gts199 “aftermash1” Pickin’ up some pieces. 01-01 Ray Eberle & Glenn Miller Orchestra – Bluebird 10931- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (1940) 01-02 Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire 05 – Thousand Island Park (1972) 01-03 Tangerine Dream – Tyranny Of Beauty 03 – Little Blond In The Park Of Attractions (1995) 01-04 Ten…

gts017 “economish” Drop a dime in the jukebox, whups today it’s a buck and the juke machine don’t take quarters. You gotta wave your life device at a logo and the eight bits deducted is unimportant, the combo of data info: time + place + you + tune turns into extra money for someone who…

gts015 “natshural” World Health Organization announced they will be renaming monkeypox to eliminate stigma. So, offending chickens is just fine? 01-01 Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters – Decca 23940 – Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) (1947) — theme of the show: he’ll stay right there. 01-02 Kinks – Apeman (demo) — another gem from the BBC.…

gts013 “utopish” Just over the fence. 01-01 Nat Shilkret – Victor 22444 – Get Happy (1930) — after Black Friday in 1929, record sales slumped hard. Tunes like this were the music biz trying to save their own ass. 01-02 Joey Ramone – Don’t Worry About Me 01 – What A Wonderful World (2002) —…

gts010 “countsheep” Get out your slide rule, it’s time to interpolate your butts off! Integers are nice and discrete, they come at regular times like a steady tympani backbeat, and then along comes Kate Bush to blow that all up. 01-01 Phil Harris & Alice Harris – ARA 136 – One-Zy Two-Zy (1946) — the…

gts072 “lindish” Birthday 1946-07-15 = 80 years old now! Dated Governor Jerry Brown (of “California Uber Alles” fame) and was for a time the fiance of George Lucas. 01-01 Linda Ronstadt & Kermit The Frog – All I Have To Do Is Dream 01-02 Linda Ronstadt – How Do I Make You 01-03 Linda Ronstadt…

gts009 “magish” Snap your fingers past the graveyard, walk around that ladder. Or, some people take it a bit farther. No matter, this episode is your grimoire for defense against the dark arts. What they don’t teach you in school, is that Cornish pixies can be easily baited with corned beef. 01-01 Dell’Isola & Ezio…

gts198 “mylandish” Also, this land is your land. 01-01 Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys – Okeh 6742 – Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima (1945) — in the Country Music Hall Of Fame, understandable. But also in the Rock And Roll HOF, which baffles. Bob sounds pretty happy, with hoots and hollers in the…

gts194 “moojoosh” Think this bucket’s got a hole in it. 01-01 Louis Jordan – Decca 9-27129 – Show Me How (You Milk The Cow) (1950) — from Arkansas, at the time Jordan would have been denied entry, as a customer, to many of the venues he played as a bandleader. Only after a predominance of…

gts197 “desheray” Da Doo Doobie 01-01 Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers – Brunswick 6240 – Dinah (1932) — common for Bing to do collabs with other artists, rare for them to out-do him. 01-02 Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley & Company 103 – Diana (1962) 01-03 John Cougar – American Fool 102 – Jack…