Play list - 01/25/2007

I got a kick out of pulling out my old "Dr. Detroit" album on vinyl today. Devo, James Brown, Dan Akroyd, Fran Drescher as a sexy high-class call girl...this movie had it all! I just found the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aEBT3l3qg

the low point of the show was saying that the "what's happening" theme song was the "good times" theme song. :-( I didn't have it written down right, but Mike Murphy and a caller set me straight. Thanks!

Or maybe the low point was not being able to get the record player to work the first time i tried it, even after i thought i'd tested it. That's two too many low points :-( I hope everyone still enjoyed the show.

10:00
brian dewan - the creatures
perrey and kingsley - girl from venus
giselle - girl from ipanema
sergio mendes and brasil 66 - mas que nada
afro-cuban jazz project - campina
omar faruk teklibek - karam
the karminsky experience inc - exploration
pizzicato five - this year's girl #2
quincy jones & his orchestra - soul bossa nova
what's happening theme song
dee jay punk-roc - dead husband
cut chemist - spoon

11:00
gary numan - on broadway
gary numan - cars
j.b. dunckel (darkel) - earth
devo - dr. detroit
wax tailor - que sera
eccodek - boddhichita dub
nightmares on wax - flip ya lid
english beat - pato and roger a go talk
musical youth - pass the duchie
bob marley - lively up yourself
damian jr. gong marley - move!
sugar daddy - sweet soca music
the pretenders - never ever worry

Play list - 01/18/2007

Two birthdays of great men in civil rights this week: MLK Jr, and Muhammed Ali. We played MLK Jr. speeches from 9-10, then I played some Cassius Clay speeches at 10:00.

Sad news at the station this week though, our GM is leaving. But she accomplished a lot in the short time she was there.

10:00
cassius clay - round 1: i am the greatest
cassius clay - round 2: i am the double greatest
william shatner - theme from cyrano / mr. tamborine man
the avalanches - mix with "since i left you" and "like a rolling stone"
esquivel - honkey tonkey cha-cha
esquivel - el cable
les baxter - tropicando
don ho - e lei ke lei lei
sanati (feat. Natacha Atlas) - toires (from six degrees' arabian traveler)
dzihan & kamien - stiff jazz (from six degrees' traveler 03)
various - hater
the incredible moses leroy - L.O.V.E.

11:00
johnny cash - hurt
the doors - strange days, remixed by thievery corporation
jb dunckel - tv destroy
daft punk - television rules the nation
cassius - cassius 1999
ulrich schnauss - knuddlemaus
kraftwerk - trans-europe express
laut sprecher - omnibus
fantastic plastic machine - bachelor pad
we in music - now that the love has gone (felix da housecat mix)
orbital - ?? (i'll get this later)

Playlist - 01/11/2007

On today's show, I played my first record on-air (madness: one step beyond). interesting differences from cd. I thought at first that i'd have to attempt to get the needle between songs while on air, but instead, to "pause" before the right track, i just had to play the record to the right part while off-air, then stop the turntable, then start it when i was ready to play the song. luckily there was enough of a gap between tracks to let the turntable get up to speed, but it was a direct drive, so i guess those get up to speed very fast. is this how they did it before cd's? Or did they always play 45's?

10:00
mike simpson, sponge bob, and patrick - goofy goober theme song
puffy maiyumi - teen titans theme song
harry belafonte - jump in line
maya angelou - peas and rice
incredible bongo band - bongo rock
the black seeds - sometimes enough (from new zealand)
katchafire - getaway (from new zealand)
amadou & miriam - artistiya
eccodek - peace time
rhany - chan chan (from rough guide to latin-arabia)
omar faruk teklibek - elation
john mcdowell - nyc (from born into brothels)
john mcdowell - jai sita ram (from born into brothels)
kavan kavan - sukhwinder singh

11:00
english beat - tears of a clown
madness - one step beyond
rancid - time bomb
the specials - rude boys outta jail
groove armada - but i feel good
darkel - at then end of the sky
air - venus
saint etienne - heart failed in the back of a taxi
aphex twin - remix of Your Head My Voice, Voix Revirement - Saint Etienne
metro area - orange alert (from dfa remixes)
deejay punk-roc - my beatbox (les rhytmes digitales remix)
chemical brothers - star guitar
blotnik brothers - tin can

Play list - 01/04/2007

I was in Colorado last week, so Mark Manning covered for me. Thanks Mark! You can find Mark's play lists on his MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/wednesdaymiddaymedley

The station has been looking better every time I go in. First Deb had the whole place painted inside, then she got new furniture for the "green room". Very cool to see the improvements.

Thanks to Mel for calling in today to correct me on my pronunciation of tabla (should be like tah-vblah). My favorite "track" of the day was probably the 17-ish short tracks that make up "fingertips" by They Might Be Giants. Hope everyone liked it. But Apache was a close 2nd.

10:00
incredible bongo band - apache
harry belafonte - mama look a boo boo
karl zero and the wailers - coconut woman
balafon marimba ensemble - i already have a husband
the go! team - get it together
twelve girls band - miracle
tabla beat science - #2 from live at stern grove
asian dub foundation - buzzin
sigur ros - staralfur
aim - sail
amadou & miriam - senegal fast food
salamat - mambo el soudani (from rough guide to latin-arabia)

11:00
punk division - seven nation army (from ultra dance 05)
tek-house - california dreamin' (from ultra dance 05)
the boogie pimps - somebody to love (from ultra dance 05)
white stripes - fell in love with a girl
shonen knife - frogphobia
they might be giants - fingertips
they might be giants - space suit
brian dewan - waste paper basket fire
dick hyman - topless dancers of corfu
cornelius - atomic moog 200 (coldcut remix)
beats international - dub be good to me
sasha - people of the world (from the bhangra dimension)
maximus dan - soca train