Makin' Candy, 12/28/04

One of my favorite formats, the ALL 80s SHOW. So many good songs from 1984 and thereabouts. Look for the soundtrack chunk below, and listen in next time for Professor Kitty's trenchant commentary...


  • 1984: Van Halen
  • She's a Beauty: The Tubes
  • Modern Love: David Bowie
  • Heart & Soul: Huey Lewis & the News
  • Back on the Chain Gang: The Pretenders
  • Hold Me Now: The Thompson Twins
  • Don't Let Go: Wang Chung
  • Burnin' down the House: Talking Heads
  • Catch Me I'm Falling: Real Life
  • Heat of the Moment: Asia
  • Ban the Game/Safety Dance: Men without Hats
  • St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion): John Parr
  • To Live and Die in L.A.: Wang Chung
  • Pretty in Pink: Psychedelic Furs
  • If You Were Here: The Thompson Twins
  • Relax: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • I Want the One I Can't Have: The Smiths
  • Hong Kong Garden: Siouxsie & the Banshees
  • Blasphemous Rumors: Depeche Mode
  • King of Pain: The Police
  • What's Love Got to Do with It?: Tina Turner
  • Africa: Toto
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): Eurythmics
  • Everything She Wants (remix): WHAM
  • Live to Tell (maxi-single): Madonna
  • Human: Human League
  • Smooth Operator: Sade

Makin' Candy Winter Solstice edition, 12/21/04

This turned into kinda a Christmas show because I grew up with a lot of great Christmas music and it seems to fit the time of year for me... But whatever your faith or belief, celebrate the longest night of the year and the return of the sun!


  • Christmas is Coming: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  • Go Tell it On the Mountain: Harry Simeone Chorale
  • The Holly & the Ivy: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  • Christmas Song: Nat "King" Cole
  • Christmas Present: Andy Williams
  • Kling, Glockchen, Klingelingeling: [unknown German singers]
  • Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod): Luciano Pavarotti
  • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Galliard Brass Ensemble
  • What Noise on Earth: Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  • Russische Vesper: Ivan Rebroff
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Ella Fitzgerald
  • Nutty Jingle Bells: Al Hirt
  • A Marshmallow World: Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin live on the Dean Martin Christmas Show, 12/21/67
  • Once in Royal David's City: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  • Boar's Head Carol
  • Sleigh Ride: Midnight String Quartet
  • Chicken Foot: The Christmas Revels
  • Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: Elmo & Patsy
  • Do They Know it Christmas?: Band Aid
  • Baby, It's Cold Out there: Dean Martin
  • Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!: Dean Martin
  • Winter Wonderland: Dean Martin
  • I'll be Home for Christmas: Bing Crosby
  • What Child is This: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  • Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, The Nutcracker: P.I. Tchaikovsky
  • Christmas at Sea (medley): Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  • Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming: John Fahey (guitar)
  • Un Flambeau, Jeanette Isabella: Jean-Paul Kreder Choir
  • Happy Christmas: Oscar Lopez
  • Dancing Day: University of Vermont Choral Union
  • Synge We to This Mery Cumpane: The Boston Camerata
  • Der Engel Sprach zu den Hirten: Heinrich Schutz
  • Christmas Concerto: Arcangelo Corelli
  • Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio: J.S. Bach

Another in a series of strange dreams

In my dream, I was looking for LPs by Wentzle Ruml, perhaps as a gift, and I went to About Music in the now-burned Wilder Building in Brattleboro, VT. The guy at the store said that, even though tons of water from the firemen's efforts had ruined most of the stock, his Wentzle Ruml albums were still in super shape, because they were just great product. I looked through them--one was a shiny black box-type album, the kind that holds 2 or 3 records that are oddly numbered so that when you stack them on one of those tall-spindle record players the sides will play in the right order. I seem to recall that the talented W.R. was on the cover in a sort of stylized embossed design, just him at the piano caught in simple lines like he was live at Montreux or something. A bit of an odd dream seeing as 1. I think About Music is closed now, 2. I am not aware of Wentzle Ruml having any sort of musical career. I enjoy imagining it though.

Sweet & Sticky Jazz times, 12/7/04

A smooooth show this time, peeps.


  • Kathy's Waltz: Dave Brubeck
  • Blue Skies: Ella Fitzgerald
  • Night & Day: Django Reinhardt
  • The Touch of Your Lips: Zoot Sims
  • You're A Sweetheart: Dinah Washington
  • 5400 North: Roy Eldridge
  • The Giddybug Gallop: Johnny Hodges
  • Soul Blues: Yusef Lateef
  • Early in the Morning: Jeanne Trevor
  • Similau: Johan Jones Quartet
  • First Valve Blues: Malik McBee Moffett
  • Now's the Time: Charlie Parker
  • Nowhere with Love: Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Royal Garden Blues: Duke Ellington
  • Down by the Sycamore Tree: Stan Getz
  • Lullaby of Birdland: Lionel Hampton
  • Happy-Go-Lucky Local aka "Night Train": Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery
  • Please Send Me Someone to Love: Count Basie & Joe Williams
  • Ain't Misbehavin': Ella & Count Basie
  • Meditation: Al Hirt
  • You Don't Know what Love is: Sonny Rollins
  • A Fine Romance: Dave Brubeck
  • Last Night When we Were Young: Kenny Burrell
  • For All we Know: Billie Holiday
  • Strength & Sanity: Booker Little
  • Late Date: Ben Webster Quintet
  • Flying Home: Lionel Hampton

Makin' Candy setlist, 12/1/04

The latest tender morsels of radio sweetness!


  • What the Snowman Learned About Love: Stars
  • Web Front: Archers of Loaf
  • Rusholme Ruffians: The Smiths
  • Stove/Smother: Sloan
  • Freeborne: Land of Diana
  • Fairy Dust: Joe Jackson Band
  • The Day After the Revolution
  • Dream Sweet Dreams: Aztec Camera
  • Alyda: Yo La Tengo
  • Knock on Wood: Ware River Club
  • Free Fall: Saloon
  • Gutter Rock: Martin Rev
  • Tonite: Go-Go's
  • Over & Done With: The Proclaimers
  • All Lifestyles: The Beastie Boys
  • Veridis Quo: Daft Punk
  • Top of the World: Shonen Knife (covering The Carpenters)
  • Wicked Funk: Kwanzaa Posse
  • Little Black Egg: The Bourbons
  • Firedoor: Ani Difranco
  • Noites Cariocas: Conjunto Epoca de Ouro
  • A Taste of Honey: Martin Denny (exotic moog!)
  • Dance in the Moon: Lydia Kavina (theremin); Friedrich Wikkens (composer)
  • Snake Flute Blues: Norma Tanega & Brian Ransom
  • At the End of the Evening: Night Noise
  • Misteriou Joiau: La Chorale du Bout du Monde