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August 25, 2017 Favoriting
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
Sarah Webster Fabio 
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting JuJus Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976)
ECD  In Tempo   Favoriting Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990)

Khana Pong Lang Ubon  Bai Si Su Khwan   Favoriting Rangwan Kittikhun Samphan Sang Ngoen ''Sakha'' Phoei Phrae Sinlapawatthanatham Phuen Ban
Yongyut Chieowchanchai  Pai Khwaen Kho   Favoriting Bangkok Noi
Chaiyo Yasothon  Khoi Nang Khuen Ma   Favoriting Hak Lai De
Chabaphrai Namwai  Sut Thang Rak   Favoriting Sao Ban na Sa'uen

Talkover Music:
Tom Dissevelt 
Syncopation   Favoriting

Goldie Hill  I Slipped Off My Wedding Ring   Favoriting Country Songs
(Vocalion 1967)
Little Carolyn Sue  I Hate Men   Favoriting b/w Mommy's Coming Home
(LAR 1963)
Kay Adams  Alcohol and Tears   Favoriting Alcohol and Tears
(Tower 1967)
Melinda Schneider  I Like Men in Trucks   Favoriting
Connie Cato  Superskirt   Favoriting b/w Big Stick of Dynamite
(Capitol 1973)
Audrey Auld  Your Wife   Favoriting

Talkover Music:
Clifford Coulter 
Big Fat Funky Shirley   Favoriting East Side San Jose
(Impulse! 1970)

Active Ingredients  Song for Dyani   Favoriting Titration
(Delmark 2002)
Archie Shepp  Hambone   Favoriting Fire Music
(Impulse! 1965)
Wayne Shorter  Virgo   Favoriting Night Dreamer
(Blue Note 1964)
Avram Fefer  Song for Dyani   Favoriting Eliyahu
(Not Two 2011)

Talkover Music:
Jack Costanzo 
Bajo Numero Uno   Favoriting Latin Fever
(Liberty 1958)

Ed Askew  May Blossoms Be Praised   Favoriting Ask the Unicorn
(ESP 1968)
The Emeralds  Don't Listen to Your Friends   Favoriting b/w Say You're Mine
(Decca 1965)
The Soothsayers  I Don't Know   Favoriting b/w Please, Don't Be Mad
(Acropolis 1966)
Jade  Rest of My Life   Favoriting Faces of Jade
(General American Records 1970)
John Buck Wilkin  Apocalypse 1969   Favoriting In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter and Sex
(Liberty 1970)
Eric Burdon & The Animals  Wait Till Next Year   Favoriting Eric Is Here
(MGM 1967)
Stack Waddy  Mystic Eyes   Favoriting Stack Waddy
(Dandelion 1970)
Clear Light  With All in Mind   Favoriting Black Roses
(Elektra 1967)

Talkover Music:
Dwight Sykes 
In the Life Zone   Favoriting Songs, Volume 1
(People's Potential Unlimited 1981)

Kabaka International Guitar Band (led by G. Kabaka Opara)  Late Florence Mbakwe   Favoriting Late Florence Mbakwe
(Deram 1980)
The Indomitable White Eagles  Late Doctor Timo Ubaka   Favoriting Ye Ikpete Kumo
(Ojikutu 1986)
Emmanuel Kahe & Jeanette Kemogne  Ye Medjuie   Favoriting Pop Makossa:
The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984
(Analog Africa )
Tala André Marie  Hot Koki   Favoriting b/w Hot Koki (pt. 2)
(Fiesta 1975)

Talkover Music:
SOHO 
Hot Music (Jazz Mix)   Favoriting Stop and Listen: Volume 1 (compiled by Dr. Bob Jones)
(BBE )

The Fabulous Counts  Soulful Strut   Favoriting Jan Jan
(Cotillion 1969)
Emperors Soul 69  Sad Girl (pt. 2)   Favoriting b/w Bring Out Yourself
(Futura 1969)
Bill Doggett  Honky Tonk   Favoriting b/w Honky Tonk (pt. 2)
(King 1956)
Booker T. Averheart  Heart 'n Soul   Favoriting b/w Maxi-Midi
(Soultex 1968)
Thomas East  Sister Funk   Favoriting
Roy Porter Sound Machine  Panama   Favoriting
Woody Herman  Sex Machine   Favoriting Heavy Exposure
(Cadet 1969)
Channel 3  Someone Else's Arms   Favoriting b/w The Sweetest Thing
(Dakar 1973)

Closing Theme:
John Lee Hooker 
Stand By   Favoriting I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971)

Listener comments!

Avatar 8:34am annie:

i've fallen into the wormhole of Afropop Worldwide's archived shows!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35am Doug Schulkind:

We need more ears, annie.
Avatar 8:35am annie:

i'll be there, i promise..
Avatar 8:37am ausmanx:

hey doug and annie, been away for a month but back in the bosom of drummer-dom tonight... hope you're all well
Avatar 8:39am annie:

hey aus!!! good to see you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
The drummerbosom is warm and pillowy. Welcome!
Avatar 8:42am ausmanx:

the gif is not so welcoming, though!
Avatar 8:44am annie:

eventually these gifs slow my browser down, so i'll stay until i have to reboot...and breakfast is awaiting ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46am Doug Schulkind:

Really? I find the GIF smashing.
Avatar 8:48am annie:

i'm finally, yet slowly, getting back to my radio routine.. just in time for the DJ shift this fall... one more box to unpack..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:59am doctorjazz:

Hey all, time to get this on the road, HI!
Avatar 9:00am annie:

there we go!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00am Doug Schulkind:

You got shotgun, doctorjazz!
  9:02am Jesse k:

Morning!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am Doug Schulkind:

Not in Australia, Jesse K.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am Uncle Michael:

Good morning...one last time...for a while...Doug.
Avatar 9:03am annie:

hey doug, not sure if this is important to you but this is the first time there was a skip between the stream and your theme song. usually it's seamless..it happens between the other shows, but not this one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am David D:

Good morning Doug and all! Doug, did I ever tell you I love your intro?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06am Brian in UK:

Hello Doug & listeners. Sunny over here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07am Gary:

Hogan's ... hero?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am melinda:

hi all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, David D, you intro lover you! Greetings, Gary and melinda!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:10am Brian in UK:

Was he the man who schtupped his friend's wife and got paid for it.
Avatar 9:13am Ike:

BRYCE WILL OBLITERATE YOU! Hee hee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
I just like hearing you say "schtupped."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Ike!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17am Gary:

This track is off the hook
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:17am Brian in UK:

Doug, is this a Thai set or a three piece?
Avatar 9:19am ausmanx:

very fine start to the show; i'm tired of the Western hemisphere and i think it's now time to boycott the whole thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am Doug Schulkind:

Trigger warning: The next set will be about as Western Hemisphere as you can get, ausmanx.

Thai set, but I am wearing a three-piece suit, Brian in UK.

@Gary
Someone should erect a statue of Peter Doolan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24am Doug Schulkind:

These Thai morsels all plucked from the bounteous cubboards of Monrakplengthai: monrakplengthai.blogspot.com
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:37am Brian in UK:

Doug, you might say that Harry Smith started something in the 50s. Given that there were so many recordings in the USA alone from WW1 to the Forties; the well in deep.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38am Doug Schulkind:

Harry Smith is a personal hero.
Avatar 9:38am ausmanx:

i always imagine you in a lounge suit rather than a three-piece, doug. but i suppose it's the wrong time of day there
Avatar 9:40am still b/p:

Good morning.
Ausmanx sez Occi-don't.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40am Doug Schulkind:

Not even sure what a lounge suit is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, still b/p!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40am Jeff Golick:

Is there anything Hulk Hogan can't make worse?

Ready for my last morning drummersome of the season!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:41am Brian in UK:

Photographs of him in the Fifties look so modern but then he did have a good eye, if you have seen some of his art works.

Time to visit the osteopath, bad back time again.
  9:43am Mr C:

In times of trouble, we turn to the Drummer for Soul Salvation..
Avatar 9:43am ausmanx:

of course i meant leisure suit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am Doug Schulkind:

Soul salivation, more like it, Mr C.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45am Doug Schulkind:

Audrey Auld on Bandcamp: audreyauld.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47am doctorjazz:

Sweet fiddle on this Auld track...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47am Jeff Golick:

Nice. This one also seems like it would be a good time: audreyauld.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🥁 9:51am duke:

Puny radio, Hulk smash
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51am Hugo:

Salivation - also an album by the great Terry Allen. Saw him once over on these shores.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52am Jeff Golick:

Don't prepare. Just start flinging discs and see what happens. We will happily ride along.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53am doctorjazz:

You did a show of random tracks from the hard drive, was fine!
(there is Tuesday and Wednesday, of course, for prep...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55am Doug Schulkind:

@docj
I'm sure I will be doing some "randomized" shows in the coming months.

Hey there duke! Ho there, Hugo! Hi there, Jeff Golick!
  9:57am ?:

Hiya, thanks for the streaming sounds !
Avatar 9:57am thedunkel:

Good Morning Mr. Drummer - good morning all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57am Jeff Golick:

It's possible the Delmark record label is underappreciated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58am Doug Schulkind:

You're welcome Question Mark! Or, is it Question Marc?

Yahoo, thedunkel's here everybody!
  9:59am lisasingsjazz:

I am said ? I don't know what I did-LOL
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01am Doug Schulkind:

It is a rare talent to lol while sad, lisasingsjazz. I applaud you!
  10:02am lisasingsjazz:

Ooo...love those horns !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02am JtotheK:

good morning Doug, pleasant tidings everyone.
  10:03am Ramblin' Ray:

Peace, love & harmonies to all drummer people!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05am doctorjazz:

Classic Shepp!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05am Doug Schulkind:

JtotheK and Ramblin' Ray. Yay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am Hugo:

Yeah, Delmark and one should mention Nessa, too, were great things to come out of Chicago in terms of opening the eyes and ears to the new thing in the sixties. Of course, Delmark was also a pretty good blues label (and the first to release Anthony Braxton)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11am Doug Schulkind:

Delmark and Nessa. Two of Chicago's greatest exports.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am Jeff Golick:

First Roscoe record, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am Doug Schulkind:

I am Facebook "friends" with Chuck Nessa. He posts delightful photos of his grandkids.
  10:15am Mr C:

Fire Music was my first intro to Archie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am Jeff Golick:

Wayne Shorter is still making remarkable, path-breaking music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Uncle Michael:

I hope I've sufficient 'roid rage to do a morning show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Jeff Golick:

Oh! It's Wayne's birthday!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am Little Danny:

G'mornin' all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am Jeff Golick:

Chad Taylor on both Songs for Dyani....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am Jeff Golick:

@UM: if you stay seated long enough, that rage will eventually develop.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am Doug Schulkind:

I discovered that it's Wayne's birthday after making this selection.

Greets, Danny of abundant stature!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am Uncle Michael:

'rong 'roids
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am Hugo:

Avram Fefer: He also did some good work with Bobby Few.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26am Doug Schulkind:

Yes indeed, Hugo!
  10:31am Jonathan:

Certainly I'm not the only one who has learned much about South African Jazz from the GDTS over the years! So many wonderful tangents and rabbit holes still to explore . . .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am melinda:

@Jeff I used to think the term was referring to that kind.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33am Doug Schulkind:

@Jonathan
South African jazz. Just reading that phrase fills my heart.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34am melinda:

I have to prepare for my yard sale tomorrow but I feel like just going back to bed. Music helps.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36am Doug Schulkind:

Ed Askew collaborated recently with the wonderful Sharon Van Etten.
Avatar 10:36am ndbob:

morning Doug, Melinda, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome welcome, ndbob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am melinda:

hi bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41am fred:

Good morning Doug and drummers. I know Hulk Hogan doesn't like tapes, but I didn't know it went that far back
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am Doug Schulkind:

His shame over exposure of his diminutive penis led to major damage to American journalism.
  10:45am Listener Gregory:

Groovy set!
  10:45am lisasingsjazz:

Ah hahaha, Doug !
  10:46am Listener Gregory:

Hmmm, if I had known my post would appear after one referring to "diminutive penis," I might have pulled it out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, groovy Gregory! And good afternoon, fred!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48am Artie:

We're bigger than this! Aren't we? Maybe I'm wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49am Webhamster Henry:

Hi late Sommer Drummers!
Avatar 10:49am ndbob:

quite a change for Bucky from Ronny and the Daytonas et al
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50am Doug Schulkind:

Artie, some listeners say it's not how long a radio show is, that matters, it's how wide.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
Also known as...

B. Wilkin, Buck Wilkin, Bucky, Bucky Wilkin, J. Wilkin, J. Wilkins, J.Wilkin, John B. Wilkin, John Buck Wilken, John Buck Wilkins, John Buckly Wilkin, John Bucky Wilkin, John Wilkin, Wilkin, Wilkins
  10:52am Dean:

It's not the frequency, it's the field strength.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53am Doug Schulkind:

That turns me on, Dean.
  10:53am lisasingsjazz:

wait til next year...loving it
  10:56am Alex in Illinois:

What kind of accent was that one in the Eric Burdon number? I guess I can Google him to see where he is from. It was almost Scottish.
  10:57am Dean:

My on/off switch is a little dodgy, but one way to remedy a noisy potentiometer is to turn it back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am Doug Schulkind:

@lisasingsjazz
A Randy Newman cover!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59am Doug Schulkind:

@Alex in Illinois
Eric Burdon was born in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne: bit.ly...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00am Hugo:

Re. Eric Burdon, probably Geordie. Wow, great hearing Stackwaddy!
  11:00am lisasingsjazz:

Didn't know that. When I think about Randy Newman I automatically think of Harry Neilson(sp?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03am coelacanth∅:

good morning Doug and Drummer sum
  11:03am Alex in Illinois:

OkayI just took a Wikipedia dive. I always thought Newcastle was in Scotland, but it is Northumberland, northern England, just south of Scotland.
  11:05am Dean:

The Randy Newman/Harry Nilsson connection is sensible. I always think of Nina Simone, if only because of her cover of "Baltimore."
  11:06am Alex in Illinois:

So that term Hugo used, Geordie, is what they call that borderline Scottish English accent and people.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am coelacanth∅:

noon to 3. i remember. (though i wasn't sure it was friday)
  11:07am Dean:

And Geordie was a band from...Newcastle!
  11:08am Mark Williams:

yet Geordie from Killing Joke is a London boy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am Webhamster Henry:

I have a big old pile of LCDs, so I'll check on your old scheds, Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am coelacanth∅:

i was unhappy when you moved to 9 am because i knew i'd hear your show a lot less.
Avatar 11:09am burke:

Groovy bed music!
  11:12am Dean:

Hoping you'll play during the Africa set anything by Glenca Mpbell, preferably "Wichi Tali Neman."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12am Doug Schulkind:

Well hell∅, coelacanth∅!

Howdy, burke!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am Doug Schulkind:

Oops, almost missed, you Mark Williams. (Thanks for sending those great grooves!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Songs with fake crying!
  11:16am Mark Williams:

you're welcome Doug. Hope you found something new in there that made it all worthwhile.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16am Webhamster Henry:

i see Doug noon-3 in 1995. Calendar drawn by Kaz.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16am Brian in UK:

People from Newcastle upon Tyne are called Geordies.
People from Sunderland (seven miles to the east) are called Makems.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18am Brian in UK:

There is something indomitable about the word indomitable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am coelacanth∅:

i don't remember you doing the overnights,Doug. i could never get the schedule down though, even with a copy in the lcd. i remember 2-6 slots - both am & pm; and i remember wfmu going off the air most nights, somewhere between midnight and 2.

...and i have several cassettes of the immigrant when he was on monday morning. i've wondered if i digitized them and sent them along if they'd be added to the archives. (?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Aha! I guess I am returning to familiar turf. Thanks for doing the research!
  11:19am Mark Williams:

aaah yes, the Sunderland-Newcastle rivalry. I've seen some choice insults lobbed from one side to the other.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21am Webhamster Henry:

The 1992 schedule has no Doug in it, but the overnights are:

"Somebody","Stan","Someone","Somebody Else","We'll Let you know","Jim Coppola till 6","Who Knows?"

Stan FTW!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:22am doctorjazz:

I post this every week about this time, but love this African guitar laced music!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:22am Doug Schulkind:

I was on the schedule in '92. Weird. My first ever non-fill-in show was February 1, 1988. I have never been off the schedule (including the stream) since.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23am Hugo:

Stan doing the overnight that far back? Must be something of a night owl!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24am coelacanth∅:

haha that's great, W Henry! "we'll let you know"! ...i guess sometimes "somebody" didn't show up, too.

-Stan has gotten me through many many sleepless nights, through the years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am Uncle Michael:

I probably first heard of WFMU in about 2009. I'm such a poser.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am Doug Schulkind:

Stan has never not done the overnight. It is his preferred slot. Bless him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27am Uncle Michael:

Please join me at the appointed time, for one last go until Winter Break.

www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27am Brian in UK:

Doug, was there a follow up album Mom Makossa?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28am Stanley:

Stanley here, grabbing a few minutes of drummer radio in his horribly hectic schedule.
Hey-ho everyone.
Avatar 11:28am still b/p:

I'm coming up on about ten years listening. Around here that puts me, too, in the ranks of the nouveau moo...or mooveau new.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29am coelacanth∅:

i'd prefer the overnight as well, if i had a show; only i'd do mine contrary to the way Stan does his.
he generally makes it spacey then livens it up toward 6am; but i, knowing there are others out there who might take 5 hours falling asleep, would gradually gear it toward sleep.
  11:29am Mr C:

Hot Koki sounds like Bohannon, or vice versa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29am Doug Schulkind:

Maybe Mom Moksassa came first, Brian in UK.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30am Brian in UK:

Doug, was the Clear Light album called Clear Light. I remember the first track being called Black Roses?
Avatar 11:30am Ike:

@coelacanth∅: I've never had a chance to hear the Immigrant and would love to! I don't know if we volunteers can digitize old tapes and put them in the archives, but if so, I'll volunteer!
  11:30am Dean:

I first heard of WFMU on October 18, 2005, when a friend sent a link to the mp3 of a Brian Turner show that day. My friend wanted me to hear a tune by Pyha.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Tala André Marie sued James Brown for stealing this riff for "Hustle!!! (Dead on It)." AND HE WON!
  11:32am Mr C:

Let's Start the Dance!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34am coelacanth∅:

Ike - i'll digitize them, some day. (i also have several Paul Cavenaugh shows, and vintage Irwin, Jim Price, The Duck, Vanilla Bean -etc)
then if wfmu doesn't want it i can still send you copies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am Doug Schulkind:

Bo-licious, Mr C!
Avatar 11:37am still b/p:

Just took a few bars of this version for prompt bigly liking.
  11:37am Alex in Illinois:

I first tuned in WFMU in 1987. It was my post-collegiate college radio station.
  11:38am Alex in Illinois:

I was living in the New York area at the time
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:38am Brian in UK:

Thanks Doug and good luck with the new semester.
  11:39am Mr C:

You like so sad girl, did he break your heart, sad girl
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am Doug Schulkind:

I did fill ins on WFMU for most of '87, then got my own slot in Feb '88. Saved (and continues to save) my life.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:40am JtotheK:

Peter Nero take on Soulful Strut is pretty good, too.
I forgot that Fab Counts was the flip of Jan Jan. Grant Green album (first issued a few years back...) has a great Jan Jan track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41am Doug Schulkind:

Greatest tambourine part ever?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am Stanley:

WFMU is my saviour too.
Avatar 11:43am Monica:

friday funk! loves it, doug!
  11:43am Mr C:

Doug, you and I landed at the station at roughly the same time. Vanilla Bean was my gateway.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am coelacanth∅:

yeah, back then i didn't want to leave the 91.1 area! i moved to north carolina around 1983 and was out west 5-6 X, but never for more than 4 months at a time.
...now it wouldn't matter as much, with the internet. (though i very much prefer fm)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45am JtotheK:

And my intro to WFMU was Downtown Soulville ... tuned in mainly via the podcast. That has to be 5-8 years ago... Was far too shy to join the WFMU online community until recently (few years ago).
  11:47am Alex in Illinois:

I might have heard you then. I was able to tune it in when I lived in Dobbs Ferry the first year and Williamsburg in 1988. I was never able to tune it in while in Manhattan, where I worked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48am fred:

Doug, will you plan something for the 30th anniversary of your first "regular" show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48am Doug Schulkind:

M O N I C A !

@Mr. C
Vanilla Bean was my gateway, too! This is what I wrote on a remembrances page for Frank:

Frank Balesteri is the reason I'm at FMU. Back in the spring of '87, I screwed up the courage to call the Vanilla Bean on the phone during this breathtaking show he was perpetrating. He was spinning South African discs while raving about apartheid over, under, and between records. He also was reading news clippings and chanting poetry and it was hugely inspiring.

During that phone call with Frank, he found the time to talk with me about radio in general and WFMU in particular and the freedom he had to say and play anything. He found the time to ask me about what I dug about radio and, when I told him I did radio in college, he warmly encouraged me to call the station manager and gave me the number to reach the WFMU office. I called Ken the next day and came down to the station a few days after that.

Five or six years ago Frank arrived home from a business trip and stepped in to a nightmarish situation with his family. Within hours of discovering this, though, Frank still rushed down to the station to be the MC on my Marathon show that morning. Unsurprisingly, he came up with another virtuoso performance -- his familiar hash of nonsequitors, rants, hilarious word play, heartfelt sincerity, song-lyric quoting, etc. -- all the while personally devastated and full of grief. It was astonishing.

During that Marathon show, I thanked Frank for being so encouraging to me years earlier, and he just shrugged it off and started running through the list of Marathon tchotchkes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am coelacanth∅:

i didn't have an online presence until my antenna input on my receiver broke (around 5 years ago?) but now i work away from home a lot and listen via internet as much as otherwise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50am Doug Schulkind:

@fred
I better start planning now!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO:

The mighty Uncle Michael and Hinky Dinky Time is rolling your way next here on the 24-hour Drummer Stream. Michael will knock your socks off, fold them and put them away!

Playlist here: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am Uncle Michael:

I won't wash them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am fred:

I first read about WFMU in a TV guide in a dentist's waiting room. The first show I heard was Terre T, and I was hooked pretty much instantly. Funny thing is I didn't have a TV (still don't)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53am doctorjazz:

Fine show, Doug, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53am Jeff Golick:

I think Downtown Soulville might've been my gateway, too. Also Greasy Kid Stuff on Saturdays.

This is a pretty good piece on baseball and this year's HOF class, if anyone is interested: hazlitt.net...
Avatar 11:54am ndbob:

mine was Charlie's show in 1998 - a friend told me about it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54am Doug Schulkind:

I don't have a TV either, fred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54am fred:

I think it was in late 2002
Avatar 11:54am Monica:

THE BEAN! incredibly encouraging to me as well. used to call during my shows when i was on after you on Fridays. At the time he was working in an office building down the block from the station. He was the real deal. Greatly miss his soul and spirit.
Avatar 11:54am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
  11:54am Mr C:

I met Frankie at Crazy Rhythms in Montclair, along with R Stevie Moore, who also worked there..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Stanley:

The fansite beefheart.com had a link to the 'greatest radio station in the world' and it was a Road to Damascus moment. That was back in 2002
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Frank was a huge inspiration to me. I will never forget his kindness, talking to a stranger on the phone and encouraging me to come down and get involved.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Jeff Golick:

(You've paid it forward, Doug.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the music, Doug.

See you all next door.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Doug Schulkind:

And YES, that was Woody Herman covering Sly Stone.
Avatar 11:57am northguineahills:

Been listening and enjoying Doug, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
That made me cry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am Doug Schulkind:

So glad, northguineahills!
Avatar 11:58am Monica:

great show, doug! thx, kiddo!
  11:58am Mr C:

Backing track to Tyrone Davis "There It Is."
  11:59am Dean:

This is clearly *not* the Channel 3 out of OC that had a minor punk hit with "You Make Me Feel Cheap."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am Doug Schulkind:

Back atcha, Mo!

@Mr C
I dinno know dat!
Avatar 11:59am burke:

I think Bohannon was on Dakar Records.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm doctorjazz:

Been listening to Doug on Fridays from way back, always been Friday work company. Keep the great music coming!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

@burke
Yep he was.
Avatar 🥁 12:01pm duke:

Thanks Doug See you next Friday afternoon
  12:02pm Ramblin' Ray:

Thanks Doug
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm Doug Schulkind:

My pleasure, Ramblin' Ray, coelacanth∅, and everyone!
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