Playlist for February 20, 2007 (Broadcast 2-5:30 p.m.)
The topics of this week's Wiggy's Ramblings:
Whatever happened to our station in Montauk?
Why CNN Headline News is the lamest news gathering station on the planet (worse than Fox!) and why celebrities just aren't news!!! Dead celebrities are good celebrities.
Who was Anna Nicole Smith and why won't somebody please bury her now?
Latest headline: James Brown is still hanging out in his South Carolina living room (really!).
Van Morrison's newest album: Van Morrison "At the Movies"
Also: What's in Jeff's music bag this week?
Also: There's nothing like a soap box to clean your mind.
This week's musical theme: You Can't Get There from Here! These Guys Really Make Me Laugh.
Van Morrison:
Call Me Up in Dreamland (CD single, recorded live in Switzerland/Point Blank Records)
Bert & I: From the album Bert & I...More Bert and I...And Other Stores from Down East (featuring
Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan) Marshall Dodge, one half of this
team, was killed on his bicycle in Hawaii at age 27 by a hit and run
driver: the case was never solved.
Which Way to Millinocket?
Gilda Radner: From the album Gilda Radner Live from New York (Warner Bros.)
Honey (Touch Me with My Clothes On)
Robert Klein: From the album: Child of the 50's (Rhino Records)
F.M. Disc Jockey
David Roth: From the album: Christine Lavin Presents: Big Times in a Small Town: The Vineyard Tapes (Philo)
The Star Spangled Banner and Me
Robert Klein: From the album: Child of the 50's (Rhino Records)
The Panhandler
Louie Prima: From the album: Louie Prima Collector Series (Capitol Records)
When You're Smiling/The Sheik of Araby (medley)
Buster Poindexter: From the album: Buster Poindexter (RCA)
Good Morning Judge
John Forster: From the album: Christine Lavin Presents: Big Times in a Small Town: The Vineyard Tapes (Philo)
Entering Marion
Graham Parker: From the album: Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie)
Syphilis & Religion
Bert & I: From the album Bert & I...More Bert and I...And Other Stores from Down East (featuring Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan)
Albert's Moose
Robert Klein: From the album: Child of the 50's (Rhino Records)
Civil Defense (No Talking!)
(talk break)
Carly Simon: From the album: Carly Simon: Greatest Hits Live (Arista)
Never Been Gone
(Carly's wonderful song about the MV Islander ferry that runs from
Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven. Being on this ferry with my family is my
first vivid memory of life from about age five!)
Mini Tribute to James Brown:
James Brown: From the album James Brown Live: Live at the Apollo, Volume II (Deluxe Edition) (Polydor/Universal)
It's a Man's Man's Man's World (19.05 minutes of James live!)
Radio Drama with Norman Corwin:
Norman Corwin: Our
second episode in a series of broadcasts of radio dramas from the
1940's master of radio drama, Norman Corwin. We heard the story The Undecided Molecule (featuring Groucho Marx as the judge!). I'll
be broadcasting a new 30-minute drama each 3rd Tuesday of the month at
4 p.m. At one time Corwin had audiences exceeding 60 million listeners!
For more on his career (he's still alive, by the way), go to:
http://www.normancorwin.com/
Back to music around 4:30 p.m...
Tribute to post-Katrina Mardi Gras #2: An Hour of Live Dr. John!
Dr. John the Night Tripper...
From the album: Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina's--Mardi Gras '89 (Hyena Records)
I Walk on Gilded Splinters
Traveling Mood
Black Widow
Let the Good Times Roll
Kinfolks
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
And from the album: Dr. John: Live at Montreux 1995 (2005) (EMI Music Canada, also available on DVD)
Iko Iko
Renegade
(faded show out on)...Let the Good Times Roll
