WMM Playlist from November 7, 2018

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

New & MidCoastal Releases +
SLIGHTS + Spinning Tree Theatre’s “The Nance”

10:00

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Violet and The Undercurrents – “Still Here”
from: Still Here – Single / Violet Vonder Haar Music / November 1, 2018
[Columbia Missouri based band made up of Violet Vonder Haar on lead vocals & guitar; Linda Bott on bass guitar; Phylshawn Johnson on drums, and Lizzy Weiland on lead guitar. The Columbia, Missouri-based quartet is anchored by the intrepid songwriting of Violet Vonder Haar and enriched by the creative energy of her musical counterparts. Raised in a small town at the edge of the Missouri River and nurtured by a thriving folk music-centered community, Vonder Haar started honing her craft as a songwriter, performer and vocalist at an early age. She was inspired by her father, a riverboat captain who introduced her to the music of folk legends and encouraged her journey as an artist. More information at: http://www.violetandtheundercurrents.com]

3. Amen Dunes – “Blue Rose”
from: Freedom / Sacred Bones Records / March 30, 2018
[The fifth studio album from Amen Dunes the musical project formed by American singer-songwriter and musician Damon McMahon in 2006 in New York. In addition to his regular collaborators Parker Kindred and Jordi Wheeler, Freedom features Delicate Steve and underground Roman musician Panoram. Chris Coady  (Beach House) produced. The record was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City and Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.]

4. Blue False Indigo – “Rainbow”
from: More Light / Blue False Indigo / September 7, 2018
[They call their music “Spooky-Folk.” Makayla Scott on vocals & guitar; A.J Reynolds on vocals & keys; and Kara LePage on vocals & bass started the band in October 2013, in Springfield, Missouri.]

[Blue False Indigo play The Myers Hotel Bar, 220 South Main Street, Tonganoxie, KS with Kara Myree, and Teri Quinn, on Saturday, November 10, at 7:00 PM.]

5. Those Far Out Arrows – “Be Alright”
from: Part Time Lizards / High Dive Records / November 2, 2018
[Omaha, Nebraska band formed in 2013, by brothers Ben Keelan-White & Evan Keelan-White wbo perform with Derek Levasseur & Tanner Rogerson. Recorded & mixed by Those Far Out Arrows in Fall of 2016. Mastered by Jon Ochsner at ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska music writer Tim McMahan said, “They (Those Far Out Arrows) unapologetically cross ’60s British psychedelic with Bowery proto-punk a la Velvet Underground.” Those Far Out Arrows were recently signed to KC record label, High Dive Records.]

[Those Far Out Arrows, play an Album Release Show at The Brick, 1727 McGee St, KCMO, with Drug & Attics, and Faceface, at The Brick, on Friday, November 9, at 9:00 PM]

[Those Far Out Arrows, play an Album Release Show at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway, Blvd, KCMO, Saturday, November 9, 6:00 PM, with Arc Flash.]

6. Ken Nordine – “Blue”
from: Colors / Ken Nordine / 1966
[Colors is a “word jazz” album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. It was commissioned by the Fuller Paint Company to write radio advertisement spots, but after a few commercials became popular, it evolved to become an album of 34 songs. Each track personifies a different color or hue. Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that “you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you’ll almost certainly recognize his voice.” The son of Theresia and Nore S. Nordine, a contractor, Ken Nordine was born in Cherokee, Iowa. The family later moved to Chicago, where he attended Lane Technical College Prep High School and the University of Chicago. He has three sons with his wife Beryl, whom he married in 1945. During the 1940s, he was heard on The World’s Great Novels and other radio programs broadcast from Chicago. One of which, Honore de Balzac’s short story “Une passion dans le désert”, was recorded for the 1955 album Passion in the Desert. In 1955 he provided the voiceover on Billy Vaughn’s version of Shifting Whispering Sands, which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. He subsequently attracted wider attention when he recorded the aural vignettes on Word Jazz (Dot, 1957). Love Words, Son of Word Jazz (Dot, 1958) and his other albums in this vein feature Nordine’s narration over cool jazz by the Fred Katz Group featuring Chico Hamilton recording under an alias. Nordine began performing and recording such albums at the peak of the beat era and was associated with the poetry-and-jazz movement. However, it has been observed that some of Nordine’s writings “are more akin to Franz Kafka or Edgar Allan Poe” than to the beats. Many of his word jazz tracks feature critiques of societal norms. Some are lightweight and humorous, while others reveal dark, paranoid undercurrents and bizarre, dream-like scenarios. Nordine’s DVD, The Eye Is Never Filled, (2005) provides a flow of abstract visuals to accompany the audio tracks. In 1990 Nordine was approached by Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead to be the anchor for their New Year’s Eve radio broadcast from Oakland, California.[6] For the broadcast he recorded some improvisations with Garcia, drummer Mickey Hart and Egyptian musician Hamza El-Din. This subsequently lead to an album Devout Jazz, released on the Grateful Dead’s own label in 1991 and Upper Limbo in 1993[7] and appearances with the band such as their show at Rosemont, Illinois in March 1993.]

7. Tunde Olaniran – “Symbol”
from: Stranger / Magic Wheel / October 5, 2018
[Second full length album from Flint Michigan based Tunde Olaniran. In 2014, Olaniran released his first EP titled Yung Archetype (see: Jungian archetypes). Olaniran released his first full-length album in 2015 titled Transgressor. NPR’s Stephen Thompson notes, Olaniran, “presides over a bighearted sound and style that revolve around spirited statements of affirmation, a sprawling artistic palette and the pursuit of boldness in every sense of the word… It all adds up to a finely calibrated mix of purpose and playfulness, executed to stylish perfection.”]

10:30 – Underwriting

Spinning Tree Theatre presents the Kansas City premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance,” running through November 18, at Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central in Kansas City, Missouri.

10:32 – Interview with Michael Grayman-Parkhurst

Michael Grayman-Parkhurst of Spinning Tree Theatre joins us in our 90.1 FM Studios to share details about the Kansas City premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance,” running through November 18, at Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central in Kansas City, Missouri. The cast includes: Andy Perkins, Katie Gilchrist, Timothy Michael Houston, Ashley Personett, R.H. Wilhoit and Sarah Montoya. Tickets information is available at Central Ticket Office at (816) 235-6222. More information at: http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com.

Michael Grayman-Parkhurst thanks for being with us today on WMM.

Spinning Tree Theatre introduces Kansas City to The Nance

Spinning Tree Theatre proudly continues Season 8 November 2-18 with the Kansas City premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance, the 2013 Lincoln Center-produced Broadway play featuring music by Glen Kelly.

Beane is also the writer of “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar,” As Bees in Honey Drown and The Little Dog Laughed.

The Nance tells the story of burlesque’s stereotypically camp character and master of comic double entendre, almost always played by a straight man (so to speak). Mayor LaGuardia wants to clean up the city before the 1937 World’s Fair, and one of his targets is burlesque. What happens when our nance is gay…and has fallen in love? The Nance – equal parts drama and comedy – includes generous splashes of outrageous song-and-dance burlesque sketches.

Spinning Tree Managing Director Andrew Grayman-Parkhurst: “The Nance suits our aesthetic beautifully: wildly entertaining while meaningful. We believe this will be an introduction to most of our patrons about the comic representation of gay men in burlesque. It’s a unique opportunity to step back in time with a highly theatrical cast of characters.”

Artistic Director Michael Grayman-Parkhurst and Nicole Marie Green co-direct, continuing their collaboration from 2017’s Casa Valentina.

Andy Perkins in Spinning Tree Theatre’s “The Nance”

Their assembled cast: Andy Perkins (Chauncey Miles), Katie Gilchrist (Sylvie), Timothy Michael Houston (Ned), Ashley Personett (Joan), R.H. Wilhoit (Efram) and Sarah Montoya (Carmen).

Perkins was featured in 2017’s Casa Valentina; Personett in 2016’s Nine. The rest of the cast are making their Spinning Tree debuts.

The Nance team includes stage manager T.J. Burton, lighting designer Nicole Jaja, costume designer Shannon Smith-Regnier, sound designer Jeff Eubank, properties designer Eric Palmquist, choreographer Andrew Grayman-Parkhurst and music consultant Gary Green.

The Nance (November 2-18)

and the remainder of Spinning Tree Theatre’s 8th season

(the KC premiere of Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World and an intimate telling of 10-time Tony Award winning musical Billy Elliot)

Just Off Broadway Theatre
3051 Central in Kansas City, Missouri

Tickets available by calling Central Ticket Office at (816) 235-6222.
More information including performance dates and times at http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com.

10:45

8. The Get Up Kids – “Better This Way”
from: Kicker EP / Polyvinyl Record Co / To Be Released June 8, 2018
[Matt Pryor on vocals & guitars, Jim Suptic on guitar, Rob Pope on bass, James Dewees on keyboards, Ryan Pope on drums. On March 29, 2018, Polyvinyl Records announced on their Instagram account that they had signed the band and that new music will be coming soon. The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s emo scene, otherwise known as the “second wave” of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe. They founded Heroes & Villains Records, an imprint of the successful indie rock label Vagrant Records. While the imprint was started to release albums by The Get Up Kids, it served as a launching pad for several side-projects such as The New Amsterdams and Reggie and the Full Effect. The Get Up Kids were viewed throughout their existence as a prototypical emo band, having been major players in the Midwest emo movement of the mid-1990s. Their second album Something to Write Home About remains their most widely acclaimed album, and is considered to be one of the quintessential albums of the second-wave emo movement. However, like many early emo bands, The Get Up Kids sought to dissociate themselves with the term, as it was considered dismissive to be seen as an “emo band.”[8] The band departed heavily from their established style with the release of their 2002 album On a Wire, which saw the band take on a much more layered, alternative rock sound. Years later, guitarist Jim Suptic even apologized for having the influence they did on many of the modern third-wave emo bands, commenting that “[t]he punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It’s like glam rock now … If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize.” Due to internal conflicts, the band broke up in 2005. Three years later, the band reunited to support the tenth anniversary re-release of Something to Write Home About, and soon afterward entered the studio to write new material. In early 2010, the band released Simple Science, their first release in six years, followed in 2011 by the full-length There Are Rules. The Get Up Kids Members Rob Pope is also in the band Spoon; Jim Suptic is in the bands: Blackpool Lights, and Radar State; James Dewees is in the band Reggie and the Full Effect; and Matt Pryor performs often as a solo artists, and in the bands: Radar State, and The New Amsterdams.]

[The Get Up Kids play recordBar, Thursday, November 8, at 9:00 PM with Remember Sports]

9. Amanda Fish – “Free”
from: Free / VizzTone / September 14, 2018
[Amanda Fish began as a singer songwriter in late 2012, refining her original material as a solo act for 2 years before she formed her band in early 2014, a Roots Rock and Soul project featuring Amanda’s signature ‘from-the-gut’ vocals locked into a sturdy groove. In 2015, she released her first LP, “Down In The Dirt”, on VizzTone Label Group, for which she was awarded the 2016 “Sean Costello Rising Star” Blues Blast Music Award. Amanda and her band set Beale Street on fire in the 2017 International Blues Challenge Semi Finals, playing new material slated for her next release.]

[Amanda Fish plays The Brick, Saturday, November 10, at 9:00 PM with Broken Arrows.]

10. Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2”
from: Aviary / Domino Recording Co Ltd / October 26, 2018
[Julia Shammas Holter was born December 18, 1984, in Holter was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age six her family moved to Los Angeles, where she later attended the Alexander Hamilton High School. She studied music at The University of Michigan for four years, graduating with a degree in composition. After seeing Michael Pisaro perform an avant-garde composition in Michigan, she was inspired to study with him at CalArts, where she graduated from another composition program. Holter contributed songs to multiple compilation albums in 2008. In 2010, she began playing with Linda Perhacs’ band and released a CD-R titled Celebration and a collection of live recordings. Her debut studio album, Tragedy, was released in August 2011 on Leaving Records. Inspired by Euripides’ Greek play Hippolytus, the album received generally favorable reviews and was named one of NPR’s “Best Outer Sound Albums of 2011”. Holter released a second album, Ekstasis, in March 2012 on the RVNG Intl. label. The album drew comparisons to works by such artists as Laurie Anderson, Julianna Barwick, Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom, Grouper, and Stereolab, and received many positive reviews. Holter spent three years making the album, whose title comes from the Greek word meaning “outside of oneself.” The music video for album track “Moni Mon Amie”, directed by Yelena Zhelezov, was also released in March. In addition to collaborating with other California-based musicians like Nite Jewel (Ramona Gonzalez), Holter released her third album, Loud City Song, in August 2013 on Domino Records.[4] Unlike her first two albums, which were recorded mostly alone in her bedroom, Holter recorded Loud City Song with an ensemble of musicians. In 2015, Holter released her fourth album Have You in My Wilderness, which became her most successful charting release to date. She also contributed to Ducktails’ fifth studio album, St. Catherine, with her bandmates Chris Votek and Andrew Tholl. Holter collaborated with Jean-Michel Jarre on a song for the second part of the Electronica double album, released on July 18, 2016. In November 2016, she curated her own program during the tenth anniversary edition of Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht. This program included performances by Laurel Halo, Josephine Foster, Maya Dunietz, Jessica Moss and other artists. In September 2017, she performed a world premier of her scoring of the 1928 silent French film The Passion of Joan of Arc on September 29 at the FIGat7th in downtown Los Angeles. In September 2018, Holter announced her sixth commercially released album, Aviary, and released the lead single “I Shall Love 2”. She followed it with another single, “Words I Hear”, before the album’s release on October 26.]

11:00 – Station ID

11. Slights – “Why Cats Purr”
from: Flow State / Slights / November 30, 2018
[Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Ben Parks is also visual artist and painter as well as part of the band, Of Tree. Matthew Dunehoo is also a filmmaker and actor, and has been a member of the influential bands: Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, Doris Henson, and The String and Return. More information at http://www.slightsband.com]

[Slights play an album release show with The Philistines and Emmaline Twist on Friday, November 30 at 8:30 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO]

Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo on the November 7, 2018 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

11:03 – Interview with Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo

Matthew Dunehoo and Ben Parks join us to talk about the debut release of their new band Slights play an album release show at recordBar, Friday, November 30, at 8:30 PM, with The Philistines, and Emmaline Twist. More information at http://www.slightsband.com

Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo, Thanks for being with us on WMM.

Ben Parks is also visual artist and painter as well as part of the band, Of Tree.

Matthew Dunehoo is also a filmmaker and actor, and has been a member of the bands: Tidy Hippy, Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, Doris Henson, and Proud n Tall.

Matt is the founder of Elk’s Pride Pictures, a film production company based in Kansas City, Missouri.

11:12

12. Slights – “Higher Than Stoned”
from: Flow State / Slights / November 30, 2018
[Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Ben Parks is also visual artist and painter as well as part of the band, Of Tree. Matthew Dunehoo is also a filmmaker and actor, and has been a member of the influential bands: Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, Doris Henson, and The String and Return. More information at http://www.slightsband.com]

[Slights play an album release show with The Philistines and Emmaline Twist on Friday, November 30 at 8:30 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO]

11:14 – Interview with Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo

Slights

Matthew Dunehoo and Ben Parks are with us us to share music from their band Slights and their debut release titled: Flow State. Their new 11-song album was created over the past year and recorded an album at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco.

Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Ben Parks is also visual artist and painter who created the album cover for Flow State. Ben Parks is also part of the band, Of Tree with wife Laurel Parks

Matthew Dunehoo created: Elks Pride Pictures, LLC – Founded February 1, 2015

More information at http://www.slightsband.com

11:23

13. Slights – “The Witch and Robert Palmer”
from: Flow State / Slights / November 30, 2018
[Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Ben Parks is also visual artist and painter as well as part of the band, Of Tree. Matthew Dunehoo is also a filmmaker and actor, and has been a member of the influential bands: Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, Doris Henson, and The String and Return. More information at http://www.slightsband.com]

[Slights play an album release show with The Philistines and Emmaline Twist on Friday, November 30 at 8:30 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO]

11:26 – Underwriting

14. No Magic – “Backspin”
from: In Cocoon / French Exit Records / November 9, 2018
[All songs written by Ben Sauder. Produced by Joel Martin. Mixed by Joel Martin and Ben Sauder. Mastered by Steve Squire. No Magic is Ben Sauder on guitars, keys, stairs, vocals, & auxiliary; Joel Martin on guitars, basses, keys, drums, vocals, patience; Heidi Gluck on bass, acoustic guitars, piano, slide guitar, vocals; and Jeff Stolz on drums and modelos. With: Leslie Butsch – Saxophone on “Backspin” and “San Francisco”. Kyle “Strings” Stringer – Bass on “While I Got You” and “Apart”. Brother Bobby Sauder – Bass on “Firefly”. Nicholas Stahl – Drums on “While I Got You”. Chris Luxem – Chorus Chant Vocals on “Smoke”. Garrett Marsh – Acoustic riff on “San Francisco”. Design and layout – Carl Smith. Cover photo – Ga Ji Ashlin Wang. Inside photo – Austin Pulliam .]

[No Magic plays an Album Release Show at Voltaire on Saturday, November 10, at 11;00 PM, with Chase the Horseman, and Vanity Plates.]

15. Broken Arrows – “Behind The Eightball”
from: Street Flowers / Intelligent Design Records / August 3, 2018
[Barry Lee on rhythm Guitar, lead & backing vocals; Mike Penner on lead & rhythm guitars, lead & backing vocals; Bill Ryan on lead & rhythm guitars, lead & backing vocals; John Chevalier on bass, keyboards, lead & backing vocals; Dave Storms on drums, percussion, lead & backing vocals. Special Guest Howard Iceberg on lead and backing vocals on “Recognize My Heart.” Drums & percussion tracks recorded at Roll Away The Stone Studio. All other tracks recorded at Cricket Palace Studio. Mixed & Mastered by Mike Penner]

[Broken Arrows play The Brick, Saturday, November 10, at 9:00 PM with Amanda Fish.]

16. Rachel Mallin and The Wild Type – “It Isn’t Love”
from: It isn’t Love – Single / Rachel Mallin / November 9, 2018
[Indie synthpop from Kansas City based, 4-piece band that includes: Rachel Mallin on lead vocals & guitar, Justin Walker on bass, Austin Edmisten on drums & back-up vocals. “It Isn’t Love” the latest single from Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type. Mallin wrote, recorded and produced her first album, The Persistence of Vision, in 2014 — a solo effort that spoke to her synthpop sensibilities and landed her on Kansas City radio. That same year, she left the University of Missouri to pursue a music career, and enlisted bassist Justin Walker and drummer Austin Edmisten to form The Wild Type. By mid-2016, the act — with keyboardist Jesse Bartmess and former guitarist Matt Kosinski — released its debut EP, Degenerate Matters, recorded, produced, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording Studios. Musical Arrangements written and performed by Rachel Mallin, Justin Walker, Austin Edmisten, Jesse Bartmess, and Matt Kosinski. Lyrics written by Rachel Mallin. That same year, The Wild Type earned support slots for acts from Cold War Kids to Metric and The Struts, and widespread recognition in its hometown at festivals such as Middle of the Map and Boulevardia.]

[Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type play The Truman, Saturday, November 10, at 7:00 opening for The Greeting Committee with Brother Moses.]

17. HighWesthus – “BLVCK”
from: TAKOTSUBO: a love story / Datura Records / October 24, 2018
[Written and produced and performed by HighWesthuss. HighWesthus was born in Chicago and is based in Kansas City. Last year Datura Records released The Trilogy. A set pf three releases that began with the May 2015 release, Part I. The Dead, and continued with the November 2015 release, Part II. The Wise. HighWesthus is a freelance multimedia artist living in Kansas City. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 with a BFA in Animation. He is one of four owners of Strange Paper Studio, based in Kansas City. HighWesthus specializes in illustration, animation, graphic design, video editing, sound editing, music producing, writing and storytelling.]

18. Erin Eades – “Free From Prison”
from: Diary / Erin Eades / October 19, 2018
[Debut EP from Erin Eades on acoustic guitar, cigar box guitar, vocals; Lucas Parker on electric guitar, bass (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5); Kenny Carter on bass (track 3); Colby Earlywine on drums; Jamie Malone on background vocals; Jay Vern on piano, B3 organ. Erin Eades is a singer-songwriter in Kansas City, MO. Originally from the mountain state of West Virginia, Eades began making music at the age of 12, when out of boredom her father handed her a 1950’s Gibson that had been stored away, waiting for someone to play. It wasn’t long before she began writing songs, recording her first album at age 17 as part of the duo Special Guest. After a more than decade-long hiatus from music, Eades began playing music again after moving to Kansas City and began her solo career in 2015. She has since played dozens of venues in the Kansas City area, won the 2016 HRC Kansas City Battle of the Bands Acoustic Stage, and has started to play more regionally, sharing her heartfelt lyrics, classic melodies, and percussive guitar style with audiences in the Midwest. Her music is genuine, and shares bits of her story, drawing from experiences that many find relatable. Influenced by the strong female singer-songwriters she listened to growing up, including Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Jewel, she followed their lead and added her own tinges of twang, angst, and blues. Eades released her debut single, “Looking From the Bottom” in 2017, ]

11:54

20. DeVotchKa – “Straight Shot”
from: This Night Falls Forever / Concord Records / August 24, 2018
[DeVotchKa is a four-piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble. They take their name from the Russian word devochka (девочка), meaning “girl”. Based in Denver, Colorado, the quartet is made up of Nick Urata, who sings and plays theremin, guitar, bouzouki, piano, and trumpet; Tom Hagerman, who plays violin, accordion, and piano; Jeanie Schroder, who sings and plays sousaphone, double bass, and flute; and Shawn King, who plays percussion and trumpet.]

21. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]
[WMM Closing Theme]

Next week on Wednesday November 14, Royce Sauce Handy shares details about SoulFood4 Release Show, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 6 PM at Ruby Jean’s Juicery (Ruby Jean’s Kitchen & Juicery), 3000 Troost Ave., KCMO. Also next week, Shaun Crowley and Rachel Mallin join us to share details about Manor Records for MOCSA, (Metropolitan Organization for Counter Sexual Assault.) Friday, November 16, at 5 PM at Blip Roasters, 1101 Mulberry, KCMO in The Bottoms. And also next week, constitutional historian, Michael J C Taylor joins us to talk about his new book.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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Show #759

Playlist from September 28, 2011

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Playlist from: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Jori Sackin & Pat Vamos & “Space Thang”
+ City Arts Project with Sean Kelley
+ Matt Jacobs & David Rhoads – Guest D.J.s

1. Laurie Anderson – “Cartoon Song”
from: Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered) / Warner Bros. / Oct. 17, 2000
[Originally from United States Live, the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued, slightly truncated, on four CDs), the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983 as part of her 4 and one half hour performance that also included film and video segments. Laurie Anderson will be in Kansas City in concert at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Helzberg Hall, Sunday October 9, 2011, at 7:00 PM.you can go to Kauffmancenter.org or call 816-994-7222 for more information.]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHILIP ‘blue owl’ HOOSER!!!

2. Tammar – “The Last Line (Dylan Ettinger remix)”
from: Visits / Suicide Squeeze Records / Sept. 20, 2011

3. The Velvet Underground – “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
from: Peel Slowly and See / PolyGram / 1995 [5 CD Box Set – Out of Print] [orig. from LIVE AT MAX’S KANSAS CITY, released May 1972. Recorded by Brigid Polk on a cassette recorder with Lou Reed on vocals & guitar, Sterling Morrison on guitar, Doug Yule on bass & vocals, and Billy Yule on drums. Lou and Doug sing with an accent to immitate Nico’s original vocals.]

4. Mary Fortune – “Sheets on the Bed”
from: Mary Fortune / Independent / May 6, 2011
[Mary Fortune is: Laura Frank, Jori Sackin, Andrew Connor, Liz Connor, Bill Belzer. Mixed by Mike Nolte.]

10:15 – Interview with Jori Sackin and Pat Vamos

SPACE THANG is a new film created by artists Jori Sackin and Pat Vamos that will premiere, this Saturday, October 1, in a special screening at The Strand Theatre, 3544 Troost, in Kansas City. The band Mary Fortune will kick things off at 9:00 PM with a live musical performance that will be followed by trailers that Pat Vamos has assembled. The video: “Follow The Sun” created by MK12 will be screened, followed by the premiere of SPACE THANG.

Pat Vamos, has worked with the Upright Citizens Brigade, and has recently done music videos for local bands: Ghosty, The Get-up Kids and Bill Belzer’s “Devil Girl” song.

SPACE THANG tells the story of The Chicken. Interspersed between Chicken segments will be found footage cut-ups from early sexploitation and porn movies.

SPACE THANG will premiere, this Saturday, October 1, at The Strand Theatre, 3544 Troost. Mary Fortune will kick things off at 9:00 PM with a live musical performance, followed by trailers, original music videos, “Follow The Sun” created by MK12, followed by the premiere of SPACE THANG.

10:29 – Underwriting

10:31

5. Radiohead – “Lotus Flower”
from: King of Limbs / Ticker Tape / Feb 18, 2011

10:36 – Interview with Sean Kelley, Matt Jacobs and David Rhoads

Sean Kelley, is Co-Founder and Director at City Arts Project, 2015 Campbell Street, Kansas City, a new art space that is located in the historic City Ice building at the northeast corner of 21st and Campbell Streets that combines a gallery, pop shop and six artist workspaces. Co-Curators: Matt Jacobs and David Rhoads joined us to discuss C.A.P.’s newest exhibit, Twenty Something, opening this October 7.

More information at: 816-820-4105. For more information about Matt and David’s work you can visit: thatmattjacobs.com or davidjrhoads.com

10:50

6. Jim Noir – “One Note World”
from: Rainbuns and Blank Ends EP / Noir Club – jimnoir.com / June, 2011

7. Neon Indian – “Polish Girl”
from: Era Extrana / Mom + Pop / September 13, 2011

11:00 – Guest DJs – Matt Jacobs & David Rhoads

Matt Jacobs grew up in the Chicago area while David Rhoads is from St. Louis. After receiving their BFA’s from the Kansas City Art institute in 2010, both have continued creating works and helping to develop new artist spaces. Both have also found work at You Say Tomato where they have served as Line Cooks among other positions at the store. A frequent customer of You Say Tomato, Jim “The Blind Guy” Hoschek, recently donated to 90.1 FM during our last fund drive and he received a “Guest DJ” Thank you gift for his generous donation. Jim passed the Guest DJ certificate on to Matt Jacob & David Rhoads.

8. Ken Nordine – “Yellow”
from: Colors / Asphodel Records / May 9, 2000
[From Amazon.com: The voice-over man from a thousand commercials, Ken Nordine registers in your subconscious instantly: Wait, I know that guy! Smooth as an ice sculpture and ringing with “the voice of our sponsor,” Nordine has personified authority since the 1960s. It’s disorienting at first to hear the way Nordine lets go on this record with a Beat-inspired, mellifluous-sounding, Dr. Seuss-like exploration of the meanings of different colors. Many of the pieces are parables on racism and human behavior, but they’re also totally silly, and meant to be. Recorded in the late 1960s, the 34 tracks manage to be sort of psychedelically goofy but charming at the same time. “Absolute gray is the grayest gray / That’s the same distance from absolute white as it is from absolute black,” Nordine almost-sings to a delightful, freeform studio backing of hip jazz. All your mix tapes will be very happy that you’ve bought this strange record to flavor them with. –Mike McGonigal]

9. Little Eva – “The Loco-Motion”
from: The Loco-Motion / Rhino / Feb. 26, 1996
[The original recording of the song was sung by Eva Boyd, under the stage name Little Eva. Boyd was actually Carole King’s babysitter, having been introduced to King and husband Gerry Goffin by The Cookies, a local girl group who would also record for the songwriters. The song is notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 (U.S. #1); for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 (U.S. #1); and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 (U.S. #3).]

10. The Shangri-Las – “Give Him A Great Big Kiss”
from: Stonewall: Music From The Motion Picture / Sony / 1996

11. The Chips – “Rubber Biscuit”
from: Super-Size Me: A Soundtrack of Epic Porportions / Kinkysweet / 2004
[a short-lived New York doo-wop vocal group consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson (lead vocal), Nathaniel Epps (baritone), Paul Fulton (bass), Sammy Strain and Shedrick Lincoln (tenors). The group’s first recording is their most enduring; “Rubber Biscuit” started life as Johnson’s answer to the marching rhythms of the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers while he was an intern there.]

12. Thee Oh Sees – “Ghost in The Trees”
from: The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending the Night In / Tomlab / April 8, 2008

11:15

13. The Sugarcubes – ” Motorcrash”
from: Life’s Too Good / Elektra / 1988

14. Sneaky Creeps – “All Sales Final”
from: World Cup / Independent / 2011

11:30 – Underwriting

15. Gorillaz featuring Lou Reed – “Some Kind of Nature”
from: Plastic Beach / Virgin Records / March 3, 2010
[The third studio album by British virtual band and alternative hip hop supergroup Gorillaz. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded during June 2008 to November 2009 and produced primarily by group co-creator Damon Albarn. It features guest appearances by several artists, including Snoop Dogg, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Lou Reed, Mick Jones, Mark E. Smith, Paul Simonon, Bashy, Kano, Little Dragon and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.]

16. The Magnetic Fields – “Underwear”
from: 69 Love Songs / Merge / 1999

17. Ken Nordine – “Beige”
from: Colors / Asphodel Records / May 9, 2000

18. Jonathan Richman – “Monologue About Bermuda”
from: Having A Party With Jonathan Richman / Rounder Records / 1991

11:45

19. Cyndi Lauper – “When You Were Mine”
from: She’s So Unusual / Portrait / October 14, 1983 [written by Prince]

20. Lady Ga Ga – “Monster”
from: The Fame Monster / Interscope / 2009

21. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Sources for Notes: Artist’s websites noted above and wikipedia.org

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