WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from July 25, 2020

Listener comments!
	1:40am People Like Us: :) Hurray!!! :) <3
	8:26am Charlie: Alright, yeah! <3 :)
	8:34am Jack Tourette: Yay Charlie!
	9:11am annie: !!!!whoop de doo!
	9:50am Charlie: woo and also hoo !
	👻 11:10am doctorjazz: Welcome back, Charlie!!!! (The page lists the show as being 12-2 Saturdays, is this a regular gig?)
	👻 11:12am doctorjazz: (Never mind, I just fully read the email, it's a 6 week fill in. Nevertheless, great to have you back!)
	11:26am Peter Nelson: Waiting, waiting
	11:26am Katya Oddio: Hurray! Hello hello, old friend! We'll be tuned in during brunch out here in the desert.
	11:54am listener james from westwood: w00t! Welcome back to the streamwaves, Charlie!
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Woot!
	11:56am Michael: Charlie! Ready for takeoff!
	11:56am Winnie Skibbs: Woof Woof Moo Ch Ch Ch Charlie!
	11:59am Charlie: woof glooble jig to all of you too! getting started momentitiously:)
	11:59am David Dichelle: Big welcome back, Charlie!
	12:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Looks busy already! Hi, Charlie! Hey WFMU pals!
	12:01pm Irene Trudel: Hey Charlie! Welcome back to Drummerland!
	12:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Get off your tuchus, it's time you should do the Charlie Lewis Polka!
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: With open arms and open ears!
	12:01pm chresti: Good nothing, Charlie and folks!
	12:01pm Irene Trudel: Love today's playlist picture!
	12:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings and a pleasure to meet your acquaintance. I am also doing nothing, thank you very much.
	12:02pm WebHamster Henry: I got the number.
	12:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: Everybody knows DJ Shadow's got the number.
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: WE HAVE THE (pig)MEATS
	12:03pm Julie: I'm awake I swear I am
	12:04pm unpopularfred: Hello Charlie, glad to hear you show again
	12:05pm JtotheK: Hiya Charlie, welcome back! Hi everyone.
	12:06pm Charlie: Greeting old friends, new friends, older friends, and newer friends! Happy to see you all:)
	12:07pm Bill W: hurrah
	12:08pm schmutz: yay! what a treat this is. welcome back Charlie!
	12:08pm Sem: Hello, Charlie, do-nothings, all. Good to see you here again.
	12:12pm Jeff g. via app: Whooooooo!
	12:12pm Katya Oddio: Rapping along with Latifah and then dancing to the Young Rascals. Gotta be WFMU! Great to have you back on the air, Charlie!
	👻 12:13pm doctorjazz: Rascals!
	12:15pm listener james from westwood: This wonderful track right here!
	12:16pm Michael: Still has his fastball.
	12:16pm listener james from westwood: Oh, yeah!
	12:17pm Katya Oddio: The TIPSY bed! Charlie is on for sure!
	12:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Katya, I was just about to write that. :-)
	12:17pm Sem: Dim some.
	12:18pm Katya Oddio: True blue fans, Wendy! Fun to see all the great familiar name here today.
	12:18pm Doug Schulkind: The cream, and Mr. Lewis, always rises!
	12:22pm Toots: Yay Charlie! So glad youre back!
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: RISE, CHARLIE! RISE!
	12:22pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Charlie! I was outside, and think I missed a story about spoiled milk. I might have to stay in the house if you're going to talk about ruined food.
	12:29pm Julie: oh man Peter Green died
	12:29pm Charlie: oh dear...
	12:31pm Julie: I really know pre Buckingham Nicks FM VERY little. But people keep telling me they were briliant.
	12:32pm Julie: oooh I love this Pomegranates comp
	12:33pm Ruth Luwisch: This show rocks! Thank you Ruthie
	12:34pm Charlie: Thanks Ruthie! (old friend, new listener)
	12:34pm Julie: yes sounding great Charlie it's like you were never away.
	12:36pm Franco Twinkie: Julie, when Green Manalishi would come on the radio when we were teenagers, my sister and myself would dance around and make devil horns with our fingers. R.I.P. Peter, you were the best.
	12:37pm Irene Trudel: I loved Fleetwood Mac from the early days, starting with "Oh Well." Peter Green was an early mental health casualty. www.bbc.com...
	12:38pm Julie: @Irene I had no idea, shades of syd barrett
	12:42pm Webhamster Henry: I saw her Remain In Light Show - it actually came here to Kingston!
	12:43pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Julie, one of my favorite pre-Buckingham/Nicks FM albums is Bare Trees. Check it out. I think some of the tracks on there you'd really like.
	12:43pm Charlie: Wow Henry, wish I could have seen that show!
	12:43pm jan: Hi Charlie- Furtively listening to you with one earpiece. Covid times- wife, who does not appreciate WFMU, is at home! Sounds Great to hear you-will revisit again as archive.
	12:45pm Julie: Hi Wendy! Thank you! I have Heroes are Hard to Find but I see now that is post-Peter
	12:46pm Julie: oh my stealth FMU listening
	12:48pm Charlie: Agreed re Bare Trees, also Then Play On, Julie.
	12:48pm Wendy del Formaggio: Julie, Bare Trees is post-Peter Green, too. I don't want to mislead you! It's more of a Danny Kirwan album.
	12:49pm unpopularfred: The intro to this song was leading me to expect a Talking Heads cover in the style of Al Green
	12:49pm Julie: I have Then Play On which I hear is amazing but it didn't grab me before. But I love going back and rediscovering.
	12:49pm Doug Schulkind: Almost as immediately recognizable as the Hi horn section was the Hi string section.
	12:50pm Julie: Landlady is recent! I thought for sure it was an old one
	12:51pm vicki people like us: Hello! Driving and listening
	12:53pm Julie: ROBYN YAY
	12:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Robyn! He played nearby on my birthday two years in a row, and I brought him cheese both times.
	12:54pm Michael: I guess I've listened to this DJ before - apparently starred the Sima Bina in 2013.
	12:54pm Charlie: currently obsessed w Robyn, esp this album
	12:54pm Irene Trudel: I bet he loved the cheese, Wendy!
	12:55pm Meghan: Hello!!!
	12:55pm Julie: I hope you've been watching some of the live streams, Charlie, they are fab
	12:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Irene, I hope so!
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: Syl Johnson is in fresh need of forgiveness. He's lost his damned mind.
	12:59pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, you should check out Robyn's Patreon. Lotta nice content from my favorite prolific musician. www.patreon.com...
	1:01pm βrian: Staying inside and doing nothing. Too damn hot.
	1:02pm Toots: Wendy! We were in Brattleboro at the Price Choppers last week! Will be back camping in Wardsboro with lil Johnny Cash during the week!
	1:02pm vicki people like us: Yay
	1:03pm Peter Nelson: Nice version.
	1:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Toots: The Choppah! I get my bagels across the parking lot from there. Wardsboro is just a few towns away. Email me when you come back, eh? Let's visit from a safe distance!
	1:03pm Sem: Ah, Noel. Made a splash here in Nova Scotia in the 70s, living in a commune not far from here.
	1:05pm Salat: Wow! I was thinking about your show just the other day, welcome back Charlie.
	1:09pm Peter Nelson: 'Oh Superman' was in the charts in the UK in the early 80s, so on jukeboxes in pubs. Classic wyatting tune!
	1:10pm Julie: oh now ya gonna make me cry Charlie
	1:10pm βrian: We're about to make dilly beans. With Charlie.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Most Merseyside-ballad, country song ever.
	1:11pm ndbob: heya Charlie and everyone!
	1:12pm Uncle Michael: YAY!
	1:12pm ndbob: Hey UM - Wendy _ Julie Meghan et al
	1:12pm Franco Twinkie: My mom use to sing The End Of The World while she was ironing clothes. She was a good singer.
	1:12pm Doug Schulkind: Singing selfie!
	1:13pm Julie: CHARLIE!!
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: Aaaaah, this is the best, Charlie!
	1:13pm Michael: Lovely Charlie
	1:13pm ndbob: Heya James and Doug
	1:13pm Peter Nelson: I hoped you'd do a turn.
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, is this one of your ukulele tunes?
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: Sweet!
	1:14pm Bill W: the Great Gonzo approves
	1:14pm Uncle Michael: That was amazing, Charlie.
	1:15pm Winnie Skibbs: Live?
	1:15pm Jerry: Yknow, I was going to ask if that was you on Uke
	1:15pm wendy del formaggio: Aww! Charlie, was that a Muppets song? It totally sounded like something Kermit would sing.
	1:15pm Julie: yay that was fantastic.
	1:15pm Uncle Michael: Gonzo, Wendy.
	1:15pm ndbob: indeed
	1:15pm Charlie: You know I can't resist singing:) I pre-recorded it, though. Too many things to remember how to do here!
	1:16pm mauri: Hey all. Charlie that was good.
	1:16pm Tower: Hey Charlie! Got back in time to tune in.
	1:16pm Franco Twinkie: Wow Charlie, you're good!
	1:16pm βrian: 6-yr-old just got her first ukulele. I'll have to play that track for her.
	1:16pm Charlie: That was from The Muppet Movie.
	1:16pm Tower: Hi there bob.
	1:16pm Julie: @Wendy! I was just thinking he should play rainbow connection, it had that feel.. maybe another Williams comp?
	1:17pm ndbob: hi Todd
	1:17pm Tower: Candi is one of my favorites. Nice choice.
	1:19pm Julie: ah it WAS a Williams composition. Man I love that Paul Williams.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: How do, ndbob!
	1:19pm Charlie: Bob and Todd -- did you guys drive in the same car to get here?
	1:19pm ndbob: been a while James
	1:20pm ndbob: Hitched a ride on Vlada's tail Charlie:)
	1:20pm Julie: oooh this is nice
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: It is so nice to hear your show again, Charlie.
	1:21pm Julie: I got things I should be doing but I can't leave
	1:22pm ndbob: for sure UM
	1:23pm Tower: LOL, Charlie. We're quite a few miles apart, but we can take the same virtual bus.
	1:24pm Doug Schulkind: How've you been, ndbob? Lovely to see (read) you!
	1:24pm ndbob: right Todd - I am in Georgia now ndbob is kind of dated - but good
	1:25pm ndbob: pretty good - stressed like everyone else but good - ans you?
	1:28pm unpopularfred: In the last or almost last live show I saw, Petra Haden sang The End of the World with Bill Frisell and it was just lovely
	1:28pm Tower: Aww, I missed Robyn Hitchcock earlier. I have tickets to see him play, but of course it's been postponed.
	1:30pm dano59: Lovely memory of Petra there. My last concert was The Jayhawks on March 5.
	1:30pm Tower: That sound great, Fred. Would have liked to see that.
	1:31pm ndbob: I've seen Bill - never saw Petra tho
	1:31pm Doug Schulkind: @ndbob Sitting here listening to Busy Doing Nothing. So, yeah, good.
	1:33pm schmutz: raincoats must have been wild! I saw Laurie a few years back at Harvard. It was total downpour day of show and I was lost running around the campus, trying to find the right theatre. I ran into her turning a corner, soaking wet –fwomp! She was wonderful.
	1:33pm chresti: Hello, I am tuning in from the kitchen, Franco wanted to listen to Green Manalishi, in the living room.
	1:34pm Julie: I remember the raincoats on Irwin's show when Kurt Cobain was in the hospital. I remember them saying "He had too many milkshakes." It's such a weird random memory
	1:34pm WR: Hello all. Well Charlie, looks like your 3 years hiatus from WFMU did not diminish the regard many have for you program.
	1:37pm Franco Twinkie: I'm back. Time traveled back to our living room many,many years ago.
	1:39pm Irene Trudel: What a perfectly lazy, laid-back performance by Odetta!
	1:39pm Charlie: How's everybody doing? You'd think I could catch up on comments during that 6-minute song, but still behind! Glad you're with me and chatting:) Will read back later.
	1:40pm Wendy del Formaggio: Clowns?! Did somebody say "clowns"?! Okay, maybe only one person on this playlist knows that at my most recent abode, my downstairs bathroom was done up totally in clown "art".
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Oh man, Tiger Lillies!!! I didn't recognize his voice right away. So glad I've seen them a bunch o ver time. Sublimely weird and wonderful.
	1:41pm mauri: haha sounds like hyacinth bucket or dame edna
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, your show is also making me feel sublimely weird and wonderful.
	1:43pm Franco Twinkie: Can we agree that this is the sentiment of the moment?
	1:43pm Julie: @wendy we had a whole room full of clown stuff growing up, my dad had a connection to the circus and a fascination with circusy stuff.
	1:44pm Julie: why are so many of these songs making me wanna cry
	1:44pm listener james from westwood: Proofreading a book on the history of the Sands, and our singer and hoofer on right now has just entered the narrative.
	1:44pm Irene Trudel: Ooh, and The Tiger Lillies have a couple of Covid-related albums out now. If it were any other, I would run away screaming. www.tigerlillies.com...
	1:44pm Julie: did sammy have a psychedelic period? please say yes
	1:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Franco: YES. @Julie: Jealous! I love clown stuff.
	1:45pm ndbob: sounds interesting James!
	1:45pm Julie: @James synchronicity!
	1:45pm Tower: LOL mauri on Hyacinth bo͞oˈkā.
	1:45pm listener james from westwood: Sammy Davis Jr. appeared, in an outtake from Diamonds Are Forever, at the Circus Circus casino in Vegas. So there's your clown connection.
	1:47pm unpopularfred: @ Julie - does his performance of "I'm Your Vehicle" count?
	1:47pm listener james from westwood: @ndbob: It's hugely fascinating! I'm going slowly so as not to skip over actual typos in my zeal to read it. @Julie Not sure of his psych period other than covering hep tunes in the late 60s, but IIRC he had a stretch where he was into either witchcraft or Satanism!
	1:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Clown Connection. Hmm. I might have to change the name of my radio show.
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: OTOH he literally embraced Richard Nixon onstage during the '72 campaign, so he's danced with an earthly devil at least.
	1:48pm Jeff Moore: I heard the Tiger Lillies track and was all: "That voice is really familiar, but I can't place it right away... is it Dame Edna?"
	1:50pm Julie: hmm sammy davis jr witchcraft...
	1:50pm AWS from MP: Back in the groove, welcome back. Looking forward to Sat in August. The inimitable C Lewis mixes.
	1:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: Sammy DID do the best version of "That Old Black Magic." Totally the best.
	1:52pm Julie: such a great show Charlie thank you!
	1:53pm Jeff Moore: "Our Man Flint": SO close to "A Man Called Flintstone", but not quite.
	1:54pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	1:55pm Doug Schulkind: Check out Music For a Free World with your host Dave Sewelson, up next on the Drummer Stream! Dave's special surprised guest is alto saxist Alan Braufman, who is poised top release his first new album in 45 years!!! PLAYLIST: www.wfmu.org...
	1:56pm Bill W: Sammy's number in the film of SWEET CHARITY definitely counts as Broadway psychedelia.
	1:57pm chresti: I like the idea that Sammy Davis Jr practiced witchcraft.
	1:57pm ndbob: great show Charlie!
	1:57pm John Dalton: Great to hear you Charlie!
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Cholley.
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: @Julie I only know this b/c Spazz uses Sammy talking about his run-in with same as an occasional drop-in. Educational! @Charlie, glad this'll be the start of a residency—fabbo show!
	1:58pm Doug Schulkind: As a small child I saw Sammy Davis Jr live. At the Shady Grove circle-in-the-round theater in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
	1:58pm Irene Trudel: Thank you for this wonderful return to form, Charlie! I look forward to hearing your next show.
	1:58pm βrian: This Johnny Beecher makes me feel pleasantly drugged.
	1:59pm Michael: A real pleasure and delight to hear you and BDN again. Thanks Charlie!
	1:59pm Tower: Great stuff, Charlie. Thanks for the music once again.
	2:00pm Jeff Moore: Thanks, Charlie! Great show; I've missed the luxury of having you on every week ever since you headed off to do life things.
	2:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Charlie, nice to meet you!
	2:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): thanks, Charlie!
	2:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Charlie, nice to meet you!
	2:00pm Charlie: Thanks all! See you next week:)
	2:00pm schmutz: Thanks Charlie! Always a real pleasure!
	4:33pm Allan Chen: Always fun to hear your show, Charlie. Brings back old times.
	5:07pm People Like Us: Listening again now!
	10:02pm Parq: Hi, Charlie. Listening asynchronously. Great show. Lovely reading of "Back There Someday." Looking forward to catching up with Nothing over the next few weeks.

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from July 25, 2020

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A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Jules Verne	Round the Moon (1870): A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon (1865)	illustration by Émile-Antoine Bayard
Pigmeat Markham	Who Got the Number	7-inch single (originally), b-side of Pig's Popcorn	Chess
DJ Shadow	The Number Song "The Number Song" by "DJ Shadow"	Endtroducing...	Mo Wax	0:01:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Queen Latifah	Dance for Me (Ultimatum Remix)	All Hail the Queen	Tommy Boy	0:05:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Rascals	People Got to Be Free	7-inch single	Atlantic	0:09:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Saturday Looks Good to Me	Meet Me By the Water	All Your Summer Songs	Polyvinyl	0:12:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:15:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Madeline Bell	Step Inside Love "Step Inside Love" by "Madeline Bell"	Doin' Things	Philips/RPM	0:20:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wilson Simonal	Coisa de Louco "Coisa de Louco" by "Wilson Simonal"	Ninguém Proíbe o Amor	MPB	0:22:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Black Star Club (vocal: Kibwana)	Amana	Nyota: Black Star & Lucky Star Musical Clubs (various artists)	GlobeStyle	0:26:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sima Bina	Naz Kardanet Vaveyla "Naz Kardanet Vaveyla" by "Sima Bina"	Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych of The 60s and 70s (various artists)	Finders Keepers	0:30:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Petula Clark	The Sound of Love "The Sound of Love" by "Petula Clark"	I Love to Sing (box set)	Sequel	0:33:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Las Comadrejas	Oaxacatelas "Oaxacatelas" by "Las Comadrejas"	We Are Ugly But We Have the Music	Comad	0:35:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Angélique Kidjo	Seen and Not Seen	Remain in Light	Kravenworks	0:39:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Landlady	Mind "Mind" by "Landlady"	Heat	This Is Hometapes	0:42:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Syl Johnson	I Hate I Walked Away "I Hate I Walked Away" by "Syl Johnson"	Mississippi Main Man	Backbeats	0:45:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton	Holding on to Nothin'	The Essential Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton	RCA	0:48:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	Alright, Yeah "Alright, Yeah" by "Robyn Hitchcock"	Moss Elixir	Warner Bros.	0:51:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Shudder to Think	pH Balanced "pH Balanced" by "Shudder to Think"	High Art (soundtrack)	Velvel	0:54:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Noel Harrison	Strawberry Fields Forever	Collage	Reprise	1:00:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	The Geographic North Pole	The Ugly One With the Jewels	Warner Bros.	1:03:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Skeeter Davis	The End of the World	7-inch single (originally)	RCA	1:07:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charlie	I'm Going to Go Back There Someday (from The Muppet Movie)	accompanying himself on the ukulele [more here!].	BDN Productions	1:10:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Candi Staton	Stop and Smell the Roses	Candi	Warner Bros.	1:13:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Minisnap	Crooked Mile "Crooked Mile" by "Minisnap"	Bounce Around	Magic Marker	1:16:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: World Standard	The Lonely Driver 1952	Country Gazette	Asphodel	1:19:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Patric Balisidya and Nyota	Malewo	Music from Tanzania and Zanzibar, Vol. 2 (various artists)	Caprice	1:27:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Odetta	Tomorrow Is a Long Time "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" by "Odetta"	Odetta Sings Dylan	RCA Victor	1:30:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tiger Lillies	Send in the Clowns "Send in the Clowns" by "Tiger Lillies"	Circus Songs	Misery Guts/Red Moon	1:36:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sammy Davis Jr.	People "People" by "Sammy Davis Jr."	Ladies & Gentlemen, Sammy Davis Jr.	North Star Music	1:40:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Silver Jews	People "People" by "Silver Jews"	American Water	Drag City	1:43:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jerry Goldsmith	New York Skyline (from Our Man Flint)	In Like Flint/Our Man Flint (soundtracks)	Varèse Sarabande	1:48:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thomas A. Dorsey with Celestial Singers	I'm Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain	78 (originally) (found here)	MGM	1:52:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	1:55:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:40am People Like Us: :) Hurray!!! :) <3
	8:26am Charlie: Alright, yeah! <3 :)
	8:34am Jack Tourette: Yay Charlie!
	9:11am annie: !!!!whoop de doo!
	9:50am Charlie: woo and also hoo !
	👻 11:10am doctorjazz: Welcome back, Charlie!!!! (The page lists the show as being 12-2 Saturdays, is this a regular gig?)
	👻 11:12am doctorjazz: (Never mind, I just fully read the email, it's a 6 week fill in. Nevertheless, great to have you back!)
	11:26am Peter Nelson: Waiting, waiting
	11:26am Katya Oddio: Hurray! Hello hello, old friend! We'll be tuned in during brunch out here in the desert.
	11:54am listener james from westwood: w00t! Welcome back to the streamwaves, Charlie!
	11:56am Uncle Michael: Woot!
	11:56am Michael: Charlie! Ready for takeoff!
	11:56am Winnie Skibbs: Woof Woof Moo Ch Ch Ch Charlie!
	11:59am Charlie: woof glooble jig to all of you too! getting started momentitiously:)
	11:59am David Dichelle: Big welcome back, Charlie!
	12:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Looks busy already! Hi, Charlie! Hey WFMU pals!
	12:01pm Irene Trudel: Hey Charlie! Welcome back to Drummerland!
	12:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Get off your tuchus, it's time you should do the Charlie Lewis Polka!
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: With open arms and open ears!
	12:01pm chresti: Good nothing, Charlie and folks!
	12:01pm Irene Trudel: Love today's playlist picture!
	12:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings and a pleasure to meet your acquaintance. I am also doing nothing, thank you very much.
	12:02pm WebHamster Henry: I got the number.
	12:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: Everybody knows DJ Shadow's got the number.
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: WE HAVE THE (pig)MEATS
	12:03pm Julie: I'm awake I swear I am
	12:04pm unpopularfred: Hello Charlie, glad to hear you show again
	12:05pm JtotheK: Hiya Charlie, welcome back! Hi everyone.
	12:06pm Charlie: Greeting old friends, new friends, older friends, and newer friends! Happy to see you all:)
	12:07pm Bill W: hurrah
	12:08pm schmutz: yay! what a treat this is. welcome back Charlie!
	12:08pm Sem: Hello, Charlie, do-nothings, all. Good to see you here again.
	12:12pm Jeff g. via app: Whooooooo!
	12:12pm Katya Oddio: Rapping along with Latifah and then dancing to the Young Rascals. Gotta be WFMU! Great to have you back on the air, Charlie!
	👻 12:13pm doctorjazz: Rascals!
	12:15pm listener james from westwood: This wonderful track right here!
	12:16pm Michael: Still has his fastball.
	12:16pm listener james from westwood: Oh, yeah!
	12:17pm Katya Oddio: The TIPSY bed! Charlie is on for sure!
	12:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Katya, I was just about to write that. :-)
	12:17pm Sem: Dim some.
	12:18pm Katya Oddio: True blue fans, Wendy! Fun to see all the great familiar name here today.
	12:18pm Doug Schulkind: The cream, and Mr. Lewis, always rises!
	12:22pm Toots: Yay Charlie! So glad youre back!
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: RISE, CHARLIE! RISE!
	12:22pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Charlie! I was outside, and think I missed a story about spoiled milk. I might have to stay in the house if you're going to talk about ruined food.
	12:29pm Julie: oh man Peter Green died
	12:29pm Charlie: oh dear...
	12:31pm Julie: I really know pre Buckingham Nicks FM VERY little. But people keep telling me they were briliant.
	12:32pm Julie: oooh I love this Pomegranates comp
	12:33pm Ruth Luwisch: This show rocks! Thank you Ruthie
	12:34pm Charlie: Thanks Ruthie! (old friend, new listener)
	12:34pm Julie: yes sounding great Charlie it's like you were never away.
	12:36pm Franco Twinkie: Julie, when Green Manalishi would come on the radio when we were teenagers, my sister and myself would dance around and make devil horns with our fingers. R.I.P. Peter, you were the best.
	12:37pm Irene Trudel: I loved Fleetwood Mac from the early days, starting with "Oh Well." Peter Green was an early mental health casualty. www.bbc.com...
	12:38pm Julie: @Irene I had no idea, shades of syd barrett
	12:42pm Webhamster Henry: I saw her Remain In Light Show - it actually came here to Kingston!
	12:43pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Julie, one of my favorite pre-Buckingham/Nicks FM albums is Bare Trees. Check it out. I think some of the tracks on there you'd really like.
	12:43pm Charlie: Wow Henry, wish I could have seen that show!
	12:43pm jan: Hi Charlie- Furtively listening to you with one earpiece. Covid times- wife, who does not appreciate WFMU, is at home! Sounds Great to hear you-will revisit again as archive.
	12:45pm Julie: Hi Wendy! Thank you! I have Heroes are Hard to Find but I see now that is post-Peter
	12:46pm Julie: oh my stealth FMU listening
	12:48pm Charlie: Agreed re Bare Trees, also Then Play On, Julie.
	12:48pm Wendy del Formaggio: Julie, Bare Trees is post-Peter Green, too. I don't want to mislead you! It's more of a Danny Kirwan album.
	12:49pm unpopularfred: The intro to this song was leading me to expect a Talking Heads cover in the style of Al Green
	12:49pm Julie: I have Then Play On which I hear is amazing but it didn't grab me before. But I love going back and rediscovering.
	12:49pm Doug Schulkind: Almost as immediately recognizable as the Hi horn section was the Hi string section.
	12:50pm Julie: Landlady is recent! I thought for sure it was an old one
	12:51pm vicki people like us: Hello! Driving and listening
	12:53pm Julie: ROBYN YAY
	12:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Robyn! He played nearby on my birthday two years in a row, and I brought him cheese both times.
	12:54pm Michael: I guess I've listened to this DJ before - apparently starred the Sima Bina in 2013.
	12:54pm Charlie: currently obsessed w Robyn, esp this album
	12:54pm Irene Trudel: I bet he loved the cheese, Wendy!
	12:55pm Meghan: Hello!!!
	12:55pm Julie: I hope you've been watching some of the live streams, Charlie, they are fab
	12:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Irene, I hope so!
	12:59pm Uncle Michael: Syl Johnson is in fresh need of forgiveness. He's lost his damned mind.
	12:59pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, you should check out Robyn's Patreon. Lotta nice content from my favorite prolific musician. www.patreon.com...
	1:01pm βrian: Staying inside and doing nothing. Too damn hot.
	1:02pm Toots: Wendy! We were in Brattleboro at the Price Choppers last week! Will be back camping in Wardsboro with lil Johnny Cash during the week!
	1:02pm vicki people like us: Yay
	1:03pm Peter Nelson: Nice version.
	1:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Toots: The Choppah! I get my bagels across the parking lot from there. Wardsboro is just a few towns away. Email me when you come back, eh? Let's visit from a safe distance!
	1:03pm Sem: Ah, Noel. Made a splash here in Nova Scotia in the 70s, living in a commune not far from here.
	1:05pm Salat: Wow! I was thinking about your show just the other day, welcome back Charlie.
	1:09pm Peter Nelson: 'Oh Superman' was in the charts in the UK in the early 80s, so on jukeboxes in pubs. Classic wyatting tune!
	1:10pm Julie: oh now ya gonna make me cry Charlie
	1:10pm βrian: We're about to make dilly beans. With Charlie.
	1:10pm Uncle Michael: Most Merseyside-ballad, country song ever.
	1:11pm ndbob: heya Charlie and everyone!
	1:12pm Uncle Michael: YAY!
	1:12pm ndbob: Hey UM - Wendy _ Julie Meghan et al
	1:12pm Franco Twinkie: My mom use to sing The End Of The World while she was ironing clothes. She was a good singer.
	1:12pm Doug Schulkind: Singing selfie!
	1:13pm Julie: CHARLIE!!
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: Aaaaah, this is the best, Charlie!
	1:13pm Michael: Lovely Charlie
	1:13pm ndbob: Heya James and Doug
	1:13pm Peter Nelson: I hoped you'd do a turn.
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, is this one of your ukulele tunes?
	1:14pm Irene Trudel: Sweet!
	1:14pm Bill W: the Great Gonzo approves
	1:14pm Uncle Michael: That was amazing, Charlie.
	1:15pm Winnie Skibbs: Live?
	1:15pm Jerry: Yknow, I was going to ask if that was you on Uke
	1:15pm wendy del formaggio: Aww! Charlie, was that a Muppets song? It totally sounded like something Kermit would sing.
	1:15pm Julie: yay that was fantastic.
	1:15pm Uncle Michael: Gonzo, Wendy.
	1:15pm ndbob: indeed
	1:15pm Charlie: You know I can't resist singing:) I pre-recorded it, though. Too many things to remember how to do here!
	1:16pm mauri: Hey all. Charlie that was good.
	1:16pm Tower: Hey Charlie! Got back in time to tune in.
	1:16pm Franco Twinkie: Wow Charlie, you're good!
	1:16pm βrian: 6-yr-old just got her first ukulele. I'll have to play that track for her.
	1:16pm Charlie: That was from The Muppet Movie.
	1:16pm Tower: Hi there bob.
	1:16pm Julie: @Wendy! I was just thinking he should play rainbow connection, it had that feel.. maybe another Williams comp?
	1:17pm ndbob: hi Todd
	1:17pm Tower: Candi is one of my favorites. Nice choice.
	1:19pm Julie: ah it WAS a Williams composition. Man I love that Paul Williams.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: How do, ndbob!
	1:19pm Charlie: Bob and Todd -- did you guys drive in the same car to get here?
	1:19pm ndbob: been a while James
	1:20pm ndbob: Hitched a ride on Vlada's tail Charlie:)
	1:20pm Julie: oooh this is nice
	1:20pm Uncle Michael: It is so nice to hear your show again, Charlie.
	1:21pm Julie: I got things I should be doing but I can't leave
	1:22pm ndbob: for sure UM
	1:23pm Tower: LOL, Charlie. We're quite a few miles apart, but we can take the same virtual bus.
	1:24pm Doug Schulkind: How've you been, ndbob? Lovely to see (read) you!
	1:24pm ndbob: right Todd - I am in Georgia now ndbob is kind of dated - but good
	1:25pm ndbob: pretty good - stressed like everyone else but good - ans you?
	1:28pm unpopularfred: In the last or almost last live show I saw, Petra Haden sang The End of the World with Bill Frisell and it was just lovely
	1:28pm Tower: Aww, I missed Robyn Hitchcock earlier. I have tickets to see him play, but of course it's been postponed.
	1:30pm dano59: Lovely memory of Petra there. My last concert was The Jayhawks on March 5.
	1:30pm Tower: That sound great, Fred. Would have liked to see that.
	1:31pm ndbob: I've seen Bill - never saw Petra tho
	1:31pm Doug Schulkind: @ndbob Sitting here listening to Busy Doing Nothing. So, yeah, good.
	1:33pm schmutz: raincoats must have been wild! I saw Laurie a few years back at Harvard. It was total downpour day of show and I was lost running around the campus, trying to find the right theatre. I ran into her turning a corner, soaking wet –fwomp! She was wonderful.
	1:33pm chresti: Hello, I am tuning in from the kitchen, Franco wanted to listen to Green Manalishi, in the living room.
	1:34pm Julie: I remember the raincoats on Irwin's show when Kurt Cobain was in the hospital. I remember them saying "He had too many milkshakes." It's such a weird random memory
	1:34pm WR: Hello all. Well Charlie, looks like your 3 years hiatus from WFMU did not diminish the regard many have for you program.
	1:37pm Franco Twinkie: I'm back. Time traveled back to our living room many,many years ago.
	1:39pm Irene Trudel: What a perfectly lazy, laid-back performance by Odetta!
	1:39pm Charlie: How's everybody doing? You'd think I could catch up on comments during that 6-minute song, but still behind! Glad you're with me and chatting:) Will read back later.
	1:40pm Wendy del Formaggio: Clowns?! Did somebody say "clowns"?! Okay, maybe only one person on this playlist knows that at my most recent abode, my downstairs bathroom was done up totally in clown "art".
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Oh man, Tiger Lillies!!! I didn't recognize his voice right away. So glad I've seen them a bunch o ver time. Sublimely weird and wonderful.
	1:41pm mauri: haha sounds like hyacinth bucket or dame edna
	1:41pm Irene Trudel: Charlie, your show is also making me feel sublimely weird and wonderful.
	1:43pm Franco Twinkie: Can we agree that this is the sentiment of the moment?
	1:43pm Julie: @wendy we had a whole room full of clown stuff growing up, my dad had a connection to the circus and a fascination with circusy stuff.
	1:44pm Julie: why are so many of these songs making me wanna cry
	1:44pm listener james from westwood: Proofreading a book on the history of the Sands, and our singer and hoofer on right now has just entered the narrative.
	1:44pm Irene Trudel: Ooh, and The Tiger Lillies have a couple of Covid-related albums out now. If it were any other, I would run away screaming. www.tigerlillies.com...
	1:44pm Julie: did sammy have a psychedelic period? please say yes
	1:45pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Franco: YES. @Julie: Jealous! I love clown stuff.
	1:45pm ndbob: sounds interesting James!
	1:45pm Julie: @James synchronicity!
	1:45pm Tower: LOL mauri on Hyacinth bo͞oˈkā.
	1:45pm listener james from westwood: Sammy Davis Jr. appeared, in an outtake from Diamonds Are Forever, at the Circus Circus casino in Vegas. So there's your clown connection.
	1:47pm unpopularfred: @ Julie - does his performance of "I'm Your Vehicle" count?
	1:47pm listener james from westwood: @ndbob: It's hugely fascinating! I'm going slowly so as not to skip over actual typos in my zeal to read it. @Julie Not sure of his psych period other than covering hep tunes in the late 60s, but IIRC he had a stretch where he was into either witchcraft or Satanism!
	1:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Clown Connection. Hmm. I might have to change the name of my radio show.
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: OTOH he literally embraced Richard Nixon onstage during the '72 campaign, so he's danced with an earthly devil at least.
	1:48pm Jeff Moore: I heard the Tiger Lillies track and was all: "That voice is really familiar, but I can't place it right away... is it Dame Edna?"
	1:50pm Julie: hmm sammy davis jr witchcraft...
	1:50pm AWS from MP: Back in the groove, welcome back. Looking forward to Sat in August. The inimitable C Lewis mixes.
	1:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: Sammy DID do the best version of "That Old Black Magic." Totally the best.
	1:52pm Julie: such a great show Charlie thank you!
	1:53pm Jeff Moore: "Our Man Flint": SO close to "A Man Called Flintstone", but not quite.
	1:54pm chresti: Thanks Charlie!
	1:55pm Doug Schulkind: Check out Music For a Free World with your host Dave Sewelson, up next on the Drummer Stream! Dave's special surprised guest is alto saxist Alan Braufman, who is poised top release his first new album in 45 years!!! PLAYLIST: www.wfmu.org...
	1:56pm Bill W: Sammy's number in the film of SWEET CHARITY definitely counts as Broadway psychedelia.
	1:57pm chresti: I like the idea that Sammy Davis Jr practiced witchcraft.
	1:57pm ndbob: great show Charlie!
	1:57pm John Dalton: Great to hear you Charlie!
	1:58pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Cholley.
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: @Julie I only know this b/c Spazz uses Sammy talking about his run-in with same as an occasional drop-in. Educational! @Charlie, glad this'll be the start of a residency—fabbo show!
	1:58pm Doug Schulkind: As a small child I saw Sammy Davis Jr live. At the Shady Grove circle-in-the-round theater in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
	1:58pm Irene Trudel: Thank you for this wonderful return to form, Charlie! I look forward to hearing your next show.
	1:58pm βrian: This Johnny Beecher makes me feel pleasantly drugged.
	1:59pm Michael: A real pleasure and delight to hear you and BDN again. Thanks Charlie!
	1:59pm Tower: Great stuff, Charlie. Thanks for the music once again.
	2:00pm Jeff Moore: Thanks, Charlie! Great show; I've missed the luxury of having you on every week ever since you headed off to do life things.
	2:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Charlie, nice to meet you!
	2:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): thanks, Charlie!
	2:00pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Charlie, nice to meet you!
	2:00pm Charlie: Thanks all! See you next week:)
	2:00pm schmutz: Thanks Charlie! Always a real pleasure!
	4:33pm Allan Chen: Always fun to hear your show, Charlie. Brings back old times.
	5:07pm People Like Us: Listening again now!
	10:02pm Parq: Hi, Charlie. Listening asynchronously. Great show. Lovely reading of "Back There Someday." Looking forward to catching up with Nothing over the next few weeks.

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from July 25, 2020

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