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The Kids Just Don't Understand

Mar 18, 2023 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Music

With Commie Francis

NOTHIN BUT BUBBLEGUMS

Saturday Morning Bubblepop!

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7:07 AM		The Oranges Saturday Night Right to Chews V/A Not Lame 2002
7:09 AM		Kasenetz-Katz-Super-Circus Let Me Introduce You (To the Kasenetz-Katz Orchestral Circus) Quick Joey Small - I'm In Love With You Legacy Recordings 1968
7:12 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mr. Bloe - Groovin' with Mr. Bloe
7:16 AM		Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army / Dark Part of My Mind Super K 1968
7:19 AM		Tommy James & The Shondells Mirage I Think We're Alone Now Rhino 1967
7:22 AM		Steel Wool No Sugar Tonight No Sugar Tonight White Whale 1970
7:24 AM		Chee Chee and Peppy I Know I'm in Love Chee Chee and Peppy Buddah/Legacy 1972
7:27 AM		Wadsworth Mansion Sweet Mary Sweet Mary / What's on Tonight - Single Sussex Records 1970
7:30 AM		Detroit Road Runners Whole Lotta Lovin' Whole Lotta Lovin' ABC Records 1968
7:32 AM		Tommy Roe Jack and Jill Jack and Jill / Tip Toe Tina ABC Records 1969
7:34 AM		The Banana Splits Wait Til Tomorrow We're the Banana Splits Decca 1968
7:37 AM		Honeybus Girl of Independent Means Girl of Independent Means / How Long Deram 1968
7:39 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Up'n Adam - Rainmaker
7:45 AM		Kasenetz-Katz-Super-Circus I Got It Bad For You Quick Joey Small - I'm In Love With You Legacy Recordings 1968
7:47 AM		UK Jones And the Rains Came Down Let Me Tell Ya / And the Rains Came Down Deram 1969
7:50 AM		Roberto Jordán Como Te Quiero (Birds of a Feather) Hazme Una Señal Camden 1968
7:52 AM		Tricycle Simon Says Tricycle ABC 1968
7:57 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mr. Bloe - Groovin' with Mr. Bloe
8:01 AM		GG Allin Up Against the Wall No Rules Orange Records 1982 Ohio Express cover
8:03 AM		Tru Fax and the Insaniacs Up in the Air Mental Decay Wasp Records 1982
8:05 AM		The Dogs (with Les Calamites) Down at Lulu's Shakin' With The Dogs Epic 1989
8:08 AM		Prince Crimson and Clover LOtUSFLOW3R Legacy Recordings 2009
8:12 AM		Pickettywitch Waldo P. Emerson Jones Waldo P. Emerson Jones / There He Goes Pye Records 1971
8:14 AM		Lush Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Chorus 4AD 2015 recorded 1990
8:17 AM		Librarians with Hickeys I Enjoy Being a Boy (In Love With You) That Time Is Now (Big Stir Single No. 84) - Single Big Stir Records 2020
8:20 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Up'n Adam - Rainmaker
8:24 AM		The Wombles Remember You're A Womble Remember You're A Womble CBS 1974
8:27 AM		Mike Chapman Santa Monica Sunshine (demo) acetate demo not on label 1971
8:30 AM		Sweet Funny Funny Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be RCA 1971
8:33 AM		The Equals Green Light Supreme President Records 1968
8:35 AM		? and the Mysterians Do Something To Me Do Something To Me / Love Me Baby (Cherry July) Cameo 1967
8:37 AM		The Teri Nelson Group Sweet Talkin' Willie Sweet Talkin' Teri Legacy Recordings 1968
8:40 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mr. Bloe - Groovin' with Mr. Bloe
8:44 AM		Bo Gentry & Ritchie Cordell Stone Go-Getter Stone Go-Getter / Hung-Up CBS 1969
8:46 AM		Thee Prophets Magic Island Playgirl Kapp Records 1967
8:50 AM		Professor Morrison's Lollipop Oo-Poo-Pah Susie Oo-Poo-Pah Susie / You Take It White Whale 1968
8:51 AM		Le Cirque Land of Oz Land Of Oz / I’ll Be Thinking Of You Buddah Records 1967
8:54 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mr. Bloe - Groovin' with Mr. Bloe
8:57 AM		The Fevers Ohio Express California Ain't Fun No More V/A Alien Snatch Records 2002
8:59 AM		Mr Bloe Groovin' With Mr. Bloe Groovin With Mr. Bloe UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1997

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G O O D M O R N I N G

I heard that "circus" song quite a bit in my childhood. I'm not sure which of my older siblings I have to thank for that.

the record it's on is a top bubblegum lp! it has an anti reagan song on it which we will hear a cover of later

the cover is very mad magazine-inspired

https://www.discogs.com/master/353293-Kasenetz-Katz-Super-Circus-Quick-Joey-Small-Im-In-Love-With-You

The Shondells somehow became the official band of the 1968 Humphrey campaign (and Tommy James was asked to be his Adviser on Youth Affairs). The MC5 played at the Chicago Dem Con. Why couldn't they get that job?

the mc5 didn't play the official convention, did they?

I dunno how "official" it was... I kinda feel like they just showed up in the park, played, there was a police riot, and then they took off.

yeah that was my impression as well

That's the way it's explained in the MC5 doc, anyway.

maybe that was a joke though. i don't think they were a democratic party kinda band

Norman Mailer saw the MC5 there and wrote about it in "Miami and the Siege of Chicago". He didn't know their name though.

Big fan of the MC5's lesser-known B-side: "All the way with LBJ!"

(Ducks thrown object)

(ducks molotov cocktail)

this reminds me that a long time ago i found a frijid pink record in the garbage and googled them and found something saying nixon said they were his favorite rock band and they played the white house

Back in the early 2000s when the internet was more for creative weird projects than it was for being racist, I invented a game which became popular in my office called "Six Moves to Frijid Pink". The idea was to look up ANY artsist on allmusic.com, and then in only six clicks, get to the allmusic page for Frijid Pink. You could click on any link on any artist's page (another artist, the name of a producer, a record label exec, etc.) but you only got six clicks.

I haven't tried in a while, but I think I was almost always able to do it.

I can't believe Nixon had a favorite rock band! Not even Jefferson Airplane, whose singer was invited to a White House tea party by fellow Finch College alumnus Tricia.

maybe tricia was into them and he was like "yes tricia this is fine"

Was the lead vocalist for "Wait Til Tomorrow" credited? I want to know if it was Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper or Snork.

i just looked and the vocalists are not credited but doin the banana split says it's written by barry white

Do you know the 1910 Fruitgum Company played at the 2016 Red Bank Oyster Festival? So close to me. I can't believe I missed it.

no! i was going to go see them with joey levine and ron dante in 2012 i think? but my cat died and i was too sad to go

Cool bubblegum! Partridge family echo valley?

Sounds great 👍 and different

thanks! i love this stuff and so rarely play it! but its influence is all over a lot of the music i do play!

I... I... Can dance again

Wasn't there a Saturday morning show called bugaloos that sang?

yes, i had a bugaloos song but i'm not going to have time to play it!

also cattanooga cats, the groovie goolies....

scooby doo songs which were usually by austin robers

Commmmmmmiiiiiieeeeeeee!

Hello! I'm popping in here briefly. I see I missed The Wombles, Tru Fax, The Dogs & Calamités.

the archies! i didn't get to any cartoon bands

josie and the pussycats of course

So I've missed most of a very good show

hello jimbo and rob!

Oh yeah and jackson five had a sat morning cartoons

This good stuff

Man they sound so much like Beatle to me in this...Nice music

definitely heavily beatles influenced!

This Fevers song could be The Ohio Express ... maybe?

it's the fevers trying to sound like the ohio express in their song entitled ohio express!

Yes!!

i can't believe i didn't get to the ohio express either haha,. or 1910 fruitgum co or lemon pipers....

Oh well there's always next time!

yeah i could easily do multiple more shows like this!

Thanks for the show Commieeeeeee

thanks for listening everyone!!