Why Fidelity Podcast #1

Music that you won't hear everywhere else, music that's fallen between the pop culture cracks, music from here/there/otherwhere...all in glorious Why Fidelity.

Show #1 - Debut | Download Page
Playlist:

• Drums and Trumpets | The Conet Project
• Chilli Peppers | The Jumping Jacques
• Assemaleistos | Ramses Shaffy
• Show Jumper | Clive Hicks
• Bewilderbeeste | Viv Stanshall
• Holiday Inn | New Vaudeville Band
• Ray Charles for Coca Cola
• Reasons to be Miserable | Marvin the Paranoid Android
• Symphony for a Spider Plant | Mort Garson
• Byakhee, Byakhee | A Shoggoth on the Roof

Show Notes:

• The program opens with a short excerpt from the Conet Project: Recordings of Short Wave Number Stations (Buy deluxe The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations 4 CD Set or download from Archive.com )

• Ramses Shaffy is a legend in the Netherlands from Sylvester Hoogmoed's teriffic Shaffy site...

"He's a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra: Ramses Shaffy! With his spirited, lively and touching songs he seduced the Dutch, who - at least until the late 1960s - were renowned for their lack of flamboyance. It's said that during the 1960s everybody in Amsterdam was in love with him."

• The Clive Hicks track comes from the KPM library collection "Flamboyant Themes".

• Contrary to popular belief The New Vaudeville Band did record some decent songs aside from the ubiquitous Winchester Cathedral - Holiday Inn can be found on the album Winchester Cathedral

• Reasons to be Miserable comes from the old skool Marvin the Paranoid Android

• Cthulu Lives has a nice rundown of the history of A Shoggoth on the Roof and a 20 minute documentary as well!