Hello, partygoers! Things get exciting this week and also very, very wrong.
On this episode, Mary and Dave record the Listening Party in the dark as a windstorm causes a power outage in good old rural Aldergrove. So, bring a flashlight and a blanket, and join the pair in the crepuscular rumpus room for some music fun!
Let’s peer into the gloom and listen to:
* The Nerves – “Hanging of the Telephone” – DIY: Come Out and Play – American Power Pop I (1975-1978), 1993 – 8:55* Fire – “Father’s Name is Dad” –Decca single b/w “Treacle Toffee World”, 1968 – 29:57* Idina Menzel and Lea Michelle (Glee) – “Poker Face” – Glee: The Music, Volume 3 – Showstoppers, 2010 – 1:07:58* Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” – Telephone Free Landslide Victory, 1985 – 1:27:04* The Act – “The Remedies of Doctor Brohnicoy” – Columbia single “Just a Little Bit” b/w “The Remedies of Doctor Brohnicoy”, 1968 – 1:34:58* Jane Aire and the Belvederes – “Yankee Wheels” –Stiff records single b/w “Nasty Nice”, 1978 – 1:46:40* The Thrills – “Til the Tide Creeps In”- So Much for the City, 2003 – 2:06:43* Caroline Peyton – “Engram” – Mock Up, 2009 – 2:15:41* The Everly Brothers – “Talking to the Flowers” – Mono single version B-side to “Mary Jane”, 1967 – 2:24:29* Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks) – “Mama” – Face the Truth, 2005 – 2:35:22* Gwen McCrae – ‘Rockin’ Chair” – Rockin’ Chair, 1975 – 2:40:24* Chilliwack – “Fly at Night” – Dreams, Dreams, Dreams, 1976 – 3:00:46
Also on the old Victrola:
* Fire – “I’ll Tell You a Story” – The Magic Shoemaker, 1970 – 58:51* Felt – Jewel Sky” – Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death, 1986 [Intermission Music] – 1:30:54* The Act – “Just a Little Bit” – b/w “The Remedies of Dr. Brohnicoy”, 1968 – 1:42:55
Department of Corections:A major correction this bi-week as Dave got hold of the completely wrong end of the Chilliwack stick. In a major case of “maybe don’t trust your faulty memory and look at the track listing, dum dum”, Dave assigned “Fly at Night” to the wrong Chilliwack album. It was not 1978’s Lights from the Valley, but 1976’s Dreams, Dreams, Dreams – a real comeback after 1975’s disappointing Rockerbox – that “Fly at Night” is on. As Dave mentioned during the show, Chilliwack at this point was Bill Henderson on vocals and guitar, Glenn Miller on bass and vocals, Ross Turney on drums, and new(-ish) member Howard Froese on guitar, keyboards and vocals. Additionally, both Henderson and Froese are credited with playing the Solina String Ensemble – a polyphonic synthesizer from the Netherlands that incorporated violin, viola, trumpet, horn, cello, and contrabass with a built in chorus effect. This was marketed as the ARP String Ensemble in the States – after the company that distribute it there. While making Dreams, Dreams, Dreams, all the members of Chilliwack were involved with Scientology (dumb hippies) and there is a thank you to L. Ron Hubbard on the sleeve of the original LP.
Not a correction, but a clarification: The Everly Brother’s version of “Talking to the Flowers” was the mono single mix – not the album mix, which puts some of the background vocals a little too high in the mix for our tastes.
Thanks for listening.
Here is Caroline Peyton at nineteen, performing an acoustic set live, and then, some years later, performing as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance :
