikipedia!
	3:34pm Brendan: That bass is power walking.
	3:35pm coelacanth∅: excellent Sam Coomes ...samcoomes.bandcamp.com
	3:38pm Parq: "Mis -stur Gra-a-a-a-nt!"
	3:40pm Sem Chumbo: "You've got spunk, Mary." "I hate spunk."
	3:41pm coelacanth∅: Mary Tyler Moore? oh what a world we live in.
	3:42pm MD: Not the Mad Flutist!!!
	3:42pm Brendan: Flaut it Ian!
	3:42pm Irwin: Tull drums: Clive Bunker. Extraordinary stickman.
	3:43pm MD: I used to Love Tull..Because I was tick as a Brick...
	3:43pm Sem Chumbo: OK, seeing as how we are flashing back to the early 70s, flaut it.
	3:44pm coelacanth∅: Jethro Tull was extraordinary. -every player.
	3:45pm Mike Sin: There's a John Peel session out there from around the time of the LP that offers a cool version of this track.
	3:45pm FRE: Tull makes me want to fill my bong with whiskey and go see heavy metal at the midnight movie...
	3:45pm coelacanth∅: ...just getting into "17" from the collectors edition of benefit earlier today.
	3:45pm Brendan: The solo on the Isle of Wight concert really impressed me
	3:45pm MD: These Drums are Great...
	3:48pm Steppenwolf: Ted Hawkins's raspy voice does it for me
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: Hey Irwin I think you ought to preface today's MF episode with a reefer advisory as well.
	3:50pm Irwin: Reig loved him some reefer, no question.
	3:50pm Parq: Jethro Tull was histrionic, vulgar and childishly sexual. And baby, that's rock and roll!
	3:50pm coelacanth∅: haha! are you the one who's changed the (grammatically correct) "is" on all the band pages to (the grammatically incorrect)"are"? (ie: fleetwood mac ARE a band...)
	3:51pm Irwin: Brendan: Bunker's solo at Wight is mind-boggling. It's on YT, highly recommended viewing if you appreciate virtuosity on the kit.
	👻 3:53pm Alison Porchnik: I'm going to call my next Brooklyn-based retro jazz string band Reefer Rendezvous. (Apropos of something almost nobody here knows or cares about.)
	3:53pm Irwin: What about Pastrami Mountain? Different band?
	👻 3:55pm Alison Porchnik: That's the Brooklyn-based retro borscht-belt indie rock band.
	👻 3:56pm Alison Porchnik: Different band.
	3:58pm listener Rey: especially psyched to hear the Reig episode. In the 40s 110th st. in Harlem was home to Park Palace, legendary latin music venue
	4:03pm Stevel: Very excited about this. Great buildup.
	4:05pm JakeGould: Pastrami Mountain = What comes out of you after a colonic.
	4:13pm melinda: hi everyone.
	4:13pm Passaic River Blues: This is already excellent.
	4:16pm melinda: Sad news about MTM. Glad to be hearing the Music Factory, though.
	4:22pm Dean: Good god, I am at this very moment researching agunahs, the by-product of Jewish weddings.
	4:25pm Irwin: Producer Jerry Wexler: "Teddy had wonderful taste and cosmic chutzpah. Teddy was the embodiment of Norman Mailer's 'White Negro.' He had a green card into the black nation. He married a black woman and … lived black. Before any of us, he also understood how to make a buck off music—and brilliant music at that. Teddy was a freelancer and a wheeler-dealer who suffered no fools and took no prisoners. He could be rude and crude. He smoked enough reefer to launch a rocket. Some considered him a liar and schemer and self-serving schmuck. I liked him. I liked the music he made. I liked the fact that he delivered. Were it not for guys like him, the world of recorded jazz would be considerably poorer."
	👻 4:25pm Alison Porchnik: I love the bass line on this
	4:35pm Anonymous Coward: @RIP MTM-"A little joke, a little dance, a little seltzer in your pants..."
	4:44pm Passaic River Blues: Was there ever an all-Gospel episode of the Music Factory?
	4:46pm Irwin: PRB: Not that I'm aware. I haven't heard all eps yet, but based on the upcoming guests, there's hardly a prayer for a Sinner's Crossroad edition.
	4:48pm Irwin: Wilson did produce at least three gospel albums, recorded at a short-lived NYC "gospel nightclub," the Sweet Chariot. All issued on Columbia '63-'64.
	4:57pm common: irwin. people
	4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I missed TedHawkins - but not all of MusicFactory...
	5:05pm Passaic River Blues: Fantastic. That went all over the place and ended on an Eric Burdon track that summed up the whole thing. The Latin numbers and Basie song were GOLD. ... Irwin, stay on the case! Get those tapes!
	5:08pm Ike: That anecdote was wholly unacceptable! Such disrespect for our boys in blue! That troublemaker oughta been locked up! I thought this was a program of good conservative values! What's happened to you, Irwin?!? Bwahahahaha.
	5:09pm Carmichael: Irwin's building a wall and making WNEW pay for it.
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Beethoven & the PalaceGuard...
	5:12pm Irwin: Ike, I'm so ashamed. I hope my knuckledragging political bedfellows will forgive me.
	5:14pm laughingacademy: Until I read the track info I thought "I've Begun to Fall in Love" was Brian Wilson
	5:15pm Monica: great TW episode today, irwin. love the reig color commentary you added. sorry about the untimely death of ed berger.
	5:17pm Irwin: Thx, Mo. They ain't makin' 'em like Teddy no more. What a contrast to Artie Ripp.
	5:22pm Parq: Aw, Al's EBay. There's a fan video for this, which consists of a montage of pics, one at a time, of each item mentioned in the song. Of all of them, only one isn't from an actual EBay auction. And no, the one is not Shatner's old toupee.
	👻 5:29pm Alison Porchnik: Thanks for the Elvis C!
	5:29pm Linda Lee: i liked pissed-off Elvis very much.
	5:30pm Irwin: Parq: Dr. Dre's snot-caked hankie?
	👻 5:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: More news of the dead. Butch Trucks from the Allman Brother has passed away. RIP
	5:30pm coelacanth∅: pissed-off Elvis is the only good Elvis.
	5:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - all that w/ the Attractions - Classic idn't it? Derek Trucks' dad?
	5:31pm Linda Lee: i think so too, coel ..
	5:32pm Hoboken Jack: The summer my folks moved down to Maryland, I didn't know anyone down there and was pretty bummed. I drove around a lot. Bought a cassette of This Year's Model, would listen to "No Action," stop, rewind, listen again, stop, rewind, play, etc. I'd eventually get to "Lip Service" and enjoyed that too.
	5:32pm coelacanth∅: not Derek Trucks' dad. Butch Trucks. rest in peace.
	5:33pm Linda Lee: the soundtrack to a bummer :-) definitely.
	5:34pm Parq: Irwin, I don't think so. My kid would know for sure, but I think it was the Duke's of Hazard ashtray.
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Derek's uncle.
	5:34pm MenfussMike: a DEAD elvis is the only good elvis
	5:35pm Parq: And much as I love pissed-off Elvis, I gotta say a few words in defense of Wistful Elvis, a great mix of sentiment and wordplay.
	5:41pm coelacanth∅: Costello has penned many excellent songs...i just think his fairly terrible voice only works for pissed-off, or snarky. -my opinion.
	5:41pm Hoboken Jack: This genuinely is great Jewish music!
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sometimes I think you can 'hear' Costello writing - but I'll take self-apparent cleverness over an ocean of stoopid out there...& teed-off helps...& it's just good.
	👻 5:46pm Alison Porchnik: Great Jewish Music followed by early MJ - the world is mysterious and wonderful.
	5:46pm northguineahills: yaye, we can listen to MJ again!
	5:46pm coelacanth∅: yeh, he's a craftsman. even the angry stuff is pop craftsmanship. he did it well though, for 2 albums. (& here and there since then)
	5:46pm Irwin: Love this arrangement. and the lyrics are dark and twisted.
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Quincy Jones knew a thing or two, I guess...
	👻 5:47pm Alison Porchnik: Like your soul?
	5:48pm coelacanth∅: really?! i never listened to the lyrics very closely.
	5:48pm Irwin: Coel: Seriously? Jeezus. Not the kinda words you ordinarily hear on the dance floor.
	5:52pm Linda Lee: very strange darkness there indeed ~ & we all danced our cans off.
	5:53pm coelacanth∅: i never liked Michael Jackson enough to keep listening - though i agree about the arrangement being good, for dance pop.
	5:54pm common: on fire!
	5:54pm Parq: Irwin, you're playing a lot of "Birds of Fire" lately. That was a fave of mine. Is there a new edition out?
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: An FMU-J or two have played some Michael - he sang like hell, no two ways about it ...McLaughlin&Co. make this remind me of 'Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)' by Jimi...
	5:56pm Passaic River Blues: Great show, IC.
	5:57pm Linda Lee: something amazing happened on a dance floor at the start of a Michael Jackson song. if you weren't on it, you got on it!!
	👻 5:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: His nickname was The King of Pop. I can't imagine the pressure he must have faced.
	5:58pm Linda Lee: the poor man was brutalized all his life. the name was the least of it ..
	5:58pm coelacanth∅: Linda, i remember. i think the only MJ song i ever danced to was Billy Jean.
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He may have been the Greatest Performer - but it seems that exactly that ate into his being a Human Being (his Dad pressured him from probably infancy) - & Artist? Hm...
	5:59pm coelacanth: Thanks Irwin.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 25, 2017

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