Another entry in the Millionaire’s Holiday rebroadcast series. This one come from November 20, 2005. The good? There’s music. The bad? There’s no voice over. Or did I get the good/bad mixed up?
At any rate, here’s what I had to say about this broadcast back then:
Gal Friday joins me in studio for the second consecutive week. Many interesting finds are played. Gal Friday runs the board for half an hour or so. Oh, and someone turned off the tuner that was hooked in to my soundcard before we left for the show, so no live podcast. As a supplicatory gift, I did convert most of the raw files to mp3 and created a pseudo podcast for you enjoyment [ Podcast | Direct MP3 Link ]. You get to miss my velvet fog voice and the brilliant weather analysis of Gal Friday, but, on the other hand, you will get to hear the Erotic Aerobics track.
So, without further ado, here’s the playlist: [songs not included on the podcast have been grayed out]
| Artist | Album | Track | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustible Edison | I, Swinger | Millionaire’s Holiday | The bumpers before and after, and actually throughout this first set, come from samples off devices built by Mike Walters, a fantastic circuit bender. You can check the coolness out yourself by visiting Mr. E Circuits |
| Wisbey | Dirty Fan Male | Martin’s First Letter | Off an album of spoken word renditions letters to Page Three girls [nudie pics on page three of a certain British tabloid]. You can hear samples from a few other tracks, learn more about the album, or even order it by visiting Movie Grooves. This was the only sample clean enough to play on air. |
| Lambchop | Jack’s Tulips | Hickey | “But we’ve already heard this song,” you whine. As my good friend Ponch would say, “Tough maracas.” It just goes so well here and I really love the pathos of this song. |
| Liminal Lounge | Pre-Set | Hush | I’ve also played this song once or twice before but I cannot remember when. It subsumes the next track too. |
| The Neo-Futurists | Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind | The Bed Dance | The Neo-Futurists is an improv theater collective in Chicago who have the longest running late night show going. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is a series of ever-changing short vingettes and this album is a collection of past pieces. Good stuff on its own but even better when dropped over the top of some nifty electronica such as done here. |
| The Beta Band | High Fidelity Soundtrack | Dry the Rain | “Watch as I sell five copies of the Beta Band EP,” says Rob Gordon as this song comes over store-play. I suppose it was the subconscious Chicago connection that pulled this song as an obvious follow to the last piece. Anyway, I love this track even if it is a bit poppy for this show. |
| The B-52’s | Whammy | Work That Skirt | And now Jack Black’s character’s line about the ultimate disposition of good bands who put out subsequent bad albums line comes to my attention as I try to explain this track’s appearance on this show. Dunno, but it seemed right at the time. |
| The Third Eye Foundation | Urchin Snuffed Candles | Another nifty electronica find with some downloadable tracks. Check out Third Eye Foundation‘s page on Eptonic’s site. I picked this to needle Gal Friday because of her marginally successful spay/neuter operation she undertook when last at the family homestead. | |
| [???] | Organ Grooves [???] | The Hen | It’s a leftover from last week’s bed for the groupie bit. I can’t find the bookmark for the page this came from though. I really need to move to something like del.icio.us to tag these finds. |
| [???] | [???] | [???] | Even worse, all I know about this track is that it is an except from one of those “check your stereo’s performance” albums. |
| Jimmy Castor | – | Potential | Cheese funksploitation is the heppest! |
| Diviniation | 10% File Under Burroughs | Divination One | Cooling our way out to the end of a set with this nice slice of pie. |
| The Real Tuesday Weld | – | Bath Time in Clerkenwell | Fantastico! This is such a good and bouny bit of fun. I feel sort of bad that the folks listening live had to hear us speak over the top of this. You get to hear it unmolested. |
| Plaid | Double Figure | Twin Home | More chill electronics while we catch our breath heading into the three o’clock hour. |
| [???] | [???] | [???] | All I know about this track is that it is a Laotian singing a Cambodian song while introducing gratuitious yodelling over a funk track. Beyond that, is there really anything else to know? |
| The Troublemakers | The Outernational Sound | Chez Roger Boite Funk | Nice funky rifts here. |
| William Shatner | – | Rocketman | An Internet standard for years now, it still brings tears to my eyes…from LMAO. |
| Breakestra | The Outernational Sound | Cramp Your Style | Played before, but the sample demands it. |
| Nnnj | Monkey-Straddle | What’s the Weather Like Tomorrow? | New, nice, and unpronounceable. Exactly what I like. |
| Thrush Hermit | – | Darling Don’t Worry | |
| John K. Samson | – | One Great City! | |
| A.C. Newman | – | On The Table | |
| Death Cab For Cutie | – | A Lack of Color | |
| – | The Stompers Soundtrack | The Stompers & the Souls | Sweet bed music. I overlayed the track to play it twice. You don’t have the benefit of my speaking to hide this unsubtle mixing. |
| Pierre Raymoné | Erotic Aerobics | Breathing Warmups | Outrageous accent, non? So good I need a smoke after listening. |
| AfX | Analord 01 | Untitled | Giving us all a chance to catch our breath after that last track. |
| Tiny Tim & Eleanor Beruchian | You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is | I Got You Babe | Rumor has it this is Tiny Tim’s first recording. And if you couldn’t guess, he takes the high parts. Comedy gold! |
| Utica Club Natural Carbonation Band | – | Utica Club Theme Song | If all commercial jingles were this good, I might consider listening to more commercial radio. |
| Rosko | You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is | Teenage Fair | [insert bemused quip here] |
| Gordon Thomas | – | Boogie Dancing | Any day now, this guy is going to be a star. He “sings” with such passion. |
| Stereolab | Margerine Eclipse | La Demeure | |
| John Simon & Peter Yarrow | You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is | Beach Music & The Wabe | Don’t really understand it, but that doesn’t keep me from liking it. |
| John Rydgren | – | Creation for Hippies | God can be cool, dig? All we need to do is package God for the hep set and they’ll toe the Christian line. Or at least that’s John Rydgren’s theory. This is the fruit of that theory in action. |
| Hayden | – | Woody |
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
Finally, I found this!
I was a regular listener slash caller to the show…. The early morning paper delivery guy…. I haven’t done the paper gig in quite a while but, I still miss the hell outta the show. One of the most intriguing things you used to play, and I’ve been trying to find everywhere was the (pardon me if I’m wrong) Ted Knight? spoken word bits you had. Beige Rage and so on. It was alot like Thuston Howell on an acid trip, very very funny…to me, at least. Not to mention the “I want cake” bits seasoned in from time to time, but really I never heard anything on there I didn’t like or at least found interesting.
Hopefully, all is well for you and you still check this page from time to time. Anyways, I just wanted to say the show made those mornings alot more tolerable. Thanks for having a link to it here.
P.S. if you have an album title or anything I can find for the spoken word pieces, please let me know, I honestly would like to own it. They would fin in well with my music selection.
Holy crap! I remember you too. Not a whole lot of listeners to the show so the few that reached out are indelibly burned into my brain.
First, thanks for the comment. Got me off my butt to fix all the linking that broken when lightening zapped my router this spring. You should be able to hit the audio files and podcast link now.
Second, I think you’re looking for Ken Nordine. He’s the one who did all the color-based bits. The other frequent spoken word artist I used was Rod McKuen. His stuff is tracks backed mostly by string arrangements. Let me dig through the archives and see if I can generate some linkage for you.
Again, thanks for stopping by. I really miss doing the show and the few kindred spirits I came across while doing it. Bloomington is a great place for supporting a station like WFHB. The Omaha area is pretty bleak in a Clear Channel kind of way.
Hope you’re well and enjoying life in Flowertown.
Thanks mamn, I’ll look into these! I was picking the show up some 20 to 25 miles North in *ahem* beautiful Morgan County, always felt it was a stroke of sheer luck and less trafficed radio signals that allowed me to listen to it. I’ll keep checking back from time to time.
P.S. do I need some kind of acces to get to the audio files, I keep running into a FORBIDDEN blocker on my computer.
Laters.
Definately Ken Nordine! Thanks.
Hey Chris:
No special access required. My audio files are hosted from a file share under my desk which has proven to be kind of flaky. Still, can’t afford to pay for all the space to store them on the ISP so it’s all I’ve got. They should be up again.