WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 09/15/17

Listener comments!

11:47am Parq:

Ra.

11:48am Doug Schulkind:

Rah!

11:49am Stevel:

Raw

11:52am annie:

11:53am Jeff Golick:

Spinning stars.

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

rannie!

11:54am annie:

roug!

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

Hi Parq, Stevel, Jeff Golick, annie!

🥁

12:00pm listener james from westwood:

Was @ the doc's for much of HDT, so happy to be here in time for GTDS!

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Happiness is having you here, Listener James.

12:05pm Dominick:

Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

12:06pm Leonardo:

Nice curtains behind Ra there.

12:06pm Uncle Michael:

Howdy!

12:06pm annie:

UM!!

12:06pm Dean:

Making me dizzy...

12:06pm Doug Schulkind:

@Dominick
That makes me imagine Sun Ra as a drum major in a marching band. Which, of course, he exactly was.

12:07pm Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, Leonardo and Uncle Michael!

🥁

12:07pm listener james from westwood:

Dominick in with the Simpsons coverage!

12:08pm Maggie B.:

<3 <3 <3

12:08pm mauri:

Happy time Doug!

12:10pm Dean:

We are going to miss Wm. for a long time.

And Ashbery. Goddammit, I thought he was immortal.

12:12pm Doug Schulkind:

So much reverence has been expressed in the wake of Wm's passing. I just hope he was aware of even a fraction of how much he was loved.

12:15pm JP from KC:

I don't mean to seem morbid, but is there any news on how it happened? Details were unavailable, last I checked.

12:15pm annie:

i forgot to tell Robert Guad, i wonder if he knows.

12:17pm melinda:

Yo, Doug! I liked Catita. I am painting my medicine cabinet and it was good soundtrack. Like i was in an old Sesame Street segment about someone who paints.

12:20pm thatpatsmith:

Hello, Pittsburgh!

12:20pm ndbob:

Heya Doug, Melinda, everyone

12:20pm Doug Schulkind:

@JP from KC
Nothing official has been shared concerning the circumstances of Wm's death. Though it was sudden, he had been dealing with health problems. He had stroke in November last year.

12:21pm Doug Schulkind:

Greetings and salutations, ndbob, thatpatsmith, meldinda, and Mom (Maggie B)!

12:23pm ndbob:

here fora while - intermittent connection - had power back since Tuesday afternoon - but they are working on the internet past couple days - superslow tho -so might listen on the app

12:24pm JP from KC:

Oh. I had no idea. Whatever the circumstances, I join the rest of the WFMU community in mourning the loss. My thoughts are with those who were closest to him.

12:26pm ndbob:

hi Annie!

12:27pm Doug Schulkind:

Wm Berger was one of those "there is no WFMU without him" kind of people. Beyond his radio programs, he was a significant influence and inspiration to his fellow DJs.

12:27pm Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
Fight (for) the power!

12:28pm JP from KC:

For a minute, I thought someone was playing a sped up cover of Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak."

12:28pm ndbob:

Indeed Doug!

12:32pm annie:

hey ndbob!!

12:32pm Dean:

Stream trouble...

12:33pm Dean:

Now playing: Prasan Wiangsima. No voice over...

12:33pm Jeff Golick:

Yah, hearing acoustic strumming. No talky.

12:34pm Jeff Golick:

...and we're back...

12:34pm Dean:

It's free-form radio's version of the Sokal Hoax.

Yes, that's a Doug-like noise!

12:34pm JP from KC:

Loud and clear Dougie!

12:36pm Little Danny:

hi Doug, hi all

12:38pm Little Danny:

following along! genius.com...

12:38pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey there, Daniel Maximus!

12:39pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for tipping me off to the lost connection. This week's drop and the one two weeks ago are troubling because I see no indication of the problem on my end. So I appreciate the alerts!

12:40pm Doug Schulkind:

Tampa Red next, Danny!

12:41pm Doug Schulkind:

Sweet Black Angel. Clearly a religious song.

12:42pm Parq:

I just love the way she spreads her, uh, wings.

12:42pm Maggie B.:

I had a musically talented friend in high school who could reduce a room to tears with her rendition of "Angelitos Negros."

12:43pm Doug Schulkind:

I would have people in tears, too, Maggie. Trust me.

12:43pm Maggie B.:

but in a whole different way, ey?

12:45pm Doug Schulkind:

Like tears from onions, Mags.

12:45pm Leonardo:

Oh. So this isn't a Stones song.

12:45pm Little Danny:

Antonio Machin's "Angelitos Negros" destroys me

12:46pm Mr C:

Did Kent/Modern/BB/Biharis take writers credit for this?

12:46pm JP from KC:

@Leonardo: It's dripping with enough innuendo to be one, though.

12:47pm Goyim in the AM:

You gonna hit us with some George Crumb next, or is this not that kinda party? (Hi, y'all!)

12:48pm Doug Schulkind:

@Mr. C

Published By – Lescay Music, Inc.
Published By – Modern Music Pub. Co.
Producer – John Talley

12:50pm Uncle Michael:

The title of the Stones song may be inspired by this song but there, the connection ends. It's an entirely different song.

12:50pm Doug Schulkind:

Gorgeous cover on this Buddy Guy disc: upload.wikimedia.org...

12:50pm Mr C:

I just looked. BB and Jules Bihari claim writer credit.

12:51pm Doug Schulkind:

Good evening, Goyim in the AM!

12:51pm Little Danny:

@MrC: I'm guessing every artist who covered it claimed songwriter credit - at least through the '50s

12:52pm Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
BB King was five when Lucille Bogan launched the tune into the cosmos.

12:52pm Mr C:

BB made it a standard. Yes Doug, my point exactly.

12:53pm Flash Strap:

Hello everyone! love watching this great man spin

12:53pm Doug Schulkind:

I am eschewing the BBK and Earl Hooker versions for the purposes of this presentation.

12:54pm Doug Schulkind:

@Flash Strap
By great man spin am I to assume you're referring to the deejay?

12:55pm annie:

oh yeah, buddy guy is playing here in asheville..and no one's asked me if i want to go.... tickets are very reasonably priced, too

12:56pm JP from KC:

Buddy's always worth seeing. And now that he's a cranky old fart, he's that much more entertaining.

12:57pm Little Danny:

These Jimmy Johnson drums! Delightfully ratty-sounding

12:57pm Flash Strap:

you know it mister

1:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Every track in this set has been "starred" except Lucille Bogan's. Someone please take care of the lady!

1:04pm Leonardo:

@Uncle Michael - Yeah it's all about Angela Davis.

1:05pm Flash Strap:

jesus jimi is just wailing back there, such a good one

1:05pm Parq:

I caught most of Fiveash's maiden (hee) voyage in the one-hour format. It was -- there is no higher praise I can think of -- a Fiveash show.

1:07pm Doug Schulkind:

"A Fiveash show." Now that's some high praise!

1:08pm Doug Schulkind:

Tequila?

1:08pm El Thatchmo:

Thatchmo in the hizzie!

1:09pm Doug Schulkind:

El "Stand Down Maggie" Thatchmo!

1:13pm Parq:

Mumtaz Laughs!

1:14pm Doug Schulkind:

Our dear El Thatchmo has done two fill-in shows on WFMU. Check out his archives here: wfmu.org...

1:14pm Doug Schulkind:

@Flash Strap
Jesus Jimi is the correct phraseology.

1:20pm northguineahills:

Finally made it home. One tree crushed two fences and flattened the garden, but the house is fine. I have electricity. Now, to shower and go to work!

1:22pm David D:

Good Omfternoon!

1:22pm Doug Schulkind:

Wonderful Giorgio Moroder vibe working on this one.

1:23pm Doug Schulkind:

Glad you're home/safe, northguineahills! Howdy, David D!

1:25pm Listener Gregory:

Usha Uthup is rockin! What is this, Doug?

1:26pm northguineahills:

I have something different from Usha Uthup (I only know b/c I have so few records in the U section)(still have yet to unpack my recs).

1:28pm Thatchmo:

"I still hate Thatcher"
www.redmolotov.com...

1:28pm Thatchmo:

And thanks for the hat tip, Sri Schulkind ....

1:29pm Listener Gregory:

Also, I think Usha Uthup is some kind of acronym urging me to do a push-up. I can only do a couple, though.

1:29pm Doug Schulkind:

Glad U liked it, Listener Gregory.

1:34pm Listener Gregory:

Uve the DrUmmUr Ume! I don't know if you can make it work with U's.

🥁

1:35pm listener james from westwood:

That wonderful set reminds me that a brand-new Indian restaurant has opened withing WALKING DISTANCE of my humble abode. I promise not to decamp for the joint before John Lee pipes in.

1:37pm Doug Schulkind:

John Lee would like an order of palak paneer with some naan on the side, Listener James.

1:38pm Doug Schulkind:

That is hurting my mind, Lustunur Grugury.

1:39pm Jeff Golick:

"This composition, The Short Life of Barbara Monk, imagines Boo Boo skating in Central Park as I knew her as a child and then transitions into her emotions when receiving the terrible diagnosis and becoming ill- the very month that Thelonious Monk Blvd. was established at West 63rd Street in Manhattan in her father’s honor."

From Ran's site: ranblake.com...

1:44pm Doug Schulkind:

Here's the quartet on this Mal Waldron number:

Mal Waldron (p), Clifford Jordan (ts), Cecil McBee (b), Dannie Richmond (d)

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@Jeff Golick
Thank for adding that!

1:51pm annie:

@LJfW: my new apartment is just a block from a fabulous street food indian place.. Chai Pani.... fantastic food.

🥁

1:51pm listener james from westwood:

Tell John Lee the first lassi's on me.

1:52pm Doug Schulkind:

Maybe send Lassie for the grub. Then you can stay home and listen (whilst editing).

1:53pm Doug Schulkind:

Oh boy do I love the sound of Dannie Richmond's drums.

1:54pm David D:

This piece is excellent as was the last.

1:54pm Doug Schulkind:

Next one is the real peach in this basket...

1:56pm Doug Schulkind:

The trio:
Paul Bley (p), Mark Levinson (b), Barry Altschul (d)

1:57pm Doug Schulkind:

I'm wearing headphones and can hear Paul Bley humming along with his fingering. So intimate.

1:58pm Dean:

The bass player wouldn't happen to be the high-end stereo equipment designer, would he?

1:59pm Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
No mention of bass playing on the Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org...

2:00pm Jeff Golick:

Annette wrote this tune.

2:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Oh boy did she ever. She wrote more than half the tunes on the album.

2:06pm Listener Gregory:

Paul Bley's autobiography is worth reading, by the way. At least, so I remember it.

2:12pm Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!

🥁

2:13pm Brian in UK:

Hell(o) Doug. Too tired to comment. Looks like sad news. Always sad news.

2:15pm Doug Schulkind:

Happy and sad hellos, F16C and Brian in UK.

2:15pm Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
I gotta get ahold of that. I would really enjoy reading Bley's bio.

2:17pm Uncle Michael:

I must baseball now. Happy weekend, everyone.

2:17pm Funky16Corners:

Just got back from a four hour stress test, turned on the news (blehhh) and remembered you were on the air!

2:17pm Doug Schulkind:

Turned on the news and... stress test.

2:18pm Goyim in the AM:

Mark Levinson is the stereo guy and Kim Cattrall's ex-husband.

2:18pm Funky16Corners:

The horns on this tune strike me as Bollywood-adjacent, or also ska-esque....

2:19pm Funky16Corners:

Yeah, turned off the news right away

2:19pm Doug Schulkind:

Dear listeners, I deeply apologize for the abundant lack of surface noise on most the recordings. I will try to do better. Hopefully this burner helps make up for it a little.

"Bollywood-adjacent" is my new favorite phrase in the English language.

2:19pm Goyim in the AM:

"Turn on the News" being one of the late great Grant Hart's best tunes. Bummers for everyone!

2:21pm Funky16Corners:

I think it's the vaguely lo-fi, infinitesimally out of tune-ness that makes it sound that way. I like the guitar too

2:25pm Doug Schulkind:

Sorry Charlie, I don't want out-of-tuneness with good taste, I want a taste of infinitesimal out of tune-ness.

2:28pm Funky16Corners:

Is that Rex Williams track available in reissue? I liked it a lot.

2:30pm Dean:

Re: Levinson, way up there @1:59, it appears it is the same guy: https://www.discogs.com/artist/346017-Mark-Levinson

The Mark Levinson label was high-end audio's Levinson's. His gear was amazing.

2:30pm Doug Schulkind:

@Funy16C
Pretty sure it is. Gimme a seck.

2:37pm Doug Schulkind:

@Funky16Corners
That Rex Williams track was included on an unofficially released comp shared here: digging4gold.tumblr.com...

Not sure if the link is still good.

2:38pm Funky16Corners:

This is nice. I have a funk 45 by Boynton, 'Funky Grasshopper"

2:38pm melinda:

I like Bollywood -adjacent too

2:39pm Funky16Corners:

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out when I'm on the computer

2:41pm Doug Schulkind:

This is not a set of "fool" songs. It's just that it's hard to swing a cat up in here and NOT hit a "fool" song.

2:43pm Doug Schulkind:

Tommy Tate just left us this past January. Continue RIPing, Mr. Tate.

2:45pm Doug Schulkind:

Next up the great great great Newcomers.

2:46pm Funky16Corners:

This Ultimations is tight! I just ran out and bought myself a copy!

2:46pm Funky16Corners:

I hope you're proud of yourself for making me do that!

2:46pm Doug Schulkind:

That is THE stamp of approval right there, folks!

2:47pm Doug Schulkind:

I would say more honored than proud.

2:47pm Funky16Corners:

That's me, old Stampy!

2:48pm Doug Schulkind:

Watergate reference! Everyone down a shot!

2:48pm Jeff Golick:

Would love to hear the flip, too, just based on the title.

2:49pm Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Oh yeah, baby. LONG SONG TITLE ALERT!

2:50pm Funky16Corners:

'That Newcomers was very nice, too. Looked it up and surprised to see it's a Homer Banks/Carl Hampton joint.

2:51pm Funky16Corners:

I dig the Four Sharps 'Fife Piper', my preferred version

2:52pm Doug Schulkind:

I haven't heard the Dynatones version on Hanna-Barbera.

2:53pm Funky16Corners:

The Dynatones album has some cool things on it. I like the rawness of the Four Sharps

🥁

2:55pm listener james from westwood:

Love this Montclairs!

2:55pm Doug Schulkind:

And, surely, the infinitesimal out of tune-ness!

2:56pm Doug Schulkind:

Band/group names that are towns in New Jersey... GO!

The Montclairs

2:57pm Doug Schulkind:

And don't be typing Hobo Ken.

2:57pm Funky16Corners:

A mere soupcon of pleasant dissonance

2:58pm Doug Schulkind:

Campbell's soupcon.

2:58pm Listener Gregory:

The Toxic Amboys?

2:58pm Doug Schulkind:

I can really let my hair down during these eight minute and forty-three second epics.

2:59pm Funky16Corners:

BRICK

2:59pm Doug Schulkind:

I set you UP!

3:00pm Funky16Corners:

It still took me a minute

🥁

3:00pm listener james from westwood:

Thanks, Doug!

3:00pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Doug! Yeah!

3:00pm Funky16Corners:

I'm all full of radioactive isotopes

3:04pm Doug Schulkind:

Break away!

3:04pm Doug Schulkind:

Don't let anybody tell you anything different.

3:05pm Funky16Corners:

Great listening! Thanks for the sounds!

3:05pm Doug Schulkind:

With no Hinky Dinky following me, I can let John Lee run as long as he damn wants!

3:07pm Funky16Corners:

I don't think I ever heard JLH call for a drum solo.

3:10pm Doug Schulkind:

Just don't call him late for dinner.

3:12pm Thatchmo:

That Ricky Banda song ....

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Chiquinha Gonzaga	Catita	A Maestrina (Revivendo 1914)
J.B. Silva "Sinhó"	Não Quero Saber Mais Déla	( 1928)
Wilson Batista	Lenço No Pescoço
Carmen Miranda	Iaia, Ioio
Mario Reis	Jura	Pequena História do Samba ( Museu Da Imagem e Do Som 1928)
João Pernambuco	Sonho De Magia	Bresil: Choro - Samba - Frevo 1914-1945 (Frémeaux & Associés 1930)

Lucille Bogan	Black Angel Blues	b/w Tricks Ain't Walking No More (Brunswick 1930)
Tampa Red	Black Angel Bues	b/w Sugar Mama Blues #2 (Vocalion 1934)
The Nighthawks (Robert Nighthawk)	Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)	b/w Annie Lee Blues (Aristocrat 1949)
Sam Baker	Sweet Little Angel	b/w Tossin' and Turnin' (Athens 1964)
Buddy Guy	Sweet Little Angel	A Man and the Blues (Vanguard 1968)
Jimmy Johnson	Sweet Little Angel	Tobacco Road (MCM 1977)

Iqbal Singh	Bombshell Baby of Bombay	Ek Phool Char Kante (OST) (EMI 1960)
Mohd Rafi & Asha Bhosle	Gaal Gulabi Kis Ke Hain	Love in Simla (OST) (EMI 1960)
Lata Mangeshkar	Do Ghoont	Jheel Ke Us Paar (OST) (Odeon 1973)
Geeta Dutt + Sudha Malhotra	Na Main Dhan Chahun	Kala Bazar (OST) (HMV 1960)
Usha Uthup	Hari Om Hari	Pyara Dushman (EMI 1980)
K.S. Chithra with Ilaiyaraaja	Indha Vennila	December Pookal ( 1986)

Ran Blake Quartet	Short Life of Barbara Monk	Short Life of Barbara Monk (Soul Note 1986)
Mal Waldron	Hymn from the Inferno	What It Is (Enja 1981)
Paul Bley Trio	Mister Joy	Blood (Fontana 1966)
Matthew Shipp Trio	Stream of Light	The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear 2015)

Orchestre Los Nickelos	Revelation Bolingo ya Nzambe	Merveilles Du Passe: Musique Congolo-Zairoise, Volume 3 (Sonodisc )
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo (Vocal: Mélomé Clément)	Azanlokpe	b/w Hon Wili Kpèssè (Editions Satel 1973)
Etubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes	Ediye Nne	Message to the World (Philips 1976)
Ricky Banda	Who's That Guy	Niwanji Walwa Amwishyo (Zambezi 1976)

Hugh Boynton	Running Out of Fools	b/w Girl I Feel It (Lanor 1970)
Tommy Tate	When a Fool Takes His Turn	Love Me Now (Urgent! 1990)
The Ultimations	Would I Do It Over?	b/w With Out You (Mar-v-lus 1967)
The Newcomers	The Whole World Is a Picture Show	b/w (Too Little in Common to Be Lovers) Too Much Going to Say Good-Bye (Truth 1974)
The Four Sharps	The Fife Piper	b/w Happiness Is (Cameo 1966)
The Montclairs	Do I Stand a Chance	Dreaming Out of Season (Paula 1972)

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