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ELLIOT

Apr 10, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Elliot

Weekly broadcasts from an overeager listener.

Home Broadcast #49: WPRB DRIVE!!!!

6:00 PM		Gershon Kingsley Hey, Hey Music To Moog By Tam-Tam Media 2007
6:03 PM		Ipek Köçman Canli Canli Canli Canli / Uranüs 3000 Black Pearl 2019
6:07 PM		Isabelle Amstramgram Wizzz French Psychorama : 1966-1970, Vol. 2 V/A Born Bad Records 2008
6:10 PM		Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino Anabacoa Concepts in Unity Clave Latina 1997
6:22 PM		Nugrape Twins I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape American Primitive Vol. 2: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) V/A Revenant 2005
6:25 PM		Michael Hurley, Unholy Modal Rounders & Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones What Made My Hamburger Disappear Have Moicy! Rounder 1991
6:29 PM		Joseph Spence We Shall Be Happy Happy All the Time Water 2003
6:37 PM		Sabelo Mathe Hambanini Bulawayo Blue Yodel V/A Olvido Records 2019
6:40 PM		The Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra Muck Muck Songs From the Sun Ra Cosmos Modern Harmonic 2019
6:44 PM		Rahsaan Roland Kirk Ain't No Sunshine Blacknuss Rhino 2005
6:47 PM		Machanic Manyeruke & the Puritans Cain na Abel Machanic Manyeruke & the Puritans Flying Fish 1989
6:59 PM		J.B. Smith I Heard the Reports of a Pistol No More Good Time in the World for Me Dust-to-Digital 2015
7:09 PM		Planet Ha Ha Home Home EMI 1982
7:13 PM		Marzio Dance Adventure (Dub Version) Adventure Xenon 1982
7:20 PM		Wayne Horvitz, Butch Morris, Robert Previte The Duchess Nine Below Zero Sound Aspects 1988
7:24 PM		Härte 10 Weit Fort Welcome to Germany Baff 1985
7:35 PM		Tassos Chalkias Dirminitsa (The Bride’s Dance) N Divine Reeds: Obscure Recordings From Special Music Recording Company (Athens 1966-1967) Radio Martiko 2021
7:40 PM		Favourite's Group Pasti Kembali Vol. 2 [sic]
7:42 PM		Whyte Horses & St. Bart's Choir The Snowfalls St. Bart's Choir Perform Pop or Not: The Music of Whyte Horses CRC Music 2016
7:49 PM		Gunesh Туки Деря / Tuki Derya Gunesh Everland Jazz 2018
7:57 PM		Babla & Kanchan Babu In Carnival Hibiscus Records 1987

Chat is archived.

IT'S DRIVE TIME! Welcome to tonight's show!

Thanks to Selecta Jerry and Selecta Pink for the great vibes this afternoon. I'll try to pay it forward will Sonny Boy Williamson III for the next two hours!

A fine Duo!

The crossover episode you've all been waiting for!

Go, Elliot and Sonny Boy III!

Hey Elliot!

and hi brian D!

Sonny Boi!!

and Readie!

ESO-T!

Hey everyone! This show began offline with me asking, 'So, should I call you Sonny Boy or what?'

Love me some throat singing!

Only here!

Big fan of both of your shows!

Zapshifter! Welcome!

yeah BO-EEEEEE

Pangaea was playing a throat singing cover of black magic woman earlier today!

Coool!

Go get 'em Elliot!

pledge.wprb.com

I actually prepared for my show enough in advance that i can listen to MOST of your show!

World's Fare has been such an influence on my taste! I have to be careful not to listen too much some weeks!

It's a fantastic show for sure

Today he was playing covers of american/british rock music by people from other places and honestly i thought it was going to be hokey but it was not

That not-quite-in-sync piano has strong cartoon vibes

as does this whole song, I guess! Amstramgram -- the French eenie meenie minie mo!

Fun DJ nerd fact about Pangeo - I used to follow him on Saturdays back at the mothership, and he would time his last track to the "tenth of a second", ending at EXACTLY 2 pm

I usually just play Napalm Death's 'You Suffer' on loop!

DJ goals

Matt from The Rhythm of the One was the same. It was insane. If something ended three seconds over I would act fake enraged. Miss that guy!

@Jon- good guy! I miss Matt too!

Amstramgram tikka tikka ... is my new jam

Pangaeo covers show was on fire...especially Light My Fire in Spanish!

some other eenie meenies: 'Pito Pito Gorgorito' in Spain

'Ambarabà Ciccì Coccò' in Italy

Hi everyone!

readie, that is exactly why i felt incredibly guilty asking him to end his show EARLY when redd kross/melvins came in the studio Saturday Oct. 12, 2019. he was accommodating, generous...

pangaeo, that is///he is great

was it from Music from Lil Brown?

https://www.discogs.com/Africa-Music-From-Lil-Brown/release/1388508

Professor Matt Rhythm of the One... This. Is. The. Funk. Yes I miss him too.

@Esoterica- that's Pangaeo- one all-around great, generous guy

SBWIII has entered the chat!

Sonny Bo-eeeeeeee 3

SBWIII is super! hi there

S! B! W! 3!

Happy to be here! I also followed Pangaeo and can confirm the legends of his precise timing

Hi everyone! I've been enjoying listening to the drive so much over the past few days and can't wait to listen all week!

IKR, Sonny Boy!

Nobody beats the Wizzz.

I wish Sonny Boy could narrate every show I do!

Love the concept for this next set. Not sure I've heard someone do that on a Membership Drive show before. Brilliant.

Any excuse to play the Nugrape Twins, Jon!

Very flattering to me too! Recorded 11/2/1926 in Atlanta, released as Columbia 14187-D. Side A "I've Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape." Side B "There's a City Built of Mansions."

According to Wikipedia Nugrape soda is "almost impossible to find for sale west or north of Murfreesboro, Tennessee"

Sounds like a great special premium for next year's drive!

Yes! Case of Nugrape. I was alterted to this page by Richard from Rocky Hill, an avid Off the Record listener: the comments have the best info I've been able to find on the duo. http://www.elinornauen.com/blog/posts/26288

once I'm fully vaxxed, I'm hoping to make a soda road trip to get some Moxie

THEY STILL MAKE NU-GRAPE?!! Will look in TN this summer.

I'll add this to the list!

https://www.specialtysodas.com/products/nugrape-soda-12oz-glass-bottle

subscribe and save 10%! sort of like WPRB!

pledge.wprb.com

Steve Weber from the Holy Modal rounders had Bucks County, PA, connections! Michael Hurley, too.

This song -- 'Hambanini' -- is just beautiful

I love the chromatic runs

I wonder whether Michael Hurley and Steve Weber listened to WPRB!

it would explain a lot of things...

It really is! The vocal melody reminds me of the Carter Family -- and the picking too shows some similarities with Maybelle Carter's influential technique.

This cut reminds me of seeing "Space is the Place" at the Garden Theatre... back when such things were possible

Yes! I remember when they screened Stop Making Sense -- was very sad to miss that one

None other than Jon Solomon gave a very nice introduction!

And Abbie From Mars danced in the aisle with impressive stamina

Abbie From Mars started dancing...and was soon joined by roughly 20-25 other theatergoers. It was wild!

@Sonny Boy- Jon and Abbie dancing was extra special! That was a great night!Happy to say I joined in the dancing that night!

Next year in the Princeton Garden Theatre, as they say!

Irresistible!

@Elliot- hope so!

The most amazing part of that already amazing evening was meeting someone after the screening who had been at the concert we all had just watched on the Garden screen.

I was too square to dance but I loved watching from the comfort of my seat. Wow that's very cool Jon!

I wonder how the big the suit looked in person

they say the camera adds a few square feet

https://vintagevinyl.com/ !

Ian Anderson got some tricks from Kirk No Doubt

they got the URL!

we're trying to name drop as many programs as we can tonight!

SYNERGY

Dave Van Ronk has a song called "Garden State Rag" which is just a list of towns in Jersey

Someone should compose the WPRB Rag

Garden State *Stomp. I of all people should know my rags from my stomps.

Krista and I were recently talking about modern alt-country/Americana with lyrics that critics call 'Whitman-esque'

but my hot take is that no song can be called Whitman-esque unless it's a giant list

"giant list of beautiful things". Luckily, catalog songs are already a genre

hi Krista!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_song#:~:text=A%20list%20song%2C%20also%20called,in%20part%20on%20a%20list.

someone should make a list song about the list of list songs

Very first recorded commerical Cole Porter song was from the sarcastic opera See America First

WrestleMania on mute, Elliot's show on the laptop. Perfect Saturday night.

Agree, Jon, my son is too impressionable so I had to stop watching professional wrestling but I'm following the matches online a little. Love to see it live, especially smaller venues and up and comers.

I can only imagine this JB Smith recording is helping to bring out the melancholic aspect of the spectacle

Apparently I get WM for free with our cable now so on it goes. I was more of a Chikara guy until they imploded...

the vaccuuming sound in the background adds a lot

Former WPRB DJ maura.com is the real rock-n-wrestling connection among my peers. I follow her lead.

this one is for John from Aberdeen!

The background sounds make it they're like the instruments

my other post-pandemic bucket list item is to see a monster truck rally

sometimes when I close my eyes, I can still hear the man on TV from my childhood growling GRAVEDIGGER

Does he get home? Can't wait to find out.

all this talk about phones is making me miss the station :'(

I once went to a team demolition derby event in Joliet that was one of the most thrilling sporting events I've ever attended.

Frank from New Egypt, where are you?

I miss the phones too

pure id, Jon -- nothing better

sorry folks, it had been too many weeks without any Italo

I had to do it

Thumbs up on old school demolition derbies! Ford Torino Wagons often won.

I have memories of a Boy Scout event where we paid a few dollars to hit old broken computers and TVs with sledgehammers

probably not the safest idea for a fundraiser

As a boy scout I was involved with some events where we had local waste management companies donate dumpsters and then would charge people to take their junk. We would usually smash it, ostensibly to make it more compact but mostly for fun.

The satisfying crunch of smashing a cathode ray tube screen is hard to forget.

early on in the pandemic, I started disassembling a cathode ray TV to make a liquor cabinet

I was extremely paranoid about discharging it properly, etc.

so I've clearly regressed over time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

My family participates in demolition derbies! My parents' ford escort made it a long way at the county fair

Did you finish Elliot?

This is fire

Team Demo Derby seemed to have two types of drivers on each team. Those in charge of going the furthest before time ran out and those who would recklessly drive across the infield to ram into the first type of driver.

@krista Nice! Wholesome midwest smashing.

hey Guelo! that's for bumping along with us!

Time? Last dinosaur left standing. Or last Plymouth Duster.

I think a tractor pull is the closest I've gotten to a demo derby.

Listener Michael G checking in with a one time pledge and listener Commie Frances’ Mom joining the rank of recurring donors!

Yea Mommie Commie!

Thanks Michael! Thanks Mommie Commie!

Aw shucks!

Alas I was beaten to the rhyme

Michael G! Thank you!!

If my back of the ol' scratchpad calculations are correct WPRB is closing in on halfway to the station's fundraising goal!

Moms Against Algorithmic Radio!

"Keeping score at home..."

https://wwnorton.com/books/Lament-from-Epirus

https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/lament-from-epirus-soundtrack

soundtrack on bandcamp!

@Sonny Boy, here's a before photo of the TV: https://ptpimg.me/607f78.png

and after: https://ptpimg.me/lux652.jpg

a little understocked, but I've been going through it fast lately...

I could listen to Epirote clarinets for the rest of time

So good!

Same here! Cabinet looks great Elliot

in heaven, they only play Epirotika and Indonesian soft rock

Epirote made me think of this https://folkways.si.edu/music-of-indonesia-vol-3-from-the-outskirts-of-jakarta-gambang-kromong/islamica-world/music/album/smithsonian

yes, the violins (or whatever droning strings we were hearing) don't get enough credit!

3/3 so far! I'm really hoping I don't get Anguilla

Count me impressed

I'm all dry on the Solomon Islands, too. Maybe I should've asked Jon

You're on a hot streak!

unbelievably, there are TWO great Turkmen jazz fusion groups to choose from

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1790984-%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B0

if you dig, there's are TONS of unusual records on Melodiya, the state-sponsored label in the USSR

*there

had to rush there to share this amazing -- and unique -- style of music! enjoy chutney and remember to go to pledge.wprb.com!

Great time tonight! @Elliot and @SBWIII

Yes thanks all for listening!

Great fun. And thanks to Elliot. We'll be back together Wednesday noon to 3pm.

Uneasy Listening next!

Great show!

Sonny Boy, thanks for celebrating all this great music with me! I can't wait to talk more on Wednesday!

What a hall of mirrors: soca meets Indian pop! Only on NEW JERSEY'S ONLY RADIO STATION