Week 10: Le Petit Pauvre

Walter Friendly here. What a show this week! Even Stiles was good! Tonight on The Away Team we had one of my oldest and dearest, Hot Dotty. You can tell a lot about a lady by the songs she picks, and Dotty is a lady who knows where it's at. After Dotty, Darren stepped out from behind the board and outclassicked even himself. He did so well that we gave him the Spotlight!

Three very good friends of the show all have birthdays this weekend, so our Wildcard Set for week 10 is all birthday songs. Of course, this is The Away Team, so no ordinary birthday songs would do. The personalities of our DJs always shine bright, boosted by WPRK's heavy artillery and carried through the air straight into your ear drums. Mmm. That's good birthday.

Teva Toamy returned tonight with another Week in History, but not only that. She also brought a set that had real, honest to goodness roots. Grew roots and stuck right in the ground below the station. It's growin'. I can't wait to see what blooms. It all comes down to that Fleetwood Mac song, I think. That's the taproot that makes for a strong tree.

It's impossible to determine what the best Disney songs are, but on Karlyn's Korner we played at least some of them. Robert and Richard Sherman wrote songs for some of the most memorable films of the 20th century, including The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Aristocats, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Three of the four songs we played tonight were penned by the Sherman Brothers. The other was a Frank Churchill song from Disney's Dumbo called "When I See an Elephant Fly," the controversial song sung by the crows at the beginning of the third act. I think I see this Disney thing becoming its own segment at some point. You'll have to listen to see.

Stiles played us an operatic song. It was good.

Finally, my favorite part of the show, the Artist Spotlight, was created by our own Darren Credible. Tonight Darren gave us a spotlight on Laura Nyro, a relatively unknown singer/songwriter whose catalog influenced some of the biggest artists around, including Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz, Alice Cooper, and Jenny Lewis. To learn more about Laura Nyro, just google her, stupid.

A special thanks to Neil Bernard for calling in and requesting what will surely become his theme song, and another happy birthday to Becca Miller, Brittany Wine, and Damian Summers. Since it's been ten whole weeks, I've decided to retire two artists from heavy rotation. Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, you will be missed. And a warm welcome to Beck. Thanks again for listening to The Away Team on WPRK 91.5FM, the voice of Rollins College, and the best in basement radio.


Color Code(in order of appearance)
Walter Friendly
Hot Dotty's Speakeasies
Requests
Darren Credible Classics
Wildcard: The Cake is a Lie
Teva Toamy's Medical Log
Karlyn's Korner Disney Edition
Stiles!
Spotlight: Laura Nyro

01. Dan Deacon - Padding Ghost
02. Caribou - She's the One
03. Company Flow - Bad Touch Example
04. Daedelus - Impending Doom
05. The Main Ingredient - Where Were You When I Needed You?
06. Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk to Fuck
07. Harry Nilsson - You're Breakin' My Heart
08. Cake - Love You Madly
09. The Violent Femmes - Add It Up
10. Cole Porter - You're the Top
11. Flying Lotus - Melt!
12. Portishead - Glorybox
13. The Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love
14. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
15. Dave "Baby" Cortez - The Happy Organ
16. The Smiths - This Charming Man
17. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
18. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
19. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy
20. Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
21. "Weird Al" Yankovic - Happy Birthday
22. Jens Lekman - Happy Birthday Dear Friend Lisa
23. George Harrison - It's Johnny's Birthday
24. Marilyn Monroe - Happy Birthday Mr. President
25. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
26. Fleetwood Mac - You Make Lovin' Fun
27. The Dodos - Paint the Rust
28. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
29. Karl Swenson - Higitus Figitus (The Sword in the Stone)
30. David Tomlinson - Portobello Road (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
31. Ludwig Von Drake - The Spectrum Song (Disney's Wonderful World of Color)
32. Cliff Edwards & the Half Johnson Choir - When I See an Elephant Fly (Dumbo)
33. Melanie - Brand New Key
34. Ochi Chernye - Dark Eyes
35. Laura Nyro - And When I Die
36. Laura Nyro - Sweet Blindness
37. Laura Nyro - I Met Him on a Sunday
38. Laura Nyro - Mr. Blue (Song of Communication)
39. Elton John - Burn Down the Mission
40. Paul McCartney - Long Haired Lady

Week 09: The Rescue Block

Welcome back, everybody! This week, The Away Team was absolutely on the ball from start to finish...except for Stiles. We played a brilliant wildcard set devoted to historical and literary songs. Todd regaled us with tales of personal strength, and Darren played us the most classic set we've yet heard on Away Team Radio. Teva Toamy returned with another Week in History segment that nourished our brains, while the songs she played in her Medical Log nourished our hearts. Then for Karlyn's Korner, the night finally belonged to the 80's before it was wrestled away by an ultra rare track off the Hoodwinked soundtrack and a Stephen Lynch favorite. After that, we spent the extra time mourning in the morning before I dried my eyes and delivered an exceptional Spotlight on experimental psychadelic band Can. Ask any band with even slight experimental leanings to name their influences, and Can will be near the top of their list.
A little on Can

Special thanks to Damian Summers, Brenna Warner, Marcellis Cutler, and Annarose Krone for staying up with us at home, and a tarnished, dented thanks to Stiles for saying fuck. Tune in next week for an Away Team first (and last): Psychobilly Night with Michelle Elise!

Color Code(in order of appearance)
Walter Friendly
Wildcard: Look to the Books!
Todd Blackwell: Identification Please
Darren Credible Classics
Teva Toamy's Medical Log
Karlyn's Korner
Mourning in the Morning
Spotlight: Can

01. Jerry Herman - Put on Your Sunday Clothes
02. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
03. Paul Williams - Just an Old Fashioned Love Song
04. The Spinners - The Rubberband Man
05. Conor Oberst - NYC-Gone, Gone
06. Yeasayer - ONE
07. Nouvelle Vague - Just Can't Get Enough
08. Annuals - The Bull & the Goat
09. The Cure - Killing an Arab
10. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
11. Modest Mouse - Bukowski
12. Regina Spektor - Oedipus
13. The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
14. Ben Folds Five - Boxing
15. Leadbelly - When I was a Cowboy
16. R.S. Brown - Harold Pinter's "Episode"
17. Ella Fitzgerald - Always True to You in My Fashion
18. The Beatles - Her Majesty
19. Björk - Declare Independence
20. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said
21. Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
22. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
23. Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
24. Elliot Smith - Say Yes
25. Geri X - Where Sleep is King
26. Foals - This Orient
27. Ellie Goulding - Lights
28. Does it Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
29. Oingo Boingo - Gratitude
30. Todd Edwards - Critters Have Feelings
31. Danny Elfman - Cool City
32. Stephen Lynch - Lullaby (Divorce Song)
33. David Fridlund - White Van
34. Beulah - A Man Like Me
35. Billy Nayer Show - The Way She Dances
36. Caribou - Hello Hammerheads
37. Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
38. Can - Mushroom
39. The Flaming Lips - Take Meta Mars
40. Can - Thief
41. Can - Vitamin C
42. Nat King Cole - Almost Like Being in Love
43. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
44. The Traveling Saints - Easy Said (Hardly Done)
45. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio

Week 08: The Holdings

Color Code(in order of appearance)
Walter Friendly
Climb Out of That Hole
Wildcard: Better Covers
Todd Blackwell: Say it with Sound
Darren Credible Classics
Teva Toamy's Medical Log
Karlyn's Korner
Spotlight: The Decemberists


01. Lisa Mitchell - Oh, Hark!
02. Elizabeth and the Catapult - Hit the Wall
03. The Apples in Stereo - Radiation
04. Paul McCartney - Too Much Rain
05. The Lodger - The Conversation
06. Friska Viljor - On and On
07. Divine Comedy - A Lady of a Certain Age
08. The Dandy Warhols - Heroin is so Passe
09. Sondre Lerche - Sleep on Needles (live)
10. Here We Go Magic - Collector
11. Ray Wonder - Telly
12. The Cranberries - Go Your Own Way
13. Kate Nash - Hollaback Girl
14. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
15. The Cardigans - The Boys Are Back in Town
16. Pomplamoose - September
17. Mark Ronson (feat Phantom Planet) - Just
18. Leadbelly - How Long
19. Jonny Greenwood - Proven Lands
20. Modest Mouse - Sunspots
21. Man Man - Magic Blood
22. Modest Mouse - Fruit
23. Radiohead - Hunting Bears
24. REM - Nightswimming
25. Big Star - Thirteen
26. Rufus Wainwright - Little Sister
27. Elton John - Levon
28. The Beach Boys - Disney Girls
29. Family of the Year - Chug Jug
30. Sean Hayes - Powerful Stuff
31. The Streets - You're Fit but You Know It
32. Ana Diaz - New Way
33. Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
34. 8in8 - Nikola Tesla
35. Ex Models - She Blinded Me with Science
36. Jonathan Coulton - Mandlebrot Set (demo)
37. Okkervil River - Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
38. MC Chris - IG-88's '57 Chevy
39. The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
40. The Decemberists - Perfect Crime No. 1
41. The Decemberists - Rox in the Box
42. The Decemberists - Cullen of the Fold
43. The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together


Color Code(in order of appearance)
Walter Friendly
Stiles!
Teva Toamy
Darren Credible
Todd Blackwell
Request
Spotlight: Elvis Costello


44. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands
45. Ivan Rebroff - In Odessa
46. Lemon Jelly - A Tune for Jack
47. People Under the Stairs - 
48. Florence and the Machine - Howl
49. Regina Spektor - Us
50. Diane Birch - Valentino
51. She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
52. Pinback - Crutch
53. Jason Falkner - The Knew
54. Ben Folds Five - Brick (live sessions at West 54th)
55. The Mountain Goats - Romans 10-9
56. The Leisure Society - Save It for Someone Who Cares
57. Hüsker Dü - Could You Be the One
58. The Cure - Mint Car
59. Belle & Sebastian - Cuckoo
60. Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4
61. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Dora Goes to Town
62. Fleet Foxes - Textbook Love
63. Band of Horses - Blue Beard
64. Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce
65. Modest Mouse - Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat
66. The Stooges - Gimme Danger
67. Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
68. Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
69. Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello - Never Fall in Love Again
70. Jenny Lewis - Carpetbagger
71. Elvis Costello - Pump it Up
72. Gil-Scott Heron - When You Are Who You Are

Week 07: Delusions of Grandeur

Color Code (in order of appearance)
Walter Friendly
Wildcard Set: Drinking Songs
www.DarlingNorman.com
Todd Blackwell: Ace in the Hole
Karlyn's Korner
Darren Credible Classics
Artist Spotlight: The Divine Comedy
Requests


01. Blackalicious - Deception
02. Harry Nilsson - It's Only a Paper Moon
03. Randy Newman - Spies
04. Pinback - Rousseau
05. My Morning Jacket - Gideon
06. Loudon Wainwright III - The Drinking Song
07. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Drunk Teenagers
08. The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular
09. Barenaked Ladies - Alcohol
10. Bruce McCulloch - Daddy's on the Drink Again
11. Billy Nayer Show - Drunk Again
12. Darling Norman - Seeing This Clear
13. Darling Norman - Propensia
14. Colin Firth - Harold Pinter's The Caretaker
15. Leadbelly - Pretty Flower in My Backyard
16. Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
17. Modest Mouse - I've Got It Almost
18. Ella Fitzgerald - Ace in the Hole
19. The Marx Brothers - Presenting the Professor
20. Oingo Boingo - Wild Sex (in the Working Class)
21. Stump - Buffalo
22. Kate Micucci - Dear Deer
23. "Weird Al" Yankovic - King of Suede
24. Pavement - Range Life
25. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
26. Wilco - Can't Stand It
27. Smokey Robinson - Hey Jude
28. The Divine Comedy - Perfect Lovesong
29. The Divine Comedy - National Express
30. The Divine Comedy - Get Me to a Monastery
31. The Divine Comedy - To Die a Virgin
32. The Divine Comedy - At the Indie Disco
33. The Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor
34. Hall & Oates - One on One
35. Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are
36. Loudon Wainwright III - Glad to See You've Got Religion
37. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
38. Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
39. The Divine Comedy - There is a Light That Never Goes Out