Local New York musician Matt Clarke can be seen around town with Quitty & The Dont's and The Above, as well as heard on WFMU. Matt's a hard working WFMU volunteer and he's also a girl group fan - and tonight he brings his selection of girl groups, female fronted folk-rock and psych and all-girl garage for your listening pleasure! Tune in 7pm WFMU.org on the Ichiban Stream or on Tune In Radio for this special broadcast!
Bobby Jameson’s entire life is a rather bizarre story of making it, and breaking – opportunities that led nowhere, opportunists who took advantage of a desperate, artistic genius who had a sensitive, rather tortured soul. He was exploited and then rather forgotten – partly because his most well known recordings “Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest” were made under the name Chris Lucey and partly for his need to exit from manipulative “manager” Tony Alamo.
Bobby Jameson passed away this week, but he left a strong impression on those who he’d had some contact with – and those who have heard his musical output from the 60’s which covers just about every style of music from the era including the folk-rock filled “Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest”, movin’ rhythm and blues rocker “Viet-Nam”, pop like “All I want is my Baby”(with some of the Stones) then his pop-sike solo material with Curt Boettcher.
Bobby dropped out of theu popular music scene for many years until he realized that some people had not forgotten and others had discovered his music and loved it.
My favorite record he released was a collaboration with Frank Zappa - Roogalator -
Bobby left us with fascinating youtube channel filled with his music, older and newer and an even more fascinating blog
Whig Out! is back for the 2nd installment, filling in while the Fringe Factory takes a little break. We've been to NYC and back, so 10tonight we feature some of our NYC faves as well as North West Whomp! and other faves. Listen now!
You can catch the first Whig Out here!
Crayons to Perfume! Mixes known and obscure girl groups at 7pm each Wednesday, but tonight we're going GOLD with the best known girl group numbers to make it to #1 or to get a gold record - starting with the Supremes, our girls of the week! Hum along with all your faves...you can find them here, in our archive!
You loved it the first time around, now love it again, and get fringin' fried with the lykes of the Driving Stupid, Pretty Things the Blue Things...see the playlist here! and check out the show on wfmu.org Ichiban Stream or Tune In Radio!
Some of the most fun girl-group songs are the silly ones! Tonight we've got a show filled with silly songs and silly lyrics: those with the Too Ta Tah's, Doo Doo Dums and La Tee Dahs! Check out all the silly songs...here!
Come to Baby's All Right in Brooklyn for Sh-Boom on Friday May 15th and grab yourself one of our pinbacks and dance to girl groups for FREE!
The Dial-a-Disc service -- introduced in 1966 -- by which U.K. residents could phone in and hear songs recorded by engineers from 7" records onto continuous loop reel-to-reel. Music was played back to the caller by an EA9A machine originally designed to handle high call volume during cricket Test Matches and repurposed in the off-season months to share pop 45s by phone.
