Special guest host Chap, of Chapomatic, brings us a special end-of-2007 edition of the Greenwich Village Idiot podcast.

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Slim Gaillard - Slim's Jam

We're hoping to bring back the Greenwich Village Idiot podcast in 2006, and here's a little preview from someone who will be a primary collaborator. Guest host Chap of Chapomatic, owner of the World's Most Dangerous Record Collection, has been busily digitizing some vinyl 45s and 78s, including some tasty B-sides. Here's the 45 RPM edition of the Greenwich Village Idiot (MP3 format - 31:45, 21 MB) It includes music from Booker T and the MGs, Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville, the guy who made the Chipmunks records), Dave Brubeck, the klezmer/jazz genius Mickey Katz, Mister Rogers... Also, hear Chap's iTunes signature. Scary. But well, well worth a listen.

Guest host Chap from the Chapomatic blog brings us today's Greenwich Village Idiot. For details, see the Chapomatic blog.

Guest host Chap brings us: Intro from Barry Toussaint McCall - Shimmy Hi, I'm Chap. Vehicle Flips - Platitude Man Robert Frost - Reluctance John Fahey - Dream of the French Broad River Me yammering again Don Byas Quartet - Dark Eyes (recorded 6 Sep 1945, Slam Stewart-b, Johnny Guarnieri-p, J.C.Heard-d, Don Byas, ts, American Record 1004) Yevgeny Yevtushenko/Alan Bates - Moscow Freight Station Nick Drake - River Man USS Sealion Sinks JIS Kongo Bowling for Blather Paul Lukas - Review of Barnum's Animal Crackers Les Parisiennes avec Claude Bolling - Il Fait Trop Beau Pour Travailler

One of the things I loved about podcasting was the response that I got from so many people. I get comments on the blog all the time, many of them thoughtful and interesting. But folks really seemed to react, and respond, to the music, or to some of the stupid stories I told or the interviews I did, a few of which I'm really proud of. Strangers from around the world felt moved to write in and ask questions, offer suggestions, or just shoot the breeze. Very cool. Unfortunately, putting the podcasts together every week takes too much time and energy--two commodities that are in short supply for me right now. My work is ramping up to an entirely new level, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and there are family concerns that are taking up a lot of my time as well. As well, with the copyright situation yet to be sorted out for podcasts, the possibility of creating legal entanglements by playing music in podcasts is too great, and if anything is becoming greater over time. In short, although it's been rewarding, the combination of the resource requirements and the risks involved are too much for me right now. I have rethought my priorities, and making podcasts isn't one of them. So "Greenwich Village Idiot" is going away, quite possibly forever. The podcast site will remain up until the end of the month, at which point it goes away too, so grab 'em if you want 'em while they're still around. I may be back someday with something different and new. In the meantime, blogging will continue apace. Thank you for your continued interest and support.

The Greenwich Village Idiot presents the Heat Wave Edition (29:32, 20 MB)

Direct download: July_17_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed)

Music includes:

• "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - available hundreds of places, but Ultimate Collection is a nice choice
• "Hot Night," Me'Shell Ndegeocello - from Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
• "Ring of Fire," Johnny Cash - anthologized everywhere; The Essential Johnny Cash is a nice collection 
• "Summer In The City," The Lovin' Spoonful - from, e.g., Summer In The City
• "Too Darn Hot," by Cole Porter, from the musical "Kiss Me, Kate" (sung by Ella Fitzgerald on The Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 1)
• "Up The Ladder To The Roof," The Nylons - from One Size Fits All

The Joseph Mitchell article excerpt read aloud is printed in My Ears Are Bent, a collection of Mitchell's early newspaper writing.  The definitive collection of Mitchell's writing for The New Yorker is Up in the Old Hotel.

More information about Joseph Mitchell:

• Joe Mitchell - Biography from "North Carolina Writers"
• "Joe Mitchell's Secret" - excerpt from Mark Singer's Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed
• Joseph Mitchell's obituary (May 26, 1996)
• Internet Movie Database: Joe Gould's Secret

Enough gazpacho to feed your family and most of the neighbors - ingredients list only; for the instructions, you'll have to listen to the podcast:

• 6 pounds of dead-ripe Jersey tomatoes
• 3 pounds of cucumbers, peeled
• 3 pounds of young tender onions
• 3-4 large sweet peppers
• Fresh parsley and/or chives
• Fresh garlic
• Juice of four to six large lemons and/or some red wine vinegar
• Olive oil
• Coarse salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Tomato or V-8 Juice
• Tabasco sauce

The Greenwich Village Idiot presents the Cover Version Edition (37:58, 25MB)

Direct download: July_10_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed) Songs covered include:

• "Enter Sandman" (originally performed by Metallica)
• "Hot In Herre" (originally performed by Nelly)
• "I Touch Myself" (originally performed by Divinyls)
• "I Will Survive" (originally performed by Gloria Gaynor)
• "Perfect Day" (originally performed by Lou Reed)
• "Sixteen Tons" (originally performed by Merle Travis; famous version by Tennessee Ernie Ford)
• "Stayin' Alive" (originally performed by the Bee Gees)
• "Straight Outta Compton" (originally performed by N.W.A.)
• "Your Cheatin' Heart" (originally performed by Hank Williams, Sr.)

Artists performing covers include:

• Cake
• James Brown
• Johnnie Taylor
• Nina Gordon
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Pat Boone
• Scala Youth Choir
• Wang Chung

Web sites referenced include:

• Metafilter, and especially this Ask Metafilter thread
• Coverville (podcast)
• Chromewaves (blog)
• Copy, Right? (blog)
• iTunes

Direct download: July_4_2005_Greenwich_Village_Idiot.mp3 (or subscribe to the podcast feed)

Music includes:

• "4th Of July" by Aimee Mann 
• "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by Bruce Springsteen
• "All the Way from America" by Joan Armatrading
• "America the Beautiful" by Ray Charles 
• "American Tune" by Willie Nelson
• "O Superman (For Massenet)" by Laurie Anderson
• "Rednecks, White Socks And Blue Ribbon Beer" by Johnny Russell 
• "Revolution 1" by The Beatles
• "Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix
• ...and spoken word performances by Richard Pryor and the late Bill Hicks

Also: Barry discovers a way to podcast and catblog simultaneously (special subvocalizations and sound engineering courtesy of Mister Gato.)

An experiment with the Audioblogger service - phoning in an introduction to the Greenwich Village Idiot guest-hosting by Chap from Chapomatic on June 19, 2005. My Odeo Channel

Mad props (as the youngsters say these days) to our buddy Chap over at Chapomatic, who has very graciously made sure that we aren't Idiotless this Sunday while I'm down in North Carolina visiting family. Chap has the best record collection of anyone I've ever met. I can't wait to listen to this one... and at 33.6kbps, I am waiting, and waiting, and waiting...