Listener comments!

  5:46pm
: Hi Becky and others! 🍭 ♥ 6:24pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @5:46

Andrew! C U soon! ♥ 6:38pm
Zrp: Hi Becky !   6:39pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @6:24

Sounds good! 🍭 ♥ 6:42pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Zrp @6:38

Hi there, Zrp! ♥ 6:43pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @6:42

Lori Burton has some pipes! 🍭 ♥ 6:51pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Zrp @6:38

Hi there, Zrp! ♥ 6:52pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @6:51

Becky!!! 🍭 ♥ 6:53pm
Becky Ebenkamp: This sounds like a Zombies song! ♥ 6:55pm
Zrp: Phil & The Frantics !!!! 🍭 ♥ 6:55pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I Must Move / I Must Run… 🍭 ♥ 6:56pm
Becky Ebenkamp: This song always runs before my show! 🍭 ♥ 6:56pm
izzy: I must be off double-secret probation! I was blocked from the chat last week. 🍭 ♥ 6:58pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I always thot “She’s Come Undone” sounded like The Zombies as well. Really, Izzy?! Let me know if you have probs and I’ll check into it. Og course I would never block you! 🍭 ♥ 6:58pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Og course! ; ) 6:59pm
Brinley: Hey Becky and friends! Looking forward to tonight's show, as always! ♥ 6:59pm
JReganK: Hey, Becky & All! 🍭 ♥ 6:59pm
Aitch: Grrr 🍭 ♥ 7:00pm
Jay S.: Good evening Becky, Andrew, Zrp, izzy, Brinley, JRK, Aitch! 7:00pm
Brinley:

↳ Jay S. @7:00

Hey Jay! ♥ 7:00pm
JReganK:

↳ Jay S. @7:00

Hey, Jay!   7:00pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay S. @7:00

Hi, Jay! ♥ 7:00pm
JReganK: Hey, Andrew! 🍭 ♥ 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @6:59

Brinley! So good to see you back!   7:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ JReganK @7:00

Hi JRK! ♥ 7:01pm
Zrp:

↳ Jay S. @7:00

Hi Jay, JRK, Andrew, and Brinley!!! 🍭 ♥ 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Aitch @6:59

Grrrrrrr, Aitch! Tommy is FIERCE! ♥ 7:02pm
JReganK:

↳ Zrp @7:01

Hey, Zrp! 7:02pm
Brinley: Glad to be back!! My last few Sundays have been unusually hectic, so I've tried to pop in at least to say hi. Been catching up on the music after the fact, though! ♥ 7:02pm
Zrp:

↳ Song: "Crunchy Granola Suite" by "Neil Diamond"

Neil Diamond!!!! 🍭 ♥ 7:02pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ JReganK @6:59

Hello, JReganK! Thanks for joining us tonite! 7:02pm
Brinley:

↳ Zrp @7:01

Hey Zrp! 🍭 ♥ 7:02pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Jay! Yay! 🍭 ♥ 7:03pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Crunchy Granola Suite" by "Neil Diamond"

1971 45 b-side ♥ 7:03pm
Zrp:

↳ Song: "Crunchy Granola Suite" by "Neil Diamond"

My Dad Adored Neil Diamond ... RIP Dad!   7:04pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Zrp @7:03

Yes!
Neil`s still great! 7:04pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "Crunchy Granola Suite" by "Neil Diamond"

Who else could get away with a song with lyrics like this and do it so well... and with such conviction! 🍭 ♥ 7:04pm
Becky Ebenkamp: My parents listened to Neil Diamond constantly. Yet I never heard this song until a few years ago. I was introduced through some bizarre interpretive dance routine set to it via YouTube. In a foreign language, even! ♥ 7:04pm
JReganK:

↳ Zrp @7:03

Condolences, Dude! Mine's been gone awhile, too. 🍭 ♥ 7:05pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "Tommy’s Yummy Yummy Musk Song" by "Tommy Tiger an...

get stuck in the fur surely? 🍭 ♥ 7:05pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Zrp @7:03

Mine, too. He dies two years ago. ♥ 7:05pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Tommy’s Yummy Yummy Musk Song" by "Tommy Tiger an...

Delicious!!! 7:05pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:04

This sounds deliriously wonderful. Going to seek that out! 🍭 ♥ 7:05pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Tommy wants to eat those children! 🍭 ♥ 7:06pm
Becky Ebenkamp: It’s from South Africa! ♥ 7:06pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:05

:( 🍭 ♥ 7:06pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:05

It was a different time, they let kids have tigers at their parties. 7:06pm
Brinley: Sending positivity and condolences to all of you chat buddies missing your fathers today. 🍭 ♥ 7:07pm
Aitch:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:06

odd as tigers are Asian 🍭 ♥ 7:07pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:05

Pls find an extra coly for me!   7:07pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Brinley @7:06

Thanks Brinley. ♥ 7:07pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:05

But, Tigers aren't indigenous to Africa! Maybe he's really there for the gum! 🍭 ♥ 7:08pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:06

I know a kid who got to meet a monkey at his friend’s bar mitzvah. 7:08pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "Happy Talk" by "Captain Sensible"

Whoa, only knew this track from Harpers Bizarre. Love the synth arrangement! ♥ 7:08pm
Fatherflot: Hello Becky and Bubblegum Kidz! 🍭 ♥ 7:08pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:08

Captain + Dolly Mixture! 🍭 ♥ 7:08pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:08

It's not a celebration until they let the monkeys out. 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:06

Thank you, Brinley! 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Jay S.:

↳ Fatherflot @7:08

Hello FF! ♥ 7:09pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:08

On the other hand. Monkeys will bite and throw poo at you! 7:09pm
Brinley: Sounds a bit like the Taco version of Puttin' on the Ritz. Anyone else? 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Fatherflot @7:08

Howdy, Fatherflot! 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Jay S.:

↳ Brinley @7:09

Yes. Or a Ringo song. 🍭 ♥ 7:10pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "Happy Talk" by "Captain Sensible"

has me thinking Who Killed Bambi? 🍭 ♥ 7:10pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ JReganK @7:09

When I worked at the zoo I had a lady gorilla who liked to throw at me. I would bring friends and duck. ♥ 7:10pm
JReganK:

↳ Fatherflot @7:08

Hey, F2! Since you're a teacher. Maybe you can convince Becky that that tiger's not there to eat those kids! ♥ 7:10pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Jay S. @7:09

Good evening Jay 7:11pm
Brinley:

↳ Jay S. @7:09

Yes! Definitely hearing that in there. When Ringo's off his country kick, we gotta get through to him... 🍭 ♥ 7:11pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ JReganK @7:10

He’s licking his chops! ♥ 7:11pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:10

😹 🍭 ♥ 7:12pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Maybe he just plans to eat the girls — it sounds like the band is boys only.   7:12pm
kev: Hi ♥ 7:12pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:11

But all those flavors of gum?! 🍭 ♥ 7:13pm
Becky Ebenkamp: This is another 45 I picked up in NY! 🍭 ♥ 7:13pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ kev @7:12

Kev! Hello! 🍭 ♥ 7:13pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I still need to convert my single to mp3… 7:14pm
Brinley: Kudos to the kid who managed to lug an entire upright piano onto the tiger's, um, exit area... 🍭 ♥ 7:14pm
izzy: Said I needed to contact WFMU administrator…couldn’t figure it out. Anyway, no chat for me today as I’m driving. Great roadtrip soundtrack! 🍭 ♥ 7:15pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:14

Help from Santa? ♥ 7:15pm
JReganK:

↳ Brinley @7:14

That took dedication and stones! 🍭 ♥ 7:15pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ izzy @7:14

Weird ♥ 7:18pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:15

Does Divine Intervention always have to be the plausible explanation?! 7:19pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "Little Mary Sunshine" by "The Magic Ring"

That is some premium jangle right there! ♥ 7:19pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:05

1992, He refused to Stop Smoking, I would be dead as well, but found a way, around 20 years ago when I knew I best as I smoked from birth with my entire family smoking around us kids. ♥ 7:19pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Gigantor" by "The Dickies"

So, F--king classic! ♥ 7:20pm
Zrp:

↳ Song: "Gigantor" by "The Dickies"

No Flipping clue how many times that I saw the The Dickies ... Helps when you live in Van Nuys! ♥ 7:21pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Gigantor" by "The Dickies"

fun one! ♥ 7:21pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "Gigantor" by "The Dickies"

the fans used to bring toy robots to The Dickies shows.Line them up at the foot of the stage and turn them on when they played Gigantor! ♥ 7:22pm
JReganK:

↳ Fatherflot @7:21

F2! 7:23pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "Chewy Chewy" by "Faron Young’s Country Deputies"

Bluegrass bubblegum... Bluegum? Bubblegrass? 🍭 ♥ 7:23pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ JReganK @7:21

OMG, I don’t remember that! I went to a lot of shows, too. My friend was pals with Leonard and Stan. His elderly mother used tonrepair the Stuart puppet! ♥ 7:25pm
JReganK:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:23

Lol! That's how we rolled in New Jersey! The old school metal robots, too! 😉 🍭 ♥ 7:25pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Zrp @7:19

My granddad was a big smoker. Probably died from emphysema. We used to like to roll his cigarettes in this machine he had. ♥ 7:26pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:23

One of my Best Friends Dean A. was friends with them from the Start. He lived around Leonard.. And a few blocks from me on Whitsett and Oxnard. Such Great Days! Greg The Pope lived down the street! 🍭 ♥ 7:27pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Hey Summer" by "The Stephen Crane Village"

Tokens flavor? ♥ 7:28pm
JReganK:

↳ WLSClark @7:27

Clark! 🍭 ♥ 7:28pm
Jay S.:

↳ WLSClark @7:27

Arranged by Charlie Calello who worked with the 4 Seasons 7:29pm
Brinley:

↳ WLSClark @7:27

Hey Clark! Totally hear that. 🍭 ♥ 7:29pm
WLSClark:

↳ Jay S. @7:28

Sounds like them too. Hi Jay, JrK, Brinley and BECKY ♥ 7:29pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:25

Crazy back then, WE WERE encouraged to smoke. I said when they go to a dollar a pack I AM Going to quit.. and on and on. ♥ 7:30pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "You Bring The Summer" by "The Monkees"

Summer's officially here! 🍭 ♥ 7:30pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:28

It sounds so much like them! And they lived at that housing project, I think! 🍭 ♥ 7:30pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:30

It wouldn't be the first time they recorded under an assumed name 🍭 ♥ 7:31pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ WLSClark @7:27

Hi, Clark! I think 4S to me ♥ 7:32pm
Zrp:

↳ JReganK @7:30

The new paint, here and there has not peeled. 🍭 ♥ 7:33pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Stephen Crane Village is the historic Newark, New Jersey housing project where Frankie Valli, lead singer of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, grew up. The working-class neighborhood served as the incubator for the band's famous harmonies and soaring falsetto 🍭 ♥ 7:33pm
WLSClark: Makes me wanna hear Starbreaker "Sound of Summer"!!! 🍭 ♥ 7:33pm
WLSClark:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:33

COOL! 🍭 ♥ 7:34pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ WLSClark @7:33

I don’t know that one — gotta check it out. 7:34pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:33

Fascinating!! I'll have to make a pilgrimage someday... 7:34pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "You Bring The Summer" by "The Monkees"

slight belated note: Mr. Partridge of Swindon sure has a good grasp of summer fun, when I imagine his were largely subdued and rainy... 🍭 ♥ 7:35pm
WLSClark:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:34

Its yet another John Carter pseudo group ♥ 7:35pm
JReganK:

↳ Zrp @7:32

💥👍💥 🍭 ♥ 7:36pm
Becky Ebenkamp: One of the 45s I got in the Bill Earl haul that I’m keeping has gotten misplaced. I’ve so wanted to do a “bit” with it on air. It’s one of those interview records with spaces where you can ask the artists Qs and they answer them. This one is MRS. MILLER! 🍭 ♥ 7:36pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:36

That's AWESOME. 🍭 ♥ 7:36pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:34

Exactly! 🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "On A Summer's Night" by "Rock’n’Roll Dubble Bubbl...

For a Buddah b-side, they actually put a lot of effort into that one 7:38pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:36

That would be so fun to hear, whenever it turns up! 🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
WLSClark:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:36

I used vol 2 interview disc with her on my first drop in. Can you believe she had 2 of them? 🍭 ♥ 7:39pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ WLSClark @7:38

Wow, no! I love her! ♥ 7:40pm
JReganK:

↳ WLSClark @7:38

Still can't believe it! 😉 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Richard Whig: Greetings BGOD-lings! 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:38

I agree. I hav3 anothe4 band doing that song. I think this one might be prettier? ♥ 7:40pm
JReganK:

↳ Richard Whig @7:40

Hey, Richard! 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Richard Whig @7:40

Rychurd! 🍭 ♥ 7:41pm
Jay S.:

↳ Richard Whig @7:40

Good evening Richard! 🍭 ♥ 7:42pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ WLSClark @7:35

Oh, I probably have it then. Got the Cherry Red JC cd. 🍭 ♥ 7:42pm
WLSClark:

↳ JReganK @7:40

Its in archives. Chili guests as the interviewer for me. 7:43pm
Brinley:

↳ Song: "Summertime" by "Don Randi Trio"

A pleasant reminder that the Wrecking Crew are pop royalty, but jazz cats at heart! 🍭 ♥ 7:43pm
WLSClark:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:42

His various projects always great 🍭 ♥ 7:44pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:43

Don is the coolest. 🍭 ♥ 7:44pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" by "The Blades Of Grass"

harpers B had 45 🍭 ♥ 7:44pm
Richard Whig:

↳ Song: "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" by "The Blades Of Grass"

Dreamy! 🍭 ♥ 7:45pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" by "The Blades Of Grass"

Nice one! 🍭 ♥ 7:45pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Oh, and Don owns that club. 7:46pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:44

He is! Wish he were in the RnRHOF alongside Carol Kaye. Not that it means too much anymore, but he deserves the recognition...! 🍭 ♥ 7:47pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "A Very Extraordinary Sort of Girl" by "Gilbert O’...

b-side of Get Down ♥ 7:47pm
JReganK:

↳ Song: "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" by "The Blades Of Grass"

Becky! You didn't tell us it was an electric brownie party as well as a bubblegum party! 😉 🍭 7:47pm
Eric R:

↳ Brinley @7:46

oh....*that* Don Randi! I knew I recognized the name but until you mentioned Carol Kaye I couldn't place him. 🍭 ♥ 7:47pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Does anyone have travel plans for the summer? I am going on an Alaskan cruise with my mom and sisters in July. 🍭 ♥ 7:47pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "A Very Extraordinary Sort of Girl" by "Gilbert O’...

XTC feel to this one 🍭 ♥ 7:48pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:47

Bouncy! ♥ 7:48pm
JReganK:

↳ Jay S. @7:47

I hear it! 🍭 7:48pm
Eric R:

↳ Jay S. @7:47

that's like levels of Macca 🍭 ♥ 7:48pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ JReganK @7:47

Ha ha ha! ♥ 7:48pm
Stu Rutherford: Hello Becky & everyone! 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Do Something To Me" by "The British Road Runners"

Wow, love it! 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:48

Hi, Stu! And Eric! ♥ 7:49pm
Stu Rutherford:

↳ Eric R @7:48

Ther are seven levels! ♥ 7:49pm
Stu Rutherford:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:49

*there ♥ 7:49pm
JReganK:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:48

Hey, Stu! 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
Jay S.:

↳ Eric R @7:48

Hello Eric, Stu! ♥ 7:50pm
JReganK:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:49

Dante's Inferno Bubblegum Party!   7:50pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:49

Becky, thanks! 🍭 ♥ 7:50pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I honestly thot this was the Plimsouls. I know TJ does it, but this sounds like a PS cover to me! 🍭 7:50pm
Eric R:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:49

ha! A famous reference! ♥ 7:50pm
Stu Rutherford: Hello Jay & JrK!   7:51pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Stu Rutherford @7:50

Hi Stu! 🍭 ♥ 7:51pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Get Rid of Him" by "Dionne Warwick"

Just requested the Bernadette Castro version of this on What's Happening ♥ 7:51pm
Stu Rutherford:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @7:51

Hi Andrew! ♥ 7:51pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:50

Oh No Becky.. That movie Valley Girl is now in my head! :) 🍭 ♥ 7:52pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:51

I will have to check that out. I heard this in a movie. Could not believe it was Dionne. 🍭 ♥ 7:54pm
Jay S.: YES WE NEED TO HEAR BUBBLEGUM IN 2026.

Extra-great show today, thanks Becky!

🍭 ♥ 7:55pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I think Marlo’s brother was going for a Gary Lewis nepotism sound vibe. ♥ 7:55pm
Zrp:

↳ Jay S. @7:54

What? 🍭 ♥ 7:55pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:55

Or Dino Desi and Billy 🍭 7:56pm
Eric R: like it in a Red Rubber Ball way 🍭 ♥ 7:56pm
Jay S.:

↳ Zrp @7:55

I'll yell it louder next time! 7:56pm
Brinley:

↳ Eric R @7:56

Completely agree! 🍭 ♥ 7:56pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Eric R @7:56

Ah, good catch, it reminded me of something elsr, which I’ll play next if the bunny doesnt get me 🍭 ♥ 7:57pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Concrete and Clay" by "Unit 4 + 2"

Classic! 7:57pm
Brinley:

↳ Jay S. @7:54

Truer words have never been said, Jay! With you on both counts. :) 🍭 ♥ 7:57pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Red Rubber Ball more apt. 🍭 7:58pm
Eric R:

↳ Jay S. @7:57

brilliant composition, done so well 🍭 7:59pm
Eric R: uh-oh, no sound.... 🍭 ♥ 7:59pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I first heard C&C on acid. 7:59pm
Brinley: Did the music cut out for anyone else? 🍭 ♥ 7:59pm
Becky Ebenkamp: And I found a $20 bill on the ground right after that. 🍭 ♥ 8:00pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Brinley @7:59

Yep ♥ 8:00pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:59

What sorta ... 🍭 ♥ 8:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I know the Bunny has had trouble all weekend. Hope Richard’s show is OK! 8:02pm
Brinley: Glad we got 99% of the show issue-free. Hope it clears up ASAP for the rest of tonight's line-up... 🍭 ♥ 8:02pm
Becky Ebenkamp: OK, well thank you everyone — I hope you have a great week! 8:02pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:59

Was it on the concrete or the clay? ;) 8:03pm
Brinley:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @8:02

You too, Becky! Take care everyone. ♥ 8:04pm
JReganK: Thx, Becky!