Playlist Date & Time: 7/18/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

 To The Moon Alice!

What the World Needs Now isn't Love Sweet Love, it's music about Mars and the moon!  Nothing better than 1950's music about rockets, planets, alien invasions and everyone's favorite - interplanetary love affairs.  Yeah, I know I'm kinda stuck on this theme but I'm saving the world with these songs.  Just think how Lou Dobbs' anti-alien bombast is construed by aliens from above our borders?  Dobbs is making his own grave while I'm covering all our butts with these welcoming songs.  Want further protection? This fall get our new WWOZ membership premium - a "Welcome Aliens" banner to place on your roof.  Repels rain better than a blue FEMA tarp and deflects most extraterrestrial extermination rays! 

The highlight song is Mr. Moon Man by E. Pauling and the Exciters - musical musing on introducing soul food to moon people.

Big excitement on the interstitial front.  I was drinking with radio folks this week and we all agreed Sarah Palin's speeches have some type of perfection.  Not only aurally, they are also amazing when viewed as modulated sine waves on our spectrum analyzers.  The great Joe Richmond of Radio Diaries fame even pointed out how Sarah's inhales were fascinating.  And her cadence!  It is an audio-phile's treasure chest.  

I can't stop - her sonic perfection extends beyond her speaking.  On the resignation speech she got the ambient nature sounds to blend into her speech like a perfectly-timed laugh track.  Listen to the bird in the background.  They are as good a duet than Abbot and Costello's "Who's On First" piece.  And last Thanksgiving's turkey-reprieve video with the ongoing turkey extermination process in the background?  No kidding, only Earl Long's speeches are in the same rarified air.  Early on in the show, a sequence of songs for Obama and Palin quotes. 

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