Playlist for 6-23-07

Good morning! We had a nice walk to the station and it should be a fun morning. Archive is here.

-Legal ID (8:00)
They Might Be Giants - It's Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (Severe Tire Damage)
Jason Trachtenburg - Dr. Worm (Hello Radio)
Beatles - Octopus's Garden (Abbey Road)
Recess Monkey - Rainbow Road (Aminal House)
Lunch Money - Tricycle (Live at Flywheel)
Frances England - Tricycle (Fascinating Creatures)
Justin Roberts - Taking Off My Training Wheels (Meltdown!)
Jellydots - Bicycle (Hey You Kids!)
--song ID
Keith Munslow - Goin' to the Beach (Live at VFR)
Hipwaders - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Hipwaders - I Like Summertime (Hipwaders)
Robbi K - Summer's Here (Music Makes Me Happy)
ScribbleJim - The Game of Life (Spare the Rock Live at Jalopy)
--song ID
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now (Doubt)
AudraRox - Short Attention Span (I Can Do It By Myself!)
CandyBand - It's Your Birthday (Calling All Kids)
Voice of the Beehive - I Walk the Earth (Let It Bee)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Obedience School (Freedom in a Box)
Mr. Richard - Spare the Rock
Arcwelder - Cranberry Sauce (Pull)
Paul Westerberg - Love You in the Fall (Open Season s/t)
-legal ID (9:01)
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
-song ID
SteveSongs - No Good Toys (Little Superman)
Renee & Jeremy - Shoorahlaywho (It's a Big World)
Sharp Cookies - Rathputin the Rattlethnake (Muddy Watter Beaver Dam Band)
Gustafer Yellowgold - Your Eel (Live at VFR)
Baby Loves Jazz - ABC (Baby Loves Jazz)
Steve Weeks - William (Alphabet Songs Vol. III)
-song ID
Uncle Rock - Rock and Roll Babysitter (Plays Well With Others)
Roger Day - Hello Sunshine (Dream Big!)
Jose Gonzalez y Banda Criolla - Bomba Le Le (Latin Playground)
Milkshake - Baseball (Play)
Dan Schorr - They Say I'm Going to be President (Every Word I Say Is True)
Mr. David - Backyard (Great Adventures...)
Semisonic - I've Been Working on the Railroad (Down by the Riverside)
-song ID
Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon (Irresistable Bliss)
Charity & the JAMband - Hey Diddle Diddle (Peanut Butter and JAM)
Asylum Street Spankers - Training Wheel Rag (Mommy Says No!)
-song ID
They Might Be Giants - Spare the Rock
(Marty Beller ID)
They Might Be Giants - Cowtown (Then)

Camping & Biking

Ella has gone from three to four to two:



(Can't quite see, but no training wheels on there.)

And we had a good time camping:

The Lloyd Dobler Virus

If you're like me (and God help you if you are), you'll enjoy this.

We Are Fond of Jumping and We Are Fond of Monkeys

...and from the links over there, I'm thinking I'll be fond of Jumping Monkeys.

In other words: welcome, readers/listeners of Jumping Monkeys.

Playlist for 6-23-07

A little smelly this morning, since we came in for the show in the middle of a weekend camping trip. Good thing we haven't yet installed the Smell-O-Bot 3000 component to the transmitter.

We're back from camping (fun!), and the archive is here. And frankly, it rocked!

-Legal ID (7:59)
They Might Be Giants - It's Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - I Am Not Your Broom (No!)
Terrible Twos - A Rake, a Broom, A Mop, A Shovel (If You Ever See An Owl)
Meat Puppets - Diaper (You Love Me EP)
Ella Jenkins - Africa Llamando/Africa Calling (Songs, Rhythms & Chants for the Dance)
Danny Adlerman - Africa Calling (One Size Fits All)
Seleshe Damassae - Hoya Hoye (African Playground)
Roger Day - Rumble in the Jungle (The Elefunk Song)
--song ID
Hullabaloo - Blah, Blah, Blah (Hey, Everybody!)
Joe McDermott - Ride, Ride, Ride (Everybody Plays Air Guitar)
Ginger Hendrix - Riding My Pony (Macaroni Boy Eats at Chez Shooby Doo)
--song ID
ScribbleMonster - I Wish I Lived in Michigan (Curious Glimpse of Michigan)
Vandals - So Long, Farewell
Dirty Sock Funtime Band - Blame Mr. Clown (Mr. Clown and the Day the Sun Got Wet)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Lucas Miller - I'm Lookin' Fine (I Was a Supa Dupa Pupa)
I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Jeans! (Songs for the Coolest Kids)
--legal ID (9:00)
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
--song ID
Fountains of Wayne - Laser Show (Utopia Parkway)
Pencilhead & the Playground Punks - Stickman (Punk Salad)
Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again (Play)
CandyBand - Down By The Bay (Calling All Kids)
Joel Caithamer - Bobby's Been Bad But Wanda's Been Worse (Activate!)
Justin Roberts - Meltdown (Meltdown)
-song ID
Ralph's World - Dance Around (Green Gorilla Monster & Me)
Mocean Worker - Right Now
AudraRox - I Like to Pretend (I Can Do It by Myself)
Moby - Anchovie (Mary Had a Little Amp)
Robbi K - Feel The Beat (Music Makes Me Happy)
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank (Mulder Remix)
Eddie Coker - Woo Woo Dance (Wow!)
-song ID
Randy Smith - What If... (Everything Soup)
Opus Ditty - What If? (and the Joyride Jet Engine Bus)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan (Freedom in a Box)
-song ID
TMBG - Spare the Rock
TMBG - Bells are Ringing (Factory Showdown)

Perhaps They Will Cover "Take Off"

Live in Quebec? Go see The Deedle Deedle Dees in July. That is a very firm direction, not a suggestion.

World Premiere Hipwaders Song, Hipwader Tito's Guest Set, & Deedle Deedle Dees Live

...all here in one tasty package.

The Tito guest set also includes another "Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child" little ditty. Add that to the one from Mr. Richard and ScribbleMonster plus the two from TMBG (with a full song -- really! -- still coming), and we've got a bit of a collection.

Perhaps We'll Head Into Boston Some This Summer...

...to see this kids' music series at Regatta Bar, which has had a legendary jazz festival for years.

It's Just Like You Were There, Except for Being Fuzzy and Blurry and Probably Buffering

Okay, so I will soon have the podcast put together which will include the Hipwaders' world premiere song, Tito from the Hipwaders doing an awesome guest DJ set, plus the full audio from the Deedle Deedle Dees live show at Artifacts 20th Century.

But you can also watch the full concert below. Note that I just set up the video camera on the tripod and mostly left it alone, so there is much you can't see. If you want better, you should've come.

Nellie Bly:


Rancher Ants:


Henry Box Brown:


Obedience School:


Play Your Hands:


Teddy Days:


Bring 'Em In (may or may not be the song's actual name):


Drum:


Hum (may or may not be the song's actual name):


Major Deegan:

Playlist for 6-16-07

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That "[blank]" is to take the place of the many, many obsecenities I uttered when I discovered that the recording, yet again, did not work. I'm about to download what I hope is a better software package and may start recording onto digital videotape first, and then transfer. We'll see. I'm super bummed, because the Dees were awesome.

I will get Tito's guest set into an archive form and put it up, and it's well worth listening to itself. [Update: Tito's guest set plus the full Deedle Deedle Dees show from that night are here.

Legal ID (8:00)
They Might Be Giants - It's Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - Bee the Bird of the Moth (The Else)
Renee & Jeremy - It's a Big World (It's A Big World)
Dean & Britta - Say Goodnight
Brian Wilson - Vege-Tables (Smile)
Recess Monkey - I Went to the Zoo with the Dalai Lama (Monkey Town)
Roger Day - I Like Yaks! (Dream Big!)
Robbi K & Friends - Favourite Things (Music Makes Me Happy)
--song ID
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up (Screamadelica)
Asylum Street Spankers - Sliver (Mommy Says No!)
fIREHOSE - Epoxy, For Example (Flyin' the Flannel)
Ernie & Neal - Best Friend (Friends, Family & Pizza)
Weezer - Best Friend
Mary Timony - Clap Your Hands (Play)
Sippy Cups - Springtime Fantastic (Electric Storyland)
--song ID
Hipwader Tito Guest DJ Set
Hipwaders - Educated Kid (World Premiere!)
Hipwaders - Spare the Rock (World Premiere!)
Song ID
Bonzos - Hunting Tigers Out in "Indiah"
NRBQ - Rats in My Room
Twink - Alphabent
-legal ID (9:00)
Maxwell & Mosher - Blow Wolf
Frances England - The Books I Like to Read
Song ID
Telephone Company - Mustache
Louis Jordan - Five Guys Named Moe
Pizzicato Five - Good
Chipmunks - Japanese Banana
Kaiser George - Shake in the Middle
Elastik Band - Spazz
Harry Nilsson - Little Cowboy
Vic Mizzy - Legal Eagle
Butty Hutton - Can't Stop Talking
Hoodwinked s/t - Schnitzel Song
Apples in Stereo - If You Wear a Hat
-song ID
Free Design - Love You
Deedle Deedle Dees Live in-studio
-Henry Box Brown
-Major Deegan
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (World Clique)\
Joe McDermott - Roller Coaster (Everybody Plays Air Guitar)
Lunch Money - Roller Coaster (Live at Flywheel)
They Might Be Giants - Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas (Live)

Wow.

I generally save CD-specific comments for my columns, but I've gotta say this:

Renee & Jeremy's "It's a Big World" is flat-out gorgeous. Warm, sweet, at-times haunting. Beautiful. Go get it. Now. If you don't like it, track me down and we'll make it right somehow.

(But if you don't like it, you're wrong.)

Set list for the ScribbleJim/ScribbleMom Show

In case you need a prod to listen to it, check out this set list. The show is linked to here.

Also, I'm finally listening to Hipwader Tito's guest DJ set for this Saturday, and man, it's awesome. You will not be forgiven if you don't listen.

They Might Be Giants - The House at the Top of the Tree (No!)
Roger Day - Zachary Hated Bumble Bees (Dream Big!)
ScribbleMonster - I Wish I Lived In Michigan (A Curious Glimpse of Michigan)
The Brady Bunch - It's a Sunshine Day (Meet the Brady Bunch)
--Whoever borrowed by Brady Bunch album and didn't return it: I want my album back!
Saturday in the Park - Chicago (Chicago V)
Ella Jenkins - Did You Feed My Cow? (You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song)
Raffi - Robin in the Rain (Singable Songs for the Very Young)
Willie Nelson - Playmate (Rainbow Connection)
The Elbows - Little Bunny Foo Foo (The Elbows)
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man (Van Halen)
Mother Goose Rocks! - Skinamarink - (MGR Vol. 5)
The Queers - Wipeout (Acidbeaters)
Candy Band - The Ants Go Marching (More Candy)
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach (Rocket to Russia)
Yosi - On Top of Spaghetti (What's Eatin' Yosi?)
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Fountains of Wayne - It Must Be Summer (Utopia Parkway)
David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing in the Street (Single)
Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime (Greatest Hits)
Jeannette Lambert - Kookaboora (Bebop for Babies)
SteveSongs - Bananas (On a Flying Guitar)
Raffi - Brush Your Teeth (Singable Songs for the Very Young)
Ella Jenkins - Sifting in the Sand (You'll Sing a Song...)
Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man (Robots Soundtrack)
The Persuasions - Dry Bones (Sunday Morning Soul)
Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine (Ray Charles: A Man, a Voice, a Piano)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - Crooked (Listen UP!)
Billy & The Kids - Mr. Golden Sun (Favorite Children Songs)
Danny Kaye - Little White Duck (More Vintage Children's Favorites)
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World (Naturally)
Sam Hinton - Michael Finnegan (Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts)
Raffi - Biscuits in the Oven (Baby Beluga)
TMBG - There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Meet The Robinsons Soundtrack)

I Cannot Begin To Tell You Everything That's Happening

Actually, I can. That title is an exaggeration.

1. We are back from ten days in Minnesota. We had a ton of fun:
a. At Dena's and my college reunion.
b. Staying half the time with our long-time friends Jim & Kim & Will & Ellen & Charlie, and staying the other half of the time with Liam & Ella's aunt and uncle Tara and Dave.
c. Seeing and interviewing Asheba.
d. Touring Minnesota Public Radio and meeting many of the people I like best in radio.
e. Hanging out at the Science Museum of Minnesota and, later, learning that Liam and Ella's uncle Dave helped build the towboat in this exhibit.
f. Going fishing with said Uncle Dave (both kids caught fish! all were released)
g. Catching up with lots of friends & family & colleagues, including meeting our friends Wendy and Greg's new puppies.

Pictures of all to come.

2. Thanks to ScribbleJim and to Mr. Richard for great guest sets! Pictures from Mr. Richard's show at Cup & Top are here.

3. Valley Kids is now online, and my current column is here! Nice looking site, too.

4. Deedle. Deedle. Dees! This Saturday. Ulysses S. Dee will be doing a solo set at Cup & Top at around 10, and the full band will be at Artifacts 20th Century (28 N. Maple in Florence) at 6:00 in the evening. It's a benefit for Flywheel and public interest law scholarships, and you simply must attend.

5. It will be a tight schedule for you, but you probably should also attend the Gustafer Yellowgold show at Mass MoCA at 11 that morning.

6. Also this week on the show, Hipwader Tito's guest DJ set with a late-breaking addition of a world premier new Hipwaders song! Whoo-hoo!

2007-06-09 Playlist

Playlist will come once we're back home, but for now, here is the archive of a wonderful and funny show done by ScribbleJim & ScribbleMom.

Next week, our interview with Asheba and all sorts of fun. Sure will be nice to be home!

Room to Grow

(Note from Bill: press release follows. I usually don't post press releases by themselves, but (a) I'm traveling and (b) this looks very cool. Let me make clear, though, that you can only attend this if you promise to get back to Northampton for the Deedle Deedle Dees show that evening.)

Room to Grow hosts a benefit family concert on Saturday, June 16th
Featuring Smithsonian Folkways Recording Artist Elizabeth Mitchell and Family & David Weinstone’s Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals

Sponsored by WBOS & Boston Common Magazine
Ticket Sales Benefit Babies through Room to Grow - www.roomtogrow.org

WHO: Elizabeth Mitchell and Family
Mitchell brings a fresh sound to cherished American folk songs and other
melodies from around the world. In a peaceful yet powerful way, she reintroduces us to the songs we thought we knew so well. Featuring homespun renditions of songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, The Velvet Underground, Vashti Bunyan, Gillian Welch and more.

“This is the family music that I love – soulful, mysterious, inclusive & rollicking!”
– Dan Zanes

David Weinstone’s Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals:
Music for Aardvarks is a multi-faceted world of musical adventures created by classically trained ex-punk rocker, David Weinstone. After the birth of this first child, David began Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals in reaction to the dearth of cool music available. In an exhilarating range of musical styles executed with superb musical literacy and richness of instrumentation, his songs reflect and celebrate the lives of children growing up in urban environments as well as themes universal to all children.

It’s real music—the songs are so good.” -Phish keyboardist Page McConnell


WHAT: Room to Grow (www.roomtogrow.org) hosts a family concert, the proceeds of which will support their efforts to enrich the lives of babies born into poverty throughout their critical first three years of development.

To purchase tickets: call Ticket Fusion at (877) 548-3237 or visit www.backbayeventscenter.com/calendar.html for online sales.

WHEN: Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Doors open at 10:30 AM

WHERE: John Hancock Hall
180 Berkeley Street, Boston

CONTACT: Rebecca Schulman
617-859-4545


EVENT DETAILS: www.roomtogrow.org