Best of Bottomless Pit w/ Marshall Crenshaw

A salute to the Danelectro company, of Neptune City, NJ, it’s founder Nathan Daniel, and some of the great artistes who helped immortalize the brand, like Randy California, Rene Hall, Jack Bruce, Vinnie Bell, Joey Spampinato, and many more.

#170- from Nov. 15, 2014 Danelectro Guitars

RITCHIE VALENS- LA BAMBA

ROY ORBISON- WORKING FOR THE MAN

MICKEY BAKER- BAKER’S DOZEN

DANCE DANCE DANCE- THE BEACH BOYS

SPIRIT- I GOT A LINE ON YOU

THE KINKS- I’LL REMEMBER 

THE TRASHMEN- SURFIN’ BIRD

THE WHO- THE GOOD’S GONE

CREAM- STRANGE BREW

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN- IT’S HARD TO BE A SAINT

NRBQ- I’VE GOT A ROCKET IN MY POCKET

GENE PITNEY- TOWN WITHOUT PITY

THE DELFONICS- DIDN’T I BLOW YOUR MIND

FREDA PAYNE- BAND OF GOLD

JOE SOUTH- HOLE IN YOUR SOUL

THEME FROM “TWIN PEAKS”- ANGELO BADALAMENTI

https://marshallcrenshaw.com

THE BOTTOMLESS PIT

I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)

I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand. 

It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me. 

I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..

MC